Ming Dynasty: I, Emperor Chongzhen, swear not to go to Meishan

Everyone knows that businessmen pursue profits. As long as they have enough profits, they dare to take any risks. It is well said in "Das Kapital" that if there is 50% profit, they will take risks, and for 100% profits, they will dare to trample Under all the laws in the world, if the profit is 300%, it will dare to commit any crime, and even risk hanging.

The Ming Dynasty strictly prohibited all merchants from selling grain, iron ore and other materials to the Qing Empire in the north, but was it forbidden? Driven by profit, the eight imperial merchants ignored the ban and dared to risk the death penalty for betraying the country's assets to the enemy, and desperately sold various strategic materials to the Qing Dynasty.

He is beyond his reach now. When he gets his hands on it, he will clean it all up. The wealth of the Eight Families will probably burst the Ming Dynasty's treasury.

Sometimes, when you are trying to reason with others, they will act like a gangster with you, you will act like a gangster with them, and you will argue with them about the law. If someone takes the lead, you will not be able to play with them at all.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian used a three-pronged approach to follow the path of others and leave others with no way to go. The most important point is that he is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. He holds the power of life and death. He can confiscate his family and exterminate his clan with just one sentence.

If you leave me with no way out, I will make your entire clan disappear from the world!

Zhu Youjian's words silenced Gao Chengzhong, made all the officials of the Donglin Party look gloomy and dark, and the officials of other factions had strange expressions on their faces.

When did the emperor's eloquence become so powerful?

"Master Gao, please explain, what is fighting for profits with the people?" Zhu Youjian asked the second question before Gao Chengzhong could react.

The rhythm can only be controlled in his hands.

"Well, Your Majesty... I thought... I thought... it was hard for businessmen to make money. To tax them is not to compete with the people for profit and violate the ancestral system?" Gao Chengzhong answered hesitantly.

He was racking his brains, thinking of any good way to answer the emperor's first question. Unexpectedly, the emperor had already asked the second question, which made him a little confused and could only answer reluctantly.

"Ha, taxing merchants is to compete with the people for profit and violate the ancestral system? This is the most ridiculous reason I have ever heard."

Zhu Youjian stood up and shouted loudly, his imperial domineering power suddenly burst out, intimidating all the officials.

"Master Gao, did you see that a penny of the tax collected went into my pocket? Be careful that I punish you for bullying the emperor, huh."

He first used a preemptive move, and then used a threatening move, which frightened Gao Chengzhong until he turned pale, trembled, and his calves twitched.

"All taxes are transferred to the national treasury and are owned by the country. Part of it is used for huge military expenditures, part of it is used for people's livelihood, and part of it is used for the salaries of monarchs. How can we say that competing for profits with the people violates the ancestral system? ?”

The more Zhu Youjian spoke, the more excited he became, the louder he spoke, and the evil spirit bursting out of his body became stronger and stronger.

Shenma Zuzhi is a ghost that deceives and restrains the emperor. Successive emperors were deceived by hundreds of officials using this trick. It was of no use to him. He was the emperor, and what he said was the rule.

"Master Gao, you have disappointed me so much. How did you help me manage the country? Anyone who comes, drag them out, dismiss them, demote them to common people, and never hire them!"

Zhu Youjian pointed his finger at Gao Chengzhong and shouted loudly. While all the officials were frightened by his imperial domineering aura, he launched a king bomb.

"emperor……"

Gao Chengzhong was so frightened that his legs went limp, like an empty rice bag, and he collapsed on the ground. His whole head was buzzing, and he seemed unable to think.

How...how could it be like this?

The guards rushed into the palace and dragged the collapsed Gao Chengzhong away like a dead dog until he was dragged outside the palace. After Gao Chengzhong realized what he was doing, he cried and begged for mercy.

Zhu Youjian turned a deaf ear. He wanted to kill him as a warning to others. Gao Chengzhong was the unlucky one, but he was lucky and his home was not confiscated and his head was chopped off.

The huge Jinluan Palace was so silent that one could clearly hear an embroidery needle dropping to the ground.

Everyone was shocked by this sudden change, or in other words, frightened by Zhu Youjian's murderous aura.

"Who else wants to convince me? Come forward."