Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 454
Li You did not misunderstand Classical Chinese Possession. This poisonous scholar is very capable. In the past, he was only restrained because of his identity, but when Li You just released his bondage and gave Classical Chinese Possession unlimited freedom, Wen Yanbo gave Li You a surprise.

Under Wen Yanbo's planning, football betting was quickly promoted and received a lot of love. The first football betting, out of 100 million people in Chang'an, actually had 10 people buy it. Not only There are only gamblers, ranging from the elderly to the young, and most of them are those who really love football.

The harvest at one time was tens of thousands of guan, which instantly made many aristocratic families jealous. After Li You's gambling success, those jealous aristocratic families came to Li You immediately. Yu directly rejected these people.

Li You's behavior aroused the jealousy of the family members.

So these aristocratic families gathered together and began to attack Li You. On the same day, the censors of the thirteen aristocratic families listed a total of five crimes against Li You.

One of the most important ones is to compete with the people for profit.

It means that Li You is robbing the people for money, this is the most despicable place for these aristocratic families

Of course, there is nothing wrong with this statement. If the royal family does not compete with the people for profit, and then keeps benevolence and righteousness in their hearts at all times, then the world will live well because of it.

But when this sentence came to the mouths of the aristocratic family, because of the difference in understanding of a word, the aristocratic family who was full of "benevolence and righteousness" was so shameless.

You keep saying righteously that you can't compete with the people for profit, but you are desperately oppressing the people and stealing the people's profits, how despicable that is,
The most representative time should be the Ming Dynasty. In the early days of the Ming Dynasty, because Zhu Yuanzhang himself was a peasant, and he was the poorest peasant, so he treated the peasants quite well.

At the same time, in the process of Zhu Yuanzhang's rebellion against Yuan, another group of people also gave him a lot of help, that is, the Jiangnan gentry.

The so-called gentry are mostly heirs of poetry and books, and the family industry is huge and has very strong financial resources.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who had lived a hard life, was very nostalgic. After he became emperor, on the one hand, he treated the peasants lightly and poorly, and on the other hand, he gave privileges to the gentry, that is, scholars.

The Ming Dynasty stipulated that scholars with fame and reputation could have the right to be tax-free.Perhaps it was because there were not many scholars when the Ming Dynasty was first established, and Zhu Yuanzhang did not realize that his preferential policy for scholars would eventually become an important reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

And these scholars are actually those aristocratic families in the Tang Dynasty. Because scholars don’t have to pay taxes on their fields, and scholars’ properties don’t need to pay taxes, so scholars who specialize in articles began to gradually turn the purchase of property into their main function. , They combine with the merchants, they provide the merchants with protection and tax-free rights, and the merchants provide them with vain silver, and they use the silver to continuously expand their industries.

There were more and more corrupt officials, border troubles continued to increase, the peasants could not collect a few taxes, and the scholars did not allow businessmen to collect taxes. The Ming Dynasty finally had a big financial problem.During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the annual tax revenue did not exceed 400 million taels, and the army began to delay payment, and its combat effectiveness dropped sharply.

In the Wanli period, the emperor began to increase the business tax and mine tax, which was strongly opposed by the civil officials. Because the increased tax was actually money from their pockets, at this time the officials put the famous phrase "food Those who are paid should not compete with the lower people for profit, and those who receive the big ones should not take the small." The Confucian classics were released, but do business taxes really fall on the "low people"?

No, if the merchants and mines at that time did not have a few civil servants behind them, could they survive well?
Emperor Wanli didn't care about the noisy noise of these officials below, and the tax that should be collected was still collected. Therefore, the national power of the Ming Dynasty gradually recovered during Emperor Wanli's reign, and he launched the "Three Great Marches of Wanli" to push the surrounding powerful forces to the ground. After a lesson, I once again swear to the surrounding countries: Daming is still the same Daming, you are not something you can provoke!

However, after Wanli, the two consecutive emperors of the Ming Dynasty were very short-lived, and it can be said that they all died abnormally. There are also speculations that they were assassinated because they touched the interests of some people.

Otherwise, it is impossible to explain why the young Ming Guangzong died of eating "red pills" inexplicably, and it is also impossible to explain that the lively Zhu Youxiao died of a cold caused by falling into the water.Next came Emperor Chongzhen.

Due to hearing too many bad things about Wei Zhongxian and the eunuchs when he was not the emperor (in fact, the eunuchs are really bad for officials, but their taxation of merchants greatly relieves the pressure on peasants), Emperor Chongzhen As soon as he came to power, he found a way to get rid of Wei Zhongxian, and vigorously promoted the "honest gentleman" Donglin Party members at that time.Donglin Academy wrote a pair in front of the door called: "The sound of the wind and rain, the sound of reading, the sound of reading, family affairs, state affairs, world affairs, and everything concerned."

In order to flaunt their gentlemanly demeanor.However, what the "gentlemen" are most concerned about is not "state affairs and world affairs". They only care about their family's business and mine income, so as soon as they came to power, they banned the business tax and mine tax that Wei Zhongxian once again collected to achieve The role of "not competing with the people for profit".

However, there is not enough money in the national treasury, and there are still wars on the front line. Where will the money come from?

Of course it came from the peasants!

So they raised taxes on those farmers who were hungry and full, so the question came, are farmers considered "people"?Does raising taxes on farmers count as "competing for profit with the people"?

In the eyes of the Donglin Party, farmers are definitely not "people". Only "people" who can provide their pockets with vain money are real "people". How can you count as a "people" if you earn money for them?

The Yasheng Mencius once said: "It is not difficult to govern, and it is not difficult to offend the rich." It means that governing the country is very simple, as long as you don't offend those big families, you can go anywhere with their support. unfavorable.

This is especially true for these officials. As long as they speak out for their respective families, they can be as stable as Mount Tai in the officialdom.Even if you are dismissed occasionally, someone will recommend you again soon.

In this way, farmers became the only people in the Ming Dynasty who were not counted as "people".In northern Shaanxi, the land itself was barren, coupled with the abnormal climate at that time, years of droughts, almost no food harvest, and at that time the imperial court laid off the only post station that could give the people a little income, and selling children and women could not survive The peasants who were forced to go to Liangshan had no choice but to rise up with Li Zicheng.For a time, the world was turbulent, and the kind Chongzhen still insisted that "a thief is also a child".

But if the youngsters can't survive, they will also "kill the king"!

The Donglin Party of the Ming Dynasty was actually the family of the Tang Dynasty, and the tactics of the family of the Tang Dynasty at this time were not a little different from the Donglin Party of the Ming Dynasty.

They are all so despicable, such bastards, but what is different from the Donglin Party is that the emperor these Tang Dynasty aristocrats met was Li Shimin, and the object they want to slander is the modern Li You.

"Damn.!"

Li Shimin, who was sitting on the dragon chair, let out a rage after reading the thirteen censors' lists. This rage made the officials of the aristocratic families present a little happy.

Because this shows that Li Shimin is angry.

But these censors and officials would not have thought that this bastard sound made Changsun Wuji slightly frown, because the bastard sound was really weird.

You must know that just now Li You helped Li Shimin settle the message between the crown prince and the king of Wei. That is a blessing. Even if Li You did something wrong, according to Li Shimin's habits, he should protect him.

Why is Li Shimin suddenly so angry at this time, and his behavior is very weird, there must be fraud in it.

"Your Majesty..." A censor from a powerful family couldn't bear it anymore, stepped out of his seat, came to Li Shimin and bowed in front of Li Shimin, saying, "Qi King Li You is fighting for the interests of the people, so he should be deprived of the Qi King's title."

Seeing that this censor was about to make a contribution, the other censors also stepped forward to put pressure on Li Shimin.

Looking at the censors who were bowing in front of him, Li Shimin sneered and said, "Is there anyone else who wants to present Li You together? Now is a good opportunity, if you don't show up, the opportunity will be gone."

As soon as these words came out, all of Li Shimin's confidants knew that Li You would not be in trouble, but those censors on the list would be in trouble.

Sure enough, soon, Li Shimin's words changed: "I remember, this is not the first time that You'er has been put on the table to compete with the people for profit, this should be the second time, last time only one was Wang Xingzuo Yu history.

The result at that time was that Wang Xingzuo was exiled.

Then I stipulated that the censor does have the right to gossip, but you must also have an understanding of what you have said, and you can't just imagine it. This time I want to ask you, have you understood the matter? The whole truth? "

When Li Shimin asked such a question, these censors were slightly taken aback. Everyone knew what happened to Wang Xingzuo last time, and Li Shimin's request was also very clear to everyone, but today's Li You football betting is really nothing. accident.

They have also seen a lot of information with their own eyes. It is absolutely impossible that there is a little fake. They use football to lure the people to participate in gambling, so as to make money from the people. During this period, Li You did not pay any substantial items, so they must not He will repeat the mistakes of Wang Xingzuo.

So after Li Shimin asked, those censors all bowed again and said that they had learned the whole truth.

But when the censors finished speaking, Li Shimin sneered again: "I have given you a chance, but you haven't grasped it."

(End of this chapter)