Chapter 162 [A Letter to Chongzhen]

As soon as he entered the He Mansion, Ao Bai immediately asked Li Fugui to take Li Fugui to the house and hide him, and then entered the living room with Su Meng'er. Everyone in the family was there, and the three daughters of Hai Lanzhu, Phoenix, and Yao Qianyu didn't speak when they saw Su Meng'er coming back with him.

He Rupet asked anxiously: "Dapeng, what's going on?" Now many people are impeaching you, but only me, Xu Guangqi, and Li Biao are the ones who will help you speak. The emperor asked me to inform you that as long as you come back, you will go to the court and confront the civil and military officials, you ...... Are you really connected to Heishizhai and control Shanxi? ”

Sure enough, this matter had reached the capital, and Ao Bai sighed: "Yes, but Heishizhai is not an organization at all, and it is not a rogue. They are just a group of people who can't eat, and they already existed when Grandpa Wei didn't die. There was really no tax increase in Shanxi, and many of the officials there were people from Father-in-law Wei, and I kept it, and I let them maintain the previous taxes, and leave those displaced people in Tuntian. With such a little change, how good Shanxi people are living now. ”

He Rupet smiled bitterly: "Shanxi people are because you are living well, but what should you do?" You're a fool. No matter how much the emperor trusts you, he will not allow you to overstep his authority. Things in Ningxia Town are easy to do, because you won the battle, and Lord Wu, the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, also said good things for you, but now the emperor is under pressure from Wenchen, and it is difficult not to punish you. When you go to court, you're going to be in trouble. ”

Ao Bai smiled: "I understand that if I confront them, I will definitely be attacked by them, and it will be difficult for the emperor to protect me, maybe I will lose my official position, it is such a few words"

"Losing your official position is a trivial matter, and now in the matter of the Jianghuai Salt Farm, there are still a group of people who say that you are nepotistic and exclude the Yao family in every way, and you are not the only one." He Rupet pointed at Yao Qianyu, shook his head and said, "They originally wanted to go to Jianghuai to have a look, but they didn't dare to leave under pressure." ”

Ao Bai smiled bitterly: "It's only to blame that I was promoted too quickly, I have been in the capital for more than a year, and I am under one person, above ten thousand, and it is difficult not to be jealous." ”

He Rupet said earnestly: "This is also to blame me, I usually don't teach you some precautions in officialdom, otherwise you wouldn't be so sharp, as an official, you must know how to protect yourself, not just for the sake of the people, just be loyal to the emperor." Take the initiative to resign when you go to court, it doesn't matter if you don't become an official, as long as you hold on to your life, the family can live happily. ”

He is not optimistic about him. Phoenix was very confident in him and asked, "Husband, do you have any other way?" ”

Hai Lanzhu also said: "Yes, I see that you can still laugh, you must have left a good way to go."

Originally, I didn't, but I already had it when I went to Shanxi. Ao Bai smiled: "I don't regret that I am sharp at all, if there is no person like me, the court will be made by a group of corrupt officials and traitors." It is no exaggeration to say that if you don't fight the Jin merchants and don't let Grandpa Sun and Man Gui guard the border passes, maybe the Eight Banners Army will be able to fight the Central Plains in the past few years. For the sake of the Ming Dynasty, I want to take a gamble to see if the emperor believes in the Donglin Party who only says but does not do, or me, a person who does practical things and is reckless. ”

He Rupet suddenly had a feeling that he had followed the etiquette for decades, and the way of the monarch and the minister was also wrong, maybe there should have been such a person in the world as Aobai a long time ago, and the Donglin Party was really inferior to the market hooligan Wei Zhongxian in terms of doing things, at least Wei Zhongxian knew how to sympathize with the suffering of the people, and did good things when he did bad things. The Donglin Party is fighting to and fro, doing nothing.

"Dapeng, I support you. It's a big deal that I quit my official position, and I was recalled to the sixth ministry because of you. ”

He Ruzhong didn't know that if Aobai's plan succeeded this time, not only would he not lose his official position, but he would also become a relative of the emperor.

Ao Bai smiled: "Grandpa, thank you." I don't think the emperor is the kind of person who doesn't know anything. I don't plan to go to the palace to confront those officials, the Donglin Party controls the government, it is difficult for me to explain clearly when I was in the court, please bring a letter to the emperor, I will give him an explanation in the letter, so that he understands that the court is fighting like this, and the Ming Dynasty will be over. I am ready to believe in me, and as long as he believes in me, he will come to He Mansion to meet me alone. ”

He Ruzhong took the letter and said: "But the emperor has already decreed that you will go to the court when you come back." ”

Ao Bai said lightly: "Let's just say that I was sick in other places, so I stayed in Shanxi for a long time." I'm not going to give those guys a chance to attack me. ”

"Well, you haven't been to court anyway. I will send the letter to the emperor tomorrow. He Rupet said, looked at Su Meng'er, and said with a wry smile: "You and Miss Su > come back together, don't you have anything to say?" ”。

"Yes...... I would like to say...... I'm sorry I didn't inform you, but I'm going to add a new member to my family. Ao Bai looked at the three ladies," >, took Su Meng'er's hand and said, "We have everything to say, this ......"

Hai Lanzhu sighed: "Alas, we are all clear. Before you left, the people in the capital said that you were a couple, and how compatible you two young talents were. We knew there would be such a day. But how can you go away without saying a word, without taking me with you? ”

Su Meng'er looked embarrassed when she saw Aobai, and she couldn't say anything when she moved her mouth a few times, Shi Li said: "Three sisters, it's me who is not good, I secretly followed." ”

Ao Bai was so moved that he almost cried, how difficult it was to make Su Meng'er say soft words to someone with such an arrogant personality. Phoenix smiled: "You don't have to call our sister, in the words of the husband, our family has always been no big or small, and we treat everyone equally, right?" ”

Ao Bai smiled: "Yes, that's right. Jiahe, thank you for accepting her, Meng'er, and thank you, you are all my little treasures. Haha, let's go see the kids. ”

The three girls all knew the importance of the Salt Gang to Aobai, and it was impossible not to accept Su Meng'er, and when they heard that the two went to the border together, they were also a little angry, but after thinking about it, Su Meng'er's martial arts were very high, and staying by Aobai's side was helpful to him, and he gradually let go of the idea of hating the enemy. Later, there were impeachments of Aobai every day, and his situation became more and more dangerous, and they hoped that Su Meng'er could help Aobai.

The child had just fallen asleep, and after a few glances, they went into the study together. The third girl anxiously asked if there was any countermeasure, and Ao Bai confidently said that there was already a perfect plan, but he had to sell it first. Whether it can be done depends on whether the emperor believes him or not.

Ao Bai hated writing songs, but this time, he wrote a long one. He wanted Emperor Chongzhen to figure out the current situation of the Ming Dynasty and the reason for the predicament.

There are some simple truths that people in the future will understand, but people in this era will not be aware of them. The Ming Dynasty had a chance to become the strongest country in the world, but it was a pity that they spent their energy on endless party strife and infighting, and did not find the right way.

The next day, Ao Bai said that he was sick and did not go to the court. Many civil officials shouted that he was a thief, and some suggested that he should be dismissed immediately, never hired, and then replace the officials in Shanxi, dismantle the Heishi Village, and let the Shanxi people make up the taxes, including the land cultivated without authorization.

This time, no one spoke again. He Ruzhong only said a few words to Chongzhen when he was retreating from the dynasty and handed over the letter to Chongzhen.

After returning to the palace, Chongzhen asked his subordinates to leave and opened the letter of Aobai.

Dear Emperor,

In fact, when he proposed to crack down on the Jianghuai salt merchants, Weichen expected that he would be impeached by the civilian officials, because I greatly touched their interests. To put it bluntly, what I do will affect them to embezzle and enrich themselves. Without informing the imperial court, I secretly let the people of Shanxi carry out the tuntian, and did not increase the agricultural tax. It's really beyond my authority to do this, but has the emperor found anything wrong? Shaanxi and Shanxi are neighboring provinces, one province starved to death hundreds of people, and the other province poured in a large number of displaced people, but the people still live and work in peace and contentment. I knew that if I continued to collect taxes like this, the people would not be able to bear it. But those civil servants don't care about this, they only care about their careers and how much benefit they can get. The person who impeached me the most will definitely be the one who embezzled the most in the future. Between me and these ministers, who will you choose?

Nowadays, the power of the civil official clique is too great, and the imperial power is suppressed. In my opinion, the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty have always been monolithic, and the emperor cannot divide and control. Emperor Wanli did not go to court, it is based on this that the last dynasty is like that, and it is still the same thing if he does not go to court. These civil officials, who believed in the Four Books and the Five Classics, despised all those who were not from the imperial examination, controlled the government and suppressed the imperial power, and were not afraid of bloodshed and sacrifice for their beliefs and dogmas. As a result of the suppression of imperial power, the policy of the imperial court was not considered from the overall situation, not for the common people, but from the interests of the civilian bureaucracy, that is, from the interests of the merchants in Jiangnan.

Because Taizu of the Ming Dynasty was born in a poor background and knew the people's feelings, Taizu recuperated with the people in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, and the direct result was that the taxes of the Ming Dynasty had been very low, and the commercial taxes were even lower, so the treasury had been very difficult. However, at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, why did the imperial court have money for wars, water conservancy, and disaster relief, but then it was not good? Because there are fewer people who farm and more people who do business. Merchants became the mainstay of the country's economy, while taxes were still dominated by agricultural taxes. The Donglin Party hindered the increase in commercial taxes, and the Wanli Emperor really had no choice, so he levied a mining tax, and as a result, the ministers instigated the local officials to kill the tax envoys, which I saw in the Red Mansion, and there were records. Therefore, these empty talk mislead the country, bring disaster to the country and the people, self-righteousness, retaliation, and only know that the Donglin Party that evades taxes is the traitor of the Ming Dynasty, and Wei Zhongxian, who was instructed by the Emperor of the Apocalypse to fight against the Donglin Party, is a real loyal minister, and he is completely worthy of his name.

Nowadays, cash crops are grown on a large scale in various places, and no food is grown. A large number of agricultural people entered the handicraft industry or engaged in commercial trade, and Zhang Juzheng's tax reform turned the tax in kind into a monetary tax, and people could pay taxes without producing food. This has led to a problem, there is a shortage of food, and Shaanxi has no food to provide disaster relief when it encounters a disaster. Imagine, if Jiangnan had increased grain production, transferred grain reserves to the northern provinces in advance, and opened warehouses for relief in the event of a disaster, wouldn't the situation be much better?

I believe that it was Zhang Juzheng's tax reform that made the Ming Dynasty take a big step towards a commodity economy, and it was his reform that caused today's unfavorable situation. In the past, peasants could pay taxes after harvesting grain, but after the tax reform, they had to sell it in the market and pay taxes after changing the money. This reform is tantamount to encouraging the cultivation of cash crops instead of food. The peasants have no silver in their hands, and the season for harvesting and selling grain is the same, and when everyone sells grain, grain merchants will take the opportunity to lower prices, so the peasants will be exploited again, which will increase the burden on the peasants in disguise. A lot of land in the northwest is barren, and the common people dare not plant even if they have land, and there is nothing left after planting and selling it for money, and when they pay taxes, this is the reality.

From ancient times to the present, there has always been a separation of powers, either the imperial power is too large, or the civil group is too large, and its result will eventually make the distribution of wealth seriously uneven, and finally lead to peasant uprisings and overthrow a dynasty, which is the law of dynasties. And Da Ming has reached the end of the line. The only solution is further checks and balances and restrictions on power.

Nowadays, not only the emperor, but also local officials in the Ming Dynasty can combine legislative, law enforcement, and judicial powers and abuse their power. Everyone yearns for rights, and the Ming Dynasty has broken its foundation. So in my opinion, all officials in the DPRK and China can be killed. If the strategy of governing the country is not completely changed, the Ming Dynasty will die within 20 years. It was not the Iron Cavalry of the Eight Banners Army who died in the Ming Dynasty, but Zhang Juzheng, who was known as the first capable minister in the Ming Dynasty. An agricultural-based country that depletes its resources due to the over-expansion of commerce will eventually bring down the country.

If the emperor believes me, he will go to He Mansion and talk to me alone, I can say it in more detail, and put it into practice in the imperial court, so that the Ming Dynasty can avoid the end of the country. If the emperor chooses to believe those civil servants who are good at empty talk, he will issue a holy decree to remove me from all my posts, and I will leave the capital with my family and find a clean place to live in seclusion, and never ask about the world. I'm waiting for your reply at home.

Chongzhen put down the letter and sat in his chair, feeling very apprehensive. The Ming Dynasty has reached the point where it is about to die? Is it really so serious to him? Why is what he said completely different from the views of the officials of the DPRK and China? What kind of person is Huang Peng?

Ao Bai did not deny the incident of Tuntian, Shanxi, and said it with confidence. He's breaking the rules by doing so, but is it really right? Shaanxi has asked for salaries many times, who in the imperial court has argued about these things? All they argue about is who to reuse and who not to use.

Chongzhen decided to go to Hefu tomorrow to see Aobai. It is impossible for him to replace all the officials in the court, but it is still okay to listen to what Ao Bai says. He knew that Ao Bai was talented, so even if all the officials in the court and the central government were impeached together, he still wanted to hear Ao Bai's opinion. He did not realize that what was written in the letter was not to assist him, but to do it himself. Go to Hefu, what awaits him will be a dead end!

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