Chen Bangyan pondered for a moment and said: "The minister has two opinions, I don't know which one the emperor wants to hear?" ”

Zhu Youlang was stunned when he saw it and said, "There are two other views? You might as well talk about it, and I'll listen. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Chen Bangyan looked up at the north for a moment, shook his head, and sighed lightly: "When Emperor Chongzhen was here, there were Dongyu in the north who frequently knocked on the pass, and Li Chuang in the west who ravaged Shaanxi and Gansu. ”

Zhu Youlang nodded, since Wanli, scholars and doctors like to form parties and dump each other, which has become a trend. As the saying goes, there is no party emperor outside the party, and there are no factions in the party that are strange, but things are often bad because the party is the same and the different are bad.

Since the collapse of the Chongzhen Dynasty since the Wanli Dynasty, a big reason for the decline of the Ming Dynasty is the scourge of party strife, how many things should be done, it is abandoned because it is involved in party strife, how much should not be done, it is also because of party strife and disaster to the country and the people, Chen Bangyan as a private move, can see through this is not easy.

Chen Bangyan said eloquently: "In the nearly 300 years since the founding of our emperor and Ming Dynasty, land annexation has become increasingly serious, and corrupt officials and corrupt officials have piled up, so that the people are not able to make a living. ”

For this point, Zhu Youlang also empathizes, the land annexation situation of the Ming Dynasty is not serious at least in the Ming Xiaozong, Gu Yanwu praised this time: "The family is full of people, the house has a room, and the tenant has a field." But by the time of the Longqing period, it was already "especially different, the rich at the end are the majority, the rich are as little as possible, the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, the rising ones are alone, and the falling ones are changing". In the Wanli Chongzhen period, land annexation, the disparity between the rich and the poor is even more serious, "it is very different, the rich are one hundred, the poor are ten and nine, the poor can not be the rich, and the less can control more." Jin Ling Sitian, the god of money, greedy, and cannibalistic. ”

For more than 200 years in the Ming Dynasty, the corruption of officialdom has been almost incurable, and the civil officials are crazy about accumulating money, eager to knock out the bones of the people and squeeze them dry.

The officials all said that the clan had eaten the Ming Dynasty, as if they were silently dedicating themselves to the Ming Dynasty. The clan is certainly a bloodsucker that inhabits the empire, but these gentry and doctors are not inferior to bloodsuckers. Just like the salary of foreign armies, according to the convention, Beijing officials have to share sixty percent of the profits, even when the slaves were built into the Kou and the chaos was rampant, there was no excessive concession.

Although there were a very small number of honest and loyal ministers in the Manchu Dynasty, these people were rare and unable to shake the accumulated habits of hundreds of years, let alone the gray chain of interests.

"Three hundred years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the corruption of land annexation and officialdom is indeed very serious. That's right, but I don't know what Chen Aiqing's second view is? ”

"As for the second one-" Chen Bangyan paused slightly, seeing that there seemed to be expectation in the emperor's eyes, he suddenly forgot to be afraid, and also forgot to pay attention to etiquette, raised his head, looked at Zhu Youlang with blazing eyes, and said in a deep voice: "Then it depends on the tax law formulated by the great grandfather." For three hundred years, our dynasty has always been heavy on agricultural taxes and light on commercial taxes, and it was fine at the beginning of the country, but now there are many Dingkou, but most of the fields have been concealed and eaten by the noble ministers, and the people can only become displaced people if they lose their land, and the agricultural taxes of the imperial court are gradually drying up, but they cannot be supplemented by commercial taxes because of the ancestral system.

To say that during the Two Song Dynasty, the Zhao official family has always attached importance to commercial taxes, even if the territory is declining, the imperial court is still financially abundant, and it can earn tens of millions of yuan a year by relying on commercial taxes.

On the other hand, in the national dynasty, the gentry in Jiangnan were all over the country, and they were rich, but the imperial court could hardly collect a trace of commercial taxes. Speaking of this, he smiled and said: "In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Weichen learned from the evil newspaper 1 that Nanzhili only received six taels of tea tax, which is really a big joke!" During the two Song Dynasty, the sea trade was developed, and the imperial court closed tens of millions of foreign taxes every year. As for the dynasty, the sea trade in Quanzhou is also developed, but the annual market tax is only 40,000 taels!

Since the first year of Chongzhen's military rise, the imperial court has to spend 10 million taels of military expenses every year, and the tax revenue of the treasury is only more than 2 million taels, the Son of Heaven hindered the ancestral system, can only increase the burden on the people, forcing the people to become thieves, the court suppressed thieves, the number of officials and soldiers surged, the military expenditure was not enough, and they had to be added, and the number of displaced people increased, so that in the end the number of officials and soldiers was millions, and the state affairs became more and more out of control. So in the final analysis, my Ming Dynasty is not subject to natural disasters and thieves, nor is it subject to the East Captivity and corruption, but to the money law! ”

1. Evil retribution: also known as "evil copy". An official newspaper copied by ancient hand. In the Ming Dynasty, woodblock printing was used, and in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, it was changed to movable type printing, with the content of publishing edicts, songs, and pond newspapers.

Although Chen Bangyan was only a cloth cloth before, he secretly cared about the government very much, because he always thought that he would be among them one day, so he knew everything about the affairs of the court.

After the tirade, Chen Bangyan breathed slightly, checking the emperor's expression, but saw that the emperor lowered his head and pondered, and remained silent for a long time. Chen Bangyan didn't know what the emperor was thinking in his heart, whether he was happy or angry, and recalled that he had just spoken impassionedly, pointing out that Fang Xuan was very different from his usual caution, and he couldn't help but have some speculation in his heart. Time seemed to stop here, and in the midst of uneasiness, Zhu Youlang stroked his palm and sighed: "Aiqing's opinion is really every word, and it hits the nail on the head!" Zhu Youlang was both surprised and happy at the moment, he didn't expect this Chen Bangyan to have such insight, he is definitely a rare talent!

In the late Ming Dynasty, commerce was extremely developed, especially during the Wanli, Tianqi and Chongzhen dynasties, the overseas trade was huge, resulting in a large amount of silver flowing into China, incomplete statistics, the silver flowing into China from overseas at the end of the Ming Dynasty was as high as more than 500 million taels.

However, the development of commerce and the large inflow of silver were divided among the merchants, nobles, literati and doctors, and the small people and the imperial court did not get much benefit.

At this time, the country's economic center of gravity had shifted from agriculture to industry and commerce, and at this time, the civil officials and doctors had colluded with the merchants, and even to a certain extent, they were the spokesmen of the merchants, and if the imperial court wanted to increase the commercial tax to increase the revenue of the treasury, they would be frantically obstructed.

The merchants at the end of the Ming Dynasty occupied most of the country's wealth at that time, and it was supposed to pay some commercial taxes, and it was better to make the merchants cry than to make the peasants cry.

If the businessmen cry, the country is just a small mess, and the peasants cry, then they can only rebel, and the country will be ruined.

The Wanli Emperor did not compromise, withstood the pressure, increased a lot of commercial taxes, and reduced domestic contradictions, but he was also scolded by shameless literati and slandered by the Manchus after his death.

Chongzhen was too stubborn in the ancestral system, was fooled by the literati and doctors, did not dare to take a step beyond the thunder pool, confiscated how many taxes, and reduced a lot, resulting in the country's financial burden being transferred to the small people and homesteaders, making the rich richer and the poor poorer, and the social contradictions continued to increase, and finally embarked on the road to the destruction of the country.