Chapter 968: A True Warrior

You have to use Hai Jui!

The stalemate in the southeast is not a day or two, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, the cabinet of the seven elders, Tang Yi is a native of Nanzhili, Tang Ruji is a native of Zhejiang, accounting for two places, as for the six departments and nine qing, four grades and above, the number is even more, too many to count. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

No one is alone, they are all a large group of relatives and township parties, and they know each other's roots, and everyone knows what their weaknesses are. Even if you kill your opponent, you'll get bloody. Therefore, no matter who goes to the southeast, they will be constrained and difficult to promote.

If you want to say that the world can not be disturbed by personal feelings, move forward bravely, and have nothing to fear, Haigangfeng is definitely the number one person!

Let him be the governor of Nanzhili and deal with Xu Jie, he will definitely be able to do it.

It's just that this kind of arrangement, which obviously has the flavor of the whole person, is a little unsightly...... Everyone fell silent, and Gao Gong had the heart to speak, but he had just won a game, and it seemed a little inappropriate to continue to persecute.

Zhao Zhenji was so angry that his old face was bruised, the Xu family was indeed excessive, and he couldn't stand it, but whoever said it was okay, but you Uncle Zhang, you don't have this qualification, Xu Ge Lao treats you with high ground, without Xu Ge's old operation, you are still eating the wind in the southeast! It's really not the Son of Man!

As for Chen Yiqin, Tang Ruji, and Zhang Siwei, they have all received the favor of Xu Jie, and no matter how senior and prestigious, they dare not put their beaks casually.

The cabinet's attitudes are different, and the differences are obvious, it depends on how Tang Yi decides.

"Elder Zhang Ge, there are too many financial implications, so today's meeting will be here for the time being, let's adjourn."

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Tang Yi went directly back to the first assistant duty room, sat for almost half an hour, and thought a lot before he called Luo Wanhua over and asked him to invite Zhang Juzheng.

Not long after, Zhang Juzheng hurried from outside.

"I've met Shousuke-sama."

"Sit down."

Speaking of which, in the cabinet, Tang Yi and Zhang Juzheng have the deepest mustard, both of them have made a dead hand, and they are ruthless at all. Now that we have to work together again, I have to say, creation makes people!

"Brother Taiyue, since entering the cabinet, you and I have hardly sat together to talk about our hearts except for official business, I wonder if Brother Taiyue is willing to accompany me to drink two glasses?"

Zhang Juzheng was slightly stunned, and said with a random smile: "Lord Shoufu is kind, how can the lower official refuse, it's just that the amount of alcohol under the official is shallow, I'm afraid it will spoil the interest of the first assistant." ”

As the saying goes, there are fewer than a thousand glasses of wine for a confidant, and there is no speculation in more than half a sentence. Between you and me, you can be regarded as confidants. ”

Tang Yi said with a smile, and took out two delicate white jade cups, a small silver kettle, each full of a cup. Zhang Juzheng was born in a eunuch and paid the most attention to enjoyment, sniffed it, and said with a smile: "Is it fifty years of Moutai?" ”

"Wrong, it's sixty years!" Tang Yi held the wine glass and chuckled: "Sixty years of a Jiazi reincarnation, Moutai has become the essence of the five grains, and the five elements are complete, and it is said that the sword is given to the martyrs, and the pink is matched with the beauty." Such a beautiful wine can only be enjoyed by people like Brother Taiyue, come, have a toast! ”

Zhang Juzheng picked up the wine glass, groaned slightly, drank it dry, closed his eyes, tasted it for a while, and said with a smile: "It's really a good wine, the best in the world." However, Lord Shoufu praised it falsely, his uncle was not good at learning, his ability was mediocre, and compared with the princes of the court, it was insignificant, and it was really a negative wine. ”

"Otherwise, when it comes to vision and means, the only one who can compare with Tang is Brother Taiyue, as for Zhong Xuangong, although his talent is outstanding, he is clumsy in seeking a career, and he can't do great things after all, and the rest of the people are only few."

Zhang Juzheng's eyes widened in surprise, he couldn't imagine that Tang Yi, who had always been cautious, how could he say such a thing? Could it be that when you become the first assistant, there are no taboos?

"What's the matter, Brother Taiyue is a little surprised?"

"How dare you, Xia Guan just thinks that Lord Shoufu has rectified the dynasty, pacified my answer, and made great achievements, which is really extraordinary, and the Ming Ministers of the past dynasties are nothing more than that, Xia Guan is not confused when he is old, and he has achieved nothing, in the eyes of others, it is just a joke, where can he be compared with the first assistant." Zhang Juzheng is very humble.

Tang Yi shook his head, "Brother Taiyue, I have already opened my heart and told me frankly, why do you want to reject people thousands of miles away." In the past, you and I had some conflicts, I think Brother Taiyue must not be for the sake of power, just do everything? You say, don't you? ”

It is said that the person who knows you best is the enemy, Tang Yi's words suddenly touched Zhang Juzheng's heart.

Over the years, he has endured strong moral condemnation, not only friends, relatives, including his teacher Xu Jie, who see Zhang Juzheng as an unscrupulous, insidious and vicious villain. can ask yourself, is Zhang Taiyue such a character?

No, he is fighting for power and profit, and he is trying to climb up, because he knows that the Ming Dynasty is full of holes, and when he is on the verge of extinction, he firmly believes that he can save the peril and save the sky, except for him Zhang Juzheng, there is no second person.

But in the officialdom, heroes have never been judged by victory or defeat, he has lost to Tang Yi, and he doesn't even have a chance to prove it, the brand of shame will always be attached to his body, how many times he dreamed back at midnight, Zhang Juzheng was awakened, and he sweated through his clothes again and again.

Now that his biggest opponent has said this, whether it is true or not, Zhang Juzheng has talked about comfort.

He grabbed his glass and toasted it twice.

"Lord Shoufu is open-minded, Zhang Juzheng is not self-sufficient, the light of fireflies, it is difficult to compete with Haoyue, I am so convinced, I am not wronged at all!"

Tang Yi also drank a glass of wine, his face flushed.

"Brother Taiyue, you are not defeated, if we are defeated, Daming will be finished!"

"We?"

"That's right, the Longqing New Deal is not Tang alone, it's all of us!"

Zhang Juzheng's hand shook, he wanted to say something, but he couldn't find the right words for a while, so he could only be silent.

"The Ming Dynasty has been established for nearly 200 years, and there are many maladministrations, almost to the time when it is difficult to return, the people of the world, those who have lost their land, are as old as six or seven percent, and the gentry officials, royal relatives and nobles are still exploiting excessively, knocking on the bone and sucking the marrow. There are no good generals to defend against the enemy, and there are no talents to govern the country. If we can't turn things around and succeed in changing the law, a few decades later, this world of flowers, I don't know whose hands it will fall into. ”

Tang Yi generously stated, this was exactly what he thought in his heart, Zhang Juzheng was also surprised, Tang Yi looked so similar to himself!

"Lord Shoufu, Zhang was determined to serve the country in his early years, read poetry and books, and sought fame. But since he entered the court as an official, what he has seen and heard, the courtiers are deaf, the party is constantly fighting, the Son of Heaven cultivates the Xuan, and avoids living in Xiyuan. The world is in turmoil, and I don't know it, it's really heart-wrenching! ”

"That's right, Brother Taiyue, please be a doctor for Daming and see where the illness is?" Tang Yi asked humbly.

Zhang Juzheng was silent for a moment, nodded and said, "The lower official will be ugly." The Ming Dynasty has accumulated countless disadvantages, in the final analysis, the first is wealth, the people often say that poor and lowly couples mourn everything, and the dynasty is not like this. Take Dingkou Tianfu as an example, in the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu, the registered population of the Ming Dynasty was more than 60 million, and in the 40th year of Jiajing, the registered population was only 59 million. It's just against common sense. Xia Guan carefully consulted the Yellow Book, comparative research, I found that taking Shaoxing as an example, the registered population is only four or five of Hongwu years. However, in recent years, Shaoxing's literary style has flourished, and there are not less than ten people in each subject examination, and the power of one government is more brilliant than many provinces, isn't it a strange thing! ”

With the strength of the wine, Zhang Juzheng poured out all the words in his stomach.

The more prosperous the southeast, the fewer people are registered, and the bigger the gap.

The reason for this is not difficult to understand, the economy is prosperous, culture and education are flourishing, and there are a large number of people who are admitted to the imperial examination every year.

Many yeoman farmers became tenant farmers, and from then on, they disappeared from the yellow book of the government, paying rent to the gentry and landlords, but not paying the money and grain of the imperial court.

Land annexation not only caused a large concentration of land, but also caused a serious loss of labor, and the rules set by Zhu Yuanzhang at the beginning, the total amount of taxes remained unchanged.

The "prosperous times, never endowed" that has been blown up to the sky by many scholars is actually not a pioneering feat at all, and has been done by predecessors a long time ago, but this is an out-and-out evil law, and I am embarrassed to brag about it. Only a group of uneducated barbarians were proud and became a great benevolent government.

Zhu Yuanzhang was afraid that the descendants of future generations would expropriate and exploit the people, so he stipulated the total amount of land endowment, which was not allowed to change in all subsequent dynasties.

However, the actual result is that a large number of land annexation, the loss of official household registration, the original tax fell on the heads of some people, making them extremely burdened, and the local officials can complete the collection of seventy percent of the taxes, which is already regarded as a cadre, if the completion reaches eighty or ninety, not only will they not be rewarded, but they will also be said to be excessively exploited, cruel to the people, and impeached.

That's the fucking thing!

"To solve the financial malpractice, it is necessary to clear the acres of land, so that the tax burden is fair, the small people can breathe, the imperial court is rich in taxes, and the government treasury is full, so that the army can be reorganized and the military can be used to make a difference." Zhang Juzheng poured a glass of wine and chuckled: "The world says that I have received the great favor of my teacher, and I never deny it, but can private feelings be put together with official affairs, and they can be compared?" Can the teacher ignore the people of the world because he is kind to me alone? Lord Shoufu, I recommend Hai Rui, completely out of a public heart, only Hai Rui can move forward, only he can open the net of the southeast, maybe it will be unfavorable to the teacher, but for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, for the sake of the world, I Zhang is willing to bear the infamy. ”

Zhang Juzheng said, actually stood up and bowed to the ground.

"Tang Xiang, Zhang is not a person who doesn't know what to do, you are in charge of the cabinet, the world is salty, Zhang has no intention of competing with Shoufu, I just ask Shoufu not to be restrained, let Zhang let go and do it, as long as the household can be filled, Daming will prosper again, Zhang has no regrets about this body, and he will die without regrets!"

Zhang Juzheng burst into tears, and the words that were pressed in his heart were spit out, which was indeed much more comfortable. He stared at Tang Yi to see if he could move him...... (To be continued.) )