When he had a conflict with Zuo Liangyu, Zuo Mengeng was most pleased that his subordinates stood by him without hesitation and gave him strong support.
This is important.
After all, when the entire world was under the shadow of feudal principles, many people in the camp were educated by Confucianism, and their thoughts could not remain unaffected.
What Zuo Menggeng did is one of the most serious crimes in the Confucian Outline.
Unfilial.
By doing this, he is likely to alienate many people under his command and cause rifts in the camp.
But the actual situation is that even Hou Xun, Li Banghua, Cao Wenheng and others who were important ministers of the Ming Dynasty clearly expressed their support for him.
As for the reason...
It didn't take Zuo Mengeng long to figure it out.
Chongzhen's five-year financial report was placed in front of him.
Various industries within the camp continue to advance by leaps and bounds, becoming larger and larger in scale, and their output value and income have reached a jaw-dropping level.
Just do a side-by-side comparison and you will know.
This year, the Ming court received 3.73 million taels of silver.
This is the income obtained after the increase in wages and exploitation.
Such a small amount of money obviously could not cover the expenses of such a large dynasty, and it also made the Ming court increasingly stretched.
How much annual income does the camp have?
A total of 7.8 million taels of silver.
This is just money, not physical items.
Zuo Mengeng seems to know why many dynasties were able to sweep the world so smoothly and then expanded rapidly in their early stages.
Because in the process of establishing and unifying the dynasty, the speed of absorbing wealth was also amazing.
If nothing else, just take the Agricultural Reclamation Group as an example.
Relying on the expansion of the New Army, the land in the hands of the Agricultural Reclamation Group has exceeded 7 million acres.
The annual output of grain, cotton and other crops accounts for more than half of Shandong's total grain output.
In the past year, the net profit handed over by the Nongken Group amounted to 1.7 million taels of silver.
The majority of profits are still made by Fuyao, Tianzhi, Yazi, Haiou and other major industrial industries, which have left traditional agriculture behind by a large margin.
In addition, the gold force under the Political Department also mined gold in the Zhaoyuan area.
Although it is not much at the moment, only a few dozen kilograms, everyone knows how important this wealth is.
After learning about the progress of the Gold Army, Zuo Mengeng understood that the day for currency reform was not far away.
And in the process of these astonishing wealth creations, the people who followed Zuo Menggeng and their families undoubtedly made a lot of money.
Although there are losses in politics and reputation, the economic gains are enough for these people to know how to choose.
And this is why Hou Xun, Li Banghua, Cao Wenheng and others supported Zuo Mengeng without hesitation.
After all, the annual income reaches hundreds of thousands of taels, and there are not many people in the world who can give it up calmly.
Even if they wanted to, their family would not agree.
When Zuo Mengeng and Zuo Liangyu have reached this point, the person who is most saddened is undoubtedly Huang.
Zuo Mengeng walked into Huang's courtyard and saw Zuo Xianmei leaning on the corridor and secretly wiping tears.
Hearing his footsteps, the girl tried her best to wipe them, but it was too late.
"Brother, it's all my fault. I made the whole family uneasy, made my mother sad, and made you suffer a bad reputation. How about..."
"Don't let your imagination run wild."
Zuo Mengeng knew what she wanted to do, but he didn't allow it.
"This is not a question of filial piety or unfilial piety, this is a confrontation between old and new ideas. Have you forgotten what I told you? Or do you want to be that kind of oppressed woman and live like this for the rest of your life?"
Zuo Xianmei's tears became even more uncontrollable.
"My mother has been crying all day long and hasn't gotten out of bed for a long time. I...I'm afraid..."
Zuo Mengeng was also bitter, but he was the mainstay of the family.
"Leave it to me. You go back and have a good rest, and don't delay the affairs of the Mathematical College. Without you, that boy Hou Fangyu has been herding sheep."
Speaking of Hou Fangyu, Zuo Xianmei burst into tears and laughed.
"How can he be herding sheep? He is full of spring."
Zuo Mengeng couldn't help but smile. Unexpectedly, after going around in circles, Hou Fangyu still met Li Xiangjun.
I don’t know if Hou Xun will beat him with a stick in this life.
He sent Zuo Xianmei away and walked into Huang's bedroom alone, letting his personal maid go outside.
"Mother."
Looking at her son sitting beside the bed, who was as tall as a wall, blocking the cold wind outside the door, Huang's heart somehow relaxed.
"My son, why has it come to this? Your father is my heaven, and you are my root. Now, my sky has collapsed and my roots are broken. How can I... how can I live? ?”
Huang is the most traditional kind of woman.
I have no knowledge in my life. Marrying someone, caring for my husband and raising children is all that life has to offer.
From the teachings she had received since childhood, her husband was everything to her and her son was her life.
But now she sees that her son and her husband are fighting like enemies, and that she is a woman caught in the middle. It is really a torment, and life is worse than death.
"I was afraid that my mother would think so, so I rushed over. Mother, what my father and I are fighting for is not filial piety, but something more important. We cannot give in to this. Once we give in, don't talk about me, my son. That is to say, the people of the whole world will be destroyed."
Huang doesn't understand this, but he also knows that it makes sense for Zuo Menggeng to build such a huge foundation.
She was still holding on to the chance.
"Then why don't you have a good talk with your father and let him understand your thoughts? If you and your son work together, wouldn't it be even more advantageous?"
Zuo Mengeng let out a long sigh, feeling extremely helpless.
"Father, he is the most stubborn. He is getting along like a fish in water by relying on the same old tricks. He only wants to get promoted and make a fortune, and he will be granted the title of prime minister. For these, he dares to do anything. Mother doesn't know, right? Last month, he He was sent to exterminate the northwest bandits. In the end, the bandits were not encountered, but they slaughtered more than 300 innocent people in two villages, regardless of men, women, old and young. Then he took the heads of the people and pretended to be bandits to claim credit and receive rewards. You Say, isn’t this self-defeating from the world?”
When mentioning this matter, Zuo Mengeng was really angry.
A general who doesn't know how to protect his family and country, a person who only cares about his own glory and wealth, obviously his future is destined.
How could Mrs. Huang know such things? When she first heard about it, she was so shocked that she almost fell apart.
"This...this...this...your father..."
Huang couldn't help but feel chills all over her body when she thought that the person next to her pillow was actually a demon.
That's not all, Zuo Mengeng said again: "Mother should be aware that my father is away at war, not wanting to make progress, not to mention taking a concubine and hiding him in the army. How could he care about your feelings?"
Speaking of this, Huang couldn't help feeling sad, but she didn't dare to express it.
"Your father is away from home all year round, and it's really hard. There is no one around him. It's because I didn't do a good job as a wife. Yuan... Yuan can't blame him."
The moral education she received told her to be generous.
However, in fact, which woman can tolerate the presence of other people of the same sex around her husband?
Huang's words were already her limit at this point.
"This is why my child wants to change the world. Why should a woman have to compromise, be a vassal of men, and bear these injustices? Mother, even as a woman, you don't want the world to be full of bad things. Are there other women as sad and miserable as you?"
Huang was silent.
Faintly, she seemed to understand.
