Because he had just become emperor, Zhao Buxi paid special attention to the attitude of officials towards him and repeatedly criticized officials who were wrong in his words and deeds to establish his majesty.

After all, he was an emperor elected by everyone. He had no confidants or personal soldiers. He relied on everyone's recommendation and situation to take up the throne. The throne was not so stable.

Zhao Buxi had no idea before he sat on the throne. After he sat on the throne, he didn't know why he paid special attention to others' attitude towards him.

In the past two months, more than a dozen officials have been scolded by him and punished for their misconduct.

So Chen Yongyan was panicked and quickly knelt down.

"I dare not be disrespectful to Your Majesty. I am just disturbing the country's affairs and worrying about the country's destiny. At this critical moment, the treasury is empty and unable to pay for money. This is a fatal matter for any country. If even officials are disinterested, how can the court maintain it?"

Zhao Buxi looked at Chen Yongyan for a long time before sighing deeply and putting away his anger.

"Get up, I don't know what you said? But the current situation really cannot help but do whatever I want. If this can be done, how could I not want to? Who doesn't understand the truth that people in the world are not worried about being weak but not being equal?"

"So……"

"But in life, we are always involuntarily."

Zhao Buxi sighed: "Charging taxes from Sichuan and Shu will make Sichuan and Shu feel dissatisfied, fight violently, and be enemies with the court. The court is in trouble with internal and external affairs, so there cannot be more enemies. Therefore, the court must not collect taxes from Sichuan and Shu. In this way... it can only collect taxes from civilians."

Chen Yongyan was stunned and then shocked.

"Your Majesty, the taxes borne by the civilians in Sichuan and Sichuan are already very heavy. If they continue to collect, they will not even have food to fill their stomachs! In the past, Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun rebelled in Sichuan and Sichuan. If they force the civilians too much now... it will not be just the city and city households causing trouble."

"But if you don't do this, and you won't wait for them to cause trouble, the court will be gone."

Zhao Buxi said with a grim expression: "The two evils are the least of the right to choose the right one. This is helpless. If it weren't for no way, I wouldn't be willing to do this. But the court is the most important, the Song Dynasty is the most important, and we are the last group of people who are still insisting on maintaining the orthodox Song Dynasty."

"But……"

"Okay, don't say anything more, follow my orders and don't question."

Zhao Buxi waved his hand and stopped listening to Chen Yongyan's persuasion.

Chen Yongyan sighed and lowered his head and walked out of Zhao Buxi's "palace".

"Water poison to quench thirst. Even if you can survive for a while, you will eventually be poisoned and die of poisoning. The story of Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun is not far away. The kings of all dynasties remember and dare not forget them, and dare not criticize the Shu people too much. Now everything is back to the starting point. Wouldn't it be that the Shu people are disunited? Is it really meaningful to establish a court here?"

He shook his head and left.

The next day, Chen Yongyan handed over his resignation and asked the Chengdu court to resign.

He couldn't convince himself to do this thing that knew would lead to irreparable consequences.

His conscience and fear of the future made him unable to look at the present moment and not the future anyway.

And more importantly, he knew that Ming State had a liquidation policy of [retrieving war criminals].

If he did this, then if the Chengdu court fails in the future, he will become a wanted war criminal in the Ming Dynasty and face painful consequences. Instead of regretting it at that time, it is better to resign clearly now and get out of the sea of ​​fire.

Maybe you can still have a reputation with a conscience, which is better than burying them with the Chengdu court, right?

After Chen Yongyan's resignation was submitted, Zhao Buxi was very unhappy at first and refused to agree to Chen Yongyan's resignation and asked him to continue working.

Chen Yongyan submitted a letter to resign again, but Zhao Buxi refused to allow him again, but Chen Yongyan still resigned. Zhao Buxi asked Chen Yongyan to start work with a harsh voice.

Chen Yongyan was never willing to obey the imperial edict.

After repeating this three times, Zhao Buxi finally realized that Chen Yongyan would not stay to do his job for him, and even if he was killed, it would be the same. As one of Ma Yongkang's confidants, Chen Yongyan, as an important member of the civil servants in other places, killing him is tantamount to destroying the Great Wall.

Faced with this situation, Zhao Buxi had no choice but to compromise.

He finally approved Chen Yongyan's resignation and let him go home.

But he said he was going home, but Chen Yongyan was from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Now that the road to Sichuan has been blocked, he can't go home at all. He can only say that he is looking for a house in Chengdu or the county towns around Chengdu, waiting for the situation to change.

Either the Chengdu court broke out of Sichuan and Shu, or the Ming army and Jiangnan Kingdom's army entered Sichuan and Shu together.

There is no doubt that the latter may occur ten million times more likely than the former.

Some people are willing to do what Chen Yongyan is unwilling to do.

There are smart people in this world, but there are also stupid people.

Of course, there is no shortage of stupid and bad things.

At this time, Chen Yongyan's original deputy Jiang Fu received Zhao Buxi's edict and decided to help Zhao Buxi do things. Zhao Buxi was very happy and immediately took over Jiang Fu as the Minister of Revenue and replaced Chen Yongyan's position.

Jiang Fu didn't care about that much, he was a typical Confucian bureaucrat.

Serving superiors, leaders, and those who can provide him with promotion paths and other benefits.

As for the people at the bottom...

hehe.

It was just a stepping stone for him to climb upward and reach the peak of power.

Therefore, Jiang Fu accepted Zhao Buxi's orders and handled them all without any modifications. He resolutely implemented them to the end. Some people raised concerns, believing that such a fierce attack would bring huge impact to the public and might have a huge impact at that time.

Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun's uprising have never been forgotten by the people of Shu!

But Jiang Fu convinced them or even suppressed them with just one word.

"Who promoted you to be officials? Is it the court, the emperor, or the unruly people?"

The bureaucrats of the Ministry of Revenue look at me, and I look at you, and I can't say anything except a long sigh.

Despite this, the new policies issued by Zhao Buxi after research still made them frightened.

His new policy is to cancel all preferential policies for Sichuan in the Northern and Southern Song dynasties, and then increase taxes, adding all kinds of tax courses that he had never heard of, and making a big fuss.

Right, special preferential policies.

To be honest, the Song court has special preferential treatment for Sichuan's rule at the national level.

At the root of this special preferential policy was not because they were very compassionate and changed their temperament, but because they originated from the Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun uprising that occurred during the reign of Zhao Guangyi, which was extremely shocked to the Song court.

With the simple ideal of equalizing the wealth and poverty, Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun's uprising army punished the powerful landlords in Sichuan and robbed the rich and helped the poor, which was equivalent to using force to completely redistribute profits in Sichuan and Sichuan.

This uprising not only broke the high-intensity land annexation left over from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms periods, eradicating a large number of landlords and powerful people, but also severely hit the punitive plunderist policy of Song court in Sichuan.

In the early Northern Song Dynasty, the rule in Sichuan was really done without doing anything except personnel. No one did anything good from military officers to civil servants.

The army attacking Shu, commander-in-chief Wang Quanbin, the governor of the Zhongwu Army, had no military discipline. As soon as the Song army entered Chengdu, Wang Quanbin and other leaders had banquets day and night, regardless of military affairs, condoned soldiers to plunder the children of Chengdu people and looted the property of Chengdu people. There was even a bad incident in which the Song general [cut the breasts of the people and killed them].

The Song army destroyed Hou Shu for only sixty-six days. Hou Shu surrendered. Without resolute resistance, it did not cause a large amount of killing and injury to the Song army. However, the Song army was able to treat Shu people with approaching the massacre of the city.

To say that they came from the underworld was considered to be a compliment. They completely regarded Sichuan as a colony, rather than Sichuan as their own territory.

When officers use physical means to directly harm the Shu people, civil servants use policy means to torture the Shu people.

Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi's leading Kaifeng court treated Sichuan extremely harshly. They not only plundered Sichuan's wealth and went to Kaifeng, but almost hollowed out Sichuan for more than ten years, but later set up various monopoly policies.

Sichuan's pillar economic industries such as salt, tea, silk are all included in the monopoly. Private operations are not allowed. Only official operations can be operated by the government, which has caused a large number of industrial and commercial people to be unemployed and bankrupt and desperate, and all the good businesses they had done were ruined.

It happened that natural disasters occurred frequently and agricultural production suffered a brutal blow, and the Song court also had a very strict agricultural tax on Sichuan and Shu.

It is equivalent to the fact that industrial and commercial people and farmers in Shu have reached a dead end together, and the right time, place and people broke out together, and Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun's uprising seemed natural.

Although the uprising failed in the end, it was quite shocking to the Song rulers, almost subverting the Song court's rule over Sichuan and destroying the Song court's bureaucratic system in Sichuan.

A large number of Song court bureaucrats were killed during the uprising, and the death was extremely tragic.

After the failure of the uprising, due to Sichuan's special geographical location and the strong anti-Song sentiment of the people, the Song rulers were afraid under strong pressure and had to make compromises.

They could not continue to treat Sichuan as a colony, and could only continue to send officials with honest reputation to Sichuan to serve as officials, crack down on illegal officials and soldiers, to appease the hearts of the people of Sichuan and re-establish the image of the Song court.

For example, after the outbreak of Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun Uprising, Zhao Guangyi selected Zhang Yong, who was known for his integrity, to serve as the governor of Yizhou. Before leaving, Zhang Yong talked to him in particular, saying that he should be slightly biased towards the people of Shu and do something to protect their interests.

After Zhang Yong arrived in Chengdu, he lowered the salt price so that the people could afford salt, reduced taxes and reduced the burden on the people, and severely punished officials, officers and soldiers who plundered people's wealth.

This wave of approach has somewhat soothed the hearts of the people.

However, the Shu people suffered too much damage and were still seriously dissatisfied with the Song court. Moreover, the attributes of the Song government as a feudal government cannot be fundamentally changed. There are still many things that make the people feel dissatisfied.

So much so that almost sixty years after the failure of Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun Uprising, the Shu people shouted a slogan similar to the Yellow Turban Uprising, which was similar to that of the Yellow Turban Uprising. The year was in the Sino-Japanese War, and Shu changed.

This slogan constantly reminds people of the Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun uprising back then, and after it reached Kaifeng, it scared Song Renzong to sleep at night, and the entire Kaifeng court was worried about a fire in the backyard.

So in the fifth year of Huangyou, one year before the Jiawu year, Song Renzong, who was worried about changes in Sichuan and Sichuan, sent Cheng Kan, who had a good reputation in the court, to serve as the governor of Yizhou. He then issued an edict to rectify the administration of Shu and deal with those who were greedy and harsh and harmed the people and interfered with their affairs.

In the following year, while the Song court cracked down on illegal officials in Sichuan and Sichuan, it also issued policies to benefit the people in Sichuan, such as reducing tax rates, inspecting salt wells, reducing and exempting silk and silk from offerings, etc.

Through a series of means, the Song court turned Sichuan from a high-tax area in the early Northern Song Dynasty and the area where the imperial court sold the most severely, which was equivalent to giving a special economic zone the status, and problems such as salt were also improved to prevent the reappearance of Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun's uprising.

This wave of action finally made Sichuan not in chaos again. Although rumors of Nong Zhigao trying to use Sichuan and Sichuan troops to launch a counterattack were still rumored during the Nong Zhigao uprising, it did not come true after all. That year was spent without any danger.

Since then, Sichuan has been lower than other regions, whether it is agricultural tax, commercial tax, or even salt prices.

This policy made the economic conditions of Sichuan and Sichuan far better than other regions, and it continued until the Southern Song Dynasty. A considerable portion of Sichuan's taxes could be left to use themselves, and the rest would be handed over to the court.

Unlike other places, the taxes were almost taken away by the court, so that the local governments were in a semi-disabled state, not only could they not resist foreign enemies, but they could not even deal with some thieves.

From this point of view, Sichuan became the area that resisted the Jin Dynasty and the most intense invasion of Mongolia was also the strongest fortress, which was not without reason.

Therefore, there have been almost no peasant uprisings in Sichuan and Shu since Song Renzong, and the pressure on the people living here is relatively small compared to those in other areas of Song people.

Therefore, only by struggling can we survive.

Feudal rulers would never give up their interests easily. They were greedy, cruel and extremely selfish. If they adopted non-high-pressure policies or even made concessions, it must be caused by the heroic struggle of the local people.

They will only give concessions to groups that make them difficult and difficult to deal with.
To be continued...