Dashun Yongchang

Just as the family of the gentry oppressed and made the small and medium-sized landlords feel unbearable, facing the oppression of the local suzerains, even the family of the gentry could not bear it.Unless there is an old man in the family, it is difficult for ordinary gentry to resist the bullying of the suzerain vassal, because the emperor of Ming Dynasty valued his relatives very much, although it was only superficially.

When Li Zicheng went south, he confiscated all the vassal land in Shandong and Henan in one go, and instead paid a fixed annual salary. The highest vassal was only 3000 taels. The gentry also had to say good things about Li Zicheng.

However, it is impossible for Li Zicheng's criticism to be limited to Zhu Ming's clan. For example, the design of the land tax collection system, the reform of the system of appropriation and corvee, and the reform of the privileges and exemptions of the gentry, etc., all made the gentry of the former Ming Dynasty felt a great crisis.

Although the gentry in Shandong, Henan and other places were dissatisfied with the series of reform proposals put forward by the Marshal's Mansion, some more enlightened gentry also believed that the land tax and corvee system of the Ming Dynasty really needed to be reformed. Said: "The fields of the rich are connected with rice paddies, but there are few farms, and the poor have no land, so there are more corvees. This is why the Ming Dynasty is dead."

Zhang Fengxiang, the oldest person in the room, squinted his eyes and listened. Zhang Jiayu, who was standing in the middle, said: "Check the old regulations. People are judged every five years, and they are divided into nine cases. The upper and lower ones will be levied for nine coins, and the lower ones will be levied for silver." For one coin, the wealth of the family is the amount of silver. Newborns are added and dead are expelled. This is the law. If there is a division, it may not be able to pay attention to inspection...

Moreover, following the old practice, every time editorial review occurs, there is the name of increasing the household registration of Si Wubo. Regardless of the suffering of the people, it must be overflowed to the forehead. He refuses to be expelled, and the son is responsible for registering when he is born. The barrenness in the ditch is still on the book, and the son of Huangkou is already a call to chase.

If there is land, there will be tax, and if there is no land, there will be no tax. Then the poor will have respite, while the rich are just a drop in the bucket. This is the most important task of this dynasty to win the trust of the people, and it is also a great good governance, which should be done. "

Qiu Junsun said hesitantly: "The land in the south of the Yangtze River is dominated by gentry and filial piety, and there is no gentry and filial piety to control it, and there is no gentry and filial piety to entrust it for a while. There should be no serious problems in Jiangbei's implementation of dividing people into mu, but the gentry in Jiangnan heard of it." , I am afraid that the south will be difficult to settle in the future.”

Zong Hao said: "At the moment, let's look at the present first. Your Majesty has made it very clear that although this dynasty occupies the Central Plains, the Central Plains is in the heart of the world. There is no natural danger to defend. It is the place of the Four Wars. Therefore, I want to use The Central Plains is the foundation to conquer the Quartet, and the first thing is the hearts of the people. How can we not do it to win the hearts of the world by removing the poll tax? The heart of the gentry, and it will be too late to deal with it when the world is peaceful."

Zhang Fengxiang and Lu Zhenfei looked at each other. From these young officials, they had already felt the recognition of these young people for Dashun. Therefore, even if the policies promoted by Emperor Yongchang were harmful to the gentry, these young officials thought it was Tolerable, because compared with this loss, it is obviously more important to calm down the world as soon as possible and establish the prestige of the new dynasty.

The oldest Zhang Fengxiang turned his head to look at Lu Zhenfei with some hesitation, and asked him, "Jianbai, what do you think about this?"

Lu Zhenfei admired Li Zicheng's daring to launch such a radical reform policy when the world was not yet peaceful. It was like a person betting his entire family on the gambling table without leaving any way out for himself .It was foreseeable that if Li Zicheng failed to stop the northern soldiers in the ensuing war, then the gentry everywhere would probably betray him immediately, and Dashun would be finished.

Although Lu Zhenfei had been expecting that Dashun and Jiannu would perish together, at this moment he had to admit that Li Zicheng was more courageous and responsible than the martyred Emperor Daxing.As for the one from Nandu, there is really no way to compare.

After pondering for a long time, Lu Zhenfei finally said: "It's not enough just to implement the policy of distributing the income from the household to the mu. If the policy cannot be implemented, given the degree of collusion between the subordinates and the gentry, these taxes will still have to be paid in the end." It fell on those small peasants.

We all know that although the land tax is customized, the increase in consumption is different.In the hands of those subordinates, the extra consumption of the gentry is zero for one tael, one tael for powerful households, six or seven taels for middle households, and more than one tael for small households.If it is white grain, the family will go bankrupt.

Therefore, what His Majesty said is that the fire consumption will be returned to the public and that everyone will lose, which is very reasonable.Only by making the collection ratio of all fields consistent, can the rich bear more taxes, thereby reducing the burden on middle and low households.

In the Xuande Dynasty in the past, the governor Zhou Chen implemented the square rice law in Suzhou, so that the consumption of rice in Guantian and Mintian was the same.Regardless of the official land and the private land, for every stone of tax and grain paid, seven buckets of rice will be consumed.This greatly reduces the burden on Xiaomin in Suzhou, which is exactly the reason.

Therefore, it is necessary to carry out at the same time the transfer of the land into the mu and the return of the fire consumption to the public, so as to help the common people reduce the burden and the hearts of the people can be attached. "

Hearing Lu Zhenfei's words, Zhang Fengxiang couldn't help laughing at himself and said: "I'm getting old, and I'm even timid. It's obviously a good thing for the national economy and the people's livelihood, but I'm hesitant, lest I offend the gentry all over the world. Dashun, is it really different from Daming?"

Everyone else was silent, but Zhang Jiayu raised his head and said: "It's just a body smashed to pieces. If Yu Shaobao knew what happened behind him that day, wouldn't he have done nothing?"

Lu Zhenfei remained silent, he was also thinking about the question Zhang Fengxiang asked, wouldn't this Dashun really become another Great Ming?If they just became another Great Ming, then the decisions they made here today would be too meaningless.

On the other side, the conversation between Li Zicheng and Zheng Zhilong was coming to an end. He pulled Zheng Zhilong aside and said, "If there is nothing wrong with Nan Anbo, he should go back. I am still waiting to send troops to Taiwan, Macau and send people to North Korea."

Zheng Zhilong glanced back at his son who was discussing with other young people, and after pondering for a few breaths, he said to Li Zicheng: "Then I will leave tomorrow morning. However, although the dog is dull, he can still be driven. If your majesty does not dislike it, let him stay. How about being with His Majesty..."

Chapter 190 New Deal Five

Naturally, Li Zicheng would not reject Zheng Zhilong's proposal. This is also a way for the current local forces to express their submission. proton.

When Zheng Zhilong left the next day, he called Zheng Sen over and told him to serve Emperor Yongchang well and not to offend others.

In the past few days, what Zheng Sen saw and heard did give him a lot of different inspirations, but hearing his father's respect for Emperor Yongchang, he still said a little rebelliously: "Your Majesty Hongguang bestowed a title on Father, Father doesn't seem as excited as he is now. Has His Majesty Yongchang made other promises to father?"

Zheng Zhilong replied indifferently: "Didn't His Majesty Yongchang's promises be made clear in the past few days? Who else can bear the expansion of Dashun's maritime power except our Zheng family?" He Hongguang Compared with the empty title awarded by His Majesty, His Majesty Yongchang gave real money.

As long as Dashun's maritime plan remains unchanged, then our Zheng family will not lose our position. How can a mere Nan'anbo compare... Besides, since Emperor Hongguang ascended the throne for several months, apart from the appointment and dismissal of personnel, there have been concerns about local construction. There are only a handful of orders to rectify the army.

But during our visit here, the local construction orders issued by Emperor Yongchang in three days have exceeded the relevant decrees issued by Nandu in three months.It can be seen from this that although the emperor has changed, Daming is still the same, and he has no intention of cheering up.On the other hand, Dashun is full of vitality and looks like a new dynasty. Do we still have to accompany Daming to die?What's more, with the crown prince here, Nanjing is not going forward. "

Although he always looked down on his father in his heart and thought he was too smooth, but this time Zheng Sen had to admit that what his father said today really hit the nail on the head. No matter in terms of governance or orthodoxy, Nandu lost to Da Shun.After all, his teacher Qian Qianyi was also a reformer. Although he couldn't propose any specific reform plan, he firmly believed that Ming Dynasty would perish if it didn't reform.

Zheng Sen has only been in Nandu for half a year. Although he still doesn't understand the specific political propositions of the Donglin Party and Fushe, he also realizes that the progressive gentry in Jiangnan have generally reached a consensus, that is, they hope that the imperial court will allow the world to govern. people discuss.

This point of view first came from Gui Youguang, who asked such a question when he was the chief examiner of the Zhejiang Provincial Examination: Major state-owned affairs must be discussed by the world, not dedicated to one person, not consulted on one person, but just as it should be.

Then Gu Xiancheng further summarized this point of view as: Right and wrong, right and wrong in the world, you should listen to the world.Thus forming a legal basis for Donglin party members to discuss government affairs.The affairs of the state are the affairs of the world, and the affairs of the world are related to the people of the world, so everyone in the world can discuss them.

Zheng Sen's knowledge is not deep enough, and he actually has doubts about the fact that the state affairs proposed by the progressive gentry in the south of the Yangtze River should come from public opinion.After all, he was educated in Japan to be loyal to the emperor, and the courtiers should not criticize the emperor's right or wrong, but obey the emperor's orders regardless of right or wrong. This is the way to serve the emperor.

And what he learned after returning to China is loyalty and filial piety, that is, the relationship between monarch and minister is the relationship between father and son. If the father makes a mistake, it is wrong for the son to point it out.

However, gentlemen such as the Donglin Party and Fushe want to maintain the order of ethics, and at the same time advocate that people in the world discuss world affairs, and the father of a monarch should obey the Dao.In Zheng Sen's view, this is actually an extremely confusing ethical point of view. Since the father and father are required to obey the Dao, it means that the order of ethics can be changed, and everything should depend on reason rather than order of superiority and inferiority.

Therefore, during the more than half a year in Nanjing, Zheng Sen's studies were also very depressing. He always felt that his own knowledge was insufficient, so it was difficult to understand the lofty theories of the gentlemen of Donglin and Fushe.But sometimes he felt vaguely that what these gentlemen seemed to say were all useless principles, which could not be used to change the various problems existing in Daming.

However, during these few days in Yangzhou, he suddenly became enlightened. It turned out that it was not because of his lack of knowledge, but because the theories of the gentlemen of Donglin and Fushe were hard to justify.On the one hand, they advocate that the ethical order is the most perfect social order, and on the other hand, they believe that the emperor should listen to the people.

This is just like what Emperor Yongchang said, these gentlemen ask their fathers to be equal to themselves, but at the same time ask the people at the bottom to respect themselves. This is completely a double standard, so the avenues of the gentlemen of Donglin and Fushe are illusory and unreal. Definitely, because they are not sure what their Tao really is.

On the side of Dashun, Emperor Yongchang first admitted that the ethical order is not equal to the Datong world, and secondly believed that state affairs are indeed the affairs of the world and should be put into public opinion, but this kind of public opinion must meet two conditions, which is beneficial to the majority of people , the minority must obey the majority.

Let's not talk about whether the political ethics proposed by Emperor Yongchang can be realized, but for young people like Zheng Sen who can't see the way forward, they suddenly become cheerful. At least they have found a direction that can indeed move forward.

This was also the reason why many young scholars in the Marshal's Mansion were willing to serve Li Zicheng. They did not serve Dashun for promotion and wealth, but for Li Zicheng in order to establish a Dashun different from Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, facing his father's frankness, Zheng Sen felt that he had nothing to say, and he silently sent his father aboard.At this time, Ruan Dacheng boarded the pier beside them, and passed by Zheng Zhilong and his son.

At that time, Zheng Zhilong and his son had no time to pay attention to their surroundings. Since Li Zicheng was stationed in Daming Temple, the wharf at the foot of the mountain has become the No. 1 profit market in Yangzhou.

And Ruan Dacheng didn't pay much attention to the people on the pier. Ever since he heard the news that the crown prince was going south, he had been in a state of anxiety. In fact, if the Donglin party members and Fushe gentlemen were to turn this round, he and Ma Shiying might be the same. Even returning home to be a squire is difficult.

Therefore, when faced with the solicitation from the Statistics Department, he accepted it without hesitation.But he really didn't expect that the relationship between the Statistics Department and Li Zicheng was so close. He said that if he could see Emperor Yongchang, he would be able to see Emperor Yongchang. This also made his heart boil like a fire. .

Living in the countryside for 17 years, although Ruan Dacheng lost precious time, his enthusiasm for power has also reached a peak under the verbal criticism of Donglin Party members and Fushe gentlemen.Today, whether he can be recovered is no longer a question of whether he can display his personal talents, but a question of whether he is a villain in the mouth of these gentlemen.

As long as he is not revoked for a day, then the label of eunuch villain on him cannot be taken down, and he and his family will be in a situation of being isolated by mainstream society.This also means that it will be difficult for his family to enter the official career again in the future. With the tradition of the gentry society of the Ming Dynasty, without the protection of the gentry status, no matter how big the family is, it will not take three generations to decline.

Therefore, in Ruan Dacheng's view, the suppression of him by the Donglin party members and the gentlemen of Fushe was no longer an attack on him personally, but an attack on his entire family.At such a moment, who cares about who is the emperor, the most important thing is to ensure that the status of his family in the village does not decline.

Therefore, as soon as the Statistics Division recruited him, he followed suit.At this time, he had already regarded the Statistics Department as a life-saving straw, no matter whether it was useful or not, he had to grab it.After all, judging from the current situation, the Hongguang Dynasty is about to collapse. If he cannot find a new backer, he will definitely be liquidated by the new emperor, because he and Ma Shiying are both Hongguang Emperor's supporters.

Li Sicheng, who accompanied Ruan Dacheng up the mountain, actually had a good opinion of Ruan Dacheng.As a member of the Statistics Department, you must first understand your contact objects before contacting them.And Ruan Dacheng's "Yong Huai Tang Poetry Collection", or "Ten Mistakes", "Mani Pearl", and "Swallow Notes" are all masterpieces of literary talent.

As a leader who once organized a rebellion against Dashun's rule, Li Sicheng actually has no prejudice against the Eunuch Party and Donglin Party, as long as he can use it for himself, he is a talent.Since being absorbed into the Statistics Department, although Li Sicheng has lost a lot of his arrogance, his realistic thinking has become more and more profound.

Therefore, before going up the mountain, he deliberately mentioned to Ruan Dacheng a lot of Emperor Yongchang's style of doing things, and also hoped that the other party could use this opportunity to gain Emperor Yongchang's trust.After all, if Ruan Dacheng wholeheartedly joined Dashun, then Nanjing would be equivalent to opening the door to Dashun, and the statistics department would be considered to have made a first-class contribution.

Li Sicheng didn't realize that now he was thinking about issues gradually with the interests of the Statistics Department as the starting point, while the Texas Li family was put aside.He is increasingly becoming part of the Statistics Division.

And when they went up the mountain, Li Zicheng in the Daming Temple was also listening to the reports of He Duiji and other personnel from the Statistics Department. He Duiji was currently in charge of Yangzhou city prices and the situation of the council, and he reported his situation to Li Zicheng. Observation results: "...Although the city gates on the north and east sides have been opened, the price of goods in Yangzhou has only dropped slightly, and has not dropped significantly.

The people in Yangzhou are complaining most about the high prices of two types of commodities. One is grain. When Yangzhou City was besieged by Gao Jie’s army, the price of rice in the city was five or six grains per stone. Our army went south to solve the problem. After the siege of Yangzhou, grain prices dropped to 3-4 taels a stone.This price is double that of last year, but it is not far from the 15th, [-]th, and [-]th years of Chongzhen, because the south of the Yangtze River suffered rare drought and locust plagues in these three years.

Last year and this year, Jianghuai was in a normal year, so the rise in food prices this time is due to human hoarding rather than natural disasters to reduce production.Although the Marshal’s Mansion ordered all grain shops not to be hesitant to sell them, the grain shops in Yangzhou City still control the sale of rice every day, causing the people to complain..."

Chapter 191 New Deal Six

After hearing this, Li Zicheng interrupted He Duiji and asked, "How much is the working food silver for craftsmen and ordinary small workers in Yangzhou City now?"

何兑吉回想了一下后说道：“丝绸纺织工匠，技艺出色的每月3两银加1石米；普通的每月1.5两银子加1石米。码头上的力工大约每日100文皮钱，年初时相当于4分银子，现在则不到4分。”

Li Zicheng calculated in his mind, and said, "That is to say, ordinary laborers are only paid 1 liter of rice for a day, and this is enough to support themselves?"

He Duiji nodded with a heavy heart and said: "Yes, these ordinary small workers have no savings at all, and they only have food and clothing in normal years. When the war broke out, they couldn't even support their families.

Before Gaozhen besieged Yangzhou, in order to resist Gao Jie's army, those salt merchants and big households also took out a sum of money and food to recruit Minzhuang to guard the city, so they could barely make ends meet.However, after our army went south and Gao Jie's army withdrew from the siege of Yangzhou, these people refused to pay for food and money again. Therefore, many poor people could not make ends meet and could only sell their wives and children.

In addition to food, fuel is also a big problem. There is no forest around Yangzhou, and it used to rely on firewood shipped from Anqing and other places.Now that the waterway of the Yangtze River is closed, the price of fuel in the city has soared. The price of a load of firewood has exceeded a bucket of rice, which is 4 qian. Many people can only go out of the city to cut some reeds and branches to burn, and reduce the number of fire ..."

Listening to He Duiji's report, Li Zicheng didn't say anything more, but asked him: "Then what is the Yangzhou Council discussing these days?"

He Duiji sighed, shook his head and said: "Before the meeting was still focused on when our army will take down Gaozhen and on issues such as the salt industry and tax reform, but the focus of the debate these days is on grain prices. , Employment, food, bank and relief issues.

The representatives of the citizens demanded that the price of grain be lowered and sold without restriction; while the grain merchants believed that the current price was already a loss-making business, and that if they sold without restriction, the grain would only fall into the hands of those with surplus money. Ordinary citizens also cannot buy food.

The owners of the handicraft workshops support the grain price limit, but ask the council to issue an order prohibiting the craftsmen from threatening to raise wages for workers in the name of strike; the craftsmen are not represented in the council, but after they heard about the proposal put forward by the workshop owner, they He put down his work and blocked the door of the council, and opposed the council's passage of a decree prohibiting wage increases.

The representatives of the salt merchants hoped that the citizens of Yangzhou would support the maintenance of the old Huai salt transportation and sales mechanism, but almost no one listened to them, but some representatives believed that they should continue to use money to relieve the salt at the wharf, lest the salt be left without food Eat trouble.

After that, a group of Yangzhou citizens heard from somewhere that the council would distribute a sum of cheap food and fuel to the poor in the city, so they blocked the door for the past two days, demanding that the councilors fulfill their promises as soon as possible.

In short, the current Yangzhou Council has become a mess. There are factions with many contradictions in the Council, and there are dissatisfied citizens outside the Council, but there is no overwhelming voice inside the Council.As a result, no matter who proposed the motion, they couldn't get the number of votes passed. Everyone was talking about their own opinions and reasons, but no one was willing to make concessions.

If it weren't for Your Majesty, you were outside Yangzhou City, and I thought it would be uncommon for the Yangzhou Council to disband immediately.Because those gentry don't want it at all, and others want to defend their interests through the council, but they are unwilling to compromise with others, so the current stalemate finally formed..."

After listening to the report, Li Zicheng could only say: "In the final analysis, the economic operation must be resumed first. Yangzhou itself is not a self-sufficient city. This city mainly relies on the development of the salt industry. Once it is in operation, food and other livelihood necessities cannot be imported from other places.

In addition, water transportation also played a pivotal role in Yangzhou and Huai'an. Without these official and private ships traveling between the north and the south, the north and south could not exchange materials.Speaking of fuel, isn't there a new discovery of coal in the Xuzhou area?Is it feasible to transport coal from Xuzhou to Yangzhou? "

Zhang Yi, who was in charge of transportation, immediately made an excuse: "The coal mine in Xuzhou, we have now found an outcropping coal seedling in Jiawang, south of Liguojian, and we are investigating the reserves and the possibility of mining.

However, the most suitable way to increase coal production capacity at present is to expand those old coal mining areas. One is the Baituzhai coal mine in the south of Xuzhou, and the other is the coal mine in Yi County.

The Baituzhai Coal Mine has been exploited as early as the Song Dynasty and has abundant reserves. The only problem is that it is too far away from the Yellow River and canals. Even the nearest Yellow River Wharf is more than 60 miles away, so it is difficult to transport it.

As for the coal mines in Yi County, they can be connected by the Hanzhuang Canal and the Middle Canal, and the geographical location is very good.Even the local mining time is not long, there are only a few small earthen kilns, and the output is not known.However, I heard that the quality is very good, and Li Guojian has already started to try to process coke with coal from Yi County to smelt pig iron.

According to our calculations, the price of coal mines in Yi County is about 9 cents and 4 cents per stone, and it costs at least 9 cents and 4 cents to transport it to Yangzhou. One stone of coal is about 125 catties, which is equivalent to seven times the firewood, which is 875 catties , which is about 3.5 taels, and a stone of coal transported to Yangzhou plus taxes is about three cents and five cents, which is one tenth of firewood.

However, the price of such firewood is not the usual price, usually only 8 cents for a hundred catties of firewood, so the price per catty of firewood should be more than double the price of one catty of coal.However, the earthen stoves used by farmers are not suitable for burning coal, so if they want to burn coal, they need to pay an additional fee to modify the stove, which is quite troublesome..."

A certain person couldn't understand, so he said casually: "It's not difficult, just make a frame out of a piece of iron sheet, fill a cylinder with yellow mud inside, then smash the coal and add some yellow mud and flour." The same is made into small balls, or made into briquettes... Forget it, I will find a blacksmith to come over later, and I will talk to him.

This kind of coal stove should not cost much, as long as you order 20 stones of coal, you will get a stove. Will they still buy firewood after they have a coal stove?The most important question at the moment is how much coal can be transported to Yangzhou in a year. Isn’t our effort in vain if there is only price but no coal?

It is not only necessary to search around Xuzhou, but also along the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River, with Jiangnan as the center, and then use the waterway freight rate as a benchmark to delineate an area to search for coal in this area.Fuel, like food, is extremely important to the Jiangnan region. How can iron and other heat-processed utensils be made without fuel? "

Zhang Yi suddenly realized: "What Your Majesty said is very true. Searching for coal based on the shipping price range is indeed better than casting a net around like now."

Li Zicheng nodded to him and said: "For the matter of fuel, you should go back and investigate carefully. Yangzhou is not the only place in the south of the Yangtze River. The population of the Jiangnan area exceeds 2000 million. A household of five people is 400 million households, and urban residents account for 10%. 40 households.

I heard that in order to save fuel, the rural areas in the south of the Yangtze River cannot burn more than 15 catties of straw every day, and the poor in the cities are even more embarrassed, and they have to buy firewood on a catty basis every day.If there is insufficient fuel, it will be difficult for Baigong to develop. If Baigong does not develop, there will be more homeless people in the city, and the society will be in turmoil.Therefore, we must treat fuel as a top priority, just like food.

A household uses 4 catties of coal a day, which is 1440 catties a year, and 40 households consumes 5760 million catties, or 46 shi.This is just what is needed for life. If production consumption is added, it will cost at least 100 million shi a year. A ship of 500 shi will have to be transported 5000 times, which is not a small amount.But think about it the other way around, wouldn't such a new industry support many more people? "

Zhang Yi and others immediately bowed their hands to Li Zicheng, and Li Zicheng continued to ask: "Has the salt ready to be transported to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River been packed? If Gao Jie's department is dealt with, can the fleet set off immediately?"

Zhang Yi said with some hesitation: "The salt goods going to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River are almost loaded, but now there are two problems. The first problem is that there are salt workers and subordinate staff in Yangzhou who are responsible for the distribution of salt goods in Yangzhou and Yizheng." Let's pretend, but this time we bypassed them. I am worried that Yan Ding will make trouble when the ship passes through the South Pass of Yangzhou.

Secondly, where are we going to ship the first batch of salt?Is it Jiangxi or Huguang?These two places are not under the control of our army, and the minister is worried that if he sails there rashly, he will be detained. "

Li Zicheng reached out and touched his beard, and after pondering for a long time, he said: "Let's transport it to Wuchang first. I will let Qiu Lei lead the team. As long as Huguang's business can be opened, there will be no big problems afterwards. Although Jiangxi Yuan Jixian has a good reputation Big, but he doesn't have many people in his hands. If we reach a salt and grain exchange trade with Zuo Liangyu, then Yuan will definitely not act rashly, and then we can trade with Jiangxi.

Huguang's grain, cotton, linen, and wood, and Jiangxi's grain, steel, dyed cloth, and porcelain are all important raw materials that we need to exchange for materials from Jiangnan.Therefore, the transportation business of the Yangtze River and the canal must be managed by a special organization. It is not enough for just a few of you to be in charge of this matter. "

Just as he was talking, Li Laiheng came in and reported to Li Zicheng that Li Sicheng had accompanied Ruan Dacheng outside the courtyard.Li Zicheng then said to He Duiji and other staff from the Statistics Department: "Then let's stop here today, you go back to work first."

Just when a few people were about to go out, He Duiji was stopped by Li Zicheng again, "He Zong, please investigate again, how many families in this Yangzhou city have run out of food, and then investigate the wives and children of these families by whom?" Bought it away. Well, let’s get in touch again, tomorrow afternoon I will meet with the entire council at Meihualing to make a decision on some current affairs inside and outside Yangzhou City.”

He Duiji took a deep look at Li Zicheng, then bowed his hands in agreement, then turned and left the room.Li Sicheng, who was walking in the courtyard, smiled at him, but He Duiji walked past him without saying a word, as if he didn't see him.

Ruan Dacheng asked Li Sicheng curiously: "Li Sicheng, who is this person, this air is a bit big."

Li Sicheng just laughed and said: "An old friend who has been at odds with me. Forget about him, His Majesty is waiting for us in the room. Mr. Ruan will answer His Majesty's questions in a while..."

Chapter 192 New Deal Seven

Li Sicheng originally wanted to sit on the sidelines and say a few good words for Ruan Dacheng, because he felt that Ruan Dacheng was indeed of great use to Dashun. After all, it was really hard to find a capable Jiangnan gentleman who was at odds with Jiangnan Qingliu.The southwestern gentry like Ma Shiying could dictate in Nanjing, and it would be unimaginable without such local tyrants like Ruan Dacheng for their advice.

However, after exchanging pleasantries, Li Zicheng sent him out. When he went out, Li Sicheng realized that Emperor Yongchang's usage of Ruan Dacheng seemed to be different from what he thought.But although he felt a little itchy in his heart, he really wanted to know how Li Zicheng would use Ruan Dacheng, but he also knew that this was not the time to stay, but he would still know what Ruan Dacheng did next, so he was not in a hurry to satisfy his curiosity Heart.

Ruan Dacheng, who was left alone with Li Zicheng, was also a little excited. When he was thinking about how to advise him on his plan to take Nanjing, he unexpectedly heard Li Zicheng ask him: "I don't know what Mr. Ruan thinks about the Donglin Party?" What do people and Fushe members think?"

Although this question was somewhat unexpected, it was not out of the ordinary. After all, members of the Donglin Party and the Fushe had great influence among the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River. If Li Zicheng wanted to calm down the south of the Yangtze River, he must ask these "gentlemen".

Therefore, Ruan Dacheng quickly adjusted his mentality, and said to Li Zicheng as fair as possible: "Although there are gentlemen in Donglin and Fushe, their sect opinions are very popular.

In the old days, Gu Jingyang said: The wrong of the world is wrong, and the right of the world is right.But today's gentlemen in Donglin and Fushe regard their own faults as the world's faults, and their own righteousness as the world's right. "

While speaking, Ruan Dacheng carefully observed Li Zicheng's expression, and did not forget to add the last sentence, "...their generation has lofty theories, but it is difficult to do practical things. Your Majesty can respect Anmin, but if you use it, you will fail."

Li Zicheng could hear the eye drops that Ruan Dacheng gave these "gentlemen". It seems that after being forced to live in the countryside for 17 years, Ruan was also full of depression, and it was difficult to release him. Although he wrote many poems with Kai characters, it is a pity Didn't really convince myself.

Thinking about Ruan Dacheng's remarks in his heart, Li Zicheng asked a rather harsh question: "Then what does Mr. Ruan think of the article "Revealing Public Chaos in Liudu?"

Hearing this, Ruan Dacheng felt as if someone had poured a basin of ice water in the twelfth lunar month, and his heart went cold.He didn't know what Li Zicheng's intention was in asking this question, but no matter how he looked at it, it seemed that he was denying his personality, which was obviously not a good way to attract him.

But in front of Li Zicheng, he couldn't refuse to answer such a rude question, so he could only reluctantly say after a while of silence: "It's just the arrogant words of a group of young boys, and it's also a shameless means of some old people in Donglin trying to beat me. It is difficult to argue.

In the past, the Donglin family dominated the dynasty, and all ministers who violated Donglin's party theory were excluded and suppressed.Donglin party members have a saying: If you are not my comrades, you are enemies.It is precisely because of Donglin's great power in the court that other talents had to join Wei Gonggong's family to counter Donglin's power.The so-called eunuch party is not a party, but also reported to the group to keep warm.If there is no Donglin family dominating, there is no such thing as eunuchs.

Minister Yu Daxing's "Seven Years of Tong Nei Shen Tiao Shu" on the place where Emperor Daxing succeeded to the throne bluntly stated the reasons for the chaos in the government in the seven years of Tianqi.It is precisely because of this neglect that even today the gentlemen in Donglin still hold a grudge against their ministers and insist on killing them.

Therefore, I really have no opinion on the "Liudu Anti-Chaos Public Exposure", because I don't know it, so I refute it.And even if the minister refuted it, it was just accused by these gentlemen of trying to reverse the case for the eunuch party.The old minister was speechless. "

Hearing Ruan Dacheng's eloquent talk, Li Zicheng felt that there was nothing to say, so if you have something to say, other people probably don't need to talk.But thinking about it this way, he said with a chuckle: "I now understand the cause and effect of this matter, but Mr. Ruan should refute it, otherwise how can I cooperate with you?"