Those small shareholders of the Zhenguo Mansion have already scolded the cabinet behind their backs, and in their opinion, it is not the cabinet, and they don't have to be so anxious these days.
Please come here to read this book In fact, the cabinet is also urgent these days.
The fleet of the Franc Machine is finished, but who can guarantee that the Franc Man will not be another wolf?
If in the future, the Francophile will come to attack the border again, even more people than the last attack on Tianjin, and the imperial court is completely unprepared, and there will be another Japanese raid on a certain port and massacre, and tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians will die, and today's cabinet princes will really be sinners through the ages.
But at the moment, this is a difficult problem to solve, and the Empress Dowager Zhang seems to have come forward, and it seems that she agrees with the tax increase for the gentry.
When he heard this meaning, he was a fool if he didn't understand it, but Liu Jian could only pretend to be deaf and dumb, he could only pretend not to hear.
Gentlemen and gentlemen The reason why the gentry are gentry and can rule the world together, must have privileges, this privilege is actually tax-free, others have to pay taxes for farming, and their own farming is tax-free, so once ordinary homesteaders encounter natural disasters, they will inevitably go bankrupt, but the gentry can carry it because of tax avoidance, so they can carry it, and in the process of famine, they will annex some of the land of the victims at a low price, and the result is that the gentry have more and more land, and the court can collect less and less grain tax.
If it goes on like this, it is indeed not a way, but what is the way to do it Even Liu Jian and others are also clear, when the first emperor was there, he also saw this hidden danger, the annexation of land, has become more and more serious, not only that, the gentry also concealed the population in the local area, concealing the situation of tenants, which is why in the early Ming Dynasty, the population in the yellow book to the present, the registered population does not increase but decreases, it is also funny, the Ming Dynasty Chengping 120 years, the population is not as clear as when experienced war and countless natural and man-made disasters.
But can this be changed?
Liu Jian is not selfish, he is just afraid, who is the person who wrote the book and said, who is the gentry and what is the background of the person who is an official in the court, or the gentry is in the local area, the government is not under the county, and the person who collects taxes for the government and helps the gentry is the gentry; The cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty, from the inside to the outside, from top to bottom, there is nothing that has nothing to do with the gentry, this is the foundation of the country, it is the foundation, once shaken, there will be a big thing.
So from beginning to end, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, and Wang Hua understood very clearly, the clan can't move, and the gentry can't move, it's not that they don't care about the country, it's not that they don't worry about the country, but once they move, they must have something big going on.
Now, it was obvious that the only thing they could count on was the Zhenguo Mansion, but soon, they realized that the Zhenguo Mansion was much more terrifying than they imagined.
Empress Dowager Zhang's side knocked on the side, several princes also hinted, some nobles and concubines showed an incompatible attitude, and some vassal kings who were close to the Zhenguo Mansion, if there was no place to send someone to say something, everyone here is a person who stamped his feet in the Beijing Division, and the ground was trembling, one or two are easy to say, but ten or eight hundred are not very easy to speak.
So, the current day is difficult.
Liu Jian was in a melancholy mood and sighed for a long time.
Today, Zhu Houzhao called everyone to the warm pavilion, and asked about the construction of the water division, Liu Jian was almost speechless, only said that the charter has not come out yet, but the charter is easy to draft, to be honest, Liu Gongyu has been in the country for 20 years, and it is easy to draw up a foolproof strategy, but let him find money, he was confused.
The Ming Dynasty has come to the present, the disadvantages are heavy, the benefits of the world, are concentrated in the hands of a specific group of people, and these specific people, any one is not a fuel-efficient lamp, none of them are easy to bully, which one suffers a loss, it may immediately cause serious consequences, on top of history, whether Shang Yang changed the law or Wang Anshi changed the law, all created the old and new party disputes, cruel, and finally Shang Yang was divided by five horses, and the Northern Song Dynasty was because of the party dispute, and finally the country fell apart, these are lessons from the past.
Liu Jian has always been a person who takes the overall situation into account, he wants to keep it and does not want to provoke disputes.
Sitting in the tea room, Liu Jian sighed: "The old man's eyelids have been jumping all the time recently, and he always feels that something is going to happen." ” His exclamation is not unreasonable, they are all cutting meat, either cutting your flesh or cutting his flesh, and it hurts to cut anyone's flesh.
Wang Hua and Xie Qian were silent, of course they also knew the danger.
Li Dongyang was silent for a long time, and finally said: "I see, Ye Chunqiu really has the heart to build a water master." ” Liu Jian raised his eyes and glanced at him, and said aggrievedly: "Even if he is willing, will the others in the Zhenguo Mansion be willing?"
Li Dongyang shook his head and said: "I heard that in the past few days, he has been closed in the camp of the Zhenguo New Army, the gate is not out, the second door is not stepping, I think I also want to avoid this trouble, but when it comes to raising money and food, there is no one in the world who is more capable than him, I will wait here, I might as well call him to discuss it."
"I'm afraid I won't come."
Liu Jian shook his head and smiled; "Didn't you say to the outside world that the Zhenguo New Army was practicing in secret, now the Zhenguo New Army is amazing, you all know how powerful they are, if you delay the drill for this, there will really be something wrong at that time, and it will be a failure, but the cabinet will be at a loss."
"What he does is just a pretext."
Xie Qian glanced at Wang Hua, he didn't treat Ye Chunqiu as an outsider, and said very unceremoniously: "If you don't call, the old man and the prince will be cheeky to invite him personally, does he dare to learn Zhuge Kongming?"
After hearing this, Liu Jian frowned and finally stretched a little, couldn't help but smile, and was about to nod.
Li Dongyang shook his head and said: "It's not good, it's not appropriate, Duke Xie and the prince's favor can't be put on this, it's better to ask Your Majesty to come forward, let's raise our spirits and wait for Ye Chunqiu to come." ” Liu Jian and the others fell into deep thought.
They suddenly found a problem, not to mention anything else, at least in some aspects, it is really inseparable from this Zhenguo Gong, or in other words, if there was no Zhenguo Gong in the past, the imperial court encountered this kind of thing, and probably had to use the old method, but now the old way does not work, and as a result, someone has a new method, and the old way is not easy to use.
For Ye Chunqiu, this kid, now I can't help but feel that there is a little bit of announcing the mountain, and what is the meaning of Nai Cangsheng.
The three of them only hesitated for a short time, and finally Liu Jian immediately decided: "Then the old man will go to see Your Majesty, as long as Your Majesty comes forward, Ye Chunqiu will have no way to avoid it." ” aa2705221: