Chapter 119 Everyone is happy
Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cijiong's faces were livid with anger.

Seeing their father being scolded, the two younger brothers felt more uncomfortable than being scolded themselves. Zhu Cijiong even clenched his little fists, wanting to rush forward to knock down Gao Hongtu with his old punches.

However, there was no expression on Chongzhen's face.

Chongzhen was not angry at all, but found it funny.

Shi Kefa, Gao Hongtu, Jiang Yueguang, Xie Xuelong, and Zhang Youyu should still have strong personal integrity. Shi Kefa has never even sought personal gain for the family.

This is also the shining point of the Donglin Party members.

But the Jiangnan gentry group behind the Donglin Party is not like this.

The officials and gentry groups in the south of the Yangtze River are not only greedy, but also attempt to legally own the invaded and divided official land!

At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the [-] million mu of official land in Nanzhi was directly rented out by the imperial court to the people for cultivation. The rent for one mu of land was only five liters, three in one, and five scoops, and no extra scoop was charged.

To be honest, the land rent is really ridiculously low.

Calculated on the basis of two stones per mu, the tax rate is only 2.675%, which is less than one thirty tax!
At the beginning, it was always implemented like this, but after the Jiajing Dynasty, officials and gentry began to invade official land.

When Hai Rui went to Huating to retire, the civilian land occupied by Xu Jie's family, the chief assistant of the Qing Dynasty, was not civilian land at all, because there were only [-] million mu of cultivated land in Nanzhi, and more than [-] million mu of official land was occupied. Songjiang Mansion was Zhang Shicheng's core ruling area. Almost all the cultivated land in the government has been filled by Lao Zhu as official land, so how can there be any private land to occupy?

Most of the officials and gentry in the south of the Yangtze River occupied the official land of the imperial court.

Of course, the Jiangnan officials and gentry would not openly appropriate the official land for themselves, but transfer the official land to the tenant farmers without authorization, and the land rent of five liters, three in one, and five teaspoons per mu that should be handed over to the state treasury has not been paid. error.

However, for the tenant farmers who farmed the official land, the burden of land rent became completely different.

Since the Wanli Dynasty, how much land rent did the tenant farmers who farmed Nanzhi official land actually pay?Probably between 50% and [-]%, the average land rent is [-]%, [-]%!

Where did the middle 47.325% of the land rent go?
This 47.325% land lease is equivalent to 4700 million taels!

The 4700 million taels all fell into the pockets of Jiangnan officials and gentry!
People's hearts are greedy, and it is a common mentality to get long and look forward to Shu.

After dividing up the land rent, Jiangnan officials and gentry wanted more.

As long as the Ming Dynasty still exists, Jiangnan officials and gentry can only divide the land rent.

Only when the Ming Dynasty perished, could they take [-] million acres of official land for themselves.

This is the internal logic of Nanming's "party struggle leads to the subjugation of the country, and the subjugation of the country also requires party struggle".

Because both the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party headed by Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng regard Daming as a state-owned enterprise. When Daming is alive, they can only divide up the profits of the state-owned enterprise. Once Daming is dead, they can directly divide up the state-owned enterprise itself. Let Daming, a state-owned enterprise, become a private enterprise owned by Jiangnan officials and gentry.

It's just that the Jiangnan officials and gentry thought too naively and beautifully.

When Jiannu went south and Ming Dynasty really perished, these greedy, ignorant, cowardly and cowardly officials and gentry in the south of the Yangtze River suddenly discovered that Jiannu didn't follow the rules at all, and just took all the pot away.

Back to the topic, at this time, the [-] million mu of official land in Nanzhi had been carved up by the officials and gentry in the south of the Yangtze River.

The Jiangnan officials and gentry are also the donors of the Donglin Party. Through a complex network of relationships between teachers and students, the same year, colleagues, and relatives, they provide funds for the activities of the Donglin Party members and help the Donglin Party to become a member of the Donglin Party. High positions, and then let the Donglin Party become their backing and talisman in turn, and finally form a whole.

By the time of the Chongzhen Dynasty, the Donglin Party and the Jiangnan officials and gentry seemed to have become a suture monster.

Therefore, when Chongzhen proposed to sell the official land, it was purely to gouge meat from the Jiangnan gentry group, and to ask the Jiangnan gentry group to pay a war tax of 5 taels per mu.
Let alone 5 taels per mu, even 5 taels will not work!

Jiangnan officials and gentry regarded the [-] million acres of official land as their own private property.

Let them pay taxes for their own private property, what do you think?

So Shi Kefa and the others came back without even thinking about it. Gao Hongtu even opened his mouth to curse, and almost pointed at Chongzhen's nose and called him an unfilial descendant.

Chongzhen sneered and said, "Is it true that Guantian can't be sold?"

"I really can't sell it." Shi Kefa cried bitterly, "My Ming Dynasty ruled the world with filial piety, and the sale of the official land by the Holy One is the sale of the ancestral property. !"

"Think twice, Your Majesty!" Jiang Yueguang, Xie Xuelong, and Zhang Youyu wept bitterly and kowtowed again and again.

Gao Hongtu is ready to take off the beam crown. This is not begging for bones, but a pile of picks.

"Okay, okay!" Chongzhen pointed to Shi Kefa and the others and said three good words, and shouted with a dark face, "You won't let me collect commercial taxes, and you won't let me sell Nanzhi's official land, so I'll sell the capital!" Huangzhuang head office, right?"

"Sell Huangzhuang? This is fine." Gao Hongtu straightened the beam crown on his head with both hands.

Chongzhen then asked Shi Kefa and others: "Old Shi Ge, old Jiang Ge, and old Xie Ge?"

Shi Kefa and the others were all in a daze, and said blankly: "It's no problem to sell Huangzhuang, but now that the capital has fallen and Huangzhuang is in the hands of Jiannu, how to sell it? Who will buy it?"

"You don't need to worry about it." Chongzhen said with a dark face, "Are you sure?"

Gao Hongtu snorted and said, "Your Majesty's words are too cruel. You are the emperor. Who can stop you from doing things?"

"Don't Mr. Gao Ge feel guilty for saying such things?" Chongzhen snorted coldly, "I want to collect business taxes and sell Nanzhi official land, so you stop me?"

"Your Majesty's words are wrong." Gao Hongtu retorted loudly, "The non-subjects who are blocking you here are the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty! If the Majesty wants to abandon the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty, the ministers will definitely say nothing."

"Come on, let's stop here." Chongzhen waved his hand violently and said again, "I want to sell the capital's Huangzhuang, and also fine and confiscate the properties of the thieves and slaves. No disagreement?"

"I have no objection." Gao Hongtu said sullenly, "As long as the Holy Majesty can sell it."

"That won't bother the elders." Chongzhen said, "Of course I have a way to sell it."

After being rejected twice before, Chongzhen's third proposal was finally passed smoothly.

"In this way, the national expenditure budget for the seventeenth year of Chongzhen has been negotiated." Shi Kefa also heaved a sigh of relief.

Gao Hongtu, Jiang Yueguang, Xie Xuelong, and Zhang Youyu are also happy, because they can say that they have successfully achieved their intentions in this court discussion on state expenditure.

After Zhang Youyu left, Shi Kefa said again: "Your Majesty, the second item in today's court discussion is to draft girls. Uncle Da Zong has already drafted a draft plan..."

"Stop this matter!" Chongzhen interrupted directly.

"Huo Qubing knows the reason why the Xiongnu is still a family. Is it not as good as an ancient man? Besides, I already have three imperial heirs, so I don't have any worries about the lack of the country, right, Mr. Shige?"

"This!" Shi Kefa was at a loss for words, and Gao Hongtu and others were also speechless.

In fact, Gao Hongtu and the others just wanted to tie Chongzhen to Nanjing through Xiunu's gentle hometown.

You say that you are an emperor who stays in Xuzhou all day and hangs out with big soldiers. What do you mean?

Well, what the civil servants are really worried about is that Chongzhen will become Yongle II, Emperor Chongzhen!
If Chongzhen was allowed to create the same martial arts as Emperor Yongle, and cultivate a group of nobles such as Qiu Fu, Zhu Neng, and Zhang Yu, there would still be room for civil officials in the court of Ming Dynasty in the future?
So Shi Kefa and the others instinctively want to stop Chongzhen from guarding the border, and leave this kind of thing to the generals. If you really don't trust the generals, then send another supervisor to manage them.

Chongzhen stared into Shi Kefa's eyes and asked: "Old Shi Ge, don't you doubt my ability to command troops?"

"Of course not." Shi Kefa said hastily, "The battle in Xuzhou is enough to prove the Holy Majesty's ability to use troops."

"Then I don't understand." Chongzhen said, "Why are you so against me personally guarding the border for Daming?"

"The Holy Majesty's words are wrong. The ministers are not against the Holy Majesty personally guarding the border for Daming." Gao Hongtu said with a frown, "The ministers are only worried about the safety of the Holy Majesty, and do not want the Majesty to be in danger."

"This matter is unnecessary." Chongzhen said with a smile.

"As long as the salary is in place, I will be as safe as Mount Tai in Xuzhou."

"Besides, the emperor guarding the gate of the country is the ancestral precept set by Cheng Zu, how dare I disobey it."

"Even if I really have something good or bad, with the prince, King Ding and King Yong around, Daming's sky won't fall."

When Chongzhen himself talked about this, Shi Kefa and the others had nothing to say, because the emperor's guarding the gate of the country was really the ancestral motto set by Emperor Chengzuwen, and Chongzhen personally guarding the border is to abide by filial piety.

As courtiers, they can never trap the emperor in unfilial piety.

At that moment, Shi Kefa said helplessly: "Come on, then let's not mention the matter of drafting girls, and let's discuss the third item, Enke."

Jiang Yueguang, who was in charge of the Ministry of Rites, went on to say: "After the Jiashen national disaster, most of the officials in the capital surrendered to captives, resulting in a large number of vacancies in the capital. We had to replenish a batch from the provinces, but there were also a large number of vacancies in the local officials. Your Majesty will try one more Konko to select a group of worthy scholars for the Ming Dynasty to enrich the local states and counties."

"I'm sure." Chongzhen waved his hand and said again, "But I also have a matter."

After a short pause, Chongzhen said again: "Mine supervisors and tax envoys can all be removed, but the workshops under the inner court agencies such as the Weaving Bureau and the Military Warfare Bureau must not be left alone. What do the elders think should be done?"

Hearing this, the four of Shi Kefa looked at each other in astonishment, wouldn't they?

Listening to the tone of the Holy Majesty's question, it doesn't mean that he wants civil servants to manage various institutions in the inner court, right?

At that moment Gao Hongtu asked in a probing tone: "Your Majesty, why don't we let the Ministry of Officials choose a group of officials?"

"Isn't there not enough officials in your Ministry of Officials? Otherwise, there would be no need to test Enke." Chongzhen said, "So there is no need to be so troublesome. I plan to directly select the supervisors of the inner court from among the scholars of King Fengzhaoqin. The chief officials of the bureau, the elders of the cabinet should not have any different opinions?"

Shi Kefa said: "The Holy Majesty originally had the power to simply remove officials, so how could the ministers object to it?"

Chongzhen said: "Then this matter is settled, but I am afraid that the official signature of the Twelfth Prison is no longer applicable. How about collectively calling it Secretary Supervisor?"

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