"Effort pays off."

Yang Qing said.

"I have no enmity with the gentry in Jiangnan, I am not targeting you, but I also hope that you can understand that there are no eggs under the nest, and the purpose of the imperial court to collect taxes is to strengthen the army, and only a strong army can ensure that Li Zicheng will not cross the Yangtze River.

And Li Zicheng will not cross the Yangtze River, which is the premise for the Jiangnan gentry to maintain fine clothes and food.

So why don't you pay taxes?

If you don't pay for it, will you let Your Majesty raise taxes on the poor as you did in the north? You have already seen the consequences of that, that is, all the poor people could not bear to surrender to Li Zicheng, and together with Li Zicheng, they purged the gentry and killed them to the ground. If His Majesty continued to maintain the privileges of the gentry in Jiangnan, as in the north, and satisfied the finances of the imperial court by increasing the oppression of the people, the result would be that the people of Jiangnan would open the door to meet the king like the people in the north, and then Li Zicheng's army would kill the Yangtze River and carry out a bloody baptism of the Jiangnan gentry with them.

This is an inevitable result. ”

He continued.

"But isn't it the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty to exempt officials and famous people?"

A green worm said cautiously.

"The ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty? Where did the Ming ancestral system come from? Are you bullying me for not understanding the laws of the Ming Dynasty? Taizu ordered the officials and gentry to be exempted from forced labor, where did they get the free money and food? At present, what the imperial court does is just the rules of the Shenzong era, this is what you call the Ming ancestral system? ”

Yang Qing said.

The Ming Dynasty really did not have an ancestral system of tax exemption for the gentry.

If you think about it, you know how Zhu Yuanzhang, who is extremely harsh on officials, can be so generous, he just exempts these people from forced labor, but he also deliberately explained that Tian Fu is not among them, and the gentry of the Ming Dynasty are exempt from taxes from generation to generation by those civil officials. Including like the Northern Song Dynasty civil officials fooling the emperor in this dynasty and not killing civil officials, the emperor fooled that this was the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty, and he took it seriously in the end, although there was no such thing at all, but they couldn't stand their mouths to pull it, and finally confused the emperor and didn't know what his ancestors had done.

The standard of the late Ming Dynasty was set by Wanli.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty had completely become a civilian government, and the emperor could be driven to the palace to hide quietly, and those civil officials of course formulated the system to the point of being good to themselves to the point of exaggeration. According to the preferential exemption standard of the Wanli Dynasty, Beijing officials are exempt from tax of 10,000 mu for the first product, more than 2,000 mu for the eighth grade, and half for foreign officials.

That's the standard.

And that's not counting their hidden fields.

In fact, if you can basically be completely tax-free if you do a first-class Beijing official, the standard of 10,000 mu, does the local official still dare to check whether the land of the first-class official really has 10,000 mu? He has hundreds of thousands of acres, and I am afraid that the registration of the government will not exceed 10,000.

The green worm quickly shut up.

Zhu Yuanzhang is brought out, so no matter which dynasty the rules are followed, they will all get out.

"I invite you to come ......"

Yang Qing paused.

Those green insects were speechless for a while, we were obviously carried by brocade clothes and guards in sacks.

"I invite you to come in the hope that you can tell your classmates, village party, and friends when you go back, so that they can understand that this tax collection is essentially to protect the gentry, the emperor and the gentry are one family, and the emperor is not in harmony with the gentry's family, who else can he be with the gentry? To keep the Ming Dynasty is to keep your good life, the gentry pay a little more money, the court can hold Huainan, Jiangnan is still singing, dancing and dancing, otherwise it will be a shot and two scattered! ”

Yang Qing said.

Those scholars hurriedly agreed.

Those who can choose to leave voluntarily must be smart people, and they will not fail to understand.

As for Gu Yanwu......

"Everyone, please go back, today is also abrupt, as for Brother Gu, please stay for the time being!"

Yang Qing then said.

Those green worms left in a hurry as if they had been granted amnesty, leaving only Gu Yanwu.

The latter looked at Yang Qing with a puzzled expression.

"Brother Gu, it can be seen that Brother Gu is also a very thoughtful person, different from them, brother, I am often thinking about some new things, let's have an in-depth chat, for example, you are responsible for the rise and fall of the world......

Yang Qing said.

"This is the proposal of Zhong Yongbo."

Gu Yanwu cautiously reminded him.

In fact, Gu Yanwu has never said these eight words, he just said a paragraph with the same meaning, but more words, and then it was summarized by Liang Qichao at the end of the Qing Dynasty, but now it has become Yang Qing's summary for him, but his thinking as a person can be regarded as very progressive. In fact, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, these Confucian scholars who learned from their hearts were already moving towards an ideological enlightenment, although there were many strange and heretical, but in essence, they were all using ideological changes to deal with the era of change. It's just that they were all beaten to death by our Qing Dynasty later, and the slave school, which had already begun to be overwhelmed, took the opportunity to turn over again with the support of foreign colonists and stepped directly into the dust of history, and it was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty that it gradually returned from the Wa Kingdom.

In this case, of course, it is necessary to induce.

"I just blurted out that whimsical after listening to your words."

Yang Qing said modestly.

"The world rises and falls, needless to say, what is the death of the world? If the Qin and Han dynasties succeeded, it would be the death of the country rather than the world for the Qin, who is it? The Liu family is also the people of China, and there is no racial difference between the same species, but the country of the Win family is dead and the country of the Liu family is prosperous, and there is no change in the rise and fall of the world. And those who die in the world, such as Hu Yuan's destruction of the Song Dynasty, this is the death of the world, what is it? Hu Yuan is not a Chinese citizen, does not speak the Chinese language, does not write Chinese characters, does not worship the ancestors of China, is a foreign invasion in China, similar to the Spanish rule of Luzon, the Dutch rule of Java, the construction of slaves to seize Korea, with its people as slaves and dogs, killing its people is no different from killing pigs and dogs.

This is the death of the world!

Those who have lost their country, and their retainers are also!

Those who die in the world, although the husband is also responsible.

Therefore, the one who has achieved the righteousness of the country is not too clear, what is it? Taizu started from the cold, raised the righteous soldiers, chased away foreign races, and re-established the society of China, for the people of China, it is to prosper the world!

This is the rise and fall of the world, and the husband is responsible!

So let's talk about these eight words, there is another important content in these eight words.

That's equality.

The rise and fall of the world, whether it is the nobles, gentry or commoners are responsible, since there is no high and low at the time of difficulty, then how can there be a distinction between high and low when the peace is undertaken? In this land of China, all the farmers and industrialists are equal, but they perform their own duties, the peasants farm, the craftsmen make tools, the merchants circulate or not, the soldiers bravely kill the enemy, the officials maintain the dispatch, and ensure the order of the whole order, so that they can mobilize the strength of the whole people to resist when the foreign enemy invades, and all people only have different division of labor, and there is no difference between high and low, which is the real responsibility of the rise and fall of the world. ”

He went on to say.

"What about the king?"

Gu Yanwu asked very slyly.

"Isn't it right that Emperor Taizu will rejuvenate the world and re-establish my Huaxia Society, and that future generations will have Taizu's legacy as the lord of all people?"

Yang Qing said.

"What's that going back to?"

Gu Yanwu then asked.

"If the Ming Dynasty dies in Li Zicheng, it will be a dead country, but I am the minister of the Ming Dynasty, and I should do my best to protect the Zhu family, of course, if you are willing to Li Zicheng to come over, it is your own business, but this lord is a minister of the Ming Dynasty and should be loyal to the Ming Dynasty. On the contrary, if Jiannu entered the customs at the beginning, destroyed Li Zicheng like destroying Korea, and then invaded the south, and shaved his hair to destroy the Chinese inheritance, then the world would be destroyed, and whether the subjects of the Zhu family or not should fight to the end. ”

Yang Qing said.

He is not afraid that these words will reach Chongzhen's ears!

He even beat Chongzhen and was afraid of this?

Besides, he is not the only one who says similar things, those ministers often use the world as the world of Taizu to teach the emperors, so that the Ming Emperor will not be too sensitive to this concept!

"Uncle Zhong Yong is very straightforward!"

Gu Yanwu said.

"I've always been straightforward, and I don't need to hide it, but it's a pity that there are few really knowledgeable people around me, and there are some things I like that I want to talk to, and you can say something similar to my thoughts It's also a worthy friendship, if you're interested, you might as well come to me and sit there, let's sit and talk about it, I also want to know what you Jiangdong talents are thinking in your hearts!"

Yang Qing said.

"Then thank you for the favor of the lord!"

Gu Yanwu said.

He thought that Yang Qing wanted to use him to establish a communication channel with these families in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, after all, it was impossible for a northerner like Yang Qing not to be entangled in interests with the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

However, Yang Qing just felt that he was still a manufacturable material.

Although it is not appropriate to propagate those things that are too advanced in this era, basic things such as equality are still necessary, and the national concept is also necessary, as well as scientific thought. And he definitely can't do these things, he has to support a thinker to accomplish these, Gu Yanwu is undoubtedly the most suitable candidate, the difference between the death of the country and the death of the world is what he proposed, this has actually begun to change to the modern national concept, and the concept of the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband, and there is also a prototype of equality and modern citizenship.

Then choose him to be the betrayer of this feudal era.

In addition, he is a person who is practice-oriented.

Compared with the so-called sons who are covered in the stench of decay, he can be said to be a pure outlier, and when the latter chanted Fengyue on the Qinhuai River, he was already writing completely reality-oriented works such as the pros and cons of the world's counties.

Then he is also more science-oriented.

In fact, most of these newly rising literati in the Susong area paid attention to science, which was driven by Xu Guangqi, and it can be said that if the delta on the south bank of the Yangtze River estuary was not interrupted by our Qing Dynasty, it was the only place in this era where there was hope for the enlightenment of modern thought in the Ming Dynasty. Just support Gu Yanwu, and then let him lead the trend in this area, and brag to Chongzhen when necessary, Chongzhen is now eager to seek talents, especially like these new talents who pay attention to practice.