The First Corrupt Official of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 244 Mr. Ye dared to advise the overthrow of the monarchy. Zhu Yuanzhang thanked him and ordered the founder of the empire to be normal!

Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma, after hearing Ye Qing's words, almost simultaneously thought of the topography of Yanmen Pass.

The Yanmen Guanzhong Gate is the same as the East and West Gates. It is a plain terrain with an 'eight' opening formed by two natural mountains. It is just different from the East and West Gates. The plain in this opening is really flat, so flat that it looks like As artificially made.

In addition to the endless grassland, there are only a few streams that cannot stop people and horses, and are almost negligible.

If General Ye, who was responsible for building Yanmen Pass in the Tang Dynasty and was the first guard general of Yanmen Pass, had not built the "Stone Wall Maze Array" five hundred steps outside the city, there would have been no obstruction in front of the central gate of Yanmen Pass.

Thinking of the stone wall maze array, Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma immediately understood Ye Qing's intention.

Zhu Yuanzhang asked: "You want to stop them at the Stone Wall Maze Formation without destroying the Stone Wall Maze Formation built by our ancestors, so you don't need cannons?"

Ye Qing only thought that this old boy was quite smart, but it was not built by any ancestor, but by him in the Tang Dynasty.

There is nothing wrong with cherishing your own works!
Furthermore, in Ye Qing's opinion, no matter how good the cannon is, it can only be used in clusters and cannot provide absolute fire coverage, so there will eventually be fish that slip through the net.

He has a better way. While making full use of the stone wall maze formation, he also has better effects than cannons!
Ye Qing nodded and said: "It seems that I didn't bring you here in vain. No, I didn't invite you to be a general in vain. You can understand my intention at a glance."

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard such compliments, he felt that it was not a compliment. He just replied in his heart, "You have no ability at all. Did you get this Ming Dynasty for nothing?" '

At the same time, he said with a faint smile: "Then we still have to thank Mr. Ye?"

Ye Qing said in a matter-of-fact manner: "Of course, I will give you the honor to wear the armor again and experience the addiction of being a general again. I will be as good as your boss!"

"you"

The fire in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart burned again, and he really couldn't understand how there could be such a shameless person in the world.

Queen Ma felt a little pain in her forehead when she looked at the two people who were about to turn into a fight between each other.

She hurriedly smiled and said: "Master Ye, although the civilian woman is not familiar with military affairs, she is also curious. Since you are sure that the enemy will focus on attacking the middle gate tomorrow, but you don't use cannons, what kind of attack is this?"

Ye Qing did not answer directly. He just looked at the 'Stone Wall Maze Formation' in the sand table and said with deep eyes and seriousness: "I said, don't rely too much on superior weapons."

"Our ancestors didn't have cannons, so couldn't they still fight out the Huns?"

"The stupid emperor has cannons and hundreds of thousands of troops, but he will still be blamed by others, and he will even be forced to learn other people's customs!"

"A capable general, even if he only has a solitary city, can still create the story of 'the city is full of white hair, and the Mo Dao will not be thrown away, and it has been fighting alone for fifty years, how can it dare to forget the Tang Dynasty'?"

At this moment, Ye Qing felt a hint of unfriendly eyes.

He knew that Mr. Guo, who was a fan of Zhu Yuanzhang, had once again put that 'stupid emperor' on Zhu Yuanzhang.

Ye Qing hurriedly explained with amusement: "Don't look at me like that. I didn't say that your Majesty is your Majesty. I have said more than once that your Majesty's military ability is only as good as that of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty!"

"What I mean is that it is very likely that your Majesty's descendants will have such a stupid emperor!"

"This is a normal thing. It makes sense to say that one cannot get richer than three generations. Weren't the two disgraces of Jingkang and Kangxi in the Song Dynasty just such two idiots?"

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard these words, he became more and more angry. It was better not to give up this supplementary explanation of first praising him and then cursing his descendants.

Not to mention Zhu Yuanzhang, even Queen Ma wanted to beat someone after hearing this.

No matter how kind she was, she would not tolerate others making fun of his descendants, especially Ye Qing's playful expression and tone, which looked like a typical slap in the face!
But then I thought about it, although the expression and tone were offensive, and although the words were unpleasant, the saying "You can't be rich for more than three generations" really made sense.

Thousands of years of history are enough to prove that there is no immortal dynasty, and it would be good to have a 300-year-old country.

If you are not careful, you can die in a second life!

The two great unified dynasties, the Great Qin and the Great Sui, were both typical second-generation dynasties, and they were gone in less than three generations!
After Empress Ma accepted this point of view, Zhu Yuanzhang also reluctantly accepted this point of view.

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Yuanzhang asked unhappily: "Then how can we prevent the possibility of stupid emperors in future generations?"

I have to say that this question really stumped Ye Qing!
He had lived ten lives in ancient times, which amounted to hundreds of years, and he was used to seeing the rise and fall of dynasties. He had also thought about this problem.

In the end, he only came up with two somewhat reliable solutions.

The first method is unlimited expansion, so that the countries and regions surrounding the Ming Dynasty, and even the whole world, are surnamed Zhu. At the same time, reforms will be carried out in systems such as taxation and military service.

Not to say that they are absolutely equal to the people, but they must not be too different or have too many privileges, lest they squeeze the people too hard and end up with the Zhu Ming royal family turning into street rats.

In this way, even if a vassal king succeeds in his rebellion, the dynasty will still be called the Ming Dynasty, and the emperor will still be his son, Zhu Yuanzhang.

Of course, even so, the dynasty cannot truly last for tens of millions of years. At most, the kingdom will be greatly extended.

Ye Qing remembered what he said to Mr. Guo in front of him about this method.Not only that, he also included a separate itemized explanation in his "Heritage Memorial" to Zhu Yuanzhang.

As for the second method, that is to overthrow the monarchy!
As long as the emperor has the right to have his own way, the dynasty will eventually be unable to escape the fate of being 'not rich enough for three generations'. Even if he uses his first method, it will at most turn 'not rich enough for three generations' into 'not rich enough for N generations'!
This 'N' can be ten or a hundred, but it will not be 'infinity' after all!
The reason is very simple. Even if the emergence of "foreign student" Zhu Qizhen is prevented, there is still no chance that a fool even stupider than Zhu Qizhen will emerge.

At that time, even if Zhu Yuanzhang adopted the strategy of "unlimited expansion externally and reforming the taxation and servitude system internally", the emperor, who was even stupider than Zhu Qizhen, would feel bad and reject it outright, which would not lead to a dynasty change.

Therefore, there is no other way but to overthrow the feudal monarchy!

It's just that he can't say this method now, and it's not that he's afraid of offending Zhu Yuanzhang, but it's useless for him to say it to Mr. Guo.

Because Mr. Guo would never dare to tell Zhu Yuanzhang such super treasonous words, even if he wanted to convey it, because Zhu Yuanzhang would have to kill him if he conveyed it!

If one day he can meet Zhu Yuanzhang, he will definitely say this, "overthrow the feudal monarchy", and he will definitely succeed in seeking death!

But if nothing unexpected happened, he didn't have the chance to meet Zhu Yuanzhang!

Of course, he doesn't want to have this opportunity!

Thinking of this, Ye Qing just said calmly: "Extend unlimited expansion externally, reform the taxation and military service systems internally, vigorously reduce the privileges of the nobility, and strive to share the world with the people as much as possible!"

"This knowledge is too profound, and I can't explain it in a short while."

"After the battle, if you are still interested, I can tell you if I am happy."

"From now on, just be your Guo Shenjiang!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Qing didn't care what Mr. Guo and Mrs. Guo in front of him thought. He lay down on the sand table again and seriously acted as a sand table operator, playing a game of chess with hundreds of thousands of people!
At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma also fell into deep thought again.

Regarding Ye Qing's profound words, the two of them also felt that there was some truth in it, but they still had no idea.

It is easy to understand that unlimited expansion to the outside world is nothing more than fighting from all directions, but with the current national strength of the Ming Dynasty, it is simply impossible.

Unless the financial and material resources of the entire Ming Dynasty reach the level of Yanmen County.

Thinking of this, the couple looked very much like a couple at the moment. They looked at Ye Qing with the same intent, and even had the same idea of ​​turning Ye Qing to Yingtian Mansion.

Of course, this was just the result of both of them temporarily forgetting Ye Qing's eloquence!

But apart from being easy to understand when it comes to external expansion, they are really clueless in other aspects!

Ye Qing did not say how the taxation and military service systems would be reformed internally!
He didn't say to what extent the privileges of the nobility should be reduced!
There is also the saying that we should try our best to share the world with the people. This is undoubtedly to go against the scholar-bureaucrats in the world.

He still hasn't said how much concessions are appropriate for the world's scholar-officials to benefit the people, and what method should be used to make the world's scholar-officials willingly make concessions that benefit the people!
All in all, Ye Qing gave an outline of the solution, but did not give a specific solution.

The two of them also thought, did Ye Qing not have such a specific ending plan at all?

But after thinking about it, they immediately rejected this conjecture!

If there is no solution, where is the outline of a solution?

Furthermore, if you don’t have a heart for the country and the people, even if there is a solution, you will never say a word.

You must know that the so-called "seven-grade county official" is only for the officials of the imperial court, but for the people of this area, Ye Qing is a real "county official" and a real scholar-bureaucrat.

The fact that he was willing to say this in front of someone who could talk to the emperor, and that he was willing to elaborate after the war, proved that he, Ye Qing, was far more noble than the high officials in the court.

Thinking of this, the two looked at each other in tacit understanding, saying that they would wait for Ye Qing to elaborate after the battle!
Just when the two of them had made up their minds, Ye Qing also issued another military order:
"Send me military orders,"

"Let the generals of the Four Guards garrison of a thousand households and above come to the mansion for a banquet in the evening."

"The standing garrison of the city wall at the middle gate of Yanmen Pass changes defense with the garrison. Let the standing garrison of the middle gate go home tonight and return to camp at the end of the year and at the beginning of the year (five o'clock in the morning)."

"The weapons and artillery of the defenders of the east and west gates are all immobile, but the garrison behind the east and west gates, as well as the trebuchet formations, have all moved to the central gate from Guannai Avenue at night!"

"They gave us the illusion that they were not mobilized, and we can also give them the illusion that they were not mobilized. This is called tit for tat!"

As soon as Ye Qing finished speaking, Mr. Guo and Mrs. Guo had not yet responded, so he seriously reminded him: "Did the comfortable days of the past month make you two forget your responsibilities?"

"General Guo Shen, why don't you send the order?"

"Mrs. Guo, if you remember these military orders, you can come back tomorrow morning to supplement the minutes!"
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