The miners did not expect that the IRS Tax Ding Zhen would shoot. The timids had already begun to flee, and the bold ones stood there stupidly.

The tax officials from the State Administration of Taxation did not shoot again. After all, the people of the Ming Dynasty were hindering the law enforcement, and there was no need to massacre.

These IRS tax officials came to the mining area with muskets only.

The miners standing at the gate of the mining area no longer had the courage to confront Tax Ding of the IRS and consciously gave up half of the passage.

The tax officer from the IRS walked in, cut off the mine rope, filled the mine cave, and put a seal on the gate, and transported all the mined minerals away.

Even the injured miners lying on the ground were carried away for treatment.

Only other miners and Xu Guangzuo were still stunned.

For Xu Guangzuo and the miners, the current behavior of the Taxation Department of the Imperial Bureau shocked them.

Because no matter how fierce the government is, they will be a little afraid when facing mass incidents, fearing that they will cause civil unrest.

But now, the IRS people are not afraid of so many miners occupying the mine, but instead enforce the law.

Zhang Cong actually didn't want to do this, but there was no way. He knew that he had collected heavy taxes not only offended the gentry but also the people, but he had to offend! Otherwise, the increasingly large military expenditure would sooner or later drag down the empire.

Therefore, Zhang Cong continued to force the tax officials of the IRS to continue to impose taxes on minerals in various places, while the Ministry of Mines continued to put pressure on the officials of various provinces.

But the rebound is getting stronger.

In addition, the incident in which Zhang Cong shot and killed the people who blocked the law enforcement directly caused an uproar.

First of all, Xu Guangzuo, who personally ran to the Censorate and sued Zhang Cong for acquiescing the officers and soldiers of the State Taxation Bureau to kill the people without permission.

After hearing this, the left censor Jin Xianmin was also very shocked and immediately asked to see Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, Zhang Cong, the second assistant of the cabinet, accused the officers and soldiers of the State Taxation Bureau of the State Taxation Bureau, accused the officers and soldiers of the State Taxation Bureau of the State Taxation Bureau who killed the people without permission, and punished Zhang Cong!"

Zhu Houzhao was speechless when he took the evidence that Jin Xianmin received through Xu Guangzuo. He naturally knew that the collection of heavy mining taxes would definitely lead to conflicts between officials and civilians, and death and injuries were inevitable. He would be reluctant to see a people who did not violate the law being killed. However, he also knew that he could not deal with Zhang Cong, and even the officers and soldiers of the State Taxation Bureau, otherwise they would never dare to strictly enforce the law for the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao said for a long time: "Jin Qing, don't be impatient. Now I will summon Zhang Cong and ask him to explain the situation to you. If it is really a person from the IRS to enforce the law brutally and kill the people without reason, it will naturally be dealt with according to the law. It will do whatever you should do. But if it is the people who resist taxes and violate administrative orders, and the law enforcement officers are forced to counterattack in self-defense, it is another matter."

Zhang Cong was reported to the palace. Seeing the unkind eyes of the Zuodu Censor Jin Xianmin, he could guess what was happening, but after Zhu Houzhao handed him Xu Guangzuo's impeachment memorial, Zhang Cong also explained and explained the situation to Zhu Houzhao.

"It seems that it was caused by miners' violent tax resistance. It was just a crime to kill an intentional assaulter for self-defense. It was not considered a crime. For this matter, it's fine. However, Zhang Cong, you should also give instructions to let the IRS officials try to avoid bloodshed!"

After Zhu Houzhao finished speaking, Zhang Cong bowed: "I obey the order!"

Jin Xianmin was also a little surprised to see this, thinking to himself that His Majesty has always loved the people, why did Zhang Cong cause people to bleed today but did not punish Zhang Cong? However, Jin Xianmin knew that this matter could not be forgotten. After all, the collection of heavy mining taxes this time has defied the interests of many people. For the sake of the Ming Dynasty, he had to risk angering Zhu Houzhao:

Seeing this, Zhang Cong was a little reluctant and hurriedly stood up: "Your Majesty, the chief minister is not unreasonable. He is also considering the overall situation of the court. He also asks Your Majesty to forgive the chief minister. What the Chief Minister said is not just for the consideration of Your Majesty and the senior official."

"You don't have to plead for him! As the chief minister, I don't know the harm of changing the orders every day, but I retreated in fear of difficulties. Please retire! What's the use of staying in the court!"

Zhu Houzhao's words were equivalent to dismissing Kang Hai's position as chief minister of the cabinet.

Of course, Zhu Houzhao was not really angry with Kang Hai. He just used the matter of dismissing Kang Hai to express his opinion to Zhang Cong and the outside world that his emperor still supported Zhang Cong, and Zhang Cong's holy family was no longer comparable to others. Even if Kang Hai, the chief minister of the cabinet, wanted to slander Zhang Cong, he would be dismissed from office.

really.

As soon as the news that Kang Hai was dismissed came out of the palace, the entire government and the country were shocked, especially after knowing that Kang Hai was dismissed because of opposition to Zhang Cong, he was even more surprised!

"The Emperor Chengyun of the Heavenly Heaven, and the imperial edict said... Zhang Cong, for the Grand Secretary of Jianji Palace, was given the title of Grand Tutor, and was given the imperial sedan chair in the Forbidden City!"

When Zhang Cong's decree to succeed the chief minister of the cabinet was announced, the government and the opposition were even more shocked, but they also knew that the current situation of levying heavy taxes by mining taxes was irreversible.

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Zhu Houzhao knew that he ignored the feelings of the people in the world and dismissed Kang Hai, and promoted Zhang Cong, who had been criticized by the world, to the prime minister. This was equivalent to adding another fire when the people were in full swing, which was equivalent to raising Zhang Cong on a more violent fire, and perhaps even he was hated by the people in the world.

But as the emperor, Zhu Houzhao knew that he had to be more determined than anyone else at this time, so on the surface, he still showed his kindness to Zhang Cong without fear, and even called him Zhang Cong a gentleman.

Zhang Cong knew that the emperor's respect was not something he could enjoy casually. The more the emperor respected himself, the more he needed him, the more jealousy and resentment he would arouse. It can be said that the emperor's respect was a time bomb given to him by the emperor.

But the example of the ending of Ma Wensheng, Jiao Fang and others with good endings is that Zhang Cong still feels that the current Ming emperor is different from the previous emperors. What he has to do now is to live up to the emperor's absolute trust in him.

Therefore, Zhang Cong was more decisive in doing things next.

Zhang Zheng, the governor of Jiangxi, who had always been a clean and honest official, refused to obey the imperial edict and refused to set up a mining agency, and blocked the people of the State Taxation Bureau from collecting mining taxes.

Zhang Cong had no choice but to ask for an order to dismiss Zhang Zheng.

Zheng Yue, the minister of Dali Temple, was forced by Zhang Cong to write down a ten thousand words to impeach Zhang Cong because he could not afford the tax, and then committed suicide by drinking poison.

When the government and the country heard it, they were all shocked.

Even if it involves the army, Zhang Cong did not mean to retreat or compromise at all.

"Tell General Li Long that he was in charge of mines and profits, but he did not pay any compensation for officers and soldiers. Now he deducted the military pay paid by the court to his officers and soldiers! The court officers and soldiers were guarding the borders and defending the enemy for the court, and were not his slaves to Li Long! The mines belong to His Majesty the Emperor, nor were they his private property for personal gain! He was limited to three days to close the silver mines, otherwise, the official would have to dismiss him from the Ministry of War! The Censorate of the Party was punished by the crime!"
Chapter completed!