Chapter 505: The Palace Night Banquet I
Ke Yinyue said while picking up vegetables for the emperor: "The slave family has never seen the emperor so happy, and Lord Chang will come to the harem more often in the future." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Zhu Youxiao's father Guangzong Zhu Changluo was born to the Wanli Emperor Linxing Palace, Wanli disliked Zhu Changluo very much, because he did not want to make Zhu Changluo the crown prince Wanli Emperor repelled four cabinet chiefs and six officials more than ten people, and dismissed and exiled as many as 300 officials, resulting in many official vacancies, the court was empty, and the whole Donglin Party was miserable.
It is conceivable how mentally depressed Zhu Changluo and Zhu Youxiao, father and son, who live in this environment all the year round, so that after Zhu Changluo ascended the throne, he indulged in wine and indulged in a lot of indulgence, causing his body to collapse and eat some messy elixir, and he died mysteriously after only one month as an emperor.
The emperor sighed and said: "My father was despised by my grandfather, I was also neglected since I was a child, my mother was bullied and oppressed by Li Xuan, so that she died young, and later, Li Xuanzhi insulted and abused, I wept day and night, fortunately my grandmother protected me to be peaceful." ”
Ke Yinyue stroked the emperor's back and said, "This is a matter for the slave family, and the emperor doesn't have to be sad." ”
Chang Wei suddenly realized, "A child has no mother since he was a child, his depressed father doesn't like him, and he is bullied by his stepmother and cries every day, there is only one beautiful nurse in the cold palace who loves him, and it is no wonder that the emperor's feelings for Ke Yinyue are so complicated, and it is reasonable to pamper her; ”
Thinking of this, Chang Wei raised his glass and got up, "For Mrs. Fengsheng's birthday, I wish Mrs. Fengsheng her youth and eternal companionship." ”
This sentence made Ke Yinyue overjoyed, and even the emperor's eyes showed warmth, you must know that after the emperor succeeded to the throne, there were often ministers who asked for the expulsion of the Hakka family from the palace, although there were Wei Zhongxian supporting the scene, and there were countless people who flattered him. But none of the ministers who are serious about studying and entering the government will say such things, and Chang Wei can be regarded as a precedent.
"Master Chang has a heart. Ke Yinyue actually touched Chang Wei's hand when he took the wine glass, this action frightened his heart, and he quickly lowered his head, but the emperor looked as usual, without the slightest displeasure.
"Damn, what does this woman want to do? What does the emperor mean?"
But I heard the emperor say: "The emperor's grandfather left a will before his death to establish me as the emperor's grandson, from July to September of the 48th year of Wanli, the emperor's grandfather and father died one after another, at that time, Li Xuanzhi controlled the Qianqing Palace and wanted to fight for the queen mother to control the government, fortunately there was the support of Mama and Wang An, so that Yang Lian, Liu Yixiao and other ministers would protect me to the Wenhua Palace, and I was able to ascend the throne. ”
Chang Wei handed another glass of wine to the emperor, "My emperor is the true son of heaven, and it is difficult to harm the demons no matter how they are intended. ”
The emperor drank his wine before he said with a smile: "You must be thinking in your heart that since Yang Lian and the others in Donglin have the merit of supporting it, why am I so ruthless to the Donglin Party?"
Although Zhu Changluo only served as the emperor for one month, but abolished the Wanli Emperor's tax policy that can be called 'asking for money and shame', the Donglin Party has the merit of supporting the father and son for two generations, so the power is monopolized, and they have formulated many policies that benefit themselves and harm others under arrogance, which angered other officials, and the Zhejiang Party, the Qi Party, the Chu Party, and the Xuan Party jumped out to fight against them.
This struggle for power gave the young Zhu Youxiao the opportunity to take over the power, and he found Wei Zhongxian, a vicious dog, through the Hakka family.
Wei Zhongxian did have two strokes, he first expelled the eunuch Wang An, who was biased towards the Donglin Party, and then drove all his subordinates out of the inner palace, and chose the eunuchs who knew martial arts to practice muskets in the palace to develop force, and secretly aided the scholar Shen Wei, the Donglin Party defeated the three parties for a few days, but found that Wei Zhongxian's power was already unbreakable.
Then what awaits them is the crazy siege and hunting of the eunuchs. Speaking from the bottom of their hearts, the Donglin Party has made great contributions in protecting Zhu Changluo and Zhu Youxiao's father and son, but they never expected that Zhu You's appearance outside the school was very much like that cowardly father Zhu Changluo, but in his bones he was full of fucking grandfather Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun's style.
Zhu Youxiao almost never showed any warmth and kindness in the face of Donglin, who had monopolized power, and directly hid behind to indulge Wei Zhongxian with all his might, especially after the explosion of Wang Gongchang, Wei Zhongxian used extremely cruel means to kill the 'Six Gentlemen of Donglin' in the edict prison, and the methods used were even more brutal than Chang Wei had ever experienced.
Chang Wei didn't tremble and said that the ministers didn't dare, but said with a smile: "The ministers are not so stupid, they must have done something that made the emperor intolerable." ”
The emperor said happily: "It's worthy of me to bow down to you, you really think differently from others." ”
Then he said in a stern tone: "At the beginning of my succession, I continued my father's practice and put the Donglin Party in charge of the cabinet, do you know what they put forward? ”
"Before Wanli, the Ming Dynasty mainly focused on agricultural taxes, and the emperor's grandfather knew that the meager agricultural taxes would not only be insufficient for the treasury, but also unbearable for the peasants, so he tried every means to collect industrial and commercial taxes from Jiangnan. ”
"But the household department in charge of the outer treasury refused to collect the industrial and commercial tax, so the imperial grandfather sent a eunuch to collect it, and all the industrial and commercial taxes collected were stored in the inner treasury of the imperial palace, which made the imperial grandfather fall into a reputation for greedy money, but it was the industrial and commercial tax in the inner treasury that allowed the imperial grandfather to win all the internal and external wars!"
"The powerful Donglin Party has proposed the abolition of all kinds of industrial and commercial taxes! You grew up in Jiangnan, so you naturally know that industry and commerce are developed there and there is hardly any need to pay any taxes, but the peasants in the northern provinces can hardly bear the high agricultural taxes, and they will not be able to eat in the event of a natural disaster. ”
Donglin's idea is to save money, but as a result, Liaodong is short of salaries, officers at all levels are exploited, and the soldiers have very few hands, and morale is extremely low. The generals asked for money every day, Donglin accused the officers of ineffective combat and embezzlement of military salaries, and the two sides fought every day. ”
"The first thing that the Donglin gentlemen proposed was to reduce the tea tax, and if I accepted their proposal in its entirety, the tea tax of 200,000 taels of silver would be reduced to 12 taels of silver per year!!"
Chang Wei was taken aback, "Twelve taels?"
The emperor slapped the table with a bang, "It's twelve taels!"
"It's just too deceitful!" Chang Wei shouted angrily, raised his hand to slap the table, and suddenly remembered that this was not his own home, but the palace, and the slap stopped abruptly.
The emperor snorted, "If you want to shoot it, you can shoot it, I will allow you to slap the table!"
Chang Wei also smiled: "According to my temper, I should scold my mother now, and wait for the emperor to say that it is more excessive!" (To be continued.) )