In this way, Zhu Youxiao and his party lived in a thousand households. In order to cover up Zhu Youxiao's identity, Yang Feng also specially summoned the officers of the Thousand Households Institute and told them that Zhu Youxiao was a nephew of Gu Bingqian, a young master who had just taken office in the first month of this year and a scholar of Shangshu Jianji Hall of the Prince's and Taishi's Ministry of Officials.

After listening to this explanation, the officers of the Thousand Households Office were relieved, in the feudal society with inconvenient transportation, many official eunuchs have always had the habit of letting their children travel after completing their studies, one is to allow them to increase their knowledge and broaden their minds, and the other is to let them make friends and lay the foundation for their future careers, after all, if they only know how to study behind closed doors at home, they will only cultivate nerds, not qualified elite talents.

Although some people still don't understand why the children of such an official eunuch family don't go to the world of flowers like Nanjing, which is close at hand, and instead run to a place like them where birds don't, most people still welcome this, after all, being able to get in touch with the son and nephew of a minister who is known as a heavenly official is naturally of great benefit to the future of their thousand households, and they naturally have no reason to oppose it.

One night, after dinner, Zhu Youxiao dragged Yang Feng to chat in the backyard of a thousand houses as usual, which was a habit that Zhu Youxiao had acquired in recent days. Through the contact in the past few days, the sensitive Zhu Youxiao immediately discovered that Yang Feng was very different from the civil and military officials he had come into contact with on weekdays, and the biggest feature was that Yang Feng's view of things was very different from the current mainstream consciousness of the Ming Dynasty.

For example, when talking about the current situation in the Ming Dynasty, Yang Feng did not use any nonsense like today's civil and military officials to coax him with nonsense such as the imperial court is thin and light, and the emperor is far from the villain, and the emperor can rule the Qingming Dynasty and the world is peaceful.

Yang Feng told him very bluntly that the biggest problem of the Ming Dynasty today is that the court has no silver, and the second is that after hundreds of years of infiltration, the chaebol forces led by the Donglin Party have extended their hands to the court, and all the policies promulgated by the imperial court will be supported by the Donglin Party members as long as they are beneficial to them, and those that are harmful to them are resolutely opposed, such as the Guangningmen incident in the Wanli period is the best example.

This matter is like this, in the first month of the 35th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, Long Bo, the magistrate of Taixing County, Jiangsu Province, went to Beijing to participate in the "Great Plan" (the Ming Dynasty official assessment system, which assesses officials every six years, and assesses the name of foreign officials "Daji"), but was demoted because of poor performance. When he walked to Guangning Gate, he met tax supervisors Zhao Lu, Wang Tai, Zhang Xian, Xing Xiang and others who were collecting taxes, and when they saw Long Bo coming, they blackmailed him. Who knew that Long Bo's bags were empty, so the tax supervisors punched and kicked him, and Long Bo was beaten to death.

After the incident, the broad masses of the "righteous" masses of the people were filled with righteous indignation and jointly wrote a recital, which was presented to the emperor by the Ministry of War, and the tax supervisors were strictly dealt with according to law. Emperor Wanli was forced to be angry, and the perpetrators were imprisoned, Zhao Lu was executed, and Xing Xiang and three others were confiscated.

Well, that's the official statement. But is that really the case? The real fact is that after the three major expeditions of Wanli, the Ming Dynasty ran out of money, because the expenses required for the three major expeditions quickly exhausted the silver accumulated by Zhang Juzheng's reforms, and the Wanli Emperor was in a hurry to see that the imperial court had no money, so he sent a large group of people mainly eunuchs to collect taxes all over the country. What taxes do they collect, they mainly collect various taxes such as mining taxes and iron salt tea in various places, and this touches the interests of the landlord class in Jiangnan, as the representative of the landlord class in Jiangnan, of course, the Donglin Party people can't bear it, in their opinion, collecting taxes from them is moving their life, this thing is absolutely unbearable, so they planned this farce.

After the Guangningmen incident, the entire Ming Dynasty launched an impeachment or even attack on the tax officials sent by the Wanli Emperor, and the final result was that the Wanli Emperor's tax plan had to be declared bankrupt, and in the last years of Wanli, the tea tax of the great Ming Dynasty was only 16 taels, and such an absurd thing is estimated to be unique in the history of the entire China.

When Yang Feng said these things to Zhu Youxiao, he found that Zhu Youxiao listened very carefully, the whole person was sometimes excited and sometimes angry, and sometimes he couldn't help but sigh angrily, after a few days of contact, Yang Feng found that Zhu Youxiao listened very carefully when he heard him say these things, but if he didn't understand, he would even take the trouble to pull Yang Feng to ask in detail, like a curious baby.

Facing this Zhu Youzhen, who was so curious, Yang Feng even had some doubts about whether he was the carpenter emperor in the history books who was known as the carpenter emperor who only favored the eunuch Wei Zhongxian and the nursing mother Keshi.

In fact, Zhu Youxiao is also very pitiful, because he was not treated by his grandfather Emperor Wanli when he was a child, he had no culture, and he never went out of the cabinet to study. When Emperor Wanli was alive, he always refused to make this eldest grandson the grandson, nor did he refuse to let the eldest grandson go out of the pavilion to study. It was not until his death that he left a will: the emperor's eldest grandson should be canonized and enrolled in school immediately.

A few days later, Zhu Youxiao's father, Emperor Taichang, ascended the throne, and the ceremony of canonizing Zhu Youxiao should naturally change from the crown prince to the crown prince. However, Emperor Taichang was not enthusiastic about canonizing the crown prince, and later, under the repeated requests of the ministers, he issued an order: "The king king decrees the establishment of the East Palace, and chooses the ninth day of the ninth month of September." "But people are not as good as heaven, on the first day of the ninth month, Emperor Taichang actually died. Zhu Youxiao was not made by the grandson of the emperor, the crown prince had not had time to do it, and the book was not officially read for a day, and he wanted to inherit the emperor's throne. Such a successor to the throne, the Ariake generation, is also the only one.

After Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne, he felt the lack of his own culture, so he developed a habit of being studious and not ashamed to ask, and now he found that Yang Feng could reinterpret Daming's question from another angle, which was like pushing open another window for him, so how could he not pull Yang Feng to ask.

At a stone table in the backyard, Zhu Youxiao, who had just finished dinner, couldn't wait to ask Yang Feng, who was sitting on the other side: "Yang Aiqing, you said yesterday that my Ming problem's first problem is to pay taxes, so how to solve the problem of Ming taxes according to your opinion?" ”

Seeing Zhu Youxiao asking, Yang Feng said unceremoniously: "Your Majesty, in Weichen's view, the Ming Dynasty's taxation is actually a problem at the root, and the national tax policy set by Emperor Taizu at the beginning of the founding of the country now does not meet the needs of today's Ming Dynasty, and now the Ming Dynasty needs to reformulate a new set of tax laws, so as to solve the financial problems of my Ming Dynasty." ”

"Re-enactment of the tax laws?"

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but gasp when he heard this, this Yang Feng is really not amazing, he doesn't say anything like this, he doesn't even dare to think about it......