Tang Yi once asked himself more than once, why he knew that his subordinates were a group of tigers and wolves, Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng, Zhang Siwei, and the three generations of first assistants, each of which was more difficult to deal with than the other, and kept them all, and even introduced them into the cabinet and entrusted them with important tasks. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In fact, with Tang Yi's strength, these people can be completely unaware of it, and they can kill them all with ease and skill.

Until today, Tang Yi finally figured it out.

It is said that character determines fate, and Tang Yi is not the kind of character who opens and closes, breaks and stands up, and has supreme courage. If he takes the advantage of a traverser, he is at most a Taiping bureaucrat, if he is lucky, he may be able to be like Xu Jie, and he will also be mixed with the first assistant, if he is unlucky, he will end up and step down after a few decades, and he may not even be able to leave a single pen in the history books.

Moreover, the reform method used by Tang Yi is not reform, to put it bluntly, he wants to cultivate new interest groups to replace the original interest groups, and it is an out-and-out seizure of power.

The forces he fostered, whether it was the southeastern traffic line, the emerging military attaché nouveau riche, and the Yangming Society, were stronger and more aggressive.

Carnivores eat not only herbivores, but also relatively weaker predators, and in the same way, the emerging powers will not only focus on overseas, but also at home, and in the face of a tree full of fruits, they will always be picked first.

The development experience of the southeast has verified this point, and the industrial and commercial group is also unkind to eat its own people.

Relying on Tang Yi's own strength to correct it, I'm afraid it can't be done.

He needs Gao Gong, he also needs Zhang Juzheng, and he needs these warriors to cooperate with Tang Yi and act as a gardener.

Take the moment as an example, Tang Yi is reluctant to play the trump card of Hai Rui, not because he sympathizes with Xu Jie, but because Xu Huating is the first assistant to Zhishi, if he is not guaranteed in the evening and ends up bleak, what will happen to the others?

But with the Xu family's style, if they are not severely punished, how can they be worthy of the people of the world?

"Brother Taiyue, send Hai Rui to Nanzhili, don't check the Xu family first, let him go to Suzhou first, and then go to Huizhou, the Tang family, the Taicang Wang family, and Hu Zongxian's family, all check them all. We must be righteous before ourselves. ”

Zhang Juzheng was stunned for a moment and bowed deeply, "Thank you Shoufu for your support, according to what you said, I have to send someone to investigate the Zhang family in Jiangling." ”

The two of them quieted down again, drinking wine for a long time......

"Alas, Brother Taiyue, I think you may be suspicious of Tang, and then the wine, let's make the words clear, do you think it's okay?"

Zhang Juzheng really hesitated, he didn't know what Tang Yi was planning, whether it was true or not, could it be that he was testing himself, and then killing himself?

But it doesn't look like it, Tang Yi is already the first assistant with a lot of power, and it is easy to deal with a fifth-ranked elder, so why bother with it!

That's it, if you want to do things, if you want to realize your ambitions, you can't lack Tang Yi's support, Zhang Juzheng thought for a while, and said: "It is true that there are some voices, they say that Yuan Fu holds the military power, and the generals of the nine sides are all from your disciples, and the southeast clan obeys orders, and no one ......can match the power when it comes to power."

In a word, your strength has exceeded the duty of a human courtier, what will happen to such a courtier?

There are only two kinds in history, either they are turned over by the emperor and wiped out, or they are like Wang Mang and Zhao Kuangyin, and they are replaced and become the new emperor. Obviously, no matter which one it is, it is bloody and bloody, and it is not surprising that Zhang Juzheng, who inherited the mantle of Xu Jie, instinctively feared Tang Yi and secretly went against him.

"Brother Taiyue, you can tell me honestly, Tang is very emotional, I will ask Brother Taiyue one more thing,"

"Motosuke, please."

"You are a strong advocate of clearing the acres of land, I want to ask you, if you don't consider the difficulties of implementation, what do you really want to do? In other words, where did the disadvantages of the Ming Dynasty's finances really fall? ”

Zhang Juzheng gasped, his eyes showed a look of confusion, when it came to financial matters, he thought about it day and night, there were many problems, but when it came to the most critical thing, it was really not Qingzhang Tianmu......

Zhang Juzheng fell into deep thought, Tang Yi casually filled the wine glasses for both of them, he took a sip first, covered his face with wine, and said with a smile: "Is it against the ancestral system, Brother Taiyue dare not say?" ”

"What don't you dare!" Zhang Juzheng raised his eyebrows and smiled boldly: "Since Yuanfu is broken, Uncle will be presumptuous once......"

In fact, if you carefully examine the problems of the Ming Dynasty, more than eighty percent of them have to be related to one person, that is, Zhu Yuanzhang.

The talented Hongwu Emperor may not have imagined that one hundred and fifty years after his death, a set of things he left behind is constantly strangling the empire he created, and his painstaking solitude has become a shackle for future generations.

Take the all-important finance as an example, it is not just as simple as valuing land and ignoring industry and commerce.

In terms of expropriation methods and implementation operations, there are many problems, which make people almost desperate.

Before the Ming Dynasty, officials had always been in charge of the officials and the people, and they were responsible for collecting land taxes and conscripting conscripts...... When he came to Zhu Yuanzhang, he had a whim, and it was not a whim, mainly because he was too bitter when he was a child, he was bullied by the officials, and the family fled to death.

In order to prevent the petty officials from exploiting the people, he deprived the officials of the power to collect taxes and handed them over to the grain chief.

The so-called grain chief, in a demarcated grain payment area, large households with many fields, they are responsible for collecting grain, transporting it to Taicang, and paying taxes on the grain.

During the Hongwu Dynasty, the grain chief who completed the task well could even meet Zhu Yuanzhang in person, and was exceptionally promoted to become an official.

Don't let the officials levy grain, Zhu Yuanzhang's original intention is indeed good, for the sake of the people.

However, his actions completely changed the social structure of the Ming Dynasty, and the taxation and collection of grain was not only as simple as exploiting the people, but also represented a kind of power and mobilization ability of the imperial court.

Zhu Yuanzhang's design completely changed the social structure of the Ming Dynasty, the government did not directly manage the people, but the government only managed the big households, and then the big households managed the people, with a layer of skin in between.

Perhaps Comrade Lao Zhu thinks that the big families and the common people are fellow villagers, and they will not be so cruel and tyrannical to the people.

And what about the facts?

Zhu Yuanzhang's practice greatly boosted the power of the local squire, these people are the "village sages" who have been mentioned for a long time in later generations, among them, there may be no shortage of good people, but experience tells us that power without supervision is dangerous.

The officials are staring at them, and the officials are staring at them, but the squires are almost no one paying attention to them.

With the power in their hands, these people have become a scourge to the local community. In some remote places, the bride who gets married even has to be delivered to their home first. They also set up private torture halls in villages and towns to deal with the people, and if someone stole a chicken, he would have his arm cut off, and they also came up with the idea of dipping the pig cage.

The power of the gentry swelled, and as a result, the power of the imperial court did not go to the countryside, and among the past dynasties, only the late Ming Dynasty had the worst mobilization ability.

To deal with the war situation in Liaodong and pour the strength of the country, it is impossible to gather 200,000 horses.

Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of poor troops, compared with the Qin State two thousand years ago, are embarrassing.

"Grandpa Tai only saw the side of Xu officials harming the people, but he didn't expect that Xu officials were also representatives of the imperial court, and if they threw the people to the gentry, they would be more harmed. What I want to do more than to clear the acres of land is to collect the power to collect taxes directly and let the officials do it. ”

Zhang Juzheng smiled bitterly, "Yuanfu, at the beginning, I advocated a whip method, but in fact, I saved this idea, and the grain became silver, so naturally there was no need for the grain chief, and the Xu official would be responsible for it at that time." ”

His words were bitter, and a whip method was blocked by Tang Yi. Zhang Juzheng also thought afterwards that Tang Yi's reasons for opposition were very sufficient, if he really followed his method, he would not be properly prepared, and it would be the people who would suffer. It's just that when he mentions it now, he's still reluctant.

"Brother Taiyue, I know all your hard work, take the power of taxation from the gentry, this is what we must do!"

Zhang Juzheng raised his head, his face full of astonishment, "Yuanfu, this matter is much more serious than Qingzhang Tianmu, I just want to take back the things they occupy, I will die or live, if I take away the things that originally belonged to them, I am afraid that the gentry will be desperate." What's more, this matter will shake the ancestral system, I am afraid that there will be many difficulties and I will not be able to carry it out! ”

"Hahaha!"

Tang Yi suddenly burst out laughing, "Brother Taiyue, are you going to retreat when you encounter a real problem?" ”

"I ......" Zhang Juzheng's ashamed old face was red, and he looked like he was moving forward bravely, but in the blink of an eye, he was afraid of his tail, he was really embarrassed.

Tang Yi got up, walked to Zhang Juzheng's side, turned his back to him, and said lightly: "Brother Taiyue, do you still think that the power in my hands is too great?" ”

"Ahh

Zhang Juzheng exhaled in a low voice, and his face was extremely ugly all of a sudden.

finally returned to the first question, not only him, but also Xu Jie, who was afraid of Tang Yi's power, for fear that he would become Zhao Kuangyin's second.

However, with the deepening of the reform of the law, Zhang Juzheng was constrained everywhere and felt more and more the importance of power.

In front of him was no one else, it was Zhu Yuanzhang who had a chin big enough to kill a dynasty!

If you don't touch the ancestral system, don't think about the success of the reform, but as a courtier, how much capital can you compete with Taizu...... Zhang Juzheng suddenly became ashamed, he fought for power and power, for the sake of Zhongxing Daming, and for the people of the world. However, when it came to Tang Yi, he accumulated power and made good connections, so he became ill-intentioned and ill-intentioned, wanting to seek the dynasty and usurp the throne......

Compare your heart to your heart, your Uncle Zhang is noble, Tang Yi may not be despicable, if there is no strength accumulated by Tang Yi, how can Tuoketuo win?

Without a big victory, there is no way to move forward with the current changes.

In an instant, Zhang Juzheng finally understood that the two of them were actually very similar, both had a lofty goal, and they were unscrupulous...... Zhang Juzheng's clenched fist gradually loosened.

"Yuanfu, Xiaguan toasts you with a glass of wine!" (To be continued.) )