Zhu Youzhen looked sideways at Cui Chengxiu for a long time before he smiled and said, "I didn't know before, Cui Shangshu was actually scared sometimes. I want to know now, Cui Shangshu, what did you think when you helped Wei Zhongxian deal with those Donglin Party members? Didn't you anticipate at the time that if the Donglin Party turned around, what would happen to you? ”

Cui Chengxiu's body couldn't help but stiffen for a moment before he replied to Chongzhen: "On that day, the Donglin Party claimed that if they were not the same way, they would be enemies. The minister was also forced to help Gonggong Wei fight back. ”

Zhu Youzhen continued: "Don't Cui Shangshu know that after you take over this task and lead the land reform strategy, you and the landlords of the world will become not the same way, that is, the enemy?

For those landlords, whether we violently deprive them of their land or buy them with money, they will not be grateful to us. What's more, the imperial court doesn't have that much money to ransom their land now, so it's impossible for those landlords not to hate us.

In the past, Zhang Jiangling implemented the new policy, but he was hesitant and wanted to leave a way back for others, so after his death, he was counterattacked, causing his family to encounter unspeakable things.

Agrarian reform is more thorough, that is, a bloodless revolution, but this bloodless is not based on our concessions, but on giving them an opportunity to hand over the land on their own initiative.

If they don't hand over the land and don't cooperate with the reform, will we abandon the policy of land reform? This is obviously impossible.

With today's financial situation of the Ming Dynasty, if we do not take the initiative to promote land reform from the top down and solve the current financial problems, we will not be able to afford the military expenses for disaster relief, foreign invasion and internal rebellion. Then in the near future, we will inevitably usher in a bloody revolution from the bottom up.

Think about it, Cui Shangshu. The landlords are unwilling to pay taxes, and the lower classes have lost confidence in the imperial court, what will I do to deal with the revolution that has swept the country? Could it be that I should sit in the Forbidden City and wait to die? ”

Cui Chengxiu is not one of those Qingliu who is ignorant of the world, as the former secretary of the military department, he naturally knows how bad the financial situation of the Ming Dynasty has become, but Wei Zhongxian has been in front of him to clean up this mess, and he is happy to pretend that he can't see it.

There was a shortage of horses in the army, and Wei Zhongxian rewarded the power to walk in the palace and forced those eunuchs to contribute horses; The local area was constantly affected by disasters, and there was a rebellion of luxury and peace inside, and there was an invasion of Houjin outside, but the treasury was empty, and it was Wei Zhongxian who sent tax supervisors to collect commercial taxes directly from the local government, which barely supported the operation of the imperial court.

Of course, these tax supervisors who were sent down could not get the support of the local officials, and could only recruit some ruffians to act, and in addition to paying the regular taxes of the imperial court, they also lost a lot of their own pockets, so that they were disgusted by the local gentry, and the reputation of the eunuch party plummeted, which is also a true thing.

But Cui Chengxiu still doesn't think there's anything wrong with what Wei Zhongxian did, if Wei Zhongxian doesn't do it, where will the imperial court go to scavenge for money to help the victims and pay military salaries? In today's Ming Dynasty, except for the southeast region, which is still rich, it is already very difficult for other regions to maintain food and clothing.

If the imperial court does not raise taxes on the wealthy merchants and gentry in the southeast, will it not be able to raise taxes on the victims of Shaanxi who sell their sons and daughters? Those Donglin Party members don't understand economics, don't pay attention to practice, and go around in the rhetoric of gentlemen and villains all day long, which is simply of no help to state affairs. This is also the reason why Cui Chengxiu did not have any burden in his heart when he assisted Wei Zhongxian to deal with the Donglin party.

However, even so, Cui Chengxiu himself is still a member of the Ming gentry. He was only willing to take refuge in Wei Zhongxian to deal with the Donglin Party, and he also vaguely felt that the Ming Dynasty would end sooner or later if he went on like this, so he tried to save himself. But this way of self-help is just an emergency measure, and when Daming gets through the current difficulties, he still hopes to be able to return to the original track.

When Zhu Youzhen proposed to him the idea that the cultivator should have his land, his most daring guess was to do the same as the Wanli New Deal, to prevent the land annexation of the Ming Dynasty in a short period of time, and to force some of the powerful gentry to spit out some land, so as to alleviate social contradictions and extend the life of the Ming Dynasty for several decades.

However, what he had heard now was completely beyond the scope of his thinking these days, and his ideas that had already taken shape were useless.

According to Chongzhen's thinking, the land reform policy was no longer an emergency policy, and he regarded all the landlords in the world as rivals or enemies from the beginning. It's hard for Cui Chengxiu to imagine that if this reform is really realized in the future, will Daming still be Daming?

Regarding Chongzhen's question, Cui Chengxiu subconsciously dodged and replied: "Is Your Majesty too worried?" Although there are indeed some foolish people who do not know the current affairs among the gentry in the world, the ministers think that most of them are still loyal to His Majesty and the Ming Dynasty. Why didn't Your Majesty give them a chance..."

Zhu Youzhen immediately interrupted him and said: "If they are really loyal to me and the Ming Dynasty, they should take the initiative to cooperate with the imperial court to implement land reform, and overcome the current difficulties with the imperial court."

Instead of feeling that he was a farmer in ancient times: he worked at sunrise and rested at sunset. Dig wells and drink, plough fields and eat. What is Dili to me!

If today's Ming Dynasty wants to continue, it is necessary to mobilize the manpower, material and financial resources of the whole Ming Dynasty to solve the problem of food and clothing for the whole country, and then to solve the external invaders and internal separatist forces. In the midst of this change, no Ming person can stay out of it.

What is the point of a person who guards his own farmhouse, closes his door and lives his own small life, and turns a deaf ear to the hungry and cold cries of the victims outside the door, even if he is loyal to me?

The reason why I say this so frankly with you is that I hope you will be able to see your position clearly, and not be fooled by the old friendship and morality, and make wrong judgments in the process of implementing land reform, after all, we are now in the same boat. ”

When Cui Chengxiu got off the emperor's carriage, he felt that his head was still a little groggy, and the impact of a not long conversation was really not small.

Cui Chengxiu used to feel that his courage was very great, even Wei Zhongxian sometimes hesitated because of something, and he still needed to find him to analyze it, so as to finally make up his mind.

Today, however, he was at a loss, and now it seemed that the emperor had more courage than he had imagined. And what makes him feel bad the most is that he still hasn't figured out what Chongzhen is pushing for this land reform.

No matter what anyone does, he must have a goal. Like Wei Zhongxian, everything he does is to win the trust of the Apocalypse and pursue the power to protect himself. As long as he understands a person's purpose, Choi Chengxiu has also found a way to cater to him.

However, in front of Chongzhen, he failed to get any hints, in his own opinion, the implementation of land reform may not be a good thing, without the support of the gentry of the world, Chongzhen's throne may not be able to sit so securely. Without understanding the purpose of the emperor's land reform, he could not adjust the methods and steps of the reform according to his own ideas, and he lost the power to promote land reform independently.

However, in the conversation of the carriage, Cui Chengxiu has vaguely understood Chongzhen's determination to implement land reform, and only these three specific implementation plans cannot be considered in two or three days.

This also shows that the emperor's planning for land reform is not a matter of one or two days, and he can press this kind of major event until a big victory before starting to do it, Cui Chengxiu feels that he does not have to worry, after the implementation of land reform encounters difficulties, the emperor will easily abandon himself.

Of course, after listening to Chongzhen's plan, Cui Chengxiu also knew that he could only follow the emperor's steps now, if he couldn't become a knife in the emperor's hands, then there was no doubt that he would become the target of those harvested by the emperor, and even the first batch of objects to be harvested, after all, the stains on his body were too many to count.

Cui Chengxiu naturally won't give those political enemies a chance, even if they really want to die, it's better for everyone to die together, Cui Chengxiu gritted his teeth and stomped his feet and thought.

The entourage who had been following him watched Cui Chengxiu's actions, and hurriedly ran up and whispered to him, "Does the master feel cold?" The carriage in the house is just behind, is the lord getting in the car to warm up? ”

Cui Chengxiu turned his head and glared at the entourage for a long time, seeing that his scalp was a little numb, and then said gloomily: "It's okay, by the way, send someone to call the second master back, master, I have something to discuss with him..."

North of the Xifengkou of the Great Wall, a procession that stretched for miles was walking along a north-south river in the direction of Qingcheng in the north.

This team is the main force of the Houjin army that evacuated from the pass, and after the Mang Gurtai Division, which left the pass ahead of schedule yesterday, joined up with the broken Huang Taiji, Daishan and other troops, the three big Baylors discussed it and decided to return along the same route.

Since the Houjin army left all the new annexed troops, it only brought with them those Ming generals and their families who surrendered to the Houjin, as well as the artisan battalion. And he collected all the cattle and wagons from the gates, and took away all the grain he had gathered. Therefore, on the way back to Shenyang, the Houjin army was not short of food.

But Huang Taiji insisted on taking all 36 tribes along the way, on the grounds that they would not be retaliated against by the Ming army. In this way, the speed of the march of the army was slowed down by these Mongolian tribes who dragged their families and mouths.

What's more, some tribes don't want to move to Liaodong at all, and they always want to break away from the team along the way.

After enduring it for two days, Mang Gurtai finally pulled Dai Shan to Huang Taiji to question, although most of the losses in this battle were Mongols, but the Eight Banners armor soldiers and miscellaneous servants also lost half of them, so the morale of the entire army was still quite low.

In this situation, everyone is eager to return to Shenyang as soon as possible to recuperate, rather than taking these Mongolian tribes on the road.

After listening to Mang Gurtai's complaints, Huang Taiji did not reply positively, but turned his head to Dai Shan and said sincerely: "Second brother, although we didn't take much advantage in this battle of Ming Dynasty, we finally understood the reality of the Ming people, right?"

Although these Ming troops in Guannei were not as good at fighting as the Ming army in Liaoxi, the new firearms they used were much stronger than those of the Ming army in Liaoxi. The generals of the Ming army also said that these new firearms were just developed by the Ming people, and there was no large-scale replacement equipment for the Ming army.

If we hadn't fought this battle, who would have known the power of the Ming army's new firearms? If we wait until the Ming army is replaced with these new firearms, won't we have to suffer a big loss in the conflict with the Ming army in Liaodong? You say, "Is that true?" ”

Dai Shan looked at Mang Gurtai and then at Huang Taiji, and finally replied: "This is true, if the Ming army is equipped with new firearms, especially those short red cannons, and fights us in the field, we will really suffer a big loss." ”

Huang Taiji continued to complain: "But since I withdrew from the Great Wall, the fifth brother felt as if we had lost some kind of battle, and the face of the angel showed me.

I'm going to ask the second brother, the three of us led the troops together, and the goal of the crusade was changed halfway, and I also asked the two Baylors. The fifth brother always thinks that we have lost the battle, what does it mean?

Could it be that the three of us led the troops to the battle, and after losing the battle, the fifth brother's face was bright, and the second brother and I were sinners? ”