Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1420, who can't buckle a hat?
"Your Majesty, I have something to announce~"

As soon as Liu Jin's words fell, the British Duke Zhang Mao stood up.

"Hmm~"

Emperor Hongzhi nodded slightly.

"Your Majesty, I am in charge of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and in charge of the military households in the world for Your Majesty. The south of the Yangtze River has always been an important place for my Ming Dynasty, so there are also garrisons."

"About the so-called public grievances in Nanzhili that hit the tax office, I also know a thing or two from the troops stationed in various places."

"These so-called public grievances are actually the merchants and gentry who violently resisted the tax in various parts of Nanzhili, gathered local clan forces and local hooligans to attack the tax office, beat the imperial court officials, tax police officers, and servants. Law, attack the imperial court."

"However, the local government of Nanzhili and these criminals are in collusion. Not only do they not punish them, but they even support them secretly. The tax office arrests people first, and they release them with various reasons."

"It's not the so-called public grievances at all! It's the local wealthy households, businessmen, and gentry in Nanzhili who resisted the imperial court's taxation by force, despised the imperial court's laws, and wantonly attacked the imperial court's yamen. Regardless of the life and death of the people in Southern Zhili."

Zhang Mao was quite old, but his voice was very loud, and it was clearly transmitted to every corner of the Golden Luan Hall.

His words made Gao Yuanlong, Qian Qi and others' faces change drastically.

Zhang Mao directly put a big hat on the tax-resistant wealthy households, businessmen, and gentry in the south of the Yangtze River. He despised the court's laws and attacked the court's government. It's been copied all over the house.

The point is that what Zhang Mao said is true.

They couldn't be more clear about the so-called arousing public grievances to the point of impacting the tax office. It was all done by the family behind them in Nanzhili, with the purpose of not paying taxes.

If this matter is so troublesome that Emperor Hongzhi sends someone to investigate thoroughly, let alone their death without a place to bury them, even the families behind them will be implicated, and the cheapest thing is to exile to Cold Winter City or Golden Continent.

"Your Majesty, it's nonsense, it's nonsense~"

Gao Yuanlong immediately stood up, pointed at Zhang Mao, and said extremely angrily: "The tax office imposed violent taxes, forcibly collected taxes, broke down people's homes, forcibly withheld people's property, and even in the south of the Yangtze River, people's grievances arose everywhere, causing the people to attack the tax office."

"It's not what he said at all. Some gentry organized local ruffians to attack the tax office. The gentry is the foundation of my Ming Dynasty. They are all people who have cultivated and studied their families. How could they do such a thing."

"Yes, Your Majesty, this is slander~"

Qian Qi also quickly stood up and said: "In the past, Jiangnan was the most prosperous place in our Ming Dynasty. There was never any complaints from the people, and there was no talk of people attacking the Yamen."

"The reason why these things are happening now is entirely because of the tax government's excessive collection and forced collection of taxes. This has aroused public resentment. The root of everything lies in the tax government and the new tax system."

"I believe that the tax bureau should be abolished, the current tax system should be banned, and the policy of light corvee and low tax should be implemented. In this way, all people in the world can benefit and the people's grievances will be eliminated."

Qian Qi's general down here is very clear and serious.

He didn't notice the killing intent flashed in the eyes of Emperor Hongzhi who was sitting on the dragon chair when he heard that he wanted to abolish the current tax system.

Emperor Hongzhi was a man who had come through hard times. He had tightened his belt before and managed to save millions of taels of internal money, but he was stared at by the ministers in the court.

If I wanted to do something, I would just say I had no money, or I would stare at my internal money and ask myself to pay money out of it.

This cancels the tax system and goes back to the past?
Back to the era when even the palaces were reluctant to be repaired, back to the era when they wanted to do something every day but were told they had no money, but the gentry and wealthy businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River were so rich that they could spend a lot of money on the banks of the Qinhuai River?

Emperor Hongzhi would never allow it to return to the previous days. Was that the life of the emperor?

"Your Majesty, the existing taxation system should be abolished, the tax office should be banned, and the policy of light corvee and low taxation should be implemented. This is the policy that sages and sages have been implementing since ancient times."

After Qian Qi's words fell, officials who supported Gao Yuanlong and Qian Qi soon stood up and asked Emperor Hongzhi to cancel the current tax policy and go back to the past.

"Your Majesty, the imperial court's taxes are collected from the people and used for the people. It is precisely because the imperial court has implemented a new tax system and established a tax office that the imperial court can collect taxes from all over the place."

"Only when the court has money can it implement policies that are beneficial to the country, implement immigration, consolidate the frontiers, and ease the conflict between people and land in our Ming Dynasty."

"A large number of roads, railways, ports, dams and reservoirs have been built, which has facilitated the exchanges and exchanges between various parts of our Ming Dynasty. There is no time for large-scale floods and droughts."

"The taxes collected by the imperial court are all used for major events that are really beneficial to the country, and are really beneficial to the people of our Ming Dynasty."

"Your Majesty has never used a penny from the treasury, and the court has never wasted a penny."

"Over the past few years, my Ming Dynasty has been prosperous, the sea is clear and the river is feasting, and the country is rich and the people are strong. These are all because the imperial court has money to be able to do some major events that are truly meaningful to the country."

"Before the tax reform was carried out, the treasury of our Ming Dynasty was empty. Your Majesty and the princes in the court, even if they watched the country's internal and external troubles, there was nothing they could do."

"At that time, there were Tatars from the northern grassland who went south to seize customs and plunder our Ming Dynasty every year. Japanese pirates ran rampant along the southeast coast, harassing our sea and deceiving our Ming Dynasty; , Southwest chieftain, capricious, kill my officials and people."

"Internally, there are fierce conflicts between people and land in various parts of our Ming Dynasty. Rich households and gentry don't pay a penny of taxes for ten thousand acres of fertile land, and poor people who have no land work hard all year round, but they can't even afford food. Not enough to eat, so that there is a natural or man-made disaster, and immediately starved to death, corpses littered the fields, and wars raged."

"Looking at the present, our Ming Dynasty is rich and strong, and has expanded its territory year after year. The land of our Ming Dynasty is dozens of times that of before. Liaodong, Western Regions, Hezhong, Nanyun, Nanyun, Huangjinzhou, Australia, etc. There are countless good fields and fertile fields in the fertile land, which greatly eased the conflict between man and land in my Ming Dynasty."

"Within the four seas, I don't know how many vassal states, vassal states, and colonies of my Ming Dynasty. All nations come to court and respect the emperor together. The people of my Ming Dynasty travel all over the world and the world, and no one dares to provoke them."

"All of this is based on the fact that our Daming treasury has enough tax revenue to support His Majesty's great talents and strategies, support the good policies of the court and the middle princes, and support the expansion of our brave generals in the Ming Dynasty."

"Now, these people are attacking the court's taxation policy for their own selfishness. This is to destroy the foundation of our Ming Dynasty's prosperity, and it is to cause our Ming Dynasty's tens of thousands of people to be in dire straits and eaten by wolves."

"Your Majesty, I beg your Majesty to put all these people in prison. They are ambitious and determined to destroy my Ming Dynasty. They can't see that my Ming Dynasty is strong, and I can't see that my Daming country is rich and the people are strong."

"Truly loyal to His Majesty, loyal to the subjects of Ming Dynasty, should be loyal to His Majesty at the top, solve problems for His Majesty, serve the people of the world below, and seek the well-being of the people of the world."

"The gentry, rich households, and businessmen are all wealthy people, holding tens of thousands of wealth, paying taxes according to regulations, and paying taxes according to the law. This is what they should be, because this is a manifestation of being loyal to the world, loyal to Ming Dynasty, solving problems for the world, and being loyal to the country. .”

"The people at the lowest level even know the principle of paying grain and paying grain for farming. They will pay the grain they have worked so hard for a year to the treasury to support the prosperity of our Ming Dynasty!"

"The rich households, gentry, and businessmen in Nanzhili are all wealthy and wealthy, but they are loyal to the country without dying, but here they wantonly attack and slander the foundation of the imperial court's rich country and strong people, and their hearts are punishable!"

"Yes, Your Majesty~"

"The imperial court's taxes are taken from the people and used for the people, all for the prosperity of our Ming Dynasty, and for the imperial court to implement some major policies that are truly beneficial to the country."

"These people not only resisted taxes by force, but even blatantly slandered the foundation of our Ming Dynasty's prosperity. This is definitely trying to destroy our Ming Dynasty and ruin our Ming Dynasty's prosperity."

"I ask Your Majesty to thoroughly investigate this matter, and arrest all these thieves who have harmed the country and the people!"

The officials who supported Liu Jin also stood up one after another, looking at Gao Yuanlong, Qian Qi and others as if they saw their own life and death enemies.

At the same time, they put an extremely heavy hat on them.

Destroying the foundation of Daming's prosperity is a national traitor, an enemy of Daming, a person who does not see the good of my Ming, and a traitor who is not loyal to His Majesty or to Ming.

These hats are even heavier than the ones that were buttoned down in front.

Zhang Mao just said that they ignored the imperial court's decrees and attacked the official government offices that symbolized the imperial court. Now they are labeled as disloyal to Daming and the emperor. To destroy the foundation of Daming's prosperity is to disgrace Daming's powerful enemies and traitors.

This is simply more terrifying than killing them.

Once this hat is confirmed, they and the families behind them will die without a place to bury them.

"beautiful~"

Liu Jin listened carefully, and couldn't help applauding loudly in his heart.

Bind tax payment with loyalty to the emperor and Ming Dynasty, and link taxation with the prosperity of Ming Dynasty. If you do not pay taxes, you are disloyal to the emperor and Ming Dynasty. enemy.

Naturally, there is no need to say anything about traitors and enemies, let alone traitors and enemies of Ming Dynasty, so they should be dealt with with the most severe means.

(End of this chapter)