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When he returned to the Ganqing Palace, Zhu Youxiao found that Zhang Yuer and Xiaobai were not there. The palace servant reported that it was the Queen Liang Concubine who sent someone to invite her to meet with the cat she raised.

When a cat meets?! It’s not a human, nor a friend, what’s the meeting?

Zhu Youxiao thought it was Concubine Wang Liang who was being petty, but he didn't care too much, so he asked the palace servants to hold a meal. He didn't eat well in Wuying Palace.

Just as I was about to start eating, I saw Zhang Yuer coming back with Xiaobai in her arms, with a strange expression.

"I have seen the emperor." Zhang Yu'er squatted down to salute, and the White Lady in her arms couldn't help but jump up to the table.

Zhu Youxiao nodded and said, "Looking at Xiaobai's anxious look, it seems that he hasn't eaten!"

Zhang Yuer smiled, got up and went to the table, skillfully brought the small plate, followed the instructions of the White Lady and began to serve the dishes.

"Didn't Liang Fei keep you for dinner?" Zhu Youxiao started eating and asked casually.

Zhang Yuer pursed her lips and said, "I was going to leave for food, but Mrs. Bai was unhappy and beat the concubine Liang's cat to run around, climbing onto the tree and not daring to come down. Taking advantage of the chaos, I hurriedly hugged Mrs. Bai and ran away."

Ah?! Zhu Youxiao was a little surprised. Concubine Wang Liang's cat is the same as Xiaobai, and it is also white, but it is a male cat. He has seen it.

Looking at the chubby Xiaobai, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but laugh and said, "I didn't expect that Xiaobai is still a fighting cat. But, can he still climb trees like this fat?"

Xiaobai glanced at Zhu Youxiao proudly, lowered his head and ate sweetly.

Zhu Youxiao shrugged his shoulders, not as good as the cats.

However, Xiaobai has been a little strange these days, and Zhu Youxiao felt a little confused in his heart. It seemed like he was about to be separated.

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Xu Hongru's rebellion was suppressed, only one month later. However, several counties were corrupt, with tens of thousands of casualties, and the losses were large.

However, sorrow and suffering are just topics of conversation for those who are far away from the turmoil. Without a personal feeling, there will be no real pain.

The Su and Song prefectures were not only the main part of the tax collection of the Ming Dynasty, but also the hardest hit areas for landlords and gentry to arrears of taxes.

As the saying goes, "The big households and those who talk about the treasures and boots are unwilling to collect grain. Even if they receive it, they are not white grain, and there is no additional consumption, they are unwilling to travel far away."

Moreover, the commodity economy of Su and Song prefectures was developed and the merchants were powerful. By bribing clerks, merchants and gentry were able to control local power and control local governments.

By the middle and late Ming Dynasty, landlords, gentry, merchants, and even bureaucrats had no strict distinction. They developed across borders and intertwined with each other, and it was common to have multiple identities.

It is precisely because of such a complex situation that the gentry and businessmen in Jiangnan are fearless and fearless. They have cultivated powerful spokespersons in the court; in local areas, they control officials to show off their traitors.

As early as the Jiajing period, some local regimes were monopolized by merchants, and local government officials must obey orders to some extent.

The richest man in Wuxi, Zou Wang, fought with Gu Kexue, the then Minister of Rites, and fully proved the existence of this situation.

The cause of the incident was that Zou Wang’s mother passed away and she was carrying out a big funeral. There were too many people coming. Not only were the streets congested, but the Gu family’s old house was demolished!

Old Gu relied on his high position. You, a businessman, are you so brave, so you are not going to get rid of it! So he asked the Wuxi prefect to throw Zou Wang into prison!

Zou Wanggang was arrested and imprisoned, and all shops ten miles inside and outside Wuxi City were sacked, using this as a threat to demand the release of Zou Wang.

The prefect of Wuxi was helpless and told Secretary Gu that if the matter would develop, the court would inevitably punish him and could only let Zou Wang go first. Secretary Gu was resentful and had to swallow his anger first.

But the matter is not over yet. All the shops and merchants in Wuxi refused to sell anything to Shangshu Gu and his family. There were even harassment from rogues and scoundrels and threats of writing.

Shangshu Gu was scared and hurriedly asked the prefect to send yamen runners to protect him. However, the yamen runners stayed at home when they asked for sick leave, and no one came to make up the reason for asking for leave.

This time, Master Gu understood [Haitang Bookstore www.lvshuw.com]. This place is the home court of others, and no matter how high his official position is, it is useless. In the end, Shangshu Gu could only leave Wuxi with his family.

Judging from the fact that Zou Wang defeated Shangshu Gu, the ancestors summarized that "a strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake" is indeed very reasonable.

Under such a political ecology, no matter how good the court has introduced, it will be greatly reduced when it comes to the bottom, and may even be deliberately misinterpreted and implemented.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao took advantage of the aftermath of the rebellion of the Scent of the Incense and Education, and began to take action. However, the evil gentry in Su and Song's palaces were still unaware of it, and was dreaming of maintaining the status quo and continuing to have extravagant dreams.

The pirated and reprinted "The Ming Dynasty Forum" was thrown on the table. Li Zitong, a wealthy landlord from Jiading County, Suzhou Prefecture, curled his lips, looking full of disdain.

He picked up the tea bowl and took a sip. He sneered and said to the butler: "The court is crazy about poverty. Isn't it a dream to introduce the policy of 'grain'?"

The housekeeper stroked a few rats and flattered him, "No matter how hard he tried, we have certain rules. No matter what policy he is, it will be difficult to get to Jiading County."

The so-called food-based policy is to impose additional taxes on the rich.

The specific implementation method is: for farmers who pay taxes below 5 taels, no additional tax will be imposed; for rich households who pay taxes above 5 taels, grain taxes will be imposed to varying degrees according to the amount of property.

This was not the first creation of Zhu Youxiao, but was called the two great strategies for saving the country in the late Ming Dynasty, and was briefly implemented during the Chongzhen period.

When Lu Xiangsheng was appointed Governor of Xuanda, he was one of the advocates and implementers and achieved good results.

Although the "grain-being" policy had some impact on the interests of officials and gentry, officials could still use their power to evade some, so the resistance was not too great.

But under the clamor of Yang Sichang and other ministers, Chongzhen's mind was kicked by a donkey again. "Because of food" became "equality", which means that you are poor or rich, you will all be charged together.

In this way, the people who were already on the verge of life and death were even less able to survive, and they had to choose to rebel, which made the peasant uprising a huge increase in the power of the peasant uprising and it was hard to curb it.

Now, Zhu Youxiao picked it up again and was ready to carry it to the end. Of course, now it is just a breath of air to prepare the local government.

But in the eyes of rich landlords such as Li Zitong, this extra expedition could not fall on him at all.

The local government has the final say on how much taxes to pay and how to determine the list of exemptions from additional taxes. What is the relationship between local governments and them? It is just a matter of writing.
Chapter completed!