On the bank of the Qinhuai River, the White Gate Pavilion, the faint sound of silk and bamboo, came from the second floor. After experiencing the hustle and bustle of the day, the Qinhuai River became extraordinarily quiet as night fell. The evening breeze in late autumn is particularly pleasant.

Zhu Cihong, who is known as Zhu Yaofei, sat next to Kou Baimen very naturally, drinking fine wine, eating side dishes cooked by Kou Baimen himself, and talking and laughing from time to time, but there was no sign of being fascinated by this Qin Huai stunner - where did this level of acting go? Zhu Cihong's previous life is not uninformed.

And he, a hairless boy with a hairless mouth, was able to resist Kou Baimen's teasing, which was really much beyond the expectations of several southeast talents.

Among them, only Luo Dagong knew the true identity of "Zhu Yaofei", and Hou Fangyu, Huang Zongxi, Mao Xiang, and Zhang Huangyan also knew that the identity of "Zhu Yaofei" was not ordinary - just look at Zheng Sen's flattering attitude. Who is Zheng Sen? The son of the richest man in the Ming Dynasty! And the richest father of the family is not an official, he can slaughter a fat pig that eats meat casually, even if it is the prince of the Ming Dynasty, he can only win over the Zheng family, and dare not suppress and bully.

However, a few of them didn't know that a young man like him was the real master of half of the Ming Dynasty today!

After three rounds of wine, five flavors of food, and almost the sound of glamour, the few people gathered here began to talk about it - this is the way of political life in Donglin and Fushe, which are the southeastern clear streams.

It was Luo Dagong who provoked the topic, and the topic was of course related to the recent suffering of the people of Beijing.

And then he provoked the first to make a high-level statement, it was Huang Zongxi. Among several talents, the most thoughtful one is probably Huang Zongxi, who wrote "Mingyi to be interviewed". And the most famous in later generations is actually this Huang Zongxi! Because he was labeled as a well-known person in the late Ming Dynasty, it already stinks.

"The loss of Yanjing is the mistake of the Son of Heaven to guard the country and the crime of cutting the feudal domain and abolishing feudalism! The so-called Son of Heaven guards the country, in fact, the country guards the Son of Heaven, sets up a nine-sided town, spends millions, and sanitizes the Son of Heaven. And in the capital of the Son of Heaven, there are hundreds of thousands or even millions of people, and there are countless rice noodles per day, and it is difficult to supply them from the barren land of Beizhili, so they can only transport 120,000 grain troops for thousands of miles, which is really tired of the world's politics! If you talk about its merits in guarding the border, it is really not as good as the Nine Fortress Domain Kings set up by Emperor Taizu Gao in the past. If the Nine Governors are still here, the disaster of Jianyu will be enough to be remedied by the two feudal domains of Liao and Ning, so why is today's catastrophe coming? ”

"Good, good! You can say that again! The effectiveness of the Son of Heaven in guarding the country is indeed inferior to that of the King of the Nine Sai Domain! Zhu Cihong slapped his face and said with a smile, "It's just that Emperor Cheng Zuwen seized the country with a vassal domain and set a bad example for himself, and he was worried that some of his descendants would follow suit, so he had to move the capital to Beijing." In the final analysis, this matter is still the fault of Jianwen to cut the domain! Jianwen valued Confucian ministers and despised vassal kings, and wanted to emulate the government of Zhao and Song, but he did not have Zhao Kuangyin's skills. As a result, the situation laid down by Emperor Taizu Gao was ruined, and it also laid hidden dangers for the country. However, even if Jianwen can release the power of the vassal king with a glass of wine, and then practice the law of literature and martial arts, that is, a weak Song. ”

Listening to Zhu Cihong's words, Hou Fangyu, Huang Zongxi, Mao Xiang, Zhang Huangyan and others present were all shocked.

How dare this young man say it! He is...... Could it be that he is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!?

Zhu Cihong swept his eyes indoors, and then said with a smile: "In my opinion, guarding the Son of Heaven is just one of the two major malpractices of moving the capital to Beijing. There is also a big drawback, that is, the capital is far away from the rich land in the southeast, so that the wealth of the southeast is outside the long whip of the imperial court!

In the dynasty of the Ming monarch and loyal ministers, he can also work hard to do it, so that the country will not be scarce. If you meet a weak lord or a traitorous minister, then the fertile water of the southeast will flow into the fields of others. Over time, the country will become poorer and weaker, and the soldiers of the Nine Sides will naturally be limited to poverty and cannot afford military service. The rampant Hulu has become inevitable! ”

When he said this, his eyes had already focused on Huang Zongxi's cheeks with prominent cheekbones, and he said with a smile: "What does Brother Taichong think of what Prince Fujun did?" ”

Huang Zongxi stroked his beard, looked at Zhu Cihong, and was silent for a long time before he said: "The prince of Fujun has eloquence and talent, but he has no benevolence, the hero of troubled times, and the tyrant who rules the world!" ”

"Huang Taichong!" Grand Duke Luo roared in a low voice, "Please be careful!" ”

Huang Zongxi smiled: "This is blunt! Like today, troubled times! It is the luck of the Ming Dynasty and the luck of Shilin to be the lord of the country! If it is replaced by a king who has no benevolence and no talent, the world will be overturned! ”

What do you say...... I should know the identity of Prince Ben! Zhu Cihong smiled slightly, and said in his heart: Shouldn't you, Huang Taichong, rush out and be the first bird? Aren't you one of the three major public knowledge in the late Ming Dynasty? Why do you also shoot Prince Ben's ass? Do you also want to take refuge in becoming an official?

Huang Zongxi looked at Zhu Cihong's smiling face, and felt so proud in his heart! It seems that Enke can go to high school this time - what the public knows, Huang Zongxi doesn't know, he only knows that the young man in front of him can be an official for him, and he is his monarch...... It's his dear Daddy Zhu! And this Father Zhu is so fierce, with an army of 100,000, Dr. Southeast Shi can't fight him at all. This is the wise and martial father Zhu! Huang Zongxi is well-known, and he is not brain-dead, how could he jump out and die?

Zhu Cihong asked again: "According to Mr., why is the matter of the southeast first?" ”

"The southeast thing, of course, is financial management first!" Huang Zongxi said with a smile, "The southeast is a place where wealth gathers. If the imperial court living in the southeast can't even take care of its finances, what else can it do? ”

"Financial management, why first?"

Huang Zongxi said: "Financial management should be based on scrap gold and silver!" ”

Zhu Cihong said with a smile: "The method of changing currency must be done cautiously. Brother Taichong, let's talk about other ways. ”

Zhu Cihong knew that Huang Zongxi was talking about the views of the financial plan chapter in "Mingyi to be Interviewed": scrapping gold and silver, minting copper coins, and there is also a copper ban and minting good coins - it looks very good, but it is not feasible.

Because it is an economic phenomenon that bad money drives out good money, and the ban on copper will inevitably cause high copper prices, and the value of copper and money will be inverted when the good money is minted, and the phenomenon of destroying good money to take copper and privately minting bad money will be rampant. Of course, these problems will be solved after the middle of the 18th century. Because after that, the Europeans applied more efficient copper smelting technology, and at the same time discovered huge copper deposits in the Americas. If after that, the Ming Dynasty continues to use copper coins as the main circulating currency, and cannot close the country, then copper coins will definitely depreciate significantly!

Huang Zongxi thought for a while, and then said: "If gold and silver can't be scrapped suddenly, then it should also be easier to tax." The ancient expedition is noble and cheap, and the silk is used as the pitch. Therefore, the public taxes are also levied on corn and cloth. ”

Zhu Cihong said: "The imperial court's expropriation of silver in the field has indeed made the people hard, and it must be changed." ”

In fact, there is no problem with the southeast, where the commodity economy is developed, but the problem is that there is too little silver in the northwestern Central Plains, and the levy of silver on the fields is a burden on the peasants. The uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty started from the northwest, largely because of the expropriation of silver in the fields.

Huang Zongxi said again: "The second time of financial management is to clear the field and grant the field!" “

It's actually on the dry goods! Zhu Cihong was stunned for a moment and said with a smile: "I would like to hear about it." ”

Huang Zongxi said: "Let's talk about Qingtian first. There are four types of land in the world, one is called Tuntian, the second is called Guantian, the third is called Mintian, and the fourth is Yintian.

Taking the account books made after the Wanli New Deal cleared the fields as an example, there are more than seven or eight thousand hectares of land in the world, of which less than one percent of the tuntian is about 640,000 hectares, and the official land is three-tenths, which is more than 2 million hectares. Guantian and Tuntian account for a total of four-tenths of the real land in the world! If you count the hidden fields and have not found out, more than half of the land in the world is not owned by the people, and they are all official fields that can be granted.

Mintian is owned by wealthy gentry, and the imperial court is a plan for the gentry, so you can ignore it. And the official land is owned by the imperial court, and what is levied is not a tax, but a rent! The wealthy gentry are in favor of tax exemption, but they will never be in favor of rent exemption, right?

If the imperial court can check the official land in the southeast, and then grant it to the people, 50 acres will be granted to each household, and the land rent will be tithe. Only land rent is collected, and no tax or other taxes are collected. And only rice and noodles are collected, not cash.

In the south of Zhili, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong a total of not less than 10,000 acres of official land, tithe rent, each mu is two or three buckets of rice noodles, the annual income of 25 million stones. And the people, the gentry, and the wealthy will not feel difficult. If you count the salt tax of 10 million taels of silver, the tariff of more than 1 million, the annual income of the imperial court is 25 million stones, and the silver is 11 million taels, will the state still be insufficient?

Moreover, 50 acres will be granted to one household, and 10,000 acres of official land should be awarded to 2 million households...... 2 million households, 10,000 acres of land, all in the hands of the hero!

This is only to master the land in the southeast, if you count the more than 200 million acres of Huguang, the use of the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains is enough! ”

As soon as these words were finished, not only Hou Fangyu, Mao Xiang, and Zhang Huangyan, these upright gentlemen, were dumbfounded, but even Dagong Luo, who wanted to be an official, was stunned.

This Huang Zongxi seems to be not afraid of authority all day long, and today I saw how the prince of Fujun himself was not afraid, not only did he not scare, but he also patted one sycophant after another, and also offered Qingtian's policy of granting fields...... You're going to betray Southeast Shilin! You're a mutiny! You're a traitor!

"Hahaha!" Zhu Cihong laughed, "What a Huang Taichong!" You're the best at it! ”