Mingshi

Chapter 1102 Heart Floating
"Really?" Luo Xin said with a smile on his face: "If there are really merchants, noble families and wealthy families donating, it reflects their patriotic sentiments. With such merchants, noble families and wealthy families, why would the Ming Dynasty not be able to wipe out the bandits? Daming is not revitalized?"

"No weapon!" Gao Gong said with a serious face, "Don't you think that Daming's reputation has been ruined?"

"It's all voluntary, how can you talk about ruining your reputation?"

"You... No weapon, what's the difference between you and Yan Song, Xu Jie and others?"

Luo Xin shook his head and said, "I didn't spread the news. If they donate money, I will suppress the bandits. If they don't donate, I will also suppress the bandits."

"No, you can do it yourself." Gao Gong's face drooped.

Luo Xin got up with a smile and said: "My lord, there are still some things to deal with. I will take my leave first."

Luo Xin returned to his duty room and found that Huang Jin was sitting in the duty room waiting for him.Seeing Luo Xin, he got up and said:

"No, you're back."

"Well, is something wrong?"

"Your Majesty summons you."

Luo Xin shook his head, sighed and said, "Let's go."

When I came to the side hall, I saw that the side hall was surrounded by Jin Yiwei and Dongchang Fanzi, 30 meters away from the side hall.Entering the side hall, there is only Emperor Jiajing inside.Emperor Jiajing looked at Luo Dao:
"No, you are the one who released the news that the wealthy families and businessmen donated money?"

"Yes!" Luo Xin nodded decisively.

"Crack!" Emperor Jiajing slapped the desk: "Nonsense."

"No money!" Luo Xin said lightly: "Moreover, the army in the north can't move to resist Goryeo, and the army in the south can't move either. It has to beware of Japanese pirates. Even if the court has sufficient food and grass, it can't attack the seven kingdoms at the same time." Suppressing bandits in one province, with this amount of troops, it can only suppress bandits in one province. In this case, how do you arrange them first? If you arrange this, the remaining six will be full of complaints. If this is the case, they are all complaining anyway, so then Let's see who donates money first. There is no other way."

When Emperor Jiajing heard this, he stopped talking and sat there sullenly.Luo Xin glanced at Emperor Jiajing and said:
"Your Majesty, we are really short of money. We are not short of a single star. Don't forget, after we have finished encircling and suppressing the rogues and pacifying the victims, we still have two wars to fight between the north and the south. How can we fight without money? Seven provinces, the The bandits can't use 700 million taels of silver, and the rest is for the South and North Wars."

Emperor Jiajing stood up, walked to the window, looked at the scenery outside the window, and remained silent for a long time.Luo Xin and Huang Jin also remained silent for a long time.

"Has Daming finally reached this level? Could it be that I am a foolish king?"

Luo Xin and Huang Jin were silent.In fact, Luo Xin was also thinking about Emperor Jiajing's life at this time.Throughout Emperor Jiajing's life, Emperor Jiajing was not a faint emperor.Although he does not go to court, the government is still in his hands.Daming has reached such a level, and after Emperor Jiajing, it has plummeted even more.Take the emperor Chongzhen at the end of Ming Dynasty as an example, let alone say that he was a faint emperor, because the environment is getting worse and worse.This environment does not refer to the natural environment, but the human environment.

"No, do you think I am a fool?" Emperor Jiajing turned his head and looked at Luo Xin.

Luo Xin secretly said: "You ask me like that, do I dare to say that you are a fool?"

"No."

"Then why do you think Daming has reached such a level?"

Luo Xin pondered for a moment and said: "The decline and fall of the Li Dynasty all have a common reason."

"what reason?"

"land."

"land?"

"Yes!" Luo Xin said calmly: "Every time the dynasty changes, a large number of wealthy families die, so there is a large amount of unowned land. Therefore, in the founding years of the Li Dynasty, the country did not lack land. The land was distributed to the people. At that time, the people were the happiest. However, as time passed, land annexation began.

There are two paths to land merger.One way is that in times of disaster, the common people can't survive, so they can only sell the land, and these lands are bought by those aristocratic families.Another way is that once a scholar gains fame, a large number of common people will contribute.

In this way, there must be officials in the aristocratic families, and those scholars who contributed are also famous.Naturally, no tax is required. After more than 100 years, the land that can pay taxes accounted for less than [-]% of the total land of the Ming Dynasty.But if Daming wants to operate normally, how can the tax of [-]% of the land be enough?
In this way, there is only tax increase. Today's Daming is not enough to increase tax, so it will be 40 years after the tax is received.Naturally, it has caused a situation of not being famous.Not to mention the years of major disasters, even the years of minor disasters, the people can't bear it, because their families have no food every year, and they don't have the slightest ability to resist disasters.This is why Daming has reached such a level. "

"People's hearts are floating, people's hearts are like smoke!" Emperor Jiajing sighed heavily.

"Hehe..." Emperor Jiajing sneered twice and said, "I got up early and worked late at night, so I was busy, so the benefits were all taken by those aristocratic families."

Luo Xin and Huang Jin lowered their eyes and remained silent.

"Then do it according to your ideas." Emperor Jiajing said lightly.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid many officials will be killed this time. You must prepare replacement officials. After the minister's memorial arrives, immediately send an official to take over. Otherwise, there will be trouble."

"Well, I have a count."

"My minister retire."

Luo Xin returned to his value room, and asked Lu Daqing to load all the materials given to him by Jinyiwei and Dongchang into the carriage, and then returned to the mansion together, and moved to his study.Start watching them one by one.

Jinyiwei and Dongchang are worthy of being Daming's secret service agencies, and their investigations are very clear.From this point, it can be seen that Emperor Jiajing was afraid of trouble.According to this level of corruption, if it caught up with Zhu Yuanzhang's era, these people would all be killed and their homes ransacked.However, Emperor Jiajing let go of him as long as he could live on.For more than twenty years, the government was handed over to Yan Song, and now it is all handed over to Xu Jie and Gao Gong.

Almost all of these corrupt and bribe-taking officials belonged to the same party as Xu Jie and Gao Gong. How should Xu Jie and Gao Gong be punished?
This is not to say that Xu Jie and Gao Gong's people are all corrupt criminals, but because there are only these two parties in the court, and the officials in the court are almost completely divided by these two people.Naturally, officials who have been involved in corruption and bribery are all members of these two parties.

As for the officials who are not from the two parties, on the one hand, they are all clean, self-proclaimed, and have no chance of corruption.On the other hand, they are all officials who are squeezed out by the two parties, and they all stay in the Qingshui Yamen, so there is no chance of corruption.

As the sky gradually darkened, Luo Xin put away the materials and sat on a chair thinking about the plan.And at this moment, footsteps sounded outside.

"Master Hou, Master Zhou and Master Zhang are here."

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