However, what the king did not expect was that the officials were so corrupt that they hid from the king and confiscated the food for the relief of the victims.

A good kingdom suddenly went wrong.

The common people had no land, so they mortgaged the land to the emperor's relatives.

The people who borrowed land to plant were burdened with heavy land taxes and had a difficult life with usury.

The next year, when the king of Yelang Kingdom wanted to collect taxes, he found that the people were crying poor.

The king realized that something was wrong.

As a result, the king ordered the economy to be put in order, the tax code was adjusted, the household registration was checked, and the fields were re-measured.

At this time, the king found out the hidden population, and the land that had been seized by cunning.

Many corrupt officials were also found.

The king was furious and decided to kill a group of corrupt officials to make an example.

and ordered the imperial relatives to hand over the occupied fields.

So the officials quit, and their money was scarce, so that they could not get some money, but the king wanted to kill them.

The royal relatives also did not do it, and the king's approach was to kill them.

The emperor's relatives and officials were in a hurry, and they began to exploit the people who borrowed land to cultivate.

In the beginning, Yoro's domestic land tax did increase.

Later, everyone began to resist the king and no longer had the same heart as the king.

The enemy countries that came to loot became more and more arrogant.

When the king saw it, he saw that this had to be done by fighting, and if he didn't fight, he would be bullied.

The soldiers who fought in the war wanted to eat food, so they ordered to increase the land tax.

The people who borrowed the fields and planted the land couldn't stand it, they were all starving to death, and they had to raise taxes, and they rebelled under the extreme oppression.

The common people who mortgaged their fields and became displaced people saw that in order to find a way to live, they also rebelled.

Heaven is not beautiful, the whole country is in drought, the crops are not harvested, there are strong enemies outside, and there are hungry people rebelling inside.

The helpless king begged the royal relatives and officials to help.

The royal relatives and officials have long been out of the same mind as the king, and even if the king knelt down and pleaded, he did not ask for a tael of silver.

But there was a common man who took out a hundred taels of silver that he had saved all his life.

The king was overjoyed and made the common man a high official.

One hundred taels of silver is a drop in the bucket, and it can't save the country at all.

The king could only watch as the kingdom he had built collapsed.

The relatives and officials of the emperor did not have the slightest mercy for the country, but just watched coldly.

When the powerful enemy defeated the dynasty, they abandoned the king Nacheng and surrendered.

The desperate king left a suicide note and hanged himself.

The suicide note reads: "This king Liangde bowed down and blamed the heavens, causing starvation everywhere, and the rebels approached the royal city, and all the emperor's relatives and officials mistook the king."

When the king dies, he sees his ancestors without a face, and he takes off his crown, covers his face with his hair, and allows the thief to divide himself, and does not hurt any of the people. ”

When Song Tongyin saw this, he stood up with a pout.

He opened his eyes wide and looked at Wang Zezhi, who was leisurely drinking tea after writing the play, and was shocked beyond measure.

Isn't this drama written about the disadvantages of the Ming court?

"It's... This..."Cold sweat broke out on Song Tongyin's forehead.

"Lord Song, what's wrong, this is a drama, a big drama, and it's not true." Wang Zezhi put down the teacup and teased.

"There is something missing, as far as I know, King Jing and King Lu have more than 40,000 hectares of granges in Huguang and other places, more than 20,000 hectares of fields in Fuwang Zhuang, and more than 30,000 hectares of granges each in King Gui, King Hui, and King Rui.

King Ji has more than 800,000 acres of land in Changsha, and fifty percent of the fields in Changsha and Shanhua counties are owned by King Ji.

In the whole province of Henan, fifty percent of the land is evenly distributed to each royal government.

......”

Song Tongyin held the drama in his hand, and glanced at the posthumous photo of the king of Yelang Kingdom, his brain was hot, and he told Wang Zezhi all the black materials of the vassal kings like a few family treasures.

Wang Zezhi wrote it down with a radiant look, and he felt that these could be used as materials.

A little processing and polishing, melt into the drama, and a lot of plots.

So, the two came to a steady night to talk, from the disadvantages of the current dynasty to the people's livelihood.

"The last general thought that the problem of grain could not be solved by relying on tuntian alone.

How low the grain yield per mu is in Shanxi is very clear to adults.

What's more, until now, God has not rained, and the flow of rivers in Datong Province has decreased by one-third.

If the drought continues, Shanxi will become the second Shaanxi, and it will not be far away. ”

Wang Zezhi licked the brush with his tongue, revised the play, took the pen, and said to Song Tongyin casually.

Song Tongyin was shocked when he heard this.

He knew that the whole territory of Shanxi was not much better than Shaanxi, and the number of thieves in Pingyang Mansion and Taiyuan Mansion was increasing day by day.

If he hadn't released the fierce prisoners in the prisons in the province and let these outlaws fight hard, Shanxi would have been eroded a long time ago.

It's just that he didn't expect that the situation had reached such a serious point.

Even the vigorous Datong Mansion cannot guarantee that the people will have food to eat when they are fully tuntian.

"Has the situation come to this point?" Song Tongyin asked in disbelief.

"It's only going to get worse, the vassal royal clan, the officials and gentlemen, the corrupt officials, the eunuchs, the military generals, the military deduct the food and salary, drink the blood of the soldiers, and eat the flesh of the soldiers, is there anything worse than this?"

"You... Great rebellion, do you want to rebel? Song Tongyin trembled and pointed at Wang Zezhi, quietly retreated outside the door, his other hand reached into his arms, touching a firework bomb, ready to release a signal at any time to notify his people to save him.

"Doesn't Lord Song know it?

You guarded me like a thief, and you brought an ambush soldier when you met for the first time, and this time you brought 8,000 elite horsemen.

To put it mildly, if I want to rebel, these people you bring are not enough for me to stuff my teeth. ”

After listening to Wang Ze's words, Song Tongyin pondered for a moment, let down his guard, walked back to his seat, sat down, and drank two sips of tea nervously.

If Wang Zezhi hadn't heard the sound of the tea lid hitting the teacup, Wang Zezhi would have thought that he was not afraid.

"Then how does Doctor Wang think he should save this precarious Ming Dynasty and the people in the world?" Song Tongyin regained his emotions and asked tentatively.

"Eradicate those tumors and reuse available people, such as the Xue family's wealthy merchants, such as local prestige and upright good people."

After coming to this dynasty for more than a year, Wang Zezhi deeply understood one thing.

Making a steam engine, digging coal and making iron, making guns and cannons, reviving the economy, engaging in industry, and going all out to Tuntian, will not save the Ming Dynasty at all.

Because the cancer of the Ming Dynasty does not lie in the people, but in a class, the ruling class of the feudal dynasty.

The gentry, bureaucrats, nobles, relatives of the emperor, and large landowners everywhere.

Even Wang Zezhi became one of the largest armed landowners in the Ming Dynasty.

As for assisting Emperor Chongzhen, it is impossible to instill the most advanced ideological knowledge in him, and it is even more impossible to save the Ming Dynasty.

Not to mention that Emperor Chongzhen thinks he is the Son of Heaven and doesn't like someone to give him instructions and teach him to govern the country.

Even if he was willing, his ministers would not agree.

If you want to make a difference, the most correct thing to do is to win over the powerful classes and a whole new system to defeat the old corrupt classes.

Wang Zezhi's plan is that he uses the sergeants in his hands to expand the territory and open up the market.

Foster the available squires, landlords, and wealthy merchants, so that the industrial and commercial class in his hands will gradually grow and grow.

Then change them ideologically, so that they are no longer obsessed with the goal of maintaining the rule of feudal imperial power.

It is the goal of making a living for the people of the world.

When the time comes, turn around and fight with those old nobles.

In this way, there can be a glimmer of life.

Otherwise, all he did was make a wedding dress for others.

What Wang Zezhi has to do now is to vigorously support the industrial and commercial class in his hands, so that they can make extensive profits and accumulate strength.

Of course, Wang Zezhi would not say these things to listen to Song Tongyin.

Even if Song Tongyin had the heart to make the country prosperous, his thinking was still the idea of maintaining feudal imperial power.

It's not something that can be changed in a moment.

"So, Dr. Wang already has a plan?"

"That's right, presumably Governor Song already knows that the last general has set up a garrison department and a criminal punishment department in various prefectures and counties, fortresses, and fire road piers to reduce the garrison, right?"

Wang Zeyi said that Song Tongyin knew that Wang Zezhi had a set of methods that he did not know about, which could save the people of Li and save the Ming Dynasty.

He made a bold decision after remembering everything he had seen in Datong Mansion during the day.