Wen does not enter Wu Ying, and Wu does not enter Wen Hua.

In the Ming Dynasty, this is an ironclad rule, and this rule is for the purpose of the civil and military affairs, in order to avoid the two sides from falling into each other's hands and harming national affairs. It is precisely because of this that the Wuying Hall and the Wenhua Hall around the Huangji Hall are used to distinguish civil and military officials.

Of course, this is not absolute, for example, the military department Shangshu is a military attaché, but he participates in the cabinet, and in some military deployments, the cabinet also participates, and at this time there is a conflict with this rule.

So the Wenzhao Pavilion and Wucheng Pavilion next to the two halls became the place where the two met. According to the custom, if it is to discuss political affairs, to Wenzhao, military affairs to Wucheng, although it seems cumbersome, but there is no way to do it, after all, civilian officials regard military attaches as outliers, and they must regard them as enemies.

Over time, although the current Ming Dynasty has become accustomed to this kind of rule, even as the maker of the rules, sometimes, Zhu Mingzhong himself will break this rule, just like now, after discussing military affairs with the generals of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, when Zhang Huangyan, Gu Yanwu, and Wang Zhongxiao asked to meet, they should have met in Wenzhao Pavilion, but he still continued to meet them in Wucheng Pavilion.

The three of them came over, in addition to the routine audience and reporting on the affairs of the DPRK and China, there was also a report on the itinerary of the Jin Domain, the speed of the Jin Domain's northward journey was not fast, not slow, and now it had just arrived in Hunan, Zhu Mingzhong just whispered softly and did not make any statement.

However, after Wang Zhongxiao was in government affairs, he once again went to the fold and asked for Zhishi again.

Generally, the age of the employee is 70 years old, and the age of the employee is earlier. And Wang Zhongxiao is already seventy-three, and it stands to reason that he should have been a scholar a long time ago, but in the past three years, he has always been a symbol of the King of Min in the court.

Even the last time. He took the lead in disobeying the Holy Command, and he was exiled to others, and his punishment was only a few months' punishment.

In this regard, of course, Wang Zhongxiao also understands that His Majesty's refusal to let him return to his hometown is not inconsiderate, but that the court needs stability. Thinking about it, Wang Zhongxiao said.

"Your Majesty is prudent and bold in governing the country, and the ministers admire it in their hearts. The minister is now seventy and three, His Majesty is eloquent, the minister is old, although he has the heart to follow His Majesty day and night to do errands, but he is no longer able to do it, and please ask His Majesty to remember that the minister has been away from his hometown for many years, and agree to return to his hometown and be buried in the township on his ......."

In the face of such "beggar bones" words, looking at Wang Zhongxiao, who was already old, and looking at his thin appearance standing at that time, Zhu Mingzhong sighed.

"Three years ago, I ascended the throne, three years, although barely can be regarded as hard work, dare not have the slightest slack, finally the state affairs are a little peaceful, but in fact, now the world is not over, although the internal division is gradually dissolved, but in fact it is still a troubled time, after all, the Qing Dynasty is based on the northwest, southwest and other places There are also bandits, that is, the use of people, although it is a wealth of talents, but it is inevitable that there are lucky people who seek favor in the meantime, although it is a troubled era, but it is not as easy to identify as in the early years. In the past three years, thanks to the efforts of the secretaries, the state affairs have been calmed a little, and now Chang Ru is seventy and three years old, and he can be said to have done his best in my Ming Dynasty, if I still disagree, is it unreasonable? ”

His Majesty's tirade fell into Wang Zhongxiao's ears, making him say again.

"Chen Chongzhen three years of Emperor Xiaolie's grace as a jinshi, awarded the head of the household department, after the grace of Emperor Meng Siwen, awarded the Guanglu Temple Shaoqing, and then to the Xiaokuang Emperor awarded the right squire of the military department and Taichang Temple Qing. His Majesty has to be promoted into the cabinet as an auxiliary minister, by the Ming Emperor's grace can not be said to be not heavy, if it is not the line, how can the minister beg the bones to return to the hometown, the minister in this life regrets not to witness my Ming Dynasty extremely prosperous world. ”

At this time, Wang Zhongxiao was full of tears.

"Maybe you can see it, maybe you can't see it."

Zhu Mingzhong looked into the distance with blazing eyes, and then continued.

"But I want you to see it. Your generation has the merits of your generation, and the son said that "the deceased is like this" refers to the river, when the Qing Dynasty entered the Kou, and the river year was all down, if it were not for the loyal ministers and righteous men who were fighting the storm in the general, I am afraid that I could only be secretly sad in my heart. ”

Standing up, Zhu Mingzhong slowly paced in Wucheng Pavilion, as if he wanted to pull his thoughts back, was silent for a moment, smiled slightly, and said again.

"Now that the Jin Domain has entered the court, although there are occasional bandits in the place, it is just a gathering of thieves. But the Qing captured it to the northwest. Vainly trying to re-enter the Central Plains, there are Spain, the Netherlands, Britain and other European countries in the South Seas across the ocean, if we can't chase them all out of the Tianzhu Sea today, he will definitely suffer my Ming Dynasty in the future, I must eradicate these sources of chaos, otherwise, I can't calm the world. What is at stake now is that the politics of the interior have not yet been cultivated, and if many things are not done from this root, we will achieve half the result. ”

Wang Zhongxiao, who had already obtained His Majesty's consent, said this.

"Your Majesty is not worried about the current affairs in the interior?"

Zhu Mingzhong shook his head and said.

"Fang Jin's things are not the source, when I was in exile in the people, I traveled the world with my master, and what I heard and saw always made me sleep day and night. Although due to natural disasters, the rogue has become a disaster for the whole country, but it stems from the merger of land, the uneven labor of the errand and the landlord and tenant households, the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. What can't people do when they're so poor? Although the people of the Central Plains were coerced by thieves, they bought people's hearts and made the people willing to follow the thieves, which is the fundamental ...... of the collapse of my great tomorrow."

As an emperor, Zhu Mingzhong naturally has to consider many issues, and what he said seems to be his own reflection, but in fact it is also a summary of the Ming Dynasty in this era and later generations.

"The people have three breaths: those who are hungry shall not eat, those who are cold shall not be clothed, and those who work shall not rest. If this is the case, the world will be in chaos, and if you want to avoid all this, you have to be hungry and fed, cold and clothed, and you can rest from your work. ”

"I remember."

When the three of them responded, Zhang Huangyan, who was the first assistant, hurriedly replied.

This Ding Yin was compiled in the 11th year of Yongli by the Qing Dynasty, and the original amount of taxes contained in it was based on the old amount of Wanli, with slight revisions. Its intention is to use hundreds of millions of trillions of people in the world in the 40 years of Wanli to levy taxes at this time, regardless of the world's household registration in the slaughter of the rogues and Qing captives, which is already one in ten. So naturally, "there are many ghosts and vacancies", but the amount of taxes in the imperial court cannot be short, so the states and counties can only take the registered people to open the knife, and the inflated silver can only be compensated by the registered Ding, and the registered people are overwhelmed, and they can only flee, so the Ding silver of the people who ran away has to be added to the people who did not run. Compensation leads to flight, and flight leads to more compensation, so a vicious circle, the number of registered Ding is less, and Ding is heavier. For example, some places in Henan are superimposed to as many as 6-7 taels. In this way, Henan Governor Lu Liuliang suggested that "the land is spread into the mu", and His Majesty ordered it to be implemented this year, and the people of the world are all grateful for His Majesty's imperial grace. ”

Although he seemed to be praising the emperor, Zhang Huangyan's expression was quite proud, after all, Lu Liuliang came from his shogunate, and the "paving into the mu" was also implemented throughout the country with his full support. Of course, although the "apportionment into the mu" led to a sharp decrease in Ding Yin, on the other hand, the imperial court increased the salt tax revenue this year, because as early as the Jiangbei period, the "abolition of contractors and on-the-spot taxation" had been implemented, and the increase in field tax made the imperial court not only reduce its income, but increased the tax revenue by more than two million taels.

Salt is a poll tax in disguise, after all, people in the world can't do without salt.

"The emperor's grace is not false, but after the chaos, there will be great governance, under the "prosperous times", he has more people and less land, what should I do? Moreover, land annexation is always intensifying, with more people and less land. How can the world be stable? ”

Wang Zhongxiao replied on the side.

"Your Majesty, since the first emperor, land annexation has existed in any dynasty or generation, and this kind of thing is inevitable after a long period of peace, and it can only be done according to the situation. Moreover, now that the imperial court controls four or five out of ten of the fields in the world, when there are many people, the government can also sell them to the people, so as to alleviate the shortage of acres of land......"

Gu Yanwu, who had been silent, said directly.

"If the government sells it, I am afraid that it will only end up in the hands of the rich, and how many of the poor can afford to buy land? If the government sells it, the rich will definitely collude with the government, so isn't it just the will of the rich people? ”

Wang Zhongxiao immediately retorted.

"I'm afraid it can't be generalized, there are those who are charitable and those who are unkind to the rich; Among the poor there are those who are industrious and simple, and naturally there are those who are stubborn. In comparison, there are still many people among the poor who do not obey the law, after all, those who have no permanent property have no perseverance. As long as the imperial court formulates a good law, it can naturally sell official land fairly. ”

After thinking about it for a while, Zhang Huangyan shook his head and said.

"Even if it is to sell official land, if it is stubborn and lazy for future generations, he will inevitably sell his ancestral property one day, so land annexation is naturally inevitable, the imperial court can sell official land today, how can he have a steady stream of official land to give up?"

"That ......"

After a moment of silence, Gu Yanwu looked up at His Majesty and said.

"What about emigrating? If you can immigrate the idle Ding overseas, even if there is an occasional land annexation, it must not be a worry, after all, no matter how much land there is, people are always needed to plant, if the people have moved overseas because of the lack of land, there is not enough labor to farm, the rich will naturally not be willing to buy land, after all, the land they bought back, there are no tenants to plant, and in the end they will bear the taxes of the court in vain. This land annexation can be easily solved. ”

When Gu Yanwu said this, Wang Zhongxiao and Zhang Huangyan's eyes lit up, although they knew the benefits of overseas immigration, they never knew that it had the benefits of inhibiting land annexation.

"That's true."

Zhu Mingzhong knows that this is a normal market economic cycle.

"And the fewer tenants, the higher the price, and in the end it is not cost-effective to farm, so naturally there is no willingness to annex the land, but ...... How can we get people to want to emigrate? ”

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