Daming Greedy Wolf Star

Chapter 200 Two people who cannot communicate

"The method is actually very simple. It depends on whether grandpa is willing to implement it."

Zhu Zhanhe looked at Zhu Gaochi, and then moved his squeezed body.

"Since grandpa is afraid that too many officials and gentry will be affected, which will cause a gap in talent in the Ming Dynasty and make it unsustainable, then we will start from other aspects."

"The first target and the most suitable target to start with is the businessman."

"Businessman?" Zhu Gaochi's pupils shrank.

"Yes." Zhu Zhanhe nodded.

"In fact, normally, officials' salaries are not high, and they rely on the rule of not paying grain to ensure their livelihood. However, this was only the result of Emperor Taizu Gao's original vision."

"In fact, in this world, honest officials are as rare as a feather, and corrupt officials are like the sand of the Yellow River. Over time, both money and land have been taken away by those fixed groups of people."

"Although the previous incidents involving Huang Huai and others made them restrain themselves, on the surface, their opposition also had valid reasons, because the official and gentry's unified payment of food increased their expenses on the surface level, and their salaries were used to Said he couldn’t even feed his family.”

"Since attacking them will lead to unrest in the Ming Dynasty, it would be better to start with other groups."

Zhu Gaochi was much smarter than his younger brother. When Zhu Zhanhe said this, he immediately understood what Zhu Zhanhe was thinking.

What is the main income of corrupt officials?It is nothing more than two points, one is greed, and the other is income.

Greed refers to taking money from the court, such as food for disaster relief and construction, etc.

To receive means to take other people's money, which can also be called bribery. It is "filial piety" from others.

Since you are unwilling to be obedient and choose to fight with the imperial court, why not fight to the end with hard steel!I will directly cut off your source of income!

Of course, if the matter reaches the point where even the old man hesitates, it means it is really difficult to handle, so this approach is to warn them and let them recognize the reality.

Lower your head now. If you lower your head now, you can still take the money they paid to you from the merchants. If the court is really anxious, you can't touch it, but isn't it easy to touch the merchants?

Is the filial piety of a businessman more important or the taxation?When I think about it, those people will understand.

"What else?" Zhu Gaochi quickly digested the information, and then looked at Zhu Zhanhe impatiently.

"The other thing is to solve the problem from the root." Zhu Zhanhe smiled and pointed at Zhu Gaochi's feet.

"The imperial examination selects more talents and more students from poor families."

"Compared with those old men who have been assimilated by the officialdom, most scholars from poor families still have dreams. I think most scholars from poor families, especially those from civilian backgrounds, still want to make some achievements and leave a name in history. .”

"For now, the Ming Dynasty doesn't actually need too many capable officials. It just needs to ensure that Wenyuan Pavilion and the Six Ministries have enough talents. Like local officials, in fact, more of them need to be more obedient."

"But our Ming Dynasty just held the imperial examination last year?" Zhu Gaochi frowned.

"Although last year it was Chang Ke and Special Kai Enke is not impossible, but there must be a suitable reason, right?"

"Also, there was a wave of selection last year, and if we hold it hastily this year, I'm afraid the selected scholars will lack a lot of ability."

"You shouldn't ask me this question." Zhu Zhanhe smiled and pointed to the northeast.

"Isn't my cousin already registered as the grandson of the emperor? This is a very good reason."

"Perhaps you feel that this matter has been going on for several years and is too far away, so it would be far-fetched to bring it up now, but isn't there still a cousin's wedding?"

"You said when we were in Yingtian this year that the candidate for my cousin's grandson has been decided. Is it okay to take this opportunity to do an enke? After all, this can be regarded as a major event to consolidate the foundation of the country."

"As for the ability of scholars..."

When he said this, Zhu Zhanhe had an inexplicable smile on his face.

"Don't you know the abilities of scholars in the past years? Don't you have to put some effort into selecting the top three candidates for the imperial examination every year? Is it necessary for my nephew to tell you where you put in the effort? "

After listening to Zhu Zhanhe's words, Zhu Gaochi's brows gradually relaxed.

As the saying goes, one method can lead to all methods. Zhu Zhanhe opened the matter to him, and he naturally figured it out.

Why should we waste our brains when selecting the top three candidates for the imperial examination?Isn't it based on test scores, from high to low?
Sorry, really not.

Starting from the Hongwu Dynasty, the scholars selected for the imperial examination were not based on examination results.

It's actually not appropriate to say this, because grades are still an important criterion, but the discrimination between the north and the south in this era is very serious, and the scholars from the north and the south can be said to be on the same page.

Therefore, some people's names can appear on the list of the top three, maybe not because of their good grades, but because there are too many scholars from the south or the north. For the sake of balance, we can only choose some with relatively poor grades. People come to make up the numbers.

As a result, many people with good grades do not get high rankings, or even fail in the end.

Besides, now Zhu Gaochi also wants to understand that this imperial examination is actually the same as Zhu Zhanhe's suggestion to deal with businessmen just now, for the purpose of warning.

With a two-pronged approach, many officials and gentry may still choose to resist, but it is enough to ensure the implementation of the new tax system.

Of course, even so, the implementation of the new tax system cannot be completed overnight.

As the saying goes, there are policies from above and countermeasures from below. Every new system will encounter various problems during its implementation, which requires a variety of means and methods to assist its complete completion.

Usually, there will be bloodshed in this process.

"Okay, now let's talk about the third thing."

After getting the answer, Zhu Gaochi was very satisfied, and his expression relaxed. He looked at Zhu Zhanhe with a smile on his face.

Zhu Zhanhe was a little confused.

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Yunnan, Prince Wu's Mansion.

Ever since he knew that his uncle brought Hu Shanshu, Zhu Zhanhe knew that this matter was not easy, but what he didn't expect was that his uncle, who was always full of bookishness, would be sloppy in this matter. .

He looked like he would not give up until the marriage happened.

"Brother, there is really no need." At this time, although Zhu Gaoxu thought that he should let go of the obsession in his heart, he was no longer obsessed with the position of prince.

All he wants is to be recognized by the old man. In this world, the position of prince is not the only thing that can prove that he is better than his elder brother.

So this time, when he faced Zhu Gaochi, he was very relaxed and looked away.

"It's not that my brother is dissatisfied with this woman. On the contrary, since she can win the eyes of you and dad, it proves that she is definitely one of a million."

"It's just that I still want to respect Zhan He's opinion on this matter. After all, you know that my brother's family would have been in ruins long ago without Zhan He."

Hearing what his second brother said, Zhu Gaochi immediately turned his head and looked at Zhu Zhanhe.

Zhu Zhanhe was stunned for a moment, then waved his hand.

Zhu Zhanhe originally wanted Zhu Ling, Zhu Ping and the others to go out first, but Princess Han felt her son's thoughts one step ahead, stood up immediately, pulled Hu Shanshu and walked out.

"Uncle, there's no need." Zhu Zhanhe poured a cup of tea for his father and uncle each, and then leaned on the chair.

"First of all, I still have a lot of things to do. My dad knows that I can probably count the time I spent in Yunnan in a year on both hands."

"If I get married now, it will just be an empty shell of a home. It has no meaning. It is no different from the house I have now."

"Secondly, I am now a thorn in the side of civil servants. Countless civil servants blame me for the reason why their status has fallen again and again."

"Right now, the imperial court is implementing a new tax system. This can be said to be a subversive system. The turmoil it will bring may not be great, but it will not be much smaller."

"If you do this at this time, it will make those people murmur in their hearts."

"at last……"

Zhu Zhanhe looked at his father, then turned to look at his uncle, then lowered his head and took a sip of the raw milk in the tea cup.

"For Ming Dynasty, if I get married one day later, Ming Dynasty will be more stable. If I get married one day earlier, countless people will be afraid."

……

The originally warm atmosphere turned cold because of Zhu Zhanhe's words.

It's hard to say, but it's true.

As Zhu Gaoxu's eldest son, as long as Zhu Zhanhe survives, it can be said that he will definitely inherit Zhu Gaoxu's princely title.

Now Zhu Zhanhe is too dazzling, so dazzling that he has already attracted Zhu Di's attention at the age of ten. If Zhu Zhanhe gets married early and gives birth to a son who is outstanding enough, then the Ming Dynasty...

It's really messed up.

The scene of Jingnan may not happen again, because it mainly depends on Zhu Zhanhe's thoughts, but there will be more and more fights in the court in the future, which is not good for Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Gaochi sighed deeply.

He really didn't have any ill intentions when he came this time. He came simply as an older brother and an uncle.

For this reason, not only did he not go through the Ministry of Rites when he went to Yingtian this time, not many people even knew about it. It could be said that he was visiting privately incognito.

……

It's night, by the Dianchi Lake.

Hu Shanshu came here quietly, holding a tray with a teapot and a teacup on it.

Zhu Zhanhe heard the movement, turned his head and looked over, raised his hand, and motioned to Zhu Ling and Zhu Ping to let her come over.

Still without saying a word, Hu Shanshu walked to Zhu Zhanhe, placed the tray on the small table next to Zhu Zhanhe, took off the teapot from the small stove next to the table, and began to make tea for Zhu Zhanhe.

After a while, a pot of freshly brewed tea was placed next to Zhu Zhanhe. Hu Shanshu bowed and turned to leave.

During the whole process, she didn't say a word.

"Don't care." Zhu Gaochi's voice sounded.

There was a chair next to Zhu Zhanhe. Zhu Gaochi sat down on it, and the chair groaned in pain.

"Although her father is Guanglu Qing, before her father, the highest level in her family was a county magistrate. Her education was no different from that of ordinary women, but her temperament was virtuous and virtuous, and her nature was chaste."

"If she wants to be your crown princess, she may have to learn a lot, but both I and your grandfather think she is a good candidate."

"I know." Zhu Zhanhe spoke softly, interrupting his uncle's words.

He knew what his uncle wanted to say.

Sisters Hu Shanxiang and Hu Shanshu were sent to the capital to become the candidates for the grandson concubine and the crown prince concubine of King Wu. This kind of thing must have been spread in their hometown for a long time.

If she is sent back in the end, her family will definitely feel ashamed, and it may be difficult for her to find a good family for the rest of her life.

Everything she did was just to increase Zhu Zhanhe's favor and stay.

"Grandpa and uncle's kindness, Zhan He appreciates it, but Zhan He really doesn't have this kind of thought now."

Zhu Zhanhe sighed slightly and looked at the night sky.

The Japanese country is the place where he has the deepest obsession. Today, the Japanese country is on the verge of collapse. In a few years, the Japanese country will completely collapse under the pressure of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the Japanese country was not Zhu Zhanhe's only obsession.

Siam and Nanzhang are also his obsessions, but these are not his only obsessions.

He suggested that his father seize Yunnan, and then use extremely radical methods to clear the obstacles, even taking out things like white phosphorus eggs, in order to seize the pass for maritime communication between the East and the West.

In the coming age of navigation, the Strait of Malacca is a very, very important place.

If we could take control of this place and use it to do something good, darkness might not come to the flower growers.

However, he couldn't tell.

How did he say?Explain to Zhu Gaochi why he has worked so hard to do all this?
Not to mention Zhu Gaochi, many people in later generations have forgotten him.

In the future generations who entertain themselves to death, how many people know when and what happened to the flower grower's initial disaster?

When talking about the hatred between the country and the family, many people think of the Japanese country first, and so did Zhu Zhanhe, so he was the first to destroy the Japanese country.

But in fact, Zhu Zhanhe's goal was never Japan, but Europe.

Because there was a murderer there who was ignored by many people, and even later many Han people themselves forgot about it, because this murderer disguised himself very well.

He disguised himself as a...victim.

When talking about Youpei people (everyone who knows them knows it), the first thing many people think of is the inhumane massacre of Youpei people by failed art students, but few people know what they have done to us.

If you ask us what the beginning of our modern history of humiliation was, there is no doubt that it was the tablet war.

But many people only know that this is the beginning of our humiliation, that this is John Bull's invasion of us, but a few people know that John Bull is just a puppet.

Historically, those who smuggled the most pressed tablets to us and lobbied John Bull to go to war against the Manchus were actually a group of wealthy families. Among them, the largest and longest-lasting was the Sassoon family.

The John Bull East White Elephant Company, abbreviated in the textbook, smuggled a lot of tablets to us during the first tableting war, but in fact, compared with the total amount, this part was just the tip of the iceberg, because at that time John Bull had already The tableting business rights were transferred to a group of peptide family members.

Everyone knows about the Gengzi compensation. For this compensation, the Manchus signed a compensation agreement of [-] million taels of silver. Subsequently, due to interest and enemy compensation, the amount eventually exceeded one billion taels of silver.

However, the profits obtained by the Peptide Man family from selling compressed tablets far exceed this figure.

but!

This is not the most serious harm to us. Everything about the pufferfish plan has been ruined.

Therefore, Zhu Zhanhe was plotting against Europe from the very beginning.

Why did Zhu Zhanhe decide to use potatoes to create an unprecedented disaster and completely crush Europe?
This is the reason.

But can he say it?Can you tell Zhu Gaochi?Can Zhu Gaochi understand?

"What are you thinking about?"

Zhu Gaochi's words interrupted Zhu Zhanhe's thoughts, causing his thoughts that had flown to nowhere to come back again.

"It's nothing." Zhu Zhanhe shook his head.

"Thinking of Siam and Nanzhang."

"That's right." Zhu Zhanhe didn't say anything, but it was a reminder to Zhu Gaochi.

"I heard that you created a weapon that directly eliminated Siam's elephant soldiers without contact?"

"Well, that's what happened." Zhu Zhanhe nodded directly without denying it.

"But don't think about it. I won't hand over this kind of weapon. I don't trust anyone except myself."

……

Zhu Gaochi was a little confused, he didn't expect his nephew to be so straightforward.

"There must be a reason. I have to go back to meet your grandpa..." After being stunned for a while, Zhu Gaochi said in a dumbfounded voice.

"Too cruel." Zhu Zhanhe sighed, using such words to evaluate himself, Zhu Zhanhe felt a little strange.

"Although it is also an artillery piece, the effect is different. It can be said that once this kind of weapon comes out, any army now will be unstoppable, and it will make the enemy die slowly in extreme pain."

"Even if you survive, it is not a fluke, but the beginning of more pain."

"I don't want this kind of weapon to be used on my soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, or even on the people of the Ming Dynasty, so even I only use it when facing difficult problems like the militia."

……

Zhu Gaochi was silent.

He didn't expect such an answer, which made him feel a little...perfunctory.

"Don't worry." Zhu Zhanhe stood up and looked at Dianchi Lake illuminated by the moonlight.

"If it hadn't been for grandpa's edict, my father and I would not have entered Beijing."

"It's grandpa now, you will be in the future, and my cousin will be in the future."

"I promise you, if it weren't for the Ming Dynasty's life and death situation, I would not easily enter the Central Plains, let alone Yingtian."

"As for that weapon..."

"In the near future, you will see the continuous expansion of the Ming Dynasty's territory, the continuous increase in the income of the Ming Dynasty's treasury, and the continuous improvement of the lives of the people of the Ming Dynasty."

"This is my answer."

"Oh, by the way." Zhu Zhanhe was about to turn around and leave, but suddenly stopped.

"Remember to tell grandpa that you must not let sweet potatoes flow into the hands of ordinary people before I decide to let go. Once this thing flows into the hands of other countries, it will be really difficult to deal with."

"As for the other two, just be happy with you and grandpa."

As if he had put down something, Zhu Zhanhe walked towards his mansion with brisk steps.

(End of this chapter)