Chapter 82 Refutation

Yu Xiaotian glanced at Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen and shook his head and said, "You two are loyal and righteous men. Yu is quite admiring you two. Looking at the Ming Dynasty, you are the only two who can be so loyal to the emperor now, so please don't be impatient!

If Yu has the intention to be unfavorable to the emperor, why bother so much? Can't Yu capture the palace for so many days?

But Yu didn't do this, precisely because Yu didn't mean to harm the emperor. Otherwise, if Yu had the intention to harm the saint, what could he do with you people?

I just want to have a quiet talk with the emperor. As for whether the emperor agrees to Yu's conditions, Yu will never be unfavorable to the emperor! Here, I can swear to heaven. If someone violates his oath, this life will not end well!"

Looking at Yu Xiaotian swearing so much, Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen both looked at each other and didn't know what to do.

Because Yu Xiaotian is telling the truth, if Yu Xiaotian has the intention to be unfavorable to Chongzhen, then he really doesn't have to work so much. With his current means, it can be said that it is easy to take down the imperial city, that is, just move his fingers.

With these guards in the current imperial city, they can't stop Yu's army from entering the palace at all. Even if Yu Xiaotian wants to do it now, the guards here may have nothing to do with them.

So Yu Xiaotian really doesn't have to work so hard. If he wants to do something and doesn't want others to know, he can let his men kill the insiders in the palace at any time. Naturally, no one knows what happened in the palace.

After listening to Yu Xiaotian's words, Chongzhen calmed down a little and felt that what Yu Xiaotian said was reasonable. If Yu Xiaotian wanted to kill the king, then he did indeed have this ability and did not need to work so hard at all. Since he did not do so, it shows that Yu Xiaotian has not yet murderous intent on him now. It doesn't matter whether Cao Huachun is here or not.

What's more, now he is the flesh. No matter what Yu Xiaotian wants to do with him, there is nothing he can do. Even if he immediately committed suicide now, Yu Xiaotian can still control the palace, and then help a prince to ascend the throne to replace him as emperor, which is more conducive to his control tomorrow.

So now Yu Xiaotian wants to have a deep talk with him, but he may not take anything to him, so he waved and said, "Wait all back!" I'd like to hear what this traitor wants to say to me!"

Cao Huachun stared at Yu Xiaotian and said harshly, " Marshal Yu, you can swear to heaven that you will never hurt the emperor. If you break your promise and become fat, heaven will not spare you!"

Yu Xiaotian smiled indifferently and said, "Don't worry, Yu is not the kind of villain who eats his promise!"

Cao Huachun, Wang Chengen and other eunuchs bowed to receive the order and slowly withdrew from the Wenhua Hall with a group of guards. Yu Xiaotian also waved and drove Liu Wang and other guards out of the Wenhua Hall, but Yu Xiaotian asked them to leave a suitcase. At this time, only Yu Xiaotian and Chongzhen were left in the palace.

Yu Xiaotian walked to the dragon case with his suitcase and said to Chongzhen, "Don't be nervous. Since Yu said that he would never harm the emperor, he must do what he said. There are some things here. Yu wants to invite the emperor to have a look in a moment! How about asking the emperor to calm down and listen to Weichen say something with a normal heart?

Chongzhen took a deep breath. This feeling of being controlled by others is really not good, but the knife is now in the hands of Xiaotian. Yu Xiaotian fully controls the right to kill everyone in the palace. He is almost alone now. How can he take it to Xiaotian?

So he didn't say anything. He fell on the dragon chair and glared at Yu Xiaotian and said, "What do you have to say?"

Yu Xiaotian also turned to find a chair, sat down and began to talk with Chongzhen.

Yu Xiaotian first began with the general trend of the world and told Chongzhen in detail about the current famine situation of the Ming people and the tragic situation of the people in various places.

Chongzhen has seen these things from the memorials sent to Beijing by many local officials. Of course, he knows what kind of state the people in many places in the Ming Dynasty are living in. It's not that he doesn't feel at all. Looking at the medals sent to Beijing from various places, he also feels sad and deeply for the people. The hunger is painful.

But over the years, he has been a little numb. Since he ascended the throne, there have been too many such things, and Daming has been in chaos for a year, and there is no financial shortage at all, so now he is beginning to feel numb about such things.

Yu Xiaotian went on to point out that the reason why the Ming Dynasty now has four civilian troops are inseparable from the policy of the imperial court. The imperial court is now in financial difficulties and constantly increasing pay. In fact, it is killing chickens to get eggs and destroying the Great Wall. This is to drink poison to quench thirst. The people themselves have no longer make a living, and the court also has to collect taxes and pay. The government can only urge the people, and the people can't survive. They can only rise up. As a result, more and more exiles of the people are suppressed.

Although it seems that the imperial court has achieved some results in last year's suppression, in fact, as long as it is slightly relaxed, the demobilization of the demobilization will immediately rejuvenate and invincible suppression. Even if Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are destroyed, Wang Zicheng, Zhao Zicheng and Ma Xianzhong will continue to rebel in the future.

In such a reciprocating cycle, there is no head at all, until the whole Daming is completely exhausted, and finally Daming is completely destroyed.

Chongzhen was a little unconvinced about this, but his thinking was gradually led into a state by Yu Xiaotian and began to be influenced by Yu Xiaotian and considered this aspect.

So Chongzhen and Yu Xiaotian began to argue. Now the Ming court is in financial difficulties. If you want to suppress bandits and resist the bandits, you have to use troops. If you want to use troops, you have to spend money. If you don't have money, you can't fight. Where does that money come from?

Yu Xiaotian did not answer his question directly, but said that this kind of thing can be solved in minutes. There is no need to spend a lot of time to force these people.

Chongzhen didn't believe this at all, thinking that Yu Xiaotian was just talking nonsense.

However, after thinking about Chongzhen's doubts, Yu Xiaotian finally said his method, that is, collecting commercial taxes, opening sea bans, raising farmers with commerce, and raising farmers with workers. He gave examples from the Song Dynasty. Although the country's military strength was weak during the Song Dynasty, the country was quite rich, and the annual tax was far exceeded. There are many times as many as the current Ming Dynasty. Even at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty was close to half of the rivers and mountains in the south of the Yangtze River, and the tax was much higher than that of the Northern Song Dynasty.

In addition to all kinds of harsh taxes, it has a lot to do with the opening of maritime commerce in the Song Dynasty during the Song Dynasty. Every year, the contribution of local cities to the imperial court's fiscal revenue accounts for nearly half. In addition, sea trade has driven the development of handicrafts and absorbed a large number of Labor, various commercial taxes, go beyond agricultural taxes.

However, since the Ming Dynasty, Daming has banned the sea, despised commerce, and did not collect or just rarely collect taxes from merchants, which led to Daming's strong dependence on agricultural taxation, which also led to the heavy burden on Daming farmers.

In addition, in the past 300 years since the Ming Dynasty, those nobles and dignitaries and officials have annexed their land and occupied too much land, but their land has never contributed a little tax to the court. Even if they are handed over, they have hidden a lot of land and colluded with local officials to deceive the top and the next. Transfer the taxes they should pay to ordinary people, making it unbearable for ordinary people.

Therefore, Daming's practice can only get worse and worse. The continuous increase has led to too heavy burden on farmers everywhere. The grain harvested by farmers throughout the year is not even enough to pay for the government. Who will still farm? If you don't hand it over, you will be arrested, tortured and urged. If you hand it over, you will starve to death. It's no wonder that the people don't rebel.

The various expenses occupied by transportation will consume too much financial revenue of Daming, which can be completely abandoned. The sea route will transport the grain tax in the south to the north, so that a lot of consumption can be saved in a year.

When Chongzhen heard this, some ministers raised the matter of maritime transportation, but many ministers objected, saying that the sea storms and waves were unpredictable. Once they encounter hurricanes and waves, they would suffer heavy losses, so they could not replace transportation by sea.

Yu Xiaotian immediately laughed and asked Chongzhen, "Weichen started from the sea. Although he has encountered hurricanes and waves over the years, he has not suffered much damage. Even on the other side of the South China Sea, the wind and waves are many times larger than the northern sea, and he has never suffered heavy losses because of hurricanes and waves!"

This time, Weichen used nearly 1,000 large ships to go north without suffering too many losses. Doesn't this explain the problem?

The emperor was deceived by those ministers again! Instead of worrying about the loss of shipping money and food due to the hurricane waves, they are worried about their interests!

Does the emperor really think that the cost of transportation is spent on the canal every year? Wrong! At least 80% of these spent money and grain have fallen into the hands of all kinds of people, but most of them oppose shipping to replace sea transportation is because they have to share a lot of benefits from it year, so once shipping replace shipping, then these people will have no money to take it!

In this way, if they don't object, it will be strange! This is what Weichen said, the reason why there are too many officials in the Ming Dynasty should be killed!

And I'm afraid that the emperor has also had the idea of collecting taxes from merchants to supplement Daming's insufficient fiscal revenue! Has this matter also been collectively opposed by the ministers?

That's right, because these ministers say well that they don't compete with the people, but in fact, a few of them secretly do not collude with merchants, and even secretly do business and collect business taxes, so how can they agree to collect money from them?

This is the minister of the Holy Lord. That's how they work for the Holy King and the Ming Dynasty!

The emperor has been exhausted for lack of money all day, but these ministers are all filling their own pockets. Among other things, the emperor proposed to ask the officials to donate money to pay money this time, but how much money has he received? If it doesn't come to Weichen's expectation, I'm afraid it's very few. Isn't it a drop in the bucket?

(Thanks for the reward of the two brothers in the desert and the thick Mudanjiang!)