After all, he was old. After Lu Fengyi insisted, she showed that she was obviously unable to support herself. Zhu Youdong then ordered Wu Youxing to take advantage of the night to send the old man back quickly: Although the old man is over eighty, he can make people happy.

It is still something you should do to have less worries in your later years.

After Wu Youxing left, looking at the people in the hall who were eager to speak, Zhu Youdong flicked his sleeves: "First of all, the content of today's meeting must not be spread to outsiders. Secondly, everyone should go back and think about it carefully, and then tell us within three days."

I would like to submit my opinions on how to rectify the Huangce library. That’s it for today, let’s all disperse.”

"Yes...I'll be waiting to see you off grandson."

Returning to the back palace, he changed his clothes under the service of the palace maid. After taking a bath, he ate some midnight snacks, and then asked Wang Chengen to find a palace maid who was good at massaging to massage his head. After all this trouble, he felt depressed and tired.

His body finally got better. Then he asked everyone to leave, and he once again fell into a long exam state with his elbows on his knees and his forehead on his hands.

The most important thing for a person is to have self-awareness.

As a time traveler who was chosen by mistake, Zhu Youdong never believed that he alone could conquer the world with omniscience and omnipotence. Since he was reincarnated into this era, he has repeatedly thought about how to take his own path. And the results of many times of thinking are actually the same.

it's the same.

The Ming Dynasty has the largest population and the most diligent and intelligent people in this era. As long as they can be fully mobilized, they can rely on them with peace of mind. In future battles with other time travellers, Zhu Youdong may fail, but he will definitely be able to stand up again quickly.

!

However, Huang Ceku, which has basically collapsed, not only cannot rely on the people, but also has to face the raging wave of refugees all over the country.

Moreover, it can be seen from the paralysis of Huangceku that the entire Ming Dynasty bureaucracy, from top to bottom, is completely rotten. If the two goals of the people living and working in peace and contentment and the bureaucracy being clean and efficient are not achieved, haha, don't talk about peace.

If other time-travelers compete, I'm afraid I will become the king of subjugation!

It seems that my grandpa is still far-sighted than me. When I was still obsessed with making some technological inventions, making a little money, or making small fortunes in small places like Mubang and Kuandian, this grandpa has already

He forced himself to a higher position just to let him see more and further!

Overall, the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty was indeed in ruins. But individually, there were indeed many idealistic officials who made practical efforts to save the country.

For example, Hai Rui.

When Haigangfeng was the governor of Yingtian, he was well aware of the problems in the Huangce Library. He also knew that due to the out-of-control Huangce, the rich were getting richer and the poor were getting poorer. In order to reverse this situation, he adopted a very stupid plan.

, but the really effective method is to do it slowly one by one.

But how much power can one person have? Even if you, Hai Rui, work hard to death, how much can you figure out? Moreover, he has just made a start here, and almost all civil and military officials in the court are putting pressure on him.

In the end, he could only resign sadly.

It was Zhang Juzheng who really made achievements.

The core of a whipping method is to simplify the complex. Land tax, corvee service, and additional assignments are all integrated into one and uniformly converted into silver. Farmers do not need to calculate anything when paying taxes in the future, they only need to pay a single sum of money.

As a time traveler, Zhu Youdong strongly agrees with this idea: in this era, the literacy rate of the people is low, and due to the cost of governance, the imperial power cannot be extended to the counties. The more taxes you have, the easier it will be for petty officials at all levels and village tyrants in the township to get their hands on you.

The final result was that the court did not receive much money, and ordinary farmers went bankrupt. And after the tax types were simplified, it became much more difficult for officials at all levels to get their hands on them.

Especially the policy of allowing corvee labor to be exchanged for silver is a great sign of good governance. If a farmer goes out to do corvée work, the lack of labor at home will easily cause the family members to starve to death, and they have to bring their own dry food, which makes it difficult for them to die outside.

For an ordinary peasant family, corvee is a double or even multiple injury. If one is not careful, the family will be ruined. But when corvee is allowed to be exchanged for money, the interests of small farmers are effectively protected. As long as ordinary small farmers do not go bankrupt in large numbers, the foundation of the country will be weakened.

It's still stable.

But if the small farmers do not go bankrupt, how can the gentry expand?

Therefore, the One Whip Law undoubtedly touched the interests of the bureaucratic gentry class. However, when Zhang Juzheng was still alive, political strongmen exerted pressure, and the One Whip Law was effectively implemented. But after Zhang Juzheng died...

Zhu Youdong felt very sorry for Zhang Juzheng's death. But after a short period of regret, he fell into a new long test: Why was Hai Rui forced to resign just after he started, but Zhang Juzheng was able to be tough until the last moment of his life?

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Comparing the two, of course Zhang Juzheng has greater power than Hai Rui. He is the only living grand master in the Ming Dynasty!

But the question arises again. No matter how powerful Zhang Juzheng is, even if he said, "I am not a prime minister, but a regent," he must be a regent. But can his power be greater than that of the emperor? But why was the emperor unable to protect him later?

A whipping method, so that less than twenty years after Zhang Juzheng’s death, a whipping method almost existed in name only?

After thinking over and over, Zhu Youdong's vision brightened: Zhang Juzheng was not only the chief minister of the cabinet, but also the head of the civil servants. During his time in power, he also had the support of the army!

Not to mention others, Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang were the only ones who followed Zhang Juzheng at that time. And the troops of those two were the most capable in the Ming Empire at that time. Therefore, no matter how dissatisfied the bureaucrats and gentry are, they will really tear their faces apart.

If you want to die, you can only continue to use memorials and public opinion to criticize Taishi Zhang's soul, but Taishi Zhang can use weapons to criticize your body.

After Zhang Juzheng, the frightened civil servants quickly cut off contact with the generals and the emperor. From then on, the emperor had no choice but to cheer up.

Thinking of this, my thinking seems to become clearer.

How come I have forgotten the true meaning of what Taizu of the Celestial Dynasty said? This sentence is not only applicable to conquering the world, but also to defending the world! As long as I have enough power, I don’t care what wolves, tigers, leopards, monsters and monsters are, all with one sword

Cut it down...and the world will be clean.

Huh! When I master enough power, you moths in the body of the Ming Dynasty will find that Zhang Taiyue is gentle to you. In the current situation where productivity is not developed enough and agricultural taxes cannot be exempted, what I learned

The target is Yongzheng in my Qing Dynasty on the historical plane.

The peasants are divided into acres, the officials and the gentry work as errands and pay the grain, and the fire-related expenses are returned to the public.

Although Yongzheng introduced these three policies, the most fundamental purpose was to cut off the flesh of the Han landlords, officials and gentry to feed the millions of Eight Banners children who did not work in production, but these three policies are really good, aren't they?

You don’t like the whipping method, and you definitely don’t like these three policies even more, right? But in terms of history, when faced with Yongzheng’s illustrious butcher knife, didn’t you all hold your noses and admit it in the end?

There is no reason why Yongzheng can do what I, a time traveler, cannot do. As long as I have an army that is absolutely loyal to me and can defeat unrivaled enemies all over the world.

Of course, the army alone is not enough, and many other supporting things are needed. For example, later generations of research found that a whipping method would still fail even if Zhang Juzheng could live for decades longer, because this policy was limited by the Ming Dynasty's political system.
Chapter completed!