Zuo Guang looked worried when he spoke first, and he looked like a catastrophe was coming.

And Zhu Cihong, who listened to him, was smiling and looking indifferent.

The mutiny in Jiangnan is not in his eyes, so what is there to be afraid of? At least the civil uprising of the serfs and tenants in the south of the Yangtze River, Zhu Cihong is not afraid. If it were replaced by an armed uprising of the workers in Shanghai or something, it would still be a bit of a headache.

However, the Shanghai port has not yet opened, and it may not be possible to form a huge group of industrial workers in one or two hundred years......

Zuo Guang glanced at the young prince first, and a feeling of powerlessness suddenly welled up in his heart. You are a prince, why are you not afraid of civil revolt? How terrible is the change of the people! Isn't it the result of the people's rebellion? If Jiangnan is also in chaos, the Ming Dynasty will be over!

Thinking of this, Zuo Guang first decided to add some more code, and he said to Zhu Cihong: "His Royal Highness the Prince, during the Xu Thief Rebellion in Zhejiang last year, Zhejiang changed the people and played the Yongchang year name. In Hangzhou, Ningbo and other places, there were also riotous people who posted notices to welcome the king, which made people panic. The reason why the situation can be stable is because the scholars in the southeast are still united with the imperial court. If the imperial court took away their tax exemptions, I am afraid that many scholars and doctors would be unable to suppress the local government for the imperial court.

Other than that...... The bad rules of sacrifice and treachery also made many slaves under the wealthy families of the gentry in the southeast. These servants joined the wealthy families in order to escape the taxes and servitude of the imperial court. At present, the imperial court on the one hand implements the integration of officials and gentry to pay taxes, and on the other hand, it is exempt from taxes and military service. It will inevitably make the hearts of those who have been sacrificed as slaves and tenants float! I'm afraid that the day of the promulgation of the policy of integrated taxation will be the time when the Jiangnan slave rebellion broke out! ”

"Zuo Xun press (Zuo Guang was first Zhejiang patrol press)," Zhu Cihong smiled, "If there are unscrupulous people in Jiangnan who collude with the rogues, it is indeed a problem for the henchmen." ”

Zuo Guangxian breathed a sigh of relief, and glanced at Qian Qianyi and Hou Sui who were sitting in a precarious position with some smugness - although he is not a Jinshi and cannot be the third monarch of Donglin, but when it comes to the ability to scare the prince with alarmist words, he is much better than the two of you!

However, Qian Qianyi and Hou Sui just shook their heads slightly, this matter is not so easy......

Sure enough, Zhu Cihong's next words immediately made Zuo Guangxian a little dumbfounded.

"That's why this palace wants to clear the tun and clear the field...... Only after the completion of Qingtun and Qingtian can the imperial court grasp enough land, and with land can it equalize the land. And Juntian can give the imperial court a firm grasp of a large number of people! With enough land and population, the imperial court is not afraid of rogues, civil uprisings, and Tatars! ”

What the? You want Junda...... Zuo Guang was stunned and stunned first, and said in his heart, Is your father Emperor Chongzhen or Li Zicheng?

Li Zicheng did not really equalize the field, so he shouted that he would be exempted from taxation for three years. You are good, go further, not only exempt from taxation for five years, but also Juntian!

Well, I'm not afraid of thieves...... You're a thief!

At this time, Wei Zaode, who was about to be elected as the third monarch of Donglin, interjected: "According to the estimates of the household department and the military tunwei, only in the southeast of Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian and other provinces, the total number of military tun, guantian, and hidden fields is not less than 10,000 mu!" These fields are all the property of the imperial court, and they can be used to distribute the land to the households, so that they can pay the rent. Based on 10,000 mu, an average of five buckets per mu is paid, of which one bucket is used for rent collection and grain transportation, and the rest is put into storage. The annual income of the imperial court can also have 40 million stone rice noodles.

In addition, it is already the limit for a family to cultivate twenty or thirty acres. 10,000 mu can grant at least 4 million households, almost 20 million people...... These hukou will be under the jurisdiction of the imperial court's military guards and become tenants of the Son of Heaven. The state can recruit troops and conscripts from it, and it no longer needs to use the power of ordinary people.

4 million households, even if 10 households send one soldier, there can be 400,000 available soldiers! There are 400,000 soldiers, what are you afraid of, rogue people, and Tatars? ”

See you in the picture! This is a competition with the people!

Zuo Guang gasped first, it turned out that Zhu Cihong was worse than Li Zicheng, no wonder Li Zicheng suffered a loss after he came to power......

"His Royal Highness the Prince, the tens of thousands of acres of military tun, official fields, and hidden fields in the southeast are actually ownery! If the imperial court wants to take it back, isn't it afraid that the officials will force the gentry to change? ”

The one who objected was an old man in his sixties, who was a little fat, spoke with a Hokkien accent and wore a blue cloth Confucian suit.

Zhu Cihong knew that this person was a great Confucianism in Fujian, and Liu Zongzhou, who founded the Qishan School and called the "Erzhou" zodiac Zhou.

"Mr. Shi Zhai," Zhu Cihong was still very polite to Huang Daozhou, and called him "Mr. Shi Zhai", but the position that should be adhered to will not retreat in the slightest, "The biggest maladministration of this dynasty is in the eyes of this palace, one is that the clan is too indiscriminate; the second is the hereditary military attache of the guard; The third is that the power of the gentry is too heavy.

Now the imperial court is vigorously reorganizing the clan and the guard, and I don't know how many people have lost their hereditary official status. Could it be that the southeastern gentry were more noble than the clan and more warlike than the hereditary military attachés? The clan and military attachés can be rectified and eliminated, the Zonglu can be greatly reduced, and the land of the guard can be redivided, but when it comes to the gentry, it can't be provoked?

Moreover, the palace has also exempted the land for five years, and is also preparing to exempt the people of the southeast from forced labor...... In the next five years, the people will not have to pay for food, and the people will not have to serve on errands, nor will they have to pay for exemption from military service. Isn't such a policy of benefiting the people enough to appease the people in the southeast? ”

Huang Daozhou shook his head and sighed: "The minister doesn't say right or wrong today, only whether the people will become slaves!" If it is about the twists and turns of right and wrong, the imperial court does have a reason...... But now that the rogues and Tartars are attacking outside, and the inferior gentry and people in the southeast are changing inside, I am afraid that the situation in the southeast will be ruined! ”

Zhu Cihong nodded and said with a smile: "This palace is indeed worried that the enemy will attack outside, and the gentry will be chaotic inside. That's why this Donglin conference was convened...... It is hoped that the Donglin Party will be able to stand up and defend the country and protect the people when the country is in danger and China is about to fall. Mr. Shi Zhai, you are a great Confucian in Fujian, and you have a very high reputation in the land of Fujian. You say, how can we not only pacify the Fujian gentry, but also recover the official land and military land, and still strictly levy commercial taxes? ”

"This ......" can make it difficult for the Zodiac Zhou.

He's not a Confucian who studies this!

Zhu Cihong's eyes swept over the hall, and the expressions on the faces of the important people who participated in the Donglin Conference were all in his eyes, and finally fell on Huang Zongxi and Luo Dagong, who were frowning.

The Zodiac Zhou was a scholar of the I Ching, while these two Confucians were social and political—Confucianism was not made by virtue of high moral character or good writing of Bagu articles. Great Confucianism must have made outstanding contributions to Confucianism!

Confucianism, on the other hand, is a comprehensive system that includes natural philosophy and social philosophy. To put it more popularly, it is the answer given by Confucianism to the worldview, outlook on life, and values. In later generations, because of the collapse of the Confucian worldview, people mistakenly thought that Confucianism had no worldview and no natural philosophy, and then some people mistakenly thought that Confucianism was a Confucianism with high morals...... Actually, that's not the case at all! It's just that the Confucian line of natural philosophy has taken a wrong path - mistakes are not without value, because exploring the unknown itself is a process of trial and error.

And Huang Zongxi and Luo Dagong's skills can give advice to Zhu Cihong in terms of sociology and political science!