Jiajing was able to live to the age of 60, all because he came to Beijing as a foreign vassal, did not encounter the heavy metal baptism in the Forbidden City, was relatively healthy, and after practicing Taoism, he also met the requirements of a stable mind.
Then Jiajing quickly asked: "Fairy, will the Ming Dynasty really perish in 84 years?"
"That's of course. Your Ming Dynasty had a lot of internal and external troubles, and it was pretty good that it lasted for 84 years before it fell. Of course, it was also because of the brutal killings at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and the population recovery was slow." The girl said directly.
"Fairy, can you tell me why the Ming Dynasty died?" Jiajing asked again.
Apart from cultivating immortals, Jiajing was naturally concerned about his own dynasty.
At this time, the other ministers all trembled and knelt on the ground. No one dared to raise their head to look at the emperor, for fear of being dragged out and killed by the emperor.
The girl said impatiently: "You should know best why the Ming Dynasty perished."
“Do you know the dynasty cycle rate?”
"It's actually the land and population recovery cycle rate."
"Isn't it obvious at a glance? Look at you, how many lords do you have who don't pay taxes?"
"First of all, you have many vassal kings in the Ming Dynasty. They don't pay taxes, and they all occupy large amounts of land. Just one King Fu, oh, there is no one yet, has occupied 3 million acres of official land."
"Lao Zhu only wants to prevent future generations from suffering and let the people of the dynasty support your family."
"Many people in later generations still praise and lick Lao Zhu, which is really ridiculous. However, he is just a feudal and selfish emperor. There is no comparison with the truly selfless heroes of later generations."
"The results were great. The upper-level feudal lords were extremely rich, while the lower-level clan members starved to death one after another. They could not even become beggars. They had to starve to death at home and were not allowed to work as scholars, farmers, industrialists or merchants. They became useless pigs.
It’s just ridiculous.”
Jiajing's eyes were dazzled after hearing this.
This fairy has quite a poisonous mouth.
But if you listen carefully, you will feel an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
Aren't these just those big talkers?
During big ceremonies, this is the spray method.
All kinds of rules and etiquette were finally defeated by his own imperial staff.
But this girl has a layer of immortal protection on her body and cannot be hit with the imperial staff.
Otherwise, he would have been dragged down and beaten to death.
Jiajing looked respectful on the surface, but in his heart he was extremely angry.
I am the emperor!
Even the gods must listen to me!
But it was useless for him to be angry.
Only now did he realize the feelings of those officials who admonished him.
It's useless for the other party to be angry. Just saying "There is no bad king or father in the world" can cover up everything.
The girl did not let him go and continued:
"Lao Zhu wants the world to support his endless descendants."
"The result is great. I can only support a few direct descendants."
"After so many generations, the lower classes are starving to death. It's better to let people out and look at it as individuals."
"And the vassal king did not pay taxes, which directly brought down the entire court."
"Otherwise, we can survive the 300-year deadline."
Everyone nodded inwardly after hearing this.
Zhang Juzheng's eyes lit up, he had already seen this.
It should be said that most civil servants have noticed this.
But having said that, even if the feudal lord doesn't take it away, these stewards will take it away.
The civil servants had long proposed to limit the supply of money and rice to the feudal king.
They also realized that as the descendants of the Zhu family multiplied, the people would only become more and more unlucky.
Later, the total amount was determined to be 6 million koku per year for all the feudal lords.
Half of them are natural colors and half are folded colors.
The true color is real rice.
The other half is converted into rice by using other things.
Or silver, or all kinds of coal, charcoal or materials, there are all kinds of things.
The civil servants could be fooled as long as they could, and there were not many times when the feudal king was able to get everything.
Their greatest harm lies in using their power to annex land and disrupt commercial order.
They can also enjoy tax exemptions without any scruples.
As the girl kept talking, Jiajing's heart kept sinking.
"Also, you administrators don't pay taxes."
“The families of local administrators are annexing land everywhere.”
"But he will not do any corvée."
“Each administrator’s family owns anywhere from a few hundred acres to a few thousand or tens of thousands of acres.”
"The annexation of land cannot be prevented, but it is only proper to charge high land use taxes."
“If you have less land, you will collect less, and if you have more land, you will collect more, so that you can have money to do things.”
"Those damn corrupt officials!" Jiajing couldn't help but curse.
"Oh, crows are as black as crows in the world," the girl said with disdain, "the so-called clear stream is the same."
"I remembered, there was talk about Xu Jie on the Internet, who was known as Qingliu and talented. His family, the Xu family, had more than 200,000 acres of land, and some said it was more than 20,000 acres."
"Of course the big head is still with the feudal lord, and we can't bully honest people."
At this time, Xu Jie's face turned red and he couldn't help but stand out:
"Immortal, I am really wronged. The family land is indeed only 20,000 acres."
"Okay, okay, I'm not sure about this either. History says you may have 200,000 acres, or maybe 20,000 acres." The girl waved her hand casually.
"But what the people fear most are all kinds of miscellaneous labor, building roads, rivers, palaces, receiving officials, and government expenditures in various places..."
"Instead of taxes, because the original taxes are very small. The servants cannot be found on the heads of officials and vassal kings, and there is no quota for the servants. They are levied until the people can no longer bear it, and they are all borne by the common people. This is how
It’s the big head.”
"Especially for those of you who are clean-minded. There may be some who are relatively honest, but most of them are just complicit in the evil and just want to have a good reputation."
At this moment, someone finally seemed to see the true nature of this fairy.
A Qingliu said tentatively: "Fairy Rong Bing, my family was originally in a remote village. I came to Beijing to pass the exam and passed the second-level Jinshi exam. If I stay in the capital, I am very poor."
"After 20 years of hard work as a Beijing official, I am still renting a house. There is no land at all in my hometown."
Many people also said: "Yes, yes, we are like this too."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The girl was confused when she heard this: "Okay, okay, I know there are honest officials among you."
"It's definitely unfair to kill them all, but there is definitely someone who slipped through the cracks."
No one had anything to say.
"For example, your Hai Rui is indeed very honest, and some honest officials are indeed very poor."
"Only on the salary of a few dozen taels of silver, I was living a miserable life. The hungry family could only eat gruel."
"The system of the Ming Dynasty is very deceptive. After forcing good people to become officials of the Ming Dynasty, they can only become corrupt officials."
Jiajing blushed upon hearing this.
The ministers shed tears after hearing this.
Especially those administrators whose yamen are deserted, with no one coming to them for years to come for services, have to live on their salaries all year round.
Many of them are still renting houses.
"Jingpiao" has been around for a long time.
Yes, this is all forced by your old Zhu family.
Immortals and people of later generations are still very fair.
"And this is what your ancestor, Lao Zhu, did to you, that idiot."
"His purpose is simple."
"Some people say that he killed corrupt officials for the sake of the people. P, he killed corrupt officials for his own family, because all he stole was his family's money." The girl squirted there.
"Actually, I want everyone in the world to support your family, Lao Zhu."
"So to pay high salaries to the Ming Dynasty officials, for him, it is just cutting out the flesh from his body, and he is reluctant to part with it."
"He did not expect that this would actually make corruption worse."
After hearing this.
All the ministers felt sad.
Jiajing was about to collapse.
Zhao Han was dumbfounded.
This girl is really wild.
Compared with her, Miheng is just a younger brother.
The main reason is that Mi Heng can only directly curse people and engage in personal attacks.
What the other party listed was all actual evidence.
"By the way, I have to say something fair to Xu Jie. Later, Xu Jie opened fire on King Jing's family. King Jing would die in a few years. Xu Jie asked King Jing's fiefdom to be taken back and returned to the people. It was a full 4
Ten thousand hectares of land means 4 million acres. So a capable minister is still a capable minister." The girl said what she thought of.
When Xu Jie heard this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
It seems that his reputation in later generations has been preserved.
Although this future immortal is harsh and outspoken, he is still fair.
Although some Qingliu did not dare to change their faces, they nodded in their hearts.
What they said is right.
In fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see the shortcomings of the Ming Dynasty.
Unfortunately, I can't change it.
The people I met were all feudal lords and relatives of the emperor.
As long as the emperor does not rebel or cause trouble, the emperor will let them do evil as he pleases.
Even if they do evil and get a bad reputation, they can't fight back.
If each of the vassal kings had a good reputation and won the hearts of the people, the emperor would not be able to sleep!
Therefore, restraining the vassal king and turning him into a saint is in itself contrary to the fundamental interests of the emperor.
This is the reason why in the Ming Dynasty, the vassal kings did not solve the evil in the end.
Jiajing was even more white and red.
People are almost gone.
At this time, the eunuch Lu Fang quickly mustered up the courage to change the subject:
"Immortal, you have said so much, doesn't it mean that my Ming Dynasty has no benefit at all?"
When the girl heard this, she nodded and said, "Yes, yes, I can't just say bad things about you."
"You must have some benefits."
"Whether it's good or not depends on comparison."
"For example, although your Ming emperor was mean and cruel, he did not engage in literary inquisition."
"We won't arrest and kill entire families just because they write a few poems or novels."
"So the four great classics, Water Margin, Journey to the West, and Three Kingdoms, all three have revolutionary ideas, and the results were all in the Ming Dynasty."
"And the last one, with all kinds of obscurity, all kinds of homonyms, and all kinds of evasions, still can't avoid being banned."
"Also, the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to culture and education, and the literacy rate was also good."
"Especially in Jiangnan."
"In the later Qing Dynasty, two large villages fought with 5,000 people, and only three of them could read."
"And there are literate people in almost every household in the southeastern part of your Ming Dynasty."
"At that time, some people even held debates, and 100,000 people participated in the debates. This was something the Manchus did not have."
"The Ming Dynasty was relatively tolerant of scholars, and many new ideas emerged."
"For example, if you think of a false king, everything is entrusted to the cabinet, and the monarch governs from the top."
"It is actually a better way to change the cabinet when something goes wrong. The only thing is that the imperial examination needs to be changed and the right talents should be used."
"Even though many mainstream forces in later generations still used this method, they would change the cabinet if something happened, but the leader would not be changed."
All the cabinet ministers suddenly showed joy in their hearts.
Yes, this immortal said it well.
If you have anything to do, just let our cabinet handle it.
Emperor, just sit high.
"Of course, we must also strengthen supervision to prevent the cabinet from doing bad things..." the girl said again.
The big guys are unhappy again.
"You, the Ming Dynasty, are tolerant of all kinds of weird and strange opinions from scholars."
"But in the later Manchu Qing Dynasty, there was no such tolerance. Don't talk about weird things, even if you praise the court, it won't work. You will be dragged out and beheaded."
"Because the Manchu Qing Dynasty made it clear that those things are not allowed for ordinary people to talk about, and ordinary people are not qualified to talk about them."
"You still allow the common people to talk about the imperial court and allow everyone to speak. This is hundreds of times better than the Manchu Qing Dynasty."
"And you are also absorbing Western technology. It is not prohibited, but there is no clear understanding. It is not encouraged or prohibited. It is left to the people to choose."
"It's just that you generally think that Western technology is nothing great, but you don't prohibit others from learning it."
"The Qing Dynasty was different. The Qing Dynasty completely prohibited others from learning these Western things. Anyone who learned them was a traitor."
"But their emperor at the beginning knew that it was a good thing, but he shelved it and forbade others to learn it. This was because he had the intention to do bad things."
"You are unintentional."
"So the good and the bad are contrasted. In terms of culture, the Ming Dynasty was far better than the Qing Dynasty. There is no doubt about this."
When everyone heard this, someone immediately asked out of curiosity: "The Immortal keeps talking about the Great Qing Dynasty. What exactly is the Great Qing Dynasty?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "The Qing Dynasty is not a thing," the girl continued. "It was originally called Houjin. He claimed to be a descendant of the Jurchens. In fact, he was not. He was just a man who made a living by fishing and hunting.
tribe."
"Later, I attached myself to your Ming Dynasty, fought with you, and learned your Ming Dynasty's military system and weapon manufacturing technology."
"The only thing better than you is that they pay the entire army, but your civil servants don't pay the military and they are easily wiped out."
"Ten percent of the military pay has disappeared before leaving the capital."
"On the road, only 20% was left, and when we got there, only 50% was left. The officers took another 30%, and only 20%, or even 10%, was not given to the lower-level soldiers..."
"How is it possible to win like this?"
Jiajing was stunned when he heard this.
Zhang Juzheng nodded in his heart.
He already knew about this drawback.
He has a way to solve it, which is to earmark funds for special people.
Find a reliable general, give him money, and let him recruit troops.
He took a fancy to Qi Jiguang.
When the girl said this, she said angrily: "By the way, I think of Qi Jiajun again. It's a pity to think of Qi Jiajun."
"For such a strong team, you just can't afford the military pay."
"The other side finished the battle and won the battle, but when you civil servants saw that the other side was making trouble,"
"That's awesome. It's obvious that we can't pay military pay."
"Just tell me, come to the school grounds tomorrow, you don't need to bring weapons, and I will give you military pay."
"It turned out well. After deceiving people, I shot more than half of them dead."
"Good guy, if you can't solve the problem, just solve it for the person."
"If we can't pay the military, we'll kill those who want it, and no one will want it. It's high, it's really high!"
Everyone was stunned when they heard this.
Zhang Juzheng felt a chill in his heart.
I didn’t expect such a thing to happen?
But if you think about it carefully, some people can actually do it.
Because they have always looked down upon the big-headed soldiers.