Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 304 Emperor Zhu lost his temper, and the consequences were serious.

All the ministers of Daming present looked at each other in blank dismay.

I don't know why the emperor Laozi suddenly changed the subject and brought the topic back to the issue of tax arrears.

Zhu Daohua saw a bit of panic on the faces of the ministers in the audience.

I couldn't help but snorted coldly in my heart.

He is not the emperor who grew up in the deep palace.

He is the founding emperor.

Of course, it is clear that relying on the strength of some low-level scholars cannot create the chaos that spread from Sichuan to the Central Plains and Southwest provinces!

Behind this must be the instigation and laissez-faire of those local Confucian scholars and bureaucrats.

They want to use the incident in Sichuan to attack Xinxue.

And the timing was perfect.

Just when the Ming Dynasty wanted to employ people, and the students of the new universities that the emperor Laozi placed his hopes on had just graduated and were not yet available.

Although Emperor Zhu was anxious to use newcomers, he also knew the danger of overthrowing the young.

Therefore, the first batch of new-style college students were arranged at the grassroots level, not only in the officialdom, but also in some factories and the Ming Royal Consortium.

But everyone knows it.

Although these people are not in high official positions now, they are real "students of the Son of Heaven".

It will definitely be useful in the future.

As long as the emperor sticks to this direction.

In the future, when new learning flourishes, the trend of Confucianism declining will be inevitable.

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This time in Sichuan.

It can be seen as a counterattack by the unwilling old literati.

A trial!
It's not about banning the new learning at once, but adopting the model of taking small steps. If you succeed in making the emperor back down this time, then you will want more next time!

These old literati can gradually take away the power of the content of the imperial examination.

How could Emperor Zhu endure this.

He can bear anything else.

Only this is definitely unbearable.

What is the imperial examination.

This is a question related to the future of the country's development.

If these old literati succeeded, where would his authority as the founding emperor be placed?
A sneer appeared on the corner of Zhu Daohua's mouth, and his eyes swept across the officials like swords.

It was the first time that many ministers here saw the angry Emperor Zhu who was smiling every day.

Immediately, his back went cold with fright.

Finally remembered the identity of the emperor in front of him.
He is the Restoration Emperor of the new Ming Dynasty whose authority surpassed Ming Taizu's!

Is a founding emperor.

His tiger power is not easy to offend
Many civil servants could not help but bow their heads with some guilty conscience.

"What? Is there any land tax owed for the land in Zhuqing's family?"

This statement came out.

Suddenly, the air in the hall became even colder.

Land tax owed by wealthy households is actually an ancient thing.

The so-called postponing refers to the meaning of postponing the payment and reducing the collection.

Originally, this system was to take care of small people with meager land or disaster victims.

You can defer the payment of land tax and get through the disaster year with bad harvest.

In the next few years, if there is any happy event in the court and the royal family, if we do some good governance, then the land taxes owed can be exempted.

However, the policy of the imperial court was good, but the people below misrepresented the scriptures again.

Since the Yongzheng year.

"Note slow" has completely become the prerogative of wealthy households.

The wealthy households have tens of millions of land assets, but they can avoid the land tax by reducing their income by "note slowing down", and the shortfall is passed on to the self-cultivating farmers who only own meager land.

The so-called "officials and gentry pay food together" soon became a legendary thing, but it just gave the Qing court some more knives that could handle local wealthy households.

And after the revival of Ming Dynasty.

In many places, no thorough reform has been carried out, and a large part of the old system has been retained.

Because Daming did not kill many people in the local area, there must be no thorough reform.

The only way to change is to establish a new system by reforming the old system.

But reforms will inevitably anger the old vested interests.

And now although the Ming court replaced the original official class with scholars as officials.

However, the number of officials in each province has also increased by more than ten times compared with that in the Qing Dynasty.

It is impossible for the grassroots to implement the strategy of being an official in a different place.

Therefore, local officials in various places are actually from rich families.

In the absence of a fundamental revolution, local wealthy households still occupy a large amount of land. This situation has not changed much from the previous Qing Dynasty.

Emperor Zhu knew about this situation.

But during the war, Emperor Zhu could turn a blind eye.

Wait until the big battle around is over.

It is also time for these wealthy households in the country to experience the iron fist of the Ming Dynasty.

I saw that everyone was silent.

Emperor Zhu stood up, looked at the ministers and said: "You all know that our Ming army is invincible. It took almost no effort to defeat the former Qing Dynasty and win the world. This time the change of dynasty did not kill a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood. The head is rolling, which is a good thing. But it also makes the local area still controlled by wealthy households. The wealthy households have a lot of wealth, but they can collude with local officials to avoid paying taxes by various means, and transfer taxes to the poor. Aren't you afraid that the government will force the people to rebel?"

Emperor Zhu looked at Luo Fangbo.

Prime Minister Luo hurriedly said: "There is no one in the three clans who owes taxes and refuses to pay!"

The Luo family in Jiaying Prefecture runs a shipping company, so they don't buy much land, and the shipping company makes so much money, the income from that little land has long been valued.

"Okay, you are the prime minister, you should lead by example!" Emperor Zhu smiled slightly.

"I won't say much else, three months! After three months, I will send people to thoroughly investigate whether the officials in the southeastern provinces owe taxes. If anyone's name appears on the tax owed list, Even if this official has achieved success!"

Everyone's hearts turned cold, and they all knew that the emperor was playing for real.

The local literati and bureaucrats posed a difficult problem for the emperor that Sichuan students would not take the exam, and he wanted to check taxes in turn!
This is just great.

Officials in these provinces in the southeast are in danger.

"It's better to go back and pay all the taxes quickly. The land tax in my Daming is not high, and there is only one regular tax, and everything else is exempted. If you don't even pay this, then the black hat will be lost. Which is more important? , everyone weigh it for themselves."

After Emperor Zhu left, Luo Fangbo turned his head and said to the officials.

"Also, if the students in Sichuan don't want to take the imperial examination this time, then they don't take the exam. When they are willing to take the exam, they will start the exam. Anyway, I will never be short of people who want to be an official."

Of course, the officials of the Ming Dynasty were not afraid that there would be no one to do it.

Wait a few years.

These Sichuan scholars have to give in.

Qin Ying's face darkened slightly, then he shook his head and said, "I don't know how many people's careers will be delayed now."

Gu Song sneered: "It's self-inflicted. If it's delayed, it's delayed. They can't stand the provocation. This time, I will go back and warn my nephews and brothers at home, don't anger the emperor on this matter, otherwise there will be no good results." Eat! The emperor is quite dissatisfied with the collusion between wealthy households in the southeast and officials!"

This time, there are many more officials with discolored faces
"I'm afraid there will be a lot of black hats falling to the ground."

Zhang Huiyan muttered in a low voice upon hearing this.

(End of this chapter)