Sun Chengzong entered Zhu Youxiao's imperial study, Wang An moved to Xiudun and invited Sun Chengzong to sit down, and then Wang An closed the door very well and waited outside the door, which can be seen from this point Wang An's cleverness.

In the study, Zhu Youxiao respectfully bowed to Sun Chengzong when the younger generation saw the elders.

"Junior, Zhu Youxiao, I've seen Mr., please help me." Zhu has filial piety.

Sun Chengzong, who had just sat down, was so frightened that he fell to his knees, "Your Majesty, you can't help it, you can't help it, you are letting the old minister lose his life!" ”

Zhu Youxiao stepped forward and gently helped Sun Chengzong up, and said: "Mr. is the teacher of the first emperor, Zhu Youxiao is the son of the first emperor, and Mr. is naturally the elder of Zhu Youxiao." Today, we only turn teachers and students, regardless of monarchs and ministers, so Mr. is not welcome. ”

"I invited Mr. over today because the governor of Liaodong avenged his personal revenge and found an excuse to escort Xiong Tingbi back to Beijing. Yao Zongwen, the secretary of the military department, also wanted to fish in troubled waters to vent his personal anger; Cabinet Minister Gu Wei also tried to punish Xiong Tingbi with death. I felt that there must be an accident, so I have sent someone to investigate the matter secretly. However, the situation in Liaodong was unstable, and Yang Yuan was not enough to resist Jianyu. Therefore, I want to ask Mr. to inspect Liaodong on my behalf, I am afraid that Mr. is lonely, I have secretly taken Xiong Tingbi to Huangzhuang, and arranged for him to follow Mr. incognito. I don't ask Mr. to recover how much lost land, I only ask Mr. to be able to hold the line of Shenyang and Liaoyang for a year, and in the coming year, we will be fully prepared to defeat the Jianyu Jurchen in one fell swoop, expel them to the west of the desert, and even support the Mongolian tribes who are friendly with our dynasty to annex them, and then support their expedition to the Western Regions, thinking that our Ming Dynasty will expand its territory. ”

In fact, Zhu Youxiao didn't dare to tell Sun Chengzong his true thoughts now, what he wanted was to conquer the world. The British Empire was now just beginning to expand abroad, the Netherlands, the coachman of the sea, was still roaming the seas, the United States was still limited to colonies of a few countries in the north, and Russia, except for the European part, had begun to expand beyond the Ural Mountains to Asia. The population of the whole of Europe is about the same as the total population of the Ming Dynasty, and most countries are still in the state of princes, existing in the state of grand duchies, for example, England is also divided into England and Scotland. The Ming Dynasty has a population of nearly 100 million, if the world is colonized from now on, then the Chinese language will become more than the use of English, China will control the world discourse in later generations, the world will set off a boom in learning Chinese, and Chinese culture will become the strongest culture in the world.

Although Sun Chengzong didn't know Zhu Youxiao's thoughts, he was shocked by Zhu Youxiao's brief words just now, he didn't expect that the little emperor, who had always been cowardly and could only do a few carpentry jobs, would have such a big ideal.

So, Sun Chengzong said: "The minister will live up to His Majesty's trust, and the land of Liaodong will be guaranteed to be controlled in the hands of my Ming Dynasty, but what His Majesty said will be able to subdue the lost territory in the coming year, but I don't know how sure Your Majesty is." ”

Sun Chengzong meant that now the Ming Dynasty is still on the defensive against the Jianyu Jurchens, and they have just gone through the defeat of Salhu, and they are still in an unstable situation. He was afraid that the little emperor would be willful, or that he would be ambitious and talented.

Zhu Youxiao understood what Sun Chengzong meant, so he told him his plan next.

"My current annual income in the Ming Dynasty is less than six million taels of silver, while the annual income of the Song Dynasty in the previous life was nearly 20 million taels of silver, why is this? During the Southern Song Dynasty, nearly sixty percent of its annual income came from commercial taxes, but it did not provoke a popular uprising, and the annual mining tax of our dynasty Wanli Ye only collected 500,000 taels of silver, which caused the opposition of so many Qing rumors? A whip law issued by the Xianggong of Gangneung did increase a lot of revenue for the imperial court, but at the same time it also increased the burden on the peasants and the common people. Wan Li Ye should have also taken these problems into account, so he decided to increase the mining tax instead of implementing the Jiangling Xianggong's increase in the tax of the common people, after all, the income of a thousand ordinary people is not as good as the income of a rich businessman, and the land of a hundred ordinary people is not as much as that of a local tyrant. The local tyrants and wealthy businessmen all have spokespersons in the government, that is, the people who speak for them, that is, the so-called Qingliu, Yanguan, and Yushi, but who speaks for the people, this is the so-called official coercion and civil rebellion, and they really can't live anymore and use violence to speak, since the dynasties and dynasties, only the common people rebelled, have you ever seen the officials rebel, they only launch a coup d'état when they can't satisfy their desires or ambitions, because they are representatives of vested interests. Therefore, as a monarch, he must consider the common people who account for the majority of the world, and as the defender of their interests, formulate policies to safeguard the interests of the common people, and the implementation of these policies must rely on grassroots officials, so it is necessary to avoid these officials from harming the public and private interests when implementing these policies. This must be done by the rule of law, not by man.

"Land annexation is very serious nowadays, and the people who own a lot of land are the powerful who don't have to pay taxes, so this problem has to be solved. Solving this problem has always been a thorny problem, and it has not been completed by successive dynasties, so there is a strange circle of change of dynasty, prosperity, decline, turmoil, and change of dynasty.

There are several ways to solve the problem, first of all, starting from me, except for the necessary land reserved for experimental crops, all the land in the Huangzhuang will be given to the common people who farm; Then there are the kings of the land, and I allow them to be officials, to do business, to manufacture, to open mines, and so on, but they must sell their land on credit, except as necessary, to the common people who rent it; The second is to restrict the purchase and sale of land, that is, to limit a certain per capita land standard, for example, three to five times the per capita land, beyond this standard, you will have to buy land at a high price, which is two or three times higher than the general one, and half of the excess part will go to the land seller, half to the local government, and the private land buyer will confiscate the land to the state; Again, that's immigration, not to mention the far places, there is Liaodong near the place, when you can hold Liaodong, and then we occupy the more northeast place, where although it is cold, but the land is fertile, the land is sparsely populated, everyone just can't plant a hundred acres of land, only one season a year, then there are several years of food that can not be eaten, there is endless food who will carry their heads to rebel. Don't look at the current Jianyu who have no food to eat, that is, they don't know how to farm, if we let our people go to farm, they won't be able to eat at all.

"In addition, I am also going to open the sea ban, the Xiyi people can come to us to do business, why can't we go out, are we not as good as the Xiyi who we call barbarians? Actually, we are really inferior to the Xiyi now, their ships are bigger than ours, their cannons are farther than ours, they are more enterprising, more savage and aggressive, but they have fewer people, we must learn from their strengths, learn their advanced technology, otherwise it will not be long before they will encroach on our land.

"Also, we must popularize literacy and reading, literacy and reading cannot become the patent of the rich, I want to make every citizen of the Ming Dynasty literate, even if the court goes bankrupt for this. At present, the patriarchs and lieutenants of each village are in charge of the houses of the school, and the squires are asked to donate money and give them honors, and in five years, the state will subsidize the school, so that the literate children can teach their children to read and write, and pay salaries. Children should not only learn the Four Books and Five Classics, but also cultivate children's ability to manufacture tools, machinery, etc., and there must be special schools for industry, commerce, medicine, etc. In the future, studying and being an official is not the only way out, there are seventy-two lines in the world, and the line is the champion. There is no agriculture, no stability, no work, no wealth, no business, no life, and in the future, there will only be differences in work, and there will be no distinction between high and low. ”