"How did you feel about the first time you discussed politics?" Only Emperor Zhang and Jiang Tian were left in the study, so they spoke casually: "You have to gradually get used to this place in the future." ”

"This is politics...... Jiang Tian shook his head: "If you can, you still let me explode technology!" ”

"You think beautifully." The emperor waved his hand around: "I don't need you to wait, don't forget to tell Empress Sù that I have a light meal with my junior brother today, and I won't go to her at noon." ”

After the surrounding eunuchs and palace maids were all cleaned, Jiang Tian picked up his chopsticks and ate this working lunch. Looking at the dishes, it is just a simple two meat and two vegetables plus a bowl of soup, which is really enough for the standard four dishes and one soup, but the chefs in the imperial dining room are superb, and the depth of skill can be seen in the simple dishes.

The emperor looked at this fellow who was neither big nor small and wanted to laugh, how many years has no one dared to be so casual in front of him? Even the prince didn't dare to go beyond half a step by the rules: "Don't patronize and eat, tell me what you think, you won't be unable to hear that I want to carry out land reform, right?" ”

Jiang Tian smashed his mouth: "You came too early, we have indeed abolished the agricultural tax, not only that, but there are also various subsidies for growing grain!" ”

"Won't it?" This time it was the emperor's turn to be surprised: "Even in the most popular and authoritarian era, I never said that I would cancel the public grain!" ”

"It's not because there are too many people, and the average is that everyone has too little land to grow grain and make less money, and no one wants to do it, and the state wants to ensure food security and arable land red lines, so we came up with this method. In fact, in the final analysis, the value created by industry, commerce and service industries is much higher than that of agriculture, and even if the state abolishes the agricultural tax, it can still collect a large amount of profits, which is also due to scientific and technological innovation......"

Then Jiang Tian extended the answer to the situation and problems of various reforms in the old time and space, this thing seems incredible, in fact, the reason is very simple, with the development of science and technology, all kinds of industrial productivity have reached an unimaginable height in this era, and the added value brought by technology has completely killed the value of mechanical labor creation, in an era that basically cannot break out in a world war, the efficiency of commercial plunder has completely exploded the traditional military robbery, in the profit-seeking human nature, The natural shift to industries with better profitability is the fundamental reason why Americans are gradually abandoning manufacturing and joining Wall Street, and inducing the financial crisis of the 21st century. It's just that our country attaches great importance to food and land in the traditional concept, and there is a huge population base that makes the national decision-makers aware of the necessity of maintaining the production industry, otherwise a swarm of scholars will only die worse if they go to play finance.

"In my time, many people were criticizing state-owned enterprises and asking why the government artificially created these inefficient monopoly hooligans." Jiang Tian took the tea bowl and drank it all: "In fact, many people ignore the role of state-owned enterprises in the industry, they are not used to arrange surplus cadres and managers, nor do they have to compete with private enterprises for interests, but to prevent uncontrollable factors caused by the overcapitalization of some key industries." As long as the state-owned enterprises with the leading position in these industries have deposits, then they can ensure that some important forces related to the national economy and people's livelihood can quickly invest in the direction in which they should be invested in extreme situations. However, in peacetime, such a system is inevitably characterized by overstaffing, bloated institutions, corruption and bribery, and barriers to competition......"

Jiang Tian said that his mouth was dry, and he finally let this predecessor who crossed over too early know why the reform of commercial taxes is the top priority, and the current Chinese Dynasty, although it does not have the kind of overthrow and reinvention when the Manchu Qing Dynasty was in power in the old time and space. But after all, the population has also plummeted to only a little more than 100 million, and now all kinds of natural disasters continue, you are redistributing the land, those peasants who have no surplus grain and no family background still have to embark on the old road of fleeing famine, and the input required to help them maintain production is higher than that of disaster relief, rather than let those landlords hold the land as a burden, just put the excess population into industrial upgrading, and vigorously support the development of industry and commerce, so that China's industrial products not only have the advantages of quality and irreplaceability. At the same time, it can also ensure extremely high production, so that those white people who do not know what a trade war is are to dump Chinese products into every corner of the world, and finally establish a new global order with the Chinese system as the standard! Of course, this process will be quite long, and there are all kinds of unpredictable risks, and it is conservatively estimated that there will be small results in 100 years. However, with the advantages of population and land area, no country in the world can become our opponent as long as it has not carried out the industrial revolution. Besides, even if we want to launch the industrial revolution, we will take the lead, if a large number of industrial workers are laid off, they can also be guided to the route of colonization to the world, Siberia in the north, the Americas in the other hemisphere, and Australia coveted by the traverser, etc., and there is no need to worry about the so-called international law, whoever has the big fist law will be formulated. Moreover, when medical conditions are not developed enough, it is impossible for Chinese to grow to the number of 1.3 billion.

"But according to you, wouldn't the increase in commercial taxes discourage people from doing business?" The emperor, who has never seen what it means to do business for the whole people, will naturally ask this question.

"Just imagine, if a hawker can earn five taels of silver a month, you are charging him ten percent of the tax, and he can still earn a net income of four taels and five, and it is not a problem to feed a family of five, compared with farming, it is even better, but how can you guarantee that he can take the rest of the silver home, instead of being extorted by corrupt officials and ruffians? It's up to you to transform the bureaucracy. To put it bluntly, it is a truth that the state collects taxes and the gangsters collect protection fees, and after collecting money, they must serve others, so that people who work regularly have a safe and profitable environment. Therefore, the enemy of this policy is not only the vices of the traditional bureaucracy, but also all kinds of non-governmental organizations that form monopolies in the name of guilds. ”

Jiang Tian began to talk about how to fight monopoly and how to promote market competition, and there were many cases and summaries of later generations, which were put in the 21st century, and anyone who cared about social change could say it, but the emperor himself did not know, and his thinking was still stuck in the early stage of reform. So Jiang Tian could only break open and crush the patient explanation, he deliberately did not talk about the market competition mechanism, nor did he mention macroeconomic control, this is because in this time and space those things are too advanced, when the people's wisdom is not enough to supervise the society, then it will only make things complicated and chaotic, in front of a policymaker with advanced vision, even the basic insurance measures are a bit redundant. According to Jiang Tian's assumption, as long as the state develops according to the established line for a hundred years, it can get rid of Europe again for at least two hundred years, and if the successors at that time can still mess up the country, then there is no need to mention anything to rule the world, and the direct violent revolution will establish a new country again.

His idea is very optimistic, but the emperor who fought with a knife and a gun does not see it this way, why is there always a change of dynasties in China? It is not because of the uneven distribution of social resources, the productive forces cannot keep up with the population growth, and then all kinds of problems accumulate together and explode in a concentrated manner. If you really listen to Jiang Tian, maybe there will be social turmoil in a hundred years, and then science and technology will of course still be our highest, but it is inevitable that the vitality will be greatly damaged in the internal friction, think about how Europe fell from the throne of the center of the world and let the United States pick up the cheap. If you think about it, the French obviously have the right time and place in Europe, and because of that romantic revolutionary spirit, they like to make revolutions at home when they have nothing to do, and they have never been able to achieve the same level of achievements as the British. 1. What is the key to qiē reform? Popularity! Forced reform without first regaining the hearts and minds of the people can only lead to defeat in the end.

Jiang Tian belongs to the kind of person who has nothing to do, anyway, the one who is responsible for the work is not himself, which Zhang Tao, the emperor, cannot imitate, but Jiang Tian's role is still very important, at least it can make the country's scientific and technological strength be rapidly improved, and it can also tell a lot of lessons from later generations, after all, he was not a high-end talent in his previous life, so he looked at the problem narrowly. So the emperor has already positioned this fellow villager in his heart for eighty points, and he belongs to the kind of future-oriented talents who need to be trained. Don't look at the emperor's knowledge of business warfare, but he keenly discovered a huge hidden danger, that is, according to Jiang Tian's ideas, the huge productivity will produce a large amount of dumped goods, but how much consumption power does the world have? Europe's fledgling capitalism? Or those chieftains of primitive tribes? Who can eat such a huge production capacity and not care? At that time, the trade deficit alone made the "British Empire" use opium, and even if no one could invade China in this time and space, what should people do if they can't afford your products? The concentration of the world's wealth in China will inevitably lead to currency depreciation, and what about a series of financial problems that will arise later?

Zhang Tao thought of this, but he didn't say it and asked Jiang Tian, he knew that this kid wanted to show it in front of him, so as to leave a good impression, when the leader sometimes can't discourage the enthusiasm of his subordinates, it is better to use actual work to make him realize his own shortcomings, China is such a huge country and population, if you want to reform, it will inevitably involve all aspects, and it is not that no one has ever done it to smash the old world purely with violence, and the result is needless to say. Thinking of this, he pulled out a waist plate carved from ivory.

"You will be able to enter and exit the big inside with this card in the future, except for ** no one will stop you, but I have to think about what you just said, you will first solve the problem of movable type printing......"

After walking out of the study, the sun was already a little westward, and Jiang Tian felt a little prostration. He didn't know what the emperor said about him, but he knew that at least his life was saved, and he would not be reduced to the point of being kept in a certain courtyard and squeezed out of scientific knowledge. Of course, his nonsensical strategic line will not be adopted, and he can be regarded as a person who has come from the financial crisis, doesn't it know how naïve this strategy is, but he needs to make the emperor believe that he is very naïve, naïve like a novice who has just entered society, thinking that he can really guide the country with a lupine scarf. But the more he is like this, the safer he is, Jiang Tian in this life is not yet twenty years old, and being young and frivolous is a must-have label, and only in this way will the other party not regard him as an opponent competing for the throne.

Seeing that he was about to walk out of the palace gate, the little chamberlain who led the way bowed and saluted. Jiang Tian suddenly remembered something and then stopped the other party: "This little father-in-law doesn't know what to call him." ”

The eunuch, who didn't look very old, hurriedly bent down and replied: "Master Lao asked, the slave maid is named Xizi." ”

"Oh, it turned out to be my father-in-law." Jiang Tian smiled and took out a small piece of silver from his sleeve: "With Gonggong Lao leading the way, there will be no trouble in the future." ”

This was a scene often seen in the Ming Dynasty, and many times even in order to prevent the eunuchs from doing bad to themselves, they had to give up money to bribe. But when the eunuch named Xizi saw Jiang Tian's movements, he was so frightened that his little face turned white and knelt on the ground with a grunt: "The adults spare their lives, if the little ones offend the adults, even if they are punished, if they let people know that the cheap maid accepts your money, they will definitely not die well!" ”

Jiang Tian's hand pinched the silver and was stunned in mid-air, what the hell is going on? I haven't heard of a single eunuch who doesn't love money. At this moment, a middle-aged guard in armor walked over, first looked at Jiang Tian and Yinzi, and then at the trembling eunuch, as if he understood the ins and outs of the matter. Then he said to the eunuch: "You can get busy, it's none of your business." ”

After hearing this, Xizi said in a loud voice: "Thank you, General Liu." ”

Lord Liu? Jiang Tian looked at this person thoughtfully, not too similar to a pervert in terms of eyebrows and eyes, but it shouldn't be someone else who is still a guard at this age, right? And the guards and eunuchs don't belong to the same department, why can the eunuch run away happily when he says a word? Unless you have a knighthood, how can you command a eunuch?

"I happen to be going home, so I might as well accompany you on a ride." Old man Liu walked in front with a smile or not, not at all like a little guard accompanying the prince Shaobao off work: "Do you know why Xizi was scared like this just now?" ”

Although Jiang Tian guessed the identity of this person, since the other party was unwilling to say it first, he was also happy to pretend to be confused: "The younger generation doesn't understand very much, I hope you will mention it more?" ”

Liu Junding looked at him, and said in his heart that your kid is really clever enough, and he obviously guessed who I was so soon to call himself a junior: "Today's saint hates those corrupt officials the most, which is no worse than Zhu Yuanzhang of the previous dynasty, and this chamberlain often takes advantage of his position to accept bribes, which makes His Majesty hate it deeply, so since he ascended the throne, there have been many severe punishments for those eunuchs left over from the previous dynasty, as long as he accepts bribes of one or two silver, he will definitely be killed by cane, and there are many eyeliner in the palace, More than a dozen people were killed by those who thought they were unaware of the ghosts and accepted money, so just now Xizi was shaking like chaff. In fact, do you think this can stop the wind of corruption and bribery? ”

Jiang Tian naturally shook his head, if the strict punishment law could deter Xiao Xiao, then how could there be criminals in this world.

Liu Junding still nodded: "The son can be taught, then why do you think His Majesty acts like this?" ”

"It's just a matter of killing chickens and monkeys, and he can't trust these eunuchs."

The old man still smiled slightly: "Your Majesty is not a person who loves to kill, and outsiders have many misunderstandings." ”

At this point, the old guy stopped talking, with his position and status, he really couldn't say bad things about the emperor, but Jiang Tian always felt that the other party didn't take his opinion into account at all, otherwise he wouldn't have put on such an expression of being too lazy to talk nonsense.

Getting back into the carriage and walking back, Jiang Tian kept thinking about Liu Junding's intention to appear in front of him, as well as his seemingly nonsensical question. I originally thought that today was just a formality, and then I would continue to develop my own science and technology, but I didn't expect that the first day of the dynasty would cause so many problems, and the development of not being under my control became a situation of participating in politics, but fortunately, I reacted quickly enough, and worked hard to show myself as a scholar who can only talk about it, and effectively curbed the traditional civil officials' attacks on themselves, which seemed to be a draw, but if it continued like this, it would inevitably embark on an uncontrollable route.

Seeing that he was about to return to Dengcao Hutong, Jiang Tian suddenly slapped his thigh, he just understood what Liu Junding conveyed. It is a matter of course for eunuchs to take bribes, if the emperor is not thirsty for killing, then why should he kill many people with a rod? This is obviously a show for others to see, so who exactly needs to see this bloody scene? The answer is the civil official group that has been fighting with eunuchs for more than 200 years! The imperial court has just been established, many things have not yet been on the right track, what old bureaucrats does Emperor Zhang need to maintain normal operation, but he is not the kind of emperor who is unanimously respected before ascending the throne, many people must have buried the seeds of hatred in their hearts, in order to win over the centrists who may fall to the hostile forces, they must make a new posture to eliminate the evils, so since there is a Ming Dynasty, only eunuchs have suppressed the limelight of civil officials, so throwing this useless force out and sending it to death will stabilize the hearts of most officials. Now that the power of the eunuchs has shrunk to pure slavery, the next opponent of the civil officials is naturally the warrior group. Now it seems that the emperor still trusts and reuses the army, but no one can say whether he will get rid of some high-ranking generals on trumped-up charges in the future, even if he doesn't have this idea, the civil officials will desperately create opportunities to slander and slander, and the emperor will sooner or later follow the old path of the former Ming. No wonder Liu Junding took the initiative to stand up and talk to him, he probably also saw this inevitable ending, so he tried his best to let his son win him over and become an important help for their relatives. When I think of my own table during the day, it seems that I have unconsciously stood on the opposite side of the civil official, but I haven't torn my face yet.

In the cool weather, Jiang Tian still broke out in a cold sweat, although he had no illusions about politics for a long time, he still didn't expect it to be so dirty and dirty, these people are fighting back and forth just to grab political interests, none of them are for the country, the nation These legitimate reasons, but they have to fight political enemies in the name of all kinds of righteousness, no matter how powerful the country is in the face of this cruel infighting, it will gradually decline to the point of being bullied, if the Ming Dynasty does not have so many party struggles, it will not decline so quickly. Then the intention of the emperor's predecessors to drag himself into the study is also obvious, even if he just remains neutral and does not take the initiative to show favor to any party, he can become a weight to influence the situation, because Jiang Tian is standing behind the emperor, and his role is only to replace the eunuch who has lost power. If you accidentally become a member of a certain faction, you will truly die with no place to be buried!