Chapter 1075 The basis for the emperor to rule the world
Yang Fan said with a smile: "Your Zhang family is the largest gentry family in Qinshui County, and can even be said to be the top gentry family in Zezhou Prefecture. Your Zhang family has cultivated and passed down family traditions for generations, and has produced countless Jinshi and officials. Your family
There are tens of thousands of acres of land. Is Shimei willing to give it to you and get a share of it?"
Zhang Fengyi was at a loss for words, her face turned slightly red, and when it was her turn, she really didn't want to do it.
Seeing Yang Fan looking at him with a smile, he became angry and said angrily: "Brother Yang, your family has more land. There are 500,000 acres of paddy fields near Jizhou. Not counting Zunhua. Brother Yang, are you willing to share it?
one cent."
Zhang Wudian didn't take it seriously when Yang Fan teased his granddaughter. In the late Ming Dynasty, Xinxue spread, and society was more open and enlightened. The restrictions on women were also quite broad.
Zhang Wudian said with a smile: "Uncle Dingyuan's fields are all given to his own slaves for cultivation. It is true that he does not charge land rent."
Zhang Fengyi and the Huo family were shocked. Uncle Dingyuan’s land was no less than millions of acres. Such a large amount of land did not charge land rent. What a huge number it was. There were such great benefits to attaching to Yang Fan. How much did those people think of the Yang family?
Loyal. They can't find a better owner in the world.
Zhang Fengyi immediately reacted and said: "Brother Yang, you run a workshop and make money by making iron. Since ancient times, the government has been monopolizing salt and iron, which shows huge profits. Now that the Ming Dynasty has liberalized iron making, you naturally don't need the fields.
rental."
At this time, the cook brought up a plate of salt-baked chicken. Yang Fan quickly invited everyone to try it.
Zhang Wudian drank a glass of rice wine and ate a chopstick of salt-baked chicken. He put the chopsticks down with satisfaction and said, "The salt-baked chicken is really good. It's fresh and tender, and it's soft in the mouth."
Huo also said: "It has rich flavor, crisp skin and smooth meat, slightly yellow color, crispy skin and tender meat, fragrant bones and meat, and attractive flavor. It is indeed a delicacy."
"Uncle Dingyuan belongs to another category, which is called local power and weakness. It does not include generals, military leaders, wealthy families, local evil forces, etc. We occupy land, workshops, and wealth, but we highlight our military power. We use force to intimidate the people. We have nothing but
There are no private soldiers, and there are very few dependent people, clans, and slaves. It is impossible to turn the dependent people into military power at any time. A few of our children serve as military attachés."
Brother Yang said: "Gentlemen are definitely landlords, and officials have such a status."
"Is Your Majesty a wise king or a foolish king?" Before Wei Ruifan finished speaking, he received another small nose pocket on his head.
"Gentlemen are small surnames under the clan. They are petty bureaucrats under politics. They are small landowners under economics. They are small intellectuals under academics. They are small armed leaders under military. Daqing, look at your Zhang family.
All of them are consistent. Therefore, your Zhang family is not a standard gentry family."
Wei Rui said: "In fact, there is no eighth leg. This is not imperial power. The emperor actually rules the sky with the gentry, the strong and the weak. When he looks at a stool, two legs are stable, and eight or seven legs are very stable.
In reality, the imperial power balances the two legs you can see inside by supporting the two hidden legs."
Brother Yang is very satisfied with his grandson's analogy, but it's a pity that the grandson is a boy. If he were a girl, he should be less bad. The children of the generation outside the clan are the least capable of you.
Zhang Wudian couldn't help but asked: "Your Zhang family is a gentry family. Who is this Wei Ruifan? I am obviously a gentry, but I don't have the power of my position."
Zhang Wudian listened with rapt attention. You have never received such teachings from your grandfather. Obviously, that knowledge can only be spread among the most core children within the family.
Brother Yang also deeply agrees. Do you think that Yin Jian, who is four thousand years old, is far away? In the Ming Dynasty, Li Qi was prominent, but since the Han and Tang Dynasties, Li Qi has been in command of few famous generals. Li Qi has a very capable position.
Wei Rui smiled and said: "One leg is a eunuch, and we are essentially the emperor's secretaries. We assist the emperor in handling government affairs. The other leg is a liqi, who is not the mother of the emperor. Both of those two people have mediocre fighting capabilities. Especially the liqi.
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Zhang Wudian understood that his family was not like that. He said it very profoundly and in a simple way.
Yang Fan continued: "In fact, the emperor does not rule the country by relying on those seven types of people. He looks at the civil and military officials outside the court and traces it back to the bottom line. They are all one of those seven types. Those who can balance those seven forces.
If you are not a wise king, otherwise you will be a weak king."
Wei Ruifan said: "Since ancient times, the dynasty has not had two legs. One leg is not the family, the gentry, or the gentry. We control the local economy, but we highlight the leadership position under the culture. The so-called thousand-year-old culture, poems and books are passed down from family to family. It is not about controlling the people.
The idea of retreating to control public opinion among the people. Few of the family members serve as civil servants."
Zhang Wudian became more and more excited as he listened, and asked: "What are the two hidden legs?"
Zhang Wudian directly grabbed a chicken leg and started to chew on it.
Wei Ruifan asked: "Grandpa, what exactly is a gentry and what does it mean to be a gentry?"
Yang Fan nodded, what Brother Yang said was very vague. He is not that kind of thing at heart. It is useful to say that other things are useful. I don’t have a gun. I just do it. Those two types of people, one controls thoughts and influences through thoughts.
The common people also hold administrative power, which relies on violence and intimidation.
There are many nouns in life that you all use naturally, but you have never really tasted their definition and connotation.
Both hands must be lost, both hands must be hard.
"The gentry and the powerful are weak. When our children enter the court as officials, they are not in the inner court. They are headed by the prime minister. They are also in the prime minister's office. When the eunuchs and li Qishao serve in the court, they are in the inner court, not in the palace. Therefore, Zhuge Liang is in the list of apprentices.
I warned the former lord that the palace and the palace are all integrated into one, and whether or not the punishments and punishments are appropriate are similar and different. The inner court system was created by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and has been passed down to this day."
Zhang Wudian nodded and said: "Although Xiao Ming has abolished the prime minister, there is still no cabinet. There is no ceremonial supervisor in the palace to approve the red. In fact, it is the same as in the later dynasties. There are checks and balances between the inner and outer dynasties."
"The gentry are not classified either. Wealth has been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years, and it has been passed down for hundreds of years to small families. In local areas, families with a small population and unable to control the big houses are called small surnames. In culture, families with a monopoly on the inheritance of certain knowledge are called distinguished families.
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If you were a girl, you would definitely impart all your knowledge to others. Unfortunately, boys who are introverted will sooner or later belong to someone else.
"Generally speaking, the internal dynasty makes decisions and the internal dynasty executes them. It is like a business, a workshop, or a shop. There is no shopkeeper or boss. Why have civil servants never fought against eunuchs in history? There was no disaster of party imprisonment in the Han Dynasty, and there was no manna change in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
.You, Xiao Ming, don’t have Liu Jin, Wang Zhen, Wei Zhongxian and others. He thought, can the shopkeeper be able to fight against the boss? Only the boss, not the emperor, can deal with us."
Brother Yang continued: "There must be a court where both legs are sound and they can walk as fast as flying. Anyone can be an opponent. If one leg is broken, for example, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the late Tang Dynasty, it was not the gentry who broke the leg. The result will not be long-term.
Civil war. For example, in the Northern Song Dynasty and you, Xiao Ming, the leg of the strong and weak was not broken. Therefore, the military was poor and strong. Now, both legs are broken. The gentry has become decadent, and the weak and strong are suppressed and lingering. "
In India, those two kinds of people are not Brahmins and Kshatriyas. In the West, the soup is also a change of medicine. Catholicism does not have a pope, Orthodox Christianity does not have a patriarch, and Protestantism does not have a cardinal. Priests play mind control, while kings, nobles, and knights
Not Kshatriyas, relying on threats of violence.
Brother Yang put down his chopsticks and said with emotion: "The gentry are both the pillars of heaven and the little evil in heaven. It's really hard to describe in words."
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