Su Bai's casual words were suffocating.
From the destruction of the country by agricultural taxes, to the annexation of land, to the demise of the Ming Dynasty in the hands of the Shilin.
In less than an hour, Big Ming had been tossed and turned in Su Bai's mouth several times.
Who could take this?
Zhu Yuanzhang placed his hand on his forehead and felt a little dizzy. No matter how strong his endurance was, he could not sit steadily on the chair at this moment.
He glanced at Zhu Biao from the corner of his eye.
He saw that Prince was not any better than him.
The ink dripped onto his body, but he was still unaware.
It was as if he had been petrified, sitting there without moving.
Zhu Yuanzhang retracted his gaze and sighed.
The rotten scholar was indeed hateful, but it couldn't be as serious as Su Bai said, right?
...
Gulp!
Zhu Di swallowed hard and looked at Su Bai in disbelief.
"Mr. Smith, where did you start?”
"A sour scholar who can't even lift a knife can let our Ming Dynasty die?”
Zhu Di pursed his lips in disdain. It was difficult for him to agree with this point of view.
In his view, the so-called civil officials were treacherous villains who acted in the name of benevolence, righteousness, and morality.
In fact, there were quite a few in the imperial court now.
He could do anything he wanted and eat anything he wanted.
Other than being able to boast, he only knew how to write memorials.
When it came to serious matters, they all became quails!
"Alright, I know you don't like them. The civil and military have been at odds since ancient times, but don't underestimate them.”
Seeing Zhu Di's gloomy face, Su Bai patted him and smiled:
"The scholar-bureaucrats of the Great Ming Dynasty are harder to deal with than any other dynasty.”
Zhu Di was disdainful.
"How difficult is it? How interesting!"
"It's already good enough that I don't let them die without a burial place!”
"Mr. Smith, you can't look down on us martial artists just because you're a scholar!”
Su Bai shook his head. He wasn't angry.
"It's not that I look down on martial artists, it's that Shi Lin looks down on martial artists.”
"If you want to blame someone, blame Emperor Wu Hong. He was smart all his life and was muddle-headed all the time, allowing the scholar-bureaucrats to enjoy the privilege alone.”
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was eavesdropping, was confused.
What was going on?
Why was he being blamed?
What does it have to do with us?
Zhu Di was also dumbfounded when he heard that.
He didn't know much about the matters of the imperial court.
But in his memory, the old man did not like nerds either.
"Impossible! That's impossible!"
Zhu Di shook his head like a rattle-drum and said with extreme certainty,
"You must have remembered wrongly this time!"
"His Majesty will not indulge them!"
Su Bai sized him up and frowned.
"Are you sick again?”
Zhu Di looked as if he had nothing to live for. He thought to himself, Don't I know what my father is like?
Unless the old man's head was caught in the door, it was impossible for him to give any benefits to the scholar-bureaucrats!
Just when Zhu Di was about to argue, Su Bai's lazy voice rang out:
"Officials don't pay taxes!"
"In order to escape the taxes of the imperial court, many commoners have given their land to the families of officials and gentry who do not have to pay taxes. In the long run, the result is that there are fewer and fewer owner-farmers and more and more tenant farmers.”
"As the number of owner-farmers dwindles, the taxes that the Imperial Court can collect dwindle.”
"At the same time that he destroyed Great Ming's tax revenue, he also indirectly promoted land annexation and became an accomplice to harming the people.”
"Do you think this is not a privilege?”
As soon as he finished speaking.
Zhu Di stood up immediately and looked at Su Bai in disbelief. He said subconsciously:
" How is this possible?!"
"How is that impossible?"
Su Bai waved at him to calm him down.
"If you don't believe me, you can ask your father when you're released.”
"Among you nobles, if anyone doesn't have a few hundred thousand mu of fertile land, they will have to tuck their tails between their legs when they go out.”
"How embarrassing!"
Su Bai yawned and said:
"Officials and gentry don't need to pay taxes, so wouldn't they just take over the land?”
"The money earned from farming is all his own. At most, he will give a small portion to the tenants. Some even don't give it at all and keep it all in their own pockets.”
"How many generals does the Imperial Court have? How many civil officials do you have?"
"If this isn't a privilege given to scholar-bureaucrats, then what is?”
After hearing Su Bai's words, Zhu Di was furious. He was panting heavily and his lungs were about to explode.
He had never expected that he would be filled with righteous indignation for half a day, racking his brains and worrying about Big Ming's future.
However, the culprit was his father!
Bang!
He kicked the wine jar and smashed it into pieces. The pottery pieces mixed with the wine splashed everywhere.
"Preposterous!"
Zhu Di was filled with anger and had nowhere to vent. He cursed,
"His brain is really stuck in the door!”
"Can you be any more muddle-headed!"
"Eh, that's enough. I don't think you want to go out.”
Su Bai looked up and confirmed that there was no one nearby. Then he continued:
"Don't be so immersed in it. You're a person who has gained something, not a commoner who's being bullied.”
"If someone hears you, you'll suffer.”
"I don't need to tell you what crime it is to insult His Majesty, right?”
"Old Zhu is a petty person. You might even have to send me off on the Road to the Underworld.”
Hearing this.
Zhu Di's stubborn temper was even more uncontrollable. He shouted at the top of his voice,
"Bullsh * t!"
"If you have the ability, then cut this daddy down. Let's see if this daddy will frown!”
"Who's afraid of who?"
"What? He had done something wrong, so he was not allowed to say it? There's no such thing in the world!"
Su Bai opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but stopped. He was too lazy to persuade her.
Young people were all like this, hot-blooded, chivalrous, and reckless.
Who didn't come from that age?
However, this was good too. From the looks of it, they could end class early!
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In a secret room separated by a wall.
The oppressive atmosphere made one's hair stand on end.
Zhu Biao stood beside Zhu Yuanzhang, not even daring to breathe loudly. Beads of sweat were dripping down his forehead.
Zhu Yuanzhang's face was gloomy, the veins on his forehead were throbbing, and his chest was heaving up and down. It was obvious that he was furious.
Sudden!
Zhu Yuanzhang gritted his teeth and roared,"
"Little bastard!"
" I'll kill you today!!"
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This was very important to the author!
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