Chapter 921 Jun (Chinese)

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The so-called "Wuxiang" and "A Furong" are actually opium. It's just that people in this era have not yet realized its harm, but instead regard it as a kind of enjoyment that only top aristocrats can have.

Wanli first came into contact with this kind of thing three years ago. When he had just learned to smoke, he fell in love with the feeling of swallowing clouds and vomiting mist. What eunuchs like to do the most is "evil of meeting the king", so they naturally tried their best to find different tobaccos everywhere for the emperor to enjoy.

After "tasting all kinds of herbs", Wanli was very interested in a special cigarette called "Fu Shou Smoke", because after smoking this cigarette, it will produce super pleasure and seem to be able to see the scene of bliss. After that, Wanli stopped touching other tobaccos and sucked this one.

The eunuch Qiu Yi, who presented the formula of "Fu Shou Smoke", promoted him to Sanji and the second head of the East Factory. After that, the imperial pharmacy in the palace rolled this kind of cigarette roll with gold price for the emperor according to the formula.

After taking a long time, Wanli naturally became addicted and the demand continued to increase. When drug addiction occurred, he yawned and burst into tears and restless. The chronic poisoning caused by opium also made his spirit very abnormal... either he was listless or angry, his originally perverted personality was distorted.

Wanli has not attended court for many years, so he naturally has a drug addiction that may occur anytime and anywhere, and he is worried about making a fool of himself in front of his ministers.

Shen Shixing told the emperor without hesitation that Wanli was indeed angry at the time, but he only sent Qiu Yi to Shanghai and did not pursue it too much... because he never regarded this kind of thing as a drug, but just felt that it was like drinking, gambling, smoking, sex and sex... nothing fussing.

Shen Shixing found out that there were examples of successful drug rehabilitation, so he tried every means to find a way, hoping that the emperor could quit. Later, Wanli did try it, but in just half a day, drug addiction could torture him to death. After a few times, he completely gave up... I can't afford to quit, why should I quit?

However, in the past year, with the hollowing out of alcohol and sex, Wanli felt scared, but as long as he thought about the pain when he was quitting drugs, he felt cold all over his body, and he could only spend one day like this.

"If I were given another chance, I would never get involved in this thing again..." Wanli was a little depressed and murmured: "If anyone can make me quit it, I am willing to give it to me with a title."

"There will be a solution." Shen Shixing whispered: "I will ask for a famous doctor and will definitely cure the emperor's illness..."

"The imperial physician said it," Wanli interrupted him roughly, "I am just a fire of the two meridians of the heart and liver, don't mix together."

"Yes..." Shen Shixing was a little regretful. Emperor Wanli was unhappy and had a change. He should have settled the matter quickly before saying: "Please order the emperor to withdraw the mining tax entrusted, and then hand it over to the civil officials for handling. The emperor can take care of it carefully."

"I think about it first, and I will send you the decree back." Wanli slowly closed his eyes.

"The people are so scared that the state affairs are in critical condition, and it will be difficult to delay for a second." Shen Shixing made up his mind. Today, there must be a result and we must not give the emperor a chance to repeat it.

Wanli closed his eyes and rested without saying anything, and Shen Shixing sat there quietly.

The emperor spent a quarter of an hour, and the emperor finally couldn't hold on and said, "I have read the cabinet's edict, and it's too much. The Shou Palace and the side wall have only been repaired halfway. If all the mining tax envoys are withdrawn, where will the funds for these projects come from?"

"The correction must be too corrected, otherwise it will not be enough to calm the public's anger." Shen Shixing said in a deep voice: "As for the remaining funds of the Shou Palace and the side wall, please rest assured. The cabinet has discussed with the six ministries, and each ministries are closely handed over to the expenses of the two major projects first, and the construction period will only be delayed a little longer... The emperor's early spring and autumn is not enough to hinder this."

"..." and the mud turned into hard rocks, which made Wanli difficult. But Wanli knew very well that as long as he nodded, the palace would have no main items from now on. What should we do if we had a slightest nod, and what should we do if nearly 30,000 palace people? Don't expect the Ministry of Revenue to help maintain it.

Of course, the most important thing is that among his personality factors, the genes of greed for money and good goods are too strong. Although Wanli received royal orthodox education from the lecturer since childhood, he received diligent and loving the people, paying attention to money and using it. However, as he grew older, the influence of his family and the influence of the world, the acquired education completely failed, and Wanli's greedy and selfish personality was undoubtedly revealed.

This is thankful to his mother, Empress Dowager Li. This woman from a poor rural family has a strong talent for profit and her wish is to look forward to the increasing amount of treasures in her family. Although after becoming the Empress, she would not have to calculate for an egg, a chicken, a liter of wheat and a stone of grain, but her personality of profit and profit has flowed into her blood and deeply made her son fully adhere to it.

Wanli has never walked out of the palace. Although he knows the value of the people's hearts, he cannot truly understand it. In the face of real money and silver, he always chooses the latter easily. He completely cut off his wealth. It is simply a hatred for killing his father and a hatred for taking his wife.

Of course, Wanli also has a tenable reason - why should scholars, farmers, industry and commerce only let farmers pay taxes? Industry and commerce do not pay taxes, which is beyond words. If we give in this time, the treasury will still be exhausted, and the burden will still be on the farmers, and farmers will rebel. Therefore, farmers must have agricultural taxes, workers have industrial taxes, and merchants have commercial taxes, so we can't just bully honest people

Shen Shixing naturally could not refute Wanli in theory, but he insisted on removing the eunuch tax officials and collecting taxes by local governments. Wanli refuted, isn’t it the same? Do you dare to say that officials are not greedy?

In the past few years, the supervision was effective, and the officialdom had improved a few years. In recent years, it was natural that it became greedy and became popular. Shen Shixing naturally had no shame to say this. But he insisted that as long as the lack of officials was filled and the supervision was strengthened, the behavior of officials would be restricted.

Then why not give eunuchs a chance to supervise?

The king and his minister bargained for a whole hour, and the core of the fight was actually whether the tax silver entered the national treasury or the treasury.

During this period, Wanli sucked twenty cigarettes and almost exhausted several times. In the end, he couldn't even say anything, but he still kept clenching the bottom line.

Shen Shixing also got into Niu Jin'er... Grandma, who do I beg my grandpa for for the sake of? Why are you so ungrateful?

The eunuchs had heard the news and rushed to the palace, peeping behind the roller shutters, and then stalemate continued, fearing that the emperor would not be able to hold on.

Shen Shixing can no longer be allowed to continue to get his last move. They called the eunuch in person and gave him such instructions.

So the eunuch took the order and left. After a while, he brought twenty little eunuchs into the bedroom. He kowtowed to Shen Shixing without saying a word, and cried: "Mr. Shen, please don't force the emperor..." "Didn't you see the emperor sick?" "Why are you so cruel? Do you want to force the emperor to death?"

While crying, he kowtowed, making his nose and face swollen, and some blood was flowing out.

Shen Shixing is a kind gentleman. He was frightened by this formation and finally shook him...

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The palace gate saw the locks falling, and the strong tea turned into white water. Only then did the two kings see Shen Shixing's figure coming out of Huangji Gate.

"How is it?" the two of them rushed up and asked.

"I have tried my best..." Shen Shixing was exhausted and he was not even interested in saying a word. He only sent the yellow silk book in his hand to Wang Xijue's arms, and then walked forward in a daze. In the vast dusk, the back was so old and desolate.

Afraid of something happening to him, the followers quickly followed.

Seeing him like this, Wang Xijue and Wang Jiaping felt mostly cold. They had no time to pay attention to him, so they opened the question book in front of Huangji Gate. The winter was short and the light was dim. The two of them struggled to identify the text on the question book:

'The mining tax was originally used to help large-scale workers, and I could not bear to send extra people to collect the benefits of heaven and earth. Now, the mining industry has been in the past, and all the officials in the internal and external departments have made fine sand. I think it is not worth the cost, so I will stop exempting it. If you see silver in the mine, you will be transferred to the mine and external officials, and you will be sent to the office and return to the Jingyuan Yamen to serve. All mines will be ordered to be closed and built without permission. You are not allowed to open the earth's veins without permission.'

This is about the mining supervisor. Although he still stood upright and refused to admit his mistake, he at least retreated. The two of them breathed a sigh of relief and looked down, and then continued:

'The tax departments of each province have all collected taxation supervision as usual. Half of the local products are distributed into the internal warehouses to provide supplies, and half are sent to the department to help various labor expenses. There is still more to help all sides. They report to the staff and staff to stop escorting money and grain, and do not allow private customs to be established. They accused the commission officials of the commission, and ordered local sticks to snatch people from stake, causing uneasy people's livelihood, business travel, and the country's regular classes. The governor also visited the prison from time to time to punish the crime.'

The eunuchs still levy taxes, but they agreed to share half of them to the treasury... How could the just advice become a shameful sharing of the spoils? No wonder the chief minister has no shame to see others.

"What's this? Half the meeting?" Wang Xijue said in anger: "We fight for love, and we fight for the power to plunder the people?"

"I want to face the saint." Wang Jiaping suddenly turned around and hammered the closed palace door heavily and said, "Open the door, open the door."

‘Open the door, open the door…’ The voice echoed in the empty square, but no one answered him.

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Even though he was reluctant, the situation was already complete and better than nothing. The cabinet had to issue this imperial edict.

As expected, the court and the public did not express gratitude and praise the emperor's virtues after this edict was issued. No one was a fool. Naturally, there was a mystery in this edict - it was said that the world had mining, but the tax bureau still did not withdraw it... In fact, before leaving Beijing, the eunuchs knew very well that there was actually no mine to mine. After they arrived at the local area, the rule they followed was to "seek mines without caves" and plunder as the key. So one excuse or two excuses, what is the difference?

Moreover, the villains who set up private customs and seized others must be handled in conjunction with the tax supervisor. These villains are private people of the tax supervisor. Not only does the officials dare not ask questions, but they cannot punish them even if they ask the case. They say they need to rectify them, but they leave secret doors in the most important places. Isn’t this clearly preparing for future favoritism?

The only thing that is considered a victory is to let the tax supervisor sit down and get the amount removed, which means that the eunuchs’ right to collect taxes directly, but instead the local tax bureaus collect taxes and then give them to the eunuchs. This is an explanation to the tax-resistant people in the world.

But as long as there is a little experience, you will know that this is just fooling people. In this land of China, there is no clear definition of power. If the eunuchs can control the government, they will naturally control the people. But now they will be restrained and will be able to do whatever they want if the limelight is over in the future.

If it were those days, it might have been possible to fool a group of people. But now with media artifacts like newspapers, as long as smart people reveal them in the newspaper, they will be known to everyone everywhere.

Sure enough, the imperial edict was heard and newspapers across the country were full of curses. The people in the southeast who had been waiting for this thing for a month were naturally extremely angry, and this year would definitely not be over.

There were three cabinet members who could not celebrate the New Year. In the court and in the newspaper, there were many scoldings coming. The three great scholars were ashamed and wrote letters to resign. Wanli was naturally staying, but the two old masters of the palace had decided to leave and refused to come to work again.

As for Shen Shixing, on the day the decree was issued, he packed up his things and moved out of Wenyuan Pavilion.

But these people can't live for the last year, at least they can look forward to next year. But Emperor Wanli really can't live for the past...

With the eunuchs' arrangement, the upper circles in the capital knew about Emperor Wanli's disease and knew that the emperor was looking for a prescription to quit smoking or strengthen his body, so they all started to inquire, hoping to win the holy family for this.

The emperor's younger brother, Lu Wang Zhu Yiliu.

The brother of Emperor Wanli, also the only brother of Wanli. He was born in the second year of Longqing and five years younger than Wanli. He was named King of Lu when he was two years old in the fourth year of Longqing. The two brothers had a very good relationship since childhood.

Although this prince was only seventeen years old, he had already married at the age of fourteen in the ninth year of Wanli. It is said that after the wedding, he should leave the country of capital, but Empress Dowager Li, who loved her youngest son, was reluctant to part with her, so she kept him in the capital.

The ministers believed that this was a worry of chaos in the country, so they kept submitting memorials for three years, asking Wanli to dispel the king of Lu and use the example of his uncle King Jing to explain the matter. However, in recent years, the relationship between Wanli and his mother has been a little stiff. He claimed to be filial and was trying his best to make up for it. He regarded leaving King Lu as a wonderful way to ease the relationship between mother and son.

Therefore, until now, King Lu still stayed peacefully in the capital.

As for King Lu himself, he naturally did not want to leave the prosperous capital and go to the "countryside" to be a local rich man... Although Wei Hui is already the best fiefdom and is still close to the capital, for King Lu Qiansui, who has been in the capital since childhood, those outside the imperial city are considered to be in the countryside.

Therefore, he was very grateful to Brother Nai. This time he finally had a chance to repay him, so he was naturally positive.

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