Chapter 177 The number of Jin Yiwei has increased three to four times!Chen Han, this is the return of the king! After seeing the right minister of Tobe being dragged out, all the officials were too embarrassed to speak out.
But there was a layer of fear in everyone's eyes. Now they understood that Chen Han was just a hornet, and no one could mess with him. If he messed with him, it would mean death.
So after seeing the fate of Right Minister Tobe, no one dared to speak.
When the blue jade eyes below narrowed and looked at Chen Han, there was a hint of fear.
I don’t know what happened during the recent period. He should have gone to the border to guard the border. This is what he liked more.
After all, when Emperor Tiangao was far away, he became the local emperor, and he could do whatever he wanted. It would never be like this in the capital.
Although Jin Yiwei seems to have become the Tax Inspection Department, the number of personnel has been expanded by more than three or four times, and now they are even more pervasive due to the convenience of tax inspection.
And the most important thing now is that Jinyiwei has completely become a legal institution.
Now even if the officials are dissatisfied with Jin Yiwei, they are checking your tax issues. Your payment of taxes according to law is written into the code.
If you want to resist this, you will be guilty of a serious crime.
So Lan Yu always wanted to escape, but for some reason he had filed several reports in recent days and wanted to leave Beijing.
But the emperor just didn't allow it, which made him very depressed.
What made him even more depressed now was that Chen Han, whom he disliked so much, could be so favored by the emperor.
This is obviously something done against the officials. The emperor can actually cover it up like this. This is blatant protection.
Now even Lan Yu knew that he needed to curry favor with Chen Han. Before the meeting ended, Zhu Yuanzhang told Chen Han that the Eucommia ulmoides he wanted to use had been shipped from Zhangjiajie.
Zhangjiajie has always been the production place of Eucommia ulmoides, and the Eucommia ulmoides produced there is also the best.
After Chen Han knew that Eucommia ulmoides had been transported to his engineering college, he was impatient to leave to refine the eucommia gel.
This will be the most important material for whether he can make tires this time.
After the court meeting, as soon as he turned around to leave, he felt someone pulling him from behind.
When I turned around, I saw Xia Yuanji standing at the same place.
After the other ministers complimented him one by one and left, Chen Han finally remembered that the right minister of household affairs was his colleague no matter what. He had caused his colleagues to be imprisoned, and his whole family was being harassed at home. They were all copied.
Although the whole family would not be cut off, at least some people would have to pay the price with their lives.
I don't know if Chen Han stayed in the Ming Dynasty for a long time, or if he saw too many murders.
His heart also became numb.
All I was thinking about was how to make the reform successful, so I became more determined.
I am no longer so sensitive to a world that is indifferent to human life.
But when he looked back and saw Xia Yuanji, Chen Han still felt a little guilty.
"Brother Wei Zhe, I'm sorry for causing all your colleagues to suffer like that."
Unexpectedly, Xia Yuanji said: "I'm not looking for you, you did the right thing, he just sought his own death.
His family has relied on his connections to get a lot of orders over the years. They have already made a lot of money and are still not satisfied. This is the reason why His Majesty is annoyed.
Needless to say, His Majesty will deal with him sooner or later.
You have done His Majesty a favor by standing up and taking him down now.
If this kind of moth is taken down, will I still have any sympathy for him in my heart? Isn’t that something only rotten scholars would do? "
Chen Han laughed loudly when he saw this: "It's true, it's true, then why are you holding me back now?"
Xia Yuanji smiled and said, "You have produced so many things in the past two days. I haven't gone to pay my respects yet. I just have nothing to do. Everyone in the cabinet cooperates seamlessly, so I don't need to keep an eye on you.
Both His Majesty and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince praised the cement, and I had to go and see it myself.
By the way, I heard that the students we trained have now reached the level of becoming teachers. You should be happy. "
Chen Han smiled and said: "There is nothing more exciting than this.
The cultivation of talents must be the most important raw material of the industrial revolution.
There's not much I can do on my own, but the good news is that I asked and they did what I asked.
Not only did they get it done, it went surprisingly smoothly.
From this point of view, these children, no, these students can be said to be the smartest, most diligent, and most thoughtful ones that I teach. "
Chen Han's first batch of students should be those children from the mountains.
Although they are not stupid, they are still far behind the well-nourished princes like Zhu Gaochi who grew up well-fed and well-fed.
Xia Yuanji smiled and said: "They should be quite proud to receive such praise from you.
Let's go then. I'll ride in your carriage and go take a look first.
I heard that you also built a cement road. Your Majesty and others are not so quick to go and see it. How about I go and experience it first? "
The two people laughed and walked out. At this moment, they saw Lan Yushuai leading Heqinghou, Zhuozhuhou, Nanxionghou and others at the gate of the palace, waiting boredly.
It is said that the autumn examination, also known as Qiu Wei, will be held soon, but it is the hottest time, and it is not necessary to bask in the sun at the gate of the palace.
So Chen Han and Xia Yuanji looked at each other. For some reason, they always felt that these big guys appeared and were waiting for them.
Chen Han's intuition told him that these people were quite dangerous.
To reason with these people, it's really hard to explain why a scholar meets a soldier.
Before, Lan Yu asked Princess Jiangdu to meet with her alone because she wanted her to be more open to these marquises and open a back door for them in the reform of the per-acre tax system so that they would not have to pay taxes like ordinary people.
But he didn't expect that Chen Han flatly refused, and what he said was impeccable, which made Lan Yu lose face. How could he have a good impression of her now?
But for some reason, Chen Han felt that Lan Yu, apart from wanting to be greedy and possessive and having a surly temperament, still had some abilities.
Chen Han even wanted to have a good relationship with him.
After all, he was the commander he chose to go to Nanyang to establish the Nanyang branch of the Daming Chamber of Commerce.
It's just that Lan Yu doesn't know that Chen Han has such an arrangement yet, so she should still be a little hostile in her heart.
When Chen Han and the others reached the palace gate, with a distance of about thirty meters, Lan Yu had already raised her head and looked at Chen Han and Xia Yuanji.
Since there was no way to avoid it, Chen Han and Xia Yuanji had no choice but to bravely face Yuanji is also very taboo about Lan Yu.
After all, this commander-in-chief is all the limelight in today's court, and at the same time, he is also causing constant troubles.
Because of his success and fame, he was originally supposed to be named Liang Guogong, that is, Liang of Daliang, but in the end he was named Liang Liang. It was really His Majesty's intention to warn him.
Just looking at Lan Yu's actions after returning to the capital, it can be seen that he is not taught at all.
In other words, he didn't realize at all that His Majesty the Emperor was still arrogant and domineering despite his good intentions.
His family and his general temper even dared to send people to beat him out, even the imperial censor.
This absurd approach and arrogant and domineering attitude made all the officials in the court have opinions on him.
If it weren't for the fact that his prestige in the army wasn't at its peak now, and he also represented Huaixi as a noble man, with a large number of veteran generals standing behind him, the emperor would have dealt with him long ago.
Chen Han also told Xia Yuanji about the last time he and Princess Jiangdu chatted with him in a restaurant.
That incident showed that Lan Yu, the class he represented, was actually equally hostile to today's tax reform.
Reform is something that some people should support and some should oppose.
However, because Chen Han's reforms were hostile to all interest groups, no matter whether they were civil servants or military generals, as long as they enjoyed the privileges, they did not have a good look towards Chen Han.
This is especially true for a rebellious person like Lan Yu.
But now we meet at the palace gate, I wonder what these people are up to.
However, Chen Han's twist was that he was related to him after all, so out of affection, Chen Han had no choice but to step forward.
Lan Yu was now wearing official uniform, and her whole body was full of majesty.
Before he could figure out what these people were going to do, Chen Han cupped his hands and saluted, "I've met the Duke, and I've met all the generals."
When Lan Yu saw Chen Han, although she kept a straight face at first, she soon relaxed and started laughing.
But among the princes behind Lan Yu, none of them had a good face at this time.
To be honest, these people have finally reached their current status after spending half their lives in the military. They were all born with mud-legged backgrounds. They finally turned around and took charge. But now they didn't expect that they were disturbed by Chen Han even after a few good years.
They occupied so many fields and annexed so many poor people's land, thinking that like the previous landlord class, they could live a top-notch life by relying on tenant rent.
Unexpectedly, Chen Han's tax reform was completely ignored.
They occupied so much fields and land, of course they had to pay more taxes.
Although these taxes are nothing to them.
Their annual salary and previous rewards, as well as each person's fiefdom, are already quite a lot. For them, that little land gift is just a drop in the bucket.
But face is what big guys like them care about most, and Chen Han didn't give him this kind of face.
Especially now that Chen Han is married to the princess of Jiangdu, he will call Lan Yu his uncle in terms of seniority.
But Lan Yu personally went to invite Chen Han to dinner and asked him to give him face at the dinner table, but Chen Han flatly refused.
Of course Lan Yu didn't have an attack on the surface, but when she got home she was furious. She felt that Chen Han, a junior who was new to officialdom, was so disrespectful to him, which was really hateful.
What was even more hateful was that he was embarrassed in front of all his old brothers.
Everyone thought that a figure of Lan Yu's level had come forward. As a leader of tax reform and my junior, I beg you, I have to lower my face and say nice things to you. You must at least give me a Explain it.
But Chen Han didn't, which really annoyed Lan Yu.
So much so that Lan Yu once said, as long as Chen Han is in the scene, I, Lan Yu, will never give him face.
But now these princes, these princes, these Huaixi civil and military officials have seen an indisputable fact before them.
That is the group of young officials from the reformist group represented by Chen Han. Even though they have no foundation behind them.
It's not like there are a group of veterans and heroes from Huaixi who are behind the deal. It can be said that half of the country is done by them.
Behind him are countless brothers eating in a manger.
We all have been through life and death, so it goes without saying that we have friendship, it can be said that we go in and out together.
Thinking of the fact that a leader of the reformists was killed, the imperial court did not provide them with so-called justice. Even His Majesty the Emperor seemed to be the most supportive of the reform. He did not take any action at the beginning, which gave them a feeling.
Even His Majesty doesn't necessarily support reform very much, so it only fuels their arrogance.
Let them besiege the reformists more during the half year when Chen Han left to go to the Japanese slaves.
Unexpectedly, after Chen Han returned, he brought more good news. Going to the Japanese slaves was not to avoid disaster, but to dig out real gold and silver.
All of a sudden, the court now solved the crisis of having no money available.
So much so that in order to give Chen Han face, His Majesty the Emperor caught the murderers of Shen Liqian on the spot and chopped off their heads in front of all the officials.
He told all the officials that it was not that the emperor would not support Chen Han, but that he would support him at the most critical moment.
Take the current situation as an example, Chen Han just stood up and quarreled with the right minister of the household department for a few words, and the evidence of the crime of the right minister of the household department was brought out by the Jin Yiwei, who was dragged down on the spot and dismissed from his post for investigation.
The impact on Lan Yu and the others was too great.
So that Lan Yu, an arrogant and domineering person, could only smile and step forward, "Why, we are all a family, there is no need to be so polite.
Before you and Jiang Du were not married, we were willing to treat you to dinner, not to mention that now that we have truly become a family, how can we be so polite.
Your tax system reform has been successful, and His Majesty has praised you for many of your reforms. As your uncle, I am only more and more proud of you, so I don't have any complaints.
In the future, if you need your uncle's place, you can just ask. If I refuse you a sentence or two, then we are not the Duke of Liang.
We are waiting for you here just to say sorry to you. Before you ran to the Japanese slaves, people were still saying that you were afraid of being killed, so you ran away, but now it seems that you are not only not like that, you are. He kept a low profile and came back to shock everyone.
Jiang Du did not miss your achievements, and I also followed you in the glory. "
As Lan Yu hummed, the princes and earls behind him stepped forward on the spot, with smiles on their faces. They even clasped their fists and raised their hands to compliment Chen Han.
"Master Chen has offended many people in the past, especially Master Xia. Your reforms have caused trouble to us before. Now that Master Chen and our general are both relatives, your affairs will be our business from now on.
As long as our group of people are needed, you can speak up. If we refuse in any way, it will not be considered a hero. "
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(End of this chapter)