Outside the Meridian Gate.
All the ministers were whispering.
Because today is a bit strange.
Emperor Wude has always been lazy and slack in government affairs, and he is basically nowhere to be seen in the morning on weekdays.
He usually only participated in his own creative noon court, that is, he would not meet with the ministers until noon. He often even did not attend the noon court, and instead ordered the prince Zhu Zhanhe to supervise the country's governance.
The Takeru Emperor's neglect of government affairs is rare in the world.
Compared with Emperor Taizu Gao, it was like heaven and earth.
However, the Supreme Emperor has passed away, and no one can control him now. The ministers are trying to persuade and remonstrate, but it is hard to criticize the emperor, so they can only let it go.
Fortunately, the current prince, Zhu Zhanhe, was both civilized and military, and had a kind and generous personality, benevolent and diligent. He had the demeanor of a Confucian and a saintly king!
Thinking of this prince, the ministers felt better.
No matter how bad Emperor Wu De was, he finally had a successor, and the ministers were not panicked at all.
But they didn't notice that all the court officials had serious expressions on their faces, and they all stood quietly, as if something big was about to happen.
Soon the Meridian Gate opened and the officials filed in.
Zhu Gaoxu sat on the dragon chair, and Zhu Zhanhe stood beside the dragon chair. The father and son quietly looked at the ministers below.
After the ministers paid tribute, the morning court began immediately.
Seven departments and one hundred departments conducted work reports, which were generally urgent matters. In addition, there were also major matters that each department and supervisor were responsible for.
After the ministers finished reporting, Zhu Gaoxu's eyes moved, and then he looked at one person, Yang Shiqi, the cabinet scholar.
Yang Shiqi felt His Majesty the Emperor's gaze, adjusted his mentality slightly, and then went out to report: "Your Majesty, I have something important to report!"
Hearing this, the officials were a little surprised.
After all, Yang Shiqi has always kept a low profile, and this cabinet bachelor has almost no sense of presence in the court.
But even so, no one dared to look down on him. After all, Yang Shiqi was a cabinet scholar and a close confidant of Emperor Wude. His status was even higher than Yang Rong, another cabinet scholar.
Although due to the cabinet system, Yang Shiqi has no real power in his hands, as long as His Majesty the Emperor's family is still there, no one will dare to despise Yang Shiqi!
What was strange today was that Yang Shiqi, who had always been low-key and cautious, actually took the initiative to speak up and start something important.
Zhu Gaoxu nodded and said with a smile: "What's important to Yang Aiqing? Just tell me!"
"Your Majesty, I'm going to check the old rules. A person will be judged every five years and divided into nine categories. If the upper level is higher, the levy will be nine coins of silver. If it decreases to the lower level, the levy will be one coin of silver. The wealth of the family will be used as the amount of silver. New life The one who dies is added, the one who dies is expelled, this is the law."
Three years ago, when Zhu Gaoxu ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, the first new policy was to "never add taxes to the population." The purpose was to fix the ding silver. For this purpose, the Ministry of Household Affairs formulated a ding silver levy system.
And Yang Shiqi is now taking advantage of this system, clearly finding fault with it.
"If there is no secretary, he may not be able to pay attention to the inspection... Moreover, according to the old custom, whenever there is an editorial review, there is a pretext of increasing the household registration of the secretary, regardless of the suffering of the people, and the pursuit of wealth will overflow the forehead. Therefore, those who should be deleted will not be deleted, and those who should not be added will not be deleted. As the number increases, even if the person is dead and refuses to be expelled, the son is born and is responsible for registering him, the barren in the ditch is like a young man on the roll, the son of Huangkou is already called after him, first he guarantees compensation, and then he flees. , it is inevitable..."
As soon as these words came out, the hall fell silent and fell into a strange silence.
Many courtiers' expressions changed greatly, and they stared at Yang Shiqi fiercely, wishing to eat him alive.
The reason is very simple. Yang Shiqi's words have only one meaning, and that is that false reports and exaggeration in household editors and reviewers exist in many areas of the world.
After all, the Ding Yin levy system was established not long ago, so there are naturally many omissions, and there are simply too many loopholes that can be exploited.
The fraud that Yang Shiqi mentioned at this moment was the work of the gentry and Jin gentry.
In this way, they concealed the property under their own names, and then allocated the corvee taxes to those false household registrations that did not exist at all. In order to complete the tax amount, the local government wanted to complete the tax amount, so the corvee taxes allocated by these gentry and gentry would only fall on the common people. superior!
This is just one of the methods, but it is the most effective method.
However, now that Yang Shiqi has brought it up in public, it is tantamount to slapping them, the gentry, in the face!
Facts have proved that these courtiers guessed correctly that Yang Shiqi was hitting them in the face, and before they could even open their mouths to fight back, Yang Shiqi's combination of punches followed.
"Your Majesty, the gentry and the gentry took advantage of their privileges to hide their people, and the cunning people used them as guests to avoid them. However, the Dingyin project still exists. As a result, it fell on the poor peasants, causing the people to be miserable and deprived of their livelihood. Among them, in the implementation of In areas where the household registration and examination system is established, there has been a phenomenon of enriching the rich and distributing the poor for the benefit of the users!"
"For example, in Caoxian County, Shandong Province, the powerful and powerful have tried all their tricks to escape. The poor people of the lower households bought dozens of acres of land and paid real money, but they were promoted to higher households. As a result, their families had no land and insufficient living expenses. They cried out to the gods. , all of them are listed in the middle-level household rules!"
"In this way, on the one hand, local officials often make false boasts in pursuit of surplus; on the other hand, they give up the wealth to become poor. The result of the increase in the surplus of dingyin is that the people have to bear more dingyin and suffer The suffering of the so-called 'dina' and 'guaranteed compensation'!"
"The rich have a lot of land, but there are only a few servants. The poor have no standing cones, but there are many corvees. How is this unfair?"
Yang Shiqi flicked his sleeves and knelt down directly on the ground.
The cabinet bachelor who had been holding back for three years finally showed his fangs at this moment.
Yang Shiqi has been preparing for this ever since he took over the task of renting the land.
After all, Zhu Gaoxu made a promise that as long as Yang Shiqi completes this new deal, he can become the uncrowned prime minister below one person and above ten thousand people, and truly realize his political ideals!
However, this wait lasted for three full years. It was so long that Yang Shiqi even doubted whether he had been deceived by Zhu Gaoxu.
Now, the time has finally come!
Yang Shiqi's angry voice resounded through the palace, making all the courtiers feel shocked.
This Yang Shiqi, what does he mean?
The fields of the rich are endless!
There is no standing cone in the slums!
This is directly tearing through the fig leaf!
Are you, Yang Shiqi, crazy? Are you not a member of the gentry?
What on earth does this damn bastard want to do?
For a time, all the officials were in an uproar and talked about it.
Zhu Gaoxu took action in time and shouted coldly: "Is this really happening? Why didn't I know about it before?"
"Your Majesty, in the past, Ding Yin, together with Lijia, Juncu and other four different kinds of silver, were requisitioned by local officials and were not turned over to the central household department. However, in fact, most of this income fell into the private pockets of officials!"
"The Central Ministry of Household Affairs only has the total number of households, and does not even know the specific total amount of ding silver in the country. It was not until the first year of Wude that the Ministry of Household Affairs began to implement the policy of collecting ding silver to solve the problem of handling and how to use ding silver. However, this The system is not perfect, which gives the gentry an opportunity to take advantage of it!"
Hearing this, the officials became more frightened and uneasy.
Is Yang Shiqi crazy?
He directly targeted the Ministry of Household Affairs. Is Xia Yuanji, the Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs, dead?
For a moment, the silence in the hall was eerily silent.
