"Is that true?" Luo Xin smiled and said, "If there were really businessmen, aristocratic families and wealthy families donated, it would reflect their patriotic sentiment. With such businessmen, aristocratic families and wealthy families, why should the Ming Dynasty not be able to destroy the bandits? Why should the Ming Dynasty be unrejuvenated?"

"No!" Gao Gong said with a serious expression: "Don't you think this has ruined the reputation of the Ming Dynasty?"

"This is all voluntary, how can one corrupt the reputation?"

"You... are not a weapon, what is the difference between you and Yan Song, Xu Jie and others?"

Luo Xin shook his head and said, "This news was not spread by me. They donated money and I suppressed bandits. If I don't donate, I will suppress bandits."

"No, you can do it yourself." Gao Gong's face drooped.

Luo Xin stood up with a smile and said, "Sir, there are still some things to deal with without weapons. Let's say goodbye first."

Luo Xin returned to his duty room and found Huang Jin was sitting in the duty room waiting for him. When he saw Luo Xin, he stood up and said:

"No, you're back."

"Yeah, is there something wrong?"

"Your Majesty summons you."

Luo Xin shook his head and sighed, "Let's go."

When I arrived at the side hall, I saw that the side hall was surrounded by Jinyiwei and Dongchang Fanzi thirty meters away from the side hall. When I entered the side hall, there was only Emperor Jiajing inside. Emperor Jiajing looked at Luo Xin and said:

"You released the news that the wealthy families and merchants donated money?"

"Yes!" Luo Xin nodded simply.

"Bang!" Emperor Jiajing slapped the case: "Nothing."

"No money!" Luo Xin said lightly: "And the northern army cannot move. If you want to resist Goryeo, the southern army cannot move. You must be wary of Japanese pirates. Even if the court has sufficient food and grass, it cannot suppress bandits in seven provinces at the same time. This little force can only suppress bandits in one province. Since that is the case, how can you arrange one after another? If you arrange this, the rest will complain. Since that is the case, it will be full of complaints anyway, so it depends on who donates the money first. This is a matter of no way."

When Emperor Jiajing heard this, he stopped talking and sat there in a depressed manner. Luo Xin glanced at Emperor Jiajing and said:

"Your Majesty, we are really short of money. What we lack is not a little bit. Don't forget that after encircling and suppressing bandits and appeaseing the victims, we still have two wars to fight in the north and south. How can we do without silver in the war? In the seven provinces, it is not enough to suppress bandits. The rest is prepared for the war in the south and north."

Emperor Jiajing stood up, walked to the window, looked at the view outside, and said nothing. Luo Xin and Huang Jin also said nothing for a long time.

"Has the Ming Dynasty finally reached such a level? Am I a foolish monarch?"

No one said anything about Luo Xin and Huang Jin. In fact, Luo Xin was also thinking about the life of Emperor Jiajing at this time. Looking at the life of Emperor Jiajing, Emperor Jiajing was not a foolish monarch. Although he did not attend court, the government was still in his hands. After Emperor Jiajing, it was even more overwhelming. Take Chongzhen, the late Ming Dynasty, for example, it cannot be said that he was a foolish monarch, and the environment was getting worse and worse. This environment does not refer to the natural environment, but to the environment.

"No, do you think I am a fool?" Emperor Jiajing turned his head and looked at Luo Xin.

Luo Xin said in his heart: "If you ask me this, do I dare to say you are a fool?"

"no."

"Then why did the Ming Dynasty reach such a level?"

Luo Xin pondered for a moment and said, "The decline of the Li Dynasty in all dynasties actually has a common reason."

“What’s the reason?”

"land."

"land?"

"Yes!" Luo Xin said in a voice: "Every time there is a change of dynasty, a large number of wealthy families die, and all of them have a large amount of unowned land. Therefore, in the founding years of the Li Dynasty, the country was not short of land, and it was all distributed to the people. At that time, the people were the happiest. However, as time passed, land annexation began.

There are two roads for land annexation. One road is that every year of disaster, the people cannot survive and have to sell land, so these lands are purchased by those wealthy families. The other road is that once scholars gain fame, a large number of people will contribute.

In this way, there must be officials among the wealthy families, and those scholars who contributed to the country also had fame and fortune. Naturally, there is no need to pay taxes. Over the past hundred years, the land that can pay taxes accounted for less than 20% of the total land of the Ming Dynasty. However, if the Ming Dynasty wants to operate normally, how can the tax on 20% of the land be enough?

In this way, there is only tax increase. Now the Ming Dynasty is not even enough to increase tax, so it is 40 years after the tax is received. Naturally, it has caused a situation of being infamous. Not to mention the year of major disasters, even the year of minor disasters, the people cannot bear it because their families do not have any food every year and have no ability to resist disasters. This is why the Ming Dynasty has reached such a level."

"People's hearts are floating, and people's hearts are like smoke!" Emperor Jiajing sighed heavily.

"Haha..." Emperor Jiajing sneered twice, "I got up early and stayed up late, and I was busy, and it turned out that all the benefits were taken away by the wealthy families of aristocratic families."

Luo Xin and Huang Jin lowered their eyes and remained silent.

"Then do it according to your ideas." Emperor Jiajing said lightly.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid that many officials will be killed this time. You must prepare the substitute officials. After the memorial of the minister arrives, send officials to take over immediately. Otherwise, there will be chaos."

"Yeah, I have a question."

"I'm leaving."

Luo Xin returned to his duty room and asked Lu Daqing to load all the information given to him by Jinyiwei and Dongchang onto the carriage, and then returned to the mansion together and moved to his study. He began to watch one by one.

The Jinyiwei and the Dongchang were worthy of being the secret agencies of the Ming Dynasty, and the investigation was very clear. From this point of view, it can be seen that Emperor Jiajing was afraid of trouble. According to this level of corruption, if he had caught up with Zhu Yuanzhang's era, these people would have been killed and their homes were confiscated. However, Emperor Jiajing would leave as long as he could live on his life. In the past twenty years, he handed over all the government affairs to Yan Song, and now he threw them to Xu Jie and Gao Gong.

Almost all these officials who embezzled and accepted bribes were Xu Jie and Gao Gong, and how did Xu Jie and Gao Gong punish this?

This is not to say that Xu Jie and Gao Gong are both corrupt officials, because now there are only these two parties in the court, and the officials in the court are almost completely divided by these two people. Naturally, the officials who embezzled and accepted bribes are all from these two parties.

As for officials who are not from both parties, on the one hand, they are all clear-headed and self-righteous, and have no chance to embezzle. On the other hand, they are all officials who are excluded by both parties, and they are all clear-headed and yamen, so there is no chance to embezzle.

As the sky gradually darkened, Luo Xin put away the information and sat on a chair thinking about his plan. At this moment, footsteps sounded outside.

"Marty, Lord Zhou and Lord Zhang are here."

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