Emperor Tianqi looked at Zhang Jingyi without saying a word.

Then he heard Zhang Jingyi continue, "To put it bluntly, when Emperor Taizu Gao, letting gentry rule the world on his behalf was the best choice at that time! After all, the establishment of a new dynasty required peace of mind. But now, these people have more and more land, and their interests are becoming heavier. Now, it is a trend that they cannot lose. If you continue to indulge in this way, how much does your Majesty need to spend to buy their loyalty?

Zhang Jingyi’s question actually points to the essence of the problem.

If you want someone to serve you, you have to give benefits.

But these benefits were given to Emperor Aoki's fathers and ancestors.

From the imperial examination, to preferential treatment of scholars, to exempt scholars from taxes, and to formulate national policies that are beneficial to these people step by step.

"If there is 100% of the benefits in the world, the court has given them 80% of the benefits. Now the country is in trouble, and Your Majesty only lets them give up 10% of the benefits, but for them, it is more painful than cutting flesh and is desperate to live. People's greed is endless. If they have 10,000 acres of land, they will want 20,000 acres. There is only so much land in the world. Can Your Majesty still cut flesh and feed the tiger?"

Emperor Apocalypse said coldly: "How can we solve this problem?"

"Use taxes to attack them and cancel their privileges." Zhang Jing said firmly.

Emperor Aoki frowned: "Tax?"

Zhang Jingyi said: "In the past, the taxes in the Ming Dynasty were all taxes, so they were calculated based on the population. This gentry family may have only ten people in their family, but they had 100,000 acres of land. Then the taxes they collected were also collected based on ten people. As for their slaves, most of them were hidden households. The court did not know that these people were at all, so how could they collect taxes? And those ordinary people had ten people in their family, but in fact they had no tiles above and no tiles below, and they could not even support themselves. But the court still had to collect taxes from them with ten tiny taxes! I dare to ask Your Majesty, is this reasonable?"

"So, the best way to attack them is to collect their taxes based on the amount of land in the world. For families with 100,000 acres of land, 100,000 acres of land, and those without land, do not collect any taxes. This is the most reasonable."

After hearing this, Emperor Tianqi nodded repeatedly and said, "You are right. If this is true, then there will be hope for the Ming Dynasty."

Is the Ming Dynasty still less wealth? After two capitals and thirteen provinces, after 250 years of peaceful development, although there are often some disasters, in fact... the wealth accumulated is very amazing.

But the embarrassing situation now is that in such a prosperous empire, the finances of the imperial court are getting worse year by year, even worse than when the war and everything is in trouble more than two hundred years ago!

Ordinary people are afraid that life will be harder than those of those people two hundred and fifty years ago, so that officials forced the people to rebel, bandits everywhere, and the world is in ruins.

So where did these wealth go?

Such a country has no law without destruction.

Emperor Tianqi immediately said, "In this way, as long as I follow Zhang Juzheng and reform the tax system, can I solve these problems?"

Zhang Jingyi immediately shook his head and said, "It's not so easy. Your Majesty's wiseness, let alone people in the world, who don't know where the root of the problem is, but why are everyone pretending to be deaf and dumb? In fact... Except for some ministers, who are already related to interests, reforming the tax system is equivalent to half of their property. But in my Ming Dynasty, there are also many knowledgeable people, why don't they say anything? After all, because everyone understands that once such a decree is issued, I'm afraid that these two capitals and thirteen provinces will be in a row! Bandits are terrible. Are those gentry who have a large population, countless slaves, and have mixed relationships locally through marriage? Not to mention that they cannot be protected outside the capital, even the civil and military officials in the capital will be rebelled. At that time, there will be only loyal people like the ministers around you."

Emperor Aoki pulled his face down, but in fact he also understood that this thing...it could not be changed.

If you change, you will die.

But after saying so much, the result of the analysis is still like this. Isn’t it equivalent to not saying it?

So Emperor Tianqi sighed and said, "You have said so much but cannot change it. Wouldn't it be useless to talk?"

"This is not necessarily." Zhang Jing said: "The world cannot be changed, but we cannot change it in some places? Now that Your Majesty has ordered me to be a fief of Qiu, I thought, "It's better for me to be this bad guy. Why not start with Fengqiu? We can do it step by step, take one step at a time, and it's good to be successful, but it won't be... At worst, I can find someone to take the blame and take it out to calm the public anger."

"Take you?" Emperor Tianqi thought something and looked unbearable.

Zhang Jingyi said: "This..."

He didn't say that he was the one who took the blame, okay!

Emperor Tianqi said: "Okay, just go and try it. I know what you mean. In short, no matter what your Zhang family does in Fengqiu, the court will not interfere. I will help you with any difficulties. Just let it go."

"That's really done it." Zhang Jing smiled, and he was waiting for this sentence.

So he said again: "Your Majesty, don't regret it in the future."

Emperor Aoki nodded happily: "Of course."

Zhang Jing thought for a while and said, "Do you want to make a document... Haha, I'm joking, Your Majesty follows the truth, who dares not believe it?"

Zhang Jingyi's words made Emperor Tianqi suddenly have an ominous premonition.

However, he had been rushing to travel before, and came back to Beijing and made so many things. Today, he was really tired. When Zhang Jing saw that it was getting late, he naturally said goodbye and went back to rest.

The next day, after a night of rest and full of energy, Zhang Jingyi inspected Xinxian. The work here was mostly done step by step, and nothing was wrong.

Seeing that the situation was stable, Zhang Jingyi made up his mind.

Since Fengqiu is just a county and has been granted full power, Zhang Jing might as well be more radical as soon as he plans to do so. He kept writing letters to Guan Shaoning, expressing his views, and granting him that he might as well take a bigger step in Fengqiu.

The frequent communication process also roughly allowed Zhang Jingyi to understand Fengqiu's situation.

Fengqiu has three major surnames and is the largest gentry family in the county. He has produced one Jinshi and twelve Juren, and as for scholars, there are countless scholars.

There are not many household registrations, the population is 23,000 households and more than 9,700 people.

However... there are many hidden households. Guan Shaoning roughly estimates that this hidden household should be more than twice the number of registered people.

In other words, there are nearly 100,000 people, which do not exist in the book, but... these people are clearly jumping around in Fengqiu.

Zhang Jingyi then picked up the pen. He thought for a long time and finally wrote a letter of tens of thousands of words, which he sent to Fengqiu.

The world has been out of balance for too long, so it is time to give everyone some excitement.

In fact, when the letter was sent out, Zhang Jingyi felt quite regretful, thinking that it was too radical.

But soon, the idea was dispelled.

Standing on the shoulders of the giant, the only thing Zhang Jingyi understood was that the Ming Dynasty was in chaos and killed each other, and then tens of millions of people were killed, and then the new dynasty was established and the process of being in chaos was started.

Or it was Zhang Jingyi who came to kill him, and after the blood flowed into a river, he looked completely refreshed.

Zhang Jingyi was destined to have the latter.

After three or two days, Zhang Jingyi was summoned to the palace by Zhang Shun.

When Zhang Shun saw Zhang Jingyi, he smiled and shook his eyes and saw two ingots of gold. Obviously, he, the admiral, had a lot of oil and water.

Zhang Jing weighed the gold and couldn't help but say, "Son, how much money have you embezzled?"

Zhang Shun blushed: "Godfather...I...I saved it myself."

Zhang Jingyi glanced at Zhang Shun meaningfully: "Is that true?"

When they entered the palace and arrived at the warm cabinet, they saw Emperor Tianqi furious. The cabinet ministers who were summoned also seemed very embarrassed, and they all lowered their heads and were scolded so much that they could not raise their heads.

"After leaving so much, what are you doing? Isn't my joke enough?"

When Zhang Jing came in, Emperor Tianqi said angrily: "Zhang Qing, have you heard of the matter?"

"I have been at home for the past few days... I don't know what Your Majesty said?" Zhang Jing was shocked when he saw Emperor Tianqi furious.

Emperor Tianqi said: "The Hanlin Academy has left more than 20 scholars, editors, editors, and Shujishi. The censors have left seventeen, and... and... forty or fifty people have left six ministries... People's hearts are fluctuating... There are actually hundreds of ministers in the capital who defected to the Guide Mansion! In addition, there are many scholars... OK, now the whole world is watching my jokes."

Zhang Jingyi looked shocked and couldn't help but say, "Your Majesty, why do they run away?"

"Didn't you say you want King Xin to go to Guide to Jianfan? You also say that the ministers in the court can go wherever they want. Now, I'm running away."

When Zhang Jing saw Emperor Tianqi's angry look, he suddenly realized that everyone was standing by with their feet and was deeply dissatisfied with the court. He would rather go to King Xin than be an official in the court.

Damn... Why does Zhang Jingyi want to laugh in his heart?

Of course, the atmosphere in the warm chalet is very solemn at this time.

Emperor Tianqi thought this was unprecedented, and the officials in the capital stopped doing it and ran to Guide Mansion, rather than serving his brother. Isn’t this clear that he believed that the king was what everyone hoped for?

Several cabinet ministers were also heartbroken and looked miserable. There was nothing they could do... They didn't expect... the matter was so serious.

After the news came out, Zhu Youjian immediately set out to take up the vassal state. So, the resignation was handed over as snowflakes, and they all wanted to follow the wise and wise King Xin.

As for the court... now everyone says that jackals and wolf in the court are in power, and rotten wood is the official, so of course they cannot be with these jackals and rotten wood.
Chapter completed!