Chapter 136 Your Highness, your rebellious period has come

Yang Feng proudly walked out of Chengtianmen under a crowd of sideways glances...

"What, you're not happy to see that I'm not dead?"

He shouted as if he was possessed by Dong Zhuo.

"Open, be happy!"

"happy!"

…

The civil servants and generals in front said perfunctorily.

By this time, those who didn't bother to flatter this evil thief had already left.

Of course, it could also be that he was afraid of being beaten to death.

So people like Huang Zicheng and Xu Guan have disappeared, but Liu Sanwu is still there. He seemed to have recovered after being demoted before, and put on the red robe of the fifth grade again. In fact, his grade has never been very high, but his influence

But it has always been enough to compete with the six ministers.

It's not that Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know about the little tricks he made.

but……

He represents the Confucian Group.

If Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to establish a civil government, he could only rely on the Confucian scholar group, so he would be given some favorable treatment no matter what.

Originally, in the case of the Northern and Southern Rankings in history, he was the chief examiner who led the emergence of the Southern Rankings. He was the one who judged and admitted the Southern Rankings, which were all southerners. However, even though he was so angry that Zhu Yuanzhang was only exiled, the official who reviewed them was Ling Chi.

The latter is to help him.

He said there was nothing wrong with his marking.

As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang sentenced him to death, but only exiled him.

It's because he represents the Confucian group.

Similarly, he had many ups and downs under Zhu Yuanzhang, and he recovered quickly every time he was demoted.

"Mr. Liu, are you happy?"

Yang Feng stood in front of him and said.

"The ambassador has returned safely. I am naturally happy."

Liu Sanwu said calmly while stroking his beard.

If people have never experienced anything, how can they care about his provocation.

"By the way, why didn't I see Lian Hanlin?"

Yang Feng said.

"Lian Zi would rather be executed for his crime."

Liu Sanwu said.

"Haha, that's really fun!"

Yang Feng said with an arrogant smile.

Then he turned and walked forward, pointing his rifle as he walked...

Mount Wutai.

Yang Feng seemed to be a different person as he greeted the emperor's grandson with a smile.

"I don't like to wrong myself. I will take revenge when I have a grudge, and I will vent my anger when I am angry. The Emperor Taisun will ask His Majesty what the explosion is about. I don't think there is any need for Your Majesty to lie to you, but I can't.

Do nothing, just come back as if nothing happened. Similarly, now that I have vented my anger, the matter is over. No matter who is right or wrong, the matter is over, just like the page of a book has been turned.

I am the messenger.

No matter how powerful Daxia is, it is impossible for it to covet the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, no matter what, I must obey the arrangements of my country and be an envoy in the Ming Dynasty. Unless my life is threatened, my main purpose is to help the Ming Dynasty.

But, I have my own way of life.

It is impossible for me to change myself for Ming Dynasty, the education I received does not support me to do so."

Yang Feng said while pacing in front of Zhu Yunxi.

He had to restore his personality in front of the emperor's grandson.

After all, the emperor's grandson still has feelings for him, but if he suddenly reveals his true colors, it can easily arouse the emperor's grandson's suspicion. After all, he has to succeed, and no emperor would like to have such a guy under his rule.

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"Don't Daxia Kingdom say that guests should do as they please?"

Zhang Xianzong said.

"But Daxia did not put bombs on the boats of other countries' envoys, and Daxia did not assassinate the envoys. Daxia would not let the envoys kneel down. Since they are equal diplomatic relations, they should at least respect each other instead of trying to put their own

To impose a set of rules on others. Please note that for us, imperial power is something that has been abolished for a hundred years. The last emperor of our time was released after being in prison for many years. He went to the palace in the past.

You have to pay for the tickets.

So why should I kneel at the feet of the imperial power here?

I can accept a country ruled by an emperor.

Because at that time, we still had a few remaining monarchies, and the monarch was just a decoration, but the power was vested in the elected government, and the monarch could only be said to be a great chief.

We also have diplomatic relations with them.

Therefore, our Daxia Kingdom can have friendly relations with Ming Dynasty.

I also respect His Majesty the Emperor.

He wore a cloth coat.

Of course, commoners are all beautified. With such a background, he conquered the world in twenty years, and his achievements are impressive. After he ascended the throne, he expelled the Tartars and reestablished a peaceful and prosperous age so that the people no longer suffered from troubled times. It is also worthy of respect.

but.

Is this the reason why he made a mistake?

I can now tell His Highness many of the final results of the system His Majesty currently operates.

First, the vassal system.

Two hundred years later, the Ming court will need to support more than 100,000 clans, the lowest of which is higher than the salary of a magistrate. There are more than 2,000 magistrates in the Ming Dynasty, but the number of clans with a salary of any vassal is only three to four thousand. In the end, every year in the Ming Dynasty

Nearly half of the annual income had to be given to these clans, and this was because of subsequent massive arrears.

If there is no arrears, it is estimated that the Ming Dynasty will not have to do anything with the annual income, and it will be enough to support these clans.

Three generations are relatives.

What kind of relatives will there be after three generations?

What's more, it actually has to be raised for more than ten generations.

What's more, these vassal kings all have fiefdoms, guards and officials. To support them, the court also needs to constantly fill holes in them.

This system was the main reason for the fall of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty finally died because the court had no money, because it had to bear this burden all the time. It had to support more and more clans from generation to generation, and nearly half of the annual income had to be given to them. And in the future,

The emperor would also grant new vassal kings, one generation after another. The number of vassal kings continued to increase, more and more land became the vassal king's, and the court could collect taxes from less and less land.

In the end, it was impossible to collect taxes, but at the same time it had to support more and more clans.

Second, military households.

To be precise, it is various household registration restrictions.

Two hundred years later, military households were all serfs, just like the tenants during the Hu Yuan Dynasty. Not only did they have to hand over most of the harvest to the guard station every year, but they also had to do various chores for the generals of the guard station, which could be said to be like cattle and horses. Because

They have military status and cannot leave even if they want to. They can only work like cows and horses for generations. His Highness lamented the poverty of Fengyang last time.

Then I can tell your highness that two hundred years later, due to the flight of military households, there will be no people living along the Huaihe River for thousands of miles.

Likewise everyone is restricted to household registration.

It's like being tied up.

If you want to get rid of it, you can only choose to flee, or become refugees, and these refugees turn into rebels, or flee to the chieftains or even barbarians, and eventually help them become stronger, and then become internal and external troubles for the Ming Dynasty.

Can Yuan continued to struggle with the Ming Dynasty for more than two hundred years, and even went as far as Peking.

Why did one of the people who reached Peiping become stronger?

Because he was in the pastoral area of ​​Hetao, where tens of thousands of Ming Dynasty refugees escaped. These refugees helped him farm and smelt iron, so that his soldiers had armor and sophisticated weapons. In the end, he broke through the Great Wall and showed off his power outside Beiping City.

What finally led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty was a chieftain rebellion that swept the southwest.

But most of the chieftain’s generals were Han Chinese.

Where did it come from?
To be continued...