Empress Dowager Guide

Chapter 16 Shocking Allies
Although Yunzhi was born in a family of former ministers, he was educated in Han culture when he was young, so he was very dissatisfied with the history of his ancestors who won the world and still robbed families everywhere.

He is clearly the master of this piece of land, but the one who robbed and snatched it seems to be the same as when he was on the grassland in the past, and he doesn't look like the master of the world at all.

Now that he has entered the Central Plains, he cannot treat himself as an outsider in everything.

Naturally, we must take the common people as our own responsibility, and take the livelihood of all people in the world into our hearts.

Yesterday's debate was his last fight to establish his heart for the world and his life for the people.

The late emperor passed away suddenly, and those conservative forces had been ready to move for so long, and finally seized the opportunity to show their minions.

A few days ago, over the question of whether to levy taxes, the imperial court had already quarreled upside down.

Arguing and arguing, the voices of the people behind him gradually lowered, while the voices on the opposite side became louder.

It's not that he doesn't know what kind of power he is facing. It is understandable that the people behind him chose to remain silent in order to protect themselves.

But he can only put all his eggs in one basket. He is in the position of minister of the household department, and he can't let the people in this world feel sorry for him.

Those people thought it was just a trivial matter of collecting a few cents of copper coins per mu of land, but once it was implemented and exploited layer by layer, the people would be put on ten thousand catties of shackles.

Fortunately, when Wei Zhen and others were talking in full swing yesterday, they were interrupted by the queen mother, who stopped their immediate order.

Fortunately, the first emperor left a will when he left, and the Queen Mother's golden seal must be affixed when issuing the edict.

No matter how courageous this group of people are, they still wouldn't dare to violate the last emperor's will now.

However, regarding Feng Qing's questioning yesterday, he only thought it was caused by the Queen Mother's excitement, and mentioned it casually.

Out of duty and as a last try, he drafted the memorial, but the Empress Dowager was able to quickly discover the problems of these three places from the memorial, which was far beyond his expectations.

Yunzhi was excited and quickly cleared his mind.

"The Empress Dowager's eyes are like a torch. Although the three lands are vast, they are not suitable for farming. They often transfer grain from other counties. After the tax is stopped, the local financial reserves are insufficient, so..."

Yun Zhi's eyes glanced coldly at Wei Zhen's face, he could remember that the sheriffs of these three counties were all inseparable from the Wei family.

Every time these people went to Beijing to report on their duties, they complained endlessly and cried endlessly, but only they knew exactly how much the food adjustment cost.

According to the information he inquired, although they dare not explicitly collect taxes in the county, they also have other ways to collect money.

If the people want to survive, they have to eat. There is no food to grow in the ground, so they can only buy it.

But these grain merchants are all descendants of Wei's partial branch.

The imperial court ordered the officials to cry poorly and ask the treasury for money, and ordered the relatives of the officials to do business to make money.

It was hard to say these words clearly, and Yun Zhi could only look at the Queen Mother hesitantly.

Sheng Shaoqing understood what he meant almost at the same time.

This look is inexplicably familiar.

Isn't this the little look in her eyes when she and her girlfriends are going to gossip and worry about someone next to them.

"Hey, that's how it is."

"Master Yun's words are justified, so shouldn't we immediately start collecting taxes to fill our finances and the national treasury?" Wei Zhen took the opportunity to say, this Yun is really interesting, he opposed taxation, and at the same time said that the financial situation is tight because of the suspension of taxes, isn't that true? Are you helping them?
Sheng Shaoqing was also confused. Since the suspension of the levy caused problems, shouldn't it be the same as what Wei Zhen said?

Could it be that he is Wei Zhen's ally?
Then Wei Zhen was beating up his allies before?
(End of this chapter)