Chapter 664 Why should the court be better and better to the people?
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Zhu Cixuan couldn't help it this time and stood up directly: "Whoever is surnamed Liu, how can you say that to my second brother in front of my father!"
"Have you said it wrong? If I said it wrong, the Seventh Prince can directly refute it."
Liu Hongxun seemed to be dissatisfied with the prince's affairs, and he deliberately became unceremonious in the political affairs hall.
For him, he had already abandoned his clan for the sake of the country, and fame, fortune and life seemed unimportant, so he didn't have to pay attention to anything.
Of course, he also blatantly supported the emperor's eldest son.
Zhu Youxiao still has the instinct to protect his son, but he also knows that Liu Hongxun is right at this moment.
In addition, he would not be skeptical about such trivial matters, but because his assistant negated his son in a blunt manner, he would have to change the chief assistant and even kill him.
Although Zhu Youxiao is strong, he is not a fool.
In addition, Zhu Youzhao also despised his second son's ability to realize, and couldn't help but want to scold him.
Now that Liu Hongxun has trained him, he doesn't have to put his face down and destroy the father-son relationship.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao directly scolded Zhu Cihui: "Lao Qi! Sit down!"
"Outside the Political Affairs Hall, you must abide by the discipline of missionary education, but in the Political Affairs Hall, in order to make the ruling ruling objective, you are allowed to speak out in a blunt manner; as long as it is not a personality insult, criticism is acceptable and you can't stand a few words of criticism, so don't come to discuss politics! When you go back to your own mansion, the employers in the mansion will never dare to say a harsh word to you!"
Zhu Youxiao then said a few more words.
"Yes! My son knows his mistake!"
Zhu Cilang replied helplessly.
Zhu Cican obediently continued to reply to Liu Hongxun: "I'll ask the chief minister for advice! How can I eliminate future troubles forever?"
"Of course, it's about eradicating the roots!"
"If you are not a person of my race, your heart will be different!"
"Only by completely eliminating the enemy can we eliminate future troubles forever!"
"No matter how good the negotiations are, they are just decades of peace."
Liu Hongxun answered.
"Yuan Fu's statement is reasonable, so he should have this idea. Negotiation is only needed if he cannot eliminate or is unwilling to eliminate others."
Zhu Youxiao started talking at this time.
"My son remember!"
Zhu Cican replied with aggrievedly, and then asked: "Just just now, Yuan Fuyan's juniors are dull in qualifications. I know that they are not outstanding people, so I dare not hate them! But Yan's juniors have high eyes and low skills, and I don't know that Yuan Fu has a basis to make them unconfused?"
Liu Hongxun replied: "The Second Highness is currently in the Hanlin Academy and will be able to get in touch with all the secrets of the imperial court. As long as your Highness is willing to review and summarize carefully, instead of just talking about the past and present in the Hanlin, and fighting eloquence and learning, you should know the current situation of the Ming Dynasty's national economy."
"At present, the Ming Dynasty did not charge corvee labor, land taxes, and small merchants and vendors did not charge taxes, but their benefits only increased and did not decrease. The widowed and widowed and orphans had minimum living allowances, and five years of free education is still being implemented, and subsidies for health care are also increasing. Then, more than two million national defense soldiers and more than 600,000 imperial troops and their families have to be maintained, which has led to huge expenditures in the national treasury. Therefore, to ensure these expenses all depend on trade income and colonial income!"
"But the population of the Ming Dynasty is still growing rapidly. In the past 30 years, the new population has reached 60 million, which is equivalent to the number of people at the beginning of the country! These people cannot make them live worse than their ancestors and parents, and they must even make them live better. In this way, they feel that the empire has not declined again and will not be confused!"
"But in this way, it means that the court's expenses will increase a lot. If God doesn't bless us, the climate has not yet warmed up, and disasters still exist, so this will have to increase significantly for foreign income. What does this mean? In fact, before the Rakshasa Kingdom comes to invade us, we will need to invade them sooner or later!"
"I didn't notice this, my juniors."
Zhu Cican replied.
"Father, what's wrong with my son?"
Zhu Cixuan started asking at this time.
Zhu Youxiao nodded.
Zhu Cihui asked: "Why should the court be so kind to the people? It has increased the court's expenses and made the national finance more difficult!"
All the assistants laughed after hearing this.
Zhu Youxiao also shook his head and smiled, and asked, "Shouldn't the court be getting better and better to the people?"
"It is enough to keep him from hunger! Why do you need to enjoy wealth forever, and even his descendants to be richer! Wealth lies in heaven, diligence and thrift. Even if the court gives everyone a mountain of gold, if he is not diligent and thrifty, he will lose everything, and naturally there will be no wealth."
Zhu Cihuai replied.
"But if our royal family wants to be the best, they must have this goal, otherwise they cannot bribe them!"
"If the ruler doesn't think about how to be better and better to the people, he will only think about how to be better and better to his own people, and that a prosperous era will sooner or later decline."
Zhu Youxiao replied.
"Your Majesty is right. If the people are not hungry or cold, they can rule the world? This is a false statement! The saints cannot believe the words of the saints, or they should not listen to the words of a saint. Ensuring that the people's food, clothing and food is only the basic achievement of those who are in charge of the government. If the country is really prosperous, it must adapt to the growing needs of the people."
"I want to have a red robe, I want to have a purple robe, I want to have a fish and meat, and I want to have a deer antler when I have a wife and a child. People's desires are endless, and the common people are also human beings, and they will also have new desires as the satisfaction of some previous desires. If the court wants to make them loyal to the court, it must find ways to satisfy their desires, which is also a need for interests. Those who govern should be the interests of the nation, that is, the interests of the people of a clan are the first."
Lu Xiangsheng started talking at this time.
"But if they only give their people food and clothing, they will not rebel."
Zhu Cihuai replied.
"But those who are not satisfied with food and clothing will force them to rebel!"
Wen Tiren couldn't help but smile and replied.
"If the court does not intend to make progress and does not make profits for the nation, it means that those who are not satisfied with the status quo cannot rely on the court to make profits from foreign countries, but can only exploit the people internally, resulting in some people returning to poverty and the people rebel!"
Liu Hongxun replied.
Zhu Cihui was not good at speaking anymore, so he had to reply: "Yes!"
"But if you send troops to the Rakshasa Kingdom, it will be a considerable military expenditure. Perhaps the profit of destroying the Rakshasa Kingdom is not as good as the military expenditure!"
Zhu Cican changed the subject at this time.
"We don't have to spend money on the destruction of the Rakshasa Kingdom."
Wen Tiren replied at this time.
"The words of the second servant are confused. Why don't we spend our own money?"
Zhu Cican asked.
"Your Majesty has just said that the next thing is the Lifan Temple, that is, to send envoys to the Rakshasa Kingdom, let the Rakshasa Kingdom give an explanation to the Ming Dynasty, and threaten to teach him a lesson, or even destroy his country as a revenge for his unauthorized invasion of our Ming Dynasty."
Wen Tiren said again, "Rakshasa Kingdom is now seriously damaged. There are Poland and Sweden in the west of him. If he does not want to be divided or even destroyed, he must honestly accept some of our requests, such as compensation, cede land, and other requirements, so that we can use the interests threatened by him to destroy Rakshasa Kingdom as the military expenses for the next destruction of Rakshasa Kingdom."
Chapter completed!