What is Wang Chonggu against? In fact, he was worried that the new deal would come to naught under the violent impact, just like Wang Anshi's reform, if Zhang Juzheng's new deal collapsed, the new deal of the Ming Dynasty would collapse.

Wang Chonggu was reminding His Majesty that any decree needs someone to realize, and the administrative power of the Ming Dynasty is not as strong as imagined.

Power, not so mysterious, the more information to grasp, the more 'substantive authority' will be, grasp the information is not clear enough, only the 'formal authority', due to the complexity of information, the uncertainty of the whole society, resulting in the blurring of the boundaries of the definition of various affairs, so there will be a high degree of human rule of the 'number one is responsible' system.

In the local area, it is the governor who is responsible for the main major events, and the emperor is responsible for the rise and fall of the Ming Dynasty.

And when the number one person bears full responsibility, there will be autocracy, and dictatorship is power, and power will inevitably breed corruption.

Substantive authority, leading to the responsibility of the top leader, giving rise to autocracy, and breeding corruption, this is the inevitable malaise of all bureaucratic systems, or the basic logic of social operation, no one can escape, from the big dynasty, to the small commercial houses, merchant gangs, workshops, every household, this is the case.

At present, there are very few female workers in the Ming Dynasty, so all the responsibilities in the family are borne by the husband, all the living expenses of the family, the reading and literacy of future generations, the branches and leaves of the family, etc., the wife and concubine do not go out of the door at home, and the external information is vague, then the husband has absolute authority in the family, and there will be a saying that the chicken is married to the chicken and the dog is the dog, which is also the reason why the concubine and the outer room are cattle and horses, and the name of the partner is actually a slave relationship.

And the wife at least has public order, good customs, and legal recognition and protection, so she can kill the concubine's outer chamber.

Wang Chonggu must persuade His Majesty who actively understands the information, has formed a substantive authority, fully shoulders the honor of the rise and fall of the Ming Dynasty, has the ability and strength to be responsible, and has complete imperial power.

Wang Chonggu told His Majesty loudly that the Ming Dynasty now has no grassroots organizations, and it is impossible to implement the policy of returning to the fields, and the policy needs people to realize it.

Maintaining the status quo is the best way to do it.

"You're right." Zhu Yijun very much agreed with Wang Chonggu's opinion, the Ming Dynasty imperial power was not lower than the county, at the beginning of the country, it could be done, time flies, and the grassroots organizational structure has completely collapsed.

The grassroots construction of the Ming Dynasty is the Lijia system, on the basis of the Lijia system, there are yellow books and fish scale books, the chief, the grain chief, and the post pawn, which is the grassroots organizational structure of the Ming Dynasty, this set has been completely destroyed, the chief has been replaced by the rich, and the grain chief has become a hard labor.

Grain chief, since the fourth year of Hongwu, the place where the grain is about 10,000 stone is a district, and the large households are appointed as the grain chief for generations, collecting and reconciling the grain in the field, and it is necessary to draw up the rules, compile the atlas, declare the disaster apology, report tax evasion, and urge the grain difference.

This was an advantage at the beginning, after all, if you have power, you can fill your own pockets and bring disaster to the township, but with the decrease of official land, more and more people fleeing, and serious annexation, the grain chief urges the grain poor, and if he can't collect the taxes, he can only pay by himself, and after it becomes hard labor, the grain chief also begins to flee.

The grassroots organization of the Ming Dynasty completely collapsed.

Daming is now urging the grain poor, most of them are sent by the county government's household to find someone named as the grain chief, and then with the officials who are full of three religions and nine streams, and the unknown origin, armed collection, and the people pick up all the weapons they can pick up, armed resistance to taxes, this kind of struggle has been staged in the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the county government should rely more on large households to pledge and pay, so that there is no need to go to the countryside to excessively collect and cause civil unrest, and in the long run, the Ming Dynasty has substantially formed a social and political order in which the landlords and rich people are the grassroots leaders in the countryside.

Therefore, the relationship between the local government and the township gentry is cooperative and symbiotic, and the local yamen needs the cooperation of the township sages and gentry to pay taxes to the imperial court.

The economic foundation determines the superstructure, and the local yamen needs the township sages and gentry to pay for the grain, so it can only open the door for the township sages and gentry, Qingzhang, everyone can still accept it, determine the cadastral belonging, there are too many tax evasions, the Ming Dynasty has a big loss, and the imperial court has passed the examination, so it is reasonable to figure out how much land there is and in whose hands.

(Grassroots Structure)

What Wang Chonggu said is reasonable, the law of returning land will eventually fall into the countryside, and the logic of the law of returning land is not feasible, it allows the landlords to enrich the people, the village sages and gentry to cut their own flesh, and feed it to the people who can be powerful and blessed in the past, and the village sages and gentry are not the Buddha and Bodhisattva who cut meat and feed the eagle.

Most of the village sages and gentry are actually bullies, and for the sake of the disaster, the bricklayer repairs a house for his family, and he has to find money, and others pass by without picking up a layer of skin.

This is the same as the failure and limitations of the public land law that Jia Rudao did at the beginning, and the grassroots level is the township gentry, and it is logically unfeasible to let the township gentry implement policies that are unfavorable to themselves.

"Therefore, Da Situ and Shao Situ are right, they have to wait for Daming Jingying to return to Beijing." Zhu Yijun has a very thorough understanding of the corruption of the grassroots organizations of the Ming Dynasty, so he never said that he would achieve it overnight, Zhang Juzheng has already drawn out three stages, and these three stages will take ten or twenty years to achieve.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, stumbling to the tenth year, it was considered to have preliminarily completed the measurement of acres.

With "Returning to the Field" as the program, constantly tinkering in practice, and improving the return of the field, is the actual practice.

Zhu Yijun said quite precisely: "I never said that it would take a short time to complete it. ”

Wang Chonggu bowed his head again and said: "Your Majesty is well versed in the theory of contradictions, and has a very high attainment in contradictions, and in the fundamental contradiction of the contradiction between man and earth, once it is ignited, there is no such thing as a slow diagram, and the moment the fundamental contradiction is ignited, it is the moment when it is most intensified. ”

Many times the courtiers avoid talking about some things, because they can only avoid talking about them, otherwise something big will happen.

Just as Tan Lun was impeached for coughing at the Asahi Altar, the officials of the Ministry of Science and Technology just used the banner of strict etiquette to force Tan Lun to either let Wang Chonggu's dog go to Beijing to eat imperial food, or Zhishi, and Zhang Dang played the cards in order to protect Tan Lun, and Lu Shusheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, also coughed.

But no one mentioned the list of nominations.

Everyone tacitly did not touch the topic that could not be touched, and in the end, Tan Lun himself picked it up.

In the whole process of struggle, we avoided talking about the fundamental contradictions, and instead took care of some specious and trivial matters.

This is the basic rule of the court, because everyone knows very well that once the fundamental contradiction is touched, it is a bloody reality.

Returning the field to Shuli, as long as it is implemented through the court meeting, even if it is not announced to return the field to Shu, if there is that tendency, it will be lit in the oil pot, how can the village sages and gentry make the court ready and touch their core interests?

If it's a big deal, there will be another plague, or a layer of civil unrest, so that the emperor knows who is the lord of the world.

If you don't use anything else, don't give tenants to farm, don't lease acres of land to tenants, and the number of displaced people surges, and the imperial court can't cope.

Therefore, Wang Chonggu and Zhang Juzheng's opposing opinions are highly convergent, His Majesty wants to give the people of the world a home and let them live and work in peace and contentment, but once the decree is implemented, it will harm the people of the world to be displaced.

The system is perfectly designed, and when it seems that there is no harm, it is the most dangerous moment.

Zhang Juzheng and Wang Chonggu are all auxiliary ministers who have been involved in the cabinet, and they know too well the harm of this kind of assumption.

Zhu Yijun was silent for a moment, nodded and said, "What Wang Cifu said is reasonable. ”

All of Wang Chonggu's objections are based on reality, based on the actual opposition of practice, not like the Confucianism barking wildly, carrying the banner of etiquette and chattering, but not saying a little practical content, the success of the return to the field is gratifying, but the pain of the process, the slim hope of success is something that must be considered.

Zhang Juzheng taught Zhu Yijun to think twice before acting, people and things must not be left without thinking, and they cannot be over-thinking. Those who are good at responding to the affairs of the world should focus on poor reasoning and be decisive in helping others.

It means that people do things, of course, they must think about it repeatedly, but at the same time, they should not think too much, and all things in the world must be based on reason, and they need to be decisive.

Wang Chonggu's advice not only persuaded Zhang Juzheng, but also persuaded the emperor that this was not because of choking, but to prevent the Ming Dynasty from falling into the quagmire.

Zhu Yijun was prosperous in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Wang Chonggu looked left and right, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, in fact, we can secretly Chen Cang, and understand the decree of returning Tian Shu in reverse, from the time we go to the time they take the initiative to come, sometimes people are like donkeys, calling whether they stand up or not, whether they kneel or not, and if they don't go, they will go backwards, which is called strong, the more you let him stand up, the more he will kneel." ”

Wang Chonggu is a bit of a thief now, obviously he knows that his idea is completely crooked, and in the final analysis, it is the opposite of what he says.

Wang Chonggu further said: "Sometimes, the more you persuade him to give up, the more he refuses, for example, this acre, whether the court reduces the rent and sells the land to receive the land, it is a matter that requires human life and cannot be mentioned, but we do the opposite, persuading farmers and mulberries." ”

"The court also persuaded farmers to pay more attention to agricultural affairs, and the more they paid attention to agricultural affairs, the more luxurious households would feel that this was to let them be cattle and horses, but the more unwilling they were to annex again, and even willing to give up their land."

The more the court persuaded the peasants at this time, these luxury households would feel that the old men put the great benefits in their pockets, the official factories and regiments were in full swing, and the sea and sea trade were in full swing, but they let them face the loess with their backs to the sky and roll in the land, and the luxury households themselves would try their best to enter the handicraft workshops and even the mechanical workshops.

The investment of these assets requires silver, and with continuous investment, the acres of land can be replaced with silver.

Wang Chonggu's plan to reclaim acres of land is exactly the same as Zhang Juzheng's, but the approach is very different.

"How did Wang Cifu come up with such a trick?" After Zhu Yijun heard this, his face was full of disbelief, he planned to give up for the time being, and talk about the matter after the productivity was further improved.

Wang Chonggu knows His Majesty very well, His Majesty is not a person who gives up so easily, for example, everyone thought that after the exchange between Yang Bo and Zhang Juzheng, the assassination case would come to an end, but they didn't expect that Zhang Siwei was punished by the clan, and Zhang Siwei himself was made into a specimen; For example, everyone thought that Longqing had negotiated peace and had settled the grievances and hatreds with the Beiyu, but His Majesty still sent the Beijing camp and captured Altan Khan and beheaded the Jingshi.

This is His Majesty the Emperor, Your Majesty, has never been a person who gives up lightly, at this time, persuading Your Majesty to retract his thoughts, His Majesty only temporarily pressed the heart that was about to move, and he will definitely continue to implement it in the future.

This is also the reason why Zhang Juzheng brought Wang Chonggu over, and Wang Chonggu provided another solution.

Wang Chonggu: How did he come up with such a strange method? He was full of melancholy, and said a little helplessly: "There is an unconscious rebel at home, the more he is not allowed to do anything, the more he has to do it, and now let him do it, he doesn't dare to do anything." ”

Wang Qian is indeed the number one rebel in the Ming Dynasty, relying on himself to inherit the family business, it is really a taboo to act, the more you are not allowed to do it, the more you want to do it, and if you don't make money, you have to reverse the pearl case, Wang Chonggu found a way to break the game from Wang Qian.

The more the court manages, these gentlemen will only feel that the court is wide and want to move their family's ancestral property, but change their thinking, urge the subjective initiative of the gentry, let out the acres of land, differentiate a little bit, reduce the will to resist, and return the land to the sparse, but it can be implemented.

This is Wang Chonggu's complete admonition.

"Rebel, rebel is good." Zhu Yijun was silent for a long time and agreed with Wang Chonggu's paradoxical line.

This set of rhetoric is not in line with common sense, but there are too many things that do not conform to common sense in Daming, and it is bound to be the same as a disobedient rebel, the more you are restrained, the more they resist, it is better to let them hand it over obediently, this idea is feasible, as for whether it can go through, it depends on the operation.

The more the court encouraged, the less the right invested in it, and the focus was more on industry and commerce, rather than on agriculture.

The steam engine is to eat people, and Wang Chonggu said that he came for the second purpose.

The Royal Academy of Martial Arts believes that after the improvement of the production tools of the steam engine of the Ming Dynasty, both horsepower and production capacity will usher in a terrible growth, people have no long-term worries, the eyes of the imperial court must look more long-term, the steam engine will not only eat overseas people, but also eat people of the Ming Dynasty.

Last year, because of the application of three horsepower steam engines, the woolen official factory eliminated 3,000 weavers, and this year's 7.5 horses, smaller, more efficient steam engines came out, and it will be applied to the weaving bureau and cotton textile industry.

The Xishan Coal Bureau has 1,500 woodmen, so after the imperial court used the steam engine, these woodmen carried coal for half their lives, and these 1,500 woodmen had to find a way to resettle them.

These problems are worthy of attention in the Ming Dynasty, and the solution is to expand the scale and expand the horizontal scale. to accommodate artisans who may be eliminated.

At this time, the problem mentioned by the Songjiang School was fulfilled again, the excessive interference of the Ming court required investment, and the investment will inevitably reduce the return on assets, and the more debts, the more dangerous the court will be.

If the imperial court wants to expand, it will face the big problem of increasing debts, and the Ming Dynasty has already owed a lot of debts to the mining industry, and now it is completely to demolish the east wall to make up for the west wall, to demolish the interests of sea trade, and to make up for the losses of land development.

Therefore, Suiyuan Chidao and Suiyuan Mining must succeed and completely complete the convection of silver and coal in the south and north in order to continue to move forward.

Fortunately, it was Qi Jiguang, who presided over the affairs of Suiyuan, who was very reliable.

Zhu Yijun's achievements in this life all rely on his own efforts.

Qi Jiguang's reliability is undoubted, he will even open a mine, at the beginning of the Taotu Mountain, which supported the entire supply of clear soil, that is, Qi Jiguang found and reported to the imperial court, formed a captive mining, and transported it to Beijing, opening a mine is not difficult for Qi Jiguang, especially for the open-pit mine, for Qi Jiguang, it is mainly a matter of organization.

On the twelfth day of the first month of the tenth year of Wanli, when the Shangyuan Festival was not over, the Ming Dynasty began to persuade the nongsang, the content of the will is similar to the past, all of them are ordered to persuade the nongsang, suppress the laziness, the high year, ask the people about their suffering, collect the public opinion on the newspaper, and the officials who are filthy and cannot be raised, and the weight of the punishment and so on.

But there are only two more things, that is, local officials are not allowed to fight without urgency, let alone let the people go their own way, so as to prevent the seizure of agricultural time.

It is some labor that is not in a hurry, and it is forbidden to build major civil engineering projects without authorization, and it is necessary to persuade the people to cultivate the land and cultivate the land well, so as not to delay the agricultural time.

In terms of implementation, it is that the Songjiang City Ship Division will no longer issue the order of changing acres of land for ships, and after the establishment of the Songjiang City Ship Division in the second year of Wanli, 10,000 acres of fertile land can be replaced by a ship guide, which is to be carried out in the City Ship Division every year, and the maximum time is extended for six months.

The reason is very, very sufficient, the people do not take care of the capital, and the fields are barren, which is a top priority and must be disposed of, so this window of free exchange is closed.

Bad! Bad! Bad!

At the moment of the promulgation of the holy decree, the ship tickets of the entire Yanxinglou trading house rose in response, and the price rose again and again, from the beginning of seven silver to ten silver, a three-masted ship can be used for ten years, or even longer, and when the ship ticket is five silver, two and a half years can return to the capital, even if it is counted as a return rate of ninety percent and five, ten silver is also a doubled and profitable transaction, and the ship ticket is also the strongest ticket of the trading bank.

After the opening of 10,000 acres of land is closed, there will be no place for the entire Ming Dynasty ships to freely obtain the ship guide! To join the five major ocean trading houses, you must accept the arrangements of the trading houses.

Daming is extremely strict with the management of ship introduction, after closing this opening, Daming's ship introduction can only be obtained from the five major ocean-going trading houses, no ship introduction can be equal to Haikou, and being found is confiscated goods, detention, exile, and even killing.

Yao Changzhen of Xitu City, when he heard this rumor, he still didn't believe it, and then asked his son Yao Guangqi to inquire, only to determine the authenticity of this situation, he slammed the table and said, "What is Your Majesty going to do?" Is it going to kick us off the boat? Go and ask the prince! Master Lin! ”

Wang Zhihe is the former Shangshu Wang Zhihe of the Criminal Department, Wang Menglin of Wang Zhihe is preparing for the next imperial examination while being a teacher, and he is Jane's figure in the emperor's heart, and Wang Zhihe and Zhang Ju are the sons and daughters, they are extremely well-informed, and they both live in Xitucheng, so Yao Changzhen and Wang Zhihe's family maintain a relatively close relationship.

Lin Fucheng is the master Lin in Yao Changzhen's mouth, Master Lin has been hot recently, the poetry club is asking for manuscripts, asking him to preach, but Master Lin doesn't take any work, doesn't go anywhere, only writes "Easy Stories", Lin Fucheng's poetry club was rented to him by Yao Changzhen at a friendly price, so Yao Changzhen asked him Lin Fucheng, and he had to go.

Lin Fucheng and Wang Zhihe arrived soon, Yao Changzhen, Yao Changxing, Yao Guangqi, Wang Zhihe, Wang Menglin, and Lin Fucheng gathered together.

"In my opinion, Your Majesty is afraid that this money is coming too slowly, and he plans to learn the old things of Yongle, and completely official ships and official trade." After Lin Fucheng understood the details of the matter, he said with an unkind face, this is a very dangerous signal, and the maritime trade of the Ming Dynasty is losing its freedom.

During the Yongle period, Zheng He went to the West and supported five Northern Expeditions, supported the construction of the Northern Yajing Division, supported the official road post road of the Nuer Gandu Division, and supported the Yongle Grand Ceremony.

At this moment, everyone present remembered the horror of the imperial court's ban on the sea, it was only ten years since the sea was completely opened, and there was only one month when the port city was opened to the sea, but it took fifteen years!

The Ming Dynasty is planning to eat alone!

"What does the prince think?" Everyone looked at Wang Zhihe, Wang Zhihe is from Jingzhou Mansion, and Zhang Juzheng is the same township, or his sons and daughters, what the court's move means, it depends on this insider to reveal.

Wang Zhihe shook his head and said, "Don't you know Yuanfu yet? What will he tell me about what he is going to do? I don't know very well, I haven't heard Yuan Fu mention it, but I know one thing, the major events that disgraced the imperial court last year, the national debt, the ticket of Suiyuan Chidao and mining, are the debts of the imperial court and His Majesty to the people. ”

"Since the beginning of the new policy in the first year of Wanli, the court's financial use has been surplus, and even the soldiers on the border are in six books and one account, and they have eaten a full meal under the payment in kind, and the court's debt to the people can be described as a loss of face, Your Majesty is still frugal in green clothes, and the court's financial use is still insufficient, and the lack of money is a problem that the court is bound to face now."

"Ladies and gentlemen, there is a mountain of gold, silver, copper, and coal in Womagang."

The imperial court wanted coal, gold, silver, copper, and iron, but it lacked money to build roads and open mines, so it had to borrow from the people, but at the end of last year, it was the top priority.

It is not that the imperial court has no money, but that there is not enough money, which is a confirmed fact.

"It's broken! Broken! This time it was completely broken. Lin Fucheng immediately stood up, and said loudly with an extremely excited expression: "Your Majesty, this is a poor and anxious eye!" ”

The emperor's thrift (lin) thrift (se) everyone in the world knows, this Zhang Juzheng is still there, the court is short of money again, and the idea is to hit the matter of sea trade, which is very reasonable!

The freedom of maritime trade is disappearing!

If they can't directly exchange the ship from the city, they must rely on the five major commercial houses affiliated to the city, and these commercial houses can only be regarded as semi-governmental, and the price of wanting to get the ship guide has risen sharply.

Soon, a large number of notes appeared before Zhu Yijun's imperial case, the content was similar, to prevent His Majesty the Emperor from reversing history and returning to the era of the forbidden sea.

Zhu Yijun looked at the music in front of him and was silent for a long time, Zhang Juzheng's style of doing things is extremely serious, and Wang Chonggu's style of doing things, mainly a pit and abduction, and turning people around, Zhu Yijun couldn't help but think of the old thing when Wang Chonggu set up a trick for the officials of Kedao and asked them to run to the Huangji Gate.

This is Wang Chonggu's style, he doesn't have the idol burden of Zhang Juzheng, as a traitorous minister, Wang Chonggu is not treacherous, how can he be worthy of the word traitor?

This time, the retreat was the advance, and the imperial court promoted the method of returning the land, which began quietly, and it was an active request, and it also used the relationship that could be used to try to dissuade the emperor.

Zhu Yijun conformed to the public opinion, Zhu criticized these notes, but he still looked like 'you have suffered me', and repeatedly emphasized that agriculture and mulberry are the foundation of the country, and the ancient saint kings did not take persuading agriculture as the first priority, gold, beads, and jade, hunger and food, cold and clothing, and then the words and lawsuits prospered and commerce flourished, then the agricultural affairs were wasted, and the company was ordered to have a division, and the fields were not wasted.

These words are very reasonable, the Ming Emperor personally worked with the peasants, took the Baoqi Division to breed seedlings, and understood the pain of reclamation and farming, it is not a secret, this is one of Zhang Juzheng's sins, Your Majesty is a natural nobleman, how can he bully the emperor so much for education?

This round of retreat is advancing, and the effect is excellent.

This is a set of combination punches, even if you wait until the people who understand the right and know what the purpose of the court is, they are powerless to return to the sky, and the differentiation has been completed, this is the most insidious place for Wang Chonggu's move to retreat into the right, dividing the township sages and gentry, and the powerful right.

Originally, the imperial court moved the land system, which was a matter that caused the world to boil back, but now there are different voices, and political correctness has also been formed.

The Ming princes of the imperial court still have the greatest caution about "Returning to the Fields", and most of them are holding the idea of trying it and stopping it once it has caused a bad impact, and try to implement it slowly.

On the fifteenth day of the first month of the tenth year of Wanli, the Beijing division is very lively, on both sides of the street, the lanterns are colorful, the red lanterns are hung high, swaying gently with the wind, the people on the street come and go, bustling, and a car drives from Tongzhou, enters Beijing from Chaoyang Gate, and stays at the same pavilion.

After returning to Beijing to report on his work, he will go to Suiyuan to govern the Yellow River.

(End of chapter)