Chapter Seventy-Eight: Ancestors and Grandchildren Release Their Suspicions

In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Qizhen said in surprise: "Is that really what Niangniang said?" ”

Yu Qian said: "How dare the minister bully the king. ”

Zhu Qizhen stood up abruptly and said, "Thank you, Mr. Yu." ”

Of course, the people who have left their names in history have a brush.

The root knot between Zhu Qizhen and the Empress Dowager is too small, but the grandparents and grandchildren have their own attachments and make trouble. But to put it mildly, if the two palaces do not coincide, there will be turmoil between the government and the opposition.

This is something that affects the stability of the country.

Zhu Qizhen didn't want to please the Empress Dowager, but the Empress Dowager never looked at people with her eyes, but with her heart.

The Empress Dowager firmly grasped Zhu Qizhen's thoughts.

Although Zhu Qizhen was subdued in every way, the thoughts in his heart never wavered. When Zhu Qizhen didn't know what to do, Yu Qian persuaded the Empress Dowager as soon as he came out.

really made Zhu Qizhen admire in his heart.

Yu Qian said: "Weichen didn't dare to be, but the minister thought that now was not the time to relax, so he asked His Majesty to go to Cining Palace as soon as possible and see the Empress Dowager." ”

"Don't lie in front of the Queen Mother, you must tell the truth."

Zheng Zhu Qizhen nodded hurriedly and said, "Okay." ”

Zhu Qizhen hurriedly changed his clothes and hurriedly went to Cining Palace.

As soon as he saw the Empress Dowager, he knelt on the ground and said, "My grandson is not filial." Let the mother worry. ”

The Empress Dowager looked at Zhu Qizhen, sighed slightly in her heart, and said, "Get up and speak." ”

The Empress Dowager's heart was extremely complicated.

At this moment, although the Empress Dowager has a heart for Zhu Qizhen, she has already put Zhu Qizhen's position right.

Zhu Qizhen is certainly her eldest son and grandson, and he is also the emperor.

Even though Zhu Qizhen is not in charge now, he still has some power that the emperor himself should have.

The royal family has no family affection, not that the people of the royal family are cold-blooded animals, but everyone does not represent themselves behind them, if the conflict of interest behind them is arranged, it may not be happy, but the conflict between the two is not handled well, this family affection is also unspeakable.

The Empress Dowager said: "The good grandson has grown up. Yu Qian, the one you chose before, is good. ”

Zhu Qizhen stood up, stood behind the Empress Dowager, gently rubbed her shoulders for the Empress Dowager, and said, "Sun Er thinks that the first assistant of the Ming Cabinet will definitely be selected from among the magistrates from all over the country. And Yu Qian is one of the best, if nothing goes wrong in the future, Sun Er thinks that he has a place in the cabinet. ”

The Empress Dowager said: "Then you will arrange him to the Hanlin Academy, and An An will be your teacher, isn't it?" Put it on the Suncheon prefect, this position is not easy to do? ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "That's the case, and the position of the cabinet is not easy to do. ”

The Empress Dowager said, "It's you who want to do something in Shuntianfu." ”

Zhu Qizhen hesitated slightly in his heart, and finally remembered Yu Qian's words, and said honestly: "Niangniang Shengming, the previous Niangniang taught her grandson, and after the grandson went back, she also thought about it carefully, especially Mr. Yu said that the cabinet counted as many as 1.2 million deserters from the guard. ”

Zhu Qizhen felt the Empress Dowager's shoulders stiffen suddenly, and it took a while before he relaxed. Zhu Qizhen was slightly surprised in his heart, and said secretly: "Doesn't Niangniang know this news?" ”

Yang Shiqi asked Yu Qian to reveal to Zhu Qizhen what was gossip, which was an estimate.

It's just that many times, the grapevine is more accurate than the official news, and although the Empress Dowager's intelligence network is good, it can't reach into Yang Shiqi's study.

According to the procedure, the whole country will be counted once, and this number can only be reported to the center, at least in the second year of orthodoxy. Even the figures reported are whitewashed.

It is likely that this estimate is not yet accurate.

This is also a chronic disease of the Ming Dynasty.

The various statistics of the Ming Dynasty, since Hongwu, are generally not accurate.

The Empress Dowager did not expect that the situation had reached such a point.

The escape of the people from all over the country can be seen by the empress dowager in the performance of I don't know how many magistrates. Therefore, during the Xuande period, under the influence of the Empress Dowager, Emperor Xuanzong had many measures to reduce taxes and resettle the people, among which the famous one was the adjustment of the Jiangnan heavy tax.

The prefect of Hangzhou has asked for a reduction of more than one million stones in taxes in Hangzhou, so that the people of Hangzhou have been grateful for Dade for hundreds of years, and called it Qingtian.

This kind of large-scale reduction of the people's burdens and the Empress Dowager's political viewpoint of stopping all unurgent tasks are one and two, two and one, and they are mutually exclusive.

The Empress Dowager knows the suffering of the people, and she also knows that the strength of the various armies has been a little inferior recently. But the specifics are not well understood. I never expected that the number of deserters would be as high as 1.2 million.

The Empress Dowager was surprised. It's just that I was surprised in my heart, and my face didn't leak at all.

Zhu Qizhen didn't study it in detail, and continued: "If the imperial court wants the Northern Expedition, it won't work if it doesn't rectify military affairs. ”

When the Empress Dowager heard this, she frowned and said, "Rectify military affairs? ”

The Empress Dowager came with Jing Nan and understood too well the risks of rectifying military affairs. Once something goes wrong, the country is shaken. She forcibly reprimanded Zhu Qizhen, and let Zhu Qizhen make a mistake, so that Zhu Qizhen would know that although he was smart, the world was not without talents.

It can be seen that Zhu Qizhen's unconsciously revealed superiority of the traverser has become the biggest problem with Zhu Qizhen in the eyes of the Queen Mother.

Zhu Qizhen said: "The child actually discussed with Yu Qian and Zhang Zhong separately, if you want to rearmament, the best way is to change the cantonment to recruitment, and start a new stove outside the guard. From the guards, select capable people, and then recruit brave men from the people for the use of the country. ”

When the Empress Dowager heard this, she relaxed slightly and said, "It's safe." ”

Zhu Qizhen's method is not a good way.

But the best thing is that it's safe. After all, Zhu Qizhen is doing addition, not subtraction, although the combat effectiveness of the guard army has declined seriously on the whole, but the entire guard system still has combat effectiveness.

Zhu Qizhen said with a wry smile: "In this way, the money and food of the imperial court will not be enough. So boy, I can only give up this method. Sun Er checked the income of the past dynasties of this dynasty and found that the highest income was in the Hongwu period, and after that, it was almost a daily decline. ”

"My grandson couldn't figure it out."

"Nearly 50 years since Hongwu, the world has been peaceful, and the people have lived and worked in peace and contentment, why is the income not as good as it was at the beginning, although there is an order from Emperor Taizu, but now it is impossible to abide by the law."

"Niangniang, I know the suffering of the people, although the court has repeatedly exempted taxes, but the taxes exempted by the court can benefit the people?"

When the Empress Dowager heard this, she sighed lightly and said, "This is all what Yu Qian told you. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Some are, some are not, and some are from the Jinyi Guardian." The imperial court is exempt from taxes, and the people everywhere throw it to pay taxes, or the county order is greedy for ink, or the grain chief is greedy, and the favor of the court has been swallowed by this generation, and in the name of requisitioning grain, extorting and lasso, all kinds of evil, although there are one or two grain chiefs who have a conscience, but most of the grain chiefs are folk diseases. ”

The Empress Dowager looked at Qian again.

The Empress Dowager knows the situation of the people, but she is always in Jiuzhong, not a pro-people official, so she is not as clear as Yu Qian knows.

In the eyes of the Empress Dowager, Yu Qian only came to the emperor's side for a few days, and the emperor's knowledge has grown greatly, but she ignored it, she has not talked to Zhu Qizhen in detail for half a year.

Zhu Qizhen has a deeper understanding of this era every day. It is by no means the work of Yu Qian alone.

But the Empress Dowager didn't care, she secretly said in her heart: "Yu Qian is a trustworthy person, with Yu Qian by the emperor's side, even if the emperor makes some mistakes in the future, someone will persuade him." ”

She smiled slightly and said, "What are you going to do?" She trusted Zhu Qizhen a little more in her heart.

Zhu Qizhen listened to the words of the Empress Dowager, and didn't know what to say for a while, so he was silent for a while and said, "My grandson doesn't know." There are a lot of things here, and the situation that the grandson understands is also fragmented, and there are differences in the north and south. How, exactly? The grandson couldn't figure it out for a while. ”

The Empress Dowager smiled slightly and said, "Okay, it's right if you don't understand." If you give me a plan, as you did that day, I will teach you a good lesson. ”