Chapter 153: Please Abolish the Mining Tax
The matter of setting up a special Lifan Academy, especially the seizure of the Youshi Department's authority to issue Zonglu, was the key to the position of Shangshu, and Zhang Zhiji, who inherited the Duke of England.
This is a very stimulating person to the Chinese officials in the court.
In this short period of more than half a year, there have been too many things happening in the Ming Dynasty, whether in the court or in the local area.
Especially in the court, what an emperor who did not listen to the rules and regulations did by Gan Gang was unacceptable to those conservative civil officials and felt panic in his heart.
The confrontation between imperial power and ministerial power has never stopped.
"The Emperor... Something happened."
Wang Chengen walked into the East Nuan Pavilion with a stack of memorials in his arms, and he bowed: "Han Du, Zhou Daodeng, He Rutong, Qian Xiangkun, Wang Qia, and the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue..."
Emperor Chongzhen, who was busy at the desk, put down his red pen in his hand, looked at Wang Chengen with cold eyes, and his expression was hard to see.
"This is an agreement. I will resign collectively and force me to force me."
Emperor Chongzhen said coldly: "Go, call Han and the others, and Wang Qiao, I want to see what they are going to do!"
"Here!"
Wang Chengen hurriedly bowed and responded.
In the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, there were often acts of proactively submitting memorials and resignation, some sincere and some invitations. No matter which one it was, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty would consider it based on actual conditions, be kind or refute it.
Like Fang Congzhe and Ye Xianggao from the Tianqi Dynasty, they served as the chief minister of the cabinet, and they did such actions.
However, the former was plotted by the Donglin Party and used the Red Pill case to launch an impeachment offensive in North Korea, wanting to destroy Fang Congzhe, a giant in the Zhejiang Party.
The latter was burdened by the complicated courts. Under the fierce party struggle, he adopted an attitude similar to appeasement. He handed dozens of resignations and memorials in history. It was not approved until the fourth year of the Apocalypse.
That year was exactly when the eunuch party's power began.
‘It turns out that I know that the civil servants in the court will definitely not sit still and wait for death.’ Emperor Chongzhen looked cold and looked at the pile of resignation memorials, and he was secretly angry.
‘It is absolutely impossible for so many senior officials to resign without prior discussion or spontaneous behavior.
What kind of party struggle?
This is clearly a collision between imperial power and ministerial power.
The Emperor of Ming Dynasty, be honest as the mascot that civil servants want, then they will be at ease with the party and fight for their respective interests.
But once this premise is gone, they will unite spontaneously. No, it should not be considered unity, it should be their own nature!’
Although the Ming Dynasty did not shout the slogan "Govern the world with scholars and officials" like Zhao Song, it had the reality of "Govern the world with scholars and officials".
On the one hand, he did not like party struggles in the court and ruined the trend of administration, but on the other hand, he could not live without scholars. This relatively passive situation was the first time Emperor Chongzhen had experienced it.
In order to do what he planned well, after putting a tight hug on the cabinet, implementing a responsibility system and a accountability system, and clarifying his term of office, Emperor Chongzhen gradually delegated power to the cabinet.
As long as it does not involve money and grain matters or promotion matters, generally, after Emperor Chongzhen reads the opinions of the cabinet, they will ask the Sili Supervisor to approve the rewards.
But Emperor Chongzhen did not expect that the civil servants in the court would actually play this trick for him and resign together?
"I can't afford to play."
Emperor Chongzhen sneered: "It seems that these days, we have taken frequent moves, from killing some honorary relatives, to the national traitors, to the Zhili Governor, the Disaster Relief Office, and including the Lifan Court.
It is called the civil servant group in the court, and it cannot be accepted.
However, the more this kind of reaction, the more it means that the path I have taken is right. It is not the time to completely turn against each other. Otherwise, the court will shut down, which will inevitably lead to a shutdown in the local area.
Then...it's not fun."
The longer you become this emperor's throne, the more you can understand what it means to be cold at a high place, and what it means to be alone.
After all, there are only a few wise and good ministers like Sun Chengzong, Sun Chuanting, and Lu Xiangsheng who are pragmatic and hardworking. Even if they are them, they will make a decision in private and hesitate.
The Ming Dynasty is not a vacuum.
The environment in which the civil servants live is human nature and exchange of interests!
Heaven, Earth, Lord, Parents and Teachers.
In addition to the first three, the latter two are also very powerful.
Han Du, Zhou Daodeng, He Rutong, Qian Xiangkun, Wang Qia and others walked into the East Warehouse. They all looked complicated and bowed to the emperor with a cold expression and said, "I will pay homage to Your Majesty!"
Emperor Chongzhen did not speak, and looked at Han and the others calmly.
He also knew in his heart that perhaps Han and the others' resignation was not out of their original intention, but the world they were in forced to come up with this bad plan.
At that time, the Donghunting Pavilion fell into silence.
Wang Chengen, who was waiting beside him, stood quietly in place with his mind down, as if he had never encountered such a situation before.
"It is now a time when the national dynasty is arduous. Jianlu in Liaodong, bandits and civil unrest in Shanxi, corruption in Shanxi's officialdom, Zhili, Shandong's disaster, and a remnant of white lotus."
Emperor Chongzhen raised his eyebrows and looked at Han Yu and the others, and said calmly: "Did I do something angry and resentful to heaven, or a tyrant who murdered me? I asked you to coerce me like this?
Did I force you to do something? Or did I set up several special government offices to deal with the ever-changing current situation and to ensure the eternal stability of the Ming Dynasty, and some ministers in the court were stimulated one by one
arrive?
They don’t know, are you still not?
What I hate most now is the ancestral rituals and laws. Since the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Taizu Gao and Emperor Chengzu, they have encountered difficulties and situations that I encountered when they were in power in the world?"
Han Du, Wang Qia and others all had complicated expressions and had different thoughts in their minds. The resignation was not their original intention.
It’s really a person who is wandering around the world, so there is no...wrong... it’s a forced one.
When the Zhili Governor was appointed, some public opinion in the court was not good, but it followed closely. In just a dozen days, it was the Disaster Relief Office and the Lifan Court.
Even if this is called self-hypnosis by the Chinese officials in the court, it will not be able to hypnotize.
When Zi is in charge of the current situation and makes tricks, many people have no choice but to find corresponding excuses to object and advise.
This is a big deal.
"I... I beg your Majesty to abolish the mine tax forever!"
Han Yu walked forward at that time, without mentioning the Lifan Court or the Disaster Relief Office, bowed and said, "The situation in the country is chaotic, but the treasury wants to call the previous one, which is full of a lot. If Your Majesty does not allow his ministers to resign,
I also ask Your Majesty to approve me of my advice."
"I'm going to discuss it!"
"I'm going to discuss it!"
Chapter completed!