Chapter 883 Divine Whip

"Not so good. ▽▽" Ge Shouli sighed and said: "The doctor said that it may not be possible to reach the beginning of spring." ”

"Hey......" Shen Mo said with a gloomy face: "Creation makes people......"

"yes." Ge Shouli nodded with deep sympathy and said, "Actually, there is a reason. He has been guarding the border for many years, and his body has long fallen into various problems, and careful maintenance can only delay and alleviate. Last year, he was so sick in his hometown in Shanxi that he could barely get out of bed, but Gao Ge Lao frequently urged him to recover. It was easy to wait for his body to get better and set off, but he suffered from the heat on the road, and he was almost sick, and he got typhoid fever in winter. It's just that the body is too weak to bear the illness......"

"I'll visit Puzhou Gong another day." Shen Mo nodded his head and said, "You also have to cherish your body when you are old, and I still have to rely on you to take the helm of the new law." ”

"Don't worry, my body is fine, it won't be a problem to last for three or five years." Ge Shouli said with a smile: "The new law doesn't give me peace of mind, and I won't turn a blind eye." ”

"What else do you have to ask?" Shen Mo sat up straight and said, "Just mention it." ”

"The old man is old, and he doesn't dare to take the lead in such a major matter as supervising the new law, for fear of making a mistake for the court." This means that the conversation is coming to an end, Ge Shouli thought for a while and said: "Since Lao Lu entered the cabinet, the right capital imperial history has been vacant, Yuan Fu will fill this position." ”

"I said that this doesn't count, and you have to push it to make a count." Seeing that the old gentleman had entered the role, Shen Mo was naturally happy in his heart, his sword eyebrows became more and more bright, and he elegantly stroked a handful of three long beards, and asked rhetorically: "But which companion do you always like?" Let's talk about it. ”

"Hehe......" This is what I want to be and what I want to set up, Ge Shouli despised him in his heart, and he also stroked his gray beard and smiled: "Then I will be unscrupulous." What do you think of the one at the ends of the earth? ”

"You mean Haigang Peak?" He smiled silently and pondered for a moment.

"Not bad." Ge Shouli nodded. However, it is said that in the past, when Hai Rui was appointed as the governor of Yingtian, he forcibly pushed a whip law and cleared the acres of fields, so that the villagers and eunuchs fled in chaos, and he hated to break his body into thousands of pieces. At that time, the pressure on the imperial court was also very great, but in order to start and finish well, Shen Mo chose to support Hai Rui in order not to let those obedient people do what they were told. Therefore, the king of Haiyan was able to stand until the winter of the third year of Longqing, when the old lady of Hai died. Hai Rui returned to his hometown to mourn his father (mother), and then left the ground of Susong.

In the first half of last year, Hai Rui had already served the court, but he couldn't wait for the recovery of the imperial court. Because Gao Gong has not been able to pay attention to how to use this Qing official who specializes in causing trouble, he has not answered.

Later, when Shen Mo came to power, Hai Daren couldn't help it, and sent him a letter, which was generally a greeting and congratulations, between the lines, but it slightly revealed the idea of wanting to enter the office again. Silence suppressed the letter and never mentioned it to anyone. Now listening to the old gentleman's thoughts, which coincide with his own thoughts, he still said casually: "Hai Rui is a person who can't rub sand in his eyes." In the past, there was an allusion to colleagues who pooled money and bribed him to help him get promoted in order to stay away from him. Let such a person go to the Imperial Procuratorate, first of all, the imperial historians will suffer, and then the officials all over the world will suffer, and even you will not be able to be peaceful and peaceful......"

"Hehe, it seems that Motosuke is very prejudiced against this person." Ge Shouli squinted his eyes and smiled, "What you said is right. In terms of character, Haida people are honest and impeccable. On being an official, he doesn't know how to be an official, he doesn't know that being an official is incompatible with being a man, being a man can abide by science and be a disciple of a saint, but being an official, especially for the political side, if he wants to benefit the common people, he must use the way of economic power. Said with a self-deprecating smile: "In our eyes, in addition to black and white, this world is gray, but in the world of Hai Daren, it is black and white. ”

"And you recommend him?" Shen Mo frowned slightly.

"That's because he didn't stay in the right place before." Ge Shouli said with a smile: "He may not be suitable to be another official, but he will be the most perfect as a royal historian." ”

"When the water is clear, there are no fish ......," Shen Mo said lightly.

"He's not that skilled." Ge Shouli shook his head and said with a smile: "There is a folk proverb: 'It is difficult for the small people in Mandao to live their lives, but the officials are all greedy.'" Now you look at Chang'an Road, and you don't see the blue sky, you only see the official'. In the eyes of Lao Cangsheng, Chang'an Road is 'only seen by corrupt officials'. There's an element of exaggeration, but there's no way to talk back. He was afraid of being silent and misunderstanding, and said: "Of course, this is not your responsibility, nor is it the responsibility of Gao Gong and Xu Gong. The old decay has been in the officialdom for forty-five years, and he has seen the rule of officials fall into the slack little by little. In the past, when I first entered the officialdom, corruption and bribery were still very covert behaviors, and once they were exposed, whether they were bribers or bribe-takers, the city was ruined and spurned. It's good now, taking corruption and bribery as the norm, and being able to make good and greedy as a specialty, not ashamed, but proud! It's really the world is going down, and I am also killed! ”

"Over the years I have been in Yushitai, I have caught corrupt officials like rats, and I have arrested a nest and a nest, but the number of corrupt officials has not decreased. What does this mean, Shilin's atmosphere is bad...... "Ge Shouli believes in the principle of 'water hurts the kidneys', and rarely drinks water on weekdays, but today he talks too much, his mouth is dry and astringent, he took a sip of the teacup, moistened his throat and put it down and said: "The atmosphere is broken, and it is not something that Hai Rui can reverse." But he is Zhong Kui who fights ghosts, as long as this person is in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, at least the imperial historians will start work honestly, and the imperial historians will all move, so that they can have the opportunity to lay down this unhealthy trend and let the world return to the right path. ”

"And Hai Rui once implemented a whip method, no one should try to fool him, and with the old man holding his reins, he won't make too much trouble." Ge Shouli begged almost like a child: "Yuan Weng, I'm already seventy-two years old, if I hold on for a day, can I stay up for a few more years?" If Lin Ruoyu doesn't die early, he will come. But now there is only Haigang Peak, which can support the righteousness of the Ming Dynasty! ”

Hearing him mention Lin Run, his mood darkened when he was silent. The man who was peerless in style, in Shandong for five years, was so tired that people in their thirties began to cough up blood, but they kept holding on and did not take leave, and finally fainted in the court, and passed away last year. On the day of his funeral, the whole city of Jinan City set out to give a funeral for the Qingtian lord who saved the suffering. But the gentry celebrated with their hands, saying that this was his retribution for leaving no room for retribution.

After learning the news, Shen Mo was both painful and hateful, and he was furious for the few times in his life, and he immediately sent someone to Shandong to inquire about the cause of Lin Run's death. Although the results of the inquiry and visit were indeed sick and dead, he ordered people to collect evidence and killed a group of local tyrants and shoddy gentry, including the Yansheng Mansion and the Jinzhi children of the Meng family in Zou County. Although the descendants of Confucius and Mencius are a thousand-year-old family, they have no power to fight back in the face of the anger of a shoufu...... He first prevented the heads of the two families from coming to Beijing to congratulate the new monarch on the grounds that the cause of the governor's death was not clear, and then instructed Ge Shouli to make public the accumulated crimes of Kong Shangxian, the sixty-fourth generation of Confucius's unscrupulous descendants, and finally deprived him of all official status, and sent him to Fengyang to be imprisoned, and the title of Yan Shenggong was also succeeded by his cousin.

But that wasn't enough to soothe the pain of silence. The pioneers who pioneered the New Deal were his two friends Lin Run and Hai Rui, but now because of the New Deal, one died young, and the other is far away from the ends of the earth. Therefore, he made up his mind that he must carry out the New Deal, and let his brother live on as the founder of the New Deal, instead of becoming a dispensable episode.

After Shen Mo calmed down, Ge Shouli asked tentatively: "In Yuanfu's opinion, can this Hai Rui be used?" ”

"Since you want to implement a new policy, how can such a divine sword not be eliminated?!" Shen Mo raised his eyebrows, and finally stopped hiding and said: "You go back and write a note to recommend him, and I will place Tingtui as soon as possible!" ”

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Ge Shouli left satisfied. It didn't know when it started to snow outside, but Shen Mo still insisted on sending him to the door of the cabinet. He kept watching the sedan chair go farther and farther, but he still stood motionless under the porch.

The white snowflakes fell silently, making the traces of walking gradually blurred, and he looked up at the dark sky silently, thinking about the content of the conversation he had just had with Ge Shouli. In fact, he only said seven points about the whip method, and there are three points that cannot be said to people......

He didn't know what the whip law implemented by Zhang Juzheng looked like in the original history. But it was no fault that he used the knowledge of later generations to examine everything he knew. In his opinion, if a whip is carried out completely and perfectly, then first of all, the enslavement is completely abolished; At the same time, the Lijia system, both in form and in substance, no longer exists, that is, the human bondage of the land for thousands of years will no longer exist.

Thirdly, any residual poll tax will be incorporated into the field endowment. And taxpayers can fulfill their obligations to the state by paying a single, fixed amount of silver in installments. This will greatly stimulate the growth of the commodity economy, thereby absorbing the surplus labor liberated by the first two items...... In the 200 years of Chengping in the world, the Ming Dynasty was already overcrowded, and now what is lacking is land, advanced productive forces, and crops of improved varieties, rather than labor force that far exceeds the load of the land.

It is a sad fact that in the so-called cyclical law of dynastic change in Chinese history, the decisive factor is not the wise and absurd emperor and general, but the relationship between land and population. In fact, the peasants are the most tolerant of brutal exploitation, and as long as they can't survive, they will silently endure the bloodsucking of all kinds of big masters. So when the land can feed the whole population, the world is decided; However, when the population increases, and the limits of land bearing are crossed, and the old people finally cannot live, the country will show all kinds of famines, and then the peasants will revolt and the country will perish. Large-scale war. The population has plummeted to the point that everyone can live by farming again, and the so-called people's minds are determined, and they will be united and unified again. And then the cycle repeated......

For thousands of years, the area of arable land was about the same. The interval between such regular outbreaks varies. It is because of the improvement of agricultural technology, such as iron tools replacing bronze tools, waterwheels, ox ploughing, and zigzag ploughs, after the popularization of these advanced production tools and production systems, the output per unit of land has increased, and more people can be fed, which has also created a longer peaceful world, and the population of the Chinese nation has climbed to a new peak.

When the population crosses a new limit again, the cyclical law erupts again...... Therefore, the introduction of a thousand-year-old poll tax is not only a means of exploitation, but also a means of population control.

A few decades ago, the population of the Ming Dynasty had reached a critical value, so it was stormy and difficult in these years, so that Lu was out of the country. If Shen Mo had not been an official in his previous life, but had studied hybrid rice, it might not have been so difficult to change history. In fact, he has asked the Suzhou Research Institute to tinker with this topic for more than ten years, but he still can't make a name for himself......

The only comforting thing is that he got drought-resistant high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes and corn from South America more than ten years ago, and has spent a long time from breeding to promotion, and has been popularized in Fujian, Guangdong, and Shandong. Once God wields his might, there will be another famine, which shows that everything has advantages and disadvantages.

The silent solution was to get the surplus peasants out of the crowded land and free up their labor to join the more efficient, creative and wealth-finding forms of production. For example, if you join industrial and commercial production, or if you work on a vast colonial farm, the former will create and find more wealth, and the latter will create and find more food, and finally it will be possible to solve the problem of eating.

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However, in the face of brutal reality, this ideal is very far from reality. The biggest problem is that for thousands of years, successive dynasties have implemented the policy of 'big country and small government', even in the Song Dynasty, which was known to be redundant, they were all concentrated in the capital, and the number of officials in the premises was seriously insufficient.

As for this dynasty, it was established by Emperor Taizu, who practiced strict frugality and hated the government, what else could you expect? At present, there are 20,000 incumbent clerks in the country, one-tenth of whom are concentrated in the capital, and there are 18,000 office officials left. Now these people are going to be used, and the effective area will be about the same as in 500 years. The control of the state over premises can be imagined......

Therefore, in the era of historical weakness, the government decree could not be issued directly under the government, which is not an exaggeration at all.

When Shen Mo tried his best to grasp the power to dominate the world, he found that he only had such a few troops available...... He immediately admired the benevolent brothers who have changed the law over the years, you have so much courage to dare to toss blindly!

But now there is no way back, there are conditions to go up, there are no conditions, and the conditions for creative discovery must also be on!

Friends

Therefore, Yuan Longping saved the country and the party, and I don't think it is too much to give him any kind of reward.

In addition, it should be stated that a whip law in history is subject to the introduction of the chapter in the passing years, and the chapter of the divine whip, as the name suggests, is the strengthened, improved, and utopian version...... If you take this seriously, I will repeat the tragedy of a certain reader. ro@