For Liu Ru and them, this meeting is really like riding a roller coaster, and the ups and downs are not too big, of course, if they know what a roller coaster is.

first suddenly encountered bandits, and then Zhou Shaoyu actually agreed to hand over someone! Fortunately, he didn't do it in the end, but chose to resist.

But even so, my heart is still uneasy, after all, how much a family member is.

I never thought that Zhou Shaoyu was so violent, a few smooth movements, he killed five mountain bandits in an instant, and then, Zhou Shaoyu seemed to turn into a killing god, first taking advantage of the fact that there was still a little distance to shoot arrows quickly, due to the angle problem, I couldn't see them all, but I really heard five screams.

There were originally more than a dozen people in front of them, but now there were ten, and only two people, including the short and fat man, obviously didn't dare to rush again. As for the further back, I only knew that Zhou Shaoyu rushed directly to the back of the carriage, although he couldn't see it, but the screams were one after another, and there was also the sound of weapons colliding.

During this period, the short and fat man and another person wanted to take the opportunity to rush into the carriage and take hostages, but they were picked off by Zhou Shaoyu, who rushed back in time, and then kept the carriage tightly until they finally returned to calm.

It's just that no one dares to look at the latter paragraph, it's too bloody and terrifying. I only know that when Zhou Shaoyu stepped back into the carriage and walked forward again, the strong smell of blood came from outside the curtain, as well as the words 'don't open the curtain, it will scare people'.

During the period, he stopped at a stream for a while, but he didn't get off the carriage, let alone open the curtain, and when he saw Zhou Shaoyu himself, it was already evening, and Zhou Shaoyu's smile at this moment was still warm, and the exact same white robe was worn on his body, as if nothing had happened.

Dinner was very light, after all, there was basically no appetite. And before those bloody scenes are relieved, it is difficult to have some other thoughts, and the scene is relatively silent. The girl, that is, the size of Joe is much better, anyway, she has seen the battlefield with her own eyes, but she is not so close.

"Yin Niang thinks, in this rich land in the south of the Yangtze River, why would someone fall into the grass? Da Ming, is it still the strong Da Ming? Zhou Shaoyu broke the silence.

In normal times, Liu Ru would definitely be able to say a lot of things, but at this moment, his thoughts were chaotic enough, and after a long time, he only came to the sentence 'I don't know'.

Zhou Shaoyu shrugged his shoulders and continued to ask: "Everyone in the world says that the eunuch party will bring disaster to the country and the people, and there is no benefit, so what does Yinniang think?" ”

"It's nature!" At this time, Ziliu did not hesitate. "Eunuchs have plagued the country since ancient times, and it is the most deserving punishment."

For this answer, Zhou Shaoyu was not surprised at all, Liu Ruyi's intersection circle was all scholars, scholars, and celebrities. Scholars, they all love fame, as long as they don't really get to that point, everyone likes to scold the eunuchs, which is equivalent to political correctness in Shilin. Liu Ru, who has been so nurtured, naturally thinks so.

"Then can Yinniang know that when Wei Zhongxian is still alive, the government can still be maintained, not to mention, just talking about the military salary, if there is a war, no matter what, you can make up a full amount of silver taels, and now? Yinniang can know, not to mention military salaries, even the food eaten by the soldiers has a lot of sediment to fool people. ”

This is by no means a joke, it completely changed the fortune of the Ming Dynasty, there were two wars, both of which were a few years later. One of them is that the Ming Sun Chuan court fought against the king Li Zicheng, and the old armament also gave birth to the plague, and the silver taels that should be allocated by the court have been missing for a long time, as for the food, in addition to the upper layer, the lower side is full of mud and sand!

In addition, the morale of the army is low, if you want to win, you must need time to rest and train, but you can't stand the imperial court repeatedly urging Sun Chuanting to send troops, the result is self-evident, Sun Chuanting died in battle, and the most capable army in the Ming Dynasty was wiped out!

Later, Li Zicheng was like a bamboo, all the way to the Beijing Division, and during the period, Chongzhen wanted to transfer Wu Sangui's border army back to the Beijing Division, but it needed a full one million silver taels to do it, for this reason, a farce appeared, Chongzhen borrowed money from the minister, and even assigned tasks, however, since it was all a farce, it was naturally pitiful, anyway, everyone was crying poor.

In the end, Chongzhen finally showed his courage and emphasized that Wu Sangui entered Beijing, but the result was that Wu Sangui was still on the way, and the Beijing division had been broken.

It is worth mentioning that the form outside the pass is also quite bad, and the Jinzhou defense line that took decades to build has been broken by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it has to retreat to Guanning, and this is the last piece of land of the Ming Dynasty outside the pass.

Letting Wu Sangui enter the customs and enter Beijing is equivalent to giving up all the territory outside the customs!

Therefore, in fact, even if Wu Sangui successfully entered Beijing to resist Li Zicheng, it would be in vain, because it was impossible to destroy King Chuang's army in a short period of time, and outside the pass, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was eyeing it.

The demise of the Ming Dynasty, there are too many factors, combined together, it is difficult to do not perish, some people say that Chongzhen is too stupid, do not know the south to move to Jinling, but how to move, throughout history, the Southern Tang Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty, who did the revival again, but it is a lingering breath.

Not to mention whether Chongzhen is meritorious or not, the last blood letter before his death, the sentence 'Let the thief split the corpse, don't hurt the people', is enough to explain the integrity of the Ming Dynasty, unlike the end of the Qing Dynasty, 'What does the life and death of the people have to do with me, as long as the emperor of the Qing Dynasty is still there'.

Liu Ru didn't speak, she didn't know so much about this, she usually talked about the current situation, but she didn't really involve the specific content. But most of them are not convinced, according to this statement, those eunuchs are still good people?

Zhou Shaoyu didn't care, and said very directly: "The Ming Dynasty has already begun to go downhill, if you really want to trace it, you can start from the Tumubao Change, because this incident means that the literati have officially begun to control the regime." Don't rush to refute, listen to me. ”

Seeing that Liu Ru was about to speak, Zhou Shaoyu raised his hand, then got up and stretched, put his hands behind his back, and continued: "It's not that literati are bad, a huge country must need talented people to govern, and among literati, there are indeed many commendable existences, but this does not mean that they are not at fault, of course, this matter is too long, if you talk about it in detail, it will be too time-consuming, so let's start with the closer......"

At the beginning, Zhou Shaoyu decided to start from this aspect, to brush off some of Liu Ru's inherent concepts, with Liu Ru's talent, Zhou Shaoyu believes that as long as a good student is cultivated, he will definitely be a government expert, of course, the premise is that the concept and view should be changed, Zhou Shaoyu is not against Confucianism, but if it changes the taste, it will be boring.

Any group, there must be good and bad, there is nothing about the sovereignty of the literati in power, but what if they are still part-time referees in the next game? When there is no supervision, it is strange that there is no change.

The political situation of the Ming Dynasty was originally a balance between the nobles and the Wenchen, and the change of the Tumubao, not only the emperor was captured, but the nobles were also greatly injured, and the Wenchen began to rise.

The middle emperors didn't mention it for the time being, and jumped directly to Emperor Wanli of Mingshenzong, that is, Emperor Zhu Houxi of Jiajing.

With the assistance of Zhang Juzheng, Wanli Zhongxing was once opened, and Emperor Jiajing himself was good at grasping finance. This emperor has many advantages, but there are also many shortcomings and disasters left behind.

As everyone knows, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were the dynasties with the most personalities, well, that's a nice way to put it. Among them, Emperor Jiajing has an amazing record of not going to court for decades, only leaving the palace once, and staying in the palace all of them.

This is not to say that he ignores the government, but the way is too special, in short, the degree of decentralization is also amazing, and because of the serious vacancy in the official position, one person often holds several positions. It was in this process that the status of the literati was raised again, and it was almost unsupervised, and gradually a network of relationships was rapidly formed, and the result was the decadence of the dynasty, the corruption of officials, not to mention the dictatorship of Yan Song, one of the great traitors.

The Three Great Campaigns of Wanli, namely the Battle of Ningxia to quell the Mongol rebellion, the Korean War of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the monkey of the Japanese Kingdom, and the Battle of Banju to quell the rebellion of Yang Yinglong in Banzhou.

The fight must be fought, but the result is that the family wealth saved by Wanli Zhongxing is gone, in other words, the Ming Dynasty is poor! Originally, it's nothing if you're poor, and then you can earn it back.

However, the problem is that Zhang Juzheng is gone. At present, the government has begun to erode, and it is difficult to become rich again.

Skip the two emperors again, to Chongzhen's elder brother Tianqi Emperor Zhu Youxiao, yes, that is, the famous carpenter emperor.

Regardless of whether Zhu Youxiao has no intention of going to politics or is powerless, Wei Zhongxian is what he pulled up.

In order to consolidate his personal power status, Wei Zhongxian has indeed done a lot of bad things, and the party is cruel and vicious, so it is not too much to describe it. But when Wei Zhongxian was there, whether it was in China or in Liaodong, it was quite stable, and it still had a certain overall view.

When Zhu Youxiao died, he instructed Chongzhen, saying that Wei Zhongxian was loyal and could count big things. However, the latter couldn't wait to destroy Wei Zhongxian.

As a result, during the Apocalypse, the tea tax in the south of the Yangtze River alone received more than 200,000 taels of silver every year. But what about Chongzhen now? I don't know where to catch 100,000 taels.

So what did the people of Donglin do? Abolish the mining tax! Abolish post houses everywhere! There are other taxes as well. Oh my God, such an important post house in both internal affairs and the military can be abolished, you cow!

In short, those who mine do not have to pay taxes, and those who do business do not have to pay taxes, that is, the lowest level of bitterness haha has to pay taxes. However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, where land annexation was so serious, how much money could be collected from this? As for why, it is necessary to safeguard the interests of network groups. What does it matter if the emperor and the court have money or not? If we have money, it's fine.

In this way, in the event of a natural disaster, what can the people of the world do if they don't rebel? And what to defend against foreign enemies?

Calculating, when Wei Zhongxian was there, the situation didn't dare to say that it was good, at least it was okay, but Wei Zhongxian had only been dead for more than ten years, why did he fall so quickly?

"Of course, I'm not holding grievances for Wei Zhongxian, and I also hate the existence of eunuchs. The reason why I say this is to make a contrast, if everyone like Wei Zhongxian is punished by eunuchs, then what about those Donglin people? ”

Zhou Shaoyu finished speaking slowly, and said with a sarcastic smile on his face.

Again, there are many reasons for the fall of the Ming Dynasty, and this is just one of them, but Zhou Shaoyu just wants to say this, without him, to shatter their good impression of those Shilin characters.

The most obvious example, the emperor's small treasury in the palace may not exceed 100,000 taels, but look at this Jiangnan Shilin figure, how many have no money?

"You have a lot of contact with scholars and celebrities, you should know what the family background of those people is, if you really have such loyalty and righteousness, why do you only shout two sentences but do not act?"

For several indigenous Ming Dynasty girls, today is destined to be an unforgettable day for them, encountering mountain bandits, allowing them to see the bloodiest picture they have ever seen in their lives, which cannot be calmed down for a long time.

Zhou Shaoyu's words certainly made them forget the blood, but the problem is that although the impact is not visual, it is psychological and spiritual.

Dong Xiaowan, who was the first to react, seemed to want to say something, but was pulled by his mother Bai, and then secretly pointed to a position on Zhou Shaoyu's side. Dong Xiaowan took a look at it, and suddenly felt complicated.

I saw that there were already some blood marks on the originally white robe, and it was obvious that Zhou Shaoyu was injured.

Okay, it's true that he was injured, if he didn't have any scruples to fight, Zhou Shaoyu wouldn't take those mountain bandits in his eyes, but it was a little difficult for a person to protect the carriage, although Xiao Qiao had a flintlock pistol in his hand, but if it could be avoided, it was naturally better not to let the mountain bandits lift the curtain.

After a fight, he was stabbed like this, fortunately, he dodged in time, the wound was very shallow, the length was very short, and he had not been bleeding since he was cleaned afterwards, but he never thought that if he moved now, he would split some blood and let out a little blood, but Zhou Shaoyu's attention was not on this at the moment, and he didn't notice it.

The position of Dong Xiaowan and the Bai family happened to be able to see that in their opinion, maybe Zhou Shaoyu was indeed very skilled in martial arts, but since he could be injured, it meant that he was not invincible, and if he didn't want to protect the carriage, he might not be injured.

In other words, this is also for them to choose to fight hard, no matter what, this love is the essence after all.

It's just that in this way, it seems that there is too much to owe?

Dong Xiaowan hesitated like this, so much so that Liu Ru was a little unacceptable and said: "No, I don't believe it, if it is according to what you say, then Da Ming is not ......"

Isn't it? Isn't it going to die? After all, the people who are really in power now are those people in Zhou Shaoyu's mouth, if these people are like this, what hope does Daming have at all, as for wanting to overthrow, it is not easy to say, but if there are some signs, it will cause a backlash from the entire Shilin.

In fact, Liu Ru said this, he was already very shaken, if it was just Zhou Shaoyu's mouth, there would definitely be no such effect, but there would be Xie Sanbin and Qian Qianyi's performance in advance!

One is a soldier who has served the country and fought a war, and the other is the leader of the Donglin Party, which is already very representative.

"Let's not talk about anything else." Zhou Shaoyu smiled slightly, and said: "This trip to Jinling, I can fund you to hold a poetry meeting, presumably in the name of Yinniang, there must be a lot of scholars present, Yinniang can call for righteousness, initiate donations to relieve the worries of the court, and then see if those people are generous or a dime." ”

(End of chapter)