"After the civil servants came to power, the Ming Dynasty's national power began to decline, and the people's lives became worse and worse. Military households gradually became slaves, and craftsmen households were almost like beggars. Weapons and armor were cut and made rotten and unusable. The country's armaments gradually weakened," Lin Yueru said.
Yang Fan nodded, that was indeed the case. After the civil servants took full control of the situation, the country's overall strength began to shrink, just like the situation in the Song Dynasty.
"After civilian officials took control of the army, corruption became public, and financial power was in their hands. For more than a hundred years, more and more military expenditures allocated by the court were lost, and the more corrupt the civilian officials became, the more corrupt they became. Now the money from
When the Ministry of Revenue goes out, it costs 30% of the money, and the money is almost openly distributed according to official rank."
"When we get to the local area, 20% of the local civil servants have to be replaced again, mainly the local governor, governor, military commander and others."
Yang Fan smiled bitterly and said: "Then only half of the military salary is left."
Lin Yueru smiled bitterly and said: "How can there be half of it? The personnel power also belongs to the civilian officials. The promotion and demotion of military attachés are all under the control of civilian officials. Military attachés must bribe civilian officials. Otherwise, let alone promotion, the current position will not be preserved, because you
If you don't pay bribes, others will pay bribes to gain your position. Therefore, military generals must embezzle military pay to bribe civilian officials."
Yang Fan said: "Understood, if military generals are corrupt, they can only take empty pay, fabricate the number of soldiers, or simply default on not paying military pay. The border troops always have pay mutinies, and that's why."
Lin Yueru nodded, "This is not over yet. After the civil servants have eaten the meat, they will not even give soup to the soldiers, and even the bone marrow must be sucked out. Almost all the local shops in Jiubian and Liaodong are the families and families of civil servants.
It is controlled by slaves. Soldiers must buy daily necessities after receiving their salary. After all, the money cannot be eaten directly, and food and clothes are not distributed. It is not necessary to go out to buy. Prices in Jiubian and Liaodong are several times higher than in the mainland. This is once again
disguised plunder.”
Yang Fan sneered and said: "They are not afraid of losing the Ming Dynasty. They will make a fortune wherever they go."
"No one thinks about this. It's all behind him. He doesn't care about the flood. As long as he can hold his hand, it's fine. If he gets rich, eats and drinks, women play with him, who cares about what happens in the future? If civil servants can control themselves
, dogs can control themselves and not eat shit. The more critical the Ming Dynasty is, the more intensified they search, because they know very well that if they don't search, they will have nothing to search for. You still expect them to stop."
Yang Fan sighed and said: "I heard that the soldiers and horses of Liaodong could not defeat the slaves because the army was in arrears. The soldiers could not afford to raise horses and sold them all. The infantry could not even eat enough. There was no way.
During the war, the military households could not stand the bullying and would rather go to Jianzhou to become slaves. These Han people who surrendered and became slaves in turn attacked the Ming Dynasty, ten times more ferociously than the slaves. They had almost a deep hatred for the Ming Dynasty."
Lin Yueru looked Yang Fan squarely in the eyes and said: "I know you are prejudiced against eunuchs and always feel that eunuchs are cruel. You all sympathize with Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou's experiences. However, we are the loyal ministers who truly serve the emperor and truly care about the people.
Although Duke Wei attacked the Donglin Party, he also used capable civil servants such as Sun Chengzong, Xiong Tingbi, and Mao Wenlong to stabilize the situation in Liaodong."
Yang Fan nodded, this is all true.
He still continued to reuse those capable ministers in the Donglin Party regardless of past suspicions, such as Zhao Nanxing, the Minister of the Ministry of War, Sun Chengzong, and Yuan Keli, the left minister of the Ministry of War.
From this point of view, Duke Wei is not narrow-minded, and he can put national affairs first. He is definitely not comparable to those civil servants who only care about their own interests and do not care about the life and death of the country.
"After Wei Dugong came to power, he restored the industrial and commercial taxes, sea taxes, etc. that had been abolished by Emperor Wanli. He reduced agricultural taxes and reduced the burden on farmers. He also subsidized the taxes collected from wealthy businessmen in the southeast region to the border defense army, thereby ensuring the security of the customs.
stability and border guarding officers and soldiers. During his administration, the treasury was full and he raised 20 million taels of silver for the Ming Dynasty, which was equivalent to the fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty for 5 years."
Yang Fan tapped the table gently with his fingers, closed his eyes, and thought. There was absolutely no problem with what Lin Yueru said, everything was logical.
"What you said may be correct, but whether or not to use Governor Wei, who is sitting on the throne today, he naturally has his own considerations. The situation is over for you, and you cannot make a comeback. In the past seven years of the Tianqi Dynasty, you have treated the civil servants
The blows exceeded those of all dynasties, and Gu Xiancheng was forced to throw himself into the water. Donglin was almost crippled by you, and they will not spare you."
Lin Yueru lowered her head and wept sadly. With the nature of a civil servant, the fate of his adoptive father was in danger.
"You have told me so much, but I can't change the emperor's mind, and it won't improve your situation at all. You know this very well. You took the risk and kidnapped me to see you. What do you want to do?" Yang Fan said calmly.
asked.
Lin Yueru didn't expect that Yang Fan would still be so calm after talking so much today.
"Can you help me get Governor Wei out of the capital?" Lin Yueru said looking into Yang Fan's eyes, looking pitiful.
"No, the risk is too great, I can't do it."
"Duke Wei has done so many good things for Ming Dynasty and paid so much. Why is he not willing to help him? This world is so unfair." Lin Yueru's tears fell like broken pearls.
"I originally thought that you were different from those officials in the Ming Dynasty who only knew how to camp. You had justice in your heart. I didn't expect that even you were not willing to help me."
Yang Fan sighed in his heart, this goblin was Qin Xiaoyu again. He was just a hair away from being deceived by her again.
She knew that she had a crush on her, at least she didn't hate her. She showed how she liked her in front of her.
A man will always grow up, and he has no regrets about Qin Xiaoyu, but that doesn't mean anyone can do Qin Xiaoyu's thing.
She doesn't have much contact with him, but she is the number one in Tianxiang Tower. Although she is a pure and innocent woman, don't underestimate her ability to handle men.
She has always known how to deal with herself in the most comfortable way. She also knows which way to behave.
She has been preparing for this for so long, because she has seen through that she has morality, justice and conscience in her heart. She does not want to see the people in this world suffer. She thinks that a gentleman can bully them.
Her purpose had actually been seen through by Yang Fan a long time ago. She wanted to trick herself into taking something out of the fire for them, just like a wolf with nothing.
Is Governor Wei really a good man? Yang Fan sneered in his heart. Sister Lin, you are looking down on me! You really treat me, Yang Fan, as a fool!
Lin Yueru looked like she had misjudged Yang Fan. That heartbroken expression made me feel pity for him.
Yang Fan sneered, "I'm really wronging you by not giving you an award but a statuette instead."
"If you are really the emperor's loyal ministers, then I ask you, during the seven years of Emperor Xizong's reign, he gave birth to so many children, including the queen, Duke Wei and Mrs. Feng Sheng, who were in charge of the harem. They should have been in charge of everything. What happened to those children?
He died young and left Xizong without an heir. Are you so loyal?"
a bolt from the blue!
Lin Yueru was dumbfounded. She thought Yang Fan had been persuaded by her just now. Only then did she realize that Yang Fan just wanted to play with her and see what she wanted to do.
Just like a cat playing with a mouse, once you know her purpose, you lose interest in continuing to entangle with her.
"Why, stop talking. You are the emperor's people. You are the people who stood up against the civil servants for the Ming Dynasty. It's really amazing. It's even funnier than the Donglin Party saying that they are all gentlemen. Let me ask you, what is Mrs. Fengsheng hiding in her home?