Although Xiaobao and Jiang Feng spent a very short time together, his feelings for Jiang Feng were extraordinary, and when he saw Jiang Feng again, Xiaobao couldn't help but wet his eyes with tears.

The little county lord quietly poked his head out from behind the bed tent and looked at Jiang Feng in surprise: Good brother actually has such a powerful father? Why let the child enter the palace to be a eunuch? Could it be that he is also a eunuch? But why is he dressed as a Taoist priest?

Jiang Feng patted Xiaobao's shoulder: "Okay, they are already adults, and Hugh has to be a child again." ”

Xiaobao wiped his reddened eyes and asked, "Dad, how did you find me, how is my mother?" Did she come to Beijing? ”

Jiang Feng waved his hand and flicked Xiaobao with a brain crash: "You stinky boy, since you are so concerned about your mother, why haven't you sent her a letter?" ”

"I don't dare!" Xiaobao looked back at the bed, pulled Jiang Feng to the side, and whispered: "Dad doesn't know, I killed the officers and soldiers that year, and followed Brother Spear to the capital, but I didn't want to be grabbed by Hai Dafu in the palace, in order to save my life, I killed Xiao Guizi under Hai Dafu, it happened that Hai Dafu's eyes were blind and he couldn't see anything, so I pretended to be Xiao Guizi, and this impersonation was several years."

It wasn't until Hai Dafu died some time ago that I had the opportunity to leave the palace, but unfortunately something went wrong in the middle, so it has been delayed until today. ”

Speaking of this, Xiaobao asked again: "Dad, when did you come back, is my mother okay?" ”

Jiang Feng pondered and replied: "When my father returned to Yangzhou, you had been missing for three days, and seeing that your mother was getting thinner and thinner for you, my father had to lie and tell her: Because you killed someone, you can't continue to stay in Yangzhou, so I arranged for you to go somewhere else." ”

"After listening to your father's lies, your mother was relieved, she was worried that you had no one to take care of you alone, so I had to take care of you, so my father had to leave Yangzhou and inquire about you all the way, until more than half a year ago, I found out your whereabouts."

Xiaobao was puzzled and said, "Dad, since you knew my whereabouts more than half a year ago, why did you come to me?" ”

Jiang Feng smiled slightly: "In the front time, my father once met with you, but the time and place at that time were not right, and my father didn't recognize you." ”

"Front-end time? When? ”

Jiang Feng whispered back: "Prince Kang's Mansion, dungeon!" ”

"Oh!" Xiaobao suddenly realized: "It turns out that the masked man is you, Dad, but ......" Xiaobao had something to ask, but he didn't say it.

Jiang Feng asked, "Do you want to ask, why didn't your father take you away, but let the people of the Heaven and Earth Society arrest you?" ”

Xiaobao nodded.

Jiang Feng smiled and said, "Before Prince Kang's Mansion saw you, my father already knew about your experience in the past few years, and I knew that Spear Eighteen was in the Heaven and Earth Society, so not only will you not be in danger when you are brought to the Heaven and Earth Society, but you will have some opportunities." ”

Xiaobao looked thoughtful, and after a moment of silence, he suddenly asked, "Dad, are you also a member of the anti-Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

Jiang Feng nodded: "Not bad!" ”

Xiaobao couldn't help asking: "Why do you have to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty?" What's so good about the previous dynasty? I heard that the emperor of the previous dynasty was so mediocre that the common people couldn't survive and rebelled, so they lost the country. ”

Hearing Xiaobao ask this, Jiang Feng decided to fool him well, lest he be like in the original book, his heart was towards the little emperor of the Manchu Dynasty:

Jiang Feng pondered for a while and said: "The biggest reason for the demise of the previous dynasty is not that the emperor is mediocre, my father can tell you responsibly that the last emperor of the previous dynasty was a very diligent and quite frugal emperor, and there are many reasons for the demise of the previous dynasty, the most important of which are two points:

First, natural disasters have reduced grain production and failed to harvest in various localities.

Second, land annexation means that state taxes cannot make ends meet.

Which years of Chongzhen sitting as emperor just coincided with the Xiaoice River period.

You may not understand what the Xiaoice period is, in other words, natural disasters were frequent in those years, either major droughts or floods, and rarely caught up with good times, which led to the reduction or even extinction of countless fields, such disasters have lasted for many years.

When the supply of grain is less than demand, there will inevitably be people who will go hungry, and unscrupulous merchants will hoard goods, which will lead to a continuous increase in food prices.

The people take food as their sky, so even if the price of food is high, they must find a way to buy and eat when they are hungry.

What if you can't afford it?

Only borrowing.

The interest rate of private lending is very high, and if the next few years are good, the loan may be repaid slowly, but no, the years in those years are getting worse and worse every year.

What if you can't afford it?

They can only sell their fields, sell their land, sell their sons and sell their daughters.

As a result, the land on which the common people relied for their survival was gradually annexed by the landlords and gentry.

Most of the children of these landlords and gentry who annexed land were scholars, and there were more or less one or two masters who had gained fame.

In the Ming Dynasty, the lord did not have to pay taxes, and when these fields were in their name, it meant that the emperor lost the power to collect taxes.

Taxes are getting less and less, spending is getting more and more, and over time, it's gradually making ends meet.

The emperor has no money, what disaster relief will he take, and what will he take to pay his military salary?

If you don't have money for disaster relief, the common people will rebel if they can't survive, and if you don't have money to pay your salary, the soldiers will not only not help you defend against the enemy, but will rebel with the rebel team. ”

It was the first time for Xiaobao to hear such an argument, he felt very novel, but it was also very reasonable, he thought for a while and asked, "Didn't Emperor Chongzhen think of a countermeasure?" ”

Jiang Feng shook his head and said with a wry smile: "The situation in the Ming Dynasty is different from now, the Ming Dynasty pursued the Song Dynasty's set of 'the emperor and scholars rule the world together', because the imperial power of the Ming Dynasty was seriously restricted by the power of the ministers, if the cabinet ministers did not agree with the emperor's will, the emperor's holy decree could hardly leave the palace.

Especially during the Chongzhen period, the Donglin Party was dominant, and the emperor's authority was greatly restricted, and the emperor's will either could not leave the imperial city, or it was not implemented out of the imperial city, so what could the emperor do? ”

Xiaobao frowned and asked, "Were all the officials at that time traitors?" Can't they think of the consequences of losing their country? ”

Jiang Feng smiled and said: "It can't be said that they are traitors, at least they themselves never think that they are traitors, some people don't think that this will lead to the destruction of the country, and some people think that if they continue like this, they will lose the country, but they are reluctant to let go of their own interests."

There are even some people who think: Even if the country is destroyed, the new lord still needs us ministers, all of whom are ministers, who are not to do it?

It is precisely because there are too many people who have such thoughts that when Li Zicheng attacks the capital, someone will help Li Zicheng open the city gate.

However, they never expected that the first thing Li Zicheng did after entering Beijing was to raid their home.

When Emperor Chongzhen borrowed money from his ministers for disaster relief, they were more poor than one another, and they didn't donate much silver in total, but Li Zicheng copied tens of millions of silver......"