Hearing Fang Xiaoyu's words, Yongyan couldn't help frowning slightly, officials and local forces collude with each other, although mutual benefits are common, but it is really necessary to thoroughly investigate the wealth and assets of officials at all levels, they really don't have the courage to go, you must know that this is not aimed at one or two officials, but all the officials in the court, once they do it, it will be an uproar, and the officials involved are thousands, and the most important thing is that not all emperors have the courage of Yongzheng, so he said: " Tianjin's case is just an example, the rule of the Qing Dynasty is a little unsatisfactory, but it is generally good, it is not as bad as you said, if there is no evidence, it is better to say less in the future, if what you just said is spread outside, it will be an uproar, not only your life and future are worried, but even the Fang family will be affected by the pond fish. ”

Fang Xiaoyu replied: " With copper as a mirror, you can dress up and take history as a mirror, you can know the rise and fall, but everyone knows its existence, but for some reason, you choose to avoid it, or turn a blind eye, when it does not exist, this is like a tree that has been pested, if you can get rid of the pests in time, then the tree may survive and become a pillar in the future, but if you are afraid of letting the tree die when you get rid of the pests, or the heart is lucky and unwilling to do it, then there is only one result of waiting for it, that is, waiting for the final result of the tree is to die completely, and in history, those lords of Zhongxing can only make a dying dynasty full of vitality, and the reason why a dynasty rises and falls is because those monarchs of the dead country do not have such courage, which leads to the situation in the court is getting worse and worse, and the Qing Dynasty can only rise smoothly outside the customs and dominate the Central Plains, the biggest reason is that those monarchs of the former Ming Dynasty played self-sufficiency to death. ”

Prince Shuo was stunned when he heard this: "What do you mean by playing yourself to death?"

"Am I wrong?" Fang Xiaoyu said: "On the surface, the two major reasons for the fall of the Ming Dynasty were the peasant uprising of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong and Wu Sangui leading me to the Qing Dynasty to ride into the customs, but the deep-seated reason for this made those sour and rotten literati forget to choose, if it weren't for the fact that those officials of the Ming Dynasty were too greedy, and the local gentry were intertwined, wantonly amassing wealth, playing with land annexation, coupled with the serious lack of land harvest due to weather changes, forcing 90% of the common people to not survive, and finally triggered Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong to rise up as peasants? You must know that our people are the most industrious and honest people in the world, and their requirements are very simple, as long as they have a mouthful of food to eat, they will not rise up to rebel against the court, but the problem is that when this simplest request has become a luxury, what can they do except take risks and survive in death? Therefore, a truly wise monarch, no matter how he governs, will not force the common people to live, but what was the situation in the Ming Dynasty at that time, the weather was abnormal, the land was owed, and the officials did not want to reduce taxes, but instead plundered the capital, and most of the wealth and land were concentrated in only ten percent of the officials. In the hands of the consortium and the gate valve, but these people enjoy 90% of the wealth in the society, but they do not pay a little tax to the imperial court, and the common people who do not have a little land in their hands have to bear all the taxes, it is said that all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes of the Ming Dynasty have been levied fifty years later, but the treasury is still empty enough to run horses, Chongzhen He wants disaster relief, To suppress bandits, to fight, but these all need silver, but the problem is that the treasury is empty enough to run horses, Chongzhen in order to survive the financial crisis, he had to wipe his face, and wanted to borrow some silver from those big officials in the court.

"But when it comes to silver, but those ministers in the court who say loyalty and patriotism every day, but they all have an eggplant face, although their families are very rich, but they are all more iron than iron roosters, and they are all crying poor with Chongzhen, Queen Zhou also wants her father Zhou Guozhang to set an example, and stuff the little private money that she has saved with great work to her father and ask him to donate it to the court, but as a result, this old thing is shameless, and it is okay if you don't help, but he is even greedy for the silver that his daughter saves one by one, and it is more than half of it when he swallows it, and then Chongzhen still can't twist the thighs of these people, This matter is also yellow, but after Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he found that there was no silver in the treasury, and immediately asked his number one general Liu Zongmin to arrest those officials of the former Ming Dynasty, torture them strictly, and come to recover the stolen goods and help the salary, good guy, as soon as he got it, he made 70 million taels at once, you must know that the total annual tax of the Ming Dynasty at that time was two. Three million taels of silver, not to mention that this is only a place in the capital, and other places have not been counted, you said that if they knew each other, they would have given some silver to Chongzhen as soon as possible, so that he could train for disaster relief, why did he even take his own life in the end, what do you say they are not a typical example of playing to death by themselves?

"It can be seen that the most harmful to the court is still those courtiers who talk about public loyalty to the country all day long, if there is no collusion between them and the local gentry, those people just want to play land annexation, he can't play, don't you say? Although Chongzhen is a good emperor who is diligent and loves the people, but his courage is still far from being able to, if he can have half of Li Zicheng's ruthlessness, and find out so many corrupt officials, it will not be empty enough to run away from the treasury, it can be seen that there are some things that you still can't avoid, and you still have to face the final face, not because you are afraid of touching certain people, certain groups, The interests of the gate valve, just shrink back, you must know that the way of heaven is the most fair, it will be according to the law of natural balance in this world, all kinds of people, all kinds of things will be self-regulated and repaired, so that it is always in a state of equilibrium, when the contradictions in the society accumulate to a certain point, if the government can not make self-repair, his old man will self-regulate, but the problem is that his old man's means of adjustment are often the bloodiest, the most cruel, throughout history, every change of dynasty is not based on the sad white bones of the previous dynasty, and those who are the masters of the revival can only make a decaying dynasty glow with new vitalityThe biggest reason is that they made the right choice at this crossroads. ”

Yongyan was a little frightened when he heard this: "But everything has to be proven, how can the imperial court thoroughly investigate the assets and income of officials for no reason?"

Hearing his words, Fang Xiaoyu couldn't help laughing: " Evidence, some things are known to the blind, there is no need for evidence at all, three years of Qing Governor's Mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver, this is not just talking, many people regard the imperial examination and being an official as a shortcut to get rich, even if you are a family with four walls, but once you are in high school, you will immediately turn over a serf to sing, someone will send you money to send a house to send a woman to the land, this situation as long as you pay a little attention to each scientific examination you can immediately know, as far as I know, after each scientific examination in the capital, there is a custom that is to catch a son-in-law under the list, many scientific examination high school candidates will let the rich catch, the beautiful name is to catch the flatteryMy father-in-law was afraid that I would be caught, so he stopped his wife and remarried, so he specially asked his daughter to follow me to Beijing this time. ”

Yongyan couldn't help but say: "It's not illegal to catch a son-in-law under the list, is that wishful thinking?"

"It's not against the list to catch a son-in-law, but if you think about it carefully, do you think about those businesses that will lose money, if there is no huge profit margin, will those take a lot of money and make a loss-making business? In the final analysis, they are not looking at this person's future future in the officialdom, paving a sunny road for themselves, and now paying, they will get it back ten times and a hundred times in the near future, as the saying goes, take people's hands short, eat people's mouths soft, you say that if those people go to the officialdom, can they not open the door to those people, anyway, do you believe this, anyway, I don't believe it. ”

Hearing this, Yongyan immediately fell silent. He knew that what Fang Xiaoyu said was a bad habit that everyone in the officialdom knew.

But Prince Shuo was annoyed at this time: " You don't know the height of the sky and the thickness of the dog thing, together with the world you are the only one who understands, we are all nonsense, you can know the things, the prince and we can not know, but the officialdom has its own rules of officialdom, that is, when today's son knows the existence of those bad habits, but there is nothing to be done, you must know that not every emperor is the master of Zhongxing like the first emperor, you know how much effort the emperor spent in order to implement the two national policies of the gentry and the apportionment of the army, how many gods, how many officials were dismissed, and how many royal children were killed, although these two national policies were eventually promoted, but the first emperor was also hacked all over, Do you think that the assets of those officials at all levels are so well checked, this is a business that offends people, if you don't do it yet, your little life has been thrown away first, and then you are a talented member of the court, what qualifications do you have to meddle in the affairs of the court, want to meddle in the affairs of the court, and when you enter the military aircraft department, the most important thing for this person is to do his own duty, don't take care of the things that shouldn't be in charge of himself, don't interfere in the things that shouldn't be in the court, which one of the officials in the court is not as cunning as an old fox, you don't know what's going on if you don't get your head off one day。 ”。

Fang Xiaoyu also knew that his words were a bit offside, so he responded: "Yes, the prince taught me a lesson!"

Prince Shuo continued: " The people here today are their own people, it doesn't matter what you say in front of us, but out of this door, you will give the prince and me to take care of your own mouth, you can eat more of this meal, but you can't say more, remember that the disease comes from the mouth, and the disaster comes from the mouth, don't get rid of your own and your family's heads one day and don't know what's going on, in case you let people get rid of their heads, my face is not good-looking, so you are also the king's protégé, what you have to do now is to cut off the seventeenth road, this matter is now in an uproar, many people are waiting for our jokes, if you can't destroy it, the old faces of our people will let you lose everything。 ”