Jiang Tian's question made Qiu Tian a little uncertain, generally speaking, stuffing some silver into the door is an item that is not even considered a bribe in the unspoken rules, but it is an expense that cannot be missed. As the saying goes, there are seven officials in front of the prime minister, although the title of prime minister was abolished in the former Ming, but his Jiang Tian's grade is also the level of the super prime minister, and Lord Qiu, who understands the rules, will naturally not be stingy with that little money.

"Don't think about it." Jiang Tian saw the other party's hesitation, so he comforted in a very easy-going tone: "I just want to know what my price is." ”

Master Qiu pondered secretly, and he didn't seem to be able to think of any reason for people to ask about this, so he had to honestly stretch out his hand and draw a number.

"Five taels? It's a lot of money. Jiang Tian laughed a little self-deprecatingly: "It seems that I don't want to be an official of the imperial court, I can find an adult to be a doorman." ”

Qiu Tian smiled with him, and then had to say the business of his visit this time: "Although the lowly duty is ordered to go, it is ...... I really don't know the deep meaning of His Majesty, and I hope that the adults will teach me. ”

Jiang Tian still kept smiling, but his expression was a little unusual: "What does Master Qiu think His Majesty wants you to do?" ”

"Inspect the world, report illegality, and patrol the sky on behalf of the sky."

"Yes, on behalf of the heavens, how many opera commentaries on the Qingtian Lord are this role, but what the Son of Heaven wants to see, what he wants to know, and what he wants to manage is a big problem."

Qiu Tian nodded, of course he knew that the people had a lot of misunderstandings about roles such as the Eight Mansion Inspectors, but now was not the time to joke, he also knew that the other party must have a following, so he couldn't help but speak.

"I remembered that when I was studying hard at home in the past, I watched the Romance of the Three Kingdoms for the first time and saw the first sentence of the opening chapter, which was thought-provoking...... Master Qiu, do you know why major events in the world are always divided for a long time, and they must be combined for a long time? ”

The inquiry has become a guessing puzzle, but this is also one of the routines of officialdom, although it is really insulting to the self-esteem of Jinshi to ask a lucky official who is younger than himself and whose exam scores are not as good as himself, but he Qiu Tian is not a sour person, not to mention that if anyone in the current officialdom still doubts Jiang Tian's future, he will definitely be despised by all the officialdom. So he had already put on a correct posture towards Jiang Tian unconsciously.

After a little silence, Qiu Tian gave his own answer: "Natural disasters, man-made disasters, faint kings, ministers, and foreign incursions, if you get one of them, the world will be uneasy!" ”

Jiang Tian nodded, and then shook his head again, this can only be regarded as the most standard Confucian answer, rather than looking at the problem dialectically from a historical perspective: "If these conditions are all met, it is true that you can't think of destroying the country, but if you think about it, these are just appearances, and the real focus is no longer among them." ”

Of course, Qiu Tian knows that this answer will not satisfy the other party, but this is still an unspoken rule of officialdom, unless it is a very good friend, don't be too aggressive when facing your superiors: "The lower official is foolish, and I hope that the adult will teach you." ”

Jiang Tian still shook his head, he believed that this official who came out of the rich peasant class had his own understanding, but this person did not have the sharpness of a young official at all: "I said, you and I are commensurate with brothers tonight, since Brother Qiu is unwilling to speak, then listen to me, if there is something wrong, I hope to advise." ”

Since the Chinese began to record history, it is a continuous history of the rise and fall of dynasties, and the continuity of political power in this land of China has not been able to last a thousand years, whether it is the peak era of the Han and Tang dynasties, or the slightly flawed imperial courts of the Song and Ming dynasties, the reasons for their demise in history are different, but one thing is common, that is, before they completely disappeared, there were large-scale peasant uprisings. Except for the Song Dynasty, because the pressure of resisting Jin and Yuan was too great, and the national policy was widely recruited to surrender and rebel peasants, so the impact of the peasant uprising was not great, and the other dynasties were basically exhausted by various anti-thieves before finally falling down. Then the problem arises again, except for the pure warlord usurpation of power like the Anshi Rebellion, these once glorious eras all came to the same end, that is, at the end of the period, the classes at the bottom of society were forced to embark on the road of armed rebellion.

I don't know if it's because it's too hot in the house or for some other reason, Qiu Tian's forehead began to ooze sweat, he knows too well what Jiang Tian meant, and he knows even more that Chongzhen was forced to die by the peasant army, but now it's a new dynasty and a new establishment, why mention these things?

Jiang Tian glanced at him, but still said to himself: "Zhu Hongwu was originally Huaiyou cloth, if the tyrannical yuan can see the Han people to implement moral politics, maybe there will be no Ming Dynasty for nearly three hundred years, the previous dynasty talked about this history, all said that the Mongols did not understand the rule of culture, so why was the Ming Dynasty established by the Han people destroyed by the rebellious peasants in the end?" If it weren't for His Majesty's efforts to turn the tide today, maybe you and I would have shaved my hair and become a third-class citizen. ”

Qiu Tian has no objection to this, or no matter how Donglin smears it, everyone in the world knows that this is a fact, which also makes many literati like him not resist changing the court. The world is the world of the people of the world, and it has been the residence of the virtuous since ancient times.

According to Brother Tai's opinion, the end of the Ming Dynasty can be regarded as natural disasters, man-made disasters, faint kings, ministers, and foreign invasions, and its demise can be regarded as providence. But I want to say that even if Zhu Hongwu, Xu Da, Liu Bowen, Li Shanchang and other cadres in the early Ming Dynasty are placed in this last days, they may not be able to save the Ming Dynasty from fire and water. ”

This point of view is very new, and Qiu Tian knows that it is finally coming to the point. In fact, Jiang Tian's statement can be regarded as a summary over time, of course, this is not his own summary, and it is already a universal truth in later generations, that is, the gap between the rich and the poor, the uneven distribution, the social system hindering the progress of the productive forces, and the corruption and degeneration of the whole country. These all lead to a term that is familiar to Chinese in later generations - class contradictions are irreconcilable!

After the change of civil engineering, the Ming Dynasty is still the Ming Dynasty. Wanli's three major expeditions, the Ming Dynasty is still the Ming Dynasty. Even if the customs were eroded, the grain tax center of the Ming Dynasty was not threatened, which shows that the foreign invasion cannot be regarded as the crux of the defeat of the Ming Dynasty. So is it an act of God? Even if there is an abnormal climate impact during the Xiaoice River period, the size of the Ming Dynasty is not something that can be defeated by northern disasters, not to mention that new crops have been gradually promoted, as long as there are more than ten years of work to survive. What about the faint monarch and the minister? In the end of the Ming Dynasty, the number of faint monarchs was very considerable, but it should also be noted that the political system of the Ming Dynasty itself was a virtual emperor system, and the emperor was often a decoration, just a little larger than the power of the constitutional monarchy, and many of the faint monarchs of the Ming Dynasty were the kind of temperamental and often angry lords. Therefore, some people think that if Chongzhen was like his ancestors, he was a hands-off emperor and let the cabinet handle government affairs, maybe the fall of the Ming Dynasty would be a little slower. This point of view cannot be said to be wrong, but it also ignores a reality, that is, the Chongzhen Dynasty is not controlled by the eunuch forces, and the civil official group cannot be united as a whole, but they are fighting each other for power and profit. Then it seems that there is only one alternative answer left.

"What Donglin did, this point history has its own opinion, if they hadn't misled the country and the people too much, His Majesty would not have slaughtered them all in a fit of anger, but let me say, even if they haven't done anything good, they don't want to die in the country, especially at the hands of foreign races. Although they contributed to the fall of Ming, it was not the most critical factor, they only accelerated the process. ”

Speaking of which, Qiu Tian began to get confused, what reason was there for a dynasty to collapse?

Jiang Tian took a sip of tea and then observed the other party's reaction: "Brother Qiu's family heard that they are not rich? ”

"Yes, Xiaguan...... I have more than a dozen acres of thin fields at home, and I can barely make ends meet. ”

Qiu Tian and Song Yingxing are half of the countrymen and Jiangxi people, the drought in the north has little impact on them, and he is also considered to have a reputation for fighting early, and the family does not have to pay taxes anymore, and it can be regarded as a small blessing family. This is why all families who can afford food and clothing must provide their children with education, and it is also the root of the so-called Chinese attach importance to education, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is due to economic interests.

"Jiangxi, the homeless people are not less patronized, and it is not easy for Brother Qiu to get to the new dynasty. But a man like you is in a precarious situation in those troubled times, how did those poor peasants and tenants survive? ”

Speaking of this topic, Qiu Tian is also related, at the lowest level of society, his family is not bullied by the village after he became a showman, and after the middle lift, many people have joined the family, seeing that the family is getting wider, but it has caught up with the end of this humble life. Until later, when his majesty was in charge of the defense of the Southern Ming Dynasty, he began to build a defense line along the Yangtze River, although there was little left of the family industry after several wars, but he finally survived the most difficult period, and then he entered Beijing to get the Jinshi, it seems that there is great hope for the glorious court, which thought that after the establishment of the new dynasty, he strangled the remnants of Donglin, and he spent every day in trembling, fortunately, his majesty did not plan to implicate the innocent, but he also honed his hidden character.

Jiang Tian is not as sentimental as him, to say that it is more difficult than him to complain about the original version of Jiang Xiucai, it is the real hatred of destroying the country and destroying the species, and it is not too much to describe it as a difficult book: "Brother Qiu, have you ever thought about it, is there more people reading or hoeing, farming, and doing art in this world?" But how much of the world's fertile land is in the hands of these poor people? Everyone in the world is humble with hard work, but they don't want the food, clothes, and tea you and I eat, wear, and drink, who is not the hard-earned income of these inferior people? However, those guys who shouted with small words and righteousness and full of compassion on their faces, who is not a good field, thousands of vast buildings, and their brocade clothes and jade food are all made of white bones! You said that if there is no hope of making a living in this world, who will not rise up? ”

This time Qiu Tian's sweat is more, he doesn't know that the emperor has always been dividing the idea of dividing the fields, there were signs when he was still holding the Yangtze River, but at that time the military situation was urgent, and the big landowners in the south of the Yangtze River were willing to "work hard" to work hard, so the two sides did not tear their faces. At the beginning of the year, Sichuan, which was the most difficult to bite, has also surrendered, and now the world is already the Zhang family's country, did the emperor start the idea of land reform again? His Qiu family has a shallow foundation, and there is not much land in the first place. But there are many wealthy families in Jiangnan Shilin who are more than 100 years old, and if you want to divide the land, you don't want to move the lives of these people!

Jiang Tian ignored him and continued to say in a self-talking tone: "At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the population of the whole country was less than 10,000, but by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the population did not rise but fell, is this really a strange thing?" Don't blame it! It's just that most of them are no longer human beings, but slaves and maids in a deep mansion compound. In order not to pay taxes and not to serve, they were willing to be slaves with others, and cultivated far more fields than at the beginning of the founding of the country, but they did not need to pay grain just because the landlord was famous. How not to die? ”

Next, Jiang Tian explained the consequences and effects of land annexation with Qiu Tian in depth, it is precisely because the Ming Dynasty's own tax system finally led to this qiē, so that the wealth of the privileged class swelled dramatically and drained the country's hematopoietic function, once natural disasters and man-made disasters came, the empty treasury could not make up for the deficit of sudden disasters, and in the end it could only be to tear down the east wall to make up for the west wall and press the gourd to float the scoop, and as the ruler of Donglin, not only will not reverse this situation, but they will also intensify their efforts as vested interests. exacerbated the rate of collapse of the country, and from this point alone, it is not too much to kill them all. However, Jiangnan has already been cleaned, and it is not appropriate to do it there again, so Qiu Tian's inspection route is concentrated in the Yellow River Valley.

The reason seemed to be clear, but Qiu Tian was confused, since His Majesty thought so, why not take advantage of the monarch's prosperity to quickly cut through the chaos? He believed that if he only exterminated those big households, the common people would not only not rebel, but would still applaud. What is going on with his own inspection of the north, the places he walked were all the war-torn places of the year, not to mention the landlords and the strong, even the wealthier farmers are not much left, plus the disasters for many years, the much-needed recuperation here, what can I see? Just to find out if anyone has filled their pockets with relief? Then why did he Jiang Tian bother so much?

"It is inevitable to investigate and deal with lawlessness, and His Majesty will also give you this right. But the most important thing is that His Majesty wants to know the land structure around the Yellow River, how much terra nullius there is, what can be cultivated and which needs to be abandoned, whether local materials and commerce can be circulated, and whether the remaining population can maintain production, as long as you compile these detailed collections into a book this time, don't forget, put the northern officials who are more familiar with the situation, but let you be a Jiangxi person for what! ”

This last sentence finally woke up the dreamer, the matter is actually as simple as that, let a southerner go to the north to conduct research, avoid the collusion between local forces and investigators to the greatest extent, and send back the most authentic information. This is also the result of Jiang Tian's hard persuasion, in order to ensure that the existing productive forces are not affected, we can only start from the places where these organizational structures are disrupted, we can build a land reform pilot area, which not only has little impact on the main sources of grain and taxes, but also can verify some new management methods, and wait for the north to show results, and then gradually start to the south, then both public opinion and righteousness will be on the side of the imperial court, to ensure the stability of the country to the greatest extent. This practice of first building experimental areas and then gradually promoting them from point to point will be understood by a Chinese in later generations, but people in this era really cannot think of the deep meaning for a while. Jiang Tian is not afraid of leaking secrets, in fact, it doesn't hurt if he leaks secrets, this is an upright conspiracy, even if he lets his political enemies know, he can't intervene. Because there are not many local landlords left, in addition to the original military land, there is more land occupied by illegal people, and the imperial court wants to measure and register in detail, do you think this can be wrong?

Qiu Tian understood, Jiang Tian said so much in front of him, the main theme is around the land reform, although he still can't fully accept the theory of land annexation and the death of the country, but he also knows the power of this, and the other party is willing to analyze it in such detail, it means that he trusts himself, and this may also be the only chance to get ahead, if it is for the sake of the so-called dignity of scholars, follow those old bureaucrats to carry the new policy, maybe it won't be long before his whole family will leave his hometown to live in a village on the border. After figuring out this problem, he also let go of his psychological baggage, after all, whether it was the pressure of the emperor or the temptation to do a career, he abandoned the reserve of the literati very lightly. And he also has an advantage that some southern officials do not have, that is, when he worshiped the mountain, he chose Song Yingxing, a representative of Xinxue, which is a buffer figure sandwiched between traditional Confucianism and military and political officials, and both sides still have to give some face.

Seeing his expression gradually soothing, Jiang Tian knew that this person could be used for the time being, the reason why he did not support radical reform was that it was important to engage in industry and require a large amount of labor, if it really liberated those peasants and slaves in Jiangnan who had no land, then for a long time, the industrial revolution would not be able to be carried out because of the lack of fixed industrial workers. Jiang Tian believes that as long as the profits of industrial production are higher than the output of land, you don't need to mobilize those landlords to try their best to invest, and this kind of guided change can ensure the turbulence caused by the change of the structure of productive forces to the greatest extent. By that time, northern China was almost self-sufficient, and could provide more support from raw materials to labor. As for what kind of character Qiu Tian is here? In fact, it doesn't matter at all, whether it is Jiang Tian, Zhang Tao or he Qiu Tian, in this big era, they are just taking what they need.

"I have a small book written by myself here, I hope it can help Brother Qiu this time, there are ten taels of silver here, one is the younger brother for the elder brother to practice, and the other is that the younger brother accompanies you, if the discipline is not strict, Jiang Fu will not refuse people in the future......

It was late at night, and the noise in the teahouse gradually subsided, but Qiu Tian's heart could not be calm for a long time, he found that the person in front of him was the same as the emperor, just like Zhu Yuanzhang hoped to learn from the strengths of all families and create a strong and prosperous Ming Dynasty of the eternal family, Zhang Tao as the founding monarch of the country has this idea, but the emperor's junior brother in front of him has the same ideal, he does not have the narrow idea of fame and fortune of other officials, everything he says and does is to practice the ideal in the emperor's heart, the poor man has food, There are clothes to wear, there is schooling, everyone can treat each other equally, and there is no distinction between high and low.

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