Chapter 136: Your Highness, Your Time for Rebellion Has Arrived
Yang Feng looked sideways and walked out of Chengtianmen......
"What, you're not happy to see that I'm not dead?"
He shouted as if Dong Zhuo was possessed.
"Open, happy!"
"Happy!"
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The military generals in front of him said perfunctorily.
By this time, some of those who disdained to flatter the thief had already left.
Of course, it may also be that he is afraid of being beaten to death.
So like Huang Zicheng and Xu Guan, these are gone, but Liu Sanwu is still there, he seems to have recovered after being demoted before, and put on the red robe of the fifth grade again, his grade has not been very high, but his influence has always been enough to compete with the six Shangshu.
It's not that Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't know about the small actions he made.
But......
He represents the Confucian group.
And if Zhu Yuanzhang wants to establish a civilian government, he can only rely on the Confucian clique, so he will give him some favor no matter what.
Originally, in history, he was the chief examiner who led the appearance of the South List, and the South List of all southerners was his assessment and admission, but even if Zhu Yuanzhang was half dead, it was just exile, but the officials who reviewed it were Ling Chi.
The latter is to help him.
There is nothing wrong with saying that he is marking.
As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang Ling Chi, but only exiled him.
It is because he represents the Confucian group.
Similarly, he has had many ups and downs under Zhu Yuanzhang, and every time he is demoted, he will recover quickly.
"Liu Gong, are you happy?"
Yang Feng stood in front of him and said.
"The ambassador returned safely, and the old man is naturally happy."
Liu Sanwu stroked his beard and said.
People haven't experienced anything, so how can they care about his provocation.
"By the way, why didn't I see Lian Hanlin?"
Yang Feng said.
"Lian Zining was beheaded for his crimes."
Liu Sanwu said.
"Haha, it's so fun!"
Yang Feng said with a smile very arrogantly.
Then he turned and walked forward, pointing his rifle as he went......
Wutai Mountain.
Yang Feng seemed to be a different person, smiling to welcome the emperor's grandson.
"I don't like to wronged myself, if there is revenge, I will take revenge, if there is fire, what is the explosion of eucalyptus, the imperial grandson will find out when I ask Your Majesty, and there is no need to lie to your Majesty, but I can't do nothing, just come back honestly as if nothing happened. In the same way, since I have vented my anger, the matter is over, no matter who is right or wrong, the matter is over, like the pages of a book have been turned.
I am the messenger.
No matter how powerful the Great Xia Kingdom was, it was impossible for them to covet the Ming Dynasty.
So no matter what, I must obey the arrangements of my country and be a messenger in Daming, unless my life is threatened, I am the main purpose of helping Daming.
However, I have my way of life.
It is impossible for me to change myself for Daming, and my education does not support me in doing so. ”
Yang Feng said while pacing in front of Zhu Yunxi.
He had to restore his personality in front of the imperial grandson.
After all, the imperial grandson still has a lot of feelings for him, but he suddenly showed his true face, which can easily arouse the suspicion of the imperial grandson, after all, people are also going to succeed to the throne, and no emperor would like to have such a guy under his rule.
"Doesn't the Great Xia Kingdom follow the host?"
Zhang Xianzong said.
"But the Great Xia Kingdom did not put bombs on the ships of the envoys of other countries, nor did the Great Xia Kingdom assassinate the envoys, and the Great Xia Kingdom would not let the envoys kneel, since they are equal relations, at least they should respect each other, and not try to impose their own set on others. Note that for us, imperial power is something that has been abolished for a hundred years, and our last emperor was released after years in prison, and he had to pay for tickets to go to the palace.
So why make me kneel here at the feet of the imperial power?
I can accept a country ruled by an emperor.
Because there were still a few monarchies left at that time, there were monarchs who were ornaments, but the power was vested in the elected government, and there was a monarch who could only be said to be a big chief.
We also have diplomatic relations with them.
Therefore, the Great Xia Kingdom can have friendly relations with the Ming Dynasty.
I also have great respect for His Majesty the Emperor.
He was clothed with a cloth.
Of course, the cloth clothes belong to beautification, with such a background, twenty years to win the world, such a feat is admirable, after ascending the throne to expel the Tartars, rebuild the peaceful and prosperous world, so that the people no longer suffer from the troubled times, it is also worthy of respect.
But.
Is that why he made mistakes?
I can now tell Your Highness a lot of the final results of the system that His Majesty is currently doing.
First, the vassal system.
Two hundred years later, the Ming court needs to support more than 100,000 clans, the lowest of which is higher than a county Yulu, the Ming Dynasty has more than 2,000 counties, but any clan of a vassal Lu, the number has to be three or four thousand, and finally the Ming Dynasty has to take out nearly half of the annual income to these clans, and this is because of a large amount of arrears later.
If you don't owe it, it is estimated that Daming doesn't have to do anything in a year's income, just feed these clans.
Three generations are relatives.
What are the pros after three generations?
What's more, it has to be raised for more than ten generations.
What's more, these vassal kings all have fiefs, guards and subordinate officials, and raising them also requires the court to keep filling holes in them.
This system was the main reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty later, and the Ming Dynasty finally died in the imperial court without money, because it always had to bear this burden, raising more and more clans from generation to generation, and nearly half of the annual income must be given to them. Moreover, the future emperors will also crown new vassal kings, from generation to generation, the number of vassal kings continues to increase, more and more land becomes vassal kings, and the land that the imperial court can collect taxes is also less and less.
In the end, on the one hand, they can't collect taxes, but on the other hand, they have to support more and more clans.
Second, military households.
To be precise, there are various household registration restrictions.
Two hundred years later, the military households were all serfs, just like the tenants in the Hu Yuan period, not only had to hand over most of the harvest to the guards every year, but also had to do all kinds of chores for the generals of the guards, which could be said to be cattle and horses. Because they are military members, they can't get out of it, they can only be cattle and horses like this for generations, and His Royal Highness lamented Fengyang's poverty last time in Fengyang.
Then I can tell Your Highness that two hundred years later, because the military family fled, there will be no one along the Huai for thousands of miles.
Again, all are restricted to the family register.
It's like being tied up.
If you want to get rid of it, you can only choose to flee, or become outcasts, and these outcasts will become rebels, or flee to those Tusi or even barbarians, and finally help them become stronger, and then become the internal and external troubles of the Ming Dynasty.
For more than 200 years, the remnant Yuan has been entangled with the Ming Dynasty, and even once hit Beiping.
Why did one of them hit Beiping get stronger?
Because he was in the pastoral area of the Hetao, where tens of thousands of Ming refugees had fled, these refugees gave him farming and smelting iron, and his soldiers had armor and sophisticated weapons, and finally he broke through the Great Wall and showed off his might outside the city of Beiping.
In the end, what led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty was a Tusi rebellion that swept the southwest.
But most of Tusi's generals were Han Chinese.
Where did it come from?
Later, the southwestern military households could not bear the oppression of the guards, so they could only choose to flee, and these toasts were their shelters, and even many guards had only a few hundred people left because of the desertion of the military households.
This system is fundamentally wrong.
Third, unlimited treasure money.
Two hundred years?
Fifty years later, the treasure money will become waste paper to wipe the butt.
If I don't help in the past two years, no one has used the treasure banknote in Zhejiang, and after 50 years, thousands of banknotes can buy a stone of rice, and then the treasure banknotes may not have waste paper value.
It will be long gone in two hundred years.
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There, Yang Feng frantically attacked Zhu Yuanzhang's current systems.
Although some of these systems are not meaningless at present, for him, he only needs to criticize Zhu Yuanzhang, and these systems are indeed Zhu Yuanzhang's pot, and he can only carry the hereditary replacement of a clan. Why does the Song Dynasty clan not have this problem, because their throne is not inherited at all, at most the heir is a duke, and the rest of the sons have no title at all, and in practice, it is even darker, basically few titles can be inherited.
Of course, inheritance is nothing, after all, the benefits of the title in the Song Dynasty are very pitiful.
There are 3,000 households in the food and 100 households, and each household collects 100 yuan on behalf of the imperial court, and the last knight may be able to get a banquet money in a year.
Better than nothing.
But Zhu Yuanzhang not only has a hereditary family, but also has a high salary, for example, the minimum Fengguo lieutenant has an annual salary of 200 stones, and Zhang Xianzong's monthly salary is only seven and a half stones when he is a seven-rank official, less than 100 a year.
There are more than 2,000 counties in Daming.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were more than 3,000 people in the Zhou Palace.
All the counties added up to Yu Lu are not as good as those of Zhou Wangfu's own family.
And how many Zhou palaces were there at the end of the Ming Dynasty?
Just one king of Jingjiang ate up all the taxes in Guangxi except for the salaries of officials, because he really couldn't afford it, he had to transfer money and grain from Huguang and Guangdong every year, and finally the strength of the three provinces raised a Jingjiang palace.
This pot Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't carry it?
Zhu Yunxi and Zhang Xianzong listened there awkwardly.
Yang Feng suddenly pressed the shoulders of the imperial grandson......
"Your Highness, it's up to you to change all this.
His Majesty is too old, the older he gets, the more stubborn he becomes, he only trusts his own experience, and thinks that the system he has designed is foolproof, although he now knows that there are some things that are wrong, but it seems to him that the details are not thorough enough.
But he won't make fundamental changes.
Even if I had told him about the outcome of these systems in the future, he would only trust himself.
So it's up to you to change. ”
He said very seriously.
"But it's ancestry."
Zhu Yunxi said obviously a little unconfidently.
"Ancestry?
Do you know what the biggest mistake of people in this era is?
It is the belief that the predecessors are stronger than the future.
There is no ancestral law that is not easy for eternity, the world is moving forward, everything is changing, the ancestral law is used to change, and one of the most important ideas of our era is to reform and keep moving forward, rather than turning back or standing still. ”
Yang Feng said.
Fooling Zhu Yunxi into creating Zhu Yuanzhang's anti?
Of course, it is not a real rebellion, but to make the imperial grandson rebel.
In fact, he's been working on it all along.
It is useless to say that he is angry with Zhu Yuanzhang, that old fox is really scheming, people have never experienced anything, how can they be affected by him, but just like a scheming person, he has to be angry half to death when he meets a rebellious grandson. Let Zhu Yunxi act as a reformer, and the elder Zhu is trying to build a system that he believes is foolproof, and then when he dies, his grandson can walk along the road he has paved. But now Yang Feng just wants to fool Zhu Yunxi into becoming a reformer, set things right for him, and let Lao Zhu see that this rebellious grandson will follow his own path in the future, instead of following the road he paved.
But in this case, will Zhu Yuanzhang be angry and change back to Zhu Yunwen.
Although Zhu Yunwen is incompetent, at least he doesn't look rebellious for now!
That's a lot of fun.
And there is Zhu Di......
Zhu Di can too.
At least Zhu Di has matured and will not be fooled by Yang Feng, and Zhu Yuanzhang also said that Zhu Di is the most like him, although now Zhu Di has been kicked to the Wa Kingdom to expand its territory, but in fact, his influence is increasing day by day, and his Yan King fief has not moved so far, and he can also say that he opened up Huining, and then opened up Fusang.
Now the Vultures and other tribes of Huining have already listened to him.
He also won the hearts and minds of the people.
The vast majority of the Ming Dynasty, especially the military households, are holding grievances for King Yan.
After all, he has been so miserable in the past few years, it is easy to arouse sympathy, and the invincible commander, because he can only wander outside in a suspicious place, and he can't go home for a few years, which is definitely worthy of sympathy.
It's like Gao Changgong.
In short, if Zhu Yunxi rebels and Zhu Yuanzhang is worried that his system will be overthrown in the future, then it is really possible to choose another one, and then the situation will become Zhu Yunxi, Zhu Yunxi, and Zhu Di......
"I think you have a conspiracy."
After Zhu Yunxi left, the little princess leaned in front of Yang Feng, who looked like a conspiracy, tilted her head and said.
"Nonsense, when did I engage in a conspiracy, I acted above board, saying that killing people in front of the palace gate would kill people in front of the palace gate, can an arrogant and domineering person like me use to engage in a conspiracy?"
Yang Feng said.
The little princess smiled with disdain.
"I just like to engage in conspiracy."
Yang Feng said.
Then he put his arm around the little princess's shoulders, because the latter's height had soared, and now it was natural for the two of them to do this.
"Tell me about what unusual behavior your other nephew has had in the past two years? Is he trying to regain your father's favor? I just heard that he was studying behind closed doors, and it seemed that he hadn't been out of the Ten Kings' Mansion for a long time. ”
He said.
Zhu Yunwen has disappeared from the outside world since he failed to compete for the imperial grandson.
It's like a seclusion.
If it weren't for special occasions such as Zhu Yuanzhang's birthday, he still visited as usual, which would make people forget that there is a royal grandson in the Ten Kings' Mansion.
"Do you think that's appropriate?
He's my nephew, even though he's older than me.
But we are aunts and nephews after all. ”
The little princess said.
Of course, it is just talking, but the cunning gaze is obviously adding money.
"But we are a gang, don't forget who took you out of the palace back then, and let you fly freely outside, I think this is enough to offset your so-called aunt and nephew, if not, I can make you a few good things."
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