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Chapter 450
Li Shishi looked at King Ning's solemn expression and said hastily: "Your lord has betrayed you, and you are so loved by your lord. Dare you swear to repay him with your death!"

King Ning's eyes lit up, he looked at Li Shishi expectantly and said: "Please teach me, sir, how can the lonely king win the world?"

In King Ning's heart, his only goal in this life is to be able to capture the world, for which he can pay any price.

Li Shishi stroked his beard, and said slowly: "If it had been a year earlier, I would never have persuaded the prince to raise the banner to seize the world early, but since then Li Huan has become the favorite minister of today's emperor, especially that Li Huan. To actually want to imitate the reforms of the predecessors, it can be said that even the heavens are on the side of the prince."

Hearing what Li Shishi said, King Ning felt a little smug in his heart, nodded and said: "What you said is very true. Speaking of which, Li Huan is really the lucky star of the lonely king. If it wasn't for him bewitching the little emperor to do something If there are any reforms, how can it be possible to make that foolish emperor lose his heart, if that foolish emperor does not lose his heart, how can this king be able to successfully seize the world."

Li Shishi nodded and said: "It's good for the lord to understand these things. Now Li Huan's reform has already made him lose the hearts of the world's gentry, and the big case of beating the palace not long ago made him lose the hearts of the world's scholars. Are you saying this is a godsend?"

Zhu Chenhao nodded repeatedly and said: "So it is said that the heavens are helping this king! If he is the great treasure that the Japanese king can ascend smoothly, then Li Huan must be rewarded heavily."

While speaking, even Zhu Chenhao couldn't help laughing.

Li Shishi couldn't help laughing too, of course he knew that Zhu Chenhao was just joking, after all Zhu Chenhao wanted to take over the world, so the only ones he could rely on were those who hated Li Huan and today's people Gentlemen and scholars.

It can be said that as long as he has the support of these people, King Ning, who is a member of the current royal family, will have the possibility of successfully counterattacking.

Zhu Chenhao nodded solemnly and said: "What you said is true, this king knows."

After all, no matter whether it is sharing the land into the mu or the government and the gentry paying the grain, it is definitely the first time to look at Daming. These policies are definitely beneficial to the people and Daming, but there are advantages and disadvantages. Whether it is Li Huan or the emperor Or Wang Yangming could see clearly.

In the hall, Wang Yangming was concentrating on looking at the official documents submitted by the local government, and beside him were officials of all sizes coming and going, showing a busy look.

It is said that one can learn literary and martial arts and sell goods to the emperor's family. In this era, if one wants to enter the imperial court, the only way to go is the imperial examination.

The Lin family in Qiantang covers an area of ​​hundreds of thousands of mu, and all of them are fertile fields. One can imagine how arrogant the Lin family is in Qiantang County.

This can be regarded as the first step, and it took nearly a year to reach this point, and it was barely completed under the strong influence of Li Huan who killed a group of officials who deceived the top and the bottom.

Even though Wang Yangming had presided over a session of the imperial examination before, and nominally had hundreds of disciples of the new imperial examinations, these people could really be used by them, regardless of their own class. In fact, not even half of it.

After listening to Li Shishi's analysis, Zhu Chenhao clapped his hands and exclaimed: "Okay, okay, Mr. Gude, you are like a fish in water! Guwang then invites Mr. Liu to go to the south of the Yangtze River in person, and invites Mr. Wang to come out of the mountain to help My king."

Although Wang Yangming said that he was mentioned as the main examiner of Enke, but at the moment Wang Yangming's attention was not on Enke.

Calculating the time, if all goes well, the collection of summer taxes in many places should have almost come to an end, and even the Gyeonggi region may have completed the collection of summer taxes, and the situation of local summer tax collections will naturally be reported in Summary of the Ministry of Accounts.

Everything above is just the foundation, and now is the time to really get serious.

In this way, the real surprises are those gentry and local tyrants, as well as many officials who implement policies from them.

The real drawback is that this reform has seriously hurt the ruling class of Ming Dynasty. Whether it is a gentry, a local tyrant, or an official, noble, or clan relative, these classes who really have the right to speak in Ming Dynasty are all victims without exception. By.

The next most important thing is to formally implement taxation and implement the integration of officials and gentry.

While speaking, Li Huan had already walked up to Wang Yangming, and forcibly pulled Wang Yangming to sit down in front of the tea table. Wang Yangming was pulled out from the desk by Li Huan, and with a helpless smile on his face, he said: "Champion I don’t know if I want to check the tax data reported by the local government?”

But for these people, Li Huan is not too worried. Li Huan firmly believes that these forces themselves are not monolithic. If nothing else, it depends on the number of officials who were originally opposed to him and Wang Yangming. Just know that these people never work together.

In comparison, Li Huan was sitting not far away, but Li Huan was not as busy as Wang Yangming, but seemed a little leisurely, and even had time to drink tea there.

Li Huan heard the words Leng Xia said: "Hmph, sir, don't speak well for them. Don't you know what kind of virtue these people are? If it's not that there are people from the Jin Yiwei who are staring at them this time, and His Majesty personally issued an order Announce to the world that anyone who does not cooperate with the imperial court's new policy and obstructs it will be punished as treason, and I am afraid that the summer tax collection will cause some trouble."

Speaking of which, Li Shishi said to Zhu Chenhao: "Now Mr. Wang is forced by the traitor Li Huan to resign and go to Jiangnan. If the prince invites brother Liu to extend the invitation at this time, he may not be able to invite Mr. Wang to come out to help. If he can win the king If my lord comes out to help, with my lord Wang's connections, the prince in Jiangnan will definitely be able to respond to everyone, and there will be a large number of people who respond."

In the summer of the fifth year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, scholars from all over the world gathered in the capital to prepare for the upcoming Enke. At the same time, the imperial court sent a large number of inspectors to all over the world to personally supervise and inspect the collection of the summer tax.

But this time, many of the officials inspected by the imperial court about the new policy are these new officials. These officials dare not say that they support the new law [-]%, but at least they can be used by Li Huan, Wang Yangming, and the emperor, right?

Zhu Chenhao looked at Li Shishi with some anticipation, but Li Shishi said slowly: "Could it be that the prince has forgotten Brother Liu!"

Zhu Chenhao is not a fool. He knows very well that the person who can contact him must be his confidant. After all, this task is not only a great opportunity, but also contains endless dangers.

What's more, with hundreds of thousands of elite troops in the Beijing camp, even if local turmoil did occur, Li Huan was confident enough to suppress it.

When he felt Zhu Chenhao's eyes looking towards him, Li Shishi hurriedly said: "My lord, I recommend someone. If there is such a person, you should have no worries."

With nearly a year of preparations, although it was said last year that the Ming Dynasty had begun to implement reforms, no matter whether it was the allocation of food to the mu or the integration of officials and gentry, these reforms have not really started to be tried.

Li Shishi said indifferently: "Brother Liu is a disciple of Mr. Wang, the old king of the former court, and he is also highly valued by Mr. Wang. If Mr. Wang was not suppressed in the court back then, Brother Liu might have won Mr. Wang long ago." People bless Qingyun to go straight up."

Daming taxes are divided into summer tax and autumn tax. Now that the summer harvest is approaching, it also means that the new policy is about to be implemented. At this juncture, even Wang Yangming, who was appointed by the emperor as the chief examiner of Enke not long ago, pays attention In this time the tax collection came up.

Stroking his beard, Li Shishi said slowly: "Your Majesty, don't want to learn from that stupid king, who believed in the tricks of that traitor Li Huan and destroyed the Great Wall himself. Doesn't he know that the reason why he was able to secure the throne was entirely because of the gentry in the world?" And the recognition and support of the scholars? Without the support of these people, how could he be able to sit firmly in the country? You must know that since ancient times, the world has been ruled by the emperor and the scholar-bureaucrats. The prince must not forget this."

Household Yamen
The collection of taxes has always been presided over by the Ministry of Households, so this time the collection of the summer tax is naturally through the Ministry of Households. Both Li Huan and Wang Yangming are now personally in charge of the Ministry of Households.

To be honest, Zhu Houzhao was somewhat worried about involving so many classes at once.

While joking, Li Huan looked at Wang Yangming and said, "In the past two days, the number of documents submitted by the local government has suddenly increased. Could it be that the collection of the summer tax is not smooth?"

In the fifth year of Zhengde, the eldest son of the emperor's son came to the world in the first year, which was considered a good start, and then the emperor opened Enke, and scholars all over the world rejoiced.

After all, no one can guarantee whether any of the gentry and tyrants in Jiangnan will swear allegiance to the current emperor. If such a person is alarmed when the time comes, the person sent to make contact will be killed. Worrying.

Hearing what Li Shishi said, Zhu Chenhao pondered for a while and said, "I don't know who can go to the south of the Yangtze River for this king."

Under Li Huan's order, these local officials directly cooperated with the local Jin Yiwei and went down to the state capital level to ensure that the collection of Xia tax could be carried out in accordance with the new law.

But fortunately, the emperor himself came forward to suppress the waves of the clan. Li Huan, together with the British Duke and Cheng Guogong, promised to support the Xungui family to return to the court, which seemed to appease most people in the Xungui group.

Li Huan smiled slightly, poured tea for Wang Yangming, and said, "Of course I know, but it's up to you to do things, but people are not machines, so you should rest. Who will preside over the collection of the summer tax, so the most important thing is to take care of yourself, sir."

However, in just a few months, the Lin family, which can be called the most powerful in Qiantang, suffered a huge blow and suffered a catastrophe.

Of course, if it was possible, Li Huan even wanted to send inspectors to the county level, but it was a pity that in just one or two years, many officials from the court and the local government fell to him and Wang Yangming. But in comparison, the manpower they can trust is still very short.

Zhu Chenhao said with some doubts: "What?"

It is said that the lineage of the Lin family placed great hopes on them. It is hoped that they will become Jinshi in high school, enter the Hanlin Academy, and even one day enter the cabinet to pay homage to the prime minister. He is talented and knowledgeable, and he is tactful in dealing with people, and he has a great reputation among scholars in the south of the Yangtze River.

Li Huan smiled and said, "That's because what I said makes sense!"

It's fine if the journey is short, but if it's a long journey, it will take two or three months just to travel.

Qiantang County, Suzhou Prefecture, Jiangnan
Who in the south of the Yangtze River doesn't know that the Lin clan of Qiantang is half a city, which means that the Lin clan's power and wealth in Qiantang is comparable to half of Qiantang County.

Seeing Wang Yangming's busy face, Li Huan looked at the sky outside and couldn't help saying to Wang Yangming: "Sir, you have been busy all morning, you might as well take a rest."

After taking a sip of tea, Wang Yangming looked at Li Huan and said, "I can't beat you."

Li Shishi immediately said: "Now the time has come, the prince can send his confidantes to the south of the Yangtze River, and quietly contact the wealthy gentry in the resting place. The prince only needs to show a little idea, and when the time comes, there will be someone who wants to do that. Minister."

Even those who have completed the process of checking the farmland and Dingkou can only barely calculate the approximate number of Tianmu and Dingkou in the world today.

It can be said that if there are no accidents, relying on the connections and reputation that Lin Yuan has accumulated over the years, even if Jiangnan does not enter the cabinet, Jiuqing is still in sight, and it is definitely not a problem to protect the Lin family for decades.

Zhu Chenhao was stunned for a moment, then reacted, and took a deep look at Li Shishi, and Li Shishi looked at Zhu Chenhao without any hesitation and said, "Your Majesty, you might as well think about it. Who is more suitable for this job than Brother Liu, you must know that Brother Liu has quite a wide network in Jiangnan, especially no one can compare with Brother Liu."

After listening to Li Huan's words, Wang Yangming took a deep breath, looked at Li Huan and said, "Overall, the tax collection is quite smooth. Most of the gentry and tyrants in the world dare not directly confront the court after all. , no matter how much dissatisfaction they have in their hearts, unless they want to rebel, otherwise, they can only cooperate obediently."

Enke was scheduled to be held on May [-]th in the fifth year of Zhengde. Scholars all over the world rushed to the capital almost immediately after hearing the news.

It's a pity that people's calculations are not as good as heaven's calculations. A big case of beating the palace not only caused Lin Yuan, the dragon and phoenix of the Lin family, to die young, but also brought disaster to the Lin family.

With the background of the Lin family for so many years, the loss of such a pillar as Lin Yuan is extremely heartbreaking, but it is not a catastrophe. The one who really makes the Lin family feel desperate and even hates Li Huan and even the emperor is the emperor. a will.

Anyone in the Lin family who has meritorious service will be deprived of it, and all descendants within three generations will not be allowed to take scientific examinations.

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