Xu Jie mentioned the purpose of asking Mao Yulong today, "I learned that my brother was favored by Mr. Jingyi for an interview, brother, I am happy for you, but also deeply worried about you. ”

Mao Yulong smiled playfully and asked, "Why are you worried?"

Xu Jie said, "Now castrate"

Mao Yulong immediately said, "The marinated bacon is really delicious, come, let's eat a sip of pressed wine before talking." He took a bite of fried bacon with fresh bamboo shoots and put it on Xu Jie's plate, and then squeezed his eyes at Xu Jie.

Xu Jie was a human spirit, and immediately suddenly echoed the delicious taste of marinated bacon, so he stopped mentioning this topic and prepared to change the topic.

But Mao Yulong smiled and took the initiative to mention it again, "Mr. Jingyi's special move today, I am very accusatory and critical of the sick plum garden, and scolds me for pretending to be honest and moaning without illness at a young age, especially accusing me, because my article has caused a big disagreement within Donglin, which can be said to be the culprit." ”

Song Yuanshan sighed, "Donglin is a self-confident gentleman, and he follows the same party if he is united, and if he is different, he is a hater, this article of yours is full of different opinions, now, congratulations brother, you have now become Donglin's enemy, not bad." ”

Donglin's slogan is that if you are not my fellow believers, you are a hater, and there is no distinction between riding on the wall and left and right, which can be understood as spiritual cleanliness. Mao Yulong, a little talent, suddenly slandered Donglin's self-effacing arrogance and Hanmei, of course, he was criticized and blamed by many self-proclaimed Donglin, which is also known to the world.

In fact, Mr. Jingyi, who upholds the public heart this time, specially met with Mao Yulong, and also had the intention of appeasing Mao Yulong, for fear that under such a blow, he would spoil a good talent and beautiful jade, but he didn't want to accept him as a disciple and cultivate him carefully.

Mao Yulong said, "Donglin has become a climate in the government and the opposition, and their thinking has departed from the original intention of Mr. Jingyi to initiate the association, and has entered the extreme of opposition for the sake of opposition, which is not good for the country and the people." Once these so-called gentlemen who can only talk empty talk stand in the government and the opposition, it will not be a good thing for the entire Ming Dynasty. ”

was said by Song Yuanshan and Mao Yulong, Xu Jie's original purpose was forgotten, and his thoughts were driven away by Mao Yulong, which can be regarded as Mao Yulong's off-topic skills to fool his mother once again played a role. "Originally, we should do a good job in learning, and we should uphold justice in spreading ideas, but Donglin brought his radical ideas into learning, which is already a big mistake, and all people in the world are like them, that is infinitely harmful."

For Donglin, although the three people here are all scholars, they really can't get used to those extremities and empty talk that boast of being noble. It's not about knowledge, it's about human experience.

Mao Yulong is a widow and a weak sister, he is always bullied by the clan, if he just blindly talks about it, he will not mislead the country, and he doesn't have that influence now, but starvation is certain.

Xu Jie was also a scribe, but suffered from a phobia of exams. Usually the literary brilliance is flying, and the four books and five classics are easy to talk about. Once you enter the examination room, you will be completely blinded, and your brain will be on a blue screen at that time, and after a few times, you will give up the idea of doing business, and take care of your own grain store wholeheartedly.

Song Yuanshan is actually the most likely to become a member of Donglin, but unfortunately, this person was born in a merchant family, and he was not valued by Donglin at all and was full of contempt. And Song Yuanshan has a lonely and arrogant bone, that is, you look down on me, and I still look down on you.

So when it comes to Donglin, of course, the three of them don't have a good feeling, not only do they not have a good impression, but they also have a great disgust.

"Now Father-in-law Wei has concurrently served as the factory governor, Donglin has made trouble several times, and almost made Father-in-law Wei fall into absoluteness several times, and now Father-in-law Wei has full wings, in order to clear the discordant voices in the court, for this reason, most of the academies including Donglin Academy were demolished in the first month of this year. And Mr. Jingyi is the leader of Donglin, it is inevitable that he will be convicted because of his protégés, when you are so sensitive, you are specially recruited by Mr. Jingyi, and it is inevitable that you will be remembered by the factory guards, brother, you have to be careful. Xu Jie still expressed his worries and kindly reminded Mao Yulong.

Mao Yulong smiled indifferently, but he didn't say how he would deal with it, but said along the way, "Donglin and Father-in-law Wei are already on the same footing, if Father-in-law Wei wants to rectify the Ming Dynasty, he must start a decisive battle against Donglin, which is imperative." ”

The two of them nodded approvingly.

Speaking of Wei Zhongxian's desire to rectify the Ming Dynasty, the three of them felt the same way, so they continued to discuss.

Mao Yulong put down his chopsticks and sighed, "The Ming Dynasty has been nearly three hundred years, and good policies have become bad policies. ”

was taken by Mao Yulong to the topic, and the other two people were also emotional.

Xu Jie was in the market, empathized with the crumbling situation of the Ming Dynasty, and lost the interest in eating and drinking when he mentioned this matter, and also sighed, "Now there is a great drought in the northwest, the people have no food and clothing, hunger is everywhere, crying hunger and cold, in addition to the merger and oppression of the local tyrant emperor, a fire is about to rise to the sky, and the Mongolian Tartars are every time Koubian, I heard the merchants say that not long ago in the autumn of the first year, the Tartars have hit the Yansui City where the trilateral governors are stationed, and they have poisoned thousands of miles, and the trilateral army can only be trapped in the lonely city, Seeing the people crying and struggling under the butcher's knife of the Tartars, they were helpless. ”

Song Yuanshan slapped the table and said angrily, "Those bastard officers and soldiers on the nine sides are all wine bags and rice bags, they can be killed, they can be killed." ”

Mao Yulong shook his head and smiled bitterly, "You are in a rich family, you don't know the hardships of the nine-sided soldiers at all, I paid attention to a report at the time, which said that the tragic situation of the nine-sided soldiers." ”

Then he paused, thought about it, and then repeated, "The military system of the national dynasty was originally a military service for farmers. Taizu implemented the system of separating military and civilian registration, and the peasants who were organized into military households became soldiers for generations. The government organized them according to the establishment of the guard station and carried out tuntian. Defend the city along the border guard post for three points, and plant for seven points; The interior is divided into two to defend the city, and eight is divided into tun. Each sergeant was given fifty acres of land and cattle and farming tools. Twelve stone of the harvest was given to the sergeants for their own consumption, and the rest was used as food and storage for the officers of the Guard.

Under this system, the government only supervises the situation in the tuntian, and does not pay salaries. Therefore, Taizu once said that I raised millions of soldiers, and it did not cost the people a grain of millet.

However, later, the law was born for a long time, and most of the army's tuntian was seized by officers, Haoyou, and internal supervisors. That is, as Lu Xiangsheng, the left governor of Yushi, said: "There is less land on the plug, but there is more military land." Over time, they are all occupied by the right. It is the increasing embarrassment of Yitun, and the army is becoming poorer and poorer. Even those who are in the army have no land, those who cultivate the land are not in the army, and the powerful invade and bully the fat family, and the public and private are in trouble because of what they are. ”

After Yingzong, the wars along the border gradually increased, and the "martial law on the frontier" correspondingly increased the time for army training and garrisoning, and agricultural affairs were naturally affected. In addition, quite a number of tundi areas have been occupied by ethnic minorities with a hostile attitude, and there has been a situation in which "the fields are outside the enemy."