In the Fengtian Palace, dozens of civil officials stood and waited, their faces were pale, as if their ancestral graves had been dug up.

When they saw Zhu Cihong coming out in a black regular dress symbolizing imperial power, they were stunned one by one and glanced at each other.

This kind of black dragon regular clothes can only be worn by the emperor and the crown prince, and for more than 200 years in the Ming Dynasty, the crown princes of successive dynasties rarely wore this kind of black regular clothes in order to avoid suspicion.

Now that Zhu Cihong is wearing this outfit, all the ministers are stunned, and they are a little silent, thinking that this prince has always acted without fear, and today he is only afraid that he will not get any benefits.

Zhu Cihong sat on the dragon throne, and after everyone saluted, he said slowly: "Now is not the time for the court meeting, what is the important report of the collective audience of the secretaries?" ”

Li Banghua glanced at the officials around him who didn't dare to speak, coughed and said, "The minister came here this time to persuade His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to stop the decree on the collection of commercial taxes. ”

Li Banghua's personality can be described as upright, when he was young, he and his father Li Tingzhi were admitted to the examination together, and their father and son encouraged each other, wearing cloth clothes and walking 2,000 miles, from Jiangxi to Beijing to participate in the examination, and after being an official, he was even more outspoken and admonished, rectified the military and politics, and set things right.

Zhu Cihong has always respected Li Banghua, but he is a protégé of Zou Yuanbiao, the leader of the Donglin Party, and a member of the Donglin Party, who protects the interests of the Jiangnan gentry and contradicts Zhu Cihong's political ideas.

Zhu Cihong said: "Now that the Ming Dynasty is in ruins, coupled with the continuous natural disasters, the northern Xinjiang has not yet been pacified, and the silver required is not more than 10,000,000, and the collection of commercial taxes is also for the revitalization of the dynasty. ”

Li Banghua said that all dynasties and dynasties had governed in the order of priority of agriculture and commerce, and he naturally did not dare to say in public that business was more important than agriculture.

Seeing that Li Banghua was a little hesitant, Xiong Mingyu, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, came out of the class and said: "The minister thinks that the collection of commercial taxes is to compete with the people for profit, and the policy of apportioning the land into the mu is also inappropriate, which needs to be discussed. ”

Zhu Cihong said lightly: "My dynasty has been collecting in all dynasties, not only my dynasty is collecting, so the Song Dynasty is also collecting, and it has been levied for hundreds of years, why did it suddenly become a competition with the people?" ”

Xiong Mingyu said: "Otherwise, today's saint is benevolent, and after ascending the throne, he abolished the commercial tax, even in the past, Emperor Taizu had formulated a thirty tax on the commercial tax, and His Royal Highness is one out of ten, which is three times more, isn't this competing with the people?" ”

Zhu Cihong smiled and said, "Do you also know that this is the ancestral system set by Emperor Taizu?" Usually, you have an ancestral system, but when my father abolished the commercial tax, why didn't you bring out the ancestral system? ”

If you want to be reasonable, the imperial history civil officials in Beijing are many times stronger than those in Nanjing, and Zhu Cihong has also learned a few percent, which is more than enough to deal with these officials who have been in the capital for many years.

Xiong Mingyu was speechless for a while, when he had a close relationship with the Donglin Party, was hit by Wei Eunuch, repeatedly belittled and even exiled, Emperor Chongzhen just succeeded to the throne before being re-activated as a military squire, when the Donglin Party officials wrote to request the abolition of commercial taxes, they also seconded it......

During the Apocalypse, the eunuch party headed by Wei Zhongxian was powerful, and constantly suppressed the Donglin Party officials, and after Chongzhen took office, he used the Donglin Party to kill Wei Zhongxian and other eunuchs, and in order to please the Donglin Party, he also abolished the commercial tax.

After the fall of the eunuch party, the Donglin party gradually grew stronger, and there was even a scene where Huang Zongxi stabbed to death in public in the lobby of the criminal department and the important ministers of the eunuch party, and the interrogation officials watched and laughed without saying a word.

Chongzhen realized this problem, so he enabled the remnants of the eunuch party led by Wen Tiren, and kicked the Donglin party officials out of the center one by one, Xiong Mingyu was one of them, and was transferred to the sixth department of Nanjing to retire so far.

Seeing that the crown prince moved out of the ancestral system to fight back, Xiong Mingyu and others didn't know how to deal with it for a while, the ancestral system has always been a magic weapon for civil officials to limit the imperial power, but now it is used by the imperial power to fight back, this situation is really a little unprepared......

Seeing that these mountain cannons were speechless, Zhu Cihong was secretly proud, and when he was about to speak, he heard a civil official stand up and said: "Commercial taxation is related to the interests of the people of the world, if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince insists on going his own way, is he going to be the enemy of the people of the world?" ”

Zhu Cihong stared at him and said coldly, "Who are you?" Can it represent the people of the world? ”

The official said: "The minister is a member of the Ministry of Rites, Zhang Pu, His Royal Highness collects commercial taxes and is the enemy of the world!" ”

Zhu Cihong frowned and said, "It turned out that you were the leader of the Restoration Society, aren't you not in the official career?" ”

This Zhang Pu is quite capable, at the age of 28 held the Yinshan Conference to establish the Restoration Society, at the age of 32 the main league held the famous Tiger Hill Conference, when Shanxi, Jiangxi, Jin, Chu, Fujian, Zhejiang to thousands of people in boats and cars, he stood on the stone of a thousand people and shouted, the group responded, the government and the opposition were shocked.

At that time, the development of the members of the Restoration Society was almost all over the country, a total of 3,000 and 23 people, Chen Zilong, Xia Yunyi, Hou Qizeng, Yang Tingshu, Gu Yanwu, Gui Zhuang, Lu Shiyi, Qu Shiyun, Wen Zhenmeng, etc. were the backbone of the society.

In history, Zhang Pu used the power of the restoration society in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen to re-elevate Zhou Yanru, the first assistant of the cabinet who had been in the field for several years, to the position of first assistant.

Zhou Yanru was greedy for money and lustful, and took other people's wives as his own in Jiangnan, and was coerced by Zhang Pu, Zhang Pu took the opportunity to use him to control the government remotely, but he was poisoned by Lao Zhou's faction not long after.

Zhang Pu thinks that he is the leader of the world's scholars, and he is naturally full of confidence, he replied: "The remnants of the eunuch party are chaotic, and the ministers disdain to join the company as scholars, and now Xue Guoguan and others have been eradicated by the saints, and we scholars naturally want to speak for the country." ”

Zhu Cihong frowned and said, "This palace almost forgot, you are Wu Weiye's mentor, and you are the same year as Yang Shicong and Yang Tinglin, no wonder you can mix up in the Ministry of Rites as soon as you come back." ”

If Yang Shicong and Yang Tinglin were present, they would have to smack their mouths, they wanted to win over this surnamed Zhang to control Southeast Shilin, but they didn't expect him to oppose the crown prince's new policy.

Zhang Pu was not to be outdone, and said: "The minister's personal future is not important, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince doesn't want the minister to be an official, just a few words, the minister just wants to tell His Highness today that His Royal Highness's new policy is a serious provocation to the world's corporal forest, even today's saint does not dare to offend the world's corporal forest!" ”

Zhu Cihong was a little annoyed, and said coldly: "Is the world corporal forest you said very powerful?" What if this palace is guilty? ”

Listening to Zhu Cihong's words, all the officials in the palace had a cold face, and even Li Banghua blushed and looked very angry.

He said with a displeased face: "Your Highness, the abolition of commercial taxes was a decision made by the Holy Lord many years ago, and the gentry of the world are not something you can fight against, please think twice!" ”

Zhu Cihong's face was unhappy, and he secretly said Why did this old man jump out again? Why are you so ignorant?

(End of chapter)