Jiajing's heart was as angry as a huge wave at this moment!

He watched "The Rise and Fall of the Ming Dynasty" that he gave to himself in the past few days, and his feelings in his heart were very complicated.

How did you die?

I died of taking pills!

It was the alchemist who gave him the pills that killed him!

Those alchemists have no way to follow the will of heaven. The elixirs they give themselves are actually poisons!

All alchemists deserve to die!

All the alchemists were executed by Jiajing a few days ago.

All the officials who recommended alchemists were executed.

Fortunately, the immortal gave him real pills, and after taking them, he felt much more comfortable.

What was most angry was not the alchemist's alchemy, but Yan Song's corruption was beyond his imagination. Yan Shifan even seized a place with royal aura as his house. What was he going to do to rebel?!

What's even more angry is that the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by the peasant uprising army a hundred years later. The reason is internal and external troubles - people's livelihood, party struggles, natural disasters, peasant uprisings, and Jurchens in the Northeast...

His great-grandson actually hanged himself on a locust tree!

All the information hit Jiajing's heart, and he felt angry and powerless.

Jiajing even imagined that if he was in the position of great-grandson, he would probably be powerless to make the world come true!

There is no right or wrong in history, only cause and effect.

Jiajing knew that the ending of the Ming Dynasty in the future was the result of his own cause for more than two hundred years.

Fortunately, Jiajing is very lucky!

Fortunately, I can get the scriptures from the immortals.

Thinking of this, Jiajing thought that he should increase the sacrifices to the immortals.

The court meeting was held today, and Jiajing knew that the country would be settled first when fighting foreign countries!

To completely drive away the Japanese pirates, you must have money, food and army.

There is nothing now, taxes must be reformed!

Zhu Houcan asked, "Where is Gui E?"

In the past few days, Zhu Houcan has been thinking about how to reduce the taxes for farmers. According to the tips of "The Rise and Fall of the Ming Dynasty", Zhu Houcan thought of the "one-whip" method proposed by Gui E.

The eunuch reminded behind him: "Mr. Gui went west after ten years in Jiajing."

Dead?

Zhu Houcan didn't pay attention to this point, and Zhu Houcan said, "Then let's Xuan Zhang Juzheng!"

Zhu Houcan said this, both Yan Song and Xu Jie were stunned!

Why does Your Majesty want to announce Zhang Juzheng?

Zhang Juzheng is just a small official, and he is still Xu Jie's apprentice, so there is nothing extraordinary about it?

Soon, Zhang Juzheng came to the hall and saluted.

Jiajing couldn't wait to say, "I have read Gui'e's memorials more than ten years ago these days, which involve tax reform. Tax reform, simple, can reduce the burden on the people and increase the tax revenue of the court. What do you think about this?"

His Highness's ministers were in his heart, and of course they knew Gui'e's tax law system.

The new law stipulates that the land tax, corvee labor and other miscellaneous deductions in each prefecture and county are totally divided into one, and the cash is collected and the payment is converted into a mu.

This greatly simplifies the tax system and facilitates tax collection. At the same time, it makes it difficult for local officials to cheat, thereby increasing the central government's fiscal revenue.

The officials are all big landlords. Wouldn’t this take their lives?

"be opposed to!"

"Your Majesty, Gui'e's writings must not be written!"

"I also object to it!"

Jiajing was angry!

Your Highness’s people are not only opposed by the strict party, but also by the non-sen party!

Why oppose it!? Because everyone is a big landlord, it is beneficial to the country to promote the new policy (increase taxes) to the people (increase taxes) but it is the most unfavorable to these officials and landlords.

The people of the Yan Party began to talk endlessly about the drawbacks of implementing tax reform, and then persuaded Jiajing to give up the reform plan.

In the court, officials unanimously agreed with this opinion and expressed their opposition one after another.

Xu Jie did not express his opinion. There are two reasons why he did not express his opinion. One is that he has not reached the point of death with Yan Song. Moreover, if he opposes Yan Song this time, it is not only Yan Song, but also officials who are not Yan Party.

What's more, Xu Jie himself is a big landlord, and tax reform is not of much benefit to him.

Seeing that the ministers expressed their opinions, Xu Jie did not object, and the old fox Yan Song began to speak.

Yan Song talked endlessly about the drawbacks of implementing tax reform, and then persuaded Jiajing to give up the reform plan.

There is only one core content that Yan Song opposes - I am helping you make money through irregular means. If this new law is launched, your emperor's small treasury will have no money.

The emperor also needs to use the emperor's private money, build palaces, eat elixirs, etc. The reason why Yan Song was indulged by Jiajing was largely because he could make money, help the emperor make money, and deal with shameful bad debts for the emperor. It is similar to modern society accounting and cashiers helping company bosses handle bad debts.

Yan Song was a hundred sure thing. Under the pressure of the ministers, he also released this trick, and the emperor would give up the idea of ​​reform.

When Zhou Xiao saw this scene, his heart beat faster and he was sweating for Jiajing.

Sure enough, the struggles in ancient times were even more terrifying than I thought!

Uncle Zheng is really difficult! It is even more difficult than being alone without children.

Jiajing was very angry. This was the most angry he had ever had! His anger was much greater than when he first came to Beijing. The officials did not want him to recognize his father.

Jiajing even thought that if the immortal had not given guidance to him behind his back, if the immortal had not given him a divine book to him and let him know the future, Yan Song would have been timid after saying this! Compromise! Continue to let Yan Song do whatever he wants! The new law would have been in vain!

Fortunately, there is an immortal who guides me!

For the first time he had the idea of ​​killing Yan Song! He knew that Yan Song was corrupt, but now Yan Song was not just corrupt, but he dared to call on all officials to resist his new policy.

Jiajing looked at the young man - Zhang Juzheng.

In the book given by the immortal, he made himself reuse of this young man, and this young man promoted the "one-whip" method.

Jiajing asked, "Uncle, what do you say!"

Jiajing did not call Zhang Juzheng the name, nor did he call him his official position, but called him "一"!

Zhang Juzheng suddenly shook his heart and realized the difference.

Although Zhang Juzheng was also greedy, he knew that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to defeat Yan Song. He had already seen that Jiajing did not believe anyone, but he believed in immortals!

The emperor will not only go to court in the past few days, but also reform. This must be the instructions of the immortal!

Zhang Juzheng bowed his hand and replied, "Your Majesty should follow the wishes of the immortal."

Zhang Juzheng's answer was so clever that he did not object or agree, but only said that he would let His Majesty follow God's will.

The gods should do whatever they ask. This sounds like not saying it, but Zhang Juzheng has already had a lot of courage to say such words. The meaning of this is actually to stand with the emperor!

Jiajing's eyes suddenly became joyful!

The immortal's guidance is indeed correct!

As soon as Zhang Juzheng said this, Yan Song's eyes suddenly became frightened! He knew that he had lost! He lost because he did not consider the role of the immortal!

Why is Your Majesty so urgently starting to work diligently and reform? Isn’t all this related to immortals?

Yan Shifan immediately expressed his objection! Yan Song couldn't stop him.

When Jiajing thought of his support from immortals, what else could he be afraid of!

Jiajing directly threw out his killer weapon: "Yan Shifan, some people say that you and Luo Wenlong had an affair with Japanese pirates and informed the Southeast military affairs. Now they are strongly opposing the new policy, which is insatiable!"

"I also heard that you built a private house on the dragon vein. What's your intention?"

Yan Shifan was so scared that his face was pale. These were all very secret matters. How did His Majesty know? He knelt on the ground and lost his momentum.

Jiajing said angrily: "Who told me about these things? It's an immortal! If you want others to know, you will not do it yourself. The heaven is watching!"

Jiajing's voice resounded throughout the hall.

Xu Jie immediately knelt down and said, "I support the new law!"

Only then did the officials realize that in order to promote the new policy, Jiajing was going to fight hard, and they all knelt down to express their support for the new law.

Yan Shifan's face was ashamed: "Your Majesty..."

In the winter of the 39th year of Jiajing, Yan Shifan was thrown into prison, Yan Song was demoted, and Zhang Juzheng entered the cabinet to start implementing the "one-whip method".
Chapter completed!