These years of being the queen mother!

Most of the Ming officials were lenient to themselves and stingy to others. Even though the Empress Dowager Yang explained the reasons well, most members of the cabinet who were afraid of losing their interests still firmly opposed the permanent exemption of the agricultural tax in the three provinces of Shaanxi, Shanshan and Gansu.Of course, he belonged to the firm imperial party. Shi Fenglai was adhering to the principle of abolishing the agricultural tax and not paying taxes as a scholar-bureaucrat, and supported Empress Dowager Yang in exempting the three provinces of Shaanxi, Shanshan and Gansu from taxes.

It's just that there are too many opponents. Although Shi Fenglai's supportive attitude has attracted much attention, it is still annihilated under the fierce opposition of cabinet members.One must know that since Shi Fenglai took office as chief assistant, he has no other skills, especially good at making friends.But the problem is, judging from the current situation, mixing mud is useless at all!

Thinking of the weakening of the power of the cabinet and the six central courts since Zhu Cilin came to power, and thinking of the stubbornness that Empress Dowager Yang had always shown, she couldn't help but secretly despise her colleagues in her heart!

It is useless for you to keep opposing here. As long as Your Majesty supports it, the Empress Dowager can skip the cabinet and directly promulgate the decree of exempting the permanent agricultural tax of the three provinces of San Gan.Rather than doing more useless work here, it is better to agree to Queen Mother Yang's measures to benefit the people, and then recover the losses from other aspects!

It can be said that there are very few officials in the Ming Dynasty who are clean and honest. Even if there are, such as Hai Rui, who is known as a clean and honest official, is extremely pedantic and only has a poor reputation in the history books.

As I said before, Empress Dowager Yang is still very tolerant of officials and allows her subordinates to be greedy, but the premise is that she should not be greedy for too much and must do practical things. Destroy the Great Wall.So Empress Dowager Yang has already made up her mind. This time, the permanent exemption of the agricultural tax in the three provinces of Gansu Province will only go through the process once in the cabinet. Of course, the support of cabinet members is the best. That's why I don't bother to pay attention to them. Anyway, she has always been 'dominant and domineering', and she doesn't mind having more titles of arbitrariness and tyranny.

Empress Dowager Yang was too lazy to listen to them chattering in front of her, raised her eyebrows slightly, and nodded at Zhu Cilin.After receiving the hint from Empress Dowager Yang, Zhu Cilin understood, and immediately put on a bewildered expression and said to the cabinet members who had begun to wipe tears and howl, except Shi Fenglai.

"The queen mother is right, and you are also right. My head hurts from the quarrel, and I don't know whether I should listen to you or the queen mother. This matter is temporarily suppressed, and it will go to the court tomorrow, and then I will let you go to the court." Let’s have a good discussion with the officials of the six ministries!”

The cabinet members collectively glanced at the little emperor Zhu Cilin, and found that his little face was pale (that was suppressed on purpose), probably as he said, his head hurt from the quarrel between them and Queen Mother Yang, no matter how much Ming officials You bastard, but you also know that you will accept it when you see it. Now, hearing Zhu Cilin's tone clearly leaning towards them, they said in unison, "I respect the sacred will" with a sense of humor, and file out after asking for peace.

Among them, Shi Shoufu was the last to leave the Qianqing Palace. Unlike other people who had happy faces, Shi Shoufu's fat face was only seven points serious and three points pity.Just like that, he was fooled by Zhu Cilin, who was still a young emperor. Should he say that his colleagues who were officials in the same dynasty and the cabinet elders were stupid, or that Zhu Cilin was taught too smart!

Shi Shoufu looked up at the sky, well, blue sky and white clouds, it's time for him to speed up and go home to make preparations.After all, the colleague who failed to figure out the holy will deserves to be caught off guard, but if even he is caught off guard, it should be too bad!As an imperial party, one should always speculate on what one wants and follow in the footsteps of the Empress Dowager and Her Majesty. This is Shi Fenglai's strategy for being an official. Otherwise, why would he, who is as mediocre as him and just tactful, have been the chief assistant of the cabinet for so many years? Still standing.

Shi Feng came out of the palace and went home straight away, while the other cabinet members who were full of confidence and believed that the little emperor Zhu Cilin would stand firmly on their side, as if they had won a battle, they contacted their trusted colleagues and started A banquet was held to celebrate, if they hadn't remembered the morning court tomorrow, they would all have gotten drunk.

Of course, they were still happy, so they used tea instead of wine, and they were all used to being full of tea, and they talked freely at the banquet like a romantic talent.When he was talking, it was inevitable that his words would be somewhat disrespectful to Empress Dowager Yang, who was in charge of the imperial court, and she swore to save the young emperor from the fire.

They were talking all over the place, and Jin Yiwei's secret agents who were secretly watching were also making small reports.Since Jin Yiwei's secret agents made a small report, except for the little emperor Zhu Cilin, the two eldest princesses and the two empress dowagers were also present, so everyone was a little dumbfounded.

After waving his hand to tell the secret agents of Jin Yiwei to leave, the little emperor Zhu Cilin smacked his mouth and said incredulously. "This is Erchen's current subordinate. Is he looking down on Jin Yiwei's ability, or is he looking down on Jin Yiwei's ability?"

"It's just because they have high self-esteem and think that San Lang is young and easy to fool. It's not true, even if San Lang is young, he is really easy to fool. Don't they have a mother? They look down on the mother and think that a mere woman is good. Deal with it?" Zhu Shuxi frowned, sternly speaking with a pretty face that hadn't bloomed yet, and said what was in her heart without any scruples.

As soon as she opened her mouth, Zhu Shuna glared at her: "In front of the two queen mothers, what are you talking nonsense about?"

"Why are you talking nonsense, I'm clearly telling the truth!" Zhu Shuxie rolled her eyes and snorted unconvinced: "And San'er, I'm your second sister, how can you say I'm not!"

Hearing this, Zhu Shumei also rolled her eyes resolutely, and also hummed angrily. "Okay, you are the eldest sister, you have reason!"

"I was justified..."

Zhu Shuxi wanted to quarrel with Zhu Shumei, but her own mother, Empress Dowager Yang, gave her a hard look. Zhu Shuxi was afraid that Queen Mother Yang would take care of her, so she stuck out her tongue and sat there obediently, pretending to be a good girl.

Empress Dowager Yang supported her forehead, she didn't bother to pay attention to the two girls who looked like fighting cocks, she changed the subject and chatted with Empress Dowager Ci'an about other things.Empress Dowager Ci'an knew that Empress Dowager Yang and Zhu Cilin, the mother and son who belonged to foxes, must have important matters to discuss in private, so she obediently raised the issue, dragged Zhu Shuxie and Zhu Shuxie out of Yikun Palace, and went to Ciqing Palace where she was staying. .

After the three, Empress Dowager Yang sent the servants of Yikun Palace to guard the gate of the palace, and then discussed with Zhu Cilin. "Tomorrow, you will directly issue the imperial decree, and the Ai family will directly issue the Yi decree, directly confirming the permanent exemption from the Shanshan, Gansu, and Gansu provinces. The Ai family can't be bothered to look at these ulterior motives!"

"I know, the queen mother can rest assured, I will definitely let them understand what kind of young emperor I am!"

After all, being an emperor doesn't have a big heart, and as a wonderful old Zhu family, Zhu Cilin doesn't have a big heart. Obviously, he still bears a grudge against the group of court officials who think the Holy Father is coming and are going to rescue him. What about the words of water and fire!Therefore, the little emperor Zhu Cixi made up his mind, in addition to resolutely adopting the Queen Mother Yang's strategy of beating the court officials by surprise, he must carry forward the good quality of poisonous tongue, and slander all the court officials who participated in the banquet celebration. They were ashamed and wished they could just leave office.

With this beautiful and lofty wish, Zhu Cilin became in a good mood when he had dinner, his appetite was whetted, and he ate an extra bowl of rice than before. He went to Yikun Palace to have dinner with his two daughters, and just came back to report the good news to Empress Dowager Yang!

"Today's dinner is really good, and Bao'er and Belle also ate half a bowl of rice more than before."

Empress Dowager Yang smiled thoughtfully, but did not reveal that Zhu Cilin's appetite was probably due to some bad trick, instead she attributed the credit to the chef in charge of the imperial dining room, and generously gave it a lot of money. reward.

One night passed, and before the sky was bright, Empress Dowager Yang and Zhu Cilin stepped on the morning dew and came to the Golden Luan Hall respectively, one after the other, and began to go to the morning court under the eunuch's singing.

Because it had long been determined that Zhu Ciling would be on their side, last night a banquet was held in advance to celebrate, and the officials who were qualified to go to the early court were all gearing up, ready to give full play to their full potential, and follow the young emperor Zhu Ciling Talk about reducing or exempting agricultural taxes and the possible harm. Unfortunately, it has long been known that they will do so. Empress Dowager Yang waved her hand, and directly asked Wang Tigan to read out the edicts and imperial decrees that are as powerful as the imperial remonstrance issued by the empress. Civil and military officials who did not want to reduce or exempt taxes were caught off guard.

The civil and military officials who did not want to reduce or exempt taxes all stared wide-eyed. When they were about to adopt the method of deadly remonstrance and resolutely opposed, the cunning Zhu Cilin waved his hand directly, resolutely announced his withdrawal from the court, and then fled with Empress Dowager Yang grandly.

In the pavilion of the Royal Garden, Empress Dowager Yang glanced at the clusters of flowers not far away, then at Zhu Cilin, who was holding a plate of pastries and eating happily, suddenly raised her mouth, smiled, and teased: "You didn't plan to fight the officials, why did you just follow your mother and run away!"

"Mother, how do you know that this son-in-law intends to verbalize all the ministers!"

Zhu Cilin swallowed the sweet-scented osmanthus cake in his mouth, and murmured indistinctly. "I originally planned this way, but after thinking about it, lip service has always been the specialty of those civil servants. No matter how eloquent I am, I can't beat the pack of wolves with my fists. My son is smart. , naturally won’t suffer this obvious loss, so it’s only reasonable to decisively follow the queen’s retreat.”

"You!"

Empress Dowager Yang shook her head, but turned to talk about business. "The hundreds of officials are expected to have a lot of fun these days, so let's postpone going to court for a few days."

"Aren't you afraid that the lecturers who like to preach will break into the palace gate, come in front of us, and start playing deadly remonstrance?" Zhu Cilin swallowed another piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake, and hummed indistinctly.

"I heard from my great-great-grandfather that the reason why my father became disliked by the government at the beginning was because they played deadly remonstrance."

Your royal father is not interested in government affairs at all, and it's not because the officials are playing deadly remonstrance.Although the officials are not fun, the blame can't be pinned on others' heads, right?

Empress Dowager Yang chuckled, but said. "Okay, stop complaining, Aijia has granted your previous request to go out of the palace to play, as long as you can promise to listen to the accompanying Jinyiwei and not easily get involved in danger, even if you stay at night to visit Aijia at the night market."

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