Chongzhen: I am the king of prosperous times

Chapter 495 Emperor's Wrath

"My lord... those vassals all cried for poverty, saying that the palace is empty and has no money." Wang Chengen looked a little hesitant and bowed to Emperor Chongzhen.

"The eunuchs sent by Tongzhou have submitted memorials to Beijing many times. King Yanfu and the others begged to see the emperor, thinking..."

"Can they be as poor as me?"

Emperor Chongzhen put down his imperial pen, and said with a light smile, "Every one of them really doesn't cry when they see the coffin, I've talked about this, so I still don't give up.

Since this is the case, all the food, clothing, and utilities will be halved, and all the eunuchs who serve them will be gathered for custody.

I have plenty of time to spend with them.

When the heirs of the feudal vassals returned to Beijing and the donated money arrived in Beijing, they could leave Beijing and return to the feudal vassals. Cao Huachun was asked to take a group of Dongchang people to Tongzhou to take over. "

"Here!"

If the feudal vassals in the north who were summoned to Beijing paid according to the share set by Emperor Chongzhen, it would increase the domestic funds by more than 5000 million taels of silver.

Even for this amount of money, it took half a year to put it into the treasury in batches. For Emperor Chongzhen, it was a sure-fire deal.

Earn money, don't knock it down.

To blackmail the suzerains and vassal groups of Ming Dynasty, take away their accumulated money, and at the same time prevent suzerains and vassals from all over the country from passing on their own losses to the localities, then we must grasp their lifeline.

Heirs are undoubtedly the best.

After all, the inheritance of incense is a matter of great importance to these local vassals. While enjoying themselves, they also want their descendants to inherit the title.

So Emperor Chongzhen was not in a hurry.

"Your Majesty, the chief minister of the cabinet, Han Yu, is asking to see you."

As soon as Wang Chengen left, an eunuch outside the hall came into the hall to report.

"Xuan."

Emperor Chongzhen said concisely.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't even need to think about Han Yu's visit to the palace at this time. He knew that he was here for the vassal's visit to Beijing.

Seeing the vassals coming to Beijing, if they don't understand the actual situation, they will inevitably feel uneasy, so they instinctively do something.

"Chen...Han Yu, pay homage to Your Majesty."

"Excuse me."

Emperor Chongzhen was busy at his desk and didn't look up at Han Yu.

The East Nuan Pavilion is very quiet.

Han Yu was holding a stack of memorials, and seeing the emperor busy reviewing the memorials, he inevitably felt uneasy, not knowing whether he should talk about it or not.

"Han Qing is here for the sake of the vassal's visit to Beijing?"

Emperor Chongzhen took the imperial pen and reviewed the memorandum presented by the military aircraft office, and said: "If some ministers in the court submit a memorandum of remonstrance, there is no need to mention it.

I summoned all the feudal vassals to Beijing to set up religious studies, control the vassal clans, and tell them to understand the patriarchal laws and rituals, and stop acting recklessly like the vassals. "

As he said that, he circled the results of the abolition of the Jingwei in front of him. With the abolition of some Jingwei, this reduced the pressure on the treasury.

Although not much, the meat on the mosquito's legs is meat after all.

What's more, the abolition of part of the Jingwei is only the beginning, and Emperor Chongzhen will gradually plan to reform the military system and reform the bad policies of the Ming army.

"Your Majesty, this is absolutely impossible."

However, Han Yu bowed to him and said in admonishment: "Calling the vassal clans from all over the country to go to Beijing to study Zongxue will increase the burden on the imperial court and even endanger the foundation of the country.

The capital city is the center of the Ming Dynasty. Even if the clans of the vassals who came to Beijing are all descendants of the vassals from various places, it will have a lot of bad effects. "

"Why not?!"

Emperor Chongzhen put down his imperial pen, frowned and looked at Han Yu, and said, "When Zhen Yuji came to the throne, he called the cabinet to clearly restrain the vassals.

But today pushes tomorrow, tomorrow pushes back the day after, and finally nothing happens.

Except for the cabinet.

The Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Households, etc. have the Department of Government Affairs, and they have the same attitude towards the matter of the suzerain vassal.

Does it have to wait until the suzerain and vassal affairs, some big troubles, big problems, the court will have to be late to think about how to solve this matter? "

In fact, speaking of it, the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty treated the special group of suzerains and vassals with both precaution and relaxation, all because they were mixed with interests.

Every year, the national treasury allocates a sum of Zonglu silver to the vassals and vassals of the Ming Dynasty to be used by the vassals and ethnic groups in various places to distribute their income.

It’s just that this Zonglu silver has not left the capital, it will be reduced by a few percent, and it will be reduced by a few percent after passing through various levels along the way, and finally distributed by the clan vassals in various places. You won't get much Zonglu, or you will lose it altogether.

Emperor Chongzhen established the Li Fan Yuan, which was divided into the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Households.

The Zonglu silver of the Zongfan ethnic group in the Ming Dynasty was actually distributed by the Lifan Academy, and in view of the current predicament, the Zonglu silver of the Zongfan was stopped, and only the lower-level clans were given Zonglu silver.

"I asked you to be the chief assistant of the cabinet, not to pay attention to these trivial matters."

Emperor Chongzhen frowned and said: "The attitude towards the vassals is that I, the patriarch of the Emperor Ming, can deal with it as I want.

On the cabinet side, have you taken the lead in solving the backlog of government affairs?

Who told you that the establishment of Zongxue will increase the burden on the court?All princes and heirs who enter Zongxue must pay silver.

As for the heirs of the lower-level clan, this expenditure is allocated from internal funds.

Furthermore, when I set up Zongxue, did I ever say that I would set it up in the capital?I am going to raise funds for Zongxue in Xishan and ask them to come here to study. "

Han Yu: "..."

The anger shown by the emperor made Han Yu not know what to say for a while, and he didn't understand the emperor's arrangement for the northern vassals, which made him fall into a passive state.

"This time it's coming to the cabinet, most of the impeachment memorabilia is the official censor of Ke Dao, right?"

Emperor Chongzhen continued: "A sentence of impeachment can be regarded as making them invincible. Is this an attempt to blackmail the cabinet?
Really enough.

Han Qing, why don't you use the privilege that I have given you to lie in?Could it be that you, the chief minister of the cabinet, are not the chief minister of the cabinet, but the chief minister of Ke Dao's cabinet? "

"I am frightened."

When Han Yu heard the words, he hurriedly knelt down and worshiped, bowing to plead guilty.

"Get up, this subject, it's time to rectify it."

Emperor Chongzhen glanced at Han Yu, and pretended to be indignant: "Go, don't affect the cabinet minister because of this trivial incident. I know how to deal with the suzerain."

Merging the six subjects of the Outer Dynasty into the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is a major event, and Emperor Chongzhen will use his attitude again and again to express his strong dissatisfaction with the subjects.

Waiting for the right opportunity to accomplish this in one fell swoop, and at that time, the basic structure of the court will undergo major changes.

(End of this chapter)