Zhu Linmiao glanced at the long roster and said to Yang Tinglin: "Elder Yang Ge, there are people who voluntarily pay taxes on the above table...... Ah, no, just say how many people don't make it. ”

Yang Tinglin hurriedly said: "Back to the emperor, seventy percent of the officials in the court are here." There are less than 30% of those who do not make it to the table. ”

In the end, there are still some courtiers like Huang Jingfang who "have ideals and ambitions" to fight taxes, and there are many people whose brains have not turned a corner for the time being or who are slow.

Zhu Linmiao was not surprised by this, after all, seventy percent was enough.

He handed a list to Yang Tinglin, "This is my proposed subordinate member of the Ministry of Commerce, you can see if the people above have asked for food." ”

Yang Tinglin respectfully took it and took a look, only to see that it was written: Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Commerce, Chen Qu. The right waiter of the Ministry of Commerce, Zhu Zhiyu. Shobe Lang Naka......

From the third rank to the ninth grade, the inspection ambassadors have all listed candidates, a total of eighty-nine.

Where did he remember that hundreds of courtiers who asked for food on their own had no choice but to retrieve the roster of officials in the above table and compare them one by one, and finally found that only two of the emperor's subordinates of the Ministry of Commerce were not among them.

Zhu Linmiao then ticked off the names of the two people and instructed Yang Tinglin: "Tomorrow, the list of subordinates of the Ministry of Commerce will be announced on the list outside the noon gate." Ah, only twenty-five people are announced in one day. By the way, remember to put up a post next to them praising them for taking the initiative to pay for food. ”

Although Yang Tinglin didn't know why it wasn't all publicized, the emperor did what he wanted, and said at the moment: "Minister, obey the order." ”

"Also, this Huang Jingfang has been jumping up and down recently, so transfer him to Taichang Siqing. The right attendant of the Ministry was temporarily appointed by Zeng Jian. ”

Yang Tinglin responded first, "The minister obeys the order." Then he hesitated a little and said, "Your Majesty, if you suddenly degrade the important ministers, if you don't have a reason, I'm afraid you will ......."

Although Taichang Siqing is also a third grade, it is just a cold yamen in charge of sacrifices, and it has been transferred here from the powerful officials, and it has been degraded by more than one level.

Zhu Linmiao said coldly: "Recently, the affairs of the Ministry of Officials have been extremely busy, and Lord Huang is old and unbearable. ”

The dignified son of tomorrow, degrading one or two courtiers will still be verbose here!

Yang Tinglin shrunk his neck and said busily: "Minister, I understand." ”

Although there was no court meeting the next day, it was extremely lively outside the noon gate.

A total of 25 people, either promoted or filled vacancies, became the members of the newly established Ministry of Commerce. Ten steps away was the unveiling of the Cabinet's praise for their self-request for food.

At this time, even a pig should understand the relationship.

Except for a few die-hard anti-tax diehards, the officials who had not yet been on the list yesterday hurried home to write a recital.

In the afternoon, as the news that Huang Jingfang and Lord Huang were transferred to Taichang Temple due to physical discomfort spread in the Nanjing officialdom, all of a sudden, the die-hards began to panic.

They had relied on the momentum that the vast majority of people were unwilling to pay taxes before they dared to "confront the emperor" head-on. At this time, seeing that the general trend has gone after only a few days, and no one has even voiced support for important ministers like the right attendant of the Ministry of Officials who have been demoted, where do they dare to continue to continue?

Isn't it just a few hundred taels of silver a year? It's not that I can't afford it!

At present, those who secretly discussed with Huang Jingfang a few days ago to resist taxes also put pen to paper, saying that paying taxes in accordance with the law is beneficial to the country and the people, and they resolutely support the decision of the imperial court.

Another day later, the list of 25 newly promoted senior members of the Ministry of Commerce was announced outside the noon gate.

On the third day, there were twenty-five again......

The courtiers saw that the lack was decreasing day by day, and their hearts were all in a hurry.

"Master Li, why do you say these people have been promoted?"

"The officials don't know this way, or are they more sincere in asking for food?"

"Shall we go to the table again then?"

"Only after trying......"

At this time, most of the courtiers focused on paying grain and fell into a stereotype, but they didn't expect that these positions in the Ministry of Commerce were assigned by Zhu Linmiao according to the ability of officials. Of course, if you continue to fight taxes, this great future will have to be passed on to someone else.

This wave of voluntary taxation soon spread beyond Nanzhili. Officials in Zhejiang, Guangxi, Fujing, and other places also began to join the action of "grabbing the real shortage in Hunan," and some local officials were promoted to Hunan.

With the passage of time, the "scramble" has become white-hot, and people with flexible minds have begun to ask for the abolition of the tax exemption quota, and are willing to pay taxes on all the properties under their names according to the law.

These people were quickly put on the "commendation list", and some of them were promoted or filled in as they wished.

The others immediately followed suit, and every day it was very difficult for the Wenyuan Pavilion to turn around, and some cabinet members had to move to the corridors to work......

Soon, more than 100 vacancies in Hunan had been dispatched, and the officials began to announce ten places every day according to Zhu Linmiao's instructions.

At the same time, the cabinet temporarily added a nationwide official evaluation, which was fully responsible for Zeng Jian, the right-hand servant of the newly promoted Ministry of Officials.

As soon as the examiners of the Ministry of Officials had passed through several state capitals, news came out that those who did not ask for food on the table did not receive very good evaluation comments.

While no one explicitly says there's a connection between the two, who wants to take that risk? It doesn't take much effort to write the envelope.

By the eve of the Northern Expedition, the vast majority of officials had already expressed their willingness to pay taxes, and at least half of them did not even want the hundreds or thousands of acres of tax exemption.

After listening to Yang Tinglin's report on the situation of asking for grain in various places, Zhu Linmiao couldn't help but nod with satisfaction, and after only 20 days of work, he changed from "uniting as one" to resist taxes to scrambling to pay taxes.

He handed over a list to Yang Tinglin, "These are the people who took the lead in resisting taxes this time." As soon as the Northern Expedition was completed, they were deposed one by one and waited to be participated. ”

Yang Tinglin glanced at the list, and there was a shock at the moment, there were more than 140 people!

He seemed to have seen the bloody storm in the court not long after, and hurriedly responded respectfully: "Minister, the order." In my heart, I was secretly glad that I finally chose to stand on the side of the Son of Heaven this time, otherwise I am afraid that my name would appear on this paper.

While there was an uproar in the city of Nanjing about paying taxes for the gentry, the preparations for the Northern Expedition were being carried out intensely.

On the river north of Dantu, a pontoon bridge spans both banks, far from being comparable in width and stability to the one built earlier.

The Ming Army Engineer Battalion has undergone long-term professional training. If the Yangtze River had been in such a dry state, this pontoon bridge would have been able to last for a year or two.

The dense crowd on the pontoon bridge was like ants, carrying bags and boxes of grain, grass and baggage to the vicinity of the old river estuary on the north bank.

Thanks to the excellent work of the Propaganda Department, the task of requisitioning and distributing 200,000 people has long been completed.

In fact, when the people of Nanzhili heard that the imperial court was going to recruit people to carry grain and grass for the Longwei army and the broken camp, there was no need for the government to organize it, even if a large number of young and middle-aged people gathered towards Zhenjiang with dry food.

You must know that the Dragon Guard and the Broken Camp have long become great heroes in the eyes of the people, even if they can't join the Blade Tartars, it is a great honor to be able to contribute to their capture.