Chapter 2478 Spray Immortal
Jiajing can live to 60 years old, all because he came to Beijing from a foreign vassal, and did not encounter the heavy metal baptism in the Forbidden City. His body is relatively healthy, and after practicing Taoism, he also meets the requirements of a stable mind. Request, this is done.
Then Jiajing quickly asked: "Fairy, will our Ming Dynasty really perish in 84 years?"
"Of course, your Ming Dynasty has a lot of internal and external troubles, how can it still be done?" It was good to persist in 84 years. Of course, it was also because the killings at the end of the Yuan Dynasty were too brutal and the population recovery was slow," the girl said directly.
"Fairy, can you tell me why the Ming Dynasty died?" Jiajing asked again.
Apart from cultivating immortals, Jiajing naturally cared about his own dynasty.
At this time, the other ministers all knelt on the ground tremblingly. None of them dared to raise their heads to look at the emperor, for fear of being dragged out and killed by the emperor.
The girl said impatiently: "You should know best why the Ming Dynasty perished."
"Do you know the dynasty cycle rate?"
"In fact, it is the land and population recovery cycle rates.”
"Isn't it obvious at a glance? Look at you, how many vassal kings do you have who don't pay taxes?"
"First of all, you have many vassals in Ming Dynasty who don't pay taxes, and each one of them occupies a large amount of money. Land. Just a lucky king, oh, not yet, occupies 3 million acres of official land."
"Lao Zhu only wants to prevent future generations from suffering and let the people of the dynasty support your family."
“Many people in later generations still praise and lick Lao Zhu, which is really ridiculous, but he is just a feudal and selfish emperor, and there is no comparison with the truly selfless heroes of later generations.”
“ The result was great. The upper-level feudal lords were extremely rich, while the lower-level clan members starved to death one after another. They could not even become beggars. They had to starve to death at home, and were not allowed to work as scholars, farmers, industrialists, or merchants. They became useless pigs. Ridiculous.”
Jiajing's eyes were dazzled after hearing this.
This fairy has a very poisonous mouth.
But if you listen carefully, you will feel an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
Aren’t these just those big talkers?
During the big ceremony, this is the spray method.
All kinds of rules and etiquette were finally defeated by his own imperial staff.
But this girl has a layer of immortal protection on her body and cannot be hit with the royal stick.
Otherwise, he would have been dragged down and beaten to death.
Jiajing looked respectful on the surface, but in his heart he was extremely angry.
I am the emperor!
Even the gods must listen to me!
However, it was useless for him to be angry.
Now he understands the feelings of those ministers who admonished him.
It's useless for the other party to be angry. "There is no bad king or father in the world" can cover up everything.
The girl did not let him go and continued:
"Lao Zhu wanted the world to support his endless descendants."
"The result was great, only a few direct descendants were fed."
"After so many generations, the lower class If someone is starving to death, it is better to let him go and look at it as an individual."
"And the vassal prince's failure to pay taxes will directly bring down the entire court."
"Otherwise. , can still survive the 300-year deadline.”
Everyone nodded inwardly after hearing this.
Zhang Juzheng's eyes lit up, he had already seen this.
It should be said that most civil servants have noticed it.
But having said that, even if the feudal king does not take it away, these stewards will take it away.
The civil servants have long proposed to restrict the supply of money and rice to the lord.
They also realized that as the descendants of the Zhu family multiplied, the people would only become more and more unlucky.
Later, the total amount was decided to be 6 million shi per year for all feudal lords.
Half of it is natural color and half is folded color.
The true color is real rice.
The other half is converted into rice using other things.
Or silver, or all kinds of coal, charcoal or materials, there are all kinds of things.
Civil officials can be fooled as long as they can, and there are not many times when the feudal king can get it all.
Their greatest harm lies in using their power to annex land and disrupt business order.
They can also enjoy tax exemptions unscrupulously.
As the girl kept talking, Jiajing's heart kept sinking.
"Also, you stewards don't pay taxes."
"The families of local stewards are annexing land everywhere."
"But they don't do any corvee."< br>
“Each administrator’s family owns at least a few hundred acres, and as many as thousands or tens of thousands of acres.”
“The annexation of land is actually unstoppable, but high fees must be charged for land use. Taxes are serious.”
"Collect less from less land, and collect more from those with more land, so that you can have money to do things."
"Those damn corrupt officials!" Jiajing couldn't help but curse.
“Tch, the crows in the world are as black as black,” the girl said with disdain, “The so-called Qingliu is the same.”
“I remember, there is that Xu Jie on the Internet, it is called Qingliu, it is called Qingliu. He is talented, and his family, the Xu family, has more than 200,000 acres of land, some say more than 20,000 acres. "
"Of course the big head is still with the vassal, and we can't bully honest people."< br>
At this time, Xu Jie's face turned red and he couldn't help but said:
"Immortal, I am really wronged. The family land is indeed only 20,000 acres."
"Okay, okay, I'm not sure about this either. History says you may have 200,000 acres, or maybe 20,000 acres." The girl waved her hands casually,
"But what the people fear most is the various handymen who build roads. Building rivers, building palaces, receiving officials, and government expenditures in various places..."
"Instead of taxes, because the official taxes are very few, and miscellaneous servants cannot be found on the heads of officials and vassal kings. There is no quota for the service, and it is levied until the people can no longer bear it, and it is the common people who bear the burden.”
"Especially you clean streamers. There may be some who are relatively honest, but most of them are complicit and just want a good reputation."
At this moment, someone finally seemed to see the true nature of this fairy.
A Qingliu said tentatively: "Fairy Rong Bing, my family was originally in a remote village. I came to Beijing to pass the exam and passed the second-level Jinshi exam. When I stayed in the capital, I was very poor."
"Bitterness. After 20 years of hard work as a Beijing official, I still rent a house and there is no land at all in my hometown."
Many people also said, "Yes, yes, we are like that too."
When the girl heard this, she was confused: "Okay, okay, I know there are honest officials among you."
"There must be injustice in beating them all to death, but the other one must have slipped through the net."
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Everyone had nothing to say.
“For example, your Hai Rui is indeed very honest, and some honest officials are indeed very poor.”
“Only relying on the salary of dozens of taels of silver, we can live a miserable life, and the whole family is hungry. You can only eat gruel.”
"The Ming Dynasty's system is very deceptive. After forcing good people to become officials of the Ming Dynasty, they can only become corrupt officials."
Jiajing blushed upon hearing this.
The ministers shed tears after hearing this.
Especially those administrators whose yamen are deserted and no one comes to them for many years to live on their salaries all year round.
Many of them are still renting houses.
"Jingpiao" has been around for a long time.
Yes, this is all forced by your old Zhu family.
Immortals, people of later generations, are still very fair.
“And this is what your ancestor, Lao Zhu, did to you, the big fool.”
“His purpose is very simple.”
"Some people say that he killed corrupt officials for the sake of the people. P, he killed corrupt officials for his own family, because all he stole was his family's money." The girl squirted there,
"In fact, he killed corrupt officials for the sake of his family." We all support your family, Lao Zhu.”
“So paying high wages to the Ming official is just taking flesh from him, and he is reluctant to do so.”
"He didn't expect that this would make corruption worse."
After hearing this. All the ministers felt sad.
Jiajing is about to collapse.
Zhao Han was dumbfounded.
This girl is really wild.
Compared to her, Mi Heng is just a younger brother.
The main reason is that Mi Heng can only directly curse people and engage in personal attacks.
The other party listed all the actual evidence.
"By the way, I have to say something fair to Xu Jie. Later, Xu Jie opened fire on King Jing's family. King Jing would die in a few years. Xu Jie asked King Jing to take back his fiefdom and return it to The common people have a total of 40,000 hectares of land, that is, 4 million acres. So a capable minister is still a capable minister. "The girl said whatever she thought of.
When Xu Jie heard this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
It seems that his reputation in future generations has been preserved.
Although this future immortal is harsh and outspoken, he is still fair.
Although some Qingliu did not dare to change their expressions on their faces, they nodded in their hearts.
They are right.
In fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see the shortcomings of the Ming Dynasty.
But I can’t change it.
The people I met were all feudal lords and relatives of the emperor.
As long as the emperor does not rebel or cause trouble, the emperor will let them do evil as he pleases.
Even if they do evil and get a bad reputation, they can't fight back.
If each of the vassal kings has a good reputation and wins the hearts of the people, the emperor will not be able to sleep!
So, restraining the vassal king and turning the vassal king into a saint is in itself contrary to the fundamental interests of the emperor.
This is the reason why in the Ming Dynasty, the evildoers of the vassal kings were not solved in the end.
Jiajing was even more white and red.
Everyone is almost gone.
At this time, the eunuch Lu Fang quickly plucked up the courage to change the subject:
“Immortal, you have said so much, doesn’t it mean that my Ming Dynasty has no benefit at all?”
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When the girl heard this, she nodded and said: "Yes, yes, I can't just say your bad qualities."
"You must have some good points as well."
"Whether you are good or not depends on comparison. "
"For example, although your Ming emperor is mean and cruel, he doesn't engage in literary inquisition."
"You won't punish people just because they write a few poems or novels. The whole family was arrested and killed.”
"So the four great classics, Water Margin, Journey to the West, and Three Kingdoms, all three have revolutionary thoughts, and the results all appeared in the Ming Dynasty."
"And the last one has all kinds of ambiguities, all kinds of homophonics, and all kinds of evasions. , still can't avoid being banned."
"The Ming Dynasty also attaches great importance to culture and education, and the literacy rate is also good."
"And when it comes to Jiangnan. Later in the Qing Dynasty, two large villages fought with 5,000 people, and only three of them could read.”
"Almost every household in the southeastern part of the Ming Dynasty has literate people."
"At that time, some people even held debates, and 100,000 people participated in the debates, which the Manchus did not have."< br>
“The Ming Dynasty was relatively tolerant of scholars, and many new ideas emerged.”
“For example, the idea of a false king, entrusting everything to the cabinet, and the monarch ruling from the top.”
“Replacing the cabinet when something goes wrong is actually a better way. It just needs to change the imperial examination and use the right talents.”
"Even though many mainstream forces in later generations still used this method, they would change the cabinet if something happened, but the leader would not be changed."
All the cabinet bosses suddenly showed joy in their hearts.
Yes, this immortal said it well.
If you have anything to do, just let our cabinet handle it.
Emperor, just sit high.
"Of course, we must also strengthen supervision to prevent the cabinet from doing bad things..." the girl said again.
The big guys are unhappy again.
“You, the Ming Dynasty, can tolerate all kinds of strange talks and weird theories by scholars.”
“But in the later Manchu Qing Dynasty, there was no such tolerance. Let alone strange talks and weird theories, you are Even if you praise the imperial court, you will be dragged out and beheaded."
"Because the Manchu Qing Dynasty has made it clear that those things are forbidden for ordinary people to talk about, and ordinary people are not qualified to talk about them."
"You still allow people to talk about the court and allow everyone to speak. This is hundreds of times better than the Manchu Qing Dynasty."
"And you are also absorbing Western technology. It is not prohibited, but it is not prohibited. Clearly understand, do not encourage, do not prohibit, let the people choose. "It's just that you generally think that Western technology is nothing great, but you don't prohibit others from learning it."
"The Qing Dynasty is different. The Qing Dynasty completely prohibits others from learning these Western things. Anyone who learns them is a traitor."
"The emperor at the beginning knew that it was a good thing, but shelved it and prohibited others from doing so. To learn is to intentionally do bad things.”
"You are unintentional."
"So good and bad are contrasted. In terms of culture, the Ming Dynasty is far better than the Qing Dynasty. There is no doubt about this."
Everyone Hearing this, someone immediately asked curiously: "The Immortal keeps talking about the Great Qing. What is this Great Qing?"
"The Great Qing is not a thing," the girl continued. Jin claimed to be a descendant of the Jurchens, but in fact he was not. He was a tribe who made a living by fishing and hunting."
"Later, he became attached to your Ming Dynasty, fought with you, and learned your Ming Dynasty's military system and weapon manufacturing technology. .”
"The only thing better than you is that they pay the entire army, but your civil servants don't pay the military, and they often disappear."
"Ten percent of the military pay has not left the capital, and 30% has disappeared. "
"On the road, only 50% was left, and the officers took up another 30%, only 20%, or even 10%, not even for the lower-level soldiers..."
“How can we win like this?”
Jiajing was stunned when he heard this.
Zhang Juzheng nodded in his heart.
He already knew about this drawback.
He has a way to solve it, which is to earmark funds for a specific person.
Find a reliable general, give him money and let him recruit soldiers.
He took a fancy to Qi Jiguang.
When the girl said this, she said angrily: "By the way, I thought of the Qi Family Army again. It's a pity to think of the Qi Family Army."
"For such a powerful team, you just can't afford military pay."
< br>"The other side finished the battle and won the battle, but you civil servants saw that the other side was demanding pay,"
"It's really awesome, it's obvious that they can't pay the military pay."
"Just say, come to the school grounds tomorrow, you don't need to bring weapons, and I will give you military pay."
"The result is good. After deceiving people, more than half of them were shot dead."
"Good guy, this is the problem that cannot be solved, so just solve the problem."
< br>"If we can't give military pay, we will kill those who want military pay, and no one will want it. It's high, it's really high!"
Everyone was stunned when they heard this.
Zhang Juzheng felt a chill in his heart.
Didn't expect such a thing to happen?
But if you think about it carefully, some people can actually do it.
Because they have always looked down upon the big soldiers.
(End of this chapter)