Chapter 37: The first sword after ascending the throne, kill Wei Zhongxian first!
“At that time in the Ming Dynasty, the civil servants had achieved an overwhelming victory.
One group after another was formed.
Under this situation, the emperor in front wanted to compete with the civil servant group.
So we began to gradually reuse eunuchs..."
Han Cheng spoke out and told some things he knew.
As a result, he had just finished speaking a little when he was interrupted by Zhu Yuanzhang.
"Wait a minute, how did the civilian officials achieve an overwhelming victory?
In order to compete with civil servants, it is necessary to support eunuchs?
Where have all the nobles gone?
Where are our Ming generals?!"
Zhu Yuanzhang's voice sounded a little anxious.
Han Cheng said: "Your Majesty the Emperor, this matter of a child without a mother is a long story, and it needs to start from a long time ago.
This involves another of your descendants, are you sure you want to listen at this time?"
After hearing Han Cheng's words, Zhu Yuanzhang hesitated for a moment and suppressed the doubts in his heart.
Compared with how the civil servants achieved an overwhelming victory, he was more concerned about why Chongzhen, a descendant of later generations, allowed the Ming Dynasty to fall in his hands.
Because he really couldn't understand why such an emperor who was hard-working, not dissolute, and not short-lived allowed the Ming Dynasty to perish in his hands.
"Then you can continue talking about Chongzhen."
Han Cheng nodded, and then continued: "After Chongzhen came to power, he was deceived by the so-called Qingliu civil servants.
These people kept saying bad things about the eunuchs here in Chongzhen, and made the eunuchs extremely evil.
It has directly risen to the point that those who bring trouble to the world are eunuchs and eunuchs.
If we only deal with the eunuchs, then the world will be peaceful.
All the difficulties that Ming Dynasty encountered will disappear.
After Chongzhen believed what these people said, he took action and a man named Wei Zhongxian solved the problem.
Wei Zhongxian is certainly not a good person. He has great power and has done many bad things.
But one thing is very important: he can compete with civilian officials.
Chongzhen not only solved Wei Zhongxian, but also abolished the corresponding institutions..."
Upon hearing Han Cheng's words, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but frown.
I feel that Chongzhen's move is too fatuous.
Although he didn't understand what the specific scene was like at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
However, as a person who is very good at political power, he understands that the most taboo thing in the court is for one family to dominate.
We need to find a few more and balance them, this is the best.
Just like now, he is gradually gathering the power in the hands of Huaixi Xungui and preventing people like Huaixi Xungui from becoming a dominant family. It is the same reason.
As a result, Chongzhen was lucky. As soon as he came to power, he completely wiped out one party.
The most important thing is that what he killed was an eunuch!
As an emperor, he knew exactly where the rights of eunuchs came from.
It comes from the emperor.
It can be said to be an extension of imperial power.
The eunuchs themselves were the emperor's minions.
Compared with civil servants, eunuchs are undoubtedly easier to control.
No matter how powerful the eunuch's power is, he must ultimately obey the emperor.
Their rights themselves came from the emperor, who had the power of life and death over them.
As a result, as soon as Chongzhen came to power, he actually attacked the eunuchs.
If you cut the knife so hard, wouldn't you cut off your own arm?!
"madness!!"
Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but cursed.
Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's scolding, Han Cheng couldn't help but take another look at Zhu Yuanzhang.
This Lao Zhu deserves to be Lao Zhu, a man who walked out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
You can see the essence of the matter at a glance.
He had just started to say it, and he had already seen that Chongzhen's move was brainless.
"In fact, I won't tell you what happened next, your Majesty should have already guessed it.
After he cut off his arm and abolished the eunuch party, many civil servants praised Emperor Chongzhen in all kinds of ways.
The eunuchs who were checking and balancing them have finally disappeared!
They are free!
Then, they wanted more and got more.
They gained a lot, but the Ming emperor lost a lot.
For example, taxes began to fail to be collected, and the national treasury began to run out of money.
In the past, when eunuchs were re-employed, no matter how they behaved, there was no shortage of money in the treasury.
At least the taxes can be collected.
As soon as the eunuchs were abolished, the tax began to decrease rapidly.
The key point is that the burden of many people has not been relieved.
So, where does this tax go?
One can imagine..."
"Now that we find that taxes are not coming in, we should immediately recognize our mistakes and correct them, continue to organize eunuchs, collect taxes, and stop losses in a timely manner."
Zhu Yuanzhang's voice rang out.
Zhu Yuanzhang is such a person. Sometimes, face is not that important to him.
Especially when it concerns national affairs.
On the surface, he may not admit his mistakes, but in fact he is very honest.
There will be no shortage of things to do.
Han Cheng shook his head.
"Chongzhen did not do this. This was the biggest and most successful thing he did after he came to power.
And he received a lot of praise for it. How could he possibly form another eunuch party?
And those civil servants don’t want him to form an eunuch party again.”
“What about taxes?
The country has no money and many things will go wrong!
What methods does he use to solve the problem of empty treasury?”
Han Chengdao: "He did take some measures.
For example, reduce expenses.
In order to reduce expenses, he canceled some government organizations.
For example, the official inn has laid off many employees.
In many places, they simply abolish it.
As a result, many people who originally belonged to the imperial court were directly unemployed and had no living income.
As a result, many people who could not survive joined the ranks of the rebels.
Originally, the level of the rebels in the Ming Dynasty was not so high.
But with the addition of these people, it suddenly became unusual.
Later, an extremely powerful rebel group appeared in the Ming Dynasty, and its leader was such an unemployed person.
"idiot!!"
Zhu Yuanzhang could not help but curse again.
The inn! How could he abolish the inn?!
Doesn't he know how important the transmission of news is to the government?
The inn was actually abolished!
Are you trying to turn yourself into a deaf person or a blind person?!
It is better to recruit troops and streamline administration from other places than to come directly to do this!!
“In addition to reducing expenditure, of course we also need to increase revenue.
If taxes are not enough, then more taxes will be levied.
It can be said that the Ming Dynasty at that time was full of disasters.
Droughts, plagues, and locust plagues occur frequently.
The climate is very extreme.
In many places, there is no harvest and families are ruined.
Many people cannot survive.
Because of these disasters, many people died.
But because the government had no money or food, there was basically no disaster relief.
There are basically no policies such as tax exemption.
On the contrary, Chongzhen also stepped up the collection of food and wages.
Collect more taxes from many people.
"Asshole!"
"madness!!"
"Stupid as a pig!!!"
Zhu Yuanzhang cursed loudly.
Chest rises and falls sharply.
He has never seen such a stupid person!!
Lao Zhu's eyes were red and bloodshot.
He rebelled just because he couldn't survive anymore!
Then came the Ming Dynasty.
As a result, the descendants of later generations began not to regard the people at the bottom as human beings!!
When a disaster occurs, it’s okay not to provide relief, not to mention tax reductions or exemptions, and even to increase taxes!
This is not alive, do you want to force people to death?!!
