Great Ming National Teacher

The fact that Li Yunya, the national teacher, chopped down the head of the country with his sword soon spread throughout the court and the whole country, and spread to the whole country at the speed of the tide.

Li Yunya turned around and published an article on the Daming Hou Bao, detailing what happened that day, and making a special comment below: "If the country is in trouble, as the head of the dynasty, you should take the lead in making money for the country and the nation." If you have the power to contribute money, you should lead by example, actively pay taxes, enrich the treasury, drive out the Tartars outside, and improve people's livelihood inside. Zhou Laoer took the lead in resisting taxes. When he was big, he said it was a disaster for the country, but when he was young, no one's father-in-law demolished his house The son-in-law is Taiwan. Besides, the emperor breaks the law and commits the same crime as the common people. All businessmen in the world have to pay taxes, even the head of the country is no exception. Otherwise, where will the emperor be? ?Since I have been appointed by the emperor as a 'Master of Protecting the Nation', anyone who is harmful to the country, whether it is a foreign enemy or an internal trouble, regardless of whether it is a prince or a commoner, will be executed without any discussion!"

The Zhou family sent Zhou Kui's second son into the palace that night to cry to his sister. When Queen Zhou heard that her father had been beheaded, she was very angry and anxious, so she quickly sent a young eunuch and an imperial doctor to visit her father. Report to Zhu Youjian.

Zhu Youjian was worrying about the objections of the ministers and the death of the scholars when they met. Queen Zhou came in twitching and cried to her husband, and then the husband and wife broke out in the most intense quarrel ever.

Because of the donation last time, Zhu Youjian was very cold towards this father-in-law. This time, something like this happened again. He told Queen Zhou: "Now that the country is in crisis, I can't even pay the army in Liaodong. Don’t I know the consequences of commercial taxation? But what else can I do? Last time I asked everyone to donate, what happened? If Yunya hadn’t come forward to be this villain, I would have become delusional about commercial taxation , That’s really the city of sorrow! How much land does the head of the country have? Is he short of food and drink? Even if he doesn’t want to, he has to pay the tax first, and I can replenish him later! He actually took the lead in resisting taxes like this If he doesn’t pay, who will teach those nobles? Who will pay the ministers if the nobles don’t pay? If no one pays taxes, how can I get paid? Liaodong owes two months, and Shanxi owes four Yue! The soldiers who have no money to pay have mutinied, let the high thief and the Man Qing fight over, can he still be his head of the country safely?"

Empress Zhou's reason is also very simple: "My father is not good at all, and it is only a matter of a few taels of silver. Is it going to be chopped with a knife? My elder brother is still detained by the Ministry of Public Security. The patriarch of a dignified country was beheaded, and the uncle of the country was detained. Outsiders looked at it, didn’t they beat the emperor in your face? Then again, he was certainly at fault. You can ransack his house or ask him to be beheaded. That's also my own business, how can I tolerate a foreign minister who hurts people with a sword?"

Zhu Youjian originally complained about Li Yunya beating his father-in-law with a sword, and felt a little bit guilty about the always virtuous queen. When there was a quarrel, the guilt evaporated in an instant, and all that was left was resentment towards the Zhou family. In particular, what disappointed and chilled him the most was the performance of Empress Zhou. In his mind, Empress Zhou has followed him since she was in the palace. She has a gentle personality and is extremely virtuous. Govern the country well together, that is the most ideal state...

But the iron-like reality proves that the queen does not agree with him. The queen cares more about his father and his elder brother. When she is worrying about the army's salary and disaster money, the queen can't understand him at all, and will only be irrational Arguing with herself for her father.

Zhu Youjian instantly felt that he was so lonely. No one in the entire Ming Dynasty court, civil and military officials, and former court and harem could understand him, help him desperately, and work together with him for this country.

There was only one person—a figure riding a white horse, wearing a green army coat and holding a long sword appeared in Zhu Youjian's mind.

Only that one person!Zhu Youjian shouted in his heart!

Zhu Youjian walked away expressionlessly, leaving only Empress Zhou crying. She couldn't understand why her husband became like this, and he could let a foreign minister chop his head of state with a sword. According to the second brother, That sword was intended to kill his father, if his father hadn't dodged in time, he would have been disembowelled.

She recalled that when she was in the palace in the past, her husband raised eyebrows with her, and they were very affectionate.

A figure also appeared in her mind—wearing an apricot-yellow Taoist robe, with a wicked face, a wretched and cunning face, and a beardless appearance, just like an eunuch wearing a Taoist robe.She had never seen Li Yunya before, and the image she got from her second brother and others was like this.

It is all because of this evil way that the country has become like this. The officials and the emperor are at odds with each other, and the sky is angry and everyone complains!The emperor also separated himself, and now he has started to fight against his natal family!

Empress Zhou was wronged and angry, her husband would quarrel with her because of such a hateful monster!

After the Zhou family was locked up in the detention center for eight days, Uncle Erguo finally sent someone to pay all the taxes, fines, medical compensation, etc., but Li Yunya still refused to let the Ministry of Public Security release him. Uncle Guo instigated him on Tuesday The five servants in the house violently resisted the law and caused serious injuries. After paying the fine and compensation to the police, they had to be detained for another [-] days.

The Zhou family was angry, but they couldn't do anything about Li Yunya or the Ministry of Public Security. They could only go to the palace and cry to the queen again and again.

Other honorable officials saw that even the Zhang’s family was like this, and they were afraid of Li Yunya’s tiger wolf soldiers and his white dragon sword, so they had to pay all the taxes. Up to more than 800 million taels of silver!

Zhu Youjian was dumbfounded when he heard the news. The original annual tax of the Ming Dynasty was only more than 400 million taels. so much!

Sun Chuanting took the account book and reported to him: "The Ministry of Public Security was initially created. Except for the five provinces of North Zhili, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, and South Zhili, the other provinces are still blank. I will wait for this side to stabilize. In the second half of the year Go to South Zhili, do a good job in the south of the Yangtze River, and then improve the north, and the income in the first quarter will be 500 million taels, but the business and trade are different in different seasons, and it should be about 500 million taels a year."

Zhu Youjian was stunned by this amount. Li Yunya ordered him to collect business tax once a quarter, and he could collect it four times a year. According to Sun Chuanting's calculation, he could earn more than 5000 million taels a year, plus the original land tax. Mining taxes and other miscellaneous items can reach nearly 6000 million taels!After Zhang Juzheng's reforms, the Ming Dynasty's annual income was less than 500 million taels, and in some years it could only be 300 million taels. In recent years, it has been even worse. Last year, the income was less than 200 million taels, and the grain was less than half of the original amount. .

6000 million taels!It is more than ten times that of Zhang Juzheng!Zhu Youjian suddenly felt like he had won a huge lottery and didn't know how to spend the money.He asked worriedly: "Is it possible to charge too much? The merchants may still have a surplus?"

Sun Chuanting said with a smile: "Your Majesty, don't worry, this tax rate was drawn up by the minister, the national teacher and the shopkeepers in his shop. According to the national teacher, cancel the cross-border banknotes, increase the release of road coins, and encourage businessmen. They still have Gotta earn it!"

Only then did Zhu Youjian feel relieved, but his joy had not passed away. It was reported from the south of the Yangtze River that there were rebellions in Fujian. There were thousands of people, and it gradually became a prairie fire.

Zhu Youjian hurriedly sent someone to find Li Yunya, and Li Yunya asked him to hand over the matter to Sun Chuanting: "Minister Sun is in charge of both government affairs and military affairs. I sent him a company of seed soldiers to the Armed Police Department. Now it can be more or less established. You can give him some money and let him find some more. People, with Minister Sun's ability, it is easy to deal with some thieves, and if he goes to Nanzhili to sit in the town, Jiangnan will not be able to turn the sky."

Li Yunya knew that Sun Chuanting was a ruthless man who beat the peasant army all over the place in history. He was an all-rounder in civil and military affairs like Lu Xiangsheng, and among the many generals in the late Ming Dynasty, he would rank ahead of Lu Xiangsheng. The security work was too materialistic, so Zhu Youjian was asked to set up the Armed Police Department under the Ministry of Public Security, and Sun Chuanting was asked to deal with the unstable factors other than the northeast and southwest, so that he could safely focus on production with one hand, and deal with the Manchus and Dagans with the other. .

Zhu Youjian handed over the matter to Sun Chuanting as he said, and gave him the Shangfang sword. Minister Sun was not afraid of suffering and not afraid of tiredness—in fact, he was stimulated by the incident of Li Yunya beheading Zhou Guozhang with a sword. Li Yunya's words "for this country, for this nation" that Li Yunya often said were not just tossed down. Master Guoshi is really doing everything for this country and this nation. What he can do, even at the risk of being jealous and disgusted by the emperor, he can do it consistently.

Sun Chuanting admired Li Yunya a bit. Even a Taoist priest who became a monk could do this for the sake of the country and the nation. Couldn't he, a Confucian scholar who had been familiar with the teachings of Confucius and Mencius since childhood and was determined to be loyal to the emperor and patriotic, not be able to do it?On the second day after receiving the imperial decree, he immediately set off for Nanjing.The original capital of the Ming Dynasty was Nanjing. After Zhu Di launched a coup and seized the throne, he moved the capital to Beijing, but he still retained the same leadership team in Nanjing. There are two sets of six ministers in the country, one in Beijing and one in Nanjing. This newly emerged Ministry of Public Security only exists in Beijing, not in Nanjing. In Nanzhili, there is only the Public Security Department. There are also a group of sons and nobles here, as well as ministers who have fallen out of favor. Sun Chuanting didn't plan to rely on Li Yunya this time, he had to solve them by himself!