my days with tyrants

Chapter 136 Your Highness, Your Rebellious Period Has Arrived
Yang Feng walked out of the Chengtian Gate boldly amidst sideways glances...

"Why, you are not happy to see that I am not dead?"

He shouted like Dong Zhuo possessed himself.

"Open, happy!"

"happy!"

……

The civil servants and generals in front said perfunctorily.

At this time, those who disdain to flatter this villain have already left.

Of course, it may also be because he is afraid of being beaten to death by him.

So people like Huang Zicheng and Xu Guan have disappeared, but Liu Sanwu is still there. He seems to have recovered after being demoted before, and put on the fifth-rank red robe again. His rank 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 is unaware of his little tricks.

but……

He represents the Confucian group.

However, if Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to establish a civil government, he could only rely on the Confucian group, so he would give him some grace no matter what.

Originally, in the history of the North and South List case, he was the chief examiner who led the emergence of the South List, and he was the one who scored and admitted the South List, which was all southerners.

The latter is to help him.

Said that there was no problem with his marking.

As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang killed him, but he was only exiled.

It is because he represents the Confucian scholar group.

Similarly, he has experienced many ups and downs under Zhu Yuanzhang, and he will recover quickly every time he is demoted.

"Liu Gong, are you happy?"

Yang Feng stood in front of him and said.

"The ambassador returned safely, and the old man is naturally happy."

Liu Sanwu stroked his beard and said calmly.

He has never experienced anything, so how can he care about his provocation.

"By the way, why didn't I see Lian Hanlin?"

Yang Feng said.

"Lian Zining should be executed for his crime."

Liu Sanwu said.

"Haha, it's really fun!"

Yang Feng said with a very arrogant smile.

Then he turned and walked forward, pointing his rifle as he went...

Mount Wutai.

Yang Feng greeted the grandson of the emperor with a smile as if he was a different person.

"I don't like wronging myself. If I have revenge, I will report it. If there is fire, I will send it out. What happened to the explosion, the emperor's grandson will ask His Majesty to find out. There is no need for His Majesty to lie to you, but I can't." Do nothing, just come back like 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 pages of a book have been turned.

I am the messenger.

No matter how powerful the Great Xia Kingdom is, it is impossible to covet Daming.

So no matter what, I must obey the arrangement of my country and be an envoy in Daming. Unless my life is threatened, my main purpose is to help Daming.

However, I have my way of life.

It is impossible for me to change myself for Daming, my education does not support me to do so. "

Yang Feng said while pacing in front of Zhu Yunxi.

He has to restore his personality in front of the emperor's grandson.

After all, the emperor's grandson still has a lot of affection for him, but he suddenly showed his true colors, which could easily arouse the suspicion of the emperor's grandson. After all, he is also going to succeed, and no emperor would like to have such a guy under his rule .

"Don't the Great Xia Kingdom talk to the guests as they please?"

Zhang Xianzong said.

"But Daxia didn't put bombs on the ships of the envoys of other countries, and Daxia didn't assassinate the envoys, and Daxia wouldn't let the envoys kneel down. Since they are equal relations, at least they should respect each other instead of trying to put their own Please note that for us, imperial power is a thing that has been abolished 100 years ago. At that time, the last emperor was released after being imprisoned for many years. He went to the old palace. You have to pay for tickets.

So why make me kneel here at the feet of imperial power?
I can accept a country ruled by an emperor.

Because we still had a few monarchies left at that time, and there were monarchs for decoration, but the power belonged to the elected government, and the monarchs could only be said to be great chiefs.

We also have diplomatic relations with them.

So our Great Xia Kingdom can have friendly relations with Daming.

I also respect His Majesty the Emperor.

He took a cloth.

Of course, commoner clothes belong to beautification. With such a background, he won the world in 20 years. Such achievements are admirable.

but.

Could this be the reason for his mistake?

I can now tell Your Highness much about the final result of the system that His Majesty is currently implementing.

First, the vassal system.

After 200 years, the Ming court needs to support 10,000+ clans, and the lowest among them is higher than the salary of a county magistrate. There are more than 2000 magistrates in Ming Dynasty, but the number of clans with a salary will be three to four thousand. In the end, Daming earns nearly Half of it will be given to these clans, and this is because of a large amount of arrears later.

If there is no arrears, it is estimated that Daming does not need to do anything with his annual income, and it is enough to support these clans.

Three generations are relatives.

After three generations, what kind of relatives are there?
What's more, it has to be raised for more than a dozen generations.

What's more, these vassal kings all have fiefs, guards and subordinate officials, and raising them also requires the court to keep filling holes in them.

This system was the main reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty. In the end, the Ming Dynasty 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 its annual income had to be given to them.Moreover, the future emperors will also confer new vassal kings, and they will be granted from generation to generation. The number of vassal kings will continue to increase, more and more land will become vassal kings, and the land that the court can collect taxes will become less and less.

In the end, it is impossible to collect taxes, but it has to support more and more clans.

Second, military households.

To be precise, it is various household registration restrictions.

After 200 years, the military households are all serfs, just like the tenants in Hu Yuan's time. Not only did they have to hand over most of the harvest to the guards every year, but they also had to do various chores for the generals of the guards.Because they are in the military, they can't leave if they want to, they can only act like cows and horses for generations. The last time His Highness was in Fengyang, he felt that Fengyang was poor.

Then I can tell Your Highness that after 200 years, because the military households fled, there will be no people living for thousands of miles along the Huai River.

Likewise all persons are restricted to household registration.

Like being tied up.

If you want to get rid of it, you can only choose to flee, or become refugees, and these refugees become rebels, or flee to those chieftains or even barbarians, and finally help them become stronger, and then become Daming's internal and external troubles.

For more than 200 years, Can Yuan has been entangled with Ming Dynasty, and even hit Beiping at one point.

Why did one of them who hit Peiping become stronger?

Because he was in the pastoral area of ​​Hetao, where tens of thousands of refugees from the Ming Dynasty fled. These refugees farmed and smelted iron for him, so that his soldiers had armor and sophisticated weapons. In the end, he broke through the Great Wall and showed off his might outside the city of Beiping.

What finally led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty was a chieftain rebellion that swept across the southwest.

But most of the chieftain's generals are Han Chinese.

Where did it come from?

The military households in the southwest could not bear the pressure of the guards, so they could only choose to flee, and these chieftains were their shelters, and even many guards had only a few hundred people left because the military households fled.

This system is wrong from the root.

Third, unlimited banknotes.

200 years?
After 50 years, the treasure banknotes will become waste paper for wiping the ass.

In the past two years, I have helped to stabilize Baochao. Without my help, Baochao will no longer be used in Zhejiang at this time. After 50 years, a few thousand bills can buy a stone of rice. Banknotes are not necessarily valuable as waste paper.

Long gone after 200 years.

......"

Yang Feng crazily criticized Zhu Yuanzhang's current systems there.

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.Why didn’t this problem exist in the clan of the Song Dynasty, because they didn’t inherit the throne at all, the most heirs were named dukes, and the rest of the sons didn’t have titles at all, and the actual operation was even darker, basically few titles could be inherited .

Of course, inheritance is nothing, after all, the benefits that the title of the Song Dynasty can get are very pitiful.

There are [-] households in the food town, and [-] households have real food, and each household collects [-] yuan from the imperial court. The last knight can get a feast of wine and banquets in a year.

better than nothing.

But Zhu Yuanzhang’s clan is not only hereditary, but also has a high salary. For example, the minimum annual salary of a lieutenant in the country is two hundred shi. When Zhang Xianzong was a seventh-rank official, his monthly salary was only seven and a half shi, less than one hundred a year.

There are more than 2000 counties in Ming Dynasty.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were more than 3000 people receiving salaries in the Zhou Palace.

The combined salary of all magistrates is not as good as that received by Zhou Wangfu's own family.

And how many Zhou palaces were there in the late Ming Dynasty?
The Jingjiang king alone ate up all the taxes in Guangxi except for the salaries of the officials. Because he couldn't afford it, he had to transport money and food from Huguang and Guangdong every year. Finally, the strength of the three provinces supported a Jingjiang palace.

Does Zhu Yuanzhang not carry this pot?

Zhu Yunxi and Zhang Xianzong listened there in embarrassment.

Yang Feng suddenly pressed the emperor grandson's shoulder...

"Your Highness, it's up to you to change everything.

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, it seems to him that the details are not thorough enough.

But he won't make fundamental changes.

Even though I have told him the results of these systems in the future, he only believes in himself.

So it's up to you to change. "

he said very seriously.

"But it's ancestral."

Zhu Yunxi obviously said without confidence.

"Ancestral system?
Do you know what is the biggest mistake of people in this era?

It is to believe that the predecessors are better than the future generations.

There is no ancestral law that is not easy for all ages. The world is moving forward and everything is changing. The ancestral law is used to change. The most important thought of our era is reform, to keep moving forward, not to Turn around or stand still. "

Yang Feng said.

Fooling Zhu Yunxi to create Zhu Yuanzhang's rebellion?

Of course, it's not really a rebellion, but to make the emperor's grandson rebel a little bit.

In fact, he has been working hard on it.

It is useless to say that he is angry with Zhu Yuanzhang, that old fox is really scheming, he has never experienced anything, so how could he be influenced by him, but just like a scheming person, he would be pissed off when he meets a rebellious grandson.Just let Zhu Yunxi show the attitude of a reformer. Lao Zhu is trying hard to build a system that he believes is foolproof, and then after his death, his grandson can move forward along the road paved by him.But now Yang Feng just wants to fool Zhu Yunxie into a reformer, set him right out of the chaos, and let Lao Zhu see that this rebellious grandson will follow his own path in the future instead of following the path he paved.

But in this case, will Zhu Yuanzhang exchange for Zhu Yunqi in a fit of anger?

Although Zhu Yunqi is incompetent, at least he doesn't seem to be rebellious now!

The fun would be great.

And there is Zhu Di...

So can Zhu Di.

At least Zhu Di is mature and will not be fooled by Yang Feng, and Zhu Yuanzhang also said that Zhu Di is the one who resembles him the most. Although Zhu Di is now kicked to Japan to expand its territory, his influence is increasing day by day. The fief has not been moved so far. He can also be said to have opened up Huining, and then opened up Fusang.

Now the Wuzhe and other tribes in Huining have listened to him.

He still has the hearts of the people.

Most of the people in Ming Dynasty, especially the military households, were complaining about the injustice for King Yan.

After all, he has been miserable these past few years, and it is easy to arouse sympathy. The invincible commander can only wander outside because he is in a place of suspicion, and cannot go home for several years. This is definitely worthy of sympathy.

Just like Gao Changgong.

In short, if Zhu Yunxie turns 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 Yunxie, Zhu Yunxie, and Zhu Di's three contenders...

"I think you have a conspiracy."

After Zhu Yunxi left, the little princess put her hands behind her back and leaned in front of the conspiratorial Yang Feng, tilting her head and said.

"Nonsense, when did I ever engage in a conspiracy? I act openly and aboveboard. If I say that I kill people in front of the palace gates, I kill people in front of the palace gates. Is it necessary for an arrogant and domineering person like me to engage in conspiracy?"

Yang Feng said.

The little princess smiled contemptuously.

"I just like to engage in conspiracy."

Yang Feng said.

Immediately afterwards, he held the little princess's shoulders, because the latter's height had risen sharply, and it was natural for the two of them to do this now.

"Tell me about your other nephew's unusual behavior in the past two years? Is he working hard to regain your father's favor? I just heard that he is studying behind closed doors, and it seems that he hasn't been out for a long time. The palace is here."

He said.

Zhu Yunwen has disappeared from the outside world since he failed to compete for the emperor's grandson.

It's like living in seclusion.

If it weren't for special occasions such as Zhu Yuanzhang's birthday, if he still pays homage as usual, people will forget that there is an emperor's grandson in the ten princes' mansion.

"Do you think this is appropriate?

He is my nephew, although he is older than me.

But we are aunts and nephews after all. "

said the little princess.

Of course, it's just lip service, but those sly eyes are clearly saying more money.

"But we are the same group. Don't forget who took you out of the palace back then and allowed you to fly freely outside. I think this is enough to offset your so-called aunt and nephew. If not, I can give you Do some good stuff."

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(End of this chapter)