Zheng Sen looked at his father in disbelief, how could such a rebellious word come out of his father's mouth? I never thought that the Ming Dynasty would perish in my mind, and now he is still a very pure and orthodox scholar.

He was admitted to Xiucai three years ago, and later became one of the 20 "Liao Shan Students" in Nan'an County. The wife who married was also born in a scholarly family, and his father-in-law Dong Yang first ranked 42 in the township examination in the sixth year of Chongzhen, 221 in the 10th year of Chongzhen (1637), and 20 in the second class in the palace examination.

Historically, it has been 17 years since Chongzhen, and Zheng Sen will also be sent to Jinling to study and enter Nanjing Guozijian for further study. I met a teacher who was Qian Qianyi, who had too cold water and an itchy scalp.

Of course, at that time, Qian Qianyi was still a giant in Donglin and a leader in Jiangnan Shilin. It is a clear stream in a clear stream. Accepting Zheng Sen, the son of a sea coward, as a student, is simply a cat and mouse marrying a family, how unbelievable?

This is just like the big bulls of the two academies of engineering in later generations suddenly want to tear up Brother Onion as a closed disciple to engage in scientific research, which is as shocking as people.

No one knows how much silver was spent on this vain old Zheng family, and Qian Qianyi will come to show that Zheng Sen, a disciple, is not a decoration, and he also gave him the word "big wood".

And what does this mean?

This shows that the Zheng family father and son have a hot 'motivated' heart.

When the mud legs go ashore, it is not only to wash the mud and put on a decent dress, but also to go in and out of the famous house, and there is no white ding.

In a word, Zheng Zhilong hopes that he can integrate into the ruling class of today's society! Under his kind of thinking, Xiaoguo's surname Ye Tong Shoes has studied poetry and books since childhood, even if he also practices martial arts and swords, but he is dedicated to the imperial examination, that is, an orthodox Confucian child.

Don't say that Lao Zheng is unproductive.

The social environment and the background of the times limited his thinking, and in today's social background, Zheng Zhilong's choice is fine.

The rich mud legs want to put gold on their faces, and they all want to turn into a real "noble" family.

After Zheng Zhilong came ashore, he spent a lot of his thoughts on civil and military affairs, which is the so-called 'orthodox background' in today's social environment, so that the Zheng family can smoothly integrate into the mainstream society, which is justified.

This doesn't seem to have any effect, though. He could still see the contempt in the eyes of many officials and gentry.

Even if the fourth Zheng Hongkui, whose original name was Zheng Zhifeng, was admitted to the martial arts examination, he changed his name to Hongkui, and Chongzhen was a martial artist for thirteen years. There is also no role for birds.

But Zheng Zhilong did not lose heart, but pinned more ardent hopes on the next generation. Zheng Sen has high hopes!

Zheng Chenggong, who received traditional Confucian education since childhood, is now a naïve scholar who supports the Ming Dynasty and a hot-blooded young man who is loyal to the monarch and patriotic.

He is not a perfect man, and throughout his life, the flaws in his character cannot be covered. But you can't use that to deny his merits, much less his character.

In the conference hall, not only Zheng Sen exclaimed, but also other figures looked at Chen Hua in shock.

It was the first time that Zheng Zhilong had said such a thing for so many years, and it was the first time that he had shown a different mind in front of them.

As a person with no big ambitions, Zheng Zhilong's vision is too in line with the game rules of this era, and after he went ashore, he shifted his focus to the shore, and even the management of the big staff was much lax.

And as a leader with no ambitions, the concepts that he has instilled in his brothers over the years are all glory and wealth, luxury and pleasure, and being his own overlord in peace.

The concept of enjoying glory and wealth is enough to penetrate into the hearts of every Zheng Group leader. They don't have a long-term vision, and they are content to enjoy wealth. In this closed but stable small environment in Fujian, he lives the good life he dreamed of.

So much so that each of them bought acres of land in Fujian, built manor houses, and was extravagant. Zheng Zhilong himself is an excellent example, in Anping's Zheng Mansion, covering an area of hundreds of acres. There are thirteen five-bay rooms in the mountain type, and there are five courtyards with three doors, double fire lanes, and five courtyards. On both sides, the wings, pavilions, pavilions and pavilions are opposite each other, and the ring is listed as a barrier. There is "Dunren Pavilion" in the east, there is "Taiyun Building" in the west, the front hall is "Catholic Hall", and the middle hall is "Xiaosi Hall", and the scale is magnificent. There is a "Zhiyuan Garden" behind the big house, which is protected by a wall, and is sparsely covered with hills, pavilions, fine houses, ponds, small bridges, winding paths, beautiful trees and strange flowers and plants.

The mansion is magnificent, stretches for several miles, and the gold and jade are from the wall. Pavilion Xie Loutai, carved ingeniously, stone cave flowers and trees, a in the southeast.

With such a boss as an example, the hedonistic extravagance of the entire Zheng Group has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow.

Looking at Zheng Zhilong in history, what did he do after leveling the Southeast Sea Bandits and the Dutch? He didn't do anything. Satisfied, he became a sitting tiger and the emperor of the soil in Fujian.

For the world, he did not show the slightest covetousness. Even the early surrender of the Manchu Qing when they went south may not be due to the lack of heroic breath. Years of extravagant life have already corroded Zheng Zhilong's will, and he can't give up a lot of property in the local area. Coupled with the great power of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it is not surprising that Zheng Zhilong surrendered early in order to become rich.

It is not easy for people who are mentally lax to want them to tighten their spirits. It's like running and stopping a person to rest when he gets tired, and asking him to run again in three or five minutes.

Therefore, Chen Hua really didn't dare to hope for the Zheng Group's combat effectiveness, especially on land.

And when does such Boss Zheng have the vision to see the whole world?

The eyes of everyone below who looked at Chen Hua changed, which was completely unexpected by them, and the change was too big.

"Don't worry. Hear first the words of the Father. Chen Hua waved his hand to stop his son's shouting. Well, when the word "father" came out, I was really ashamed. I once again felt in my heart that this "starting point" was too high.

There are roads that lead to Rome, but Chen Hua's crossing is in Rome.

At the same time, he looked at everyone present, and he saw that the characters were all looking at him with twinkle eyes.

"Since the first emperor of China swept the six countries and ruled the world, it has been about 1,900 years. The three dynasties of Qin, Xin, and Sui are not mentioned, and the dynasties of the five dynasties and ten kingdoms that failed to dominate the world have also passed, and the rest are only the two Han dynasties, the two Jin dynasties, the Li Tang dynasty, the two Song dynasties, the Mengyuan dynasty and the Ming dynasty. ”

"The politics of the Han and Jin dynasties are very different from those of our dynasty today, and the imperial examination has flourished, the strength of Li Tang and the wealth of Zhao and Song have only been three hundred years in the world. Today, I have a Ming dynasty, which has lasted for more than 270 years, internal and external troubles, the left and right branches of the imperial court, and the day by day is not supported, and the number of qi will be exhausted. ”

Three years ago, Zhang Xianzhong's troops were defeated and surrendered, and Li Zicheng's troops were surrounded and suppressed by the official army, suffering heavy losses, and only 18 people remained. The power of the peasant army was low for a while. But I ran into the Qing army's invasion. Lu Xiangsheng died in battle, and Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting were urgently transferred to Gongwei Jingshi.

Today, Zhang and Li have made a comeback, Zhang Xianzhong broke through Xiangyang, and Li Zicheng even defeated Luoyang City and killed Zhu Changxun, the king of fortune. Sound vibrates the Central Plains!

It's just three years, and the world is so different, so people can't sigh.

"How can my father talk like that? Although the Ming Dynasty has more than internal strife and external disasters, it still sits in the world, even if there are thieves who disturb the Central Plains, and there are Tartars who invade our territory, it is just a disease of ringworm. The child heard that since the son succeeded to the throne today, the rooster crowed, and he did not sleep at night, and he often became ill from anxiety, and there was never any pleasure in the palace. With such a holy son in power, the remedy is in danger, why can't the Ming Dynasty be able to prosper again? ”

Zheng Sen's face turned red.

Chen Hua laughed, Emperor Chongzhen was also very sympathetic, but this person had limited skills after all, and Da Ming was even more difficult to return.

"It's really not easy to be holy today. However, it is anxious to seek treatment, engraved in financial management; Thirsty for employing people, suddenly practicing the law, can the world be safe? ”

"The northwest has been in drought for many years, the red land is thousands of miles, the Central Plains thieves are wild, and the bones are like mountains. The hearts of the people are carried by two, the world is disintegrated, the Tartars ride the empty drum, and the Central Plains are like entering a no-man's land. Internal and external troubles, natural and man-made disasters, all kinds of drawbacks emerge in an endless stream, why is the current emperor still able to turn the tide and rejuvenate the Ming Dynasty again? ”

"It's not the blood in the chest that saves the world." Chen Hua looked at Zheng Sen and said: "With today's Ming Dynasty, the shortest thing is a wealth word. ”

Chen Huashicai's words were quite unconvincing, but Zheng Sen made a good compliment, and the next remarks went to the point! It is to convince everyone here in one fell swoop!

"The court is shorter than money, but where does wealth come from?"

"From the tens of millions of poor people in the world who are defenseless? The imperial court only has this method, but how much money can it get? It will even provoke public resentment and centrifuge from the government and the opposition.

In the southeast, there are many people who eat fat intestines full of belly, wear silk and satin, and have a full mouth, and their faces are dignified, but they are a high-ranking gentry who are not willing to pay taxes to the imperial court.

The wealth of the world is one stone, and the southeast occupies eight buckets. But how did the court receive the tax money from them? ”

"It is said that the world belongs to the emperor Lao'er, the emperor is Chrysostom Yuyan, the ninety-five supreme, but when did the emperor Lao'er really own the world?"

"Let's just say this tax, if the emperor's words can make everyone obey it at all, then how can it be that the money and grain tax in the year of Hongwu Yongle is the highest, and the next ten dynasties are less one by one? Do you say that the population of the world is not as large as it used to be? Or is commerce not as prosperous as it once was? ”

Zheng Sen's face turned even redder, he was not deeply involved in the world, but he was not a fool, what was the Ming Dynasty during the Hongwu Yongle period, how could it be more densely populated and more prosperous than today's Ming Dynasty?

Chen Hua's words are clearly satirizing the rich and virtuous people in the southeast or the south of the Yangtze River. There are indispensable famous and elegant people who are admired by him.

"To put it bluntly, no one wants to pay taxes (and neither does the author). That's why there will be so many people who send fields to join them, and there will be so many hidden fields. Those people who are in the township examination high school are the local sages and the court's talents on the surface, but in fact? Moths that suck the flesh and blood of the imperial court also. And looking at the people and jinshi all over the world, how many people do not accept hidden acres? ”

"In today's world, the rich have no land, and the poor have no place to stand. But the rich don't have to pay taxes, or they only need to pay very little taxes, just like your Lao Tzu, your third uncle, and your fourth uncle. The money and grain of this court can't be collected, and the treasury can run horses, so can it still be good? If you have no money or food, how can you come to disaster relief and war? ”

Chen Hua educates Zheng Sen. Zheng Zhibao, Zheng Hongkui and others on the side laughed one after another. Yes, who are the backbone of the Zheng Group, who does not have thousands of acres of fertile land at home, and who has paid a penny of tax to the imperial court?

"Today, in order to suppress the bandits, the saint has raised taxes several times, which has caused anger and resentment. Why? ”

"That's because the emperor wants to collect one tael of silver, and those who are officials and errands can receive five taels or ten taels. And people like your father, your third uncle, and your fourth uncle won't pay half a copper. Taxes will only be spread out more on the heads of ordinary people. If you lose the support of the people before you come like this, how can you not let the people rise up in chaos? ”

"Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and the like, how can they be killed by killing? Excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes, natural disasters and man-made disasters have pressed the people to no longer live, why are the people afraid of death if they are not afraid of death? This internal disaster is endless, and the Ming Dynasty can only respond to the Manchu Qing Dynasty with one arm, and the external troubles will not be broken. ”

"Can such a Zhu Ming Jiangshan really be saved?"

He never wanted to work for the old Zhu family.