The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

But the old superstition believed that Jiajing was afraid of ghosts.

As an emperor, he can run amok in the world without any scruples, but what can he do to ghosts and gods?

Who can have trouble with ghosts?

Well, Yan Aiqing, you are dead, I can't afford to offend you.

He had no choice but to continue to back down and said, "Yan Aiqing, speak up if you have something to say."

Yan Song's voice came from a place as ethereal as the sky: "Your Majesty, I am still thinking about my great cause of land reform - in order to implement land reform, I have to promulgate two measures against the royal relatives and powerful landlords. It is to re-measure the land of the whole country, and it is necessary to include all the land in the country into the scope of tax statistics. The second is to abolish the privilege of certain people not to pay taxes, and not to allow any land owner to have the privilege of not paying taxes or grain, and paying taxes equally. Please also Your Majesty's permission!"

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When Jiajing heard this, Mao exploded.

What about Mao?

These two moves, but the knife sees the blood, the fist penetrates the flesh.

Isn't it because of these two advantages that the landlord and bureaucratic class can be so rich, oppress the people, and hollow out the country?

One is to hide the land property and not report it. The family clearly has 100 mu of land, but only 10 mu is reported.

The second is to take advantage of the tax privilege of not paying food in their hands to substantially evade taxes and reduce tax payments to the country.For example, the relatives of the royal family do not pay taxes, and the honors in the exams do not pay taxes, etc.

Today, Yan Song's reform measures lying in the coffin are tantamount to raising the butcher knife of reform high and slashing at the neck of the bureaucratic and landlord class!

In history, 20 years later, Zhang Juzheng implemented a whipping method, which was essentially these two measures.

Once these two measures are rolled out throughout Daming, the bureaucratic landlord class in Daming will be completely abolished by Yan Song, and the national power of Daming will inevitably be greatly improved.

But what followed was an extremely violent counterattack by the bureaucratic landlord class.

Even Emperor Jiajing was hesitant about it.

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Chapter 1902 Capital?feudal? 【3】

"This..." Jiajing murmured endlessly: "Yan Aiqing's words are good even when he is about to die. The two measures he mentioned are indeed good governance. However, reforms also need to be carried out step by step. It is too hasty..."

The hand in the coffin suddenly became agitated, slammed the coffin board, and shouted: "Your Majesty, now that Li Zicheng is rebelling, why are there so many people following him? Isn't it because my land policy in Ming Dynasty is so corrupt that farmers have no way to survive, so I force them into prostitution?" Are you forcing these law-abiding people to Liangshan? Now that you have killed Shen Yiguan and captured hundreds of bureaucratic landlords, don’t you make up your mind to completely tear yourself apart from the bureaucratic landlord class?”

This dead man's slap in the face really made Jiajing tremble with fright.

If any other person, on any occasion, dared to speak to the emperor "April [-]" like this, Jiajing would only give him two choices: prison or guillotine.

But now, facing a dead person, what can Jiajing do?

Kill again?

Lu Bing persuaded from the side: "Your Majesty, Mr. Yan Ge is a man who is about to die, and his words are good. Since he is dead, and you have already killed Shen Yiguan and others, breaking with the landlord and bureaucratic class, what else is there?" Frightening? How about meeting the only request of Old Yan Ge before his death?"

Huang Jin also knelt on the ground trembling, and said in tears, "Long live. Those bureaucratic and landlord classes are really bitten to the bone. Even if you protect them now, they will not think of you half of the way. Instead of this, why not Doing nothing, completely abolishing their privileges..."

Huang Jin knew that his wave of raids had implicated more than 100 officials of the bureaucratic landlord class, but he completely offended these landlords who were studying.If this wave can't kill them, their next attack will definitely be ten times more tragic.

At that time, what should I do if I am swollen?

Really do one thing and keep doing two things.

If you want to fight, kill it completely!

Hearing the persuasion of the two confidants, Jiajing's eyes were still a little hesitant, and then he looked at Shen Shixing, Bao Zheng and other cabinet elders.

Yang Bo and his elders did not expect Yan Song to be dead, but they could still persuade the emperor to carry out reforms!

This is the only way to die.

This opportunity, but once in a thousand years, must not be missed, and it will never come again.

The interests of the elders have long been tied up with Yan Song.Nothing to do with the bureaucratic landlord class.

They have already earned a lot of wealth through Yan Song, not traditional land wealth, but capital wealth.

He can be said to be the emerging capitalist class.

Seeing the opportunity, the elders immediately came out to persuade the emperor.

"Your Majesty, when a bird is about to die, its song is mournful, and when a man is about to die, his words are kind."

"Now that Li Zicheng has rebelled and the peasant army has swept across the country, the root cause is the brutal exploitation by the landlord and bureaucratic class."

"Your Majesty, Lao Tzu said, don't worry about poverty, but worry about inequality, don't change poverty, but worry about anxiety! This bureaucratic landlord class occupies the best land in the world, but pays no taxes. It lives by sucking the blood of farmers. , This is the fundamental disaster of my Ming Dynasty."

Jiajing listened to these confidants and persuaded himself one after another, but he couldn't help being moved, and his perception of the bureaucratic landlord class became worse and worse.

Although he was afraid of trouble and causing chaos in the world, the peasant uprising army led by Li Zicheng is now about to sweep the world. Does Jiajing really not reflect on why the seemingly invincible Daming is so unbearable in the face of the torrent of peasant uprisings? hit?

Shen Shixing, who was usually calm and composed, delivered a fatal blow.

"Long live!" Shen Shixing said in a deep voice: "Old Yan Ge is in the coffin, what he said is too reasonable. In the past, when we carried out reforms, we always looked forward and backward, always afraid of destroying the situation of Ming Dynasty. But now Li Zicheng is about to threaten Fengyang, the central capital, And Nurhachi is about to threaten Beijing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty. Why do we have to worry about it? Why don’t we just give it a go and implement reforms, maybe there is still a glimmer of hope!”

What do you call a dog that doesn't bark before it bites?

Shen Shixing usually doesn't show off his mountains and dews, but when it comes to critical moments, his words are worth ten words to others!

Jiajing suddenly slapped his thigh.