The 13th year of Chongkang, the 14th day of the twelfth lunar month.

Daming Palace City, outside the Yintai Gate.

Since the Yin hour, officials from the capital have come to wait outside the gate.

The capital said that the officials in the capital were noble and noble, and the emperor was an official at the feet of the emperor, so there were many opportunities for promotion.

Every year when the governors of various provinces come to Beijing, they will spread gold, silver, ice, and charcoal to the various departments. There will be rewards at the end of the year, which is so happy.

However, only the Beijing officials themselves know the joys and sorrows.

It was okay for the Holy Ancestor to attend court every five days, and get up one day early on five days, and you can still accept it.

It was even more enjoyable during the Zhenyuan Dynasty. Every ten days I went to court, just like experiencing life, no one complained.

However, when the Chongkang Dynasty was in the Chongkang Dynasty, the emperor was thrifty, so he went to court every day.

This made all officials above the fifth rank in the capital suffer...

The key is that every time hundreds of people go to court, they go to that stop, and most of the time they listen to some officials discussing matters in the mountains and mist.

If it is something that has nothing to do with our department, who cares what happened?

Often, most of the day has passed, but I just stand in vain.

However, over the past decade, the old Beijing officials have become familiar with this lifestyle and are gradually accustomed to going to bed early and getting up early.

Not to mention, after developing the habit, except for the rainy, windy and snowy days, it is quite good at other times...

Every morning before courtship, chatting about strange things in the capital outside the imperial city is also a pleasure!

In the twelve and three years ago, when officials in Beijing were chatting in the morning, the most talked about was the new law.

After more than ten years of exchange, most of these officials are from the New Party lineage, and they are in charge of the fifth rank or above in the six centers of the six ministries.

The position is low and the weight is heavy.

Since they are responsible for stating and planning the progress of new laws in each province, they often curse the delayed provinces.

The governors are incompetent, the prefects and counties are all mediocre, and the local prominent families who obstruct the new laws are all thieves in chaos.

They all came from the Academic College, quoted classics and talked about the past and the present, so they were so happy!

They can scold these topics for a few years without getting tired of them.

The anger you receive in business the day before every day will become the motivation to enjoy the next day for an hour.

Originally on the third day of the twelfth lunar month, Jiangnan Governor Guo Zhao wrote a letter to the court, and the new law had already been held in Jiangnan Province on November 28. After the court was ecstatic, all officials were worried. Who should they scold when chatting in the morning?

If there is no one who scolds you, how boring life will be during the long waiting time outside the palace gate.

However, they made a mistake and they had no worries about no one scolding them.

Because on the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, a shocking news came from the cabinet, which shocked the entire Shenjing City and even the entire Guanzhong world!

The leader of the new party Ning Zechen suddenly threw out a proposal when the cabinet was discussing politics:

After the new law spreads to the world, we must further lighten the people's taxes and enrich the national treasury.

These are two completely opposite and very contradictory slogans.

It reduces the tax burden on the people, which is a good thing. You can get a good reputation and a good official reputation. Everyone wants it.

But if taxes are reduced, the treasury will not be abundant.

If you don’t collect taxes from the people, will the world still lose pies?

Don’t worry, Ning Shunong has a great trick!

He no longer collects taxes from the people of Mud Legs. Ning Shoufu wants to collect taxes from the royal relatives, royal family, royal family, nobles, civil officials and generals, and gentry all over the world.

Not only do you collect taxes and grain, but you also have to work as a servant, that is, corvee!

Of course, as early as one or two hundred years ago, the imperial court could have used silver to collect corvee labor instead, and there was no need to really do corvee labor.

So in the end, taxes are still required.

When this proposal came out of the cabinet, the entire Shenjing City lost its voice.

Almost not many people believe this. Could it be that Ning Zechen was hitting a guest or was crazy?

I didn't even want to die like this!

But after several inquiries, people finally believed that this matter was true.

It's true...

At that moment, the entire ruling class of Chang'an City was in a panic!

This is not a way out for people!

The royal relatives, royal family members, royal family members, and nobles of martial arts did not react much for a while.

They didn't believe that Ning Zechen dared to come to collect their taxes, and if anyone is not afraid of death, he would come to him to try...

So the biggest reaction was the officials in the capital.

Although most of them are new parties and can be regarded as upstarts, if they were not Ning Zechen, most of them would not be likely to go to Beijing to become officials.

They followed Ning Zechen to implement the new law and dealt with backward anti-French elements in various provinces without any mercy.

It has become almost an instinct to scold those stubborn and backward elements who are obsessed with profit over the years.

However, when the sickle of leeks was stretched to their necks, it had not yet fallen, but it also aroused their strong rebound!

Therefore, in these ten days, the most fiercer person in court officials was their party leader Ning Zechen.

When someone touches their cheese and wants to steal their interests, they will scold them even if they are the leader of the party or their own father.

"I worked hard for so many years, and I saw that the task was completed, I didn't see a penny of silver reward. This is good. Not only did I not give it, but I asked my men to pay the food and pay taxes as a servant! The most ridiculous thing is this servant. What do you think we are doing now? Are we sleeping in bed?"

"That's right, that Fujianzi is a little too harsh. He wants to use our heart blood to dye his black hat red! If this black gauze turns red, is it still the hat of a minister?"

"It's like a bastard! We have been studying hard for more than ten years. Once the Yellow Clan passed the imperial examination, changed the ranks and the carp jumped over the dragon gate. What is the purpose of? It is to continue to serve as a servant to pay food? Do you still need the ancestral method of supporting scholars in the court? If we are no different from mud legs, then how can we read the books of sages?"

"I think that Fujianzi is a ulterior motive. He is going to destroy our Daqian foundation! Let us be a servant to pay food. Isn't this practicing what we are? We are all the ministers of the court. If we are done, the world will be over!"

"That's right, it's true that Fujian Zi is vicious! He's just a living Cao Cao!"

"Yes! Living Cao Cao!"

"Hey! Stop talking, stop talking, come here, others are here..."

As he was talking, he saw an eight-lifting official sedan chair slowly coming from the direction of Jinshui Bridge.

That is the official sedan chair of Fu Ning Zechen, the Great Qian Yuan.

But if it were ordinary, there were countless officials at this moment, including six ministries, three ministers and nine ministers, and other important officials surrounded them.

We spoke loudly with Lord Yuan Fu to discuss the new law process to show that they are loyal to the king's affairs and are commendable.

But in the past few days, only a few people have gone to the green official sedan chair to accompany him and talk.

Of course, this may be related to the fact that the new law has already spread to the world...

Ning Zechen, sitting in the official sedan chair, had a cold face and a knife's eyes.

Although he knew very well that the emperor forced him to act like this was to make him "destroy the Great Wall" and ruin his fame.

After all, he has been a cabinet minister for more than ten years and has also established a new party. Today, eight out of ten are from the new party. If he were in the position of the emperor, he would not be able to sleep well.

He didn't want to bear the harsh reputation of killing heroes, so he forced him to destroy his foundation first.

Then slowly get rid of it...

He knew all this in his heart.

But between rebellion and loyalty to the emperor, he chose the latter.

He was a Confucian minister and a Confucian minister who had achieved his lifelong political ambitions.

Thunder, rain and dew are all heavenly grace.

If the king wants his minister to die, his minister must die.

What's more, he thought it through later.

The one with the highest political status and relatively richest ones are the four major classes of emperors, nobles, scholars and gentry.

These four major classes control at least 80% or even 90% of the world's wealth.

If they can work together to pay for food and form a system, even if they cannot be unified for thousands of years, they can at least create a new era that has never been unprecedented!

And he who promotes this great moral and political career will surely be recorded in history forever!

Therefore, even if he wants to be enemies of the whole world, he is not afraid at all!

At the third hour of Mao, the Yintai Gate of the East Gate of the Imperial City was wide open.

Yuan Funing came down from his official sedan chair, with a purple robe and jade belt, and was powerful without anger.

He stood under all the officials, walked in and walked in step by step.

At this time, Cao Zhi, the Minister of Rites, followed him half a step behind and shouted: "Yuanfu, the new law has been initially implemented, and the country should enter the stage of cultivation. The ritual says: One is stretched and one is relaxed, and the way of civil and military affairs is the way of Yuanfu. Why should Yuanfu be so anxious?"
To be continued...