Yang Youcai also had a bitter face: "If they fall into our hands, I'm not worried that they won't tell the truth, but if I want to say that I can deter them and make them not have the courage to be greedy for silver, Your Highness, you also think too highly of me." I have read the files of the previous investigations, and most of them were trembling in prison, but few of them did not dare to stretch out their hands to be greedy for money. ”

"People always have a fluke mentality, a day of not being greedy does not mean that they will never be greedy, once you stretch out your hand, you can no longer stop, this problem is a dead knot, so we don't have to worry about this matter, they just need to work hard, I won't blame them for other things."

Saying that, Cheng Xiaolian looked at it: "Let's go, let's go and see what the other people in the village say, what one person says can not be counted, and we must talk to a few more people to understand the specific situation in the village." ”

"Your Highness, these local officials don't know that we are coming, so will they secretly arrange anything?"

"They don't arrange anything, but a person always speaks with subjective consciousness, and we need to know a few more people to get the most objective thing."

"Wait, what is subjective? What is Objectivity? ”

Cheng Xiaolian scratched his head: "For example, the old Wang family next door to your house has always been at odds with your family, one day he made an accident, and the people in the government asked you, you subconsciously felt that he was not a good thing, and this matter must have been done by him, which is subjective." The lord of the government will analyze all the conversations of you people in detail, and then come up with the most fair answer, which is objectivity. ”

"Oh, I see, it's a grudge with one's own, one according to the basic facts."

"Correct."

The two of them walked around the village a few more times, and selected a few people of different ages to ask what they thought of the government.

Cheng Xiaolian glanced at Yang Youcai: "After asking so many people, how do you feel?" ”

"Some of these people say that the government has exempted land taxes but has not measured the land, and some say that commercial taxes should also be exempted, and what they say is about their own affairs, which shows that everyone cares about their own interests, and other things are not so important."

Cheng Xiaolian snapped his fingers: "That's right, you see that the people in the world only care about their vital interests, and there is another one that is not to suffer from poverty but to suffer from inequality. ”

"These people are too greedy."

"It's not a problem, everyone is the same kind of life, maybe the life of doing business is a little better than the life of farming, our strategy of exempting land taxes for one year, the living standard of the people who farm may be on par with the business, or even better than the business, those people who were admired in the past have been threatened, and they will naturally feel unbalanced, and those who have less land at home will feel that if they re-measure the land, they will be able to get a little more land, You can also get a little more food. ”

"But Your Highness, their family may not be able to do anything with this more grain, I have seen it, the land he said about their family is only less than three points of land, one acre of land is ten points, their family has eight acres of land, and there is not much more grain out of these three points of land."

"But three points of land will make them feel a sense of loss, just like if they are allowed to live the same life, everyone has seven acres of land at home, and the people who have seven acres and seven points of land at home will definitely not account for the sudden seven points less than the land at home, because everyone is the same life, there is nothing to fight for. But if everyone has to fight on their own, down to the people who farm the land, up to the civil and military officials, all of them will not be willing to be the queen, even if it is the green skin on the street, they will have to fight for whose younger brother is more. ”

Yang Youcai frowned: "What does Your Highness mean, why don't I understand it a little." ”

"In the course of his life's existence, people must spend their lives in the struggle of contradictions, and they must all carry out struggles. In the process of struggle, we have created a steady stream of vitality, and now the people in the village have the intention of fighting, which shows that the village has vitality and will be able to return to the level of a normal village in less than three years, which is the meaning of my going out today. If the people do not have this mind, the village will be like a pool of stagnant water, and then when they go back, they must think about what we have done badly, so that they will not even have the interest in fighting. ”

Yang Youcai admired it, and said convincingly: "I didn't expect His Highness to know so much, and a conversation with you is better than ten years of study." It's not like I'm a sycophant. ”

Cheng Xiaolian laughed: "These are the laws summarized by the sages, I studied philosophy when I was a child, and you haven't heard it because this is the doctrine of the emperor, you don't know." In order to cover up his philosophy, he can only pretend to be the name of the imperial doctrine, since it is the imperial doctrine, isn't it normal that Yang Youcai has not heard of it.

Yang Youcai's face suddenly changed: "Your Highness, how can you tell me this kind of thing, isn't this a broken rule?" I forgot about it as soon as I returned, and Your Highness should not mention it to anyone else. "No wonder he is frightened, this kind of thing is a secret of the royal family, Cheng Xiaolian is not worried about him, but if the next monarch who succeeds to the throne knows about this, he may not tolerate the survival of the Yang family.

"Haha, who do you think can become an emperor if you understand such a doctrine? There have been so many scholars throughout the ages, and the emperor has not been an emperor, and they also understand the doctrine of the emperor, but everyone's ability is different. It's like I gave them a war plan, but I didn't worry about them rebelling, I told you about it, and I didn't worry about what else you did, just let you have a little more knowledge, so as not to make a mess when you do things in the future. ”

Yang Youcai breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this: "Your Highness, I understand, Jinyiwei is now like a pool of stagnant water, I don't know what's going on, it turns out that His Highness is here to remind me, His Highness's great kindness, and his subordinates remember it." ”

Yang Youcai has been commanding Jinyiwei, but there is always a feeling that he is not enough, that is, he will do what he commands Jinyiwei, but he will never do more, nor will he use his own brain to think about something, and now it seems that the problem is here.

There is no struggle in Jinyiwei, let alone a struggle, even the promotion of officials is Yang Youcai's final word, his first requirement is to be loyal to the monarch, and if he is not loyal enough, he will never be hired. But this has also caused many capable people to have no way to wield their skills, so they can only be suppressed in low-level positions like the general banner, and they will begin to deal with things after a long time.

"I told you last time when I asked you to add silver to Jinyiwei, don't be too harsh on them, they are also human beings, and they also have seven emotions and six desires, in the case of doing things well, you have to satisfy their desires in order to make them do things better, so that Jinyiwei will become stronger and stronger, instead of not being able to do things without you Yang Youcai."

(End of chapter)