Nan Ming smiled slightly and said: "I'm not that famous either. As I said just now, what I want is power, for others to submit to me, not for me to grovel to please others. For example, you are sitting right now, Prince, and
I am standing because I have no power."
Feng Danyuan nodded: "It's quite frank, please sit down." He was the magnanimous King Chen, and everyone spoke up. For Feng Weihuan's sake, just sit down.
Nan Ming was not polite at all. Why stand when he could sit down and talk? He didn't have any masochistic tendencies.
Feng Danyuan continued to ask: "If the northwest frontier is handed over to you, what are you going to do?"
Nanming replied: "The first is to open up people's wisdom; the second is to adapt to local conditions; the third is to communicate with each other."
Feng Danyuan was slightly surprised in his heart, but his face remained calm: "Nothing is easy. In the northwest, after thousands of years, it is not that no one with lofty ideals has done this, so why do you think you can do it?
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"I don't think I will definitely be able to do it, but I have to give it a try anyway. Wealth can be gained through danger, so why not power?" Nan Ming smiled and looked at Feng Danyuan: "Your Majesty, how about cooperation between you and me?"
Feng Danyuan raised his eyebrows.
Nanming continued: "Since you have explored my background, you naturally know what is going on in the northwest. You are the famous God of War in Kyushu, but peace in the world is not only about unifying the world, but also long-term peace and stability. What I just said,
It is also what your heart desires. Since we have reached the same goal by different paths, why don't we work together? I will get the power I want, and you will see a Kyushu with peace in all directions and clear rivers and seas. Wouldn't you get the best of both worlds?"
Feng Danyuan sneered: "The Number One Scholar is really eloquent, and he got me into this by going around and around. How are you so sure that I will agree?"
Nan Ming was modest: "I'm not sure, everything depends on the prince. But as I said just now, I and the prince said frankly that maybe it will work, but if you don't try, it will definitely not work."
"That makes sense." Feng Danyuan nodded, and then asked casually: "How many of the officials in Xuanzhou, Qingzhou, and Wuzhou of Yun State are yours?"
This question made Nanming silent for a moment.
"It's hard to answer?" Feng Danyuan felt a little sure in his heart, which seemed to be quite a lot.
"If you ask if they are my people, then I can only answer 'no'. I only control the power in Mocheng; but I have some relationship with the government in the northwest. They are not my people. We each take what we need."
." Nan Ming also confessed.
"Feng Ji." Feng Danyuan shouted.
After Feng Ji came in, he ordered: "Go to the study and get the two books from the drawer."
"yes."
Feng Ji quickly fetched the things, and Feng Danyuan motioned to hand the booklet to Nan Ming.
After Feng Ji did as he was told, he immediately retreated.
"Tell me the reason after reading it." Feng Danyuan drank tea.
Both books were not thick, so Nan Ming flipped through them quickly, and he naturally understood the problems inside: the number of local tax-paying household registrations decreased year by year; but the tax-paying number reported to the imperial household department was always the total household registration number.
About 90% of the number has not decreased.
In other words: the actual local tax revenue is less than what is paid to the court; there is only one reason why local tax revenue is less, the population is less, but according to the census of the Ministry of Household Affairs, there is no less.
It's a contradiction, but it's also very contradictory.
After all, it is normal for local governments to siphon off taxes and grain; but it is indeed unreasonable for local governments to silently make up for the loss of so many people and taxes over the years.
