Daming Greedy Wolf Star

Chapter 194 The fifth major case in the early Ming Dynasty
Hu Zhuo came to Yunnan not long after Zhu Gaoxu and his family became feudal lords. Because he did not choose to bring him here, Zhu Zhanhe did not intend to use Hu Zhuo from the beginning.

He didn't even want to talk to him. Apart from anything else, Zhu Zhanhe had enough reasons to distrust him as long as Hu Zhuo once sent a message to the East Palace.

However, even if you say that, leaving it there like this is not a problem.

The man was thrown over by the old man, and whether he was used as a nail or something else, Zhu Zhanhe had to at least give him an official position, and it had to be in the palace.

At most, you just don't let him come into contact with things he shouldn't come into contact with, which is equivalent to giving him a vacant position and just raising him.

But looking at it now, this Hu Zhuo may not be a nail after all, because judging from what the old man has done in the past two years, this possibility is not very high.

Therefore, regarding the old man throwing Hu Zhuo over, Zhu Zhanhe is now more willing to believe in another possibility.

The old man plans to disgust the civil servants.

Think about it, Hu Guang is a bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion. This can be said to be the pinnacle of what a scholar can achieve in the Yongle Dynasty. If he goes further, he will covet the big position.

This kind of leader-level figure was driven home by the old man. If nothing unexpected happened, he would not be able to serve as an official for at least ten years, and this would be the case for Hu Guang and his sons.

Throwing Hu Hao over under such circumstances is equivalent to removing a leader of the civil official and sending the leader's son to the enemy of the civil official.

It's really disgusting when you think about it.

Think about it, for a person like Hu Zhuo, first, he is too young, and second, he does not have enough rights. What rights he gets in Yunnan depends entirely on the decision of Zhu Gaoxu’s family. Third, it is too obvious.

In the feudal era, most families would choose to focus on raising their eldest son. After all, the eldest son would inherit the family business and represent inheritance.

As a result, the younger son will not receive many resources, and due to his young age, he will be able to do even less.

As for what rights can be obtained in Yunnan?This is even better.

The old man asked Hu Zhuo to come to Yunnan to assist Zhu Gaoxu and his family, but the specific official position needed to be decided by Zhu Gaoxu and his family, which meant that even if Zhu Zhanhe asked him to pick up excrement, he would have to endure it.

Under such circumstances, what can he do to help the civil service group?
There is the remaining third point.

Hu Zhuang was Hu Guang's son and a member of the civil service camp. Hu Guang was the first to quarrel with Zhu Zhanhe and even exchanged swear words.

With such a relationship, how could Zhu Zhanhe not be on guard when Hu Zhuo came to Yunnan?

Therefore, Hu Zhuang is actually an abandoned son now.

The civil servants were so disgusted that the old man's goal was achieved; without even half of Yunnan's intelligence, the civil servants had no hope.

"You can refuse if you don't want to."

The next day, Zhu Zhanhe called Hu Zhuo and Jin Ya to his home early in the morning.

Hu Zhuo is not very important now. As long as he doesn't die, no one will say anything, but Jin Ya can't.

Jin Ya is Jin Zhong's stepson. It was the old man who sent Jin Ya here for Jin Zhong, and it was completely out of personal feelings that Jin Ya sent him here for...

Alas, it's easy to think about it. Jin Ya had been cultivated as Jin Zhong's heir for so long, but now that Jin Zhong has a biological son, the resources that were originally given to Jin Ya were naturally gone.

Based on the old man's personal feelings, he hopes that both brothers Jin Ya and Jin Da will grow up to be successful, so that they can live up to the conscientious minister and Jin Zhong who helped him succeed in the Jing Nan and was the second contributor to the Jing Nan.

Therefore, this Jin Ya is the real trouble.

"I'll wait but according to His Royal Highness' orders." Hu Hao and Jin Ya didn't have any objections.

Zhu Zhanhe arranged positions for them in a regular manner, helping the Ministry of Household Statistics to count the population and household registration of Yunnan and Jiaozhi.

To say that this is a post for retirement and leisure is not really a job. After all, it is a matter related to household registration and must be linked to the Ministry of Household Affairs.

But to say that this matter is important, in fact, it is just that.

To put it bluntly, this is just following behind to take the credit, and it is also hard work. It is neither good nor bad.

"Then you go and contact the officials from the Ministry of Revenue. There are many people from other countries entering Cochin during this period, and the officials from the Ministry of Revenue are overwhelmed."

Seeing that Hu Zhuo and Jin Ya had no objections, Zhu Zhanhe was naturally very comfortable.

Hu Zhuang doesn't care, he really intends to train Jin Ya well.

Regarding Jin Ya, Zhu Zhanhe remembered that his younger brother, Jin Zhong's biological son Jin Da, was a very outstanding official who was able to speak out and dare to give advice. Although he was not well-known in later generations, he was still recorded in the annals of history.

Now Jin Da is left in Yingtian and Jin Ya comes to Yunnan. As far as the current situation is concerned, the two brothers have become works.

Whoever is better, then give extra points to Zhu Gaochi or Zhu Gaoxu from the side.

This is actually a meaningless contest, and it is very likely that the prince will not even care, but Zhu Zhanhe still finds it quite interesting.

It's just that what Zhu Zhanhe didn't know was that the Zhu Gaochi he had just thought of was now preparing to become the old man's knife.

The sword that disrupted the entire Ming Dynasty and created a new world!

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Yingtian Mansion, Imperial Palace, Fengtian Gate.

"Your Majesty! No!"

Jin Youzi's face was filled with eagerness, and he even raised his head to look directly at Zhu Di who was sitting on the dragon chair.

"Oh?" Zhu Di's eyes narrowed and his tone rose.

The people in Fengtianmen are actually old people. Even if they don't know the twists and turns of the officialdom, they have already figured out Zhu Di's temperament after going to court so many times.

As soon as he saw Zhu Di showing such an expression, Jin Youzi knew something was wrong.

But even so, he couldn't help but say it.

"Your Majesty, the new tax system has just been implemented. You are now going to order the officials and gentry to pay taxes like ordinary people. This will undoubtedly make all the officials and gentry in the world dissatisfied. If someone with intentions takes advantage of it..."

This time, Jin Youzi really had no selfish motives.

What he thought was just as he said, if the officials and gentry were allowed to pay for the food together, it would affect the interests of the entire middle and upper class of the Ming Dynasty.

Let alone the Ming Dynasty, this would be almost impossible to do in any era, except for decisive people like Qin Shihuang and Han Wu Emperor.

But in fact, Jin Youzi may have forgotten that the emperor in front of him was also such a person.

"Ji Gang!"

Zhu Di gave a deep shout, which was so penetrating that it made most of the officials in Fengtianmen tremble.

As Zhu Di finished speaking, Ji Gang quickly stood up, saluted Zhu Di, and then immediately turned around and left Fengtianmen.

It was only a few breaths before Ji Gang returned to Fengtianmen, but this time he did not come back alone.

Jinyiwei, more than 100 Jinyiwei followed Ji Gang into Fengtianmen.

This is not important. What is important is that they came in groups of two and escorted people up.

Looking at the people being escorted up by the Jinyi Guards, some people were confused, some people's expressions changed drastically, and some people even fell to the ground.

"It seems that someone already knows what happened."

Zhu Di slowly stood up from the dragon chair and walked down the steps.

Walking among the officials, the expression on Zhu Di's face was full of meaning. When Zhu Di walked in front of him, almost every official looked nervous.

However, Zhu Di did not attack them directly. Instead, he walked behind Ji Gang and squatted down.

"Do you know what's going on?" Zhu Di looked at Hu Yan in front of him with a playful tone.

"I know... I know..." Hu Yan lowered her head, not daring to look at Zhu Di.

Jie Jin, Hu Yan, Huang Huai, Yang Pu and others were all imprisoned in prison for supporting Chen E's impeachment of Zhu Zhanhe. Before today, Hu Yan and others had always harbored illusions.

In their view, the impeachment of Zhu Zhanhe was not a big deal. Even though Zhu Di was very protective of Zhu Zhanhe, in the Ming Dynasty, the official was a very special existence.

Even though they are not public officials like Chen E, they are still happy and fearless.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Yanguan has been given special rights, which has led to the trend of Yanguan admonishing to death.

Those who were killed for admonishing would be remembered in history, and the emperor would also have a reputation for killing virtuous ministers indiscriminately, so in many cases even the emperor could not do anything to them.

Although Zhu Di is special, because of his relationship with Jing Nan, he is not usually very good at confronting Yan Guan. After all, his reputation is already very bad.

Why did Chen E's two remonstrances directly accuse Zhu Di of undermining Zhu Zhanhe's identity as the heir apparent and dethroning him as a commoner? This is the reason why Chen E's unbelievable remonstrance was based on this point.

But what they didn't expect was that this time, it would be different from before.

"I don't know, do you still remember that in the seventh year of Yongle, the King of Han...oh no, it was the Crown Prince of Wu who went to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to annihilate Japanese pirates, and uncovered a large number of Southeast maritime merchants who were colluding with Japanese pirates."

Zhu Di walked slowly among the crowd, his tone was calm but exuded a frightening aura.

"Actually, there were too many people who colluded with Japanese pirates that day, and at worst, they colluded with those Southeast maritime merchants, but I didn't deal with them directly."

"Being able to stand here proves that you are all one-in-a-thousand talents. It is very difficult to cultivate and select a talent, so I have always been very rare."

"However, what I tolerated in return was not a change of heart on your part, but an intensification of the problem."

"Come on, Huang Huai." Zhu Di stood still, bent down and pulled Huang Huai up himself.

"Tell me, as a cabinet bachelor, how did you dominate your hometown and force the merchants to ignore the Ming Sea Ban and smuggle grain and other goods?"

"Tell me about how you repeatedly harassed the border areas through Japanese pirates and made a lot of money from food."

"Let's talk about it, how did you ask those southeast sea merchants to force the Japanese pirates to share half of their profits with you?"

Every time Zhu Di said a word, Huang Huai's head lowered. When Zhu Di finished speaking, Huang Huai was already kneeling on the ground again.

"Humph..." Looking at Huang Huai kneeling on the ground, Zhu Di laughed disdainfully.

Turning around and striding like a meteor, Zhu Di returned to his own exclusive seat again.

Only, this time he didn't sit down.

"Ji Gang!"

"Chen is here!"

"Send the order! Arrest all the Jinyi guards immediately. Within five days, I will see all those people appear on the execution ground!"

"Yes!"

"Lu Zhen!"

"The minister is here."

"Immediately prepare to announce it to the world! From now on, no one in the Ming Dynasty will be exempt from paying taxes! No matter they are officials, nobles or royal relatives, they will all pay taxes according to the new tax system!"

"If there are any opponents..." Zhu Di glanced at everyone below, his eyes exuding a cold light called arrogance and dictatorship.

"Purpose him as a collaborator!"

……

The speed of the Ministry of Rites is still very fast, and this incident is too big, anyone knows that at this time, there is only one word for daring to take the lead.

Therefore, the edict had already left the Ministry of Rites within a matter of a stick of incense after leaving the court.

That night, everyone in Yingtian City knew the news.

Regarding this matter, the voices are actually quite mixed and there are quite a lot.

Businessmen and ordinary people expressed their joy.

As the saying goes, you don’t worry about scarcity but inequality. For the common people, they work hard to farm and pay taxes on time every year, but those officials who hold high positions do not need to pay a penny. The common people must feel that uncomfortable.

Now I see that these officials also need to pay the same taxes as myself. Although their lives are still many times better than mine, the people are still very happy.

Nonsense, with the new tax system, their taxes will be paid by those officials in the future, how can they be unhappy?

For this matter, there are also businessmen who are equally happy.

Businessmen and their descendants cannot serve as officials. This is a rule of the Ming Dynasty, so businessmen will choose to get in touch with officials to obtain more benefits and even rights that are beyond their reach.

Now the officials also have to pay taxes, which means that the officials need money even more. For businessmen, this is an opportunity.

How could they be unhappy?
These are all relatively radical, and some people have relatively calm and Buddhist views, because this matter has little to do with them, and the taxes paid by the officials will not go into their pockets.

In contrast, the implementation of the new tax system makes these people happier.

Of course, if there are voices of approval, there will naturally be voices of opposition.

Contrary to people's expectations, the loudest opponents were not the officials, but the scholars who were still studying hard.

At the moment, this matter has nothing to do with them, but what about the future?

How many people’s ultimate goal in studying is not to become an official?How many officials are not doing it for money?

yes!There is never a shortage of people who care about the world!But in comparison, there are still more people who become officials for power and money!

In contrast, officials' voices are much quieter.

This matter involves the Cabinet Master. What does this mean?It shows that the official group is rotten from top to bottom!
Yes, not all of them are rotten, but for the emperor, if officials of every class do this, it is rotten!

Is it because you think your life is too long if you jump out at this time?
You know, the execution ground outside Yingtian City has been set up, waiting for the day it will be infected with blood.

(End of this chapter)