This world-renowned wedding came as scheduled, because it was the first marriage of the new son of heaven, and the future mother of the country, such a grand event should of course be celebrated by the whole world, not only the feudal officials from all over the country have already gathered in Beijing, even the vassal kings also came to congratulate.

Zuo Zhan has a problem, he is very critical of himself, but he is a bottomless pampering of his relatives, and he thinks it is worth it no matter how much he spends. In order to earn enough money for Zhang Yan to show off in the future, he took out three million taels of silver and countless treasures from the inner treasury to hold this wedding banquet, which made people feel that he was an arrogant and lascivious emperor. But he still has a problem, that is, wearing bad shoes makes them have no way out, and as soon as the wedding is over, he ordered Wei Jinzhong to attack the Donglin Party to investigate the fraud, and the people are panicked for a while, as if they are facing a great enemy.

In fact, his idea was very simple, that is, to move the aforementioned system of the Seat Master. It should be explained that the root cause of the alliance of the dynasty was that the emperor spoiled the eunuchs and forced them to form a party to protect themselves. Now that he plans to rule the world with virtuous ministers and good generals, the teacher system has become a big hidden danger, who wants to sleep with a bomb in his arms all day long?

These ideas of Zuo Zhan were supported by Lai Zongdao and Fan Jingwen, these two people were exceptionally named young masters by Zuo Zhan, and they accompanied the Son of Heaven to read and write all day long.

Seeing that the little emperor was sharpening his sword, he came to Zongdao to persuade him:

"The saint is far-sighted, and the old minister is really a guest. It has been more than 200 years since Emperor Taizu abolished the prime minister and set up a cabinet, and the cabinet and the six ministries are running smoothly, which shows that this institution is reasonable, and the saint only needs to adjust the personnel arrangements, and it is not appropriate to shake the foundation of the system. ”

After hearing this, Zuo Zhan felt that this old gentleman must have a unique opinion, so he said:

"The master is very worried, and I also feel that the system set by Taizu is very reasonable, and after more than 200 years of running-in, many processes have matured, so I just want to promote a group of new people to be feudal officials. But in the past few days, I have a lot of confusion, since the first emperor established the monarchy system, the dynasty has changed more than 20 people, hundreds of emperors, this set of monarchs and nobles can continue to this day, so it seems that there are more important things behind the monarch and the society, and please ask the two masters to point out the maze. ”

Fan Jingwen heard the little emperor's whimsy, and was shocked at first, secretly thinking that this was what Yasheng said, "The people are precious, the society is secondary, and the monarch is light", but when the emperor Taizu drove Mencius out of the temple and regarded his doctrine as different. Although he understood the confusion of his little apprentice, he didn't dare to tell him directly, he was only sixteen years old at the moment, and the variables in the future were too great, and the iron law of accompanying the king like a tiger made him say cautiously:

"Under the whole world, it is not the king's land; On the shore of the land, it is not the king's minister. The Holy One is the king of a country, like the sun in the sky, the sky cannot be without the sun, and the kingdom cannot be without the king.

Although the successive dynasties are constantly evolving, the foundation of society is still the agriculture and industry, the court is dominated by officials and scholars, the society is dominated by landlords and tenant farmers, and the ethical concept of the three outlines and five constants is used to restrain people's behavior. ”

Hearing Fan Jingwen's words, Zuo Zhan suddenly opened up and continued to ask:

"What the gentleman said is very true, and I have benefited a lot from listening to it. The first emperor can be called the first emperor of the ages, he had a thousand words of gold at that time Lü Buwei, and Emperor Taizu also had Shen Wansan, who was rich enough to rival the country, it can be seen that although the merchant has a humble status and has always been the last stream of society, he has a lot of wealth. Would it be better if I came to control these merchants and let them do business for the imperial court? This will not only promote the exchange of goods from all over the country, but also increase the annual income and reduce the burden on the peasants. ”

This tax system was the financial cornerstone of the feudal dynasty, and the agricultural tax accounted for the lion's share. Lai Zongdao heard that the little emperor was going to tilt taxes towards commerce, for fear of shaking the country's foundation, so he sorted out his thoughts and said:

"The saint has great ambitions, and the old minister should be his own liver and brain. In the early years, Chen had seen many large textile manufacturers in his hometown, with no less than 1,000 looms and thousands of employees.

Now that the policy of reopening the mining tax and increasing the commercial tax has been implemented in various localities, preliminary calculations have made it to this year's annual income of the imperial court in this regard by 2 million taels of silver, accounting for 40% of the total annual income. If the Holy Lord wants to continue to develop commerce, or even to trade by sea with the West, the proportion of income will continue to increase.

This is the positive side of developing business, and the Holy One should also see the negative side. As Master Fan just said, the two main bodies of the country are the scholars and the peasants, and the Holy Lord seized the Donglin Academy through the Jingcha fraud case, which has a great influence on the scholars, and if the teacher system is abolished, it is not conducive to the stability of the bureaucracy. If the development of commerce is encouraged, then the peasants will have no intention of farming, resulting in a large-scale movement of population, which is not conducive to social stability. ”

Although he came to Zongdao to represent the interests of his own scholars and doctors, he was inevitably a little alarmist, but his concern that the development of commerce would cause too rapid population flow was still very accurate, which is why Zhu Yuanzhang, who had great talents, wanted to implement the household registration system, not only to settle the people in one place, but also to let their sons inherit their father's business.

From ancient times to the present, there are two emperors who want to break this system, namely the new Taizu Wang Mang and the Sui Yang Emperor Yang Guang. They appear in history books as negative textbooks, so most people do not have an in-depth understanding of the background of their time and some of their deeds.

Let's talk about Wang Mang first, there is a "Wang Mang reform" in history, which basically takes all the fields into state ownership, releases slaves and maids as commoners, distributes fields according to capitation, and pays rent and grain directly to the imperial court. The currency system was constantly changed, and salt, iron, wine, coinage, and mountains, forests, and rivers were nationalized. History books say that he enacted harsh laws to enforce these policies, causing dissatisfaction among the entire population, from princes and ministers to commoners, and causing social unrest.

In fact, we can carefully consider who is beneficial to his reform system? Bad for whom? Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had already nationalized salt and iron in the early period, and the princes were weakened after the Tui'en order, and the right to mint coins became a unique privilege of the country.

Historians also say that since Wang Mang usurped power, he has been attacked by the Quartet, but the world was still in turmoil for decades after Wang Mang's death, and he did not see those patriots who rose up to surrender to the Liu clan. What's even more ridiculous is that Wang Mang's head has been collected by the royal family after his death, until a fire burned it down during the reign of Emperor Hui of Jin.

As it can be seen, these opponents of Wang Mang are the victims of those interests in the restructuring, and they came out to overthrow Wang Mang in order to protect their own vested interests, and even hid his head privately to warn future generations, which is what those Taoist gentlemen who read the books of the sages did. If Wang Mang had not implemented the new system and continued to safeguard their interests, then the world would be the same whether the surname Liu or the surname Wang would be the same.

Let's talk about Yang Guang, when this old man is mentioned, everyone's impression is almost incest and murder, engineering crusade, arrogance and lasciviousness, and finally the people are bored. In fact, there are more important records than these in the history books, Yang Guang was made the crown prince in the twelfth year of the emperor's reign, and he was the legitimate heir of the Sui Dynasty.

The capital was moved to Luoyang at any cost, in order to weaken the control of the Guanlong group over the imperial court. Book lovers who know the history of the Sui and Tang dynasties know that there is a Guanlong group, how powerful is this huge group? The eldest Yu Wentai is the founder of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Yang Zhong is the father of Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian, Li Hu is the grandfather of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, Dugu Xin is the most powerful old man in human history, his eldest daughter is the queen of Yu Wenyu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the fourth daughter is Li Yuan's mother Empress Yuanzhen, and the seventh daughter Dugu Jia Luo is the queen of literature of Emperor Wen of Sui. In addition, Yu Chi, the eldest grandson family, and Li Jing, the god of war in the early Tang Dynasty, were all from the Guanlong group.

The construction of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which is still benefiting mankind! In addition, water conservancy was also built, and there were basically no major floods in the Central Plains under his rule. Although the three expeditions to Goguryeo failed, why did Li Shimin and Li Zhi devote their national strength to destroy Goguryeo? (It's not the Goryeo of the South Stick!) The reason is clear to everyone, without his three conquests, it is estimated that the great enemy of the Central Plains Dynasty would not be the Turks. In addition, in addition to conquering Goguryeo, he also destroyed Tuyuhun in the northwest, killed Champong in the southwest, subjugated the Ryukyus across the sea in the southeast, and crushed the Khitan in the north.

In terms of governing the country, Yang Guang implemented the imperial examination system in the first year of the Great Cause, and promulgated the "Great Cause Law" in the third year of the Great Cause, which is the father of the "Tang Law" and is a bright pearl in the history of China's legal system. The collection of books in the Guanwen Hall is as many as 370,000 volumes, and the "Changzhou Jade Mirror" and "Ouyu Tuzhi" that he organized and compiled are larger than the "Yongle Grand Canon" of the Ming Dynasty and more complete than the "Siku Quanshu" of the Qing Dynasty.

Both of these emperors were unusual in history, and many book lovers also like to compare them to time-travelers. In fact, they were just the elite of that era, wanting to do things that others did not dare to do, although they failed, but these reforms were continued, such as the imperial examination system became the only criterion for taking scholars from the Tang Dynasty onwards, and the land was nationalized after the founding of New China.

Then the question arises, why does the same top-level wisdom do the same thing, and there will be different results? In fact, it is the system that Fan Jingwen mentioned, which is called Shinong Industry and Commerce in feudal society.

Scholars are the bureaucratic system and the noble group, and they study hard for fame or profit, and students from all over the world flock to them. This class has fixed privileges and parasitic abilities, and dynasties have changed, but many prominent families still flourish.

Agriculture, that is, the group engaged in agricultural labor, needs to bear heavy taxes and forced labor, and working to death is just to support the family, as Zhang Yanghao said, 'Xing, the people suffer; Death, the people suffer'. Although the social status of the peasants was higher than that of artisans and merchants, they actually lived the hardest life.

Workers, that is, craftsmen, the emperor to build palaces, mausoleums need masons, social road and bridge construction also need craftsmen, the development of handicrafts in the later period of the demand for craftsmen increased sharply, there was a shortage of labor, the need to settle a large number of displaced people to supplement the labor force of this class.

Shang is a merchant engaged in commercial activities, who is exploited by the imperial court and squeezed by society, but is bustling under the drive of interests. Commerce itself is the way of heaven to make up for the deficiency of the surplus and the deficiency, but the businessmen are strange and can live in strange goods, blindly chasing profits, and being unkind to the rich.

Shinong industry and commerce is the social order of every feudal dynasty, and those who dare to challenge this order have no good end, although these kings have great talents, but why did they all fail? The reason for this is that the contradiction between the productive forces and the relations of production has not been clarified.

At present, although the germ of capitalism appeared in the Ming Dynasty, the overall social productive forces did not yet have the conditions to break this system. Although Zuo Zhan mastered a certain amount of modern knowledge, if he wanted to lead the Ming Dynasty to the top of the world, he must face up to this system, promote the development of productive forces through local adjustments, and in turn improve the relations of production, otherwise he would repeat the mistakes of Wang Mang and Yang Guang.