"I just want to rebel!"

I checked the search catalog sent by the Jinyiwei, and looked at the fields that cost tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of acres of land, and they were also fields that did not pay taxes.

Looking at the wealth that cost millions of dollars, Chongzhen was furious when he looked at the mountains of people in the warehouse.

"Grandpa Grandpa is right, he should be a thief and destroy all these ghosts and monsters!"

Why did the Ming Dynasty die?

Chongzhen, who had been the emperor for seventeen years, had some clarity in his heart when he faced Li Zicheng in front of the Huangji Palace.

In the final analysis, I still don’t have money or food.

If you don’t have money and food, you can’t afford to support an army that dares to fight. If you don’t have a army that dares to fight, you will naturally be beaten to your home and put a steel knife around your neck.

Why did the court, which should have the most money and food, have no money and food?

Looking at the mountains of helplessness in front of me, looking at the various fields and books piled up with the houses, the money and food of the court were all here.

"The Emperor."

Leave the Northern Town Fushi and return to the Forbidden City.

Wang Chengen looked at Chongzhen worriedly, fearing that the emperor would be furious.

“Haha~”

What he didn't expect was that the emperor actually burst into laughter.

"Big companion." Chongzhen smiled and wiped his tears. "I understand. I was tired and tired for more than ten years before, just like a fool. I tried my best to collect money and food, but I was scolded by people all over the world. In the end, I still couldn't get the money and food. It was still what my grandfather said, and I would still be a rebel.

Comfortable!"

Tens of millions of taels of silver, tens of millions of stones of grain, and land in units of tens of millions of yuan.

He has worked hard to be an emperor for so many years, and has never been able to get so much money and food as he is so happy now.

As for being scolded or something, I was scolded when I was an emperor before, but what was the result?

Now that he is a thief, he has raised such a huge amount of wealth in just a few days.

For Chongzhen, this is opening the door to a new new world.

"I just want to be a thief and grab the whole world!"

With sufficient money, grain and land as a backing, the process of training the new army was very smooth.

The hungry people inside and outside the city naturally signed up enthusiastically.

When selecting soldiers, give priority to those who are with their families.

If one person is selected, the whole family will not be hungry.

Moreover, the family can go out of the city to work in the fields to prepare for spring plowing, and the pressure brought by the hungry people is vented in a very short time.

As for the speculators who traditionally joined the army, such as green-skinned scoundrels, fighting gangsters and even professional beggars, they were already killed and arrested when the Jinyiwei confiscated their homes.

The charges are simple, and they are all colluding with Li Zicheng as the leader.

The crime is extremely evil, and the blood stained on your hands will be killed directly.

All the remaining ones were thrown to the West Mountain to dig coal.

The public security situation inside and outside the capital city has improved rapidly as a result.

"A powerful general must arise from the army, and the prime minister must be born from the prefectures and counties."

In the imperial study, Wang Xiao was teaching Chongzhen the way to be a king. "The ancestors who had been writing clearly how to do things a thousand years ago, don't believe in the wisdom of their ancestors."

"The training of troops is simple. Qi Jiguang's "New Book of Ji Xiao" and "Documentary of Military Training" are clearly written, and just do as it is written on it."

"When the new recruits are well prepared and after training for a while, they will all be sent to sweep the fourth field. Those who have won military merits can be promoted on the spot."

Wang Xiao said earnestly, "This is to show everyone a clear upward path so that they will be motivated. It's like the ones you've done before, it's like a traitor."

Chongzhen turned red. When he was young and ignorant, he was deceived by the Donglin Party and made a group of officials come out.

Although I noticed something was wrong later, the stigma will never be cleaned.

Now that I listened, I felt blushing. There was no way, so Chongzhen had to change the topic as soon as possible.

"Grandpa, who said what you said just now?"

"Which sentence?"

"A powerful general must arise from the army, and the prime minister must be born from the prefectures and counties."

"I forgot that you became a monk halfway through and have not received complete training and education."

The princes of the Ming Dynasty generally only had the eldest son who were strictly trained since childhood and taught the emperor's way.

As for the other princes, they were all enfeoffed as vassal kings in various places and were raised as pigs in captivity.

Teach them the emperor's way? Is it to make the rebellion after learning it?

To put it simply, he could not recognize many words when Zhu Youjian ascended the throne.

Of course this is a rumor, and I know whether it is true or false.

However, Zhu Youjian has not received an orthodox royal education, which is indeed true.

In fact, since the dispute over the foundation of the country during the Wanli period, the education work of the Ming Emperor fell into a mess.

Emperor Wanli wanted to make King Fu the crown prince, but the ministers of the previous dynasty opposed it to the death and must establish the eldest son and the legitimate son. Because this is the foundation of Confucianism's proposition.

Origin determines everything, not personal ability.

If it depends on personal abilities, the conservative and stubbornness advocated by Confucianism will be completely broken.

Because Emperor Taichang of Guangzong was unable to receive fatherly love since childhood, the emperor's education was not in place.

Later, he died early because of the "Red Pill Case", which led to the ascension of the throne in a hurry without receiving any orthodox imperial education.

When I arrived at Zhu Youjian's place, I had never heard of this sentence before.

The emperors of the Ming Dynasty after Wanli never received relevant knowledge training at all, and they all rely on their own exploration.

It can be said that the Ming Dynasty fell and several emperors had no education, which was also directly related.

"This is what Han Fei said, from "Han Feizi·Xian Xue".

Wang Xiaoyu taught Chongzhen earnestly, "You must remember one thing. The so-called famous religion is just a tool used by the emperor to govern the world, it is just a tool. Never give tools the opportunity to surpass their own value."

The so-called famous religion is Confucianism. After Confucianism unifies the world, it will naturally burst into full spirit and call itself a famous religion.

As for other schools, they are naturally not a mixed study.

"The courts are all the results of Confucian scholars, and you should have seen them clearly in the past 17 years. The result of Confucianism as the dominant power is that you will never escape the law of the three hundred-year dynasty."

"We are all thieves now, so we must never let Confucianism dominate. We must pay attention to miscellaneous studies, and at least we must understand the calculation!"

Faced with Wang Xiao's teachings, Chongzhen was very respectful, "Everything is followed by Grandpa."

"Tomorrow you will follow me out of the city and see what the land in Northern Zhili has become."

What was the land in Northern Zhili in the 17th year of Chongzhen?

As you see, there are abandonment everywhere.

The original fertile fields were covered with weeds, and all the former water conservancy facilities were damaged due to long-term unmaintenance.

It’s hard to say that there is no rooster crowing thousands of miles away, but it’s indeed sparsely populated.

"Why is no one growing food in such a fertile land?"

Chongzhen, who had never left the capital in his life, felt confused and puzzled when he saw the great fields but no one was farming them.

Some people accompanying him do popular science for the emperor. "Most of these land is owned by gentry and nobles. Even if the people are working as tenants, the food they earn is not enough to pay the tenant money under natural disasters. They can't eat it in the end for a busy year, and they will even owe huge debts.

However, no one goes to farm. If you have land at home, it will be even worse."

This is just one of the reasons, including the rampant soldiers and bandits, the imperial court has banned miscellaneous taxes and various corvee labor services, and countless other mails and sprinkles.

Many people in the Ming Dynasty would inexplicably create a lot of land in their own names.

But these fields are not actually theirs, but they have to bear the taxes, labor service and so on.

In the environment of natural disasters and man-made disasters, which people can withstand it?

As for the result, it's right in front of you.

No matter how good the field is, no one is willing to lose money to cultivate.

From time to time on the road, you can see dead starving people, and there may be white bones in the middle of the field.

The crows in the sky are circling densely, and many vicious dogs with red eyes wander among the fields, which makes people feel scared when they look.

Emperor Chongzhen's face turned pale. In the past, he only saw the description of disasters in the memorials, but now he really saw with his own eyes how corrupt the Ming Dynasty was.

When passing by a village where some people gathered, I saw a group of soap-clothed officials scolding and whipping.

Wang Xiao asked the Jinyiwei who was accompanying him to pull everyone over. After asking, he learned that this was already the territory of Tongzhou and the government sent a soap official to collect taxes.

“What tax is imposed?”
To be continued...