Qiming 1158

Chapter 987 So, can the Southern Song Dynasty really defeat the Ming Kingdom?
Hearing Lu You's question, Wang Qi turned to look at Lu You and nodded.

"Your Majesty abolished the city gate tax in the second year of Hongwu. From then on, the people of Daming no longer need to pay the city gate tax to enter the city, and they can enter and leave freely."

Lu You was a little surprised.

"That's a huge amount of tax. If you don't want it, you don't want it? Ming Kingdom is really rich!"

"Daming does not lack this little bit of taxation. Daming has more legitimate ways to collect taxation, and it is not necessary for the people to bear this part of the taxation, so it is abolished."

Wang Qi said with a smile: "Da Ming abolished a lot of extortionate taxes. This [a lot] is a lot of real, not a lot of fake. Your Majesty cherishes the power of the people and cares for the people, not just talking about it."

Lu You was silent for a moment, then nodded and said nothing.

Others can be reasonably suspected, after all, I have not seen it with my own eyes, but this kind of thing I have seen with my own eyes is not necessary to doubt.

Lu You sighed unconsciously, and when he looked up, he saw Yu Yunwen looking at him with strange eyes.

His heart tightened, a stiff smile appeared on his face unconsciously, and he nodded to Yu Yunwen.

Yu Yunwen looked at him for a while, but without any other action, he withdrew his gaze and continued to watch the Ming Dynasty city gate guards inspecting the belongings of the envoys of the Southern Song Dynasty.

After checking about two sticks of incense, everything is normal and can pass.

Chen Guangyuan smiled and cupped his hands and said, "Thank you for your cooperation, Xianggong Chen, everything is normal, you can enter the city."

Chen Kangbo smiled lightly: "It's okay, we understand the rules of Shangguo."

Chen Guangyuan laughed and didn't take it seriously. He led Chen Kangbo and others into Zhongdu City, and arranged for them to live in Sihai Pavilion, the official diplomatic post in Zhongdu City, which was managed by Honglu Temple.

Sihai Pavilion is located in the southeast of Zhongdu City, next to the business district, and close to the commercial street in the southeast of Zhongdu City. In a multi-person room of six people, arranging the Southern Song Dynasty envoys was effortless.

After arranging the staff of Sihaiting to deal with the envoys of the Southern Song Dynasty, Chen Guangyuan found Chen Kangbo.

He told Chen Kangbo that Su Yonglin would meet them in three days. During these three days, the envoys of the Southern Song Dynasty could have a good rest, recharge their batteries, wash away their exhaustion, and talk to Wang Qi, director of Honglu Temple, if they needed anything.

Accompanied by him and the staff of Sihaiting, the members of the Southern Song Dynasty diplomatic corps can go to any place open to the outside world in Zhongdu City without restrictions and without too many taboos.

He also specially introduced the commercial street near Sihai Pavilion.

"After Xin Qiji, the chief of the Daming General Staff, went to Lin'an City in the Southern Dynasties, he has been obsessed with the bustling streets of Lin'an City. After this street became prosperous, President Xin went to play several times, saying that this street has quite the scene of Lin'an City in the Southern Dynasties. If you are interested, you can go to play, the best night is the most lively."

Chen Kangbo nodded and expressed his gratitude.

Chen Guangyuan ordered Wang Qi to do something again, and went to the palace to return his orders, while Wang Qi stayed and continued to handle the check-in of the envoys of the Southern Song Dynasty.

After a whole day of toiling, the people in the envoy were already hungry and exhausted by the sunset. Wang Qi quickly arranged their dinner and bathing matters. The group ate dinner and took a bath. He went back to his room to sleep.

Even if you want to go out and explore the style of Zhongdu, you can put it after tomorrow. Anyway, there is still a lot of time. It is better to go to sleep today.

Chen Kangbo was very thoughtful, but he was already 67 years old. He was exhausted from the trip this time. After eating and bathing, he couldn't support his exhausted body, so he lay down on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.

Yu Yunwen is also very thoughtful, but he is also 54 years old, and his energy is not as good as before. Under fatigue, he can't continue to calculate, so he can only lie on the bed, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

Only Lu You is not yet 40 years old, and his energy is still good. After eating, taking a shower and returning to the room, he ate some fruits provided for them, and then opened "Hongwu Zhenglun" to continue studying, thinking about the journey along the way while reading. Come and see everything.

Looking at it, he felt something in his heart. He took out the paper he was carrying and began to write some experiences.

He wrote about everything he saw along the way, and compared what he knew about the situation in the Southern Song Dynasty with what happened in the Ming Kingdom, and finally came to some conclusions that made him very helpless.

It may not be an accidental phenomenon that the Southern Song Dynasty could not defeat the Ming Kingdom, and it is not just the strength of the Ming army and the weakness of the Song army.

Maybe there are deeper reasons.

For example, the unity within the Ming Kingdom, etc...

Lu You kept writing, kept writing, until late at night, and only stopped writing and went to bed when he felt sleepy.

Before closing his eyes, he was still thinking, if everything that happened in the country was the same as what was said in the "Hong Wu Zheng Lun", then, would the Southern Song Dynasty really be able to defeat the Ming country?
Can a regime that is free from exploitation and oppression, has the support of the people, and makes no big mistakes of its own, can really be defeated?
There is no established armed force to supervise the huge construction site, laborers can still eat meat, people do not need to pay the city gate tax when entering and leaving the city, they can easily enter the city, and no one is embarrassed...

Can such a regime really be defeated?

Is it really possible to realize the Central Plains strategy of the radical main battle faction?
Lu You fell asleep with such doubts.

The night was very peaceful, and the people of the Southern Song Dynasty embassy slept soundly and soundly.

In the second half of the night, Wang Qi was called into the palace to see Su Yonglin.

When Wang Qi came to Su Yonglin's study, Su Yonglin was still dealing with state affairs. Wang Qi stood in the study and waited for a while, waiting for Su Yonglin to approve the request that a group of experienced grass-roots instructors in Guanzhong area should go to support him.

After approving the playlist in his hand, Su Yonglin heaved a long sigh of relief, and looked at the state affairs that had been dealt with by the taller stack on his right, and the more pending state affairs by the taller stack on his left, and smiled helplessly. .

"Being the emperor, holding the power in the world, you have to pay such hard work. The state affairs will never be dealt with. There is a lot to deal with here, and there will only be more there. You must deal with it. , the country will be in chaos."

Su Yonglin stood up and stretched, and said, "How many times I wanted to give myself a vacation, but I thought of taking advantage of the officials' rest days to deal with more state affairs, and maybe I could get more rest time. , I couldn't help but come to deal with state affairs on the holiday, but the more I dealt with it, the more I couldn't see the end."

Wang Qi smiled.

"Your Majesty is diligent in government and loves the people. Although you are tired, the people of the world will definitely become more relaxed, and farmers will be able to eat without having to work so hard to survive."

Hearing this, Su Yonglin nodded with a slight smile.

"If it's not like this, it's pointless for me to work so hard. Well, if there is any news worth reporting along the way, just tell me."

Wang Qi, who was "part-time" in the Skynet Army, nodded, and then told Su Yonglin everything he knew along the way. Su Yonglin nodded slowly after listening.

"That is to say, among the three people in the lead, only Lu You showed signs of being shaken, while the other two were still diehards and never moved?"

"It can be said like this."

Wang Qi said: "My subordinates thought that apart from Lu You, the other two were looking at Daming with an attitude that they didn't want to believe at all. They didn't seem to want to believe that Daming had really undergone tremendous changes, and more and more powerful."

"People often only believe what they want to believe. For things they don't want to believe, even if the hard facts are in front of him, he will think that if you use a blindfold, it is pre-arranged and everything is fake."

Su Yonglin shook his head and said with a smile, "Don't care about these people, these people will surely die of everything they suspect, and they won't repent until the last moment of their lives. thinking.

What we need to do is to win over people like Lu You. This kind of person who will shake, doubt and believe, is worthy of our further efforts. In fact, the influence of this pure ideal is stronger than the meticulous works we bought in the Southern Song Dynasty. More worth looking forward to. "

(End of this chapter)