"What, Zhang Xianzhong wants Lantian County ?!!"

Chongzhen's eyes widened all of a sudden: "This Zhang Xianzhong has such a big appetite, he wants to occupy Lantian County if he surrenders, Lantian County is now an important granary of the Ming Dynasty, how can he give it to the thief, no, I am not allowed!" ”

Yang Sichang knelt on the ground without saying a word, Chongzhen's reaction was also in his thoughts, Lantian County is now Chongzhen dare to call the important arm of the court and the princes, Lantian will give Chongzhen a lot of taxes every year, and most of this tax has entered Chongzhen's internal money, and the princes of the court can't get it, after all, Lantian is still a county town in the household department, and Emperor Chongzhen has always emphasized that Lantian is only a county land, and taxes should be levied according to the land of a county town.

As for Lantian itself, now the taxes paid by Lantian have caught up with the taxes paid by Shaanxi all the way during the Apocalypse, so what about the rest of the excess money?

All of them have entered Chongzhen's internal funds, and Chongzhen has dared to refute the ministers over the years, and even overturned the biggest reliance on the long-term plan of many ministers to benefit the country, which is to rely on the taxes paid to Chongzhen by Lantian, and this money is Chongzhen's confidence.

But this money does not enter the household department, and it cannot be controlled by the court and the princes, this is a variable, and the most disliked by the princes of the court is variables.

Therefore, Lantian has always been a thorn in the eyes of the princes of the court, a nail in the flesh, but Lantian is powerful and difficult to do, and directly moving Lantian is equivalent to moving Chongzhen's small treasury, Chongzhen will definitely be vigilant and make this thing impossible.

So you must wait for a suitable opportunity, and this opportunity is very good, exchange a Lantian for the stability of the northwest of the Ming Dynasty, Your Majesty should agree.

And as long as Your Majesty agrees, it is equivalent to cutting off most of the benefits of Your Majesty's internal funds, and your Majesty can suddenly become overstretched.

Thinking of this, the corners of Zhugong's mouth turned up slightly, ready to see Chongzhen's liveliness.

Yang Sichang knelt on the ground and waited for Chongzhen to vent his emotions, Chongzhen is a person who is not a mediocre emperor, although he is not very smart, it cannot be said that he is stupid, and even a little self-righteous, which may have something to do with the fact that as soon as he ascended the throne, he disposed of Wei Zhongxian, who was the most popular and powerful at that time.

After all, Wei Zhongxian was fierce at that time, and all the princes of the court wanted to look up to him, and Chongzhen took power to seize power of Wei Zhongxian in just two sentences, making him from a powerful 9,000-year-old to a helpless old slave.

This made Chongzhen taste the taste of power all of a sudden, and at the same time, he also misestimated his ability, thinking that the Ming Dynasty was under his control.

In fact, he was obviously fooled and lame by the Qingliu of the imperial court, he can master a fart Ming Dynasty, he can handle the powerful Wei Zhongxian, that is because Wei Zhongxian's rights originally came from the emperor, and now you are an emperor to accept the rights in the hands of a eunuch, isn't it easy and pleasant?

But what about the princes of the court? Their rights do not come from the emperor's endowment, they have their own foundation, and if they want to move their whole body, the court will be shut down if they don't make trouble, which is a price that Chongzhen dare not bear.

So Hu Chongzhen found that since he came to power, he had almost fallen into a desperate situation step by step, and the experience of thwarting the powerful Wei Zhongxian when he was young made him feel very wise, so there were more commotion operations.

In this way, step by step, Daming was brought to this point.

Chongzhen is not a faint king, just a fool, and he is also a fool who thinks he is very smart.

And it is precisely because Chongzhen is not a faint king, but a fool, that he is easier to manipulate and deceive.

Just like the matter of Lantian, if it is put on a faint monarch, Yang Sichang will not even mention this matter, because although the faint monarch is stupid, he knows what he needs, he is eating, drinking and having fun, regardless of the government, but he knows one thing, that is, he will desperately pull good things into his arms.

Lantian is his current money bag, so it must be tightened, who dares to fight Lantian's idea, reach out and chop his hands, stretch out his feet and chop his feet, stretch his hands and feet, let's cut off his head.

One thing is very simple, it is impossible for a faint monarch to sacrifice his personal interests for the sake of national interests.

But Mingjun will.

The so-called Ming Jun is willing to give up personal enjoyment and interests to make the country prosperous, and such a king is Ming Jun.

What about Chongzhen?

An idiot who wants to be a Ming Jun.

Mingjun has a premise that he must be smart, at least he must be self-aware, but what about Chongzhen?

No.

He belongs to the kind of person who takes notes crazy in class, and he doesn't dare to be lazy for a moment, and on ordinary days, when others play, he is also writing and drawing, but he is the kind of person who counts down as soon as he takes the exam.

Hardworking enough, but can't get things done.

The court was poor, so he Chongzhen took the lead in cutting down on food and clothing, and he had two dishes at a meal, which was still vegetarian, but how much money could his emperor save? I don't know about open source, I only know how to throttle.

As long as he is good to the country, he Chongzhen can wronged himself, eat poorly, work hard, and even give himself a guilty edict and admit his mistakes.

It can be seen from this that he Chongzhen wants to be a Ming monarch, and he is willing to sacrifice his personal interests for the sake of the country.

From this point of view, Chongzhen is a person who wants to be a Mingjun, and he also has the consciousness of being a Mingjun, but he doesn't have the brain to be a Mingjun, and this heart that wants to be a Mingjun has just become a handle for the ministers to pinch him.

At that time, the failure to collect commercial tax was the brainwashing success of the ministers, and your Majesty, since ancient times, the Ming monarch could not compete with the people for profit, and directly compensated the commercial tax of the Ming Dynasty, which was how much money it was, causing the Ming Dynasty to weaken day by day, and it was in a slump.

This is also the way the ministers summed up how to handle Chongzhen, that is, to suppress Chongzhen and tempt Chongzhen with national interests, and this trick has been tried and tested repeatedly.

This trick was used to abolish Wei Zhongxian's forced commercial tax, and Yuan Chonghuan deceived the governor of Jiliao was also this trick, to put it bluntly, it was to draw a big cake for Chongzhen.

Your Majesty, as long as you don't collect commercial taxes and hide your wealth from the people, the people of the Ming Dynasty will live a prosperous and healthy life, and Your Majesty will be the ruler of the ages.

Your Majesty, as long as you give the minister the right to deal with Liaodong affairs with full authority, the minister guarantees five years to pacify Liaodong and return the Ming Dynasty to stability.

Your Majesty......

The experience summed up over the years, Chongzhen still eats this set, and the probability of accepting any opinions put forward to Chongzhen in this way is as high as eighty percent.

And today Yang Sichang is also ready to use this method to persuade Chongzhen.

Yang Sichang waited for Chongzhen to vent his temper, and when Chongzhen was almost angry, Yang Sichang arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty thought that he could promise Zhang Xianzhong." ”

"What?!"

Chongzhen's brows furrowed into Sichuan characters, he didn't expect Yang Sichang to agree to Zhang Xianzhong occupying Lantian, what does Yang Sichang mean.

Thinking about it, Chongzhen glared at Yang Sichang and said, "Yang Sichang, what do you mean?" ”

Yang Sichang continued to reply at this time: "Your Majesty, don't be angry, Wei Chen thinks so. ”

"Now that today's indecent Kou has been decided, the north is stable, it is a good time to clean up Lantian, Lantian is entrenched in the northwest, the tail is not big, just a county, and now it occupies the entire southern Shaanxi region, and even occupies the city of Naturalization, what does he Li Chaosheng want to do, what he wants to do, I am afraid that everyone in the world knows and everyone knows, he is Sima Zhao's heart."

Chongzhen was silent when he heard this, Li Chaosheng told the truth, Chongzhen didn't know if this was a loyal minister, or a traitor, saying that he was a traitor, but he never lacked the taxes of the imperial court, and as long as he occupied a place, the taxes of this place would keep up, no less than a point, from this point of view, he was 10,000 times stronger than the corrupt officials who evaded taxes and gave up their lives to give up their lives, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the first good official in the Ming Dynasty.

But if he is a loyal minister, why don't he help himself, except for taxes, the court can't interfere in all administrative and military affairs in Lantian, as if it has become a country within a country in the Ming Dynasty, and even plugged the naturalization city, such a strategic place, after he beat it down, he didn't report to the court to let the court send people to govern and send troops, but he directly occupied it, what does it mean.

Although they made up for the taxes of Naturalization City next, this matter was a thorn in Chongzhen's heart, making Chongzhen uncomfortable.

Chongzhen very much wants to know whether Li Chaosheng is loyal or traitorous, good or bad.

Yang Sichang looked at Chongzhen's face and knew that his words were in Chongzhen's heart, as long as Chongzhen's suspicions were hooked out, his plan would be half successful.

At this time, Yang Sichang said: "Of course, although the world says that the Li Dynasty survived the rebellion, but after all, he did not pull the flag to rebel, nor did he pay less than a grain of taxes from the imperial court, so it is too early to directly define him as a thief, maybe he will kill the loyal ministers by mistake, so the minister thinks that this time is the time to test him." ”

Chongzhen's fingers knocked on the dragon book case, did not speak, but raised his hand to let Yang Sichang continue, Yang Sichang continued to speak at this time: "Li Chaosheng is loyal or traitorous, we don't know in our hearts, saying that he is a loyal minister, but he encloses himself and fattens himself, you say that he is a traitor, but he still pays taxes to the court, and his taxes have done a lot of practical things for the court over the years, so it is necessary for us to figure out his position to determine our attitude towards Lantian in the future." ”

Chongzhen frowned slightly and said, "How to be sure?" ”

Yang Sichang said: "Didn't Zhang Xianzhong want Lantian to be his station? We can promise him, by the way, give Lantian County Zun Li Chaosheng a holy decree, let him hand over Lantian County to Zhang Xianzhong, and transfer him to any prefect in Henan, the county order to the prefect, this is a high promotion, if he Li Chaosheng is willing to come out of Lantian and take office in Henan, then his loyalty is undoubted, if not, we have to be careful, this son must have two hearts, we should also prepare early. ”

Hearing this, Chongzhen tapped on the table louder, looked at the ministers in the audience, and said after a moment: "What do you think? ”

Hearing this, Yang Sichang's eyes looked back slightly, and then he saw a person kneeling on the ground: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Lord Yang's move is inappropriate." ”

After hearing this, everyone looked, only to see a person kneeling on the ground, it turned out to be the imperial history Zhang Shenzhi, Zhang Shenzhi and Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng are good friends, and there are few people who can help speak in the court.

Zhang Shenzhi knelt on the ground at this time and said, "Your Majesty, Lord Yang's move is inappropriate, this is self-destruction." ”

"Master Zhang, are you alarmist at this time?"

Zhang Shenyi came out, and Yang Sichang's subordinate Yu Shi, who had been ambushed in advance, also came out to choke, as professional trolls, spraying people They are professional.

Zhang Shenzhi looked at the imperial history that came out and frowned slightly, and then opened his mouth and said: "Lord Wang, if you don't understand, don't blindly participate, what he Yang Sichang said just now is the way to take chaos, self-destruction of the country without knowing it." ”

"Heh, then I'm going to ask Mr. Zhang, where can Mr. Zhang see that this is the way to take chaos, how can I only see that Mr. Yang is Lao Cheng's words to seek the country, is Wang wrong, or is Lord Zhang biting indiscriminately, there is an ulterior secret in it?"

"Hehe, okay, Lord Wang, and Lord Yang, let me ask you, Lantian is the richest place in my Ming Dynasty, at present, Lantian pays taxes, comparable to the Ming Dynasty, there are a total of fifteen roads in the Ming Dynasty, and Lantian taxes account for almost one-tenth of the Ming Dynasty, such a rich land, what do you mean by giving it to Liukou Zhang Xianzhong? This Lantian fell into the hands of Zhang Xianzhong, can Daming still receive a penny in taxes? Zhang Xianzhong got the wealth of Lantian and could develop and grow immediately, can he still be controlled by the Ming Dynasty at that time? ”

"Aren't you raising tigers for trouble?"

Zhang Shenzhi reprimanded coldly, after hearing this, Lord Wang looked at Yang Sichang, Yang Sichang smiled at this time: "Lord Zhang said well, this is indeed a problem, but he Zhang Xianzhong only has the right to station, not the right to collect taxes, as long as Zhang Xianzhong enters Lantian, we will also send tax collectors and magistrates to station in Lantian and collect taxes from Lantian, and ensure that it will not be less than in previous years." ”

"Secondly, Zhang Xianzhong entered Lantian and had Sun Chuanting guarding him, Sun Chuanting was the governor of Shaanxi, and he had one or two thousand elite Qin troops under his command.

After Yang Sichang said this, he looked at Zhang Shenzhi: "Lord Zhang is still satisfied." ”

Hearing this, Zhang Shenzhi said coldly: "Lord Yang, are you really bullying me and other weak scholars who don't understand government affairs?" Zhang Xianzhong is a rogue, his garrison is only robbing, Li Chaosheng finally put the politics of Lantian County to govern the people, Zhang Xianzhong entered, how can we be clean, how can the wealth of Lantian be maintained, collect taxes, can our officials still receive taxes there? ”

"Lord Zhang, don't think of people so badly, Zhang Xianzhong, he has already been Zhao'an, he is not a rogue, how can he rob the place, and the political and general people who can be governed in Lantian depend on Li Chaosheng, since Li Chaosheng is so capable, he can still build another Lantian if he is transferred to other places, and the taxes of the Ming Dynasty will not be less."

"Lord Yang, destroy one land and build another land, can Lord Yang really bear it?"

Yang Sichang said with a serious face: "For the sake of Daming, the necessary sacrifices are needed, Lantian doesn't know whether he is an enemy or a friend, how to get along?" If you abandon Lantian to confirm Li Chaosheng's loyalty and traitor, I think it's worth it. ”

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