On the first day of the February 1st, the grand dynasty meeting.

Before Zhu Yunwen's butt could sit still, Wang Qian, the Minister of Rites, stood up.

"The Ministry of Rites has been selected in conjunction with the Imperial Heavenly Prison. All the Regulations and Etiquette and Law are presented to you and ask Your Majesty to review it."

Regarding the draft, the final draft discussed by the Ministry of Rites, the Imperial Front Office, the Empress Dowager, and Ma Enhui was to include all the last batch of shortlisted people into the palace. The number was more than twenty. How could Zhu Yunwen be willing? His body could not bear the exercise of many people, let alone his workload was much greater than that of whom.

No matter how much you squeeze, you can't squeeze out the time you can evenly get the rain and dew.

So, with the attitude of not being robbed, Zhu Yunwen took the double joy, and the master and servant took advantage of the guise of delivering food and miscellaneous items to sneak out, and took a look at the group of girls from all over the country. In the end, Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Biyu approved three of the most pleasing to the eye, and the list was added and sent to the Ministry of Rites by the rituals.

Wang Qian knew at a glance that the emperor must have violated the etiquette and law, but he was cautious and honest. He pretended to be blind and mute in such matters. He only said that the person who failed the election failed the etiquette test of the Ministry of Rites.

It is impossible for the pot to be thrown on the emperor's head.

Zhu Yunwen was too lazy to read the memoir, so he naturally had to arrange for him. He only needed to go through a process and then go to the bridal chamber if he wanted to, and did not want to do whatever he should do.

So he threw the memorial book directly onto the imperial case: "Ji's family can arrange these things, I'll be at ease."

After saying that, Longmu swept across the court.

"Do you guys still have this memorial?"

As soon as he finished speaking, someone stood up.

"I have a memorial!"

The person who stood up was a six-degree student. A young man, who was not old, was like a rooster waiting to fight: "I impeached the Grand Secretary Fang Xiaoru!"

Wow!

If you don’t say anything, you will be astonishing as you say.

The court suddenly became uproar, and even Zhu Yunwen became interested.

Fang Xiaoru is a real gentleman who is not greedy for money or lust. What is the point of impeachment for him?

"Why impeachment? Let's talk about what the so-called family is."

After glanced at Fang Xiaoru with an ugly expression, Zhu Yunwen became interested.

The censor didn't care that he was in a state of great attention at this time and shouted: "Last month 20, the third issue of Qiushi newspaper was published. Fang Xiaoru and Fang Ge Lao made a loud statement on the newspaper and openly questioned Your Majesty's great achievements. However, after reading it, I found that Fang Ge Lao's words were all out of nothing and were out of context. Therefore, I was really angry. Today, the Golden Palace wanted to confront Fang Ge Lao, if Fang Ge Lao could not make up for his own words, please ask Your Majesty to punish him for deceiving the king! The crime of arrogance!"

The censor kept talking, and he talked about the civil and military officials in the court, and even Zhu Yunwen was happy.

The sin of deceiving the king? The sin of arrogance?

These two hats are so tightly buckled.

While watching the fun, Zhu Yunwen couldn't help but remember the fact that he had just ascended the throne. These censors had been holding their minds and causing trouble for themselves, the emperor. Now it seems that it may not be that these censors really have such courage. They are purely because someone behind them came to test the temper of his new emperor, and they are just cunning.

Now that these experts who play politics have been defeated, these censors have exposed their nature. The words "internal interests" are nothing more than the word "internal" and "internal interests" are still the only ones.

Even if this group of censors is like this, what should the scholars and people at the bottom of the class be quarreled about Fang Xiaoru's article?

"Old Ge Lao."

Thinking to himself, Zhu Yunwen turned his gaze to Fang Xiaoru.

"Do you need to defend yourself?"

When literati fights, Fang Xiaoru could not allow a censor to shit and pee on his head, and he stood up in anger at the moment.

"I will dare to confront this colleague in the Golden Palace today."

A grandmaster of the cabinet is going to quarrel with a censor in Fengtian Hall?

All civil and military officials were awake and sleepy, and they looked lively with great enthusiasm.

Such a strange thing may not have happened once in many years.

The censor was also bold, and he didn't take it seriously at all. Seeing that Fang Xiaoru took the striking, he asked directly.

"Sir Fang Ge, since ancient times, have there been emperors who have been powerful and powerful in the Northern Yi and swallowed the grassland?"

"No."

Facts are better than words, and Fang Xiaoru responded without even thinking about this.

Emperor Wu of Han attacked the Xiongnu in the north, and the left and right were nothing more than dividing the Xiongnu into two parts, one fled westward and the other attached to the inner world. When the Han army turned around, a new ruling race was born on the grassland. Later, the Xiongnu fought back, causing the three tribes of the Xiongnu, Xianbei and Wuhuan to form one by one on the grassland.

"Sir Fang Ge, since ancient times, have there been emperors who have conquered the Southern Barbarians and swallowed the seven kingdoms?"

“No, either.”

When Princess Wencheng entered the Tibet, this allusion could not be used to the Tang Dynasty. No matter whether Princess Wencheng was a member of the Li Tang Dynasty or not, since marriage existed, it means that the Tang Dynasty had never made any achievements in the southwest for hundreds of years.

"Since both of these are gone, why can't you say a far-reaching Han and Tang dynasties?"

The censor was fighting spirit, his excited hair and beard were all open, and he looked directly at Fang Xiaoru and said angrily.

"I'll ask Mr. Fang again. There are countries like our Ming Dynasty that have been as light as the ones in the country, which have been exempted from grain taxes and taxes in many dynasties."

Light labor, labor and land tax are important indicators for measuring whether a dynasty loves the people, and it is obvious that Emperor Taizu left a good example for Zhu Yunwen on these two points.

How low was the grain tax in the early Ming Dynasty?

You can refer to the grain chief system.

Yan Zhenzhi, the Minister of Works, was a large household in Zhejiang back then. He served as the chief of grain as a wealthy household. Later, he was recommended to the court as an official.

What is the grain chief system?

That is, local provincial governments will receive spring harvests, and the escort loss after autumn harvest will be compensated by the family of the grain boss.

For example, officials from the provincial government went to Nanjing to conduct surveys (register for land measurement) to measure land acres in the local area. Assuming that a mu of land in Zhejiang Province is 800,000 hectares, that is, 80 million mu of land, two stones of grain are collected by one mu of land, that is, 160 million stones of grain, the state collects the grain tax of 20 taxes or one or more, and Zhejiang should pay 8 million stones of grain.

However, this measurement method is rough, that is, the measurement method of horizontal, vertical and horizontal length will naturally be missing. Moreover, many farmers' land yields are less than acres and only six acres of four parts of the land, so they only pay taxes based on the six acres of grain collection.

When the grain plagiarism in Zhejiang is enshrined into Nanjing or filled with official warehouses, the total amount may only be six or seven million stones into the warehouse, so the losses of this part will be borne by the grain manager.

That is the so-called "robbing the rich and helping the poor".

Emperor Taizu was the lowest-class person and had a clear understanding of the pains of the people, so he and Hu Weiyong came up with such a strange system.

It is obvious that this system is very unreasonable and even more illegal. It is an act of official exploitation of wealthy families by the court, and is extremely unfairly deprived of wealthy families in various provinces and governments in the world. However, it just reflects Emperor Taizu's love for the poor peasants at the grassroots level.

Thanks to this system, poor and lower-middle peasants can live well, with a lot of food stored every year, and even if they encounter disasters, they don’t have to worry about death from freezing and starvation.

However, the landlords with larger acres in their homes were in a miserable state. Of course, they still pinched their noses and recognized them because those who did not recognize them were killed.

Otherwise, where did the millions of acres of imperial production come from after Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne?

The province has a grain chief, and the government has a grain chief.

The grain chief system at the provincial and government levels fundamentally ensures that the survival of ordinary people will not be caused by large-scale starvation due to disasters after the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

By exploiting the property of large-scale households, we feed back ordinary people every year. This is also the reason why the two large-scale corruption and collusion cases occurred in the Hongwu Dynasty.

It is just an act of collusion between local wealthy households and local prefectures and counties and government agencies in an attempt to avoid taxes.

Well, everyone died in the end.

In addition to the grain chief system, Taizu also had a good habit, that is, no matter where he encountered a disaster, Taizu's first thing was tax exemption.

If three counties in Suzhou are affected by floods, they will exempt taxes from the entire Suzhou Prefecture, encourage wealthy businessmen in Suzhou to work with the government to provide relief to the victims, and come forward with the official warehouse to calm the grain prices.

This is also the main reason why Dingkou reproduction on a large scale in Hongwu and its national strength recovered rapidly.

With the joint efforts of the state and local governments, we will ensure that the country's basic livelihood is not affected by too much disasters.

With this rule alone, Prime Minister Hu Weiyong can be called a wise prime minister of all ages!

This ancestral system continued to be implemented after Zhu Di ascended the throne, so even in the era when there were no high-yield crops, the Ming Dynasty reproduced to more than 200 million people. Later, during the Little Ice River period, this ancestral system was invalidated.

The court cannot afford disaster relief, and the local government cannot afford disaster relief.

In addition to the large number of enfeoffed kings, the number of hunger directly caused tens of millions of people!

When the censor used this to speak, Fang Xiaoru was speechless.

"I've never seen it before."

Seeing that Fang Xiaoru was refuted by him, the censor was extremely excited and pointed at Fang Xiaoru and shouted fiercely.

"When it comes to loving the people and pitying farmers, there is no one who has surpassed the Ming Dynasty in all dynasties. If this is the case, why can't the rule of the Tang and Song dynasties be able to bear it?

The words of Suzhou student Xu Buji are conclusive and reasonable, and there is no boast. However, you, Master Fang, turned a blind eye to him and only refuted them with personal prejudice.

The refutation is even more avoiding the important points. It is simply absurd to generalize it with the barren lands of the Western Regions and the grand Kaiyuan Dingkou Suizui.

How many generations have you inherited from the Kaiyuan period of Xuanzong? I have only been a few years since the Ming Dynasty’s Jianwen! You are biased and unreasonable. Is this the vision and enlightenment that a great scholar and a great scholar should have? You are really arrogant and ignorant, you are deceiving the king!”

After saying that, the censor bowed his head and looked at Zhu Yunwen passionately.

"Old Fang Ge is arrogant and unreasonable, arrogant and ignorant. This statement hurts the hearts of the people in the world and defils His Majesty's holy face. It is not enough to calm the anger of the public if he does not kill him!"

Is it not enough to calm public anger even if I don’t kill?

Am I knocking inside?

Fang Xiaoru was stunned.
Chapter completed!