The most reckless man in the Ming Dynasty

Xu Pu and Ye Qi.

Favoritism and reform!

Destroy the salt policy!

Damage the national interest!

Using power for personal gain!

The ministers looked at each other, stunned and at a loss.

But why is Lord Yuanfu Liu Jian facing them at this moment? !

Li Dongyang and Liu Daxia looked at each other, their expressions becoming very ugly.

Tang Hao laughed loudly and sarcastically said: "Since you know the reasons for the corruption of the salt policy, why don't you make corresponding remedies? On the contrary, you are draining the lake and causing endless harm!"

Then came Liu Daxia, Minister of War. In the seventeenth year of Hongzhi, the late emperor asked Liu Daxia specifically because of Li Dongyang's report. Why did the emperor and ministers of Hongzhi's court work hard to govern, but the world had reached the point where "the people were exhausted and all their money was gone"!

One sentence in Korean can be said to be full of excuses.

Until Zhongshan Hou Tang Hao was born, he trained a new army, eliminated national harm, reformed bad government, and supported each other with the little emperor till now!

Liu Jian finally saw a glimmer of hope!

This time, he won't back down!

After all, the salt administration was originally under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and the central figure in the discussions among the ministers at this moment, the person who initiated the reform, was none other than his Korean senior, Ye Qi, the Minister of Household Affairs of the Hongzhi Dynasty!

What they were worried about finally happened!

Liu Jian, a damn official, in his heart, after all, still looks towards the little emperor, not the civil servants and gentry!

Facing everyone's questioning looks, Liu Jian handed over the memorial with an expressionless expression.

"The reasons are nothing more than the following points."

"The government treasury will be full in a short period of time, and the treasury will be full in a short period of time. But what is the difference between this and the direct reselling of salt? Moreover, the treasury, as the center of the country, took the lead in reselling the salt and directly transferred the right to sell salt. and pricing power were given to merchants!”

"To transport 1.5 million military supplies, more than 8 million taels will be needed in travel expenses. This is not only for the Hetao garrison, but also for the major military towns on the nine sides. How much food will the court spend just on transporting military supplies?"

Tang Hao always spoke fiercely and never had a good look towards civil servants and gentry.

It's not that Liu Jian doesn't know, he has always known it, but after all, he is the only one, and he himself is a member of Wen Chenjin!

Therefore, Liu Jian could only watch helplessly, unable to do anything!

Until Zhu Houzhao ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, the young emperor was determined to revive the Ming Dynasty and regain his imperial power!

"Based on these reasons, the consequence was that no one came to pay for salt, and the court had no salt to support, which led to the proliferation of private salt. The Ming Dynasty fell into the embarrassing situation of "the people were increasingly poor and the wealth was scarce." It was against this background that Later, the Hongzhi Dynasty carried out the Ye Qi Reform, changing the payment of grain to the payment of silver! "

Tang Hao suddenly stood up and scanned the entire audience with sharp eyes.

Han Wen, Minister of Revenue, sighed.

"You still want to use the benefits of the salt policy to provide military expenditures for the Nine Borders, so go ahead and dream of your Spring and Autumn Dream! You Hanwen is the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and you are not a fool. Don't you know how much military expenditures for the Nine Borders the current country has every year? Don’t you even understand this account in Korean?”

"In the past, the government was just giving profits to merchants to avoid the cost of transporting grain to the border. But now it's better. You guys, like civil servants and gentry, don't pretend to be gentry anymore. We don't care whether the Jiubian Military Town will be ruined. Corruption, directly taking the lead in reselling salt for personal gain!"

"What? You didn't even give up your face for money, right?"

Why did the Ming Dynasty fall into such a state?

"Marquis Zhongshan, this is wrong!"

At least the imperial court could obtain a large amount of money in a short period of time, enough to use the benefits of the salt policy to finance the nine-sided military expenditure!

"Hahaha……"

"The fundamental difference from the Kaizhong system is that it uses silver instead of physical goods to raise taxes. In this way, the court completely takes over the salt tax, allowing salt merchants to pay the silver directly to the central court, and then the central court will The imperial court organized transportation capacity to ensure the pay of the border defense troops.”

Han Wen said in a deep voice: "The core content of Ye Qi's reform is to change the original Kaizhong system into a Kaizhongzhese system, change the Kaizhong system into a Nayinzhese system, and change the original border area grain payment system into a direct transfer system." money in exchange for salt."

"And you, Liu Daxia, as the Minister of the Ministry of War, the Nine Borders are becoming increasingly depressed and corrupt, and the soldiers and the people are in poverty and unable to make a living. What have you, the great Sima in charge of the world's military affairs, done? Are you worthy of this skin on your body?"

Liu Jian looked at Li Dongyang and others coldly, clearly expressing his disgust for them for the first time!

"Han Wen, Minister of the Ministry of Accounts, you should know this account best, right?"

"Later Ye Qi found Xu Pu, the chief minister of the cabinet at the time, and conspired. In order to suppress northern merchants and support southern salt merchants, in order to suppress military generals and nobles, and to exclude dissidents in order to join the party and reject dissidents, the two planned the salt coup and the law together!"

It was enough that Tang Hao, the Marquis of Zhongshan, was involved. He was now the little emperor's number one hawk.

He didn't want to speak at first, but at this point, if he, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, didn't speak, he would probably disappoint people.

"Thirdly, the imperial court always adopted a policy of collecting salt merchants in advance and arbitrarily issued additional salt coins. As a result, the salt coins held by merchants could not be cashed in for a long time, which seriously dampened the enthusiasm of salt merchants to open up new markets."

"Liu Daxia, Minister of War, the treasury is empty and the army and the people are poor. Why is this happening? It's not that you don't know, it's just that you pretend to be confused because you understand!"

Did Liu Daxia really not know, or was he pretending not to know?

First, there was Han Wen, the Minister of Household Affairs, who was in charge of the money and food of the country. It turned out that he was not good at managing money and food. Instead, he was more like a minister of science and education. He would scream when there was no money and food, but he couldn't think of a solution!

Did he really not think of it in Korean, or did he dare not do it at all?

It’s because everyone can’t live any longer and has to change their ways!

Isn't there any benefit to the Nayinkai Zhongzhe color system?

The emperor has no money, the court has no money, and the army and the people have no money!

Then whose pocket did this money fall into?

"First, the imperial court increased the amount of grain required for each salt import, making it unprofitable for merchants and unwilling to pay more."

"Secondly, the kitchen households who cooked salt were living in poverty and had no means to survive, so they fled one after another, resulting in a significant reduction in salt production."

The national treasury is empty and the people are destitute. Where have all the money and food gone?

"Either resume the payment of grains and give the soldiers and civilians on all sides a way to survive!"

"The rice and beans transported in Hetao are worth 940,000 taels of silver and 600,000 taels of grass. Each person transports six buckets of rice and beans and four bunches of grass, which requires 4.7 million people, and the approximate cost is 8.25 million taels.

"What a big joke!"

"In fact, by the Hongzhi period, Naoliang Kaizhong had been implemented for more than a hundred years, and it had long ceased to exist in name only."

The old chief assistant was full of firepower and actually started to call the names one by one!

After all, he is the chief minister of the cabinet, not Li Dongyang!

Tang Hao saw that the old chief assistant was starting to exert his strength, so naturally he would not just watch and do nothing!

Why change the law?

"After investigation, it was found that Ye Qi's reform in the fifth year of Hongzhi was based on the request of a Lianghuai salt merchant!"

"That's what it is. I think everyone must know it in their hearts!"

"Fourth, some powerful people saw the huge profits from reselling salt, so they asked the court for salt, monopolized Kaizhong, and even used their power to sell private salt, so that legitimate Kaizhong merchants were squeezed out and unable to operate normally."

"The Kaizhong of grain payment became the Kaizhong of money. Jiubian's farmland quickly deteriorated. Jiubian Army Town became increasingly depressed. Food was in short supply and food prices soared. In just ten years, the imperial court only spent money on delivering grain and grass to Jiubian Army Town. Expenses have skyrocketed more than a hundred times!”

"Either I will continue to lead the Jinyi Guards to investigate. Ye Qi, Xu Pu, and those of you who benefited from the money, one by one, no one can escape!"

Ministers: "Σ(°△°|||)︴"

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