"Uh... I understand what my father means, but the mine supervisors are all good and bad. Some people go out to do things and make a lot of trouble. Should my father replace people with better moral integrity to handle this matter?

"

"Huh!" Emperor Wanli was in a surprisingly good mood today, so he simply shook his sleeves and said, "Zhu Youdong!"

Why is it me again?

Alas, there is no other way. You cannot expose yourself, and you need the full support of the emperor. Therefore, his request must be fulfilled as much as possible.

After helplessly saluting Zhu Changluo respectfully, Zhu Youdong only said one sentence: "Father, how can we cry together as a family?"

Who are the people that the mine supervisors are harming? They are all rich people! As far as the mineral veins are concerned, it is certainly unfair for these guys to be blackmailed by being designated as having mineral veins in their ancestral home for no reason. But you guys

Isn’t it possible that the reason these guys are so rich is due to tax evasion? Do you only have such a small amount of property? Let you lose some money, and then the country will have money, which can send military pay to soldiers to resist foreign enemies. It can also be given to disaster-stricken areas.

Send relief. Well, needless to say, your sacrifices are valuable.

"Dong'er, where did you hear these ridiculous words at such a young age?" Zhu Changluo was really a little angry now: "Our family is the royal family, and we must care for the people of the whole world. Why should a family cry, all the way?

Cry? Our goal is to prevent everyone from crying."

"Uh...", he couldn't talk back, but this did not prevent Zhu Youdong from complaining in his heart: Father, you should study more when you have time, and don't be like a hard-working bee buzzing in the selection of waiters all day long.

.What kind of ridiculous words is this? Is this a famous saying of Fan Zhongyan? Also, you are really a good person! Unfortunately, a good person cannot be an emperor.

"Hmph!" Regarding Zhu Changluo's idiotic remarks, Zhu Youdong could not say much due to his status. But it doesn't matter, there is a grandfather above him.

"Prince, it seems that you didn't listen to what Dong'er said just now. Go and compare the tea class in the first year of Wanli with the tea class in the 31st year of Wanli, and you will understand everything.

"

The tea class is a tea tax. As a hobby, the production and sales of tea were huge in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the state also imposed a special tax on tea. The people who managed this tax were civil servants.

The tea tax in the first year of Wanli was 230,000 taels, and the tea tax in the 31st year was, haha, 26,000 taels.

Looking at the dumbfounded Zhu Changluo, Zhu Youdong couldn't help feeling sad: Hey, this is not bad. If you knew that during the Chongzhen period, the national tea tax was less than 100 taels, wouldn't you be frightened?

These are the civil servants of our Ming Dynasty! These are the moral models that our Ming Dynasty advocates moral governance and has spent more than two hundred years cultivating, gentlemen!

When eunuchs are sent out to collect taxes, the eunuchs must be greedy. But these guys, because all their power comes from the emperor, there is still a bottom line. At least, for the mining tax alone, eunuchs all over the country can at least guarantee

The inner court imports 500,000 taels of silver every year. Sometimes it even reaches one million taels!

From the middle period of Wanli's reign, the emperor continued to use these internal funds to subsidize the national finance. When Wanli died, there were still 8 million taels of silver in the internal treasury. It was this money that allowed the Ming Dynasty in the historical realm to

After Emperor Wanli, he still managed to survive for more than twenty years.

The emperor, with one person to rule the world, will inevitably use one person to fight against the world. How can one person fight against ten thousand people? In short, controlling personnel power, military power and financial power is fundamental.

However, personnel power is gradually moving away from the emperor.

As for the civil servants, the most powerful academician was actually recommended by the court. Although the emperor could directly appoint him, under the shackles of moral governance, no minister now dares to enter the cabinet directly through the emperor's appointment without accepting the recommendation.

What's even more confusing is that the imperial edict issued directly by the emperor does not work. It has to be countersigned by the first or second assistant of the cabinet, and there is no refutation in order to gain everyone's approval: the emperor's imperial edict is simply called the imperial edict, and if the minister refuses the imperial edict,

If you wish, the world will only praise you and no one will say that this person has no king or father.

What about the generals? Alas, the guard system is in ruins. The generals trembled under the power of civil servants. In the early years, Emperor Wanli once wrote to some military generals, saying that he was asking for advice on the art of war, but in fact he was trying to win over them. This matter was brought to the attention of civil servants.

When they found out, they threatened the generals and said that they should not forget the fate of Jiang Binqi during the Wuzong period. Then, these generals wrote to Wanli, asking His Majesty the Emperor to spare their lives...

Human rights are incomplete and even gradually disappear, and military power is also separated. What about financial power?

Moral governance is now popular in the Ming Dynasty. The reason for the uneven taxation and taxation in one year is not because of the lack of ability of the local officials. It is because the parents and officials love the people as their children and are moral models. If any local official pays the taxation in full every year, it is a bad person.

, want to use the bones of ordinary people to pave their own career!

Therefore, the only things that the emperor can effectively control now are the eunuchs and the imperial guards. Moreover, it is only effective control, not complete control. Because the eunuchs and imperial guards are also influenced and penetrated by civil servants.

Besides, after all, the cultural level is still too low, and the eunuchs and imperial guards are often deceived by the civil servants.

The most typical example is: Zhang Hong, the former eunuch in charge of the ceremonial department, went on a hunger strike and died because he opposed Wanli's mining tax collection.

This Zhang Hong was the famous eunuch who quickly defeated Feng Bao after Zhang Juzheng's death and helped Wanli stabilize the government. He was the most loyal to Wanli. And if a person shows his ambition through death, it cannot be said that he has ulterior motives. This

This can only mean that Zhang Hong was really deceived by the civil servants and truly believed that collecting mining taxes was harming the world!

Even the eunuchs he grew up with didn't understand him. One can imagine the sadness and loneliness in Emperor Wanli's heart. This also makes it understandable why he doted on Concubine Zheng all his life.

"That's it for today. Prince, please go back and rest. Think carefully about what Dong'er and I said today. And!" Wanli stood up: "Prince, and you old guys, what I said today is nothing.

Quasi-gaiden!"

"According to the decree."

"Well, Zhu Youdong, come with grandpa."

"yes."

After the grandfather and grandson came to a side hall, Wanli sighed: "I often heard that people who are born to know, I always didn't believe it before, but today I have opened my eyes. Dong'er, who are you?"

"Grandpa Huang, what are you talking about? My grandson can't understand." Mengxin's big eyes were swung open, and she was confused.

"Hey, grandpa was also enlightened when he was about four years old. At that time, the late emperor was just King Yu. Grandpa remembers that it was Mr. Chen Yiqin who taught grandpa to recite the Three-Character Sutra... But it was only when he was six years old that grandpa read three hundred thousand

I memorized it. Moreover, at that time, my grandfather did not understand the various government affairs of Emperor Shizong (Jiajing) at all."

What can I say? What can I do except silence?

"Hey, grandpa was still a little too impatient today, and he suddenly pushed you to the forefront. If you do it today, the news will definitely be leaked, and then the crazy dogs outside will start barking again."

"Haha, Grandpa Huang, we are human beings, why should we pay attention to the barking of dogs?"

"Well...hahahahaha~~~ Well said, well said! But Dong'er, you have to be careful in the future. You must never say this to anyone except grandpa."

"Yes, my grandson has remembered it."

"Well, now you have reached the age of formal enlightenment. Grandpa will ask Chen Ju to arrange for you to be a companion, study companion and lecturer. If you have any other requests, you can directly ask grandpa."
Chapter completed!