I am the king of the dead

Chapter 350 The mouse ties the bell to the cat

Zhu Qiyu successively promulgated several decrees that had been drawn up long ago, and these decrees were drawn up by Zhu Qiyu on the road.

Although he is on vacation, he has never been idle, and has been thinking about what to do when he comes to Nanjing.

After the court meeting ended, Zhu Qiyu left Li Xian alone, and said with a smile, "The great seal of the Advisory Council."

Zhu Qiyu found the setting of the 25 councilors in the Advisory Council very interesting.

The first is the original 64 articles, which are quite a bit like the "Liberty Great Britain" signed by King John of the Plantagenet Dynasty of England on June 1215, 6 under the joint pressure of the feudal nobles, lords, priests, knights and urban citizens. Charter.

This can be regarded as the main ideological consciousness, freedom and democracy for more than 800 years.

The 25 counselors of the Council of State are more like a committee formed by representatives of feudal nobles and lords to supervise the implementation of the Magna Carta.

Even Liberty, accustomed to the king of England, still could not bear this humiliating treaty, and eventually civil war broke out.

The landless King John, even though he had no soldiers, no food, and no money, still announced the abandonment of the Magna Carta immediately after the nobles withdrew their troops.

Pope Innocent III also denounced Magna Carta as "a shameless clause imposed on kings by force and fear".

Landless King John had almost nothing, but he fought to the death without yielding, and died of illness in the midst of the battle.

His successor, Henry III, finally recognized the "Magna Carta", but its number was reduced to 37.

Among them, 61 articles restricting the power of the king were completely deleted.

It is worth noting that the Magna Carta was the basis for almost all Western European charters of civilization.

Zhu Qiyu looked at the Advisory Council system created by Li Xian, and looked at the extremely inefficient administrative efficiency, so he could only shake his head.

"Very good." Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "Does Xueshi Li think that this 64-article Dating Outline and the Advisory Council should continue?"

Li Xian was so frightened that a layer of cold sweat broke out on his forehead, he knelt down on the ground very quickly, and said in horror: "I don't think it should be!"

A group of mice are studying how to tie bells to cats. Isn’t this courting death?
Zhu Qiyu looked at Li Xian, handed the 64 pieces to Xing'an, and said to Li Xian, "Be flat."

How does a mouse tie a bell to a cat?
The ministers in the orthodox years have already demonstrated it. It is roughly that when the cat is full, they make up a set of self-justified words, and then coax the young kitten to put layers on their necks. bell.

The old cat died of illness, and the kitten grew up. The kitten found that the rope of the bell was strangling its neck, unable to breathe, and was finally strangled to death.

This process is very long, but the act of tying the bell will last for a long time.

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "Li Aiqing has become more and more powerful in the imperial court, from inspecting salt censor to household secretary, and finally added a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion to himself, and also took charge of the Advisory Council. Da Yin, Li Aiqing, is really a good trick."

What Li Xian did was almost perfectly demonstrated, how to tie a bell to the cat.

Apparently, the entire imperial court is immature, and the rebel figure on the surface is Zhu Wengui, but Zhu Wengui is ignorant and knows nothing except the destiny.

This gave Li Xian many opportunities. Relying on his talents and learning, he gradually completed the control of financial power and political power.

Only the military power remained, and Li Xian never asked.

A group of foolish bastards were sold to His Majesty by Li Xian in exchange for reward cards.

The mouse tied a bell to the cat, which was called Zhu Shaoguoyi in the Ming Dynasty, and it was called the induction between heaven and man in the past.

Li Xian bowed his head and said: "It's just that they are stupid. I have a yellow book and a fish scale book to offer."

Zhu Qiyu flipped through it, picked up Li Xian's "Seventeen Questions about the Possessive and Righteous Family", flipped it a little bit and said: "I want to go on tour in modest clothes, so go change your clothes and wait for me at Hongwumen." .”

Zhu Qiyu picked up his seventh-rank badge to participate in politics, and planned to go around Nanjing City.

Zhu Qiyu changed into ordinary clothes and walked out of Daming's palace. Lu Zhong and others led a team of brocade guards to guard them.

When he walked out of the Hongwu Gate, he saw the Dengwen Drum Court in front of the Hongwu Gate of the Nanjing Imperial Palace.

The Dengwen Drum was established in the past dynasties, and it is a Zhou ritual. It has been recorded in Qiuguan and Dasikou, and it is specially used for the common people to complain about injustice.

The lung stone is bright red, eight or nine feet long, shaped like a hanging lung, and is the drumstick used to beat the drum.

According to the instructions of Huangming ancestors, any common people who want to beat the Dengwen drum and lung stone must not stop them, otherwise they will all be convicted.

But this Dengwen drum has not been sounded for more than 50 years.

The lung stone is covered with dust, and the Dengwen drum is more than ten feet in diameter. The Dengwen drum is still there, and it will be replaced every year. After all, it is made by the ancestors.

Yousi thought of a way, built a yard, and locked the Dengwen drum in the yard. If the drum wanted to be played, it had to climb over the wall first.

Naturally, no one dared to do such a thing during the Hongwu period. This courtyard was built during the Jianwen period. Huang Guan once wrote a letter to abolish the Dengwen drum system, but Zhu Yunqi refused to use the ancestral system.

After Zhu Di entered Nanjing, he demolished the courtyard.

In the reign of Xuande, the emperor was in Beiya, and the sky was high and the emperor was far away, so this courtyard was built again.

When the army entered the city, the Dengwen Drum Yard was naturally left unattended, half of the door fell off, and it creaked.

Zhu Qiyu first took a look at the Dengwen Drum Courtyard, and asked Xing'an to make arrangements to tear down the courtyard wall.

The winter in Nanjing is colder than that in Beijing. Although the winter wind in Beijing is fierce, it is quite dry, but it is only dry and cold.

When we arrived in Nanjing, the cold wind still carried moisture, as if waves of razor blades were scratching the bones.

Zhu Qiyu walked across the Waijinshui Bridge and looked at the two main roads.

There are two main roads in Nanjing City, passing through Nanshi Street and Beishi Street, and ending in front of Nanjing Liudu Imperial Palace.

Buddhist temples, government offices, theater stages, dwellings, archways, waterside pavilions, city gates are stacked on top of each other;

Tea farms, gold and silver shops, pharmacies, bathrooms, and even chicken and duck shops, pig shops, sheep shops, grain and oil shops, there are many shops;

Grain boats, dragon boats, and fishing boats shuttle back and forth in the river, and there are countless pawns on the streets.

This is an extremely prosperous Nanjing city.

Zhu Qiyu stopped in front of the Dagongfang. The Dagongfang was in the third year of Hongwu. Emperor Gao of the Taizu was the Duke of Wei, Xu Da.

Wei Guogong's mansion is in this Dagongfang. Under the huge Dagong plaque, Zhu Qiyu saw countless people gathered in front of the yellow list.

The families of influential figures lived near Dagongfang, and they were particularly concerned about what government orders His Majesty would issue after he arrived in Nanjing.

A commanding officer stood under the yellow board, watched the crowd gather, and said loudly: "Everyone be quiet, Your Majesty has issued an edict."

"The three kings Fuzhu, Wang Ji, Sun Zhong, Sun Jizong and others all beheaded their families, hundreds of people were beheaded, and nearly [-] people were exiled to Yongning Temple."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone under the entire yellow list was very quiet, but they only felt the cold wind gusts behind their necks. Those who could stand here were all those who had not participated in the rebellion after being checked and mended by Jin Yiwei.

With a single thought, he was almost pulled down to Caishikou and beheaded, and his family was exiled to the far corner.

The commander continued to shout loudly: "But His Majesty has forgiven most of the rebels."

As soon as these words came out, the crowd around Huangbang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Looking at the reactions of these people, Zhu Qiyu looked quite calm, and the forgiveness of the rebel army did not end with a sentence of forgiveness.

How is life with the rebels?Actually not good.

When the three-way army was encircled, countless rebels surrendered like crazy. They had to endure countless corporal punishments every day, and their food and wages would not be paid. As His Majesty advanced, these people became more and more aware of the matter. It's not right.

How did the city of Nanjing surrender?

Did Wang Ji's conscience find out?
No, it was the generals at the bottom who brought more than 3 soldiers and horses and launched a large-scale remonstrance.

At that time, Wang Ji also planned to keep the green hills without worrying about no firewood, move the capital to the south, move the capital to Guangzhou, and then unite with the guards of Guangdong and Guangxi to resist.

Wang Ji's plan to move the capital was caught by the angry generals before it even started.

Can 25 pigs be caught in three days and three nights?

However, it took less than three days for the 25 troops to surrender, and all of them became prisoners.

Zhu Qiyu forgave them, but only for the death penalty. After all, they only obeyed the general's order, and the panic-stricken army finally broke out, and Wang Ji and others were captured alive and dedicated to the tent.

But these people still need five years of hard labor, farming in official fields, and working as civilian husbands during wartime. After a long period of reformation, they will be released.

"Your Majesty has re-established the Ningbo Shipping Department and brought merchant ships under management," the commanding officer continued.

Everyone under the yellow list was silent, and what should come has come.

The taxes collected by the rebels were heavier than those collected by the emperor. How many merchants would rather go to the Mizhou Ships or Yuegang Ships than to the Ningbo Ships?

The tax of [-] out of [-] and [-]% is really too harsh.

The officer in charge said loudly: "Now that the merchant ship tax is set to be [-]% and the real tax is [-]%, if you give the silver premium [-] points."

"Your Majesty is holy!" It wasn't someone who took the lead in shouting in the crowd, and all the people around the yellow list exclaimed together.

This is simply awesome!

The commanding officer continued: "But Your Majesty will not give you a gift within five years."

Everyone under the yellow board sighed.

This is a punitive tax, which is the same as the punitive tax of Hetao heavy tax. This is Zhu Qiyu's fulfillment of his promise.

The rebels had to pay three taxes.

The first one was for the rebels, and now most of them have fallen into Zhu Qiyu's pockets, and the rebels haven't been mobilized much. Almost all the taxes collected are still piled up in Nanjing's household department yamen, and haven't been distributed yet. , was put down by the emperor.

This part is included in the internal funds.

The second part is rent recovery, and this part of the recovery is realized through Ningbo Shipping Department.

Almost all the distribution of sea goods in Nanzhili and Zhejiang is in Ningbo Shipping Department, which is the price after the defeat.

The third is the currency tax. They rebelled and originally planned to evade taxes, but they paid three of them abruptly.

This is the price of losing.

Zhu Qiyu walked past the Huangbang in Dagongfang, and said with a smile: "Tell me, you are bound to be the fourteenth question of the Haoyou family."

Li Xian looked at the bustling streets of Nanjing, and said with a sigh: "Your Majesty, please forgive me."

"My first question, Your Majesty said that commodities have dual values. One is to use, and the other is to exchange."

"However, I stayed in Nanjing City for seven months. I took the collapsed houses in Nanjing City as an example. Because of their excellent location, these collapsed houses were bound to be occupied by wealthy families regardless of the consequences."

"They hold the gates of the city and prevent anyone from entering the city. Then they control the prices of all the houses. They crazily raise the exchange value, making the use value worthless."

"This reckless pursuit of exchange value deprives many people of the power to acquire and hold the use value of their homes."

"Your Majesty, there are countless such phenomena."

"For example, they will control the seasonal fruits and vegetables, and occasionally control the entry and exit of the city gate, and the seasonal fruits and vegetables will immediately skyrocket."

"For example, they will control the manure, and even raise the price of manure during the busy farming season."

"The minister is puzzled."

This is Li Xian's first question, he used the example of a collapsed house in a shop.

When Li Xian was an official in the imperial court, he made an inventory of all the collapsed houses in the store, and collected house numbers every quarter.

Zhu Qiyu looked at the lush Nanjing city. The walls of the entire Nanjing have been demolished in sevens and eighties, and the streets are full of shops.

But Zhu Qiyu and his party were obviously dignitaries, and they were surrounded by several teams of big men guarding them, and almost everyone walked around.

Zhu Qiyu smiled and said, "I can give you the answer to your question."

He organized his language a little bit and said: "It's actually very simple, because they are hoarding goods, which is a kind of speculation."

"What is speculation?"

"Any commodity in the market has a use value and an exchange value. There is a simple difference between these two values. For example, a stone of rice only sells for three renminbi in Nanjing, but it is five renminbi in Beiya."

"The difference between use value and exchange value, under this kind of speculation, slowly evolves into an antagonism, and then intensifies into an absolute contradiction. This is speculation."

Before Zhu Qiyu came to Daming, he was a teacher. He often heard people in the office discussing that the middle school textbooks gradually deleted the words "the germination of capitalism in the Ming Dynasty, and the continued development of capitalism in the Qing Dynasty" and replaced it with the modern economic system. gradually established.

This change is actually due to the discovery of historical research that the Ming Dynasty was not without so-called capitalism, and was even extremely mature.

For example, the business of the collapsed houses mentioned by Li Xian, such as Zhao Gou's feces tyranny in Lin'an City, which one does not conform to the characteristics of capitalism?
It's all speculation, it's all malicious hoarding, it's all about changing the use value and exchange value from an orderly difference to an opposition, and finally an absolute contradiction. What is this not speculation?

Zhu Qiyu looked at those shops, and the owners of these shops were controlled by powerful families. He continued: "Actually, when I ascended the throne, I faced a choice."

"This political choice is: After all, I will establish a commercialized system to serve the family of the powerful and powerful, and all government orders will be carried out around the family of the powerful and powerful."

"Or a system that does not rely at all on the mediation of the market, but seeks to: regulate the production of use values ​​by all and supply them in a rational manner."

Zhu Qiyu's speech was very long and complicated.

This kind of sentence is difficult to understand, but Li Xian understands it.

During the few months in Nanjing Yamen, he felt deeply about this.

The translation is whether to indulge the myth of wealth creation and continue to spread, or to exercise the power that an emperor should exercise and lead Ming to become better.

Li Xian said convincingly: "Your Majesty is wise!"

His Majesty's few words solved the great doubt in his heart.

No matter how much time he spent, the problem that he didn't even think about was solved so simply by His Majesty.

Li Xian continued: "Your Majesty has a second question."

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