"Your Majesty, if you feel that you give in, they will regard you as the lord and wise ruler, and will be convinced and loyal to you from now on?"

Yang Xin said with a smile.

"Isn't that the case?"

Apocalypse said.

Although he didn't read history books much, he still read some of them. Moreover, the main leaders of the Academy of Sciences were Confucianism after all, and occasionally told him some historical stories. Although Tianqi was not very interested, he could still be affected over time. Obviously, he also began to learn to think about some political issues. He didn't care about this in the past few years. At that time, the most important thing about him was money. Making money to maintain the situation of the war, and the construction of the three halls was the most important. Now that the three halls have been repaired, the situation of the war has stabilized, and the urgency of the silver has decreased, he has also begun to think about the problem of his own firm position.

After all, he is very clear that the conflicts between the various factions of the Ming Dynasty are becoming increasingly intensifying.

It didn't matter before.

Even if those people hated Yang Xin and Wei Zhongxian, they would hate him, and at most curse him behind his back, but now they have put their actions and pointed their swords at him. He has to think about whether he should take some measures to ease the conflict.

They failed to assassinate once, what if they kept going like this in the future? Can they avoid it once or twice, and can they avoid it eight or nine times? If they keep assassinating like this, they will always be killed. If they really can't do it, they choose to give in, soothe the gentry's emotions, and let themselves sleep peacefully.

"Is the temple concession enough?"

Yang Xin said.

Apocalypse stopped talking.

"At the agitation of the gentry, the weaver in Suzhou caused trouble and burned the tax office, injured the tax supervisor, and killed the tax collector. The temple chose to endure it. The tax supervisor asked the Suzhou prefect to suppress the latter and said that he would not care, the temple would endure it. Ge Cheng, who was executed by his order, was refused to be executed by the local officials, and he endured it. Ge Cheng is still alive. The tax supervisor in Yunnan was killed hundreds of tax collectors, and the temple finally endured it. The tax supervisor in Huguang was beaten to hide in the Chu Palace like a betrayal dog. The tax collectors outside were thrown into the Yangtze River and drowned, and the temple would endurance it. Li Sancai instructed the death row prisoner to falsely accused the tax collectors of being accomplices, and then he would kill them without even reporting the memorials. The temple would endure it. Linqing directly set a torch and burned the tax collectors to death, and he would endure it.

So do the gentry say he is a sage lord and wise monarch?

No.

They say the temple is negligent.

The temple wanted to charge an extra tax of only one million taels a year and it only got less than 30% of it, so they dared to burn the tax prison to death and drown it.

Then they also said that the temple was negligent.

When the temple wanted to do something, they shouted and killed, and then the temple endured it. Instead, they said that the temple was negligent, but did anyone dare to treat Taizu like this? Do they dare to kill Taizu's people? We have confiscated a total of dozens of families so far, and they can no longer stand calling His Majesty a tyrant. Taizu arrested tens of thousands of people at one time. Did they dare to resist at that time?

None of them dares to resist.

There is a saying that people are good at being bullied, and horses are good at being ridden.

The temple tolerate them.

They were greedy and the temple took a step back and they took a step further until they forced the temple to not even leave the palace gate, and they scolded the temple for being negligent.

Taizu never tolerated them and was not ruthless when they needed to kill them.

They endured it honestly.

Even Taizu directly deprived their land and took their family to the north to open up land. They did not dare to resist except crying a few times and went to open up land honestly.

Your Majesty, these people are all mean and cannot spoil them. The sword in the temple is not good, so you dare not take a knife at them. But Your Majesty has this sword, so you don’t need to be afraid of them. They should be afraid of you. What you need is to make them fear you as if they are afraid of Taizu.”

Yang Xin said.

Apocalypse nodded with emotion.

Of course, he is not his ancestor after all. Since he has begun to retreat, he will still be unable to hold on in the future. Yang Xin dare not guarantee how long the Emperor can last. Now he can only try to fool him as long as possible. After all, Tianqi is the emperor after all. He and Yang Xin have essential differences in principle. All Tianqi wants is his country to be stable, but it would be nonsense to say that an emperor would care too much about the lives and death of the people.

The only reason why the gentry supported Yang Xin was that the emperor did too much. The emperor didn't even have enough money to spend. He had to have someone like Yang Xin go out to make money for him. The money was just because it was easier.

It is too dangerous to catch a farmer. Jiu Qiansei is very clear about this. He probably had already analyzed it with Apocalypse.

From the gentleman...

Especially when catching the gentry from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it is the least dangerous. These guys are rich and have the strongest ability to bear it. Jue Qiansui is likely to cause rebellion from the people. Jiu Qiansui knows very well that the farmers have been squeezed to the limit at this time. Once the pressure continues to increase, it is really possible to trigger rebellion. It will be troublesome at that time, but the gentry will not rebel, especially in this way of raiding houses every now and then. Those gentry who have not been confiscated will not fight to protect those who have been confiscated houses.

This is different from the Red Turban Army.

The Red Turban Army targeted the entire gentry class, so they immediately started a group training, but they only targeted a certain family's house search and would not force those gentry to unite to resist.

But it would be nonsense to say that the apocalypse is for the people.

But Yang Xin is different.

What Yang Xin wanted was to use all means to survive the natural disaster that would last for decades.

If Apocalypse needs it, it will ease his relationship with the gentry.

But Yang Xin had no room for relief.

Therefore, Yang Xin is now unsure of how long this road can be gone. Since Tianqi has been shaken, sooner or later, the contradiction will intensify to a certain extent, and in order to calm things down, Wanli's example cannot really impress him, because the result of Wanli's concession was that he was a stable emperor in the palace for 48 years, and what Tianqi needed was a stable life, and he needed to use concessions to maintain his current stable life in the Academy of Sciences...

That's not bad either.

Now the Apocalypse can still hold on, but because he is still young, he is not like Wanli who can be said to be an old fox. He can still continue with Yang Xin's encouragement.

But it's just a further wave.

Next, Yang Xin accompanied Tianqi to continue working for a while, and then found a reason to leave. Before he could walk out of the Academy of Sciences, he saw a carriage passing by outside. The carriage was crying unkemptly...

"Long live the order to build a nunnery for the Madam Fengsheng in Mount Wutai, Shanxi. From then on, the Madam Fengsheng recited scriptures there and gave him ten thousand taels of silver a year.

Ke Guang committed suicide first.

Hou Guoxing was demoted to a commoner and sent Mount Wutai to serve the Holy Lady, and he would not leave for the rest of his life."

The little eunuch beside him whispered.

"Your Majesty is still nostalgic!"

Yang Xin said.

It was obvious that Tianqi still couldn't bear to kill Keshi.

From this point of view, His Majesty the Emperor was still a little merciful after all, but Keshi was over. Zhang Yan would not let her go. In two years, Tianqi completely forgot her. One day, he would just give her a glass of poisoned wine. At that time, the eunuchs would report her death. This is how the palace plays. If this woman wasn't too stupid, she would have a good ending.

Unfortunately, it's too stupid.

She doesn't know how to recognize her identity.

Even without this, she would lose power in a short time. She would never be able to compare with young people. At that time, Zhang Yan would kill her. With her age, it was only a matter of time before she failed to play such palace fights.

Keshi's carriage drove out of his vision in the cold wind.

"Horse Hejian, thank you!"

Zhang Yan's voice suddenly rang.

The little eunuch was so scared that he lowered his head and quickly pretended not to hear anything. It was obvious that His Highness was so excited that he could not help himself and could not wait to share the joy of victory with his allies who were colluding with him.

"Your Highness, your journey to war is still early!"

Yang Xin said.

Of course, it is the road to palace fighting to be precise.

"Then I have to ask Hejian Hou to continue helping!"

His Highness, who was holding a cat in his arms, said quite enchantingly.

Her palace battles are indeed long, and Tianqi is not the only woman. Among the top three beauty pageants who entered the palace at the same time, there is Concubine Wang Liang, but this one has no children, and the imperial concubine Fan, who is the mother of the eldest daughter. In fact, she has a son, who was born in the Yang Family Hospital a year later than Zhang Yan, but she died in the palace immediately. It is hard to say whether Ke Shi took action.

Before, Nine Thousand Years later sent a granddaughter Ren to the palace, namely Concubine Ren, who was pregnant at this time. In history, she also gave birth to a son, the one who was scared to death by the Great Apocalypse. In history, Concubine Li Cheng, she also had a daughter. In history, she was persecuted by Concubine Keshi very much and was even demoted to a palace maid. But before the time has come, she was relieved of the fall of Keshi. She had a good relationship with Concubine Fan.

So in a sense, Zhang Yan's palace fighting journey has just begun.

Before, Keshi was their common enemy.

Under Keshi's persecution, these women could only say that they were desperately resisting and didn't care about fighting each other, but now Keshi is gone, so it's time for these women to fight.

Especially Fan's.

The imperial concubine can be equivalent to the deputy queen.

Although her son was not saved, being able to have two children with Apocalypse is enough to prove that she is still very favored by Apocalypse, and such things cannot be done falsely.

The child in Ren Rongfei's belly is also a huge threat. You should know that this was sent to the palace by Jiu Qiansui, and there was a meaning of replacing Zhang Yan. Although Keshi was gone, Jiu Qiansui was still at its peak. If it was a son, then Zhang Yan would be in danger, especially in this regard, Yang Xin would definitely not help her. At most, she would be neutral. In comparison, Ren Rongfei and Yang family are family, such as Huang Ying and Ren Rongfei are good.

"Your Highness, I only protect the prince."

Yang Xin said.

After saying that, he left proudly.

The Queen behind him continued to pet cats with a smile...

"You, follow me in the future!"

She said to the little eunuch.

"I honor the decree of my wife!"
Chapter completed!