Daming: From the Son of Heaven to the Leader of Comprehensive Martial Arts

There is only one thing he has to do, and that is to reform the tax system.

After measuring the land in the world, tax is paid according to the yield per mu, not by household.

Even if two buckets of rice are harvested per acre of land instead of one stone, which is reduced by as much as [-]%, the revenue of the treasury can still skyrocket a lot.

Because of this tax payment, the landlords of aristocratic families must pay more taxes, while the poor households will have less taxes.

"This world is my world, and the people of the world are my people."

"These family landlords who evade taxes are my worst enemies, and they are even more hateful than those officials who are corrupt and accept bribes."

"This is Daming's stubborn disease, I must change it!"

Zhu Qizhen's determination is unshakable.

"Chen Yuhuatian, see Your Majesty."

Yuhuatian walked into the Qianqing Palace to salute.

"Yuhuatian, I will give you the Heavenly Sword now, and immediately lead the Xichang factory guards to assist Zhang Juzheng in measuring the land in the world. If anyone dares to resist, I will give you the right to kill first and then play."

Zhu Qizhen handed the Emperor Sword to Yuhuatian.

"Chen Yuhuatian, obey the order!"

Yu Huatian knelt on the ground, raised his hands above his head, took the Tianzi sword, and accepted the order happily.

His heart was slightly moved.

A thousand-mile horse often exists, but Bole does not often exist. He has always been like a snow lotus in the Tianshan Mountains, with lofty ambitions and a heart to help the world and make contributions.

There is no doubt that the emperor is his bole.

Before canonizing him as a general, making surprise raids on the grasslands, and making great achievements on the battlefield, now he is being asked to participate in measuring the world's land and reforming the tax system, obviously to bring him to the bright side.

It can be said that each of these two incidents is worthy of history.

"Chen Yuhuatian, I will never die, I will definitely complete the task of measuring the land of the world, and I will never disappoint His Majesty's trust!"

Yu Huatian still had a stern expression on his face, and he took the order to leave, his white robe fluttering.

……

woo woo woo

The trumpet sounded, the Meridian Gate opened wide, and all civil and military officials entered the palace!

Snapped!Snapped!Snapped……

With the sound of eighteen clean whips, the emperor came to the court.

"See Your Majesty, long live my emperor!"

The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty kowtowed three times and worshiped nine times.

Outside the Xuanzheng Hall, heavy snow fell, and the world was completely white.

In the eighth year of orthodoxy, the last court meeting began. After that, there was a one-month vacation time, and the court meeting was not held until the spring of the next year.

Zhu Qizhen sat high on the dragon chair.

"Everyone who loves you is free from courtesy!"

"There is a book to play in the morning! There is no book to retreat!"

Wei Zhongxian shouted loudly.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, my humble minister Yan Song has an inscription!"

Yan Song, the chief assistant of the cabinet, strode out of the court, holding an ivory board.

"Prelude!"

Zhu Qizhen was a little surprised. This old fox, who never took the initiative to speak, was the first to stand up today, which is really strange.

"His Majesty, I want to impeach all the officials in the court. In this court, the officials and officials protect each other, and the courtiers form cliques, take corruption and accept bribes! I want to impeach the nobles of the world, evade taxes, and annex land."

The aged Yan Song's voice rang like a bell.

Full court civil and military, jaw-dropping!

Everyone was stunned in shock, because there was no one in the civil and military courts who didn't know that the biggest faction in the Ming Empire was Yan Song's strict party, and the biggest corrupt official in the Ming Empire was Yan Song!

What on earth is Yan Song going to do, to impeach himself?

Civil and military officials were very puzzled.

"Sure enough, it's an old fox, you're smart."

Only Zhu Qizhen knew that Yan Song was a self-preservation behavior that used advance as retreat.

Before Cao Zhengchun thoroughly investigated corrupt officials all over the world, but he did not touch the officials in the capital alone. Yan Song knew very well that it was not that the emperor did not punish the officials in the capital, but that the time had not yet come.

If it is an anti-corruption storm, it will be set off in the capital.

Yan Song, as the chief assistant of the cabinet and the leader of the strict party, must bear the brunt of it. If he waits until other people impeach him, he will have no way out at that time, so he might as well raise it himself.

Moreover, Cao Zhengchun is also a corrupt official.

Why wait until the emperor trusts?

Is it because the emperor doesn't know that Cao Zhengchun is greedy?

This is impossible!

After many inquiries, Yan Song learned that Cao Zhengchun had long ago sent all his greedy property to the Palace of Compassion and Ning in the name of celebrating the Queen Mother's birthday.

This is a brilliant move!

Yan Song immediately followed suit and put nearly 120 million taels of silver that he had embezzled over the years into the silver taels of the disaster relief Datong Mansion in the name of subsidizing the court.

Now that I propose to punish corrupt officials and govern landlords, that is to show an attitude and absolutely support the emperor's proposition.

In this way, his Yan family might be able to escape.

Zhu Qizhen calmly said, "Yan Song, as the chief assistant of the cabinet, you must not speak nonsense. Submit what evidence you have for what you said."

After Zhu Qizhen finished speaking, Yan Song raised the memorial above his head.

"Report to Your Majesty, if the minister makes a false statement, please behead him."

"My minister, Yan Song, is at odds with corrupt officials!"

The civil and martial arts of the Manchu Dynasty were inexplicably shocked, and they were already stunned on the spot.

They never imagined that at the last meeting of the year, Yan Song, the chief minister of the cabinet, would set off a storm of bureaucracy and reform that swept the world.

Chapter 22 One step of the emperor measures the world

"Wei Zhongxian, present Yan Song's memorial."

Zhu Qizhen sat high on the dragon chair, and took a light sip of Biluochun.

Knowing Yan Song's thoughts well, now Yan Song has taken the initiative to propose two major issues, one is to punish corrupt officials to eliminate the bureaucracy, and the other is to measure the land of the world to reform the tax system.

Originally, Zhu Qizhen planned to thoroughly investigate the officials in the capital after the imperial examination next year.

However, now that Yan Song has brought it up, he might as well follow the trend and hand over the difficult matter of punishing Beijing officials to Yan Song, the chief assistant of the cabinet.

Yan Song has been in charge of the cabinet for 20 years, and no one knows the officials in the capital better than him.

There are a large number of officials in the capital, as many as tens of thousands, and a single leaf falling from a tree can hit several high-ranking officials and nobles, and their conduct varies, good and bad, but Yan Song can be like every treasure.

Using the world's largest corrupt official to investigate corruption will definitely get twice the result with half the effort.

"Your Majesty, please check!"

Wei Zhongxian took Yan Song's memorial and handed it over to the emperor.

Zhu Qizhen opened Yan Song's memorial, and read it word by word.

The more I look at it, the more angry I get!

The more Zhu Qizhen looked at it, the more he frowned, and the more he looked at it, the more gloomy his face became.

Civil and military officials secretly glanced at the emperor, and suddenly found that the emperor was furious and murderous, and the majesty of the emperor made them breathless.

The air seemed to freeze!

All civil and military officials dared not take a breath.

This is murderous!

The things mentioned in Yan Song's memorial must be shocking and well-known, because the emperor's murderous aura is like a black cloud overwhelming the city!

Looking at the memorial, Zhu Qizhen became more and more angry.

After reading the last word.

"Snapped!"

Zhu Qizhen even erupted with the aura of a martial arts master, and threw the memorial on the dragon case fiercely. The whole dragon case trembled, and the entire court trembled.

"Oh Well!"

"Is this my good servant?"

Zhu Qizhen sneered and stood up suddenly, the emperor's wrath enveloped the entire court.

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty is actually a master of martial arts. No wonder he is decisive in killing and attacking, with an imposing manner, and a blood that ordinary emperors don't have."

Cao Zhengchun's eyes widened in surprise.

"The minister deserves death for his crimes."

"Your Majesty, rest your anger."

"Your Majesty, calm down!"

For a moment, all civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty were overwhelmed by Zhu Qizhen's aura, and they all knelt on the ground, trembling.

This time, all civil and military officials were really scared. That kind of fear came from the depths of their hearts. They knelt on the ground with beads of sweat all over their cheeks.

Even though it is snowing outside and the weather is cold, they are still dripping with sweat!

Because Yan Song, the chief assistant of the cabinet, is impeaching the officials of the court, they are the ones!

Because Yan Song, the chief assistant of the cabinet, is impeaching the clans in the world, and they too!

Among them, many people are corrupt people, even when Zhang Juzheng was surveying the land of the world, they used various excuses to obstruct secretly.

Because Zhang Juzheng wanted to reform the tax system, the first thing he touched was their interests.

They are the representatives of the world clan.

At this moment, the emperor was furious, and his murderous intent appeared.

How could they not be afraid?

"Wei Zhongxian, read this memorial from Mr. Yan Ge to the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty!"

Furious, Zhu Qizhen gave an order.

Wei Zhongxian quickly picked up the memorial and read out loudly word by word.

"Your Majesty's lesson:"

"My humble minister, Yan Song, is an unforgivable crime."

"In the past 20 years when a humble minister has been in charge of the cabinet, the officials in the world, those who cater to the ministers, nine out of ten; those who bribe the ministers, six to seven out of ten, resulting in the decay of the court and the ills of the world."

"The crime of a lowly official cannot be redeemed by ten thousand deaths!"

"My minister is heartbroken and fearful day and night... Within the capital of the imperial court, there are tens of thousands of officials, and seven or eight out of ten are corrupt and bribe-taking; Sixty-seven out of ten of the total land in the country."

"The imperial court's taxes are all on the shoulders of the poor people, and the people of the world are unbearably burdened and miserable..."

Wei Zhongxian read the memorial.

All the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty lowered their heads, beads of sweat rolled down their foreheads.

Because they are well aware that Yan Song's participation in the performance is telling the truth.

Yan Song stood there quietly like a fierce tiger lying on his post, without saying a word.

A few months ago, when he knew that the emperor ordered Cao Zhengchun to thoroughly investigate the officials in the world, he had already seen the emperor's determination to eliminate the officials.