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Xu Guangqi smiled and continued: "Yuan Gong is one of the chief examiners of this year's examination. ”

"This ...... Students are not even children, and they are not eligible to participate in the examination! Yang He smiled bitterly.

Xu Guangqi shook his head and smiled: "Of course you are not qualified to participate in the examination, as a teacher, this is to tell you that Duke Yuan can recommend talents in front of the emperor." ”

Immediately, Xu Guangqi waved his hand and said: "Forget it, you don't care about these things, tell Yuan Gong what you said today, Yuan Gong naturally knows how to do it, you just need to know what's going on." ”

Yang He nodded slightly.

At this moment, the soldier came in and said, "My lord, the sweet potatoes have been loaded." ”

Xu Guangqi nodded: "You bring a few soldiers to help Yang Qian send him to Funing County." ”

"Yes." The soldier said busily.

When the soldier went out, Yang Heqi said, "Sir, there are sweet potatoes here?" ”

Xu Guangqi said with a smile: "The sweet potatoes planted for the division were originally for the soldiers to eat, so what's so strange about the sweet potatoes here." ”

Yang He smiled and said yes.

After speaking, Yang He got up and bowed to Xu Guangqi: "Sir, the student will go back, take care." ”

Xu Guangqi smiled and nodded: "Work hard." ”

Yang He nodded, turned around and arched his hand at Sun Yuanhua and said, "Brother Chuyang, I'm waiting for you in Funing County." ”

Sun Yuanhua said with a smile: "I'll go over when I'm settled here." ”

Yang He didn't say anything more, and put the burden of the book on his back.

Seeing the map next to the baggage, Yang He's heart moved, and then he smiled and said, "Sir, can you give these maps to the students?" ”

Xu Guangqi smiled when he heard this: "This is easy to collect for the teacher. ”

"It is precisely because it is not easy to collect that the students ask the gentleman for it." Yang He said with a smile.

Xu Guangqi shook his head and smiled: "You didn't send anything to honor your teacher, but asked for something from your teacher." Are there any students you do? ”

"Hehe, the student will definitely honor Mr. next time." Yang He said with a smile.

Xu Guangqi laughed when he heard this.

After laughing for a while, Xu Guangqi turned around and pointed to the bookshelf and said, "Since you want it, I'll give it to you, there are a few more here, you can take them together." ”

"Thank you, sir." Yang He said overjoyed.

Let's talk about it. Hurriedly walked to the bookshelf and took out a few maps, and put them away along with the maps that Xu Guangqi had taken out earlier.

After carefully putting away the map, Yang He bowed and saluted, "The student takes his leave." ”

Xu Guangqi smiled and waved his hand.

Walking out of Xu Guangqi, Yang He was very excited, and this time he came to Tongzhou, which can be described as a full return.

Not to mention Xu Guangqi, a great scientist, he even recruited an artillery manufacturing expert, and then got a large number of craftsmen.

Yang He worships Xu Guangqi as a teacher, naturally he doesn't want to learn anything from Xu Guangqi, in fact, Yang He is more interested in Xu Guangqi's identity.

Xu Guangqi was born as a Jinshi. is still the imperial history, with such a teacher, after donating to the prison, Yang He can completely wash away his identity as a martial artist.

Although he has not been in the Ming Dynasty for a long time, Yang He has been clearly aware of the gap between martial artists and literati.

All the important positions of the Ming Dynasty were in the hands of the literati, and the warriors could only do the position of the chief soldier at most, and the general soldier seemed to be of a prominent rank, but in fact did not have much power. There are too many people who can manage the general army.

As for the general soldier and below, let alone below, he is basically a civilian official. The fact that he dared to point fingers at such high-ranking officers as guerrillas shows the low status of the warriors.

Although Yang He is not used to this unreasonable system, he has not yet thought of changing it now, and he has to wait until he has the ability to change it.

The identity of a literati is actually not valuable, but with this identity. Only when he has power can he stand in a higher position and hold more power, and only by mastering power can he change the unreasonable system of the Ming Dynasty.

After this period of understanding, Yang He found that there are four main aspects of the Ming system's system or the country's shortcomings.

The first is the issue of taxation. The unreasonable tax system and ultra-low tax rate have brought Daming's finances to the brink of collapse.

The second area is the issue of land.

According to Zhang Fengqi, the Ming Dynasty had at least 700 million mu of cultivated land, but from the taxes collected by the imperial court, at least more than half of the land was not taxed, and all of these unpaid lands were concentrated in the hands of the nobles and the gentry, who did not have to pay taxes.

And what is the proportion of the aristocracy and gentry in the total population of the Ming Dynasty? One gentry out of a hundred common people is considered to be many, that is, the proportion of the gentry class is one percent.

One percent of the people occupy more than half of the country's arable land, and all of this arable land is good land, and 99 percent of ordinary people occupy less than half of the land, and most of these lands are low-grade fields.

The third aspect is the issue of the rule of officials.

The problem of official governance does not refer to the corruption of officials, the corruption of officials, there are many places in all dynasties, and there is no worse than the Ming family.

The problem of the Ming Dynasty's government is caused by the system, the officials of the Ming Dynasty are in charge of people, and the officials are officials, and the officials are bent on fighting for power and profit, while the officials who really do things cannot be promoted. Not being promoted means they don't have any future. How can a group of people with no future possibly work with their hearts?

The fourth aspect is the issue of the army.

The biggest problem of the military is that all the commanders are civilian officials, and most of the civilian officials do not understand military affairs.

The armed forces are the pillars of the country, and handing over the armed forces to people who do not understand military affairs to command them is simply a child's play on the major affairs of national defense.

Although there are also people like Xiong Tingbi who understand military affairs among the civil officials, such civil officials are a minority after all.

So far, Yang He knows only Xiong Tingbi is a civilian official who understands military affairs, and the rest are all military literacy.

The commander of the Battle of Salhu was Yang Hao, the commander of the Shenyang and Liaoyang Battles was Yuan Yingtai, and the commander of the Battle of Guangning was Wang Huazhen. These three civilian officials each commanded a campaign, and then the 300,000 troops of the Ming Dynasty were gone, and the entire Liaodong was lost.

Yang He believed that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty handed over the army to civilian officials to command, and the greatest possibility was to prevent the military generals from having too much power and forming a trend that would not be lost, leading to the division of the warlords and threatening the imperial power.

But in Yang He's view, if the generals can control the army and do not listen to the orders of the court or the emperor, it means that the court or the emperor has no control over the army at all.

In fact, it is not difficult to control the army, and fighting a war depends on logistics, and without military rations, no army can fight a war. Therefore, as long as the military supplies and grain are controlled, how can the generals below dare to make any changes?

In addition, soldiers serve as soldiers to support their families, whose salaries they take, and to whom they fight. As long as the imperial court pays the soldiers on time, how can the soldiers follow the generals against the imperial court?

Therefore, as long as the court holds the money and food, will the generals below dare to be disobedient?

These are the problems that Yang He found after coming to Daming, and there are some problems that Yang He has not found for the time being.

However, Yang He believes that as long as these four problems are solved, the Ming Dynasty can be brought back to life, or the country can be brought back to life.

And in order to solve these four problems, Yang He must have power in his hands.

And if you want to have power, it is by no means something that a mere martial artist can get.

Of course, Yang He also knows that even if he holds power, it is still difficult to get rid of the ills of the Ming Dynasty, but no matter how difficult it is, it is easier than rebellion, and the damage to the country is too great.

Although later generations had many positive comments about Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's uprising, Yang He did not recognize these positive comments.

The simplest point is that although Li Zicheng overthrew the Ming Dynasty, he did not establish a new dynasty.

This shows that from the perspective of military strength, he did not have much advantage, otherwise he would not have been easily defeated by the Manchus.

At the same time, it also shows that Li Zicheng has not fully won the support of the people.

If he could get the support of the people, Li Zicheng would not have been defeated so badly, and there was no room for even a little counterattack.

If Li Zicheng really has the hearts of the people, even if he loses to the Manchu Qing Dynasty for a while, he will soon make a comeback, but the fact is that after Li Zicheng was defeated, he collapsed.

Li Zicheng did not enjoy the support of the people, which shows that the decree he promoted was not reasonable.

Yang He remembered that Li Zicheng's uprising seemed to have a slogan, and Yang He couldn't remember the specific content, which probably meant to open the door to meet the king, and the king would not pay for food when he came.

Judging from this slogan, Li Zicheng and the generals under him did not know how to feed the army at all.

If you don't pay food, you don't have to pay taxes, and if you don't pay taxes, what can you do to raise soldiers? Are all his soldiers wind-drinking?

If Li Zicheng really didn't pay for food, then it didn't mean anything to him whether he would give the people land or not, and he would not give the land to his soldiers and the people. The reason is very simple, if the soldiers below have land and a stable home, who will play with him?

Therefore, since Li Zicheng formulated the policy of not paying grain, he was doomed to be able to destroy and not produce. In order to solve the problem of the army, he can only rely on robbing, robbing the government, robbing the rich businessmen, and even robbing the common people.

It is conceivable that in order to get food supplies, the places where Li Zicheng passed were basically locusts crossing the border and being swept away.

In order to solve the military needs, even if the local government surrendered and the rich merchants and ordinary people surrendered, he had to rob them, rob all these people into poor eggs, and then let these people follow him to rob, and the more his subordinates, the more fierce the robbery.

Obviously, Li Zicheng's policy of not paying grain was very inappropriate.

This is tantamount to pushing these people who were robbed to his opposite.

Although most of the robbers were forced to join his troops, these people must have a grudge against Li Zicheng.

I used to be doing well, but you made me a bandit, wandering around and robbing all day long, who doesn't hate me?

It can be seen that although most of Li Zicheng and the generals below him are from poor backgrounds, they do not understand the true thoughts of the common people.

The idea of the common people is very simple, as long as they can eat enough and live a peaceful life.

As long as they can maintain food and clothing, the people will not make trouble, even if they pay more taxes, they will admit it. (To be continued......)