Chapter 179: Hitting a car

In the first year of Chongzhen.

April 26.

The amnesty that had been waiting for many days finally arrived. This amnesty is different from ordinary amnesty. This amnesty is a final decision for the Wei case. In the court and under the court, hundreds of officials of No. 1 were waiting for this amnesty. Once the amnesty was approved, the Wei case would be written off as if the emperor said when checking the cash. If the Wei case was not mentioned, it would be a typical example of spending money to eliminate disasters. For this reason, these hundreds of bureaucrats spent 5 million taels of silver to eliminate disasters. As for whether it was worth it, it depends on what the amnesty said today.

The ministers and bureaucrats stretched their necks outside Chengtian Gate and waited to see how this amnesty would be.

In the Ganqing Palace, Yang Jie sat upright on the throne with a calm expression. Today is a "decisive battle". Today is related to the success or failure of his future plan. He can only succeed, not fail.

The chief minister of the cabinet led these cabinets to meet the emperor together.

After a ceremony, today's highlight began. The emperor received an edict for the amnesty. After the emperor passed the examination, he agreed to use a seal and then took it outside Chengtian Gate to read it. This amnesty would be considered a success.

"Report to Your Majesty, I have already drafted this general amnesty edict, and I would like to ask Your Majesty to take a look." said the leading chief minister.

"Well, big companion, please ask someone to read it." Yang Jie is a novice in classical Chinese. He has a headache when reading classical Chinese and can only be read on behalf of others.

"As for your order, your majesty." Wang Chengen agreed. Then a young eunuch who was specifically responsible for reading memorials began to read the imperial edict.

"In accordance with the will of heaven, the emperor issued an edict saying: "Thank you the gift of heaven and the blessings of the gods, and you will have the foundation of our great Ming Dynasty forever. The ancestors of Wu worked hard to govern and create great achievements, Taizu..." First of all, starting from the achievements of Taizu's time, I can say a few words...

Next, there are a lot of big truths that you can't understand, and then you will talk about substantive content.

"The great evil of Wei Zhongxian steals the favor of the late emperor, and is good at the power and blessings of the court, and secretly establishes good people. If there is a slight gaze, he will kill tragically for several years. He will not know how many slandering and slandering for several years. He will not know how many slandering! The prison is blocked and the sky is overwhelmed. The accumulation of injustice and depression is mysterious, causing the stars to fall and the earth to break, and the soldiers will be sold in a row. Now Wei Zhongxian, Cui Chengxiu, has been killed in heaven, and the anger of the subjects is slightly relieved. The imperial edict is still depressed, and the souls of the prison are still depressed, and the reputation of the prison has not been extended. How can I tell my reform of the governance? Now I should praise and give me praise and give me; if I should be grateful, I should be grateful, I should be grateful, if I should be restored, I should be promoted; if I should be promoted, I should be promoted; if I should be promoted, I should be promoted; if I should be released, I should be released, I should be released: do not cause long-term flooding, which will hurt my wish for a happy life."

Hearing this passage, Yang Jing nodded, thinking it was good, and he could understand it himself. This was the decision of the Wei case! After this hammer, five million was spent. Wei Zhongxian was really valuable.

If you go on, the little eunuch's words are "traditional" items, such as releasing prisoners in the world.

Finally, "I inform you both China and foreign countries, and let you know..."

When Yang Jie heard this, he found that this was a very "authentic" general amnesty edict. He poked his ears and said, "It's gone?"

The little eunuch was inexplicably chanted, "I have informed you both at home and abroad, and I have heard of it." There is still? It must be gone. When the emperor asked, he replied, "Report to Your Majesty, it's gone."

"It's gone? Well, I know." Yang Jie finished his ears and was thinking about his own affairs in his heart. How to insert them into it.

The chief minister saw that the imperial edict was finished and said, "Report to Your Majesty, this imperial edict is searched for a change in the literature, which is something that can be done in minutes.

"This, I don't seem to see any rewards in this edict! I remember that there should be rewards in the world, why didn't I hear it? Or didn't?" Yang Jie was just grabbing his hair and paving the way for his own affairs. What's going on with this amnesty? Yang Jie asked people a lot, and Sun Chengzong asked several times, the content of the amnesty, and even spent it in his dream.

When the cabinet chief heard the emperor's words, he lowered his head and said, "Report to Your Majesty, this amnesty does not necessarily mean that there will be rewards for the whole world. This amnesty is already a great gift. It is okay not to reward money." The cabinet chief chief clerk avoided talking about the issue of reward money, and instead talked about not rewarding money.

"No, others have rewards in the world. Why do you have to be so stingy when you get to me? Do others think I am very stingy? Is I such a stingy person?" Yang Jing refused to give in.

The chief minister of the cabinet was snatched by the emperor and blushed, saying, "Your Majesty, this amnesty is indeed worth rewarding, but the treasury is only a little silver. How to reward it? If it weren't for hundreds of thousands of taels in the past, it would be impossible." The treasury could not even take out the money rewarded, which made the cabinet very embarrassed.

"Uh... this, I don't have money? That's right, I remembered it, what should I do? You can't give me nothing, right? Doesn't this make me seem very poor and too petty? How do the people in the world say that I am?" Yang Jing asked this when he knew that the treasury had only a little money.

"Report to Your Majesty, if Your Majesty wants to reward you, you have to leave the treasury. The Ministry of Revenue may be able to squeeze out a little..." The chief minister of the cabinet made this suggestion again, asking the emperor to pay for it himself.

"This, let my treasury pay? This, I have no money either! It's hard! It's hard!" Yang Jing looked like he was ignorant. This was to deceive these ministers. The bureaucrats had no money in the Ministry of Revenue. As the saying goes, clothes are the hair of people, and money is the courage of people. If you don't have money, you don't have the courage, you will be despicable when doing things, and you will be bullied.

The chief minister of the cabinet was extremely embarrassed and blushed, saying, "I am stupid, please tell me."

"I have a few more things to write them into the edict, which are a reward for the people of the world, and it is also a joy and joy for me and my people. In this way, I don't have to spend a penny, so my people will definitely be able to have a satisfactory amnesty." Yang Jing decided to take a sailboat and write the abolition of the salt administration and patent law into the amnesty edict. Today, the day of amnesty, many bureaucrats are waiting for the emperor's amnesty and waiting for the final statement of the Wei case. If I don't take this time to write this "impossible thing" into the edict, I may have to wait a long time in the future before I will have a chance.

"Dare you dare to ask your Majesty, what are the things?" the chief assistant took the lead in asking again.

"Big partner, let me show you this to all the ministers." Yang Jingwei was not willing to talk too much, so he had already prepared to write the content of abolishing the salt administration and the content of the patent law in his notebook.

The cabinet chief minister first took the notebook and looked it through. When he saw it, his face turned green, he instantly turned pale and red in an instant. It can be seen that the chief minister was holding it hard and feeling uncomfortable.

Without waiting for the book to be shown to other cabinets, he took the lead and said: "Your Majesty, I will never agree with Your Majesty's abolishing the salt administration. This is, this is..." The chief minister of the cabinet could not remember what to say about the emperor's "very naive" idea. He was so angry that he was about to go crazy.

Yang Jingwei sat upright on the throne and looked at these cabinets with a smile.

The cabinets first saw the face of the master's assistant, which was as fast as a performer, and it became very fast, from the beginning to the normal, to the green, pale, and then to the red. They were all surprised that something made the master's assistant so disgrace. They all opened their heads and looked at the things written in the notebook. They also heard the master's assistant say that the world's salt administration was abolished, and at that time they felt a big bolt on the sunny day. They blasted over their heads!

An auxiliary minister hurriedly looked at the notebook and said, "Your Majesty, you must not abolish the salt administration. This salt administration is the pillar of the court's income. How can you go? Once you go, the pillar of the court will collapse!" This minister was even more anxious to abolish the salt administration in the world. They had never thought about such a thing.

"Your Majesty, this salt tax is worth more than one million taels of silver every year. If it is discarded, wouldn't the Ministry of Revenue be even more unbearable? Isn't the annual deficit even worse? What should the court use to make up for the deficit of more than one million taels? Never! Your Majesty..." The cabinet was even more anxious. The emperor dared to think about and mention the abolition of the salt administration.

Other cabinets did not dare to look at the emperor, and they lowered their heads, and they thought about the reason in their hearts. They all imagined that once the salt administration was abolished, relying on this chain to benefit officials, countless officials would have to drink the northwest wind! The emperor had lost many jobs of people! He was frightened by this fearless way of doing things.

Yang Jingwei had long been prepared to be a "bureaucratic public enemy". The abolition of salt administration was just the beginning. If you cut down with one knife, you would have to open a hole like cutting sugarcane, and then follow the hole and peel the sugarcane to the end in one breath with cleverness. Only in this way can you eat sweet and delicious sugarcane.

"I know that the Ministry of Revenue has no money to reward, so I specially prepared this gift as a gift for my ascension to the throne and amnesty to the people of the world, so that the people of the world can truly bathe in my favor. What, can't it be?" Yang Jing pretended to be pure and innocent, pretending to be the people of the world in his heart.

Several cabinets were even more angry and were about to go crazy. I don’t know how to refute the emperor. You must know that everyone knows the matter in the salt class, but they must not be carried on the table to say it. Once you say it, it must involve the dark side of the salt class. This is the "bureaucratic public enemy". The emperor dares to say and do it because he is an emperor, an ordinary bureaucrat. Even the chief minister does not have the courage to be a "bureaucratic public enemy". Xu Guangqi said it before, but it ends up vomiting blood.

"Several Qing family don't speak? Then I just think it's okay, so I'll write my meaning into the edict." Yang Jing found that the combat effectiveness of these cabinets was quite weak, and they couldn't support it without saying a few words. Yang Jing knew that others were not talking to him, but were afraid of this huge bureaucratic interests and did not want to get involved in this conflict of interests.

"Report to Your Majesty, I will never agree with Your Majesty's abolition of the salt administration. This will inevitably lead to the court's annual amount of more than one million taels of silver. How to make up for this loophole? Moreover, this salt class has gradually improved in the past two years and has gradually grown. Your Majesty, you must not abolish the salt administration!" A cabinet was also responsible. It guessed that the emperor might be dissatisfied with the salt tax of million taels per year, and he wanted to raise the salt tax in a different way. So he made a quick decision and decided to speak on behalf of the salt merchants and bureaucrats who made profits in the salt industry to raise the salt class for the emperor.

The other ministers also heard the mystery and immediately agreed.

"Report to Your Majesty, I think the Pavilion Master is right. How to make up for the deficit of more than one million taels per year? The Ministry of Revenue has already had a huge deficit every year. If this is less than one million taels, the Ministry of Revenue has earned less than two million taels per year. This is really a bit shabby. How can it afford this huge expense? What's more, the salt class is growing every year, and I'm afraid I can receive 140,500,000 taels of salt class this year! Your Majesty, you must not abolish the salt administration. In this way, the Ministry of Revenue has even worse deficits and is unable to pay the border and provide disaster relief!" The minister heard the "mystery" inside and decided to add salt class to the emperor to 140,500,000 taels of silver. According to current statistics, it can be said to be an explosive growth, with a growth rate of up to 50%. However, he never mentioned the salt tax that can be collected every year.

When Yang Jing heard someone talk about salt tax, he became angry. With a population of more than 100 million, a person who eats five kilograms of salt every year, he will charge more than 20 copper coins per kilogram. How much does it cost in a year? This salt class that should have been more than 10 million taels a year, I would give me less than a fraction of the money every year, and I would like to thank you. It is really annoying. Yang Jing decided to give these bureaucrats a good look.

"Isn't this simple, just one.5 million taels? I've come out, from the treasury, in order to give the people of the world a gift, and to let my people bathe in my kindness, I'll be a big family this time. How about it? It's okay now." Yang Jing put forward his own evasion.

He used 1.5 million taels of treasury to pay for the national treasury to pay for the salt class. The emperor's words shocked these ministers! They were stupid! They were stupid! They were dazed! They were dizzy!

Strange things happen every year, and this year is particularly strange. The emperor has always been scattered money from the treasury. Now, this lord, more than one million taels, would throw it out without a sound. The cabinets were really confused and couldn't figure out how the emperor thought.

The cabinets' brains have been short-circuited. I don't know how to think about this problem. Can't the Zhu family's child come up with a normal one? This person is the most unreliable and outrageous. He dares to agree to such a thing at once. This... the figure of the emperor has become more and more blurred in their minds and cannot see clearly...

Yang Jing looked at the idiots on the ground and was angry. This matter was originally a matter of benefiting both sides and harming them. Once the salt administration was abolished, he was actually not pleased him. He would have to lose more than one million taels of silver every year to save some money, and he would have to train 20,000 elites by himself. In the battle, he would have been much more sure of it. Unfortunately, these dogs were all too greedy. The salt courses that should have exceeded 10 million taels, but now they have given themselves a hundred million taels of leftovers. Others eat meat and chew bones by themselves. If they can't eat meat, they should not be able to eat meat. Don't eat it anymore.

Yang Jing's eyes, the cabinets inspected the ground, and the cabinets looked at the emperor, and their eyes immediately shrank back. The cabinets actually understood the matter in their hearts. They knew what was going on, and they didn't dare to look at the emperor because they had no confidence. This matter was that everyone was eating meat too hard, and when they arrived at the emperor, there was only bone left. The emperor was unhappy and unhappy. If the emperor didn't let the emperor eat the big head, the emperor told everyone not to eat it. The cabinets already understood the emperor's thoughts. However, how could it be said about this? Someone had mentioned the issue of adding salt classes to the emperor before. It seemed that the emperor was not satisfied, but even angry.

The cabinet that first proposed the salt increase course was thought for a long time, full of anxiety, and after thinking about it, he finally said: "Your Majesty, I still firmly disagree with Your Majesty's abolishment of the salt administration. Although Your Majesty can use the treasury to pay for the salt course, Your Majesty, this salt course is recorded every year. Does Your Majesty pay the Ministry of Revenue every year? In this way, how long can Your Majesty's treasury support?" This official was only short of showing off with the emperor.

These elites are very good. They know that the emperor's income is only that little money every year, only one hundred thousand taels, and sometimes it is not enough. This amount of money is to support the family, raise tens of thousands of eunuchs, palace maids, soldiers in the capital, and officials in the palace. They also have to reward borders from time to time, provide disaster relief from time to time, and even prepare some money to fight. Therefore, life is tight and there is no more money. Therefore, they risk the courage to reduce the salt class that should be paid again and again. Even bully the emperor knows that everyone has no choice but to embezzle. The emperor is also a pauper. If you want to play salt class, you have to consider what to use to make up for the annual salt class income. If you don't have money, you have no courage. As the saying goes, clothes are people's hair, money is people's courage. If you don't have money, you have no courage to play salt class. This is the fearless mentality of salt merchants. If you do not have money, you have no courage.

"It's okay, how much money is in my treasury? It doesn't take my family's care. Every year, I support the Ministry of Revenue for 1.5 million taels of silver. Just think that I have made up for the people of the world to make up for the deficits in the salt class, so that my people can feel my favor." Yang Jing looked indifferent, and there was blood in his heart. It was all white money! 1.5 million taels were wasted. These are all these damn dogs and Japanese elites. If they eat better and leave more meat for themselves, they would not have used this method of dying to commit this matter.

There are not many words to say when I get it on the table. Too many of them are hidden rules, they are all said secretly, and they are all things to say under the table. Now when I get it in the main hall of the Qianqing Palace, how can I say it?

The cabinets were also surprised by the emperor's determination. What happened to the emperor? How much money is there in the treasury? How dare you boast about such a Haikou? I send 1.5 million taels of silver to the Ministry of Revenue every year. The money the Ministry of Revenue to the treasury every year is probably not worth the amount. What kind of crazy did the emperor make? The ministers began to calculate how many years the emperor could last, how many years would he become a pauper, and how many years would he be able to restore the salt class.

Soon, the cabinets came to the conclusion that the emperor was a fool and the emperor went crazy.
Chapter completed!