"I thought you would see that day while you lived!" Zhang Juzheng felt like there was a fire burning in his heart, pointing at Shen Mogu and scolding: "Everything is self-deception and used to cover up your ambition to steal the country!" ”

Zheng Ruozeng couldn't help it, and said with a face: "My lord, a person like him won't cooperate with us, so I don't think there's a need to stay!" Violence and power are too easy for people to say lightly: "I need such a thorn in the back of the collar." "The clay man still has soil xìng, and he was scolded by Zhang Juzheng like this, so Shen Mo naturally didn't have anything good to say to him.

"You!" Hearing that Shen Mo just regarded himself as a thorn, and a thorn left on purpose, this was more uncomfortable for the proud Zhang Juzheng than scolding his ancestors for eight generations, and he hated: "I can let myself die!" ”

"Of course you can." Shen Mo said with a slight mockery: "But aren't you worried, in that case, there will be no one to scold me?" ”

"You!" Zhang Juzheng had nowhere to vent the evil fire in his stomach, his old face was suffocated into pig liver, and he immediately pressed it down, and sneered: "Then I'll see with my own eyes, what kind of great achievements you can create!" ”

"I don't want to hear any compliments." Shen Mo shook his head and said expressionlessly: "After all, the monstrous catastrophe was caused by my catalyst, and hearing other people's praise is as uncomfortable as removing salt from a wound. ”

"I'm talking the opposite, can't you hear me?" Zhang Juzheng then remembered that he had never won the poisonous tongue of silence when he was bickering. So he kept silent and sat on the side sulking.

"Don't be affected by the words of the surname Zhang." Zheng Ruozeng looked at Zhang Juzheng with great relief, and said softly to Shen Mo: "Xia Worm can't talk to Bing, his rotten old brain can't understand the deep meaning of adults at all."

"In legal theory, even if this person is terminally ill and blind, if I give him a knife, it is also a crime of homicide." Shen Mo shook his head and said, "You don't have to worry about me, there is such a thing as guilt, which can only make me more reasonable, and it's not a bad thing." "Don't sing a harmony here" Zhang Juzheng finally couldn't stand the two of them talking to themselves, and couldn't help but interject: "I have walked through the north and south of the river, and you say that the country is terminally ill, is it an exaggeration?" After a pause, he said: "Turning over the history of the 21st century, from governance to chaos, it will take decades at the shortest, and the situation in the country has deteriorated so rapidly, in just over a year, it has reached the point of hopelessness, isn't it thanks to you?" "Always look at things with old eyes, and you will naturally find everything incredible." Shen Mo shook his head and said, "In this unprecedented era, you are indeed outdated. ”

"Then you should talk about it with a new eye that is not out of date!" Zhang Juzheng was so angry that he couldn't find the north.

"Anyway, if you have nothing to do, I'll just talk about it briefly." Shen Mo's tone was smooth, and he said clearly: "The prosperity of Jiajing after 35 years is due to the monetary economy and foreign trade. You should understand foreign trade, monetary economy, just understand that silver has become legal tender and the main means of circulation.

These two things have promoted the development of marketization and the specialized division of labor, which have brought infinite wealth to the country and the people. However, in the event of natural disasters, the drawbacks of marketization and monetary economy, especially the whip law, will be clearly manifested. ”

"What's the matter with a whip?" Listening to a whip method that he was proud of in this life, and being silently brought out to say something, Zhang Juzheng had a feeling of "you dragged me into the water together."

"The domestic crisis, ostensibly a financial crisis, is fundamentally a food crisis.

The reason is very simple, why does the money in the hands of citizens depreciate, and even eating becomes a problem?

It was not a year of famine, but the cause of starvation was the depreciation of the currency, and people could not afford to buy food, which led to famine. That's why there will be wealthy areas that sell mansions to buy rice to eat. If we go back 50 years and go back to the situation of the past, where the regions were relatively closed and self-sufficient, would it be possible to have the tragedy we have today? ”

"..............." Zhang Juzheng shook his head, he was a little clear-eyed.

"The food crisis that the developed areas in the southeast are now experiencing is precisely caused by excessive marketization, and is caused by the fact that grain production is completely handed over to the market and the state and local governments are out of position. The whip reform you introduced promoted precisely the marketization of this kind of food, which ostensibly increased the tax revenue of the state, but in fact exacerbated the agricultural crisis. If a farmer can get more cash than growing grain through other channels, such as growing mulberry and weaving, and pay his taxes in cash, then why should he choose to farm? Have you thought about this question? ”

Zhang Juzheng saw sweat on his forehead, and his breathing was uneven, he really never thought about these problems.

"According to my actual investigation, in the vast developed areas in the southeast, because of the strong demand of the market, more than ninety percent of the cultivated land has been converted from rice to mulberry cotton. In the area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which was originally known as the granary of the world, even in a bumper harvest year, people had to sell raw silk, raw cotton, cotton yarn and silk cloth in exchange for currency to buy grain. After the implementation of a whip law, because the people had to use silver taels to pay off the state taxes and rent, as well as to repay the loans, so when the price of silver and grain changed dramatically, and the state did not provide effective assistance, the huge disaster of expensive grain and cheap money was inevitable! ”

"You may say that the market can adjust ......" Seeing that Zhang Juzheng did not speak, he said silently: "If the supply of grain exceeds demand, the price will rise, so that growing grain will be profitable, and the peasants will automatically expand grain production." After a pause, he said: "This statement is theoretically correct, and it is applicable to general consumer goods." However, food production alone is a matter of national security, especially in an agricultural country like ours, and we cannot let the market manipulate it. ”

"In a peaceful situation where the wind and rain are smooth and harmless, the market and merchants can cope with the transshipment and supply of grain. However, once the time of famine arrives at the time of high food prices, the developed areas that rely entirely on the purchase of grain will be dealt a fatal blow. That's why I say that the excessive marketization that does not meet the conditions of productivity has made the economy of the Ming Dynasty deformed and prosperous on the surface, but it is actually fragile! I'm sure that if everything develops as it was, then it will be the Longzi reform that we are proud of that will eventually lead to the collapse of the Ming economy and the destruction of the country. More precisely: it was due to the over-implementation of our reform measures! It's not that these measures are bad, but the ancients said that they were "too much" and that they must be commensurate with the level of development of the productive forces. ”

Zhang Juzheng was still angry at first, but then he listened very seriously. He was the world's top economic expert, and he was silent and very detailed, so there was no obstacle to accepting it, and he had to agree with this view.

There is another point, which makes it easier for him to accept the view of silence~

That is, since the eighth year of Wanli, the northern part of the Ming Dynasty has suffered from natural disasters and the temperature is low. In the summer, there were great droughts and floods, and in the winter, it was extremely cold. In fact, not only in the north,

Even Shanghai, Nanzhi, Fujian, Guangdong and other places have experienced heavy snowfall.

This kind of rare national natural disaster, not to mention that he has never seen it in his life, and he has not seen it in the history of the twenty-first century. He believed in the newspapers' 11 Xiaoice Age more than the celestial warnings, because that was at least the conclusion of astronomers and meteorologists through scientific research.

If there really will be the Xiaoice River era, then the current economic structure of Daming is naturally extremely dangerous. The ability to resist disasters is not even comparable to that of those slash-and-burn ethnic minorities.

Thinking about it like this, Zhang Juzheng can't help but admit that he is paying off his debts for himself, and he is also the top ruler, Zhang Juzheng naturally knows that with the administrative ability of the Ming Dynasty, the most effective way to solve the hidden danger is to detonate it in advance when it is not out of control. Only by making all parties involved hurt and scared will it be possible to reallocate resources and manipulate the transformation of society.

If you wait until the national famine breaks out, the gods will not be able to save Da Ming at that time Although he thinks so, Zhang Juzheng only partially understands the silence, and there are even greater doubts: "Let's talk about the financial crisis, this was detonated by you." Although the emperor has long coveted the Huilian, if you hadn't taken the initiative to give him this opportunity, I'm afraid he wouldn't have had a reason to do something to the Huilian! ”

Zheng Ruozeng couldn't help but sneer: "The husband is not guilty, he is guilty, and he is guilty, what is the trouble?" ”

"Mr. Kaiyang, go and see the stairs." Shen Mo waved his hand, motioning for him to clear the field.

Zheng Kaiyang went down to guard, and only the two of them were left on the top floor, and he said slowly: "Zheng Kaiyang is right, since the financial crisis is a matter of time or time, I naturally have to take the initiative." After a pause, he lowered his voice and said, "But if you think that I am just digging a pit for the emperor, you will look too highly at that kid and underestimate me Shen Clumsy." ”

"What do you want to do?" Zhang Juzheng also asked in a low voice.

"My goal," Silent wrote a fold on the deck with his fingers.

"Nine-......" Zhang Juzheng was stunned for a moment, and then said in shock: "Nine-Five...... Nine families?! Mo nodded and sneered: "Others think that the Jiu family is an eagle dog that I have copied, but they really look up to me Shen Jiangnan." I have no roots and no foundation, even if I have been overturned in the past 30 years, and I will not be able to truly subdue a wealthy family like the Nine Families. ”

"I thought you would be so arrogant that you thought that everyone in the Nine was a pawn in your hands." Zhang Juzheng said quietly.

"At first, they only ostensibly obeyed my orders because I had a future and their interests at heart. But later, I did a good job, leading them to avoid a few big crises, not only dominating the court. They also had deep control over the economy of the Southeast, a height they had never reached before. Shen Mo laughed at himself: "So my prestige is getting higher and higher, and they are also ready to accept me as a member of the Shen family and become one of them, so that even if I become a leader, the Shen family will still prosper." ”

"They still hope that I will lead them to an unprecedented cause." Silent said softly: ...... The idea of the reality of the hypocrite is not just talking, they want it to become a reality. "So, you're really good comrades." Zhang Juzheng said hesitantly.

"But I'm not going to say yes." Shen Mo said lightly: "According to their way, the so-called virtual monarch reality is just to replace one emperor with several emperors, and repeat the politics of the two Jin Dynasty." This is even more harmful to the country. ”

Juzheng nodded. If you let Menque control the country, it will be even more terrifying to decay.

"They also know that this disagreement exists, but they believe that as long as the time comes, I will push it halfway." The silent expression gradually became cold: "So since the sixth year of Wanli, they have planned a series of actions against Wanli without me, including yòuhuò the third child of my family, trying to make him harm the emperor and force me to comply, but I stopped them." As a result, the two sides produced Sister Wu, and I also bore the brunt of the attack and became the target of the emperor's revenge, and was almost killed in the palace. ”

Although it is old news, it is still thrilling to listen to the people involved tell the secrets behind those historical events. Zhang Juzheng's face suddenly said: "In the sixth year of Wanli, the "love incident" that almost killed me was also promoted by them, right?" ”

"Not bad." Shen nodded silently and said, "At that time, under the righteousness of Dao, I really couldn't control the situation. He said with a smile: "If I don't get you away, they won't be able to let go of their hands and feet." ”

"I'm honored." Zhang Juzheng smiled and said, "However, why did you lose control of them? ”

"The reason is simple, they put their own interests first, and I, the country, put them first." He said silently: "When there are differences in ideas, contradictions are inevitable. He said with an angry look on his face and said, "When they found out about this, they wanted to control me in turn and use me as their tool!" As soon as I said that I wanted to retreat, they dared to deliberately release water to the Jin Party, so that Zhang Siwei had a chance to kill my father! ”

"It turns out that there is such a hidden story here" Zhang Juzheng sighed lightly: "I have to admit that at that time, if you were worried, it would be the most beneficial to the situation in the southeast." ”

"Yes, I said, the revenge of killing my father is not shared." Shen Mo said with a cold gaze.

"It's a pretty noble thing, mixed with sī people's grievances, it makes people feel weird."

Zhang Juzheng said.

"Pure nobility does not exist," Shen Mo said calmly: "Don't let everyone involved pay a heavy price!" Who else will listen to me?! ”

"The so-called gentleman's revenge, ten years is not too late, it turns out that this is the meaning." Zhang Juzheng shook his head and sighed: "Sure enough, there are no good people in Hongdong County. ”

"Good people don't live long." Shen sighed and said, "Fortunately, I have never been a good person. ”………！。