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Chapter 526 Is Chongzhen a Good Emperor?
Gu Yanwu blushed when asked by Li Chaosheng, his eyes were wide open and he said: "The law of heaven is not fair!"

"Haha...what's unfair, I tell the Lord of Heaven, you get what you sow, the people in Lantian have worked hard, the officials in Lantian are serious and responsible, and the army in Lantian protects the environment and the people, just because everyone in Lantian is giving, The continuous struggle for the happy life of Lantian people is the reason why Lantian is prosperous today. In other places in Ming Dynasty, officials are corrupt, tyrannical and powerful, and the army is worse than bandits. Is such a place worthy of peace? According to your thinking, People in other places can enjoy the fruits of inaction, you should not sit in front of me today, but sit in front of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, and offer advice to them, because they think the same as you."

"However, they are sacrificing the interests of landlords, tyrants, rich peasants, and self-cultivating farmers to meet the needs of their rogues, while you are sitting in the seat of the Lantian County Government, blatantly sacrificing the interests of Lantian to save the corrupt Ming Dynasty. You said that you and Li Zicheng, What is the difference between Zhang Xianzhong and his generation? They are all sacrificing the interests of others to achieve themselves. But are you fighting for the interests of these people?"

"You haven't done even the slightest bit of credit for the people of Lantian, but you shamelessly say that you want Lantian to sacrifice interests to save others. Do you think you, Gu Yanwu, are noble or corrupt?"

What Li Chaosheng said was merciless, and Huang Zongxi sighed again: "The way of heaven makes up for what is damaged, and the way of man makes what is not enough. Don't be angry with the county officials. Brother Zhongqing just has a heart to serve the country with fists. Rather than really wanting to be an enemy of Lantian."

Li Chaosheng laughed and said, "That's right. In fact, I also know that he didn't do it on purpose. If it's true, it's not me who is talking to him today, but the swordsman of Lantian."

"Hmph, for the sake of righteousness, why would Gu be willing to die?"

Li Chaosheng looked at Gu Yanwu and said with a smile: "You are right, but your righteousness cannot stand, let me tell you something."

"It's not a secret that Lantian's sweet potatoes are high-yielding. Lantian has never wanted to hide them. The sweet potatoes can be saved for themselves. When we sell the sweet potatoes, it is equivalent to selling the sweet potato seeds. Nearby Shaanxi, In Henan and Hubei, our sweet potatoes are sold outside, and we even sold sweet potato seedlings outside."

"The result? The self-cultivating farmers feel that the sweet potato is a fresh variety. They are not sure and dare not buy it. Although they can't feed themselves with wheat, millet, and sorghum, at least they can't starve to death. They dare not try it. As for the tyrants, they are at a loss. The wrong cost, but in order to control the tenants so that the tenants do not let the tenants eat too much, they slandered the sweet potatoes, so that the tenants did not dare to grow."

"There are also grain merchants from all over the country. What they make is the wealth of the country. How can they make the food abundant everywhere? If the food is abundant, how can they make money? So they unite with the local landlords and do not allow the people to grow sweet potatoes. They manage the tenant farmers. The local farmers They also care that if a self-cultivator dares to plant sweet potatoes, he will be squeezed out by the landlord and the villagers, and in this day and age, being squeezed out by the villages, towns, and ethnic groups, how do you let this person live?"

"So we in Lantian did our best. We in Lantian are not the parents of other people in Ming Dynasty. We can't control their eating and drinking. For sweet potatoes, a high-yield crop, we have no secrets. We are even willing to sell sweet potato seedlings. Materials, share them out, our Lantian has exhausted his benevolence, if you still ask Lantian to do more, I will say that it is impossible."

"Our folks in Lantian have such a saying that the richness and stability of Lantian is the business of Lantian boys, the richness and stability of Shaanxi is the business of Shaanxi boys, and the richness and stability of Sichuan is the business of Sichuan boys. We can do our own things. We can only do ourselves well. , but cannot change others, this sentence is for you.”

Li Chaosheng looked at Gu Yanwu, and Gu Yanwu looked lonely when he heard the words: "Daming has withered to this point, but Lantian is prosperous and rich, does the county lord really have the heart to watch the world collapse to this point?"

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng smiled and said: "The emperor of the capital should be worried about the affairs of Daming. I, Li Chaosheng, are only a county official, so I can't control the affairs of Daming."

Gu Yanwu heard the words: "Hasn't the county lord ever thought of replacing him?"

After hearing this, Huang Zongxi's eyes widened. Gu Yanwu, you are too courageous. Do you dare to say anything?

Gu Zi also looked at Gu Yanwu strangely, there are not many people in this world who dare to ask the county magistrate like this, and Gu Yanwu is one of them, which is a bit interesting.

Li Chaosheng didn't say much after hearing Gu Yanwu's words, but smiled and said: "Our Majesty actually worked very hard, and I don't want to hit him in the process of his efforts to make this huge empire better."

"What does the county lord mean by this?"

Gu Yanwu asked, Li Chaosheng smiled and said: "Have you ever heard such a rumor that Chongzhen will not die, and Lantian will not rebel?"

After hearing this, Gu Yanwu said: "I heard it, could it be?"

Li Chaosheng smiled and said: "This is my promise to His Majesty. Anyone who is interested can actually see that Lantian has never used force to expand. The expansion of our Lantian territory will always be driven by the people, so I have never taken the initiative to talk to Da Ming Being an enemy, this is also my promise to His Majesty, and it is also a shackle I put on myself, if I want to sweep the world by force, I am afraid that no one in the world can stop me at Lantian Bingfeng."

After hearing this, Gu Yanwu fell silent, looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "The county honorer does not oppose His Majesty, do you want to be Cao Cao, or Huo Guang?"

Li Chaosheng laughed when he heard this, "Someone asked me that."

Upon hearing this, Gu Yanwu looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "Who is it?"

Li Chaosheng smiled slightly and said, "A eunuch named Cao Huachun."

Gu Yanwu frowned slightly: "How does the county lord answer?"

"My Lantian is not the terminator of Ming Dynasty, but the successor of Ming Dynasty."

Gu Yanwu was stunned, the county official wanted Daming to collapse on his own, and then sweep the world against the rebels, set things right, and inherit Daming?

Li Chaosheng smiled and said, "How?"

Gu Yanwu shook his head and said: "The county lord will have to wait a little longer. Although Daming is in turmoil now, it is not yet time to collapse, and now that the world's rogues have disappeared, the only one who can threaten Daming is Liaodong Jiannu, but Jiannu is a small country after all. Although the few people can fight, they don’t last long. It’s unrealistic to want to engulf Daming. Although Daming is corrupt, it shouldn’t be a problem to sustain it for decades. How can the county officials wait so long?”

Li Chaosheng listened to Gu Yanwu's words and laughed without saying a word. If Daming can really last for decades, Li Chaosheng must not be able to wait, but Li Chaosheng knows the current Daming. It has been Chongzhen for 12 years now. If there is no accident, Emperor Chongzhen didn't have a good few years to live.

You must know that Li Chaosheng received a telegram from Li Shichao just yesterday. The content of the telegram is also very simple, that is, Li Zicheng plans to use the rising water of the Yellow River in the coming year to block the dam and plan to flood Kaifeng. There will be millions of disaster victims, and then Li Zicheng will take the opportunity to revolt, and this time Li Zicheng will still shout the demagogic slogan, eat his mother, drink his mother, and don't pay when the King Chuang comes.

As a result, thousands of people who were driven to nowhere by the officials and tyrants of the Ming Dynasty would become the supporters of King Chuang, and began to attack the city and pull out the village to overthrow the promised Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Gu Yanwu thinks that Daming can last more than ten years is completely bullshit. Daming does not have such a long lifespan. Wang killed Chongzhen for himself, and he could let Li Chuang get out of the capital, and finally he became the master of Ming Dynasty.

Li Chaosheng is very confident about this. After all, there are many people from Li Chaosheng among the people under Li Chuang's command. Do you think that Li Chaosheng has been dormant in Lantian all these years?

No, although Li Chaosheng was born in Lantian these years, he has arranged a big chess game in this world. When Li Chaosheng needs it, he waves his hand, and the world will respond. At that time, Li Chaosheng may only need a very short time. Let the world return to its heart.

So what Gu Yanwu said is impossible to come true, Da Ming is not as firm as Gu Yanwu thought, the moths of this empire have corroded this seemingly rock-solid empire, and Da Ming is almost at the end of his life.

Li Chaosheng glanced at Gu Yanwu and said: "Lantian is a teacher of benevolence and righteousness. If Your Majesty can really rejuvenate Daming, or if His Majesty can keep Daming from falling, I, Li Chaosheng, are willing to wait, and we in Lantian are also willing to wait. Even if Your Majesty can make the world People's lives are happier than those in Lantian, so I am willing to resign and merge Lantian into Daming again."

Upon hearing this, Gu Yanwu looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "The county lord is willing?"

Li Chaosheng laughed and said: "Why don't you give up, my original intention was to make the world safe and peaceful, and the people can live a good life, but I found out that the whole world is full of her mother's bastards, vampire bastards, so I don't want to play with them I came out to serve as the magistrate of Lantian County, and then worked hard to manage Lantian County well, so that the people have food to eat and clothes to wear, so that they will not die of cold and hunger, and then protect the land and settle down, so that they will not be harassed by foreign enemies. Let them be the masters of this land by doing what they want on this land!"

"If our Majesty can really make the common people live and work in peace and contentment without being bullied by foreign enemies, and everyone can live the life of the people in Lantian, my personal gains and losses are nothing, I am willing to send Lantian back to his hands , but can he do it?"

Li Chaosheng looked at Gu Yanwu and said, Gu Yanwu was silent for a moment after hearing this, and said: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty does not know how to govern the people like you, but he is a good emperor."

Li Chaosheng laughed and said, "What is the standard of a good emperor?"

Gu Yanwu was dumbfounded by Li Chaosheng's question, yes, what is the standard of a good emperor?
Li Chaosheng continued: "Is it because of the one-sided words of the confidants of the court and the princes, and they did not collect business taxes from the merchants, and they focused on increasing the taxes on the people, forcing the people to sell their children and daughters, and even died of freezing and starvation?"

"This, Your Majesty doesn't understand businessmen, this..."

Gu Yanwu wanted to say something, but Li Chaosheng said: "Is it the close friend Yuan Chonghuan who pacified the Liao Dynasty for five years, and allowed Yuan Chonghuan to come here in Liaodong, behead Mao Wenlong, open up the road of treachery for you Jiangnan gentry, and transport grain and grass to Liaodong to sell to Jian slaves?" ?”

Gu Yanwu: ...

"Yes, more suspicious than scheming, echoing what others say, is there a virtuous emperor who can't be used?"

"Yes, the emperor who was selfish, disregarding the suffering of the people, and would rather be plundered by Jiannu and plunder one hundred thousand people, rather than pursue him?"

"Yes, the emperor who is mean and ungrateful, disregarding his loyal ministers' contributions to the country and the heart of the people, but wants to kill the emperor who has made meritorious officials?"

"Xiang Yu has Fan Zeng but can't use it, and Chongzhen has Lu Xiangsheng and can't use it. If you say that the good emperor in your mind is really as good as you say, will Lu Xiangsheng be beheaded by the capital?"

"The whole dynasty is treacherous but not punished. The only capable and loyal minister was beheaded at Caishikou. Could this be the golden belt of killing and setting fires, and repairing bridges and roads without corpses? Hahaha..."

Li Chaosheng laughed so loudly that Gu Yanwu laughed so hard that Huang Zongxi was speechless, lowered his head, and said that others might have something to argue with, but Lu Xiangsheng really had nothing to say.

Lu Xiangsheng is noble in the hearts of thousands of students, and his reputation among the Qingliu is also top-notch. His death made too many people feel uneasy and made too many people lose confidence in this dynasty.

Lu Xiangsheng's death can be regarded as the bell of disintegration for this dynasty.

Li Chaosheng looked at the two people who had been holding their heads up since they came in and finally lowered their noble heads. The corners of their mouths couldn't help a smile. Don't underestimate these two scholars. A little resigned, but the arrogance in the eyes, the expression that we are the children of the Confucian family and you are the shameless warlord is undoubtedly revealed.

Just like what Zhu Yuanzhang once said, our family saw that although Liu Bowen knelt in front of our family, we could feel that he looked down on our family from the bottom of his heart.

And Huang Zongxi, especially Gu Yanwu, although he didn't show anything in his words and deeds, as soon as he entered the door, Li Chaosheng could feel the sense of distance from the two of them, that sense of superiority as a scholar, that although we have no political achievements, But I feel that I can be worthy of a sense of superiority.

Everyone thought they were Zhuge Liang. Although they had never been officials, they could manage the government of a country once they became officials.

And Li Chaosheng disdains their behavior and distrusts their ability. After all, if they really have the ability to turn the world around, it is impossible for the two of them to have such a brilliant stroke in history.

Therefore, Li Chaosheng wanted to kill their vigor and make them feel frustrated, so that they could be trained.

Thinking of this, Li Chaosheng looked at the two and made a concluding speech: "The quality of an emperor is never judged by his personal virtues. He Chongzhen is frugal, but he makes the people live in dire straits, so he is A bad emperor is like the Tang Taizong Li Shimin whom you all admire. If you look at this kind of Mingjun as a template from the perspective of personal morality, he is just a bastard who killed his brother and deceived his father, just like Emperor Yongle of this dynasty. It’s shameless to bully Jianwen’s orphans and widowed mothers, but no one can deny that he is a qualified emperor, so do you still think Chongzhen is a good emperor now? Gu Yanwu!”

　It's sunny, I've become a little foreigner, I have a high fever, and I have a splitting headache, everyone should protect themselves.

　　So uncomfortable.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)