"Father, my son understands!"

Zhu Cijiong suddenly yelled.

Chongzhen smiled: "What do you understand?" ”

Zhu Cijiong: "My son understands why his father wants to be with the head of Qian, and he also knows why his father wants to be with the soldiers, eat, live and practice together. ”

Zhu Cihong: "Really? Then why did you tell me why my father did this? ”

Zhu Cijiong: "In the Jiajing Dynasty's Great Rites Discussion Incident, Grandpa Shizong drove some low-level civil officials to fight with high-level civil officials by making a wish to seal the official, and finally won the victory of the Great Rites Discussion. ”

"But at the moment, it is the entire civil service group that has never lost rentier."

"Therefore, my father and emperor cannot follow the example of Emperor Sejong to divide the civil officials."

"Therefore, the father can only encircle the people at the bottom and the soldiers and civil officials to fight."

"As the so-called Xiucai meets soldiers, it is unreasonable, Grandpa Taizu once said that as long as our old Zhu family holds the handle of the knife, we are not afraid that these civil officials will turn the sky upside down."

"What Jiong'er just said can be said to hit the nail on the head." Chongzhen couldn't help but applaud, "The civilian official group has become a bad habit of officialdom by drifting rentier, and it is difficult to return, if there is no support from one or more other forces, even if it is the emperor's honor, he has no ability to change all this, so he must win the hearts of the people and the army." ”

"If the people's will is not attached to it, and the army's spirit is not stable, there is no way to talk about changing the law and reforming it."

Speaking of this, I have to mention Jiannu, who is unpopular with the people and has no support from the gentry, but he was stunned to complete the suppression of the Jiangnan gentry group with a bloody knife handle.

The political ambitions of the Donglin Party and the Fushe were completely stifled.

For more than 300 years after that, Jiangnan scholars kept silent about the politics of their family and country.

"What's more, in addition to the low-level people and soldiers, we can actually enlist a considerable number of scholars from poor families to support this change, because scholars from poor families can better understand the hardships of the low-level people and soldiers, and have more willingness and determination to change the bad habits of officialdom, which must be remembered."

"Son, remember." Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cijiong stood up and made a move.

Seeing Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cijiong's serious faces, Chongzhen smiled again and said: "You don't have to worry too much, maybe you don't need to change the law and innovate to solve the problem of insufficient national use." ”

"Huh? Can you solve the shortage of national use without changing the law? ”

Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cijiong looked at each other, how could this be possible?

Only Zhu Cizhi really didn't care, and he had already fallen asleep on the straw mat.

Chongzhen just smiled and didn't say much to Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cijiong.

Because it's useless to say it, can the two of them understand the relationship between productivity and production when talking to the little brothers?

Many people think that by the time of Chongzhen, the finances of the Ming Dynasty had completely collapsed and there was no cure, but in fact this was not the case, and the finances of the Ming Dynasty actually had a lot of potential to be tapped.

This brings us to Marx's theory of capital: the productive forces and the relations of production.

Human society is constantly developing, with the continuous development of society, the productivity will gradually increase, such as the evolution from stone tools to bronze tools, and then from bronze tools to iron tools, which will definitely promote the improvement of productivity, and then the improvement of productivity will inevitably have an impact on the old production relations.

The relations of production include the ownership of the means of production, the status and mutual relations of people in production, and the distribution of products, among which the ownership of the means of production is the most important.

When the development of productive forces is raised to a certain extent, it will certainly have an impact on the ownership of the means of production.

When the stone tools were elevated to the bronze, the primitive society collapsed, when the bronze tools were elevated to the iron tools, the slave society collapsed, and when the commodity economy was highly developed and dominated, the feudal system representing the interests of the big landlord class would inevitably collapse, and the bourgeoisie would sooner or later occupy the dominant power in human society until it was replaced by the proletariat in the future.

At present, the commodity economy of the Ming Dynasty, especially the eight prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River, is already highly developed.

The highly developed commodity economy has had a huge impact on the old ownership of the means of production, which is directly manifested in the emergence of the Restoration Society, and the people in the Restoration Society began to show an extremely strong tendency to participate in and discuss politics, and Zhang Pu, the leader of the Restoration Society, even vainly wanted to realize his political intention of changing the ownership of the means of production by manipulating Zhou Yanru, the first assistant of the cabinet.

Of course, due to the limitations of the times, Zhang Pu's behavior was only unconscious, and subjectively he did not have the intention of changing the ownership of the means of production and overthrowing the imperial power.

All in all, the Ming Dynasty's national policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business has formed a huge constraint on the commodity economy of eight prefectures and one state in the south of the Yangtze River, and has seriously hindered the further development of the economy.

Once Jiangnan's economy is invigorated, there will be tax revenues.

It is said that commercial tax is the reverse scale of the Jiangnan gentry group, but in fact, what the Jiangnan gentry group really resists is not the commercial tax.

If enough benefits can be given, the government and business groups will turn around and embrace the business tax, and no one will have trouble with the money.

This is actually a matter of making the cake bigger and distributing the cake, you don't want to make the cake bigger first, just thinking about taking more share of the cake, so even if you are the emperor, the official and business groups in Jiangnan dare to kill you, blocking people's money is like killing your parents, don't share the sky, who will kill if you don't kill you?

Civil officials may not have the courage, and businessmen have no bottom line.

On the other hand, if you first find a way to make the whole cake bigger, then even if you take an extra share, the government and business groups will not say anything.

The reason is very simple, although the share of the official and business groups is less, but the amount of cake they eat has increased, and there are more cakes to eat, who will risk exterminating the clan and kill the emperor?

Therefore, there is actually a way to deal with the financial problems of the Ming Dynasty, and once it is really implemented, the help will definitely outweigh the resistance, and the government and business groups in Jiangnan have suffered from the national policy of "emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business" for a long time.

However, governing a big country is like cooking a small meal, and such a major matter must not be rushed.

Especially at present, it is still facing the survival crisis of Jiannu going south, so it can only be postponed.

Early the next morning, Liu Zongzhou came to the Yiding military camp again and advised Chongzhen to return to Nanjing.

After Chongzhen refused again, Liu Zongzhou retreated and proposed to let the prince return to Nanjing to supervise the country.

Chongzhen had no way to refuse this request, and finally asked Yongwang Zhu Cizhi to follow Liu Zongzhou back to Nanjing, anyway, this kid couldn't bear the hardships in the barracks, so he let him go back to Nanjing to supervise the country.

As for Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cijiong, Chongzhen decided to take them with him as a prince to cultivate.

The former Ming Emperor, born in the forbidden palace, grew up in the hands of women, but can not be like this in the future, the future Ming Emperor must have the experience of marching, even if it is just a form, but also from the army, must master the military power!

On the day that Liu Zongzhou took Zhu Cijiong back to Nanjing, Chongzhen also took Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cijiong to the north of Xia Town on a boat transporting silver and firearms, and the navy's warship accompanied him for protection.

As for the Tuntian affairs in Xuzhou, it was handed over to Du Yinxi.

……

Soon two more days passed, and the time came to June 17.

It has been more than twenty days since Huang Dewei led the border troops of the Ten Towns to Xia Town.

After more than 20 days of sweating like rain, the entire defense line of Xia Zhen has taken shape.

Civil fortifications are still relatively easy to build, but if you want to build a strong castle and wrap the outer layer with bricks, the amount of work will increase dramatically, and it may not be able to be repaired in a year.

But it's much easier to just dig a trench and ram the earth.

Seeing Huang Degong, Tian Xiong, who commanded the soldiers to dig a trench, hurriedly caught up.

"Uncle, why are you here?" Tian Xiong said, "There is a lot of dust here......

"Leave me alone." Before Tian Xiong finished speaking, Huang Degong interrupted, "You just need to repair your platform." ”

"Back to my uncle, the fifty guns that the last general is responsible for have all been completed, and the retreat and fire output channels between the guns and the platforms have also been dug through." Tian Xiong said, "The slope protection has also been repaired. ”

"It's all fixed?" Huang Degong snorted and said, "Have the fences of the fifty platforms also been erected?" ”

"The fence is only partially erected." Tian Xiong scratched his head and said, "But this can't be blamed on the general, because the houses in the nearby villages have been demolished, and there is really no more wood to be found." ”

"Then look farther away, the fence must be erected."

"Yes, the last general will send troops to look for wood farther away."

"You don't need too many people to find wood, you can let the rest of the people continue to deepen the outer trench, and it is better to arrange some sharp wooden stakes at the bottom of the trench, it is better to have bamboo thorns."

"Yes!" Tian Xiong was a little helpless.

There are so many jobs, and I have to be busy.

Just then, the sound of horses' hooves sounded.

Then a horseman galloped from the north.

"Report! Urgent! Still far away, there was a hoarse roar of the post guard, "Jiannu is going south!" Jiannu goes south! Jiannu went south! ”

"The Jiannu army has invaded Dongchang Mansion!"

"Linqingzhou is in an emergency! Linqingzhou is in an emergency! Linqingzhou is in an emergency! ”

The post man rushed into Xia Zhen like a whirlwind, and then the war horse under the crotch neighed and fell to the ground, and the post man on the horseback was also overturned heavily, and he fainted on the spot.

Huang Degong immediately instructed Tian Xiong: "Don't go out to look for wood for the time being, use all the existing wood for several heavy platforms on the periphery, and ensure that there are fences on the periphery platforms that can be used as barriers!" ”

"Then give me some tamping of the slope protection and the internal platform of the platform."

"Don't let one of Jiannu's shells fall apart."

"Yes!" Tian Xiong solemnly promised, "The last general will definitely ram the slope protection and the platform as hard as bricks, not to mention a single shell, even a hundred or a thousand rounds will not be broken!" ”

Huang Degong had already hurried back to the town.

The stunned postman had been rescued.