Looking at the little princess in front of him, Chen Yue felt a trace of pity in his heart, waved his hand lightly, and Die'er, who was serving on the side, showed a smile on his face, and left the imperial study lightly with a few palace people.

Feeling Chen Yue's scorching gaze, Kun Xing's speed of flipping through suddenly decreased, and a blush appeared on his face, slowly spreading to the root of his ear.

Looking at Kun Xing's shyness, Chen Yue suddenly felt interesting, so he looked at Kun Xing's back without blinking.

With a shake of his hand, a little ink dripped on the snow-white paper, and soon a large mess was lost, Kun Xing threw the brush aside angrily, and looked at Chen Yue with a pretended anger and hummed: "It's all your ...... to blame."

Chen Yue laughed, stepped forward and grabbed Kun Xing's slender hand, and with a slight force, he pulled Kun Xing up from the seat and reached out to hold it in his arms. Kun Xing stretched out his fist and pounded Chen Yue's chest a few times, then lay on Chen Yue's chest and did not move.

The room suddenly fell silent, and a beautiful atmosphere spread.

......

"Ahh Kun Xing's face flushed, he pulled Chen Yue away, took a few steps back and sat on the chair, staring at Chen Yue with a flushed face, his chest falling together.

Chen Yue also sat down and said, "How is it, are you tired of seeing this?" ”

Kun Xing sighed slowly: "I'm almost tired to death, now I know how hard my father was at the beginning, I just looked at these notes, and I didn't approve the decision, I felt that my head was big, and my father had to review so much every day." ”

Chen Yue smiled: "Your Majesty is full of energy and goes straight to Hong Wuye, but there are some things that Your Majesty does not do well." ”

Kun Xing puffed out his eyes: "Don't say bad things about my father!" ”

"Where?" Chen Yue said aggrievedly, "I'm just talking about things." ”

"Then tell me what my father didn't do well?" Kun Xing asked with a glare.

Chen Yue said: "Your Majesty's diligence is close to Hong Wuye, but there is one thing Your Majesty is not clear, when Hong Wuye overthrew Meng Yuan to dominate the world, no one in the world is dissatisfied with its might, Hong Wuye is eloquent and strategic, rebuilding China on a ruin, and formulating various systems has been used to this day.

And today, all kinds of rules have existed for hundreds of years, all the ministries of the imperial court perform their duties, and the system of the Ming Dynasty tends to be stable. As long as there is no infighting, as long as the order is not changed overnight, as long as the plan is formulated and progressed step by step, it will not be a problem for the Ming Dynasty to maintain it for another hundred years.

Since His Majesty ascended the throne, he first listened to the plan of the Donglin Party, dismissed the factory guards, and trusted the Donglin gentlemen, but did not realize that power needs checks and balances.

And in fact, after the loss of the imbalance of the factory guards, the civil officials are rampant day by day, and His Majesty has lost his eyes and ears, and many things can only be fooled by them.

Later, as the situation deteriorated, His Majesty lost trust in the civil officials, and began to do everything himself, insisting on handling every matter of government affairs by himself, and reviewing and reviewing every day until late at night, but what? The situation in the Ming Dynasty deteriorated even more, the courtiers fell into a never-ending party dispute, His Majesty was tired of dealing with the government, and the situation in the world continued to deteriorate.

The emperor regarded the ministers as grass mustard, and the ministers regarded the emperor as enemies, saying that they were loyal to the monarch, but what they did was all for their own deeds. When the thieves waved eastward, they rushed to surrender one by one. ”

"You, you," Princess Kunxing pointed at Chen Yue, her eyes red, "You are so bold, can all of this be attributed to my father?" ”

Chen Yue sighed, "The situation in the world has deteriorated to this point, of course, you can't blame Your Majesty entirely. But in all sincerity, is Your Majesty really doing a good job? ”

Kun Xing was silent when he heard this, the world has deteriorated to this point, it is really a shame to say that his father is really doing well, but he can't blame his father for all this, right?

"Of course, you can't blame Your Majesty, Daming has reached the current situation, just like an old man, entering old age, all kinds of stubborn diseases are deep-rooted, if you can take care of it properly, you should be able to live longer, if you act in a hurry like Your Majesty, you can only accelerate death." Chen Yue sighed.

"You mean that Da Ming is really hopeless?" Kun Xing asked.

"It's normal to be like this, but who let me have it, it's completely different with me." Chen Yue said with a smile.

"Hmph, no shame!"

"What I said just now is not to criticize Your Majesty, but to tell you what you should do as a monarch, I know that Princess, you are dedicated to the Ming Dynasty, in order to complete Your Majesty's mind of the Ming Dynasty. But many times it is not that you will be diligent in government and things will necessarily get better, you have to learn to let go and learn to trust your courtiers.

Those who are kings do not have to do everything themselves, if so, what is the use of the ministers?

As long as you are a gentleman, you need to be deaf and clear-sighted, know the general trend of the world, know people well, and put the right people in the right position, and do this. As for the complicated government affairs, it is only when it comes to real matters that need to be interrogated, such as ordinary general affairs can be handled by the cabinet. The courtiers are not doing well, there are inspectors and imperial historians to check and fill in the gaps, and there are brocade guards for the princess to keep an eye on, so there is no need to do everything yourself. ”

Seeing Princess Kunxing's serious appearance, Chen Yue was afraid that she would become another Chongzhen, so he tried his best to admonish.

After listening to Chen Yue's words, Princess Kunxing thought carefully for a long time before nodding.

"People understand, but they really don't understand a lot of things now, and they want to get familiar with the government as soon as possible." Kun Xing said aggrievedly.

Chen Yue smiled: "It's okay to be familiar, but don't be too tired, freezing three feet is not a day's cold, and you have to take your time to be familiar with government affairs, you can't expect to eat a fat man for a day." ”

Kun Xing nodded, knowing that Chen Yue was worried about himself, thinking about himself, and said obediently: "Got it......"

"You just said that my father was fooled by those ministers of the court, right? You still make me believe in them? After a while, Princess Kunxing suddenly remembered something and asked.

"It's normal to be fooled, and there have been battles for the power of the monarch in all dynasties. The civil officials always want to offer the emperor as a Buddha, so that they can do whatever they want in the world. That's why Wanli Ye was forced by the ministers not to go to court for decades.

And if an emperor can be deaf and clear-sighted, he can distinguish right from wrong and not be fooled by the ministers, so that he can control the world. His Majesty's mistake was to abolish the factory guards as soon as he ascended the throne, which was tantamount to cutting off his own ears and eyes, and then what he heard and saw was what the civil officials told him, how could he not be fooled.

But you are different, princess, now that Jinyiwei is in our hands, and the scale of Jinyiwei will become bigger and bigger, who dares to fool us? So compared to Your Majesty, your starting point is undoubtedly much higher, Princess.

The ministers must be guarded against and trusted, otherwise how should so many government affairs be handled? ”

Princess Kunxing nodded as if she didn't understand.

"It doesn't matter if you don't understand, with me, just learn slowly." Chen Yue said with a smile.

Princess Kunxing nodded and snuggled up to Chen Yue's chest.

"Ah Yue, this world is like this, is it really my father's fault?" Princess Kunxing is still a little worried.

"There is the responsibility of His Majesty, but it is more of an inherent stubborn disease of the Ming Dynasty." Chen Yue said.

"Can you elaborate?"

"There are many stubborn diseases in the Ming Dynasty, and the biggest stubborn disease is that the people in the court are poor, and the wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few people.

The clan, the nobles, and the gentry, these three groups of people accounted for more than ninety percent of the wealth of the Ming Dynasty, and more than ninety percent of the people were poor. If it is an ordinary year, everyone can have something to eat, and life can go on. However, in recent decades, the weather has become colder and colder, and the drought in the north has not yielded any harvest for many years, and the people are waiting to be fed. The imperial court not only could not take out the money and food for disaster relief, but in order to deal with the Manchu people outside the customs for many years, the people had to take risks, so there was a rebellion of the displaced people in northern Shaanxi, which lasted for more than ten years, and the Ming Dynasty also fell into the current situation.

However, now the Ming Dynasty has lost half of the rivers and mountains, most of the clans sealed in the north no longer exist, there are not too many clans in the south, and most of the nobles in Beijing no longer exist, and the nobles in Nanjing were purged by me two years ago, and now there are only a few left. Now the only one of the three is the gentry, and in the south, the gentry are deeply entrenched.

The enterer is the official, the retreat is the squire, this Ming is not so much your Zhu family, but the gentry, in this south, the gentry control more than eighty percent of the land of the Ming Dynasty, control more than ninety percent of the wealth of the Ming Dynasty, the decree of the imperial court can only go down to the county seat, and the vast countryside is the world of the gentry!

The gentry controlled a large amount of land but did not have to pay any taxes, and the gentry controlled all the business in the world but never paid commercial taxes. The trade in the south is extremely developed, and the tea, porcelain, silk and cotton cloth are sold all over the world, but the imperial court collects very little commercial tax every year, and the income of the imperial court is only salt tax and field tax, but the real tax is mainly commercial tax, but these businesses are in the hands of the gentry, and the Ming Dynasty has no commercial status at all, even if he wants to collect commercial tax, he can't put it away.

The taxes of the imperial court are all pressed on those poor people, and they all say that the land of rich fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River is said to have heaven and Suzhou and Hangzhou, but every disaster year, there are still countless people who sell their sons and daughters.

The gentry is a leech attached to the body of the Ming Dynasty, and if it is not clear for a day, the Ming Dynasty will not be able to recover for a day! ”

"However, if there are no gentry, who will manage the world for my Zhu family? And if we really want to deal with the gentry, we will inevitably oppose the Manchu Dynasty, and there will be fires everywhere, and we don't need to be called by the Manchu Tartars, I'm afraid the gentry will be able to overthrow us. Princess Kunxing questioned, although she, like Chongzhen, instinctively distrusted the officials, she also knew that the Ming Dynasty could not do without the gentry.

Chen Yue nodded approvingly, very happy for Kun Xing's intelligence, "Naturally, we can't easily declare war on the gentry, at least not now." The world is undecided, and we need a stable situation, so I am talking to Shi Kefa and them, even if they enter Nanjing, they will not be touched.

Only when our strength reaches a certain level, when we drive away the Mantars and recover the country, and our prestige is unparalleled for a while, can we really use the knife against them.

Of course, at that time, it was not to kill them all, but to promote the integrated taxation of the gentry and collect the head tax of commercial taxes.

Moreover, we must cultivate our own forces, cultivate forces that can really replace these gentry.

What the gentry rely on is to be an official in the imperial examination, and the rule that non-jinshi is not allowed to be an official, we must gradually break this. ”

"Can you be an official without taking the imperial examination?" Kun Xing asked with a slight frown.

"Of course, who stipulates that you have to be a jinshi to be an official? Those who read are not diligent and do not distinguish between grains and grains, and can become the lord of a county by reading the four books and five classics by familiarizing themselves with a few articles, but many people don't understand the general affairs at all, even if they do official things, they are all done by the officials below, in this case, why can't they let the officials be officials directly? These officials have been officials for generations, and who can be familiar with them in terms of being familiar with government affairs? However, the rule that non-jinshi is not allowed to be an official makes countless talents unable to display their wisdom, and there is no way to rise, so they can only desperately reap the benefits. If you open a way out for these people, these people may not be able to do better.

For example, the current governor of Jiangxi, Yan Yingyuan, was originally just a classic history of Jiangyin, and he made a lot of contributions for many years before he was promoted to the main secretary, if there was no accident, he would not want to be a magistrate in his life. But after the Western Thieves invaded Jiangxi, those county prefects either surrendered to the thieves one by one, or watched their cities be broken by the thieves, and as long as Yan Yingyuan, who was born as a small official, not only held the city of Ji'an, but took the initiative to send troops to attack the thieves, defeated the general of the thief army, and contained tens of thousands of thieves for our army. Tell me, how many of those officials who were born as scholars can compare to this Yan Yingyuan?

Therefore, I have already done a pilot project in Jiangxi, promoted these capable officials to become officials, supplemented by officers stationed in our garrison, and completely changed the official system in Jiangxi.

Now that too many places in Jiangxi and Huguang have fallen, the imperial court does not have so many reserve officials, so they can only agree to my request for the time being. However, it won't be long before Shi Kefa and the others will definitely play the role of opening Enke and replacing the officials I appointed with new Kejinshi, and I hope you will definitely stop them then. At least Kaienke will never allow it. ”

Princess Kunxing nodded, "I understand." ”

Chen Yue continued: "Also, I plan to open a martial arts academy in Nanjing, recruit students from all over the world, and enter the army after the two-year study period. The military system of our Ming Dynasty has long been corrupted, and only by changing the military system can we improve our combat effectiveness.

At the same time, I plan to start business schools and engineering colleges in the future, train all kinds of technical talents, and slowly replace the imperial examination scholars with students from these colleges in the future, and gradually change the official system of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Chen Yue's words made Kun Xing stunned, she didn't expect Chen Yue's layout to be so far-reaching, and when she heard that Da Ming was going to be Zhongxing, Kun Xing's breathing became short.

Daming Zhongxing, this is Chongzhen's lifelong ideal, and it is also the goal of Princess Kunxing in the future. And Chen Yue's words made Princess Kunxing see the hope of ZTE.

ps: Today's Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, I went back to my hometown to help my father harvest corn, I was tired to death after a day of farm work, and I was idle at nine o'clock, and I have to have at least one day tomorrow. But thinking about the current tense of the forced push period, the breaking will greatly disappoint the editors, and even more disappoint the readers' brothers and sisters, so I gritted my teeth and wrote 4,000 words.