Inside the palace.

"His he agreed?"

His Majesty the Emperor, who was lying on the hospital bed, asked his beloved concubine weakly.

"I agreed, but he was leaving Sichuan.

Actually, I have said a long time ago that he was not planning to usurp the throne, and he even looked down on the throne. He just wanted to transform the world according to his wishes."

The imperial concubine said.

The imperial concubine still understands Yang Cao very well.

Of course, it's just how to understand it, it's not convenient to say.

"Imperial Concubine, this kind of thing is not what he wants. When he reaches his level, there are countless people who want to seek wealth and honor. He does not want to usurp the throne, but his subordinates want him to usurp the throne so that he can be a minister who follows the dragon. He may look down on the throne, but letting him ascend to this throne is the wish of those under his command.

Therefore, the most important thing for us now is to hurry back to Guangzhou and let him continue to fight with Zou Yuanbiao and others in the north.

As for Your Majesty, just watch the changes in Guangzhou.”

Huang Kezhang, who was standing beside him, said.

He is now the only minister around Wanli.

There is also Xiong Tingbi. After this, Lao Xiong's holy family must have, but he must survive first. He was stabbed by Yang Lian and lying with a sword until now...

Don't dare to pull it out.

It's basically done as soon as you pull it off.

So now the only one who can assist His Majesty the Emperor is Huang Kezhang.

Lao Huang was also a famous minister of the Wanli Dynasty. Later, Wanli was regarded as a life-threatening person. He was a Jinshi in the eighth year of Wanli. Before Yang Feng caused the rebellion, he was already the left senator of the Huguang Administration Commission and was also considered a deputy provincial official. However, he caught up with Yang Feng's rebellion and happened to enter the dynasty. As a result, he has been in the north for many years. However, he was the spokesperson of Quanzhou Maritime Merchant Group in the north, so although it was really meaningless to be an official in the north in recent years, he also made a small profit by doing business.

It was not until Shandong changed its flag and joined the Hongguang Dynasty that he abandoned his post and returned to the Baoquanchen Festival.

Absolutely smart person.

There are also abilities.

Before Yang Feng built Shaobi, he had already rebuilt there, and he was the first person to introduce the Red Barbarian cannon in the Ming Dynasty.

However, he made it himself using craftsmen who returned from Luzon.

In short, this person is first-class among the officials of the Ming Dynasty, regardless of his officialdom or his ability to do things.

"But he said that Guangdong was in chaos, and Xinhui people changed their lives and killed the magistrate."

The imperial concubine said.

"These dogs finally started to take action. Before I died, they couldn't wait. They were only worthy of my use of Taizu's methods. They were not worthy of a benevolent monarch at all, they were only worthy of being ruled by tyrants. It would be best for those tyrants who would always massacre the city and destroy the clan. Maybe at that time they would kneel down and shout at the Holy Lord and the wise monarch. These people were not worth worrying, and they would be completely honest if they killed another group of people.

I want to kill them and they kneel down and call the Holy Lord and the King."

Wanli sneered.

His injuries weren't actually that severe.

He broke his fingers and then encountered a series of blunt attacks. These blunt attacks were separated by the armor. Even if they caused internal injuries to him, they were not very serious and fatal. After all, his armor was still useful, and the impact of these internal injuries was not something that could be seen immediately. In short, after he was lifted back and recovered, His Majesty the Emperor could have said that he had turned the risk into safety. He could not get out of bed or get out of bed, but it was exaggerated to say that his life was in danger. He just used this as an excuse to avoid Yang Feng.

What if this bastard rushed in and forced him to go to Yingtian?

He didn't think the guards around him could beat Yang Feng.

After finally getting rid of his control, he could be said to be dead for a lifetime. His Majesty the Emperor did not want to fall into his control again.

"In fact, these gentry are just afraid that the Lord Wansui will go back and share their fields. Since this is the case, the Lord Wansui will divide his gender again."

The imperial concubine said carefully.

"I will die faster without dividing the fields!"

The emperor shouted.

He is still very sober.

"Since Your Majesty has issued an order to divide the land, it is naturally necessary to do it in the land under the jurisdiction of the court. Otherwise, the people will be in chaos. The landlords will easily suppress them when they are in chaos. They have families and businesses and don't dare to fight to the death. The people have no worries but a single life is a waste. They really dare to fight to the death when they are in trouble. What's more, the gentry in Guangdong is actually relying on overseas trade and industry and commerce. After all, there are a few local rich men who are really making trouble for the distribution of land. The imperial camp is strong and it is not difficult to suppress them.

Besides, they have no choice.

If you don’t want Your Majesty to divide the land, then Yang Feng should divide the land.

Do they prefer Yang Feng? Or do they have the courage to learn from Guanzhong to build a Datong country? That would really be the only way to dig your own grave.

Only by dividing the land and seizing the people can His Majesty have an invincible foundation.

Your Majesty can win over the hearts of scholars, promote industry and commerce and win over the hearts of wealthy businessmen, emphasize military and win over the hearts of the army. In the end, it is nothing more than destroying a few local rich men. It can bring His Majesty's stability to the country, which is what they should do with the emperor's grace for two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty."

Huang Kezhang said.

Anyway, Fujian gentry is the least afraid of dividing the land.

There were no super landlords in their place, and the environment and population density in Fujian, it was indeed a bit difficult to become a landlord. There was no place to merge, otherwise why would you be forced to run out from generation to generation and even open up land?

In fact, Guangdong is the Pearl River Delta, and other places except the Pearl River Delta do not have the conditions to produce large landlords.

The Pearl River Delta is the most suitable for suppression.

After all, there are dense water nets, so the imperial camp with cannons cannons cannons cannons.

In short, the reason why Fujian gentry was not prepared to resist the farmland was that they were unwilling to surrender to Yang Feng was mainly because of the latter's labor treatment, state-owned factories, and collective enterprises. These seriously affected the interests of emerging capitalists. On the contrary, even if His Majesty the Emperor divided the land, they still liked...

The main thing is that there is no choice.

Let’s take the least one of the two evils!

A tyrant and a demon, are there any other options besides a tyrant?

Wanli nodded with satisfaction while lying on the bed.

"The court needs to make another source of wealth in the future. After all, after dividing the land, according to the land tax set by Your Majesty, the land tax in these provinces will inevitably not be much. If you want to win over merchants, you cannot pay heavy taxes. If you have heavy taxes, they will run away. It is the same with Yangfeng's business and opening factories. Why should you bear heavy taxes from Your Majesty? But to maintain the imperial camp, you must also ensure that the imperial camp can protect Your Majesty, and you must spend a lot of money. On the one hand, you need to reduce taxes to safeguard the people, and on the other hand, you need to raise the army to protect the territory, which can only make another source of wealth.

During the last conquest in Luzon, it can be seen that these Thais are also strong outside and do the middle.

They came from thousands of miles away, and those people could not confront the Ming Dynasty after all, and the Ming Dynasty was the lord of the South China Sea. The countries in the South China Sea used to be the subject of the Ming Dynasty.

Since they invaded the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty and even destroyed the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, then as the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, His Majesty deserves to attack them.

Your Majesty is kind, and it is not about breaking their way out of life.

After all, they traveled thousands of miles away and could not survive in their own homes. The Ming Dynasty was surrounded by all rivers and could not tolerate them. However, on the one hand, they had to pay fines for the previous invasion of the Ming Dynasty, and on the other hand, they needed His Majesty's permission to do business in the Ming Dynasty, and on the other hand, they could not miss the offerings to His Majesty every year. In addition, there are those vassal states that still exist in the Southeast Asian countries. Your Majesty protects them from these foreign invasions, and they also have to pay tribute to His Majesty every year. Since they are ministers of the Ming Dynasty, of course they have to pay tribute to His Majesty.

There are also those chieftains, whose taxes were in the past fixed quota, but later they all refused to pay the favors of His Majesty.

Now that the country is in crisis, it is time for them to pay taxes."

Huang Kezhang said.

Toasts need to pay taxes.

The chieftains in the Ming Dynasty did not say that they did not pay taxes. They all included tax-holding systems, which means that they paid a fixed amount every year.

But later, even the gentry could not collect taxes, let alone the chieftains.

However, when Yang Yinglong was attacked in history, because of the gathering of troops, they were forced to hand over for a while. For example, the Shuixi'an family was forced to hand over more than 2,000 stones of grain.

Huang Kezhang is actually just playing tricks on the outside.

After the emperor returned to Guangdong, it was necessary to divide the land first. Of course, he had to do his own imperial edict. Moreover, the distribution of land could win over the poor and gain support. In addition, he had to win over emerging capitalists, that is, further relax industry and commerce and continue to encourage industry and commerce. This is what Huang Kezhang and the Fujian gentry behind him wanted the most.

We must continue to strengthen our control over the army, after all, this is the foundation of self-protection.

But these are ultimately money.

Receive less money from poor people and less money from emerging capitalists, but also give more money to the army.

This is a contradiction. After all, money is not caused by strong winds. The emperor has to rely on collecting less money from poor people to ensure internal stability. Officials from emerging capitalists should collect less money from industry and commerce to ensure their own interests. But in the end, the court's financial tensions were all the.

But the army wants more money.

It's really contradictory.

And the solution to this contradiction is to explore new sources of wealth.

Or, officials from emerging capitalists must transfer this contradiction to the surrounding vassal states, European colonists in vassal states, and those messy chieftains. After all, Wanli had no choice but to ask emerging capitalists for money in the end. In fact, this was the last Luzon attack, which made the officials of the Ming Dynasty suddenly realize that these Thais were not that scary, and they were easy to deal with, and they were also very rich. Since this is the case, why not pass on the losses to them?

After all, this is a change in thinking.

Officials of the inner king and the outer saint finally began to embark on the road of external expansion under the pressure of reality.

And this is their only choice...

After all, Yang Feng was blocked from other roads.

"You are the ministers who are planning the country, so you did it. You sent an order, Huang Kezhang, the Minister of Works, as the Grand Secretary of the Wuying Palace, and also sent an order. All the troops in the Imperial Camp were withdrawn back to Nanchang. I want to return to Guangzhou to recuperate. The military and political affairs north of Meiling and Yanguan were all handled by Yingtian Jianguo. He ordered the Prime Minister, Yang Feng, the Prince of Liaodong, to assist in the supervision of the country, to accept the command and give him a title, act at a disadvantage, and then report."

His Majesty the Emperor lay there and said with satisfaction.
Chapter completed!