.The Da Nei is not a place for casual conversation. The two of them separated after talking for a while. Yang Bo returned to the tribe and Gao Gong went to the Ganqing Palace.
After reporting, "I waited at the palace gate for a long time before Feng Bao came in and told him to go in.
Feng Bao greeted him humbly, Gao Gong's face was very bad, and he didn't look at him at all. Because Gao Gong had guessed that the emperor was probably proclaiming lust in the daytime again... Although he had become the throne for less than half a year, Emperor Longqing's name of lust is known to everyone. It is said that he has to visit several different beauties every day, from morning to night, and for a moment, he cannot live without the warm and soft beauty nest. As a result, he was nicknamed as the hard-working "little bee" in the harem. This has become a well-known joke in the officialdom.
After hearing the emperor was nicknamed "Little Bee," Gao Gongbei, who was the emperor's teacher, felt his face was dull and he was even more worried about the emperor's dragon body. Therefore, when he saw Emperor Longqing, who was thin due to excessive indulgence and was tired of his eyes, he couldn't help but kneel down and advise: "Your Majesty, the lord lives in a deep and banished place, and he spys all over the place, either drinks the voice music or rides the game. It will damage the spirit and cause illness. It will cause trouble for a long time. It will cause trouble for political affairs and cause danger. People say that your Majesty's actions are not suitable for understanding the secret. The secret will definitely not be so important." However, the ministers are careful of the problem and dare not speak. They hope to adjust the patronage and control, reduce their desires, and prohibit everything.
It means, your elders, you stay in the palace all day long, and if you don’t see a good person, you will be hang out with a group of eunuchs all day long. These people will be guided to do ridiculous things all day long, so that your vitality will be damaged quickly and the disease will arise from this. Over time, it will make the ministers look down upon, causing the villain to be tempted, and will cause the country to be in danger. Now it is spread outside, saying that some of the emperor’s behavior in the harem are not what he should do during the mourning period. Of course, I think this must be a rumor, but as a minister, I dare not not to say anything to the emperor. Please pay attention to protecting your body in the future, give your younger brother some rest time, and not to do those dirty things that damage your virtue.
Although Gao Gong said it tactfully, the emperor did not understand it. He said apologetically: "You are always worried. This is nothing. I have been so pure and have few desires recently..." As he said that, he subconsciously scratched the back of his head, but he raised his arm and flew out of his broad sleeves and fell to the ground.
Gao Gong was a little old-fashioned. He couldn't see close, but he could see clearly that he could see the distance. He saw a colorful erotic picture on it, and a man and a woman were entangled in an unsightly posture. There was also a mark on the side saying: "Old tree roots" that it was not obvious that the emperor was still full of research spirit......
Long Qing blushed and quickly bent down to pick it up. He thought Gao Gong couldn't see clearly, so he said embarrassedly: "It's just a picture album."
Gao Gong could only lower his head and pretend that he hadn't seen it.
Longqing asked someone to help Gaoge's elder up, "Shishou said, "What's the matter with "Master Come here?"
"Oh..." Gao Gong remembered what he was here for and took out the Song Dynasty of the Ministry of Personnel and said: "This is the preliminary result of the Beijing Inspection, please read it by the Emperor."
"I feel relieved if I have a master in the state affairs." Long Qing didn't answer, "Just think you can do it."
"All ministers should be sages when they stay or stay." Gao Gong shook his head and said, "Old ministers cannot be overthrew." Seeing the emperor like this, he hoped from the bottom of his heart that Longqing could cheer up, and for this reason even the original intention of "the sage emperor to rule with his sacred emperor can be contrary to it.
"Then... let's put it here first." Long Qing took it helplessly, and took Gao Gong's hand and said, "After the New Year, we are not sitting properly. We have enough time today, let's talk."
Gao Gong pulled his hand back without any trace and whispered: "I am also very concerned about the emperor. I am the first in the palace this year. The emperor is still used to it."
"There is nothing unaccustomed to it." Long Qing smiled and said, "It's just ordinary..." I thought to myself that I feel like the New Year every day, so how can I feel this year? I said, "I heard that you always close the door and stay free for the entire Spring Festival?"
"It's not a good thing." Gao Gong saw that the emperor took the initiative to bring the chores over, so he said unavoidably: "I am the emperor who has learned about the sufferings of the people."
"Oh?" Longqing said curiously: "What suffering do you always understand?"
"The people are so miserable!" Gao Gong sighed, "It's so miserable..."
"The people of the capital of goodness at the feet of the emperor..." Long Qing frowned and said, "Will it be so painful?"
"Alas, when it comes to the people in the capital, there are some things that are filled with honor and grace under the imperial city, but they are more of the hardships that cannot be understood." Although Gao Gong knew that his words offended people, he was obliged to ask for the people's orders. Therefore, he did not hesitate to report the situation he had investigated these days to the emperor and said: "The suffering of the people is the third one, "tax", "shop", "field," and "tax," and "travel," and "tax," and "tax," and "tax," and "tax," and "tax," and "tax," and "tax," and "tax," and "tax," and "tax," and "tax," and "tax," and "tax," and "tax," and "tax," and "tax," and "tax," and "tax," and "tax" are not taxed in the capital. However, since the moral virtue, the official took over the taxes of various places, and made a clever name for a moment, and forced the robbery, so that the people were suffering and complained.
After the late Emperor ascended the throne, he had all withdrawn the eunuchs of the world's supervision taxes, which reduced the disaster of the Zhongguan disturbing the people. However, in the late Jiajing period, the late Emperor Xiu Xuan and was extremely disastrous, so he accused the Zhongguan to collect taxes in Zhuozhou, Daxing, Wanping, Tongzhou, Huairou, Miyun and other places in the capital. Therefore, the palace taxation envoy used land gangsters as minions everywhere, traveling dozens of miles to build a factory, and the twenty-four counties of Shuntian Prefecture were already full of tax stars, as dense as fish scales. From Miyun to the capital, only a few hundred miles, you had to go through five or six tax cards to the capital, but only one or two miles "taxes must be collected twice! The fiercely collected guns and seized them!"
"How much does it cost to pluck the hair in so many places every year?" Long Qing frowned. He has always adhered to the principle of not doing anything but causing trouble to the country. Now he felt uncomfortable when the palace people were under their own banner and collecting taxes outside.
"The tax money per car is five cents, three cents for taxes, two cents for taxes, one cent for burden, and even those who are bare hands cannot avoid it. The people say that each tax payment can earn more than 10,000 yuan a day, not less than 30,000 taels of silver a year, and more than 200 water cards in the twenty-four counties have to record 60,000 taels of silver a year. In addition, the tax revenue of the nine gates is controlled by the central government, which is another 200 to 300,000 taels of silver. This not only benefits the people, but also the taxes of the country... This is not only the money cannot flow into the national treasury!"
"Last year, the input in the palace was only 800,000 taels..." Long Qing frowned and said, "I'm sorry for the account if I only have one tax."
"This is just a tax on licensed goods, and I haven't mentioned the tax on buying and selling-a" After a detailed investigation in the first month of the year, Gao Gong knew very well about the bad behavior of eunuchs invading people's livelihood: "Fine as rice, salt, chicken and pig" and coarse firewood, charcoal, vegetables and fruits, etc., buy and sell, everything is not taxed, everywhere is taxed, and everyone is taxed! The tax means that the merchants regard as cowards, robbed them, and did not have their entire goods, and carried their luggage, and were also searched..." He paused and said: "The old minister once saw a merchant who sent goods from Zhangjiawan to Beijing and went out of the store.
There is a regular tax, there is a silver on board, and there is a commercial tax when you arrive at the bay. Within a hundred miles, there are three officials in charge; if one cargo comes, the tax will be counted! His cargo is only worth twenty taels, and he will spend half of the silver on several places along the way. When the ship arrives in the capital for sale, a tax official comes to ask for taxes. He has no money to pay, and he is so angry that he brings the goods ashore and burns them clean. Through this matter, it is not difficult for the emperor to infer that the cumbersome, heavy commercial taxes, and the degree of harm to the merchants and the public have reached!”
Long Qing looked very ugly when he heard this, and he said hatefully: "It's so rampant, why hasn't anyone told me!"
"I wasn't so powerful before, it was only half a year before." Gao Gong told Longqing obscurely, "If you were there," why did the eunuchs dare to be so presumptuous? Isn't it worth seeing that you are easy to bully?
"Although the harm of excessive taxation is serious, it is second to the harm of imperial shops." Gao Gong, who stabbed the hornet's nest today, simply shook it all at once, and said: "Imperial shops and tax cards are often one. Some officials, under the banner of the palace, built houses around the imperial villages or major traffic arteries, built bridges and beams, and set up passes in the name of imperial shops to discuss merchants, boats, and even hawkers carrying loads. If they do not sell the goods to them at a low price, they will lose all their money with heavy taxes... Like the merchant whom the Weichen said just now, was forced to burn all the goods in a fire because they did not believe in this evil. Most people can only resell the goods they had worked hard to produce and sell to the imperial shops at a low price, watching them earn their own interests."
"But after the eunuchs collected the goods, they did not sell them in the imperial shop, but instead went to the private shop." Gao Gong continued to reveal that the store was "private shop?" Long Qing knew about the imperial shop, but he really didn't understand the private shop.
Long "In addition to controlling the imperial shop, Zhongguan also established private stores inside and outside the capital, conquering all the goods in the world, making merchants and people have no profit. Recently, even if the rogue children occupy the pass, ferry, bridges, water glass and open shops, sell banknotes, firewood, ferry, teeth protection, water conservancy and other money, such behaviors that compete for profit with the people is tantamount to robbery, which has caused complaints and is full of refusal. If there is no remediation, all industries in the capital will be in danger!" Gao Gong said heartbrokenly: "If there is no remediation, today's capital will be the whole country tomorrow. At that time, people will live in poverty and the country will not be exaggerated!"
In fact, he also wanted to say, "Tian, ​​this is the most deadly thing. The good land in the suburbs of the capital was occupied by Gong Shi and the princes and nobles. The serious land annexation has reached a point that affects the safety of the country. But he knew it was not necessary to worry about it. If the strike was too large, the backlash would be unbearable. So he decided to only target the eunuchs and talk about the rest later.
That alone has already made Emperor Longqing furious. No matter how slow he is, he can know that the eunuchs use their names to plunder the wealth and ointment outside, destroying the royal reputation, but they are still concerned about making money by themselves, regardless of the emperor’s poverty!
When I think of those eunuchs, I say that the treasury is empty and the palace is useless, and I try different ways to make myself allow them to reach out to more places.
Longqing felt disgust in his heart, and the anger on his face became thicker and thicker, and his breath became heavier. Finally, he gritted his teeth and said, "It seems that I treat them too well usually too much! Not only do I not want to repay my kindness, but I bully my people under my banner!" Perhaps it was because I felt that it was not easy for people around me to follow him back then, but when Longqing ascended the extreme, he rewarded the eunuchs. Not only did they all mention the key yamen in the inner court, but they also gave them extra rewards, giving them python robes and jade belts at will, and their sons and nephews all added command ranks of Jinyiwei. Although they were all honorable and empty positions, they undoubtedly promoted the eunuchs' arrogance and made them more lawless.
"The crime of ungratefulness and deceiving the king" should be cut into pieces!" Gao Gong added fuel to the fire.
"What should I do?" Long Qing studied the "Heart Sutra of the Women" all day long but was confused about how to control the situation.
"I have various tax customs, locations of imperial shops, and list of shop owners." Gao Gong presented a booklet and said murderously: "As long as you catch someone on your own, you can catch them all in one go! In such a short time, there must be a help from the long list.
"What are you waiting for!" Long Qing was finally excited and slapped the table, "Go and catch people!"
"Dare you ask the emperor, who will be the chief platoon? Which soldiers are transferred? Or the key points?" Gao Gong asked calmly: "Which yamen will take care of the custody after the arrest?"
"This... Master, let's go." Long Qing said hatefully: "Tell me a hard lesson!"
"Please give an order." Gao Gong said in a deep voice, but he felt helpless. How could he be the emperor like this? He was confused even how to exercise his power?
"Oh, go and draw an order!" Longqing ordered Feng Bao, who was standing next to him.
"Yes." Feng Bao bowed and retreated out of the Western Warehouse. As soon as he went out, he pulled his legs and ran away.
Two large braziers with white clouds and copper reflect the magnificent Siliguanguan Office warm and red.
At this moment, the four eunuchs who were so arrogant in the past were all covered in oil and sweat, and they were all roaming like ants on the hot pan. Only the eunuchs of the palm seal, Ma Quan, were still sitting there closing his eyes to rest, as if all this had nothing to do with him.
Just now, Feng Bao sent someone to pass the message, saying that Gao Gong had sued them for suing their cleverness, and that they had deceived their superiors and subordinates and violated the law and violated the law, engaged in corruption, and slandering the people. All the scandals of being cheated on them were revealed.
Although the four of them are usually extremely powerful, they are actually paper tigers that have nothing to do. At that time, the grass growing in the temple was panicked and they were just muttering "What to do, what to do?" but they just didn't know what to do.
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew up from the thick door curtain Feng Bao panted and rushed in.
No one blamed him for being rude. Four pens surrounded him and asked anxiously, "What's going on?"
"The emperor gave Gao Gong a royal edict so he could go and arrest people......" Feng Bao breathed evenly.
"Ah..." Teng Xiang, Meng Chong and a few people immediately looked disgusted and said, "It's over, it's completely over..."
"You can't do it like this!" Feng Bao screamed and silenced the others and said, "Before Bai Ling was given a death sentence, there was still a chance!"
"What should I do if I say it?" Everyone seemed to be catching a life-saving straw.
"How could I know!" Feng Bao spat and said, "You are guarding Jinshan begging!" As he said, he pushed everyone away and walked to Ma Quan, lifted his collar, and knelt on the ground and kowtowed, "I used to be ignorant, and I will never dare to do it again." Now that we are in a disaster, I beg my ancestors to give me some advice!" He said, kowtowed on the ground.
Ma Quan's eyes opened a crack, but ignored him.
Teng Xiang and the others also understood, yes, at this time, they could only rely on the wisdom of the seniors to save themselves. Hurry up, kneel on Ma Quan's side, and the five eunuchs kowtowed together, begging the ancestors to help them.
Ma Quan felt that his anger was slightly reduced... In the past six months, although he had been sitting in the seat of the eunuch in the hand seal, the eunuchs in Yudi did not buy his account at all, and they even joined forces to bombard him away.
Ma Quan really regrets it. "I didn't go to Nanjing with Huang Jin at the beginning, but I thought I just didn't realize it. The emperor once a day, and the inner ministers were even more so. Now Emperor Longqing is in the throne. What else can I fight for, as an old man in the previous dynasty?
Looking at the arrogant and ignorant person who was the most arrogant and ignorant, smarter than the Jiajing Dynasty's Silijian crowd, but greed was far better than the previous dynasty. If this continues, something will definitely happen. Ma Quan was already planning to retire and return home. But he didn't expect that before he could retire, the matter came out first.
However, although he felt relieved, he still had to mention these people. After all, whether he could enjoy his old age in the second half of his life also had a lot to do with these people.
Thinking of this, he spat: "I told you a long time ago that you should stop at the right time. But you are self-reliant as an old man in the residence, and are arrogant everywhere. You dare to bite anything, and you are so ugly that you will be so ugly that you will be so bad. Otherwise, how could you provoke the living king of Hell?"
"We knew we were wrong, but we did everything. It's too late to say anything else." Teng Xiang said with a sad look on his face: Factory, do you always say we can save us, right?" "Yes, do we still save us?" There was a whine.
"What are you panic!" Ma Quan shouted and suffocated several people and said, "At that time, Sili had been through so many ups and downs, so he came over safely, and this time would be no exception!"
The eunuchs then calmed down and listened to the ancestors' discussion on the eunuch's foundation of his life: "Do you know why you are suffering from this misfortune?"
"We are unscrupulous..." "We don't take all the officials seriously..." several big blockers replied.
"Not right." Ma Quan said lightly: "In fact, there is only one reason, you have forgotten your roots."
"Forget your roots?" the eunuchs said with wide eyes.
Chapter completed!