Can you live forever

Chapter 180 Showing off the chariots and horses, assassinating the king and killing the driver

Is it because the kitchen household is overworked because of the extra two classes of salt, and can't live on?
of course not.

The root of the problem is that the government did not give out the full amount of the money due to the cooking of salt by the kitchen household. The imperial court stipulated that if the kitchen household handed in one Yin (300 catties) of salt, the government would give the kitchen household one stone of grain.

The already insignificant remuneration is often deducted, which is basically only enough for the stove households to barely survive.

Then, the newly added two-gang salt introduction.

The salt farm does not prepare firewood for the kitchen households, but asks them to buy firewood to cook the salt themselves. If they fail to meet their quota, they impose taxes forcibly, forcing the kitchen households to lose their lives...

How can the kitchen households tell who the murderer is, they only know that they were killed by the two gangs of "Denwen".

In fact, yield isn't an issue at all.

There is no shortage of these two types of salt in the Huaihe River and the Huaihe River. It is recorded in the "Shihuo Zhi" in the Ming Dynasty that Huainan boiled salt and Huaibei dried salt. The Ming Dynasty had already begun to dry sea salt on a large scale.

This is what the salt officials are deliberately targeting.

Even if the Wang family did not collect salt from the stove households from the beginning to the end, but just bought salt to dry in the salt fields, it was useless at all. The Wang family didn't want it.

Ten years of "cultivation" is now harvested.

Today, there are only tens of thousands of kitchen households driving around to petition. When necessary, they can even "pull the lever to rebel".

It's the emperor's fault that the government forced the people to rebel!
If it were changed to Emperor Chongzhen, I am afraid that he would feel very wronged. Obviously, I didn't raise much taxes, so why would I complain and rebel everywhere?Then, he condemned himself...

However, when Jiajing saw the petition, he just sneered.

Later generations often said that Jiajing was cold by nature and harsh under the imperial court. For example, Da Liyi fought a court battle among the officials and killed the chief assistant Xia Yan in the 27th year of Jiajing, making Xia Yan the first person in the Ming Dynasty to be directly dragged to court. The first assistant who was beheaded at the Meridian Gate.

This is cool?

Maybe it is, after all Ming Taizu was cruel and heartless.

Anyway, if someone advises you to be gentle with the enemy, you must stay away from such a person, and be careful that he will splash your blood when he is struck by lightning.

Jiajing saw it too clearly.

Therefore, for the advice, "regret" and "self-examination" of the officials, they just watched with cold eyes, and did not give any response, and Sheng Jia was not worried at all when he was surrounded by tens of thousands of people.

On the dragon boat, after hearing enough from the civil servants, Jiajing called out lightly: "Guo Xun."

"The end is here!"

Guo Xun, who had been following around Jiajing, responded loudly. He also looked at those civil servants with a sneer on his face. He wanted to see if this group of people could be more courageous and directly incite the kitchen households to rebel!

"Take people, all the salt officials in Huai'an have been arrested."

"Let the kitchen households give evidence on the spot, damn it, it's too late on the spot."

Guo Xun clasped his fists fiercely, his armor banged loudly, and said ferociously, "Observe the order!"

The civil servants at the scene were dumbfounded immediately, and when they realized it, they immediately cried out to remonstrate, but Huang Jin had already closed the door, indicating that the emperor would not listen...

"Old Xia Ge, persuade Your Majesty!"

"Master Yan, you can't let His Majesty mess around. This, isn't this a cruel official's method?"

All the officials spoke one after another, and some excited civil servants kept crying and kowtowing, but Jiajing ignored them, and Xia Yan and Yan Song were as motionless as a mountain, and they didn't respond at all.

a while.

Yan Song said to Xia Yan: "I heard that the national teacher won the martial arts conference in Zhoushan, and he is coming to see His Majesty soon."

Xia Yan replied: "It is said that it is a martial arts conference. So far, no Qinglong has been there. It is just a group of young people's self-entertainment."

"maybe."

Yan Song smiled and said, "Did Mr. Xia Ge realize that since the National Teacher won the championship, His Majesty's methods have become more and more severe."

Xia Yan commented: "It's too late."

Yan Song knew what Xia Yan meant. Jiajing was able to balance the court because a group of scholar-bureaucrats supported Jiajing. If Jiajing wanted to follow Hongwu's old example, those scholar-bureaucrats who were loyal to Jiajing would also stand on the opposite side of Jiajing.

At that time, what Jiajing had to face was the entire gentry class.

The more ruthless Jiajing's methods were, the more "people's hearts" he lost. Xia Yan didn't care about the death of those salt officials. He just wanted to be in Huai'an and use some things to tell all the gentry how determined Jiajing was.

If you are still not in line, then wait for the reappearance of Hongwu's old events!
If you are greedy for 20 taels of silver, you will peel off the real grass!
Xia Yan thought that Jiajing was risking the world's disgrace, so he was not in a hurry, but said with interest: "Jiexi is very pleasant, isn't it?"

Yan Song, whose character is Weizhong and whose name is Jiexi, is very pleasant in Jiangxi.

It is naturally impossible for Xia Yan not to know where Yan Song's hometown is. He just satirized Yan Song for betraying Jiangnan and serving as a hawk for Jiajing.

Yan Song smiled.

He is tall and tall, with extremely beautiful appearance. He is a rare handsome man in the world. Even though he is 57 years old now, his handsome old man's appearance is not comparable to Xia Yan.

There is a huge difference in appearance between the two, and the difference in height is half a head.

For a moment, it felt like Xia Yan, the elder of the pavilion, was suppressed by Yan Song...

"Worshiping to the Xiaoling Mausoleum is nothing more than the exaggeration that Xia Ge said. Could it be that I, Ming, do not allow worshiping the Taizu? The founding emperor, is it not because of Zhu Yuanzhang?"

"Although it has been 169 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there are still people who enshrine the portrait of Taizu among the people."

Facing Yan Song's sarcasm, Xia Yan said in a deep voice: "Jiexi has forgotten her identity! You are a scholar who studied hard for ten years, and a Jinshi who passed the imperial examination! Not a mud-legged person facing the loess and back to the sky !"

Yan Song replied: "My father has been in the exam all his life, but he has never been a scholar. My family was also born with mud legs."

"you!"

Xia Yan was anxious, pointed at Yan Song with his finger and said, "I see how you have the face to go back to Jiangxi to see your parents and fellow villagers!"

Yan Song smiled and said: "Mr. Xia Ge should be more worried about himself. Ercao's body and name are all destroyed, and the rivers and rivers will not be ruined. How to record in history books, the future may not necessarily be up to you."

Xia Yan waved his sleeves angrily, turned and left.

All the officials, look at me, I look at you, they almost dispersed, Yan Song stood for a while, Huang Jin came out and called him in, Jiajing sat behind the incense burner, holding a copy of "Zhouyi Can Tongqi" in his hand , casually asked: "Yan Song, are my methods radical?"

Yan Song replied: "It's not enough."

"Oh?"

"It's not enough to just kill the salt officials. The salt merchants have to be implicated. The Wang family has five principles of salt guides. Some of them should be taken away on the grounds that the Wang family lost their morals and abused the people."

"Yan Song, are you flattering and killing me?"

"I don't dare. The reason why I suggest this is because they will attack His Majesty whether or not His Majesty does it. No matter what, they will not allow His Majesty to enter Nanjing City."

"You are a sensible person, tell me how they will deal with me."

"To assassinate the king, either a peerless master will forcibly kill him, or recreate the old events of Tumubao in the name of Zaohu's rebellion, or create an accident that His Majesty cannot escape."

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