Guide Mansion, Suizhou, Yuan Mansion.

"Is Ling Zun in good health?" Yuan Keli sat upright on the chair and looked at the young scholar opposite with a smile on his face.

Yuan Keli, a scholar in the seventeenth year of Wanli, has been a supervisor of the imperial history, a general political envoy to Zuo Tongzheng, a soldier of the military department, and a secretary of the household department. And the most admired official position he has ever done in his life is the governor of Denglai.

In the first year of the Apocalypse, the closure of Xinjiang was eventful, Liaoshen and Guangning were lost one after another, and the whole Liao fell. Everyone regards the closure of the door as a place of death, and hundreds of officials are silent in order to protect themselves. Yuan Keli put forward seven suggestions on Emperor Shutianqi: collect the remnants of the army and recruit them in the province; surprise soldiers, to win by drawing; clear rewards and punishments to uphold law and discipline; clear rewards and punishments to uphold law and discipline; Shijing camp to consolidate the fundamentals; Reserve more food in case it happens; Exceptional employment in order to be practical.

Sparsely, the Emperor of the Apocalypse said that he was allowed.

In the second year of the Apocalypse, Jiannu captured the southern Liaoning Peninsula, and Dengzhou and southern Liaoning faced each other across the sea, only a few days by sea. For a time, the court was terrified and discussed strategies to defend against the enemy. Emperor Tianqi remembered Yuan Keli and asked him to patrol Denglai as the imperial history of the right capital.

Yuan Keli fudeng for three years, sat in Denglai, created the Dongjiang River, vigorously fought the troops, trained the troops with Qi Jiguang's method of "the navy first learned land warfare", accumulated 4,000 warships, and formed a naval army of more than 50,000 people, and the pivotal assistant Sun Chengzong, Jinfu Li Banghua, Bi Ziyan, general soldier Mao Wenlong, Shen Yourong and other efforts to respond.

Yuan Keli was determined to plan, rectify military discipline, train sailors, and build warships. The addition of forts along the coast formed the horn trend of "a hundred miles of chess, and the peak of the beacon", which greatly strengthened Denglai's armament and became the island base of the Liaodong front, ensuring the safety of the coastal territory of the Ming Dynasty, and greatly containing and weakening the combat effectiveness of the Later Jin Dynasty in the Mingshan Customs area.

It was during the three years that Yuan Keli was the governor of Denglai that Mao Wenlong led the Dongjiang Army to attack repeatedly. Yuan Keli even rebelled against the Han general Liu Aita (also known as Liu Xingzuo), who surrendered to Jiannu, and worked closely with Sun Chengzong of Liaoxi to trap Jiannu in Liaodong.

Recovering Lushun, Liankejin, Fu, Gaisanwei and Hongzui, Wanghai, Yongning and other important places, recovering more than 1,000 miles of territory on Liaonanhai Island, and recovering the land of plastered land.

In those years, under the severe blockade of the Ming Dynasty, Nurhachi's life was extremely difficult, neither could he defeat Jinzhou Ningyuan, the domestic material scarcity and prices soared, and the slave economy was almost on the verge of collapse.

When Yuan Keli was in office, Mao Wenlong was honest and obedient, and he didn't dare to stab at all, and Dongjiang Town and Liaoxi Town cooperated closely to implement a strict blockade on Jiannu from both land and sea.

However, as the official position became bigger and bigger, Mao Wenlong's ambition also increased, and he was severely reprimanded by Yuan Keli for his false military exploits, and he was also resentful of Yuan Keli, and secretly instigated the official to impeach Yuan Keli. And because of the importance attached to military generals, many civil officials in Denglai were also dissatisfied with Yuan Keli, and the combination of the two launched an attack on Yuan Keli.

In the same year, the interest group formed by the Jinshi of the Bingchen Branch in the 44th year of Wanli instigated and enlarged the contradiction between Yuan and Mao, and the eunuch elements Song Zhenhan and several Donglin parties took turns to maliciously attack Yuan Keli. These officials have eunuchs and Donglin parties, and they do not distinguish between good and evil, and attack ministers in groups to gain political capital, which is also a major feature of Ming Dynasty officials.

However, the Emperor of the Apocalypse still trusted Yuan Keli, and promoted him to be a squire in the military department with his deeds as governor Denglai.

Yuan Keli took into account the overall situation, in order to avoid falling into endless internal friction, he connected the seven ways to ask for Zhishi, and the Emperor of the Apocalypse could not keep it, so he could only agree, and let him return to Zhishi with the title of Prince Taibao of the Ministry of Soldiers.

Yuan Keli Zhishi, so that Mao Wenlong was no longer uncontrollable, and he became more and more domineering, burying the reason for being killed. At this time and space, Zhu Youzhen knew the importance of Dongjiang Town to the Ming Dynasty, and he still ordered Sun Chuanting to take down Mao Wenlong.

Now Yuan Keli is over 70 years old, his body is still strong, and he looks extraordinarily energetic.

"Thank you uncle for your concern, everything is fine with my father." Li Xin, who was opposite, stood up and replied respectfully.

Li Xin, a native of Qi County, Kaifeng Prefecture, is the son of Li Jingbai, the former head of the household department. Qixian and Suizhou are adjacent, although they do not belong to the same prefecture, but the distance is very close, Yuan Keli and Li Jingbai are officials in the same dynasty, and they are both Zhishi, and they often move around.

After greeting for a while, Li Xin suddenly said: "Uncle, have you ever heard that Your Majesty is going to send Zhang Shize, the Marquis of Pingbei, to be the chief soldier of Henan, and he will rush to Kaifeng in the near future?" ”

Yuan Keli nodded: "I heard." ”

Although he has already become a celebrity, he has been a member of the imperial court, and he is naturally very well-informed.

"Does that uncle know His Majesty's intention of sending Pingbeihou to Henan?" Li Xin continued to ask.

"What the hell is the nephew going to say?" Yuan Keli said indifferently.

"Zhang Shize, Marquis of Pingbei, was originally the prince of England, he grew up with His Majesty since he was a child, and he is also the most trusted eagle dog around His Majesty!" Li Xin's tone became excited, "Your Majesty has launched a killing campaign in Shandong, taken down almost all the officials in Shandong, confiscated dozens of gentry, and now sent that Zhang Shize to Henan, for what is self-evident!" This is to do something to my Henan gentry! ”

Yuan Keli didn't say anything, and looked at Li Xin silently.

"When His Majesty personally conquered northern Shaanxi, he killed all the officials of Yan'an Mansion and all the gentry of Yan'an Mansion in one go. Now doing this in Shandong, he simply treats the gentry and officials like mustard!

I am the Ming Dynasty, the Son of Heaven and the scholars share the world, but why does Your Majesty treat the gentry and officials like this? The little nephew often guesses and is puzzled, but now it suddenly dawns on him that His Majesty may have the ambition to change the world! Li Xin sighed.

"What does it mean to change the world?" Yuan Keli finally spoke.

"The so-called change of heaven and earth means to completely abandon our gentry, cancel the imperial examination, and distribute our gentry's land and family property to the small people. The little nephew heard that His Majesty once said a sentence that all officials in the world should be killed! Originally, the little nephew didn't understand it very much, thinking that it was a rumor, and someone deliberately slandered the holy driver, but now it seems that this is probably His Majesty's sincere words. That's why Your Majesty killed the officials and gentry, and gave the gentry's land to the common people. This is to guard against the recklessness of the new emperor! Li Xin sneered.

"Juntian, if you can really complete Juntian's move, it will not lose a great deal of good governance." Yuan Keli said suddenly.

Why does Shi Bo think that? We scholars have studied poetry and books hard, put their fame, worked hard to manage, and accumulated family property and land, and Your Majesty will take our lives without saying anything, what a cruel act! Li Xin said urgently.

"How much land does your family have?" Yuan Keli asked.

"This ......," Li Xin sneered, and Fang replied, "There are about twenty or thirty thousand acres." ”

Yuan Keli sighed: "Although my family's field is not as large as yours, it also has more than 1,000 acres. We are all scholars, and we don't have to lie, we all know how these fields came from, and they are nothing more than clansmen and villagers who sacrificed money to avoid taxes from the imperial court. Naturally, our family's fields do not need to pay taxes to the imperial court, but each state and county has a fixed amount of taxes to pay to the imperial court every year, and these taxes can only be shared equally among other people.

During the Wanli period, I was idle at home, and I worked with Li Maofu (Li Ruhua) to help the government clarify the taxes on acres of land, in order to reduce the burden of the small people.

The fields of the wealthy gentry are not far away, and the poor people have no place to stand, so they can only rely on tenant farming to make a living, and their lives are miserable. ”

"Shibo, you are confused!" Li Xin hurriedly said, "I also know that this can make Xiaomin live a good life." But now the problem is more than that, the problem is that the emperor wantonly undermined the imperial court regulations! Now it is the emperor who wantonly plunders the people's property and wantonly slaughters scholars and officials, which is a destruction of the Ming Dynasty's regulations and the foundation of the Ming Dynasty!

If the emperor could plunder property and kill people at will, and now he would do it to the gentry and officials, would he use a knife against the merchants one day, and would he rob the common people one day? Shibo, don't believe it, those troops around the emperor are used to grabbing their hands, and it will be difficult not to continue in the future?

The land system has been destroyed, the tax system has been wiped out, and the officials have been massacred, replaced by bullshit and different clan waste! Shibo, you also know that those clans are raised like waste, what do they know? Now that Your Majesty has asked them to go to the Yamen to be officials, won't they make a mess of the affairs of the Yamen? In the end, it's not the ordinary people who are harmed!

Saying that officials are corrupt and corrupt means changing those clans, isn't it the same? Those clans rely on the royal bloodline and suddenly become officials, I'm afraid they are even more greedy!

If the emperor continues to perversely, it will never be long before the entire Ming Dynasty will be a mess, and the foundation that Emperor Taizu has worked so hard to lay will be completely ruined! ”

"What do you want to do?" Yuan Keli looked at Li Xin with blazing eyes.

Li Xin was silent for a moment and said, "The little nephew is soft-spoken, so naturally he can't change anything. But Uncle Shi, you are a famous minister in the world, and you have the hope of the sea, and Your Majesty has been trying to use you since he ascended the throne, but you have been rejected by your uncle. If you go to persuade Your Majesty, Your Majesty may listen to you, if you can really persuade Your Majesty, then Uncle you will save the world! ”

Yuan Keli finally understood Li Xin's intention, this was seeing that Zhang Shize was about to come to Henan, seeing that the situation was not good, he rushed to the doctor and hit his head with the idea.

"If it was the first emperor, I would be able to speak then, but now Your Majesty ......" Yuan Keli was silent.

In the year of the Apocalypse, he resigned, and the current Emperor Chongzhen really had no contact, and he didn't know anything about Emperor Chongzhen, even if he persuaded him, he didn't know how to persuade him. Besides, what is the world's famous minister, what role can a wise minister play? How can the current emperor be persuaded to do so?

In fact, Yuan Keli has a very good impression of the current emperor, after all, Zhu Youzhen has only been on the throne for four years, and he completely pacified Jiannu and recovered Liaodong, which makes Yuan Keli deeply admired.

Governor Denglai for three years, Yuan Keli naturally knew how strong the combat effectiveness of the Jiannu Eight Banners was, from Wanli to the Apocalypse, the Ming army almost never won a few battles in the face of the Eight Banners. In the second year of the emperor's accession to the throne, Jiannu broke through the side wall and hit the city of Beijing, and Yuan Keli was not in his position at that time and was worried, but who knew that when he turned around, it was reported that Lu Xiangsheng led the Praetorian Guard to attack Liaodong and smash Huanglong, and then forced Huang Taiji to lead the army to retreat in a hurry.

A major battle in Liaodong killed two-thirds of Jiannu's population, so that Jiannu no longer had the strength to threaten the Ming Dynasty, so he had to flee Liaodong and flee to Mobei. Although Yuan Keli was far away from his hometown, he was also fascinated when he heard these news, and praised the emperor for the Praetorian Guard!

Later, after Sun Chuanting and Zhang Shize attacked the grassland to pacify Southern Mongolia, Yuan Keli was even more elated, and regarded Zhu Youzhen as a generation of heroes!

Therefore, Yuan Keli was not as angry as Li Xin and others at all about Zhu Youzhen's series of actions, he knew that a male lord like Zhu Youzhen must have deep meaning in doing so, how could it be perverse?

Although he is a member of the gentry, Yuan Keli is different from other gentry who only care about their own interests, he pretends to be the world and the Ming Dynasty in his heart. He knew that the Ming Dynasty now had a lot of internal troubles, serious land annexation, frequent natural disasters, and the people were living a miserable life. If the situation of the Ming Dynasty can be improved, what does it matter if the interests of some gentry are sacrificed?

I am afraid that the emperor has good intentions, but the practice has made the situation worse. Just like Wang Mang of the Han Dynasty, who dares to say bad about his original intention? But the result? But the situation in the world deteriorated rapidly, and the people of the clan rose up to oppose it, and the world's homeless people rose up, the Green Forest Army, the Red Eyebrow Army, and hundreds of thousands of rebellious peasants, fighting year after year, hundreds of people died, and finally ended up with the destruction of the country, and finally harmed themselves and hundreds of people!

Many of Zhu Youzhen's behaviors are similar to Wang Mang's, and he is completely an idealist. Yuan Keli was worried that he would end up like Wang Mang, and finally harm the people and ruin the Ming Dynasty!

"Okay, I'll go for a walk, hoping to persuade Your Majesty." Yuan Keli finally said.

"If Shibo comes forward, he will definitely succeed!" Li Xinxi said.

Yuan Keli shook his head, although he didn't know much about the current emperor, but looking at the emperor's various actions, how could he easily listen to persuasion if he was a strong-willed person?

What if you can't persuade the emperor? Then take the initiative to join!

If it is really possible to achieve equal land, so that the cultivator has his own land, it is really the greatest good thing!

The emperor's intentions were good, but the approach was too careless. There are good and bad gentry in the world, and there are also good and bad officials in the world, how can they all be defeated?

It is easy to destroy the system, but it is difficult to establish a new system, and it is even more difficult to establish a good system!

Then I will help the emperor to check and fill in the gaps and help him establish a perfect system!

"Where is Your Majesty now?" Yuan Keli asked.

"According to the news that the boy just got, His Majesty just arrived in Jining three days ago and is heading south along the canal. If Shibo leaves now, he should be able to catch up with His Majesty in Yangzhou. Li Xin said respectfully.

"Okay, I'll leave immediately!" Yuan Keli said immediately.

"I wish Shi Boma success, and the little nephew will retire." Li Xin hugged his fists.

"Yuan Shu, you send my nephew on my behalf." Yuan Keli said to his son who was standing aside.