In the Qianqing Palace, the atmosphere is very solemn.

Zhu Youzhen looked at the performance of the county order of the Daimyo County, and his eyes were a little red.

The people of Daming County actually occupied the county government and clamored to join the one town and nine provinces of Li Zhi, the king of Qi, which was really a slap in the face to Zhu Youzhen.

This slap announced the complete failure of Zhu Youzhen's policy of changing the law.

In recent years, Zhu Youzhen has witnessed the strength of Li Zhi's town and nine provinces, witnessed the ups and downs of the Ming Dynasty, and was also determined to reform. He first established courts in Beizhili and Shanxi Junping Tianfu, known as the reform of the law. Then he extended the new law to the entire North. Finally, after the defeat of the Jiangbei Army and the control of the entire Jiangnan by the imperial court, Zhu Youzhen quickly promoted the new law to the whole country.

In order to implement the new law, Zhu Youzhen once stood on the opposite side of the entire bureaucracy. Even after being threatened by the Donglin Party, Zhu Youzhen still tried to control the new army, and finally turned the tables through Dongchang Fanzi to suppress the civilian officials and forcibly implement the new law.

Zhu Youzhen once thought that once the new law was implemented, the huge gap between Tianjin and the rest of Daming would gradually catch up. Zhu Youzhen naively thought that as long as the gentry's tax evasion was curbed, as long as the right to subsistence of the people at the bottom was safeguarded through the new-style court, the entire Ming Dynasty would be vigorous and prosperous, and Zhongxing was hopeful.

However, the expected big development has not yet materialized.

Although the tax was indeed guaranteed after the payment of the Junping Field, the local taxes that were frequently in arrears or even basically could not be collected began to be collected in full. The tax pressure on the local small peasants was also greatly reduced, and they were often forced to rebel by the gentry and corrupt officials, and the situation of joining the thieves never happened again.

However, the rest of Daming has never had the economic take-off of one town and nine provinces.

Zhu Youzhen's idea of simply relying on Junping Tian Fuhe to establish a court to promote the Ming Dynasty and become an immortal monarch turned out to be just a fantasy. The gentry of the Ming Dynasty were still alternate officials, and even if they could not evade taxes, they still covered the sky with one hand. At the local level, the gentry remained the ruling class, and the civil servants used various means to confront the weak courts, to restrain the functions of the courts by administrative orders, and even to completely resist the judgments of the courts.

The Ming Dynasty was still a dull agrarian society, except for the buildings that were about to collapse a little more supportively, except for the peasants who were almost forced to rebel barely ate, none of the major changes that were originally expected to take place.

It took Zhu Youzhen a few years, and the new army, which had great hopes, was also wiped out in Huguang.

The destruction of the new army greatly shocked Zhu Youzhen, who was originally ambitious to do a lot of work, and since then he has understood that things are not as simple as he thought. The Ming Dynasty has been rotten from top to bottom, and it is not a new law that can achieve great things.

After the collapse of Cao Bianjiao's new army, Zhu Youzhen no longer had the original ambition to do a big job, but hoped to be a master of success, able to defend the Ming Dynasty where the Manchu Qing Dynasty was destroyed, the thieves were pacified, and the south of the Yangtze River was calm.

However, the trees want to be quiet and the wind does not stop.

Zhu Youzhen wanted to guard the country like this, and patched up, but Li Zhi was unwilling. Li Zhi has no selfish desires, but he has the ambition to clarify the universe and benefit the world. For the gentry and bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty, the powerful clans, and the people of the Ming Dynasty who were drowsy day after day, Li Zhi couldn't bear it.

Li Zhi is a person who opens his eyes to the world, Li Zhi can't watch the Europeans open up and reproduce in the world, while the people of the Ming Dynasty have become the sick man of East Asia who can be bullied at will in the shackles of kings, ministers, fathers, sons, and sons.

As soon as Li Zhi defeated the Jiangbei army, he first beheaded and then raised his butcher's knife against the civil officials in the imperial court, killing more than 1,000 people at one time. Li Zhi even forced Zhu Youzhen to abolish the imperial examinations, breaking the thousand-year-old dominance of Confucianism in China.

In Zhu Youzhen's view, what was abolished was not Confucianism, but the deep-rooted ruling foundation of the Ming Dynasty.

If the people of the Ming Dynasty no longer believe in Confucianism, and do not believe in the monarchs, ministers, fathers and sons, then what do the people believe? Believe in Li Zhi's public morality? Whoever blesses the people will be honored? Then Li Zhi let so many Ming people eat enough and become rich, Li Zhi defeated the Manchus and thieves and saved the people of the world, is it necessary to worship Li Zhi.

In the future, the court will still occupy every penny of the hearts of the people in the world?

Li Zhi hopes to use public morality to strengthen the Ming Dynasty and benefit the descendants of China. But in Zhu Youzhen's view, Li Zhi is eating away at the foundation of the Ming Dynasty step by step.

Zhu Youzhen looked at the county order of the Daimyo County on the table, and his body couldn't help but tremble.

Zhu Youzhen sighed: "These small people want to make high monthly money, why don't they move to Li Zhi's one town and nine provinces?" “

The face of Zhang Guanghang, the elder of the cabinet cabinet, was also ugly, and what happened in Daimyo County made the court very embarrassed. He replied, "Holy Lord, the local people of one town and nine provinces are rich, but the people from outside are not rich. If the people of Daimyo Prefecture go to work in one town and nine provinces, they will not only have to bear the higher rents and prices, but also have to bear the pain of leaving their hometowns and sending people under the fence, doing the most difficult things, and being the people at the bottom of society. “

"When I arrived in one town and nine provinces, migrant workers couldn't find a suitable daughter-in-law. The wealthy people of the local area not only married all the local women, but also married the good-looking women among the outsiders. “

"It's not that they are so poor that they can't open the pot, ordinary people are unwilling to migrate to one town and nine provinces."

Zhu Youzhen's eyes looked at the music on the table, and his eyes were a little wandering.

Zhang Guanghang took a breath and said, "Holy Lord, if in the past, the people of Daimyo County were controlled by the gentry and educated by loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness every day, they would not have been able to do such a thing!" ”

But now, the people have been educated by the public morality of the king of Qi one by one, and they all say that those who abide by public morality are good people, and only officials who benefit the people are good officials. What loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, monarchs, ministers, fathers and sons, no one mentions them now. “

"Nowadays, the people all say that officials like one town and nine provinces are what they should be."

"When the people forget their duty of loyalty and filial piety, they cannot stand the officials who are full of their own pockets. The people will live a good life of abundant food and clothing, and their grievances will flourish day by day. “

Zhu Youzhen's face turned a little pale.

"The same is true for other places?"

Zhang Guanghang sighed and said, "Holy Lord, it's the same in other places. With the popularization of the idea of public morality, as the prosperity of one town and nine provinces spread to the interior, the common people were dissatisfied with the imperial court. “

Zhang Guanghang hesitated for a moment and said, "The only thing that is better now is Liangguang. Because the king of Qi recruited immigrants there to reclaim overseas, he recruited hundreds of thousands of people a year, so the people there had hope for life. But the people in other places are full of resentment. “

"Your Majesty, if this development continues, I'm afraid the world will change."

When Zhu Youzhen heard Zhang Guanghang's last words, his face was even whiter.