The king behind the empress

Chapter 86 Your Majesty Wants to Rebel
"Are you the head of the patrol department?"

This news really shocked Mo Zizai. When he was the chief minister of the court, minister of the Ministry of officials, and also the head of intelligence work, his father must have a lot of heart to gather all the power in one person. .

The Ministry of Officials is the head of the six ministries, which is in charge of the personnel changes of officials. In theory, the promotion and demotion of officials must be approved by him, and the power is quite large.

Needless to say, the chief assistant of the cabinet, the cabinet has always been hailed as a small court, and its daily task is to help the emperor handle government affairs, and the power held by the chief assistant of the cabinet is no exaggeration to say that it is No. 1 below the emperor.

Because the power of the two is too great, in Mo Zizai's impression, the previous official ministers have never been able to enter the cabinet, let alone serve as the chief assistant of the cabinet.

It turns out that my father is so good, but he still thinks that he is not powerful enough to hold two positions, and he has added the responsibility of an intelligence minister. Are you really not afraid that this bad old man in front of him will become a powerful minister and rebel against him?
"That's right, I'm the head of the patrol department."

Yang Weishang didn't care about the surprise and fear in Mo Zizai's eyes, he took out the token of the head of the patrol department from his pocket and put it on the table, then asked softly, "Do you know why the late emperor formed the Yuzhi department?"

After Mo Zizai verified the authenticity of the token, he quickly took a sip of water to suppress his shock. The intelligence organization in his hands was actually in the hands of others. This is really horrifying.

Hearing Yang Weishang's question, Mo Zizai thought for a while, and then replied: "I heard that it seems to be to deal with the family?"

"It's just a cover."

Yang Weishang let out a sigh of relief, a look of reminiscence flashed in his eyes, "Your Majesty, he wanted to rebel back then."

"what???"

Mo Zizai was a little dazed, he knew that Yang Weishang's Majesty was referring to his father, but what did rebellion mean?Was it the rebellion he understood?
Yang Weishang ignored Mo Zizai's doubts, but changed the subject and asked, "What does Your Highness think of the current situation in Da Zhou?"

Hearing Yang Weishang calling his Highness, Mo Zizai was taken aback for a moment, but he immediately realized that the old man was probably lost in memory, so he didn't correct him.

As for his question, Mo Zizai pondered for a while before slowly uttering a word: "It's in danger."

"The aristocratic family has gained power, and the number of tyrants has increased. In many places, the people in charge in name are court officials, but in fact, the aristocratic family has the final say."

"After these people took control of power, they wantonly acquired land and concealed the land property. As a result, the usable arable land that Da Zhou currently owns is not even one-tenth of what it was when the country was founded. It is simply ironic."

"And the most important thing is that the current population of Great Zhou has at least ten times that of when the country was founded, but the imperial court can only use one-tenth of this land to feed ten times the population, which is unrealistic at all."

"If it's a good year, it's fine. The people can still support themselves with the little property left in their hands. However, there have been many disasters these years. I'm afraid the people will not be able to survive long ago."

"And if the people can't survive, hey..."

When Mo Zizai said this, he just sneered and stopped talking.

"As expected of His Majesty's blood, he sees problems as thoroughly as His Majesty."

Yang Weishang nodded with satisfaction, and said: "During the 800 years since the founding of the Great Zhou, there have been countless nobles and officials who have become powerful. These people, together with the aristocratic families, not only controlled most of the land in the Great Zhou, but also monopolized the lower classes. An upward channel for the common people.”

"The imperial examination system is relatively fair, allowing ordinary people to have the opportunity to leap to the top of the dragon's gate, but ordinary people can't even eat, so how can they go to school."

"What's more, most of the people who control the imperial examinations are their people. In this way, ordinary people will have no chance."

Hearing Yang Weishang talking about the imperial examination, Mo Zizai suddenly remembered something, and subconsciously asked: "Mr. Yang Ge, I remember you..."

"Yes."

Yang Weishang knew what Mo Zizai wanted to ask, nodded and said: "I am indeed born as a commoner, and my family was quite poor when I was young, and I made a living by herding cattle with a rich family."

"But being old is not considered a commoner to be an official, because my teacher was Chen Ping, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials who retired from his old age and returned to his hometown. Since I became a teacher, I have already been regarded as a half-famous family."

Hearing what Yang Weishang said, Mo Zizai's face was a little dignified. If he said that, there would be no civil and military people in the Manchu Dynasty who were promoted from commoners.

Except for aristocratic families, there are not many powerful families, and even poor ones.

"Is class solidification?"

A word flashed through Mo Zizai's mind, and then he asked, "So, what exactly did my father want to do back then?"

"Your Majesty... the late emperor wanted to continue reforming."

Yang Weishang suddenly realized that the address was wrong, and replaced the half-proclaimed His Majesty with the late emperor, "The late emperor formed the Yuzhi Division, apparently to deal with the family, but in fact it was to prepare for reform."

"reform?"

Mo Zizai lifted his spirits when he heard this word, and asked, "What are the contents?"

"a lot of."

Yang Weishang said with a bit of complacency on his face: "Back then, I discussed with His Majesty... the late Emperor for many years, and finally we discussed a lot together."

"Among them, the most important ones are to abolish the privileges of the clan, nobles, aristocratic families, and noble gentry not to pay taxes, to measure land, to check the population, to determine the inheritance rights of adopted sons and daughters, to collect taxes according to population, and to regulate the commercial market. business tax."

"Sigh~"

Mo Zizai gasped involuntarily, his father was really ruthless, the clan, nobles, aristocratic families, wealthy gentry, merchants, Dazhou was only of these classes except the common people, but his father didn't prepare for any of them. Let it go, no wonder Yang Weishang said that his father was going to rebel, he messed up everyone, this is not a rebellion, what is it?

And the most important thing is that the scope of the reform is too big. It is almost enough for others to change one or two things when they are emperors for decades. It is a bit unrealistic for him to think about all the reforms, right?
"Mr. Yang Ge, isn't the scope of this reform too great?"

"This is the entire plan. The late Emperor and I have no intention of implementing it all at once."

Yang Weishang sighed and said: "Back then, His Majesty's abolition of lowly status was the first step to deal with them, and he also wanted to test those aristocratic families to see if their resistance was fierce."

"As a result, they were quite obedient. Although many ministers expressed their opposition to this matter, under the tough attitude of the first emperor, this policy was still promoted, and basically there was no too difficult obstruction."

"It is precisely because of this that after discussing with His Majesty, I felt that the timing should be about the same, so I planned to ask Yu Zhisi to secretly count the land first, and then start the land measurement."

"result……"

(End of this chapter)