Jiang Xinghuo groaned slightly, and then said slowly under the tree.

"Of the three points of forced labor, grain, cattle and seeds, we will first talk about the solutions to the land and tax system for the first point."

Hearing this, not only Li Jinglong and Zhu Gaochu beside him pricked up their ears, but even Zhu Di and Zhu Gaochi in the secret room also perked up and listened carefully.

These high-level officials of the Ming Empire naturally knew the powerful relationship between the people's will and the conscription, and no one present hoped that the Ming Empire would cause turmoil because of the excessive conscription!

When Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall to prevent foreign invasions, the biggest reliance was actually the cheap manpower obtained by the Great Qin through the unification war, which could suppress the servants of the Six Kingdoms through strict punishment and the strong Qin army, and squandered the people's power without restraint.

However, after the unification of the Six Kingdoms of Great Qin, the goal of 'completely repairing all the Great Walls' was not fully achieved, so it became a scorched earth in the garrison called Hangu Juzhong.

The state system was inherited by the Han Dynasty, and the Great Qin, as the founder, eventually ended up in the end of the country.

After the Han Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty, a powerful empire that was reunified again in Chinese history, also because of the abuse of people's power, dug the Grand Canal and conquered Goguryeo three times, completely boiling the people's hearts that longed for stability and burying themselves.

Although the national strength of the Ming Dynasty is thriving, if you want to be as invincible as Great Qin and as rich as Great Sui, it is still too far behind......

So everyone is looking forward to it, what good solution can Jiang Xinghuo give to solve the problem of forced labor?

"For a yeoman farmer, it is one thing to bring his own food to serve without remuneration and delay farming, but during the period of servitude, he is enslaved and extorted, and he will even lose money and lose his family because the officials determine that the service is not qualified...... Even because of the inability to take care of the family, the wife and daughter of the family are bullied, which is also a more important aspect. ”

The crowd was a little silent when they heard this, although it didn't sound good, but it was indeed a fact faced by the low-level homesteaders.

Conscription, ten times more difficult to pay taxes!

But after Jiang Xinghuo bluntly exposed this fact, he did not open his mouth to tell his solution, but asked.

"Then have you ever wondered why there is such a thing as conscription?"

Zhu Gaoxu, who was under the tree, was a little dazed when he heard this.

Why is there a conscription?

For the people of this era, forced labor has existed for thousands of years, so long that our ancestors have considered it a matter of course.

It's like the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and no one asks why...... Isn't it a matter of course to serve the government as a matter of course? Where and why?

"Naturally, the government is understaffed, and all kinds of servants are needed to complete the things that need to be done." Li Jinglong, who was next to him, replied confidently.

Jiang Xinghuo frowned and continued to ask.

"Then why is the government understaffed, is it because there is no one to hire?"

Hearing this, Li Jinglong was a little speechless.

Certainly not without a hire!

On the contrary, it is because the government does not want to and cannot afford to hire people.

But it's always hard to say this directly, anyway, Li Jinglong can't say it.

But Zhu Gaoxu didn't have so many scruples, he said directly.

"It's just that the court doesn't want to spend money."

Today's Jiang Xinghuo nodded, but he didn't seem to want to give them an answer directly, but asked inquiringly.

"Is it because the imperial court doesn't want to spend money, or does the local government don't want to spend money?"

When Li Jinglong was uncertain, it was still Zhu Gaoxu who replied simply.

"It must be that the local government doesn't want to spend money."

"In that case, can we define 'conscription'?"

Jiang Xinghuo looked at Li Jinglong, who was still bowing his head and was silent, and said slowly.

"The essence of conscription is that the project of maintaining social and public services requires group labor, and from the cost consideration, the most reasonable choice for local governments is to recruit yeoman farmers without compensation."

"So the essence of conscription is actually an economic account."

After Jiang Xinghuo made a summary, he no longer gave them a chance to interject, but continued to speak very firmly.

He stood up, and his tone was like a golden stone, and he made a loud noise!

"The tyrannical Qin conscription, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang said angrily: Don't behead by the younger brother's order, and the dead are solid sixteen or seventeen, why not raise a big deal and punish the tyrannical Qin?!"

"The violent Sui conscription, Zhi Shilang wrote "Song of the Death of the Waves of Liaodong": For example, if Liaodong dies, what is the injury caused by beheading? Rather be a bandit in the mountains, not Liaodonglang! ”

"The pain of forced labor is ten times greater than the tax!!"

"If you don't believe it, you might as well go to the towns and cities of the world and ask one by one, which family is the head of the man, but if there is a possibility of not going, but he is willing to leave his wife and children to serve in forced labor?"

Li Jinglong was silent for a long time, and then suddenly raised his head and asked quickly.

"So, what's the explanation?"

Li Jinglong was reluctant to answer Jiang Xinghuo's question about piercing the window paper of grassroots governance, because he knew that Zhu Di was listening from the wall, and he didn't want to hurt Zhu Di's face.

And right now, Li Jinglong didn't know if he remembered the tragic situation of ten rooms and nine emptiness in Huaibei, Shandong Province when the Southern Army pulled Zhuang Ding as an auxiliary soldier and civilian man during the Battle of Jingyan, and he didn't care about the careful thoughts he had just considered.

In Li Jinglong's words, there was a bit of resentment, and it is unknown whether he hated Zhu Di or not.

As a result, Li Jinglong actually stood up, and the three of them were sitting around the tree, but at this time, the two of them had already got up and faced each other.

"The imperial court doesn't have this money, the local government is not willing to spend this money, someone always has to do things!"

"If you don't suffer the people, what else can you do?!"

Hearing this is as if you have been pressed a switch.

Jiang Xinghuo Huo Ran grabbed Li Jinglong's collar, and the two of them were almost facing each other, close at hand.

At this time, Jiang Xinghuo's mind crossed over the tragic scenes he had seen when he crossed over last time.

It was a "prosperous age".

Jiang Xinghuo was fortunate to become a citizen of the prosperous world.

He became the breadwinner of a family of five, his shabby clothes were covered with dense patches, and even so, the youngest girl in the family was eight or nine years old, and could only wear a pair of pants in turns with his two sisters.

He and his shriveled and thin mother-in-law opened a small terraced field deep in the mountains, and relied on planting potatoes and digging wild vegetables to dig up wild vegetables, and the family could only eat one meal a day.

Even Jiang Xinghuo didn't even have the possibility of using his knowledge to go out to find a job, because the food was not enough to save at all, and while ensuring the livelihood of his family, he walked hundreds of miles of mountain roads to the county seat.

And even these days did not last.

In the great drought that year, Jiang Xinghuo was pulled by the official to work as a porter for the returning Western mission.

A group of numb slender men pull the luxurious and spacious ship like a walking corpse.

The imperial court gave too many gifts to the Western missions, and many pigs and poultry collided and died on the road, so the Westerners threw the stinky animals off the ship.

And Jiang Xinghuo, whose hungry eyes were green, jumped into the water like the slender men went crazy, and immediately scooped up these dead animals and ate them.

It doesn't care if there are bacteria or diseases.

Because if you don't eat, with a meager daily supply of food and high-intensity physical labor, you will not survive for two or three days and will die.

When he arrived near the city, Jiang Xinghuo even saw a lot of abandoned babies in wooden basins like river lanterns, going down the river, and the soup was full of soup.

Jiang Xinghuo didn't want to change his fate, as a university lecturer, he not only knew English, but also knew some everyday Spanish, so he desperately wanted to get close to the Westerners on the ship.

However, the official who oversaw the work was beaten with a leather whip stained with river water, and Jiang Xinghuo almost died, and ordinary people had no dignity in the process of serving in the conscription.

And a little leftovers from the officials can also cause the coaxing of the slender men.

The slender men had to kneel and kowtow, and even lick the cheeks of the officials, in order to gain the right to eat leftovers.

In the end, when Jiang Xinghuo was appreciated by Westerners, he took the money and returned to the dilapidated thatched house.

Jiang Xinghuo saw a crazy woman with shriveled limbs but a swollen belly, and three rotting and stinky female corpses under her protection.

The image dissipates and returns to the present.

Jiang Xinghuo looked at Li Jinglong, and his eyes were almost bursting with fire.

"Why do you have to suffer the people?!"