Fang Yuan elaborated on the real threat facing the Great Ming, Chongzhen was silent in thought, and the hand holding the sword was slightly lowered. Queen Zhou and the princess looked at each other, and the atmosphere at the scene was extremely solemn.

Fang Yuan's idea not only took into account the overall situation of the world in front of him, but even the current situation in a few hundred years.

Moreover, what Fang Yuan said was by no means unbelievable, not to mention the endless new gadgets brought by Fang Yuan, even the previous Ming Dynasty's muskets and artillery were actually imitations of the muskets and Hongyi cannons of the Franco. The fleet of sailors of the Ming Dynasty is also very different from the fleet of the Franco.

Before the invasion of the Franco-mechanics from the sea, the Ming Dynasty could not but give up the right to rule the islands along the coast of Guangdong and Fujian, and even the inland areas such as Guangzhou and Quanzhou were gradually infiltrated. still relied on bribing the fleet of the warlord Zheng Zhilong to barely maintain the peace of the Daming Sea Frontier, but he also had to give Zheng Zhilong the big fat meat market tax in return.

Now that Zheng Zhilong has fallen, only Fang Yuan's sailors can expel the Francois people's covetousness of the Ming Dynasty. Fang Yuan's statement that one or two hundred years later, the Franco-robot people would invade the Ming Sea Frontier on a large scale was by no means alarmist, but a real threat.

Chongzhen said in a deep voice, "I know about these crises, but what does it have to do with your set of virtual monarch reality system? As long as the Ming monarchs and ministers are united, they can also develop military science and technology, and leave the Francophone far behind! ”

Fang Yuan asked rhetorically, "The Ming monarch and the ministers are single-minded? Your Majesty, at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Northern Expedition to Mengyuan had at least 500,000 troops; Emperor Chengzu patrolled Mongolia and mobilized more than 500,000 troops; Even in the disaster of Tumubao, Emperor Yingzong was able to easily mobilize more than 500,000 troops. But by the time of the first emperor Tianqi Emperor and His Majesty, the Ming Dynasty was prosperous in both agriculture and commerce, and the population was far more than that of Emperor Taizu, Emperor Chengzu, and Emperor Yingzong. Why did Xiong Tingbi want to requisition 200,000 troops and 180,000 war horses, but he was overstretched? Why is it so difficult to mobilize 100,000 troops during the Renchen Change? Why did the Ming army suddenly lose its ability to fight in the field and let the Manchus wreak havoc? ”

He asked rhetorically like a cannon, Chongzhen was speechless, Chongzhen has been in power for more than ten years, and he has not been able to find out the problem of the joints, so he can only have a headache and a foot pain.

Chongzhen asked rhetorically, "Then why are you?!" ”

Fang Yuan said in a deep voice, "Because of the military resources of the Ming Dynasty, they have long been hollowed out by the extremely corrupt military and political system!" Chen fought in the south and the north, and took over hundreds of guards, so he can tell His Majesty a piece of data. ”

"In the ordinary guardhouse, there are 5,000 people, at least seventy percent of them eat empty salaries, and the rest of the sergeants are only two hundred elite soldiers, and the rest are all old and remnants who are indiscriminately filled; Even the most elite Guanning army in the Ming Dynasty, the minister has just finished counting, 50,000 Guanning troops, 50% of the salary, and the remaining 10,000 elite soldiers. Why is the combat power of the Guanning army strong, not that Yuan Chonghuan, Zu Dashou, and Wu Sangui are brave and good at fighting, but that they are relatively clean compared to other Ming armies! ”

"Your Majesty has said that there is no silver, no silver, where does the money that has been allocated go? I went to the pockets of the officers who commanded the guard! ”

Chongzhen sighed deeply and said slowly, "Fang Yuan, as soon as I came to power, I copied the eunuch party, isn't this fighting corruption?!" ”

Fang Yuan asked, "Your Majesty, dare to ask how many officials and how much silver you copied from the eunuchs?" ”

Chongzhen groaned and said, "There are dozens of eunuch officials, more than 100 people involved in the case, silver, silver, tens of thousands of taels." ”

Fang Yuan took out two volumes of Jinyiwei's scrolls from his arms and handed them to Chongzhen, "Your Majesty, here is a minister in Jiangnan, according to the number of corrupt officials reported by the masses, there are four hundred and eighty-seven people, and half of the officialdom in Jiangnan has been cleaned, and one or twenty million taels of family property have been confiscated. Not to mention whether the eunuch party is good or evil, there are only a few dozen eunuchs in the world, and only tens of thousands of taels of silver? The minister asked Your Majesty again, in the more than ten years since he ascended the throne, in addition to killing many dereliction of duty officials, how many corrupt officials have been killed, are there 30 people? ”

Chongzhen reviewed the first volume, and had to admit that the number of corrupt officials confiscated by Fang Yuan in Jiangnan District in a few years was more than ten times the number of corrupt officials found by Chongzhen in more than ten years.

Chongzhen sighed and said, "It's the dereliction of duty of the Jinyi Guard in the capital!" Locke is damned! ”

Fang Yuan shook his head, handed over another volume, and handed it to Chongzhen, "Your Majesty, don't mention Luo Yangxing, don't mention it, take a look at this volume, it is the book of impermanence that Luo Yangxing just ordered to take from Jinyi Weiwei." ”

Chongzhen hurriedly took the impermanence book of Jinyiwei and looked at it, which was impressively listed at least three or four hundred corrupt and black materials of officials of all sizes in the capital, all of which were shocking, and even the cabinet bachelors were all listed.

Chongzhen was really taken aback at this time, before he thought that Jinyiwei did not find out the corrupt officials, and it was Jinyiwei who was incompetent, but now it seems that Jinyiwei has already found out the corrupt officials, but he didn't report it to him, the emperor.

Chongzhen was so angry that his blood surged, slammed the scroll on the ground, and shouted, "Kill!" Damn it! These officials should all be killed! ”

Fang Yuan picked up the volume that Luo Yang had sexually delivered, and said lightly, "Your Majesty should now understand why the general trend of the world is getting worse and worse after more than ten years on the throne?" It's just that the bureaucracy of the Ming Dynasty, including the Inner Court Jinyiwei, the East Factory and the Outer Court, has long been colluded, and they only want to deceive the superiors and subordinates and loot the people's fat and ointment, what can Your Majesty find out? ! ”

Chongzhen finally threw the sword on the ground, looked up to the sky and cried, "I have been a wise man for more than ten years, but in fact, I have always been blind and deaf, and I have been played around by those officials, I am a faint king, a faint king!" I am sorry for the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty, I can only apologize for my sins with death! ”

Fang Yuan saluted respectfully, "Your Majesty is really a model of a wise monarch through the ages, not a good woman, advocating frugality, diligent and loving the people." As long as the ministers have a little military and political advice that benefits the country and the people, even if His Majesty sleeps, he can get up from the dragon couch and go to meet him. His Majesty's behavior is inferior to even the ministers, only sincere admiration! If Your Majesty is in a peaceful and prosperous world, he will undoubtedly be a prosperous king. But Your Majesty may not have expected that the problem of corruption in the Ming Dynasty cannot be solved by a good emperor, and the root cause of all corruption is in the system! ”

Chongzhen wiped away his tears and looked at Fang Yuandao, "You, make it clear." ”

Fang Yuan said slowly, "Your Majesty and the people should be all the way, because they all hope for a peaceful and prosperous world." And the bureaucracy is nothing more than a mother with milk, Li Zicheng came to take refuge in Li Zicheng, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty came to take refuge in the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Prosperous times and troubled times are of no importance to them, as long as it is not in their interests, they would rather overthrow the prosperous times and welcome the troubled times. ”

"To control corruption, it is necessary to supervise from the bottom up and give full play to the subjective initiative of the people, so that the corruption of the bureaucracy can be thoroughly curbed. All anti-corruption actions that are divorced from the people are just tools of party struggle! ”

His words made Chongzhen is mouth suddenly open, and he suddenly realized, looking at Fang Yuan in a daze, unable to say a word.

Fang Yuan said in a deep voice, "The reason why the minister disapproves of His Majesty's proposal is not because he wants to usurp the Ming Dynasty. Rather, what the ministers want to implement is a kind of top-level containment and supervision by the Ming royal family and the regent to avoid dictatorship and disorder; The middle relies on the people's bottom-up supervision to control corruption; Then stimulate the vitality and creativity of the people at the bottom, so as to drive the development of productive forces by leaps and bounds, so that Daming has always maintained a system at the top of the world's military science and technology power. ”

"Can you really do what the minister said, what is the full liquidation, what is Meng Yuan? The minister also wanted to take Korea, Japan, Luzon, and Malaga, and create a Ming Dynasty that was far more brilliant than the Han and Tang dynasties. ”

Chongzhen and Queen Zhou were silent when they heard his ambitions, with such an excellent son-in-law, what else could they say? The princess looked at him with joy and adoration on her face, if her husband is like this, what more can a woman ask for?!

Chongzhen had already admitted defeat to Fang Yuan in his heart, but the emperor still couldn't pull it down, and sighed, "Donkey, if you can do it in the capital, you can punish those damned bureaucrats more than me." I'll admit defeat to you! ”

Seeing that Chongzhen was finally relieved, Fang Yuan was overjoyed, and asked rhetorically, "Your Majesty once raised donations from hundreds of officials, how much did you donate?!" ”

Chongzhen said helplessly, "Twenty thousand taels of silver." ”

Fang Yuan said solemnly, "Okay, the minister will order the officials of the capital to hand over 20 million taels of silver!" ”

The figure of 20 million taels of silver was astronomical in Chongzhen's opinion, and he looked at him silently for a while and said, "If the horses can really make them hand over 20 million taels of silver, I, abdicate!" ”