Fang Yuan took Zhu Yihai's suspicious gaze in his eyes, for Zhu Yihai, the most beneficial thing was of course to follow Fang Yuan to make trouble and make a fuss in a feudal town. Even if it is not a feudal town, it is necessary to protect the Ming Dynasty, only the world is the world of the Ming Dynasty, and he, the king of Lu, can rely on the system to guarantee the hereditary king of Lu.

The most unfavorable thing for Zhu Yihai is that Fang Yuan actually has the same idea as Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others, which is to rebel and overthrow the great tomorrow, so all the princes surnamed Zhu will lose the iron rice bowl that they rely on to be rich for life and wealth from generation to generation.

Whether it is the imperial court or Sun Chuanting, sending Zhu Yihai, the representative of the vassal king, to come to the peace talks, is to put pressure on Fang Yuan, so that Fang Yuan knows that the Ming Dynasty is still the world of the Ming Dynasty. If there is really a rebellion, don't say that the imperial court of the capital will come to crusade, and the vassal kings who have become semi-feudal towns in various parts of the Ming Dynasty will also attack it in groups.

Since Zhu Yihai came with a mission, Fang Yuan also informed the imperial court, Sun Chuanting, and other Ming vassal kings through his mouth by the way.

Fang Yuan put the edict on the table, pointed to the first one unhurriedly and said, "His Royal Highness King Lu, this one, going to the regent number, is actually abolishing the two-headed political pattern of the reality of the virtual monarch, which is absolutely impossible." The double-headed political pattern was designed by me, and the imperial power and the relative power checked and balanced each other, so as to prevent the emergence of faint kings and tyrants, and achieve long-term peace and stability in the world, which must not be abolished! ”

Zhu Yihai was shocked when he heard Fang Yuan's words, in the imperial society, the emperor is the unique son of heaven, even if he thinks so in his heart, he can't say it in public. Fang Yuan actually said that he wanted to use the power of the prime minister to contain the imperial power, it was simply a great rebellion, and the crime should be Ling Chi!

Fang Yuan continued, "So the first one, my condition is that the virtual monarch reality system must be implemented, and at present, the prince of the prison state and I are each other's monarchs. If the peace talks are successful, His Majesty can replace the Prince of the Prison State, but the Prince of the Prison State must be appointed as the crown prince. Because the prince of the prison country has lost his heart and is crazy, he is incapable and unqualified to be the crown prince. ”

Zhu Yihai saw that he had bitten the Void Monarch to death and did not let go, so he sighed deeply and said, "If the regent says it, I will bring it to the court truthfully?!" ”

Fang Yuan ordered the maid to send a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, put it in front of Zhu Yihai, and said with a smile, "Of course, what I said today, His Royal Highness King Lu had better bring it to the court and His Majesty word for word." ”

Zhu Yihai was worried that there was an omission in his memory, so he hurriedly wrote them down on the rice paper one by one, and after writing Fang Yuan's response to the first condition, he looked at Fang Yuan and asked, "Regent, what about the second one?!" ”

Fang Yuan continued to point to the second article and said, "It is true that there cannot be two cabinets in the world, but it is not the vibrant and vibrant cabinet in Jiangnan that should be abolished, but the rotten, dull, and floating cabinet in the capital. ”

Zhu Yihai looked at him and asked, "What do you say?!" ”

Fang Yuan got up and paced back and forth, and said, "The Jiangnan Cabinet, as well as the business associations and the people's general association, are all selected from the rich businessmen and ordinary people in the private sector. Cabinet members can truly listen to the voices and demands of the private sector in order to achieve more targeted administration. ”

"And the cabinet in the capital is full of pure bureaucrats who rely on connections and connections, just like a castle in the air without a cornerstone. Formulating policies is either a sycophant to the emperor, or proceeding from the interests of his own small group, completely divorced from the national conditions and people's feelings. What is this rotten, purely bureaucratic cabinet to do, and crown it with a monkey?! ”

"Therefore, Article 2 should also be changed, and the cabinet in the capital should be merged and cut, and the Jiangnan cabinet should be retained. The business associations under the name of the Cabinet and the General Assembly of the People must also be retained. Of course, for the sake of the cabinet elders and cabinet members in the capital to have a place to retire, I also vacated a seat in the cabinet, and a scholar and two waiters in the six ministries for placement. ”

Zhu Yihai smiled bitterly when he heard this, Fang Yuan not only approved the Ming royal family, but even the officialdom of the capital was sprayed, and the peace talks were all fart, but in order to go back to Sun Chuanting and give an explanation to the court, he still recorded it truthfully.

Fang Yuan tasted the tea, waited for Zhu Yihai to finish writing, and then continued, "Article 3, the establishment of the Xuanjia Army is a radish and a pit, and it must not be cut. What really should be cut are those guards in the north that eat at least 6 or 70 percent of their empty salary. Each guard is named 5,000 people, but less than 2,000 people are actually in the guard, and most of them are temporarily brought in to fill the number, and this kind of guard must undergo major surgery to rectify. The finances of the imperial court cannot fall into the hands of the commanders and acquaintances of the guards for no reason. ”

"I spent four or five years in Jiangnan, and finally squeezed out the water of Jiangnanwei's empty salary. Where in this world is there a saying that the elite soldiers and fierce generals are reduced, but the old, weak, sick and disabled are retained?! ”

Fang Yuan's attitude was that the Xuanjia Army, which was really called upon and capable of fighting, would not be reduced, but would instead reduce the old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers of the guards under the command of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies in the capital.

Zhu Yihai listened to the record and shook his head secretly, so far he could almost judge that this peace negotiation would never succeed, and it was strange that the imperial court in the capital would accept such humiliating conditions. Moreover, Fang Yuan had no sincerity in the peace talks at all, and it was clear that he was opening his mouth widely. In other words, it was not Fang Yuan's return to the imperial court at all, but Fang Yuan's forcing the imperial court to reform according to his ideas.

Fang Yuan took his depressed face in his eyes, and explained slightly, "The Ming Dynasty will fall into today's field, and it can't rely on the Liukou inside, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty can't be outside." Even though there are various arguments, they either blame Wei Zhongxian's eunuchs, or blame the Donglin Party, which is only good at talking, and even blame Yuan Chonghuan back then, Kong Youde, Shang Kexi and others who defected to the enemy. These are actually the reasons for the skin, and the real crux of Daming is the system. ”

"In fact, not only the Ming Dynasty, but also the strong Han and the Tang Dynasty without exception did not gradually decline from strong and prosperous. The system has not changed, and even if the Ming Dynasty survives the current crisis, it is just surviving. exterminated Li Zicheng and Zhang Zicheng; Eradicated the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there were also the northern red hairs, the eastern Japan, and even the Western Franc machine countries. ”

"Once the system hinders the development of the productive forces, it will fall behind, and if it is backward, it will be beaten. The Ming Dynasty can remain unchanged for eternity, but other countries are changing, and the so-called sailing against the current will retreat if you don't advance. When other countries change quantitatively into qualitative changes, and when they come in a big way, the Ming Dynasty will really be doomed. ”

Fang Yuan said these words bitterly, in fact, he didn't say it to Zhu Yihai, but hoped that Zhu Yihai could spread his words of returning to the heart to the capital and to Chongzhen's ears. He had to control the power, but also for the long-term peace and stability of the Ming Dynasty and the land of China.

Zhu Yihai recorded some jerky and difficult words, and on the other hand, he didn't consult Fang Yuan, and finally spent nearly an hour to memorize all of Fang Yuan's words, "Regent, is there anything else?" ”

Fang Yuan stared at Zhu Yihai and said slowly, "There is another one, which was not mentioned in the imperial court's edict, and I added it." First, starting from Emperor Taizu, all the Ming vassal kings canonized in all dynasties must hand over their fiefs in steps. If it is less than 5,000 acres, it does not need to be handed over, and all of it can be retained; 5,000 mu to 50,000 mu, 50 per cent of the more 5,000 mu shall be handed over; 50,000 mu to 500,000 mu shall be handed over to eighty percent. ”

"Second, all the supplies of the Ming clan are only retained for myself and my son, and after the third generation, all of them are lost to the people, and they no longer enjoy the support of the imperial court."

As soon as Zhu Yihai heard Fang Yuan's condition, he not only had to force the king of the Ming Dynasty to hand over the land, but also to rectify the support system of the Ming clan, so that even the line of King Lu was also in the ranks of rectification.

Zhu Yihai's surprise was not trivial, and he said hesitantly, "Regent, this, isn't this too much of a deception?!" ”