The next confession was much simpler. Gongshen and Zhao Juren breathed for half an hour. Their consciousness gradually recovered. What they wanted to do most now was to die quickly. Living was torture for them.

The emperor personally visited Xiongxian and alarmed the surrounding troops. Baoding Governor Xu Biao personally brought the army to protect the troops. After the army entered the city, the situation in Xiongxian instantly stabilized.

Everyone knows that the emperor personally visited Xiong County and arrested Zhao Juren Heping County Magistrate. This is naturally a great joy that makes people applaud. The people ran around and told each other and all celebrated.

But some people are happy and some are worried. Many people who have once clinged to Zhao Juren Heping County Magistrate, and they deeply felt that the end of the world is not far away. Especially when the emperor and the prince arrive in person, it is even worse for them.

Everyone knows the situation in Xiongxian. Only 50,000 people pay taxes in the county town with more than 200,000 people. The emperor came here on this trip, afraid that it was not just to arrest a mere juren and county magistrate. What they dealt with was the corrupt officials and government affairs in Xiongxian over the years.

The landlords and wealthy people could no longer sit still. Once the emperor investigated them strictly, no one could escape. The landlords and wealthy families had hundreds of lowly people under their names.

These people can avoid taxes by sheltering these rich people. A large number of people transfer land to the names of officials and can achieve reasonable tax avoidance, as long as the officials want lower than corrupt officials, officials will also help families and local gentry to modify the tax list and distribute the taxes of these people to other people.

Once these disadvantages are found by the emperor, it will be a big deal.

Therefore, even if the emperor was in charge of Xiong County, Xiong County was still surging. Chongzhen was surrounded by only a dozen Jinyiwei.

Then, Baoding Governor Xu Biao came with a large army. The army protected the troops, and Xiongxian naturally settled quickly.

Xu Biao, a native of Jining, Shandong, was named Jingming and the nickname was Hezhou. He was a Jinshi in the fifth year of Tianqi. During the Chongzhen period, he served as the consul of Xu Dao in Huai. In the 16th year, he was promoted to the right assistant censor and governor Baoding. He was appointed as the prefect of the current affairs and requested to pay attention to border defense, choose a commander, use a chariot to fight, and use a strategy for garrisoning the border. He was appointed as the Minister of War and the Governor of Military Affairs, and moved to Zhending to curb Li Zicheng. Xuan was defeated, and the central army Xie Jiafu killed Biao and surrendered to the city.

??I have traveled from Huaibei to the capital, and my scenery has changed from the past.

Chicken and dogs are silent in the wild house, and the paths are covered with weeds.????

This poem was written by Xu Biao. His arrival led Zhu Cixuan to decide to start rectifying the corruption in Xiongxian.

All kinds of taxes were not paid, and the Donglin Party refused to pay taxes on industry, commerce and mining. Moreover, the property occupied by the princes of the Ming Dynasty was very large and the corruption was very serious. As a result, the Ming Dynasty could not pay taxes in the end.

The Dameng Dynasty wanted to raise soldiers, but the soldiers expanded to hundreds of thousands, which was more than the number of regular soldiers in the Ming Dynasty. At the critical moment, these people were all silent, let alone going to the battlefield. As a result, most of the regular soldiers who were hungry surrendered to the enemy.

By looking at the source of the house searches by bandits like Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, you can tell that the fattest people in the Ming Dynasty were princes, aristocratic families, and eunuchs. These were all perfectly reflected in Xiongxian.

Emperor Chongzhen finally felt the root cause of corruption in the official affairs, and he began to investigate.

Zhu Cixuan sent the results of the investigation one by one: "Father, you see, these are the methods for the people to avoid taxes. If they transfer the land to these people, they can be exempted from taxes."

Looking at the thick file, Emperor Chongzhen was furious; "These unruly people, these corrupt officials!"

"Father, this is probably nothing to do with the people."

Chongzhen was stunned: "How do you say this?"

"Father, look, the people who transferred the land under their name to the officials were actually not voluntarily. Moreover, after they transferred to the officials, the land became the subject of these scholars and officials. The people still had to pay taxes. The difference is that the tax they paid was not given to the court, but fell into the pockets of these people."

Chongzhen's hand holding the file trembled slightly: "The sign of a country's destruction is a sign of a country's destruction! How dare the officials below deceive me so much! They turned black and white and confused right and wrong. Is there no king's law?"

Zhu Cilang shook his head: "These local officials really don't have the king's law, they themselves are the king's law. Look at this little scholar, who has a land yield of tens of thousands of acres. He has thirty-six shops and married eight concubines."

"Investigate, check it out for me! Investigate it strictly, all those who evade taxes will be arrested, arrested!"

The Ming Dynasty was a relatively strong era in my country's history, but the treasury had never had money, mainly because the three major domestic forces emptied the treasury. These three major forces were: merchants, literati and royal family. It was precisely because of the corruption and corruption of these three major forces that the strong treasury of the Ming Dynasty was emptied by their selfish desires little by little, which led to frequent financial crises in the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty was originally a very strong dynasty, but this dynasty eventually went to decline and demise, which had a lot to do with the treasury vacancy.

This means that the Ming Dynasty has no money, and the Ming Dynasty has rich and rich.

However, these huge wealth is not in the hands of the court or in the hands of ordinary people. Instead, it is in the hands of those hypocritical scholars, the noble and wealthy royal relatives, the noble landlords and wealthy.

They have huge wealth in their hands. Think about the fact that a group of bandits had grown to a scale of millions by relying on eating these people. It can be seen how cruel these borers are.

Corruption and fraud are serious, collusion between officials and businessmen, and the emptiness of the treasury is not under the control of the biggest root cause.

Zhu Cilang was very clear in his heart, but when he proposed it to Emperor Chongzhen, Chongzhen always refused to comment.

Because Emperor Chongzhen didn't understand all this, he was always blinded by the ministers in the court. The court officials knew very well that when the emperor knew all this, there was no way to make any money.

It is best if the emperor doesn't understand, it is best if he is confused. This is the best way to control it, and they can rely on the Ming Dynasty to suck blood wildly.

Only by letting Chongzhen experience the people and experience them personally can he know the root of the disadvantages of the Ming Dynasty.

Now Emperor Chongzhen knows why the treasury has been so poor that it is so poor that it is not enough to pay taxes.

I can't stand it, so many borers are eating. Otherwise, a father-in-law, Zhou Kui, donated two million taels to the court.

What does it mean to have two million taels? The money donated by a person is the total taxes of the entire Ming Dynasty for half a year. How terrible is this? I can't shudder when I think about it.

Come on, rectify!

Zhu Cilang took Xiong County as a pilot project, and Emperor Chongzhen took Xiong County and began to vigorously rectify it.
Chapter completed!