People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 322 There are always people who like to hit the edge of the knife! !

Prince Zhu Biao didn't expect Chen Han to be so ruthless.

After all, he knew that Chen Han came from the later generations, and he also heard Chen Han's views on human life.

Chen Han has always felt that it was cruel and incompatible with human rights to treat appointments as a matter of course in ancient times.

But I didn't expect that Chen Han would actually make such a statement now.

Even more officials will be sentenced to death.

Zhu Yuanzhang also felt that it was a bit unexpected after hearing Chen Han's words.

In his eyes, Chen Han has always been a meek person, and he wants to adopt gentle methods even when it comes to reforms.

At least when it comes to treating officials, they have always wanted to use high salaries to maintain integrity.

Xia Yuanji's eyes were even more surprised at this time.

He also gradually understood that under the rules of the power game in this era, no one would really talk to you about moral values.

After Xia Yuanji listened to the conversation between the monarch and his ministers, his heart felt warm.

This father and son are more experienced than anyone else in killing people.

Even after the emperor personally arrested the assassins and chopped them to death in front of him, Chen Han did not feel that this was the fairness and justice he wanted.

However, there are always some people who still want to pursue reforms at this time and are unhappy with themselves. This is something Chen Han cannot tolerate.

What Chen Han has to do now is how to prevent himself from completely becoming what he hates.

It can be seen from Chen Han's burst of anger that Chen Han is really angry this time and he is furious.

Since Zhu Biao agreed with Chen Han's opinion, Zhu Yuanzhang had no objection.

Chen Han only wanted to carry out his reform.

Zhu Biao was also murderous when he said this.

All I wanted to do was think about how to make reforms make the Ming Dynasty better.

But this summer Yuanji actually heard from Chen Han's mouth that those who did not abide by the reform should be severely punished.

Anyone who thinks Zhu Biao is a good old man will die without knowing how.

Although Zhu Biao in movies and TV shows seems to be a good old man, in reality Zhu Biao is definitely an iron-blooded emperor.

Zhu Biao also stood up after hearing Chen Han's suggestion, "Yes, Gu has always felt that to implement reforms is to be tough. Since there are people taking advantage of loopholes, we have to let them know that taking advantage of loopholes and seeking death are the same thing."

Or those guys who take advantage of the loopholes of the reform.

After Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao and his son listened to Chen Han's words, they fell silent for a moment, and then their eyes gradually became sharp.

Chen Han never thought about killing officials during his previous reforms, even if they were reforms. Even when Shen Liqian disappeared, Chen Han didn't even think about killing people.

Zhu Yuanzhang had already retreated to the second line at this time, and Zhu Biao basically made the final decision on national affairs.

If you can't adapt, that's your own problem.

Perhaps Chen Han himself did not expect that during this process, he had gradually adapted to the Ming Dynasty's environment.

As for the local second-in-command, he is also very disgusted with the subordinates who fool him.

If the imperial court implements this policy forcefully, it will also be good news for him.

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Wenzhou Prefecture, Zhejiang Province.

The magistrate of Wenzhou is a son of a local tycoon.

Although the rules in official circles are very strict nowadays.

Especially the emperor Zhu Yuanzhang did not rub sand in his eyes, but there are always some people who are not afraid of death and think that nothing can be found on their own heads. This Wenzhou prefect is one of them.

Wenzhou is surrounded by mountains, and its current development is not like that of the Wenzhou leather factory in the future.

On the contrary, this place has always been visited by pirates and Japanese pirates.

Many brave locals also went to sea and became pirates.

So this place, like Jinhua, produces brave and ruthless people.

Although the Wenzhou magistrate may look like an official, he is also a merciless master.

Now he is very dissatisfied with a county magistrate under him.

"Yongjia County has been very powerful in the past two years. He has taken the lead in violating the rules issued by this government. The raw silk business is so good that he dares to openly take the lead in telling the people of Yongjia County not to change rice into mulberry. He wants to cut off our government's financial path!"

It turns out that the prefect’s family is in the silk business.

Since Chen Han’s reforms, commercial taxes have accounted for an increasing share of tax revenue.

Indirectly, it also led to the improvement of businessmen's status.

At the same time, the silk industry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang also ushered in an explosive period.

In order to weave more silk for trade, the Wenzhou prefect ordered several counties under his jurisdiction to complete the standard of converting 500,000 acres of rice into mulberry this year.

The five counties under his jurisdiction, namely Ruian, Yueqing, Pingyang and Taishun, have all reported according to the quota.

In order to achieve their targets, these four counties pulled up all the seedlings planted by the people in the counties. They were afraid that the prefects would use the exams to test themselves.

But it turns out that the magistrate of Yongjia County is a bad guy.

You must know that Yongjia County is the seat of the Wenzhou Prefecture's Yamen. Yongjia County's failure to give Wenzhou Prefecture face is simply a slap in the face.

Can the Wenzhou prefect look good on Yongjia County?

The most important thing is, if he doesn't change here, how can the people in other counties who have had their rice seedlings ripped off still not cause trouble?

The Wenzhou magistrate's face was filled with anger.

The Shaoxing master below said: "Futai, this is really tricky. Ruian and Yueqing counties have pulled out all the people's seedlings. If Yongjia County gets stuck, people in other counties will know about it within ten and a half months." , if you miss the mulberry seedlings going to the ground, you will not be able to catch up with this year's silk production.

This is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that if the people in other counties cause trouble and trigger civil uprisings, this alone will not be enough for us to chop off our heads. "

Another master even said: "Futai, don't forget that we reported the tax items to the Chief Envoy's Yamen years ago and changed the field tax to mulberry tax. This has been reported to the cabinet for record.

If we can't finish it this year, Shangxian will collect it according to the mulberry tax this year.

The field tax is low, the mulberry tax is high, and the difference can be about three times.

The tax on half a million acres of mulberry is equivalent to a tax difference of tens of thousands of taels of silver. Who will make up for it then? "

The salary of the magistrate level in the Hongwu Dynasty was only more than one hundred taels of silver.

Although after Chen Han's reform, his salary increased by more than fifty taels every year.

That would be about two hundred taels, ten thousand taels of silver, and he would have to work for fifty years to make up for it.

When the Wenzhou magistrate heard this, his head was pounding.

He slammed his fist on the table: "Why on earth doesn't Yongjia County implement the conversion of rice into mulberry?"

The master replied: "It is said that there is a disaster in Yongjia County this year, and the big silk merchants are only willing to pay five stones per acre to take over the land from ordinary people.

The Yongjia County Magistrate felt that this was too low, and was determined to make the big silk merchants pay the price of thirty shi of grain. "

The Wenzhou magistrate cursed: "How is this possible? This is the price of a county that was not affected by the disaster. He is going crazy!"

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(End of this chapter)