Li Kui, wake up! ”

"Hmm!"

Li Kui raised his eyelids and glanced at Hao Sui, who called him. Since this bad luck has been riddled with bad luck, his speech has also softened a lot, and it seems that there is a kind of human imminent death, and his words are also good.

Li Kui touched his clothes and gave the redrawn secret fold to Hao Sui, Li Kui propped up his waist and yawned, stood up and prepared to leave: "I'm going to the Taishi Bureau, you continue to consume." ”

Now in the Great Song Dynasty, there is a miasma of black smoke all day long, and Li Kui is very angry when he looks at it.

What a changer, a conservative.

It's the same as bean curd, eating salty or sweet. Fighting back and forth, it has become a salty party and a sweet party, and it has risen to the point where good and evil are not separated.

The changes are really useful, and there will not be only a few successful cases of changes throughout the ages.

Even if the reform is successful, it is not the success of the reform itself, but the manifestation of social progress. From slavery to feudalism, such a change was naturally successful and would stimulate the power of the state. But if the feudal system really tosses the law of his ancestors, in Li Kui's view, there is no hope of success.

The Great Song Dynasty is like this, redundant soldiers, redundant officials, redundant expenses, and the three redundant Great Song Dynasty is out of breath.

But these things can't crush the Great Song Dynasty, and history proves that it is not the system that really crushes the Great Song Dynasty, but foreign enemies.

But the court of the Great Song Dynasty thought that it was to the point of life and death, and it was necessary to change the law. And reaching out is aimed at the lowest level of farmers. The Seedlings Law may have good intentions, but will it really be as useful as the rulers envisioned it to be when implemented? No one knows that after a long time, perhaps the people will become poorer and more miserable.

Because the ordinary peasants of the Great Song Dynasty did not use thirty percent of the country's wealth, or even less of their wealth, they bore more than half of the taxes of the Great Song Dynasty's finances, as well as all the forced labor.

That's right, half of the Great Song Dynasty's taxes were collected from peasants who didn't have much money to spare.

If this system is not broken, the financial crisis of the Great Song Dynasty will always exist. It will even get heavier and heavier.

It's like a tax like a poll tax, how much was collected a hundred years ago, and how much it will still be collected a hundred years later. And 30 million people a hundred years ago, 90 million people a hundred years later, is equivalent to a twofold increase in taxes through the demographic dividend.

Taxes have tripled, but the land and wealth owned by the people still seem to be the same, but because there are more family members, they are poorer. Farming is getting poorer, and many farmers are giving up their land and moving into the cities. But the rest of the peasants had to bear the same taxes and forced labor with a smaller group, and their lives became more and more difficult.

That's the scariest part.

It's just that no one mentions it, and Li Kui's "Zhiping Policy" talks about the population problem, but he doesn't dare to really point out the final crux stupidly. He didn't believe that he could see it, and smart people like Zhang Dian, Su Zhe, and Li Qingchen wouldn't be able to see it? They also saw it, they just didn't want to say it. It's easy to uncover the scars, but what about after they are revealed? Who bears the consequences?

Li Kui didn't have much interest in being an official in such a court.

It's better to do his little inventions, maybe you can become a scientist.

Li Kui wanted to leave, but Hao Sui didn't let him, probably because no one could tell the truth, Hao Sui had a stomach full of words in his stomach that he wanted to say, but there was no place to confide in his heart. In the past, he was afraid, afraid that he would be framed and let him lose the emperor's trust in him, but now he is not afraid, but he still doesn't dare to say it.

And Li Kui is a good object for him to confide in.

Hao Sui has been serving in the palace for so many years, can he still see clearly what kind of person Li Kui is?

He squatted in front of Li Kui, and said with a kind smile on his old face: "Li Kui, our family treats you well, right?" ”

"You don't seem to have framed me." Li Kui had a feeling that Hao Sui couldn't continue to talk when he opened his mouth, but he didn't care, and continued to say to himself: "I am a member of the old ancestor. ”

Li Kui raised his eyelids and looked at Hao Sui seriously, he didn't want to be a listener for eunuchs, of course, he couldn't be a good listener.

But looking at Hao Sui's posture, he didn't seem to intend to end the conversation, and he was quite talkative, so he could only sigh: "Okay, what do you want to say?" ”

"The palace is dangerous, I'm not even forty years old, you look at my face, how old have you become? Now that I am leaving Your Majesty, I have let go of some things, but I will not be afraid of this and that as I was before, and I will worry all day long. Eunuchs are not officials, they are slaves. We live humblely, but we're human too, right? But if you look at the whole world, how many people treat eunuchs as human beings? ”

Speaking of these, Hao Sui's mood was a little low, and it was not easy for him to climb to the official position of the guard in front of the palace. As long as he is promoted to another level, he will be of the same grade as Feng Shining, the legendary eunuch in the palace.

But in the blink of an eye, it became a castle in the air, and Hao Sui seemed to feel worthless for himself. But he smiled and seemed to say easily: "Your Majesty is easy to serve, but the ministers are not easy to serve, and now if you are separated from them, you can be regarded as getting out of the sea of suffering." But in the capital, our family still has a little regret. ”

Li Kui and the others looked at each other for a long time, and asked, "You want to borrow seeds?" ”

"I ......"

didn't say a few words, Hao Sui ran away angrily by him, even if he really wanted to borrow seeds, he would not look for a reckless man like Li Kui.

In the main hall, the two sides have reached the point of tension.

It is very strange that this guy Xing Shu is also on Su Zhe's side this time. He was originally a reformer, but after being disliked by the big king, he switched to a conservative, and now he has become a duplicitous. But the strange thing is that he is more active than anyone else in criticizing Cai Qu.

The reason is that Cai Qu, the former big man of the Fa-changing faction, was stabbed down by him.

He can't admit that he once framed Zhongliang, right?

But even so, Su Zhe is still very passive, Li Qingchen's aggressive momentum makes him disgusted, especially when he only asks mistakes, not about merit, this kind of confusing practice, how many officials are clean?

Su Zhe, who was angry, reprimanded angrily: "You are so guilty of guilt, don't you say that all my Yuanyou heroes are traitors, and it is difficult to pull the empress dowager out to settle accounts." In doing so, where do you put the Empress Dowager Xuanren and where do you put Your Majesty? If the war starts in vain, not to mention the loss of labor and money, the people's hearts that I have finally appeased will be relieved by selfish interests, how many people will be separated from their wives, and how many people will die on the side. ”

"The sad thing is that you still sing praises for this, and everyone thinks that they are dedicated to the Great Song Dynasty. Da Song has never treated you badly, why did you frame Da Song? ”

Li Qingchen stood opposite Su Zhe and muttered: "Xixia is the epiphysis of my Great Song Dynasty, this injury is incurable, and my Great Song Dynasty has hundreds of thousands of redundant soldiers, how can it be solved?" If this thief is not killed, how can I solve it with my Great Song War Horse? And Your Majesty, Your Majesty is Renjun, and it is not your turn to comment. You keep saying that Your Majesty is warlike and not sympathetic to the people, don't you say that Your Majesty is Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty? ”

Su Zhe said angrily: "What's wrong with Emperor Wu of Han? Emperor Wu opened up thousands of miles of territory for the Han Dynasty, eliminated the hidden dangers in the north for the Han Dynasty, and laid the foundation for two Han Dynasty and four hundred years. ”

"Enough!"

Zhao Xu was full of anger, and stood up from the dragon chair, the anger in his eyes was monstrous, as if he wanted to put Su Zhe to death, as if it was about to erupt.

Li Qingchen was secretly happy, he also felt that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was very powerful, compared to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's merits to the Han Dynasty, his faults were not painful.

But the problem is that the emperor did not like Emperor Wu of Han.

And this can't be blamed for the change of law, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is a faint monarch, from Cheng Hao to Fan Zuyu, Zhao Xu's teachers said over and over again, when they heard it since childhood, they stubbornly believed that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was really a faint monarch.

This can't be blamed on him, only on the conservatives, or the Empress Dowager Xuanren is too afraid that this grandson of his, like his son, will not know the importance and start a war at every turn.

Li Qingchen saw the emperor's reaction and was proud in his heart.

He thought that the emperor had been angered by Su Zhe, and it was a matter of time before Su Zhe was impeached.

And what about Su Zhe?

I chuckled in my heart and said secretly: "It's broken!" Although he is not the emperor's teacher, the stalk of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he also knows, I heard Fan Zuyu say at the banquet before, and I felt that Fan Zuyu and they were worried about the sky, but when they really came to this point, they found that Fan Zuyu was not worried about the sky, but completely ignorant of the emperor and taught blindly.

And what about the emperor?

Anger and reaction were all expected by Li Qingchen, but the emperor had a thought in his heart: "I don't know if anger is pretending to be like?" The old-timers' methods are very easy to use, but if you want to be angry, you will be angry, and if you want to be crazy, you will be crazy, so that people can't see his true thoughts, and it is not easy to act. ”

How did the emperor know that what he lacked was not actual combat, let alone the control of people's hearts. He just lacked a book, a study material. Li Kui knew about this book, but he only knew the title, but he didn't know anything about the content. This book is - "The Self-cultivation of Actors".

Fortunately, the emperor is already young, and he is still at an age that is easily excited, and the two look similar.

It seemed that everything was successful, when he stepped down from the throne and headed in the direction of the Wende Palace, Hao Sui rushed out of the corridor, and the small broken steps were fast, and suddenly the horse stumbled and fell to the ground, and the moment he looked up, Hao Sui couldn't care about his embarrassment, and exclaimed: "Your Majesty, something is wrong, Xixia called?" ”

"Thief Ann Dare!"

Emperor Zhao Xu took the secret fold from Xiao Huangmen's hand, and was about to pretend to take a look, but the problem was that after he opened it, he was dumbfounded.

Although the secret fold is still a secret fold, the problem is that the content in it has changed, and the original 50,000 Xixia people and horses have suddenly become 500,000, and that bastard added it? Isn't that harmful?

Suddenly, he remembered that he seemed to owe it before, and asked Li Kui to help see if the secret fold was appropriate, and let him change it if it was inappropriate. After all, the emperor was also inexperienced in warfare, and he didn't know how to make the ministers frightened.

But the problem is, 50,000 horses is a lot, and you add it to 500,000, doesn't this make me want the Great Song Dynasty to fight with the Western Xia people?

The emperor was dumbfounded, and the courtiers were even more dumbfounded, thinking that the emperor was frightened, Zhang Dian came over and took the secret fold from the emperor's hand, and was dumbfounded after reading it.

Subsequently, Li Qingchen.

Cai Bian.

Even the indignant Su Zhe was dumbfounded after seeing it, and he was the first to react: "Your Majesty, the minister suggested that the infantry horse army in front of the palace be dispatched, and 100,000 horses can rush to the front line along the five roads, Henan Mansion, and Jingzhao Mansion. ”

Emperor Zhao Xu wanted to agree, but the problem was that he complained bitterly: "If it is true, I am absolutely not ambiguous, but the question is fake!" Li Kui, you are too unreliable, is there such a pit as you? ”