Jin Lian was a Jinshi in Yongle for 16 years. After becoming an official, he served as the Censor of the Huguang Road. He was basically inspecting the local area in his early years of his career. Overwork and fatigue caused him to leave many hidden diseases.

Now that this year is over 60, the body has reached a point where it cannot be supported. It was originally able to hold on with a spirit of energy. Who would have thought that Zhu Qiyu, the emperor of the second year of Jingtai, ordered that the exemption of rent and taxes in the world would be three-tenths.

It's equivalent to giving a 30% discount on tax revenue.

After receiving this imperial edict, Jin Lian did not choose to implement it all. Instead, he issued a document to the Thirteenth Department of the Ministry of Users, announcing that only 300 of the tax on grain such as rice, wheat, etc. would be reduced and discounted, and the cash register and silk.

The part is still collected at 100%.

The reason is that Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu reduced taxes to reduce public opinion pressure caused by natural disasters and wars. After all, in ancient times, disasters and chaos would be regarded as unknown signs. The seriousness would be extended to the emperor, believing that the emperor had lost his virtues and affected the

The foundation of rule.

Cabinet Minister Miao Zhong took the initiative to resign and shouldered the responsibility in amid condemnation, eased the dissatisfaction of the people of the world with the emperor.

But Jin Lian knew very well that the treasury was empty and the financial difficulties were at its peak. In addition, there were two wars between Mongolia and Luchuan in the south of the Mo and Mongolia. At this time, 30% of the tax was exempted. Where did the gap be filled? Could it be that there was another deduction?

Are the food and salary of the border troops?

Jin Lian didn't want to repeat the mistakes of the first year of Jingtai. Most of the taxes on grains such as rice, wheat, etc. were paid by poor people at the bottom, so they could grit their teeth and reduce them. Ordinary people are not qualified to use them, and they are from big merchants.

Taxes cannot be reduced together, so this situation of implementing half of the imperial edict has occurred.

Originally, Jin Lian’s idea was good, but the question was that according to the implementation of the feudal dynasty, would such a situation in which people were exempted from taxes and landlords paid taxes?

Of course, the answer is impossible. Either the people below don’t know the court’s policies at all, or the landlords still pass on to ordinary people through various means.

As a result, after this operation, the people harsh taxes and complained to the court. Jin Lian also offended the entire powerful class, which was equivalent to being unpleasant from both sides. The latter was even more unwilling to give up when he was put on one.

Jiang Yuan, the Minister of Personnel, was the initiator of the tax reduction. The failure to reduce the taxation has also caused dissatisfaction among all parties. Naturally, it is impossible to bear the blame himself, so he went to the Ministry of Revenue to find Jin Lian and ask for an explanation.

Found that things started to get big, Jin Lian didn't know if he was afraid or had no choice, but he actually said that there was no such thing. As a result, he stabbed the hornet's nest and the censor Kedao seemed to have found a breakthrough. Li Kan, the director of the Ministry of Personnel, immediately

He submitted a memorial requesting the court to thoroughly investigate whether officials from various departments had violated regulations in performing edicts.

At this point, Jin Lian had to force himself, so it was not a problem of illegally fulfilling the edict, but instead became a resolute disobeying the edict. He could only take the initiative to express everything, and said bluntly that he had the unscrupulous difficulties, and could not reduce the entire 30% of the time.

Expenditures to maintain front-line wars.

Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu was very clear about the financial situation of the treasury. He wanted to pardon Jin Lian's crimes, but he could not withstand the joint condemnation between the censors of Kedao and the powerful. In the end, he could only imprison the Minister of Revenue Jin Lian for three days and deprived him of him.

The Prince Taibao was transferred to the position of Minister of Works, which gave both sides a step.

However, the other ministers of the court knew better that the money was Jin Lian. The trusted minister of the Ministry of Personnel He Wenyuan immediately stood up to show the merits and importance of Jin Lian during his tenure in these years. Zhu Qiyu took the opportunity to abolish the transfer and punishment, but he still

Maintain the appointment of the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue.

But at this point, Jin Lian knew that there was no place in the court, so he simply submitted a memorial to take care of himself and beg for bones.

According to the customs of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor should agree to this "resignation letter" in the near future. Taking advantage of the last moment of his tenure, Jin Lian brought Li Xian to Daxinglong Temple to watch this incident about the sect.

Lecture debate on the ills of the vassal.

I hope Li Xian can understand what the real difficulty of the Ming Dynasty's finances lies in what, and what Chen Yichen did. In the future, he succeeded as the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue and could join forces with Chen Yichen to become a good official for the country and the people!

"Those who know that the house is leaking are under the sky, and those who know that the government is in the grass. The Grand Situ tells the warning, and the officials will remember it in their hearts."

Li Xian bowed solemnly. He knew in his heart that Jin Lian was the original intention of bringing him over and he should rule for the people.

Facing Li Xian's understanding, Jin Lian smiled with relief: "Yuan De, you have the attitude of being a prime minister, and the Ministry of Revenue has entrusted it to you. I can return home to retire with confidence."

Just when Jin Lian completed the handover and found his future "allies" for Chen Yichen. The text of the memorial "The Discussion on the Disadvantage of the Clans and Vasts" has arrived at the major clans and vassals of the Ming Dynasty through these times.

In the hands of the king.

Among them, Zhu Zhanji, the King of Xiang, who was granted the title of Xiangyang Prefecture in Huguang, was furious when he learned about it and immediately called on the prince Zhu Qiyong and the chief of the royal palace Zhan Cheng to discuss matters. The reason for his anger was not just because Chen Yichen submitted a memorial to him.

The criticism and restrictions of the royal family are more of being wary of Emperor Zhu Qiyu's attempt to reduce the vassals!

You should know that the process of reducing the vassals and raising pigs in the Ming Dynasty was gradual. The earliest powerful princes on the frontier, such as the Prince of Ning, Zhu Quan, in addition to the personal guards of the royal palace in the headquarters, also controlled the three guards of Duoyan whom Mongolia surrendered, and controlled as many as 70,000 to 80,000 troops.

In this situation, in the late Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, there were only one thousand ordinary princes left. Some princes would ask the emperor for an order to expand their troops in the face of military chaos. After special approval, the maximum limit was only 3,000 guards in the royal palace.

However, during the orthodox Jingtai period in the middle period, the prince still had the nominal three guards of the royal palace. Like King Xiang Zhu Zhanji, who had experience in governing the country several times and was respected, the general of the three guards of the royal palace, the prince was the chief of the three guards of the royal palace.

The number of horses may be close to ten thousand.

The lack of ambitions of rebellion by the royal family and the vassal kings does not mean that they will lose the idea of ​​protecting themselves after experiencing Emperor Jianwen’s reduction of the vassals and the Jingnan incident.

The three guards of King Xiang, which are nearly 10,000 people, need an extremely large land for the royal palace to be raised. If Chen Yichen's "Regional and Vast Regulations" are passed, then the guards must be cut in disguise, which is for Xiang.

Wang Zhu Zhanji is unacceptable.

If Chen Yichen wrote an ordinary memorial on reducing the vassals, King Xiang Zhu Zhanji would not take it seriously. The reason is that his status and qualifications are there, and the emperor would have to give him a three-point face, and it would be almost impossible for him to agree to the court officials.

The idea of ​​slashing the vassal states.

But Chen Yichen's "The Discussion on the Discipline of the Discipline" was too outrageous and exaggerated, which made King Xiang Zhu Zhanqiu wonder whether this would be written by the emperor secretly, otherwise the minister would have dared to do so.

Arrogantly attacking the clan?

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Hearing Zhu Zhanji's summons, the prince Zhu Qiyong and the chief secretary Zhan Cheng came to the hall of the palace. When they saw the prince sitting in the main seat with a gloomy face, they became cautious, but they didn't know what was going on.

After the salute, the prince Zhu Qiyong asked softly: "Father, what happened to the royal palace?"

"What can happen to the royal palace? It's because the court wants to revive!"

After saying that, King Xiang Zhu Zhanqi directly threw the copy of "The Discussion on the Discipline of the Discipline" to Zhu Qiyong and Zhan Cheng.

Picking up the transcript from the ground, and the title on the cover alone made the prince’s chief Zhan Cheng realize the seriousness of the problem. He hurriedly opened the text and saw the contents with the prince Zhu Qiyong, his face turned extremely pale after seeing the contents in it with the prince Zhu Qiyong.

, his arms began to tremble slightly.

The hall of the palace was silent for a long time, until Zhan Cheng finished reading the content of "The Discussion on the Discipline of the Discipline of the Sect and the Discipline", he asked tremblingly: "Prince, if this memorial was heard by the court, would it be that Xiang Zhuang danced his sword intent in Pei Gong?

Has the incident of King Guangtong been exposed?"

The duties of the chief minister of the royal palace were originally the supervisory officials arranged by the court, but often such officials stayed away from the center and got along with the vassal kings in their fiefdoms, but instead they were instigated to become the true confidants of the royal palace.

When Chen Yichen left Shandong in his early years, the eldest son of King Lu Jian Ning completely defected to the vassal kings. Now the eldest son of King Xiang’s palace, Zhan Cheng, is just the next one.

The incident of King Guangtong that Zhan Cheng mentioned refers to the incident of King Guangtong Zhu Huihuan in the second year of Jingtai, who joined forces with the Miao soldiers to rebel. In the process of the court suppressing the rebellion, it was also discovered that King Yangzong Zhu Huiyi of King Yang had raised an army to support him.

The signs of the two kings were leaked before they could accomplish anything, so they were both demoted and imprisoned under high walls.

On the surface, King Guangtong rebelled was bewitched and said he was a king, but in fact, King Xiang, who was also a vassal in Huguang, encouraged and helped him behind his back. After all, only two princes had only a few thousand soldiers under his command.

Even if people get help from chieftains and Miao soldiers, they still overestimate themselves if they want to challenge the court.

The Jingnan of Zhu Di, the Emperor Chengzu of Ming Dynasty, has become an impossible deed, and the success rate of local vassal kings' revival is equal to zero.

The reason why King Xiang chose to instigate and help King Guangtong to rebel was that he wanted to take advantage of the continuous natural disasters and wars in the previous two years of Jingtai Dynasty to create greater wars and expand the public opinion of the entire government and the public.

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Then he led to the emperor's lack of virtue, and only the genius would give punishment to such rumors. At the least, he forced Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu to issue a crime, and at the worst, he could not bear the pressure of public opinion to abdicate.

King Xiang Zhu Zhanji did these things, but in fact, it had nothing to do with his ambitions. He didn't have to wait until now if he wanted to be an emperor. He was purely the legitimate son of Emperor Renzong Zhao, King Xiang could not tolerate the inheritance of the grand tradition of a concubine's son like Zhu Qiyu.

As early as the time when Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zhanji, King Xiang, had repeatedly issued letters, asking Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu to treat the emperor with courtesy, and he had to lead all the ministers on the fifteenth day of the first day of the lunar month.

Meet and so on.

In history, after the Zhu Qizhen restored the rebellion in the Desert Sect, King Xiang Zhu Zhanqi first made a statement to destroy Zhu Qiyu's Empress Hang's Mausoleum, because Emperor Jingtai had abolished the emperor's title and demoted to King Zhu, so the Hang family was not worthy of using the queen's specifications.

The tomb of the siege is an act of transgression.

In addition to digging out the dead graves, King Xiang Zhu Zhanqin did not let the living people go. Then he proposed to let the deposed queen Wang move out of the palace of Prince Hui. After all, Zhu Qiyu had no descendants, so the palace should be taken back and let Yishuang move.

Just go back to your parents' home to live.

He first dug out the grave of a dead household and then kicked the widow's door. Those who don't know thought that Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu had something irreconcilable with King Xiang Zhu Zhanqi. This inexplicable hatred was simply incomprehensible.

If the Emperor Xianzong of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Jianshen, had not succeeded to the throne, considering that Empress Wang had spoken up for justice and rejected the subsequent statement of King Xiang Zhu Zhanji, otherwise Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu would have come down in an emperor and even his original King of Huang's Mansion

Can't even keep it.

Although Zhan Cheng, the chief of the Xiang Palace, chose to rebel, he was always in a state of fear, just like Jian Ning, the chief of the Lu Palace. Now after reading Chen Yichen's "The Discussion on the Disadvantage of the Sect and the Discipline", he was guilty of being a thief.

The first reaction was that he thought of King Guangtong’s rebellion.

"All nonsense is talking, King Guangtong was bewitched by his retainer Duan Youhong, what does it have to do with me?"

Zhu Zhanqi immediately corrected Zhan Cheng's inappropriate verbal reasons. Even if he encouraged and fueled the fire behind this, he would never have anything to do with the open rebellion.

"Yes, yes, I know my mistake!"

Zhan Cheng hurriedly kowtowed and admitted his mistake. He was really scared by the "reduced powers" and was a little speechless for a moment.

"Father, if Your Majesty's actions are related to the affairs of King Guangtong, it is impossible to inform the world of this "On the Discipline of the Discipline of the Discipline of the Clans and the Family", which will arouse opposition and protest from the relatives of the world."

"My son guessed that it is most likely that His Majesty wanted to cut off the vassal states, so he threw out Chen Yichen's memorial to open the way."

As the prince, Zhu Qiyong is noble, so he is not as afraid as the prince's chief Zhan Cheng, and can analyze affairs more objectively. If he really involves rebellion, Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu would try his best to get people, instead of this.

The big fuss attracted opposition from the vassals.

From this we can infer that the emperor's fundamental intention was to reduce the vassal states. The exaggerated suggestions in this memorial were just tricks to pay back the money at the place for a lot of money.

"Yes, it seems that you have made progress over the years."

King Xiang Zhu Zhanji expressed his satisfaction with his son's judgment. He also believed that after the incident of King Guangtong's rebellion, the emperor was frightened and signaled his ministers to submit a memorial, thus obtaining an excuse to reduce the vassal.

As for the content of this memorial, it is impossible to do it, it is nothing more than leaving room for bargaining.

"Father, since Your Majesty has offered a price, we must show an objection, otherwise we will become fish under the throne!"

"That's right, what are your suggestions?"

"Why would the father and the prince join hands with the vassals to submit a memorial to protest, so that His Majesty can retreat?"

Listening to the advice of the prince Zhu Qiyong, King Xiang Zhu Zhanji shook his head and said, "It is not enough to rely solely on the kings to submit memorials. To make the emperor realize that the vassals cannot move, he must take more intense means.

Even killing a chicken to scare the monkey!”

"Zhan Cheng immediately selected a group of experts from the escorts of the royal palace to send a message. The king wanted to join forces with King Lu and King Zhao to come to the palace to meet together, and at the same time denounced Chen Yichen's crime of disturbing the royal family and destroying the ancestral system."
Chapter completed!