Chapter 350: Confession of Sins
What's the matter with your husband? Liu Rushi asked uneasily when she saw her husband looking at her with a strange expression.
"Nothing..." Qian Qianyi quickly calmed down and replied with a smile. At this moment, he finally made up his mind.
In terms of appearance, Liu Rushi is slightly inferior to Chen Yuanyuan and Li Xiangjun, but her temperament and spirituality make her uniquely charming. Is this why the emperor was attracted to her?
Uncle Liu Huang once said that women are like clothes and brothers are like siblings. Although Liu Rushi is his virtuous wife, clinging to the emperor's thick dragon legs is the right way.
All he lacks is a suitable opportunity.
Qian Qianyi brought a heavy gift and, surrounded by a group of guards, went to visit Zheng Ye, a doctor in the official department who fell ill.
Mrs. Zheng was complaining that the Donglin Party members were heartless and unrighteous, and that her husband, who had been used as cannon fodder, was of no use, but no one came to visit and comfort her. She was startled when she heard that Qian Qianyi, the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue, came to the door with a gift.
Qian Qianyi has betrayed the Donglin Party and defected to the emperor, so he still has the nerve to visit?
"Hurry, please, no, I will come to greet you personally." Zheng Ye, who was lying on the bed and sighed, suddenly sat up excitedly and put on his shoes in a hurry.
Qian Qianyi is his only hope of returning to officialdom, and he must seize this opportunity.
After the court dispersed the next day, Qian Qianyi took Zheng Ye, who had "recovered", into the palace to meet the saint. Then Zheng Ye was reinstated. The Donglin party lost one cannon fodder member, and the royalists had one more member who dared to attack. A fierce general who dares to fight.
The ten-day period for applying for an industrial and commercial business license has made those wealthy businessmen quarrel. They can still survive if they are closed for ten days and a half. If they are closed for a year, it will kill them. But if they apply for an industrial and commercial business license A license means they lose everything and have to pay taxes to the court.
In fact, they have calculated in private that according to the tax rate set by the court of 10%, if they do more than N large businesses a year, the accumulated tax payments that need to be paid will indeed be a large amount of money.
But this large amount of money is less than half of the filial piety they pay to those officials every year. If they were not afraid of the power of those officials and needed their protection, they would rather pay taxes than pay filial piety to those officials.
That's a bunch of greedy vampires.
All the wealthy businessmen had resentment in their hearts, and they silently greeted the eighteenth generation ancestors of all corrupt officials including the Donglin Party 10,000 times.
I owe you a large sum of money every year and agreed to protect us. Now, the emperor wants to tax us. Are we going to give the tax to you? Or give it to the emperor?
These words have the intention of forcing the wife to marry, and they are also heart-wrenching.
The civil service group headed by the Donglin Party also had a quarrel over this. Although they greeted the Zhu family a million times, they could not come up with a result, and the quarrel finally broke into two factions.
The radicals clamored to abolish the fatuous emperor and establish an obedient new emperor. When they were angered, they rebelled. Anyway, the Zhu family also rebelled and seized the country from others.
At this time, they discovered that it would be easier if Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were still there, but unfortunately both of them had been killed.
The moderates advocated revolt and forced the palace to be forced into the palace. They did not believe that Chongzhen, a foolish emperor, would dare to remove them from their official positions. They relied on the belief that once a strike occurred, various departments would be paralyzed, causing turmoil and even chaos.
The world was in turmoil, and Emperor Chongzhen must have been panicked, and finally had to compromise with them.
In order to let Chongzhen, the foolish emperor, know how powerful they were, they had to force him to issue a criminal edict when compromise was not enough.
The strength of the two factions was evenly matched, and neither could convince the other. Seeing that the radical faction had a tendency to split off and go it alone, a group of Donglin Party bosses had to step forward as peacemakers to let both parties calm down and work together. discuss.
Due to Qian Qianyi's betrayal, the Donglin Party's strength has been weakened. If it splits again, how can it fight against Ruan Dacheng's Jiangnan faction and control the court?
And the most critical issue now is how to appease those merchants who are upset and full of complaints?
When Zhu Youjian received the secret report from Jin Yiwei, all the tea he had just poured out of his mouth spurted out. These idiots actually wanted to force him to commit a crime?