Chapter 133 Famous Confucianism

However, after Xing Tianjun entered the city, he did not infringe on ordinary people and merchants, especially the ordinary people in the city. It can be said that there was no crime in autumn. Not only that, it also gave rice grain for relief to help them get through this period of time. At the same time, it issued a pass to merchants in the city, and allowed them to continue to stay in the city, and And it is allowed to pass within the area controlled by the Xingtian Army, as long as the tax required by the Xingtian Army is paid.

In fact, commerce in the Ming Dynasty is quite developed, but the strange thing is that the imperial court mainly levied agricultural tax, which also relied on agricultural tax. The imperial court also used it from farmers, but it rarely levied taxes on merchants, so that the expenditure of the Ming Dynasty was too much at the end of the year, so that it was almost trapped. On the verge of government bankruptcy.

At the beginning of this year, the emperor wanted to levy taxes on merchants to meet the needs of the country's finances, but this matter was strongly opposed by the Donglin Party and denounced it as competing with the people!

In fact, it's bullshit to compete with the people for profit! At present, there are few merchants in the Ming Dynasty who do not collude with the officials of the government. Even behind many giant merchants, officials are already participating or even directly operating. If the emperor wants to tax merchants, isn't it equivalent to paying money from the pockets of these officials? How about this? So how will these so-called national elites and pillars of the Donglin Party agree? Even if they know that the country needs to do this, they immediately start to attack it for their own personal gain. What national interests! Bullshit, it's not as important as making money from their pockets! In the end, under the obstruction of the Donglin Party, the court's attempt to tax merchants was ultimately not carried out!

Later, after the year of Chongzhen, Chongzhen also worried about money every day. He increased the salary, increased the salary, and increased the salary. As a result, the farmers in the world could not survive and rose up one after another. Even some small landlords could not live, and finally joined the ranks of rebellion. Chongzhen never thought of the dynasty. Businessmen levy taxes! However, those elites in the court are the biggest obstacle, which makes Chongzhen unable to implement it. He even had to open the sea ban, but the tax collection of merchants could not be carried out.

Therefore, it shows that the death is also inseparable from the efforts of the Donglin Party, which are the backbone of the country. This group of so-called elite groups is the biggest culprit.

Of course, Xiao Tianjian understands the reason, so since he occupied Yangcheng, he has taxed merchants within his jurisdiction. The tax is not high. As long as merchants want to enter the jurisdiction of Xing Tianjun to do business, they have to pay taxes. No matter who you are, even if Xiao Tianjian's father-in-law does business with Xing Tianjun, this commercial tax is less. No! For this reason, his father-in-law Fan Yaoshan still slandered this matter, but Fan Yutong praised it and finally persuaded Fan Yaoshan to support Xiao Tianjian to do so.

In Xiao Tianjian's mind, as long as it is within his jurisdiction, there can be people who are rich, people who can be poor, and there can be a landlord class, but there is only one person who can't exist, that is, the privileged class. No matter who, in his jurisdiction, he must obey his management and collect taxes per mu, no matter who you are. One mu counts as one mu, more land is more, and less land is less. As long as there is a word of fairness, in this way, there will be fewer class contradictions. The rich should bear heavier responsibilities to the country, so as to avoid repeating the mistakes of Daming one day, so Xiao Tianjian does not resist the landlord class and the rich. The heart is just the word fairness. As long as everyone is responsible for the country, then it doesn't matter who has money or not!

Although it is open for merchants to do business, after Xing Tianjun sorted out the merchants in Wuchang Mansion, he still copied a lot of merchants, because these merchants are actually secretly privately by many officials, and naturally they are also within the scope of copying!

Now it's all right. Everyone has started all over again. Fair competition. Who can make a fortune? That's because of his own ability. Xiao Tianjian protects such a person, but he has to rely on being an official to support him behind his back. I'm sorry, I didn't discuss it. Now this money has been confiscated and redistributed!

For the captured prisoners of war, Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu, was extremely angry because of Wuchang's crimes and the people were extremely angry. Xiao Tianjian was not polite to him. He directly ordered him and his son to be pulled out and cut down. On the one hand, he saved the trouble of settling them, and on the other hand, he also used it to calm the people's anger and buy the hearts of the surrounding people.

For the officials captured in the city, Xiao Tianjian ordered the selection of the most powerful people who were greedy, and pulled out Wuchang City to kill them, which was also used to buy people's hearts with their heads.

However, for some low-level officials and some officials who are well-known among the people in the Wuchang area, they are treated with tolerance. They are unwilling to continue to work for the officials for the Xing Tianjun. They will be released to go home and return part of their property so that they can live. However, they are in the supervision and life of the appointed chief security officer, and they are willing to continue to be officials. If you work for the Xingtian Army, they will choose their strengths, rearrange them, and reactivate them as the civil officials of the Xingtian Army, so that they can become officials of the Xingtian Army and serve the life of the Xingtian Army.

But I have to mention the former court in the city's ceremonial minister and Dongge University scholar He Fengsheng. This person is the second in the palace examination in the forty-fourth year of Wanli. He is a talented person. He is upright and honest, and does not like to cling to power. He once offended Wei Zhongxian. As a result, he was dismissed from office. Later, in the reign of Chongzhen, Wei Zhongxian After the fall, he recovered. As soon as he returned to his hometown, he met Xing Tianjun's attack on Wuchang City. As a result, after Wuchang City was broken, he was arrested by Xing Tianjun.

After Xiao Tianjian learned about He Fengsheng's situation, he personally went to the prison place to release him, and also returned his family. The property of the house in the city was also returned. He treated him with courtesy and wanted to invite him out of the mountain as an official, but even if he was blatantly refused by He Fengsheng, and Xiao Tianjian was scolded by him.

For this reason, Xiao Tianjian and He Fengsheng also carried out a good theory. They counted all kinds of wrongs in the current court, but they were refuted by He Fengsheng one by one. For such a great Confucian, Xiao Tianjian played and quarreled with him, which was obviously humiliated. He Fengsheng quoted the scriptures and scolded Xiao Tianjian with dog blood, which made Xiao Tian angry. Jianji wanted to draw a knife and cut off the old guy, but in the end, he suppressed his anger and continued to argue with him, but in the end he was defeated and ran away.

However, Xiao Tianjian still did not allow anyone to be rude to this old man, and ordered his men to provide the He family with the best food in the city and treat him kindly.

However, He Fengsheng was a little stubborn. Seeing that Daming was going to die, he felt that he had once been an important minister of the imperial court and could not serve the thief, so he had to kill himself at home.

In the original history, He Fengsheng also asked his family to drive him to the lake after Zhang Xianzhong conquered Wuchang City, and finally threw himself into the lake and died. But this time he did not die and was persuaded to be saved by his family.

After hearing the news, Xiao Tianjian immediately rushed to visit He Fengsheng's home. He persuaded him that if he didn't want to surrender to Xing Tianjun and give Xiao Tianjian to do things for him, he could live as a civilian at home. Xiao Tianjian would never force him to come out to be an official, and promised to treat him kindly. His family, and he must be kind to the people, made He Fengsheng have the idea of dying. From then on, he closed the door and completely became an idle person.

However, a few years later, He Fengsheng once again became an official in Xiao Tianjian's dynasty at the age of nearly 60. He became the general compilation of the History Museum and presided over the compilation of the history of Xing Tianjun after he became an army. Unexpectedly, he rudely recorded some of Xing Tianjun's bad deeds and Xiao Tianjian's in the history books. Some evil deeds caused a sound of impeachment in the government and opposition. The old man's house was thrown into the feces several times, and the house was almost ordered!

However, Xiao Tianjian still treated this old man with leniency. He personally ordered the publication of his history books, and kept many bad words about him that he had compiled into the book, without a word of modification, so that the old gentleman had to sigh at Xiao Tianjian's broad mind and left with a smile.