Huang Liji took a step at the beginning of the implementation of the New Deal, and today he can be regarded as putting most of his energy into the New Deal, thinking that his name behind him is considered.

This old bureaucreat, who has experienced decades of ups and downs in the sea of eunuchs, has decided that as long as he continues to maintain this momentum, then the new deal will be able to retain most of the results even if it cannot be completely successful.

He, a figure deeply involved in the apocalypse party struggle, may break away from the eunuch party because of this merit and win a reputation as the prime minister of the time. At his position, he doesn't attach much importance to power or anything, how long can a person in his early 60s occupy the position of first assistant?

After all, he is not a powerful minister like Yan Fenyi, and Chongzhen is not Emperor Jiajing. Therefore, Huang Liji is idle, and the most worrying thing is his name.

The fame of the scholar doctor in this era is not a false name, although Zhang Jiangling abused the power of the Wanli Emperor, but his reputation as the prime minister of the time was far and wide, and when it came to the apocalypse, someone had already overturned the case for him, and after Chongzhen ascended the throne, the power of the Wanli era was fully rehabilitated, and all the descendants were restored to preferential treatment, and the Zhang family would become the family of Zhongming Dingshi again in less than 20 years.

Huang Liji knew that he was too deeply involved in the apocalypse party dispute, and he had already formed a deep enmity with the Donglin party, if the Donglin party came to power, even if he was not liquidated, he would find trouble with his descendants. Even if he gets the emperor's trust again, as soon as this person leaves, the tea will still cool down after all.

However, if he does something in the new deal and extends the life of the Ming Dynasty for several decades, even if the Donglin Party wants to liquidate his descendants, they must also take into account the influence of public opinion in the world. Therefore, at this time, Huang Liji's enthusiasm for the New Deal was mostly sincere.

But Huang Liji also knew that if the new policy was to continue, it had to gain the emperor's firm support. In fact, most of the results of the New Deal were the efforts of Chongzhen's personal will, and he and the cabinet were just ordered to carry it out.

Only Chongzhen, who has the heroic spirit of a young man, can break a new path in the corrupt and dull officialdom of the Ming Dynasty without any scruples, unlike Huang Liji, who are old bureaucrats who must try their best to balance and think before doing things, and do not touch the interests of all parties and create trouble for themselves.

Without Chongzhen in front, Huang Liji felt that the new deal could keep one-tenth of the current achievements, and it could already be regarded as the Ming Dynasty officials and gentry looking forward in unity.

Because of this, he was really unwilling to go out of the city to risk his life. If there is a little problem with Chongzhen on the battlefield, the little hope that the Ming Dynasty has just sprouted will be ruined.

Huang Liji took off his beam crown, solemnly bowed to the ground, and exhorted again: "Your Majesty is in your youth, so you don't have to fight for a while." Even if this war gave Houjin a complete victory, these slave soldiers would not be able to take an inch of land in the pass.

After the Jin soldiers retreat, His Majesty can reorganize the country, gather for ten years, and learn a lesson for ten years. As long as the people of the Ming Dynasty recover from the famine of these years, clowns like Jiannu will be able to calm down with one blow.

Your Majesty should not be rash and risk his life and the national fortune of the Ming Dynasty to gamble with Jiannu. If they win, it's just to repel Jiannu's march once, won't they come again next time? But if he loses, there may not be a second Yu Qian in this capital, and there are many people who want to be a monk and Taoyan.

Therefore, the minister did not dare to obey the order, if His Majesty insisted on going his own way, then the minister asked Zhishi to return to his hometown for the elderly. ”

Huang Liji was about to stop picking a child, Zhu Youzhen naturally couldn't sit still, he quickly got up and personally helped Huang Liji up, and said euphemistically: "Mr. Huang loves me, how can I not know."

In fact, I also value my own life very much, and I am not willing to abandon it easily. However, today's world is no longer a peaceful year, but a world of great controversy where chaos is gradually rising.

In the past, Meng Yuan lost his morality, and the heroes of my Han family rose up to restore the homeland of China, and what they had in their hearts was: expelling the Tartars and restoring China. That's just eight words. The ancestors fought bloodily, chased the death to the north, drove Meng Yuan out of China, and finally inherited the mandate of heaven to govern China, enjoying the country for more than 260 years.

Now that Jiannu has risen in Liaodong and shown his martial arts in front of my Ming subjects, if I turn a blind eye and hide in this Quartet City, my life will be saved, but what will be the destiny of my ancestors who fought bloodily?

Today, the trouble of my Ming Dynasty is not the ugly class of building slaves, but it is the backlash of the hearts of the people in the world, and the survival of my emperor's destiny. If I give up the army and people of Zunhua today, should I give up the army and people of Jizhou tomorrow, and the people of Gyeonggi the day after tomorrow?

In today's imperial court, there is only the heart of the North Zhili left. If you can't even keep this little bit of people's hearts, although there are millions of people in the capital, it is just a mass of scattered sand, which is not enough to rely on.

Compared with this Ming Dynasty, my life is really insignificant; And compared with this billions of trillions of living beings in China, the overthrow of a dynasty with one surname is also a trivial matter.

Expelled the Tartars and restored China. It is the will of the ancestors to rise up, and future generations will dare not obey. If I can keep the land of China and defend the people of China, then the destiny of heaven is in my family. If it doesn't work, my Zhu family should also repay the Ming people for more than 260 years of worship, and don't insult the name of the ancestors. ”

Huang Liji didn't know how he was helped up by Chongzhen, the emperor's words had brought benevolence, filial piety and righteousness to the extreme, if he used the names of Sheji and Guoben to persuade him, it would undoubtedly be a small profit and a bad overall situation. As for the so-called Huaxia billions of trillions of living beings are higher than the rivers and mountains of a family and one surname, this kind of sweaty speech, he also automatically ignored the past.

However, what the emperor is saying now is very straightforward after all, what he wants to fight for is the Zhu family's mandate of heaven and the desire to inherit the ancestors, in the face of this kind of political righteousness, even Huang Liji, who has experienced countless ups and downs in his official career, has never felt so speechless.

There was hesitation in his heart, and the resolute attitude of resigning and returning to his hometown just now lost that momentum of letting go, and he could no longer shake Chongzhen's concessions. So Huang Liji searched his stomach again, and in the end he could only use the success or failure of the New Deal as an excuse. He persuaded the emperor that if Chongzhen had any accident on the battlefield, the new deal of the Ming Dynasty would inevitably be abandoned halfway, and Chongzhen's wish to save the situation would also be put to waste. Without the New Deal, how can we save the current situation of the Ming Dynasty?

After listening to this, Zhu You looked at Shoufu for a long time, and then smiled and said: "Mr. is an old minister of the Four Dynasties, and after many years of ups and downs, he should know all about the shortcomings of my Ming Dynasty."

I want to ask Mr. the truth, does Mr. really think that this new deal can really save my Ming Qi right now? Let me get through the difficulties in front of me, and then survive forever? ”

Huang Liji's face suddenly became a little ugly, "What does Your Majesty mean by this?" If the minister has no faith in the new policy, how can he go around offending people in order to implement the new policy? Could it be that Your Majesty regrets the implementation of the new policy now? If this is the case, the minister can only abdicate the throne and make way for the virtuous..."

Zhu Youzhen hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Sir, don't be angry, I don't regret the implementation of the new policy. I just want to have a heart-to-heart with Mr. today, this new policy has been implemented for a year and a half, with Mr. Husband's past life experience, can't I predict one or two? Today, I want to hear what he has to say. ”

Huang Liji was silent for a long time before he said hesitantly: "If the new policy can be fully implemented, the minister thinks that it will not be much worse than Zhang Jiangling's Wanli New Deal, or it can be restored to the situation of Wanli 15 years." ”

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but smile bitterly and said: "The fifteenth year of Wanli, that is to say, the new deal has extended my life span for more than 4 or 50 years. However, when Zhang Jiangling implemented the Wanli New Deal, there was no Houjin around me who was eyeing the Ming Dynasty.

I've read a lot of idle books these days, and there's such a fable in the book... The name of this story is called: The Last Straw That Broke the Camel's Burden. Wouldn't this be the last straw that overwhelmed my Daming? ”

Huang Li lowered his head and pondered for a while, and finally sighed and said: "The last straw, I can't imagine that there are such wise philosophers among the Westerners. But Your Majesty, even if it is this philosopher, you have to let go of the last straw to know if the camel will fall, and now I have not yet reached the point of exhaustion, who knows if Houjin is the last straw?

The minister still thinks that His Majesty should cherish himself and wait for the results of the implementation of the new policy with peace of mind. Perhaps, the effect of the new deal will be better than expected, and I will have a chance to come to Jitai. The minister is still against His Majesty's personal conquest, and this new policy cannot be abandoned halfway, Your Majesty. ”

Zhu Youzhen lowered his head and thought for a long time, and finally said to Huang Liji regardless of it: "I am now facing the problems of the clan, the problem of official governance, the problem of preferential treatment of the gentry, and the problem of the guard... In the final analysis, there is only one core problem, and that is the land issue.

There is no idle land in the four seas, and the farmers are still starving to death. It's the world today. It is not that the land in the world is not enough to be distributed, but that the land is mostly in the hands of high-ranking families, and the farmers have no land to cultivate.

Will the New Deal now be implemented to solve the land problem? Apparently not. The establishment of banks and investment in industry is nothing more than mobilizing the wealth of the people and relocating the peasants who have lost their land. This is always a palliative solution.

I have hundreds of millions of people in the Ming Dynasty, and millions of farmers have lost their land. These high-ranking families enjoyed the preferential treatment of the imperial court, and they did not have to pay grain to the imperial court when they occupied the people's land, and the more land they occupied, the less income the imperial court had.

The less income the imperial court had, the more difficult it was to provide relief to the victims and settle the displaced people. If the imperial court is no longer able to provide relief to the victims and settle the displaced people in various places, won't these people who have no way out follow the example of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang?

This new deal can only allow Daming to take a breather and recover some vitality. If you want to save the situation, you can't do it with the new deal that is being implemented now. ”