The man on the ground kept struggling, but he was pressed to the ground by a strong eunuch. He couldn't move at all.
Very quickly, someone found a sharp knife from his waist, and everyone present was terrified.
In the palace, a man in a suit with a sharp knife on his waist appeared in front of the emperor.
"Assassin, assassin, protect the emperor!"
Feng Bao jumped and shouted. At the same time, he rushed to Zhu Yijun and stretched out his hands, looking like a loyal protector of his master.
Zhu Yijun glanced at Feng Bao, expressionless. Then, he looked at the man on the ground and said, "Take him to Dongchang and interrogate him!"
Zhu Yijun didn't care about this assassin at all. The key was that this assassin's appearance was too strange.
This guy was sneaking around the wall, as if he was afraid that others didn't know he was special.
I saw him at a glance when I passed by. The eunuchs and palace maids didn't see him, and the patrolling Imperial Bodyguards didn't see him, but I, the emperor, found him in person.
Zhu Yijun wouldn't believe that there was no ghost in this. What kind of place do you think the palace is?
How did a man dressed like a servant come in? The guards at the palace gates were all dead people!
Looking at the noisy Feng Bao, Zhu Yijun felt that this matter must have something to do with him.
At this time, Zhu Yijun seemed to be watching a show, but he also had a plan in mind. He quickly made a plan, which was to get rid of Feng Bao.
If Feng Bao suddenly died or was poisoned, there would be trouble.
But now, it was different. Someone wanted to assassinate the emperor, which was a big deal. If the first assassination failed, they would try again. If they accidentally killed Feng Bao, it would be justifiable.
Zhu Yijun had been the emperor for a few months, and he had almost sorted out the situation in the palace.
If he wanted to do something, or if he had freedom, he couldn't keep Feng Bao.
It wasn't a big deal now, but when he colluded with Zhang Juzheng, it would be impossible for him to do anything.
For him, the ten years when Zhang Juzheng was alive was very important. When he died, it would be his turn.
If he didn't accumulate capital, he wouldn't know how to deal with the chaotic court and the inflated civil officials when he came to power.
In history, in order to increase his income, the Wanli Emperor sent a mining supervisor to collect taxes, but what was the result?
Many mining supervisors were killed, and the mining tax was abolished.
Occupying the country's mines to earn money, not allowing the country to collect taxes, and even killing the eunuch who was collecting taxes. This kind of person was also illegal in the future!
But in this era, Emperor Wanli couldn't do anything to them and could only sulk.
These people even put labels on people, saying that the eunuchs imposed exorbitant taxes, that the eunuchs made the people unable to make a living, and that the Emperor fought with the people for benefits.
The great eunuch collected the money. Would they care about the money in the hands of the common people?
How much would it be after they squeezed it dry?
If it wasn't these rich families, what were the rich families in the Ming Dynasty?
Naturally, it wasn't the merchants, but the gentry.
The so-called gentry was an official while being a merchant landlord.
All the officials in the Daming Dynasty were gentry. No one could touch their interests, not even the Emperor.
Everything under the sky belonged to the Emperor, and everyone on the land belonged to the Emperor. In fact, they didn't care about these things.
Zhang Juzheng's reform was only on the surface. If the knife didn't cut the gentry, it wouldn't have any effect.
To solve this situation, there were two ways. One was to destroy and rebuild, completely overthrow.
However, Zhu Yijun was the Emperor, and he couldn't rebel against him. The other way was to pull in some people and fight against others.
In the process of fighting, there would be strong support from the army and preparations to establish a military government. Otherwise, there would be no chance.
If a gentry didn't pay taxes, they couldn't stand it. They didn't pay taxes on their land or businesses.
The Wanli Emperor couldn't touch these things. He stretched his hand to the mines, but in the end, he still couldn't collect taxes. What could a penniless Emperor do?
Training soldiers required money. Paying the officials required money. Without money, nothing could be done.
During Emperor Chongzhen's most difficult time, he borrowed money from his ministers, but nobody took it. Did they have no money?
Of course not. After Li Zicheng entered the capital, he took out more than seventy million taels of silver.
In Zhu Yijun's view, Emperor Chongzhen just didn't have a knife.
Why did that carpenter Emperor keep Wei Zhongxian alive? Wasn't it because Wei Zhongxian could get money? No matter if he confiscated property or extorted money, as long as he could get money, he was a good eunuch.
Where did those people get their money from? It was all from taking bribes, bending the law, and exploiting the common people.
Not to mention others, Yan Song and Xu Jie, which one of them didn't become the Grand Secretary? Even Zhang Juzheng, after becoming the Grand Secretary, his family got eighty thousand hectares of land.
These lands didn't pay taxes, so it would be strange if the Emperor was rich.
Even the Grand Secretary was like this, let alone other people. Daming was so big, but his annual tax revenue was less than three million taels.
When it came to the Great Qing, it was the same as Daming. If it weren't for Yongzheng's reform, the Great Qing would have perished a long time ago.
What was the result? Yongzheng was scolded as a tyrant, while Qianlong, who enjoyed the fruits of reform, was said to be a wise ruler.
Among the Qing Dynasty emperors, other than Kangxi, Yongzheng could be considered an emperor with good foresight. Qianlong was far inferior to his father.
Those who wrote books were scholars, gentry. If you cut their flesh from their bodies, it would be strange if they could write good books.
Daming's reform was against the entire gentry group. It was normal for Zhang Juzheng to be slandered. Not a single person would speak up for him; he was against the entire country.
The common people who spoke up for him did not understand anything.
Besides, the common people did not receive any benefits from the reform. The land was cleared, and the whipping was carried out; it was aimed at those who paid taxes.
Those who paid taxes were the lowest class of people, gentry were exempt from taxation. The more you did this, the more you increased their burden.
Although you received money in the short term and the country's power was strengthened, the after-effects were very serious. It was no different from drinking doves to quench thirst.
If Zhu Yijun wanted to deepen the reform, what he wanted was to cut the flesh of gentry. Without strong capital support, it was simply impossible.
How could Zhu Yijun endure being watched by Feng Bao and Zhang Juzheng for ten years?
He could leave the outside to Zhang Juzheng and let him train the reform officials, but in the palace, he absolutely could not let Feng Bao have the final say.
Zhu Yijun looked at Feng Bao, who was running to Cining Palace, and said in a low voice, "You brought this upon yourself!"
Soon, the news of the emperor's assassination spread. First, it spread quickly in the palace, and then in the capital. In an instant, people were in a panic.
The atmosphere in the palace was even more solemn, full of a murderous aura.
At this time, Zhu Yijun also came to Cining Palace. With such a thing happening, Zhu Yijun naturally wanted to see his mother.