readxIn the evening, Zhao Lie and his companions returned to the mansion.
The mansion was very spacious.
After all, it was the official residence of the commander.
However, Zhao Lie did not like this kind of northern courtyard very much.
The gray blue bricks and red doors and windows made people feel unhappy.
This is a courtyard with five entrances and three floors.
Zhao Lie lives in the last entrance.
The house has three main rooms, as well as left and right side rooms.
There is a small martial arts field in the courtyard.
You don’t have to think about horse racing, but the team includes Crossbow training can be carried out here.
More than ten companions, including Zhang Gusheng, Du Li, and Wang Quan, were practicing sparring in the martial arts field.
In the troubled times of the late Ming Dynasty, Zhao Lie anticipated the difficulties and dangers he might encounter.
Not only did Zhao Lie keep practicing at home, but also the people around him All his companions were forced to go to Liangshan by him.
After more than half a year of hard work, After practicing, the personal strength of the group of people increased greatly.
Huang Han and Zhang Gusheng's archery skills were outstanding.
They could hit ten targets on a fifty-step moving target.
Among them, Yu Dabao had the strongest personal strength.
He was 1.9 meters tall, broad-shouldered and round, and could swing thirty The iron rod weighing more than a kilogram is too much for dozens of people to get close to.
As soon as Zhao Lie and his party entered the courtyard, Zhang Gusheng and others hurriedly saluted with clean and uniform movements.
"No need," Zhao Lie took off his veil, "How was your practice today."
These companions will practice here as long as they are not on guard duty.
"Master Bing, I will finish the practice when there is still a stick of incense left, but just now Du Li's thigh was twitched."
Zhang Gusheng replied with his hands in hand, speaking concisely and to the point.
Du Li's face turned red and he lowered his head.
Zhao Lie didn't take it seriously.
Du Li was indeed due to his own health.
He lacked endurance and strength, so he was not the material to go into battle.
However, Du Li was cautious and tenacious, and Zhao Lie had other uses for Du Li.
"Okay, Du Li's lack of strength is a special case."
Zhao Lie waved his hand and didn't care at all.
Du Li raised his head and chest in gratitude, "Everyone, individual bravery only accounts for half of the battlefield.
The last training has proven it.
Yu Dabao said that you can't fight with more than ten people, but you can kill him if you form a military formation.
I hope you will practice hard and make good use of it."
All the companions should bow and salute in response.
Zhao Lie picked up his own big gun on the weapon rack.
As soon as he took the gun, Zhao Lie immediately started swinging it.
Zhao Lie's spear and sword skills were learned from Li Hu and Zhao Da.
They were no pretense, just the fighting skills in the army, simple and fast. , but Zhao Lie was so powerful that he could wield the iron gun weighing more than thirty kilograms impervious to wind and rain, with a cold light flashing and an imposing momentum.
After practicing the iron spear, Zhao Lie swung the sword again and fired the bow thirty times before ending the training.
Zhao Lie sweated slightly after drawing the two-and-a-half-stone stiff bow thirty times.
The maids Wang Yue and Juan'er beside him offered wet wipes and herbal tea.
After dinner, Butler Li came over to Tong Bing and was summoned by Zhao Haiming.
Zhao Lie had already determined that his father would summon him.
After all, it was difficult to talk in front of a crowd of people during the day, so he would have a long talk in the evening.
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Zhao Lie hurriedly picked it up and followed Butler Li to Zhongjin.
After greeting Li Hu and Zhao Da at the door, he entered the room.
I saw Zhao Haiming holding a tea bowl and meditating.
"Father, Wan'an."
Zhao Lie saluted.
"Here comes Lie'er, sit down."
Zhao Haiming smiled and twirled his beard.
He was deeply satisfied with what his son had done in the past six months.
The reckless boy in the past was gone, and now he was brave and resourceful.
"Lie'er, this expedition is a bit urgent.
My father didn't want you to go to the battlefield at a young age, but my legs are hurting from the strong sun.
I don't know how long I can hold on.
Time waits for me."
Zhao Haiming patted his hands melancholy.
Legs, "A general cannot go to the battlefield, and the day will come when he returns home."
"But I'm not willing to accept it," Zhao Haiming put down the tea bowl heavily, stood up and paced back and forth, "Wuyou is unwilling to accept both.
First, your uncle died in the battle in Liaodong, and your grandma's white-haired man gave her black hair life and death.
I am the son of man.
Not a brother I will avenge this and vow not to be a human being.
On the other hand, once I retire, your family will have no reputation and the land will be scattered in a few years."
Zhao Haiming calmed down and looked at Zhao Lie, " Lie'er, you understand."
Is revenge possible?
More than ten years later, the slave-building army will move south, and the family may be wiped out.
Zhao Lie pondered for a while, "Father, I am afraid that my father's expectations will be disappointed."
Zhao Haiming raised his eyebrows.
He was not angry.
He narrowed his eyes and said, "Speak."
"Father, how many years have the two Han Dynasties existed, and how many years have the Tang and Song Dynasties existed?"
Zhao Lie thought to himself that if he directly said that the Jin soldiers went south to conquer the Central Plains, Zhao Haiming might think it was nonsense, so he had to tactfully say it.
"Well," Zhao Haiming said to himself for a moment, although he was a military general, but he still had a rough grasp of writing and writing, "Lie'er, what does this have to do with my family."
"Father, we have a very important relationship."
Zhao Lie also stood up and paced, "The longest one was the Tang Dynasty, which lasted for more than 280 years.
Each dynasty was first established, chasing the North and pacifying the sea.
Later, it either died from civil strife or was destroyed.
What about foreigners?"
"What?"
Zhao Haiming asked unknowingly, following Zhao Lie's rhythm.
"When the dynasties were first established, most of them experienced long-term wars, the land was desolate, the people were desolate, and everything was in ruins waiting to be revitalized.
The new dynasty would provide acres of land, light corvees and little tax, and wait for the people to recuperate and recuperate.
The country would prosper, and then all barbarians would be added to the country.
In the later period, the royal family, relatives, nobles, officials, and gentry continued to annex the land.
The country's land and acres account for seventy-eight percent, but the land taxes paid are almost non-existent, and the common people, who account for 90% of the country's land, use 20% of the land and acres of land to support the people of the country, gradually becoming poorer and weaker."
Zhao Lie continued.
He said, "Father, it has been more than two hundred and fifty years since I founded our country..."
Zhao Haiming stretched out his hand to stop Zhao Lie, looked at his second son steadily, and said for a long time, "Zhao Da."
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"I've seen the commander-in-chief."
Zhao Da said as he entered the room and cupped his hands.
"Go and summon Mr.
Li quickly, and tell me that I have something to ask you."
Zhao Haiming ordered.
"As ordered."
Zhao Da turned and left.
Zhao Haiming paced back and forth, sometimes fast and sometimes slowly, frowning, talking to himself from time to time, and his eyes passing by from time to time.
Zhao Lie looked straight at him with a firm expression.
The sound of unhurried footsteps came.
The elegant Li Mingyu, who was more than forty years old, walked in, folded his folding fan and bowed his head, "I have seen you, sir.
I wonder why you are recruiting your subordinates."
"Sir, don't blame me.
Lie'er has something to say today.
I'll wait for you, sir, to read it in detail."
Zhao Haiming returned the gesture politely.
"Oh, what kind of advice does the second young master have?"
Li Mingyu slowly waved his folding fan and said with a smile.
Ugh, this word is really painful.
Zhao Lie smiled bitterly and elaborated on what he just said.
"Where did you hear what the young master said?"
Li Mingyu was a little hesitant.
Although Zhao Lie was brave, this shouldn't be what he said.
Could it be that he heard it.
"Mr.
Li, what I said comes from myself, from the history books in the study, from Mr.
Li and Mr.
Wang.
It comes from my detailed research."
Zhao Lie replied respectfully, and Li Mingyu can be said to be one of his mentors.
Li Mingyu shook his folded fan and unfolded it again.
He looked at Zhao Lie with a smile on his lips and said, "Young Master is so wise.
I am very pleased to congratulate you.
However, I see that my court is determined to be the end of the world.
I don't know if you are."
Zhao Lie also smiled in response, but his burly body, slightly childish face, and calm smile converged into one indescribably weird place.
Zhao Lie smiled but did not answer, but looked at Zhao Haiming.
The conductor waved his hand domineeringly, "Little bastard, Mr.
Li is not an outsider, so you can speak frankly."
"Yes, Father," Zhao Lie said calmly, "I think there are two reasons why dynasties have turned from prosperity to decline.
One is that taxes are constantly decreasing, and they even cannot make ends meet, and are unable to stabilize the four directions.
Two, there may be hungry people who take desperate measures. or strong The enemy is watching from the outside, but the court is not aware of it, such as the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, the Jingkang War in the Song Dynasty, and the Liaodong Jiannu in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Of course I know what Zhao Lie said.
There was only the sound of Li Mingyu's fan in the room for a while.
"According to the Ministry of Household Affairs in the same year in the middle of the capital, since Zhang Juzhenggong, the annual salary has not been reduced, and the arrears are getting worse.
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It can also be said that the salary has been reduced every year.
However, this year, our court will return Consider it Kangtai."
Li Mingyu said calmly, twirling his beard and looking at Zhao Lie with a strong sense of comparison.
This is just the last light before darkness comes.
Only Zhao Lie knows that the human tragedy of internal and external troubles is coming, and only by identifying this can he get the support of his family and fight hard, otherwise, his future will be worrying.
"Father, Mr.
Li," Zhao Lie said seriously, "the average land area per capita in our Ming Dynasty is only six or seven acres.
Excluding the land occupied by the gentry, the average per capita land area of the common people is not bad.
According to the average household size of a family of five, thirty acres In terms of farmland planning, in the north of the Ming Dynasty, there was only one crop per year, and the average yield was less than one stone.
The output of thirty acres was more than twenty stone.
After the winter wheat , and plant some miscellaneous grains, there are still less than ten shi, the total is less than thirty shi, five rations of ten shi, the remaining is less than 20 shi of grain, less than ten taels of silver, land tax, Ding tax, Liao rate, Lian rate, there is still There is room to distribute, but there is not much left."
Zhao Lie handed over his hand and said, "Father, Mr.
Li, this is a good year.
If there is a disaster, After paying taxes, people can only survive the famine by borrowing money, and there will be no balance the next year.
If there is another disaster year, they either sell their children to escape the famine or merge their families into the families of the gentry.
In all directions, there was famine almost every year in the north of the Ming Dynasty, but it was just a matter of size.
In the past, the government provided relief. , resettling the victims.
Now the Liao Dynasty is urgent and the cost is huge.
The cabinet and the court can only increase taxes, not reduce them.
It is impossible to resettle and relieve the victims.
If things go on like this, households will not save even three out of ten.
Where will the wealth come from?
Years like this, I predict that within a few years, hungry people will cause chaos inside, powerful enemies will attack the country outside, and the Ming Dynasty will be in danger."
At that moment, Zhao Haiming put down his tea bowl and walked a few steps quickly, "I'm just kidding, why did the annexation happen?
Creating slaves is not an evil intention."
Li Mingyu still sat upright and shook his fan without saying a word.
"I dare to ask my father, how many acres of land were there last year, how many acres were there last year, and how many acres are there this year..."
Zhao Lie's hard work over the past six months was not in vain.
He asked his staff and housekeepers for advice, and there was a lot of information.
The year before last, there were eight acres of land in his family.
More than a thousand acres last year, ten thousand acres this year. . . .
"This," Zhao Haiming said hesitantly.
He knew his own family affairs.
Under the care of his wife, the Zhao family's farmland was increasing day by day.
The number of acres was increasing day by day.
However, if he recognized it, he would become stronger.
"Like a child taking charge of a family, I also hope that the fields will grow more and more, and the family will become more and more prosperous.
Therefore, this matter is absolutely irreversible and will only be burned by the sun.
Besides, Jiannu started from the white mountains and black waters, half-cultivated and half-grazed, surrounded by enemies on all sides.
Fight every year, everyone Dare to fight, good at fighting, and willing to fight.
If you win, you will plunder and plunder, if you lose, you will retreat and lie dormant.
All the people are soldiers, and they can move around on horseback with divisions that are good at fighting.
We, the Ming Dynasty, can only deploy defenses everywhere.
From this, we can build tens of thousands of slaves to contain the Ming Dynasty's tens of thousands of troops. , consume It cost countless people to build slaves and seize Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty for three or four years.
Millions of acres of fertile land were owned by millions of Han people.
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Dozens of cities and millions of gold and silver were gathered together in ten years.
From now on, the trend has been achieved and will surely It will become a serious disaster for the Ming Dynasty, and it will take a few more years to The strength of the army increased greatly, and the army was directed towards the Ming Dynasty.
In order to block its invasion, the Ming Dynasty directly deployed heavy troops in western Liaoning.
As a result, the Liao army could only increase but not reduce the taxes on the people.
"Zhao Lie spread out the situation between the two sides and made it clear.
It's a crisis.
"I heard that the old slave was ferocious and was good at killing Han people everywhere, so all the Han people fled south.
How can we control the Central Plains if we don't cultivate internal affairs?"
Li Mingyu said with a smile.
Li Mingyu was a Jinshi and had served as a county magistrate.
He had some experience in governance.
Of course he disagreed.
Zhao Haiming also nodded in agreement.
Acting like this is rebellious and how can anything be done?
"What Mr.
Li said is absolutely true.
This is the best time for our Ming Dynasty to reorganize itself.
The old slave is stupid and is good at killing Han people, so all the Han people fled.
This is an act of self-destruction.
However, at this good opportunity, In our court, the eunuchs and Donglin continued to attack and kill each other, and there was constant bloodshed.
The emperor does not care about political affairs, he just sits back and watches the good opportunity pass.
The old slave is old and his life is not long.
His successors are all men who have experienced hundreds of battles.
They are not the ones raised by the women in the inner palace.
In order to build an elite army and strengthen the country, they will renovate the internal affairs and treat them well.
The Han people can expect a strong and prosperous country in these few years," Zhao Lie predicted.
"Lier, how did you know that the person who ascended the throne was not Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty?"
Zhao Haiming did not get entangled in the matter of the old slave.
It was not a secret that Hachi was nearly seventy years old, and injuries from many years of battle had made him unwell.
"Following the old slave for more than ten years, fighting in the north and south, and then coming to power from a battle between brothers with military power.
How can he be like Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, who talked about military affairs on paper and ruined the country and the people?"
Zhao Lie shook his head and thought to himself , Huang Taiji was a more powerful hero than Ha Chi.
If Ha Chi defeated the Ming army and established the Jin Kingdom, this was the limit of his ability, but Huang Taiji left Ha Chi to him because of the rebellion of the Han people. each The brothers had different intentions, and the chaos surrounded by Ming, Mongolia, and North Korea outside was gathered together.
They organized internal affairs, organized and trained the army, defeated Mongolia and North Korea, and continuously invaded the Ming Dynasty, which made the Ming Dynasty bleed and weaken.
In the end, the strength of the two sides changed positions, thus He laid the foundation stone for establishing slaves and taking control of the Central Plains.
His achievements were enough to make the old slaves laugh out of their coffins.
The rest, Dorgon and his like, were just standing on his shoulders to catch up.
Zhao Haiming stared at Zhao Lie with wide eyes, and then looked at Li Mingyu.
Li Mingyu was thinking hard for the first time, and the room was speechless for a moment
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