After the welcoming ceremony was completed, His Royal Highness King Xin entered the palace to symbolically report to the emperor, and Yang Yanshi, who specially escorted the tributary group, took a group of tributaries and officially entered the capital under the guidance of Honglu Temple Qing and Gongshun Hou Wu Ruyin, who was responsible for receiving these people, and went straight to Honglu Temple with cheers on both sides......

Send it to Honglu Temple and it's over.

At least Yang Xin's escort mission can be regarded as complete.

As for Wang Huazhen and other prisoners he escorted back, as well as the silver he brought back, this had been escorted back by Jinyiwei alone before.

Liaoyang's was left to Liaodong for military salaries, but Guangning's silver was brought back.

This money is important.

At the suggestion of Yang Xin, Tianqi has suspended this year's Liaoyu, and the more than one million taels of Liaoyu that were originally levied after this year's autumn harvest have been cancelled, and these two million are to make up for this Liaoyu, and a total of 200,000 taels of relief have been sent to the Wuqing earthquake, the Hangzhou fire and other disaster areas under the auspices of the Hubu Shangshu Qi Shijiao. Although the number is not much, it is enough to show the emperor's sage to the people, in the end, the people at this time do not ask for much, and the amount of money that can be taken out for them is enough to make them grateful.

"I can't save it!

The drought situation in Shandong has not changed much, the northwest is getting drier and drier, several places in Sichuan have also been earthquakes, and there are big floods everywhere in the south.

It is useless to count on the relief of the imperial court.

Besides, it can't be saved from the victims.

Long live the Lord paid 10,000 taels of silver, and I am afraid that it can really be used for disaster relief is only 1,000 taels.

In the end, they were all greedy for ink at the first level, and even those profiteers would take the opportunity to raise prices, and the real cheap ones were corrupt officials and profiteers, and the common people didn't see much benefit, and the slaves and maids had planted the land for so many years, and they saw a lot of these things. Sometimes it backfires when the court provides money for relief, because the grain of the court also has to be bought on the spot, and those corrupt officials and profiteers collude to take the opportunity to use this as an excuse for rising food prices, and in the end, those who can barely afford to buy food cannot afford it. ”

Nine thousand years old said.

Obviously, it hurts him to dig out the money.

However, what he said was the truth, and it was useless to count on relief from the disaster of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, there is almost no solution to this problem, and the disaster relief money will always become a feast for some people, at least at the moment, the three people in this room cannot solve it.

Not to mention that the disaster will intensify in the future.

This year is only Wuqing and Guangyuan and other places of the earthquake, next year there is also the Luxi earthquake, although Xu Hongru has been solved in advance, but if there is no good disposal, still dare not guarantee that there will be no rebellion, the earthquake swept Jinan, Yanzhou, Dongchang three provinces, affected the surrounding Guide, Guangping and even Henan Province. In addition, there was the Guyuan earthquake that followed, and more than 10,000 people died in Guyuan alone, which is still a clear number, in fact, it is impossible to really complete statistics in this era.

But that's just the beginning.

Soon began in the northwest and swept across the country, except for Liangguang and Sichuan, almost all other provinces fell, and even Jiangsu and Zhejiang could not escape the drought began to last for more than ten years to ravage the empire.

This is the real life and death of the Ming Dynasty.

"How does Tessie deal with corruption?"

Apocalypse said curiously.

"Well, there's no corruption in Tessie."

Yang Xin said with a smile.

"What?"

Nine thousand years old and Apocalypse exclaimed at the same time.

"Because they don't have the word at all, everything they do is clearly priced, all their official positions are bought with money, and they have to be paid for doing things, and the corruption we think is natural in their eyes."

Yang Xin said with a smile.

"Huh?!"

Apocalypse and Nine Thousand Years are speechless at the same time.

"Your Majesty, although we do see corrupt officials and corrupt officials in the Manchu Dynasty, and there are corpses everywhere, we must admit that if we compare the current systems of all countries to the worst, our Ming Dynasty is still the least rotten.

Tessie has a variety of systems.

One is like the Netherlands, where there is no emperor or king, only one consul.

But the Netherlands itself could not be called a real country, but a federation of several small states in that area, a total of seven small states called seven provinces, and the gentry of each province elected their own parliament, and then the seven provincial councils elected people to form the national parliament.

The consuls are merely stewards of the council.

Similarly, there are urban republics such as Venice, which consist of a city and affiliated villages

The second is England.

The state belongs to the king, but the parliament agrees on major matters of the state.

The latter is divided into two chambers, the upper house is the clan, the nobles, they also have more bishops of the church, the lower house is the gentry, the big landowners who own a certain amount of land in the country, the king wants to do anything must first ask the parliament, especially the collection of taxes, which taxes the king collects must be approved by the parliament.

Those gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang should like this the most.

The three monarchs are arbitrary.

However, the feudal system, similar to the Spring and Autumn Period, all the princes became a country of their own, and the monarch was similar to Zhou Tianzi, only the land directly under his own control belonged to him, and the ones assigned to the princes belonged to the princes, and in their own words, the subjects of the princes only needed to be loyal to the princes, not to the monarch. Therefore, the monarch and the princes often fight wars, in fact, the vast majority of Tessie is like this at present, the largest country of Tessie is called the German Holy Roman Empire, which is in the midst of internal chaos, and it has been fighting for more than ten years and is still far away.

There is no system stronger than Da Ming outside of Taixi.

The strongest in the West at present is the Ottomans, but they are ****, the monarch is the head of the sect, but they themselves are Turkic alien conquerors, similar to Hu Yuan, so the internal system is very chaotic.

The administration of the state is similar to that of our cabinet, with the monarch appointing a grand vizier similar to the first assistant and several viziers to form a council. But they were not examined by the imperial examination, but appointed by the monarch as cronies, and the places were also divided, and the conquerors of their own tribe were divided into feuds, and they lived together with the conquered, and the ministers and servants came from their respective fiefdoms, and the soldiers came from the military fields.

In addition, there are a large number of subject states.

For now, the best system is precisely ours.

Only our Ming Dynasty has really established a complete system from top to bottom, and even the people in Qiongzhou know that the emperor is their monarch, the imperial court manages them, and the magistrates represent the emperor, while the monarchs of Europe may leave their capital for a hundred miles, and they have already stepped into other people's land. In the same way, we have established a real system of selecting officials, so that the son of a farmer can always be a farmer.

However, our system has been played badly.

Why are the local gentry so powerful?

Because they can rely on fame to be exempt from taxes, although the standards of the imperial court are limited, in reality their collusion with officials and gentry can become unlimited.

Thus the consecration appeared.

When a gentry can own thousands of house slaves, tens of thousands of serfs and tenants, he is more useful in the local area than the emperor to speak, and then he will use his in-law relationship to turn the vast majority of the local gentry into his accomplices, and then he will have the ability to control the place. The tax supervisors sent by the temple were beaten to death, burned to death and thrown into the Yangtze River one by one, why did they end up in the end, at most a few people were arrested, and even Ge Cheng, who was executed by the order of the temple, is still living very freely in Suzhou.

That is, the imperial power is not lower than the county.

The gentry had complete control over the place.

We had a complete management system, but it turned out to be a county with imperial power.

Why did the Donglin Party openly oppose His Majesty in the imperial court?

Because of the emergence of the imperial examination family.

Why did the imperial examination family appear?

Because the eight-strand essay we took is convenient for such a family.

The original intention of the imperial examination was to select talents, and the test should be a person's talent, but Baguwen made it become who can write Baguwen more and who can interpret Confucian classics, so Jinshi will naturally become the bag of Confucian scholars. We have a system of Tian Shelang and Tianzitang in the evening, which can allow talented people to be used by the country regardless of their origins, but it has become a monopoly of Confucian families in the imperial examination, although there will always be a few people from humble backgrounds every year, but the ancestors of the vast majority of Jinshi will always have a few Jinshi.

Wujin Wu family four generations of ten jinshi.

Others see the glory of generations of hairpins, but I see that it is just a handsome and sinking subordinate after the monopoly of the family.

When a family has been a jinshi for generations and is in a high position, the family's in-laws, township party and even friends will naturally form a political group of the imperial court, that is, the friend party, and when the friend party is strong enough to control one important official position, they will have the courage to resist the emperor.

His Majesty wants to restore Taizu's business, first of all, to break the control of the local gentry, to break the imperial power of the county, just like Taizu used military households to suppress the gentry, and truly extend his control to every county and even the village, and secondly, to break the monopoly of the imperial examination family, so that more real talents can be used by His Majesty, instead of letting those Confucian scholars who can only interpret Confucian classics and write Bagu Wen control the imperial court.

To simplify it again, it is to carry out two reforms.

The first is to reform the guard and restore the power of the military household to the time of Taizu, and then issue an order to cancel the tax exemption of the gentry, who dares to resist and kill the whole family.

The second reform of the imperial examination, first in the name of restoring the six arts of the gentleman, added the cavalry and archery assessment in the new imperial examination, but did not prevent them from being admitted to the jinshi, this assessment did not affect their examination, but if they did not meet the standard, no matter what the results of the examination were, the palace examination could only be the top three, on the contrary, the top ten results regardless of the results of the examination, they could give tribute to participate in the palace examination. ”

Yang Xin said.

Well, the purpose for which he said so much was simple.

is to finally extend his claws to the imperial examination and artificially set up obstacles for those scholars in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Originally, in history, the top three of this subject can all participate in the Yangzhou incident, the champion Wen Zhenmeng, the list of eyes Fu Guan, Tanhua Chen Renxi, just don't know if they can still Ding Jia after joining the riding and archery assessment, this subject of the top three two South Zhili and one Jiangxi, the next subject is still two South Zhili and one Jiangxi, and then the next subject is two South Zhili and one Henan.

Three branches, nine Dingjia, six Nanzhili.

This is why the Donglin Party has never been able to solve it like a stubborn disease, and people's blood replenishment ability is too strong.