Wow wow wow...
Zhu Yuanzhang and a group of descendants of the founding heroes of the Ming Dynasty and the heroes of Jingnan are gathered in Siguo Palace to cry!
I wonder if Zhu Yuanzhang in the Xiaoling Underground Palace would be so angry that he would manifest his spirit?
When Zhu Cixiang saw this scene, he just sighed. What kind of ruthless people our ancestors were! If you pick anyone out at random, they are all murderous characters who kill without blinking an eye!
Descendants are useless...
"Stop crying!" Someone finally yelled. It was the British Duke Zhang Shize. He was now the censor of the right capital. The one most hated by the hereditary "masters of the guards" in the southeast was the censor of the right class under his leadership.
They are all the children of the extremely vicious Beijing nobles and hereditary military attachés!
Originally, he and the "Lord of the Guard" in the southeast were class brothers. We should look out for each other and destroy the Ming Dynasty together. But now they have turned against each other, and for the sake of the 10% bonus, they are all as fierce as tigers and as evil as wolves. The guards in the southeast, no matter how many generations of hereditary commanders or hereditary families, fell into their hands, they would be skinned even if they didn't die - the wise ones would take the initiative to hand over the land, and they could go to the city with their riches. Become a rich man. Ignorance, everyone was searched, and I had to be exiled to the island!
And Zhang Shize didn't offend anyone in vain. He also had a share of the "ten percent" reward.
After a few months of "Zhang Bapi", he has already made hundreds of thousands!
However, while making a fortune, he did not forget to reflect - there was no guard station in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty that could still support troops. As for the battalions in various parts of the southeast, except for Gao Jie and Huang Degong, who were both acceptable, the others were almost all made of paper and could not be used.
"It's all our own fault!" Zhang Shize said with a dark face and patted his chest, "I, Zhang Papi, have been inspecting health clinics everywhere in the past few months, and I have checked out countless homes... But there are Is the family unjust? Is there still a guard in the southeast that can support troops? No more... not only in the southeast, but also in the north! And the land for the guard was not destroyed by our generation. , this was the case in our great-grandfather’s generation! The land that was supposed to raise soldiers was rented to officials at low prices, and the officials rented it to small military households. It should have been used to enrich military equipment and raise soldiers. The land has become a way for us people to make money! Every one of our families has become rich, but the country has no soldiers or generals, and it almost perished!"
What he said was a bit too sensitive. After he finished speaking, everyone including Emperor Chongzhen looked uncertain.
Zhu Cixiang nodded at this time and said: "The British Lord said it well! Today's discussion is to diagnose the country's disease and think about our own faults. I know everything I know and can't say it endlessly. What do you think about the country's disease? Speak out your thoughts... This country does not belong to me alone, everyone has a share! Is there anything you can't say?"
"Isn't that true!" Chief Assistant Wei Zaode also sighed. He was a military member of Tongzhou's Third Guards, and he was a talented young man who succeeded in his youth. "Not only the land of the guards all over the world has been stolen, but also the official land of each state. The same three cents worth two cents were rented to the gentry and wealthy families... The gentry were not exempt from taxation at first, but later they were exempted from taxation, and then they exempted the official land rent, which was not much, as a land tax. So many official lands across the country have become private lands for the gentry to make a fortune!
In addition, there is commercial tax... If you put up a sign saying "Ji Ren" or "Xiucai", the tax authorities below will not dare to collect money. If anyone dared to break the rules, it was the local gentry who instigated tax resistance, but the government did nothing. There were so many tax resistances during the Wanli period, and most of them were caused by this! "
Emperor Chongzhen suddenly interjected and asked: "Don't they all say that the tax supervisors are illegal and impose excessive taxes, thus forcing the people to rebel?"
Zhu Cixi smiled: "If the officials don't do things, the eunuchs sent out, haha, naturally want to make more money on the way, it's human nature. And the eunuchs are all lonely and poor people, and they have no ability to govern the people and manage finances. They want to To fulfill the late emperor's will, you have to recruit minions to do things. Of course, those minions also have to make money...and they know that their way of making money will not last long, and they have to seize the time to make it as hard as possible. It is not surprising that they will cause public resentment. . But in the final analysis, the gentry who inherited the Shili family are abusing the court's preferential treatment to evade business taxes and land taxes. And the officials who came from the imperial examination are basically in the same group with them, and they are unwilling to collect taxes seriously! Otherwise, Why does the temple grandpa send eunuchs to collect taxes?"
Prince Fu had already finished crying at this time, and said while wiping his tears: "The nobles and military attachés eat the food of the military guards, while the civil servants and gentry evade taxes, and we princes are not much better! Don't we also accept donations from big households? Henan Within the territory, there are Prince Fu's fields and shops everywhere. Prince Fu's properties are spread all over Henan. Some of them were rewarded by the late emperor, and many were sent as gifts or deceitful mails.
As for the official fields and military fields in Henan, hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars were awarded to the palace... Now they are gone, their families are gone, their people are gone, everything is gone! If I had known it earlier, wouldn't it have been better to use it all to raise troops? "
Zhu Lunkui, the newly crowned King of Zhou, took over King Fu's words and sighed: "We have too many people... Before the disaster, our lineage of King Zhou had dozens of princely palaces! As for the generals and lieutenants, there are even more. Each of them requires the people of Henan to support them, which is indeed a hardship for the people!"
Zhu Cixiang nodded, took over the topic and said: "I also blame the imperial court for this matter. I can't always trust the vassal kings and are unwilling to let the vassal kings and princes come out to do things. I also don't trust the generals and lieutenants below. I won't let them. They come out to do things, so you have to feed them! As a result, the number of people increases, and the number becomes larger and larger, until eventually we can no longer support them!"
He paused, clasped his fingers and said: "First, the nobles and military attachés embezzled the land of the army and guards; second, the scholar-bureaucrats relied on the court's preferential treatment to evade taxes; third, the vassal ban was strict and the clan members multiplied too many... .These three are indeed the key to the corruption of our world.
In addition to these three, I have also summarized several faults, and also mentioned them for everyone to discuss... The first is the maritime ban; the second is the tribute of the vassal; the third is the country that does not conquer during the 15th Five-Year Plan! "
As soon as Zhu Cixiang's words came out, everyone in the hall was stunned.
What does His Highness the Crown Prince want to do? Did he come to Xiaoling to plead guilty, or did he come to plead guilty to Zhu Yuanzhang buried underground?
The maritime ban, the vassal tribute system, and the country without conquest during the fifteenth year are all ancestral systems of the Ming Dynasty. They were the ancestral systems created by Zhu Yuanzhang!
Chongzhen looked at Zhu Cixiang, then at the princes and ministers in the hall, as if to remind everyone: The prince openly criticized Taizu, which was a great disobedience and unfilial piety!
Zhu Cixiang coughed and said, "Didn't Emperor Taizu Gao change a lot? Aren't the nine Great Sai Kings locked up and unable to do anything? Since the late emperors can change, can't we make some changes? Yes. If mistakes can be corrected, there is no greater good!"
