On May 18th, Zhu Cilang returned to the palace.

In the Ganqing Palace Hall, it was in a silence like death, and time seemed to have stopped at this moment.

Qiu Zhizhong, several eunuchs of the Lijian Supervisor, knelt on the ground, and several ministers stood next to him. They were all so arrogant that they dared not breathe, and occasionally glanced at the empty imperial throne behind the Dragon Case.

Finally, a sound of footsteps came from the heavy gauze curtains in the side hall passage, and Zhu Cixuan, who was visiting the prince in Chunhe Palace, came back.

He walked to the imperial throne and did not sit down. He just held a handrail on the side of the imperial throne with one hand, looking indifferently at the eunuchs of the Silis kneeling on the ground.

At this time, Qiu Zhizhong took the lead and shouted: "I welcome Your Majesty back to the palace, long live! Long live! Long live!"

Zhu Cixuan looked at Qiu Zhizhong with his eyes and said lukewarmly: "Have the people who set fire in the Great Palace Hall found out?"

Qiu Zhizhong replied: "Go back to the emperor, the eight eunuchs who were on duty in the Grand Principal Hall and all the eight eunuchs who entered and left the Grand Principal Hall last night have been taken to the imperial prison and are still under trial..."

Zhu Ciyang frowned slightly, and raised the tone of the questioning: "No one pleaded guilty after one night?"

"not yet......"

Qiu Zhizhong's face became more and more unnatural. Those little guys knew that this was a loss of mind. They dared not admit their guilt. No matter how the Jinyiwei torture him, they would bear the rant and shout for injustice.

"Have you checked what I told you?"

Qiu Zhizhong replied: "I was presided over the cabinet meeting and handed over the errands to Shunzi. Before they started to investigate, the main hall had gone out of the water. Fortunately, the Crown Prince was protected by God..."

Zhu Cilang's face darkened, and he still knew that the water flowing in the main hall was not an accident, but the internal thief who stole the property in the palace received the news and set fire to destroy the evidence!

Such things are not uncommon in history. For example, Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, once unexpectedly discovered that the list of treasures did not match the treasures in the warehouse. He was furious and wanted to check the treasures in the palace in person. As a result, the eunuchs who stole the treasures did not stop and ignited the Jianfu Palace and destroyed the evidence.

Seeing that the emperor did not speak, Qiu Zhizhong knelt there and began to secretly look at Zhu Cilang's face.

Zhu Cilang sat down, his voice turned cold, and said, "Since no one admitted it, all the eight servants who entered and left the main hall will be executed. And you, go to the inner palace supervisor to receive forty sticks, transfer to the washing clothes bureau for half a year, and then return to the Sili Supervisor."

"Yes." Qiu Zhizhong was shocked and quickly lowered his eyes.

"besides!"

Qiu Zhizhong raised his eyelids slightly, raised his ears and listened to the Hadith.

Zhu Cixuan said: "In the future, there will be no eunuchs in the harem. Those who served in the palace will be kept as usual. The royal family will support you for the rest of your life."

Qiu Zhizhong's eyes showed the fear as he should have and whispered: "The Emperor..."

Zhu Cilang's words shocked everyone present, especially the cabinet ministers present expressed more surprise than eunuchs.

In short, no one expected that Emperor Tianwu could abolish the eunuch system!

After being shocked, Yang Tinglin and others began to feel sincere respect for the emperor's courage.

With this alone, Emperor Tianwu is enough to surpass all the sages and emperors of all generations.

Eunuchs interfere in politics throughout the years, and the Ming Dynasty was the most important. On the surface, it was the eunuchs who represented the emperor and competed with the civil servants to balance. To put it bluntly, the emperor was useless, which led to the eunuch's autocracy, which was even more reflected in the emperor's constant operation.

Looking at the Ming Dynasty and even the previous dynasties, the common point that this situation occurred was that the emperor did not hold military power!

Controlling military power means controlling everything. As long as the emperor controls military power, the so-called civil servant group will be honest. How can there be so many things to do and balance?

Zhu Cilang naturally knew this truth, so he felt that eunuchs were optional.

In the history of the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Shunzhi originally planned to abolish eunuchs, but later he thought that he would still keep doing odd jobs. However, he set up an iron monument system that influenced the Qing Dynasty for more than 200 years: eunuchs interfere in politics, and they will never tolerate them! Unless they are sent to the emperor, they are not allowed to leave the imperial city. If there are any foreign officials who have been in contact with each other, they find that they will die together!

Therefore, the eunuchs in the Qing Dynasty were the most painful, tiring, frustrated, and powerless. They were truly dispensable and had no sense of existence.

The Qing Dynasty inherited the Ming system, there were also cabinets, and there were also votes to propose and criticize the winners. However, looking at the Qing Dynasty for more than 200 years, without the restraint of eunuchs, there was never a so-called civil servant group. Even if there was a so-called sacrificial slogan within, the dispute over the pearl was still in secret.

Because the previous generations of emperors of the Qing Dynasty had always held military power, this was their confidence.

Civil officials can form a political force, one is that their thoughts are the same, and the other is that their interests are related, which requires the creation of the political environment.

From the perspective of the ruler, Zhu Ciyang could not understand why the emperors of all dynasties before the Ming Dynasty often indulged in verbal disputes between civil officials and censors because of a trivial matter?

He really couldn't understand why the previous generations of emperors took conditional compromises under the aggressiveness of the civil service group?

Perhaps, everyone wants to be the "Son of Ming" who is famous for historic history, so as to create a good political environment for the civil servant group and let others join forces to deal with themselves.

Zhu Cilang's idea was a bit extreme. He felt that the emperor who could not control military power was just a puppet.

The few generations of small wild boar skins in the Qing Dynasty could do it, and the Ming Dynasty could do it, completely eliminating the civil service group and eunuch forces.

This is also one of the reasons why Zhu Cilang set up a division of civil and military affairs at the beginning, and created a gift package for future generations of novice gods that can be received after they come to power.

"It is difficult for a country to be a family, and it is the same as the country."

Zhu Cixuan sighed, and suddenly turned his eyes to the people in the cabinet: "Yang Tinglin, you are the head of the cabinet. How is the tax reform system I have handed over to your cabinet to discuss?"

Yang Tinglin was a little shocked and hurriedly said, "Report to Your Majesty, the cabinet belongs to the court, and I am also a servant for the court, so I dare not regard myself as a family member..."

After some verbal whispers, Zhu Cilang brought the words to the point.

Yang Tinglin said sincerely: "Huangbutang of the Ministry of Finance proposed a tax reform policy to abolish agricultural tax, aiming to completely eliminate the exploitation of the people by local governments."

"Haha, I'm worried that the food will be intercepted by the local officials, so you might as well stop collecting it. It's such a way to remove the firewood from the bottom of the pot!"

Zhu Cilang laughed lukewarmly, not knowing whether it was criticism or praise.

The scene was silent for a moment, and Huang Zongxi seemed to have gathered up the courage and looked at Zhu Cixuan with the memorial book: "This is my memorial book, please read the dragon's eyes!"

This memorial has a lot of words. It is more like a paper than a memorial. From the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors to the Great Ming Dynasty, Huang Zongxi briefly summarized it and listed a lot of data. Finally, he came to a conclusion:

"Tax reforms in history, every time the tax is reformed, the tax is increased once. After a period of decline, the burden on farmers will rise to a higher level than before the reform, and enter a vicious circle of accumulation and no return. Therefore, abolishing agricultural tax is the fundamental solution."

At this time, Zhu Cixuan's face was particularly wonderful and had an indescribable expression. He muttered to himself: "Isn't this the "Huang Zongxi's Law" mentioned at the National People's Congress in the 20th Century?"
Chapter completed!