Chen Bangyan looked up at the north for a moment, shook his head, and sighed lightly: "When the Emperor Lie was there, there were Donglu in the north and frequently knocking on the pass, and Li Chuang in the west was wreaking havoc in Shaanxi and Gansu. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Zhu Youhua nodded, and was quite surprised by Chen Bangyan's outspoken words, and also quite touched, 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 fall of the Chongzhen Dynasty, a big reason for the collapse of the Ming Dynasty is the scourge of party strife, how many things should be done, that is, because they are involved in party strife and abandoned, how much should not be done, but also because of party strife and disaster to the country and the people, although Chen Bangyan is a student, no experience in officialdom, but he is a person who understands. In this regard, it is much stronger than those Donglin ministers.

Chen Bangyan continued to talk eloquently: "The private party makes public opinion not extended, the government program is sluggish, and the disadvantages are extreme! At this difficult time, if you want to share the same hatred and hatred, the emperor must first eliminate the party dispute. ”

"It's a good word to eliminate party strife, dare to ask sir, what should I do to eliminate party strife?"

Chen Bangyan didn't answer and asked, "What does Your Majesty think you should do?" ”

Zhu Youhua pondered for a moment and said: "All those who quote should be warned one by one, they must learn lessons, innovate and change their minds, do not harbor personal favors, do not vent personal anger, and serve the court with all their hearts and hearts." ”

Chen Bangyan shook his head after hearing this, and said: "The party struggle has been going on for a long time, and the interests are very extensive, how can it be discouraged by admonition? ”

"What does the gentleman think?" Zhu Youhua didn't mind Chen Bangyan's rudeness, but said with a smile.

Chen Bangyan paced for a moment and said in a deep voice: "The student advocates that the Tao is moderate and the punishment is rewarded, depending on his merits. ”

"Your way is moderate...... Zhu Youhua blurted out. Chen Bangyan immediately nodded: "The Tao is moderate, impartial and reconciles the disputes between friends, and rewards and punishments are based on their merits and demerits, and the imperial court discipline is re-established, which may eliminate the bad habit of the party and fighting against differences." ”

Zhu Youhua was not very satisfied after hearing this: "It is easy to stop the party dispute, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to implement." ”

Chen Bangyan was ashamed and said: "The student has ideas and no ideas, which makes His Majesty laugh." ”

"It doesn't matter, if the party strife is so easy to eliminate, the emperor will not be exhausted for seventeen years and helpless." Zhu Youhua waved his hand generously, and said: "Mr. just said the first type, I don't know what this second type is?" ”

Chen Bangyan paused slightly, and said, "Then it has to be said from 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. When the weather is not right again, the punishment is flooded and drought, the natural people are in all directions, and the state affairs are rotten.

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: "The thirteenth year of Chongzhen's students learned from the evil newspaper that Nan Zhili 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 rise of the Wanli army, the imperial court has to spend tens of millions of taels on military expenses every year, and the tax revenue of the treasury is only more than two 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 to suppress thieves, the number of officials and soldiers has surged, the military expenditure is not enough, and the number of displaced people has increased, so that in the end the number of officials and soldiers is millions, and the state affairs are becoming more and more out of control. ”

The land annexation situation of the Ming Dynasty was not serious at least during the time of Ming Xiaozong, and Gu Yanwu praised this time at that time: "The family is full of people, the residence 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. ”

In the past 300 years, the official [corruption] has been almost incurable, and the civil officials are frantically accumulating wealth, 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.

"The gentry are at the bottom, the filthy officials are greedy from the top, the commercial tax is not levied, the agricultural tax is too harsh, how can the people make a living?" Chen Bangyan said this, and finally concluded: "In the final analysis, my Ming Dynasty is not only subject to natural disasters, thieves, captives and corruption, but also subject to the money law!" ”

Although Chen Bangyan was only a cloth cloth before, he secretly cared about the government and politics very much, and had the heart to serve the country, so he knew everything about the major affairs of the court.

Zhu Youhua was quite surprised by the explanation, and he couldn't help but sigh with his palms: "Sir's opinion is really every word, to the point!" ”

"The student's remarks made His Majesty laugh."

"Where, where, what the gentleman said is deeply in line with my heart."

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.

For Chen Bangyan, Zhu Youhua's heart is full of good feelings at the moment, his incisive remarks about the root knot of Daming just now are not much different from Zhu Youhua's understanding in his previous life, and he suddenly has a feeling that he has found a confidant.

At this time, he suddenly had the urge to cry, not only for this buried talent, but also for the world, for the people of Limin, and for the Ming Dynasty!

After a long time, he took a deep breath and said, "The ancients said, 'Don't forget the past, the teacher of the future'." In my opinion, how can I be ZTE? ”

Seeing the emperor's expectant tone, Chen Bangyan suddenly forgot to be afraid, and also forgot to pay attention to etiquette, raised his head, looked at the emperor with blazing eyes, and said loudly: "Minister's will: eliminate party disputes, levy business taxes, train new troops, restore territory, and win the hearts of the people!" In this way, we can rejuvenate the emperor! ”

"Good! Good! Good! ”

Zhu Youhua said three good words in a row, and his expression still couldn't hide his excitement.

In just one sentence, Zhu Youhua has clearly determined that this is a rare talent, different from Ruan Dacheng's sophistication and tactfulness, his words and deeds, unlike most of the civil servants who are conservative and incompetent, have a strong enterprising heart.

In particular, his high-level political propositions coincide with his own.

Eliminating party disputes, levying business taxes, and training the new army are the three strategies of Zhongxing.

If such talents are not reused, who is available?

Turning around, he walked up to Chen Bangyan, took his hand, and said loudly: "Xianqing, you really lived up to my expectations, this time you are right, not inferior to the dragon of Zhuge Wuhou in the past, I have your assistance, why worry about the Ming Dynasty?" ”