Songjiang Mansion, Retreat Garden.

After a month of raising, Xu Ge Lao finally returned to Yang again.

At this moment, he sat on the chaise longue with his eyes closed, and the string of Bodhi prayer beads was turned in his hand. With a thick blanket on his knees, there was a Linqing lion cat with snow-white long hair, one yellow and one blue mandarin duck eyes.

This cat is very similar in appearance to the Persian cat, but does not have the short face and upturned nose of the Persian cat, and is a pet cat native to the Ming Dynasty. People say that a lion cat with heterochromatic mandarin duck eyes can ward off evil spirits and bring good luck to the family.

Xu Ge has never had a cat in his life, and now he has tried everything he can do in order to be able to transport.

It is said that he also ate boiled eggs in the boy's urine......

Xu Fan sat aside, holding the book "On the Desires of the Rich and Noble", and slowly recited the opening masterpiece of Haizhongcheng for his father.

"The exchange of things does not lose its certainty, and the gentleman's gain is also based on the fact that it is ...... Does the lady not want to be rich and noble? There is no evil in the poor and cheap? ”

Xu Jie listened quietly, and after he finished reading, he asked silently for a long time, "What do you think?" ”

Xu Fan looked incredulous and said, "This is not like an article that Hai Rui can write." He should talk about the fact that a gentleman is not a servant of things, and that wealth is like a floating cloud to me. ”

"Then you are underestimating Haigang Peak." Xu Jie said lightly: "Just now you read his speech at Suzhou Fuxue, and the eight words he gave to the students are the answers." ”

"Self-cultivation on the inside, and people on the outside?" Xu Fan was stunned.

"Yes, he distinguishes between his requirements for himself and the requirements for the people of Jiangnan." Xu Jie's well-maintained hand gently brushed on the satin-like cat's back, and said worriedly: "Who said that Haigang Peak can't change power?" He's a real person and doesn't show his face. ”

"I didn't expect Hai Rui, a guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, to have a lot of bellies." Xu Fan said depressedly: "I'm afraid many people will be frightened by him now." ”

"Not bad." Xu Jie nodded slightly: "But this is also a good thing, at least it shows that he won't mess around." ”

After a pause, Elder Xu Ge said again: "Don't be in a hurry to let Xu Wu move over there." You just made up a governor, you can't just make another one next, let alone the imperial court, our own people will also have opinions. ”

"Yes." Xu Fan nodded, seeing that his father was in a good state, he reported in a low voice: "By the way, father, Zhen Zhenji came yesterday." ”

"What is he doing here?" Xu Jie laughed and said, "I'm afraid it's not good." ”

"He said that the governor's yamen demanded that Songjiang must complete the clearing of acres before the year." Xu Fan said in a deep voice.

"That's normal, that's what his predecessor wanted." Xu Jie drooped his eyelids and said: "We just cooperate, the clear one is self-purifying, just right." Don't tell me it's been a few months, and you haven't wiped your ass yet? ”

"It's all done." Xu Fan hurriedly replied: "According to my father's orders, most of our land has been forwarded to the names of the family members and slaves below. Only 20,000 acres were left for Hai Rui to shake his majesty. ”

"Hiss......" Xu Jie twitched when he heard this, 20,000 acres of land, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver! Isn't this a matter of death?

"Loser! If you hadn't caused such a big disaster, would my Xu family have so much blood? The distressed Xu Ge subconsciously pinched the cat.

The lion cat snorted and ran away from him.

"Yes, it's all the sons' fault." Xu Fan hurriedly lowered his head, he really couldn't understand why his father was sixty-six years old, so he took the family property so seriously.

"Forget it, let's get through this first." Elder Xu Ge sighed and said, "I hope that Haigang Peak's knife will fall down as soon as possible, so that he can live in peace." ”

"Yes." Xu Fan nodded and guessed: "With Hai Rui's eager temperament, it shouldn't be too long." ”

"Then just wait." Xu Jie closed his eyes again and stopped talking.

~~

In Kunshan Hospital, in the special care ward, there were bursts of laughter from Zhao Gongzi.

Jiang Xueying sat on the edge of the bed, looking at Zhao Hao, who was about to laugh, with a puzzled expression.

On Zhao Gongzi's quilt, there is also the book "On the Desire of Wealth and Nobles". But the difference is that he watched the last Li Zhen's article.

"Hahaha, I thought that it would be powerful enough for Daming to have a Qiu Wenzhuang, but I didn't expect that there was an invisible hand here." Zhao Hao smiled and leaned back and said: "What a Li Zhuowu, this is to do the work of Voltaire and Adam Smith!" ”

"Fortai? Duck eggs like honey? Jiang Xueying's little face was full of puzzlement. Is it Tessie? ”

"Yes and no." Zhao Hao smiled and shook his head, it was a Taixi person one or two hundred years later. "I think there are some similarities in their views. This Li Zhuowu is really a treasure old boy. ”

"Xiaomei also thinks that Mr. Li's article is very good." Jiang Xueying couldn't understand Zhao Hao's new words, but it didn't prevent her from expressing her admiration for Li Zhen.

This is normal. If you want to ask Daming who likes women the most, it must not be Zhao Hao, it must be Li Zhen!

How can there be a girl who doesn't like Li Zhen? He was the first person to advocate gender equality and encourage girls to go out of the house.

Zhao Hao understood this very well, but he was inevitably a little jealous: "After all, it is a female friend 'Li Zhuowu'." ”

"Where's my brother?" Seeing this, Jiang Xueying hurriedly waved her hand again and again to explain: "I just said this article, I didn't say that I like him as a person." After a pause, he added: "The chairman and several seniors of the group also highly recommend his article." ”

"That's nature." Zhao Hao was still not surprised.

What kind of soil will produce what kind of ideas, and the highly developed industry and commerce in the south of the Yangtze River have profoundly changed the traditional social form, and will naturally give birth to ideas that are in tune with it.

Li Zhen's classical liberal proposition will undoubtedly be welcomed by Jiangnan scholars. A small government that doesn't compete with the people for profit and doesn't meddle in its own affairs, the favorite of the powerful family......

But unfortunately, this road may not be suitable for the Ming Dynasty.

In another time and space, after Zhang Juzheng's death, the Ming Dynasty rushed all the way towards the small government, intentionally or unintentionally. In the court at the end of Wanli, there was only one person left in the cabinet; The sum of the six Shangshu Shilang is only four in total. Among them, there is no book in the Ministry of Rites, and there is only one waiter in the Ministry of Households, and he has to be in charge of the Ministry of Works......

If the big bureaucrats are like this, Kedao will be even more miserable. Only four of the six sections with a post of 58 are left. There are only five people left in the one hundred and ten thirteen imperial histories, and there are still no members of the left capital imperial history, the left deputy capital imperial history, and the left imperial history.

Want to rely on four to supervise the central government, and five imperial histories to inspect the country? Not to mention small government, this is directly anarchy......

Absolute liberalism, simply free to the sky.

The result? Twenty years ago, the Ming Dynasty, which was able to win three large-scale battles in the southwest, northwest, and northeast at the same time, drove more than 100,000 Japanese troops who had just been tempered by the Warring States Period into the sea, but it was defeated in Salhu and lost to the inconspicuous female straight ......

Although all the faults cannot be blamed on the liberal small government, the loss of the Ming Dynasty's combat power, the overwhelming superiority of population, technology, and wealth, and the inability to convert into battlefield strength are precisely the government's accumulated local ...... Especially due to the loss of control in Jiangnan.

Since Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, every year in the south, four million stone grains have been sent to the capital, but only one million stone has been sent to Chongzhen...... Everyone is free, and no one is willing to fulfill their obligations to the country.

ps. The first update of the four consecutive changes.