The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

He sneered and said: "Liu Weishan! Your logic is really interesting. When the ancestral system is beneficial to you and the salt merchants, you will call it the ancestral system, keep defending the ancestral system, and use the ancestral system to suppress me all the time! Yan Aiqing It has been pointed out that the ancestral system actually classifies merchants as artisans, with five taxes and one tax for one body, which harms your interests, so you will go crazy and insult the ancestral system? Enough is enough!"

Yan Song suggested: "Your Majesty, I suggest that from now on, the price of salt should be approved by the government. Considering the cost and reasonable profit, it should be greatly reduced to 150 Wen as the official guide price. The fluctuation should not exceed [-]%, so as to reduce the cost of eating salt for the people."

Jiajing stood up excitedly, and said loudly: "People in the southeast, I announce that Yan Aiqing's performance is approved. The price of salt will be halved, and the salt tax will be increased to five taxes and one tax."

Hundreds of thousands of people were so overjoyed that they knelt down one after another.

"Long live Long live Long live!"

"Eat salt now, and everyone will save more than one or two taels of silver every year."

"One household can save 4 or 5 taels, which is a huge sum of money for us Shengdou people!"

"Your Majesty Shengming, long live long live long live long live!!"

"Your Majesty Shengming, long live long live long live long live!!"

"Your Majesty Shengming, long live long live long live long live!!"

The mountain roared mightily, and the sound shook the sky.

The people cheered and cheered, but the salt merchants were in mourning.

They originally wanted to use the Jiajing Southern Tour to deceive the emperor and restore the [-]% tax, but they did not expect that the truth was exposed by Yan Song, the price of salt was cut in half, and the tax rate was increased by six times. Since then, there has been no sudden profit... ....

Yan Song got a hint.

"You corrected the distorted salt price in Ming Dynasty, eliminated sudden profits, benefited the country, and benefited the people."

"You have been rewarded with 30000 points from the traitor system~~"

Facing the wind, Emperor Jiajing was full of vigor as he listened to the countless shouts of the Long Live Mountain. For the first time, he felt the joy of being an emperor, eliminating harm for the people, and increasing huge profits at the same time~gan.

(Jiajing: Yan Aiqing's move is really good, and he has won the reputation of a sage, and can increase the national treasury tax by tens of millions every year. I have both fame and fortune)

He glared at Liu Weishan and the others who were silent like cicadas, and said sharply: "What else do you have to say?"

Liu Weishan was so frightened that he knelt on the ground, and said ~dou: "Please forgive me, my majesty! We are only fooled by the salt merchants, so we are so stupid!"

"Shut up!" Jiajing sternly said, "Put me in jail and interrogate me severely. How did I collude with the salt merchants, how did I evade taxes, and how did I deceive Sheng Cong!"

Jin Yiwei took Liu Weishan and other four ministers, more than a dozen ministers, and some key officials who made troubles below them, all of them were taken away.In addition, some big salt merchants who instigated troubles among the crowd were also arrested. I believe that with the ability of Jinyi Weidong Factory, they will recruit them obediently soon.

Those accompanying ministers looked at Yan Song's "several fallacies and heresies", and killed a small number of Nanjing court officials, dripping with cold sweat 0.8, and gnashing their teeth. You must know that the officialdom in Nanjing is the private land of these southeastern parties. This officialdom is equivalent to cutting off one of their arms.

But they didn't dare to tell these officials clearly, because Jiajing was really angry at this time, and they could only look at the traitor Yan Song angrily.

Officials were cut off, and their income was reduced, each of which was cutting their flesh.

Jiajing glanced at Yan Song appreciatively, and said with a smile, "Yan Aiqing, thanks to you, I can kill two birds with one stone."

Yan Song immediately bowed and smiled, "They are all the emperor's sages. In fact, the emperor knows all about these things. He just uses my mouth to say it and announce it to the world."

The flattery was done quietly, moistening things silently, and Jiajing felt comfortable all over.

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Chapter 223 Mastering the Appointment and Removal Power of the Nanjing Small Court [1]

Jiajing looked at Yan Song: "There is nothing to reward you this time. But this time, Nanjing is short of four ministers, more than a dozen servants, and many positions."

This is delegating power!

power!

Jiajing lowered his voice and said viciously: "From the matter of the salt merchants, I can see that these officials in the southeast often collude with big businessmen and big clans, and work hand in hand with each other to help each other. Officials provide umbrellas, businessmen provide money benefits, bully The sky is high and the emperor is far away, so I can fool around as much as I want."

Yan Song nodded inwardly, this is really the purpose of his urging the Jiajing Southern Tour.

Through the battle of salt merchants, Jiajing should have realized that the southeast played a huge role in the Ming Dynasty and paid more attention to the southeast.In the past, the southeast had a developed economy, but it pretended to be low-key and made little financial contribution to the capital. The emperor didn't pay much attention to the southeast.It can be seen from the negative attitude of the imperial court against the Japanese that the imperial court did not value the southeast at all.

Now that the window paper has been pierced and Jiajing realizes the importance of the southeast, he will naturally not allow the southeast to make a fortune in such a silent manner.

This is actually very beneficial to Daming and Southeast.

Daming's financial difficulties meant that nothing could be done, and the southeast rich should afford the tax it should bear.

As the economic center, the southeast should also receive more protection from Daming and 09's attention.

Simply put, this benefit is that the southeast pays more protection fees, and the imperial court protects the southeast more.It's actually a win-win.In the past, the merchants in the southeast only saw the tax revenue for the imperial court. They were short-sighted and only focused on making a fortune in silence. In fact, it was not good for the development of the southeast.

Jiajing lowered his voice and said: "Southeast, it's very important. Yan Aiqing, you have to think about it for me. This time the vacant position, you represent the cabinet, draw up a list, show it to me, and send it with a seal."

Yan Song snickered for a while.

This is Jiajing's great reward.

These are four ministers, more than a dozen ministers, and hundreds of official positions.

Jiajing asked himself to draw up the list, isn't it just to create opportunities for his strict party to intervene in the southeast?

Jiajing's approach is meaningful.

He saw the prosperity of the southeast, and saw the collusion between officials and businessmen in the southeast, and the corruption of talking nonsense with open eyes. He was determined to break the original political structure, let Yan Songyan's party enter in a large scale, and break the monopoly of the Zhejiang and Chu parties on this place!

Yan Song looked loyal and said in a low voice: "Don't worry, your majesty, I will definitely live up to your majesty's trust."

He frowned again and said: "But even if the official world has changed, if the business world is still controlled by the current Shanxi merchants, Zhejiang merchants, Huizhou merchants, and maritime merchants, it will still be a dark place where the imperial court can't get in and can't intervene. For example It is still difficult for the imperial court to supervise these salt merchants who evade taxes.”