Ming Zhengzhi, I am Zheng Kezang

In the south room of the Forbidden City, a group of Manchu and Han ministers were standing with solemn hands. Due to the large temperature difference between the inside and outside of the room, many ministers wearing Jiamian inner jackets had beads of sweat on their heads, but Kangxi in front of him Sitting there staring at it calmly, no one dared to concentrate on wiping it quietly.

"Why don't you talk, is this Daqing belonged to me alone?" Kangxi said lightly, his voice was not high but enough to make all the courtiers hang their heads a little lower. "Jiangnan is lost, Huguang is lost, and Chuanzhong is almost over now. The Qing Dynasty has become a wrecked ship. Don't you all want to jump out in a hurry!" The ministers knelt down one after another, not daring to recite, Kangxi waved his hands in displeasure. "Kneel, kneel, kneel, I only know how to kneel all day long, can kneeling solve the problem?"

There is a reason for Kangxi's words.Two days ago, Chen Tingjing, the Han Shang of the Ministry of Household Affairs, made a note, listed the income and expenditure status of next year, and then came to a conclusion that the deficit was expected to be 1000 million taels next year, and asked Kangxi how to make up for it, otherwise the Qing Dynasty would be in danger of overthrowing.Faced with this huge hole, Kangxi was helpless, so he had to let the ministers discuss how to solve it.As a result, after two days, the ruling and opposition parties did not come up with any solution, so Kangxi had to call the important ministers to discuss in the south room, but he was greeted with silence, which forced him to vent his ignorance.

"I remember an allusion." Kangxi did not let a group of courtiers get up, but sat there and told the story. "In the last years of Chongzhen in the former Ming Dynasty, rebellion was about to sweep the world. The Ming army on the front line asked Chongzhen for money one by one. All the bronze wares in the palace were allocated to the front line, but it is still not enough." Speaking of this, many people already understood what Kangxi was going to say, and their faces turned pale. "So Chongzhen had no choice but to convene the ministers to make them happy to lose. As a result, from the nobles, the clansmen, the chief assistants, the ministers to the chief ministers, and the ministers, each of them talked about loyalty to the emperor and patriotism on weekdays. Chongzhen asked them to borrow money, and they all cried poorly. In the end, Chongzhen didn't borrow a penny, and the front line couldn't get any money, so Chuangni entered Beijing, and Chongzhen had to hang himself on Meishan. Chuang Ni easily found tens of millions of taels in the homes of princes and ministers who kept saying that they had no money to borrow." When the story came to this, Kangxi suddenly raised his voice. "Don't you want to follow the example of the past and watch the Qing Dynasty perish!"

"The ministers (slaves) don't dare!" The ministers below were all upset, joking, Chongzhen dared not kill the ministers, and Kangxi came to power only after taking down the famous Oboi.

"What are you afraid of?" Kangxi sneered. "I haven't asked you for money yet, but I've always been reluctant to ask for an idea. You still have the Qing Dynasty in your eyes, and you still have me! I'm afraid everyone is eager to escape to the south." Kangxi stood up and walked away. Go among the courtiers, bend down and take the top off someone's head. "Back when the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the fastest ones were you Han officials who had read poems. Thinking about it, now that you know the current affairs, you don't dare to follow. Are you anxious to change the court?"

Du Zhen, a Hanshang from the Ministry of Rites who was picked off as the top son, was from Xiushui, Jiaxing, Zhejiang. When he heard what Kangxi said, he immediately raised his head and responded: "The emperor's words are wrong. Although the ministers are Han officials, they are different from Haini. We have shared the hatred of heaven and earth, we have absolutely no intention of betraying the emperor and the court, and we are loyal to each other, please let the emperor learn from you."

Kangxi threw the warm hat back on Du Zhen's head and said with a smile on his face, "Yue Shenglong is still the Han army flag, so he surrendered it if he said so."

However, although the words were vicious, Kangxi's sullen expression slowed down a bit: "You said that you don't want to betray the Qing Dynasty, well, show me your skills, why did you get this spring official, why did you Get the wealth of the Qing Dynasty!"

Kangxi had long understood that the Manchus had no brains, so he tried his best to squeeze these Han officials, hoping to find a solution, and sure enough, Xiong Cilu, a scholar of the Dongge University, first said: "I think we can start with the Yanzheng. "

Salt, yes, it is salt. Although the Qing government lost the Lianghuai salt field, and Changlu and other places were under the artillery fire of Zheng Jun’s navy, the sea salt was almost cut off, but the Qing government still had salt ponds from Shanxi and Shanxi and well salt from Sichuan.Although almost all the producing areas and markets of Sichuan salt were lost before, as long as salt can be produced from Yanchi in northern Shaanxi and Jiezhou in Shanxi, the Qing court can benefit greatly from it.

"Your Majesty, Lord Xiong's idea is good, but the price of salt is already high now." Minister Shi Lena expressed his objection. "Adding ten and twenty renminbi per catty, the common people obviously can't afford it, but adding only one or two renminbi will not help." Schillerner said his opinion. "Instead of increasing the price of salt, it is better to sell the land in Henan." Schiller knew that some officials in Henan took advantage of Zheng Jun's looting of a large number of people, and greedy for a considerable amount of good land. Since officials can be greedy, the Qing court Why can't the rest of the land be packaged and sold. "There are millions of taels of income to say so little."

Schillerner's idea is good, but the question is who is willing to buy it. The tenants and common people have no money to buy the land, and the rich are afraid that Zheng Jun will commit another crime in the north and they will be beaten. Therefore, Schirner's idea is actually similar to Xiong Cilu Same, it belongs to the kind of donkey dung eggs with a smooth surface, which looks good but is not practical.

"The servant thinks that the current strategy can only be to immediately implement the policy that officials and gentry pay food and serve errands together." Yu Chenglong, the censor of Zuodu, suddenly said, and at the same time he took out a memorial from his sleeve and submitted it. "Officials and gentry are treated preferentially by the state, but they don't pay food and wages and don't accept labor dispatches. They are like moths. Now that the country's annual revenue has been greatly reduced and the treasury is empty. If they are allowed to evade taxes and evasion, I am afraid that the court will be dragged down by them if they don't have to attack the sea. collapsed."

"Your Majesty, absolutely not, how can a gentry destroy the country's dignity?" Li Tianfu, a scholar in the Hall of Martial Arts, howled and grabbed the land with his head, hoping to persuade Kangxi to deny Jackie Chan's proposal. "Minister, I want to impeach Yu Jackie Chan, the censor of Zuodu, to shake the foundation of the country. He, he wants to push all the gentry to Haini."

What is the national foundation of the Qing court? Of course, it is not the gentry, but the Manchus and the Eight Banners.Since officials and gentry pay food and errands together, they do not involve the hard-core crops of the banner people, nor the manors occupied by the Manchu clan in Hebei, so not only the Manchu ministers present bowed their heads, but even Kangxi, who was looking at the memorial of Jackie Chan, also Say nothing.

However, Li Tianfu's words aroused the echo of most of the Han ministers. He became an official for thousands of miles only for money, and even a few officials who were upright shook their heads in silence, thinking that this was a betrayal of the practice of tax exemption for gentry that began in the Song Dynasty It will greatly attack the gentry's support for the Qing court, and once it is implemented, the consequences will be disastrous.

To this, Yu Chenglong, who was born in the Yellow Banner of the Han Army, responded coldly: "The behavior of the adults at this moment is different from the ministers of the Ming Dynasty just said by the emperor. They are all benevolent and rich. Don't really want to watch Did something go wrong in Qing Dynasty?"

Zhu Xin's rhetorical question immediately froze the scene.Only then did everyone come to their senses, yes, was Kangxi's beating just paving the way for Yu Jackie's memorial?From this point of view, I am afraid that Kangxi will sing the oboe with Jackie Chan again.

Thinking of this, some Han ministers began to shrink back. Of course, they did not object on the surface, but they must have made small moves in private. Only Zhang Yu, a scholar of the Wenhua Palace who attended with illness, coughed and said: "The emperor Mingjian, There is no precedent for the policy of government and gentry paying food and errands together, and it will inevitably be obstructed when it is implemented. Once there is a big commotion, Haini may not be able to profit from it. Of course, the court's lack of expenses cannot be ignored. The minister proposed a strategy. Maybe it can alleviate your father's worries a little bit."

Zhang Yu slowly took out a memorial from his sleeve and handed it over: "My minister, please return the fire to the public immediately, and share it with the mu."

These words caused another wave of commotion in the room.What is Huohao? Huohao is a method used by local officials to exploit the people in different ways.As for stalls entering the mu, I heard that it has been done in Zheng Fan's territory in the south for several years. I don't know how effective it is, but Zheng Jun's ability to launch an attack on the front line of Huguang at least shows that this matter will not cause trouble.

The conservative Hanchens objected with the same intention, but compared with the officials and gentry who pay food and errands together, the impact of returning fire to the public is much smaller, so Zhang Ying, a scholar of the Baohe Palace, immediately chimed in and said: "I think Mr. Zhang The said policy of returning fire consumption to the public is feasible, but I am afraid that it must be implemented in order to avoid mistakes."

Zhang Ying didn't want to wait for changes. In fact, he believed that the policy of distributing Ding Ding to mu was not a good thing for the lower class people. More importantly, it could not solve the financial crisis of the Qing government and There are also extra problems, so it is advocated that the short, flat and fast fire consumption should be implemented first.

When Zhang Ying started like this, the ministers of the Han Dynasty who understood everything immediately followed suit, and the return of the fire seemed to be a panacea to bring the Qing court back to life. It was just that the Han Shang Chen Tingjing who provoked the whole incident did not give everyone face. He bowed his head and calculated. After a moment, he reported: "Your Majesty, even if we implement the return of fire consumption to the public now, in terms of an average fire consumption of 500%, it can only increase income by [-] million taels, and there is still a half of the gap."

"Then add three liters to the price of salt." Xiong Cilu repeated his previous idea. He naturally knew that Beijing ordered an increase of three liters, and it fell on the common people. It would be more than ten or twenty liters, but this master of Neo Confucianism is loyal to the emperor. How can a model of patriotism pay more attention to the common people of Dousheng? "This can also add 10 taels."

Even so, it was not enough. At this time, Alan Tai, who was also a scholar of the Martial Arts Hall with Li Tianfu, whispered something to the people next to him. Kangxi saw it, so he called him by name: "Alan Tai, speak louder, I can't hear you. clear."

"Slave, slave." Alantai didn't expect to be caught by Kangxi, and he was a little terrified, but he quickly adjusted his mentality and bowed. "The slave just got a glimpse, thinking that it might be possible to arrange for the Han army to go out of the flag"

A Lantai wanted to reduce the cost of hard-core crops by sending the Han army out of the flag, but Yu Chenglong was in a hurry, and he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty can't do it!"