Don't think that with the emperor's will, you can sit back and relax.

The Wenchen of the Ming Dynasty is the most difficult minister to deal with in all dynasties, and when it comes to such a major matter as mining tax, if you don't move, you really want to move, it's not that anyone can fool the past with word games if they are clever.

This is the government! It's not a playhouse!

Thinking of this, Zhu Geng and the others finally had a trace of confidence on their faces.

Previously, above the court discussion, it was indeed they who had the upper hand, and they accidentally forced Wang Xijue to be anxious for a while, and even said that a whip law would replace the mining tax, and His Majesty even seized the wind and ordered them to come up with a result.

But after all, this is a major matter of the state, not a battle of will, and these people are in charge of the center, and they are in charge of the authority, and they are sitting in the cabinet at the moment and calmly deliberating, and they always have to come up with a strong enough reason.

The waste mine tax is the waste mine tax, and the use of a whip law is the use of a whip law, which should not be rashly mixed up.

Although the emperor took advantage of their momentary distraction to issue an edict, it must be finalized by the court, otherwise, I am afraid that the edict will also be rejected when it reaches the six branches.

Wang Xijue listened to Zhu Geng's questioning in his ears, glanced at the expressions of the ministers below, and saw that everyone was silent, so he knew that this was also their common meaning.

Today, if there is no strong reason to support the replacement of the mining tax with a whip law, even if there is an emperor's golden words in the Golden Palace, it will be impossible to count.

The so-called Jun Wu joke refers to the words of the edict after the cabinet and the six departments have jointly approved and reviewed, and it is not that the emperor can apply Jun Wu joke with a joke.

"You don't have to worry, you can replace the mining tax with a whip law, it's not the old man's brain fever for a while, but the conclusion after careful consideration!"

After a moment of silence, Wang Xijue slowly spoke.

The ministers looked like they were willing to hear the details, and immediately focused their eyes on him.

"All the ministers know that the first emperor opened the mining tax, it was because of the lack of use in the palace, and it was a last resort, and then the fire in the palace, the three palaces and the two palaces were burned down, the first emperor ordered the household department to allocate silver to rebuild, but the household department was not enough silver, and the inner treasury was due to the war for many years, and there was no silver available, so the ministers only acquiesced to the first emperor's move to collect and pay the mining tax!"

Wang Xijue sighed, but he was talking about old things.

The collection of mining tax can be traced back to about the twenty-first year of Wanli, when the mining tax had not yet been spread across the country, only limited to Zhili, Zhejiang, Henan and other provinces, and the behavior of the mining tax eunuchs was relatively restrained and did not dare to go too far.

But some ministers have sensed that something is wrong and began to impeach, but the princes of the court did not pay too much attention to it, after all, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, all dynasties and dynasties have the habit of going down to the people to loot, and they don't go too far, and the bigwigs in the court and China will not react too much.

But what they didn't know was that the majesty in front of them didn't just want to scavenge it, and after tasting the sweetness of the mining tax, he appointed more mining tax eunuchs regardless of the opposition of the ministers, and rushed to various places to collect the mining tax.

As long as any policy is rolled out to the whole country, there will be countless situations that are difficult to grasp.

Shenzong's original intention was to levy mining taxes to supplement the inner treasury, but in practice, mining taxes have already become a kind of name, and mining tax eunuchs often borrow the name of mining taxes to exploit merchants and gentry, and bring back a large amount of silver to please the emperor.

The consequence of this is that the reputation of the imperial court among the people is getting worse and worse, and don't think that the mining tax eunuchs are looking for rich families, and they have nothing to do with ordinary people.

In fact, as the common people at the bottom, the consequences of any turmoil at the top will eventually be passed on to these poor ordinary people.

To give a simple example, an ordinary gentry may have hundreds of acres of land under his name, and there may be more than a dozen tenant farmers in the house, and as soon as the mining tax eunuchs arrive, in order to save their lives, these gentry have to raise silver taels, abandon their families and businesses, and even have to sell their fields in order to seek peace, and the most direct consequence of this is that the original life of these tenants is disrupted.

The person who bought the land must have been another gentry or merchant, and the tenant farmers in the house did not necessarily use them again, and the emperor would face the risk of becoming unemployed and becoming a homeless.

If the gentry's luck is better, and the family business can get away with the mining tax eunuchs, it is not a good thing for the common people.

Because these old men suffered a loss from the mine tax eunuchs, they turned around to find it back from them, so maybe the original sixty percent of the land rent became seventy percent and eighty percent, making the people miserable.

If you are in a hurry, people can't survive, and they will rise up, and smoke will be burned everywhere!

As far as the princes of the imperial court are concerned, they can naturally see the connection between them, so there are various kinds of repetition of the mining tax, which is free from the imperial court system, and the impact on the society is mostly negative and uncontrollable.

But on the other hand, the position of the courtiers was also awkward.

It is a fact that the disaster brought by the mining tax, but it did alleviate the use of the imperial court, especially in recent years, all kinds of big war spending money like flowing water, the silver of the imperial treasury is repeatedly urgent, and even sometimes, even the officials' money has to rely on the inner treasury to allocate silver to issue, and most of the silver in the inner treasury comes from the mining tax.

Black-hearted money is money!

In this case, how can Wenchen have the courage to fight the emperor and demand the removal of the mining tax.

Later, the treasury was a little more abundant, and there was a fire in the palace, a Ming court, and the three palaces and two palaces for the court were fired, can it not be repaired? Are you kidding!

But the treasury has only a few more in its hands, and where can we find money to start such a large-scale project?

I can't say it, but I have to make an idea from the head of the mine tax.

The courtiers pinched their noses, and had no choice but to acquiesce in the emperor's behavior of collecting mining taxes, if these words were above the court, the ministers knew it, but they would not say it, but the people present at the moment were all cabinet ministers, so there was no need to hide it.

Wang Xijue glanced at everyone, sighed suddenly, and said.

"A few days ago, the old man entered the palace and strongly advised His Majesty not to overturn the case for Zhang Juzheng, but His Majesty asked the old man rhetorically, the treasury is insufficient, and the ministers are not allowed to collect mining taxes, and the emperor is not allowed to reform the tax law, which is called bullying the people. If there is no silver available in the imperial court, won't the foundation be shaken? ”

In a word, the ministers looked at each other and were speechless.

In the end, the old Shousuke dispelled some of the melancholy on his face, and finally concluded.

"Therefore, today's court discussion is not to discuss how to replace the mining tax with a whip law, but after the mining tax, where should the imperial court come from, if it is not replaced by a whip law, please come up with a charter to ensure that after the scrap mine tax, the court can still operate normally!"