The second is to ask for collections, for recommendation votes, for rewards, and for relatives At the beginning of December of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian was caught up by the eunuch who conveyed the holy decree on the way to the Fengyang Emperor's Mausoleum, and hanged himself in Fucheng, marking the complete withdrawal of the eunuch party from the political stage of the Ming Dynasty. ” At that time, it was said that Wei Zhongxian was very disdainful of such a crime and a group of people who were accused of this crime, "I am a eunuch, and if I am against you, Donglin can't come up with a new trick to see, in terms of fabricating charges, Donglin is greatly weaker than himself."
"This is also psychological, Wei Zhongxian defeated Donglin for the last time.
"Okay, this stormy and stormy, let yourself run with all your strength and exhaust the old empire's broken house, just leave it to you so-called Qingliu, I don't have a burden anymore, I can easily go on the road, just look at the future generations, who will become a sinner for the ages."
It is said that Wei Zhongxian walked very calmly at that time, and he really did it easily.
With infinite emotion, he was hastily buried by the people, and then at the request of the Donglin Party, Chongzhen ordered that Wei Zhongxian's body be dug up again, and he was cut with 3,000 knives for the crime of treason, and beheaded to show the public.
Fighting with a dead man, does this show the cruelty of the party struggle and the cowardice of Donglin, who knows.
At the end of December of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, after clearing the eunuch party, the young son of heaven formed a new Donglin Party cabinet, a Donglin cabinet without the slightest noise, and it was definitely a one-word hall.
The Donglin cabinet immediately unleashed their powerful concept of governing the country to the emperor, and collectively suggested to the emperor that the Dongchang spy agency should be abolished.
Because this kind of surveillance is an insult to the gentlemen of Donglin.
The energetic young man was very confident in Donglin Jun's morality, and he was completely convinced that even if no one monitored them, the officials would not embezzle the state's money, and would do their best to do their duties, so the emperor gladly approved the cabinet's proposal and dissolved the Daming State Security Bureau.
After disbanding Dongchang, the young man who was determined to be the king of Yao Shun asked his retainers how they should cooperate with each other in order to realize his ambition to prosper the Ming Dynasty Donglin Jun thought that the emperor should also abolish other monitoring agencies deployed in various places, such as the supervision of rivers in various provinces.
Emperor Jiajing liked to send eunuchs to monitor the river.
Because of the repeated floods at that time, Jiajing's unkind suspicion was that the officials below embezzled public funds for river control.
However, he had no evidence, so he simply sent eunuchs out to supervise the control of the water, and this distrust made the officials hate it, and successfully abolished it in the Longqing Dynasty.
Their theory is that, in fact, we can do better, but if we are not trusted, we can only be passive and slack.
Wanli Tianzi is not like his cowardly father at all, but more like his unkind grandfather, so after Wanli came into power, he not only re-sent eunuchs to supervise the water control, but also greatly strengthened it, announcing that all the money for water control must be passed by the eunuchs.
In the past, when there was a flood, the emperor had no way to take the officials, but the emperor had a very good way to take the eunuchs.
Wanli stipulated that once there was a flood, then he would execute the overseer eunuch without asking questions.
Of course, according to the inference of human nature, when those eunuchs were executed, of course, they had to bite the backs of some upright officials, and then, the emperor was deceived, and then, many good officials were unjustly killed.
This is unreasonable.
But it greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the river prison work, Wanli Dynasty when the spring flood and autumn flood came, many river supervisors and eunuchs will even move to the river embankment to live, despite this, there are still many eunuchs died under the barbaric law of Wanli, so the official hated the Wanli Emperor more than the Jiajing Emperor this evil law.
After the Donglin Party took power in the Tianqi Dynasty, the eunuchs of the river were taken back again, and from the first year of the Apocalypse to the year of the Apocalypse before Wei Zhongxian took power, Donglin Jun did not build a river in the whole country.
Of course, after Wei Zhongxian came to power, he restored this bad government, so the country wasted countless silver money, although it repaired the water conservancy to some extent, but it also fed a group of corrupt elements.
Corrupt criminals are not voluntary, there is nothing to be greedy for, of course there are no corrupt officials, therefore, in order to eliminate corrupt officials, the best way is to have nothing to do, no money to be greedy, this time since the Son of Heaven inquired, the Donglin cabinet immediately put the river supervisor as Wei Zhongxian's evil government.
Since this law was promulgated after Wei Zhongxian framed the Donglin monarch, the young Son of Heaven agreed that it must be an evil rule, and he believed that insulting the virtues of the Donglin monarch was destroying the harmony and trust between the monarch and the minister, so the Son of Heaven gladly ordered the repossession of the national rivers to supervise the eunuchs.
In the previous life records of Lu Hanqiangdi, since Chongzhen took back the river to supervise the eunuchs, until Li Zicheng broke through Beijing, the entire Ming Dynasty has never repaired a river or controlled a water in 17 years, whether it is the Yellow River or the Yangtze River, whether it is Shandong or Zhejiang.
In the past 17 years, the river has been allowed to flood again and again, and every time Donglinjun has used the excuse of "saving" to make the money for river repair and water control.
The reform was written again and again, and it was adopted by the young Son of Heaven again and again, and the Donglin cabinet and the Donglin Party in the government and the opposition shouted long live for the wise decision of the Son of Heaven.
Then the cabinet put forward a package plan for tax cuts, they believed that natural disasters were mainly caused by Wanli's indiscriminate tax collection, and now was the time to put things right, so they suggested to the Son of Heaven to carry out a general tax cut, so as to make the heavens happy, so as to bless the Ming Dynasty with good weather and rain.
For the tax burden, the Son of Heaven was touched when he was studying for profit, which is called competing with the people, and he once discussed this matter with Lu Hanqiang when he was in self-study, but it seems that this classmate who was born as a philistine businessman did not have the righteousness of the businessman behind him, and he also talked about the importance of taxes to a country's finances, the importance of cultivating people in the world, and the importance of logistics exchange in the world.
Of course, the self-taught Chongzhen has no absolute reason to refute this classmate's fallacies, anyway, in his heart, taxes are a matter that harms the people, as long as it harms the people, it should be abandoned, even if the treasury is empty because of this, he can't pay military salaries to millions of national cadres, can't manage the world's rivers and water conservancy, can't wait.
That's all stubs.
This time, I'm a son of heaven who loves the people.
I don't need to use any companion to read, because I am now in the Wenhua Palace, and the people around me all day long are full of Confucianism, and I no longer need to endure the violent classmate Lu Hanqiang by my side, and I am tired of looking at each other.
And what these great Confucians are talking about, it seems to be their own thoughts when they study the sage books, since they know the suffering of the people, of course, they must reduce taxes to support the people, as for their classmates Lu Hanqiang said, taxes are the foundation of the country, is a steady stream of living water, that is simply nonsense, you scavenge and scavenge to become famous, our big empire does not need the small profits of taxes, as long as the acres of land can be paid.
So, the Son of Heaven agreed to this suggestion.
After the Son of Heaven agreed, Donglin Jun was the first to propose a reduction or exemption of tea tax, which was the most important project in Jiangnan.
In the past, Emperor Wanli could not trust his ministers, so he sent eunuchs to inspect the tea plantations in various provinces, which was of course a great bad government.
Donglin Jun will never be greedy for the country's tax land, and at the same time, those tea taxes are only three or four million taels a year, is it worth making the small people miserable The Son of Heaven thought about it, so he took back the eunuchs who supervised the land.
Of course, since then, the tea tax revenue of the provinces has dropped sharply, the local officials have reported disasters in succession, and the tea harvest has failed, and by the tenth year of Chongzhen, the tea tax in Zhejiang Province alone has been reduced from 2 million taels of silver in the Wanli and Tianqi years to 12 taels of silver per year It's only twelve taels then forget it, it's not enough for a bag of tea for himself, so what to do with him Is it an excuse for those corrupt officials to loot the people, so Chongzhen announced that he simply canceled the end of the matter.
Then there is the sea tax, the officials in the south of the Ming Dynasty and the maritime merchants of the Fang are inextricably linked, they proposed to the emperor that the "forbidden sea" should be restored, the Wanli Emperor opened the sea and forbade the eunuchs to collect taxes is a serious violation of the ancestral system, is a great bad government, at the same time, so many good things go to the sea, of course, it arouses the greed of the pirates, and also by the way let the coastal pirates run rampant, this is of course not good, you look at this continuous natural disasters also prove the extreme injustice of the sea tax, the Son of Heaven once again recognized the judgment of the Donglin Cabinet, The eunuchs of the customs places were ordered to return to the palace and the sea ban was restored.
Since the Wanli Tianxing sea trade, the customs tariff has been a pillar of the Ming Dynasty's finances, and it is also an important source of domestic currency, and when it comes to the 40th year of Wanli, Wanli can get four million taels of silver land sea tax every year.
Since the first year of Chongzhen's cessation of customs duties in the name of reinstating the ban on the sea, the inner treasury can no longer get a tael of silver from the sea trade of the increasingly prosperous countries.
However, the call for praise of virtue once again made Chongzhen see the reputation that the tax cut brought him, as for the loss of silver, of course, there is a way to solve it, isn't there still so much land in this world, and only a little tax can be completely made up. t1706231537: