These years of being the queen mother!

Speaking of which, Zhu Cilin is also considered a wonderful flower in the old Zhu family. Of course, this does not mean that Zhu Cilin is not a good boy, but that he is the same as the "Emperor Carpenter".

Like Lao Tzu, Zhu Cilin, who is shy and dislikes, also has very different or different hobbies.He likes money, especially the silver money earned by himself, which can be seen from the fact that he first grabbed copper coins for the abacus and then grabbed jade seals at the birthday party.

Speaking of it, the late Ming and early Qing period was the budding period of Chinese capitalists, and it was also the period when European countries officially entered the great voyage period.In Yang Lingyue's view, it's nothing for an emperor to love money, as long as he gets it in a proper way.

Yang Lingyue didn't want Zhu Cilin's vision to be too narrow. Like most powerful people in this era, they only exploited their status as ordinary people. They could completely expand their colonies like the capitalists in Britain, Spain, and other European countries.Anyway, in essence, when the family is in the world, the emperor is the biggest capitalist. Since Zhu Cilin loves money, he will go to collect money from foreigners and enrich the pockets of Chinese people.Anyway, she who came from later generations extremely loathes and hates the group of dwarves living on the island. If given the opportunity, she would definitely not mind turning the so-called Yamato people into a minority and bringing this island country into the territory of Ming Dynasty, but Now, let's stabilize the government first and deal with Houjin's group of Tartars.

After Zhu Cilin went to the Jiaotai Hall for class, Yang Lingyue stood in the aisle for a while, then went to the side hall to wake up the two sisters who were sleeping on the same bed.Zhu Shu'an, who was the same size as Zhu Cilin, was a light sleeper. Yang Lingyue had just walked into the room, before she had time to wake them up, Zhu Shu'an opened her eyes, and softly called "Mother Queen"

"Wake up." Yang Lingyue smiled, and took the delicate quilted skirt from Xuejuan (the maid who served Zhu Shuying personally) handed over by Xuejuan, and dressed Zhu Shuying herself.

Zhu Shumei smiled softly again, and with her cooperation, Yang Lingyue quickly helped her get dressed.But Yang Lingyue is not very good at combing her hair, so Xuejuan still does it.

Just when Xuejuan skillfully combed Zhu Shu's double-snail bun, Zhu Shu's eyes sat up lazily and slowly on the bed. "Queen, come here!"

After all, Zhu Shuyu was older, and compared to Zhu Shuyu who was still a little unclear, it was obviously much clearer.No, just after finishing the last sentence, she hurriedly asked Yang Lingyue: "Mother, where is the emperor's younger brother?"

"Let's go to class."

The difference from Zhu Shuxie who was dressed in sky blue was that the snow geese who served Zhu Shuxie next to her gave Zhu Shuxie a set of pale pink padded thick skirts with white fox fur on the hem.After Zhu Shuxie puts it on, she looks like the jade girl in the New Year paintings just like Zhu Shuxie. Of course, this refers to when Zhu Shuxiu is quiet. wear……

Looking at Zhu Shuxi who couldn't even comb her hair properly and couldn't sit still, Yang Lingyue couldn't help but touch her forehead. "Come on, you are not allowed to go anywhere this morning, so I will stay in Qianqing Palace for my safety."

Zhu Shuxi widened her eyes, as if she couldn't believe what Yang Lingyue said, and said in a very aggrieved tone. "Queen, you want to restrain my feet!"

"Who are you calling yourself my palace?" Yang Lingyue slapped Zhu Shuxie's forehead directly, and said unhappily, "It's just that she was grounded all morning, and the queen used to stay in Yikun Palace all day long. , that wouldn’t be a lifetime.”

Zhu Shuxi stuck out her tongue mischievously, not knowing whether to cry or laugh, Yang Lingyue rubbed her forehead, and said in a slow tone: "Okay, you and Belle will go to deliver snacks to Tianlin later, remember Don't make trouble, or the queen mother will really restrain your feet."

"Oh!"

Zhu Shuxi nodded obediently, then jumped off the stool, and walked out bouncing around.Behind her, Zhu Shuwei followed with a helpless face, obviously she also felt a lot of pressure to have such a lively and outgoing sister, who was dignified and graceful.

One day passed like this, and on the second day, Zhu Cilin did not go to Jiaotai Hall to attend class, but was led by Yang Lingyue, and they went to the morning court together.Although Zhu Cixiu is smart, but he is young, he is only four years old now, and he can't understand the hidden blades of ministers coming and going, and he doesn't know why the simple sentence of "tax increase" It made his mother, who had always been kind and amiable, fly into a rage.

"Tax increase~hehe, now that natural disasters continue, the common people can only feed themselves. If the tax increases, I'm afraid it will drive the common people to a dead end." Yang Lingyue raised her brows, obviously annoyed and said: "The Ai family knows you All of them were born noble, and their limbs are not working hard, but at least they have read a few books of sages, so they must understand the truth of being a man and a minister. I didn't expect..."

"The Ai family is very heartbroken. The Ai family regards you as loyal and admonishing ministers. I hope that you can help the Ai family to support the emperor and Daming when the emperor is underage. Snow, when there is a fear of drought in the coming year, they don't speak out about the policy of calming the people and benefiting the agriculture.

The civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were a little afraid of Yang Lingyue, who was covered in frost at this time. They looked at each other, but they were just silent. They didn't answer, or they said they didn't want to answer Yang Lingyue's series of questions.

Raise taxes, just raise taxes.Now that the tax has been increased, who of you can tell Aijia why the tax is only increased for farmers and not for processors..."

Well, such murderous words instantly frightened the courtiers.The courtiers didn't dare to say any more, they just calmed down Yang Lingyue's anger with one voice.Yang Lingyue curled her lips into a sneer, but her tone suddenly changed. She was not as angry as before, but she also hid the fierceness of the blade.

"The Ai family remembers that when the first emperor was still there, he once told the Ai family that my Ming Dynasty was great and the industry and commerce were prosperous, but the (business) tax ratio was too small. Now that the Ai family thinks about it, I think it is true. Compared with the agricultural tax The industrial and commercial tax has indeed been reduced, so if you open the mouth to increase the tax today, I will not disappoint you. It is impossible to increase the agricultural tax, but the industrial and commercial tax..."

As soon as this remark came out, most of the courtiers couldn't help but thump their hearts. What's more, they knelt on the ground and said again and again: "The empress dowager must not do it! Increasing the industrial and commercial tax is to fight against the people. Leigh!"

"Oh, it is right to increase the agricultural tax. The processor tax is to compete with the people for profit. Isn't that right? Ai Jia remembers that they have been scholars, farmers, businessmen and commerce since ancient times. How come businessmen who are lower than the common people have become representatives of the common people. This is mourning My family doesn't read much, so I don't understand well. The people in "struggling with the people" should refer to ordinary people.

Yang Lingyue snorted heavily, and said mercilessly again: "One of you thinks that the Ai family doesn't know about your private affairs, and that the Ai family doesn't care how much benefits you have received from those merchants and wealthy households, so that when you propose a tax increase Instead of raising the industrial and commercial tax, the Ai family will increase the agricultural tax. The Ai family is here to tell you, whoever dares to raise the tax again, the Ai family will let the whole family go down to accompany the late emperor."

Well, as soon as these words came out, most of the court officials kept their mouths shut, and only a few were still clamoring for the 'truth' in their minds.Yang Lingyue never paid attention to this kind of people who are full of knowledge, but really can't work, don't know the five grains, and can only talk about it, so she generously decided to let them go.Of course, the most important thing is to determine the tax ratio of industrial and commercial tax.

In the Ming Dynasty, the agricultural tax rate was [-]% per mu, also known as [-]% tax, while the privileged class of scholar-bureaucrats (as long as they passed the exam) enjoyed tax exemption. The merchants and rich households, hehehe, the tax ratio can be described as a small amount and nothing.The tax ratio of the industrial and commercial tax has to be adjusted. Yang Lingyue considers herself a kind-hearted person, and will not really let these merchants and wealthy households go bankrupt because of paying taxes, but it is impossible to pay less. You must know the military pay in Liaodong It is almost entirely supported by industrial and commercial taxes, so one tax per ten is the best.

As for whether the officials of the Ming Dynasty agreed, Yang Lingyue gave her a bloodthirsty smile when she thought of the list of factory guards from various places weighing dozens of kilograms that Wei Zhongxian had handed over to her.If she disagreed, didn't she say, let them go down with the whole family, old and young, to accompany the late emperor.

Speaking of it, the officials of the Ming Dynasty still spoke loudly. Once the lives of the young and old of the three clans are involved, even some masters who are not afraid of death and value reputation more than life will not dare to twist the tiger's beard lightly. .

So Yang Lingyue's order that the industrial and commercial tax should be collected at a ratio of ten to one, and that the agricultural tax should remain the same, was promoted without much hindrance. Although some businessmen, such as Hou Jin, who provided a lot of help, jointly protested They said that the tax was too heavy, and Yang Lingyue ordered the factory guards to arrest them all on the charge of 'selling ironware, weapon blueprints, and gold to the enemy', and sent them to prison, regardless of age.

Although Yang Lingyue's move was thunderous, it was too bloody and cruel in the eyes of the scholar-bureaucrats who advocated the doctrine of saints.Shocked by Yang Lingyue's methods, although these literati and bureaucrats did not open their mouths to speak well for the Shanxi merchants who were imprisoned, they all said in private that Yang Lingyue was too vicious and vicious, and that he was the same as Wei Zhongxian who still controlled half of the government. Raccoons of a feather.

Yang Lingyue didn't pay attention to the blind comparisons of these scholar-officials.In her opinion, she didn't label those Shanxi merchants indiscriminately. If it weren't for these people who got into money eyes and forgot their ancestors, they would send materials and documents to Houjin in the name of collecting ginseng antler and delicacies outside the customs. How did the group of people in Houjin rise and grow so quickly?

"Qing Shilu" records that in the third year of the Mandate of Heaven, when □Hachi promulgated the Seven Great Hatreds, Shanxi merchants began to carry out activities inside and outside the pass, and gave great material support to the Later Jin regime.

In the third year of Chongde in the Later Jin Dynasty (1637 A.D.), Huang Taiji ordered the Manchu nobles to lead 100 inland Han merchants to carry goods to Guihua City for trade to make up for the loss of military expenses.

In the early years of Shunzhi, the government of Houjin, which changed the name of the country to Qing, called Fan Yongdou, a wealthy businessman from Shanxi to Mongolia, as the imperial merchant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. government.It can be said that the Qing Dynasty had received financial support from Shanxi merchants in the process of occupying the country and in the large-scale military operations of the previous dynasties.

Yang Lingyue didn't want to allow these Shanxi merchants to betray the country for self-interest, so she simply used thunderous means to take advantage of the opportunity of adjusting the tax ratio to kill Shanxi merchants. It is true that there may be innocent people among them, but in order to show that they The empress dowager couldn't tolerate this the most, so Yang Lingyue still ordered the factory guards distributed in Shanxi to kill all the Shanxi merchants who had been imprisoned, and all the family properties filled the treasury.

Yang Lingyue has a bad reputation for doing this, but the actual effect is still very good.At least after killing this wave of traitorous merchants, the merchants who were envious of the great fortunes of the Shanxi merchants and who wanted to learn from them to sell the iron ore and weapon blueprints they urgently needed to the Houjin government were all terrified. Be as good as a chick, Queen Mother, you are right, you can sell anything, but you can’t sell the country. You must keep this in mind, so you don’t need your old-school factory guards and those bandits who are like door gods every day The pestle is at the door of the little ones.

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