"At this point, do the people who run factories and businessmen also want to become nobles and share the power of the court with the clan? If businessmen and the clan share the world, will it be good or bad for the Ming Dynasty?" Yunzhi stared at Yun's eyes. , said the last paragraph word for word.
Yun looked at Yunzhi's expression and smiled. He said, "It's rare that you can consider such a problem now. Even Wen Yuan has never thought about such a thing."
"Third brother, why are you joking at this time?" Yunzhi said with some dissatisfaction.
"Then it's no longer a joke." Yun said. Seeing that the group had passed the Xihua Gate and entered the imperial city, heading towards the Qianqing Palace, he added: "It's almost noon now. Let's eat first and wait until 2 p.m. We’ll talk about it after Uncle Ten and Yun leave the palace. And how to tell you about this matter, I still have to think about it as a brother.”
"Uncle Twenty and Yun are also members of the clan, what's wrong with letting them hear this?" Yunzhi said.
"It's okay for them to hear about this matter, but there are other things I want to tell Wenyuan by the way, so it's not appropriate for them to know." Yun said.
Since Yun gave such an excuse, Yun Zhi stopped asking questions and dismounted in front of the Qianqing Gate with him, took off the cloak and hat that completely covered her body, and walked into the Qianqing Palace.
Lunch was naturally at Kunning Palace. Yun always entertained the clan in Kunning Palace, which showed the close relationship with the clan. Faced with the two vassal kings who only returned to the capital once in several years, even if this was what they had in the palace this time It was my second meal, but it was also very rich.
But Yun Zhi was ignorant of the taste. Her experience in the country and the things she had seen as the governor-general of India in the past few years gave her a much deeper understanding of the country than most court officials and vassals. The organizational form of the Indian political power Completely different from the Ming Dynasty, Yun Zhi was surprised at how such a regime was maintained at first, and then gradually began to study the similarities between the Indian regime and the Ming Dynasty regime.
She also recalled some pamphlets that she had distributed to the clan members many years ago when Yun had just succeeded to the throne. These pamphlets had been secretly withdrawn one after another, and the clan members who were born five years after Jianye had never seen these pamphlets. .But Yun Zhi still has a few copies on hand and reads them frequently after traveling to India.
From these pamphlets, as well as research on the similarities between the Ming Dynasty and India, she finally understood the word 'class'. Of course, she still confused class with class, but she was able to understand what Yun wrote in the pamphlets What does it mean?
Although the ruling classes of the Ming Dynasty and India are very different, the most important thing is the same, and that is their source of wealth or income. Whether it is the Song Dynasty ruling the world with scholar-bureaucrats, the Ming Dynasty ruling the world with nobles, or the Indian The main income of the upper castes comes from land, which comes from collecting land rent from tenants/lower castes. Although they also have other sources of income, the proportion of their income is very low.
Businessmen are different. Businessmen's income mainly comes from the sale of goods, or from opening banks to lend money. If only a few businessmen are admitted into the ruling class, or if these businessmen become the ruling class, they also buy land on a large scale and become landlords, relying on the income from the land. Lord, that will not have much impact on the country; but if businessmen become nobles and enter the ruling class, and still rely on income from business as their main income, it will have a huge impact on the country.
The current ruling class is the landlord, and wealth comes from rent collection. The most important mission of the country is to allow the ruling class to collect rent stably. All behaviors that will affect rent collection should be stopped. Therefore, the vast majority of landowners and some officials are opposed to industry and commerce, because industry and commerce
The development of the country will cause some people to no longer rent land but to work in the city; so they oppose launching foreign wars, because their tenants may be pulled to work as civilians and unable to farm, and they have to guard against harassment by soldiers when the army crosses the border; so they
They objected to the court increasing the number of officials, because more officials would require more taxes, and they would have to collect more taxes or fuel consumption. In order to keep the tenants alive, they could only reduce the land rent, resulting in a decrease in their own income. Now it is entirely dependent on the founding of the Ming Dynasty.
Soon the emperor gained great authority and could win over military commanders and clans to carry out various reforms. Without the support of clans and military commanders, his various reforms would have been resisted by civil servants who were born as landlords, or who became landlords after becoming officials.
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But if merchants become the ruling class, the situation will be completely different. The wealth of merchants comes from doing business and reselling goods, so the most important mission of the country will become to enable merchants to sell goods to more people, and to enable merchants to obtain
There are enough men to help them do business. So they will support foreign wars, and the country also needs to conquer more places and establish more colonies. As for the rest, Yun Zhi has never seen it and cannot imagine it.
Because she had never seen a country ruled by merchants and could not imagine what such a country looked like, Yun Zhi subconsciously had a fear and did not want Ming Dynasty to become such a country.
However, all the reforms after Yun succeeded to the throne were to suppress landlords and encourage industry and commerce. It seemed that he wanted to make Ming Dynasty a country where merchants were the ruling class. Yun Zhi was very worried about this and could only ask her third brother. He did not want to talk directly to him.
The third brother asked this question, but she could never think of any other way to explain it, so she could only ask it this way.
However, although Yun Zhishi did not know the taste, the others enjoyed the meal very happily. Zhu Song and Zhu Yun certainly ate well on weekdays, but the chefs in the palace were still slightly inferior to the royal chefs in the palace. Zhu Song
While eating, he praised the chef and even asked for a few chefs as a joke, but Yun naturally refused.
After everyone finished their lunch and chatted for a while, Zhu Song and Zhu Yun left the palace. Yun Zhi wanted to say something to Yun at this time, but he ordered Min'er and Wen Yuan to take a nap, and went to bed himself. Yun Zhi also
I can only go and rest.
But Yun didn't have much time in the afternoon. He didn't comment on the memorial all morning, and in addition to the important but not urgent matters accumulated from the northern tour a while ago, Yun could only work hard to comment on the memorial in Qianqing Palace.
It wasn't until late in the evening that he finally finished criticizing the memorial, stood up, stretched, and punched in the yard before sending someone to call Yunzhi, Wenyuan and Min'er.
After they arrived at Qianqing Palace, Yun told Wenyuan and Min'er about Yunzhi's worries. After that, he did not express his thoughts immediately, but asked: "You two think that the clan and the industrial and commercial people will share the governance."
In the world, is it good or bad for the people, and is it good or bad for the clan?"