When Wei Zhongxian finished reading, the ministers in the Golden Palace were all not very good-looking, especially the officials from Jiangnan were so dark that they could scrape off a few layers of frost. The three cabinet masters Sun Chengzong, Zhu Guozhen, and Han Du also had their faces frown.

The officials present were all well-read people, and none of them had an IQ online. Is it okay to take the job together to pay food by Yang Feng?

Of course, to be fair, as long as you follow this method, the treasury of the Ming Dynasty will become full again in less than three years, and the tight days of the past will never come back.

But are they happy? Of course they can't be happy.

As the saying goes, the butt determines the head. After the court gains profit, it is the interests of the officials and gentry classes, especially the cancellation of the privileges of scholars and officials is unacceptable to them.

Where did you think of the so-called hard study after ten years? Isn’t it that I hope that the high school Jinshi will be prosperous and wealthy, and then the family will be rich and the wife and children will be honored? Now, the privilege of scholars being exempted from taxes is gone, and they even have to be in labor service like those mud legs. This is simply an insult to them.

After a while of silence, a young official in a green robe stood up and shouted: "Get up and report to Your Majesty, I am the Censor of the Censorate of the Censorate. If you have any questions, please ask Duke Xin for advice!"

Zhu Youxiao was silent for a moment and said lightly: "Accurate!"

Si Xuezhen strode forward and came to a place three or four meters away from Yang Feng and stared at Yang Feng and said sternly: "Politics are like the North Chen, where they live and all the stars are raising them. Your Majesty is the common rule of the world, and you should follow the ancestor's system to govern the world. The reason why Taizu set the rules for the exemption of taxes from the lower scholars was to let the people in the world have books and educate the people.

Now, when Yang Feng's mouth moves, he wants to abolish the rules set by Taizu. Are you going to get your Majesty to be unrighteous? It is a shame for the Ming Dynasty to stand in the Golden Palace like you!"

After saying that, Si Xuezhen knelt down to Zhu Youxiao and cried, "Your Majesty, Yang Feng is a man who is a monster. If according to what this is said, all officials and gentry in the world will collect taxes, then the world will be in chaos. I ask Your Majesty to kill this beast to correct the law of the country! Ah..."

As soon as Si Xuezhen finished speaking, she saw a black shadow appearing in front of her eyes and quickly grow bigger. Then she heard a bang, accompanied by a shrill scream. Si Xuezhen turned back and fought back, and his back hit the ground heavily, making a heavy sound, and his whole body screamed in pain.

Before everyone could report it, Yang Feng saw him walking to Si Xuezhen, grab his arm and twist it to his back, and shouted: "Where is the general of the Han Dynasty? This person wants to assassinate His Majesty in front of the palace. Come over quickly and take him down, kill him and kill his nine clans to correct the national law!"

Yang Feng's magical operation made everyone stunned, and then he realized that Han Yu stood up and shouted angrily at Yang Feng: "Duke Xinguo, the emperor is here, what do you want to do? Why don't you put the person down quickly?"

Yang Feng was stunned for a moment, "Mr. Han, I'm not doing anything. This guy wants to assassinate His Majesty. I'm taking him down and asking His Majesty to kill his nine clans!"

"My grass!" Even Wei Zhongxian gave Yang Feng a thumbs up. On weekdays, our family thought it was cruel enough, but if you use the method of pointing to a deer in front of the civil and military officials in the court, our family will not be able to learn even if it takes another hundred years.

"fart!"

Han Du could no longer help but shouted angrily: "Are your Majesty and all the civil and military officials in the court blind? Which eye did you see him want to assassinate His Majesty? Do you, Duke Xin, command the slander of slander and frame people?"

"Haha..." Yang Feng smiled, a disdainful smile appeared on his face: "Framed and framed, this guy said that I was a witch and confusing the public, and he would ask His Majesty to kill me, Yizheng's law. Isn't this a frame-up?

Lord Han, you will be so conscientious in front of the civil and military officials of the court and His Majesty. Is the things I said in my memorial just now good or bad for my Ming Dynasty? If it is really done, will it be beneficial to the people of the world? Can the taxes of the court be increased?"

As soon as Yang Feng said this, Han Yu stopped talking. As a person who had been in the officialdom for most of his life, he certainly knew that Yang Feng was right. If he really wanted to implement the policy of serving as one and paying food in one as Yang Feng said, let alone three years, he could be sure that the dilemma of the court's financial difficulties would be solved in just one to two years.

But some things are like this. It is not that benefits can be implemented. Due to the prosperity of the economy in Jiangnan, the tax paid is much higher than that in the north, which gives officials and gentry from Jiangnan more confidence when facing the court.

Now Yang Feng suddenly said that he would implement the unity of work and paying food. This was simply digging the roots of these gentry in Jiangnan. Even cabinet masters like Han Du dared to express their opinions in front of the civil and military ministers of the court, so he could only shut up and act as a mute.

Seeing that Han Yu was not speaking, Yang Feng looked at the civil and military ministers in the court: "During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, the world was at its peak, and the annual tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty was still more than 8 million taels, and later it gradually increased to more than 10 million.

During the Yongle period, the world was peaceful and the taxes of the Ming Dynasty increased to 20 million taels. But then the taxes of the Ming Dynasty gradually decreased. As of the fifth year of Tianqi, the huge taxes of the Ming Dynasty were only more than 5 million taels.

Hahaha... Dear sirs, you are all well-read people. Can you tell me what's going on?"

Yang Feng's voice echoed in the Golden Palace, but everyone in the hall lowered their heads and no one said anything. Even Si Xuezhen, who was about to get up, was lying on the ground with a punch and closed her eyes and pretended to be dead.

Yang Feng glanced sharply at everyone and glanced at him: "You don't know, but you still dare not answer?"

The Golden Palace was still silent, and nearly a thousand people were silent. Yang Feng shouted: "Okay, don't you say it, then let me say it. The reason why the taxes are low is that almost more than 80% of the land in the Ming Dynasty fell into the pockets of wealthy gentry, that is, you officials.

But the land is not human, they will not give up their children. Rich gentry takes up a little more, and the people have less land. However, officials and gentry are tax-free, so the court can collect less and less taxes. Not only that, the merchants also thought about the law to evade taxes and avoid taxes, and tried every means to make the court exempt from taxes on the grounds that they did not compete for profit with the people. This also led to the court's taxes being less and less taxes. My lords, I wonder if my words are right.

Or can anyone come forward to prove my shortcomings?”
Chapter completed!