Ten thousand scrolls of scriptures are just a ball of feathers, which is a joke of Yu Guozhen when introducing Galileo's two iron balls landing at the same time, what he said is that in the absence of air resistance, ten thousand scrolls of scriptures and a ball of feathers fall at the same height at the same time, and eventually they will inevitably fall to the ground at the same time.

At this time, Galileo was not dead, he was under house arrest in the Inquisition, and his youngest daughter, who could take care of his life, had died before him. For such a scientist, Yu Guozhen did not despise him because he was a foreigner, on the contrary, he respected him, and it was precisely for this reason that he vigorously promoted Galileo's theory. Hearing Chen Zilong's words, he said with a straight face: "Brother Wozi, I heard that there is a sage named Galileo in Europa, who proved that two iron balls, one large and one small, fall at the same height, and must fall at the same time, and then deduce that ten thousand scriptures and a ball of feathers should also fall at the same speed - naturally, in the eyes of our practical studies, the way of the sages in the scriptures, and the way of nature in the feathers." ”

This sentence made Chen Zilong's eyes appear angry, this is to lift the feather to the scriptures, it is obvious that the way of nature is a cut above the way of the sages!

However, thinking of his mission, Chen Zilong suppressed his anger, took a deep breath, and then said, "Jimin, I want to talk to you alone." ”

Yu Guozhen has always had a good relationship with Chen Zilong, and he also knows that this person is frank and straightforward, not as conspiratorial as Zhang Pu. Therefore, he smiled and said: "I have heard that Wozi will be the governor of Qin's state, and I am looking forward to you coming." ”

Wang Chuanlu has been in the position of governor of Qin's Prefecture for three years, and now he has reached the second term, and he originally thought that he could at least finish this second term. Who knew that the imperial court would change people halfway. In exchange for Chen Zilong, who originally served in Huizhou, Guangzhou. Yu Guozhen knew that this must be Chongzhen's trick, and he learned through some way that Wang Chuanlu had become Yu Guozhen's party, so he wanted to transfer him back to Nan'jing to serve as a noble and idle post under the pretext of promoting Wang Chuanzhen.

However, before Chen Zilong arrived, all kinds of things had not been handed over, so Wang Chuanyu had not left. Yu Guozhen is also very concerned about his whereabouts, but Wang Chuanlu is different from others, and he is not easy to ask directly.

Chen Zilong bowed to the Fang family brothers: "Mizi." Straight, first borrow to help the people. ”

He pulled Yu Guozhen aside, was silent for a while, and then pulled out a letter. In the hands of Yu Guozhen.

Yu Guozhen looked at the envelope, but it was sent to Chen Zilong by Zhou Yanru. Although he was curious, he did not open it, but handed the letter back to Chen Zilong.

"Elder Zhou Ge said, the Son of Heaven thinks that the prince is doing a good job as the governor of the state, and he intends to be promoted, and he wants to be the governor of Qin's state, and Elder Zhou Ge recommended me as a foolish brother." Seeing that Yu Guozhen refused to read his private message, Chen Zilong could only tell the things in the letter by himself: "Zhou Ge said that Wang Gong Zhizhou has done too well. It is not easy for my successor to do well. ”

Yu Guozhen smiled slightly.

Zhou Yanru was pushed back to the throne by Zhang Pu, and he has supported him left and right over the past year, but he has covered up a lot of holes in the Ming Dynasty. He is Zhang Pu is supported by one hand, although Zhang Pu is dead, but the relationship with Donglin and the Restoration Society has not been broken, especially Chen Zilong, who is one of the leaders of the Restoration Society after Zhang Pu's death.

However, Chen Zilong was recommended as the governor of Qin's Prefecture, especially when he wrote a letter to instruct Chen Zilong to "be an official". This is to show favor to Yu Guozhen. Chen Zilong understands this, Yu Guozhen also understands this, I'm afraid Chongzhen doesn't understand this.

"Jimin, you tell you the truth, we have been friends for many years. Can I, the governor of Qin' Prefecture, be the governor? Chen Zilong stared at Yu Guozhen's eyes.

Yu Guozhen pondered for a while, Chen Zilong's frankness. made him very favorable, so he didn't want to deceive, so he said: "Brother Wozi, if you can get used to seeing Xinxiang, then you should be a good Zhizhou, if you can't get used to it, or if something happens, to tell the truth, our friends can't do it." ”

"Do you see the state as your own?" A hint of anger flashed in Chen Zilong's eyes.

"No, it is the people of Qin' Prefecture who regard Qin' Prefecture as their own." Yu Guozhen's eyes also turned cold: "Before you took office, you entered Beijing, what did the Son of Heaven say?" ”

Yu Guozhen was very clear about the reason why Chongzhen appointed Chen Zilong, and the emergence of Xinxiang made the entire Qin'zhou a rich and prosperous place. Originally, the population of Qin' Prefecture was only more than 10,000, but in just a few years, this number has increased by more than 20 times, and the population under Qin' Prefecture is now no less than 200,000! Among them, Xinxiangcheng has a population of nearly 100,000, and another 40,000 or 50,000 people live in Qin'zhou City. In addition to the permanent population, there is also a large floating population, and business travel is endless. This brought a lot of wealth to Qin' Prefecture, and in the twelfth year of Chongzhen, the business tax paid by Qin' Prefecture to the treasury was as high as 5,700 taels, and before Wang Chuanyu, it was only a pitiful 200 taels!

Since he was suspicious of Yu Guozhen, Chongzhen spent a lot of time investigating Yu Guozhen's family, and when he learned of Xinxiang's wealth, he moved his mind: The treasury and the treasury all need money, Yu Guozhen can make so much money, he should do more for the country!

Therefore, Yu Guozhen judged that Chen Zilong was appointed as the former holy majesty of the governor of Qin' Prefecture, and Chongzhen must have an explanation.

Sure enough, when he asked like this, Chen Zilong was silent.

"The Son of Heaven is rich all over the world, but he covets the wealth of his subjects, so don't you feel a little uncomfortable for you, a magistrate who was supposed to appease his subjects, turned into a harsh official who collects taxes, Wozi?"

Yu Guozhen put away his aggressive gaze, but teased Chen Zilong, Chen Zilong was speechless, only sighed.

"Wozi, I won't make it difficult for you, but you really don't want to interfere in the affairs of Qin' Prefecture, saying this may be a little disrespectful to you, the governor, but doing nothing is in line with what you have learned." Yu Guozhen said again: "The Son of Heaven is now picking up soft persimmons and pinching them, there are definitely many high-ranking officials and adults in the court who are rich and rival the country, although Zhou Ge Lao is poor, which of the other pavilion elders is not Lian Qian?" It is the gentlemen of Donglin and Fushe, who have a lot of wealth, how many of them have not taken advantage of the country? ”

"If it were you, what would you do?"

"The first is to abolish the privilege of Confucianism, and this privilege must be abolished." Yu Guozhen said without hesitation: "Scholars are originally flexible, and they have more ways to make a fortune than ordinary people, but they don't have to pay taxes, which is a big joke in the world!" ”

Chen Zilong's forehead was bruised, this was an enemy of the world's scholars, and he felt that as Yu Guozhen's friend, he couldn't help but persuade him.

"Jimin, you are making enemies of the world, if you really think so, then you are in danger!"

He took Yu Guozhen's arm, sighed and said: "The imperial court is tolerant of reading seeds, so everyone in the world is looking for the imperial court, what you say is okay with me, and if it is spread outside, it will force all the scholars in the world to impeach you!" ”

"So, for the imperial court, this is an unsolvable problem, haha, wozi, I'll give you a thorough explanation, and you can look at some roads later, which are all collected by me with Xinxiang's taxes, and in Xinxiang, I am the one who pays the most taxes." Yu Guozhen said proudly: "Forty-five percent of my annual income will be used as taxes and paid to the public treasury for the construction of Xinxiang." ”

Chen Zilong gasped.

He is familiar with Yu Guozhen, since Yu Guozhen said so, it must be true, and the meaning revealed in this is obvious, even Yu Guozhen, the person with the highest status under the Xinxiang system, needs to pay taxes to the public treasury, so everyone else is the same without exception!

"These taxes were converted into roads, schools, docks, equipment and food for the tiger guards." Yu Guozhen smiled and said: "Wozi, in the twelfth year of Chongzhen, if the personal income tax I paid was converted into silver taels, it would be about 4.1 million taels. ”

This figure made Chen Zilong creepy again, according to the ratio that Yu Guozhen said, these four million taels are only forty-five percent of his income in the twelve years of Chongzhen, so his annual income is not close to ten million taels!

This is inevitable, most of Xinxiang's industries are Yu Guozhen's now, and Yu Guozhen's income alone is almost equivalent to about 90% of Xinxiang's income. In fact, in addition to bearing the income tax on personal income, according to Xinxiang's system, the workshops and shops he opened and officially registered also had to pay business tax, value-added tax, and other taxes, so the tax revenue of the entire Xinxiang last year was actually about 12 million taels.

"If I give this money to the court, how do you think the court will react?" Yu Guozhen saw that Chen Zilong wanted to speak and stopped, so he smiled and said what he wanted to say in his heart: "Last year, the total amount of money I paid to the imperial court through various channels was about 600,000 taels, of which about half was 'drifted' by officials at all levels. ”

Speaking of this, Yu Guozhen made no secret of his sympathy and contempt for Chongzhen: "The Son of Heaven thinks that everything is under control, but in fact, he is trapped in an invisible net and cannot escape at all. I just gave him 10,000,000 taels of silver, and it would be good for him to see 120,000 taels of it, so since he ascended the throne, he has not even bought a new piece of clothing, and the eunuchs still don't care, so they pooled money together to make him new clothes. ”

"Today's thrift is rare since ancient times, so we must be loyal to the Son of Heaven......"

Yu Guozhen directly interrupted him: "Wozi, there is no need to say these words, the only person I am loyal to is Huaxia." ”

As soon as these words came out, Yu Guozhen's undisguised heart was exposed, Chen Zilong stared at him for a while, and then let go of the hand that was holding his arm.

"The people are precious, the community is secondary, and the monarch is light." Yu Guozhen said another sentence.

"Jimin, I can't argue with you, I'm very confused now, wait for me to calm down and think about it, and then come to you to talk ......" This sentence blocked Chen Zilong's broken words back to his mouth, he was loyal to the Ming Dynasty and Chongzhen, but Yu Guozhen translated the words of Mencius, and he had to think about whether Chongzhen was important to the Son of Heaven or the society of the whole of China. (To be continued)