"According to what I said, this time all the 16 guards are out, and the 16 guards are transferred to the Zhigong Guard Battalion to change defenses."

"That's right, it's enough for us to plow the court and sweep the hole!"

"Fart! The work is all done for you, so what are we doing in the Eastern Army Governor's Mansion? I'm going to wipe your cheeks! ”

"He, madman! Didn't you just come back from Yingzhou? We haven't moved for four years. ”

"Fighting the Japanese is also a war? Besides, we went to twenty battalions, and twenty battalions of brothers still didn't do anything! ”

"Okay, okay, don't make any noise......"

In Mengxia Palace, in the noise, Zhu Youzhen watched this farce with a little headache, but Zhu Youxiao, who was sitting next to him, was very happy.

"Brother, it's almost over......"

Looking at Zhu Youxiao's happy appearance, Zhu Youzhen turned his head to remind him.

Originally, according to his intentions, after the invitation was finished, he directly issued a military order, but Zhu Youxiao said that he would let the generals discuss and discuss, and then he became like this.

Around the big round table, He Shixian, Sun Shoufa, and Cao Meng were arguing happily, and the generals looked at each other.

Sun Yingyuan did not end up because of the identity of the governor, and the official Fumin kept silent because of the identity of the post-transfer, and Zhu Youzhen had a headache, and Zhu Youxiao was happy.

Of course, in this situation, there is another person who is particularly embarrassed.

"Okay, brother, let's talk." Zhu Youxiao satisfied his bad taste, and waved his hand to let Zhu Youzhen speak.

Zhu Youzhen breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, and then looked at the generals and said:

"I ......"

"That's it!"

As soon as he opened his mouth, the three He Shixian, who were arguing, immediately closed their mouths, and more than a dozen generals also breathed a sigh of relief and listened quietly.

Zhu Youzhen saw that everyone was quiet, so he said:

"The four cavalry guards will be transferred to Taining Mansion this year, and the remaining twelve guards will be transferred in turn after the spring of next year, and I will personally take charge of them."

"The Shangzhigong Guard Battalion in the Guan, and a battalion from each province was dispatched to the three cities of Duolun, Kaiping, and Alun to garrison to guard against tigers and rabbits."

"On the side of the Eastern Army Governor's Mansion, the fifteenth battalion hurriedly replenished its personnel to restore its combat strength, and at the same time transferred the third battalion to Jingcheng to be under the command of You Shigong."

"Of the forty-five battalions in Liaodong, there are seven battalions in Yingzhou at the moment, and only thirty-eight battalions are in Liaodong."

"Then stay behind the eight battalions of soldiers and horses, and the remaining thirty battalions of soldiers and horses, and the sixth battalion of You Shigong's Jingcheng will cross the Yalu River and go to the Mowen River to compress the space for the construction of captives."

"Sun Yingyuan, you take ten battalions of soldiers and horses to Jianzhou to attack Huifa City, Xiong Tingbi and He Shixian take fourteen battalions of soldiers and horses from Yidong River City to attack Yimihe City and attack Wula City (Xingjing)."

"I'll take the ......order," the generals heard this, and took over the military order one after another.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao asked curiously: "My younger brother wants to destroy Jianyu in a war, I know this, but do you want to fight in the north?" ”

"Hooray, Your Highness! The last will recommend fighting! He Shixian hurriedly spoke.

"Long live, Your Highness, this time we are going to fight to Guli Hewei (north of the Outer Khing'an Mountains)!" Sun Shoufa was not to be outdone.

"Long live, this time His Highness has been on a personal expedition again after a six-year absence, and the last general will say that we not only have to clean up the Jianyu, but also have to clean up the Tiger Squatting Rabbit and the Northern Captives!" Cao Meng said even more exaggerated.

"Hit the banks of the River of Trouble!" Sun Shoufa followed and shouted.

"What is the riverside of the tribulation? Your Highness personally marched, this time we are going to fight to Wolf Juxu Mountain! He Shixian continued to follow.

"Hit until Hulan suddenly loses temperature, sweep the plough court!" Cao screamed even harder.

The three of them were coaxing, Guan Fumin was listening to the saliva next to him, Sun Yingyuan kept nodding, and Zhu Youxiao was still looking at this scene happily.

But in this situation, the embarrassed person sitting next to Zhu Youzhen kept swallowing his saliva and sweating on his forehead.

The instigation of the three made Zhu Youzhen also a little moved.

If you can clear Mobei and Northeast China in one go, it will save a lot of things.

"Bi Ziyan, what do you think?"

Zhu Youzhen set his eyes on Bi Ziyan, the head of the household who was called by him from the capital, and Bi Ziyan wanted to speak and stopped.

After a while, Bi Ziyan showed a helpless face and said:

"Your Highness......"

"No money......"

Speaking what he thought in his heart, Bi Ziyan explained:

"At the beginning of the year, Pingwu Dilong turned over, and 30,000 people were affected ......"

"In March, Guangxi was hung with dragons, and in April it rained heavily in Fengyang, a total of more than 400,000 people were affected......"

"Shandong, Hexi, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Huguang have all been transferred to disaster relief, and now the country only has 6 million stones of rice and wheat." Bi Ziyan said with a bitter face:

"Shicai, His Royal Highness has resumed the grain release policy of Liaodong Tunken, and Liaodong only has 3 million stones of rice and wheat in Changping, and 3 million in Zhejiang, Fujian, and Jiangxi."

"The three million stone grain in the south of the Yangtze River was transferred to the north, and half of it was lost, not to mention, even if it was transferred, it could only recover 300,000 acres of fields."

"If hundreds of thousands of people go to Guanwai, even if there is no run, Liaodong may release millions of stones."

"These six million stone rice and wheat are barely enough to maintain the old policy of reclamation outside the Guanwai, how can the household department have extra money and grain to support the war......

Bi Ziyan was stating the truth, and Zhu Youxiao frowned, regardless of Zhu Youzhen, he took the lead in asking:

"The midsummer has passed, and the tax in the customs has not increased? What about the taxes in the old port, Jiaozhi and Yingzhou? ”

"This ...... The tax in Kannai has risen beyond any means. Bi Ziyan first answered the first question, and then explained:

"Shanxi, Shaanxi, and the provinces and counties affected by the disaster, these places together have exempted more than 96 million mu of land from taxes."

"There are already only more than 770 million mu of cultivated land in Guannai, and after the 96 million mu of cultivated land is exempted, there will only be 37 million stone rice and wheat fields in the two capitals and 15 provinces in Guannai."

"The cultivated land of Liaodong and the four prefectures directly under the central government and the three overseas provinces is about 100 million mu, and 23 million stones have been handed over to the fields, totaling 65 million stones, which is indeed beyond the increase."

After Bi Ziyan finished complaining, he wanted to say something more, but Zhu Youxiao frowned and said:

"The national dynasty has thirty endowments for cultivated land, but the military tuntian and overseas are all charged 30 percent of the field endowment."

"According to this calculation, excluding the military tuntian in Shanxi and other places, there should be more than 140 million mu of land in the military tuntian and overseas, and even if it is one stone per mu and one mu of production, 40 million land can be collected."

"The number of acres of land you just talked about, this is 140 million, and the remaining acres of land are calculated according to 30 to 1, and at least 21 million stones can be collected."

"The north and the south are different in the national dynasties, and the north of the Guannai can produce one stone per mu even if it is worse, and the south is even more than two stones."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youxiao gradually showed dissatisfaction and said:

"The Tian Fu of the National Dynasty is like this, do you still insist on the amount of sixty-five million?"

Zhu Youxiao watched his younger brother calculate many accounts, and when he heard it, he naturally used the data to reverse the deduction to check the accounts.

When he checked it, a lot of sweat oozed from Bi Ziyan's forehead, and Sun Yingyuan, a group of puppets from the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, looked at him with eyes that gradually became elusive.

"Long live, ...... minister"

"Okay......" Zhu Youzhen frowned and raised his hand to signal that he didn't need to say anything, and Bi Ziyan quickly shut up when he saw this.

Bi Ziyan knew that Zhu Youzhen gave him the stairs, and Zhu Youxiao frowned and looked at his younger brother.

"I'll talk to Your Majesty about the tax later."

It was rare for Zhu Youzhen to use such a solemn title as "Your Majesty" to Zhu Youxiao, and after Zhu Youxiao heard this title, he also leaned back in his chair, as if to let Zhu Youzhen continue.

"Is the money and grain insufficient before the autumn harvest this year, or is it insufficient before and after the autumn harvest?"

Zhu Youzhen asked Bi Ziyan, and Bi Ziyan hurriedly said: "It is not enough before the autumn harvest, and after the autumn harvest, there will probably be a balance of more than 9 million taels of folded silver." ”

"Well......" After hearing this, Zhu Youzhen said without thinking:

"I will ask the Imperial Horse Supervisor to transfer the two million taels of silver from the state treasury to the household department, and the household department will use this silver to buy grain from each province and transport it to the north."

After that, he looked at Bi Ziyan: "This should be enough to subsidize Liaodong, right?" ”

"Enough......" Bi Ziyan nodded in response, while Zhu Youzhen set his eyes on Sun Yingyuan:

"The matter is so finalized, I will send the specific marching map to the troops before the war, and the time of the Northern Expedition is tentatively scheduled for June next year."

"The last general ordered ......" Sun Yingyuan first responded, and then said with a little worry:

"Your Highness, in places such as Thorn Luwei (Shangjing), there is only no snow from March to September throughout the year, will it be too late to send troops in June?"

"Four months is enough time to wipe out the captives." Zhu Youzhen responded confidently.

"Yes, then there will be no doubts." Sun Yingyuan responded, and then remained silent.

Comparing him, Zhu Youzhen glanced at the generals in the palace after giving the order, and then said:

"In this battle, the Jianyu will be destroyed first, and the northern captives will be just clowns jumping off the beam, and they will choose a partial army in the future, which is enough to sweep away."

"Your Highness Chitose......" Hearing His Highness's confident words, although the generals felt that it was a bit exaggerated, they still responded honestly.

"Alright, let's stand down." Zhu was sent off by the inspection of tea, and the generals also got up one after another to bow to the emperor.

"Ministers retire, long live long live long live......"

"Go ahead." Zhu Youxiao's mind is not on the generals, but on taxes.

After all, he was the emperor of a feudal dynasty, and he had a natural distrust of civil servants and military generals.

At the moment, he trusts the military generals because he knows that if his younger brother is here, the military generals will not be able to cause any trouble.

But the military general can rely on Zhu Youzhen, but Wenchen can't, because these people have even deceived their younger brother many times.

Zhu Youxiao's expression was not good-looking, which Sun Yingyuan and the generals could see, but they didn't have any idea about it, but got up and withdrew from Mengxia Palace.

After they withdrew, Zhu Youxiao looked sideways at Zhu Youzhen, and Zhu Youzhen took a sip of tea, then put down the teacup, and then looked at Bi Ziyan and said:

"You can go out too......"

"Long live, the minister retires......" Bi Ziyan heard this, hurriedly got up, and saluted Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao did not directly signal him to go out, but hung him for a few seconds, and then waved his hand to signal him to go out.

Seeing this, Bi Ziyan bowed deeply again and saluted back, and then cautiously walked out of the palace.

Seeing him walk out with his own eyes, Zhu Youxiao immediately turned his head to look at Zhu Youzhen, and the doubts in his expression were particularly obvious.

Regarding Zhu Youxiao's obviousness, Zhu Youzhen said directly:

"I told my brother before that my Daming field, as long as miscellaneous items and taxes are excluded, and then according to the land endowment, it is enough for the people to live and work in peace and contentment, and the people will prosper."

"At present, my Daming field is more than 870 million mu, and the yield per mu in the north and south is different, but even if you take it, you can produce a total of 12.3 billion stones, and the imperial court can easily get hundreds of millions of stones."

"At present, corrupt officials and corrupt officials are taking bribes and embezzlement in obscurity and corruption on the basis of miscellaneous items."

Although Zhang Taiyue's "One Whip Law" simplified the types of taxes, it did not stipulate the total amount of miscellaneous items, so that the officials at the upper and lower levels could increase them at will. ”

"But didn't my brother eliminate more than a dozen miscellaneous items?" Zhu Youxiao frowned and asked incomprehensibly, but Zhu Youzhen shook his head and said:

"At present, there are still seven major taxes and twenty-nine small taxes in our court."

"Of the 29 types of small taxes, 22 are related to miscellaneous, and the original miscellaneous 36 are aimed at all walks of life."

"When local officials are greedy for ink, people from all walks of life are also exploited."

"It's just that after the imperial court eliminated the fourteen miscellaneous items, although it benefited the people of some industries, the corrupt officials lost this part of the profits, so they had to add it back from other places."

"In this way, the pressure on a small number of people has been reduced, but the burden on most people has been greatly increased."

"Add it to the back, to put it bluntly, it still has to be added to the farmer who is shaving in the field, and the field endowment is added to the people, plus miscellaneous ......"

"On the bright side, the farmers of our dynasty only need to bear less than 100 wen in taxes, but in fact, they need to bear 300 wen, or even 400 wen......"

"Four hundred ......" Zhu Youzhen sighed:

"For example, Yang Lian is in Dali, and the local ordinary helper is only ten yuan a day."

"Except for the two months of farming, one and a half of the remaining ten months are spent working for the court and corrupt officials."

"If we want to completely reduce the burden on the shoulders of the majority of the people, we must simplify the tax system, and this is what we need to do."

Zhu Youzhen's voice is not loud, and he can even be described as a whisper.

It's just that this voice was heard by many palace maids and eunuchs in the palace, but it was deafening.

Most of the palace maids and eunuchs in Dading Palace have never met the emperor and the king of Qi, but they have seen many local officials in Yanshan County.

When officials such as the county magistrate and the lord of Nayan Mountain came to Dading Palace, they often appeared in style and dined luxuriously.

When deliberating, I can't see a word about the people in his mouth, either poetry and songs, or a major event of the family and country.

For example, Zhu Youzhen, who is a high-ranking and powerful person, but still knows the lives of the people well, and speaks for him is indeed incredible.

Everyone was calm, and the whole palace was a lot quieter.

Zhu Youxiao's hand leaned on the chair, and his fingers kept figuring it.

After a long time, he frowned slightly and said:

"When the people have no burden and less pressure, they are all idle."

"If the people are idle, and there will be strong people pulling the flag, then wouldn't my Ming country be ......?"

Zhu Youxiao did not continue, but changed his tone:

"The tired and weak people are sometimes for the court and the world."

Zhu Youxiao's words are in line with the thoughts of all feudal kings, not only because of the problem of education, but also because of that superior attitude.

His idea is basically the means in the "Book of Shang Jun", which teaches the art of the emperor.

The art of the emperor, to put it bluntly, is the five techniques of controlling the people, and the five techniques are specifically divided into weak people, poor people, tired people, humiliating people, and foolish people.

Of course, this is not all, after mastering these five techniques, the king himself will learn the remaining two hidden techniques, and these two techniques are abusing the people and one people.

In the book "The Book of Shang Jun", Zhu Youzhen has been reading and pondering repeatedly whether in his previous life or in his present life.

In his previous life, he figured out that it was because he was bored in the mountains to help the poor, but in this life, he figured it out because he knew how to control the people better than the officials who studied this book.

The five techniques of Shang Yang are different from those proposed by Confucianism and Mohistism, and Shang Yang advocates Shang Xian, that is, the selection and reuse of evil people.

Govern the traitors with good people, and the country will be reduced to chaos; Govern the good people with traitors, and govern the country strongly.

The people are strong and weak, and the people are weak and the country is strong, so the way to govern the country is first and foremost in the weak people.

The art of the weak people is, first of all, to prevent the people from having weapons, and if the dynasty wants to be rich and strong, it is necessary to weaken the power of the people and reduce the power of the people to the greatest extent.

When the power of the people is weakened, it is necessary to begin to stabilize the people, and the fundamental means of stabilizing the people is to make the people "simple", in other words, foolish people.

The people are weak, the people are strong, the people are weak, the people are weak, the people are more ambitious, the people are weak, the people are more useful, and the people are stronger......

Only by making the people ignorant, simple and loyal, it is not easy for the people to form a powerful force against the dynasty and the monarch, but can only honestly obey the arbitrary mercy of the court.

If the people do this, the dynasty will be easier to govern, and the monarch's position will be stronger.

If you want to be stable, you have to come up with concrete means, and the poor and tired are the best means.

The art of the poor is to let the people struggle on the poverty line, so that the people "have no corn at home".

The technique of exhausting the people is that when the people are cultivating the land, their eyes cannot look indiscriminately, their ears cannot hear indiscriminately, and their mouths cannot speak indiscriminately, so as to control public opinion.

If you want to control public opinion among the people, you must first "insult the people" and "fool the people."

Insulting the people is not to let people personally bully the people, but to make people despise the people in their hearts, and treat the people as inferior to animals, and fooling the people is to practice cultural autocracy, so that the people receive all the foreign news that the government has mastered, and in the long run, so that the people are ignorant.

As long as the five techniques are successfully performed, the people under his rule will become walking corpses without their own thoughts and souls, and they will be driven by the monarch.

Zhu Youzhen has long been familiar with the five techniques of controlling the people, but what he is facing is not the people who have been controlled for 2,000 years, but the "people" who have been active in the temple for 2,000 years.

Therefore, these people cannot be punished with only the five techniques, and only the last two techniques can subdue these people.

Zhu Youzhen has never been indifferent to the art of controlling the people, but he also knows that the current Ming Dynasty is still an agricultural society, and Zhu Youxiao is also a king of an agricultural society, and he cannot have the vision of an industrial society.

In Zhu Youxiao's view, the development of agriculture was the foundation of the dynasty's prosperity and strength, and victory in war was the most important means of defeating the enemy country.

Farming and war is the most important content of the king's desire to govern the world, and if he wants to achieve the point that "the sage governs the country, so that the people return to the peasantry", he must make the people ignorant.

In this regard, Zhu Youxiao is right, because in essence, it is for the stability of the dynasty, and if the dynasty is stable, it will be easier for the people to live.

The people in the prosperous times only seek freedom, while the people in the troubled times only seek to live.

The dynasty is stable, no matter how corrupt officials exploit it, most people's lives can still be guaranteed, but if the dynasty is unstable, it will be a massacre and disaster.

It's just that Zhu Youzhen wants to take the Ming Dynasty into the industrial society now, and the vision and policies of the feudal society need to be abandoned.

In the Central Plains Dynasty, the system has always been "external Confucianism and internal law".

On the surface, it is still dressed in the cloak of Confucianism, but its essence is still Legalism, which treats the people as cattle and horses, and makes them some uncivilized people.

This also led to the fact that the Central Plains Dynasty had no shortage of things for thousands of years, that is, servility and insensitivity.

It is inevitable to emancipate the people's minds, and it is also inevitable to emancipate the pressure of the people, which is the general trend after industry and cannot be stopped.

Therefore, in the face of Zhu Youxiao's feudal thoughts, Zhu Youzhen could only take a deep breath and said:

"If everyone can eat enough and wear warm clothes, how can the people rebel?"

"The art of controlling the people is certainly powerful, but which dynasty has used this method to live for three hundred years?"

"I have two hundred and sixty-two years in the Ming Dynasty, and at this time, the Qin Dynasty and the Sui Dynasty have long been burned, and the former Yuan, Eastern Han Dynasty, and Western Han Dynasty have also made soil."

"Even the Song Dynasty was divided into two Song Dynasty, and it lasted for one hundred and fifty-two years south of the Yellow River."

"Please imagine, brother, how many dynasties can survive for two hundred and sixty-two years like my dynasty? And if my brother didn't insist on innovation and change ten years ago, how many years would my Ming Dynasty last? ”

Zhu Youzhen was trying to persuade Zhu Youxiao, and his persuasion also made Zhu Youxiao hesitate for a while and almost waver.

To put it bluntly, the example of Zhu You's report is really irrefutable.

Zhu Youxiao believed that if he wanted the dynasty to last for a long time, he must pay attention to controlling the people, but Zhu Youzhen paid attention to the classics, and moved out of the dynasties that focused on controlling the people and dying.

Finally, there was a dynasty that attached great importance to controlling the people and was longer than the Ming Dynasty, but it was the Song Dynasty that was extremely humiliating in the eyes of the Han people in the Ming Dynasty.

Da Ming has a very obvious inferiority complex, in order to hide this inferiority complex, often they will brag about their strength to cover up their inferiority.

In the eyes of all classes of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was a powerful country that was inferior to the Tang Dynasty and not to the Han Dynasty.

Therefore, when arguing about this kind of "mastering the world" issue, Zhu Youxiao actually had only one weak Liang Song in front of him who could be worthy of his refutation, but it was better not to refute it.

refuted Zhu Youzhen, that Da Ming is the large version of the two songs.

If you don't refute it, that Da Ming is still Da Ming.

Therefore, in the face of rebuttal, Zhu Youxiao chose to close his mouth and look at Zhu Youzhen with his eyes.

But despite this, he couldn't help but think about what Zhu Youzhen said.

This thought made it even more difficult for him to convince himself.

Before Zhu Youzhen's reform, the territory of the Ming Dynasty was only two capitals and thirteen provinces, but now it has reached two capitals and twenty provinces.

Before the reform, the total amount of Ming tax discount was only 234 million taels of silver, and in the eighth year after the reform, the Ming tax discount was a full 63 million taels, and this is not the peak.

Once the drought passes, the Ming Dynasty's tax can even reach 68 million taels.

Ancient and modern emperors, especially those in the middle and late periods, no matter who heard this series of comparisons, they could not help but have doubts about their own policies, and Zhu Youxiao was no exception.

Therefore, in Zhu Youzhen's gaze, his eyes gradually fell into disadvantage, and finally he could only give softly:

"Alas...... Let's do as my brother said, but after the abolition of the Ding tax and miscellaneous items, I am afraid that I will lose nearly 10 million taels of tax silver. ”

Zhu Youxiao's soft uniform made Zhu Youzhen very happy, and in the face of his discouragement, Zhu Youzhen smiled heartily:

"If you lose 10 million taels of silver today, you will earn back 30 million taels of silver tomorrow!"

"Brother, let's see how I collect the taxes that fall into the corrupt officials one by one, it's ......"

The second chapter is updated at eight o'clock in the evening

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