"Meet you in the middle of the thorns!"

This shout made Sun Chuanting and Chen Yujie in the back all change their faces......

"Brother Yang is alarmist, right?"

Sun Chuanting said.

"Alarmist? If you want money to fight a war, you have to raise taxes if you want money, and since the gentry can't raise taxes or even evade taxes, then who will you raise taxes to? To a rich merchant like him? His uncle is Zuo Zanshan, he is a member, and his family's in-laws are all powerful, and it may be difficult to raise taxes on them, and one competing with the people for profit is enough to give the emperor a headache. What's more, this kind of rich people have connections in officialdom, what is the Donglin Party? Isn't that what they support? What is the essence of the partisan struggle in the imperial court? Isn't it the struggle between the two major groups of landlords and merchants? Why is the public resentment boiling over the mine supervisor and tax supervisor? Who is that people? Is it me, a commoner who has neither land nor a business? I don't have anything in me that deserves their help.

He is the people! ”

Yang Xin pointed at Chen Yujie and said.

The latter shook his folding fan with an embarrassed expression.

"The landlords and gentry can't move, and the industrial and commercial gentry can't be messed with, who is easy to bully in the end? Farmers digging in the soil! ”

Yang Xin said.

Sun Chuanting was thoughtful.

"But the peasants are really so easy to bully, isn't Taizu a peasant?"

Yang Xin said.

"Sun has understood what Brother Yang meant, you think that the Ming Dynasty is not fair, the gentry control the land but do not pay taxes, the merchants control the wealth and also do not pay taxes, and in the end only the poorest farmers are paying taxes, which is indeed unfair. However, the officials of the imperial court were all in collusion with the gentry and merchants, and it was impossible to change this injustice, and the construction of slaves would inevitably force the imperial court to increase taxes.

In fact, it has increased.

Last year, the salary was increased, and it was added to three and a half cents per mu of land.

Do you think that this kind of unfairness will eventually ruin the Ming Dynasty and make the Ming Dynasty repeat the mistakes of the past dynasties.

But in fact, this did not change the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, the price of grain in the capital rose slightly, but still did not exceed one or two, the famine in Shandong has also passed, and the canal boats are still full of grain. And Jiannu is just a disease of scabies, although Yang Hao's mistake led to the defeat of Liaodong, but what else can Jiannu do? Could they still capture Shenyang or even Liaoyang? What the Ming Dynasty lost was just a Fushun Pass, and Jiannu was just an opening in the wall of eastern Liaodong, and Shenyang City was still standing. Xiong Jingluo is about to go to Liaodong, and the elite soldiers and fierce generals from all over the country are also reinforcing Liaodong, and Jiannu is nothing more than tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, how can he defeat the power of the Ming Dynasty? Once Liaodong was pacified, even Liaodong was revoked.

Although the people are not rich, they still have no worries about food and clothing!

So why change?

There is always a difference between rich and poor, high and low, rather than entangled in fairness, it is better to strive to make yourself a superior person.

Sun can succeed by studying, and Brother Chen can get rich by doing business, so why do others have to be equal to them, so why do we work hard to study and do business? Since Brother Yang wants to be fair, then let's make those of us the successful people you are talking about the same as the common people, is that fair to us? As for the gentry not paying taxes, it is wrong, but they control the place for the imperial court, and if there are no gentry, can they let a county magistrate manage a hundred miles of land? The local tranquility of the Ming Dynasty depends on them, and the merchants are indeed trying to find ways not to pay taxes, but it is their nature to pursue profits, and all they need is how the court manages.

But neither the gentry nor the merchants harmed the Ming Dynasty.

The people can still have food and clothing, and they have not seen the disaster of landslides, and the border troubles of Jiannu will not make Hu Chen re-infect the Central Plains, so how can I meet you in the ears of thorns? ”

Sun Chuanting said.

At this moment, there was a cry outside.

The three of them hurriedly got up, leaned to the window and looked out, and saw countless people at the city gate with their families and mouths pouring in with cries, most of them were empty-handed, and many of them were even undressed, like the garbage that a tsunami washed into the seaside business district, which instantly ruined the prosperity of the city, and most of them looked hungry for a long time, crying and kneeling for alms when they saw people......

"What's wrong?"

Sun Chuanting shouted to the guy who walked out downstairs.

"Guest officer, there is a flood outside the city!"

The guy said.

He subconsciously turned his head......

"You forgot there was a natural disaster!"

Yang Xin said beside him like a magic stick.

Sun Chuanting finally left in a hurry.

"This is the ruling class!"

Yang Xin said with emotion.

Sun Chuanting is a smart official, he knows that to protect the interests of his own class, he will not be Haigangfeng, and he is still a standard northern official, safeguarding the interests of the land gentry, if he has no choice, then first take the industrial and commercial gentry, but let him really protect the interests of the people at the bottom, he can't do this, he will find a way to exempt the people from the salary at most, and he will not do it any more.

He knew that no amount of doing anything would do well for him.

But this doesn't mean that he doesn't understand, it turns out that in the face of the erosion situation in Guanzhong in history, he still couldn't bear to attack the gentry.

But by that time it was no longer to help.

And it was because of this that he was killed by the conspiracy of the gentry.

"Your mind is getting more and more dangerous!"

Chen Yujie said on the side.

"I can say whatever I want, we don't scold people with words, and besides, this person is not the kind of person who likes to snitch, I think he is very good, after knowing that I am a common person, he can still continue to drink with me and talk about things as a brother. This person is not that kind of rotten Confucian, my neighbor didn't even appreciate his face when he invited me to drink before he knew that I actually had a relationship with the Fang family, he was obviously a man who fell to the ground, and his posture was even more arrogant than this new science and technology scholar. Sun Chuanting is very similar to you, they are all gentlemen, for example, when I say this about you, you still don't cut off your robe with me! ”

Yang Xin, who mourned for Sun Chuanting for three seconds, said.

"You know that, too!"

Chen Yujie said resentfully.

"Also, did you do it?"

He then asked.

"No, I don't believe you go back and ask Xiaocao, I have been sleeping at home last night!"

Yang Xin flatly denied it.

This kind of thing is resolutely unacceptable.

"I still believe you, you can't do this kind of thing alone, unless you partner with Cao Wenzhao, but Cao Wenzhao was by Xiong Tingbi's side last night, and I stayed with him because it was too late. As for your Pingliao policy, according to Xiong Tingbi, except for the new accident of setting fire to the mountain, the others are either clichés or cannot be realized. Cracking down on smuggling is indispensable, but he has no right to decide on the matter of immigration, and it is difficult to implement, and the gentry in the customs will not agree, and it will be difficult to go anywhere. Set up Li Liang as the king of Joseon, this is not something he can decide, but he thinks deeply of this, the two ends of the current king of Joseon are indeed not trustworthy, as for the construction of Vladivostok, this must be examined first.

There is indeed merit in preaching the comfort of the savage Jurchens.

In short, he will draw up another recital, and part of it will be recited.

It is estimated that there is still hope.

However, he was quite kind to me, I knew a little about building fortresses and casting cannons, and he wanted me to go with him to Liaodong to staff military affairs, and I was thinking about whether to go or not. ”

Chen Yujie said.

"Then you can go!"

Yang Xin said.

"But my uncle is preparing to write a letter urging His Majesty to train a new army, and to buy artillery from Macau and hire gunners to arm this new army. He was ready to train 20,000 elites, in full accordance with the method of Taixi, and even hired a group of officers from Macao. ”

Chen Yujie said.

"Isn't it enough for Daming to have Qi Wuyi's Art of War?"

Yang Xin said.

"But it's always good to learn from each other's strengths."

Chen Yujie said.

"Then does your uncle's words work? His ideas are good, but his words don't work! Even if His Majesty really ordered him to train a new army, do you think he will succeed? How many people's plates did he move? Go to Macao to buy weapons for Europeans, what do you want those corrupt officials in the Ministry of Industry to do? The money has been earned by you, can those officials and men in the north endure it? They have no way out in Macau, they can't fight if they want to, and when the time comes, they only need to choke your uncle's military salary, and your uncle can only give up! It's useless for you to follow him, he'll have to be in a few days! ”

Yang Xin said.

Xu Guangqi was enthusiastic about training troops in Tongzhou, and then the military department did not pay him and did not give weapons, and a total of 7,000 old, weak, sick and disabled military households were selected for him, and only 2,000 could hold weapons, and there were a bunch of imperial histories in the court to scold him.

was so angry that he had no choice but to resign in disgrace.

Of course, this kind of thing is not so pure.

Because the purchase of European artillery will fatten the compradors, and later the cannons purchased by the Ming court from Macao, the price is several times false, but this cannot blame Xu Guangqi and these people, after all, they are also a member of the Ming officialdom, so the rules must be followed, and they have to give gifts to a bunch of people inside and outside the palace! You can't pay for it yourself, can you?

"But what can I do when I go to Liaodong?"

Chen Yujie was a little hesitant.

"What identity does Xiong Tingbi give you?"

Yang Xin asked.

"He said that he could find me a doctor from Taichang Temple, Zhengqipin, but not necessarily, he could only say that he did his best, after all, I didn't even count as a lifter."

Chen Yujie said.

"That's it, your uncle is only from the sixth grade, you are just one level lower than him, what is not satisfied, Xiong Tingbi is red and purple, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military even the emperor has high hopes for him, just waiting for him to go to Liaodong to turn the tide and save the Ming Dynasty from the crisis, he said to find you a doctor of Taichang Temple, then it must be no problem, all of a sudden you will be at the same level as Sun Chuanting. After you go to Liaodong, you don't care about anything else, just urge Xiong Tingbi to burn the mountain, this time is summer, you go there is almost autumn, and Jiannu can't beat Shenyang in a short time, at most bypass Shenyang to take Kaiyuan Tieling, and as long as Shenyang is not lost, they will always be blocked in the mountains and forests. Next, just change the northwest wind, pick a windy day, and light a fire in the Fushun Pass area, if you can't burn Hetuala, I will perform live to eat insects! ”

Yang Xin said excitedly.

A forest fire ignited in Fushun, and without any control, it was impossible to burn Xinbin Tazhen's live performance to eat insects......

Deep-fried mountain scorpions are also a delicacy

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