Chapter 160:

In fact, in that dream, when Xue Tingyan entered the DPRK as an official, the situation in DPRK and China was not very good.
Emperor Jiacheng arbitrarily acted alone, restoring the right of Jinyiwei to inspect and patrol and the right to approve the red of Si Lijian. The imperial authority's claws were rampant, and the 100 officials of the DPRK were in danger.
It's just that as the following small fish and shrimps, peeping in the leopard at most, it is impossible to see the overall situation. I only know that the civil servants have an unprecedented group, trying to resist the imperial power. It is unclear how many of them have been sacrificed, how many have fallen, and how many have stood up.
In fact, there are several other things that can please the fight against the imperial power. When he ignores the words of the historian a hundred years later, it is that he has entered a violent state. People stop killing Buddha, they think their neck is harder than a butcher knife, although you can try it.
In this battle of kings and emperors, Emperor Jiacheng seemed to win, but he did not win.
Winning means that the imperial power is high and the courtiers are weak. Saying that there is no win is when the imperial power rises, when all the following courtiers are clinging together.
Could it be said that the dark period of Jiacheng has come?
Yes, in the past few years, some of the later generations of Shilin people called it a period of great darkness. The status of the civil servants was unprecedentedly suppressed.
And all this until the end of Jiacheng Dynasty, Fang Xiu.
Just as Xue Tingyan fell into memory, the war between the monarchs and officials above had already begun.
Emperor Jiacheng has been enthroned for nearly ten years. This patience is not a very good emperor. It is rare to be able to endure this moment. When he thought he was ready, it was when he exposed his sharp fangs.
Emperor Jiacheng wouldn't be too stupid to play on his own, naturally hiding several sharp blades.
With the emperor Jiacheng in trouble, the following ministers saw that they could not escape and could only come up with a solution.
Some people say that the tax increase is the same for both salt tea. Someone soon said that salt tea is a heavy tax. After some quarrels, salt tea cannot be added, so they can only increase taxes on cultivated fields.
Although some people opposed this proposal, the opposition was not fierce. From the beginning of the founding of the dynasty, taxation was the top priority. The ancestor had decided to declare that he would never be able to succeed, so he has been Xiao Xiaocao for all these years. Follow.
It is not impossible to add more now. Seeing that this decision was unanimously approved by all the officials in the palace, it was at this time that Zheng Yujie, the right governor of the Capital Procuratorate, was in trouble.
Zheng Yunjie, the right-hand imperial prince who was pulled up by the Jiacheng Emperor, was impeached on the spot and Jiang Zhifu, the governor of Suzhou, indulged the tribes to indulge the people to occupy the civilian land, attracting public resentment. He went straight to the point that the tax fields recorded in the Tobu Fish Scale were decreasing day by day. The sharp question of where did these good fields go?
Without fields, it would be impossible to collect the incoming taxes, and the imperial court would naturally have no money.
As early as before, Xue Tingyan felt that the pre-audit method proposed by the household ministry was reversed. In addition to letting the ministries and departments fight each other, which reduced the efficiency of the court, it did not benefit the court.
Turned out to be waiting here!
Let you fight and fight every day for the three melons and two dates.
In the first fight, if you can't score, you should decide. But just such a cake, you eat more, naturally I eat less, everyone has a grudge. When the grievances subsided, Jiacheng Emperor shot.
Where can I pay taxes?
The land was naturally occupied by those gentry landlord officials.
At the grassroots level, a talented person can be exempted from the harsh tax of 50 acres of land, with 500 acres of people and 3,000 acres of Jinshi. The imperial court took a sergeant in three years, with a total of 300 sergeants in each subject, about 1,500 people, and talents ranging from five to six thousand. This is just for every subject, and there are those who already have a reputation and continue to take the exam.
These people add up to 100,000 in total.
And the wind of dedication prevails in various places. It is said in a sentence that when Shi Shi ascends to the countryside, he is often worthy of being a rich man, which is enough to see how severe the situation is.
Of course, the most serious is not these low-ranking scholars, but officials at all levels and above. The higher the rank, the greater the amount of tax exemption.
Everyone is a beneficiary and an approver of the imperial court system. Naturally, how come they are generous.
Which official present is not a big landlord, even if it is not, it is also a family member. Just like in that dream, more than half of the land in Shanxi had the surname Xue.
Emperor Jiacheng even wanted to poke horse honeycomb!
Xue Tingyan concealed the surprise in the pupil and listened to Zheng Yunjie's impassioned rebuke: "The thief saw Dianji and other places where the gangsters and evil parties competed for free fields in the name of giving ... Chen's requester was invalid, the offerer Since the end, the occupants of the domicile have not suffered the harm of annexation and seizure ... "
He did not report much hope to Jiacheng Emperor in his heart.
The movement is quite big, and there are too many people moving. To poke this thing is undoubtedly to poke the horse honeycomb. It ’s enough to smash a person ’s rice bowl. At most, everyone is onlookers, but if you smash everyone ’s rice bowl, it ’s estimated that everyone will slap.
Sure enough, as expected by Xue Tingyan, Zheng Yunjie made a forefoot, and there were ridiculous criticisms at the back of the foot. He also said that it is impossible to generalize and treat individual phenomena as the main cause of the empty state treasury.
Immediately afterwards, a high-ranking official stood up and said bluntly that since the problem was found, it was natural to solve the problem, and the court would not injustice a good person or let a bad person go.
This remark greeted everyone's echo, and all the senior officials suggested that they must be thoroughly investigated. If it is true, severe punishment will not be punished.
Where to start checking? Naturally, it is from Jiangwang, the prefect of Suzhou.
After a series of discussions, several handymen were sent to Suzhou to investigate the case on the spot. The ministers also urged Jiacheng to pay more attention to the dragon's body and not get too anxious.
Things seem to be going very smoothly, but if you think this is a victory then you are wrong.
From Beijing to Suzhou, it takes at least half a month to travel on the road, and when it reaches the local area, it is almost the year pass. It is a rule not to investigate the case during the New Year. It is the rule to start the investigation in the beginning of the year, and it is presumed that it will be April or May next year.
Xue Tingyan knew, without thinking, what the result would be like then.
Jiang Wang didn't need to mention his end, but he punished severely. The matter of land mergers, which was easily mentioned, slowed down after a few months, even if Emperor Jiacheng could still remember it, that energy was leaking. Even if it's not leaking, I'm always afraid to come out for the dead ghost. I'll do it again, but I won't do it.
After two visits, Jiacheng might be bored himself.
Emperor Jiacheng seemed to understand this truth, so his face was particularly ugly.
But Dayi is here, the rules are here, he can only hold back, and no one can rush up to copy the house when there is any suspicion, and the court will only mess up.
With a burst of hooray, Emperor Jiacheng left angrily with his hands on his back.
After they left, the ministers below looked at each other and dispersed.