Before Jia Rong could give instructions to let the members of the Jinling clan and the four major families to be more honest and calm recently, the outbreak broke out today.
Obviously, the public opinion of scholars in the South has greatly stimulated the current situation.
What is fighting for the interests of the people, and what is the people?
Every family has thousands of acres of fertile land, but they still have the nerve to say that they are citizens!
Today is not a mess. Even if the emperors in the middle and late Ming Dynasty were greatly constrained by the civil service group, wouldn't they still be frustrated by the torment of the civil service group?
First of all, any madman who dares to speak angrily against the royal family will be directly disqualified from the imperial examination. No matter how famous you are, there will be no discussion.
Not being sent to jail directly is considered a very honorable and generous act.
Then, there is the big eunuch delivery.
The tax supervisors such as mine supervisors, tea supervisors, and porcelain supervisors are just sending money to the south for free.
Do you really think you are a fool today?
I don’t know how the wealthy families and wealthy merchants in the south made a lot of money but didn’t pay taxes to the court?
During Taizu's time, the situation in the world was still turbulent, and there was no time to pay attention to it.
During Taizong's reign, it was too late to digest the new soil. In addition, the people wanted to rest and recuperate, so they did not pay too much attention to this.
In the early days of the emperor's reign, he cared about the fact that most of the noble ministers who followed him were from the south, so it was naturally not easy to attack the south.
In the later period, when I wanted to have a good reputation, even the officialdom relaxed supervision, let alone the land of Jiangnan.
And then, today, the South has not experienced any major rectification, and the strength of the local gentry group has reached a certain level of dominance.
Not to mention anything else, just how much of the salt tax supervised by the Yangzhou Salt Patrol Censor was stolen by those salt merchants?
The salt merchants have the support of the Jiangnan gentry behind them. There are some things that they are well aware of now, but they just don't take it seriously.
Some salt patrol censors who did not conform to the wishes of these Jiangnan gentry were either dismissed from their posts and imprisoned, or died in mysterious circumstances while in office.
Even if the Zhen family of Jinling received implicit compensation from the emperor for picking up the emperor four times, they would only be re-elected as the Salt Patrol Censor for seven years.
No matter how much it is, it's not that the emperor or the current generation are reluctant to part with it, but that the Jiangnan gentry refuses to agree, and they are so overbearing.
It can be said that the Jiangnan gentry group has extended its hand to the royal family and the imperial court's private land, which is something that no emperor who has achieved anything can agree to.
For example, the Jiangnan gentry group has intervened in the salt policy, tea policy, silk weaving, etc., which has reached the limit of what the royal family can tolerate.
Just kidding, at a time when maritime trade is not booming, although Daqian's territory is vast, there are actually only so many benefits. If the Jiangnan gentry group takes more, the rest of the forces, including the royal family, will have to take less. How can this be done?
; In addition, because of the inheritance of the Ming system, people with merit and fame can be exempted from taxes, which has led to a strong trend of surrender. If you want to prevent such things from continuing to expand, you will go against the scholars all over the world.
It is obvious that we have not yet made up our mind to do so, and do not have much thought about land taxation.
But in addition to land taxes, mine taxes, tea taxes, etc., we collected very little due to various reasons before, but now we have taken it seriously.
Since the Jiangnan gentry group dared to push out scholars to scold him, as the emperor, there was no need to be polite. He just wanted to take this opportunity to collect the taxes that should be collected.
According to rough estimates, if all taxes could be fully collected, the imperial court's fiscal revenue would be at least several million taels more every year.
Don’t underestimate millions of taels, there are so many things you can do.
Then, the South boiled.
The emergence of a large number of tax supervisors is self-evident.
Now it is clear that they want to share the profits from the southern gentry group.
How could the Jiangnan gentry group, which has become accustomed to taking all the benefits it can get, endure it?
Then, a very fierce anti-tax movement broke out in the South.
Some tax inspectors disappeared quietly and simply disappeared from the world.
There were tax inspectors who were attacked by countless incited businessmen and citizens and were beaten to death and maimed in broad daylight.
More often than not, they were the first to get the news and were so frightened that they hid in various government offices and did not dare to act rashly.
Because of the fierce conflicts, not only did many tax supervisors die, and they were directly labeled as eunuchs and traitors, they also wrote articles and criticized them, as if they wanted to crucify the tax supervisors who were tortured to death and completely bury them in the history of shame.
You are not allowed to turn over on the pillar.
In addition, the southern businessmen who died unexpectedly due to fierce conflicts were even praised as heroes and martyrs by famous scholars who wrote biographies about them.
It seemed that for just a moment, there were signs of instability throughout the South.
All this happened too suddenly and too intensely.
For a time, the southern officialdom fell into a state of deep panic.
Damn, the current Daqian is not the middle and late Ming Dynasty when military power was weak and the royal family was not in a position to control local areas.
The gentry were so aggressive that they simply put the local government and officials on the fire.
If you are not careful, you may end up being shattered to pieces.
No one expected that the possible act of anger today would actually trigger such a powerful backlash.
Those who didn't know better thought they had done something outrageous and might even trigger turmoil in the entire south.
But in fact, today we just send a group of tax inspectors.
A bunch of tax supervisors are just trying to make some money at most. The reaction of the Jiangnan gentry group is so fierce. Only those who are iron cocks and plan to get rid of nothing can have such a strong reaction.
But as a result, the southern government offices would feel uncomfortable.
Just ignore it, it is likely to cause dissatisfaction among the gentry under the rule, making it difficult to secure their position.
But if you just ignore it, people are watching with eager eyes these days, and they won't listen to how difficult it is for local officials.
The most frightening person was the Jinling Zhen family, which was the most powerful force in the south. At this time, all the big brothers of the Zhen family were frightened.
They all understand their mission, not only to supervise Jiangnan, but also to guide and divide the local forces in Jiangnan.
But the sudden arrival of the Jiangnan gentry group now made it clear to the emperor and Jin Jin that the Zhen family's previous limelight was just a vain thing.
When it comes time to see the real chapter, it’s useless.
If the emperor and today are really disappointed with the role of the Zhen family, then the Zhen family will not be able to support it even if they have the prince as their backing.
The Zhen family was in a very embarrassing situation, while the four major Jinling families were frightened and did not dare to act rashly.
It’s not that the Jiangnan gentry family sent them letters, hoping that they could take action at the same time. Fortunately, Jia Rong’s reminder letter came in time, otherwise the situation would have been terrible...