You feudal remnants still want democracy?

Zhu Cihong still maintained calm on his face, but he had already scolded in his heart. He's certainly not against democracy...... He was born in the 70s in later life, and the era when he grew up happened to be the most awesome era in the Western free world, so he didn't think democracy was bad.

But in his opinion, these scholars and doctors in Nanming are not worthy of democracy at all!

It is now 1646 in the Western calendar, if it weren't for his Zhu Cihong, most of the Yangzhou people Ji Kun would have been killed in Yangzhou City by Duoduo's Qing soldiers!

Huang Zongxi, Gu Yanwu, and Wang Fuzhi are a little better, and they are still running around and fighting against the Qing Dynasty, but it is useless, and in the end, it is not the Qing Dynasty that dominates the world?

You can't even cut down tens of thousands of Eight Banner Tartars, and you still want to exchange 20 million stone rice for the right to discuss politics and taxes...... When will you guys be able to carry muskets and line up with Maozi to be shot, and when will you be able to drive gunboats to compete with the British Empire and the French Empire for world sea power, let's talk about this again!

At that time, whoever becomes the emperor of the Ming Dynasty will not dare not agree......

However, Zhu Cihong will not treat the four of them for their crimes, he is a reasonable prince, and Huang Zongxi is right about this.

These four feudal remnants are qualified to be sparse in any case, and their content is not useless at all.

First of all, they reminded Zhu Cihong - the landlord's family still has surplus grain! If they don't say it, Zhu Cihong can't remember it for a while!

Secondly, the method of establishing a feudal law and implementing the people's discussion of politics proposed in the "Advice on Sealing and Suggestion" is correct - it's just that the southeastern scholars are not qualified to be the countrymen! But that doesn't mean that others aren't qualified to discuss politics.

For example, those who carry guns to colonize are qualified, and they must be allowed to be citizens who can discuss politics. Otherwise, how would the colony be governed? Engage in a Governor-General's dictatorship? Then the governor is not a king?

Centralization? That's not good, it's too far away, the situation is too chaotic, and the emperor in Nanjing can't centralize power at all. What happened to the colony, when Nanjing knew about it, maybe it would be a year later, and after the imperial court meeting was completed, it would be two more years before the holy decree was passed to the colony......

In addition, there are still many warlords under the banner of the Ming Dynasty!

It's one thing for Zhu Cihong to like them or not, whether he can destroy them, and at the same time not let Dolgon, Li Guo, and Zhang Xianzhong get a vote for them is another matter.

Therefore, the realistic choice in front of Prince Zhu is to coexist peacefully with these warlords.

And if you want to live together peacefully, you have to negotiate a law and find some common interests!

Third, it is also a feasible way to raise grain from the landlords by using the method of advancing the land tax.

"Guys, what do you think?"

After Bi finished reading, it was Zhu Cihong's turn to ask questions with Yan Yuese.

It was the time of the noon dynasty, and the high-level officials of the Cabinet Office and the Generalissimo's Office in Nanjing were all sitting in the court, and listened to the strange article "Admonishment and Advice on Political Affairs" with Prince Zhu.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, the minister thinks there is something desirable." Shoufu Wei Zaode is the most sensitive, and now he is the first to speak, in fact, he is tentatively touching Zhu Cihong's hole cards.

Zhu Cihong nodded. He is not afraid of his subordinates testing him, and he is not willing to be a monarch with too much uncertainty like Chongzhen.

"Among them, 'the feudal is not the king, the country, and the system' is very good." Wei Zaode said, "Now the imperial court has sealed many feudal lords, but they have not sealed them. And he only crowned his king, and there were no countrymen, let alone politics. Therefore, if the feudal monarch has no control, the upper will be suspicious, and feudalism will not survive for a long time. If feudalism is difficult to survive for a long time, the feudal monarch and the court will not be able to work together, just like the king and the king of Saijun competing for hostility back then, and sooner or later there will be chaos! ”

Now there is no feudal law that can be accepted from top to bottom, so the court above wants to cut the feudal domain at every turn, and the feudal town below is more protective of the imperial court than the capture of the emperor.

And this mode of struggle between the feudal towns and the central government also applied to the colonies and the Ming dynasty.

In fact, a colony is also a "domain", and if there is no law acceptable to both sides to restrain it, what colony will the imperial court have? Do you want to block yourself? It's better to close the country and close the country cleanly!

"What Shoufu said is extremely good," Zhu Cihong said with a smile, "There has to be a way to seal it...... But this method can't be discussed by us in the court. There must be a council, let the feudal lord send someone to discuss, and the county can also send a councillor to discuss. ”

In fact, the parliamentarian has already appeared, and it is a false name used to reward the tax-paying county, that is, at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, he went to Nanjing City to participate in the "Thinking and Political Conference" - but at the end of the year and the beginning of this year, because Zhu Cihong led his troops outside, he did not hold the second thinking and political conference.

Chen Rui, the head of the household, and Zhu Cihong have been together for a longer time, so they naturally know that he doesn't want to continue to discuss the matter of the political conference, so he took over the topic and changed the topic, "Your Highness, the matter of sealing the government is not urgent, and the urgent task now is to raise food." After Zhu Cihong ordered the release of 500,000 Shi Jun Tun Si to stock grain, the rice family, which fell slightly, has risen to five cents and five cents of silver per bucket in the past two days, and it is still the price of brown rice.

Now the life of the refugees in Pukou City, Jiangbei Province is extremely difficult, many people only have one meal a day, and the city of Nanjing is full of beggars from Pukou......"

Pukou City is the original Jiangbei camp, and after killing Haoge, Zhu Cihong turned the Jiangbei camp into a base camp for northerners and refugees. The families of many soldiers of the Northern Army who did not catch up with the division of fields and houses (not enough credit) also lived there.

For these northerners, Zhu Cihong's imperial court also tried its best to provide relief, but as the grain in the treasury of the military department of the military department continued to decrease, the ability of the imperial court to distribute relief was also declining - the military department of the military department received a total of more than 16 million stone white rice last winter, which is a lot, but there are also many people who eat with them!

Now Nanjing, Yangzhou, Huai'an, Fengyang, Anqing, Zhenjiang and other places have "refugee camps" for northerners, and millions of people need relief!

Due to Haoge's offensive in Huaibei last year, the grain harvest in Huaibei (including Xuzhou) was seriously poor, and the imperial court was required to provide grain for relief.

Because Shandong received a large number of refugees and started several rounds of major battles with the Qing army, it seriously delayed agricultural affairs, so it also needed food from the imperial court to help.

In addition, Zhu Cihong's imperial court also did a lot of great work - many cities in Jiangbei to be reinforced, and many military forts to be built. However, the biggest project is the reinforcement of the Huai River embankment, because the Yellow River has been flowing south for hundreds of years, and the lower reaches of the Yellow River are very serious because of sediment accumulation. In the years of Jiajing and Wanli, there are often disasters, although the famous minister Pan Jitao carefully managed, but now the river disaster is serious again, unless there is a major drought, otherwise it will be flooded.

In order to ensure the safety of the Jianghuai grain-producing areas, Zhu Cihong had to appoint Han Lin as the squire of the Ministry of Industry and the governor of the river in the autumn of the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, and began the Huai River control project, which cost a lot of money!

Add a few consumptions together, and the sixteen million stones that Zhu Cihong got with a black heart will be consumed very quickly, and there is no surplus food to help the refugees...... And now it's only late June, and there is still some time before the autumn grain is on the market in large quantities!

And even if the autumn grain is on the market, it may not be able to alleviate much. Because the Huguang War lasted too long, it affected this year's spring sowing. At the same time, Li Zicheng's practice of calculating and granting land to several provinces in Hubei Province is also negative for the development of the productive forces in Hubei's rural areas, so this year's grain output in Huguang must be less than the average of previous years.

If you want the southeast to survive this grain shortage, you must dig out the grain stored by the landlord's old rich family!

However, at the same time, we must not tear our faces, and the consequences will be to seriously destroy the productive forces of Huguang and southeast, and the shortage of grain will only become more serious in the future.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, the minister has a way." It was the military advisor Li Yan who spoke, "Master Chitose, you can lead the northerner refugees to Huguang to eat a big family!" ”