Another Suffering for the Gentlemen (please subscribe!)

Author: Linjiangjun

Zhu Kezang didn't know how much he could remember. If he had the opportunity, he would continue to instill advanced ideas of governing the country in Zhu Yiming, and strive to make Zhu Yiming a qualified prince when he retires.

"It's too much for me to digest. Let's continue playing chess!"

Just like that, the two sides started fighting again on the chessboard. Just as the fighting was in full swing, they saw the guiding eunuch hurriedly entered the Yangxin Hall, came to Zhu Kezang's side, and whispered.

"Your Majesty, Eunuch Li is asking for an audience. He said he has something to report to you!"

"Well, let him in!"

Zhu Kezang nodded and gave instructions to the guiding eunuch.

"Zuo Ming, Your Majesty!"

After the guiding eunuch responded, he left the imperial garden without looking back.

A moment later, old eunuch Li was seen stepping into the imperial garden, anxiously and respectfully taking the memorial from the Council of Ministers to Zhu Kezang.

"Your Majesty, do you agree with the detailed rules for the unified payment of grain by the government and gentry formulated by the Council of Ministers?"

After Zhu Kezang heard what he said, he couldn't help but be a little surprised: "Hey, the Council of Government has so quickly formulated the detailed rules for the integrated payment of grain by officials and gentry?"

After Zhu Kezang finished speaking, the discerning prince Zhu Yiming took the memorial from Lao Li's lap and handed it to his father.

"Let me see how well they are doing in the Council of Ministers!"

Zhu Kezang was very interested. When he told the prince about the gentry and land just now, he happened to give him a personal explanation.

Zhu Kezang took the memorial from the prince's lap and began to look through the contents in front of him.

"Oh, that's great. They basically understood my instructions!"

After Zhu Kezang finished speaking, he pointed with his leg to the first stipulation written in the memorial: "Officials and landowners must pay taxes. Ming'er, let me take a look and see if there is anything wrong with it?"

Wouldn’t that embarrass the children?

At such a young age, I have to think about such profound issues.

But he also knew whether his father was training him.

After he had read through all the regulations mentioned above, as usual, he brought in the gentry first.

If other people suddenly ask for tax on their land, wouldn't that make them mad?

"Father, I feel that the detailed rules for the unified payment of grain by officials and gentry are likely to arouse resistance from the gentry."

"No, when the time comes to cause trouble, the court will lose face..."

The old eunuch Li next to him added, "That's right." Before he could finish his words, he was impatiently interrupted by Zhu Kezang.

"Don't worry, I will just let them bear their due responsibilities. The gentry have been clamoring all day long to ask for help from the king. It turns out that when it comes time to ask for help from the king, all of them have disappeared again!"

"The part of the taxes they pay less will eventually fall on the common people."

"Ming'er, am I the king and father of millions of people in the Ming Dynasty? How can a king and father not love his own children?"

"So after much thought, I decided not to suffer any more for those gentry!"

After suffering the hardship of the gentry, Zhu Yiming savored that sentence carefully.

"Ming'er, father, teach me one more thing, don't always suffer for the common people, because if the common people suffer for a long time, they will really rebel!"

After Zhu Yiming heard those words, he was thinking about whether he should suffer the merchants when he became emperor.

Old eunuch Li, on the other hand, directly flattered him: "Your Majesty, Dong Shengming!"

"Old Li, let me tell Chen Weiguo about something. Keep an eye on me recently. If there is any trouble, just report it to me directly!"

"No, Your Majesty!"

After hearing this, Old Eunuch Li immediately looked stern and responded in a deep voice.

Soon, the Yizhengyuan officially announced the detailed rules for the integrated payment of grain by officials and gentry.

And that time, the shock it brought was much stronger than before.

Because that time it really hurt their core interests.

In the past, the sharing of land between farmers and peasants would not infringe their interests, but the latest proposal of the Council of Ministers for the government and the gentry to pay grain to each other did not harm their interests.

It can be said that as soon as that policy came out, everyone seemed to feel the aggressive attitude from the emperor.

In a rather quiet and elegant courtyard, more than a dozen officials were gathering together.

If someone recognizes those people, it will be found that although they are located in various departments and yamen of the court, which seems to have no connection at all, but if you listen to their accents, you will find that they are from Jiangnan.

Jiangnan has produced a lot of talents since ancient times. Even in the new Ming Dynasty and the new imperial examination, the majority of Jinshi people were from Jiangnan.

Those gathered there now are just a few of them.

At this time, the elegant temperament of Jiangnan officials had long since disappeared, and their faces even retained a somewhat ferocious look.

"Damn it, Yang Ying, in his eyes is a scholar like him, and he actually wants to destroy the laws of his ancestors and levy an acre tax on the land in the name of officials and gentry like him."

ah!

Yang Ying, the Minister of Household Affairs, turned out to be the biggest scapegoat.

"In all dynasties, scholars have always believed in the imperial court's preferential treatment. How come in the Ming Dynasty, everything has changed!"

"Have you never heard before that the imperial examination will eliminate people?"

"Now the officials and gentry are coming to collect food again?"

Jiangnan officials were very angry. They were dissatisfied with some of Zhu Kezang's decisions.

"Has Your Majesty been deceived by the treacherous minister Yang Ying? If he goes east like that, he will destroy the Ming Dynasty!"

"Absurd, the gentry paying taxes is an unprecedented curiosity!"

Tang Pengnian, the Prime Minister of the Imperial Academy, was furious, "What are you saying is true? He and others bear the hope of all the people in the east. They must not let Yang Ying corrupt the imperial court and disrupt the Ming Dynasty!"

Although the Prime Minister of the Imperial College is only a sixth-grade official, he has a great say in whether it is possible or not.

Tang Pengnian was the first Jinshi in Jiangdu Bridge Town, Yangzhou Prefecture.

His family is not a big one in Jiangdu, and owns numerous lands in the east.

He was a Tatar Jinshi in 1676, and later became an official again in the new Ming Dynasty by virtue of his talents.

Tang Pengnian was also good at poetry, poetry, and rhymes, and was especially good at singing and rhythm, so he was mixed up in the position of the Prime Minister of the Imperial Academy.

In the atmosphere, some hot-headed officials decided to write a joint letter begging the emperor to withdraw his order.

Some of those gentry realized that the emperor wanted to completely abolish the gentry's privilege of not paying taxes. If he backed down, the good life of the gentry would be over!

"My lords, can you remember clearly the business tax incident before, and can everyone who wronged Yang Ying at that time suffer the consequences?"

As soon as these words came out, Donglai became silent now.

Compared with my own life, money seems not to be that important.

I saw a cold light flashing in Tang Peng's eyes, and heard him say: "Don't worry, he thought that the number of people who wanted to kill Oi in one go was very large. If the number of people was large enough, it would be wrong."

With the turbulent public opinion in the East, he didn't believe that Bidong could really turn a blind eye and watch Yang Ying's kick."

Everyone was slightly stunned and looked at Tang Pengnian with some confusion.

Tang Peng young laughed and said: "There are thousands of scholars from the Ming Dynasty gathered in the Imperial College. Among them, there are many scholars and people with great honors. We asked if we tell the news and let it out, what kind of reaction will they have?"

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Chapter completed!