"Huh?"

Xu Jie's gaze looked at the people behind Zhang Juzheng. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Those people are all representatives of the six major families in the southeast of the capital, and when they saw Xu Jie's gaze, they each took out a letter and put it on the table in front of Xu Jie, Xu Jie's eyes picked up those letters, read them one by one, and slowly relaxed his frowns.

The content in his heart is very simple, this time he objectively explained the whole story of this incident, and let Xu Jie know that the two officials killed by Luo Xin were really corrupt officials, and the hundreds of people killed were really people from the six major families and pirates, and in this matter, Luo Xin could not be sued at all.

When Xu Jie saw this, a wave of anger suddenly rose in Xu Jie's heart.

What do these six families want to do? Then I'll be a gunman?

At that time, when he saw that Luo Xin had privately given Hu Zongxian 500,000 taels of silver, his brows widened, and a smile appeared on his face. But then he restrained his smile and asked in a condensed voice:

"Luo Xin really gave Hu Zongxian 500,000 taels of silver?"

"Absolutely."

Xu Jie nodded, lowered his eyes slightly, and sat there into thought. Zhang Juzheng said softly:

"Teacher, are we impeaching Luo Xin again?"

Xu Jie raised his eyes, shook his head slightly, and said, "No, go back and let our people all write a chapter to impeach Luo Xin, and we will wait for Luo Xin's money to be sent to the capital before impeaching." ”

Hangzhou.

The manor outside the city, Tang Zhuang ushered in by Luo Xin, Tang Zhuang is now a pivotal figure in Daming, especially in the rivers and lakes. He not only pulled up a group of his old brothers, but also recruited a group of masters as darts on the rivers and lakes. He came this time, on the one hand, to send more than 2,000 veterans to Luo Xin again, and on the other hand, to send Luo Xin one hundred and eighty-nine scholars, these scholars were all bought from the exile land, and the real price was clear, 5,000 taels of silver per person, and a total of 945,000 taels of silver cost Tang Zhuang, not counting people eating horses and feeding, a total of 1 million taels of silver.

There are also all kinds of craftsmen from all over the country, and they also talked about 100,000 taels, and the 1.1 million taels of silver were spent like water, and the dart game was about to be paralyzed. So Tang Zhuang can't help but come, he wants to ask for advice, what to do after the dart game?

Luo Xin looked at more than 2,000 veterans, 189 scholars, and more than 800 craftsmen, and his heart was happy. Especially the more than 800 craftsmen, the dart bureau secretly poached the shipbuilders of the imperial court and secretly sent their entire family into Luo Xin's manor.

Luo Xin arranged these people separately in the manor. He first met the more than 2,000 veterans, these veterans all came from the north, they had all met Luo Xin, participated in the previous wars presided over by Luo Xin, they had a blind worship of Luo Xin, so when they saw Luo Xin, everyone was very excited. Luo Xin looked at these people, and the confidence in his heart was even stronger. He has successively handed over nearly 4,000 battle-hardened veterans to Luo Sheng, plus 500 people under Luo Sheng, more than 4,000 veterans who can fight well, and the pirates that Luo Sheng has subdued, Luo Sheng's current strength has exceeded 8,000, and with more than 2,000 people today, Luo Sheng's strength has exceeded 10,000. With this force of more than 10,000 troops, it is completely capable of sweeping the island of Taiwan. There are also more than 10,000 pirate family members captured by Luo Sheng, and these people are also fully capable of teaching Taiwanese indigenous farming. It can be said that Luo Sheng already has the confidence to build Taiwan.

"Ladies and gentlemen!" Luo Xin's tone was impassioned: "Before you came here, you shouldn't know where I asked you to go and what to do. However, you have come without hesitation, and I would like to thank you for your trust. ”

"I am willing to follow Master Hou and go to the soup and fire, and I will not give up." More than 2,000 people shouted in unison.

Although the voice was low and could not be heard outside the manor, it could still be heard inside the manor, and the one hundred and eighty-nine scholars couldn't help but look at each other, and a thought appeared in their hearts.

"Could it be that Luo Hou wants to rebel?"

Luo Hou is a military god in the circle of martial artists, and his status in the circle of scholars is also quite high, and he is the status of a great Confucian, so before these scholars came here, they only knew that someone had spent money to save them, but they didn't know who it was, and they were still uneasy in their hearts. However, when they saw Luo Xin in the manor and learned that the person in front of them was Luo Xin, their hearts were excited, and it was Luo Xin who saved them.

However, before their excited hearts had calmed down, they heard the cries of the veterans, which could not help but make them feel uneasy in their hearts, although when they were exiled, they were hungry and cold, and they were subjected to endless humiliation, and they were severely traumatized physically and mentally, and they also thought of rebellion in their hearts on weekdays. But that's just thinking about it, and I don't even dare to say it. Now they realize that Luo Xin is going to rebel, which can't help but make them afraid again.

Luo Xin looked at the more than two thousand veterans in front of him, and said sincerely: "You just know that you want to follow me when you come here, but you don't know what you will be asked to do. I want to send you to a big island overseas, which is very big, and you have to conquer the natives and establish a homeland there, and you may not be able to return to Daming in the future, because I, Luo Xin, and Luo Buqi want to build a country there. You will all be the founding heroes. ”

More than 2,000 people immediately became excited, where to fight is not to fight? Following Luo Xin is the founder of the country, with countless glory and wealth, as for whether it can be much bigger than those natives, these people will not consider it at all, because they firmly believe that they can sweep away those natives.

Luo Xin chatted with the veterans for a while, and then left the place and came to the garden of the one hundred and eighty-nine scholars. Sitting in front of them, looking at the scholar standing in front of him with a worried face, Luo Xin said gently:

"Fellow seniors."

Just this sentence of senior brother made the eyes of these one hundred and eighty-nine scholars red, they had not been called senior brothers for a long time, and what they had lost felt precious. One hundred and eighty-nine men bowed together and said:

"Thank you for the rescue."

Luo Xin waved his hand and said: "Daming, you can't stay anymore, if people find out about you, you will be arrested again, and you will also implicate the official." ”

One hundred and eighty-nine people showed a sad look on their faces, they had already thought of this, at this time when Luo Xin mentioned it, in addition to sorrow, there was also panic in their hearts, Da Ming couldn't stay, so where would Luo Xin send them?

"I'm going to send you to a big island overseas, my cousin is there, and you're going there to help my cousin."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, anyway, they had a place to stay, and they were not rebelling in Daming. They had long been sharpened from the place of exile, and bowed to Luo Xin again:

"Thank you, sir.

"You ......," Luo Xin muttered, "and when you go there, you will build there in the same way that you would build a country." ”

The spirits of the scholars were shocked, although they calmed down, because this was not a rebellion, but the establishment of another country, and then they became excited again, and they were also considered to be the founding heroes.

Looking at their excited looks, Luo Xin's hanging heart was lowered again, which proved that these people's hearts were not dead, and they still had ambitions and desires, so that they could ensure that they did their best. However, Luo Xin didn't want the country he had worked so hard to build would inevitably decline and perish in the end, just like the Ming Dynasty. In his opinion, not only the Ming Dynasty, but all dynasties in history have one thing in common, which is a major reason for the demise of each dynasty, that is, the tax exemption of the powerful.

For example, in the current Ming Dynasty, after the examination is lifted, you can enjoy the tax exemption policy, and the land you own does not need to pay taxes, so there are a large number of peasant households with the land to the lifting people, as time goes by, a country will lift more and more people, and finally more and more tax-free land, and the state can collect less and less land for taxes, so that the apportionment of peasant households will be more and more, forcing the peasants to eat, and then the rod will rise, and an empire will fall with a bang.

Of course, Luo Xin will also attach importance to commercial tax, but in this era, agricultural tax is the main body that cannot be ignored, and if you want to completely replace agricultural tax with commercial tax, business still needs to develop. Therefore, Luo Xin must tell these scholars his decision now, in case after they arrive in Taiwan, Luo Sheng does not understand this, and is fooled by this group of scholars, completely copying the policy of the Ming Dynasty.

"I want to ask you a question, I hope you can answer me seriously, and it can be regarded as an assessment of you! My Luo family does not raise idlers, if some of you have no ability, even if I bring you to the island of Taiwan, you can only be like ordinary people, and you will not be able to get my appointment. Luo Xin said in a condensed voice.

These one hundred and eighty-nine people were in their hearts, they were finally rescued from the place of exile by Luo Xin, and if it were not for Luo Xin, they would have been humiliated and whipped to death in two or three years. Luo Xin is their savior, they have decided to repay the favor with this life, but they did not expect that Luo Xin would give them such a broad stage and make them the founding heroes. Now that they heard that Luo Xin was going to be assessed, if they couldn't pass the assessment, they wouldn't even have the opportunity to repay their kindness, which couldn't help but make them nervous, and they were also serious.

There is also a competitive psychology among these people, and everyone wants to become an important role in Luo Xin's excess, which requires them to show their talents, and they can't help but hold their breath and look at Luo Xin.

"I want to ask you, what is the situation in Daming now?"

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, first by a middle-aged scribe said: "Not good." ”

"Not good!" The others also nodded and said.

"How bad?" Luo Xin then asked.

"Corruption!"

"Corrupt officials are all over the world!"

"Literati are greedy for money, and warriors are afraid of death."

"The cabinet is incompetent."

"The emperor is mediocre."

“…………”

Everyone rushed to speak, but Luo Xin's heart was full of disappointment, these people were right, but they didn't see the root. In other words, because they are scholars, they also belong to the vested interests of scholars, and people see the faults of others, but not their own.

There were only three people left in the crowd who were silent, all three of them nearly forty years of age, and they were thinking with their brows furrowed. They all saw the disappointment in Luo Xin's eyes and knew that Luo Xin didn't want this answer. At this time, everyone was silent, and they also saw Luo Xin's gaze, so they all calmed down and thought about it. Luo Xin looked at the three people who had not spoken all this time. The three people felt Luo Xin's gaze, and one of the people standing on the left said in a condensed voice:

"System, a country must have a perfect system, there are still many loopholes in today's Ming law, and only the system is not enough, if today's Ming law can be seriously implemented, there will not be so many corrupt officials, and there will not be so many unjust, false and wrongful cases. Those who are officials often eat the plaintiff and eat the defendant, and they are officials for thousands of miles just for money. In the end, it was not the people who wanted to rebel, but the officials who forced the people to rebel, and the people had to rebel. Therefore, in addition to the importance of establishing a system, the implementation of the system is also very important. Confucianism has not done enough in this regard......"

Speaking of this, he looked at Luo Xin with some concern, because Luo Xin was a generation of Confucian scholars, and he was afraid of arousing Luo Xin's disgust. Then he paused, Luo Xin was a little surprised, since the Song Dynasty, there seems to be only Confucianism left in the world, and the other hundreds of schools of thought have disappeared, under such a unified thought, the thinking of this person in front of him can be described as deviant, and he just said that Confucianism has not done enough in this regard, does he want to say that Legalist? This shocked Luo Xin too much, so he asked in a condensed voice:

"What do you call him?"

Hearing Luo Xin call him a gentleman, that person's heart was happy, which proved that Luo Xin agreed with his words. Immediately said to Luo Xinshi:

"Students are self-rooted."

"You go on." Luo Xin said with a smile on his face.

Fang Zigen's heart was immediately encouraged, and he said with a calmer expression: "If you talk about the law, you still have to look at the family." In fact, since the Han Dynasty, the laws of the Qin period have been used by various dynasties, with only slight additions. But what is great about Legalism is not only the formation of the legal system, but also his ability to execute. ”

Luo Xin nodded, he naturally knew how important a country's system was, even more than taxes, but he didn't expect that in the ruling world of Confucianism, someone would think of this problem. It seems that it was only after being exiled that he realized this problem.

"Mr. Fang used to be?"

Fang Zigen's expression darkened and said, "I was in the Criminal Department before. ”

Luo suddenly had a heart in his heart, no wonder he had a unique idea of the law. But he was still curious and asked:

"Mr. Fang, did you have this idea when you were in the Criminal Department, or after your exile?"

Fang Zigen's old face was red and said, "It's after exile." ”

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