Borrow the day to change the day

() Slowly, Zhong Jinwei's voice became hoarse as he spoke. He wanted to drink water to moisten his throat, but he couldn't see the cup.Seeing that the two audience members were engrossed in listening, I had no choice but to endure it and continue talking, but in the end, I couldn't take it anymore and said, "Your Majesty, can you moisten your throat with a glass of water?"

Emperor Chongzhen was a little embarrassed when he heard this, and said to Wang Chengen: "Make Mr. Zhong a cup of my favorite fishhook tea quickly." Taking advantage of this time, Zhong Jinwei asked: "I wonder what your Majesty thinks about what I said? "

Emperor Chongzhen pondered for a while, and said: "Every pile of piles sounds unbelievable, but it makes sense when you think about it carefully. I grew up in the deep palace, and what I saw, heard, and thought did not exceed this range. My teacher, give me What I explain are also ancient sage books. Sir, you not only understand the future trend of the country, but also know the road to a prosperous country in future generations, please teach me." After finishing speaking, he made a rare comment to Zhong Jinwei.In fact, Emperor Chongzhen has always been easy to learn, but most of the people who taught him were members of the Donglin Party, and no one taught him well;

Zhong Jinwei hurriedly said: "Don't dare to do it, don't dare to do it, let's discuss it together." He slightly lowered his head and pondered for a while, then raised his head and asked Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, what do you think of the grassroots group?"

Emperor Chongzhen was slightly taken aback when he heard it, and said: "My people, I love and cherish them;" Zhong Jinwei smiled and said, "Your Majesty, I am a very real person, so I don't want to pick up nice words for you. Say whatever you have in mind, please don’t take offense.”

Emperor Chongzhen hurriedly said: "It's okay, it's okay, I'm very happy."

With this sentence, Zhong Jinwei said: "Your Majesty, judging from the historical events later, in your heart, the grassroots, that is, the common people, have not yet been raised to a very high level of awareness. In Chinese history, there was an emperor who I have a deep understanding. Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty said that water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it. That is to say, ordinary people can support a country, but they can also overthrow a country; It is easy to cut down, even a group of grassroots, and there will be no resistance at all; but under certain conditions, the grassroots can become a villain, it is easy to kill one, how about killing a group, and more? For example, a The hardness of an arrow is easy to break, and the hardness of two arrows is also easy, but what about the hardness of a bundle of arrows? At present, the country can actually be divided into three groups."

Speaking of this, Zhong Jinwei wanted to draw a picture with a pen, but immediately realized that there was no condition, so he continued to preach: "The grassroots, scholar-bureaucrats, and the emperor are three groups. It seems that someone said that the scholar-bureaucrats and the emperor ruled the world together. The interests of the scholar-bureaucrats and the emperor are relatively close. , against the grassroots; the best situation is that the interests of the grassroots, the scholar-bureaucrats and the emperor compromise with each other and reach an agreement. Interests conflict; and the worst time is when the interests of grassroots, scholar-bureaucrats, and emperors all conflict violently with each other, and in the end, the world is often in turmoil and the dynasty changes."

At this time, the tea came, and Zhong Jinwei moistened his throat, regardless of whether it was hot or not, and then continued: "On the surface, the power of the grass people is the weakest. The reason is that the group of grass people is too large to coordinate. The voice speaks, but under certain conditions, it will be coordinated. When one voice speaks, it will burst out its powerful power. , don’t cut off this formation condition, and eventually one day, an overwhelming force will be formed to overthrow everything; Zhu Yuan, ah, no, the Taizu of this dynasty is the strongest representative of this force. Now, according to my I understand, it has gradually reached the period of fierce conflict between the grassroots, the scholar-bureaucrats, and the emperor." Having said this, Zhong Jinwei paused and looked at Emperor Chongzhen.Emperor Chongzhen had been meditating and did not speak.Wang Cheng'en beside him couldn't bear it anymore, and asked, "Why do you see that?"

Zhong Jinwei smiled and said: "Look, this is my analysis. The interests of grassroots people are just to survive, which is very simple; while the interests of scholar-bureaucrats are to seek money, and being an official for thousands of miles is only for money. Where does the money come from? The two groups come up, namely the grassroots and the emperor; the grassroots are oppressed, I don’t need to explain this, so how can I say that the emperor is asking for money, the emperor is the country, and the emperor wants to maintain such a big family. Taxes also come from grassroots people, but the scholar-bureaucrats stepped in at this time and cut off the taxes that should be collected by the emperor, and the more they cut off, in the end, conflicts with the emperor were inevitable."

Wang Chengen interrupted: "Impossible!"

Zhong Jinwei said: "Impossible, then let me ask you, from the establishment of the dynasty to the present, economic development is just goods, the population is increasing, and the tax collected by the treasury is increasing. Is it in direct proportion to the economy? The ratio of the relationship? Even if there are more and more places to spend money, are there more and more taxes other than land taxes?"

Hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but secretly said in his heart: "What I lack is silver!!" Wang Chengen glanced at Emperor Chongzhen from the sidelines, and then said: "Ru, sir, how can you solve it?" Thinking of Emperor Chongzhen Di du called Mr., quickly change the words.

Zhong Jinwei turned to Emperor Chongzhen and said, "Your Majesty, I have a solution, but it needs your majesty's great courage to implement it. I am willing to be an ancient merchant, and realize your majesty's wish to make the country rich and the army strong."

Emperor Chongzhen looked a little excited, young man, he was only 20 years old, from hearing that he was going to become the king of subjugation, to being able to enrich the country, strengthen the army, revitalize the Ming Dynasty, he was still not excited.Emperor Chongzhen said: "Okay, no matter how difficult it is, I am determined to reform it."

Although Zhong Jinwei didn't want to spoil the fun, he still reminded: "Your Majesty, many of the ancestral systems are outdated, and you may have to violate them?"

Emperor Chongzhen said: "Do extraordinary things at extraordinary times!" After a pause, Emperor Chongzhen said again: "Zhong Jinwei, I named you..." He stopped again, although according to Zhong Jinwei, he was almost a juren , but it is nothing in this dynasty, the origin is still unclear, and it is not clear.If you want to seal him all at once, the ministers outside will still make a fuss. , Thinking of this, I can't help being very depressed.

When Zhong Jinwei saw the posture of Emperor Chongzhen, he immediately understood, and he himself was not willing to stand out, just like he played games, he liked to seduce people from behind, there was no way, he didn't have the strength to rush to the front.Anyone who has played the game knows that it takes good equipment to fight head-on with monsters, and good weapons are enough for the sinister behind the scenes.Zhong Jinwei took the initiative to speak, and said: "Your Majesty, I don't want to be an official, I will give you some advice, and you will implement it after you weigh it." Speaking of this, he added a flattery: "This way, your majesty will appear wise and mighty!" After hearing this, Wang Chengen said inwardly: "He also said that he is a real person, and he is a cunning old man."

Emperor Chongzhen was in a dilemma as to how to seal Zhong Jinwei. Hearing what he said, he weighed it again and said: "Okay, but if you do something for me, I must reward you." At the end, I thought: You don't do it for me Officer, what do you want to do?Never want my position?So, he asked again: "You help me, and you don't ask to be an official. How can I reward you?"

After hearing this, Zhong Jinwei didn't understand the hidden worry in Emperor Chongzhen's words, and said directly from his own heart: "Your Majesty, my experience may be the only one in the world, which is equivalent to being a person in two generations. As a future generation I very much hope that the Chinese nation, oh, the Han nationality can avoid the tragic hundreds of years of later generations, and not be bullied by the Western world, so that the Han nationality will always stand in front of world civilization on this earth. And in my lifetime, travel around the world, Read all over the world." After finishing speaking, I secretly added one more thing in my heart: Don't let my children and grandchildren learn that Laozi English again, hehe, let the whole world learn the troublesome Chinese in the future.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard it, oh, it turns out that he likes traveling in mountains and rivers.Just ask for something.Ah, I actually want to go out and see the world outside the Forbidden City!

Zhong Jinwei spoke again: "However, Your Majesty, I also have a few requests, and I hope Your Majesty can agree."

Emperor Chongzhen said: "Okay, tell me."

"One, my words and deeds may seem unbelievable to you and them, and may not conform to the rules. I hope Your Majesty will forgive me." Zhong Jinwei pointed to Wang Chengen and the outside when he said this. The reason why I said this again is because this is from myself The Achilles heel of this era is estimated to be attacked frequently in the future, so I need to remind the next emperor.After Emperor Chongzhen nodded, Zhong Jinwei continued: "Second, if this era is different from my history, it's not because I want to deliberately deceive Your Majesty. I hope Your Majesty can tolerate it." Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said 'um', this Don't force it, and you can't force it.Zhong Jinwei said again: "Third, my writing at that time was very different from what it is now. To tell you the truth, I probably can't understand the ancient books. Can you help me with a secretary, the secretary, that is, the one who helps me read Interpreting characters, pouring tea and handing water, and communicating." Wang Chengen couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard this, and then said to Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, I guess Mr. Zhong is a storyteller." Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help laughing: "Well, You don't need to ask for it, you can configure it yourself."

Zhong Jinwei was afraid that Emperor Chongzhen would send an eunuch to spend time with him day and night, so he couldn't help but think of the beautiful classical little sister he just met, gentle and virtuous, hardworking and capable, and easy to scare.I was a little awkward, and said after a while: "Your Majesty, can you, can you let that court lady Archie be my book boy."

Emperor Chongzhen laughed when he heard this, and said: "I have fallen in love with my maid so quickly, Archie is very ingenious, not bad." Then he turned to Wang Chengen and said, "Let the maid Archie come in."

Wang Chengen went to the door and called Archie who was serving at the side.After Archie came in, he knelt down to the Emperor Chongzhen and said, "Your Majesty, my maidservant." The Emperor Chongzhen meowed at Zhong Jinwei, who was blushing, and said, "I have given you to Mr. Zhong, and I will serve him well in the future. Don't neglect him. "

Archie lowered his head, unable to see any reaction, and said, "Yes."

After finishing the arrangement, Emperor Chongzhen didn't seem to see Zhong Jinwei's red face, and said, "Mr. Zhong, what else do you want?" At this time, Zhong Jinwei's brain was no longer working.Said: "Not for the time being, I can't remember."

Emperor Chongzhen said: "When you think about it, sir, I will tell you. I still have memorials to deal with today, and I will see you tomorrow. Companion, put it in the study room."

After finishing speaking, Emperor Chongzhen left with his subordinates, leaving the court lady Archie standing alone.On the other side, also stupidly stood a time-traveling man: Zhong Jinwei.