Free-spirited Illegitimate Son

No one paid any attention to him, Zhu Houzhao still happily looked at the wilderness under the sky, and even hummed a ditty unconsciously: "Young people are romantic and romantic, and the brocade tent is endlessly in love. I don't know how to come to the hotel..."

Ye Chunqiu suddenly opened his eyes, "Fuck, where did he learn the obscene words?"

Ye Chunqiu got up, looked at Zhu Houzhao and said, "Your Majesty, you can't sing, where did you learn it?"

Zhu Houzhao showed an innocent and romantic smile and said: "All the refugees in Datong City sing this, even Xiaolan can sing it."

Ye Chunqiu looked depressed, so he could only pull his face and said: "I can't sing after returning to Beijing. If something happens, your majesty must pay attention to Junyi."

Zhu Houzhao suddenly looked aggrieved: "Yeah, but everyone sings, why can't I sing?"

"..." Regarding this question, Ye Chunqiu was a little speechless, and said: "Your Majesty is fierce, since you can't sleep, let's play a game."

game.

Ye Chunqiu lit bonfires everywhere, surrounded a clearing, and then drew a map of Ming Dynasty in the clearing: "Your Majesty, where is this?"

"Like a chicken. It's a pity that the chicken's head is too small, and the chicken's buttocks are missing."

Ye Chunqiu shook his head and said, "This is Daming, with two capitals and thirteen provinces, as well as various capitals."

"Oh." Zhu Houzhao suddenly thought, this chicken without the comb and butt is indeed similar to the map he usually sees, but...

At the thought of chicken, Zhu Houzhao salivated: "To tell you the truth, I want to eat chicken, and this porridge has produced birds."

Ye Chunqiu sighed and said, "Your Majesty, first, you are still in the territory of Datong, and there must be no chickens nearby. Second, you can't bring birds with you. If Deng Yushi listens, he is going to die again."

Ye Chunqiu was about to draw the map of the desert, then Europe, then Africa, then Central Asia, and then South Asia, Australia. Zhu Hou looked at it in amazement: "What is this? It's so big."

Ye Chunqiu said: "Your Majesty, Daming only occupies a corner of the east, you see, I am the center of the world, Daming?"

Zhu Houzhao frowned and said, "Da Ming is the middle land of China, why is it not the center?"

Ye Chunqiu just smiled lightly, did not answer his words, but said: "Your Majesty, why has Ming Dynasty suffered internal and external troubles since then?"

Zhu Houzhao couldn't answer.

Ye Chunqiu said: "This is because of the annexation of the land. In addition, it is the heavy taxation. Does your majesty know the population of the yellow book during the Hongwu period? In the 26th year of Hongwu, the Taizu ordered the creation of the yellow book. It's 600 households." Ye Chunqiu smiled bitterly: "But now, a hundred years have passed, and within a hundred years, the world is stable, but the population of the Yellow Book is 130. , that is to say, our Ming Dynasty did not have any major disasters, and we lived in Anyang for 100 years, but the population increase was only a million."

Ye Chunqiu continued to explain: "Historically, the population in the peaceful world has been increasing very fast. During the reign of Taizu Hongwu, the world suffered from repeated wars, and there were still 6000 million people. Why is the peace so long?"

Ye Chunqiu sighed here, and then said again: "Your Majesty, it's not because the population hasn't increased. According to my estimate, the population of the world today is at least [-] million. The reason why the population of the Yellow Book is not the same as that of the Taizu. Up and down, it is because of fleeing households, ordinary people, who dare to flee, if no one hides them, do they have such courage? And who is the person who hides them?"

Zhu Houzhao was stunned for a moment: "You mean..."

Ye Chunqiu pursed his lips and said with a smile: "Our Daming is like a pool. There are big fish and small fish in the pool. The big fish eat the small fish, and the small fish eat dried shrimps. One day, the big fish will become bigger and bigger. , more and more greedy, that is the time for ills to perish. Then there are only two ways to solve this problem, one is to kill the big fish, that is to carry out reforms, learn from Shang Yang, Wang Anshi, and the big fish Burn everything together, clean up their hidden population, abolish their privileges, and tax the tax-free population, does your majesty want to try it?"

"Uh..." Zhu Houzhao's face was miserable: "Liu Jin is reforming."

That's right, Liu Jin is indeed reforming the system. Together with Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai, in order to consolidate his rights, he did attack these big fish, but Ye Chunqiu shook his head inwardly, because Liu Jin himself is a bigger fish. In fact, it's just a trick of big fish eating big fish.

But Ye Chunqiu said: "Actually, it is too difficult to change the old and establish the new. One hair will affect the whole body. Your Majesty is ruling the world with the scholar-bureaucrats. If you completely turn against them, it will shake the foundation of the country. So... we There is a second way."

Ye Chunqiu began to tirelessly indoctrinate Zhu Houzhao. In this place far away from the power center, Ye Chunqiu has no scruples in speaking. There is no Liu Jin, no cabinet, and nothing here. Ye Chunqiu said boldly: "There is another way, that is, Expand this pool to the sea, let the big fish out of the pool and put them into the sea. The big fish need to face all kinds of big fish in the sea, and they will twist into a rope. If they lack strength, they need to rely on The power of small fish and shrimp in the pond..."

Ye Chunqiu pointed to all the places except the Ming territory, and said: "This... is the sea, the reason why the big fish in the pond are cruel to the small fish and shrimp is because they only have such a small pond in their eyes. If others eat more, you should eat less, and if you don’t eat it, it will come to eat you, but once the big fish jump into the ocean, there are plenty of fish and shrimps there, so naturally they don’t care too much about the small fish and shrimps in the pond Interested, even... in order to concentrate on dealing with the fish and shrimp in the sea, they also need to buy the small fish and shrimp in the pond, so as to enhance their strength when facing the fish and shrimp in the sea."

Speaking of this, Ye Chunqiu took a look at Zhu Houzhao who was listening to him intently, and then continued expectantly: "This is the second road. Only by opening this road can the Ming dynasty continue."

Zhu Houzhao understood. He squatted on the ground, kept looking at the map on the ground, looking at the boundaries of each continent, and couldn't help saying: "I have a question."

Ye Chunqiu now feels that he is giving the little emperor a new enlightenment. Fortunately, this little emperor is a person who can absorb new things very easily. If the first emperor Hongzhi was here, Ye Chunqiu might have already been considered as a demon to confuse the public and nonsense. He chopped off his head for talking nonsense, and threw it into the sea to feed the bastards.

To some extent, Ye Chunqiu is lucky. At least, although what he is doing now seems absurd, and even deviates from this era, at least there are still people who can trust him unconditionally.