Idle courtiers

Chapter 380
The whole day Zhou Nan was busy, busy to clean up all the official affairs at hand, and handed over to Shi Wenjiang what he couldn't finish.He also called all his subordinates together to give a lecture, saying that my master is going to take the local examination in Shuntian Prefecture, and he will not come to the Yamen again until he leaves the examination room.If you have any matters, you can handle them at your own discretion, and if you are really in doubt, leave it to Mr. Shi.

When the official is away, Mr. Shi can fully represent me.

After reassurance and explanation, Shi Wenjiang agreed to stand guard again.Said, Mr. Zhou, if you win the exam, I will continue to work for you.Otherwise, I will find another way to survive.

What else Zhou Nan could say was a wry smile.It seemed that the only way for him to go was Zhongju.

After a busy day, the next day, Zhou Nan entered the inner school and began to teach the inner servant students.

As soon as I entered the school, I heard the following whispered: "Mr. Sanci has arrived."

When Zhou Nan heard this, he was stunned. When did he get such a nickname?

In these two days, Zhou Zimu's reputation became even more famous among the nobles in the capital and the inner court circle.Think about it, Mr. Zhou accompanied the emperor to give alms to the various roads and temples in the capital on behalf of the emperor, and both errands were handled with great joy.For the first time, the emperor granted rewards three times successively, and Mr. Zhou's letter of commission was softened; for the second time, His Royal Highness the Eldest Princess also rewarded property three times.

This kind of favor has never been seen since the kingdom, even the commanding envoy Lu Binglu of Jin Yiwei who dominated the world back then was nothing more than that.

Although Mr. Zhou is very likely to be the son-in-law of the emperor in the future, he cannot be an official.But he has a lot of influence with His Majesty, and Jane is power in the Emperor's heart!

In the eyes of the nobles in the capital and the inner court circle, Lao Zhou has become the spokesperson of the younger generation of imperial power.

All the students looked at the teacher with more reverence.

Zhou Nan felt uncomfortable and coughed: "It's time for class. As a teacher, what I'm going to teach today is "The History of Zuyong Modulation in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and Its Relationship with Ding Mu in the Ming Dynasty." The so-called rent is the land tax; ;Tune, corvee service. The Tang Dynasty implemented a land rent, body, and household transfer system on the basis of the previous land equalization system. In the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Pei Xia collected Yong and used it as a substitute service. Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty opened the emperor for ten years, It is stipulated that men at the age of 50 are exempted from military service, and are allowed to hand over cloth and silk instead of forced labor... Our dynasty implements a separate system for each family, and the population corvee and mu tax are collected separately..."

"...So, here comes the problem. There are poor families with plenty of labor, but no land under their name, and the state can't collect much tax. And some families have thousands of acres of fertile land, and they can't collect much when they are expropriated. .Obviously, this tax system with separation of small acres is unreasonable..."

Zhou Nan was born as a grassroots civil servant and is familiar with local conditions.He is different from Zi Yue Shiyun when he is teaching other professors. He specializes in economics and economics, and he has great eloquence, which sounds very interesting.

It's not that the students should not learn the words of the sages. In fact, among the more than 200 students present, none of them came out of ten years of poverty.As far as their knowledge is concerned, they may not lose to Zhou Nan. If they are really asked to take the exam, it is not difficult for everyone to be a scholar.

These people are the elites of the inner court, and they will be the inner ministers to govern the world in the future, if they don't know the value of Professor Zhou Nan's knowledge.

Everyone was fascinated by what they heard, and they were thinking in their hearts, if I had been in charge of the Ministry of Rites, how would I have reformed this malpractice?

Dingmuheben is an important content of Zhang Juzheng's new law.

Zhang Juzheng's reform has three important programs: one whip method, the examination method and the integration of Dingmu and Qingzhang.

To put it simply, it is clearing up the population and land hidden by big families, increasing the scale of taxation; converting all taxes in kind and corvee into silver; and using the data of completing these two tasks as the evaluation standard for officials.

By the time of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty, the fourth elder brother went a step further, directly sharing the land into the mu, the fire consumption was returned to the public, and the gentry paid for food and served together.

That's right, what Zhou Nan is teaching today is Zhang Juzheng's Longwan Great Reform.

Zhou Nan thought about this, and there were two main reasons for the fall of the Ming Dynasty.One is the collapse of the country's finances; the other is the natural disasters of the Little Ice Age. The people had no food and clothing, so they had to rise up.Just imagine, if the imperial court had the money to help the people during the natural disaster in the year of Chongzhen, and could spend military expenditures to suppress the rebellion, why would Huang Taiji pick a big deal?
To fill the national treasury, Zhang Juzheng's new law is the only good way to save the Ming Dynasty.

During Zhang Juzheng's administration, the country was strong, and because of sufficient material guarantees, it was possible to win the three major campaigns of Wanli, and there were 300 million taels of silver in the treasury after Lao Zhang's death.

If it weren't for the abolition of the new law after Wanli came to power, how could the Ming Dynasty have perished?

Wanli was confused, and even lost a whip, the only life-saving straw in the Ming Dynasty, for personal grievances.

The personal grievances between Wanli and Zhang Juzheng were one of the reasons, and the other reason was that Lao Zhang touched the interests of the gentry class and the civil official group and became everyone's public enemy.

After all, both Zhang Juzheng and Yan Song do dirty work.It's just that Yan Song is the white glove of the emperor, while Zhang Ju is the white glove of the country and the nation.

Neither of them fared well.

Zhou Nan also wanted to change the tragic situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but when Yan Song said "you will come here again" when he visited the prison that day, he was terrified. Unfortunately, there were Shang Yang and Wang Anshi in the past, Zhang Juzheng, and the Six Gentlemen of [-]... My old Zhou is just an ordinary white-collar worker.

However, for the sake of future generations, the Ming Dynasty, which is about to fall, must be saved.

Then, let's spread the idea of ​​reform first, starting from the eunuchs, and subtly influence the idea of ​​reform, and then make the idea of ​​reform deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

In this way, in the future, Zhang Juzheng or people with lofty ideals like Zhang Juzheng will have more help when implementing the new law, so that people will not die and the government will disappear.

Holding on to this idea, Zhou Nan spared no effort in class to sell his new ideas to the students, but he never thought that by doing so, he would become the leader of the strict party.

Princess Jiashan gave Jun Ming pendant, which is a proverb.

It took Zhou Nan a day to finish talking about the taxation systems of each dynasty, and compared them one by one, and left homework for the eunuchs to write an impression of about [-] characters, and school ended.

Seeing that it was still early, he simply hid in the public room alone to study his homework and prepare for the exam.

Just as he was entering the alley, there was a knock on the door: "Teacher, can the students come in?"

Zhou Nan: "Oh, it's Chen Ju, please come in."

Chen Ju didn't sit down after entering the room, and just stood in front of Zhou Nan so politely.

Zhou Nan: "Chen Ju, what's the matter?"

Chen Ju: "I just listened to Mr.'s class, and the students were deeply inspired. However, Chen Ju found that Mr.'s words had more meaning, so I came here to ask for advice."

Zhou Nan: "Tell me."

Chen Ju: "Mr. said that the taxes I collected from the court seem to be decreasing every year. That is because the people have hidden a large number of people and land. To increase the country's tax revenue, it is more important to increase income than to reduce expenditure. The husband also said , Money is earned, not saved, which greatly inspires the students. However, the students want to ask, who has hidden the population and land in the past?"

Isn’t this nonsense? Naturally, it’s a local gentry and aristocratic family. Zhou Nan thought to himself, can this matter be brought up and said: “I don’t know about this as a teacher. It needs to be investigated and studied. Without investigation and research, there is no speech right."

Suddenly, Chen Ju laughed softly: "Sir, I know that those who are famous in my dynasty do not need to pay taxes. Once ordinary people win the election, some people will give land, house, or even sell themselves into slavery, in order to escape The country’s corvee taxes. Therefore, the tax money that should have entered the national treasury has become the private property of scholars. By the way, sir is also a scholar, so it is natural to consider for his own interests. Sir, are you right about students?”

Zhou Nan still smiled but did not answer, and continued to think in his heart: nonsense, a person can betray his family, but it is absolutely impossible to betray his class.This revolution of the gentry should be done by eunuchs like you who have no children and no property.I, Mr. Zhou, Mr. Zhou, do not want to be the public enemy of the intellectual class and the landlord class in the world, and I do not want to die like Zhang Juzheng and be dug out of the ground.

Chen Ju's tone sounded sonorous: "A scholar must be ambitious, the responsibilities are heavy and the road is long. A scholar must be strong and persistent, because he has a great responsibility and a long way to go. Isn't it important to take the realization of benevolence as one's own responsibility? ?Struggle for life, and die. In the eyes of the students, Mr. is like a great sage in ancient times. But when it comes to your own interests, you have no responsibility. You let the students down too much!"

Speaking of this, Chen Ju's eyes were full of tears.

Is this the collapse of idols?Zhou Nan was speechless for a while, this Eunuch Chen was plain-looking, at the age of 26 and seven, he was still dawdling in the inner school, and he couldn't finish his studies, obviously, he was the best choice for talent and knowledge.If I hadn't known that this person would be the governor of the East Factory, I wouldn't have paid attention to this ordinary person!
Zhou Nan sighed: "If you were me, what would you do?"

"If I were a husband, I would carry the three-foot sword to wipe out treacherous evil, and create peace for all generations." Chen Ju.

Zhou Nan scolded: "You are young and immature. What you rely on is your enthusiasm. But you don't know that politics is difficult, and you can't get things done by impulsiveness."

Chen Ju straightened his chest and said in a high voice: "There are three types of bravery, bravery, courageous blood, and bravery of bones. Bravery has a face like blue indigo, with angry eyes like diamonds; bravery with blood has red faces and red ears, like a blazing fire; bravery, looks as usual, and looks as if Mount Tai collapsed in front of you." No change. If I had a big handle in my hand, as my husband said, I should order the gentry in the world to be responsible for the food and food. Anyone who speaks nonsense will be killed; anyone who resists will be killed!"

This is already murderous, Zhou Nan: "Chen Ju, you are too murderous, there will be no end."

"The people of the world are the people of the world, and the people of the world are not just gentry. For the sake of the people of the world, and for my Ming, I will die nine times without regret."

(End of this chapter)