People live in the Ming Dynasty, evil spirits are soaring into the sky

Chapter 141 The soldiers fought bloody battles at the border, but you colluded with foreigners! Damn you! Waiting with a tiger head and a guillotine!
When Chen Han said that he had now obtained a full two hundred million taels of silver, all the officials' eyes went straight.

Many people's hearts are bleeding.

That's all our money!

You bastard, you dare to say that the people who killed us were killed by Tatars.

You must die a good death! !
Zhang Juzheng below was even more jealous.

After decades of ups and downs in officialdom, he has always hated one thing.

It means that the imperial court really has no money, and the treasury is always empty.

Every summer and autumn tax revenue comes up to make up for last year's deficit.

In many cases, the shortfall cannot even be made up, and the only thing left is default.

Sometimes even the salaries of court officials could not be paid.

But is this really the national condition?

No!

As an official in charge of the transfer department, he knew very well that the court or the world really had no money? No, very rich.

Especially those businessmen in the southeast, especially those in Shanxi, all of them have huge wealth at home.

They live a luxurious life, they live in eight houses, their wealthy family is full of wine and meat, and their bones are frozen to death on the road, but the court has no money.

The court could not collect taxes. Every time the court mentioned increasing the collection of commercial taxes, it would be an earthquake.

Regardless of the officials below or the officials in the imperial court, all of them will tell the emperor that this is competing for profits with the people. This is not what an emperor should do. He must rest with the people and hide wealth from the people. This is That is true wealth.

Zhang Juzheng never said this was wrong.

But once it goes too far, the imperial court will be extremely poor and the rich families in the world will be extremely wealthy.

But no one dared to do what Chen Han did, directly killing people and ransacking their homes.

Moreover, his evil ways are evil. On the surface, he did not do it himself at all, but the 'pirates', 'Japanese pirates' and even the White Lotus Sect and the Tatars did it.

All the sins and all the blame belong to the criminal elements, and he did not do it himself.

Even after he arrived in the southeast, he killed corrupt officials, dandies, and eunuchs who had done evil, leaving a very good impression on the people.

He also distributed the land of those families that were destroyed by "pirates" and "Japanese pirates" to the people. This is called attacking the local tyrants to distribute the land. How can the people not offer him to heaven?
But why can't other ministers do this?
The first is that no emperor dares to support this, because once it is done, the emperor will bear the biggest blame. Will these literati below really let the emperor go?
Will not!
In the future, they will definitely include the previous emperor in their articles.

Or when these officials go to revise history, they will start to use guns and sticks in history to say that this emperor is not good and that is not good.

The emperor wants to save face. As long as he can get by himself, he won't care how the people live.

In addition to the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang and the founder Zhu Di, how many subsequent emperors had the courage to attack those gentry and wealthy families?

Moreover, when this kind of information is not flowing smoothly, the imperial court's decrees can only be issued to the county level. From the county level down, these gentry groups must be relied on to help rule.

Killing these gentry without a bottom line, how to rule in the future is a very big problem.

He was already worried about the disasters left by Chen Han.

Of course, he wouldn't know that Chen Han was already ready to wipe his ass.

When the time comes and the law is passed and he will turn Jin Yiwei into the Tax Inspection Department, after all implementation.

Not to mention that the village chiefs and grain chiefs below must be obedient.

It is said that those gentry who are not officials can be directly taken out and killed if they are disobedient.

At this time, Chen Han stood on top of those large wooden boxes, looking at the officials from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Affairs who lowered their heads and laughed particularly wildly.

"Don't think that I don't know what you guys are up to. Is the Ministry of Revenue really incapable of raising military pay, or is it deliberately failing to raise military pay to blackmail His Majesty? I think the latter is more likely. .”

The Hubu officials, especially the Hubu Shangshu, were so angry that they knelt on the ground and bowed to Emperor Wanli on the dragon throne, "Your Majesty, I am so loyal. The Hubu treasury has never been full. Every year At the beginning of the year, in order to balance the accounts of the previous year, it was good to have a few hundred thousand taels of silver left.
Nowadays, Liaodong has 1.2 million taels of silver at its mouth. How can we raise it?
If we can't finish it, we can only resign and apologize. Does this also offend Tishuai?
If this really offends Tishuai, then we can only deal with it as Tishuai wants. "

It's better to make progress before retreating.

Other officials from the Ministry of Revenue also knelt down on the ground and cried out for injustice.

Tell them how incompetent they are, how clever they are, and how difficult it is for them to make a plan without rice, etc.

Chen Hanhan smiled, and then he shouted: "Cao Zhengchun, show me the evidence you collected!"

Cao Zhengchun immediately stood up, clasped his hands and sneered at all the officials, and then said: "In June of the 44th year of Jiajing, Liaodong invaded the border, and the military salary required was more than 240,000 taels. The Ministry of Revenue cooperated with Shanxi Shanxi merchants to Within four days, the general's pay was delivered to Liaodong;

In September of the second year of Longqing's reign, Tatars raided the border areas outside Zhangjiakou. Governor Xuanda requested that an additional 710,000 taels of silver be allocated to build an iron barrel-like defense line.

The Ministry of Household Affairs negotiated with Southeast merchants and Shanxi Shanxi merchants to contribute funds, and the funds were raised within seven days.

In June of the fifth year of Longqing's reign, Japanese pirates invaded Ningbo, and Ningbo's port was forced to close. The total military pay required was more than 310,000 taels. Southeast merchants raised it within one day and transported it to the front line to meet the needs of the war. "

After Cao Zhengchun finished speaking, many officials present had slightly strange expressions on their faces.

Because anyone who is not a fool can hear it.

Why was it that just a few years ago, the Ministry of Household Affairs had such a solution, either by cooperating with businessmen in the southeast or Shanxi merchants in Shanxi, to quickly solve the border military pay problem without the court having to worry too much.

But this time, although the military salary was much larger, it was not impossible to solve the problem, but the officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs were forced to resign en masse.

Could it be that the financial situation in Wanli Year has reached a point where it is difficult to recover?
After hearing this, Chen Han got down from the box and walked to the officials of the Ministry of Revenue, especially the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue who was kneeling on the ground, and sneered:
"If everything is a coincidence, then may I ask, Sir, why as long as they don't attack the core areas of Southeast and Shanxi, the merchants on both sides can generously contribute to anything encountered at the border, but this time they can't?
And it is a very coincidence that these three border invasions are all related to the interests of Shanxi merchants and southeast smugglers?

Are you unable to raise money or are you deliberately covering it up? Do you still need to think deeply about it?

It's completely because I'm in the southeast and Eunuch Cao is in Shanxi, ruining your money bag.
So you bunch of dirty officials all used the excuse of lack of money to invade the Liaodong Jurchens, and blackmailed the court to let me and Cao Zhengchun return to the court, and did not allow the strangulation of merchants from the southeast and Shanxi merchants from Shanxi, right? "

After hearing this, Shangshu Hube's eyes dodge and he started to quibble: "You... you are talking nonsense... you are talking nonsense..."

Chen Han laughed loudly, "I'm talking nonsense, okay, okay...it's nonsense, right? Don't think that no one will know what you are doing if you hide in the house and write notes.

What do Jin Yiwei do? They just keep an eye on people like you.

When you were writing the note, didn't you see any light leaking from the roof?

Jin Yiwei has seen it clearly a long time ago. You bastards burned it after writing it. You thought there was no evidence, right?

Come on, show them the evidence! ! "

The Minister of the Ministry of Finance was shocked after hearing this: I am writing a note in the house, and you can still see it clearly?

Jin Yiwei quickly took out the wooden paintings piece by piece.

This was a necessary skill for Jinyiwei when Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang founded Jinyiwei.

In modern times, that is called a sketch artist.

These people have a special skill called a human camera.

He can vividly depict the expressions of everyone at that time.

When these wooden boards were taken out and placed in front of Tobe Shangshu, his head almost exploded.

This is exactly the same as when I was sitting in the room burning notes, "This, this, this, this..."

"This is your mother!" Chen Han waved his hand: "The evidence is conclusive, so there is no need to say more.
We are working hard on the front lines fighting Japanese pirates and Tatars, but you bastards are deliberately colluding with them behind the scenes, what more can you say!
Come on, wait for me with a tiger-headed guillotine! ! ! "

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