In fact, in that dream, when Xue Tingxiang became an official in the DPRK, the situation in the DPRK was not very good.
Emperor Jiacheng acted arbitrarily and independently, and restored the power of Jinyiwei to inspect and patrol and the power of Slijian to approve red.
Just as the little fish and shrimp below, at most, I can see the leopard, but I can't see the big picture. All I know is that the civil servants are holding together like never before, trying to resist the imperial power. No one knows how many sacrifices were made, how many fell, and how many stood up.
In fact, there are a few people who can please fight against the imperial power. When he ignores the writing of the historian a hundred years later, he enters a state of rage. People block killing people and Buddha blocks killing Buddha. I feel that my neck is harder than a butcher’s knife, although I can try it.
In this battle between ruler and minister, Emperor Jiacheng seemed to have won, but he didn't.
To win means that the imperial power is high and the courtiers are weak. To say that there is no victory is when the imperial power is high, when all the courtiers below are united into one piece.
Could it be that the Jiacheng Dark Age has come
Yes, those few years were called the Great Darkness by some scholars of later generations. The status of the civil servants was suppressed as never before, and the courtroom was full of blood and rain, which made people tremble with fear.
And all this until the end of the Jiacheng Dynasty, Fang Xiu.
Just as Xue Tingxiang fell into memory below, the battle between the monarch and the minister above had begun.
Emperor Jiacheng has been on the throne for nearly ten years. This emperor is not very patient, and it is rare that he can endure until this moment. When he thought he was ready, it was when he showed his sharp fangs.
And Emperor Jiacheng wouldn't be stupid enough to play by himself, naturally he hid a few sharp knives.
Following Emperor Jiacheng's attack, the ministers below saw that they had no choice but to come up with a solution.
Some people say that there are two taxes on salt and tea, but soon some people say that salt tea is a heavy tax, and adding more taxes will arouse public resentment. After some quarrel, the salt and tea could not be added, so they could only increase the tax on the farmland.
Although some people objected to this proposal, the opposition was not fierce. From the beginning of the founding of the dynasty, taxation was the top priority. Follow.
Now if you add some, it is not impossible. Seeing that this decision was unanimously approved by all the officials in the hall, at this moment, Zheng Yunjie, the censor of the right capital of the Imperial Court, launched an attack.
Zheng Yunjie, the censor of Youdu, who was raised by Emperor Jiacheng, impeached Jiang Wang, the prefect of Suzhou, for condoning the occupation of civilian land by the prefect of Suzhou, which aroused public resentment. He also went straight to the point that the tax fields recorded in the household fish scale book were decreasing day by day, and where did these fertile fields go.
If there is no farmland, naturally there will be no income tax, and if the income tax cannot be collected, the imperial court will naturally have no money.
Long ago, Xue Tingyan felt that the method of early review proposed by the Ministry of Households put the cart before the horse, except that it would reduce the efficiency of the court's affairs and bring no benefits to the court.
They were all waiting here!
Let you fight, fight every day for the sake of three melons and two jujubes.
Fight inside first, if you can't win or lose, it's up to the people above to decide. But there is just one cake, you eat more, naturally I eat less, and everyone has grudges in their hearts. When the grievances could not be quelled, Emperor Jiacheng took action.
Where can I pay tax
Naturally, the land was occupied by those gentry landlords and officials.
From the grass-roots level, a scholar can be exempted from the extortionate taxes of fifty acres of land, five hundred acres for a person, and three thousand acres for a scholar. The imperial court recruited scholars every three years, with three hundred Jinshi per division, about one thousand five hundred people, and five or six thousand scholars. This is only for each subject, and those who have already achieved fame and are still continuing to take the test.
These people add up to a hundred thousand.
There is a saying that donations are prevalent in various places, and there is a saying that as soon as a scholar ascends to the township, he will be donated to become a wealthy person, which is enough to show how grim the situation is.
Of course, the most serious problem is not the lower-level scholars, but the officials at all levels above the jinshi. The higher the rank, the greater the tax-free amount.
Everyone is the beneficiary, and they are the approvers of the imperial system. Naturally, how generous they are.
Which of the officials here is not a big landlord, even if he is not, his relatives are. Just like in that dream, more than half of the places in Shanxi have the surname Xue.
Emperor Jiacheng actually wanted to poke a hornet's nest!
Xue Tingxiang hid the surprise in his pupils, and listened to Zheng Yunjie's impassioned rebuke above: "I have seen Dianji and other places where traitors and evil parties are competing to make donations in the name of empty fields... If Chen's request is invalid, the contributor will stop, the people who occupy the land will not suffer the harm of annexation and encroachment…”
In his heart, he did not give much hope to Emperor Jiacheng's move.
The movement is quite big, and there are too many people moving. To poke this matter is undoubtedly poke a hornet's nest. It's okay to smash one person's job, everyone is at most onlookers, but if everyone's job is smashed, it is estimated that everyone will be killed.
Sure enough, as expected by Xue Tingyan, Zheng Yunjie stopped talking at the front, and some people at the back criticized it as absurd, and said that it cannot be generalized, and individual phenomena are regarded as the main cause of the empty state treasury.
Immediately afterwards, a high-ranking official stood up and said bluntly, saying that since a problem has been discovered, it is natural to solve the problem. The court will not wrong a good person, nor will it let a bad person go.
This statement welcomed everyone's approval, and all the senior officials suggested that they must be thoroughly investigated. If it is true, they will be severely punished.
Where to start looking? Naturally, it was Jiang Wang from the prefect of Suzhou.
After a period of deliberation, several imperial officials were appointed on the spot to go to Suzhou to investigate the case in person. The ministers also advised Emperor Jiacheng to pay more attention to the dragon's body and not be too anxious to get angry.
Things seem to be going well, but it would be a mistake to think that this is a victory.
From the capital to Suzhou, it takes at least half a month on the road, and when we arrive there, it is almost the end of the year. It is a rule not to investigate cases during the New Year. The investigation will begin at the beginning of the new year. When it is found out whether the imperial envoy has returned to the court, it must be April or May next year.
Xue Tingxiang didn't have to think about it to know what the outcome would be.
Jiang Wang's fate is not to be mentioned, since he will be severely punished. But the matter of land acquisition, which was finally mentioned, has slowed down after a few months. Even if Emperor Jiacheng can still remember it, the energy has also been vented. Don't be afraid even if you don't vent, there will always be ghosts coming out for the dead.
After going back and forth like this, Emperor Jiacheng might get bored himself.
Emperor Jiacheng also seemed to understand this truth, so his face was particularly ugly.
But the righteousness is here, the rules are here, he can only hold back, and he can't rush to raid the house if anyone suspects it. At this time, the court will only be in chaos.
With a shout of long live, Emperor Jiacheng left angrily with his hands behind his back.
After he left, the ministers below looked at each other and dispersed.