The neat fields are endless, the breeze blows, and a wave of wheat is like the waves of the sea, the waves are magnificent...... Both sides of the Yellow River are such magnificent scenes.

The horses walked between the ridges for an hour or two, and when they looked around, it was as if they were standing still.

Zhu Cihong looked at such a vast world and was deeply shocked.

"Ministers often say that the whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister. The Son of Heaven is rich all over the world, but in the end, there are a few people in my Ming Dynasty who really have seen such a vast world. A Forbidden City locked the Son of Heaven to death, if it weren't for the Liao King Jianyi's personal expedition, I'm afraid that there would be no chance to leave Beijing! ”

Gu Zhenhua smiled slightly: "Your Majesty, if you want to rule the world, you can't ignore the suffering of the people, how can you understand the difficulties of the people!" Let's talk about farming, hard work for more than half a year, an acre of land is only more than one stone, half of the handover, the rest can be a family rations, at most a little salt, to the end of the year can buy a piece of meat, wrap a dumpling, this is a good year! ”

Zhu Cihong frowned and said, "King Liao, I remember that the taxes of the Ming Dynasty are only one bucket per mu of land, which is only one-tenth of it. Why is it that half of the people can be stable after the expropriation, and once the expropriation is expropriated, their wives and families are ruined, and they even become thieves? ”

"Do you want to hear the truth, or is it a lie?"

Zhu Cihong said with a smile: "Of course it's the truth, and the King of Liao dares to tell me the truth in this world!" ”

"Two words, ancestral system!"

Hearing this, Zhu Cihong's facial features were twisted together, and he was puzzled.

"King Liao. The ancestors founded the Ming Dynasty, the Holy Tomorrow, and the ancestral system set was also exhausted. I thought that I was far inferior to Taizu Chengzu. I thought it was the disloyalty of the courtiers that led to the ruin of state affairs. ”

"Hahaha, Your Majesty, if Taizu had lived to this day, he would have thrown the ancestral system aside a long time ago and let you reform it! The ancestral system is to maintain the country, but the country is gone. is still abiding by the ancestral system, isn't it abandoning the basics? The minister dared to say that no one could see through the vicissitudes of the world for two or three hundred years. In the same way, no one can set the rules for 2,000 years from now. It is not advisable to hold the ancestral system. Holding the saint's subtle words is even more absurd. These two absurdities were added together, and they made a cup of bitter wine, which just fell into His Majesty's mouth! ”

openly questioned Lao Zhu. Questioning Confucius. Deviant, rebellious. This kind of thing is what Gu Zhenhua can say, even Zhu Cihong doesn't have the courage to do so.

Listening to it, Zhu Cihong felt more and more interesting, and couldn't help but say: "King Liao, you tell me carefully, I am short of a head to drink now!" ”

Gu Zhenhua glanced over, and there was a willow tree in front of him. A few huge bluestones below, just to rest.

"陛xià. This side please. ”

The guards carefully inspected the surroundings of the willow tree before Zhu Cihong and Gu Zhenhua sat down.

"Your Majesty, after so many years, Confucianism has produced many, many, rogue, scoundrel logic!"

Zhu Cihong squirted out a mouthful of water, he didn't care about wiping it, stared at Gu Zhenhua dumbfounded, and couldn't help but say: "King Liao, this is the first time in my life that I have heard someone say this!" ”

"Hahaha, Your Majesty doesn't want to hear it, so I won't say it!"

"Think, why don't you want to, I want to implement a new policy and save Daming, so naturally I have to find out where Daming's illness is first, King Liao, you just have to say it boldly!"

"Well, Confucianism has grasped the weakness of human nature, no matter who in this world, it is impossible to admit that the ancestors are wrong, and there is only constant beautification of the ancestors. In this way, the ancestral system has become sacrosanct. The minister is not saying that what the ancestors said is wrong, but everything must be judged on a case-by-case basis, how can there be something that does not change? Whose wisdom is limited after all, and who may be perfect in dealing with the things of the world, but what about a hundred or two hundred years from now? Take the clan as an example, there were only 58 people when the country was founded, and after more than 200 years of living and multiplying, it has reached hundreds of thousands. At the time of the founding of the country, there may have been little pressure to supply the feudal clans, but two hundred years later, most of the local savings had to be consumed on the feudal kings of each region. ”

Zhu Cihong listened while pulling his head painfully.

"What the King of Liao said is good, it's just blood relatives, flesh and blood, the emperors of previous dynasties also want to reform, but there are obstacles in the clan, and even the ministers of the court and the central government have many objections, and they can't implement it for a long time, so it's the descendants of the Zhu family to blame!"

"Your Majesty, have you ever thought about it, in fact, the words of Confucius and Mencius are also a kind of ancestral teaching! Respecting ancestors and respecting Confucius are in the same vein, they will not dig their own graves, say anything to defend the ancestral system, to put it bluntly, to defend their right to speak as a scholar, in order to contain His Majesty! ”

These few words didn't matter, so frightened that Zhu Cihong was stunned, leaned against the trunk of the tree, and couldn't say a word.

There is nothing wrong with respecting ancestors, but turning this thing into religion and paranoia is a disease! It's just that no one dares to say anything about this disease.

This is also the cleverness of Confucianism in kidnapping public opinion! It's also a scoundrel! You can't say that your ancestors have a problem! As long as everyone doesn't say it, the emperor's new clothes will never be broken.

Zhu Cihong sighed after a while: "King Liao, I really didn't expect that there would be such selfishness in this, it is almost impossible to look at it directly!" In this way, if you want to change the ancestral system and change the law, you have to change the rules of Confucianism? ”

"That's right, Shang Ying's law change was successful, but when it came to Wang Anshi, as well as Zhang Juzheng of our dynasty, they all failed. The reason is that this set of Confucian theories is just that, as long as it is not broken, it will face backlash. What's more, their reforms do not dare to touch the core, they are just minor repairs, and they will not help! ”

"What does King Liao think is the core?"

"Everyone is equal, hard work and prosperity!"

Gu Zhenhua unceremoniously spit out eight words, Gu Zhenhua looked up at the sky and spit out the turbidity in his chest.

"Your Majesty, more than ten generations have been reproduced, is there still a blood relationship? But the clan can get something for nothing and become a moth to the country. What is special about scholars, and why can they enjoy privileges, do not serve and do not pay food. In turn, they encroached on land and annexed land. forced the common people to have no way out and had to rise up to rebel. They say that they are loyal to Jun Yaoshun and say that they are loyal and patriotic, but in fact they are the gravediggers of the Ming Dynasty! His Majesty just asked, why the imperial court only accepted one bucket, but the common people couldn't survive. This is the reason, when Taizu formulated the method of requisitioning grain, he adopted the grain chief system, and transported grain from large households to the two capitals, and trafficked it for thousands of miles, how could the small people afford it? The big families were honest at first, but later they pushed the drudgery onto ordinary well-off families. In fact, the grain chief system has long since collapsed."

Gu Zhenhua pointed to the land in front of him and said, "Your Majesty, originally this piece of land, half of it belonged to King Fu, and half belonged to a large family. They occupied so much land, but they did not pay grain to the imperial court, and the taxes fell on the small people of Shengdou. The small people went bankrupt and had to become tenants under them. They have to pay more than half of the rent per acre of land, as well as all kinds of miscellaneous labor. Large households also took advantage of natural disasters** to use usury to exploit excessively. Scraped down layer by layer, Xiao Min'an can not be poor! Although the ministers in Henan levied a lot, but the people did not have other burdens, the bank provided low-interest loans, and the convoy of grain collection could directly transport grain to the doorstep, eliminating the pain of traveling. Although it is necessary to build roads and water conservancy projects, it is also taken from the people for the people. Do not suffer from poverty but suffer from inequality, and the minister adds another sentence, not suffering from inequality and suffering from hopelessness. The privileges of the scholars were broken, and the people saw the beginning of the day, and naturally contained infinite power, and it was not a problem to change the day! ”

After some words, Zhu Cihong not only saw the crux of Daming, but also saw the hope of change. He was full of energy, clenched his fists and said: "The words of the King of Liao, I have benefited a lot, the clan, the official gentry, these are the moths of the court, I will not be soft, I will definitely deal with it ruthlessly!" ”

Gu Zhenhua smiled slightly: "Your Majesty, don't be busy, the minister has something more out of line, I don't know if you want to hear it?" ”

"Ahh Zhu Cihong was taken aback, and said in his heart that Zhu Yuanzhang and Old Master Kong were scolded by this one, what else can they say!

"King Liao, you know everything and say everything, I just have to listen!"

"His Majesty, Sangang, Junchen, Father and Son, Husband and Wife, only one person is not controlled. That is the supreme emperor of my Ming Dynasty, that is, the general root of the world's privileges, His Majesty is supreme for one day, and it is inevitable that the rise and fall of chaos will alternate! ”

Zhu Cihong suddenly took a few steps back and sat on the bluestone.

"King Liao, are you going to kill me after all?" (To be continued......)

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