Liang Ruji nodded, "I have thought about this question for many years. Ever since my father died, I have been taken away by a friend of my father's former life. I followed him around, and for decades, my footprints can be said to be all over the provinces of Daming.

I walked, watched, and thought. Many places are actually the same as Liangyuan Village back then. Although the court set the field endowment is one out of ten. However, the local government often arbitrarily gives money to the people. So much so that in the south of the Yangtze River, where grain production is high, many fields have to pay five or six tenths of the grain tax, or even high. And that's not even counting the many levies paid every year.

Only the famous dignitaries who are attached to the local area can be sheltered, so as not to be so oppressed by the government, at least, the conscription is exempted. However, these heads of households did not take a penny from the people who depended on them, and they often had to collect three or four tenths of the land from them, and in some places it was even higher. It's just slightly better than the government. These fields are someone else's own! Now it is equivalent to them unconditionally putting the land under the name of those big households, and they have to hand over three or four percent of the field grain to them every year. What kind of truth is this!

But looking at the Ming Dynasty, this phenomenon abounds. Especially in the places where rice is abundant in Suhu Lake and Sichuanzhong in the south of the Yangtze River. There is a good saying, Suhu is ripe, and the world is full. But now, even if Suhu produces more rice and grain, the imperial court can collect it very limited.

As a result, a vicious circle was created, and the less the court collected, the more the apportionment was increased downward. As a result, those who had land and land threw themselves into more large households in various places.

It is precisely based on this reality that Mr. He's Juhetang was able to be established very smoothly, because he could not only provide protection for those small people, stop the indiscriminate apportionment of the imperial court, but also did not collect taxes from them, and even provided them with land to cultivate. Of course everyone is willing.

But why did he fail so quickly? I have thought about this question for many years. I think this is due to Mr. Ho's personality. Mr. He is a scholar, but also a good person, an upright person. It is precisely because of his integrity that he has achieved the harmony and non-contention of the society of Juhetang. However, it was his integrity that directly led to his ultimate failure.

The generation that came out of Juhetang, almost all of them were deeply influenced by Mr. He, they all had very pure thoughts, upright hearts, or a kind of chivalrous hearts, for the sake of friends, they could stick knives in both sides. But it is precisely because of their character that most of them are depressed in their lives. They can't fit in with this dirty world.

Because of their straightforwardness, they often offend the government easily. Therefore, in the end, they are often convicted by those officials in various names. Mr. Ho is their representative.

So, I think. Corrupt officials are the biggest enemy of our people. If we want the world to return to clarity and return to the world like the Juhetang founded by Mr. Ho, we need to eliminate all corrupt officials. Only by eliminating these corrupt officials can the world be truly clean, and tragedies like Mr. He will not be repeated! ”

When Liang Ruji said this, he couldn't help but stand up, and his arms waved along with him.

Yu Ren shook his head. "I don't agree with you. No matter what country, no matter what era, corrupt officials will always exist. It's just a matter of quantity. If there is one person in a hundred, then the influence of a corrupt official is very small. If there are 90 out of 100 people, then the influence of corrupt officials is great.

And the way you gather and gather in the hall is destined to be irreproducible and unsustainable. After all, this is not just a problem of corrupt officials. Even if there are no corrupt officials, your Juhetang will not be able to survive for long. ”

"Why?" It was the first time Liang Ruji had heard someone say such an argument to him, which surprised him very much.

"Because in the final analysis, Juhetang is a completely different thing from the current state system. It is precisely because this system is good, if he continues to develop. The Ming Dynasty will soon be replaced by him. Therefore, the imperial court will not allow him to develop.

This is not because he is good or bad, but because his existence poses a threat to the existing Ming Dynasty. So, if he's not good, it's okay. On the contrary, the better, the less the court can let him exist. Because the better, the greater his influence and the greater the threat to the imperial court. ”

Liang Ruji listened to Yu Ren's words and didn't speak for a long time. Although he has been thinking about this question for decades, he has never thought about it from this perspective.

"You see this cup of tea! It looks clean, but is it really clean to the point where there's no clutter? Can a glass of water really be clean enough to leave no impurities? It's impossible.

That's why there is that saying: When the water is clear, there are no fish, and when people are observed, there are no fugitives. It is precisely because Mr. He's Juhetang is so pure that it is impossible for him to survive forever. There would never have been a world without strife, without hunger, without oppression, without injustice, and without war.

Think about it, if you have a thousand brave guards in Juhetang, can Yongfeng Zhixian still arrest Mr. He? At least, he can't. Will the Juhe Hall be dispersed so easily? Probably not!

Despite the soldiers, this harmonious nature of yours seems to have been destroyed. But otherwise, there is no guarantee of your harmony.

Lao Tzu said, 'Don't fight for the sake of fighting. I now put it the other way around, and it should be 'fight for nothing.'" Only by fighting over the overall situation can you finally ensure that everyone's small situation is not disputed.

There is a saying that power comes out of the barrel of a gun. You have actually taken away the power of the village of the Ming Dynasty, but you have no military strength to protect him, how can the central empire of the Ming Dynasty let you exist for a long time! ”

After listening to Yu Ren's words, Liang Ruji couldn't help but take the case.

"Mr.'s words really made the students pause. If we had heard Mr. earlier, where would we have taken so many detours. I beg you, sir, to preach your high arguments to my friends as well? to show them a bright way. ”

"Okay!" When Yu Ren heard Liang Ruji suddenly change his name to Mr., he knew that he was impressed by his plagiarized theory. However, he has always been very thick-skinned. Although it is not him that people really admire, he is still a little proud.

In fact, Yu Ren in the past was not interested in these issues. However, as he went further and further in this world, his family wealth accumulated, and his business became bigger and bigger, the pressure on his body became greater and greater. Originally, he was a carefree person, as long as he took care of himself. But now it's different, if you add the Yu family's money village in Zhao Rui's hands, the various people of the Shen family, etc., and the group of brothers who belong to him at sea, this number is only afraid of no less than three or five thousand.

He must be responsible for the thousands of people who follow him, and he can't help but think about them; It is necessary to consider their food and housing problems, income problems, development problems, and even family problems.

It is precisely because of such changes that many social problems that seemed to be out of reach of him have become more and more problems that he needs to solve urgently.

He began to think more and more about these social problems of the Ming Dynasty. Because if he wants to maintain the foundation he has created through his hard work so far, and ensure that the thousands of brothers and sisters who follow him will always have something to eat, without a healthy and stable social environment, it will never work. In the past, because of his small ability, even if he wanted to change, it was impossible. But now it's different, now his strength is much stronger, and many things that he couldn't do before can now be started.

Including gradually changing this chaotic and dirty world.

However, how to change is a big question. Although he had thought about this question for a long time, he had never met a person with experience in this area. Including his two most capable confidants, Li Ying and Zhao Rui.

However, today he finally met an expert in this area. This Liang Ruji obviously has a deep study of these issues. He was also eager to discuss it with him further, so he stood up.

Liang Ruji was overjoyed, and also stood up, and the two went out of the private room, and Liang Ruji led the way in front.

But as soon as they walked out of the teahouse, they saw a young man in a coarse cloth shirt hurrying over.

Liang Ruji suddenly saw this person and hurriedly greeted him.

"Seiko, what's wrong?"