The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 853 What does the emperor mean?
Ding Yi asked again: "The hunger of the people is due to hunger because of the high food tax; the difficulty of governing the people is due to the fact that they are capable; So what's the point of dying lightly?"

"The reason why the people suffer from famine is because the ruler devours too much tax, so the people are starving. The reason why the people are difficult to rule is because the ruler has strict policies and likes to do something, so the people are difficult to rule. Suicide and risking death is because the rulers searched for the fat and fat of the people in order to support themselves, so the people think that death is nothing."

Ding Yi nodded slowly: "Huang Qing is really knowledgeable."

The officials were silent, and they should understand what Ding Yi had to say.

"I remember that in the 17th and 18th years of Chongzhen and Chongzhen's [-]th years, domestic food was still in short supply. I had to mobilize troops everywhere and bought a large batch from Annan before barely supporting the people in the northwestern provinces with food."

Hearing the word 'buy', many officials at the scene wanted to laugh inexplicably.

But seeing Ding Yi's serious expression, no one dared to laugh.

Ding Yi went on to say: "It's only been two years of benevolence, and the imperial court has already accumulated a surplus of taxes and food."

"Among them, the imperial court invested heavily in water conservancy construction, paid attention to hoarding fields, and promoted high-yield crops, all of which have contributed."

The ministers thought that Ding Yi was going to brag about his achievements, and some people were already thinking, should they call it first, the emperor's sage, Yao Yushun Tang and so on.

"Perhaps God understands my painstaking efforts. There have not been any major natural disasters in the country in the past two years."

"But I occasionally think, what if there is another natural disaster, the people lose their harvest, and the court lacks food?"

"Is it the same as the previous Ming Dynasty?"

"I'm sure I won't do this, but I'm sure that the future emperor will do it, and I'm sure there will be ministers instigating the emperor to do it in the future?"

"After I read the Tao Te Ching, and then listened to Huang Qing's explanation, I was thinking, I'm going to do it, and I should write the four words 'never add Fu' into the history books, into the legal code, and spread it to the world. Announce to the world that starting from Ding Yi, I have become the emperor, and I will never be able to add more gifts."

Of course, this tax, Ding Yi refers to the farmland tax and grain tax.

"Your majesty is wise." Lu Daqi was the first to bow down, crying again.

All the ministers sang together, and the scene suddenly knelt down.

Ding Yi's fetish is perfect.

No matter what the life of the later emperors is like, he first said that he would never add a gift, which earned a lot of tears and admiration from civil servants.

He satisfactorily enjoyed the worship of the officials, and after all the officials got up, he asked again: "Is Lao Tzu talking about governance by doing nothing?"

"If I govern by doing nothing, who will govern this country?"

His teleportation is also unexpected.

We talked about taxes earlier, and suddenly we talked about governing the country.

The ministers of the Manchu Dynasty did not speak out, and Zhao Dashan almost wanted to stand up and shout that the rule of law should be replaced by the rule of man.

But after thinking about it, he still didn't dare to say it.

Ding Yi saw that none of the officials made a sound, and the generals in Lushun who had greeted yesterday did not dare to make a sound, nor were they angry.

He just started first and looked at the direction of the wind.

And this kind of thing, he has prepared for several years, even ten years, decades of hard work.

The next day, the "Tianxiashi" newspaper in the capital published the dialogue between Emperor Daqian Ding Yi and Huang Daozhou about ruling by doing nothing.

At the end of the article, a person signed "Tang Tu Shi Ji Chen" wrote a paragraph.

The title read: "You and I are the country."

"If the emperor governs by doing nothing, who will govern the country? You and I are the country. The existence of the country does not have any special purpose. The meaning of its existence is only to protect the rights and interests of the people, to ensure the lives, property, and freedom of the people. and dignity."

"In the country, we don't have to compromise for anything, and we don't need to sacrifice for the interests of others, because in this country, there is nothing more important than your own rights and interests, and defending one's own rights is the most important thing for a person. Great act, and the greatest contribution a man can make to his country."

"If a country no longer protects the rights and interests of its citizens, it shows that all citizens are, or are becoming, slaves of the ruler."

After this issue of "World Affairs" came out, it quickly spread to all parts of the country. The dialogue between Emperor Ding Yi and Huang Daozhou still caused a shock in the world.

The last paragraph, "You and I are the country", shocked many young students, especially those who came out of the new university and the former Lushun.

These people are relatively easy to accept this kind of thinking, but many officials in the former Ming Dynasty could not accept it.

This is only the second year of Ding Yi's enthronement, and officials all over the world can't figure out why such an article should be published on the world's affairs?
Several governors came forward one after another, angrily scolding the article about the affairs of the world, and some governors even demanded that 'Tang Tushi Jichen' be arrested for disrespect and sentenced to death.

Shi Kefa, the governor of Guangdong, further said: "Heaven, earth, ruler, parent and teacher", the eternal truth, today's sages are wise and inclusive, does not mean that the ministers and students can talk nonsense unscrupulously and challenge the imperial power, please the sages severely punish "Tang Tushijichen".

All of a sudden, memorials from inside and outside the court requesting the execution of 'Tang Tu Shi Ji Chen' flew towards the palace like snowflakes.

Zhao Dashan couldn't help but secretly rejoiced that he was not impulsive that day, and luckily he didn't speak out, otherwise he would be condemned by the world.

In fact, most readers agree with the article of "Tang Tu Shi Ji Chen", but everyone disagrees with the dialogue between Huang Daozhou and Ding Yi. Make a fuss.

Ding Yi didn't expect that he would try a small knife, as if he had stabbed a hornet's nest.

On the same day, he first said that he would never add a tax, and then he said governance by doing nothing, just to let people in the world talk more about never adding a tax. Unexpectedly, everyone is now grasping to do nothing and govern regardless of the words never adding a tax. article.

To get rid of this ignorant and backward thinking, in the long run, we must open up the wisdom of the people and stay away from Confucianism.

The imperial examination in the second year of Rende was also scheduled for June, and Ding Yi decided to reduce the proportion of Confucianism in the imperial examination again.

And the reasons are quite good. Last year, [-] to [-] officials were recruited across the country. Not many people reached the retirement age this year. They are all technical officials and do not have high requirements for Confucianism.

This year, about [-] people will be recruited across the country.

At the same time, Ding Yi insisted that this matter should be done as soon as possible. It would take ten to twenty years or even longer to do it by enlightening the wisdom of the people.

But after a few decades, these high-ranking civil and military personnel are probably also accustomed to the honorable life of the Ming Dynasty, and they will oppose it at that time.

So Ding Yi decided to be ruthless.

He still has the confidence to be ruthless. After the two imperial examinations in the first year of Rende and the second year of Rende, the number of officials in the world has increased by more than 4, and almost [-]% of them are those trained by Ding Yi.

Ding Yi doesn't believe that he can't control the world now, but wants to see how many officials still have the thinking of the previous dynasty.

Ding Yi is still unable to straighten out the ignorance of billions of people, but he can turn around the ignorance of officials. If he can't, then change officials.

In June of the second year of Rende, Dagan had two major events.

One is that the proportion of Confucian Neo-Confucianism in the imperial examination was further reduced in the second imperial examination. Many scholars in the pre-Ming Dynasty have found that there are no official positions for them to apply for reference.

Now only those who have studied at the Dagan Royal School can apply for most of the positions, otherwise they must have a skill.

And the strength of this skill is by no means reading, writing, reciting poems and painting.

In the past, the standard equipment of literati, a good handwriting with a brush, being able to compose poems and draw pictures, was useless in Daqian.

It seems that the imperial court is targeting scholars, but Ding Yi also opened schools across the country to encourage all school-age children to read and write.

There are many more literate people working hard now than in the previous Ming Dynasty.

How could it be aimed at readers?
The second thing is that many government-run businesses that used to be run by the imperial court have been transferred to private businesses.

Moreover, after obtaining the management rights, many nobles opened new factories everywhere to expand their business empires.

These industries were basically established by Ding Yi before, and the ministers of the former Ming Dynasty had nothing to say.

But the salt was also handed over to the private sector. Lu Daqi, Ma Shiying and other important cabinet ministers of the former Ming Dynasty were very nervous. They came to Ding Yi at the same time in early July to argue hard.

According to Lu Daqi, salt is the foundation of a country. Since ancient times, there has not been any dynasty that does not manage salt by the state.

Ding Yi also nodded when he heard this. Indeed, even in his later generation, salt is still run by the state.

"There is a word in Europe called 'monopoly'." When Ding Yi speaks new words, he first pushes them to Europe.

"There are two types of monopoly, seller monopoly and buyer monopoly."

"Seller's monopoly usually refers to the sole and exclusive seller, and it can also refer to a small number of large merchants who, in order to obtain high profits, manipulate and control the production, sales and prices of one or several departments of goods through mutual agreements or alliances."

Ma Shiying immediately said: "This is questionable."

It turns out that the Ming Dynasty also had a monopoly, but it was called "discussion".

Because the salt, iron, and tea of ​​the ancient Chinese dynasty have long been monopolized by the government, and because of the huge profits, once the country has a financial crisis, in order to subsidize the country's shortage, the system of prohibition must be implemented.

"Then you can understand better. For example, the imperial court only allows three red houses to open in the capital, and each of them has to pay a business tax of 10 taels of silver every year."

"These three red houses made an appointment to raise their prices together. Now there are only these three houses in the capital. The prices are high, but the business is pretty good."

"That's the beauty of a monopoly."

Ding Yi said solemnly: "If the imperial court continues to monopolize the salt, iron, tea, oil and other industries."

"In the future, you can raise the price whenever you want, regardless of whether the people can afford it or not."

Lu Daqi and the others were taken aback. Is there oil tomorrow?What does the emperor mean?
But they could tell that the emperor was still thinking of the people.

The imperial court gave up the right of management, and only had the right of supervision. One was to supervise product quality, and the other was to supervise product prices.

And after ten years, fully open the market and allow more non-governmental businessmen to join in various operations, so as to achieve the purpose of limiting the random rise in prices.

I can’t guarantee anything else, at least in an environment where there is no monopoly, it will definitely not skyrocket.

(End of this chapter)