"Even Dong Huating holds a fallacy. It turns out that the world is getting worse and the people's hearts are not as good as ever!"

Some such remarks began to appear among civil servants.

But because of Dong Qichang's surrender, the gentry in Jiangnan all stopped and became increasingly surrendered. They completely surrendered to the West Factory, which broke the family and collected taxes after a disagreement, and began to consciously come to the government office to check if they had any tuitions and actively paid them.

Especially after learning that His Majesty the Emperor eliminated all the gentry who did not make up for the tribute.

The strong combat power of the West Factory and the cowardly class attributes of the gentry of Jiangnan, the Jiangnan gentry did not dare to owe taxes anymore.

However, many gentry officials in Jiangnan who thought they were tough in nature still expressed their dissatisfaction with the court's treatment of gentry like common people in terms of taxation.

Take Gu Qiyuan, who was appointed as the Minister of Personnel in Nanjing, who retired in the first year of Taichang as an example.

He said angrily: "Since the court insists on forcing a tax to collect taxes and is mean to the gentry, I personally send taxes and grains to the capital to ask His Majesty to let the people of the world know, and let Fang Congzhe and other treacherous ministers see if the court still has the face!"

"Since they want to ask me to pay taxes, I will send the food to the capital in person. I will not bother the Cao army. I want to see if the court is ashamed! Let the people of the world see, this is how the court treats the retired ministers!"

Zhu Wubi, a retired official who served as Minister of Works, also said this.

According to the Ming Dynasty's grain transportation system, grain could indeed be transported to the capital by the people themselves, but later, in order to reduce the burden on the people, it was reformed to transport grain by the official troops along the canal, but the people only had to bear a certain freight.

However, it is OK if the people want to transport grain to Beijing by themselves.

Therefore, now, Gu Qiyuan and Zhu Wubi, the ministers who retired from the court, chose to personally lent tax grains to the capital because Nanzhili pursued the tax and refused to pay more money to the official army.
Chapter completed!