Zeng Ying was first confused by Zheng Zhilong's words, "The deadline is approaching", and ignored the four words "the traitor" that were later.

But now I'm coming back to my senses.

He suddenly became angry and said, "Duke Zheng is cautious in his words. My Ming Dynasty is the Han family, and the benevolent people and aspirations are respected by all the people. Although he retreated to the southern country and suffered a great defeat in the northern expedition, it was a temporary setback. Your Majesty has a land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, with sufficient money and food, and there are many people there. Restoring his strength is just a blink of an eye. Why is there a saying of death? Ten years later, my Ming Dynasty will have restored the Central Plains to the north, expel the Tartars, and rebuild the world..."

"Okay, okay. We are the only two of us here, so how can we have so many clichés? You are afraid you won't believe what you said." Zheng Zhilong said with a laugh. His eyes looked like a storyteller, which made the latter so angry that his chest was so tight that he felt ache.

"The gentry in the north has long been dissatisfied with the Ming Dynasty. You know the reasons and you should have heard of them before and after the Handan Incident."

"Don't you still have to thank you for your foresight?" Zeng Ying said angrily. If it weren't for Zheng Zhilong's memorial, how could there be something happening now? He had thought that Zheng Zhilong could not tolerate sand in his eyes, but now he realized that this guy had long been ill-intentioned!

"I admit that I have a bad intention. The gentry in the world is like the Ming Dynasty, and its roots are already rotten. We must clean up carefully. If we don't ask them to follow the Tartars first, how can I start without any scruples?"

Is it considered a mutated tactic of hard-to-get?

Zheng Zhilong wants to speak freely today without any concealment of his words.

But this sinister intention cannot cover up his "great ambition" - to clean up the gentry in the world?

Zeng Ying was stunned.

"The gentry is the foundation of the world. Since you, Zheng Zhilong, have ambitions to the world, why can't you get over it?" Zeng Ying was very annoyed, but he couldn't stand his curiosity.

What did Zheng Zhilong think? He didn’t know that if this happens, the difficulty for the Zheng family to seize the world will be greatly increased?

"The gentry is the foundation of the world." Zheng Zhilong agreed with this sentence very much, just like the courts in later generations, the foundation was also the gentry. But the difference between the two is that the latter has to pay taxes.

"But the gentry who does not pay taxes is not the foundation. Even if it is the foundation, it is also the foundation of the broken. If it is not eradicated, how can I bring back the Han people's world?"

Zheng Zhilong said the word "tax".

"Officials and gentry are working together to pay for food? The whole world..." Zeng Ying was shocked after hearing Zheng Zhilong's thoughts. This was to abolish the privileges of the gentry and cut off their financial path.

When Chinese feudal society entered the Song Dynasty, the economies of the aristocratic and powerful families who had mastered Chinese local resources for thousands of years completely disintegrated, and the imperial examination system was completely mature, giving birth to a new class of bureaucratic and gentry. The bureaucratic and gentry naturally used their ruling power and social influence after resignation to seek financial and tax benefits for this group.

During the Jiajing period, this group finally formed a legal system of "gentry without paying food".

Currently, he is the first-rank official of the Beijing Department of A, and his land is exempted from 10,000 mu, and his land is reduced below, and his land is exempted from 2,700 mu. The foreign official is reduced by half. The resignation is exempt from 6000 mu. The land is exempt from 6000 mu. The land is exempt from 3,350 mu, and the land is exempt from 1,200 mu. The student is exempt from 80 mu.

It seems that there are fixed numbers for how much tax can be exempted from each grade, but the base is too large at the beginning, so when it is implemented, there is basically no need to pay taxes.

Zheng Zhilong is now called the officials and gentry as one worker and paying food together.

This is the real rebellion!

Zheng Zhilong not only created the emperor's rebellion, but also created the rebellion of the gentry all over the world.

"You are also a member of the country. Tell me, if all the gentry in the world were responsible for paying food, what would the court have? If the Ming Dynasty could implement this, would the court have no money and food? As long as there was no shortage of money and food, the mere Tartars would have been suppressed and exterminated. Why would there be a scene where they would have entered Guanzhong today and dominated the north?"

"Just the current generals of the Ming Dynasty, there are only those three or two who can get my Zheng Zhilongyan. Do you really think they can beat the Tartars? When the Qing Dynasty took over Li Shun, the army went south and drank the Yangtze River, do you really think that just by defeated generals such as Liu Liangzuo and Gao Jie can resist it?"

"At that time, it was not only the Ming Dynasty of the Zhu family that died, but also the Han family's country and the Han family's world!"

Zheng Zhilong took a breath.

The destruction of the country and the destruction of the world was proposed by Gu Jiang, Gu Yanwu. Zheng Zhilong didn’t know if there was such a statement at this time, but he believed that Zeng Ying would definitely understand.

"You said that the court owns a land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River and has sufficient money and food, but I expected that there would be a battle between the emperor and the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River. If I could have another thirty years, I would definitely carry a small stool, bring enough melon seeds and tea, and watch the fun around melon seeds and tea."

"I want to see how Emperor Chongzhen could bring money and food from the gentry."

"The Northern Expedition was defeated and the military suffered heavy losses. In order to cope with the crisis, the court must expand its military and govern its military affairs in the shortest time. The money and food required were quite large. At least several million taels of silver, how could the Jinling Treasury take out?"

Zheng Zhilong shook his head and told Zeng Ying about the taxes of the Jinling court. Judging from the current income, Emperor Chongzhen was indeed generous.

But the little money saved at the end of each year is too unremarkable to an army of hundreds of thousands of people. Zheng Zhilong asked Zeng Ying to understand that Emperor Chongzhen had to increase taxes and increase taxes, so that he could regroup in just one or two years.

But in the south, isn’t it just to snatch food from the gentry class?

Can Emperor Chongzhen get what he wants? He thinks it is unreliable.

Moreover, once the war begins, there is more money and food. Even if Jiangnan is a land of fish and rice, it cannot be supported by taxes from Jiangnan. Increased taxes is the most direct and time-saving method of the court, but to increase wealth, clearing the land and acres is also a necessary means, and there is also an increase in mining tax and commercial tax.

Just like Zeng Guofan’s Lijin Bureau, if the Ming Dynasty wanted to collect taxes, it was necessary to set up checkpoints in various prosperous places.

The fight between the emperor and the gentry is about to come sooner or later.

"If the emperor cannot collect taxes, he will destroy his own world. If the gentry pays taxes, it will damage his own interests. This is an irreconcilable contradiction. Do you think the emperor holding the imperial camp in his hand will sit and wait for death like in Yanjing?"

"I'm going to tell you, I really want to see which scene."

Zheng Zhilong's evil taste is very strong, and Zeng Ying's mouth is wide open. Zheng Zhilong's sincere expression shows that he is absolutely serious. As long as he imagines the reinforcements in his mind, he feels that this matter is too... too unpredictable.

"Brother, to be honest, you should thank me very much. It is me, Zheng Zhilong, who has become a traitor, that you can still be honest. Do you know what you should be like according to my early deduction? It is Zuo Liangyu."

"You, and Zhang Kentang from Fujian, you should all be Zuo Liangyu."

"Don't think I'm insulting you. I'm optimistic about you. When the situation is corrupt, you can think of organizing as much as possible a soldier as possible to control yourself. This is your greatest advantage, and it is the biggest difference between you and other officials. So I'm optimistic about your family."

"Yes, your Zeng Zhongcheng is still very weak now, and you don't have a real territory that belongs to you, so you can still be loyal to the Ming Dynasty. But if you transfer to Yanzhou, Huai Shang, have a territory that you dominate, and have tens of thousands of soldiers who can fight, more importantly, the Ming Dynasty you are loyal to cannot give you any help. Over time, can you continue to be loyal and loyal, and still get a transfer order from the court and hand over all the territory and troops in your hands?"

Zheng Zhilong believed that Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang and others did not think that they could form a semi-independent team, and could hold hundreds of thousands of troops and dominate the overall situation of the world. This army was more important to look at themselves than to look at the court.

Their most direct purpose was to wipe out the Taiping Army, to promote themselves to be rich and noble, and to leave their reputation in history.

It was the development of the situation that drove them to move towards warlords and vassal states step by step.

"In order to get enough money and food, to avoid being pulled back by others, and to have greater autonomy in war, you must gradually concentrate your rights in your hands. And when all these rights are concentrated in your hands, you will naturally become the second second in Zuo Liangyu."

"This is the same as the few people I sent to you before."

"Now Denglai is obviously the world of my Zheng family. They are clearly strong and weak, and they are not far from my Zheng family. Now, with the order, they will naturally take advantage of the situation and join our army. If the rivers enter the sea, there will be no gap."

"But if you have been promoted to a high position by you and have heavy troops in your hands, then you will naturally not clamor for the Dengzhou soldiers to surrender without fighting."

They are the same for Zheng Zhilong, Zeng Ying, Emperor Chongzhen, or Zeng Hu Zuo Li and Manchu Qing Dynasty.

"Don't think that my plot to make the Ming Dynasty is a ruthless act. This is the unfairness of the old Zhu family. They have already exhausted their energy and cannot defend their dragon throne and the Han family's country. Then they have to change to someone who can defend them."

"What's the point of mere Tartars? Zheng had been worried about the history books before and was unwilling to be the traitor. He also made the decision of Taizu: to build high walls, accumulate grain, and slowly become kings. He wanted to consolidate his foundation, and to overthrow the Zhu family's world with the hands of the Tartars, and to use the hands of the Tartars to migrate the people, develop the Southeast Asian countries, and to defeat them in battle, destroy the Tartars, and gain great justice in hand, gather the people in the world to take the Ming Dynasty and replace them, and cleanse the world. Unfortunately, the sky is not a good New Year..."

Zheng Zhilong sighed. He felt that if he had to live for another thirty years, he would not only be able to live more comfortably, but also beat the Tartars, polar bears, Europa, conquering the South Ocean, conquering Japan, conquering Australia, conquering Central Asia, and even conquering the Americas. He would definitely be able to bring the monuments to life at once, and make the auspicious clouds turn purple.

What a pity, what a pity...

Zheng Zhilong informed Zeng Ying of all his plans and preparations for the senior officer. It has to be said that the senior officer is really the Zheng family’s logistics base. Every year, a large number of military soldiers with good quality can be spawned. Even if Zheng Zhilong ignores all his strength, he can pull out 200,000 troops of cold and hot clothes and armor in the blink of an eye.

There are also many officials of all sizes.

From township officials to prefecture and county officials, the number of officials in reserve is already quite large.

With the senior officials, Zheng Jun is becoming stronger every moment. Building high walls, accumulating grain, and slowly becoming king. This policy is simply tailor-made for the Zheng family.

Zeng Ying was not attracted by Zheng Zhilong's big words, nor did she scold Zheng Zhilong for being vicious, although everything about the official was really beyond his imagination. Even he agreed with Zheng Zhilong's arrogance.

If he really followed his original ideas and waited for ten years, how could the Zheng family at that time not afford to offend him?

But at this time he was more serious about a question again - is Zheng Zhilong really ineffective?

Otherwise he...

Zeng Ying's eyes fell on Zheng Zhilong's face. Is there really a strong and strong person in the world who looks very good and says that he will die soon?

"What's more, China's world has been spread for more than a thousand years, so it's time to change it. You've read the news newspaper and know that Europe, Africa and America. The Europeans were beaten by the Mongols and had no power to fight back. Then they were beaten repeatedly by the Ottomans for two hundred years. Many countries could not bear it. But now? A small Dutch country, whose homeland is still fighting against powerful enemies, but a group of merchants has fought with the Ming Dynasty several times. Although Zhu Ming was not defeated, looking at the war process, I am the party involved. Say a fair word. The Ming troops under the same force are far from the same land or land."

"A Chinese nobleman and a dignified country, he actually dispatched ten times more troops to fight against the soldiers and horses of the small Western countries that came from thousands of miles away. This is already a great defeat. How can this continue to be better?"

"When a hundred years or two hundred years later, will the combat power of the two be even greater? Europeans can conquer America thousands of miles away, and will they also conquer China at that time?"

Zeng Ying looked at Zheng Zhilong with tongues. It was so ridiculous that the Western Barbarians conquered China.

"I think I'm worried about it all. What is the difference between the Tartars outside the pass and the Western Barbarians? They are all meat and meat, and they will be killed and seized by the people. If the northern land can be controlled by the Tartars, how can the world not be controlled by the Western Barbarians?"
Chapter completed!