Poor Ning Xiu didn't have time to touch up his makeup, cough cough is to tidy up his appearance, so he followed Zhang Sangongzi to the ancestral house of the Zhang family.

This ancestral house of the Zhang family is five deep, and it is very magnificent.

Ning Xiu entered the gate and followed Zhang Maoxiu all the way through the courtyard to an elegant courtyard planted with green bamboo.

Zhang Maoxiu said lightly: "Brother Ning Xian, my father is in the hall, please come with me." ”

Ning Xiu nodded and followed closely.

Entering the inner hall and bypassing the screen, Ning Xiu saw a man in his fifties sitting on the Huanghuali Nanguan hat chair reading a book, so he stepped forward and said, "Boy, Jiangling County Xuezhu Ning Xiu visits Zhang Ge Lao. ”

"You're Ning Xiu?"

Zhang Juzheng put down the book and asked lightly.

"The kid is Ning Xiu, what does the elder of the pavilion command?"

"That's what you made the finger cake."

Yes?

Zhang Juzheng is worthy of being a human spirit, you can see it at a glance?

Ning Xiu, that waterfall sweat.

"Ge Lao Mingjian, this finger cake is indeed made by a boy. That day, while I was asleep, the old man gave me a dream and told the boy how to grasp the bread. The boy is just borrowing the light of his old man. ”

Ning Xiu made up a good look, but Zhang Juzheng was unmoved.

He stared at Ning Xiu for a long time, and said with a smile: "Is it that the old man Yiwu doesn't care." The old man only knew that Jiangling City had another delicacy. ”

Ning Xiu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhang Juzheng is a well-known food expert, and this finger cake can satisfy his appetite, which shows that it is indeed very promising.

"You're doing the right thing. Now that you have a reputation for showing off your talents, if you are obsessed with these strange and obscene skills, it will have an impact on your career. ”

Ning Xiu hurriedly patted his ass and said, "What the elder has taught is this. ”

Zhang Juzheng continued: "Zhang Jing, the steward of the old man's mansion, asked you why a piece of finger cake sells for twenty-five wen, and you explained, 'You don't get tired of eating, and you don't get tired of fine food'. It seems that you have a lot of insight into Confucius's words. ”

Ning Xiu didn't even dare to shout.

"Confucius's words, how can a kid be able to interpret them."

"Since you don't understand Confucius's words, how about solving the old man's doubts?"

"Elder Ge, please advise."

Zhang Juzheng nodded, and said unhurriedly: "After the old man entered the cabinet, he was determined to implement the tax reform, and ordered the land to be re-measured nationwide and the amount of taxable land to be verified. But the resistance is very conceivable. Do you know why? ”

Ning Xiu said in his heart, did your old man ask knowingly? But he replied respectfully.

"Returning to the old pavilion, I see that there is a lot of resistance in the DPRK and China, all because of the word 'benefit'."

After a pause, Ning Xiu continued: "At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, land distribution was relatively even, and most of the people had land to plant. However, in the Chenghua and Hongzhi years, land annexation has become increasingly serious. The reason for this is not only because of the increase in the number of wealthy businessmen, but also because of the imperial examination system. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"The Ming Dynasty has all kinds of forced labor taxes, but those who have meritorious names can be exempted from forced labor taxes. Therefore, if someone has a talent in the family, or even a person. The people of the same country must compete to give up their land. In the long run, the land was concentrated in the hands of these gentry, who either had someone in the family who was an official in the court, or who was the chief official of the temples of the ministries themselves. How could they allow the land to be remeasured? ”

When Ning Xiu read the history of the late Ming Dynasty in his previous life, he hated the land annexation of the late Ming Dynasty and tried to make many deductions and analyses. Therefore, he can now export the chapter and enter the inside.

Although Zhang Juzheng is also aware of this problem, because he is a big landlord himself, coupled with the limitations of history, it is impossible to have such a deep understanding of Ning Xiu.

Ning Xiu's remarks were also considered for a long time. If the person opposite was replaced by Xu Jie, Xu Huating, he would definitely not say that.

Xu Ge is sleek by nature and connives, conniving at his family to encroach on acres of land. When Xu Jie's retirement, the imperial court checked the acres of Xu's fields and found that there were as many as 100,000 acres of fields under the name of the Xu family. The Son of Heaven ordered the confiscation of the acres of land embezzled by the Xu family, and Xu Jie even asked with an old face if he could only return part of it.

But Zhang Juzheng is different. Although the Zhang family is also a super landowner in Jiangling, Zhang Juzheng's restrictions on his children are still very strict.

As for Zhang Juzheng's liquidation after his death, there are also many questions about the silver taels found from Jiangling's hometown. Historians have different attitudes towards this, believing that most of them were instructed by Emperor Wanli to pour dirty water on Zhang Juzheng.

Anyway, Zhang Juzheng was already dead at that time, could he still jump out of the coffin and confront Emperor Wanli?

Therefore, to summarize it in one sentence, Xu Jie is shameless, even the person who can betray Xia Yan, and even Yan Song can be a family member, what kind of cheek can someone have?

But Zhang Juzheng is different, although his teacher Xu Jie's stain is stained, Zhang Juzheng still saved the Xu family and did not fall into the ground.

In the face of Zhang Juzheng, Ning Xiu dared to speak out, because he knew that Zhang Juzheng would not be angry with him about this matter!

Zhang Juzheng listened to Ning Xiu's words, and was silent for a long time.

"It turns out that the crux of the problem is here."

Zhang Juzheng shook his head and sighed.

"So, in your opinion, how do you implement the reform?"

There was no joy or anger in Zhang Juzheng's voice.

For some reason, he felt that the young man in front of him had a deep understanding of the situation and a thorough understanding of people's hearts.

"The kid has the courage to say a word, please ask the elder to figure it slowly."

Ning Xiu said in a deep voice.

Zhang Juzheng frowned and said: "You also said that land annexation is a major disease of the Ming Dynasty, since this is the case, it should be given fierce medicine, how can you waste food because of choking." ”

Ning Xiu sighed and said, "Elder Ge thinks that whose reform is more successful, Duke Fan Xiwen or Duke Wang Banshan?" ”

Zhang Juzheng was stunned for a moment, wondering why Ning Xiu suddenly asked about the two famous ministers of the Song Dynasty.

"Naturally, Wang Anshi's Xining change is more successful."

The Qingli New Deal of the Renzong Dynasty and the Xining Reform of the Shenzong Dynasty were one after the other, but they had different results.

The implementation of the Qingli New Deal can be described as the right time, place and people. Not only has the support of the official Renzong, but also Fu Bi, Han Qi, Ouyang Xiu and others in the court.

Fan Zhongyan proposed ten new policies.

Ming deposed Zhizhi, suppressed luck, Jing Gongju, selected officials, Jun Gongtian, Hounongsang, reduced forced labor, repaired military equipment, re-ordered, and pushed grace letters.

These ten strips cover almost all the dead ends, which at first glance looks beautiful.

But it just looks good......

There are probably two reasons for the failure, one is that Fan Zhongyan is not well prepared and is limited to mouth artillery. He thinks that with his influence, he can achieve a high call, and countless people respond. It turned out that he thought too highly of his influence.

The second is to move the cheese of the big landlords. Cutting off people's money is like killing their parents, and these big landlords and bureaucrats naturally unite to fight Fan Zhongyan and his faction to the end.

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ps: The information on the ranking of the imperial examination is really difficult to find, and Lao Kun wasted a lot of effort to find it, striving to restore the real history. Ask for votes to support it.