This wine doesn't taste good! Disturbing.

And so they all wondered.

However, the basic etiquette is still required, and many people thank them.

Wei Bao then arranged for everyone to continue to drink in the large courtyard, which was still the place at noon.

Fortunately, this is the early autumn season, it is just right to put it outdoors, the climate is suitable, the lights are bright on all sides, and then there are people from the Governor's Mansion who burn bamboo incense and mugwort leaves to repel mosquitoes on all sides.

However, the atmosphere was nowhere near as good as it was at noon.

At noon, the big families in Liaoxi and Liaodong all had the mentality of taking advantage of Wei Bao and taking advantage of Wei Bao, and they didn't take Wei Bao's big thing of wanting to buy Liaomin to heart at all, and they all thought that it was impossible, but how long did it take? The impossible has actually become!

Wei Bao looked at Wu Xiang, Wu Sanfeng and Zu Kefa at the same table with a smile, and the three of them all blushed.

"Lord Wu, do you want me to send someone to invite Second Master Wu and Miss Wu here?" Wei Bao asked politely.

"No need! It wasn't long after lunch, I didn't have much appetite, and I wanted to go back early to rest. Wei Gongzi doesn't have to bother too much, let people bring the contract, and sign the seal now! Wu Xiang said with a cold face.

Wei Bao smiled: "Yes, but Lord Wu uses some food, right?" Listen, I'm busy cooking, it's all freshly stir-fried. ”

Sure enough, the fire in the kitchen not far away flickered, and only the sound of spoons and iron pots slamming could be heard, and the aroma could be smelled.

"Wei Bao, do you think we look like people who are rare for your broken food?" Wu Sanfeng said unceremoniously: "I said that I should hurry up and get the contract, what are you grinding for?" ”

"If he rubs it again, let's just say that he Wei Bao deliberately delayed, and he will leave." Zukefa also followed.

Wei Bao smiled slightly, stopped talking nonsense, slapped his face, and had already taken out the prepared contracts for the big families to sign and seal, and those who were illiterate would draw a pledge.

Anyway, doing these things, Wei Bao's subordinates are now familiar with the road, and the specific contract content is prepared by Wei Bao early in the morning.

These people are very resistant to him now, and Wei Bao is too lazy to put a hot face on his cold ass.

After the contract was signed, Wu Xiang and the others really didn't eat a bite of food or drink, and left.

As soon as Wu Xiang, Wu Sanfeng and Zu Kefa left, the big families in Liaoxi and Liaodong also left one after another after signing the contract.

Although many people wanted to stay and eat and drink again, no one did it after all, and some people took away the dishes that came up.

In less than a stick of incense, the contract signing work of all the big families in Liaoxi and Liaodong was finished, Wei Bao told Lin Wenbiao that let people invite the officials of the Jiliao Department to come, don't waste the dishes, if there is more, they will be rewarded to the people of the Governor's Mansion to eat, and they can also buy their own good.

"Childe, don't care, these people will leave if they don't eat, they are stupid!" Lin Wenbiao nodded with a smile and said, "It's okay now, I didn't expect it to go so well." I really admire the president. ”

Wei Bao smiled indifferently, secretly wondering where is his role? It's all up to Sun Chengzong!

"Okay, you can arrange it, I'll go back to the room to eat some in the evening, don't drink, you let people accompany the guests more on my behalf." Wei Bao Road.

"Yes, Childe." Lin Wenbiao hurriedly nodded in agreement.

Wei Bao then left the banquet compound.

On the one hand, Wei Bao has been making trouble all day today, and he is indeed a little tired, mainly because he is tired. In addition, he was anxious to thank Sun Chengzong.

Sun Chengzong is a person who meets Wei Bao in Pingshui, and Wei Bao is not a person who meets in Pingshui for Sun Chengzong?

Two people didn't know each other two months ago.

In these two months, there is not much intersection.

There is almost no emotional basis to speak of.

Sun Chengzong can help himself like this today, Wei Bao is somewhat moved.

At this time, Sun Chengzong had just bathed and was about to eat dinner.

Because it was in the backyard of the Governor's Mansion, Wei Bao didn't need to make a special report, and saw it from a distance outside the house where Sun Chengzong lived, so he asked the Zanhua Mao Yuanyi, who was waiting outside the courtyard: "Lord Mao, can I go and say a few words to the Inspector?" ”

Mao Yuanyi smiled: "Go, you are a disciple of Master Inspector, and you are much closer than me, why do you need to ask me?" ”

"Don't dare to be it, Master Mao is the right-hand man of the teacher, and I can't help much." Wei Bao hurriedly said modestly.

Mao Yuanyi's impression of Wei Bao is very good, Wei Bao is not only 'strong', but also very modest, very knowledgeable, and very urban, very personable, these things together should not form the identity of a 14-year-old boy, but should be at least fifty miles away from the officialdom, or hidden in the rivers and lakes.

But Wei Bao has fused so many layers of factors very well by himself.

After a few words of conversation with Mao Yuanyi and a few small talks, Wei Bao entered the courtyard and arrived outside Sun Chengzong's house: "Teacher." ”

Sun Chengzong put down the porridge in his hand and said with a smile: "Xiaobao, if you don't accompany the guests, what are you doing here?" Did something go wrong? ”

"No, it's going well, I've signed a contract with all the big families in Liaoxi and Liaodong." Wei Bao replied.

Sun Chengzong snorted: "That's good." ”

"Thank you to the teacher, if I didn't have the teacher today, I wouldn't have been able to accomplish such a big thing no matter how hard I worked." Wei Bao said sincerely: "I should have invited my teacher to have a meal, but my teacher ate so lightly here alone." ”

Sun Chengzong smiled slightly: "Two dishes of side dishes and a bowl of gruel are enough." How many people want to live such a life but can't! ”

Wei Bao was in awe: "The teacher's willingness to be poor is really admired by the students. ”

"Do you think I'm pretending? No, not only for the sake of self-cultivation, Daming's Yulu will not make me unable to eat decent food, I live like this, but also because the whole Daming, my hometown, is very difficult. Most of the gold you gave me will be used to subsidize the village. I haven't saved much of the money that the court has given me over the years, and most of it has been donated to the court, and every time Your Majesty rewards me with gold and silver, I also donate it to the household department. Sun Chengzong said proudly.

Wei Bao blinked, no matter whether what Sun Chengzong said was true or false, anyway, this official is decent enough. "The teacher is high-minded, and students need to learn slowly. In the future, students will eat like this. ”

"Hehe, I'm an old man, but I didn't let you learn from me. When you grow taller, you should naturally eat more, and you are also capable of eating the next pig in one meal. Sun Chengzong smiled and said, "Xiaobao." The reason why I spared no effort today, and even did not hesitate to fight with my life, to promote your purchase of Liaomin, is actually not entirely to help you. ”

Wei Bao heard Sun Chengzong's words change and said curiously: "It's okay for the teacher to speak up, and the students will listen to you." ”

"Although the division has always been in favor of the border army's reclamation, your idea is more appropriate for the division. It's just that no one had such courage to dare to move so many Liao people before, and the silver for buying Liao people is not a big deal, but have you taken into account the cost of transportation and resettlement? And whether Liaonan can be saved, are you sure? If you don't move people to southern Liaoning, can you fit so many people in a small Weijiazhuang? Are there so many fields for people to cultivate? Or do you want to sell so many Liao people to Jiangnan again? ”

Wei Bao sweated, he didn't expect Sun Chengzong to have such an idea, "I will probably transport people to southern Liaoning!" I'm ninety percent sure that I can hold southern Liaoning! ”

Wei Bao never mentioned to Sun Chengzong from beginning to end that he was constantly putting manpower and material resources into Jiannu's territory and placing a large number of building materials through cooperation with Jiannu.

Sun Chengzong nodded: "If you can really transport millions of people to southern Liaoning, as long as you can feed them!" With so many people throwing a stone at once, Jiannu had no way to break through Jinzhou City! As a teacher, I believe this, so I do my best to promote this for you. You won't sell Liaomin to Jiangnan, just rest assured as a teacher. Now that the population of the Ming Dynasty is constantly moving south, and there are fewer and fewer people in the north, I am really worried that in a few years, there will be no one north of the Yellow River and no land. Also, if the defense of southern Liaoning is stabilized, it will also be of great benefit to the plan to restrict the construction of slaves for the division as a whole! It can even be said that it is crucial. ”

Wei Bao nodded, but he felt uncomfortable in his heart, secretly thinking about you, you, you see me like this? Think I'm a human trafficker? Sell everyone to Jiangnan? How can it be? Hearing that Sun Chengzong thought that he was going to transport millions of Liao people to Jinzhou City to defend the city, he felt even more funny, how useful is it for so many ordinary people to defend the city? Teacher, you also think that my Wei Bao's pattern is too small.

Sun Chengzong said energetically, and simply put down his chopsticks.

Wei Bao hurriedly said, "The teacher will eat first, right?" I'm not in a hurry, I don't dare to disturb the teacher's meal, and it's okay for me to come back tomorrow to listen to the teacher's narration. ”

"I've eaten almost, I sometimes don't eat at night, and today I'm crying and shouting, and I'm tired, so I eat some." Sun Chengzong smiled: "You haven't eaten yet, have you?" Come, eat some coarse tea and light rice for the teacher. ”

Wei Bao smiled: "Okay." Then he brought a sea bowl next to Sun Chengzong to his face, and there was more than half a bowl of gruel in it.

Sun Chengzong asked the attendant at the door to get another pair of chopsticks.

"As long as you can hold southern Liaoning, Jiannu will face enemies on three sides, which will greatly limit the expansion of Jiannu!" Sun Chengzong looked at Wei Bao, who was eating, and continued: "Moreover, the west of southern Liaoning can connect Liaodong, and the east can connect Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang River, so that the two sides will not completely lose contact, and it will also be convenient to restrain the two sides!" It is convenient to involve Jiannu on three sides. If you hadn't reached a cooperation with Mao Wenlong and got the right to operate in southern Liaoning, I guess Mao Wenlong would have planned to give up! At most, before the winter of this year, Jiannu will pocket southern Liaoning! So, you have to do a good job of defense, strengthen the city, and prepare a lot of supplies to defend the city! I've seen the walls of your Weijiazhuang! Your kind of square brick technology is simply amazing, if you stabilize the city defense of southern Liaoning, there is still spare strength, for the division I hope you will help the city defense of Liaodong and the Dongjiang River! If they can also have the kind of bricks like Xiaobao and your Weijiazhuang on both sides, it will be even more difficult to build a slave to attack the city! ”

Wei Bao nodded, "I will, teacher." My square brick has a scientific name, it's called cement brick! Only I can figure it out, and only I can figure it out in the whole world. ”

After Wei Bao finished speaking, he smiled proudly.

Sun Chengzong nodded with satisfaction: "If you fail the scientific examination, don't be discouraged, the teacher can arrange for you to enter the superintendent's mansion to do things, and it is not a problem to ensure that you have a position of seven grades, with Xiaobao's talent, it is not a problem to achieve six grades and five grades after the age of thirty." If you have enough qualifications, after the age of forty, it is possible for a fourth-grade and third-grade adult! ”

Wei Bao sweated, you ecstasy soup, is my pattern so small? Mix to the age of forty and get a third-grade master? Then where is it worthy of my reborn through the giant tall identity? My plan is to dominate one side within five years, if I make jokes in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, at least I have to get a second- or third-grade master to play, and after the age of forty, isn't it going to wait for twenty-five or six years? Twenty-five or six years later, the Ming Dynasty in history died early, and it is difficult to say whether there was a Ming Dynasty at that time.

However, Wei Bao would not say these slanderous words, and he looked respectful, and said with a yearning face: "With the teacher, the students are not worried." ”

Sun Chengzong glanced at Wei Bao with satisfaction, and smiled: "That's good, being a teacher doesn't touch your mold before your scientific examination, it means that in case you don't want to take the scientific examination, you don't have to worry about your career." ”

"Students understand." Wei Bao said hurriedly.

"If Liaonan can't be saved, I estimate that Jiannu will be able to occupy the entire Guanwai within three years! Even Mo Nan and North Korea can be in the bag! Now the gang of people in the court despise the strength of Jiannu too much, and despise Nurhachi even more! Sun Chengzong turned the conversation back again.

Wei Bao listened to Sun Chengzong talk about his scientific examination, and he was a little happy, but he thought that Sun Chengzong wanted to go through the door for himself? Let yourself take a ride or something? I didn't expect Sun Chengzong to talk about the fight against Jiannu again, and Sun Chengzong seemed to be very pessimistic? Do you think that if Liaonan is not guaranteed, Jiannu will be able to collect Liaodong, Liaonan, Dongjiang, North Korea, and Monan in one fell swoop within three years? You're a little scary, aren't you?

This can't help but make Wei Bao think of the five-year Pingliao proposed by Yuan Chonghuan in history, your student is a braggart king, but he didn't expect that you, a teacher, are pessimistic kings.

"What? Xiaobao, don't you believe in the judgment of the teacher? Sun Chengzong saw Wei Bao's puzzled expression, so he said: "These words, the teacher has never said these words to anyone, only said to you, you must not say them to anyone outside." ”

Wei Bao hurriedly said: "Yes, teacher, please rest assured, Xiaobao will never tell anyone, not even his own mother." ”

Sun Chengzong nodded: "Being a teacher is by no means alarmist!" It's not that the hundreds of thousands of Jiannu are powerful, they are understaffed, so they have to keep capturing the Han people in the past, in fact, even if they ignore them, their development speed will not be able to go up! What worries about the teacher is that Da Ming himself is going to collapse at any time! Liaodong and Dongjiang were the first to collapse without food supplies from the interior. Jiannu won Liaodong and Dongjiang, and Korea and Monan will no longer be constrained. With the combat strength of the Koreans, 5,000 Jiannu iron horsemen would be enough to travel south for a long distance, and it would be enough to take their royal city within a month! With the courage and integrity of the Korean monarchs and ministers, they will inevitably surrender immediately, and then Jiannu will no longer have any worries, and the army will inevitably march westward in the coming year! In one fell swoop, collect all the departments of the Horqin Grassland and defeat the Chahar Department of Lin Dan Khan! At that time, there will be a place for slaves to be built outside the Daming Pass! If the natural disasters in the northern parts of the Ming Dynasty are more serious, I am afraid that the Ming Dynasty and Gyeonggi will be unstable! Do you understand? ”

Wei Bao sighed, only then did he know that Sun Chengzong thought so? That's a good guess! It's just that you can't help but think too much about Liaodong and Dongjiang, right?

Historically, the Dongjiang River survived for several years until Mao Wenlong died, and it seems that it was returned to Jiannu in 1635. After the death of Dongjiang, Korea was subdued by Jiannu the following year. Then Mo Nan was also completely beaten down.

And Liaodong has been holding out until the Ming Jingshi is captured by Li Zicheng, is it still good?

Therefore, Sun Chengzong's inference is not entirely correct.

However, Wei Bao still admires it very much, after all, he is from the perspective of the people who have come before, and from the macro and micro perspectives of history, it is fundamentally God's perspective.

And Sun Chengzong is completely out of personal judgment, which is already quite accurate.

"What the teacher said is reasonable, but the people of the court and the local defenders don't seem to be so in such a crisis? What can I do? Wei Bao asked.

Sun Chengzong let out a long sigh: "As a teacher, I often feel bored about this matter!" Indeed, the vast majority of people do not feel that the situation is already so crisis, they are still dreaming of the central dynasty, and they still feel that the four seas are peaceful, and small natural and man-made disasters are only temporary. I still think that as long as there is no chaos in Jiangnan, the Ming Dynasty will not hurt my muscles and bones! But they don't know that Jiangnan's taxes are unreliable! ”

The financial allocation of the central government of the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty accounted for a large proportion.

So where does the money come from? Jiangnan was the most economically developed area in the Ming Dynasty, and naturally it mainly came from Jiangnan.

There will be no natural disasters in Jiangnan, there will be no slaves, and there will be no rebellion by ordinary people, so as long as Jiangnan is fine, the Ming Dynasty will not feel that the problem is too big.

Because Jiangnan's tax revenue accounted for a large part of the Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue, Jiangnan's tax revenue was higher, and the imperial court's fiscal revenue was more.

The fiscal revenue of the Suzhou Prefecture is often more than that of the chief administrative secretary in some remote areas.

The reason why the fiscal revenue of the Nanzhili area is so large is the so-called "Jiangnan Heavy Endowment", and the rent of the official land is much higher than that of the private land.

In fact, Guantian and Mintian are both privately owned land, but in history, Guantian was the state-owned land of the Song Dynasty acquired by Jia Nidao at the end of the Song Dynasty, and its land rent was very high, and the original rent was continued in the Ming Dynasty.

In the orthodox years, many official fields were abandoned due to natural disasters or heavy endowments, or hidden in the form of "sprinkling" and "trickery".

As a result, officials had to distribute excess taxes to other lands in order to reach the "original amount".

As the cycle continues, the government has less and less land, and the remaining land has to bear more taxes. In the long run, it is easy to have problems, and it is difficult for the imperial court to collect taxes.

Therefore, there was the so-called "Zhou Chen Reform" during the orthodox years, which simply means that this reform no longer distinguishes between official and private fields, and divides taxes according to the degree of fertility of the fields, etc., and collects land taxes in a certain proportion, and the collection of land taxes is based on silver as a means of settlement.

Since the Orthodox years, fiscal reform, mainly in the Gangnam region, has been gradually carried out.

The general trend is that the physical goods are converted into silver, and the types of taxes to be levied are gradually reduced, and in fact, the miscellaneous taxes that are illegally added in addition to the taxes are also counted into one tax.

At the same time, labor is also converted into silver according to a certain percentage, and the amount of land owned by each household is used as the standard of payment.

More importantly, this series of reforms began to unconsciously emerge a concept of "living within the means of living", and officials had to estimate the current year's fiscal revenue and expenditure each year, and then levy taxes according to this amount.

A series of reforms from the orthodox period to the Wanli period are actually the content of Zhang Juzheng's "one whip law".

Therefore, it is not so much that a whip law is Zhang Juzheng's invention, but that it is just Zhang Juzheng's recognition of a series of previous financial reforms, or that Zhang Juzheng continued to implement it after summing up the experience of his predecessors, and it is not Zhang Juzheng's initiative.

In fact, the financial system of the Ming Dynasty was relatively perfect by the time of Zhang Juzheng.

It is a pity that the three major levies of Wanli, coupled with the rise of the Later Jin, the imperial court had to pay three more salaries, and increased taxes on the basis of the original taxes. The localities were overwhelmed, and peasant revolts and slavery revolts broke out one after another.

Another important problem in the Ming Dynasty was the corruption of the salt law, and the banknote law, which was closely related to the salt law, was abolished very early.

The financial revenue of the Ming Dynasty was much higher than that of the early Song Dynasty at the beginning, but after the salt, wine and tea tax in the middle and late Song Dynasty came up, the income of the Ming Dynasty was lower than that of the Song Dynasty, but the gap was not large.

The reason why the income was lower than that of the Song Dynasty was mainly due to the fact that the taxes of the Ming Dynasty did not increase for a long time, but had a downward trend.

The fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty increased from Zhu Yuanzhang to Zhu Di, but there were signs of decline from the late Yongle period, and after the Xuande reform, it was basically out of stable shocks until the end of the Ming Dynasty.

The treasury of the Ming Dynasty is not only too warehouse, too warehouse can also be divided into silver warehouse and grain warehouse, usually said to be the silver warehouse, in fact, the warehouse of Beijing alone can count out dozens of them, the main outer treasury silver storage is the household Taicang silver warehouse, the Ministry of Industry Jieshen library, the military department Taifu Temple Changying library, nominally subordinate to the Ministry of Rites Guanglu Temple silver library, these warehouses are important places for Beijing cashier storage, of which Taicang silver library is the highest annual income of silver.

Even the Tai Warehouse, in the late Ming Dynasty, the annual income exceeded 10 million, and in the last few years, it earned more than 20 million taels of silver every year.

The Ming Dynasty itself had a tax item called commercial tax, which had a very narrow meaning, and the commercial tax rate in the Ming Dynasty was very low, so there was no commercial tax. In fact, there were many types of commercial taxes in the Ming Dynasty, and the types increased; And most of the tax rates were one-tenth, one-twentieth or one-thirtieth of the prevailing tax rates at the time, and there was no such thing as a low rate.

The failure of the Ming Dynasty to collect taxes was purely a technical problem, or it was a self-inflicted death.

The Northern Song Dynasty was the dynasty with the highest silver production in China, and it was also a dynasty with a high silver stock in China, but due to a series of reasons, at the end of the Song Dynasty, especially the Yuan Dynasty, China had a large outflow of silver, so the value of silver remained high in the early Ming Dynasty, and one or two silver could be exchanged for four or five stone rice when the value was high.

Therefore, it can be seen that the commercial tax in the early Ming Dynasty was not low, so why did the commercial tax in Yongle in the early Ming Dynasty and after Yongle go down. A very important reason for this is the collapse of the treasure banknote and the subsequent chaos in the government's financial operations.

The fiscal revenue in the early Ming Dynasty was significantly better than that in the early Song Dynasty, but due to the financial growth in the late Northern Song Dynasty, many of them were excessive taxation and inflation.

The Ming Dynasty's finances did not grow or even declined for a long time, and they exceeded but did not much in the later period.

The fiscal revenue of the middle and late Ming Dynasty was not as large as that of the Song Dynasty, mainly due to the collapse of its own treasure money and conservative fiscal thinking.

However, looking at the grain income, we can see that the economy of the Ming Dynasty was significantly stronger than that of the Song Dynasty, and the grain income of the Song Dynasty was only two-thirds of that of the Ming Dynasty, which was almost the difference between the yield per mu of the two.

The financial collapse of the Ming Dynasty was the biggest problem of its demise. In the Ming Dynasty, the land tax rate was low for a long time, but it did not benefit the state, and the beneficiaries were the bureaucrats, and the low tax rate on the fields was not much different from the peasants, whether it should be high or high, because the landlord was its dependent.

The government lacked funds, farmers could not obtain low-interest loans from the government, and the provisions restricting usury were a dead letter.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the civil change and the three salaries were cause and effect of each other, and they were interlocking.

Recruitment increases the burden, and non-payment of wages exacerbates the burden of soldiers.

It can be seen that if the economic problem is solved and the military soldiers are enough to raise soldiers, then the military will be held, and there will be no peasant uprising in the Ming Dynasty, and its displaced people will pacify the capital.

"As a teacher, I'm not worried that you won't be able to hold southern Liaoning after you get so many people, but I'm just worried that you are just a common person, and without the support of the imperial court, you can't afford to eat such a large population!" Sun Chengzong said earnestly: "Xiaobao, I won't hide it from you as a teacher, now there are many people in the court who are attacking and criticizing as a teacher, and they are eager to drive the teacher away!" At most, the division will stay in Liaodong until the end of this year. ”

"The teacher doesn't have to be too anxious, even if the teacher is forced to go into the wilderness, it can make others understand that Liaodong can't do without the teacher, and whoever changes it will not do better than the teacher!" Wei Bao said sincerely.

Because Sun Chengzong can see the relationship between finance and side affairs, Wei Bao is already very sure that Sun Chengzong is a rare handsome talent in history, marshals are different from generals, generals can understand a little bit of politics and economy, mainly because they are strong in military affairs!

The marshal will mainly look at the situation, grasp the opportunities, and formulate the overall strategy, all of which are far more important than specific military talents.

However, Wei Bao will not correct Sun Chengzong's judgments, and even wants to contribute to Sun Chengzong's pessimistic judgment!

Because Wei Bao can see that Sun Chengzong is also wary of himself, after all, he has gained so many people at once, and he is not a person from the Ming officialdom, just using his own plan for the imperial examination and planning to take the road of the Ming officialdom, I am afraid it will be difficult to completely win Sun Chengzong's trust.

And the more pessimistic Sun Chengzong looks at the situation, the more likely he is to do a lot of things that go against conventional means, such as this time to help Wei Bao obtain millions of Liao people.

Sun Chengzong was very relieved to hear Wei Bao evaluate himself like this, and nodded with a smile: "Only Xiaobao knows me best!" I told people before that I was afraid that I would go into hiding, but they all insisted on not believing it, only you looked at the problem after your teacher went into the wilderness. As a teacher, you really didn't see the wrong person, you are a person who knows how to be flexible, the most difficult thing in the world is the word flexibility, it is not easy to see, you can see through, and you are a genius, Xiaobao, you are a genius. ”

"Teacher, I can't afford it, I naturally hope that my teacher can be healthy and healthy, and he has been contributing to the court. The teacher is right, the most important thing in the Ming Dynasty is the financial problem. In my opinion, it has been declining since the Wanli period. From the perspective of the system, it lies in the two aspects of finance and party strife, with party strife being the symptom and fiscal problems being the deeper cause. The tax policy is low agricultural tax and scholars are exempt from taxation, and there is no clear collection channel for other taxes, such as the emperor can send eunuchs to collect mining tax and tea tax himself, and these taxes have no collection system, so once the local and central interest groups resist, the result is to stop collecting. The court of the Ming Dynasty was poor, the peasants were poor, and the gentry were rich. One day, the imperial court can be one errand and one grain, the government controls the trade to the sea, constantly fattening the salt merchants, and then cutting the salt merchants leeks and so on, and the finances of the Ming Dynasty will be improved! Wei Bao said.

Sun Chengzong looked at Wei Bao in surprise, if he said that before, just to get money and food from Wei Bao to support border affairs, he only accepted Wei Bao as a disciple for utilitarianism, but now Sun Chengzong has really fully accepted Wei Bao as a disciple, and even feels that accepting Wei Bao as a disciple is the most possible and greatest luck in his life!

"Xiaobao, the teacher said that you are a genius, you are really a genius, this opinion, I don't know how much higher than the old man!" Sun Chengzong laughed happily.

Wei Bao smiled slightly, and hurriedly said a few words modestly.

This is nothing, people in Sun Chengzong's era can only compare forward, comparing the Ming Dynasty with the Great Song Dynasty.

But Wei Bao was able to compare the Ming Dynasty with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and Yongzheng's reform was still very successful, solving many tax drawbacks in one fell swoop!

From the effectiveness of the system to the execution, the Manchu Qing were much stronger than the Ming, and the result was that even if the central government lost the southeast, it could still fight back and forth with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

However, in order to defeat a tribe with a population of 100,000, the Ming Dynasty forced the peasants of several provinces to rebel.

The Manchus were all poor, and the productive forces were no longer developing, but the government taxes were stable.

The difference between the two is still the class contradiction, the landlord class of the Ming Dynasty has completely degenerated, ignoring the actual situation of the country, protecting its own interests, leading to the collapse of taxation.

The landlords of the Manchu Qing Dynasty also wanted to play like this, because most of the landlords were still Han Chinese, and they had played once in the Ming Dynasty, and there was no reason to change sex in the hands of the Manchus.

It can only be said that the control system of the Manchurian is powerful, and the knife is fast! All in one! So that the Manchus were not hijacked by the landlord class.

The similarity between the two is that all the burden is on the civilian population.

Finally, the development of the commodity economy of the Ming Dynasty also benefited from the backwardness of the tax system, after the Longqing switch, the government's low tax system made the society develop greatly, but the country could not obtain benefits, and finally it was short-lived.

The oppression of the Manchus led to the interference of the state in all social activities, the pervasiveness of taxation, the enslavement of the people, the malaise of the commodity economy, and the rapid shrinkage of the coastal cities.

In terms of internal affairs, the Manchu Qing Dynasty must be much stronger, but in terms of integrity, no dynasty can compare with the Ming Dynasty, which is also the reason why the Ming Dynasty has become the eternal pride of the Han people.

Wei Bao said this casually, seeing that Sun Chengzong admired his views so much, he was very satisfied, and it was very rare to be able to talk to someone of such a high level as Sun Chengzong about some unverifiable ideas in his heart! This further strengthened Wei Bao's previous vague understanding, Sun Chengzong's affirmation, showing that many of his own ideas for change, the idea of constantly changing places with his own ideas, are feasible, and there is no ability to accept people who are beyond this era.

Wei Bao and Sun Chengzong chatted enthusiastically, and the more they talked, the more they surrendered, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

In the pavilion, the atmosphere of Wu Xiang and Zu Dashou and others was very cold.

Zu Dashou, Wu Xiang, and Zu Kefa and Wu Sanfeng, who were standing behind the two of them, had not spoken for a long time, and they were all like stone statues.

Wu Xuexia looked strange in the gap in the window paper, and asked Wu Sanfu beside her: "Brother, what's wrong with Daddy and Uncle?" ”

Wu Sanfu replied softly: "It seems that I heard that Wei Bao's matter has been completed!" The big families in Liaodong and Liaodong signed a contract with Wei Bao, and within a few days, millions of Liao people outside the customs were put into the customs and sent to Weijiazhuang! ”

"Huh?" Wu Xuexia was so frightened that she snorted softly, and hurriedly covered her mouth with her snow-white little hands, "Can such a big thing be done?" Why did my uncle agree? Does Wei Bao have such a great ability? ”

Wu Sanfu shook his head and said, "You ask me, who do I ask?" I didn't go to the meeting. Then he laughed and said, "What are you fussing about?" Aren't you happy that you have the ability to work in the future? I don't care about anything else, I think if Xiaobao marries you, he will be good to you for the rest of his life, which is the most important thing! ”

When Wu Xuexia heard this, her pink face immediately turned red with shame, she stomped her feet lightly, and said softly: "Brother, you are here again, you believe in Wei Bao so much?" Moreover, I didn't see at all that Wei Bao liked me. ”

Wu Sanfu smiled and did not respond to her.

Wu Xiang in the room finally took the lead in speaking: "Brother, don't be angry, if they want someone, give it to them!" Anyway, if we can get more food every year, we don't have anything to lose. ”

"You...... You're confused! When Zu Dashou heard this, he raised his head, looked at Wu Xiang with a look of hatred for iron and steel, and said angrily: "Without people, there will be no power!" We don't rely on Tuntian in exchange for silver, but on the power in our hands! Powerful and powerful, no one dares to underestimate us! If there is no one in Liaodong, how will the imperial court look at us in the future? Let's see what those generals and officials in Jiliao will think of us? It won't even be long before someone thinks of Liaoxi and Liaodong coming to grab land! ”

Wu Xiang was surprised: "Then what is it like now?" I've already signed a contract, can I still regret it? Looking at the posture of the Inspector today, it seems that if he doesn't agree, he will turn his face with his brother, and his brother is also forced to be helpless. ”

Zu Dashou nodded painfully and said, "I was suppressed by Sun Chengzong today!" When I came back, the more I thought about it, the more I regretted it! When giving people, leave more young men and women! Give the old and weak to Wei Bao! In addition, if there is no tuntian outside the customs, it is necessary to pioneer more in western Liaoning! We can't completely count on Wei Bao, food is more important than anything, and we can't let people get stuck in our necks! ”