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Chapter Thirty-Seven: Inverted Feng

The man lying on the ground struggled constantly, but was pressed to the ground by the strong eunuch and could not move. Soon someone found a sharp knife from his waist, and the people present were shocked.

Inside the palace, a man in interior costume appeared in front of the emperor with a sharp knife on his waist.

"Assassin, assassin, protect the car!" Feng Bao jumped and shouted, and rushed to Zhu Yijun at the same time, stretching out his hand, looking like he was loyal to protect the master.

Zhu Yijun glanced at Feng Bao, expressionless, then looked at the man lying on the ground, and said, "Press up to the East Factory and interrogate!"

Zhu Yijun didn't care about this assassin at all. The key is that this assassin was really strange. This guy was sneaking around the wall, as if he was afraid that others wouldn't know that he was special.

I saw it at a glance when I passed by here. The eunuchs and palace maids were not noticed, and the patrol Jinyiwei did not notice it, so I insisted that the emperor discover it himself.

If you want to say that there is no ghost here, Zhu Yijun will not believe anything and treats the palace as a place. How did a man wearing an eunuch come in? The people guarding the palace gate are dead!

Looking at Feng Bao who was whining, Zhu Yijun felt that this matter was inseparable from him.

At this time, Zhu Yijun seemed to be watching a show, but he also had plans in his mind and quickly made a plan. This plan was to get rid of Feng Bao. If Feng Bao suddenly died or died of poisoning, there would definitely be trouble.

It's different now. Some people want to assassinate the emperor. This is a big deal. If one assassination fails, do it again and kill Feng Bao by chance during the assassination. This is reasonable.

Zhu Yijun has been the emperor for several months, and he has already sorted out the situation in the palace.

If you want to do something or have freedom, then Feng Bao can't stay. There is nothing yet. When he and Zhang Juzheng form an alliance with inside and outside, what he wants to do is impossible.

For me, Zhang Juzheng's ten years of life are very important. When he dies, it will be his turn to play.

If you do not accumulate capital, you will not be able to start when you come to power and face the chaotic court and the inflated civil servant group.

In history, Emperor Wanli sent a mining supervisor to collect taxes in order to increase his income. What happened? The mining supervisor was beaten to death, and the mining tax was forced to abolish it. The mining supervisors occupied the country's mines to make money, and the state was not allowed to collect taxes, and they also beat the eunuchs who collected taxes to death. Such people were illegal in later generations!

But in this era, Emperor Wanli had no choice but to feel depressed.

These people are also labeled as eunuchs who charge bribes, eunuchs who make people live in poverty, and emperors who compete with the people for profit.

When the eunuchs collect money, they can see the money in the hands of the people? How much is it after they are squeezed out? They are not these big families. What are the big families in the Ming Dynasty? Of course, they will not be merchants or those gentry.

The so-called gentry is an official while being a businessman and a landlord.

The officials of the entire Ming Dynasty were gentry, and no one could touch their interests could do it.

All the kings under the world are the kings, and all the kings and ministers are the kings and ministers, or civil officials shouting. In fact, what they care about is not these. Zhang Juzheng's reform is just a very superficial reform. If the knife is not cut on the gentry, it will definitely be useless.

There are two ways to solve this situation. One is to destroy and rebuild it and completely overthrow it. However, Zhu Yijun is the emperor and can't make his own rebellion. Another way is to pull some and beat some.

During the process of fighting, there must be strong support from the army and even be prepared to establish a military government, otherwise there will be no chance.

If a gentry doesn't pay taxes, it won't be able to bear it. The land does not pay taxes, and business does not pay taxes. Emperor Wanli could not move these things and reached out to the mine, but still could not collect taxes. What could the emperor without money do?

It takes money to train troops, and pay all officials to pay, but you can’t do anything without money.

When Emperor Chongzhen was in the most difficult time, he was in charge of the ministers borrowing money, but no one took it. Do they have no money? Of course not. After Li Zicheng entered the capital, he copied more than 70 million taels of silver. In Zhu Yijun's opinion, Emperor Chongzhen was just not a knife.

Why did the carpenter emperor keep Wei Zhongxian? It was not because Wei Zhongxian could get money. No matter whether he was raiding his house or extorting his money, he would be a good eunuch.

Where did those people’s money come from? It’s not from corruption and exploitation of the people.

Not to mention others, Yan Song and Xu Jie were not the ones who were born after becoming the chief minister. Even Zhang Juzheng had made 80,000 hectares of land in his family after becoming the chief minister. No taxes were paid for the emperor, so it would be strange if the emperor had money.

This is the case with the Prime Minister, let alone the others, who are so big in the Ming Dynasty, and the annual tax and silver taxes are less than 3 million taels.

In the Qing Dynasty, it was the same as in the Ming Dynasty. If Yongzheng had not set up a stall to earn a mu, he would have died early in the morning.

What was the result? Yongzheng was called a tyrant, and Qianlong, who enjoyed the results, was called a wise monarch. Among the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, except Kangxi, Yongzheng was considered an eye-catching emperor, and Qianlong was far inferior to his father.

Those who write books are literati and gentry. If you cut off your flesh from them, if they can write about you, there will be ghosts.

The reform of the Ming Dynasty was against the entire gentry group. It was normal for Zhang Juzheng to be criticized. No one would speak for him. The whole country was against him. Ordinary people who could speak for him knew nothing.

Besides, ordinary people have not received the benefits of reform, cleaned up the fields and implemented the one-whip method, targeting those who pay taxes.

Those who pay taxes are the lowest-level people. Gentlemen are tax-free. The more you do this, the more they will be burdened. Although they receive money in the short term and their national strength has been enhanced, the sequelae is very serious, which is tantamount to quenching thirst.

Zhu Yijun wanted to make in-depth reforms, and what he wanted was to cut off the flesh of the gentry. Without strong capital support, he could not do it at all.

How could Zhu Yijun bear it if he was stared at by Feng Bao and Zhang Juzheng for ten years? He could leave it to Zhang Juzheng outside and let him train reform officials, but in the palace, Feng Bao must not have the final say.

"You can't live a life of your own evil!" Zhu Yijun looked at Feng Bao who was running towards Cining Palace and said in a low voice.

Soon, the news of the emperor's assassination came. It first spread rapidly in the palace, and then in the capital, and people were in panic in an instant. The atmosphere in the palace was even more solemn and full of murderous aura.

Zhu Yijun also came to Cining Palace at this time. If something happened like this, Zhu Yijun naturally had to come to see his mother.
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