Chapter Forty-Eight: I Always Want to Leave an Umbrella for Posterity

Shocking!

Zhu Di, who was next door, was deeply shocked by this sudden and unbelievable countermeasure.

After a long time.

Zhu Di took a long breath and said with emotion: "Although I know that Jiang Xinghuo is knowledgeable, I dare to think that ordinary people dare not think about it, and I dare not mention it to ordinary people, so I make an inappropriate analogy...... It is just like the style of the poet Immortal Li during the day to Tang poetry. ”

"But whether it is to summarize the principle from various livelihood phenomena, or to use the principle to put forward a solution policy, it is reasonable and well-founded, which is deeply impressive!"

And Zhu Gaochi, who was wearing the prince Yanmu beside him, was also deeply moved after listening quietly.

"The sky does not give birth to ginger and sparks, and the servants are like long nights!"

"Spread out into the mu, Jiang Xinghuo is a true saint and reincarnated!"

"In this way, the Ming Dynasty will be stable, and there will be no danger of dying like the violent Qin and the Sui!"

"What's more, Jiang Xinghuo's proposal to increase the amount of labor into the mu actually spreads the bulk of the landlord class in disguise, and after the state obtains economic and social benefits far beyond unpaid forced labor, it has even reduced the burden on self-cultivated farmers."

"So that's the question now." Zhu Gaochi turned his head and asked Zhu Di solemnly, "There is a way to seek both one and one lifetime, does my father dare to use it?" ”

Zhu Di held his hand, looked at the ceiling of the secret room and just sneered.

"The Ming Dynasty opened the country, set a heavy tax on the south of the Yangtze River, and the evil rich people in Su, Song, Jia, and Hu provinces rebelled, and under the butcher's knife of Emperor Taizu Gao, the heads were rolling."

"...... Today"

"My knife is not a disadvantage!"

And Zhu Di directly gave the order.

"The eldest prince Zhu Gaochi listens to the order and does not kneel."

"Erchen is here!" Zhu Gaochi was upright and bowed slightly.

Zhu Di's face was calm, and he said briefly.

"From now on, the Su, Song, Jia, and Hu prefectures will be used as pilots to implement the apportionment into the mu."

"Those who dare to disobey and obstruct Yin and Yang violators will be killed!"

Zhu Gaochi looked excited and said loudly.

"Erchen takes orders!"

Ji Gang, who had been silently standing behind several people and listening, suddenly had goosebumps at this time.

In a trance, Ji Gang seemed to see the scene not long ago, when Zhu Di's imperial pen was thrown, countless Jiangnan scholars and gentry were destroyed by the three clans, the nine clans, and even the ten clans.

Zhu Di has never been a good person!

Zhu Di is a generation of heroes!

Zhu Di is a decisive and resolute emperor!

Whoever he wants to kill, you won't even have a chance to resist!

Ji Gang couldn't help but mourn in silence for those unlucky bastards, I'm afraid they will soon become the most worthless part of the mountain of incriminating evidence on Zhu Di's desk, right?

A wall apart.

Equally utterly shocking!

Li Jinglong muttered to himself in despair.

"How so...... Simple? ”

"It's as simple as that, how many fewer lives can be lost!" Zhu Gaoxu also sighed, he is also a living person, cold-blooded and ruthless on the battlefield, it is his instinct as a professional soldier, but it does not mean that he has no sympathy.

Actually, it's that simple.

Jiang Xinghuo's so-called "apportionment into the mu" is actually a "whip law" reformed by Zhang Juzheng 170 years later, which is just an upgraded version of the attack on the gentry.

Zhang Juzheng's method is that the annual forced labor required by each prefecture and county is hired by the government from the tax collected by the government, and civilians are no longer paid free of charge.

In addition, the field tax and forced labor that have been levied separately since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, that is, a variety of forced labor, including a service, forced labor, miscellaneous labor, and force difference, are combined into one, and the general number is one article, and the summer and autumn taxes that are incorporated into the field tax are collected together.

The editor-in-chief is one, so it is called "a whip law".

Since Zhang Juzheng's reform, the Ming Dynasty has swept away the declining trend of the rivers since the Jiajing Dynasty, just like a seriously ill patient who has been given a dose of fierce medicine, and he will come back to life when he lands.

The people were no longer tormented by heavy forced labor, although they overcharged taxes in place of forced labor, but the financial situation of the Ming Dynasty improved rapidly, and the people's hearts were even more uplifted, and everyone praised Zhang Ge Lao's goodness.

As for after Zhang Juzheng's reform, Wanli denied Zhang Juzheng and his person, but did not abolish his government.

That is, everything must be traced back to the source, and there has never been water without a source or a tree without roots.

Without Zhang Juzheng's national strength in the first ten years, how can there be Wanli Zhongxing? How can there be the three major expeditions of Wanli that spend money like flooding?

Just because Zhang Juzheng abolished the unpaid conscription, Zhang Juzheng should not say that he sat in a 32-lift sedan chair, or he sat on 64-lifted.

- Because it is the people who carry the sedan chair.

Moreover, since Zhang Juzheng can abolish unpaid forced labor, don't think that many things that oppress the people are impossible to abolish.

Conscription is not eternal, and nothing is eternal.

If there is, then long live the people.

...............

Li Jinglong suddenly looked at Jiang Xinghuo, got up and threw himself on the ground.

"Jiang Lang... No, Mr. Jiang, the student was taught. ”

Jiang Xinghuo was stunned when he saw this, and hurriedly got up and helped him up.

"It doesn't have to be this way." Jiang Xinghuo said with a wry smile, "I was wrong just now, I shouldn't have been angry with you, but your words of bitter people really made my heart fire and resentment...... To tell you the truth, I have suffered hardships. ”

Li Jinglong nodded, and Jiang Xinghuo replied: "I'm not a rich hater, I will be angry at you when I see that you are from Zhumen." There is no such thing as being born fair in this world at all, if there is, your father followed Emperor Taizu Gao to open the country, wouldn't it be bloodshed and meritorious service in vain? ”

Li Jinglong was ashamed, and when he mentioned his father, he was even more out of shape, I don't know if he remembered his heroic father, and felt that he had embarrassed his old man.

Jiang Xinghuo's words today seem to be extraordinarily much.

"I actually have some selfish motives for teaching you." Jiang Xinghuo said calmly, "I have my own reasons to die, but I want to leave something for this world." ”

"Gao Yu."

"Mr. Jiang." Zhu Gaoxu was suddenly a little frightened.

"Thank you for taking care of me these days, and I know in my heart that if it weren't for you, the jailer would have bullied me...... It doesn't necessarily mean it, but how many prisoners in prison are not bullied? ”

"It is because of you that I was able to spend the last period of the Imperial Prison comfortably, and I am grateful, so in the next few days, before the execution, I will try to clarify what I have learned all my life and teach you the knowledge that I can leave to this world."

"If you are released from prison in the future, have made a career, and become a marquis, then please write what I taught you to the emperor on the premise of protecting yourself, or publish a book to spread the world...... Just sign your name, you paid for me to give a lecture, and I don't need my name. ”

"Even if I can let ordinary people like me who have suffered a little better than the world without me, I feel that I have no regrets about dying."

"I'm not for anything else." Jiang Xinghuo finally said sincerely: "It's just a traveler who has been drenched in the rain and always wants to leave an umbrella for future generations." ”

PS: These three chapters are written to the climax, and my scalp is numb when I write them, I hope you like it, and thank you for your patience in laying out a lot of necessary historical materials and deriving logical clues in the first five chapters.