Chapter 110: The madman blows up the firecrackers in the manure pit
After laughing, Li Gan's expression gradually became serious.
I watched it again, watched it again, put down the movement, and was silent.
This "letter" looks a bit like a "mosquito prison", which is obviously a play on the topic.
In front of every change, there is a sentence "I ...... the education of the students of the country"
Through the "righteous and awe-inspiring" words of those national eunuchs, they distorted their meanings, reconstructed every sentence, and hit the gentry on the weakness everywhere.
When you say the distinction between righteousness and benefit, you say that since it is for "righteousness" and for the sake of the hierarchy of dignity and order, then collect money. After adding money, hiring others to serve was the law of the Song and Ming dynasties, which not only retained the dignity of the gentry, but also reduced the burden on the people. Of course, you can exempt yourself, but you have to have a limit, check the limit, and you can't say anything in the general sense, right? If you want to object, then you are not a gentleman, you are a villain who speaks for profit.
You said that you want to increase the words of the sage and cut off the knowledge of Yidi, then you will go further, close the country, and even export is not allowed, so that the gentry in Jiangnan who are invested in the export orientation of the industry have nowhere to cry.
You say that Wude Palace wants to abolish geometry and add the words of a sage, then it will be abolished. After it is abolished, let the students of Wude Palace go to Jiangnan, and you in the province say all day long that the children of Wude Palace are young and knowledgeable, and they cannot govern the country.
If you say that you can't fall into the country's dignity, then you won't fall. Raising taxes, didn't the previous dynasty have Liao salary and training salary? This dynasty can also add a border salary.
You said that as long as you educate the soldiers and let them know the loyalty and righteousness of the king, the soldiers will naturally be more courageous. Then educate, let the students of the national prison and the talents who want to be promoted go to the border to educate the soldiers......
Every one of them seems to be angry, and many of them are just looking for trouble, but there are also many that can be implemented completely.
Young people like Chen Zhen, Li Gan has seen a lot.
enthusiastic but lacking in practice; It's unrealistic, but I think I'm righteous.
This is called "so ambitious, unwilling to work hard, good to be a big official, otherwise you think that the big talent is useless, bury the hero, do a line of grievances, this mountain looks at the mountain high, big things can't be done, small things are not done, even if you do it, it is unplanned......"
If you say something like this kind of person, just listen to it, you are idle anyway, and few people in the court will really care.
Li Gan really didn't expect that Liu Yu could play like this.
It seems to be nonsense, but some of the entries clearly point to a path of change.
For example, it is said above that in the Wude Palace, the Ming Calculation Department of the Tang Dynasty can be restored, and then the demand of this dynasty will be increased.
For example, the study of officials, accounting, farming, field measurement, agriculture, etc., to cultivate enough talents for a province or a government.
If necessary, it will be airborne here, regardless of the top and bottom of the comprehensive takeover, inventory of land, review of the case, tax reporting, etc.
These people were directly under the emperor, or the prince left the town, and had no connection with the local gentry.
And because there is everything from officials to officials, there is no need to worry about the local shutdown.
In addition, it is not a permanent establishment, so there is no need to worry about putting down roots in the local area.
Directly under the emperor, the prince went out of the town, and there was no need to worry about the pressure exerted by the local area.
As long as you hold a few games and make an example of the chickens, the rest of the place will naturally be clean for a while.
And there is no need to raise more at all, only three or five hundred people are needed, and the court only has an extra tens of thousands of taels of silver a year.
Go out to inspect every once in a while, not to mention that several times the silver can be returned, at least it can give Dashun a few more years of life.
Because Wude Palace does not follow the imperial examination system, but is more similar to the Liangjiazi and Yulinlang of the Han and Tang Dynasties, there is no need to worry about this force being interfered with by others.
The Wenyu Academy, which became independent after the promotion of the Ministry of Officials' Literature and Anthology, is still controlled by civil officials, but the people of Wude Palace are completely dependent on the imperial power.
With the old fifth battalion of the soldiers as the sons of the six counties, and the Wude Palace as the Yulin Lang, there are naturally big problems.
The Han and Tang dynasties are both magnificent and dangerous.
Liu Yu did not say this in this troublesome letter, but it has been said before: reform the military system, have a system of soldiers, so that soldiers can fight without knowing generals and soldiers, and enhance the strength of the Beijing Forbidden Army, all middle-level officers come from the newly run military school, the emperor directly serves as the principal, and the middle-level officers are all protégés of the Son of Heaven. Reform the system of commanding, leading, and training troops, and the powerful generals will be removed from power and entered the general staff, and young people will be filled with their powers and responsibilities, so that the emperor can always use the staff to guide the campaign and maintain the prestige of the army.
At the same time, the number of flintlock muskets and field artillery was increased, so that no army could fight without the logistics of the central government. The deeper the reform, the greater the reliance on logistics.
This should avoid the disaster of the Tang Dynasty and the generals of the Han Dynasty.
These things rely on each other and gradually become a system, so that this seemingly nonsense letter is actually a direction of change that at least has a certain degree of feasibility.
But only half of it was said, and the other half said it privately when he was in northern Xinjiang.
Before the implementation of the law of checking the acres of land, collecting and evading taxes, and strengthening the whip law, the gentry can choose a province for trial implementation before it is implemented, and it is even more necessary to use talents directly under the central government.
The Three Rounding Method and the Five Battalions of World Soldiers founded by Taizong have already left the basic plate in advance, and they only need to add some knowledge of the officials, which can fully meet the needs of a province and a government.
As for what is not allowed to be examined if you don't go to the border gates, it is all nonsense, which is not practical, and it is easy to cause a great chaos in the southeast.
The art of politics lies in compromise, and the basis of compromise lies in mutual threats.
If the Wude Palace really increases the study of practice and the study of officials, it is equivalent to the imperial power having another knife that can threaten the gentry: it is one thing to use it or not, and it is another thing to have the ability to stab you.
The lesson of the previous dynasty is that the art of compromise was messed up, the civil officials could only threaten, but the centralized government was powerless to counter the threat, and in the later period, there was no compromise at all, and the Jiangnan gentry were completely rotten.
And the killing trick of this Feng Shu is that it is all a conspiracy, and there is no conspiracy: no matter how long the hand of the imperial examination gentry is, it cannot reach the old fifth battalion of the soldiers and the Wude Palace.
Wude Palace recruits a group of people who can carry out the inventory of acres and accounting every year, Xiucai disdains to do it, some people are willing to do it, and when the big head soldier is only two taels of silver a month, the old five battalion soldiers don't want to be the big head soldier more.
Hiding a real murderous knife in a sea of nonsense is exactly what Li Gan is looking forward to "muddying the waters".
Liu Yu's status is not high, but his merits are great, and he has no henchmen, let alone foundation, and he is the most suitable person to muddy the waters.
Of course, these changes are not available at this time.
Although it is not used, it can be used to bargain with the gentry and the Confucian public opinion: set a bottom line, within this bottom line, you should not make trouble, if you make trouble again, I will try to do what Liu Yu said.
Let's compromise with each other, take a step back, and we are all happy, if we are really in a hurry, I am not without a murderous knife. Although there will be labor pains, but it can be forced to the part, and it can't be taken care of.
The bottom line was drawn, and the two sides withdrew.
Guozijian students make trouble, Li Gan is not stupid, he has been the emperor for so many years, this incident is deliberately slapping the emperor in the face and making the emperor sober up: If you continue to do this, we have the ability to make public opinion in the world in an uproar. If you want to expand the edge, we can make you expand to make you anxious.
This Chen Zhen is just a hot-blooded young man who has been used. In the previous fight incident, Li Gan could only deal with it coldly.
But I never expected Liu Yujian to go sideways and come to such a move.
In this way, the emperor does not have to say anything, and naturally there will be people who will put public opinion on the table as a bargaining attitude and sincerity.
Of course, there are a lot of things that can be exchanged for this bargain, and naturally it is not just a trivial matter of fighting between the two sides, which requires a follow-up game.
After reading Liu Yu's recital repeatedly, Li Gan has drawn up a bottom line for negotiation and bargaining in his heart.
The matter of reform still has to be done, but before the Dzungaria is pacified, this matter can be delayed and frightened, and it is good to stop doing any more things such as the public opinion turmoil of the Shilin Society.
I thought, Liu Shouchang, Liu Shouchang, you are really "obedient". I called you "right", and you are really right, and you can actually make such a fuss about Dengwendrum.
It's that Chen Zhen, it's really pitiful. is also a hot-blooded child, now that he is forced by you like this, will he still have a way to live in the future? How many people can't wait to rip off his skin, and he is not the heir of Xungui, nor is he a member of the Wude Palace......
You really can't afford to lose at all, and in order to take revenge, you can even do such a thing as taking the guilt of pleading. If you lose seven points of face, you have to crush people's bones and ashes, and you have to let the person he trusts the most to break your bones and ashes, and it is better to mourn than to die.
Righteousness, righteousness, and profit, I am afraid that in your eyes there is no half of righteousness, it is all profit. Everything can be traded, everything can be converted. Including the face, and even ...... Life.
What are your weaknesses? What exactly is something you really don't dare to gamble with, that can be caught and controlled?
After thinking about it for a long time, Li Gan subconsciously wrote the word "Dao" in the blank space of the fold.
At least now, it seems that the only thing that can threaten Liu Yu is the "Tao" he wants to implement. Li Gan couldn't see what this "Dao" was at this time, because it was all "art" now, and after watching it for a long time, he could see that there was a "single-minded country", at least at this time.
But Li Gan is very suspicious that these actions of "wholeheartedly serving the country" are also techniques, not Taoism. What does Liu Yu really want to do?
For a long time, I can't solve it. is like Zhuge Wuhou, the only thing that can threaten him is "the Northern Expedition is not allowed, unless you promise me one thing", but on the other hand, what is more important than the Northern Expedition?
"Is this really a pure and loyal minister? Let's take a look at it again, if you use it a lot, you may be able to get a glimpse of it. ”
Thinking of this, Li Gan smiled and asked the eunuch to send this letter to the writing room after the reform of the calligraphy department of the former dynasty, and asked someone to immediately copy dozens of copies and send them to the officials of the court and the central government, and the court will discuss the matter tomorrow.
Then, Li Gan replied to a sentence on the recital: Since he pleaded guilty, all the beings of Wude Palace who participated in the brawl would be fined ten taels of silver, and they would be paid within a time limit, and God blessed the palace.
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That night, the whole capital exploded.
After the copying of the writing room, it had already spread to the officials who were qualified to participate in the court meeting, just as the left of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Court thought, this was a heaven-shaking thunder thrown into the hearth.
What's even more strange is the emperor's reply: all the beings of Wude Palace who participated in the brawl were fined ten taels of silver.
Is this a penalty?
What kind of punishment is this? It's almost like "You guys did a good job" on it.
Not to mention that a large number of people who participated in the brawl were the heirs of the princes and uncles, and they were not short of these ten taels of silver.
is the rest, and all of them add up to less than one hundred and ten people. A thousand taels of silver, the trouble is lined up in the homes of the people in front, which one can't afford it?
Accumulation, concealment, righteousness, gentry's payment of grain, preferential exemption, exemption from military service and tax evasion, etc., are old and backlogged big dunghill pits, and no one wants to take the initiative to lift the cloth covered outside this dunghill.
Theoretically, preferential exemption is not exemption from land tax. But grain payment is not only about paying grain, but also about transporting grain, which is the big head.
No matter who you are, you have to pay the national tax. But the first tax is light, the second tax is heavy, and after paying the grain, you have to transport the grain away, and the treasury does not pay for it, so you also have to do some chores, clean up the river, and receive the officials...... These are all local solutions on their own.
It takes people.
The officials and squires can force people to death with a little use of their hands and feet: young man, your family is only a laborer, I see that your bones are special, so you can go to the capital to transport grain. If you leave, there will be no labor in your house, and the old mother will have to starve to death? What do you mean?
Whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Great Shun, the theoretical field tax is not heavy, even if the Ming Dynasty levies three salaries, completely according to the theoretical amount, in fact, there is not much.
But the problem is that most of this forced labor and miscellaneous labor are not in the treasury at all, and the burden on the people is actually extremely heavy.
Food, food. It does not mean that only the grain tax is paid, but that the grain tax is paid plus the grain is transported. Working with mud legs is indeed undignified, but you can pay for it, but there are benefits. That's a big hole.
How much the national tax confiscated by the imperial court, but the bottom was heavy and breathless.
In the previous dynasty, there was an eyeless Xu Min style, and the governor uncovered this dung pit when he was in the sky.
So much so that even Shen Shixing, who has a gentle personality, never scolds, and is introverted and cautious, reprimanded him as a teacher of the Xu Min-style entrance examination back then, saying that if you do this, I will personally escort the grain and grass to the capital, and let Your Majesty see what you have forced me, the retired cabinet chief, to be?
Only then did Xu Minshi know that he had provoked the hornet's nest, and he had to propose the method of "doubling the preferential exemption", doubling the preferential exemption, but what was other than the preferential exemption had to be investigated, but it still didn't work.
So much so that after his death, some people also wrote a book saying: A slave squire is a traitor like Wang Anshi, so after someone's death, he went bankrupt.
Ye Xianggao also said a fair word: Your children and grandchildren, will they definitely be able to become officials? Isn't there a time to be reduced to a bottom people? If you have money and don't contribute, but let those who don't have land contribute, this Ming will definitely be finished.
However, it turned out that Ye Xianggao was wrong. The name of the country with flowing water, the gentry with iron. Da Ming is not dead, what about the gentry?
The example of the previous dynasty is there, and whoever uncovers this dung pit will not die well, which is a sure thing.
No one expected that this dung pit would be opened by Liu Yu in the form of such a farce.
Afraid that the movement was not big enough, he threw a firecracker directly into this dung pit, but the name of the firecracker said "Guozijian Zhusheng".
What is the emperor trying to do?
Are you really going to do that?
Or is it ...... What conditions do you want to make a deal?
This is different from the past, where local affairs were handled locally, with policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom.
But Liu Yu's crazy words on this "nonsense" made the emperor directly use the means of Wude Palace students, increasing the disciplines of Xu officials, etc., to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle and parachute directly to the local area.
The gentry paid the grain in one piece, checked the acres of land, checked the preferential exemptions, the prince went out of town, and the local gentry could do anything except howl a few times?
You can't go to Shangshu and say, "The prince is doing this, and the sky net is restored and negligent but not leaky, and he will inevitably cut off his children and grandchildren?" ”
Bribing a nest of snakes and rats? Bribing a prince who is easy to have a chance to perform? How much money is enough to buy the five words "the son is capable" in front of the emperor?
Now, Liu Yu, who is talking crazy, is no longer important.
It's just a guard, what impact can attacking him have?
It doesn't matter if he pretends to be crazy and stupid, or if he has a dark mind, whether he is promoted or not has nothing to do with the evaluation of Wenchen, and he does not go through the imperial examination, so he can do the "guilty of asking for the guilt" and "beating the drum of Dengwen", and there is nothing to be done.
This letter is sparse, is Liu Yu messing around for a while? Or did the emperor instruct the Duke of Yiguo, and the Duke of Yiguo instructed?
A few of the things on the song are simply murderous without blood, these things, could it be written by a little thing less than twenty years old?
Night has come, and everyone in the capital knows that tomorrow's court meeting is going to be a big event.