No one paid attention to him, Zhu Houzhao still looked at the wilderness under the sky cheerfully, and even hummed a little song unconsciously: "The young red and pink are romantic, and the brocade tent is in love with the spring night." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info 兴魄罔誔来旅......"

Ye Chunqiu's eyes suddenly opened,, where did you learn this obscene word?

Ye Chunqiu got up, looked at Zhu Houzhao and said, "Your Majesty, you can't sing, where did you learn this?" ”

Zhu Houzhao showed an innocent and romantic smile and said: "The homeless people in Datong City all sing this, even Xiaolan can sing it." ”

Ye Chunqiu looked depressed, so he had to pull his face and say: "I can't sing after returning to Beijing, if something happens, Your Majesty should pay attention to Junyi." ”

Zhu Houzhao suddenly looked aggrieved: "Ah, but everyone sings, why can't I sing?" ”

"......" Ye Chunqiu was a little speechless for this question, so he said: "Your Majesty, since you can't sleep, let's make a game." ”

Game.

Ye Chunqiu lit bonfires everywhere and surrounded a clearing, and then in this clearing, he first drew a map of the Ming Dynasty: "Your Majesty, where is this?" ”

"Like a chicken. It's a pity that the chicken head is too small, and the chicken butt is missing. ”

Ye Chunqiu shook his head and said: "This is the Ming Dynasty, the two capitals and thirteen provinces, and the various capitals. ”

"Oh." Zhu Houzhao suddenly thought that this chicken without the cockscomb and chicken butt was indeed similar to the pictures he usually saw, but it was ......

As soon as he thought of chicken, Zhu Houzhao drooled: "To be honest, I want to eat chicken, and this porridge is drunk from birds." ”

Ye Chunqiu sighed and said: "Your Majesty, first, it is still in the Datong realm, there must be no chickens nearby, and second, you can't talk with birds, let Deng Yushi listen, he will die again." ”

Ye Chunqiu drew a map of the desert, then Europe, then Africa, then Central Asia, and then South Asia and Australia. It's so big. ”

Ye Chunqiu said: "Your Majesty, the Ming Dynasty only occupies a corner of the east, you see, is the center of the world my Ming Dynasty?" ”

Zhu Houzhao frowned and said: "The Ming Dynasty is the middle earth of China, why is it not the center?" ”

Ye Chunqiu just smiled faintly and didn't answer his words, but said, "Your Majesty, why has the Ming Dynasty been worried about internal and external troubles to this day?" ”

Zhu Houzhao couldn't answer.

Ye Chunqiu said: "This is because of the annexation of land, in addition, it is the heavy tax, does Your Majesty know what the population of the Yellow Book was during the Hongwu period?" In the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu, Taizu ordered the creation of a yellow book, and the number of registered households was 606 million. Ye Chunqiu smiled, and smiled a little bitterly: "But now, a hundred years have passed, and in a hundred years, the world has been stable, but the population of the Yellow Book is 61.35 million, which means that our Ming Dynasty has not had much disaster, and it has been recuperating for a hundred years, but the increase in population is only one million." ”

Ye Chunqiu continued to explain: "The world has always been peaceful, and the population has increased extremely fast, when Hongwu Taizu was here, the world has experienced repeated wars, and there are still 60 million, why is it too late to endure peace for a long time? ”

Ye Chunqiu sighed here, and then said: "Your Majesty, this is not because the population has not increased, according to the minister's prediction, the number of people today is at least more than 100 million, the reason why the population of the Yellow Book is on par with Taizu is because of the escapees, ordinary people, who dares to escape, if no one hides them, do they have such courage?" And who is the one who hides them? ”

Zhu Houzhao was stunned for a moment: "What do you mean ......?"

Ye Chunqiu pursed his lips and said with a smile: "Our Daming is a pool, there are big fish and small fish in the pool, big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimp, and one day, this big fish is getting fatter and fatter, more and more greedy, it is time for the malaise to be full of diseases and die in the world." So to solve this problem, there are only two ways, one is to kill the big fish, that is, to carry out reforms, learn from Shang Ying, learn from Wang Anshi, and burn the jade with the big fish, clean up their hidden population, depose their privileges, like a tax-free population tax, Your Majesty wants to try it? ”

"Uh......" Zhu Houzhao's face was miserable: "Liu Jin is reforming." ”

Yes, Liu Jin is indeed restructuring, together with Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai, in order to consolidate his rights, he did do something to these big fish, but Ye Chunqiu shook his head in his heart, because Liu Jin himself is a bigger fish, this is actually just a trick of big fish eating big fish.

Ye Chunqiu said: "Actually, it is too difficult to reform the old and establish the new, and it will affect the whole body, Your Majesty is ruling the world with scholars, if you completely turn against them, it is the country that will be shaken." So...... We have a second way. ”

Ye Chunqiu began to tirelessly instill Zhu Houzhao, in this place far from the center of power, Ye Chunqiu spoke without scruples, there is no Liu Jin here, there is no cabinet, nothing, Ye Chunqiu said proudly: "There is another way, which is to expand this pool into the sea, release the big fish out of the pond, and put them into the sea, the big fish need to face all kinds of big fish in the sea, they will twist it into a rope, if their strength is insufficient, they need to rely on the power of the small fish and shrimp in the pool......"

Ye Chunqiu pointed to all the places except the Ming Territory and said, "This ...... It is the sea, the reason why the big fish in the pond are cruel to the small fish and shrimp is because there is only such a small pool in their eyes, others eat more, you eat less, you don't eat it, it will eat you, but once the big fish jump into the ocean, there are fish and shrimp, they naturally don't have much interest in the small fish and shrimp in the pool, and even ...... In order to concentrate more on dealing with the fish and shrimp in the sea, they also need to buy the small fish and shrimp in the pond, so as to increase their strength in the face of the fish and shrimp in the sea. ”

Speaking of this, Ye Chunqiu glanced at Zhu Houzhao, who was listening to him intently, before he continued with anticipation: "This is the second road, open this road, and the Ming Dynasty can continue to continue." ”

Zhu Houzhao understood, he squatted on the ground, kept looking at the map on the ground, looked at the borders of each continent, and couldn't help but say: "I have a problem." ”

Ye Chunqiu felt that he was giving the little emperor a new enlightenment at the moment, fortunately, this little emperor was a person who was very easy to absorb new things, if the first emperor of Hongzhi was here, Ye Chunqiu was afraid that he would have cut off his head because he was considered to be a gossip to confuse the public and talk nonsense, and he would have thrown it into the sea to feed Wang Ba.

To some extent, Ye Chunqiu is lucky, at least, although what he is doing now is starting to seem a little absurd, and even a little out of this era, at least there are still people who can trust themselves unconditionally.

(To be continued.) )