Lin Yu knew that this trip to Yangzhou might be like what his wife said, it would never come back.
Thinking of not seeing Chiyoko and Lin Zhenyu again in the future, the giant scratched his head, his big hands were nervous, his face turned red from holding back, and he finally choked out a few words.
"Son, recite a poem to daddy."
Eight-year-old Lin Zhenyu replied neatly:
"Won't."
Lin Zhenyu entered the best school in the capital at the age of five.
After three years, other distinguished disciples of his generation were already able to recite poems and compose poems, and some could even write thousands of words of policies.
However, Lin Yu’s son still can’t recite the Book of Songs.
In terms of reading and literacy, Zhenyu, like his father, has no talent.
Chiyoko smiled awkwardly: "If I don't let his uncle teach him kendo, Zhenyu is suitable for practicing martial arts, but I'm afraid he won't be able to study."
Lin Yu frowned.
Chiyoko knew that her husband had always disdained Japanese swordsmanship.
"Whether it is a katana or a wild goose feather sword, as long as it can kill the enemy in your hand, it is a good sword, husband, are you right?"
Lin Yu still didn't speak.
Chiyoko continued to talk to herself:
"It would be great if Shen Baihu was still alive. He taught Zhenyu how to practice swordsmanship. I heard that back then, Shen Baihu killed Miyamoto Musashi with just one slash. Miyamoto Musashi was a famous Western warrior, twenty years old. There is no opponent for many years.”
Lin Yu looked at his son with a tiger head and a tiger head, and said thoughtfully:
“It’s good to be able to read after all.”
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The mixed-race beauty Chiyoko Fujiwara tried hard to persuade her husband, but in the end it had no effect.
Lin Yu insisted on going to Yangzhou.
Because the Supreme Emperor conscripted all the soldiers from the world and gathered in Yangzhou;
Because Lin Yu’s good brother is going to Yangzhou;
Because the enemy is there.
The next morning, Chiyoko got up early, packed her husband's luggage, held Lin Zhenyu's little hand, and stood at the door to say goodbye.
Lin Yu is the commander-in-chief of the imperial guards and has his own guards. He has three horses per person, and the three guards behind him lead the horses and carry weapons and armor.
The first ray of sunshine in the morning fell into Dagongfang, where the nobles of Daqi lived together.
The clatter of horse hooves sounded on the bluestone floor.
Lin Yu faced the rising sun and was about to whip his horse when a childish voice came from behind:
"When the swallow flies, it misses its feathers. When its son returns home, he sends him far away into the wild. He looks beyond his reach and weeps like rain.
The swallows are flying, and they are flying. When his son returns, he will be far away from him. Looking beyond reach, I stood there and cried. "
Lin Yu tightened the reins and stopped in place.
This famous farewell poem traveled through thousands of years and instantly hurt the brave heart of the giant.
Chiyoko raised her head and looked at her husband's back. When "Beifeng Yanyan" played, Lin Yuwei'an's body trembled a little.
After a while, he left Dagongfang, and the group turned into Chaotian Street and disappeared among the queue of recruits passing by.
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In Daqi, the ultimate fate of generals is to die in battle. This conclusion has been confirmed by countless people.
Starting well and ending well is just a luxury.
As Chiyoko Fujiwara said, a general will die before leaving the battlefield.
Zhang Zhenren once said that there is a price to pay for changing one's destiny against nature.
In order to wipe out Hou Jin and end the fate of a rising nation, Liu Zhaosun sacrificed his fifty years of life with blood.
If it hadn't been for the explosion at Wang Gong Factory, the Supreme Emperor might have entered the Ancestral Temple, and the memorial tablets were placed together with the ancestors of the Liu family for his son Liu Kan to worship.
Although he didn't die that time, it wasn't much different from death.
After the explosion of Wang Gong Factory, he was no longer himself.
In this sense, Liu Zhaosun fulfilled his oath to Emperor Zhenwu.
Liu Zhao and Sun Shang could not escape their fate, let alone others.
Every piece of history, every ethnic group, and every decision comes with a price.
Zhu Ming's expulsion of Meng Yuan was at the expense of China's overall economic and political regression.
The tax system of the Ming Dynasty turned back history, and the political structure was in a mess.
The cost of abolishing the power of the prime minister was to tolerate the continued existence of the chief minister of the cabinet. The superhuman emperor system only lasted for two generations (Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di) before falling apart.
The Manchu Qing Dynasty replaced the Ming Dynasty, and the price paid was even more tragic. In addition to large-scale massacres and killings, alien rule sacrificed the future and destiny of the Juche nation. The Juche nation in later generations has made tenfold and hundredfold efforts, but it is still difficult to return to its original position.
At critical moments, whether to protect the Qing Dynasty or protect China has become a question that every Manchu emperor needs to seriously consider.
The reason why the Empress Dowager Cixi can make remarks such as "Measure China's material resources and win the favor of the country" is not because Lafayette is groveling and ignorant - she is a well-educated person, and it is not shameful to throw away things that do not belong to her. , that was his ability, and later Puyi happily established Puppet Manchukuo, also out of this mentality.
The great cause that Liu Zhaosun is promoting is unprecedented, and it is estimated that there will be no successors in the future.
Correspondingly, the empire also has to pay a huge price.
Simply put, many people will die in the future.
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The planned economy occupies half of the country in Daqi.
In places such as North China, Shandong, and Liaodong in the Central Plains, a utopian system of distribution according to work is implemented.
Unified work, unified distribution, the life, old age, illness and death of the people are all the responsibility of the empire. Accordingly, everyone must serve the empire from the moment they are born.
In an era of frequent wars and under high-intensity military pressure, this system undoubtedly has strong vitality. At least until the country is truly unified, this utopian system will not change.
To the south of the Yangtze River, in the vast areas that were newly surrendered, Da Qi completely copied the Song and Ming Dynasties politically, and restored the transfer envoy system of unified revenue and expenditure established since the Song Dynasty economically.
The previous Ming Dynasty's physical tax and point-to-point state and county tax system were abolished. This tax system was extremely inefficient.
The Song Dynasty established the transfer envoy system in order to centralize financial power. The transfer envoy could centrally manage the finance and transportation work of money, grain, and taxation along one or even several routes.
Taxes from various state governments were collected by transshipment envoys and finally transported to Bianliang, the capital of the Song Dynasty.
This resulted in the formation of a fiscal management model of unified revenue and expenditure. Later, in order to improve transportation efficiency, monetized fiscal systems such as taxation and grain discounting were adopted.
Copper coins were used to pay taxes in kind, and envoys from various places collected all taxes in the form of currency to the capital. The central government used huge amounts of money to purchase various kinds of physical goods (grain, cloth, silk, etc.) in the market. This tax concept, which is similar to modern finance, not only promoted prosperity It has opened up the market, increased people's income, and made it easier for the central government to seize the country's purse strings.
All this was abandoned in the Ming Dynasty.
The genius Zhu Yuanzhang completely abolished the transfer envoy system in the Song Dynasty and ordered each county to transfer its tax revenue to the yamen in the capital.
Taxation returned to the Tang Dynasty's in-kind taxation of grain, cloth, etc. This cannot but be said to be a huge setback in history.
As for why Zhu Yuanzhang chose this tax model, only God knows.
It may be due to some kind of perverted desire for control, or it may be the unique socio-economic environment of the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties.
However, one thing is certain. In the Ming Dynasty, the tax system was cumbersome and inefficient, and physical transportation resulted in an unprecedented increase in reliance on the canal.
The Ming Dynasty was the golden age of canals.
Now, Liu Zhaosun and his son are determined to cut off this economic lifeline.
This is to change one's destiny against nature.
There is a price to pay for changing one's destiny against the will of heaven.
But this time, who will the empire use to perform blood sacrifices?
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Lin Yu met Jiang Liuer and Li Zicheng at Nanjing Longshengguan Pier.
Among the three, Lin Yu was the oldest and had the highest official rank. Jiang Liuer and Li Zicheng both respected Lin Yu.
Li Zicheng and Wu Xiao are half fellow villagers. They are both Shaanxi Township Party members. They are also quite familiar with Lin Yu:
"General Lin, are we the only ones going to Yangzhou this time?"
Lin Yu shook his head gently.
Jiang Liu'er said coldly: "We are just going to assassinate the leader of Luo Jiao. The real tough battle will have to wait until the soldiers arrive."
Li Zicheng said disapprovingly: "To assassinate a bandit leader, does it require such a massive mobilization of troops?"
Jiang Liu'er added: "There are one hundred thousand followers under the command of the Luo Sect. The previous batches of coir raincoat guards who assassinated him are all dead, so the Supreme Emperor only let a few of us go."
"Oh, it seems more dangerous than Taicang."
Li Zicheng took a breath and looked up to see a big cat lying on the deck lazily basking in the sun, with a lazy and comfortable expression.
"If it's an assassination, Tiger is best at killing it with one blow from behind!"
Li Zicheng was born as a hunter and wanted to touch a tiger when he saw it.
He got up and jumped onto the deck, and when Panasonic wasn't paying attention, he touched the tiger's butt.
"Is it female?"
"Ouch!"
Panasonic looked up to the sky and roared, a divine dragon swung its tail, pushed Li Zicheng to the deck, let out a low roar, and licked the man's face with his tongue a few times.
Burning pain.
An unprecedented sense of oppression swept through my body.
Jiang Liu'er shouted, and Panasonic immediately let go of his prey.
Li Zicheng looked slightly embarrassed and said:
“What did it eat on Sakhalin?”
Jiang Liuer gently stroked the tiger's chin and stuffed a piece of meat into its mouth.
"people."
Li Zicheng pretended to be calm: "Human? Where can I get human flesh for it to eat?"
"It eats Rakshasa ghosts. In the past five years, it has eaten all the hundreds of Cossacks who invaded Sakhalin Island. Now, I heard that it is hungry again. So the Supreme Emperor asked me to bring it to Yangzhou."
