Gao Jingfei said modestly:

"Qin is just picking up the wisdom of his predecessors."

Then he looked straight and said:

"Your Majesty, Qin believes that in governing the country now, we should push away the inherent shackles of science, follow the law of Legalism and Tao Zhu, and Confucianism can save some of the principles of Xunzi and Mencius."

Wei Zhongxian and Zhu Youxiao frowned when they heard this, and the emperor even said:

"Wouldn't that overturn the whole situation, and the world would inevitably be in a boil?"

Gao Jingfei nodded:

"That's true, but the hidden dangers of this world have been buried since the Han Dynasty, and after the reckless rebellion, only some silverfish were swept away, and the country continued for more than 200 years for the Han Dynasty, but the roots of Confucianism have been rotten since the Song Dynasty, and the power has been dominant for thousands of years, so that they naturally begin to decay internally without the threat of foreign enemies......

"It must be known that although the Legalist system is good, and the dynasties that have always adopted the Legalist path can be strong and cheer up for a while, the defects of the Legalists are also too domineering and strong, and few people who implement this law can die a good death. What's more, there are many vested interests in this world, and if they want to change and use their money to supplement the imperial court, they may provoke a strong counterattack, and the situation they face is almost the enemy of the 'people of the world'! ”

"In the past, Shang Ying and Wu Qi aside, in the early years, Zhang Wenzheng Gong just sorted out the acres of land and practiced a whip method, everyone knows what happened to him, but how long has it been since then?"

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao's hearts fluctuated for a while, especially Wei Zhongxian, although he was eager to immediately innovate and clean up this great tomorrow, he couldn't help but have a hidden worry about the future.

Because although he is not in the same camp as Zhang Juzheng and other ministers, they are all for the Ming Dynasty and the royal family, even if there is no change now, he is afraid that he will inevitably be liquidated in the future, especially a son of heaven and a courtier.

Fortunately, now the emperor's body and bones have been healed by the Taoist......

Thinking of this, Wei couldn't help but glance at the person in front of him gratefully.

Gao Jingfei ignored what the two of them were thinking, and after laying the above words, he finally got to the point.

"Your Majesty asked me about the way to govern the country, and Qin is a shallow learner, but he also has a little shallow opinion."

"How strong is the country? One is power, the other is money. What is a right? The soldiers are strong, and the horses are strong! What is money? The economic world, the exchange of people also! ”

The Emperor and the Nine Thousand Years Old couldn't help but nod in unison.

They had vague ideas about these before, and they had actually seen similar theories in books and lectures, but they were written in those books and were embarrassed to say it so bluntly, especially Confucian literati who liked face and were ashamed of words and profits, in order to show that their style was upright. Affected by this, if the emperor was bent on making money, he would also be discouraged by the persuasion of the ministers.

In fact, they were just afraid that the emperor would take money out of their pockets.

Now after listening to the words of the Taoist, I feel that the words "power" and "money" are the foundation of a country and a dynasty, and they are truly and truly true.

"If Your Majesty wants to hold the power of the world and use the world's money, you must first have an army loyal to Your Majesty."

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this, imagining other grand scenes of controlling the power and wealth of the world, and even Wei Zhongxian, who was thinking, listened to it immersively.

It's just that Gao Jingfei immediately poured some cold water on them:

"It's just that from my point of view, in the past, the Beijing camp of my Ming Dynasty chasing the grassland in the north and conquering Jiaozhi in the south has long been useless, and as for the people in various places, although the number is huge, there is no need to say much!"

"Looking at the soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty, it is the strongest combat power of the border army in various places, but the upper echelons of the border army are greedy and greedy, and the lower soldiers are poor and complaining, and those who dare to fight are mostly military generals, but they still save themselves in the face of strong enemies, and they will not kill the enemy for the country!"

Tianqi and Wei Zhongxian naturally knew that the Wei Institute had been rotten for many years, and the Longqing and Wanli dynasties were rectified by famous ministers such as Yu Long and Qihu because of the troubles of the sea and frontier, but they also boosted their morale a little, but after that, with the end of those capable ministers being squeezed by the Wenchen Qingliu, the court was no longer of great use.

However, the two of them did not agree with the Taoist's statement that the border army was corrupt and unusable.

Gao Jingfei saw what the two of them were thinking, and said with a chuckle:

"I know that Your Majesty and the Governor still have hope for the Ming border army, but I only want to say one thing, the living environment of the nine borders of the Ming Dynasty is harsh, and the border army created may be strong, but the conditions of the border army are also the most difficult, not to mention that compared with the soldiers of the Jingying in the rich land of Jiangnan, it is the guard soldiers in Jiangnan, which is far inferior."

"You must know that although Jiangnan is rich, but it has nothing to do with poor military households, the Ming Dynasty has opened the country to the present, once Taizu can raise millions of soldiers without spending money The military households have long become the slaves of the generals of the guard, but compared to the border soldiers, they are still good, even if they have to endure the exploitation of Shangguan, at least they can eat some brown rice and grains every year, even if they are not enough to eat, they can also dig some wild vegetables, and go down to the river to touch some shrimp snails to relieve hunger."

"But how can the border army have such conditions? In recent decades, the weather in northern China has become more and more abnormal, especially in northern Shanxi and northern Shaanxi. The changes brought about by extreme cold and drought are that grain production has been greatly reduced. ”

"When the grass roots, tree bark, birds and beasts are eaten out, soil erosion will be further aggravated, the land will be desertified, and without green mountains and green waters, it will be impossible to attract birds and beasts to the past, and even farming has become a luxury, so how can the people in the north survive? Your Majesty, do you know what the consequences will be if the people can't eat? ”

Saying that, Gao Jingfei also manipulated illusions to form a specific science picture of the soil erosion process in front of him, and Zhu Youxiao and Wei Zhongxian were shocked to watch.

They didn't expect the situation in the north to be so serious, and when they heard Gao Jingfei's question, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but turn pale, and spit out two words that he didn't want to mention:

"Rebellion?"

At this time, the two emperors no longer thought that the Taoist in front of them was alarmist.

Because in the past few years, the DPRK and the central government have received many reports of disasters from many prefectures and counties in the north, but the cold words and numbers do not allow them to have an intuitive feeling.

Now seeing the picture of the Taoist casting spell, the two of them understand that that kind of natural disaster affects the environment of the entire northern land, and it is not something that the imperial court's disaster relief money and food can make up for and prevent.

Especially with the two of them's understanding of the ethics of those officials, I don't know how much money and food for disaster relief can really be distributed to the victims!

Gao Jingfei heard the emperor spit out those two words, but he just smiled and said:

"Most of the ordinary people will leave their homes with their families and go to other places to beg for food, that is, the outcasts in the imperial court. However, the displaced people are not terrible, what is terrible is that the displaced people are mixed with the border soldiers who used to defend their homes and defend the country. In the case of successive years of military salaries and corruption and deductions from top to bottom, 30% of the military salaries in the three sides can be distributed to the non-commissioned officers, which is already considered the best. ”

"Think about it, how can those warriors who are also affected by disasters and can't eat enough to eat be willing to stay in the garrison and wait for death? Once these border armies take the lead, millions of displaced people will turn into floods and beasts and attack the interior of the Central Plains! Qin predicted that when the situation further develops seriously, it will inevitably be those border armies who will overthrow the Great Tomorrow! ”

This is also a spoiler, in fact, although it was Houjin who picked up the cheap in the end, but the Ming Dynasty was indeed overthrown by the exile army led by the border army, and those famous Chuang army and Shun army in history There are many rebel leaders, and their high-level leaders are not from the Northwest Frontier Army.

Even if Li Zicheng himself is not a border soldier but a post soldier, his uncle Lao Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang and a group of old battalion teams are all ah!