Chapter 136 Your Highness, Your Rebellious Period Has Arrived
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.
.
"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?
Later, the military households in the southwest were unable to be squeezed by the guards and had no choice but to flee. These chieftains were their refuge. In many guards, there were only a few hundred people left because of the flight of the military households.
This system is wrong from the ground up.
Third, unlimited treasure money.
Two hundred years?
After fifty years, precious money will become useless paper.
In the past two years, I have helped to stabilize Baochao. Without my help, Baochao would no longer be used in Zhejiang. Fifty years later, a few thousand Guan banknotes can buy one stone of rice. After that,
Treasure notes may not be as valuable as scrap paper.
It will be long gone in two hundred years.
…”
There, Yang Feng wildly criticized Zhu Yuanzhang's current systems.
Although some of these systems are not meaningless at present, for him, he only needs to criticize Zhu Yuanzhang. Besides, these systems are indeed Zhu Yuanzhang's fault. He can only bear the blame for the hereditary neglect of a clan. Why did the clan of the Song Dynasty
This problem does not exist, because their thrones are not inherited at all. The most heirs can be crowned dukes, and the remaining sons have no titles at all. In practice, it is even worse. Basically, few titles can be inherited.
Of course, inheritance is nothing, after all, the benefits from the title in the Song Dynasty were pitiful.
There are 3,000 households in the city, and 100 households have real food, and the court collects a hundred cents from each household. The last person who is ennobled may be able to pay for a banquet in a year.
better than nothing.
But not only was Zhu Yuanzhang's clan hereditary, but he also received high salaries. For example, the lowest annual salary for a lieutenant in Fengguo was two hundred dan. When Zhang Xianzong was a seventh-grade official, his monthly salary was only seven and a half dan, less than one hundred dan a year.
There are more than 2,000 counties in the Ming Dynasty.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were more than 3,000 people receiving salaries in the Zhou palace.
The combined salaries of all county magistrates are not as good as what the Zhou family receives.
And how many Zhou palaces were there in the late Ming Dynasty?
The Prince of Jingjiang alone ate up all the tax revenue in Guangxi except for the salaries of officials. Because he couldn't afford it, he had to transport money and food from Huguang and Guangdong every year. In the end, it took the power of three provinces to support the Prince of Jingjiang.
Zhu Yuanzhang doesn’t bear the blame?
Zhu Yunxi and Zhang Xianzong listened there awkwardly.
Yang Feng suddenly pressed the emperor's grandson's shoulder...
"Your Highness, it's up to you to change all this.
His Majesty is too old, and the older he gets, the more stubborn he becomes. He only believes in his own experience and thinks that the system he designed is foolproof. Although he now knows that there are some things that are wrong, in his opinion, they are just some details that are not thorough enough.
But he won't make fundamental changes.
Even if I have told him the results of these systems in the future, he only believes in himself.
So if you want to change, it’s up to you.”
He said very seriously.
"But this is ancestral."
Zhu Yunxi said with obvious unconfidence.
"ancestral system?
Do you know what is the biggest mistake people make in this era?
It is the belief that those who came before us are better than those who come after us.
There is no ancestral law that is timeless. The world is moving forward and everything is changing. The ancestral law is used to change. The most important idea of our time is reform and constantly moving forward, not
Turn around or stand still."
Yang Feng said.
To deceive Zhu Yunxi into rebelling against Zhu Yuanzhang?
Of course, it was not a true rebellion, but a rebellion made by the emperor's grandson.
In fact, he has been working hard for this.
It is said that it is useless for him to be angry with Zhu Yuanzhang. That old fox is really scheming. How can a person be influenced by him if he has never experienced anything? But just like a scheming person, he will be angry half to death when he meets a rebellious grandson. Let Zhu Yunxi
Showing the attitude of a reformer, Lao Zhu is trying hard to create a system that he thinks is foolproof, and then after his death, his grandson can move forward along the road he paved. But now Yang Feng is trying to trick Zhu Yunxi into becoming a reformer.
, set things right for him, and let Lao Zhu see that this rebellious grandson will follow his own path in the future, instead of following the road paved by him.
But in this case, will Zhu Yuanzhang replace Zhu Yunwen again in anger?
Although Zhu Yunwen is incompetent, at least he doesn't look rebellious for now!
That would be great fun.
And there is Zhu Di...
Zhu Di can do it too.
At least Zhu Di is mature and will not be fooled by Yang Feng, and Zhu Yuanzhang also said that Zhu Di is the most like him. Although Zhu Di is now kicked to the Japanese country to expand its territory, in fact, his influence is increasing day by day, and his King Yan
The fiefdom has not been moved yet. It can be said that he developed Huining and then Fusang.
Now the Wu Zhe and other tribes in Huining have listened to him.
He also has the support of the people.
Most of the people in the Ming Dynasty, especially the military households, were aggrieved by King Yan.
After all, he has been so miserable in the past few years, and it is easy to arouse sympathy. The invincible commander can only wander outside because he is in a suspected place, and cannot go home for several years. This is definitely worthy of sympathy.
Just like Gao Changgong.
In short, if Zhu Yunxi becomes rebellious and Zhu Yuanzhang is worried that his system will be overthrown in the future, it is really possible to choose another one, and then the situation will become Zhu Yunxi, Zhu Yunxi, and Zhu Di's three families competing for supremacy...
"I think you have a conspiracy."
After Zhu Yunxi left, the little princess came up to Yang Feng, who had a conspiratorial look on his face, tilted his head and said.
"Nonsense, when have I ever conspired? I act openly and aboveboard. If I say I will kill someone in front of the palace, I will kill someone in front of the palace. Does an arrogant and domineering person like me need to engage in conspiracy?"
Yang Feng said.
The little princess had a contemptuous smile on her face.
"I just like to conspire."
Yang Feng said.
Then he put his arms around the little princess's shoulders, because the latter's height had soared, and it was now natural for the two of them to do this.
"Tell me, tell me, what unusual behavior has your other nephew had in the past two years? Is he trying hard to regain your father's favor? I just heard that he is studying behind closed doors. It seems that he has not been out of school for a long time.
It’s the palace.”
he said.
Zhu Yunwen has disappeared from the outside world since he failed to compete for the crown prince.
It's like living in seclusion.
If it weren't for special occasions such as Zhu Yuanzhang's birthday, he would still visit him as usual, which would make people forget that there is an imperial grandson in the Tenth Prince's Palace.
"Do you think this is appropriate?
He is my nephew, although he is older than me.
But we are aunt and nephew after all."
said the little princess.
Of course, it was just words, but the cunning look in his eyes clearly meant that he meant more.
"But we are in the same group. Don't forget who took you out of the palace and allowed you to fly freely outside. I think this is enough to offset your so-called nephew. If not, I can give it to you.