Shen was in the first assistant duty room, looking at the concerts presented by the provinces, this was the first time he stood at the height of the imperial ruler, overlooking the panorama of the Ming Dynasty, almost the book was bitter, as if it was a hundred thousand urgent events, which one did not solve the danger of the mountains and rivers changing color, but if it was all solved, the imperial court did not have the strength to do this, how to prioritize these things, but Shen was worried, this is the meaning of the words of the white Xu Jie.

If hesitation is a virtue ......, Shen can't help but laugh at himself: "Then let me continue to be beautiful." So he calmed down, concentrated on reading those movements, and when Xu Jie came back, he didn't have a word.

Xu Jie was not surprised by this result, and asked him with a smile: "Why did you not approve a word for so long?" "Students don't dare to ......," a wry smile hung on the corner of Shen's mouth. Dao = "I'm afraid that if you don't study with the teacher for three or five years, the students won't dare to cook this pot of Xiaoxian." ”

"It's not good," Xu Jie smiled and said: "If you do it rashly, the old man will doubt his own vision......" said with a smile and said: "This is not in a hurry, learn it slowly in the future, and help me refer to this first." He took out the piece of paper from his sleeve and gently rested it on the table.

"This is ......" Shen asked softly, and he saw that there were three horizontal bars on the piece of paper, like three-, and the length of the paper.

Xu Jie said slowly: "I just went to ask to see me, but the emperor didn't see me, so he only handed this out." After a pause, he added: "It is said that the emperor is divinering." ”

Shen immediately understood what these three horizontal bars were, and they were the three yang lines in the hexagram, and couldn't help but whisper: "Dry hexagram." "Hmm." Xu Jie nodded and said="Do you think...... What does the emperor mean? "The Dry Hexagram is the upper hexagram above the sixty-four hexagrams." Shen pondered for a moment and said softly: "The emperor's intention should not be bad. ”

"Hehe......" Xu gave a meaningless smile, tapped the hexagram and said, "Dry, there is no Henry Zhen." Do you say that this chastity word refers to Hu Zongxian? "Hu Zongxian's word Ruzhen, obviously on the way back, Xu Jie has thought about it repeatedly, and he has gained something.

Shen said in his heart, you have been pondering the holy will all your life, and you are about to go crazy, why do you love guessing riddles more than me? But he was also happy to think in this direction, so he said: "When the teacher said this, the students were a little budded...... You see, the yuan refers to the sky; Heng refers to mastery; Profit refers to favorable, does it mean that the will of heaven is favorable to Hu Zongxian? ”

Xu Jie didn't feel that Shen was messing around, because this routine was very much in line with the emperor's way of thinking, at least he could be sure that after seeing this hexagram, the emperor would think so. Then he twisted his beard and sighed slowly: "It seems that Hu Zongxian's life should not be broken." ”

"What the teacher said is ......," Shen listened like a child. also spoke actively: "Zhenzhi, the festival is also, the emperor should also want Hu Ruzhen to keep the evening festival." Then he lowered his voice and said: "After all, he is a general that the emperor has relied on for many years, if he is ruined by a trumped-up charge, the emperor will inevitably fall into the notoriety of Song Gaozong." ”

This is actually a thorn, if Jiajing is compared to Song Gaozong, then wouldn't Xu Jie become Qin Hui? Xu Ge's old face was slightly red for a while, so he had to nod slightly and said, "Humble words, since the sky is endless, you have to let him cherish this opportunity." "Student one-on-oneone-one" Although there is no good way, Shen still gritted his teeth and said="I will do my best."

"So be it." Xu Jie pondered for a long time and said: "The war in the east is coming to an end, and the emperor has already had the intention of revoking the yamen of the governor of the six provinces. Without waiting for Shen to answer, Xu Ge Lao sighed first: "This is already the limit that the imperial court can accept." ”

Shen knew that Hu Zongxian would come back to serve as a ...... The so-called important position is just to give him a transition, so that everything seems less abrupt, take care of his self-esteem, and control the rebound to a minimum.

But Xu Jie had already said it to death, and Shen would fight for it again, but it was just boring for himself, so he could only close his mouth sullenly. "You go back and prepare, and explain the errand at hand" Xu Jie said non-negotiable: "After drawing up the holy decree in a few days, you can go to Jiangnan to spread the decree." ”

Throwing out the relationship between the two, passing the decree as a waiter in the Ministry of Rites has already shown that the attitude of the imperial court is extremely solemn, if you don't know each other, you really don't have to mix in the officialdom. "Obey the ......" Once Xu Ge Lao doesn't talk to him about democracy, Shen will have only one way to obey orders.

Seeing his depressed expression, Xu Jie sighed lightly, slowed down his f6 breath and said: "Talk to him well, tell him the attitude of the court, a hero like him, no matter what wrong things he has done, as long as he can turn back, the court will not blame the past and give him a decent end." Shen Momo nodded and said, "I know Bu" "Explain the errand at hand" Xu Jie got up and said: "The holy decree is also in the past two days." He patted him on the back and said, "Go ahead." "Yes." Shen said softly.

Leaving Xiyuan with a heavy heart, Shen sat in the sedan chair, sullen for a while, then opened the sedan curtain, and the cold air in the evening came in straight shoes, which made him feel a little more excited, but the expression on his face was still very grim, and now there was no one else around, and he didn't have to hide his frustration one by one It was not sad for Hu Zongxian, but worried about the situation in the southeast in the future.

Shen and Hu Zongxian, although they are not heart-to-heart, but at least they sympathize with each other, and help each other in the great cause of resisting the Japanese, Shen fully cooperated with Hu Zongxian, what he could and could not do, what he should do, what he should not do, he did everything; Hu Zongxian also saw these in his eyes and understood what kind of person he Shen Shuyan was, so he always turned a blind eye to many of Shen's arrangements in the southeast, especially in the later period, in terms of economic policy, he fully accepted Shen Zhuo's opinions and successively opened five or six foreign trade ports such as Shanghai, Quanzhou, and Guangzhou, protected the free development of industry and commerce, lifted the household registration restrictions in the southeast, and absorbed a large number of northern laborers...... A series of enlightened measures, under the unprecedented authority of the governor of the southeast, were vigorously implemented, and the war-torn land of Jiangnan was quickly restored to life.

The wealth lost by the anti-Japanese war was regathered; From top to bottom, people from all walks of life are full of hope, it can be said that everything is developing in a good direction, and bad things have not yet been born, and Jiangnan is about to enter a great era of revival.

But what happened in this fiery situation did not excite the old men who were far away in Beijing, and they only focused on the provinces and regions that were suffering from disasters and deaths, and the people were not able to make a living, because if these places were left unchecked, disasters that threatened the community were likely to break out; And they are not interested in places where they can get by...... Comparing the diametrically opposed attitudes of the imperial monarchs and ministers towards the Jiangnan War, we know that this is true.

The reason for this is, first of all, the thinking of the entire imperial ruling class, which is still stuck in 'getting by-', and their highest pursuit is to be able to sit on the straw for a long time and enjoy privileges; And then there'...... The majestic grandfather, after all, could not get rid of his own limitations, with a small peasant consciousness to structure the empire's power, the Ming Dynasty has repeatedly proved in the two hundred years that his set of things that want to make the Ming Dynasty long-term peace and stability have become a sling around the neck of the empire, and as time goes by, "the tighter and tighter, almost killing the country he created with his own hands."

First of all, because of the lack of a correct understanding of the central government's finances, Zhu Wuzhang one-sidedly believed that concentrating local money and grain to the central government and then distributing it by the central government is a kind of taking off his pants and farting, and this is a redundant move, so the fiscal and taxation powers are decentralized, and the provinces only need to pay a part of the national tax every year, so that the state machinery can maintain its operation. The rest of the local financial expenditures and the supply of food and salaries for the garrison troops were all settled on the spot by the political enemies of the respective countries, and there was no need to hand them over to the state treasury. The household department has become the accounting department of the whole country, and can only point fingers on the books; There is no input in the treasury except for the dry millions of taels of silver every year, even if the south is rich and oily, it will not affect the starvation of rats in Taicang.

But the more important reason is that Zhu Yuanzhang lacks understanding of the role of commerce, and in the treatment of the national policy of commerce, it is full of perverse practices throughout Chinese history, although there has always been a view of agriculture and commerce, but from the Han and Tang dynasties to the two Song dynasties, the status of merchants is still rising, and the importance of commerce in the national economy is getting higher and higher.

In fact, the essence of commerce lies in circulation, in addition to promoting the role of the entire national economy, prosperous commerce will inevitably inject an open, enterprising, and free atmosphere into the whole nation.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born as a small peasant, could not see the benefits brought by commerce, but only saw the impact of this kind of mobility on the static economy of small peasants, because his family was reduced from homesteaders to tenant farmers in social fluctuations again and again, and from tenant farmers to almost all starved to death. Perhaps it was the bitter experience of the same year that led him to pursue a state of state of stability all his life, in which he tried to eliminate all the factors that would cause social fluctuations.

Understand this, and then interpret Zhu Yuanzhang, you will understand all his behaviors after the founding of the People's Republic of China Basically, Zhu Yuanzhang's way of governing the country is to eliminate corrupt officials with his left hand, and focus on cracking down on rich merchants and trade with his right hand, and devote his life to let everyone change according to the roles he assigned, generation after generation.

He does not want to create an ideal country where wealth and poverty are equal, what he does is still for his own country to last for generations. Because of his contempt for scholars and his pride in building a huge empire from scratch, Zhu Yuanzhang completely ignored the opinions of others and insisted on building his empire according to his own experience...... Zhu Yuanzhang, who once farmed land, let go of cattle, became a monk, asked for food, and finally embarked on the road of rebellion, firmly believes in this point more than anyone else.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor who hated the rich and discriminated against businessmen in Chinese history. He believed that only those labors that 'sweat and dripping the soil, and growing grain and cotton—were labor, and that the merchants, who were idle all day long, never produced any products, but lived in the luxury of a wealthy princely life, were obviously parasites of society, who, together with corrupt officials, were the source of evil that caused the disparity between the rich and the poor, and must be purged from their own kingdom.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang believed that engaging in commercial activities was illegal and did not recognize the identity of a businessman...... At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, when the hukou system was unprecedentedly perverted, all walks of life had their own unique household registrations, and those who were soldiers were military households all their lives, and those who were craftsmen were artisan households, as well as Minguang, stove households, shop households, wine households, medical households, vegetable households, and even prostitutes and turtle princes had a happy household, but the merchants did not have their own household registration, and for a long time, they were ignored by the imperial government......

But it is impossible for the power of an individual to change the laws of society, even if it is as strong as Zhu Yuanzhang, it is impossible to stifle the needs of society...... This was not obvious at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, because at that time, the country was empty and destitute, increasing the population and resuming production was the most important thing, and the demand for commerce was at the lowest point in history; But after decades of recovery, with the recovery of the economy, and the entry of a strong emperor, commerce flourished again, but sadly, the Ming Dynasty could not benefit from it as the previous dynasty "Taizu does not recognize commerce, commercial tax is naturally impossible to talk about, this kind of thing that will profoundly affect society, if it is not formulated with the help of the founding of the country - the earth-shaking, Ren Jun outlined the vigor to formulate, want to add later, often it is difficult."

Because the merchants have long relied on various household registrations to engage in business activities, and because the state cannot provide protection for their normal operations, they can only take refuge in the landlords and nobles, and have already formed a community of interests with them...... And because of Zhu Yuanzhang's stupid attitude, the officials who oppose commercial taxation have the invincible shield of the ancestral law, and no one can break it, and no one can do anything about it.

The imperial court could not be strengthened by the prosperity of the southeast, and the prosperity of the southeast did not help those provinces that had been in poverty and disaster for a long time, so after the victory of the anti-Japanese war, the people of the court and the central government turned their eyes away from Jiangnan and no longer paid attention to what happened there...... In fact, there are some ulterior factors, such as the fact that most of the officials are southerners, and they don't want the imperial court to attack the idea of the south. In short, in this divided empire, the political center is in the north, but the economic center is in the south, so it is good to continue to develop in this way...... Shen has always thought like this, at least until the south is completely strong, don't make trouble.

But now, the two have intersected, and the powerful northern politics have easily tore up the southern order that he has worked so hard to establish, and everything may go back to square one.

There's one more chapter, this time for sure......