"It is not my wish to be knighted, but I wish that the sea will be peaceful. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

Li Shouhan first expressed his indifference to the title, and only wanted to see the simple desire of the Ming Dynasty to return to the peaceful and prosperous world. At this point, the people present, from Zhu Yousong to Ma Shiying, Liu Kongzhao, and even Qian Qianyi, Zhao Zhilong and other leaders of Donglin had to give out their voices of praise against their will. touts the grandfather's indifference to fame and fortune.

If you don't care about the vacancy, then you have to take out something practical.

"Mr. has made great contributions to the country, if there is no reward, will it not make the soldiers and civilians of the world feel cold, and I will complain that Your Majesty's rewards and punishments are unknown." Ma Shiying gave Li Shouhan a good word.

"The minister is already a duke, and the official is also a very human minister. If it is promoted to another level, it is necessary to ask Lord Qian to put on the seal, and ask His Majesty to give the minister nine tin. Li Shouhan's joking words made a few chuckles in the hall, but Qian Qianyi's well-maintained handsome face was as red as cinnabar.

He came to the table to ask for Li Shouhan to add nine tins? Isn't that just comparing him to a traitor under Hua Xin and others Cao Wei?

"Your Majesty, Liang Guogong went on the horse to govern the army, and dismounted to govern the people. He is proficient in both military and political affairs, and can be entrusted with military and political affairs. "Xinjian Bo Wang Yetai stood up and spoke on behalf of the Xungui faction. Since you can't give Liang Guogong a knighthood, let's give it an errand! Use the power of the messenger to make up for the remains that cannot be knighted.

Since Li Shouhan said that he only wanted to see the sea shengping, then Zhu Yousong also asked along the water: "Today, I am in a national crisis, I am young, and I have just taken over the country, so it is inevitable that I am a little scared." Guogong has been in charge of the military and political affairs for many years and has experience. Can there be a good plan to teach me? ”

"I don't dare to say it, but the minister feels that there are four major things at the moment that are top priorities, and I ask Your Majesty to implement them one by one. Chen dared to assert that as long as these four things are done well, the Ming Dynasty will reproduce the scene of Taizu and Chengzu dynasties, which is just around the corner. ”

"Sir, please." Since Li Shouhan didn't want any title, he just offered a few strategies to show that he was capable of completing any military and political envoys that Zhu Yousong handed over to him. Then, everyone will prick up their ears and listen.

"A name is set and righteousness. Please ask Your Majesty to issue an edict and order the Ministry of Rites and other departments to issue the temple number for the first emperor. The first emperor was the supreme of the ninety-five, and he personally fought with the thieves in the capital, and finally died in the country. Be a role model for your ministers. It must be an American name to match it. ”

"It's a very good move. That's it! Mr. Ma, Scholar Shi, both of you are cabinet elders, and you will have to handle this matter after you go down. Be sure to follow what Liang Guogong said, and take the name of the first emperor. Although Zhu Yousong was smeared by Donglin and couldn't be blacker, after all, he also received a good education of the clan nobles. Li Shouhan proposed to give Chongzhen the temple number and the nickname, and he immediately understood that Liang Guogong meant to learn from the practice of Emperor Liu Xun of the Han Dynasty, and to demonstrate the legitimacy of my throne through such measures.

In the Western Han Dynasty, only the emperor who had major merits could have a temple number. During the Western Han Dynasty, the award of the temple number was relatively strict, and only those who made significant contributions had it: Gaozu Liu Bang's temple number was Taizu; Emperor Wen's temple name Liu Heng is Taizong's name is Emperor Xiaowen; The famous Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Chemiao, was called Emperor Shizong, and was called Emperor Xiaowu; This is the emperor who had a temple number before Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, and the temple number of Emperor Liu Zheng of the Han Yuan Dynasty after him was Gaozong, Emperor Xiaoyuan; Emperor Liu of the Han Ping Dynasty was called Yuanzong, and his nickname was Emperor Xiaoping. Other emperors did not have a temple number, like Emperor Jing, it was not a temple number but a nickname: Emperor Xiaojing. Like Emperor Ping's Yuanzong, they all belonged to the later period, and the system was not so strict. Like Emperor Han Jing, who single-handedly created the so-called rule of Wenjing, he didn't get a temple number. It can be seen that the strictness of the management of the temple number. The latter few emperors of the Western Han Dynasty had temple numbers, all of which were posthumously sealed by the Eastern Han Dynasty, not discussed at that time.

The dead emperors were invited to the temple to worship. Taimiao sacrifice is centered on Taizu, without Taizu there would be no dynasty, Liu Zhiji's "Stone / Title": "The ancients of the Temple of the Son of Heaven, the ancestors have merit and virtue, starting from three generations and ending in the two Han Dynasty. The name and the truth are allowed, and they are passed down through the ages. "Ancestors have merit, ancestors have virtues." Those who are respected as "ancestors" usually have great merit in founding the country. That is, the one who created the dynasty is called the ancestor, and the one who has political achievements is called the zong. The founding monarch called him Taizu. Such as Song Taizu, Ming Taizu, Qing Taizu Nurhachi. Generally, there is only one "ancestor" and many "sects". In addition to Taizu in the Ming Dynasty, there was also Chengzu, because Chengzu moved the capital to Yanjing, and then the Ming Dynasty laid the capital here, and Chengzu made a lot of achievements in cultural and martial arts. The subsequent emperors, by contrast, were at best conservative and did not create a greater innovation. "Zong" has the meaning of continuation, such as Zongxu and Zongao. Therefore, the emperor's temple number after becoming an ancestor is "Zong".

Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty Liu Xun was visited by Huo Guang from the people and helped the emperor to the throne, in order to ensure the safety of his life, Liu Xun single-handedly presided over the work of going to the temple number for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. The title of Emperor Wu is the best summary of his great-grandfather Liu Che's life's achievements. At the same time, because of this move, Liu Xun established his legitimacy and avoided the fate of being abolished by Huo Guang.

Moreover, during Liu Xun's reign, he was in charge of the Han Dynasty, pacified the Xiongnu externally, and opened up the Hexi Corridor, and he was also a strong man who won the ancestors. The later Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu once called Liu Xun, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, Zhongzong, which means the lord of Zhongxing. This is clearly to make me the master of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty! Li Shouhan's meaning, Zhu Yousong naturally had to understand it well.

"Commandment." From the names of Ma Shiying and Shi Kefa, Ma Shiying keenly discovered the difference, and it seems that the son of heaven in front of him has quite a prejudice against Shi Kefa.

"Sir, if you have any other opinions, please teach them one by one."

"The second is to calm people's hearts and seek revenge from thieves. Now, within the territory of the Ming Dynasty, there is an anti-thief Dolgon department in Liaodong, which has rebelled for many years and caused a lot of trouble. Northwest, Central Plains, Beijing, and Dashun Li Zicheng Department, Zhang Xianzhong in Chengdu, Sichuan Province and the emperor. In addition, there are countless rebels and thieves in various places. Please ask Your Majesty to send down a decree to order all the officers and soldiers to crusade against all kinds of rebels! ”

This kind of official-style article, I have long heard that Zhao Zhilong, Lu Daqi, Qian Qianyi and others are about to have thicker cheeks than their cheeks, it is no matter how good the will of crusading against the traitors and thieves, the flowery words are comparable to the fast horses of the thieves? (Huh?) Since you know this truth, why do you always advocate that as long as everyone is in power and authority enters the Donglin, the world will be peaceful immediately? Could it be that the thieves from all walks of life are all born children and slaves from the Donglin family? As soon as the master speaks, they have to obediently put up their tails? Just like the current public knowledge of all walks of life, the US Embassy does not express its position, they don't even dare to let out a fart? ）

"Very good! That's right. "The next edict is just to ask for thieves, as for whether or not the thieves from all walks of life can sneeze, this is not up to the princes present to decide. However, when the time comes, it can also be said that this article has been circulated all over the world, and the crowd is frightened and so on.

"Both of the things that the gentleman offered are the most urgent. I think the next few things are also a good way to save the world. Zhu Yousong was in a very good mood, and he no longer called Li Shouhan a national prince, but called him a gentleman.

"Your Majesty, the two things I just said are all empty matters, and the third thing is really urgent. The third is to open the source of wages and set the heart of the army. ”

If the two things he just said just now only made the civil and military nobles present have a clear idea of Li Shouhan and have to admire him, from the time he said the name of the third thing, he immediately put up a spirit of 120,000 points and was ready to listen to the high opinion of this marshal who has always been good at managing money and ruling the treasury abundantly, so as to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.

"Your Majesty, now my soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the ministers and ministers and dogs, there are the Zuo Liangyu Department of Pingthief Town, and the Jiangbei soldiers and horses of the four uncles in a total of five towns. There are more than 50,000 soldiers and horses in Zuozhen, and 180,000 soldiers are required every year, 30,000 soldiers in each of the four towns, and mules and horses are not counted, and 2.4 million are needed in military pay and silver every year, and 1 million rice is intrinsic. The five towns are not enough to fear, and they are still worried about me. There are still 60,000 Beijing camps in Nanjing, and the annual military salary is 1.2 million, locking the upstream and controlling the north of the river; There are eight towns such as Jiangdu, Anfu, Wufu, Wenwu Caojiang, Huang Binqing, Huang Fei, Bu Congshan, etc., with a total of 120,000 soldiers, a total of 2.4 million salaries, and a total of more than 7 million, while Sichuan, Chu, and Yu Governors Fu Zhen are not with each other. ”

Li Shouhan reported a series of figures for the money and food needed for the soldiers and horses of various ministries obtained from the Ministry of War. However, this is only the number on the statistical table of the strength of the military roster, and the stragglers and warriors who are overly collected by various departments, the swordsmen and poles, and the good people who are coerced are not among them.

Moreover, the amount of money and grain consumed by the subordinates of the governors of Sichuan, Hubei, Henan and other places is not among them. It already requires an annual investment of more than seven million silver, a million stone of natural rice, and the forage and beans of the horses have not been counted.

Such a huge military consumption frightened Zhu Yousong into sweating, and he couldn't help but think of the original Luoyang City, wasn't it because of the starving soldiers and Li Zicheng's internal and external echoes that led to the destruction of the city, so that the country was ruined?

"What the gentleman said is very true! I don't know how to open up a source of salary, so that the army's heart is stable and the soldiers are not worried about hunger and cold? Zhu Yousong calmed down a little, and tried to express his opinion to Li Shouhan in a calm tone.

Although the four uncles kneeling on both sides of Zhu Yousong lowered their heads, they were all smiling, and they could see each other's inner joy from each other's expressions and some subtle body language, Grandpa Guo is really our good leader! I came up to work for our welfare and fight for military salaries!

"Your Majesty, the minister has led the army for many years and knows one thing very well. Fighting a war is nothing more than fighting soldiers, horses, money, and food! Li Shouhan pretended to be very forced, and threw out the theory that fighting a war is a logistics fight.

"The way of the country's public soldiers has been perfected. Order the subordinate officials to see the blue sky as if they were clearing the clouds and mist. Although he hated Li Shouhan to the core, when it came to matters that might make him a windfall, Lu Daqi, Qian Qianyi and others would not hesitate to spend money at all. Just buckle it up.

"The lower officials are stupid, and they don't know how the marshal plans to raise military salaries?" Several adults have been secretly planning in their hearts, if Li Shouhan proposes to increase the name of a certain salary, how much land and mountains and forests can his family take the opportunity to receive, can he turn all the fertile land in the entire state capital into a family?

Li Shouhan just glanced at these colleagues who were full of enthusiasm, smiled and said slowly: "Your Excellency, are you willing to support the multi-party fundraising proposed by a certain family to open up a source of income?" ”

"The marshal's use of troops, governance, and financial management are all greatly admired by the lower officials. Whatever the marshal said, it is naturally extremely appropriate, and it should be beneficial to the country's society! Qian Qianyi stroked a beautiful beard and replied a little flatteringly. If he hadn't known about this person's temperament in "The Biography of Erchen", Li Shouhan would have been almost blinded by Qian Qianyi's demeanor. "No wonder you are old, and when you are old, you can still deceive Qin Huai Bayan's Liu Ru. Alas! It's a pity that Liuhedong is gone. After scolding a few words in his heart, Li Shouhan glanced at the fly-headed small letters written on the wat board, and then continued to report to Zhu Yousong.

"Your Majesty, the ministers beg to restore the ancestral system." Just said this, Qian Qianyi, Lu Daqi, Zhao Zhilong and the others couldn't help but flicker, and secretly shouted: "It's not good!" Just as he was about to open his mouth to stop it, Li Shouhan over there had already blasted out his plan like a cannonball.

"I ask Your Majesty to issue a decree to restore the rules for the preferential exemption of officials from forced labor on June 10, the 24th year of the reign of King Sejong Jiajing. At the same time, since the second year of Chongzhen, the arrears of money and grain accumulated in Jiangxi, Huguang, Nanzhili, Zhejiang and other four provinces have been settled. ”

The nobles and military attaches present were fine, but Lu Daqi and other civil officials were almost spewing fire in their eyes, if it weren't for the fear that they would not be able to beat Li Shouhan due to their lack of force, they were afraid that these people would pounce on Li Shouhan in front of Zhu Yousong, and then advertise that they had eliminated traitors for the country.

If you don't understand the reason for this, then the unkind author will take out the relevant figures, and everyone will know it at a glance.

In the twenty-fourth year of Jiajing (1545 AD), the preferential exemption rules clearly stipulated: Beijing officials are exempt from 30 stone of grain for one product, and 30 ding for each person; The second grade is free of 24 stones, and the person is 24 dings; Twenty stones of free grain for three products, and twenty dings per person; Sixteen stones of four products are free of grain, and sixteen dings of people; Five-grade free grain 14 stones, 14 people ding; Six products are free of 12 stones, and 12 people are decided; Seven products are free of grain and ten stones, and people are ten dings; Eight products are free of food and eight stones, and people are eight dings; Nine products are free of grain and six stones, and people are six dings. foreign officials are reduced by half each; The lifter, the prisoner, and the living beings are each exempt from two stones of food, and two people are exempted. Those who pay homage to the official are exempted from seven-tenths, and those who live idle are exempted from half. Those who commit stolen goods are not exempted.

In the 38th year of Wanli (1610 AD) a few decades later, the "New Regulations on Preferential Exemption" made a revision of the preferential exemption rules stipulates that the current Jiake Jingguan is exempt from 10,000 mu of land for one product, and the following is decreasing, and 2,700 mu of land for eight products; halving of foreign officials; Six-tenths of this product is exempt; The maximum amount of land can reach 3,350 acres, and the field of 1,200 acres can be 1,200 acres; Eighty acres of students and prisoners. (Note: Yao Zongyi: "Changshu Private Chronicles" Volume 3, "Enlistment? New Preferential Exemption Rules)

See where the gap is, right? Jiajing's document only exempted officials from a certain amount of imperial grain, forced labor, and Ding Yin. And the number is clearly stated and very low. But in the thirty-eighth year of Wanli, after the civil official group had taken control of the court situation, it showed an ugly appearance. The grain tax is no longer exempted, but the number of acres that should be levied is directly exempted. Not only has there been a change in nature, but the number has also increased several times. The same Xiucai, during the Jiajing period, the national tax of two stone grains could be exempted, and the two of them could be exempted from eighty acres of land receivable during the Wanli period. This is the reason why the wind of surrender is not going to stop, and the land annexation is intensifying.

In other words, everyone has learned Fan Jinzhongju, in fact, Fan Jin should not be so poor after he wins Xiucai. After winning the lift, you can enjoy the treatment of 1,200 acres of preferential and exempt land. What old hens do you sell in the market? The butcher on the meat case still dares to scold him? Aren't you afraid that Fan Xiucai will divorce his daughter?

Now I know why so many people are scolding Jiajing, and what kind of ballad is made up of "Jiajing Jiajing, every family is clean"? Touting Hai Rui, who dared to scold the emperor, right? Also, it seems that the assassination of the emperor by the palace maid only happened during the Jiajing period! If there is no mastermind behind the scenes, a group of palace maids will dare to attack the emperor on a whim. Believe it or not, I don't believe it anyway.

Through such a system, the right of preferential exemption from forced labor separated the entitlements from the common people, and a new privileged class was formed, that is, the gentry and landlords. "Official" means the home of the current official; "Gentleman" refers to the home of the official and the home of those who have achieved fame through the imperial examination but have not been promoted. Although the privileges of the gentry and landlords are much lower than those of the landlords of the family and the landlords of the gate, and the official position and the right of preferential exemption cannot be hereditary, the boundary between the "official" and the "people" is still insurmountable. They are not only distinguished into high and low in etiquette, but also divided into "official households" and "private households" in terms of household registration, and the whole society is still running on the track of "high and low, respect and inferiority", but there is a degree of difference from the previous generation. As the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang edicted: "The family of Shilu and the common people are equal to the nobles and the lowly, and those who tend to serve in the service are also the affairs of the common people." If a wise man and a gentleman are noble to their families, and their bodies are restored, then there is no difference between gentlemen and savages, and it is not the way to persuade scholars to treat virtuous people. From now on, those who have land in the homes of the officials will be exempted from forced labor in addition to the rent tax. ”

For the miraculous effect of faculty, people sighed at the time. They said: "As soon as the poor man ascends to the virtuous book, he suddenly becomes a stranger" (Note: Zhang Cai: "Taicang Prefecture Chronicles" volume 8, "Enlistment"). "Those who have no stone at home will become rich in two or three years." "Became rich because of the official, Jinxue Tongshan, Tianlianzhou County" (Note: See Huang Shengzeng's "Wu Fenglu" and Wu Luzhen's "Wurong Zhiyi" volume 8). "As soon as you ascend to the branch, that is, you will seek a fat family, and there will be an official for a short time, and the family has become very rich; There are people who do not take wealth from officials and become rich at home. In the government, the wealth is taken from the people, and the household is taken from the township. (Note: Lin Xiyuan: "Lin Ciya Anthology" Volume 8, "Gift Waner Yin Ning Haizhou Judgment Preface") "If you talk about the township, you will raise people endlessly; and Dengke Jia, then Zhong Ming Ding Food, fat horses and light fur, non-millions are hundreds of thousands. (Note: "Ming Ji Beiluo" volume 12, "Chen Qixin Shu's Three Major Diseases") These descriptions reveal to people the profound economic reasons why scholars flocked to the imperial examination and struggled to climb to the top. (To be continued.) )