Hong Chengchou thought that he had received the emperor's grace, so he should have crushed the emperor to death to repay his great kindness.

After so many years of being an official, he found that the problems in the Ming Dynasty were very serious. All kinds of chaos were the last part of the dynasty. This situation surprised him. After ten years of hard study and one day, he was not trying to be a minister who lost his country, but he wanted to be a famous minister who managed the family, governed the country and pacified the world.

To be able to achieve this kind of person, one must have one thing, that is, to dare to do things that others dare not do. If you think about everything, you will offend people. If you think about everything, you will be good for yourself. If you think about doing this, you will not be able to do things.

He also realized after becoming an official that the Ming Dynasty was so poor, but the Ming people were so rich.

It can be said that the Ming Dynasty was living a life tightening its belt, while the wealthy people in the people, especially the rich people in Jiangnan, lived more luxuriously than the emperor. This situation made him deeply feel unfair.

If the country is poor and the people are rich, who should these huge wealth be won after the country is destroyed?

In the past, he didn't understand Zhang Juzheng and thought that he was too indifferent and disregarding etiquette and righteousness. Now he realized that Zhang Juzheng was doing very well. His tax collection method of robbing the rich and helping the poor made the Ming Dynasty revival for decades, and it was also a style that dared not do that, which made him the last famous official of the Ming Dynasty.

He was a farmer in the morning and climbed to the Emperor's Hall in the evening. After he entered the Emperor's Hall, he had a sense of pride in managing the family, governing the country and pacifying the world. He hoped to support the emperor with his own knowledge and achieve a career.

Seeing that the Ming Dynasty is now full of chaos and internal and external difficulties, he is like an old man in his twilight years. Moreover, this old man is still carrying a heavy burden on his back. How can the Ming Dynasty put down a heavy burden and regain its vitality? This is what he, a self-respecting prime minister, should consider. As for the princes in the court, Hong Chengchou was also a little disdainful. He believed that these people would not do anything other than fighting for power and profit.

How to save the Ming Dynasty? He used to think that this would be very simple. As long as the bandits were eliminated, the world would naturally be peaceful. But now he realized that even if the Ming Dynasty court had the ability to eliminate the bandits, he still had to do a lot of things. If he wanted to enter the cabinet, he had to do a lot of things. Now he understood the same thing, that is, if he wanted to revive the Ming Dynasty, he had to do the same thing, that is, to rob the rich and help the poor, and rob the rich and help the poor is the best way to save the current Ming Dynasty.

Yes! To save the Ming Dynasty, it is only possible to rob the rich and help the poor. This is the trick used by the heroes in Liangshan. Although the Ming Dynasty is very poor now, the people of the Ming Dynasty are not poor, but the way the Ming Dynasty's folk wealth is stored is also very unreasonable, that is, a large amount of money is concentrated in the hands of the rich, and the rich live a life of extravagance and desire, while ordinary people are worried about three meals.

The way to save the Ming Dynasty was to divide the wealth of the rich into the poor by robbing the rich and helping the poor evenly to the poor, so that the Ming Dynasty could be revitalized and revived. However, it was not easy to do this. We must know that so many reforms in history can be said to be robbing the rich and helping the poor, or to challenge the existing interest classes, allowing them to share more wealth and interests to the new power class.

But many people failed and were bleeding from such changes. Even Zhang Juzheng was no exception, which was enough to make the people who came later feel like they were killing the chicken and intimidating the monkey.

Hong Chengchou is now just one of the powerful ministers of the Ming Dynasty, and he still has a long way to go before entering the top cabinet, but he is already considering how to support the Ming Dynasty. He has always been thinking about how to help the emperor pacify the world if I enter the cabinet and become a cabinet minister.

He thought of the trick of robbing the rich and helping the poor, but how should he use it as the starting point? This is the key to the problem. In the history of the Ming Dynasty, there were actually many reforms. For example, Zhang Juzheng used the one-whip method, and how should he use to plunder these wealth and let him return to the people?

Hong Chengshou, as one of the literati and officials of the Ming Dynasty, knew that the power of these literati and officials was powerful. When they united, even the emperor had to bow his head.

The emperor already knew that the Donglin Party’s inaction was just to drive several leaders of the Donglin Party out of the court, but it could not change the situation where the entire court was a disciple of the Donglin Party, and at the same time it could not change the Donglin Party and could not refuse their interests.

Under this situation, Hong Chengchou felt that a clever wife could not cook without rice. He also thought that he had read so many books of sages, but when the dynasty entered the end and the emperor was about to enter the crisis, he was helpless. Could it be that the books he had read over the past few decades were in vain?

Whenever he thinks of this situation, he often can't help but lament.

Before becoming the governor of the five provinces, he was full of energy. He was thinking that one day I would eventually manage my family, govern the country and pacify the world, solve all my troubles for the emperor, and become a famous minister. But now he realized that it would be very difficult to be a famous minister of the generation.

When he was studying hard in the past, he deeply felt the corruption of the contemporary court and the corruption of the administration. If he became an official, he must be a good official. As the pure current of the court's struggle, he reversed the bad atmosphere of the court. However, after he became an official, he realized that it was very easy and comfortable to be a corrupt official and a treacherous official, and it could also benefit himself and his family. If he wanted to be a good official, it was very difficult. Not only would you live a hard life, but everyone around you would hate you and hate you. As a result, he himself became the kind of person he hated back then.

In his own words, once he enters the officialdom, he cannot help himself, and his ideals and passion are almost exhausted in the officialdom.

Therefore, Hong Chengchou changed his ideals again, from being a loyal minister to being a greedy loyal minister. While he was greedy for wealth, he also served the emperor and the court.

Therefore, when he was in Shaanxi, he worked very hard and mercilessly. All the bandits and rebels that fell into his hands were executed by him, and all the bandits and rebels who fell into his hands were killed by him without mercy. His ruthless methods of the bandits made him a great success, and he was appreciated by the emperor. He was gradually promoted, and eventually became the governor of the five provinces, responsible for destroying the bandits rampant in the Central Plains for His Majesty.

Before taking office, he was full of confidence. He thought that as long as he took over the brave and war-hardened army of the court, he could do his best and wipe out these bandits without mercy. But when he really sat in this position, he realized one thing, that is, this group of bandits, you could destroy them, but they were like ghosts that were indescribable, and soon reborn again. Countless enemies were like leeks. You cut him and emerged again, and you cut a batch and emerged more. On this side, there was a sign of fire. On the other side, there was a prairie fire. This situation forced Hong Chengchou to face up to one problem, that is, how did bandits come into being? After his own research, he came up with such a problem. It was not just the people's problem, but also the court and the gentry had their own responsibilities.

As a scholar-official, Hong Chengchou also deeply believed in the truth that the people were water, and water could overturn the boats and carry the boats. He now discovered this. The gentry and government officials were actually trying their best to force the people to rebel and burn themselves.

This is the current ecology of the Ming Dynasty politics. That is, the gentry is desperately exploiting the people in order to be greedy for money. The people rebel when they have no money to eat. The government collects taxes from more places to destroy the rebellious people, and the people in more places rebel because they have no money to eat. This has almost entered a vicious cycle. The emergence of this situation made him feel deeply powerless.

He understood that when the current court system is like this, every official is like this, and behind each group is its vested interest class. If you want to challenge the entire interest group and the entire class with one person's power, the consequences will be very tragic. It is easy to die and be destroyed and be subject to backlash.

Therefore, when he was in office, he was not surprised when he was tyrants like Liu Bu and Zhu Dadian. He understood that there were treacherous officials like this who blocked the path of loyal ministers to advance, and it was precisely because of such people who ignored the overall situation that they had today's situation.

Hong Chengchou had always had the intention of revitalizing the Ming Dynasty, but he couldn't get in. He had no choice but to start from where to start. Now this god who hatched silver appeared, which made him feel a certain opportunity.

Hong Chengchou understood that it would be very difficult to plunder the wealth of Jiangnan rich and the people. It is estimated that after he plundered, he would become his ideal sacrifice himself, but if this time was decisive and quick and completed in the shortest time, he might have the possibility of success.

Just like a military operation, he completed it with lightning speed before the other party could react. He snatched a large amount of silver and sent it to the emperor. It is estimated that when His Majesty the Emperor saw so much silver, it would be difficult for him to blame him.

If he could successfully get so much money for the Ming Dynasty court, Hong Chengchou believed that many problems in the Ming Dynasty could be solved. The court could immediately order the people from all over the country to no longer pay taxes and collect the people. He could also quickly buy a large amount of food to save the people who were suffering from disasters. This would alleviate the entire tragic political situation of the Ming Dynasty and give the people a chance to breathe.

He himself could calmly deploy the army and wipe out the bandits in one fell swoop.
Chapter completed!