"Gongzi Qin, according to what you say, isn't it my Great Xia, who has already fallen into a dangerous situation?" Qin Yi said, and Chu Feng stood up in the seat of the student column, "However, in fact, this is not the case. The net annual income of the treasury is 10,000,000 taels of silver, and the people are 100,000 taels a year, how can such a rich country fall into ruin? ”

"Didn't you say that to please the Eight Sages? If so, I'm afraid you'll be disappointed! The Eight Sages King is now thirty-five years old, and according to the ancestral system, he has to leave the court, which means that the changes proposed by Changyang Marquis Yu Shifan are no longer supported! What's the matter, Qin Gongzi, you want to fight against the court? ”

"Haha, I think Young Master Chu can have any thought-provoking words, but I never thought it would be so short-sighted?"

Qin Yi's face, which was originally full of gratitude, once again became cold. He naturally knew that the current Eight Sages King of Daxia had reached the age of thirty-five, and according to the ancestral system, he should be going to return to the land of food to enjoy life. However, some of the reasons he put forward for changing the law were not as Chu Feng said, so Qin Yi wanted to refute it fiercely.

"Since the Eight Sages have returned to the land of food, I still insist on my own opinion. Don't you know that the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband? Today's prosperity is just the end of a strong crossbow, and the drawbacks hidden in the depths have long been accumulated, didn't Gongzi Chu see it? If not, let me list a few, for example, the agricultural tax is heavy, and the commercial tax is light, so that the people would rather engage in business than farming, and over time a large area of land will be barren, in fact, such things happen in Yongzhou. ”

For example, in the case of selling official positions, merchants in the Yuezhou area can obtain official positions by virtue of the money they donate to the national treasury. Selling the official beard is a sign of the country's demise, isn't this clear to the prince of Chu? ”

Qin Yi's words, like nails, pierced Chu Feng's heart, and then he became silent, obviously acquiescing to what Qin Yi said.

In other words, Qin Yi's words made Chu Feng unable to refute, and he couldn't find any fault in those words at all. Moreover, all of what Qin Yi said was a well-known fact, and there was no fiction in it at all, and Chu Feng couldn't think of any words to justify himself against this.

"Qin Gongzi, slow down!" Just as Qin Yi was about to continue, Baili Shou among the crowd suddenly shouted, "Even though there are many situations at home and abroad in Great Xia, this is only a part of the appearance, and it is only a very rare situation, and it is not a time to talk about survival at all." ”

"Definitely! Baili Gongzi's words are wrong! ”

Qin Yi raised his eyes to look at Baili to keep the promise, but when he saw that he was full of anger, his expression was full of arrogance. Qin Yi saw it clearly, and he also knew in his heart that Baili Shouyue, as a descendant of the Baili family, would naturally have such arrogance.

Everyone in the world knows that the Baili family was originally a big family in Yizhou, and later migrated to the Liangzhou area. Over the past 400 years, this family has produced many talents. There was once a hundred miles of Wangrong led a large army to attack the northern frontier, breaking 30 cities in a row and returning; Later, there were hundreds of miles of Manjushri into the court as a phase.

Although there are not many people who are officials now, everyone understands that the Baili family has done their best to cultivate the Baili Covenant is by no means comparable to ordinary people.

Qin Yi could naturally hear that although there was nothing exact in what Baili Shou had just said, if he refuted it, he would inevitably take advantage of it.

However, no matter what, Qin Yi had to take the call: "I heard that the son of Baili once traveled all over the world with his father, he must be well-informed!" In that case, why don't you invite Baili Gongzi to talk about your views on the current situation in Great Xia? ”

He is anti-guest-oriented, and puts the initiative directly in the hands of Baili Shou Covenant, the purpose of which is very simple, that is, to let Bai Li Shou Covenant say his own opinion, and he can find loopholes from it.

"What, is your Qin Gongzi so capable?"

Baili Shouyue seemed to see through Qin Yi's thoughts, and the corners of his mouth turned up, revealing a weird smile.

"In the past, Emperor Xuanzongwu once said that the ancestral system cannot be violated, and future generations should abide by its system until 800 years later. If it is calculated, it has only been more than 400 years since Emperor Xuanzongwu said this, and it is not yet time to change the system! Therefore, I think that Qin Gongzi's words can be said to be alarmist! ”

"Even if Yu Shifan, the Marquis of Changyang, put forward the idea of changing the law in the court, and even if he has the support of the Eight Sages of the Imperial Family, as long as the Emperor of Great Xia does not agree, the change will have to be shelved. Therefore, you have to be clear about this Qin Gongzi! ”

When Qin Yi heard this, there was no expression on his face, but his mind was churning. Emperor Xuanzongwu in the Middle Han Dynasty did say something like that, but it was talking about some military systems, which was far from what Qin Yi wanted to express.

"Haha, Baili Gongzi is wrong again! The ancestral system that Emperor Xuanzongwu refers to is the four-level military rank system of generals, schools, battalions, and guards, not the tax system and the like! In the following article, what is said is very simple, why change the law, not because of the old system, but because under this system, there have been some drawbacks, such as family governance! ”

"The fundamental reason for the civil uprising in Jiaozhou is not because the people are not living well, but because the local Zhou family controls the local official positions at all levels, expropriates and hoards wealth from the people. Therefore, the civil uprising that occurred only after the people were oppressed to the extreme. Such a thing is naturally caused by this kind of drawback. ”

"If this malpractice is not eliminated, it means that more and more families will do such things, and at that time, there will be a sudden uprising in various places, which will turn into rebellion, and eventually change the dynasty. And there is another hypothesis, that is, a foreign enemy takes advantage of the opportunity of national chaos to invade, so what should we do? Therefore, what this son said that Great Xia is already in danger of survival, which is not wrong at all. ”

His words were loud and clear, and everyone fell silent. They know very well why such a family is arising. The fundamental reason for this lies in the imperfections of some of the existing systems. To be precise, it means that the power to appoint officials is delegated to the local government, and it is not concentrated in the center of the court.

The state chaplain can appoint county officials, so much so that some of the state chaplains will be cronyistic, and eventually the entire state will be under the control of the state pastor's family. In other words, it's a divided prince!

At this time, many people stopped talking, they were thinking about what Qin Yi said.