Xu Guangqi saw Zhu Cijiong's face full of melancholy, his brows were deeply locked, and he knew that the emperor was upset, so he didn't say anything, but solemnly gave Zhu Cijiong a courtesy.

Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but wonder, usually when there is no one in private, these red tape etiquette are waived, Xu Guangqi is so solemn today, he has to solemnly give Xu Guangqi a teacher-student gift.

Xu Guangqi accepted his salute calmly, then took out a piece of music from his arms, and said solemnly: "Your Majesty, although Weichen is nominally your teacher, he has never taught you anything, and Weichen is deeply ashamed. Today, Wechen specially wrote a note, I hope it can help you. ”

After that, he solemnly handed the fold to Zhu Cijiong.

How does this sound a little like a confession! Zhu Cijiong looked at Xu Guangqi blankly, he was really old, his hair and beard were all white, and his hands and feet seemed to be a little disobedient. His eyes shifted to Xu Guangqi's trembling hands, and when he saw the fold, he reacted, and hurriedly took the fold respectfully with both hands, and asked worriedly: "Teacher, what's wrong with you?" ”

Xu Guangqi shook his hand with satisfaction and said with a smile: "It's nothing, it's nothing, this person is easy to feel nostalgic as soon as he gets older, the emperor doesn't have to worry, Weichen is fine." ”

After saying that, he actually gave up and retired!

Zhu Cijiong stood stunned for a long time before coming back to his senses, what happened to Xu Guangqi, is it because of the content in the recital that he is so out of shape? It's so strange, Zhu Cijiong shook his head, gently opened the fold, and looked at it carefully.

As soon as he saw the title, Zhu Cijiong's face immediately became solemn, because the title of this piece of music is: The Way of the King!

He has been an emperor for three or four years, and no one has taught him the way to be a king, it stands to reason that these should be taught by his father's words and deeds, but who told him that his father died early, basically hung up without teaching him anything!

Now that someone has finally taught him the way to be a king, how can he not pay attention to it, he ran back to his desk in three steps and two steps, sat down and read it seriously.

The first paragraph is nothing, it is an excerpt from the first volume of Zhenguan dignitaries, the first paragraph of the monarch's way:

For the way of the king, the people must be saved first, and if the people are harmed to serve their bodies, they will still cut off their shares to eat their stomachs, and their stomachs will be full and they will die. If the world is safe, it must be corrected first, and there is no one who is upright and shadowed, and the upper rule is chaotic.

This is a passage that Tang Taizong Li Shimin said to his courtiers, which means that when you are the monarch of a country, you must first save the people. If you sacrifice the interests of the common people to feed yourself, it is like cutting the flesh on your thighs to fill your belly, and when your stomach is full, you will die. If you want the world to be stable, you must first correct yourself, and there will never be a body upright and a shadow bent, and the top will be governed and the bottom will be in turmoil.

What does this have to do with you? I didn't bully the people, and I didn't misbehave!

Zhu Cijiong looked down curiously, it turned out that Xu Guangqi was not criticizing Zhu Cijiong for misbehaving and harming the interests of the people, he was talking about the clansmen of the royal family!

In the second paragraph, he quoted a passage from the Jiajing period, which was supervised by the Zhili Imperial Shi Lin Run: Today's affairs are extremely disadvantageous and worrying, and it is more than the wealth of the world of the sect and the world to provide 4 million stones of grain for the Jingshi, and the 8.53 million stones of Lu Mifan in the palaces everywhere is not less than double. That is, for example, in Shanxi, there are 1.52 million stones of rice, and 3.12 million stones of Lu rice; In Henan, there are 843,000 stones of rice, and 1,920,000 stones of Lumi. It is the grain of the two provinces that has been borrowed and lost, which is less than half of the rice supplied to Lu, and the situation is that the officials and military salaries are all out of it.

Immediately afterwards, he listed the titles and seniority standards of the royal family:

Prince: 10,000 stones

King of the county: 2,000 stone of rice

General Zhenguo: Lu Mi 1,000 stones

Auxiliary General: Eight hundred stone of Lumi

General Fengguo: Lu Mi 600 stones

Lieutenant Zhenguo: Lu Mi 500 stones

Auxiliary Lieutenant: Lu Mi 400 stones

Lieutenant Fengguo: Lu Mi 300 stones

This doesn't seem like much, a lieutenant of Fengguo only costs 300 stone a year, which is only 300 taels of silver when converted into silver, and a relative of the emperor, this amount of money doesn't seem to be enough to spend at all. If it was the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the sum of this Lumi was naturally not much, Zhu Yuanzhang only had twenty-six sons in total, more than thirty grandchildren, and other brothers and uncles added up to less than a hundred, and Lumi was only hundreds of thousands of stones, which was nothing to the entire Ming Dynasty.

However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was different, because the children of the clan were too capable of giving birth, the so-called full of warm thoughts, and there was nothing to do when they were full all day long, what should I do? Naturally, it is the most comfortable to carry out the man-making movement, not only is it comfortable for itself, but if you accidentally create a handle, then you will make a lot of money, a Fengguo lieutenant can earn three hundred taels of silver a year, at least more than ten years in vain!

Therefore, the children of the clan are desperately born, the famous literati Wang Shizhen recorded in the Huangming event that Zhu Jixuan, the king of Qingcheng County, gave birth to a hundred sons in one breath, except for the eldest son hereditary county king, the other ninety-nine are all Zhenguo generals, and when the family gathering, there was a joke between the same father and brother who could not know everything, and the fertility of these royal relatives can be seen!

According to Xu Guangqi's statistics, by the third year of Chongzheng, the number of royal clansmen had reached a terrifying more than 300,000, and the annual income of Lu rice had reached a terrifying of more than 13 million stones.

In this way, these clan relatives were not satisfied, most of them indulged in wealth and nobility, arrogant and arrogant, did not know etiquette, and even colluded with the local gentry to annex land, forcibly accept wives and concubines, and oppress tenant farmers, so that the people were not able to make a living, and thieves were everywhere. Like Henan, where land annexation is the most serious, Xu Guangqi quoted a poem from Li Yulin's send-off in Henan: Only Sun Lu, the king of Fangcao, does not enter the house of Emperor Zhumen. This means that in addition to the official road left for the kings and grandsons and commoners to walk together, the rest of the land in Henan is the private property of the clan surnamed Zhu!

Of course, this is a bit exaggerated, Xu Guangqi next cited the private land of the royal family in various provinces, among which the land annexation between Shanxi and Henan is the most serious, almost all the best fields in Shanxi Province are occupied by the clan, and Henan has 72 princes and county kings, and more than half of the land in Henan is the private property of these 72 royal families!

Not only did they take the annual income of the imperial court for nothing, but they also continued to annex land, so that the royal family and clan occupied more and more land, while the peasants became tenant farmers, slaves, outcasts, and even thieves because they had no land to plant! According to incomplete statistics, by the early years of Chongzheng, the land that fell into the hands of the royal family and the landlords and gentry had reached a terrifying amount of more than 5 million hectares, and the total cultivated land area of the entire Ming Dynasty was only about 10 million hectares!

Xu Guangqi also counted a terrifying rule, that is, every thirty years, the number of royal relatives will double, that is to say, in another thirty years, all the taxes of the Ming Dynasty will not add up enough to pay the royal family relatives!

Seeing this, Zhu Cijiong's face turned blue, these moths, don't you know that Daming will be eaten by them sooner or later? If you don't do anything meaningful at all, you know that you are desperate to give birth, desperately enclosure, desperately enjoy, desperately squeezing, and the good Daming is full of holes, and now the moth-eaten Daming is dying, but let me have a child less than ten years old in front of you to shelter you from the wind and rain!

What a damn bastard!

It is no wonder that Li Zicheng just killed the blessed king Zhu Changxun in Luoyang, and immediately his voice was shocked, and the responders gathered, turning from a rogue to a savior of the people

No wonder Zhang Xianzhong just killed Zhu Yiming, the king of Xiangyang, and immediately won the support of the people, from a murderous demon king to a bodhisattva who saves suffering!

No wonder the people are attached to the thieves and not the soldiers, it is these feudal kings and clans who usually do too much evil, which has already made the heavens angry and resentful, the officials forced the people to rebel, how could the people not rebel?

And the representative of this official turned out to be not Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen, let alone his Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong, but this vassal king, these clan relatives, these moths, these bastards!

Now that Zhu Cijiong finally understands the root cause of the fall of the Ming Dynasty, no wonder Emperor Chongzhen didn't buy the disaster relief people again and again, no wonder the poor people of the Ming Dynasty couldn't even get together the military rations in the end, they were all harmed by these moths!

In the end, Xu Guangqi put forward a strategy very vaguely, that is: borrow a knife to kill, gather all the defenders of the state capitals, and pursue the main force of the peasant rebel army, as long as the others do not capture the city, they will not be taken care of for the time being.

Just let them make trouble, anyway, the peasant uprising army will not kill ordinary civilians, and they are very polite to Qing officials, they only kill those corrupt officials and royal relatives, let them kill, kill all these moths, and make a bright future!

Zhu Cijiong understood that Xu Guangqi did not persuade him to implement benevolent governance, which was a method that only the emperor of the prosperous era could use. The reason why he quoted the words of Tang Taizong Li Shimin in the first paragraph was not to let him follow Li Shimin's example to implement benevolent governance, but to imply that he was a king in troubled times and wanted to kill decisively, you know, Li Shimin even killed his own brothers!

No wonder Xu Guangqi behaved so strangely today, he was probably afraid that Zhu Cijiong would miss his blood and family affection, and he couldn't bear to do it, you must know that those princes and princes are all Zhu Cijiong's uncles and even grandfathers!

He was wrong about this, Zhu Cijiong is not the original Zhu Cijiong, he came through time, and there is no family relationship with those moths at all. He only knew that Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Apocalypse was his father, and the regent Zhu Youzhen was his uncle, and as for the other royal relatives, he knew who you were!

It just so happens that more than half of the victims of the five provinces have moved out, and the rest are either rogues or royal relatives and their minions, as for the real civilians, most of them are military households, and they are all staying near the guard, and those thieves will not run to attack the guard for no reason. At that time, the five northwestern provinces of Chongzhen Dynasty were ten rooms and nine empty, and the little people left now, he Zhu Cijiong was damaged, lost, gained, and gained!

Thinking of this, Zhu Cijiong's eyes flashed, and he shouted: "Cao Huachun." ”

Cao Huachun entered in response, kowtowed and saluted: "Weichen is here." ”

Zhu Cijiong folded the music and handed it to him, and then said coldly: "It's burned." ”

Cao Huachun didn't say a word, took out the fire fold and folded it a little, and the fold was quickly drowned in the firelight.

(Tianjin)