Zhu Yunwen got up and picked up a prayer bead from the ground. She rubbed it with her fingertips and said,"For many years, Master has been trying to persuade the King of Yan. You know very well what he has been trying to do, and so do I. Taizu ordered you to serve the King of Yan just to change his hostility, but he didn't expect to fulfill your selfishness. I know about the matter of giving the white hat to the vassal king.”
Dao Yan's pupils constricted slightly, and his old face darkened.
" Master's eyes are like torches. He knows the consequences of Taizu killing meritorious officials. He also knows that among the Sai Kings, only the King of Yan resembles Taizu in terms of means, ability, and potential. So, you chose the King of Yan and kept persuading him to send troops south, right?”
Zhu Yunwen handed the bead to Dao Yan and asked.
Dao Yan opened his hand and caught the bead. His eyes darkened as he asked,""Is the person Your Majesty is talking about this monk?”
Zhu Yunwen laughed and kicked a bead under her feet away. She said sternly,"Dao Yan, no, Yao Guangxiao, I am not Sakyamuni, I will not send you to the Elysium. But I am the Great Ming Lord, I can send you to the underground of the imperial prison! I still allow you to live, but I don't understand. Why do you want to rebel?”
Dao Yan was a very strange person. He instigated Zhu Di to rebel, overthrew an imperial court, and assisted Zhu Di to build a new imperial court. But what about him?
Do not seek official position, do not seek profit, do not seek fame, do not seek women.
He wore his court clothes during the day, went to court to work, and was honest. At night, he changed into a black kasaya and returned to Buddhism wholeheartedly.
The history books did not record his hobbies. They only recorded the sins he committed. He did not successfully dissuade him. His last wish before he died was not known. No one knew why he wanted to rebel.
Zhu Yunwen was very curious.
Dao Yan stood up and bowed." I don't understand what Your Majesty is saying.”
Zhu Yunwen looked at Dao Yan who was pretending to be confused and sneered. She sat back down and said,"Fine, if you have concerns, I won't force you. However, Dao Yan, since you have foresight and are good at planning, you can predict many things. Why don't the two of us guess what the King of Yan will do next?”
Dao Yan frowned, not knowing what Zhu Yunwen meant.
Zhu Yunwen pointed to a stack of documents on the table and said,"These are all the documents after you left Beiping Prefecture. "You can watch from here and predict what the King of Yan will do next. I will also make a judgment and see who is right and who is wrong. How about it?”Dao Yan frowned. How could a monk read the documents of the imperial court?
"If your prediction is correct, I will let you go back to Beiping Prefecture. If you are wrong, then stay and help me govern Ming. How is it?"
Zhu Yunwen said seriously.
Dao Yan's eyes were filled with surprise.
Back to Beiping?
He clearly knew that he was Zhu Di's confidant and even knew that he had the intention to rebel, yet he still dared to let him go?
Stay?
He dared to use her?
He dared to let him govern Da Ming?
Dao Yan realized that he could not see through Emperor Jianwen. Under his seemingly weak appearance, there seemed to be another soul hidden, a powerful and confident soul.
"If you don't speak, Zhen will take it that you agree. This is my prediction. You can take it away, but leave your prediction sealed. In the future, we will unseal it together and determine the winner.”
Zhu Yunwen put the sealed letters on the table and then walked to the door. He told the people in the prison not to disturb Dao Yan. If he needed to leave the palace, he could arrange for someone to send him out.
Seeing that Zhu Yunwen was in a good mood, Shuang Xi smiled and said,"Your Majesty, are you going to the harem today?”
Zhu Yunwen hadn't been to the harem for more than a month, and it was still caused by a whip. Even though the cabinet had come up with a perfect plan to deal with the existing problems, they had also prepared countermeasures.
For example, regarding the problem of silver being expensive and grain being cheap, the cabinet's suggestion was to let the taxation department take on the responsibility of exchanging silver and grain. The national standard would be unified to prevent merchants from maliciously raising the price of silver.
Another example was the possible boycott of the prefectures and counties. The cabinet, together with the Ministry of Revenue, had repeatedly discussed with Zhu Yunwen that the reason for the boycott was that a whip would harm the interests of the local yamen and make it unprofitable.
The imperial court could take a step back and give 30% of the tax to the prefectures and counties to use. The central government only needed 70%.
If Zhu Yuanzhang was in power, it was said that the cabinet and the Ministry of Revenue wanted to let the local governments share their money. These people's heads could be hung on the flagpole to dry. However, Zhu Yunwen was not Zhu Yuanzhang. He knew more about the laws of the market and knew more about the primary and secondary distribution of finance.
Zhu Yunwen took the tax data from the Ministry of Revenue for the past years and calculated for a long time. Finally, she agreed to the cabinet to give up the land and implement the policy.
But Zhu Yunwen agreed, the cabinet nodded, the six departments knew, and the officials refused.
Groups of people started to cause trouble. They said that once they left money for the local government, it would definitely lead to local independence and corruption. At that time, the local government would be rich, but the central government would be short of funds. What should they do? He also said that once they did this, the capital would inevitably fall into a situation where there was no food to be used. At that time, the tragedy of exchanging children for food would reappear in the world.
Before the whip was implemented, it was first resisted by the imperial court.
This gave Zhu Yunwen a headache. She also completely felt the resistance of the reform. These diehards used high-sounding reasons to criticize the whip law. Some officials even said that this law would definitely cause the wrath of the heavens.
Zhu Yunwen didn't know whether the heavens were angry or not.
However, the earthquake really came.
Although the quake was not strong, it was still felt.
This gave the officials more room to play. They linked the whip method with the warning from heaven and must make Zhu Yunwen stop this method.
Zhu Yunwen had a good temper, but she was also angered.
Damn it, what's with the earthquake? I know it better than you idiots. They actually used the earthquake to attack a whip technique. Then I'll reward them with a whip and let these idiots take the whip and go to the frontier fortress to herd horses.
Within a month, Zhu Yunwen had transferred 35 officials away, such as the seventh-grade censor Liu Yong, who had jumped the most fiercely. Zhu Yunwen praised him and then promoted Liu Yong to the sixth-grade Xuanfu Qian. His location was Leizhou Prefecture.
Liu Yong, who received the transfer order, begged His Majesty to retract the order and change his stance, expressing his support for the whip law.
Leizhou Prefecture was the southernmost part of Guangzhou. After swimming across the sea, they could go fishing on Hainan Island.
Liu Yong obviously didn't have the hobby of fishing. He used connections and backdoors. In the end, it was the Minister of Personnel, Qi Tai, who interceded for Zhu Yunwen to withdraw the appointment.
However, the others were not so lucky. They were also more stubborn. They packed their luggage and went to the frontier fortress to herd horses. Those who should go to the desert to dig sand went to the desert. Those who should go to the sea to live went to the sea.
After a lot of trouble, Zhu Yunwen, the cabinet, and the six departments repeatedly stated their views and told the officials the advantages of the whip method. Finally, they were able to get through the thinking work of the officials.
At this time, it had already been more than a month, and some places had begun to pay autumn taxes.
It's winter, it's not good to use a whip.
In the end, the cabinet decided to inform the local government to temporarily postpone the autumn grain delivery and prepare to implement it in the first year of Jianwen. At the same time, they selected a group of students from the Imperial College to form a team of officials responsible for supervising the whip method.
Zhu Yunwen, who had been tormented, was also responsible for the new army strategy.
Just as Jin Shangyi had told Zhu Di, the biggest problem with the new army strategy was whether it was sustainable. If the new army strategy was suddenly interrupted halfway and stopped, it would cause serious problems.
Zhu Yunwen wasn't a brute, the five military governors weren't fools, and the people from the Ministry of Revenue were even more shrewd. They wouldn't have missed this point.
Based on the tax revenue from previous years, although the central government only had three million taels of silver, if the grain was converted into silver, it would still be as much as ten million taels.
Since the new army was limited to the capital camp, Beiping Prefecture, Shanhaiguan, and other places, it would not be a problem for them to last for a year or two.
In addition, Zhu Yunwen was preparing for the reform of the agricultural tax system and authorized Beiping to pilot the commercial reform first. The potential of commercial development was about to be released. At that time, the Ming Dynasty's finance would definitely change and the new army policy would be implemented in the whole army.
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