Yingtai is surrounded by water, cold and quiet, there are guards outside, Shen Shixing, Wang Xijue, Luo Wanhua, Shen Yiyi, the four elders have been placed here. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Although Wanli imprisoned everyone, he did not order the killing, and still sent food and water every day, but cut off all news. However, the people below have always acted according to their intentions, and they have determined that several pavilion elders are plotting against each other and are dead, so there is a lot less food and water every day, and sometimes they deliberately mix sand to rectify them.

These four also have a way, Shen Shixing and Luo Wanhua have a calm temperament, squatting at the water's edge every day to fish, and the fish in Xiyuan have never been released, they eat enough, and they are dumbfounded, which is very easy to catch. Catching a big carp of three or two catties is enough for four people to eat.

If there is no water, it doesn't matter, Wang Xijue and Shen always got up early, took a cup to the forest to get dew, not to mention, using dew to make tea and cook, it has a different taste, and it can be regarded as a pleasure in suffering.

After eating the fish soup and rice, Wang Xijue made another draw on the pillar, and they were caught in, and it has been three and a half months. There wasn't even a piece of paper, not a word in the room, let alone the news outside, they didn't know anything about it.

"Brother Ru Mo, when is it a leader, just pull it out and cut off your head, at least you can know something! Be a ghost who understands! Wang Xijue couldn't help but complain.

Shen Shixing lowered his eyelids and didn't even raise his head, "Brother Yuanyu, if you calm down, you can actually guess many things." ”

"Oh? Please also ask Brother Ru Mo for advice. ”

Shen Shixing looked at Luo Wanhua and Shen Yiyi, and said with a smile: "Everyone tell me what you have discovered." ”

Shen Yi frowned, "Yesterday I climbed on the roof and replaced a broken tile, and found that although the people guarding the entrance and exit of Yingtai had not changed, a little farther away, there were eunuchs. ”

"Eunuch? Wasn't he abolished by the division? Wang Xijue asked in surprise.

"There will be no mistake, it is indeed a eunuch, it seems that Wanli has restored the eunuchs, and he is perverse, it is really hateful!" Shen was always furious.

When it was Luo Wanhua's turn, he pondered for a while and said, "Have you noticed, the rice I have eaten in the past two days is different from the past, it is more coarse and unpalatable, as if it is mixed with chaff, but the quantity is too much, and the people who deliver the rice are also a little kinder." ”

Wang Xijue frowned and said: "In the past, most of the tribute rice eaten in the capital came from Xiaozhan and Liaodong, which are the two best rice production in the Ming Dynasty at the moment. Only in the palace, the court officials could eat it, and in addition, a small number of them were sold in the market, and wealthy merchants could also buy them. As for ordinary people, most of them eat rice from Jiangnan, and even worse, rice from overseas. ”

"In the first few days, although the rice given to us was mixed with sand, it was a small station rice that was serious, and now there is no sand, but it has become Jiangnan rice for many years, what is going on?"

Shen Shixing smiled faintly, "Brother Yuanyu, there is nothing strange, most of the rice supplied by Liaodong, Jiangnan and other places has stopped, there is a food crisis in the imperial court, and good food will naturally be supplied to the palace, doesn't it mean that the eunuchs will be restored, those eunuchs must eat the best, so they can only deal with us with many years of old rice." ”

"I see!" Wang Xijue nodded, "So those little officials are more kind, does it mean that they have smelled the atmosphere, I am afraid that the master will make a move, and the two sides will fight, they dare not bully us unscrupulously?" ”

Shen Shixing stood up, took a long breath, and a relaxed smile appeared on his face.

"In fact, not killing us is the best signal, Wanli did not become easier at all because he won the cabinet and the parliamentary meeting, on the contrary, his situation became more and more difficult, so he threw himself into a rat and did not dare to touch us."

Shen Shixing sighed: "Locked up in the cold Yingtai is actually a good thing, it makes me think too clearly." What we want to do is to limit the imperial power and break the world of one family and one surname. But since the Xia Dynasty, the family has stretched for thousands of years, penetrating into the bone marrow of everyone, just relying on a few important ministers, a few generals, and some gentry and scholars, wanting to limit the imperial power, that is a fool's dream. Only when the people of the whole world, all of whom have truly seen the dangers of imperial power, can they work together to end the world! We need to be prepared for the possibility of losing our heads at any time. However, I firmly believe that Wanli and his henchmen will not be able to clean up the mess, and will only make the world worse and worse, and when the time comes, the people of the world will not be able to bear it, and they will rise up to resist, and the monstrous public opinion is enough to drown Wanli and destroy the royalists! ”

After having nothing, Shen Shixing actually completed a great sublimation, his eyes saw through the complicated situation, and he also had insight into Tang Yi's overall calculation.

At the beginning, the prime minister did not choose a stronger figure as his successor, I am afraid that he had this thought. Any strong figure will bring the Ming into a new cycle of chaos.

Only patience, only waiting, and only continuous strategic retreat can the evil of imperial power be fully revealed.

It is not Wanli alone that has to deal with it, but the divine power of the monarch for thousands of years!

Standing at a higher angle, Shen Shixing is finally like a phoenix of Nirvana, reborn in the midst of tempering.

He and the three elders lived in Yingtai steadily, working at sunrise and resting at sunset, in addition to fishing, they even opened up a small vegetable field and planted small cabbage and radish.

Gradually, Shen Shixing and the guards guarding them also got acquainted, although they abided by the above rules and would not tell any things about the court, but Shen Shixing also got a lot of news.

For example, an elderly guard complained to Shen Shixing, saying that in five years, he would be able to retire peacefully and get an allowance to spend his old age in peace, but the court was not greedy enough and coerced the bank, and his retirement allowance was probably not guaranteed......

Ordinary people may not understand, but Shen Shixing has participated in the design of the system, and he is very familiar with Tang Yi's reform, when he heard the news, he couldn't hold back his excitement and almost fainted with joy.

Wanli, Wanli, you really moved the most untouchable thing! Just wait for the catastrophe to be overcome!

During Tang Yi's reign, the huge official system was rectified, for example, Tang Yi determined the retirement system, and the lowest officials could retire as long as they were fifty years old, and the maximum was extended to fifty-five years old.

The number of officials has increased, and there is an upper age limit, so there is a problem of old-age pension.

Originally, there was no pension problem in the Ming Dynasty, and many high-ranking officials still enjoyed the benefits after they became officials, and most of the officials retired and relied on the land at home, and their children and grandchildren were supported.

Three years of Qing Governor's Mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver.

In fact, this can also be viewed from another point of view, the prefect's five-grade official, under normal circumstances, at the age of thirty, is sent to the county, after three terms of office, can be promoted, that is, thirty-nine years old, to be a magistrate, imperial history, or the second-in-command of the state government, and when he is promoted to the prefect, it is almost about fifty.

The average age of Daming is less than forty years old, and fifty years old is already very old.

100,000 taels may be too much, but there must be 20,000 or 30,000 taels in order to live a decent and comfortable life.

Tang Yi knows very well that he can't just punish the law harshly, but also put himself in his shoes and think about everyone, which is also the key to Tang Yi's small opposition to changing the law.

He announced the implementation of the system of allowances for 100 officials. To put it simply, he first added 20% to all officials, and these 20% were not handed over to the officials, but transferred to the bank, and the imperial court added another 10%, a total of 30%, as the principal.

Take a scholar as an example, the original salary was only 200 taels, but during Tang Yi's tenure, it was once raised to 500 yuan, the two achievements were 100 yuan, and the court subsidy was 100 yuan, a total of 150 yuan.

Nowadays, the general interest rate of the Ming Dynasty is more than 10 percent, and the money deposited is used for investment, and the interest is constantly increasing, and when the officials retire, they can almost receive eighty percent of what they were when they were in office.

In other words, a university scholar can receive 400 yuan when he retires, and the average prefect can also receive 150 yuan.

The money may not be too much, but it is enough for an honest official to spend his old age in peace and have no worries about food and clothing.

Tang Yi's pension system has been welcomed by officials, especially many low-level officials, who are even more grateful and praised. With the peace of mind and strong supervision, the corruption situation has been greatly improved during Tang Yi's tenure, which is also a rare achievement in hundreds of years.

Shen Shixing marveled at the teacher's whimsy, but he also got a glimpse of Tang Yi's deeper intentions. This system is tantamount to tying the old age of officials to the bank. When the banks make more profits, their allowances are rich, and when the banks fall, they have nothing. And how do banks make a profit?

Invest in industry and commerce, buy stocks and bonds, inject capital into overseas colonial companies, develop minerals, timber, etc......

In a word, Tang Yi tied up the bureaucratic system, the financial system, and the industrial and commercial colonial system, forming a consortium of interests that prospered and lost.

When it was running smoothly at the beginning, there was naturally no problem, but once someone wanted to destroy it, they had to taste a strong backlash!

At this time, Wanli was put on the fire to roast.

Ping Fan jumped out to set up the Dharma Protector Association, and united the gentry and celebrities from various provinces to jointly write a letter, demanding that the imperial court immediately release the elders and senior ministers. All localities responded, and every day a book of 10,000 words was sent to the imperial court, and a strong public opinion hit Wanli.

Wanli decided that these people were instigated by Tang Yi, and he regarded these people as bandits, but at the moment he only had two teams in his hands, Ma Fang's cavalry was unstable because of the sudden death of the boss town, and the Beijing camp had to guard the capital and protect Wanli's safety, so he couldn't send people at all.

If you want to rebel, you must expand the army, and then Wanli wants to restore the inner court and recruit tens of thousands of eunuchs into the palace, which is a big expense. The household department couldn't come up with the money, so Wanli summoned Wang Jiaping and others to discuss countermeasures.

In fact, over the years, Tang Yi's household department has been in deficit, relying on the issuance of bonds and various complex financial means to maintain the financial operation of the imperial court.

Wanli felt that he could follow suit, and he asked the Daming Savings Bank to underwrite 10 million yuan in military expansion bonds. In addition, he also forced the bank to write down the maturity of 3 million yuan of bonds.

These two orders went down, and the storm stirred up was even more violent than the arrest of the seven pavilion elders, and Wanli and his subordinates were completely unexpected...... (To be continued.) )