Daming: I am the most powerful emperor grandson, please abdicate the throne

Chapter 333 Political Achievements
  "His Majesty!"

Zeng Fengshao hurriedly knelt down and said: "I am just raising my doubts. I have always been the censor of the Ming Dynasty. His Royal Highness, the young emperor, wants to slander me. Please make the decision for me."

Zhu Xuan said: "Master Zeng knows who has slandered whom."

In the past, Zhu Xuan had few opportunities to come to court and had even less contact with civil servants.

In the impression of those civil servants, Zhu Xuan has always been a very well-behaved child, but today's strong rebuttal was the first time, which made everyone look at him with admiration and gave them a different feeling.

When Li Jinglong and the others saw this, they smiled slightly and felt completely relieved. They didn't even need to open their mouths to explain anything to Zhu Xuan. Zeng Fengshao was speechless by Zhu Xuan.

When Zhu Yuanzhang saw his little darling grandson, he took care of Zeng Fengshao so easily. He had a bit of his own demeanor back then, and he would definitely be able to overpower his ministers in the future.

Thinking this way, he felt relieved.

"Your Majesty, minister..."

Zeng Fengshao wanted to continue explaining, but before he finished speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang sternly said: "Get out of the way."

He could only step aside and just go down the steps, as long as His Majesty did not punish him.

"Do you all think like Zeng Fengshao that our Daming can only be beaten?"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the people in the hall and asked sternly.

The civil servants all fell silent and did not respond immediately.

"Whoever dares to invade the Ming Dynasty, we will fight back directly!"

The first person to respond was Geng Bingwen among the generals.

Although the veteran Geng Bingwen was older, he still had the iron blood in his body and continued to speak loudly: "The little emperor is right, although the world is peaceful, if you forget to fight, you will be in danger. What's more, if others come to fight, we don't dare to fight back, then the Ming Dynasty still has What's the point of coming here? I think we should not only fight back, but also attack other countries every once in a while. If you forget to fight, you will be in danger!"

Now the battle of Jingnan is gone, Geng Bingwen is still alive.

He is old and strong, and is still active among military generals, ready to go to the battlefield and kill enemies for the Ming Dynasty at any time.

"well said!"

Zhu Yuanzhang's voice was loud and clear.

Seeing Geng Bingwen like this, other generals were about to express their thoughts and expressed their willingness to help the Ming Dynasty kill the enemy. Chen Di, the Minister of Rites, stepped forward and said first: "Your Majesty, is the little emperor's military merits or external military merits?" , it doesn’t seem to have much to do with governing Guangzhou Prefecture.”

This sentence is to separate Zhu Xuan's military exploits from his political achievements.

"Master Chen, what you said is wrong."

Qi Tai immediately retorted: "Japanese pirates invaded Guangzhou Prefecture, Your Highness destroyed the Japanese pirates, and also captured Luzon, which had colluded with the Japanese pirates. This is both a military achievement and a political achievement."

Lian Zining said: "Military merit is not political achievement."

They civil servants must not let Zhu Xuan use his military exploits to pressure Zhu Yunwen.

Huaixi Xungui's group of generals saw the civil servants being so shameless and scolded them over and over in their hearts.

As generals, they must be full of military merit.

He even wanted to take Zhu Yunxi to perform military exploits.

Now you say that military achievements are not military achievements. Military generals are the first to be dissatisfied, but they can only be dissatisfied in their hearts. No one dares to raise it at this time.

However, when they saw Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Yunxuan fighting, they thought they could watch a good show.

"Do you really want political achievements?"

Zhu Xuan said calmly: "Master Xia from the Ministry of Revenue, you should have received my achievements, right?"

The current Secretary of the Ministry of Finance has been replaced by Xia Yuanji.

Xia Yuanji was also a member of Zhu Yunwen's faction and originally did not want to participate in today's events, but Zhu Xuan called his name and had no choice but to step out of the team.

"May I ask, little emperor grandson, what advice can you give me?"

"Have you received the tax money and tax grains from Guangzhou Prefecture that I brought back?"

Zhu Xuan asked rhetorically.

In the past, he didn't want to fight for anything directly, he just wanted to let everything happen, and it would depend on luck.

But those civil servants did whatever they could to help Zhu Yunxuan.

Then he has to silence the civil servants and see how they continue to question and oppose him.

By the way, it makes them doubt their life.

"This..."    Xia Yuanji sighed, hesitating on how to respond next.

Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Yunxi, including all the ministers present, all turned their attention to Xia Yuanji.

Zhu Yunxi looked indifferent and had no doubts about his younger brother's abilities.

However, Zhu Yunwen was also very indifferent.

He knew very well that he could not match Zhu Xuan in terms of ability, but he was quite surprised by Zhu Xuan's strength today.

The previous Zhu Xuan would not be like this.

It seems that many people are quietly changing.

Wang Dun asked: "Master Xia, what happened?"

Seeing Xia Yuanji not speaking, they felt extremely anxious.

Zhu Yuanzhang was not in a hurry, knowing that the little darling grandson was fighting back, but he didn't say anything and waited to see how the little darling grandson would behave!
  "We have received all the taxes His Highness brought back."

Xia Yuanji could only say: "The taxes paid by Guangzhou Prefecture this year are much higher than in the past few years."

Zou Jin asked: "How much more?"

Xia Yuanji was silent again, as if thinking about what to say so as not to scare them or make them feel too shocked.

"Is it five or six times more?"

Zhu Xuan asked.

As soon as these words came out, all the civil servants were stunned.

Five or six times more, what is the concept?
  The amount of tax money and tax rations of a government in a year is already huge. If this year it is five or six times more than last year, wouldn't it be the taxes of a Chief Secretary?

how can that be!

"His Royal Highness the little emperor."

Xie Sheng said: "Some things should not be said carelessly. Do you know how much tax a government has?"

Zhu Xuan nodded and said: "Of course I know, but if I am talking nonsense, you can just ask Mr. Xia."

Ever since, their eyes fell on Xia Yuanji again.

Taxes from various places are collected at the Ministry of Household Affairs and then sent out through the Ministry of Household Affairs.

The first person to handle the tax brought back by Zhu Xuan must be Xia Yuanji.

"As His Highness said, this year there are five or six times more people than in the past few years."

Xia Yuanji had no choice but to bite the bullet and said: "At first, I thought that His Highness had brought back all the taxes from the Chief Secretary of Guangdong. After counting, I found that it was really just the taxes from Guangzhou. Your Highness did not lie, it was true. , His Highness has indeed made achievements during the more than half a year he has been in Guangzhou."

As a member of Zhu Yunwen's faction, he really didn't want to say these words, because saying it would be tantamount to making Zhu Xuan's political achievements public.

Zhu Yunwen will be suppressed again.

There is no advantage at all.

After receiving Xia Yuanji's response, the audience was quiet for a while, and then there was a "coax" and a burst of disbelieving exclamations.

The civil servants started talking.

"The tax revenue of a government is more than that of a Chief Secretary. How is this possible?"

"Master Xia, are you sure you read it correctly?"

"Little Yunxuan really did not disappoint us!"

"His Royal Highness the little emperor is still awesome!"

"This, this, this... this is impossible to do. Master Xia must have seen it wrong."

……

Among those ministers, some questioned Zhu Xuan, while others agreed with him.

There was a lot of discussion in an instant.

Lian Zining said loudly: "Your Majesty, I suspect that His Royal Highness, the young emperor, has excessively collected taxes in Guangzhou and oppressed the people for the sake of political performance. Please find out!"

(End of this chapter)