The reason for destroying the embankment and flooding the fields was yan Song's national policy of "changing rice to mulberry," which was put forward in response to the huge deficit in the national treasury. As mentioned earlier, the implementation process of this national policy of "changing rice to mulberry" is very difficult, which almost drills the tip of the bull's horn, and there is no room for retreat in this matter, because the national treasury is in deficit of fourteen million taels, the Yan father and son want to find a way to get money for the Jiajing Emperor, and need to pay money quickly, it is not possible to increase taxes, more than a thousand and two silver, the people of the whole country do not say that they can't afford it, that is, they can afford it, plus many officials in various states and counties, provinces, and many officials in the provinces are a little bit corrupt, and the silver in the palace is almost not enough. They rely only on maritime trade, foreigners lack silk, and we Daming produce silk, only by selling it to those foreigners, it is possible to sell it at a high price, and the deficit of the national treasury can be slightly made up. However, there are not enough silk machines in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and there are not many sangnon, so the Yan father and son proposed this national policy of changing rice to mulberry to solve the urgent need.
And if you want to change rice to mulberry, as soon as possible, only to first change the rice field to mulberry field, and then sell the land to the silk merchants, which involves land annexation, although through the sale and purchase of land is conducive to accelerating the completion of this matter, you can mechanize the production of silk on a large scale, but this touches the interests of the people, plus Ma Ningyuan forcibly changed the rice field into a mulberry field, so that the people's grain grain has no harvest, this matter is getting bigger and bigger, and finally it is even linked to the Wokou, in case of unjust case, it is likely to produce anti-people, Therefore, Hu Zongxian prevented this from happening, and went to the stage to postpone the implementation. Yan Shifan, who did not know the seriousness of the situation, thought that Hu Zongxian was anti-water and turned to King Yu, thinking that he was eating inside and outside. However, the matter of changing rice to mulberry cannot be slowed down, and it is imminent. Can't come hard, can only play yin.
Zheng Bichang He Maocai and his people listened to Yan Shifan's orders, simply did not stop doing two things, and took advantage of the heavy rain to destroy the river embankment, and why did they hide from Hu Zongxian, because Yan Shifan had already concluded that Tan Lun had successfully reversed Hu Zongxian's policy, and in Yan Shifan's eyes, Hu Zongxian was the person of Yu Wang, and naturally he could not believe it, and he would definitely do everything to prevent this from happening, so this matter was carried out under the auspices of Zheng Bichang He Maocai, Yang Jinshui and Ma Ningyuan. That Yang Jinshui, as a person from the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, has nothing to do with the imperial court and political affairs, so why should he participate, Yang Jinshui represents the palace, is the emperor, he wants to execute the figure handed to him by the emperor in Zhejiang, that is, to promote the change of rice to mulberry as soon as possible, he has negotiated a business of half a million silks, and Hu Zongxian is doing the business of smashing and buying, Yang Jinshui is to make money for the emperor. Only when the fields are flooded and the people are affected, they will have no food to eat and no water to drink, so that the silk merchant Shen Yishi will naturally be able to take his relief grain and relief silver to buy the people's fields, and the people will have food, and they can also buy grain at a low price while they are affected by the disaster.
They went to destroy the embankment and flood the fields, but hu Zongxian was left to bear the burden, and it was precisely because of Hu Zongxian that the nine counties were not all flooded, only chun'an and Jiande counties were flooded. At this time, Ma Ningyuan also knew the seriousness of the matter, it was difficult to harvest the water, Ma Ningyuan had done such a stupid thing, there was no room for turning around, only to confess to Hu Zongxianquan, so that the implementation of changing rice to sang could be suspended, Ma Ningyuan wrote two confessions, one was the truth of destroying the embankment and flooding the fields, the other was the sin of the river in disrepair, he presented to the emperor must be the second part, but the people of the Yan Party thought that Hu Zongxian had already surrendered to Yu Wang, and even Jiajing had already suspected that he had already surrendered to Yu Wang. Because of this destruction of the embankment and the flooding of the field, the person he dealt with was Ma Ningyuan, and the two Zhixian counties involved in Chun'an and Jiande were li Xuan in the palace, who represented Yan Dang and Si Lijian respectively, but there was no yu wang 's person (although this matter had nothing to do with yu wang)."
But what Hu Zongxian did not expect was that hu Zongxian taught the Jiajing Emperor not the truth about the destruction of the embankment and the flooding of the land, but the confession that the embankment was in disrepair, and he took responsibility for it himself, so that the responsibility of the Yan Party for destroying the embankment and flooding the fields was gone, and Jiajing's suspicions about Hu Zongxian's defection to the Yuwang Party were gone. The policy of changing rice to mulberry can be carried out again, and a balance has been made. Lü Fang also said his heart, Hu Zongxian is a little daughter-in-law, he can not live up to Yan Song's kindness to him, nor can he hide from the emperor, he can only be a difficult daughter-in-law, both ends of the secret.
But Jiajing could no longer let Hu Zongxian meddle in this national policy, because what Jiajing needed was silver, what Hu Zongxian needed was the stability of the people in all directions, the emperor was rich in all over the world, and the degree of concern for the people in several counties in this district was still relatively low, and what he cared about was to make up for those deficits, and what he needed was Zhejiang to bring him money. Therefore, he dismissed Hu Zongxian from the inspector of Zhejiang, and only let him feel at ease to resist the Wu