Chapter 29: The Fighting of the King and the Minister (III)

"Yue Fei, whose courtesy name is Pengju, is from Tangyin, Xiangzhou... In the first year of Jingkang, Xiangzhou joined Liu Hao's army,... He was killed on December 29, 11th year of Shaoxing,... In the fifth year of Chunxi, he was posthumously named Wu Mu..." The lecturer briefly introduced Yue Fei's life.

"Well, why do you die?"

"Your Majesty, it was the traitor Qin Hui who was killed." said the lecturer.

"What do you think of a traitor?"

A minister came out to report: "Your Majesty, it was indeed the victim of the treacherous minister Qin Hui. Killing Yue Wumu at Fengbo Pavilion on false charges was actually the biggest loss of the Southern Song Dynasty, which led to the failure of the Northern Expedition. Once the Song Dynasty, it finally disappeared."

"What Qin Hui was killed? The Northern Expedition failed? Why did I hear that he was recalled by twelve gold medals? How could Qin Hui also have gold medals to recall Yue Fei?" Yang Jing saw how many times others discussed about Yue Fei and Qin Hui on the Internet. The conclusion was that the emperor wanted to kill Yue Fei, and Qin Hui came out to operate and act as a scapegoat. Of course, Qin Hui was still a treacherous minister. He could not remove the charge of the treacherous minister.

"Your Majesty, the gold medal can only be issued by the emperor, and Qin Hui cannot give the gold medal... However, a traitor can trick the emperor into giving the gold medal." The minister thought for a while and replied.

"Haha, the traitor is bewitching? Those who are emperors don't have any brains? Let a minister deceive himself with twelve gold medals to recall the army of the Northern Expedition?"

"This..." The minister was stunned, not knowing how to go on.

"I'm afraid this matter is related to Yue Fei himself. Yue Fei's attempt to fight the Northern Expedition was a good thing, but unfortunately he still wanted to return the two emperors. How could this make Song Gaozong Zhao Gou feel? The two emperors are back, what else would his emperor do? They were either poisoned to death or imprisoned. There must be no good results. Therefore, Song Gaozong stopped the Northern Expedition with the twelve gold medals and then killed Yue Fei, right?"

Yang Jing's words and theories came from the forums in the 21st century later. When the Ming Dynasty elites heard it, it was like a huge thunder. This was a heart-wrenching word. The ministers were panicked and sweating on their foreheads. They thought that the emperor could really think, and they could really make trouble. They began to regret not forcing the emperor to hold a lecture. Listening to the emperor talks about such words here, I am afraid that they would not know how they died in the future. As a minister, the most taboo thing is to join these thrones to fight for the throne.

"I am afraid, I deserve to die..." The lecturer was at a loss and was scared to death by Yang Jing's shocking remarks. He knelt on the ground and did not dare to get up. He just claimed to be guilty. The ministers were stunned and extremely uncomfortable.

Yang Jie felt a little happy when he saw the ministers looking embarrassed. He said, "Taking history as a lesson, the same thing happened in our dynasty. The Tumu Fort Incident later welcomed Yingzong back, and the result was the "Secret Transformation". Hehe, isn't it?"

Yang Jing's words were as cold as absolute zero. All the ministers were "freezing". Are these words also discussed here? Taboos! This words are definitely taboos for the emperor's family. Now they have been dug out by Yang Jing and compared them with the Jingkang disaster without any mercy.

The ministers just wanted to use things to block their ears and regretted holding a lecture for the emperor. If this is said today, if the emperor is thinking about it in the future, and bewitched by others, it may not be as simple as not having good results.

Yang Jing, a 21st century otaku, had no taboos, and did not expect that talking about the "family affairs" of the emperor's family in this way would make these ministers anxious. A person was talking nonsense and spitting out his "experience" with spit.

Quiet!

Yang Jing felt something was wrong! Hehe, it turned out that the people who knelt all over the ground were still very awesome just now. The ministers who did not force Yang Jing to the "right road" were all lying on the ground.

Yang Jing smiled proudly in his heart: Hehe! Fight with me! Let you know the combat effectiveness of my otaku. I am the 21st century otaku who "I have Baidu in my hands, and I have it all in the world". You corrupt scholars fight with me, and it's not the same street!

"Get up and continue talking." Yang Jingying shouted proudly. Yang Jingying began to like this lecture.

The ministers on the ground thanked him and got up again. They were trembling and listened to this sutra. I am afraid that my life will be gone.

An old minister came forward and reported: "I'll ask Your Majesty to change it. It's really not the ones we and other ministers who talk about this matter."

The old minister had a great face, so Yang Jing obeyed.

"Then let's change the topic. Not to mention the 'Tumuburg Incident'. Now that the financial situation in the Ming Dynasty is in a state of tension, let's talk about the financial affairs. It's a serious matter, and I also learn from history." Yang Jing was very confident. At this lecture, he began to talk freely, and he was very polite to fight against the ministers. Relying on the "discussion" I saw on the forum before.

"Your Majesty's wiseness." The minister on the ground knelt on the ground again, and finally no longer had to listen to the damn royal taboo.

"Well, since we talk about the Southern Song Dynasty today, let's talk about it based on the finances of the Southern Song Dynasty. Looking for some lessons from the history of the Southern Song Dynasty, what do you think?" Yang Jing "deliberately" chose a dynasty like the Southern Song Dynasty.

With the words of "goodness" from the ministers, the lecture began again.

This time I changed a lecturer and waited for a while before the lecture was held. I guess I took the information from the Southern Song Dynasty.

"At the beginning of crossing the river, the Southeast was still less than ten million yuan per year, and the top quotations were offered 2 million yuan. This is the main tribute... In the late Shaoxing, tea, salt and wine were calculated to calculate the goods and purchase more than 60 million yuan per year... The annual income reached 100 million yuan in the late Southern Song Dynasty. Although the financial period began to decline from prosperity, the annual income reached 65 million yuan per year..." This lecturer was more about reading materials than "educating" the emperor, and probably scared the emperor's remarks just now. He always used taboos to talk to you, the emperor!

"How could there be such a lot of money? More than 60 million? 100 million yuan? What was the annual income of our Ming Dynasty?" Yang Jing asked.

A man from the ministers came out and reported: "Your Majesty, I have earned more than 4 million taels of silver in my dynasty every year." It is probably from the Ministry of Revenue and I am more clear about the money.

"Why is it only four million taels? That's so small?" Yang Jing had no idea about his income in the Ming Dynasty. He only knew that the money was not enough. Unexpectedly, the entire country's annual income was only four million taels. This is a bit undesirable.

"Report to Your Majesty, this is only a piece of silver, and there are other ones that cost about 24 million taels." The minister reported again.

"There are only two thousand four million taels?"

"Your Majesty, there are more than four million taels of silver, and other fields, and the other ones are about two hundred and four million taels, and together they are only more than two hundred and eight million taels."

"Not less than 30 million taels? How can I separate the silver from other things? It seems that I only collected several million taels of silver every year in the Ming Dynasty." Yang Jing was puzzled, and I couldn't understand what the Ming Dynasty's finances were.

"Your Majesty, our tuition is collected according to actual conditions. We can pay whatever we plant, and we can pay the color. In addition, tea, salt, wine, calculation, smelting, defrauding goods, and buying, etc. are generally paid in silver."

"What to plant?... "Puff" Yang Jie sprayed tea far away and didn't almost laugh. What to plant? Then if I plant a few radish fields, wouldn't I be able to pay a few radishes? The tax collector came and took a few radishes to get the matter? It seemed very funny.

"Your Majesty, please..." The lecturer was more responsible and was about to remind Yang Jing to pay attention to his image. Yang Jing has returned to normal again.

"Well, let's continue?" Yang Jing felt that the financial complexity of the Ming Dynasty was far beyond his imagination.

"I'm going to pay the salt tax..."

“Tea Tax…”

"Marketing Department taxes..."

The lecturer said a lot, Yang Jing only felt that the tax revenue in the Ming Dynasty was very chaotic, and his mind seemed even more chaotic.

"Why is the gap between our dynasty and the Song Dynasty so big? Who can help me solve my doubts?" Yang Jingwei was worried.

There was silence, and no minister said a word.

"Who is the older than the Southern Song Dynasty?"

"Go back to Your Majesty, I will surpass the Southern Song Dynasty."

"How much population in our dynasty is compared with that of the Southern Song Dynasty?"

"When you go back to your Majesty, the population of our dynasty has been more than 200 years of rest and recuperation, which is far greater than that of the Southern Song Dynasty."

"Since our dynasty is larger than the Southern Song Dynasty and has a larger population, why is the tax revenue less than 30% of that of the Southern Song Dynasty?"

"This..." The lecturer no longer knew how to answer the emperor's words. Thinking about it, he said: "Your Majesty, our dynasty's taxes are extremely low. Emperor Taizu has set a plan to hide wealth for the people, so the tax revenue is not as good as that of the Southern Song Dynasty."

The Ming Dynasty was low in taxes? Yang Jing wondered, didn’t the history class say that the Ming Dynasty was very dark? Did the levy of taxes cause peasant uprisings? Why did the Ming Dynasty say that its taxes were very low?

"Since our dynasty's taxes are so low, and now the court is in urgent need of money, can we increase the tax?"

"Your Majesty, no." The lecturer quickly denied.

"Why not? Our dynasty has extremely low taxes and is rich in the people. After more than two hundred years of accumulation, the court is now using money. Can't we take out some to help the emergency?"

"Your Majesty, this..." This lecturer was hard to speak! Can this be said explicitly? After that, these ministers turned around and attacked themselves.

"Who is willing to solve my doubts?" Yang Jing turned his attention to the ministers again.

This matter is actually very simple. The tax increase will definitely not be added to these Ming Dynasty elites. If there is no half-cent of the relationship with the elite, it will be added to the common people. Your emperor said that one point will be added to the peasants, but it will be five points. Why? You can’t get rid of it! The world is in the hands of the elites, and the ministers still know it, and they also know where the tax will be added. If you instigate the emperor to increase the tax, if there is an "uprising" one day, these ministers can’t afford to take it away, why bother this muddy water? Drinking the dove to quench thirst is the best portrayal of the tax increase. The ministers all understand, but can they say it? No. I have to remain silent.

The minister was still silent. This matter could not be said. It should be explained that the taxes of the court were indeed not heavy, but they did not return or return. More people thought that it would be best not to pay. Typically, the people were rich and the country was poor. More vividly, they were both rich and fat in the middle. The fat part of the middle never expected that once the Ming Dynasty collapsed, what was waiting for them was the butcher knife of wild boar skin. They were the pigs and sheep that sharpened their knives and rushed to the pigs and sheep.

In the midst of silence, even if the lecture was not happy, the ministers did not teach Yang Jing to become a "political class". Yang Jing did not "anti-brainwash" the ministers. Yang Jing saw some problems from this lecture.

I don’t have the time and energy to argue with these Ming Dynasty elites. It’s even more uncomfortable to collect taxes from them than killing them. The wild boar skin is about to enter the customs and have to find a way for myself. These three things are the rope hanging on my neck! It’s tightening every day.

Silver! Silver!! Where is the silver? Yang Jie wanted to shout loudly!
Chapter completed!