"Since ancient times, food has been the most important and stable business in the world. Because as long as it is a human, he will eat food."

"In agricultural society, food is the only one, and there are no exceptions."

"So." Wang Xiao said with a smile, "Everyone wants to do a grain business."

"If you want to do a grain business, there are two conditions."

"The first one is to have a field to grow food."

"The second one is to have people who grow food."

"The nobles of the Qin and Han dynasties, the aristocratic families of the Jin, Sui and Tang dynasties, the scholars and officials of the Song dynasties, and the gentry of the Ming dynasties. These are the main forces who strongly want to annex the land."

When Wang Xiao said this, Emperor Chongzhen thought of the information recorded in historical books.

At the end of these dynasties, either foreign invasions or the people rose up.

Thinking of what Wang Xiao said before, after his death, the Ming Dynasty fell, and bandits and foreign thieves took turns to become king.

All internal and external troubles collided. Emperor Chongzhen's mood at this time was MMP.

"When it comes to the Ming Dynasty, let's talk about the royal family and vassal kings in various places first."

"After so many years, the total number of royal families in the Ming Dynasty has exceeded one million."

Faced with Wang Xiao's inquiry, Emperor Chongzhen was not very clear about it, and his eyes naturally turned to Luo Yangxing.

The reason is very simple. One of the work of the Jinyiwei is to specifically supervise the royal family of the vassal kings in various places.

"It's true that it's over one million."

Wang Xiao smiled and said, "Although my mathematics is not very good, I can just calculate it simply. The current allocation of rice to the imperial court for the royal family must have exceeded the annual tribute in the capital. Isn't it?"

After the reconciliation of the 28th year of Hongwu, the prince had 10,000 stones, the prince had 2,000 stones, and the general of Zhenguo. The general of the auxiliary state, the general of Fengguo, and the lieutenant of Zhenguo decreased by 200 stones. The lieutenant of the auxiliary state, the lieutenant of Fengguo decreased by 100 stones.

The princess and the princesses had two thousand stones, and the princess and yibins (the princess and the noble husband below) had eight hundred stones. The county lord, the county lord and the yibins had two hundred stones. The county lord, the town lord and yibins had a hundred stones.

This system has been used until now.

To add, even if the criminals of the royal family members of the Crown Prince will give Lu Mi every month as long as they are still alive.

For more than two hundred years, royal family vassal kings were restricted from leaving the city or doing anything other than eating, drinking and having fun.

The result is that all vassal kings of all dynasties have been willing to give birth to children.

After generations of reproduction, the Jade Butterfly is now registered, and as many as one million people can eat imperial grain.

From this perspective, Lao Zhu has indeed inherited his genes to the greatest extent.

Chongzhen knew that the Ming Dynasty had a large number of royal families, but he did not expect that it would be so many.

He was a little shaky when he thought about the living expenses he had to pay to these relatives every year.

"If it were just for distribution of Lumi, it might be possible to accept it."

Wang Xiao, who was beside him, stabbed Emperor Chongzhen in the heart.

"It's a pity that the vassal kings in various places are insatiable. In addition to having children, they use various methods to annex the land. Taking advantage of the tricks is considered to give face, and there are countless people who directly take action. It is said that when Li Zicheng conquered Luoyang, he transported hundreds of cars from the Fu Palace. The fields he owned were as high as hundreds of thousands of hectares."

"The fields that originally belonged to the people were taken away, and then the people also had to be tenants who were cattle and horses, working hard for the princes until they died. Your Majesty, what would you do if you were the people?"

Emperor Chongzhen's face was ashen, but he didn't say a word.

He has read a lot of reports on this matter, impeachment by the censors and local officials.

However, for the sake of face, he was a royal family member after all, so he pretended not to see anything.

But he really didn't know that the problems of the royal family of the vassal kings had reached this level.

"The vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty occupied the land and tied the people to the land as tenants. Including the refugee army in the Ming Dynasty, they made a contribution."

Wang Xiao made a summary and then turned to the topic.

"But compared to those gentry, they are just a witch."

The so-called gentry actually refers to the feudal power class of the Ming Dynasty.

Including officials at all levels, retired officials, awarded officials, donated officials, and students from the Imperial College and prefectures, prefectures and county schools, etc.

Even their wives enjoy corresponding privileges, as the wife of the imperial decree.

The status of the gentry was second only to that of the royal family and was an important pillar of the feudal rule of the Ming Dynasty.

"When the year is good, they collude with grain merchants and government officials, desperately trying to lower the price of grain to bully farmers. During the famine, they hoard grain and collude with grain merchants to sell grain at high prices. If the people can't afford it, they pretend to come and borrow money to the people. The money they borrow will become more and more until they can't afford it."

"If you can't afford it, you have to sell the land to pay off your debts. After the land is sold out, you can only sell your family to become a tenant. When you encounter famine, soldiers and chaos, you have to run away if you can't eat."

"Does Your Majesty know that these gentry rely on their fame and reputation, neither paying taxes nor performing labor service, but are all pushed to ordinary people. If the people cannot afford to pay, they will either destroy their families or flee to become refugees."

"Now over the years, natural disasters and wars have continued, and the people from all over the world have been forced into a desperate situation. With the joint efforts of the gentry and the royal family, they have naturally become a continuous army of refugees."

Emperor Chongzhen took a deep breath, "I know that scholars are exempt from taxes. This is Taizu's ancestral teachings. However, Taizu's ancestral teachings have a quantity limit. It does not mean that as long as you are a scholar, you can never pay taxes for your entire life."

"Yes, everyone knows this."

Wang Xiao laughed, "But the big turbans just pretend not to know, and then said that what Taizu said at the beginning was that scholars didn't have to pay taxes if they had a lot of land!"

"It was a natural disaster, but the people also had to bear the taxes of the gentry, and the various dirty methods of the tax collectors in the county government. The people were either forced to death or fled to become refugees. Your Majesty, do you think that no matter how hard the imperial soldiers could fight, they could still defeat the whole world?"

What Wang Xiao said today was no less enlightening to Emperor Chongzhen, and an earthquake occurred in his heart.

"No wonder the emperor could still earn tens of millions of dollars in his 2 year old money when he was in his 2 year old money, but by the time he was only a few million taels left."

Emperor Chongzhen murmured to himself, "No wonder there is not much increase in salary every time, but it causes chaos. No wonder there are all kinds of complaints when raising taxes..."

Now he has figured out all the things that seem similar but not in the past.

So that's the truth.

"When Emperor Xizong was still able to suppress those big headscarves." Wang Xiao followed up and stabbed them with a knife. "That's because Wei Zhongxian was the emperor's dog, and he was doing things that were inconvenient for the emperor to handle."

Emperor Chongzhen's face froze, and what followed was a look of annoyance.

Before Emperor Tianqi died, he warned him not to depose Wei Zhongxian, but he did not listen. Now that he thought about it, he was really deceived by those Zi Donglin Party.

"The whole world is full of cemeteries, haha, the whole world is full of cemeteries!"

Everyone around you can understand Emperor Chongzhen's mood at this time.

After all, I have been deceived for so many years, and I have almost lost all my ancestors' foundation. No one can accept it.

As for those righteous Donglin Party's headscarves, they either acquainted with the Later Jin Dynasty to sell blood-stained contraband, or they sent ships to sea to do maritime businessmen, but they strongly opposed the imposition of commercial taxes.

If it doesn't work, it's a super landlord, a bully family that harms their hometown.

Such righteousness is simply a mess of this word.

"The internal and external troubles of the Ming Dynasty were not in the Northern Territory and the bandits, but in those who raised the bandits and caused large-scale refugees. As long as these problems were solved, the rest would be solved."

After hearing what Wang Xiao said, Emperor Chongzhen immediately stood up and bowed heavily, turned around and wanted to leave.

"What does Your Majesty mean?" Wang Xiao called him.

"Since I have learned from the real person that all the reasons are the Donglin Party, I will naturally deal with them."

Emperor Chongzhen became motivated and determined to work hard for the Ming Dynasty and for himself.

"Sit down first."

Wang Xiao raised his hand to greet him. When Emperor Chongzhen sat down, he said, "The Donglin Party cannot represent all the big scarves. But almost all the big scarves exist the same as the Donglin Party. You can deal with the Donglin Party, but can you deal with the scholars all over the world?"

Among scholars, there are indeed heroes such as Hai Rui, Bao Zheng, Wei Zheng, Zhuge Liang, Wen Tianxiang, and Yu Qian who have been famous throughout the ages.

But most scholars only pursue Yan Ruyu and the Golden House.

Especially in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, almost all the scholars in the world were like this.

Emperor Chongzhen said he wanted to deal with it, but could he be able to deal with so many scholars?

If you really want to do this, people will immediately make him fall into the water, or simply raise an army to attack the foolish monarch and kill him.

Being an emperor is also a high-risk profession. Unless you have the strong strength of Wang Xiao, you may have to fall into the water, take medicine, and be in a state of burping.

After hearing Wang Xiao's words, Emperor Chongzhen, who came to his senses, fell into negation and self-denial again.

After struggling for a long time, he looked up at Wang Xiao and saluted Wang Xiao very seriously.

"The real person is here, please save me from the Ming Dynasty!"

Wang Xiao sighed and shook his head, "Fifteen years ago, ten years ago, or even five years ago, it was okay. But now, the Ming Dynasty has long been terminally ill, and I can't do anything about it."

After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen felt cold and felt completely disappointed.

Even the gods can’t save the Ming Dynasty, so what else can he do? Will he wait for death silently?

Emperor Chongzhen, who was in a daze, accidentally saw Wang Chengen not far away.

This loyal eunuch was desperately winking at this time.

Following Wang Chengen's eyes, Emperor Chongzhen saw Wang Xiao on the opposite side, drinking tea leisurely.

Then, he also saw Luo Yangxing, who was close to Wang Xiao, and was also winking at him.

After all, I am in my thirties and have been an emperor for more than ten years.

The former middle school boy has grown up.

Emperor Chongzhen immediately realized something, so he hurriedly got up and lifted up the hem of the dragon robe, and gave a big gift to Wang Xiao solemnly.
Chapter completed!