"This is nonsense." Gao Hongtu was so unceremonious when he spoke, "Essentially attaching equal importance to civil and military affairs will inevitably lead to the separatism of feudal vassal towns and even the usurpation of power by military officials. The rise of heroes in the late Han Dynasty, the separatist regime of vassal towns in the late Tang Dynasty, as well as the Southern and Northern Dynasties and the
Isn’t the frequent regime change in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period enough to explain the problem?”
"So what if the regime changes?" Chongzhen asked, "Did it endanger China's reputation? Did it destroy the Confucian ancestral temple?"
"This..." Gao Hongtu was speechless for a moment, because whether it was the Song, Qi, Liang, or Chen in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, or the Later Liang, Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han, and Later Zhou in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, they all inherited Chinese clothes and did not destroy the Confucian ancestral temple.
On the contrary, after the death of the Song Dynasty, the Meng Yuan Dynasty took over the Central Plains, and the Chinese clothes and clothes were completely destroyed.
Chongzhen went on to say: "For a dynasty of one surname, separatism by vassal towns or usurpation of power by military officials is naturally a serious danger, but for Chinese clothing, the harm of using culture to control military affairs is even greater than separatism by vassal towns or usurpation of power by military officials, because when military officials are in power
At least it can allow the Central Plains Dynasty to maintain its military advantage over the surrounding barbarians."
Gao Hongtu said with a dark face: "According to what the Holy One said, is it wrong for me to wait to protect Daming?"
"I didn't say you did it," Chongzhen said, "I just want to say that whether it is equal emphasis on civility and military affairs, using culture to control military affairs or using force to control culture, these are not problems."
Gao Hongtu said: "Then what exactly is the problem?"
Chongzhen said: "The problem lies in the distribution of resources or the distribution of interests. If the problem of imbalanced distribution of resources or interests cannot be solved, no matter what national policy is adopted, it will inevitably fail."
Gao Hongtu frowned and said: "Resource or benefit distribution?"
"I'll just put it bluntly, it's land distribution." Chongzhen said, "If we can't solve the chronic problem of land distribution and can't restrain land annexation, let alone using culture to control military force, all of you civil servants will become like Li Jing.
The God of War cannot save the Song Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty, because the increasingly serious land annexation will one day bring down the Ming Dynasty's finances."
Gao Hongtu fell into silence after hearing this.
This is how the finances of the Ming Dynasty were dragged down.
This is something that even Gao Hongtu cannot deny.
After a pause, Chongzhen said again: "Gao Hongtu, I am telling you this just to expose you. You civil servants and officials are not saints. The Chinese clothes and Confucian temples are just your excuses. What do you really care about?
In fact, only the cabinet is in power, that is, the power or interests in its hands."
Gao Hongtu's face darkened, and he immediately wanted to refute, but Chongzhen stretched out his hand to stop him.
"Don't rush to refute, first listen to what I have to say." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "Gao Hongtu, I actually had no prejudice against you at first."
"On the contrary, I admire you quite a lot because you are honest, self-reliant and capable."
"I have no objection to your Donglin Party, at least you still pretend to be Ming Dynasty in your heart."
"So since I returned to Nanjing last time, I didn't have too many disputes with you."
"You, the Donglin Party, want to completely control the cabinet, and I will also rely on you. The four ministers are all from the Donglin Party."
"My requirements for you are actually not high, and I don't want you to do anything. As long as you, the Donglin Party, stick to your duties and do your own thing well, I will never touch you easily."
"But you, the Donglin Party, are not willing."
"You, the Donglin Party, insist on taking away my Ministry of Internal Affairs, and you even insist on putting me to death."
"These practices of your Donglin Party are really unacceptable to me and even more difficult to tolerate."
"If you are allowed to control the government and continue to act recklessly, China will sink again and China's reputation will be ruined again. It will be an inevitable result."
Speaking of this meal, Chongzhen said: "So I can only uproot the Donglin Party."
At this point, Chongzhen also showed his fangs. Gao Hongtu had expected this, so he was not too surprised.
"The scaremongering is horrifying." Gao Hongtu even had the mood to retort, "The loss of clothes and clothes in Shenzhou Luchen only happened once in the late Song Dynasty. What's more, it was not caused by the use of civilized military forces and the co-governance of scholar-bureaucrats."
"What's more, the mere Jiannu and the powerful Mongolian Yuan are completely out of control."
Speaking of this meal, Gao Hongtu added: "So the situation at the end of the Song Dynasty will not happen again."
"After all that, Gao Hongtu, you still can't see the essence of the problem?" Chongzhen said solemnly, "I just said that if we don't solve the problem of land annexation, it will inevitably lead to financial collapse, and financial collapse will inevitably lead to a dynasty.
It is only when a dynasty is destroyed that the consequences of using civil power to control military power will be truly realized."
"Attach equal importance to civil and military affairs. Even if the dynasty is destroyed, the clothes and clothes will not be ruined and the ancestral temple will be destroyed."
"Because the military officials who usurp power and the vassal towns in the separatist areas will not abandon the ancestral temple."
"But once we use civil society to control military force, once we lose the use of force to suppress the surrounding barbarians, it will really lead to the loss of China's clothes and the destruction of its ancestral temples!" Speaking of this, Chongzhen said again: "Those barbarians don't care about China.
They only care about their money, their tails and their bald heads.”
“What if we see the essence of the problem?”
Gao Hongtu seemed a little annoyed and angry: "I admit that the Donglin Party cannot solve the problem of land annexation, but your Majesty, you can solve the problem of land annexation? Forcibly confiscating the land of noble officials and gentry for Luo Zhi's crime, and then selling it? A hundred years?
Then there will be a tyrannical emperor who does not follow the rules, and we will have to do it all over again according to your method?"
Hearing this, Chongzhen smiled and said: "Gao Hongtu, are you worried that I will also share the land in the south of the Yangtze River?"
"Isn't this a fact?" Gao Hongtu smiled and added, "After we have finished equalizing the acres in the north, we will then have to equalize the acres in the south of the Yangtze River. Your Majesty, you don't need to deny it."
"But I might as well keep my words here. Your Majesty, you won't be able to control the fields in the south of the Yangtze River."
"Unless you can kill all the Donglin Party members, all the civil and military officials in the court, and all the tens of millions of common people in the south of the Yangtze River, you should not even think about equalizing land in the south of the Yangtze River."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Chongzhen shook his head and said: "If I told you that I never planned to equalize land in Jiangnan, would you believe it?"
Gao Hongtu suddenly said: "Your Majesty, don't think of others so stupidly. You are not the only smart person in this world. Where can you raise money for uneven land? And what can you use to recruit soldiers?"
"Gao Hongtu, you know very well that you will definitely not survive this time."
After a pause, Chongzhen continued: "So I don't need to lie to you. I only plan to equalize acres of land north of the Yellow River, and never thought of equalizing acres of land south of the Yangtze River."
Gao Hongtu looked at Chongzhen carefully, as if trying to distinguish whether his words were true or false.
Chongzhen added: "The annexation of land has been a huge problem for emperors of all dynasties, but it is a huge help for me. His arsenic is my honey. Only I can turn this problem into help.
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"You are not ashamed of your words." Gao Hongtu said suddenly, "How many sages have not been able to solve the problem, but you can solve it?"
When he said this, Gao Hongtu couldn't help but have a thought pass through his mind, Meishan's enlightenment! If Meishan's enlightenment is true, maybe the Holy Spirit will really have a solution?
"You don't believe it? Then I'll tell you. Anyway, we have plenty of time."
Chongzhen smiled and said: "Gao Hongtu, the Ming Dynasty will soon evolve from agricultural civilization to industrial civilization. By then, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of factories and workshops will spring up like bamboo shoots after rain in the south of the Yangtze River.
Come, and so many factories and workshops will require tens of millions of workers."
Speaking of this, Chongzhen briefly talked to Gao Hongtu about the prospects of the industrial revolution.
Then he continued: "If there were no land annexation, there would not be so many landless peasants. If there were no landless peasants, there would not be so many workers available. So you said, I would be stupid enough to implement land equalization in Jiangnan and reorganize the land."
Tens of millions of farmers imprisoned in the fields?”
Gao Hongtu was stunned when he heard this.
Hundreds of thousands of factories and workshops?
Will tens of millions of landless peasants become workers?
An iron train that can travel hundreds of miles a day using only charcoal?
An ironclad battleship that sails on the sea without sails?
Your Majesty, are you afraid that your brain has been burned out?
Where do all these weird and random ideas come from?
Chongzhen shook his head and said: "It's a pity that you can't see such a prosperous age anymore."
Hearing this sentence, Gao Hongtu suddenly realized that this was just a tactic by Chongzhen.
"In this case, I can probably guess your intention, Your Majesty." Gao Hongtu smiled and said, "If Your Majesty expects to say some unbelievable things and words, and let this veteran confess his guilt, it is wishful thinking and impossible.
!The old minister’s thoughts are as solid as a rock and will never waver in the slightest.”
Gao Hongtu only regarded it as nonsense made up by Chongzhen.
Gao Hongtu's reaction was already within Chongzhen's expectation.
At that moment, Chongzhen said with a smile: "I never thought about asking you to plead guilty."
Hearing this, Gao Hongtu suddenly paused in his heart and felt bad.
Sure enough, Chongzhen said with a smile: "What I want is for your three favorite disciples to take the initiative to plead guilty. As long as they plead guilty, it is equivalent to Gao Hongtu and you confessing, isn't it?"
"Your Majesty, what a good plan." Gao Hongtuqiang said calmly, "However, it is useless. Yuan Pengnian and the three of them have the same willpower as me, and there is no way they will take the initiative to plead guilty."
"Oh, really? Then let's wait and see." Chongzhen said with a smile.
After saying that, Chongzhen took up the wooden oar and rowed back. Gao Hongtu thought about it and followed suit.
After paddling for nearly half an hour, they finally returned to the shore. When Gao Hongtu looked closely, he found that there were three more familiar faces in the crowd on the shore. Who could they be if they weren't his three proud disciples?
Yuan Pengnian, Liu Zhengzong and Li Jinglian were all looking at him with suspicious eyes.
Teacher! Gao Hongtu seemed to be able to hear the questions of the three disciples in his ears, what did you and the Holy Master talk about in the lake? They actually chatted for such a long time, almost three and a half hours!
Gao Hongtu wanted to talk, so he talked about his own ideas, but he couldn't speak out.
You can't tell the three disciples in front of everyone, I didn't say anything, you three don't think nonsense. If you do this, wouldn't it mean that there is no three hundred taels of silver here, and you are asking for it?
We can only wait for an opportunity to discuss the matter when we meet in private.
But at this time, Chongzhen would not give them another chance to meet in private.
"Xu Yingwei, send Mr. Gao Ge back home!" Chongzhen ordered, "There is some chaos in Nanjing during this period. You must ensure Mr. Gao Ge's personal safety and make sure no mistakes are made."
"Students accept the order." Xu Yingwei agreed loudly.
Then he bowed his hands to Gao Hongtu and said: "Mr. Gao Ge, please get in the car."
Gao Hongtu could only glance at his three disciples with gloomy eyes, then lowered his head and got on the carriage.
Liu Zhengzong and Li Jinglian were soon sent away by Prince Qin. Only Yuan Pengnian was taken into the imperial carriage and rode back to the city with Chongzhen and his son.
Zhu Cijiong pressed the handle of the waist knife with his hand and stared at Yuan Pengnian warily.
Although Zhu Cijiong is only fifteen years old this year, in the spring of this year, he started to grow up like crazy, and now he has grown to the position of Chongzhen's ears.
Moreover, this boy looks burlier than Zhu Cixiang.
So sitting there with the handle of the knife on your knees is quite intimidating.
But in fact, his worries were completely unnecessary. Yuan Pengnian was wearing shackles.
"Yuan Pengnian, you must really want to know what I and Gao Hongtu said in the lake, right?" Chongzhen smiled faintly and said, "It's okay to tell you, we just talked about our respective ideas."
"Gao Hongtu told me the reasons for regicide, and I also told him why we wanted to eradicate the Donglin Party."
After a pause, Chongzhen continued: "Because there is no one else within a few hundred steps, it's just the two of us, so we didn't hold anything back and said everything we wanted to say."
"The Holy One is hinting to me to admit my connection with the regicide case?"
Yuan Pengnian smiled and said: "If this is the case, I don't need to bother to advise the Holy One. I only have one sentence at any time. I am not involved in the regicide case. If you don't, then you don't."
"I do know Du Hongyu, but they are just acquaintances."
"Why Du Hongyu committed regicide and rebelled against the emperor, I really don't know, and I have nothing to do with it."
"Of course, if Your Majesty insists on beating me up just because I know Du Hongyu, and puts the charge of regicide and rebellion on me, I can't do anything about it."
After a pause, he added: "After all, if you want your minister to die, you will have to die."
"Yuan Pengnian!" Zhu Cijiong was furious, "I advise you not to be too arrogant."
"Your Highness Prince Ding, please calm down the anger of Thunder." Yuan Pengnian said, "I can only tell the truth."
"You have such a sharp mouth, no wonder Gao Hongtu thinks so highly of you." Chongzhen said with a smile, "However, if you think that you have controlled the public opinion in Shilin and Jiangnan, so I can do nothing to you, then you are totally wrong.
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"The Holy Spirit's words are serious." Yuan Pengnian said, "How virtuous and capable is our Donglin Party that we can control the political debate and public opinion of scholars?"
After saying this for a while, Yuan Pengnian continued to say solemnly: "In addition, I also want to sincerely advise the Holy One, justice is in the heart of the people, and the eyes of the people in Jiangnan are sharp!"
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