The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

But Jiajing is the emperor who is most concerned about the ancestral system. As long as it involves the ancestral system, he will not change it. I am afraid that people in the world will scold him, but the second is to worry about trouble.

He looked at Yan Song again.

Now, only Yan Song can fight back.

Sure enough, Yan Song smiled slightly: "Your Majesty, in fact, I, Emperor Hongwu, is brave and brave. How could there be any mistakes in the ancestral system formulated?"

Liu Weishan is excited, his eyes are bright, as long as Yan Song admits this third dian, he will be given a big hat for violating the ancestral system!

At that time, the officials and censors from all walks of life who were bought by the great salt merchants in the southeast, everyone wrote a letter together, set fire to Yan Song, sent hundreds of impeachment memorials a day, and impeached him to death!

According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, a good tiger is no match for a pack of wolves, and two fists are no match for four hands.Most of the court officials were from the southeast, and they were inextricably linked with the salt merchants.Yan Song dared to move the interests of salt merchants, and offended many officials.

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With this crime of violating the ancestral system, even Wang Anshi, who has raised the world for 20 years and ruled the world, will end up in a sad end. Yan Song is not much better!

At that time, even Emperor Jiajing would not be able to keep him.

Liu Weishan smiled viciously, waiting for Yan Song to die.

But Yan Song said loudly: "Your Majesty, raising the salt tax does not violate the ancestral system!"

Jiajing was overjoyed: "Yan Aiqing, tell me quickly! Let these dirty officials and illegal salt merchants listen!"

(Jiajing: It's still Yan Aiqing's profound knowledge, otherwise Liu Weishan, a group of traitors, will take the truth this time, and let me suffer and still have troubles.)

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Yan Song said indifferently: "Your majesty is wise! I have established a perfect ancestral system before Emperor Hongwu, who is wise and powerful. In the division of "Hongwu Legacy" promulgated by him, there are only three classes of scholars, peasants and workers, but no businessmen. !"

There was an uproar.

Liu Weishan jumped and scolded: "Nonsense! Doesn't the businessman not exist?"

Yan Song smiled contemptuously: "So you don't understand the ancestral system. In my opinion, Emperor Hongwu, agriculture is the foundation of the world, scholars are the head of the four peoples, and work is necessary for the country. Huge wealth. It is a factor of instability in the country."

Emperor Jiajing nodded deeply.Of course he understands this truth and deeply agrees.When Yan Song spoke like this, he immediately won the emperor's high approval.

This point was written in Hongwu's imperial decree "Hongwu Legacy" admonishing his children and grandchildren, and it was widely known in the world. Countless scholars have read it and nodded their heads one after another.

It may be due to the painful experience of farmers being exploited by businessmen. Lao Zhu dislikes or even hates businessmen, which is well known in the world, so in his division, there is no business class at all.

There's nothing wrong with that!

The people on the shore also agreed deeply.

Because the vast majority of the people are scholars, farmers, craftsmen and small businessmen, not big businessmen.

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Chapter 222 Ancestral System vs. Ancestral System [5]

Yan Song cadenced, sonorously and forcefully: "Therefore, Emperor Hongwu stipulated that merchants can only be affiliated with craftsmen's accounts and pay taxes at the craftsman's tax rate."

"And Hongwu stipulates that the tax rate paid by craftsmen is actually five taxes and one tax!" Yan Song said loudly: "Therefore, my majesty, it is a deliberate move to raise the previous thirty-one tax rate to five taxes and one tax for craftsmen. Not only does it not violate the ancestral system, but it is a move to restore the ancestral system!"

Liu Weishan was dumbfounded, he didn't believe it, and asked loudly: "Then the tax rate of [-] for [-]?"

"This was not promulgated by Emperor Hongwu!" Yan Song sternly said: "I checked the imperial decree during the Hongwu period, and there was no specific tax rate at all. In other words, this tax rate was only formulated by officials and inherited."

Emperor Jiajing relaxed all of a sudden and smiled.

"Two Five Three"

Yan Song made it clear that the specific tax rate of the salt tax was not set by Zhu Yuanzhang, but by the people below.

Of course, what the following people say is not ancestral system!

On the contrary, Yan Song also found a basis for himself, that is, to classify big merchants into the craftsman class, and strictly collect them according to the craftsman's five taxes and one tax rate.

There's nothing wrong with that!

The great salt merchants and sea merchants looked at each other with ugly faces.

They did take advantage of the fact that the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang looked down on businessmen and set a low tax rate, so they accumulated a lot of wealth. They were so rich that they did not pay taxes.

But never expected that Yan Song came to treat him in his own way.

He also talked about the ancestral system, and very cleverly and reasonably took advantage of Zhu Yuanzhang's class division, and classified the big businessmen into the craftsman class.

As a result, the big merchants who didn't pay much tax in the past will suddenly have to pay taxes together with the merchant class who pay the most taxes at the bottom of the society at a unified tax rate!

This impact obviously exceeds the salt tax, and even affects all major businessmen!

Liu Weishan was dumbfounded and couldn't say a word.

Because every sentence of Yan Song is interlocking, and they all refer to the ancestral system of Hongwu's legacy.

Angrily, he jumped up and cursed: "Yan Song! 170 years have passed since the Hongwu period, and merchants are no longer what they used to be. At the beginning of the founding of the country, people's livelihood was declining, business was not prosperous enough, and there were very few merchants. Emperor Hongwu classified merchants as craftsmen. It’s not a problem. There are more than a million merchants in the Ming Dynasty now? How can they turn a blind eye and become a craftsman and pariah?”

Yan Song let out a smirk and said with a smirk: "Liu Weishan! You are so daring! How dare you slander my court Taizu? You mean that Taizu was wrong?"

Jiajing narrowed his eyes.

The reason why he hasn't touched Liu Weishan is because he has three amulets of "public opinion", "people's benefit" and "ancestral system".

But now these three amulets were all broken by Yan Song.

Emperor Jiajing, how could he be polite?