Just when Zhu Youxiao was secretly thinking about how he, as the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, should save the Ming Dynasty, which was about to collapse in seventeen years. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The small yellow gate outside the hall suddenly came to report, and Sun Chengzong, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion and a scholar of the military department, asked to see him.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but be a little happy, he now knew that Sun Chengzong, Xiong Tingbi and Wang Zaijin could be regarded as capable ministers to deal with the war in Liaodong.

Yuan Cannon naturally doesn't count, Zhu Youxiao doesn't think that a person with great ambition and talent can do much things.

Although this Yuan cannon is somewhat similar to Sun Chengzong's strategic thinking, both pay attention to building castles, expanding soldiers and horses, and building the Guanning defense line, but Yuan Cannon is much more conceited and small-minded than Sun Chengzong, and Zhu Youxiao doesn't want Mao Wenlong to die in his hands.

Sun Chengzong did not complain because Zhu Youxiao listened to the eunuch party's opinion to remove him, and he had the style of Fan Wenzhenggong's legacy, and he rushed to the capital non-stop after receiving the holy decree of resumption, and as soon as he came to the capital, he didn't have time to meet his friends in the court, so he first came to the palace to ask for a meeting.

In Daming, Zhu Youxiao is not the only one who is worried about the future of Daming, and his Sun Chengzong is also one of them.

As soon as he saw Zhu Youxiao, Sun Chengzong bowed and saluted: "The old minister has seen Your Majesty." ”

Zhu Youxiao was busy holding up Sun Chengzong: "Mr. Sun doesn't have to stick to this, speaking of which, you are my teacher, and I should be right to you." ”

"Heaven and earth are the king's teacher, the monarch and the minister are in the front, the teachers and students are in the back, Your Majesty is the body of ten thousand gold, and the old minister does not dare to be it", seeing that Zhu Youxiao was about to salute, Sun Chengzong was also busy supporting Zhu Youxiao.

"I was young, because of the momentary anger dismissed Mr. Sun, now I think about it really shouldn't be, now I am impatient to recover from a serious illness to resume Mr. Sun into the cabinet, I didn't expect to give an order, Mr. Sun came to the capital so soon, so I am very pleased, but I also came just in time, I also want to ask Mr., what is the real big trouble of the Ming Dynasty?"

During the period of Sun Chengzong's resignation and idleness, he also thought through a lot of problems, plus he went through the war, which was different from other Donglin Party officials who were accustomed to empty talk and infighting.

As soon as Zhu Youxiao asked, Sun Chengzong immediately surrendered his hand: "Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that my Ming Dynasty is currently suffering from three things, one is the dispute between the party and the government, the second is the Jurchen outside the Guan, and the third is the exile. ”

Zhu Youxiao didn't expect that Sun Chengzong coincided with his own thoughts, and he was also happy in his heart, and hurriedly asked Sun Chengzong what the solution was.

"Your Majesty, in fact, all three of them are the same problem, that is, money and grain taxes!

There is no money and food, no soldiers to use, no city to build, no artillery to add, and the soldiers of Hu Lu can plunder at will and poison the people of our Ming Dynasty;

If there is no money and food, there will be no soldiers to raise, and there will be more people who sell official beards, and those who tend to be inflammatory, and those who tend to be attached to the power will gradually flood the court and beyond;

If there is no money and food, there will be no disaster to be relieved, and the people will go into exile, hungry for food, and they will become thieves since they are exposed, so that the fields are more and more wasted, and the country's money and grain taxes will be more embarrassing. ”

After Sun Chengzong's words were finished, Zhu Youxiao answered: "Dare to ask Mr., where does my Daming money and grain tax come from?" ”

"Since it comes from the people of the world, but now that the people are displaced, there is not one in ten who have land, Your Majesty can encourage the displaced people to cultivate their own land, and the border army can raise their own fields, so that the world can be protected without worry."

After all, Sun Chengzong was a bureaucrat belonging to the gentry class, and no matter how far-sighted he was, he would not realize that it was a mistake to take the money and grain taxes of the Ming Dynasty from the people.

The butt decides the head, and Sun Chengzong's suggestion is that if it was fine in the early or middle Ming Dynasty, in the absence of external crises, it is indeed possible to alleviate class contradictions by increasing arable land.

However, due to the climate of the Xiaoice River and the large concentration of land in the hands of the gentry, it is impossible for Daming to get out of financial difficulties in a short period of time by relying solely on reclamation and tuntian.

People in this era don't know, but Zhu Youxiao knows that in less than a year, the entire north, especially the SX area, will encounter a major drought, in addition to the horrific plague in history, which will also sweep the north.

Li Zicheng's uprising can succeed, a big reason is due to this, in addition, there is also a mutiny of soldiers caused by the lack of silver, in short, to make the financial problems of the Ming Dynasty can be completely solved, the only way to take the vested interests of the knife.

And this interest group was the Jiangnan gentry represented by the Donglin Party, who occupied the vast majority of the empire's wealth.

The Ming Dynasty died because it was too strict with the people and too lenient with the scholars, and the fact that the Manchus ruled China for so long in later generations had nothing to do with their strict control over the gentry.

The literary prison of copying families and exterminating clans at every turn made social wealth only controlled by the Manchu Emperor, and even the once beautiful He Shen was just a fat pig raised by Qianlong for Jiaqing.

Zhu Youxiao didn't care about Sun Chengzong's final opinion, and said after a sigh: "What Mr. said has some truth, but it is difficult to save the fire from far away, and if the Ming Dynasty still wants to survive, he can only increase the intensity of commercial taxes, and rectify the rule of officials, and take back the land of the people who have been embezzled by those corrupt officials and corrupt officials!" Sir would like to help me! “

Sun Chengzong seemed to have a thunder on his head at this time, he didn't expect the emperor to want to directly attack the bureaucrats and gentry, he admitted that this was more effective than what he just said, but the resistance in this way was also greater, from the Qin Shang Ying, the Han Wang Mang, the Song King Anshi, and the early Wanli Zhang Jiangling, although the country was revitalized, but in the end they all failed.

But Sun Chengzong saw Zhu Youxiao staring at him seriously, and he also knew that he had to make a choice now, either to stand on His Majesty's side and attack his former colleagues and friends, or choose to refuse, and then resign and return to his hometown.

Thinking of the countless homeless people and squandering gentry he saw on the way to the capital, coupled with his ambitions, Sun Chengzong resolutely knelt down and made a big salute to Zhu Youxiao:

"The old minister is willing to do his best for His Majesty, and he will not hesitate to go to the soup and fire!"

Whether he, Sun Chengzong, was greedy for power or really wanted to do something for the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao saw that he finally resolutely chose to stand on his side, and his good impression of him also improved a lot, and he hurriedly helped Sun Chengzong up:

"Why does Mr. make such a big gift, it's really a terrible thing, and you have to rely on Mr. in the future", saying, Zhu Youxiao instructed the eunuch Bingbi on duty: "Pass the decree, give Mr. Sun a bullfighting suit, and add the title of Taishi." ”

Since Sun Chengzong chose to stand on his side, Zhu Youxiao naturally did not hesitate to add him to the rank of knight.

Sun Chengzong was not surprised, and after thanking him, he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, I still have one more thing to show Your Majesty." ”

"Sir, please say", Zhu Youxiao is in a good mood now, and now there is a capable minister standing on this side, as excited as a swordsman has a sword.

"Although the Jiangnan gentry represented by the Donglin Party is the biggest obstacle to the Ming Dynasty, but after all, Your Majesty is the king of the people of the world, and the Jiangnan gentry and people cannot be completely chilled, and there are also many loyal ministers in the Donglin Party.