East Factory Governor

Chapter 708 Never Compromise
The New Deal has become the top priority of the empire this year.

In order to carry out the New Deal smoothly, Chongzhen showed the iron fist and foresight of a monarch.

The first thing he did was to re-form the cabinet.

On February [-]th of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Sun Chengzong was entrusted by Chongzhen with the important task of chief assistant of the cabinet. At the same time, Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng were promoted to cabinet members (the original positions were temporarily retained). Mainly the quad-core era.

Chongzhen at this time is no longer the same as Chongzhen when he ascended the throne four years ago.At that time, when he wanted to form a cabinet, he could only circle people in the list provided by the Donglin Party. Even because the interests of all parties were not balanced, he had to form a cabinet in the form of "drawing lots".

Now, no one inside or outside the government dares to make irresponsible remarks on the cabinet he organized. No matter who it is, as long as it has real talents and practical work, he can use it if he wants.

The four-member cabinet had just been formed. On February [-]th of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Chongzhen issued an imperial edict to open the Jingchao.

This year's Jingchao is presided over by Qin Shuhuai, a scholar of Wuyingdian University, Zhou Yingqiu, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Wang Bingzhang, the left governor of the Inspectorate, and Wang Bingzhang, the left governor of the Inspectorate, as the deputy chairmen, assisted by the minister of the Ministry of Officials, the Department of Wenxuan, and the doctor of the Kaogong Department.

In the Ming Dynasty, especially in the middle and late stages of the Ming Dynasty, every session of the Jingcha was a major reshuffle of power.Regardless of whether it is the Eunuch Party, the Donglin Party, the Qi Party, the Zhejiang Party, or any other faction, every time the Jingchao is held, it is bound to try its best to eliminate dissidents.

Therefore, there is a saying in "History of Ming Dynasty": The disaster of the door originated from Jingcha.

In previous years, the Jingcha was a life-and-death struggle, and it was the time to settle accounts after autumn. Any official who offended the faction that controlled the Jingcha this time would face brutal political revenge.The result of retaliation ranges from being dismissed from office to being imprisoned, assigned or even executed.

But this time, Qin Shuhuai had the power to kill and kill officials all over the world.

Of course, it is also in the hands of Chongzhen, because the goals of the two of them are the same.

That is to use the cruel Beijing police to clear the way for the implementation of the New Deal.

On March 170th of the fourth year of Chongzhen, with the strong support of Chongzhen, Sun Chengzong's exhaustive planning, and after more than a month of repeated discussions, revisions, and arrangements by Qin Shuhuai, Hong Chengchou, Li Dingguo, Lu Xiangsheng and other great talents, there are a total of [-] articles, In [-], the nine chapters of "Rectification of Officials, Fu, and Tian Sanzhi New Deal" were finally completed and approved by the cabinet.

The next day, Chongzhen, who couldn't wait, formally issued an order in the Hall of Supreme Harmony to implement the New Deal throughout the country!

The imperial envoy fully responsible for presiding over the New Deal is also Qin Shuhuai.

Let Qin Shuhuai combine the power of the Beijing Supervision and the presiding of the New Deal in one person, this intention could not be more obvious.

The New Deal quickly spread throughout the country, and the ruling and opposition parties were all shocked.

A national sensation!

Its shocking potential is no less than that of landslides, tsunamis, ground cracks and thunder.

In the rural fields, after hearing the news, countless farmers were all stunned and couldn't believe it.

Even after the announcement was posted at the gate of the county government office, and the township government went door-to-door to notify, a large number of people still did not believe it!

Exemption of agricultural taxes for three years, even Liao's and Suppression's salaries, and the emperor also ordered that no officials should levy any taxes on farmers for any reason?
This is impossible!

Without agricultural payment, what do the court officials eat?
What does the army eat?
What does the emperor eat?
This must be impossible!

Also, what do you mean by registering and registering landless people, and then waiting to buy land in installments?
According to Li Zheng, it seems that the rich households are going to sell their land to barefoot peasants like us, and the money for the land sale can be paid in 20-year installments?And if we have a natural or man-made disaster and can't afford it, can the imperial court help us pay it back?

Really such a good thing?

We only need to pay a little more than three yuan a year, and if we pay enough for 20 years, one mu of land will belong to us?

Hey, we used to farm for the owner, and we paid more than this amount of rent every year, but now the rent has been reduced by more than half, and he will have to give us the land later?
How is this possible?

There must be something wrong!Definitely is!

There is nothing so good in the world!
Besides, how can we not pay taxes when we farm the land?We want to thank the emperor for his kindness, but if the emperor exempts the gift, it will still be three years, which is wrong!
If you don't pay taxes, how much money do I, Ming, have to support the army?There is no money to support the army, so the man-eating Tartars and murderous bandits are everywhere again?
Also, we farm for the owner, if the owner can charge less rent, it is kindness of the owner, we all think well.But who said that after planting someone else's field, they would take over their ancestral property later?
Comparing your heart with your heart, even if we are the boss, you wouldn't want to!

Besides, they are all from the village, so how do you greet your boss when you see them in the future?

That's not it!
So this must be false, the old man Li Zheng is talking nonsense!
In addition to the peasants, the powerful landlords everywhere were also shocked.

For the extra [-] mu of land, an "extra tax" of one tael of silver per mu?
Isn't the imperial court clearly trying to grab our land?

The officials all over the world were also shocked.

Salary increased to three times the original?The emperor's grace is mighty, the emperor's grace is mighty!Now I finally don't have to worry about money, and I can finally be an official with dignity.

Wait, what is the separation of powers?
It is said that the county magistrate doesn't seem to care about the case?What kind of talk is this?The magistrate is still called the magistrate regardless of the case being settled?

Businessmen across the country were also shocked.

What is a tax deed? Isn't that thing only available when buying and selling houses?How can I sell a salt or even a steamed stuffed bun?
As expected, the country is in chaos!
In the New Deal, there are too many things that the common people and even officials do not understand.

Qin Shuhuai urgently trained hundreds of New Deal preachers, and after half a month of closed-door high-intensity training, they were sent to all parts of the country to give lectures.

In this way, until the beginning of May, it took more than two months for most people in the north of the Yangtze River to understand what the New Deal was all about.

It was very easy to make things clear, but the trouble came again.

Quite a number of tenant farmers, red farmers, and free farmers found the squire and wrote a "Chen Qing Letter" and sent it to the Yamen. The "Chen Qing Letter" first praised Chongzhen fiercely, saying that he is the most benevolent monarch in the history Holy Lord, the common people are grateful for the emperor's "benevolent government", but in the end they tactfully expressed that they welcome the emperor's reduction of taxes, but as citizens of the Ming Dynasty, they have to pay the taxes, otherwise the court will have no money and no food, and the Ming Dynasty will have no money. Why are you safe?Why does the army defend the world?

I wrote a lot of it eloquently, which is called a righteous speech, impassioned, and then pressed a bunch of handprints underneath

After several twists and turns, the "Chen Love Letter" was handed over to Qin Shuhuai, and Qin Shuhuai was so angry that he couldn't laugh or cry.

What do you mean?Are you still not happy about not charging you taxes?

And yet, that's the lovely thing about this era.

In this era, be a man with conscience!

Later generations often say that the human heart is not ancient, so what was the "ancient" human heart like?

Qin Shuhuai thinks, that's probably the case, everything depends on conscience!

In recent years, the imperial court has devoted all their efforts to protecting the country and the people. A large number of "good officials" such as An Guogong have brought countless soldiers to the battlefield, and they have seen it.

Now that the world has been preliminarily determined, the imperial court has continued to reduce taxes in order to restore prosperity and let the big guys live a better life. They have seen it.

Therefore, they also want to make life easier for the court!

They feel that the way to make life easier for the imperial court is to pay taxes—as long as it is not as heavy as before, they will accept appropriate taxes!
But this is so honest!
If even the peasants had "objections" to the new policy, what would Qin Shuhuai do?
To be honest, Qin Shuhuai wanted to hit someone after hearing this.

Sure enough, when this momentum came together, a large number of bureaucrats took the opportunity to write a letter, bluntly speaking about the various drawbacks of the New Deal.

Naturally, the spearhead will not point to the matter of raising their salaries, but to the decentralization of power and the collection of "extra taxes" from the big landlords.

Chongzhen and Qin Shuhuai will not relent at this critical moment.

In the first month, Chongzhen received 120 joint memorials from three officials, large and small, discussing the shortcomings of the New Deal.

He immediately transferred all the memorials to Qin Shuhuai, asking Qin Shuhuai to handle it as appropriate.

Without further ado, Qin Shuhuai immediately wrote the word "impetuous" on the Beijing inspection assessment of these officials.

During the Beijing inspection in the Ming Dynasty, officials were very particular about their assessment and comments.Generally speaking, those who are found to be at fault but not major will be judged as "incautious".For those who received these two-word comments, I'm sorry, you can resign and go home.

However, this is still light.

The most serious thing is the word "impetuous".

If you get these two-word comments, you don't even have the chance to resign. Instead, you immediately take off your black hat on the spot, and you will be escorted by Jin Yiwei to the third division of the capital for interrogation.

The ending is obvious - not only lose the official position, but also have to take off a layer of skin!

According to the procedure, after the comment is made, it will be sent to the cabinet for deliberation immediately.Sun Chengzong, the chief assistant of the cabinet, naturally had no objection to this, and passed it immediately.

After that, it was about Jin Yiwei.

Jin Yiwei was very efficient, and without a word, he took these officials from all over the place and escorted them to the capital.

Qin Shuhuai made it clear for Chongzhen that the New Deal is imperative and will never compromise!
(End of this chapter)