After Quan Jin and Guo Jing, another courtier stood up.
This person is none other than Zhang Ben, the right servant of the Ministry of Punishment, a well-known upright official in the court.
Zhang Ben was an upright official, and Yongle Emperor Zhu Di also knew this.
Once, when Zhu Di entertained his ministers at a banquet, he placed a silver vessel on the bank of each person's bank and gave these to everyone present. He only placed pottery vessels on Zhang Ben's desk. Zhu Di said to him: "Ai Qing is known as 'Qiong Zhang'. Silverware is of no use." Zhang Ben kowtowed in thanks, and the name "Qiong Zhang" spread throughout the government and the public.
Even Zhang Ben came out to object, which was something Zhu Gaoxu didn't expect.
After all, he is also very clear about Zhang Ben's reputation for being honest, so he can rule out that Zhang Ben is supporting the Jin gentry.
In other words, Zhang Ben really asked the emperor, Zhu Gaoxu, to think twice for the sake of the Ming Dynasty and the court.
Zhu Gaoxu looked at these courtiers with a somewhat complicated mood.
The Ming Dynasty did not lack talented officials, such as Jian Yi, Xia Yuanji, Zhang Ben, Guo Jing and others.
However, including Jian Yi, Xia Yuanji and other famous officials of the Ming Dynasty who have been famous for generations, they could not escape the limitations of this era, and their ideas were still somewhat backward.
In a sense, they were all scholars. They enjoyed the fame and privileges of scholars and the preferential treatment policies given to scholars by the court. Naturally, they became members of the gentry.
Now, Zhu Gaoxu, the virtuous emperor, is planning to implement a new policy of sharing the land between the gentry and the gentry, which will directly abolish the academic privileges of scholars. The gentry and the gentry will all work as errands and pay for the food. This is undoubtedly an attempt to cut off the fundamental lifeline of the gentry and the gentry.
Thinking again of what Zhu Gaoxu, the Prince and Crown Prince of the Han Dynasty, had done previously, especially creating a path for advancement for craftsmen, the officials could more or less guess what he, the virtuous Emperor, wanted. What to do.
Suppress the gentry and the gentry, and suppress them mercilessly and to the death!
Therefore, even talented officials such as Zhang Ben and Guo Jing could not sit still.
Either because their own interests are damaged, or because they are worried about the country and the country, they all have enough reasons to oppose the new policy of sharing the land among the people!
But the same was true for Zhu Gaoxu. He also had reasons why he had to implement the idea of dividing one person into one mu.
Since the development of the Ming Dynasty, it seems that the fire is cooking and the flowers are blooming. However, the real interests are always firmly controlled by the local gentry and the court gentry!
For example, when Zhu Gaoxu reformed the salt tax system of the Ming Dynasty, the gentry in the court ate a lot of money from the salt tax alone, and their mouths were full of oil. On the contrary, the salt tax collected by the court was not as corrupt as those gentry in the court. A lot, and his ability to make money through corruption is evident!
Another example is the large-scale development policy of Lingbei implemented by the imperial court. The local gentry and the court gentry have once again demonstrated their strong abilities.
Originally, the Lingbei Province was located in the grassland outside the Great Wall, and normally the people would not be willing to go and colonize the land.
The people moved back to their hometown and were attached to their homeland. If it weren't for the fact that they couldn't live any longer, they would definitely not be willing to leave their hometown, let alone go to the wild lands beyond the Great Wall to colonize.
But the gentry just did it. Driven by them, a large number of people flocked to the city in the past three years. There were hundreds of thousands of people, all of whom went to open up wasteland outside the Great Wall. There were also a large number of merchants and caravans, and they made a fortune from it. earned a lot!
In the final analysis, the local gentry and the imperial gentry have always controlled the people's right to speak. In other words, the problem of "imperial power not reaching the countryside" has always existed.
What Zhu Gaoxu has to do now is to break this phenomenon, deal a fatal blow to the gentry, and open up the people's wisdom to support agriculture, industry, and commerce.
This has been true for scholars, farmers, industry and merchants throughout the dynasties.
However, the scholars occupied the vast majority of the wealth of the past dynasties, so that agriculture, industry and commerce could not develop at all, especially the industry and commerce that were discriminated against and suppressed, which was extremely pitiful.
The status of craftsmen and merchants is so lowly that they are almost as low as beggars!
Such a deformed system must be changed, otherwise the creation of a prosperous Ming Dynasty will be nothing more than empty talk!
If this is not changed, then even if Zhu Gaoxu creates a peaceful and prosperous age, it will only be a prosperous age for the gentry and Jin gentry!
That kind of prosperous age is not the prosperous age of ordinary people, nor is it the prosperous age that Zhu Gaoxu wants!
Therefore, it is imperative to spread the land from one person to another!
Zhu Gaoxu glanced at the ministers with cold eyes and stopped pretending.
"You all must still remember the incident about Shandong witch Tang Sai'er, right?"
Hearing his words, many courtiers felt their hearts tremble.
"Do you know why Tang Sai'er became a witch and why she led those people to rebel?"
Zhu Gaoxu's voice was not loud, but it resounded clearly throughout the palace and fell into the ears of every courtier, making them tremble.
"Why?"
"Because they can't survive!"
"First there was the chaos at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and then there was the Jingnan War. The entire land of Shandong was beaten to pieces. There were years of famine and starvation everywhere!"
"After that, the imperial court built a new capital, overhauled palaces, and built canals to recruit civilian laborers. The people of Shandong were the first to bear the brunt, and there was never a shortage of corvee labor!"
"But the weather never goes off, and floods and droughts occur continuously in Shandong. The people eat bark and grass roots to survive, but they still work hard and collect money without stopping. As a result, a demon girl named Tang appeared in the vast land of Shandong. Sai'er, the people of Shandong responded one after another and swept the entire land of Shandong!"
"I was thinking at the time, why did such a thing happen? The people of Shandong were living such a difficult life, why did local officials never report it?"
"Although the thieves are causing chaos and keeping silent, worrying about their own future, are Chu Gai, Zhang Hai and others just a few exceptions?"
The old thing is brought up again because it has never been resolved.
All civil and military officials in the court lowered their heads, and cold sweat continued to flow from their foreheads.
"It wasn't until Yang Aiqing spoke frankly that I realized that it turned out that Chu Hui, Zhang Hai and others were not an exception. It was just that they were unlucky. It was just that Tang Sai'er and others made the matter too big, so they couldn't hide it anymore. That’s why they were all beheaded in public because of their misfortune, right?”
"The gentry will not pay taxes if they are not on duty, and the common people will bear the taxes alone and also have to bear the corvee!"
"The rich have vast fields, and the poor have nothing to stand on. We, the Ming Dynasty, have already reached this point. Do you still have the nerve to talk about the ancestral system with me?"
In anger, Zhu Gaoxu grabbed the memorial from the imperial table and threw it in front of the ministers.
"What is ancestral system?"
"Are the rules set by Emperor Taizu Gao so that you can use them to corrupt and accept bribes and oppress the people?"
"How about I send you to meet Emperor Taizu Gao, so that you can ask for yourself whether this is the ancestral system of Emperor Taizu Gao?"
Quan Jin lowered his head, his face pale and bloodless.
He realized that he was finished and successfully angered Long Yan.
Zhang Ben and Guo Jing are not much better. After all, once Emperor Wude gets angry, no one can stop him!
When the emperor was angry, he laid down millions of corpses, bleeding and floating in the oars!
"Yang Shiqi listens to the order, and I will appoint you as the cabinet order to preside over the implementation of the new policy of sharing the land with the land, giving you the power to do things conveniently!"
"Seven ministries and hundreds of departments, and all government agencies must fully cooperate with the cabinet order to implement the New Deal. Anyone who dares to obstruct or perfunctory in secret will be punished with death!"
Yang Shiqi suppressed the excitement in his heart and kowtowed loudly: "Your Majesty, Yang Shiqi, accepts your order!"
The cabinet order should be the "Zhongshu Order", right?
Yang Shiqi had a smile on his face.
Although he does not have the name of prime minister, he has the power of prime minister!
His Majesty the Emperor has never failed me, Yang Shiqi!
