Chapter 623: Feng Hang

In Beijing in August, the top classes of the entire Ming Dynasty gathered here, participating or paying attention to the most "magnificent" struggle in the Ming Dynasty in the past two hundred years. Was the emperor win or those people win? This may affect the national destiny of the Ming Dynasty over the past two hundred years.

This struggle has already begun. From the emperor's high-profile announcement to help the Ryukyu Kingdom restore the country, the battle has reached the last moment. The reason why it broke out immediately was simple. Everyone needs a certain amount of time to contact and layout and coordinate internal forces to make final preparations. As for whoever laughs the last, it depends on their own methods.

After receiving the emperor's imperial edict to restore the Ryukyu Kingdom, the Beiyang Navy and Zheng Zhilong began to seal their voyages soon, strictly prohibiting the Ming Dynasty ships from approaching the Japanese and Ryukyu Kingdoms, and strictly prohibiting the Japanese ships from approaching the Ming Dynasty. The reason is simple. Since we want to restore the Ryukyu Kingdom, we must fight with the Japanese. Since we want to fight, we will stand a little farther, first, do not hurt the innocent; second, do not transport supplies to Japan, and do not invest in enemies.

It was the time for a year to go to Japan. Where did the raw silk products be sold in Nanyang? There was no need to think about it. First of all, I couldn't get through Zheng Zhilong's barrier. Although he has recruited him now, he is still a pirate's temperament. Whether you want to pass it depends entirely on his mood. As for whether there is any emperor's instruction, no one can tell. In addition to Zheng Zhilong, there are other pirates, and there are also barbarians. Only after passing these many barriers can they go to Nanyang. When they come back, they have to go through such many difficulties. If they want to go there, they will have a life and no life to return. Now, the trade in Japan and North Korea has been interrupted again, and maritime trade has been completely stagnated.

The news of helping Ryukyu restore the country spread to the south. Many families who rely on maritime trade could no longer sit still and began to contact secretly and find ways. In addition to families who rely on maritime trade, there are also many families who oppose tax payments, and they have also begun to participate in the contact. The emperor's way is clear. The emperor has different ways and asked everyone to pay taxes. Today is these maritime merchants, and it will be their turn in the future. Therefore, there are many people participating in secret contacts.

People all over the world gathered in the capital, which also provided convenience for the contact and development of this matter.

After a period of contact, fermentation, layout and integration, this matter has reached the forefront and the two sides have reached the time to assign.

The news that the navy's ban on the navigation can be said to have sounded the horn of the final decisive battle for both sides. As soon as this news entered the capital, everyone held their breath.

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The hot discussions on these matters in the teahouses in Beijing are already public. There is neither the Jinyiwei's investigations everywhere nor the officials' inquiries.

This teahouse is quite quiet. There are only a few people drinking tea in the entire teahouse, which is completely different from the lively scenes in the teahouses elsewhere.

"The navy really wants to cut off overseas trade." Cao Yubian spoke first, exactly the same as expected. The emperor said that he helped the Ryukyu Kingdom restore the country, but in fact he pointed his finger at maritime trade.

In this teahouse, there are all high-ranking officials and noble families, and they come here for one thing, that is, to fight for tax payment.

"Luckily, I had already predicted it and had prepared it. Otherwise, wouldn't I be passive today?" Another person responded, with a very proud face, with a little smile, as if he had guessed the emperor's thoughts.

Han Yu had to contempt in his heart. Was this expected? This is the emperor who told everyone openly, what the emperor should do? If you have a relationship, someone will find someone, and the emperor will deal with it together. Is it necessary to be proud?

This person's words are really not very good, that is, he laughs alone, while the others are all nervous and can't laugh at all.

Although they were gathered together and seemed to be very powerful, it has to be said that the emperor is the emperor, and what he did was a mighty spirit. A high-ranking official went out to sea with his left hand and a sweet potato wine with his right hand to eliminate their momentum. Given the pressure of these hands of the emperor, how can he laugh? In addition, the navy who is almost explicitly informed that the sea ban, the emperor seems to not take them seriously at all. He does things openly and goes without saying anything. If they can freely discuss how to deal with the emperor here, it will undoubtedly make them unable to laugh. The more this happens, the more invisible pressure comes, and only those who are stubborn will laugh.

"Can you please mention the matter of the navy to His Majesty again? It is better not to seal the sea, otherwise, even if you can win, the losses this year will be great!" One person suggested that they fought with the emperor, and it was obviously impossible to knock the emperor to the ground all at once. Even if they really knocked the emperor to the ground, how big would it be? Everyone still have the intention to manage overseas trade? In other words, if you have to miss the best period of trade this year, the losses this year are destined.

"How can this matter stop Your Majesty? Even if you don't seal the sea, will it be worse if a pirate and Japanese pirates go to the sea? Can you still return it to you by robbers and Japanese pirates? The reason why Your Majesty seals the sea instead of acting in the name of pirates and Japanese pirates is that because Your Majesty cherishes his feathers and is unwilling to use a damn man, so it is basically impossible to stop Your Majesty..." Cao Yubian asked back, and explained it to this person as a top boss.

"Sunxian makes sense, alas..." The man who just said that he had mentioned the matter of the Navy again sighed and shook his head. He had to admit this, and he was openly the emperor could enthrone the sea because he wanted to help Ryukyu enrich the country and pretend to be pirates in secret. In short, the sea could not be out.

Cao Yubian rejected this matter, and there was only a sound of drinking tea in the teahouse.

Cao Yubian was even more depressed. He still didn't think about how to fight with the emperor until now. Originally, Han Yu was the "boss" among them, but Han Yu didn't seem to speak out much and asked him to be this "boss". As the boss, he was the headache of how he fought with the emperor. How to fight with the emperor and win, he really couldn't think of any tricks.

Ordinary methods seem to be useless now. If you learn to use shrews to make trouble, this method is too useless. If you don’t say that you have lost your value, you will be even more laughed at. It seems that there are many people in the Imperial Party. If you don’t have a strong reason, it is obviously impossible to use the sea of ​​people to suppress the emperor. Although there are not many, it is enough for them to use it a few times a year.

It is a shortcut to impeach the Imperial Party’s people, but now none of the Imperial Party’s people are easy to impeach, easy to impeach, and are all sesame characters and cannot be put on the table. They are not real Imperial Party.

The real imperial party, the core figure, Xu Guangqi presided over immigration for many years and had basically no intersection with the court. He was really out of touch with the court. Sun Chengzong was not so easy to impeach. He was basically not involved in the affairs of the court. Except for occasionally speaking in the military, he almost didn't speak anything else. Even the tax dispute seemed to be concerned, and it seemed that nothing happened.

Is the chief assistant Shi Feng coming? It seems that it is easy to impeach him, but he is batter. Although he is incompetent, he is not strong enough to speak hard, and he can't control things. But if he doesn't care about things, he will make fewer mistakes. He can do basically nothing bad. It is not so easy to catch his handle. Now, during his tenure as the chief assistant, the court has done a lot of things. Although it has nothing to do, he is the chief assistant after all, and he will benefit from everything he doesn't do.

Bi Ziyan, the Ministry of Revenue, seems to be easy to impeach, but in fact, he has a great reputation. Many people in the capital still support Bi Ziyan very much. Not to mention anything else, at least the salary is never owed. Not to mention the full amount, the salary can still increase. Now, the salary of the Beijing officials has "increased" several times. With this, Bi Ziyan has a good reputation in the officialdom of Beijing, and it is difficult to impeach him. Moreover, he has a good relationship with Lin Qin and Liu Zongzhou. Impulsing him is afraid that in the eyes of those who are dedicated to education, they will have to cut off their money and may cause something. Lin Qin and

Not to mention Liu Zongzhou's group of people, they were tied up into groups. One of them was to go against those who were engaged in education, but they were afraid that things would not be as simple as they thought. When these people became ruthless and the emperor would make trouble, they would be even worse. To be honest, those who were devoted to education were much cleaner than them. Although those who were dedicated to education were now favored to the emperor, they had not yet completely turned to the emperor. If the people among them were touched, they were afraid that the things would become bigger and bigger, and eventually they would become fighting with these people, and the emperor would be afraid that they would laugh out loud.

In addition to these people, Fan Weicheng has some weight, and the others are all small fish and shrimps, which is not worthy of his own attack. He is the General Constitution of the Ming Dynasty. If he attacks some small fish and shrimps, it will be a joke. Fan Weicheng is a sloppy person. Although he is an imperial party, he will not refuse them. They want to publish a manuscript and report it. Fan Weicheng basically does not refuse. They say that he will not hit people with smiles. Fan Weicheng can do this, and he will not be able to impeach him as Zongxian and use other small people to impeach him, but the effect is not good. I don’t know why, the minor officials who impeach Fan Weicheng suddenly stopped saying that without the following, the matter will be left unresolved.

In fact, there are other ways to get the emperor's party to step down. For example, the heavenly and man are in response to the earthly disaster, and even the emperor bows his head. This is not impossible. However, this kind of heavenly and man is too fantasy. If you want to talk about such fantasy things, the emperor is more qualified to use it than them. At least the emperor has predicted the natural disasters in Shaanxi. Today, people believe that the emperor can see gods and men in his dreams. Therefore, if you want to say such ethereal things, the emperor is better at doing things than them. At that time, as long as the emperor talks about gods and men casually, they will not be able to stand it. At this level, they are more mysterious. They are not the emperor's opponents. Using this method to deal with the emperor will only make people laugh.

In fact, the best way is to deal with Wanli Mining Supervision back then. There is no way to deal with the emperor in the court, and he can charge taxes on the emperor locally, and the emperor can't do anything to them.

Cao Yubian now understands what it means to be suffering. Now the tax bureau is different from the previous one. The tax bureau does not allow others to pay taxes, which is completely different from the Emperor Wanli. What does it mean to disturb the people and bully the people? Where does it start? No one else lets you pay taxes, and basically doesn't come out and go around, so how can you disturb you? How can you bully you? If you play tax resistance, don't pay taxes, the tax bureau people will not do anything at all.

To deal with you, it can be said that the dispute over tax payment is of no use. Even if you can "kill" the tax supervisors in the south, Cao Yubian knows that those who "voluntarily" pay taxes will automatically pay taxes to the northern tax supervisors... This is the biggest difference between "voluntary" tax payment and tax collection. This is what makes Cao Yubian the most distressing. It is not yet thought of such a difficult job to kill the northern tax supervisors under the emperor's nose.

Cao Yubian only dared to float through his head a little bit of other methods. Cao Yubian didn't dare to think about these methods, let alone discuss them. Once these methods were said, they were completely helpless.

Cao Yubian sipped another sip of tea. At this time, he had not yet come up with any good way to deal with the emperor, so Cao Yubian could only take one step at a time.

The people in the room were quiet for a long time.

"I heard that Yan Shenggong was scolded by His Majesty, but after he came back, he stayed silent. What do you think of this matter?" A man suddenly said this matter. This matter caused quite a stir. The reason was that the news came from the palace was really surprising. Yan Shenggong was said to have knelt in front of the emperor for more than half an hour, and after he came back, he seemed to have become a different person.

"Yan Shenggong is a descendant of the saint and a model for scholars all over the world. How could Your Majesty reprimand Yan Shenggong so severely?" Someone stood up for Kong Yinzhi.

"That's right, I don't know what's going on. It's really inappropriate for Your Majesty to scold such a harsh punishment!" someone said.

Han Yu looked at Cao Yubian and couldn't tell what was going on. This matter was indeed strange. It was said that the emperor scolded Yan Shenggong and the reprimanding was extremely strict, but everyone stood from afar. No one knew what the emperor said. Logically speaking, if the emperor really scolded Yan Shenggong, then Yan Shenggong would have to submit a memorial to apologize. But now he only saw Yan Shenggong staying away and not submitting any memorials, nor did the emperor give any imperial edicts about Yan Shenggong. This was strange. So, as for whether he was scolded, it still needs to be determined.

"Now that Your Majesty has scolded Yan Shenggong, Yan Shenggong will definitely feel dissatisfied. Perhaps... if you can get Yan Shenggong's support, this matter will definitely be accomplished." Someone gave an idea.

Cao Yubian was drinking tea and was also considering this matter. Why did the emperor scold Yan Shenggong? Could it be that he had any objection to their meeting with Yan Shenggong? The emperor was also afraid that Yan Shenggong would get involved with them? But when he thought about the process of talking to Yan Shenggong, Cao Yubian couldn't understand even more. Kong Yinzhi was very smart, and he let him speak dryly, but he didn't get any promises. Why did the emperor scold Kong Yinzhi so severely? Could it be that His Majesty wanted to drive Kong Yinzhi to their side? Thinking of this, Cao Yubian became even more worried. He really couldn't see the emperor's way. He felt that Han Yu glanced at him with his eyes and looked over, and the information he got was also confused and uncertain.

"I'm afraid that Yan Shenggong will not easily get involved in these matters. It's difficult to persuade Yan Shenggong to help us..." Another person had a negative attitude towards this matter.

"Why is it difficult? Does Your Majesty collect taxes, but he will not collect taxes from Yansheng Gong? Who doesn't know that the Kong family is in Shandong and there is a county to worship..." The man immediately retorted.

"So what if there is a county? Can you stand on our side? Can you support us? The court's preferential treatment to Yan Shenggong is not something that only exists today. Compared with these, what is a little tax? Just take a little bit out of your hand, it will be enough for Yan Shenggong to enjoy it. How can that little tax be compared?..." Another refuted immediately.

"As a descendant of the saint, Yan Shenggong should stand on our side. Your Majesty's new interpretation of the word Confucian is to use a knife on the word Confucian. How could Yan Shenggong not have any personal pain? To prevent Your Majesty from dismantling the word Confucian, you can only stand on our side..." Someone immediately fought hard.

This point has been approved by many people, and many people nodded. The new interpretation of the word Confucian character and the need to interpret the word Confucian character into human needs. This is a real family of Confucianism!

"I'll wait until I'll visit you again and test the situation, and say whether it will be successful." Cao Yubian immediately concluded that everyone had come to this point, and finally, a better news came out.

Everyone nodded again and said yes, and the atmosphere became much more active. Han Yu nodded, but he was confused. What kind of chess was the emperor taking this step? Was he intentionally doing this or was he fainted? He couldn't understand, nor could he understand.

The meeting was almost done. Cao Yubian was upset. He looked at Han Du and said, "Does the master have anything to say?" Han Du gave up the position of "Boss", and it was Cao Yubian's turn to be in charge.

"I won't say much, everything depends on the General Consort." Han Dong was so open-minded that he didn't plan to stand on the front line of opposing the emperor. This kind of thing was too big. Han Dong felt that he was afraid he couldn't hold on, so he might as well retreat to let Cao Yubian stand up. Compared with the strength of the two sides, he really couldn't see what the chance of winning here was.

"Okay, this is a decisive battle, and we must stop Your Majesty from collecting taxes. You need to work together to overcome difficulties. Success or failure is here." Cao Yubian summarized. Although there is no good way to deal with the emperor, Cao Yubian felt that he could use all the unused methods and combine them into a one-stop. It might be a miraculous effect. After making up his mind, he was ready to leave the meeting.

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Chapter completed!