"Since you have no doubts about changing the law, the last topic is how to change the law." Dao Yan said calmly.

There were no fools present, of course, they understood the meaning of "how to change" in Daoyan's sentence, and it was by no means to adjust the content of "Eight Strategies for Changing the Law", but asking where, when, and what to start changing the law.

This is undoubtedly quite a headache.

Intimidated by Zhu Di's tough attitude, some of the scholars represented by Jian Yi at the beginning had to guide the question to the key point of changing the law, that is, "whether a new class can be supported".

This is used as a shield to euphemistically express disagreeing views.

However, as Dao Yan took out Jiang Xinghuo's "Philosophical Correspondence: Alienation, New Aristocracy and Psychoanalysis of All Social Strata in the Future of the Ming Dynasty", he had fully explained this, providing a key weapon for the reform method to break this shield.

However, the conservatives, or some scholars representing the interests of the gentry, are still trying their best and exerting all their temple wisdom to create some obstacles to the decision-making of the reform of the law through all kinds of possible difficult problems.

Although they all knew very well that in the face of Emperor Yongle's strength, this was just a futile effort for them to express their attitude.

In fact, the reason why Dao Yan shot so decisively.

It is to recognize the balance of forces between the enemy and us, and at this time it is the most advantageous for oneself.

And the reason why Dao Yan made this judgment is also very simple.

is what Jiang Sheng once said.

"Because the Ming Dynasty cannot repeat the founding of the country and the Jingjing forever, but it must repeat the imperial examination once every three years."

At present, the battle of Jingjing has only been over for a few months, and it is the stage where the potential reformist faction is at its strongest.

One of the so-called potential reformists here refers to the noble class who are interested in continuing to achieve military merits for future generations through the vast expanse of the country.

The desire for military merit is not limited to the appeasement of the upstarts.

The upstarts of Jingnan definitely don't want to have no battles to fight in the future, because there are still so many marquis waiting to be dukes, and there are so many middle and senior military officers waiting to be knighted and enter the aristocratic class.

However, in addition to the new upstarts of Jingnan, the generals of the Southern Army, who were defeated in the Battle of Jingnan, with Hongwu's founding honoraries as the main body, were also eager to rise again by obtaining new military exploits.

Could it be that Li Jinglong, Xu Huizu, Ping'an, Sheng Yong and other generals of the Southern Army are willing to bear the name of the defeated generals for the rest of their lives? This is of course impossible.

It is impossible to fight again, if they really want to conquer Mobei, I am afraid it will not be their turn to take credit, and going to sea to fight is another new world for them.

The second is the vast number of civil officials from the small and medium-sized landlord class in the north.

There may be a question here, that is, why "small and medium-sized landlords"? The root cause lies in the fact that in the north, especially in the Youyun region, it has gone through the Liao, Jin, and Yuan dynasties for hundreds of years, and although the Han landlord class is the main force used by foreign races to rule the region, the continuity of the landlord class is very poor, because as long as the Han landlords become bigger, they will be regarded as the key prevention object by the foreign regime and suppressed.

In addition, the alien races have always had the habit of staking land, whether it is the Khitans, the Jurchens or the Mongols, they all occupy a large amount of land in the north, and it is not the turn of the Han landlords to leave much land.

But correspondingly, the small and medium-sized landlords in the north have a very good continuity. The alien race must use these local forces to rule the grassroots level, and these local forces are unable to pose a threat to the alien race, so the alien race often adopts a relaxed policy similar to the "tax package system" to treat the small and medium-sized landlords in the north.

The civil officials in the north, and the civil officials from the gentry class in the south, although they are both landlords in terms of attributes, they are completely different in terms of interest orientation, value identity, and cultural orientation.

During the Jingjing period, the Yan army relied on a bureaucratic system composed of civil officials from the northern minority landlord class as the core to maintain the rule of the occupied areas.

And the civil officials of the northern land, who have the merit of the dragon, naturally have the temple demands that match it.

When King Yan was not the emperor, we couldn't enter the core of the court, and the court was "Hanlin Duoji Water, and the courtiers were half Jiangxi".

King Yan became the emperor, can't he still be a civil official from your southern gentry class in the end, and be a scholar and a squire, right?

Then didn't we rebel with King Yan in vain?

It is precisely because Genghua can gain the support of these two classes, so Dao Yan does not intend to continue to delay, and must pave the way for the future to change the Ming Dynasty in advance before Jiang Sheng is released from prison after the last class.

"The old minister thinks that if you change the law, you must not spread the stall all at once."

After a brief exchange of glances between several Shangshu, "Heavenly Official" Jian Yi took the lead in speaking.

Zhu Di, who has made breakthroughs, did not chase after him and tried to finalize the matter of changing the law directly, but grasped the relaxed rhythm of the national policy meeting and signaled Jian Yi to continue to express his views.

After all, the question of "change and change" has been broken through, and now it is only a question of "how to change", although it is also important, but it is by no means as tense as just now.

Jian Yi pondered for a moment, twisted his beard and said slowly: "The Great Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty are not the same thing, and the Song Shenzong is completely incomparable with His Majesty. ”

"Here the old minister is going to say, the past does not forget the teacher of the future, the Ming Dynasty changes the law, and the most important thing to learn is the nearest Wang Anshi's lesson in changing the law, Wang Anshi, is too anxious."

Hearing this, regardless of whether it was inner support for the change or speculation in the temple, Xia Yuanji, Zheng Ci, and Li Zhigang also expressed their agreement.

The Ming Dynasty wants to change the law, and Wang Anshi's change in the Northern Song Dynasty is a hurdle that cannot be bypassed!

Because this is the closest to the Ming Dynasty, and the reference significance is also the largest national change!

Therefore, it is the most important part of Daming's decision to make a decision to change the law by carefully finding the hidden pit from Wang Anshi's change and avoiding Daming stepping into it.

The reason why Wang Anshi's reform failed was because Wang Anshi could only rely on the emperor's trust to implement the reform, and the emperor's trust had a shelf life.

If the young emperor does not see the results of the reform, coupled with the opposition's incessant attacks on the reform, he will soon waver.

The opposition does not need to prove itself right, as it has been for hundreds of years. And Wang Anshi must prove that he is right, and he must do so in a short time.

Wang Anshi knows this, so all the change measures must be vigorous and resolute, and the results need to be seen immediately.

What's the most immediate?

Money in the treasury, of course!

In order to fulfill the target, officials forced the people to borrow money from the government, and if they couldn't pay it, they would sell their children and daughters, and the money for exemption from military service would become another share of the regular income.

And if the officials are sympathetic to the people and refuse to do so, they will face the problem of not being able to meet the targets pressed down by Wang Anshi, and they will lose their official positions and get out of the matter.

Therefore, many scholars, such as Su Shi, after seeing the distortion of the law change at the grassroots level, also had resistance to Wang Anshi's law change, and Su Shi of course knew that the Great Song Dynasty should change the law, but it should not be like this.

"Of course, I, Daming, have to learn the lesson of Wang Anshi's change." Zhu Di twisted his eyebrows and said: "But Wang Anshi doesn't know that the law change is quick success, and in the end, it will also fail?" ”

"Yes."

Dao Yan didn't want to continue to worry about Wang Anshi's law change, which could be related to three days and three nights, what he wanted was to settle the implementation of the law change at the highest decision-making level of the Ming Empire today.

Therefore, Dao Yan only replied briefly.

"Song Shenzong said: I heard that the people are also quite bitter about the new law."

"Wang Anshi said: Qi cold and summer rain, the people still have grievances, how can they take care of it!"

was simply two sentences, but it suddenly made Zhu Gaoxu, who was standing behind the emperor and listening, feel cold in his heart.

Zhu Gaoxu secretly said in his heart: "No wonder I secretly read the history books for a while, and saw that Wang Anshi's reputation was not good for hundreds of years after his death, and the history books all said that the Northern Song Dynasty died in Wang Anshi's reform, and he knew that the people were suffering because of the change, but they turned a deaf ear, and only for the success of their own reform can be said to be discredited by the king, lost help to the ministers, and lost benevolence to the people." ”

Zhu Gaoxu thought of Mr. Jiang, who was also interested in changing the world, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

"I heard from the third brother that my father intended to worship Mr. Jiang as a national teacher, although Wang Anshi was called 'Shichen' by Song Shenzong, but he was also a teacher, compared with Mr. Jiang, nothing else for the time being, just benevolence for the people, it is far behind."

Zhu Di didn't know that the stupid son behind him had been trained by Jiang Xinghuo, and he was no longer Wuxia Ameng.

Zhu Di just raised his head and asked Jian Yidao: "Then according to Jian Qing, how can the Ming Dynasty slow down when it changes the law?" ”

Jian Yi looked at the emperor with a stern expression, and of course understood that in the emperor's position, he hoped that the change would achieve practical results immediately.

Not to mention that the faster the better, to the extent of a hundred edicts in one hundred days, it must also be said that after a year or two, you can see the increase in the national strength of the Ming Dynasty.

However, in fact, with the current grassroots control capabilities and communication conditions of the Ming Dynasty, it may be very difficult to convey all the decrees in place, set up a good organizational structure for governance, and adapt measures to local conditions in two years a year.

And Jian Yi can directly tell the emperor that the reform method should be calculated in units of ten or twenty years in order to achieve solid results?

No.

Because as soon as this kind of remark came out, whether it was his estimate of the true situation in the future, the emperor would think that Jian Yi was opposing the implementation of the reform method in another way.

Therefore, Jian Yi was silent for a few breaths, and could only say: "What Lao Chen said about slowing down is like testing the effect of chemical fertilizers in the eastern suburbs of the Great Altar, there should always be one or several experimental fields, first cultivate new varieties, see if the water and soil are not adaptable, see if the growth is good, and then generalize." ”

What Jian Yi didn't see was that as soon as he heard his words, a trace of pride flashed in the emperor's eyes.

(End of chapter)