"What does King Tang think of my trip?"

Zhu Cihong said.

Lu Liuliang next to him was in good spirits, and he who was also lying on the window and vomiting wildly, immediately wiped his mouth and looked at Zhu Yujian expectantly.

In other words, this is a powerful faction.

Although there are many senior generals from Jiangsu and Zhejiang such as Zhang Mingzhen and Huang Binqing in the army, they are all Yang Qing's core henchmen, and it is impossible to cooperate with them. It is impossible to buy, the benefits that these people can obtain under Yang Qing far exceed what they can provide, if an imperial bank alone can ensure that Yang Qing's governance remains unchanged, it will bring these people endless glory and wealth for future generations.

What can the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang give them?

Can you give them a mountain of gold that has now exceeded 20 million to share with each other?

The benefits that the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang can take out and buy are not comparable to those that Yang Qing can give to these generals, although they are unwilling to admit it, they also know that there is still a big gap between their earning ability and Yang Qing. And Yang Qing's core subordinates who control the army are all bound by him with interests, and the middle and lower classes are basically his fanatical admirers, and they all have a superior life brought by high military salaries and the Huangzhuang Juntian system. If you want these people to betray Yang Qing, there is basically no hope.

I can't afford to buy it!

But outside of Yang Qing's core henchmen, it's different!

After all, the Ming army still had a large number of collateral generals, for example, Yang Qing hastily transferred Yang Zhan to the northern front before, and removed Huang Degong's actual army command.

Especially there are Tang Wang.

Yunnan is far away, and the militia there doesn't know much about the outside world, and the difficulty of flickering is not the same level as that of Jianghuai and other places, and most of the generals under the command of the envoy are the generals of the old guard, such as Mu Tianbo, who is still in command of the militia. These people are also dissatisfied with Yang Qing himself, but their dissatisfaction is not enough for them to rebel, but it is not impossible for someone to lead them to overthrow Yang. If Tang Wang, who presided over the reform of the Yunnan Guard Station and controlled the four militia armies, he could truly join the great cause of overthrowing Yang under the guidance of his bloodline.

That's beautiful!

Zhu Yujian glanced at Lu Liuliang and smiled slightly in the latter's expectant gaze......

"Your Majesty, it's still too late for you to turn back!"

He said.

"King Tang, you are also the queen of Taizu!"

Lu Liuliang said indignantly.

"Your Majesty, it is precisely because the minister is also Taizu that he said this, if you stay in Chang'an, this Ming Dynasty will not change hands, and if you go back to Nanjing, that is to force Yang Qing to have no choice. He has no ambition to be the emperor, which can be guaranteed by the minister, he is satisfied with the pattern of the previous Ming Dynasty, and prefers a hypocrite to be a decoration and he is in charge, but he really doesn't have this intention to usurp the throne. Those who want to usurp the throne will definitely mythologize themselves, he is a little different from ordinary people, if he says that he is destined to return, no one can refute it, even Taizu will not be able to be killed by random shots on the battlefield and come back to life. ”

Zhu Yujian said.

"He made it all up himself!"

Lu Liuliang said emotionally.

"Make it up? And what about the duel with the heresy he spoke of on the Treasure Gate? ”

Zhu Yujian said.

Lu Liuliang was speechless for a while.

Indeed, the resumption of the battle of Chuzhou Yang Qing battlefield did see the two sides of the war, but the duel with Tang Ruowang was under the attention of the people of Nanjing, and he also duel more than once, and that year was almost a carnival!

This can't be made up!

"Hmph, it's just sorcery!"

Lu Liuliang said hatefully.

"Whether it's witchcraft or immortals, it's a fact that strange things happen to him, and he can use this to publicize that he is destined to be, but he didn't do it. On the contrary, he continued to strengthen the people's power through the Four People's Congress, forcibly erased the color of the imperial power's destiny, weakened the monarch's power, and made the people know that the imperial power was fearless. Even the king of England who was beheaded by parliament before the propaganda believed that the emperor was only a part of the state, not the emperor that the state was the state, on the contrary, the state belonged to the people, and if the emperor betrayed the country, then the people had the right to put him to death.

So is this a man who wants to usurp the throne?

At least the minister couldn't see that he had this in mind.

If he really wants to be the emperor, he won't cut off his roots first, compared to him playing the destiny of heaven and retaining the aura of destiny for his descendants, what he did before is completely contrary.

It's true that he's authoritarian.

But the result of his dictatorship is the current prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, at this time the Ming Dynasty can be said to have never been rich and prosperous, and there has never been a strong army and horses that are invincible, even if the world of Taizu is not as good as it is now. If it is said that his autocratic power and arbitrariness are exchanged for the continuation of such a prosperous era, even if the first emperor is resurrected, I am afraid that the Ming Dynasty will be considered dead when Li Zicheng's 800,000 army went down to the south of the Yangtze River, and it is he who has been alive and renewed! ”

Zhu Yujian said.

"But he persecuted the clan!"

Lu Liuliang said.

"Yes, but if it weren't for him, the clan would have been killed a long time ago, and without him, I'm afraid that all of them, including me, would have been driven into the Yangtze River to feed the fish like the King of Chu's family. It is true that he is not good to the clan, and he uses the wasteland to force us to open up the wasteland by ourselves and stop all the income of the clan, but as a clan, I have no complaints against him. Because he also gave us a stable life, we no longer have to be displaced, living in exile, not to mention worrying about being wiped out one day, and we don't have to live in fear of suspicion, we can go wherever we want, do whatever we want, and he dares to give us military power.

It's not just me who thinks so.

Do you go and ask King Fu whether he chooses the current pastoral life, or chooses to be a vassal king like in the past, fleeing around with a group of old and weak women and children, and may follow in his father's footsteps at any time?

He himself has made a choice with a broken leg.

You see, since we can't even hate him, do we need you to show our indignation? ”

Zhu Yujian said.

"But he persecuted the virtuous and poisoned the gentry!"

Lu Liuliang said.

"The persecution of virtuous people is not necessarily, even if the virtuous people you are talking about are the ministers of Donglin and the sons of the Fushe, I haven't seen him persecute anyone, has he beheaded anyone all over the house? Didn't he make any official prostitutes? At most, he copied a few of the guilty ones he deserved. And the two Shangshu in the cabinet who were listed in the Donglin Point General Record that year, the first assistant is a disciple of the sages of Donglin, and a lot of squires have a relationship with Donglin, which is probably difficult to describe with persecution, right?

The poisonous gentry is sitting down!

First of all, he collected the gentry tax!

But when did the system of tax exemption for the fame of the gentry begin? If I remember correctly, one product of ten thousand acres was only set by Emperor Shenzong, and Taizu could only be exempted from servitude when he was a scholar, and even deliberately emphasized that Tian Fu could not be exempted. That is to say, the Ming Dynasty does not have a tax-free ancestral system for the gentry, and the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty only has the merit and fame that continues from the Song Dynasty to exempt from servitude.

Secondly, the reform of the health center was used to check the land property.

Those gentry encroached on the official land, did they still encroach on the reason? Yang Qing just asked them to return these encroached official fields, if it was Taizu's time, I am afraid that they would have already been killed, according to me, Yang Qing was too merciful.

Then there is the reform of the imperial examination.

Since the court has the money to bear, why not collect more useful talents? Even in the past, the imperial court would select talents and appoint people among the tributes, Hai Rui had never been admitted to the Jinshi, and Song Yingxing had made a move even when he was the first emperor. Yang Qing is just giving those who are as talented as them but not good at Baguwen a chance to serve the country in a proper manner, this can't be said to be wrong, right? Brother Lu is also a lifter, don't you want to have more channels to get Jinshi? As far as I know, the scholars are now very encouraged by this, and they are all preparing for the new imperial examination next year.

And then the release of slaves.

What was the trigger for the release of slaves?

A veteran who beheaded more than ten levels of disabled soldiers in the bloody war for the country, was caught and beaten by the old master because of his status as a fugitive slave, and killed the old master in self-defense when he resisted.

His military status has effectively been freed from slavery.

He's not a slave anymore!

It was the Huizhou gentry themselves who made a big fuss in order to take revenge and save face, and even caused a popular uprising, and pretended to be bandits to attack the militia and wanted to lynch and kill, which provoked Yang Qing to simply respond with a slave release order. But it has been nearly two years since the slave release decree was issued, has he really done anything compulsorily except for himself to take the lead in changing slaves and maids to employment?

Didn't you?

Then there is the public field law.

But that is only a rumor so far, but it was tried in Nanning Erfu.

In other words, Yang Qing is not sure.

He just wanted to test it out and see what the consequences of the Gongtian Law would be, and whether it could really be implemented, it was just a plan of his that had not yet been decided.

So apart from this last one, which other item is not beneficial to the country and the people? Which one is not for the sake of the Ming Dynasty to make the country richer and stronger? That's why you're against him? Or is it just because of the reforms that have made the country rich and the army strong that have affected the interests of a few of you? Are you only opposing him for your own gain? ”

Zhu Yujian looked at Lu Liuliang and said with some disdain.

The latter was speechless.

Lu Liuliang was still a little tender after all.

But Zhu Yujian has really grown up in Yunnan over the years.

"Your Majesty, the minister doesn't want to say anything, the minister's duty is to protect you when you go to Nanjing, so the minister must fulfill his duties, and the minister will not let you have an accident on the road no matter what. But as a relative and an elder, when it comes to seniority, Your Majesty still has to be called a great-uncle, so as an elder, the minister still wants to say a word of advice to you. If you are for the Ming Dynasty, then please turn back, if you are the people of the world, then please also look back, if you are for your ambition, then the minister will have nothing to say!

That's all for the minister!

Before arriving in Nanjing, the minister would desperately defend His Majesty, but after arriving in Nanjing, the minister's duties were completed, and according to the order of the governor, the minister had a half-year vacation after the end of this mission, and the minister would go back to his fiefdom to deal with family affairs. ”

Zhu Yujian said.

Zhu Cihong's eyes flickered, while Lu Liuliang looked at the emperor nervously.