The small shareholders of Zhenguo Mansion have already scolded the cabinet behind their backs. In their opinion, it is not the cabinet, and they don’t have to live so nervous these days.

In fact, the cabinet has been urgent in the past few days.

The Folangji fleet is over, but who can guarantee that the Folangji will not be another Japanese pirate?

If the Folang Ji people come to the border again in the future, there will be even more people than the last attack on Tianjin, and the court is completely unprepared, and another Japanese pirate attacks a certain port and massacres and tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians die in a bad life. Today, the cabinet ministers will be truly sinners for the ages.

But at the moment, this is a difficult problem. Empress Dowager Zhang seems to have come forward, and she seems to agree with the raising taxes to the gentry. The original saying is that the country has supported scholars for many years, and it is time for everyone to share the burden with the court.

When he heard this, he was a fool. But Liu Jian could only pretend to be deaf and dumb, and he could only pretend to be inaudible.

Gentlemen? Gentlemen...

The emperor and the literati and officials jointly rule the world. The ills of the court come from here. The reason why the gentry is gentry is gentry and can govern the world together is definitely privileged. This privilege is actually tax exemption. Others have to pay taxes for farming, and farming is exempt from taxes. Therefore, ordinary self-cultivated farmers will inevitably go bankrupt once they encounter natural disasters. However, because the gentry avoids taxes, they can survive it. During the famine, they can merge the land of some victims at a low price. As a result, the gentry has more and more land, and the court can collect less and less grain taxes.

This is indeed not a solution, but what is the solution? Even Liu Jian and others knew that when the late emperor was there, they had seen this hidden danger. The annexation of land was becoming more and more serious. Not only that, the gentry also concealed the population in the local area and concealed the situation of tenants. This is why in the early Ming Dynasty, the population in the Huangcai had decreased instead of increasing, which is also funny. In the 120th year of peace in the Ming Dynasty, the population was not as good as the time when Ming Dynasty experienced wars and countless natural disasters.

But can this be changed...can't.

Liu Jian was not selfish, he was just afraid. Who was the person who wrote books? He was a gentry! What was the origin of the people who were officials in the court? He was a gentry! In the local area, the regime did not go to the county, who was the person who kept taxes and helped the government? He was a gentry. The cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty, from the inside out, from top to bottom, had nothing to do with the gentry. This is the foundation of the country and the foundation. Once it was shaken, a major event would happen.

So from beginning to end, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian and Wang Hua were very clear about the meaning of the royal family, and the gentry could not move. It was not that they were not dedicated to their hearts, nor that they were not worried about the country. If they were moved, something big would definitely happen.

Now, it is obvious that the only thing that can be counted on is Zhenguo Mansion, but soon they realized that Zhenguo Mansion is much more terrifying than they thought.

Empress Dowager Zhang was indirectly attacking, and several dukes also made hints. Some nobles and princes showed an incompatible attitude. Some vassal kings who were close to Zhenguo Mansion also sent people to talk about the situation. Everyone here was stomping their feet in the capital, and the ground was trembling. It was easy to say one or two, but ten or eight or one hundred, but it was not easy to talk about.

So, the days are difficult now.

Liu Jian was in a deep mood and sighed. Today, Zhu Houzhao called everyone to the Warehouse and asked about the construction of the Navy again. Liu Jian was almost speechless and said that the charter had not been released yet, but the charter was easy to formulate. To be honest, Liu Gong had reported to the country for twenty years and had to draw up a complete plan, but he was stunned.

At present, the Ming Dynasty has accumulated many problems, and the benefits of the world are concentrated in the hands of specific people. However, none of these specific people are easy to bully. None of them is easy to bully. If any one suffers a loss, they may immediately cause serious consequences. In history, whether Shang Yang's reform or Wang Anshi's reform, they have created new and old party struggles, which are extremely cruel. In the end, Shang Yang was dismembered by five horses, while the Northern Song Dynasty fell apart due to party struggles. These are all lessons of the past.

Liu Jian has always been a person who takes the overall situation into consideration. He wants to keep his achievements but is unwilling to provoke disputes.

Sitting in the tea room, Liu Jian sighed: "My eyelids are always leaping recently, and I always feel something is going to happen."

His sigh is not unreasonable, it is all about cutting flesh, either cutting your flesh or cutting his flesh. It hurts anyone's flesh.

Wang Hua and Xie Qian were both speechless, and of course they also knew the dangers.

However, after being silent for a long time, Li Dongyang finally said: "Look, Ye Chunqiu is really interested in building a navy."

Liu Jian raised his eyes and looked at him, and said frustratedly: "Even if he is willing, will the rest of the Zhenguo Mansion be willing?"

Li Dongyang shook his head and said, "I heard that he has been in the camp of the new army in Zhenguo for the past few days, and he has not left the gate and has not stepped on the two gates. I think he wants to avoid this trouble. However, when it comes to raising money and food, no one in the world is more capable than him. I will stay here, so why not ask him to discuss it?"

"I'm afraid I won't come." Liu Jian shook his head and smiled. "Didn't it tell the public that the new army in Zhenguo are training secretly? The new army in Zhenguo is amazing now. Everyone knows their power. If you delay training for this, Mo Zhen will have something to do and will lose the consequences. Instead, the cabinet will lose the consequences."

"What did he practice? It's just an excuse." Xie Qian glanced at Wang Hua. He didn't treat Ye Chunqiu as an outsider and said bluntly: "If you don't go and call me, I and the prince will go and invite me in person. Do he dare to learn from Zhuge Kongming?"

After hearing this, Liu Jian frowned and finally stretched out a little, and couldn't help laughing, just as he was about to nod.

Li Dongyang shook his head and said, "No, this is not appropriate. Mr. Xie and the prince should not put their favors above this. It is better to ask Your Majesty to come forward. Let's cultivate our spirits and wait until Ye Chunqiu comes."

Liu Jian and others fell into deep thought.

They suddenly discovered a problem. Not to mention other things, at least in some aspects, they really cannot do without this Duke of Zhenguo. Or, if there was no Duke of Zhenguo in the past, the imperial court would have to use the same old method when encountering such a thing. But now the old method does not work, and some people have a new method, which is not very good in the past.

For Ye Chunqiu, now it makes people feel that there is such a meaning of "announcing the mountain, how can the people come out of the country?"

The three of them hesitated for a short time, and finally Liu Jian made a quick decision and said, "Then I will meet Your Majesty. As long as Your Majesty comes forward, Ye Chunqiu will be inseparable."
Chapter completed!