Rise From the Humble

  Chapter 425 Court Debate Li Mo

  The people do not pay more, but the national treasury doubles!

   What a loud tone, what an arrogant young man who talks nonsense!

   Li Mo and others did not believe what Zhu Pingan said about the doubling of the national treasury without paying taxes. There are so many great men in history who dare not say such a thing. Zhu Ping'an is only a junior in his teens who dares to say such a big thing.

"Oh, Aiqing means that the people don't need to increase the tax, and the national treasury can be doubled?" Emperor Jiajing heard Zhu Ping'an said that when he checked the sea ban information, he came up with this so-called method of multiplying the national treasury without increasing the tax. I can't help being interested.

   "Return to Your Majesty, that's right." Zhu Pingan nodded without hesitation.

"Your Majesty, what this person said is illogical, and it's extremely embarrassing. I ask you to expel these nonsense people out of the palace, so as to make an example to others!" Li Mo couldn't bear it anymore, and walked forward two steps and bowed his hands Salute to Emperor Jiajing, the words are quite severe.

   "Why did Aiqing say that?" Emperor Jiajing asked calmly with no change in expression on his face.

"Please allow me to argue." Li Mo saluted Emperor Jiajing again, then turned around and strode towards Zhu Ping'an, standing in front of Zhu Ping'an and asked aggressively, "As you said, if the people don't pay, they can Doubling the treasury, yes or no?"

   "Yes." Zhu Ping'an nodded.

   "Absurd! Da Miao!" Li Mo couldn't help scolding Zhu Pingan when he heard the words. If Zhu Pingan hadn't turned his face away in time, he would have been sprayed all over the face by Li Mo's spitting stars!

"There are only so many wealth and goods that are produced in the world. If they are not in the people, they are in the officials! If the people increase the taxes, the country will be rich, and if the people reduce the taxes, the country will use less! What you said is nothing more than adding gifts to the people in disguise, and it is even more harmful. Traitors of the country! In the Western Han Dynasty, Sang Touhong once mentioned this theory. The people did not add taxes, but the country used enough. What did they do? It is forbidden to cast money privately, and the monopoly of salt and iron is just to exploit the power of the people in disguise! Water can carry a boat It can also overturn the boat, the power of the people will be exhausted, the chaos will be raging, and the rebellion will continue!"

   "You, the number one scholar, don't want to serve the country, but become a traitor to the country, what is your intention?!"

  Li Mo became furious, pointing at Zhu Pingan and swearing at him, classifying Zhu Pingan as a traitor in a chaotic country, pressing on the cross of a traitor, stepping on thousands of feet!

"My lord said that there are only so many wealth and goods produced in the world. If it is not with the people, it is with the officials. The lower officials deeply agree with this." Zhu Ping'an seemed to be blind and deaf. Hearing nothing, his tone was gentle and indifferent, in stark contrast to Li Mo, who was blushing and had a thick neck.

   "I don't need you to come and flatter me!"

After listening to what Zhu Pingan said to himself, Li Mo thought deeply, and then he didn't take it seriously. He felt that Zhu Ping'an was too rude, righteous and shameless. After flattering the emperor, he came to flatter himself. I won't eat your tricks!

Hahaha..

   Flattery is on the horse's leg. I don't know that Mr. Li is most disgusted with this kind of sycophantic style in the sensory field!

  Many officials listened to Li Mo's words and laughed softly. They looked at Zhu Ping'an while laughing, and felt that Zhu Ping'an was a capitalized "stupid"! It's all like this, and the treasury doubles without paying taxes to the people!

Under the ridicule of the crowd and Li Mo's contemptuous gaze, Zhu Ping'an just shook his head and smiled slightly, then cupped his hands and said to Li Mo: "My lord, think too much. There are only so many, if it is not for the people, it is for the officials', it makes sense."

  Li Mo's words mean that the wealth in the world is countless, and the wealth is either in the common people or in the country. The implication is that if the country is rich, it must be that the taxes of the people have increased, or the people have been exploited in disguise.

"I think about it, hehe, you said that what I said is reasonable, so what you said is that the people do not increase the tax and the national treasury doubles, isn't it a great deal! Then you swear to your Majesty that the people do not increase the tax and the national treasury doubles, isn't it? How can you be convicted of deceiving the emperor?!" Li Mo was very disdainful of Zhu Pingan's answer, caught the loophole in Zhu Ping's words, and directly charged Zhu Pingan with deceiving the emperor, and aggressively questioned Zhu Ping'an. Safety.

  If it was an ordinary person, under the oppression of Li Mo, he would have given up his helmet and armor a long time ago!

  However, Zhu Ping'an was not the case. Looking at the aggressive Li Mo, Zhu Ping'an just shook his head slightly, very calm.

   "My lord's words are justified, and what Ping'an said is also justified. The subordinate officials are utterly loyal to the Holy One, so how dare they deceive the King." Zhu Pingan shook his head calmly and said.

   "Absurd, if what I say is reasonable, you are talking nonsense!" Li Mo was furious.

"It's either one or the other? Why can't it be either one or the other? Please forgive me for being rude." Zhu Pingan said calmly, and then bowed his hands to Li Mo and said, "My lord said, 'The world produces all kinds of wealth and goods. There are only so many, if not in the people, then in the officials', the words are reasonable, but they are also biased."

   "Is what I said biased?" Li Mo laughed angrily.

   "Please calm down, my lord, please listen to the explanation of the official, if the official's words are reasonable, please forgive me; if the official's words are unreasonable, then the official will ask the Holy One for sin." Zhu Pingan cupped his hands.

   "The old man will listen to you." Li Mo didn't look at Zhu Ping'an at all.

"The so-called reason is that the highest good is like water, and the lower officials use water as an example. There are only so many wealth and goods in the world. If they are not in the people, they are in the officials. If the river is compared to the wealth and goods in the world, then the upper stream can be compared to the world. Officials, the lower streams are compared to the people. The water volume of the river is constant, if there is more water in the upper streams, there will be less water in the lower streams. Therefore, the lower officials say what the adults say, and what they say is reasonable." Zhu Pingan explained.

  Hmph, Li Mo snorted coldly, acquiescing to what Zhu Pingan said.

"The so-called unreasonable people, the lower officials still use water as an example. The river is the wealth and everything, the upper stream is the official, and the lower stream is the people. The basis of what the adults say is reasonable is that there is such a river. If there is another river nearby at this time, The lower officials introduced the water from another river into the upper reaches of the river we exemplified. Wouldn’t that mean more water from the upper stream, but no less water from the lower stream? Because the water from another river was introduced into the upper reaches of this river.” Zhu Pingan continued.

Huh?

  After hearing Zhu Pingan's analogy, some officials couldn't help but let out a cry of sudden realization. In the past, they were only limited to one river, but they forgot about other nearby rivers. Hearing what Zhu Pingan said, they felt enlightened and suddenly enlightened.

   "You are sophistry." Li Mo snorted coldly, and shook his sleeves vigorously.

"It's the same reason that the official said that the people don't increase the tax and the national treasury doubles. Why do you always focus on me, Daming? There are countless wealth outside of my Ming Dynasty. What the official said is not to increase the people. Taxes, but the wealth of other countries can be introduced into our Daming treasury, so wouldn’t it mean that our Daming treasury doubles, but there is no need to increase taxes for the people.”

  Zhu Ping'an stood there watching Li Mo and the other ministers talking, as if he also had some kind of halo on him, and he felt like he stood out from the crowd.

  (end of this chapter)