Longevity begins with Jinyiwei

It is obvious that the relaxation of restraint on civil servants and gentry, and the gradual transfer of power to court civil servants, is obviously a serious violation of the interests of Wu Xun.

After the contradiction broke out completely, it started a new round of accumulation.

And this time the so-called love affair is evolving step by step, but what is the reason behind the scenes, on the bright side, at the beginning, both civil and military are involved, and the face is torn apart, that is, the interests of both parties will definitely be damaged.

As for Wu Xun, he obviously didn't want to tear his face, but Liu Qiyuan, the chief assistant of the cabinet, brazenly tore his face, dragging both civil and military officials into the muddy waters of Quanzhou.

Under the supervision of the Sanfa Division, officials and generals fell one after another, whether literary or military, although they were all dragged into it, they were still rolling in the quagmire, and it was difficult for anyone to say who was wrong.

If both sides are rolling in the mire, Liu Qiyuan wants to investigate, and he will kill three hundred enemies and lose one thousand. After all, the existence of Liu Hongtao has ensured that Liu Qiyuan must be inseparable.

In this way, if only some pawns were lost, the chief assistant of the cabinet would be removed from the horse. This deal is obviously a good deal.

In this way, since the beginning of the relationship, the rapid progress of the relationship has clearly proved everything.

However, the death of Liu Hongtao pulled Liu Qiyuan out of the quagmire at once. Now, the balance of interests is obviously extremely unbalanced.

The contradiction between civil and military, under this fuse, is once again completely ignited!

It's just that this time, the only difference between the conflict and the previous one is that this time, it's not the emperor leading the table-turning liquidation, but the orderly civil and military tearing face!

Duke Yasukuni immediately declared to the emperor that he took back the right to judge and dispose of the lieutenant generals involved in the army from the court's three jurisprudence divisions, which clearly proved that the extremely short honeymoon period between civil and military affairs was completely over.

This time, Wen and Wu were completely torn apart in this case.

In just a few months, the Sanfa Division thoroughly investigated the situation in the coastal area, following the clues all the way, from Quanzhou, to Fuzhou, to Guangdong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang...

It seems that the entire sea area has been thoroughly investigated, and there are nearly a thousand officials and soldiers involved.

As for the sea area, it is obvious that the lieutenant soldiers seem to occupy the vast majority.

Although the officers and soldiers involved in the case were tried by the Military Justice Department, the Three Justice Departments were ordered to supervise the handling, so it can only be said that the involved soldiers were handed over to the Military Justice Department.

In the end, to what extent it was implicated, the San Judicial Department was the leading functional organization.

Wu Xun was obviously not going to sit idly by when the civil servants caught him and beat him up.

These days, there are a few civil and military people in the world who dare to say that there is no shit on their ass.

If you really want to investigate, few can stand the investigation.

It was also in the first half of the sixth year of Zhaowu that big eucalyptus appeared frequently all over the world.

The situation involved is also very simple.

One word: taxes!

Daheng's tax divides business and agriculture.

And these two items, in a sense, also represent the contradictions between the new and the old, between the civil and the military.

Daheng's military feats all follow the will of the emperor and are entrenched in Daheng's business.

Farming, on the other hand, lies in the fields.

And the fields... cannot be separated from the existence of landlords and gentry.

Even with previous cleanings, taxation reforms, and a certain sense of landlord fighting, it is obvious that under the historical environment of this era, it is impossible to be as thorough as the landlord fighting in later generations.

The landlord still exists, and in this era, the landlord is also combined with another noun.

That is... Farming and reading heirlooms.

This is the foundation of the landlord gentry, or the gentry civil servant.

There are fields in the family, tenants to cultivate, and wealth, so they can study in peace and stability, and with fame, they can better protect the wealth of the family. In this cycle, they become families that occupy the place one by one!

Time after time, the purges led by the Son of Heaven and presided over by Wu Xun, although a great blow to the existence of the landlords and gentry, the fiscal and taxation order established also put irresistible shackles on the necks of the landlords and gentry.

But it is undeniable that in Daheng's ruling order, most of the officials at all levels are heirs of farming and studying.

Facing the new order in Daheng, if ordinary people have an acre of land, they have to pay the agricultural tax for one acre of land, or even pay more, so that officials can fill their pockets.

However, the powerful landlords and gentry, these family heirs of farming and education, have a hundred or a thousand acres of land, but they may not necessarily pay the full amount of agricultural taxes honestly.

Wu Xun can collude with each other, evade order and supervision, smuggle and evade taxes, and civil servants, or in other words, are all landlords and gentry who are descended from farming and studying. It is obviously easier to avoid supervision, collusion between officials and officials, and tax evasion...

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Chapter 648

The tentacles of Wu Xun's interests lie in businessmen, while the tentacles of interests of civil servants lie in the deep-rooted farming and reading heirlooms.

Nowadays, civil servants can easily catch Wu Xun's sore spots, and the sea trade business is beating him fiercely. It is obviously not difficult for Wu Xun to find the sore feet of civil servants.

Since the smuggling case in Quanzhou in April of the sixth year of Zhaowu was expanded, there have been cases of tax evasion and tax evasion in the field of agricultural taxation in the Daheng world, and even collusion between officials and officials, concealing and omitting to report fields, occupying people's fields, and violating the court's laws and regulations. The eucalyptus of increasing rents and so on has emerged one after another.

Although he is the inspector of the San Judicial Department and is the home of civil servants, under the watchful eye of Wu Xun, if anyone tries to cover up, then Wu Xun will definitely not mind to catch the pain and beat him up!

Wen and Wu, farmers and merchants, after tearing their skins apart, the turmoil caused by taxation has completely changed its nature, and it is slipping in a completely unknown direction.

The Son of Heaven had long planned to tour the world, and under such a rivalry, he had to temporarily suppress it.

In the Qianqing Palace, the number of memorials piled up on the emperor's table was significantly more than in the past.

The situation of smuggling in coastal areas is changing, and land taxes from all over the world are pouring in one after another like snowflakes.

Obviously, such a struggle, although still in order, has also affected the most important stability.

The Son of Heaven flicked through the playbooks slowly, without any change in expression, as if everything was going on as usual, he still turned a blind eye to this destabilizing struggle, and had no intention of interfering at all.

The Son of Heaven sees it very clearly, as long as it is in order, everything is easy to talk about. After all, in order, you have to tell evidence. Those who can be caught with pigtails must have done something out of the ordinary. Shit, to get caught.

Whether it's literary or military, if you want to fight, you should fight thoroughly and clean up the mess.

More importantly……

The Son of Heaven stared at the memorial played by the cabinet, but the corner of his mouth couldn't help showing a smile.

The content of the playbook is very clear. Regarding the matter of the second imperial examination in Daheng, it is inseparable to talk about the imperial examination in Daheng, and it is the new learning.

And in this playbook, the new learning is also elevated to a high position on par with Confucianism.

And for the reform of the imperial examination system, detailed regulations were drawn up.

As long as he, the emperor, approves, the imperial examination in the coming year will be the first step in the reform of the education system and the talent selection system.

Of course, these are not important.

The important thing is that in this case, everyone will know that the final proposer of the reform of the imperial examination system is Liu Qiyuan, the chief assistant of the cabinet.

The Son of Heaven smiled lightly, picked up the seal, stamped it on the memorial, and then threw the memorial aside indifferently.

Just these, that's not enough.

The reform of the imperial examination was a long-established matter. Although it has not been completely stipulated, he, the emperor, has experienced all the pressure he should face and the people he should kill.

Even if the civil officials of the Manchu Dynasty do not support it, custom implementation is inevitable.

These have nothing to do with Liu Qiyuan.

Just a statement, this sincerity, is not enough...

The emperor casually picked up a playbook on the table, and wrote that the local officials and the landlords and gentry collude with each other, concealing and evading taxes, evading taxes, and oppressing the people...

All kinds of deep-rooted sins still exist in this land.

The Son of Heaven is naturally clear that many things are inevitable.

Human nature is such that it can only be suppressed, not reversed.

This is also part of the reason why the emperor sat and watched Wu Xun's almost vengeful lifting of the cover, and remained indifferent.

And more importantly, although Wu Xun has some mud that can't support the wall, but... the premise that the mud can't support the wall is that Daheng's rules restrain the generals of Wu Xun, making them follow the old man who has been up and down in the officialdom for decades. You Tiao Dou, of course, Dou didn't understand.

But... even if you don't say anything about jumping over the wall, it is not difficult to find out who is involved and who is involved in the intricateness of martial arts all over the world...

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He found that, whether civil servants or gentry, until now, they still haven't figured out their own situation.

In Daheng, it was never him, the emperor, who begged them to do something. Under the pressure of this mighty force, they had to ask him, the emperor, to protect them if they wanted to survive!

They are able to stand in the world of Daheng, not because they can compete with Wu Xun, but because he, the emperor, is protecting them and pulling the sidelines.

They were able to grab Wu Xun's sore spots and beat him hard not because they could suppress Wu Xun, but because of the mighty authority of him, the emperor.

Such tolerance, now even the sincerity that should be taken for granted is twitchy.

Do you really think that if you continue to adhere to the so-called literati demeanor in the previous Ming Dynasty, he, the emperor, will let them continue to maintain the honor of literati?

"It is my will that all matters involving land and agricultural taxes, regardless of the size of the case, will be strictly and thoroughly investigated!"

"In addition, I summon the world to encourage local people to report those who violate the agricultural tax law. If the report is true, half of the amount involved will be rewarded!"

The emperor spoke slowly, his voice was flat, but there was a deep coldness in his eyes.

Those who obey prosper, those who oppose perish.

He really didn't have much patience to wait for the so-called weighing the pros and cons in the officialdom.

Now that the situation has evolved to this point, he might as well take advantage of the trend to push forward.

The emperor is quite looking forward to the development of the situation. Even if this smuggling case spreads across the entire sea area, it is only the sea area, and there will always be an end.

But the so-called heirlooms of farming and reading of civil servants, in today's big environment of Daheng, what was right in the past is now wrong, if you don't check it, it's all right, if you check it, it must be a piece of shit!

After a lot of investigations, and a lot of sacks, but they can't do anything, they will understand who is in charge of this Daheng.

Where is the foundation of their foothold in Daheng?

Daheng is not Daming after all.

While thinking, the emperor let out a long breath and lay back. Several beautiful and graceful court ladies immediately stepped forward, one left and one right, one front and one back, or pressed their heads, or hammered their shoulders, or massaged thigh……

There were also two eunuchs holding big cattail fans, carefully fanning them aside to remove the heat from the scorching sun.

On both sides of the table, several basins of large ice cubes were placed to lower the temperature in the hall.

The emperor narrowed his eyes slightly, and just enjoyed it for a while, then got up, held the pen for a while, seemed to think of something, suddenly looked at the ice basin in the hall, and asked casually.

"All the concubines and nobles in the harem have sent ice cubes to cool down?"

Er Dezi immediately replied: "Reporting to Your Majesty, the ice room has set a charter, ladies, Your Highness and princesses, there are special arrangements every day..."

The emperor glanced at the scorching sun outside the hall, and said again: "The weather is hot, let the Tai Hospital prepare prescriptions for clearing away heat and detoxification, and send them to the palaces."

"The slave understands."

Er Dezi responded again.

The emperor nodded, and after giving his relatives a little care, his thoughts returned to the endless state affairs...

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Chapter 649 Your Excellency, Times Have Changed

Since ancient times, this land has been a society of human feelings. No matter what class you are in, the exchange of human feelings and etiquette and rules are also inevitable and necessary.

The exchange of human feelings naturally forms an intricate vein of interests.

And this kind of intricate human relationship, etiquette and rules have created the core of this civilization...that is, etiquette!

It is precisely because of the existence of etiquette that the centripetal force of this nation has been achieved.

The most fundamental aspect of the debate between Hua and Yi lies in etiquette.

But everything has advantages and disadvantages.

The human relationship system of courtesy and reciprocity forms an intricate network of interests that permeates every part of this society.

Officialdom, since ancient times, has been the hardest-hit area without doubt.

Just like Quanzhou Taxation, just following the vines, it almost involved the entire sea area and several provinces, relying on the connection of interests.

And Wu Xun's counterattack, uncovering the local farm tax, is obviously easy to follow.

All kinds of bad habits left over from the Ming Dynasty are still deeply rooted in Daheng.

Such as the so-called teacher-student relationship in the imperial examination, the so-called cronies and township parties, the interest relationship changed by reciprocity and so on...

Everything can also be followed.

Under the strict order of the Son of Heaven, the San Judiciary can only bite the bullet and supervise the handling. If it is only like this, it is natural that officials will not be able to protect each other.

But with Wu Xun staring at him, it was undoubtedly very uncomfortable.

Wu Zhuanwen, and even the Civil Science and Military Academy, brought a considerable number of fake civil servants from various ministries in the court.