Looking up at His Majesty's half-smiling expression, the officials were unsure of His Majesty's true intentions, so they did not speak rashly.
However, it was not possible to keep silent. Finally, the current Minister of War, Liu Jin, stood up and said:
"Your Majesty, since the death of the late emperor, the imperial court has been unable to pay attention to the chaos in the south due to various affairs. Now that the north has gradually regained its vitality, I think it is time for the imperial court to take back the southern counties!"
As soon as Liu Jin said this, most officials in the court nodded in agreement. In fact, they had wanted to mention this matter for a long time. Since the new emperor came to the throne, the court has only cared about the north and not the south. What is this? ah?
Both the north and the south were under the rule of the imperial court, and the unified Great Song Dynasty was called the Great Song Dynasty. However, the imperial court at that time did not have more power to manage the south. In desperation, everyone put the matter behind for the time being.
Now that His Majesty has brought it up and the Minister of War has also spoken about it, it really cannot be delayed any longer.
Seeing the officials, Zhao Jun didn't know what they were thinking. He smiled coldly and then asked.
"Liu Aiqing, do you know the current situation in the south?"
Liu Jin was stunned and shook his head:
"I don't know."
Zhao Jun immediately said: "Let me tell you, since Bianjing was conquered by the Xiongnu, the entire south has fallen into a state of disorder. The local yamen ignored the court and wholeheartedly flattered the local wealthy families and helped them blatantly embezzle the local people's livelihood. The land of survival.
As a result, a large number of people had no land to farm and no food and clothing.
However, this is just the beginning. Later, he can force these landless people to become their tenant farmers through various means. Forget about the tenant farmers, the people actually have to buy the seeds they help them farm!
Where can the people have money to buy seeds at this time? So they forced loans to the people, and the loans were at usury!
What is loan sharking?
The principal and interest will be compounded, and one penny will become a hundred penny! A hundred words become a thousand words! One tael becomes ten taels! Ten taels become a hundred taels!
Every day, the money owed by the people doubled and the people naturally could not afford to pay it back.
What should I do if I can’t afford it?
They let the people be their sharecroppers for life!
How is this different from being a slave?
What's more, they even forcibly humiliate the female relatives of ordinary people for fun, and some even sell them into brothels.
If something goes wrong, some of these people will be beaten to death on the spot. The local government is in cahoots with them and will not punish them at all. So far, they have completely become local bullies! Earth Emperor!
This finally made the people of the seven counties unable to bear it! The anti-flag was raised! And it quickly extended to the entire south!
I'm asking what you think. I'm asking what should be done with these people after the South is taken back? "
After Zhao Jun finished speaking, all officials fell silent.
It took a long time for someone to say: "Your Majesty, there are too many of these people, and they are also the backbone of our Song Dynasty. If we deal with them according to the law, there may be chaos, so why not..."
"Why don't we just reduce the big issue to a small one and ignore it, right?"
Zhao Jun asked with a sneer.
The official lowered his head and said nothing.
Zhao Jun slammed the memorial in his hand!
"Fuck you! Dream!"
Wow!
A stack of memorials asking for help hit the official on the head, causing him to fall to the ground. The memorials were scattered everywhere on the ground.
Zhao Jun angrily shouted: "How many in number? Can they be as numerous as the common people?
Do you know how many people are rebelling? do you know?
The South has always been a densely populated place. The population of the entire South last year was 50 million!
Do you know what this concept is?
Based on the calculation of three people per household, there are almost 150 million people in the entire South!
Ninety-seven percent of them are ordinary people!
According to the news I have received, the number of people who rebelled this time is nearly 10 million!
The concept of one-fifteenth!
Do you think there are many rich gentry there?
If they all add up to more than a million, I think they are too many!
Are they the backbone? Do you think so?
ridiculous! ridiculous!
The Song Dynasty has such national strength, which has lasted for hundreds of years since the founding of the country. It does not rely on aristocratic families like these, nor the rich gentry and powerful people, but on the country that Taizu led his soldiers who came from the common people to conquer the country one by one. !
It relied on these common people to contribute taxes to the court generation after generation, and to go out of their soldiers to continue the great Song Dynasty!
Not some bullshit gentry and powerful people!
Don’t think that I don’t know that I just came to the throne. These gentry and powerful people don’t pay taxes in the local area, right?
So who pays the imperial tax every year?
I'm afraid they are the common people who were sent down by the local officials!
Not only did they, a bunch of worms, not pay taxes, they also piled their own taxes on the common people. There were three people in the common people's families, but they had to pay a head tax for more than a dozen people.
It is clear that there are five acres of land, but more than ten acres of land have to be paid in land tax!
Come and tell me, how can they live with such a heavy tax burden? How did you survive? ah! Give me an explanation!
That's how they all endured it! again and again! again and again!
The results of it?
Haha, what do you mean by trying to make an inch? You are all well-read people, don’t you understand?
It's them! They came to ask for help, and even took away the last opportunity for the people to eat with their own hands!
It was they who personally wiped out the people's last hope, last patience, and last way of survival!
It was them who personally ignited the anger of the people who were the most feared in all dynasties!
This has caused the current situation!
As a result, you actually made my big thing become a trivial matter, a trivial matter?
Haha, you fucking farts! dream!
Don’t even think about it! "
The furious Zhao Jun scared all the officials like quails, and they didn't dare to make a sound. Even if Zhao Jun's saliva sprayed down, they didn't dare to raise their hands to wipe it and could only endure it silently.
At the same time, he shrinks his neck and tries to reduce his presence as much as possible.
The official who was hit just now was kneeling on the ground and trembling.
He did not expect that his majesty would be so furious if he made suggestions according to the previous handling methods.
All he could think about now was.
It's all over now, I'm afraid the nine tribes will be wiped out.
If I had known better, I wouldn't have accepted the money from the south, otherwise I wouldn't have been involved in this matter.
But it's too late to regret.
I heard Zhao Jun suddenly shouting after finishing the violent spray above:
"Zhang Hua!"
"I'm here!"
This is the name of the official who spoke just now.
He is a doctor in the Ministry of Punishment.
When Zhang Hua was full of anxiety, he heard Zhao Jun suddenly ask:
"Can you take advantage of the one thousand taels of silver?"
"Your Majesty! I..."
Zhang Hua opened his mouth in shock.
Zhao Jun had no patience and continued to listen to his sophistry, and immediately said: "Since you took their money and stood on the same front with them, then they are the criminals I want to deal with, and you can share the same crime with them. Discuss.
come! "
Zhao Jun shouted loudly, and the big Han generals on both sides of the hall immediately walked out, one on the left and the other on the right, and agreed!
"His Majesty!"
Zhao Jun looked coldly at Zhang Hua, who was already frightened, and ordered in a cold voice:
"Zhang Hua, the minister of the Ministry of Punishment, accepted a bribe from a traitor from the south to speak for our traitor in the Song Dynasty. He was sentenced to the same crime and three generations of his family were beheaded! The Ministry of Punishment was ordered to behead him at the Caishikou of Bianjing tomorrow at noon!
Yunhui's army sent thousands of people to help capture a group of criminals, and no one of them escaped! "
"promise!"
Two mighty Han generals responded immediately, lifted up Zhang Hua one on the left and one on the right, and walked out.
Zhang Hua finally reacted and quickly begged for mercy.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! I was wrong! I know I was wrong! Please have mercy on Your Majesty! I don't dare to do it anymore! I won't dare anymore! Please have mercy on Your Majesty! Have mercy..."
As the voice became smaller and smaller, Zhang Hua was completely dragged out of the court hall.
Zhao Jun snorted coldly, glanced at the officials and said coldly:
"If these people who helped the tyrants are spared, how can I explain to the suffering people! What do you think, dear friends?"
All the officials immediately said in unison: "Your Majesty is wise!"
"Sage? Ha..."
...(End of chapter)
