Chongzhen just got angry because of Wu Mengming's ability to do things, and because he was angry when he saw this Zodiac Zhou, so his hands and feet floated, and he looked at the air with a cold face, "Because of the rampant captives and Kou, and the shortage of soldiers and salaries, I had to use the proposal of the auxiliary minister Yang Sichang last year to increase the salary of the ......."

Trying to control the anger in his chest and not letting it erupt, he gritted his teeth and said: "Why don't I love the people like a son? Why don't I know the suffering of the people? However, if I don't levy salaries, I can't train new soldiers, and if I don't train new soldiers, I can't suppress the rogue inside, and I can't control the people outside, so I have to adopt Yang Sichang's proposal, and temporarily suffer our people for a while, and if you are a minister, on this difficult day of the country, you will not be pragmatic, and you will be deeply ......disappointed."

Speaking of this, Emperor Chongzhen himself was moved, who can I say to the bitterness in my heart, which of you can share my worries, and then think about his own important minister Yang Sichang, his eye circles are a little red, and he has tired bags under his eyes just now, as well as the white hair on that head.

He got up and held down the imperial case with one hand, stretched forward with the other, and said with great contagion: "Today, the heir of the Chang Dynasty is supervising the division abroad, bathed in the rain and wind, and is quite hard! The nine bandits who were originally in the area of Fang County have already surrendered one after another; after the defeat of the Agate Mountain, the thieves have also become fish swimming at the bottom of the kettle, and they and Luo Rucai are trapped in the area of western Hubei and eastern Sichuan, and cannot escape; Li Thief's uncle and nephew are still besieged in the Shangluo Mountain, and they will be annihilated in a few days...... If there is disharmony inside and outside the court, it will inevitably lead to the suppression of thieves and the failure of success. The day before yesterday, you said that Yang Sichang's suggestion to levy additional salaries is poisoning the world, so how can you think about the country by attacking sweat so wantonly?"

Emperor Chongzhen turned to his ministers with grief and indignation, and then said: "I earnestly hope that the civil and military ministers and workers, whether they are in the court or abroad, can work together in harmony, and do not set up their own doors and attack sweat in vain!"

Emperor Chongzhen, who thought that his true colors played the role of the little golden man, thought that his reluctance could make Huang Daozhou no longer fight with him, and also make other courtiers dare not follow and speak, but Huang Daozhou was neither persuaded by himself, nor was he subdued.

Huang Daozhou's personality is very stubborn, and he has been familiar with Confucian classics and history books since he was a child, and he only wants to be a loyal minister, learn from those who dare to speak out in ancient times, and regard the words of "literary death advice, military death war" as the golden rule of courtiers. The temperament of the literati made him like poetry and poetry since he was a child, but he preferred Su Shi's poems: "You look at the three generations of scholars holding pheasants, and they originally make up for killing people." The official died in battle, and the dream corpse was the official as the old saying. The five elements are better than their own officials, and officials are like grass and trees, and I am like soil. Shi is not a guest, and he is treated as a pure minister. It is said that the widow is more than the minister. The world is declining, and the sorrow and joy are the opposite. The straw robe and reeds are charming ......".

More importantly, Huang Daozhou was born in a poor family, and he was often belittled because of his uprightness, and his environment made him close to the middle and lower classes of the scholar class. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court implemented a whip method to collect and exploit, and merged Ding service and Cheng Qian with all the excesses and miscellaneous factions into the field to collect. The big landlords were mostly wealthy gentry families, who not only enjoyed the right of exemption, but also used the government and officials to cheat, and passed on part of the burden of land to the powerless and powerless small and medium-sized landlords and the people at the bottom.

Huang Daozhou said bluntly today, but also after several careful considerations, he knows very well the situation of the countryside, although his family is poor, but there are still more than ten acres of thin fields, it is not a hardship, but even if it is like his family, it is also the object of the government's extortion and accumulation, those big families of the scholar clan have chosen the object of land and wells on them, and those peasants who have a small amount of land plus wars and natural disasters are even more embarrassed, and they will be on the verge of embarrassment and even fall at any time, and even bankruptcy and death and displacement are possible.

His family's class, together with the small people with a small amount of land, was second only to tenant farmers and hired farmers in the total population of the Ming Dynasty, so their movements would affect the survival of the Ming Dynasty. Now that he is the editor of the Hanlin Academy and the young Zhan Shi of the Zhan Mansion, he has already become one of the predators, but he doesn't want his family to die with Chongzhen I, you are rich and can abandon the darkness and turn to the light at any time, so only I, Huang Daozhou, stood up and spoke.

Now everyone knows that Emperor Chongzhen regarded the gentry as the pillars of the state, but Huang Daozhou did not agree with this, and the small landlords in his characters plus the peasants with a small amount of land accounted for the vast majority in the Ming Dynasty, and they should be regarded as the pillars of the country.

The small people mentioned in Huang Daozhou's mouth actually refer to these two middle-class people in a very narrow sense, they are directly responsible for the pain of increasing the land endowment, and those hired farmers and homeless people Huang Daozhou has no way to take care of it, and now after listening to Chongzhen's words, he felt that his loyalty was not understood by the emperor, and immediately raised his head and said: "Your Majesty! Twenty years of ploughing acres, middle-aged, twice cut, now more than 50 years, fortunately by His Majesty's grace of leniency, pardon the minister immortal, so that the minister can be old age, look at the face of the sky. ”

He didn't care about Chongzhen's cold eyes, and kowtowed vigorously: "Even if the minister does his best, he may not be able to repay the emperor's favor in case of emergency; if he is silent and knows what is happening, how can he repay His Majesty? Why do you fulfill your duties? The matter of increasing the salary is really a move that brings disaster to the country and the people." The minister came to Beijing last month, passing through Jiangbei, Shandong, and Jifu, only to see the desolation everywhere, thieves like hair, and white bones in the wild. If you think about the situation in Henan and Shaanxi provinces, it will be even worse. Where do thieves come from? In the final analysis, it is only because the rich people rely on their power to oppress and exploit them, and the government expropriates and extorts money violently, so that the small and weak people are unemployed and displaced and starve to death on the side of the road, while the strong take risks and gather together to become thieves. After the last time the minister was cut down, he returned to the farmland, read and lectured, often with the people in the village, heard more closely, and participated in the past history, and could not help but worry about His Majesty's society. Please Your Majesty resolutely issue an edict, strike the salary to collect the hearts of the people, and behead Yang Sichang to think that the minister advocates the aggravator of the ring!"

Chongzhen's nose was about to be crooked by Huang Daozhou, and he fed the dog with his own painstaking efforts, and he said sharply: "You are a close minister of the Son of Heaven, but you can't share my worries on my behalf? Others have come up with a method to raise salaries and train troops, and you say that it is a move that brings disaster to the country and the people, but this is not a futile attack?

The young emperor was already furious, he slapped the imperial case and shouted: "Say!"