The Imperial Prison Chamber.

Five chairs were set up today, not only did Ji Gang, who had been standing, have a seat, but also a wide chair of different formats was added to sit for Zhu Gaochi, who was wide and fat.

The two scribes had already melted the ink, took the pen and inkstone, and put it on the table to prepare.

"Your Majesty, please." Ji Gang bowed.

Zhu Di, accompanied by Ji Gang, entered the secret room first, but he did not sit on the chair, but put his arms on the top edge of the thick back of the chair and stood there.

Zhu Gaochi moved his fat body, moved from the back of the chair to the edge of the chair with difficulty, and then sat down carefully, and then reached out and put his two thick arms on the armrests and clasped them tightly.

In this way, it can be regarded as a complete seat.

Zhu Gaochi raised his head and looked ahead, only to see more than ten bright yellow oil lamps lit in the secret room, and the four walls were covered with large torture instruments, and these were not important.

The important thing is that a huge portrait was hung on the wall facing north, the person in the painting was a middle-aged man, wearing a red dragon robe, no smile on his face, and quite heroic between his eyebrows and eyes, it was his grandfather, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Gaochi was slightly stunned.

Zhu Gaochi remembers very well that his invincible father, Zhu Di, who is invincible in the world, actually has demons.

This inner demon is Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang.

Since Jingnan started the army, the portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang is no longer displayed in the palace of King Yan.

Because Zhu Di once said to Zhu Gaochi in person, he dreamed countless times that his biological mother was beaten by Zhu Yuanzhang with a horsewhip underground, and scolded her for being such an unfaithful and unfilial rebel son as Zhu Di.

And Zhu Di was also pressed to the ground by five flowers in his dream, and was held by General Xu Da and General Chang Yuchun on the left and right.

Zhu Di didn't dare to move, and he couldn't move, so he could only barely turn his face sideways and watch his biological mother suffer.

That feeling made Zhu Di very frightened, so he asked King Yan to remove the portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang from the palace, but it didn't work.

It was Dao Yan who made a grand water and land puja, but it still didn't work.

The final solution turned out to be that Zhu Gaoxu insisted on guarding Zhu Di's door with a long lance and said to Zhu Di.

"We have done this rebellious thing together, no matter whether we win or lose, we are all thieves who have never been easy to succeed, and we are afraid that grandpa will do it? Don't worry, old man, even if I go underground, I have one person and one lance, and you are well protected, and I don't recognize my grandfather when he comes! ”

In this way, it is about the same principle as Li Shimin, who killed his brother and imprisoned his father, and has the principle that Yu Chi Jingde and Qin Shubao are the gods of the door, so Zhu Di can sleep peacefully, and he will gradually stop having this nightmare in the future.

And Zhu Di also saw Zhu Gaochi's thoughts, he took two steps, came to the back of Hao Da'er, and said while pinching Zhu Gaochi's shoulders: "I can't hide from what I should come, that is, your grandfather is really waiting for me underground, and I will have to face it sooner or later...... Now that he has met Jiang Xinghuo, he feels that he may really be able to surpass Tang Zong and Hanwu among the non-founding kings. ”

Zhu Gaochi's shoulders shrank slightly, and he was pulled back by Zhu Di's powerful big hand, and he no longer tried to break free, but asked with some suspicion: "Jiang Xinghuo is really so strange?" ”

Zhu Di was surprised, and then smiled and said: "I haven't heard it with my own ears, it's normal for you not to believe it, just like the old monk Daoyan doesn't believe it?" After listening to Jiang Xinghuo's class, I didn't understand the periodic law of the dynasty, but now I retreat in the temple every day, and I don't know what to understand. ”

Rao gave the example of Master Daoyan, but Zhu Gaochi was still skeptical.

"If nothing else, the group of think tanks around you, Yang Rong, Yang Shiqi, and Xie Jin, have thought of a way to reform the two tax laws with you, and you must think that this is the best way to solve the land annexation problem, right?"

Zhu Gaochi nodded and asked rhetorically, "Does my father think there is a better way?" ”

"Of course I don't, and if I do, I don't have to think about it." Zhu Di replied as a matter of course.

"But." Zhu Di pondered for a moment and said affirmatively, "Do you believe it or not, Jiang Xinghuo must have a better way to solve the land annexation?" ”

Zhu Gaochi was also honest, he followed his heart and shook his head.

"I don't believe ......"

Of course, this is a very normal psychology, why didn't the smartest group of civil officials in the Ming Empire come up with a better solution, a death row prisoner in the edict prison, can come up with it casually?

If this is the case, doesn't it mean that the most powerful group of young talents in the world, who have studied hard for more than ten years in the Jinshi examination, and the subset of scriptures and history they have learned have all been learned in vain?

No matter how you say it, even if Jiang Xinghuo is also very smart, in other words, the most ugly thing to say is that there are three stinky generals, and Zhuge Liang is still the best.

Yang Rong, Yang Shiqi, Xie Jin, three great talents, can't stand up to a Jiang Xinghuo?

Zhu Gaochi shook his head secretly in his heart, he didn't believe the conclusion reached by his father at all.

It's just that Zhu Gaochi can't continue to deny his father Zhu Di in person, so he can only express his attitude, and then he doesn't speak.

At the same time, Zhu Gaochi did not think about the possibility that Jiang Xinghuo's solution was better.

But it was only a flash, and it disappeared from my mind in an instant.

Suddenly, Zhu Gaochi felt that the hand pressing on his shoulder stopped, and the voice of Jiang Xinghuo next door also came from the megaphone composed of a complex set of pottery and porcelain on the west side of the secret room in front of him.

"Last time we talked about the dynastic cyclical law, the core of which is the irreconcilable contradiction between land annexation and population growth, that is, the contradiction between man and land, which is the main contradiction that leads to dynastic change."

"People of insight in all dynasties have been trying to explore the land system that adapts to the changes and development of the times, intending to slow down the speed of land annexation, stabilize the tax base and prolong the life of the dynasty."

"As a result, the land systems of the early, middle and late dynasties were often different, even diasophytic."

"So Gao Yu, what do you think the current Ming Dynasty should do to resolve or restrain land annexation and alleviate the contradictions between man and land that will inevitably become more and more intense over time?"

When Zhu Gaochi heard this, he immediately sat up.

And in his mind, somehow, the second brother's sentence suddenly appeared, "How do I know?" ”

No way, when he was a child in school, Zhu Gaoxu faced his husband's question, and it was basically this fixed answer.

This sentence was really too lethal to the teacher, and even an old gentleman was stunned, which later caused Zhu Di to have to ask Zhu Gaoxu for Mr. alone.

To Zhu Gaochi's surprise, the second brother Zhu Gaochu seemed to be a different person, stumbling but logically and clearly answering Jiang Xinghuo's question.