Traveling through the Ming Dynasty, as soon as you open your eyes, you will die

Chapter 159: The Supervisor and the Regent are at odds

After the traitors were hunted down, no one in the officialdom felt in danger, but instead cheered.

Although there was no way to bring back the loss of 500,000 yuan, Lu Mou still rewarded all the participants heavily. Two of the heroes who died not only received the most generous pensions, but Lu Mou also built a Hall of Heroes across the Meridian Square, facing the Meridian Gate, to commemorate this death and all those who would sacrifice their lives for the country in the future. The names of the soldiers are engraved in it, and they will be worshiped and worshiped by those who come after them forever.

For this reason, after Lu Mou continued to communicate with great thinkers, the great thinker, great painter, and great calligrapher Huang Daozhou wrote an inscription for the Hall of Heroes: "In the past two years, the countless martyrs who have reborn the Ming Dynasty have been immortalized forever. For the future. , the countless martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the revival of the Ming Dynasty will be immortalized forever. Going back to the first year of Hongwu, the countless martyrs who established the Ming Dynasty to oppose all foreign oppression will be immortalized forever."

Looking at this majestic and exciting inscription, Lu Mou was filled with contempt: "I despise Huang Daozhou, you are a plagiarist, bah."

As soon as the matter was settled, the eunuch guarding Dongchang reported that the Boye County magistrate had cleverly set up a pretext to collect more donations and taxes from the people.

Not much, only a mere hundred cents per person. It was called a head tax by the euphemistic name of restoring the ancient system.

Hearing this, the regent was furious. I don't even count the ancestral system. Why don't you give me a more advanced one, some ancient system?

What do you mean?

In fact, you don't mean anything. You just want to see that the Ming Dynasty is peaceful and the people are prosperous, so you have returned to your old ways and want to make some money.

Anyway, now that the people are healthy and prosperous, they don’t need this hundred cents.

However, the people are not bad, I am bad, and I am bad on behalf of the people.

This is really holding down the gourd and lifting it up.

However, this is worse than Zhao Zongxian taking money to surrender to the enemy.

When the high court heard such a report and faced the regent's anger, everyone from the chief assistant to the official department and even the minister of punishment defended the county magistrate.

The reason for the defense was that the poll tax collected by the county magistrate was not used for his own corruption and squandering, but for repairing the city wall and dredging the moat.

In other words, he is doing it for public rather than private reasons.

However, Lu Mou said firmly: "Repairing the city wall and dredging the moat requires commission money. The court will never misappropriate commission money. If you want to do something, report it."

Even if your report is not approved, you must not violate the regulations set by the imperial court, and you must not collect an additional tax from the people. This trend must not increase, and this case must not be made. They must be punished severely and beheaded to serve as a warning to others. "

Brother Jianguo said magnanimously: "Brother, don't be too harsh, there is a reason. This county magistrate applied for funds from the cabinet. Because you were not in the government at the time, and the cabinet and brother I believe that Boye County, within Zhili, has no risk of war. , and there is no need to repair the city wall or dredge the moat, all of which are not approved."

Lu Mou nodded: "But, as the supervisor of the country, has my brother ever approved of him collecting donations from the people?"

Zhu Cixiang shook his head: "He once mentioned that the people in the county are willing to raise their own funds to start the work, but I think it is unnecessary and will not approve the waste of money and people."

"The Supervisor did the right thing. He Boye actually despised the Supervisory Order. This is contempt for the imperial power, and he deserves to be killed."

Originally, the Ming emperor's cabinet coexisted, and the ministerial power and the imperial power competed for control, so the imperial power was despised by the ministers.

In the late Ming Dynasty, under the influence of several undisciplined emperors, the imperial power was already inferior to the power of ministers, so a few powerful cabinet ministers came out to govern the world in place of the emperor, and the effect was better. In this way, it slowly appeared in the Ming Dynasty. The emperor was in charge of politics, but the ministers objected. If you don't make babies in the deep palace and continue the incense of royal orthodoxy, you go to work and give random orders. In fact, we are enough for this Ming Dynasty. Yes, as long as you come to court every morning, sit on that chair, and let us kneel down and worship. In fact, it doesn't matter to us if there is a pig up there.

A Ming emperor who was lazy and indifferent to politics was a good emperor. And an emperor like Chongzhen who is so diligent and perverted is not a good emperor. We must fight to the death with him.

As a result, the life-and-death struggle between the king and his ministers raged, and finally the battle came to a point where "the king regards his ministers as his sworn enemy; his ministers regard him as his mortal enemy."

If you oppose what we want to do, then of course we will oppose what you want to do. The principle of our Donglin Party is to oppose for the sake of opposition. Let's fight it out and fight to the end. In the end, the king and his ministers got along, and the Ming Dynasty was brought down.

In fact, if Chongzhen was a lazy emperor, maybe the Ming Dynasty could last for a while.

In such a general environment, two children are in charge, and there are many people who look down upon them.

In Lu Mou's mind, in this extraordinary period, the majesty of the imperial power must be firmly established, which is actually his own majesty. Absolutely no one should be allowed to underestimate the imperial power, that is, me, the representative of the imperial power.

Only then did Lu Mou label Boye Ling as contemptuous of imperial power.

This is the evil feudal era. This is an era when, in principle, imperial power is supreme. No one can wear this hat, it can break your neck.

Hearing his brother label Boye Ling this way, Supervisor Zhu Cixiang couldn't help but frown slightly. He could see that his brother was really murderous this time.

Zhu Cixiang, who was kind and generous, quickly defended Boye Ling: "However, Boye County believes that although Boye County is deep inside Zhili, it is the only way for Henan bandits to go north, and it can also be regarded as the gateway to Gyeonggi. Therefore, It is necessary to repair and strengthen the city wall, just in case. That is why we raise our own funds to serve the country, and we cannot exploit the people and plunder their wealth."

Lu Mou shook his head and said solemnly: "Whether the city defenses in various places should be strengthened or not, and whether the fortress gateway is located somewhere, is decided by the General Staff Headquarters of the Ministry of War, not by a county magistrate. Chief of Staff of the General Staff Department, British Is the father here?"

Zhang Zhiji stood up and said, "I'm here."

"I ask you, Boye County, is it the gateway to Gyeonggi Province?"

Zhang Zhiji, Lu Mou's loyal supporter, certainly understood Lu Mou's intentions best. He replied at that time: "The plains around Boye have no military value in principle. Besides, there is Wuxiang behind it, and Liang behind it." Township. Those two places can be said to be the gateway to Gyeonggi. In terms of status, Boye cannot be said to be the gateway to Gyeonggi.

Besides, to guard against rogue bandits in Henan, there are two prefectures in Guangping and Shunde, where our First Army is stationed. If all the rogue bandits hit Boye, then the entire First Army should be killed. Our staff believes that there is no need for Boye to plan Zhanshou. "

Lu Mou was satisfied with Zhang Zhiji's answer, and turned to the prince's brother: "The staff believes that Boye does not need to fight and defend, but the Boye County Magistrate ignored the whole country and collected taxes from the people. This is beyond his authority and making arbitrary decisions. If a local official in any place thinks that what needs to be done here, and allocates taxes and donations to the people without authorization, then our service money and our laws will be like waste paper, and our court will be in name only in the eyes of the local officials. So. The trend of randomly collecting taxes and exploiting the people will inevitably arise again. This trend must not be allowed to come out, and this trend of serious disobedience to the unified decrees of the imperial court must be stopped. The county magistrate of a place is not the emperor of a place. , not the emperor of one place."

The more the ministers listened, the bigger the regent's hat was thrown, so big that it could crush someone to death.

Prince Regent, this is truly safeguarding centralization of power. This county magistrate must die.

Now, it depends on the actual emperor. The standing emperor cannot be compared with each other.

(End of this chapter)