Yu Xiaotian glanced at Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen, shook his head and said: "The two of you are loyal and righteous people, Yu Mou admires you two a lot, look at this Ming Dynasty, now there are only two of you left who can be so loyal to the saint, so please don't be impatient!"

If Yu had the intention to be unfavorable to the saint, why bothered so much? Could it be that Yu couldn't capture the palace for so many days?

But Yu didn't do this, precisely because Yu didn't intend to harm the saint, otherwise, if Yu had the intention to harm the saint, what would you do if you people were there?

I just want to talk quietly with the saint, and as for whether the saint agrees to Yu's conditions, Yu will never be unfavorable to the saint! Here I can swear to heaven in filial piety, if Yu violates the oath, this life will not end well! ”

Seeing Yu Xiaotian swearing so much, Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen both looked at each other, not knowing what to do.

Because Yu Xiaotian is telling the truth, if Yu Xiaotian has the intention to be unfavorable to Chongzhen, then he really doesn't have to go to such great lengths, with his current means, it can be said that it is effortless to take this imperial city, that is, just move his fingers.

With these guards in the current imperial city, they can't stop the Yu family army from attacking the palace at all, even if Yu Xiaotian wants to do it now, I'm afraid the guards here won't have anything to do with them.

So Yu Xiaotian really doesn't have to go through such a lot of trouble, if he wants to do something and doesn't want others to know, he can let his subordinates kill the insiders in the palace at any time, and naturally no one will know what happened in the palace.

After Chongzhen listened to Yu Xiaotian's words, he calmed down a little, and felt that what Yu Xiaotian said made sense, if Yu Xiaotian wanted to kill the king, then he did have this ability, and he didn't have to go through so much trouble at all, since he didn't do it, it means that Yu Xiaotian has not killed him now, so it doesn't matter if Cao Huachun is here or not.

What's more, now that he is the meat of the gods, no matter what Yu Xiaotian wants to do with him, he has no choice, even if he commits suicide immediately, Yu Xiaotian can still control the palace, and then help one of the princes to ascend the throne to replace him as the emperor, which is more conducive to him controlling the emperor.

So now Yu Xiaotian wants to have a deep talk with him, but he doesn't necessarily want to do anything with him, so he waved his hand and said, "You wait for all to retreat!" I want to hear what this traitor wants to say to me! ”

Cao Huachun glared at Yu Xiaotian, and said with a fierce expression: "Yu Dashuai, you can swear to the sky, you must not hurt the saint, if you break your word and get fat, the sky will not spare you!" ”

Yu Xiaotian smiled indifferently and said: "Don't worry, Yu is not the kind of villain who breaks his word and fattens himself!" ”

Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen and other eunuchs bowed down to accept the order, and slowly withdrew from the Wenhua Hall with a group of guards, and Yu Xiaotian also waved his hand and drove Liu Wang and other guards out of the Wenhua Palace, but Yu Xiaotian let them leave a suitcase, and at this time only Yu Xiaotian and Chongzhen were left in the palace.

Yu Xiaotian walked to the dragon case with his suitcase and said to Chongzhen: "Don't be nervous, since Yu Mou said that he will never harm the saint, then he will do what he says, there are some things here, Yu Mou wants to ask the saint to look at it for a while!" Please calm down your anger first, and after calming down, how about listening to what Weichen says with a normal heart? ”

Chongzhen took a deep breath, this feeling of being controlled by others is really bad, but the handle of the knife is now in the hands of Xiaotian, Yu Xiaotian is completely in control of the power of life and death of everyone in the palace, he can almost be regarded as a lonely person now, how can he take Yu Xiaotian?

So he didn't speak, sat down on the dragon chair, and glared at Yu Xiaotian angrily: "What do you have to say, you can say it!" ”

Yu Xiaotian also turned around and found a chair, sat down, and began to talk to Chongzhen.

Yu Xiaotian first started from the general trend of the world, and told Chongzhen in detail about the current situation of hunger and suffering of the people in the Ming Dynasty and the tragic situation of the people in various places.

For these things, Chongzhen has seen many local officials sent to Beijing from the concerts, of course, he knows what kind of state the people in many places in the Ming Dynasty live in, he is not completely without feelings, looking at these pieces of music sent to Beijing from all over the world, he also feels heartbroken, deeply saddened by the hunger of the people.

But over the years, he has been a little numb, since he ascended the throne, there have been too many such things, and the Ming Dynasty has been in chaos year by year, the financial shortage, and there is no way to help, so he is now beginning to feel numb to such things.

Yu Xiaotian then pointed out that the reason why the Ming Dynasty is now surrounded by the exile army is inseparable from the policy of the imperial court, the imperial court is now in financial difficulties, and the continuous increase in salaries and endowments is actually killing chickens and eggs, self-destroying the Great Wall, doing so is drinking water to quench thirst, the people themselves have no way to make a living, and the imperial court still has to collect taxes and salaries, and the government can only urge the people, and the people will not be able to survive, so they can only rise up, and as a result, the more and more the exiled army will be suppressed.

Although it seems that the imperial court has achieved some results in the offensive and suppression for a period of time last year, in fact, as long as it is relaxed a little, the exile army will immediately resurrect again, and it will not be able to suppress it, even if Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong and others are exterminated, Wang Zicheng, Zhao Zicheng, and Ma Xianzhong will continue to rebel in the future.

In this reciprocating cycle, there is no head at all, until the entire Ming Dynasty is completely emptied, and finally the Ming Dynasty is completely destroyed.

Chongzhen was a little unconvinced by this, but his thinking was gradually led into a state by Yu Xiaotian, and he began to be influenced by Yu Xiaotian and considered this aspect of things.

So Chongzhen and Yu Xiaotian began to argue, now the Ming court is in financial difficulties, to suppress bandits, to the imperial court, you have to use soldiers, the use of soldiers will cost money, no money can not fight, where does the money come from if you don't pay more.

Yu Xiaotian didn't answer his question directly, just said that this kind of thing, for him, is a trivial matter, and it can be solved in minutes, and there is no need to go to great lengths to extort these people.

Chongzhen didn't believe it at all, thinking that Yu Xiaotian was just talking nonsense.

But for Chongzhen's questioning, Yu Xiaotian thought about it for a while, and finally said his method, that is, to collect business taxes, open the sea ban, to raise agriculture with business, to raise agriculture with workers, he cited the example of the two Song Dynasty periods, although the country's military strength was weak during the two Song Dynasty, but the country was quite rich, and the annual income tax was far more than the current Ming Dynasty several times, even at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty was close to half of the rivers and mountains in the south of the Yangtze River, and the annual income tax exceeded the Northern Song Dynasty a lot.

In addition to all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, it has a great relationship with the opening of the sea and trade by the Song Dynasty during the Song Dynasty, only the contribution of the local city to the imperial court's financial revenue accounts for more than half of the annual contributions, and the sea trade has led to the development of handicrafts, absorbing a large number of laborers, and all kinds of commercial taxes are beyond the taxes of agriculture.

However, since the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has banned the sea, and at the same time despised commerce, and did not collect or only rarely collected the taxes of merchants, which led to the strong dependence of the Ming Dynasty on agricultural taxes, and as a result, the burden on the farmers of the Ming Dynasty was too heavy.

In addition, since the Ming Dynasty for nearly 300 years, the Ming Dynasty has accumulated over the years, and those lords and magnates and officials have annexed the land and occupied too much land, but they have never contributed a little tax to the imperial court, and even if they pay, they have concealed a lot of acres of land, colluded with local officials, deceived the superiors and subordinates, and passed on the taxes they should pay to the ordinary people, so that the ordinary people could not bear it at all.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty can only get worse and worse, and the burden on the peasants in various places is too heavy, and the grain that the peasants harvest all year round is not even enough to pay to the government, who still farms? If you don't pay it, you will be arrested and tortured, and if you pay it, you will starve to death, and it's no wonder if the people don't rebel.

And there are all kinds of expenses that are taken up by Cao Yun every year, it will consume too much financial revenue of the Ming Dynasty, and it can be completely abandoned Cao Yun, and the sea route will transport the grain tax from the south to the north, so that a lot of consumption can be saved in a year.

When Chongzhen heard this, he proposed that the matter of shipping was also mentioned by ministers, but many ministers objected, saying that the sea was unpredictable, and once it encountered hurricanes and waves, it would cause heavy losses, so it could not replace the transportation by sea.

Yu Xiaotian immediately laughed and asked Chongzhen: "Weichen started from the sea, although he has also encountered hurricanes and waves over the years, but he has not suffered much loss, even in the South Sea, the wind and waves are many times greater than those on the northern sea, and he has never suffered heavy losses because of hurricanes and waves!"

This time, Weichen used nearly 1,000 large ships to go north, and he didn't suffer too many losses, doesn't this explain the problem?

The Holy One was deceived by the ministers again! Are they worried about the loss of money and grain by sea because of the hurricane and waves, but they are worried about their interests!

With so much money spent on transportation every year, does the saint really think that it is spent on the canal? Wrong, too! Among the money and grain spent, at least more than eighty percent fell into the hands of all kinds of people, but those who oppose the replacement of Cao Yun by sea are mostly because they want to share a lot of profits from it every year, so once sea transport replaces Cao Yun, then these people will have no money to take!

In this way, it would be strange if they did not object! This is what Wei Chen said, because there are too many officials in the Ming Dynasty who should be killed!

And the saint may have also moved the idea of collecting merchant taxes to supplement the lack of financial revenue of the Ming Dynasty! Did this matter also meet with the collective opposition of the ministers?

That's right, because these ministers say that they don't compete with the people for profit, but in fact, there are a few of them who secretly do not collude with the merchants, and even secretly do business and collect commercial taxes, so they are collecting money from them, how can they agree?

This is the minister of the Holy Lord, and that's how they do things for the Holy Lord and the Great Ming!

The Holy Lord has been working hard all day long for the lack of money, but these ministers are all filling their own pockets, not to mention anything else, the Holy Lord proposed to ask the officials to donate money and salaries this time, but how much food and salary did they receive? If it is not expected by Weichen, I am afraid that there are very few, a drop in the bucket, right? ”

(Thank you for the two brothers of the desert laughing spring breeze and the thick Mudanjiang!) ）