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Chapter 4 Bought a wave of hearts first

Overnight, Emperor Chongzhen was so worried that he had turned young. Unfortunately, the sun still rose the next day. After thinking about it all night, Emperor Chongzhen decided to rely on winning over the peasants first, kill the disobedient ministers and the eight major locust merchants, and to prosper the Ming Dynasty first.

When he went to court the next day and came to the hall, the voice of the ministers shouting for long live, Wang Chengen shouted at the side, "I have a good reputation for reporting, but I have no good fortune to leave the court." Seeing that no ministers reported to him and disgusted him, he said to Wang Chengen beside him: "Wang Chengen, announce the order."

Wang Chengen bowed and said, "Yes!", glanced down at the ministers, and immediately pulled out the imperial edict and said, "The emperor who follows the heavens and inherits great things. He is the only one who is a ancestor and a clan, and only obeys the rules. The officials and the people are difficult to govern, and they will seek adaptability. I am young and do not know the wonderfulness of the ancient wise kings in governing the world. However, I heard that in ancient times, the sage kings ruled the world without adding taxes, and the people did not add taxes, but the domestic use of abundant resources. Although I am not agile, I also yearn for it. The order that all the officials in the world have a minister. From now on, there will be a Ming Dynasty, and there will be no taxes!"

As soon as Wang Chengen's voice fell, all the "righteous gentlemen" in the court were stunned. No one came out to speak for a moment. Even many ministers with ideals and wise thoughts were immediately moved and even their faces turned red.

Never add tribute!

What a good benevolent government!

Who has mentioned the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors? Who has called it again in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period?

This is the true benevolent king!

I have to say that Kang Mazi's trick is still very frightening, including the later Jin Daxia and countless remnants of mite clearance, but they all think that this is Kang Mazi's benevolent politics.

However, this is simply a nonsense. Because in China, taxes and taxes are always separate. Taxes are used for national defense expenditures, government offices, and various local affairs and channels to dig and repair, etc., while taxes are used to build palaces and temples for the emperor, eat, drink and have fun. To put it bluntly, taxes are the treasury, and taxes are the emperor's treasury, and this thing does not leave the treasury.

In fact, the edict of Emperor Chongzhen has almost no impact on the operation of ministers and local governments! It will only affect the enthusiasm of clerks when collecting taxes! This is also the confidence that Mi Qing dared to shout for never adding taxes. Otherwise, if you ask him to shout for never adding taxes, try it? See if the tyrants and powerful people of Shanxi merchants would rise up and tear up the millions of Eight Banners soldiers!

Now, no matter whether it is the Donglin Party or the eunuch Party, or other messy Chu Party or the Zhejiang Party, they must admit that Chongzhen’s imperial edict is an unforgettable benevolent government. Anyway, what does the emperor’s own money have to do with us? The world is yours, so you should spend less, so you should spend less. So the monarch and ministers quickly led the chief minister Huang Liji to go down the mountain and shout: “Your Majesty is kind and benevolent, and you will be the people. Please submit an edict to declare the world, so that the world will know your Majesty’s kindness and love the people!”

Chongzhen looked at the ministers below and continued, "Wang Cheng'en, this edict should be issued to the world in a clear way. He ordered the Jinyiwei and the Dongchang to send people to read it out to the people, so that the people can know about this matter, in case there are any minor officials below to harm the people. If someone makes a move, the people can go to Beijing to file a lawsuit with the great edict. The Jinyiwei and the Dongchang send people to guard it, and there will be no mistakes."

After playing with this trick, Emperor Chongzhen finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. After all, with this edict as the foundation, those little self-cultivated farmers and small and medium-sized landlords would treat him as their father! No! He is a father who is even closer than his father! As for the people at the bottom, they would probably want to set up a tablet of God and bow to him day and night. With the hearts of the people in hand, even if the "righteous gentlemen" in the court rebelled collectively, I believe that as long as he could walk out of the palace and come to the streets, the people would immediately give him the throne with gratitude.

In this way, Chongzhen learned from the gangsters of the Liu family of the Han Dynasty. Emperor Wen of Han often exempted land taxes. The old gangster Liu Bang played even more easily. Not only did he exempt him from time to time, but he also rewarded him from time to time, telling everyone that it is beneficial to be with labor and capital! In this way, people have their own basic plan. Now Chongzhen has also played this trick, but I am afraid that all the people of the Ming Dynasty will become Chongzhen's basic plan. With such a strong backing, Chongzhen said that those who do the right thing with me are all scumbags...

As for not having much money in hand now, Chongzhen said that the elder brother of the Emperor of the Great Bank, Emperor Tianqi, still has some wealth, and soon, a house search will be searched. It is estimated that it will be no problem to get a few million taels. Jinyiwei and Dongchang both went to the street to collect protection fees, especially brothels and restaurants, which must be collected. As for what background they have, I have Jinyiwei and Dongchang in hand, so I still care about these slags? Whoever dares to jump out will ask Jinyiwei and Dongchang to check whom! Ensure that one of them will be accurate! After the investigation is completed, the house will be searched, and the money will come? Even if it is not enough, aren’t there eight major locust merchants? These companies are very rich! If there are not enough Shanxi merchants, then Zhejiang merchants, Hui merchants, Fujian merchants, Shandong merchants, Beijing merchants, etc., so this is possible?

What are the rich merchants? The rich merchants have no country and dare not do anything for profit? So what are they? They are just pigs raised by the state? The pigs are fat and will not slaughter and bleed, and they are still waiting for them to sell the Ming Dynasty to Tungus's wild boar skins with the eight major locust merchants?

Chongzhen was very happy to make trouble. When the ministers below heard this, they couldn't be happy - you haven't cut off the two harmful things Jinyiwei and Dongchang? Keep them for trouble and harming people, right? Although they were dissatisfied, no one jumped out and said something. After all, Wei Zhongxian has not fallen yet, and the court is full of old fried dough sticks, waiting for someone to stand up, but look at me, I look at you, no one is stupid, and no one jumped out to object.

The ministers were not very comfortable. It’s only been a day since they ascended the throne. Why are you like a different person? It turns out that when you were in the palace, the King of Trustees who trusted us gentlemen and hated Wei Zhongxian and those eunuchs? How could you change as soon as you ascend the throne? You can’t be as quick as you are! After all, before you ascend the throne yesterday, everything was fine?
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