It is difficult for manpower to defy the general trend.
If you follow the trend, you will definitely gain a lot of rewards.
Wan'an became a beneficiary of this general trend. He took advantage of the wind and successfully reached the core management of the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, it also brought endless abuse to myself. They said that Wan'an was a bastard with no ancestors. In order to become an official, he changed his place of origin. Now, in order to become an official, he began to dig up his ancestral graves.
The main reason why Wan An became the target of public criticism in an instant was because the "inside story" of Qianqing Palace leaked out.
I don’t know since when, it has been circulated that when His Majesty the Emperor was hesitating about the joint method imposed on Ge Wangyang, Wan An, for the sake of power, knelt under the palace gate under the scorching sun and asked to see the Emperor. After receiving the permission, I met His Majesty the Emperor in the Qianqing Palace.
After some rhetoric, that night, His Majesty the Emperor made up his mind to restrain this joint and several law on the head of the country gentleman Lin.
In the Palace of Qianqing, some of what Wan An said came out.
What do you mean, if we don’t deal with these rich and unkind gentry, the Ming Dynasty will only have a hundred years of national destiny. Taking advantage of the opportunity of His Majesty’s southern tour to promulgate this law, these people can be put into action to protect the country’s destiny. Whoever is unwilling to follow it will be punished. If you have a different mind from the world and your Majesty, you will be punished for the crime of treason.
Then, after listening to Wan An's nonsense, His Majesty the Emperor made up his mind.
On the second day, His Majesty the Emperor issued three decrees in succession.
The first one was for Wan An, who was tentatively appointed to participate in the confidential cabinet positions. The first two tentative words were cancelled, and he was given the honor of walking in front of the Saint of Qianqing Palace. In other words, he was the cabinet minister. Temporary workers turned into regular workers with contracts.
The second decree was issued to six ministries and hundreds of officials. More than 300 officials from two capitals in Nanjing were summoned to the Fengtian Palace. Zhao Huanong passed down the decree and began to implement the new tax system jointly. After discussing with the ministers, from the south to Zhili, Started in Zhejiang and other places.
The third decree is to let Xu Youzhen, Han Yong, Peng Shi, Wan An, Ge Wangyang and others join forces with the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of Punishment, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dali Temple and many other confidential yamen to begin to refine the joint law. Many detailed clauses are included in the Ming Law and the Zheng Law, and a new chapter is opened.
In the second decree, the emperor concluded with a very serious sentence.
"If you don't behave like a gentleman, you will never be a gentleman."
Even if you claim to be a gentleman, but once you try your best to cover up the tax laws and secretly swindle Chen Cang, then what you do is not a gentleman's thing. Since you think you are a gentleman, but you don't do what a gentleman should do, then you, your family , don’t stay in the ranks of gentlemen, and be deprived of a series of rights such as imperial examinations and official positions.
Less than half a month later, many thunderous methods seemed to fall hard on the faces of those aristocratic families like cold raindrops. However, some were happy and some were sad. For some people who abide by the law, this in itself It's not a constraint, but for those habitual offenders, it's a big deal.
Because his methods were very cruel, he received more and more scoldings...
In fact, many people knew that Wan'an made a deal with the emperor at this time. The emperor pushed him to the stage as a shield, and he also gained power.
The actual operator was Zhu Jianshen. They saw everything clearly, but they had no choice but to curse Wan An. It also made Wan'an, a fifth-rank official, the most unpopular official in the Ming Dynasty this year.
No matter how repulsive the officials below were, and no matter how repellent the gentry were, after dozens of days of compilation, the first article of the Ming Code concerning the gentry's tax payment was published...
The core content is not much different from what Zhu Jianshen said for the first time, but there are some additions in details...
The law also caused some instability in the Ming Dynasty. Although it was unstable, Zhu Jianshen's political skills were already very strong at this time. He once again reprimanded more than 20 officials and sent them to the southwest, northeast, and Fujian. Guangdong and Guangxi, various promotions and salary increases... Of course, these more than 20 promoted officials were Jin Yiwei. Dongchang really couldn't find any evidence of their crimes. These people jumped up. Zhu Jianshen had no reason to directly accuse them, so he could only dismiss them like this. .
But there were still more than twenty officials who were full of shit and didn't know how to hide themselves. They even came out to sing the opposite. Zhu Jianshen didn't know who gave them the courage. Then, he asked Menda to interrogate these twenty officials one by one. More than a dozen officials lost their jobs and their homes were confiscated, becoming the first people to pay the price for the tax law...
Under Zhu Jianshen's thunderous tactics, the voices in the court discussing tax laws gradually became quieter, and the situation gradually became calmer. Relatively speaking, the voices scolding Wan An also became quieter. BIquGe.biz
And Wan'an finally endured the most difficult period...
In the time since he participated in the compilation of tax laws, Wan An was beaten several times in the yamen, but he did not cry. Then, when news came from his hometown that he would be kicked out of the family tree, he did not cry either. But in After compiling the tax law, after he received the praise from His Majesty the Emperor, he burst into tears while it was raining heavily on the way out of the palace... Then, on the third day after Wan'an received the praise, his good friend kept helping him. Li Tai died of illness at home, which was a heavy blow to Wan An. He burst into tears again...
However, after crying and being sad, Wan An readjusted his mentality and adapted to the role of the emperor's bastard. Moreover, in some things, he had no bottom line so much that even Xu Youzhen was ashamed...
In a blink of an eye, it was October. First, Zhu Yi and Zhang Huaizhi, who were envoys to the Japanese country, returned and went to the palace in Nanjing to meet the emperor. They came back this time and brought back a map of Kyushu Island, which they and Kaga Noko presented to Zhu in the Japanese country. In comparison, there is not much difference.
Those monks are still in the Japanese Kanto temples in Tokyo, Osaka and other places, drawing Japanese maps of Kanto.
After the emperor saw Zhu Yi again, he felt that Zhu Yi was much better than a few months ago, as if he was much younger.
Zhu Yi took the drawings, and after meeting the emperor, received permission to start a cross-sea battle plan. On the one hand, he planned to eradicate the pirates around the Ryukyu Kingdom, and on the other hand, he joined forces with the Shandong Kaihai Navy to launch a war on the main island of Kyushu, forcing the Satsuma Domain to Face the Ningbo Navy independently.
On an ordinary day in October, Zhu Jianshen welcomed the seventh son in his life.
Born to Miao girl Ji Yao.
Zhu Jianshen was very happy and immediately named his seventh son Zhu Youtang, and also gave Ji Yao a title...
And the wise master, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, Renzong of the Song Dynasty, and Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youtang, was finally born.
However, Zhu Jianshen also knew that there was no other relationship between this Zhu Youtang and the Zhu Youtang in history other than the same blood type and similar appearance...
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