Chapter 43: The Ming Version of the Political School (3)
The silence in the Wenhua Hall made Zhu Yunwen happy.
"What's the matter? Can't you wait to answer these two questions? I don't want to take the initiative to answer, but I can do it. ”
Zhu Yunwen stretched out his hand and pointed, "The Storm Pavilion is always the head of the Three Pavilions, so let's talk about it first." ”
The old face twitched, and he only felt that the blood pressure in his body was about to burst, "Back to Your Majesty's words, the minister thinks that the so-called land annexation is a practice of lawless people to grab and rob, such as Hu Weiyong, a rebel minister of the former dynasty, who and Huaixi Xungui are convenient for their hometown to bully people and wantonly occupy the people's land." ”
Zhu Yunwen sighed, "What does the old man mean is that the reason for the existence of the phenomenon of land annexation is the traitorous minister, right, what does the old Yu Pavilion mean?" ”
Speaking of this, Zhu Yunwen slightly increased his tone, "Today, I have to answer these two questions, I read the history books, all dynasties and dynasties have died on these four words, this question is not discussed, I can't sleep." ”
The emperor can't sleep, and the minister will sleep forever.
Yu Xin is a reformist and has a radical governance, and his answer to this question is much bolder, "The country is big or small, and the people are rich and poor." It is inevitable that a big country will destroy a small country, that its own rich people will bully the poor, and that land will be annexed. ”
Zhu Yunwen looked at Fang Xiaoru again, and the latter muttered for a long time, "The sage has words..."
"Stop." Zhu Yunwen directly interrupted, "The saint has been dead for thousands of years, Xie Jin, you say." ”
Faced with this problem, Xie Jin was also rarely honest, "The minister is ignorant, and he secretly thinks that the land annexation is caused by the unscrupulousness of the local gentry." ”
"Where's Yang Shiqi?"
Zhu Yunwen was a little disappointed again, and named Yang Shiqi's name, "You have a plan about King Xiang, I want to hear your opinion." ”
Yang Shiqi has been cautious during this time, Wenhua Palace, and the government of the Palace of Justice, and the government of the Palace of Integrity never dared to say a word, he knew what it means to climb high and fall miserably, he was too fierce, so he kept pretending to be dumb when he couldn't speak on weekdays, and now Zhu Yunwen was named, and he asked such a proposition, and he complained bitterly in his heart, but he had no choice but to speak.
"The minister thinks that this matter is just as Mr. Xie said, and it is caused by the inferior gentry and tyrants who bully others and rob others."
Zhu Yunwen laughed out loud and glanced at the main hall, "Do all the ministers and Jinshi students think so?" ”
More than 100 people looked at each other, there is nothing wrong with this, land annexation, what is not annexation of land annexation?
"The ministers all thought so."
Zhu Yunwen beckoned, Shuangxi ran over, handed over a notebook, Zhu Yunwen took it, "I came to ask this question today, it was not a whim, I was moved by feelings." ”
As he spoke, Zhu Yunwen looked at Yang Shiqi, "Shiqi, I ask you, how many people are in the family, how many acres of land." ”
Yang Shiqi suddenly saw sweat on his forehead, "My mother is the only one in the family, and there are five acres of thin fields. ”
Zhu Yunwen shook his head, "It's not just now, I'll give you a message, since you received the assistant scholar, many relatives of your Yang family ran to Lingtang to ask for the return, and the prefect of Jiujiang Mansion even ran to your house and sent a hundred acres of good paddy fields. ”
Yang Shiqi was so frightened that his face was like earth, and he knelt on the ground with a puff, "The minister should die, the minister really doesn't know, the minister immediately ordered all these fields to be returned, and all the clan relatives were driven away." ”
Zhu Yunwen looked at Yang Shiqi, "Tian Mu is a big landlord in Jiujiang Mansion, and the good guy dragged on several layers of relationships before he was given to your family by the hand of the Jiujiang prefect, and it is not an illegal gain, why should you return it?" I would like to ask, do you think this method of acquiring land is a land annexation? ”
Yang Shiqi's forehead was on the ground, and he couldn't say a word tremblingly.
Zhu Yunwen took the notebook, "The notebook presented by Jinyiwei is clear to me about the family background of the ministers, do you need me to report the number one by one?" ”
The hall suddenly knelt down, "The ministers should be damned!" ”
Zhu Yunwen let them kneel there, walked down the imperial steps, Shuangxi hurriedly moved a stool, Zhu Yunwen sat in front of Tyrant Zhao, and even cocked Erlang's legs, "Tyrant Pavilion Elder, you said that Hu Weiyong's Huaixi nobles are rampant and lawless, and they bully others, and that form of encirclement of land is called annexation, then I want to ask you, your family, since you became an official, in more than 20 years, the land has grown from ten acres to more than 500 acres today, I took a look, but I didn't say that your relatives in your hometown are bullying people, But if you can't stand the relatives in your hometown who want to buy land, no one dares not to sell it. ”
"There is also Yu Ge Lao, tsk, it's amazing, six relatives are officials, and the court talents of the family."
Zhu Yunwen was surprised, "The officials inspect talents, your relatives are often the first to be promoted, but you haven't said hello, and you can't stand the people below from becoming inflammatory, looking forward to patting you on the back." ”
Speaking of this, Zhu Yunwen pointed at Fang Xiaoru, "The old man of Fang Pavilion has been talking about the words of the saint all day long, don't you know how much light your Fang family has stained with you today?" ”
"One person is in the middle, and the whole family is naked." Zhu Yunwen walked among the Hanlin scholars and politicians, and said with a gun and a stick, "It's amazing, you and the other family have a lot of light, and everyone who sees me wants to participate in the imperial examination, but I don't have that knowledge, and I can't do all the questions of the meeting, so it's no wonder that no one sends me fields or silver." ”
Extensive land and preferential promotion, the former harms the annual tax of the Ming treasury, and the latter squeezes out the promotion of the poor scholars, which thing is not merging the resources of the Ming Dynasty?
The strong will always be strong, and the weak will be weaker.
"It seems that you guys can't answer this first question."
Zhu Yunwen shouted, "Then answer the second one, what is the national dynasty!" ”
Hanlin Xuezheng, who was in a hurry, immediately replied, "Your Majesty represents the herdsmen of the heavens, carries the imperial pole, and Your Majesty is the country." ”
"Huh."
Zhu Yun was happy, and slapped his head with one hand, "That's right, I am the country, then I ask you, what if I die?" ”
The latter trembled with fright, "How dare a person who is a minister speak of his father." ”
"If you don't dare to say it, then I will say it." Zhu Yunwen said, "If I die, the crown prince will succeed to the throne, and the prince will be the country."
"Yes, yes, the prince is the country."
The sycophant was busy kowtowing and agreed, Zhu Yunwen didn't bother to pay attention to him, and walked in front of Tyrant Zhao, "Tyrant Pavilion Elder, since my family is the dynasty, then I want to ask, is the treasury the private property of my family?" ”
Tyrant Zhao was already frightened, "The whole world is not the king's land, the shore of the land is not the king's ministers, the sun, the moon and the stars, and hundreds of millions of Li Shu are all His Majesty's private property." ”
Zhu Yunwen sighed, "In this case, if there are 500 acres of land in the old family of the Storm Pavilion, the national treasury will have less grain taxes of 500 acres of land, and the money in my money bag will go into the pocket of the old man of the Storm Pavilion. ”
Ignoring the violent Zhao who was about to be scared to death, Zhu Yunwen looked at Yu Xin again, "Yu Ge is always a scholar of the household department, and my money bags are all in your hands, the annual salaries of the officials in the world are from my money bags, and the relatives of Yu Ge's old family have become officials, and they can also justifiably obey me to take money from my pocket, but my money can't be spent in vain, should I do things for me when I take my money, but do they have the ability to do things for me?" Just because they are relatives of Yu Ge Lao, they were promoted, I want to ask, is this considered to be the money that cheated me? Is it considered a deception? ”
Speaking of this, Zhu Yunwen didn't say any more, he was afraid that he would continue to talk about it, and today he would not be scared to death in the Wenhua Palace, so he changed the subject, "It seems that I can't answer these two questions, in this case, from tomorrow onwards, you will learn from me hard, what is land annexation, what is a dynasty!" ”