Tianlang's tone was normal, but his eyes flashed with a sharp light, "If you just want to be happy, I don't necessarily have to make such a big fight, if it is for the Ming Dynasty for a hundred years, for the world, I'm afraid it is far from enough to eradicate a few black sheep." ”

"Oh?" Master Hongzhi and Wang Fuzhi both frowned and stared, "I would like to hear the details, and we also want to hear how the Holy One wants to help the common people." ”

Tianlang pondered for a moment, and said in a soothing tone, "Helping the common people is to promote benefits and avoid disadvantages, I think that you have no objection to the statement of one positive and one negative, right?" ”

Wang Fuzhi nodded at this time, "Well, for the emperor and the country, correcting the evils of the times is to help the common people, which is right." ”

"So what is the biggest disadvantage of our country since the middle of the dynasty?" Tianlang then asked.

Wang Fuzhi hesitated, and finally spoke, "If you say that since the middle of the dynasty, the biggest drawback is probably the large number of land annexations, right?" ”

Master Hongzhi also thought so.

"yes." Tianlang sighed and said, "In the middle of the dynasty, my emperor Ming from prosperity to decline, in fact, there are two turning points, the first is the battle of Tumubao in the Yingzong period, after the defeat at the military level, the emperor Ming entered a turning point, and then lost the Hetao area, so that the Mongols from then on the Hetao as a starting point, constantly harassing our northwest provinces, since then the dynasty has spent money and silver, tired of dealing with border troubles.

The second is economic, but also financial, with Yingzong Tianshun during the eunuch Cao Jixiang failed to rebel, after the collapse of Yingzong, Cao Jixiang was Lingchi by Xianzong, and confiscated his land as a turning point in the palace. ”

Wang Fuzhi pondered for a moment, puzzled by what he meant, "Why does the Holy Lord say that this matter is a turning point in the weakening of the dynasty?" ”

Tianlang picked up the teacup, skimmed off the tea leaves on it, took a sip of tea, and slowly put it down, "If you ask me why, I will say that the 'Huangzhuang' thing is from the beginning of Xianzong's confiscation of Cao Jixiang's field, and the confiscated land has become Huangzhuang, which seems to be a good thing, but I never thought that it would lead the kings, nobles, and relatives to compete to occupy the people's land, setting a very bad precedent."

I cite a number, after Xianzong, in the second year of Xiaozong's Hongzhi, there were five Huangzhuang around Beizhili, with more than 13,000 hectares of land; There are more than 300 farmlands occupied by kings, nobles, relatives, and officials, with a total of more than 33,000 hectares of fields.

After the death of Xiaozong, Wuzong ascended the throne, and this trend worsened, and only one month after he succeeded to the throne, he built seven Huangzhuang, and then increased to thirty-one. The lands seized by the kings and relatives are even more numerous. The so-called upward and downward effects, and the upper and lower levels are bound to be very bad, and the local petty bureaucrats and powerful people also follow the trend and encroach on the people's land under various pretexts. ”

Tianlang paused, looked at the three listeners, and then said, "The defeat of the Ming Dynasty is not because of the rise of the Jianzhou Jurchens, but when the Jianzhou Jurchens rose, we just couldn't take out the money to levy it.

Also in the middle of the dynasty, after the defeat of the Battle of Tumubao, Yu Qian was able to quickly establish the 12 regiments and battalions of the Praetorian Guard, with a total of 140,000 horses, in addition to the Yulin Army, which allowed the advanced Beijing Division, intending to destroy my Ming Dynasty and first tried to suffer a fiasco, the reason for this is still two words, "Silver"! If there is more silver, there will be food and soldiers, and if there is less silver, you will sit in the city of sorrow. ”

Wang Fuzhi is an old master, and he doesn't know much about the way of economy, but he knows that the Ming Dynasty collects a poll tax, not a land tax that only appeared after the Qing Yongzheng, so he asked, "The land is encroached upon, and there are indeed many disasters, so that a large number of people who have lost their land, food and clothing will either become tenant farmers or become homeless people, and then gather people to rebel, even if the local fields are encroached upon."

No matter how much it is, it won't delay the collection of taxes? Is the lack of money really related to land annexation? ”

Tianlang smiled and said, "What the third brother said is right, and it is not right, the reason why I said that you are not right is because the problem of displaced people you just mentioned happens to be related to taxes." During the Hongwu period, there were 10 million state-owned households, with a total population of more than 60 million, but in the Zhengde period, the household registration did not increase but declined, and the number of households decreased by more than 1 million, and the total population became 40 million, and the tax revenue naturally fell by 30%.

Of course, these disappeared people are not dead, but they have been cancelled due to the loss of their land, and they have all become homeless people in the mouth of the third brother. Imagine that there are thirty percent of the people in the Ming Dynasty who help bandits like Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng to fight the Ming court, how can the bandits of the Ming court succeed? Can the imperial army really kill all the more than 10 million displaced people? This is simply impossible, so it can only be that the imperial court army is fighting less and less, and there are more and more anti-people. ”

The more people chatted, the more they went deeper, and gradually, Tianlang talked about the current problem, "The uniform field system that I have implemented is currently encountering great resistance, and this resistance comes precisely from some high-level interests. So the queen wanted to take Xungui to open the knife, but the first knife couldn't fall. So far, Ma Rulong's case is still hanging like that, and the mother and her old man are still silent, and they have refused to express their opinions on dealing with Ma Rulong. ”

Several people also sighed, but after all, this is still a royal family matter, they don't say much, but it involves the conflict between the queen and the concubine, as a mother's family, of course they are quietly worried about the queen.

Tianlang saw that the time was almost up, so he slowly opened his mouth again, "The Juntian system is the foundation of the re-emergence of our emperor and Ming, the founding of the country in all dynasties, and the general stability for three hundred years, seven or eight out of ten are because of the solution to the problem of land concentration."

And if you want to stabilize the uniform field system, you have to make institutional changes to many related matters, for example, for the kings and nobles, and, well......" Tianlang paused, and finally said, "There are also certain restrictions on the number of fields occupied by relatives, which will inevitably have many contradictions to be resolved, and there are many plans that need to be implemented, and all of this is almost all grasped by the queen." ”

Tianlang was silent again, waiting for some people's answers, Wang Fu's hand rubbed the scar on his face, and Wan Er smiled, "Hehehe, in addition to Ma Rulong in the mouth of the saint, the minister should actually be regarded as a relative, after all, Ma Rulong is only the younger brother of the imperial concubine, Ma Rulong does not support the saint and the queen, but the minister will definitely support it, the saint can rest assured, the minister will not make it difficult for you and the queen in terms of occupancy." ”

Tianlang picked up the tea noncommittally, took a sip, and still didn't speak.

Tianlang didn't say the rest of the words, and Master Wang naturally understood it, thinking that he wanted to cherish the feathers for the sake of his personal name? Or is it like his sister, who is accused of doing politics in the harem and desperately tries to save Daming?

(End of chapter)