Wanli Youming

Chapter 339 The Disadvantages of the New Deal

Chapter 339 The Disadvantages of the New Deal

One night a few days later.

In a small village in Chuxiong Prefecture, Yunnan, the sky is high and the clouds are light and the moon is bright.

Accompanied by the sound of dogs barking one after another, battalion soldier Lai Daliang knocked on his door.

"Father, mother, big brother is back!"

Lai Daliang's brother Lai Erliang laughed and shouted.

"How about it, the master of Jinyiwei wants you to do something?"

Lai Daliang's father, Lai Wuwang, asked about Lai Daliang.

Lai Daliang nodded his head, "Yes".

Lai Wuwang laughed: "Why do you think this is? This Jinyiwei is also strange now. He only finds ordinary people like us to do things, and he is so generous! The eldest grandson earned silver dollars just because he did something for him. More than my grandfather earned in his entire life!"

"Father, can this be compared? After all, he is working for the emperor."

Lai Erliang said something.

Lai Daliang said at this time: "Father, I thought about it, Xiaoshi's reward plus my military salary is enough to tell the second child a housewife, why not let him have a family too."

Lai Wuwang nodded.

Lai Erliang laughed happily.

Then, Lai Daliang looked at Lai Erliang: "However, second child, this money can't be given to you as a daughter-in-law for nothing, you have to find a way out by yourself and earn some money!"

"But I don't know how to earn it?"

Lai Erliang said.

Lai Daliang said: "I have been trained by Jin Yiwei these days and I understand that now the imperial court has abolished the ban on road guidance and allows its own people to go anywhere in the country, but the serving sergeants need to ask their superiors for permission."

"It's a good feeling, that is to say, we don't have to worry about being arrested, and Xiaoshi can read without having to herd cattle."

Lai Wuwang laughed.

Lai Xiaoshi, who had always been sullen, also laughed at this time.

"In addition, the master of Jinyiwei also told me that there is a high tax exemption for the people of the country to sell goods when they go out of the customs. In order to develop their own eyeliner, Jinyiwei specially recruited some small people in various places so that they can borrow Jinyiwei's money to go to the capital. Order, then go out to sell, and say that if you lose money, you will only pay the principal, but if you continue to operate, you need to be the eyes and ears of Jin Yiwei."

Lai Daliang looked at Lai Erliang as he spoke: "So, second child, you can go to Jinyiwei Hundred Households in Jinyiwei Chuxiong Mansion to borrow money, and go out to do business."

Lai Erliang nodded: "I'll try!"

Lai Daliang said again: "I heard from them that these good things are all because the new emperor started the New Deal with Grand Master Zhang after he ascended the throne, and now some people still want to abolish the New Deal. Back in the past, the poor people could not go to other places to seek food and serve as soldiers. Don't even want to get enough food and food, so if we want to live in such a good way, we have to guard the New Deal with Jin Yiwei, including your second child. "

Lai Erliang listened carefully.

Lai Daliang said: "When you get married, go to Jin Yiwei to borrow money."

Lai Erliang nodded in agreement, "Yes", and then said: "It is the New Deal that gave me the opportunity to marry a wife."

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"It was the New Deal that allowed me to reunite with Green Plum, and win the Toad Palace, so I am different from you, and I don't feel how harsh the New Deal is to the gentry."

In the early winter of the 11th year of Wanli, the capital had already snowed early, and now white flowers are flying for another day.

Inside the dormitory of the Daming Ruling Academy.

Liu Quexian, Ye Xianggao and a group of newly-disciplined Jinshi also sat around the stove to keep out the cold between classes and talked about state affairs.

As reserve officials of the empire, they are more concerned about government affairs than before after being promoted to Jinshi, so that even if they sit around the stove to keep out the cold, they still talk about politics.

Because Jinshi Li Tingji treated the gentry too harshly after he mentioned the New Deal, he also said this.

Ye Xianggao, who was selected by Zhu Yijun as the number one scholar, nodded aside, and then said: "But since you want to do great things for the king and make great contributions to the country, you can't just discuss state affairs from your own standpoint, otherwise, how can we talk about checking for omissions?"

After hearing this, Li Tingji got up and bowed his hands to Ye Xianggao: "Jin Qing is absolutely right."

Liu Quexian also got up and bowed to Ye Xianggao: "I would like to ask for your advice."

Ye Xianggao replied "Don't dare", and then said: "During the war to conquer Burma this time, I summarized the situation based on the report of Jin Yiwei, and the proportion of the traitors in Tongyi was as high as four. Cheng Youyu, and the other three became Haoyou's slaves."

"What does this mean?"

Afterwards, Ye Xianggao asked Zhu Guanzheng Jinshi in his classmate.

Ye Xianggao then asked himself and answered: "It shows that the disadvantages caused by the new policy of government and gentry paying food and errands together are getting worse!"

"The biggest problem with government and gentry paying food and errands is not loss of profit, but breaking the convention of distinguishing between high and low; after the founding of the country, the Taizu also wanted to make no distinction between high and low. As a result, scholar-bureaucrats were reluctant to become officials, and even missed the former Yuan Dynasty. Mr. Qianxi (Song Lian) preferred to use the Qianyuan Zhizheng reign name instead of the current Hongwu reign name, which is an example!"

"Although Shilin dare not confront the imperial court openly, many things are difficult to contain after accumulating grievances!"

"Later, Taizu had no choice but to issue an edict: The family of food and salary is equal to the common people, high and low. There is no distinction between gentlemen and savages. Go out to serve in this dynasty."

"Nowadays, the government and the gentry pay the food and serve as errands together, which means that they no longer recognize the difference between the noble and the humble. Although it is in line with the original intention of the Taizu, it does make many people resentful because of the feeling that no one is superior after studying and gaining fame;"

"After all, I have been studying for many years, and I have no great skills. However, I still have to serve in Nayin after the middle school, which will give rise to the feeling that the book is for nothing, and even the family members behind it will be dissatisfied. You must know that often poor families and poor eunuch families get fame by studying alone. , it is often the strength of the whole family, and they are waiting for Zhongdi to pay back, and now there is no reward, wouldn't there be resentment?"

"In this way, it is inevitable that there will be some people who are unwilling to run for the court, preach the benefits of the court, and help the government maintain the stability of the countryside, or fear of cooperating with barbarians and bandits, and want to change the dynasty."

"So, does Jinqing disagree with the government and gentry paying food and errands together?"

Liu Quexian asked with a sullen face.

Ye Chengxin chuckled: "If I don't agree, I won't be admitted to the official position."

Liu Quexian nodded after hearing this, and smiled: "Yes!"

Then, Liu Quexian bowed his hands to Ye Chengxin: "What Jinqing said hit the nail on the head, it's thought-provoking, and it's my friend!"

Ye Xianggao saluted back.

Liu Quexian continued: "In the past when I was in the imperial prison, I heard Mr. Fushan suggest that everyone should be friends, and some great Confucians disagreed with this, saying that it was not the true meaning of a saint. In order to understand a little more; the common people in the world can accept that readers are expensive, but what they can’t accept is that they cannot become readers;”

"Just like when I was a commoner in the past, what I complained most in my heart was that I had no chance to have my own piece of land so that I could cultivate and study as a career, not that scholars were more valuable than myself. Now the court must advocate new rituals. In my opinion, the new rituals are still There shouldn’t really be no difference between high and low, but now it’s no different than in the early days of the country, there are far more powerful and noble gentry than in the early days of the country, if they are exempted from corvee service, the common people in the world will find it difficult to even survive, let alone study and make progress.”

"Exactly that!"

"The corvee can no longer be exempted, but the imperial court should give some preferential treatment to those who have meritorious reputation in other aspects, especially the vast number of superimposed and epigenetics. They didn't have grain food, but now they have to pay Nading silver. How can they compare with ordinary people in their studies? different?"

Ye Xianggao nodded, and said: "So, I have decided to go to the university after the exam. For the sake of the country's long-term stability, I ask the imperial court to adopt special measures to support scholars. The new rituals discussed should not ignore the distinction between dignity and inferiority. sequence."

"The emperor loves the people like a son, so he emphasizes that benefiting the people is as important as being rich and powerful. If Jin Qing neglects this, he may provoke the wrath of the thunder!"

Li Tingji said at this moment.

Ye Xianggao said with a smile: "You can't dare to speak out just because science is losing power, not to mention that the emperor is not a fool, and if you don't speak out, you will be suspected of not doing your best for the king."

Not long after, Ye Xianggao really took such a course.

"Really bold!"

After seeing Ye Xianggao's memorandum, Zhang Hong, the supervisor of ceremonies, said something.

(End of this chapter)