The Huang Chengyuan incident in the capital is still fermenting, and more and more people are stirring up, just like boiling water, starting to emit hot air and roll endlessly.

However, there are more people watching, and they have experienced too many times. Many people learn to be smart and watch from afar without getting any harm.

In sharp contrast to this trip, the quieter palace was the imperial city, where needles could not be inserted and water could not be poured into it, just like an iron bucket, and no news was revealed.

No one knows the emperor's thoughts, nor does he know what the court should do.

Zhu Xu, who was nagged by Queen Mother Zhang for a while in the Cining Palace, was finally released and returned to the imperial study room, and was still bored.

Recently, the memorials are either crying for poverty and asking for help; or impeachment or fighting for power and profit. Zhu Xu's attention is all about political reform, so he has no interest in reading such memorials. He sat for a while and then went back to Yuzao Palace to rest.

Early the next morning, Zhu Xu was still staying in bed. Li Jieyu, who had already gotten up, walked over and said softly, "Your Majesty, Lord Bi is asking for a meeting in the side hall of Jingyang Palace."

The more tired he got up, the more angry he became. Zhu Xu struggled hard for a while, got up and washed up in a breathless manner, and then came to the side hall.

"Master Bi sits." Zhu Xu sat down on the soft collapse and asked someone to bring a stool to Bi Ziyan.

Bi Ziyan was also used to the emperor's affinity. After thanking him, he sat down, held the memorial in his hand, and said, "Emperor, I have discussed it with the six ministries and the governors and the governors. The political agreement will be made in three days."

Zhu Xu held the porridge in his hand and said, "Yes, that's OK."

Seeing Zhu Xu listening, Bi Ziyan continued, "Emperor, Wen Zhao Pavilion is a little small, and this political discussion is very important. I suggest opening a court discussion to demonstrate the prestige."

Zhu Xu's expression moved slightly, and his hand holding the spoon paused, then looked at him and said, "This is a good one, and the court will discuss it in three days."

Bi Ziyan believed that the emperor would agree, and the one below couldn't help but hesitate on his face.

Zhu Xu finished drinking in a few sips, wiped his mouth, looked at Bi Ziyan and said with a smile, "What's the dilemma between Master Bi?"

Bi Ziyan looked at Zhu Xu and hesitated: "Emperor, the governors of several southwestern provinces all hope that the court will reduce taxes, especially the share of the court. In addition, they hope that the tax will be handed over to them, the gentry will pay taxes and re-register the land. They all said that it is not appropriate to implement it at this time, as it will arouse more civil unrest."

Zhu Xu is preparing to formally establish the State Administration of Taxation, which will divide local taxes and national taxes, including commercial taxes, taxes, grains, salt taxes and other large taxes. Other small taxes are allocated to local taxes and handed over to local governments for collection. This is obviously inconsistent with the interests of local officials, and it is normal for them to express their opposition.

As for the gentry paying taxes and re-divide land, Zhu Xu planned to do experiments in the southwest and print a mold to promote the world. However, what these people said makes sense. This practice is indeed like adding fuel to the fire in the southwest and will arouse more "thieves".

However, if you don’t scrape your bones and heal your injuries now, it will be even more difficult to stay in a few years!

Zhu Xu's face remained unmoved and said, "This is not something to be discussed."

Bi Ziyan guessed it a long time ago and said: "Zhejiang, Jiang, Jiangsu and Jiangsu provinces have also mentioned many ideas about political reform, mainly to reduce taxes, including commercial taxes, sea customs, sea trade, and especially to pay back the owed grain. I hope the court can exempt it."

Zhu Xuleng picked up the tea on the table and said lightly: "Is there any?"

Bi Ziyan pondered for a moment and said, "There is nothing else. I can handle it well, but these governors have a firm attitude and I can't convince them."

Zhu Xu stood up, looked out of the window and snorted coldly, "Master Bi, go and prepare. I should meet these officials in the border areas to see if they have become local emperors and do not recognize me as the emperor..."

Bi Ziyan's expression moved slightly. Although he strongly controlled himself and stopped talking, he still couldn't help saying: "Your Majesty, at this time, be cautious."

Zhu Xu raised his eyebrows. Is his past experience so untrustworthy?

Bi Ziyan was afraid that Zhu Xu would launch another sudden attack. If he caught him off guard, he would cause chaos. Now the ministers seem calm, and everyone knows that it is just the surface. If the court discussion fails this time, not only will the emperor's majesty be damaged, but the prestige of the court will also be hit, and the political reforms that have been carried out for many years will be severely damaged!

Zhu Xu was naturally calm and discussed with Bi Ziyan for a while. He asked someone to send an order to summon the governors of several southwestern provinces to the palace.

This was the first time that the emperor had officially summoned the governors of various provinces to the palace, which caused a lot of shock.

After receiving the order, Zhou Weijing, governor of Sichuan, Fan Yiheng, governor of Gansu, Wang Sanshan, governor of Guizhou, Li Banghua, governor of Shaanxi, and others quickly sorted out, gathered together, and walked towards the palace.

The governors of other provinces were watching, and the entire Ming Dynasty knew that the emperor attached great importance to the southwest. The governors of these six provinces went over together, and their goals were very small!

"I will meet the emperor!"

In the imperial study room, Fan Yiheng and others bowed to salute.

Zhu Xu glanced at the eyes and said lightly: "Let's just be calm. Master Bi came to tell me just now, do you have a lot of opinions on political reform?"

The six people looked at each other, and Zhou Weijing, who had been in the southwest for the longest time, raised his hand and said, "Back to the emperor, the disasters in the southwest are endless, the people are unable to eat, and bandits are everywhere. I hope that the court can consider the actual situation of the six southwest provinces and delay the introduction of the new policy..."

Zhu Xu saw that the six people had formed an alliance and said with a plain expression, "Slow down? How do you slow down?"

Obviously they had already discussed it privately, and Zhou Weijing said with ease: "Return to the emperor, regarding grain tax, I would like to reduce the amount and increase the grain and silver for disaster relief, so as to the hearts of the people in the southwest..."

Bang!

Suddenly, Zhu Xu slapped the table and shouted with a calm face: "The treasury in Chongzhen was empty in the second year. In recent years, the six southwestern provinces have received no less than 8 million yuan in disaster relief, and no less than 5 million stones of food. Where did these silver, money and grain come from? They all come from all over the south of the Yangtze River! You are clamoring to reduce taxes and exempt grain. What should the provinces in Jiangnan do? I will collect their heavy tax subsidies for you? They ask for tax cuts. Should I agree? If the tax cuts are reduced, where will the silver and grain come from for you..."

The six people's faces changed slightly, and they knelt down in a hurry: "I am guilty!"

Zhu Xu stared at her eyes, waved her hand impatiently, and said, "Don't give me this trick, what should I do if I talk about it? The governors of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other provinces are yelling to ask for tax cuts and grain exemptions. Half of your southwest are tax-free, and their requests are reasonable. Tell me, what should I do now?"

The six people knelt there, raised their heads a little, looked at each other, and looked at each other with dismay.

They knew very well that the court could be said to have done its best to the southwest, and they had never had disaster relief and tax exemption, and the situation of the treasury was clear that it was impossible to spend a lot of money and grain to provide disaster relief to the southwest every year, especially the disaster situation showed no sign of improvement.

Seeing that they didn't speak, Zhu Xu said with a cold face, "Everyone is up to speak. You are the governors of the six provinces and the chief officials of the border. You are not here to ask me a problem, let me explain the solution!"

The six people stood up tremblingly, looked at each other for a while, and were helpless.

It is said that a clever woman can’t cook without rice. No matter how capable they are, they cannot grow things in the ground and cannot fill the people’s stomachs. The same is true!

After a while, Fan Yiheng said carefully: "Emperor, I will try my best to find a way for money and food. But the gentry paid taxes and re-dipped the land. I asked me to wait until the disaster situation improved before implementing it. Now the people are like ants on a hot pan and can no longer make any trouble..."

Zhu Xu slapped the table again and said angrily: "Nonsense! There are a large number of open land, wasteland, wasteland, and wasteland in the southwest provinces, plus the imperial court. In the past, the land of the royal family exceeded 10,000 hectares, so why can't it be re-divided? This is the land for the people, who will torture them? When did the gentry not pay taxes? The ancestral system of Taizu has been abandoned for so many years. Who is the responsibility of? I don't want them to pay the repaid, so I'm already lenient. Could it be that you still have to resist the order on their behalf?"

"I am guilty!" The six people's expressions changed drastically, and they hurriedly knelt down again. Their eyes were flashing, and they were nervous.

In their opinion, the emperor clearly insisted on completing political reform, and it was by no means touched by a few words.

Zhu Xu is racing against time now, so naturally he will not give them the chance to refuse or even delay. He continued to wave his big stick and scolded: "I see that you are all confused! Now go back and write a piece of experience about the "New Policy". You must write it with reasonable and profound knowledge. If you don't write it well, don't be a governor. I will find someone who can do things. My Ming Dynasty court does not need to be a fool, and you are not allowed to do anything and talk big!"

The six people all had a slightly twitching face, blocking their chests in one breath, and they could not get out.

Before the Apocalypse, even now, it is nothing to contradict the emperor for the sake of the "right way" and disobey the court. This is an honor, even if you die, it is a martyrdom. But if you are dismissed with the hat of "a stupid official and a mediocre official", it will be a joke in the world, a stain of their whole life, a stain of their family, a stain of their neighbors, and a stain of their history books!

Never accept it!

"I obey the order!" The six people gritted their teeth secretly, not daring to argue for a moment, for fear that the emperor would dismiss them directly.

With the emperor's prestige and the court's investment in the six southwestern provinces, if they were dismissed, Tsushixingzi could drown them.

The six people left, Zhu Xu calmly drank tea, shook his shoulders, and then said, "It is said that Jiang Dejing, Qian Longxi, and Huang Liji."

These three are the governors of Shandong, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang.

Huang Liji and the other three were both old friends of Wen Zhao Pavilion and Zhu Youjian, but Zhu Youjian has always been "loving the new and tired of the old" and hates these three people. The three of them were also disdainful of King Xin and were neither cold nor warm on their faces.

They looked at Fan Yiheng, Zhou Weijing and others with bitter expressions on their faces, and they were secretly shocked. What did the emperor say to them and let them show this expression.

The three of them looked at each other and entered the Imperial Study room with a hint of anxiety.

Just as the three of them were about to salute, Zhu Xu waved his hand and said lightly: "Before you left Beijing, how did you do what I asked you to do?"

The three of them were stunned and couldn't speak.

The emperor talked one by one before they left Beijing, including chasing owed grains, restoring the Taizu tax system, re-registering households, land acres, etc. These seem light, but in fact they are as difficult as climbing a mountain. Not to mention that they have no foundation in the local area, even if there is one, they will not be able to move easily for a while.

Huang Liji has been away from Beijing for the longest time. He looked moved and raised his hand to Zhu Xu and said, "Go back to the emperor, our court has been in trouble for more than two hundred years. It has been a long time since I have been waiting for it. I will plan slowly..."

"Then where have you made progress?" Zhu Xu said calmly.

The three of them looked stiff and didn't know how to speak.

They were restricted in the local area. Although they seemed to be in power, they did not dare to make drastic reforms. They could only barely stabilize the situation and promote the court's reform plan bit by bit. As for those difficult bones, they retreated as soon as they touched them and did not dare to go deeper.

Zhu Xu half-sided his body, his fist hit the table, his face cold, and his tone became heavier and he scolded, "You are the governor of a province that I have entrusted with important tasks, and they are the chief officials of the border! Is this how you repay me and the court?"

Zhu Xu's last voice was particularly high and echoed in the imperial study.

The three of them knelt down quickly and said, "I know the crime!"

Zhu Xu snorted coldly, his fist hit the table hard, and scolded in a cold voice: "You haven't done anything I have told you, but you are thinking about reducing taxes! Don't you know that the court is short of food and silver? Are you the governor I sent to the past, should you listen to me or them??"

Huang Liji, Qian Longxi and Jiang Dejing quickly kowtowed and said loudly, "I don't dare!"

The three of them all have the label of "King of Trust". If the emperor is furious, they can be thrown into prison! The three of them have sweated coldly and are trembling.

Zhu Xu still didn't give him a good look and sneered, "I dare not? What are you afraid of? In order to reduce taxes for those people, you have arguing with Master Bi. I'm careful when I see him. Do you really give me face? Do you still have me in your eyes?"

Zhu Xu's ending with an accent, which was fluctuating in the imperial study room.

"I'm dying!" The three of them became more and more afraid, their heads hit the ground, and their bodies were shaking. They were afraid that the emperor would be angry and punish them!

"Ten Thousand Dead?"

Zhu Xu's voice was as cold as iron: "What else do you have besides talking about this? Just tell me, can you do this governor? If you can't do it, please return immediately. I will be sure now. Now I can send someone to take you back to your hometown and send you all the way to your home!"

The three of them were cold all over, and the emperor refused to refuse three times. He wanted to directly dismiss their official position and remove them from their posts!

"Your Majesty forgive me!"

Jiang Dejing was very scared and suddenly shouted loudly: "I am loyal to the emperor and dare not forget it. This time, I will strictly implement the court's laws and regulations, and I will never slack off at all!"

"I dare not forget it!"

"I dare not forget it either!"

The other two spoke, both of them extremely frightened and their words were trembling.

Zhu Xu's face was cold. He stared at the few people for a while before saying, "I will give you a chance! Go, everyone write an article, and I will publish it to you in the court newspaper. If you fool me, you should not attend the political reform meeting!"

Everyone knew how important the political reform meeting was. The three of them felt cold in their hearts and knelt on the ground and hurriedly said, "I obey the order!"

The three of them left the imperial study room with great anxiety and left Jingyang Palace, all looking at each other with a gray face.

They finally got out of Wenzhao Pavilion and became the chief officials of the border, and had a bright future. If they failed like this, they would be a big loss!

They are unwilling to give up!

Qian Longxi looked at Jiang Dejing with a gloomy face, and Huang Liji and the others said, "Two, the emperor is furious, what should we do now?"

Huang Liji was the most calm, his eyes flashed slightly, and he said, "Go to see Lord Bi, there are some things... I want to discuss with him again."

Qian Longxi and Jiang Dejing's eyes lit up and they hurriedly said, "Yes, go together, go together."

"Who is below?" In the imperial study room, Zhu Xu was drinking the tea ceremony more calmly.
Chapter completed!