Wanli Youming

Chapter 441 Shilin Jealousy

Chapter 441 Shilin Jealousy

The Spring Festival of the 13th year of Wanli was even more prosperous than previous years. The whole city was filled with the sound of fireworks and firecrackers, and golden flowers kept blooming.

Everyone looked up at the rouge-red sky with a smile on their faces, and chirped.

Hai Rui also looked at the golden plaque in the main hall with a smile for a while, then looked north and kowtowed, and suddenly choked up.

"Master, what's the matter?"

Mrs. Lu Shi, who was helped by Hai Rui, walked over to Hai Rui's son in her arms and asked Hai Rui a question.

Hai Rui wiped the corners of his eyes, looked up to the sky and sighed, and said:

"The emperor's grace is mighty! Your Majesty knew that Hai Rui hadn't bought the subscription coupons, so he gave me some, so that I could use it to show my kindness to the people of the clan, to make the family harmonious, and to avoid being close to the clan members because of seeking the country. Silent!"

After hearing this, Mrs. Lu also laughed and said: "Master's words are very true! Your Majesty is really good now! In this case, at least the tombs of the grandfather and the old lady don't have to worry about being ignored by the tribe."

Hai Rui smiled and nodded, then took his child, and said to Mrs. Lu: "Call everyone in the family."

Lu Shi nodded and stepped back.

And Hai Rui himself was holding his child in the courtyard, and also took out the fireworks he bought to play with him.

Not long after, all the people living in Hai Rui's mansion came over.

Hai Rui handed over the subscription coupons, and told the oldest nephew among them, "Ming'er, you can share it, one for each room, and use it as common money for each room."

"Hey!"

Hai Rui's nephew agreed with a smile.

The other clansmen also laughed, and the atmosphere became much better than before.

In short, because the foreign mines began to be divided, many people enjoyed the benefits of making the cake bigger, especially those in the upper echelons of the empire's politics and their relatives.

Wang Xijue resolutely increased the monthly payment of the servants in the family after the mining profits were distributed, so that the servants who were restrained and could not bully others, the resentment was reduced a lot, and they all gave up the idea of ​​redeeming themselves and leaving the house.

And Yu Shenxing also began to be urged by his family to actively strive for the position of Minister of the Ministry of Rites, strive to enter the ruling level, participate in the restructuring, and strive to participate in more foreign profit sharing.

But some families are happy and some are sad. Chen Jingbang's family is not in the mood to celebrate the new year, and they all have some complaints about Chen Jingbang. Although they dare not show it clearly, they still can't help but complain behind their backs, and even participate in the affairs of the family. At that time, he deliberately didn't pay much attention to Chen Jingbang's instructions.

The servants and maidservants of the Zhao Nanxing clan were not in a good mood, especially after it was proved that subscription tickets were indeed a cash cow that could produce many silver dollars at any time, and they all complained about his refusal to let family servants and maidservants buy subscription tickets in the past. Blame Zhao Nanxing for being short-sighted.

This hit officials Chen Jingbang and Zhao Nanxing who did not receive the first batch of subscription coupons.

"I really didn't expect that Xu Zhenming and others were really serious about mining. His Majesty and Shenwu County really wanted to share benefits for the people; instead of just talking about it, they actually collected money from the people. After all, there is no way to directly collect money from mining outside the Great Wall. Easy for the people? Especially since His Majesty already has six guards in the army."

Therefore, Chen Jingbang still invited Zhao Nanxing out to drink flowers and wine, instead of staying at home, seeing the disappointment and mockery in the eyes of his family members, and also expressed his inner feelings while drinking with Zhao Nanxing.

"It caught people off guard!"

"But what makes me even more angry is that there are so many hypocritical and cunning people!"

"People like Yu Dong'a and Shi Dongming bought so many subscription coupons behind our backs. Don't they also advocate restoring the old system and governing the country with virtue, so as to prevent the common people from being too rich to make tricks and affect the world?"

"Didn't they also advocate light corvee and light taxation, reducing redundant troops, and then using the emperor's internal funds to be responsible for disaster relief and reduction of corvees in the world, while the silver in Taicang and other countries should be reserved for military support?"

"Why, they also bought subscription tickets?!"

When Zhao Nanxing said this, he slapped the table, then stood up and looked at Chen Jingbang drunkenly.

"You're right, these two-faced people are the most shameless!"

Chen Jingbang echoed, and said: "If you want to talk about the distribution of mining profits, the emperor will benefit the most. The scholars and people did not dare to buy a lot of subscription tickets, and even Shenwu County did not dare to buy a lot. In the name of silver dollars, the subscription coupons that were not sold in time were bought with internal funds, and this has resulted in more abundant internal funds for His Majesty today. In this way, the emperor is not only strong and strong, but also has sufficient money and food. Do you think this is terrible? "

"Very scary!"

Chen Jingbang started asking and answering, and said again: "The power of scholars is completely difficult to restrain the power of the monarch!"

"What the public said is that this is the reason why I don't support coercing the people to take profits from abroad, because if this continues, everyone will be rich, and then the status will be disordered, and the king will have nothing to fear!"

Zhao Nanxing followed suit.

"I recently heard that His Majesty has decreed to give Uncle Wu Qing 5000 taels of sacrificial silver, and another 2000 taels of subscription coupons."

"Princess Ruichang is about to choose a son-in-law. His Majesty has decreed to allocate 10 taels of internal funds to build the princess mansion, buy Dongzhu, etc."

"Although this is domestic money, it is to ease the dissatisfaction of the emperor's relatives and relatives with the new policy, but it can't be rewarded so much, and I don't know how to use domestic money to do light and trivial things."

Chen Jingbang said.

"Admonish it!"

"Your Majesty's wealth is also the wealth of the world. How can it be so extravagant and not thrifty?"

Zhao Nanxingli replied very passionately.

During this period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a faction of civil servants who claimed to be decent, advocating light corvees and low taxes, requiring the royal family to save expenses, and using the royal family’s income to support the world’s military expenditures.

This faction of civil servants gradually became known as the Donglin Party because most of them had lectured in Donglin Academy in history.

Therefore, in history, when the Donglin Party took control of the government during the Taichang period and the early years of Tianqi's accession to the throne, the main reforms carried out were to allocate the emperor's internal funds to solve the problems of military arrears, disaster relief and heavy taxes.

And there is nothing wrong with this proposition in the first place. It is understandable for the royal family to save money and spend more money to solve internal and external troubles. After all, the country belongs to the emperor.

However, the Donglin Party made a mistake in spending a lot of money from the emperor. At the same time, the officials, gentry and rich businessmen they represented were reluctant to give up profits to solve financial problems. In the name of "thin tax", the non-agricultural tax on the silk weaving industry was cut to one-third of the original one-third, and the preferential exemption quota was expanded to the gentry's land below 600 mu. The reformers were also squeezed out, and eventually when the Donglin Party was in power, the imperial tax revenue dropped from more than 500 million taels to more than 400 million taels, but more than [-] million taels of them were still agricultural taxes.

"Easy corvement and light taxation" did not end up lightly corroborated and lightly taxed on the peasants, which relieved the loneliness and laid the foundation for the subsequent large-scale peasant uprising.

The key is to offend the emperor. After all, the emperor's money has been spent, and the emperor has not seen the problem of foreign aggression solved, let alone the reduction of refugees.

Therefore, the emperor Tianqi in history would rather use an eunuch than Donglin officials for private and public affairs.

Zhao Nanxing also wanted to use the emperor's money to "pay lightly" for his gentry and landlord, so when he heard that Zhu Yijun was spending his money on his relatives, he was quite excited, as if his money had been robbed.

Zhao Nanxing just complained behind his back, in fact, Zhu Yijun's spending money to show favor to the emperor's relatives had already begun to be dissuaded by foreign ministers and civil officials.

Shuntian Mansion judged Zhou Honglun because he was jealous that the emperor made the most money this time, but he only used it to reward his own relatives, not civil servants. Except for Hai Rui, he first went to the memorial to accuse the emperor of being too generous and ignorant of frugality , I don't know how to lighten the corvee and give it to the people.

"How do I want to spend my own money without your permission?!"

Zhu Yijun was also a little angry after seeing this memorial, so he slapped the table in front of the cabinet minister.

(End of this chapter)