[Chapter 354] This... are you... too active?

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Xu Xingxia believes that Wang Qinian's analysis makes sense.

The biggest problem of the Ming Dynasty was actually due to money and food. The source of wealth was exhausted and the income was not enough to make ends meet! It was not that the Ming Dynasty had no money and food, but that the money and food were not in the hands of the country or the emperor. If the country needed money and food, the Taicang warehouse had no money and food, and the emperor's treasury did not have money and food, then he had to hang himself bitterly.

The reason why the Later Jin Tartars were able to enter the Central Plains and eventually become the lord of the Central Plains was largely because the Ming Dynasty had no money and food to fight. The country's fiscal revenue was completely exhausted. Even the basic military pay expenditure became a problem. Where did the army get the combat effectiveness? You can't let your army go to fight on hungry, right?

In fact, the Ming Dynasty had very sufficient money and grain. The Ming Dynasty's grain output reached the highest level in history. The average rice yield per mu in Jiangnan was more than 400 kilograms. The rice yield per mu in some relatively fertile paddy fields could even exceed 500 kilograms. The fields that could be cultivated in the Ming Dynasty had a total of 800 million mu. If there was no impact of famine or other famine, the total grain output per year (including rice and wheat) in the Ming Dynasty could be imagined.

As for gold and silver, it is even more prominent. Since the sea ban was opened during the Longqing period, the maritime trade of the Ming Dynasty has been very developed. Especially during the Wanli period, the inflow of a large amount of overseas silver caused the amount of silver occupied by the Ming Dynasty to account for almost half of the world's silver. Silver officially became the basic currency for market circulation, and it also began at this time. The Wanli Dynasty can be said to be the richest stage of the people in the Ming Dynasty.

Since the Ming Dynasty had enough food and enough silver, why did the country's warehouses have no money and food, and the emperor had no money and food? Where did the Ming Dynasty's money and food go? Did it disappear out of thin air? Of course it was impossible! In fact, most of the money and food were entered into the pockets of some people and into their private pockets!

Some of the people mentioned here, including great bureaucrats, great landlords, big merchants, etc., were the richest group of the Ming Dynasty, occupying the most wealth of the Ming Dynasty, and playing a crucial role in the rise and fall of the Ming Dynasty. In a sense, the Ming Dynasty can also be said to be destroyed in their hands. Of course, they themselves were destroyed in the end.

In the late Ming Dynasty, with the development of the economy, industry and commerce were prosperous and social wealth gradually moved to industry and commerce. By participating in industry and commerce, many people accumulated a large amount of wealth. However, the tax policy of the Ming Dynasty was still limited to agriculture, and the main body of taxation was still the vast number of farmers, but they ignored industry and commerce. Zhu Yuanzhang had formulated commercial taxes of 30 taxes before, but later all of them were exempted.

On the one hand, as land annexation becomes increasingly serious, farmers' tax burdens are getting heavier, and they can control less and less wealth, and eventually go bankrupt and become refugees. The country can collect less and less financial and taxes. On the other hand, prosperous industry and commerce do not need to contribute any taxes. A large amount of wealth can be squandered at will.

Emperor Wanli saw the disadvantages and decided to take a different approach and collect taxes on industry and commerce. However, his behavior was strongly opposed by the vested interests group. Because the vested interests of the industrial and commercial groups were those big bureaucrats and businesses. They would not tolerate their wealth and were easily taken away by Emperor Wanli. Perhaps, they were no match for Emperor Wanli. However, when everyone united, they could put great pressure on Emperor Wanli. In fact, they did do it, and Emperor Wanli could not beat them.

There was no choice but to send a large number of eunuchs to various places to collect taxes directly, and the income earned was directly included in his own treasury to avoid disputes over legal etiquette. He knew that taking a regular way would definitely not be able to fight those civil servants. He had been in the deep palace for decades, and was angry with them. If he could not fight, can we still afford to hide? With his efforts, the income of the treasury once reached a historical height of 10 million taels, filling many deficits in the national treasury. However, various problems also followed.

The most prominent problem at that time was that Emperor Wanli had selfish intentions, and the tax and mining supervisors below also had selfish intentions. Without strict system constraints, anyone would have selfish intentions, which was inevitable. They used the power given to them by Emperor Wanli to try their best to fill their own pockets and put their wealth into their own pockets. Their income of 100 taels of silver may only be thirty taels in the end, and the rest were all divided by eunuchs at all levels.

Emperor Wanli did this, or for the emperor, absolutely good for the country, or for the emperor. He was not panicked! This has been the case in all dynasties. However, his behavior invaded the interests of major bureaucrats and big businesses, and of course they could not easily be Emperor Wanli. So they united and tried every means to ask Emperor Wanli to withdraw tax supervision, mining supervision and other places, which caused a lot of controversy.

Many people attacked Emperor Wanli and the people for profit, and used countless magnificent excuses. They felt that Emperor Wanli was unforgivable, and all the mistakes should be borne by him. In fact, after all, it was just a dog bite a dog, or a dog bite a dog. No matter how colorful the articles of the Donglin Party are, no matter how righteous they are, no matter how talented they are, they will never be able to hide their selfishness, ugly and short-sightedness.

From the perspective of the country, if Emperor Wanli won, the Ming Dynasty might have survived for a longer period of time. As long as the country has money, it can provide pensions to the victims of Shaanxi and reduce the strength of the rebel army as much as possible. Similarly, as long as the country has money, the war in Liaodong will not repeat over and over again. Unfortunately, the final result was that Emperor Wanli failed. He was outnumbered by two fists, and he was defeated again in the face of the siege of interest groups.

The country has no money, and when it encounters major events, it will inevitably be in chaos. Emperor Wanli finally barely supported it with his own treasury. When Emperor Tianqi was Emperor Tianqi, Wei Zhongxian had some money in his hands. He also knew how to make money and could support the Ming Dynasty through the stormy years. From this perspective, Wei Zhongxian definitely made contributions.

After Wei Zhongxian fell, the finances of the Ming Dynasty completely collapsed. The court no longer knew how to make money, or no one was able to make money. Emperor Chongzhen was full of passion and ambition, and was determined to revive the Ming Dynasty. However, he had no money! Without money, everything he did was nonsense! It was almost inevitable to hang Coal Mountain!

It can be seen that solving the stable income of the state's finances is the top priority for being an emperor. However, to solve this problem, you must fight against the big bureaucrats, landlords, and merchants and cut off their losses. You must be able to block their attacks and defeat them. Obviously, this is definitely not an easy task.

...It's a long way to go...

Xu Xingxia was actually not very worried about the attacks of the court. The combat effectiveness of the Ming army was really not good. Let’s not talk about the guards in Ningxia Town, it can be ignored at all. Xu Xingxia has also seen the war soldiers in Ningxia Town. It has some combat effectiveness, which is better than the guards, but it is only a little bit. It is absolutely impossible to want more. In front of the online rifle, the Ming army, which is mainly infantry, is completely passively beaten and slaughtered. As long as the white-clothed army is dispatched casually, it can defeat tens of thousands of Ming troops.

The only thing I was worried about was the north. The White-Clothed Army defeated the Helejin tribe, which could be said to have completely formed a mortal hatred with the Tatars. He also defeated Morigen, which made Morigen lose face. It is hard to say whether more Tatars will go south to cause trouble for him in the future. Faced with the overwhelming and rolling Tatar cavalry, the White-Clothed Army was still under a little pressure. Therefore, Xu Xingxia calmly said: "I am worried about the Tatars."

Wang Qinian nodded and said cautiously: "Your worries make sense. The Tatars are indeed a big hidden danger. Their tribes are indeed too many. Their army is indeed too many. The entire desert is their sphere of influence. In addition to the Tatars, there are probably hundreds of tribes ruled by the Tatars and sent troops to cooperate with the Tatars in fighting. If they all unite, it would not be difficult to dispatch 300,000 cavalry at a time."

"In addition, the *** Lin Danhan is also a guy who is unwilling to be defeated. The iron spear cavalry under his command is very powerful. In terms of equipment alone, Lin Danhan's iron spear cavalry equipment is much stronger than the Tatar cavalry. Lin Danhan is quite familiar with the situation of our dynasty and knows very well about our combat methods. If he joins in the fun and goes south, it will indeed cause us great trouble. However, there is no need to worry too much."

"In terms of the Tatars, it is impossible for the Tatars to cooperate with the court in the short term. They do not believe in the court. The Tatars still hold grudges when they came to the last time when Bobiao! In recent years, the court has completely adopted a hostile attitude towards the Tatars, and it is not easy to turn them around at once. Instead, we need to be wary of Lin Dankhan. As long as there are enough benefits, he is willing to act as the thug of the court. However, it is too far for Lin Dankhan's troops to come here from Guihua City."

Xu Xingxia pondered and said, "By the way, you mentioned just now, Sobud's current location..."

Wang Qinian said: "At most, one hundred miles east of Blue Star Gorge, it's still far from Datong Mansion! With his current marching speed, he didn't expect to reach Datong Mansion in less than three months. Feng Qingwu, your subordinate, did a pretty job. In the future, the prairie will probably be the world of this young man. Talents are really talented."

Xu Xingxia closed her eyes, called out a general map from her mind, and carefully measured the distance. In the end, he thought that Wang Qinian's statement was very reasonable. Feng Qingwu, the young man, did a good job. Sobud met him, it could only be said that he had been in trouble for eight lifetimes. Since he broke up with him that day, Sobud had only walked a little bit. It has been more than half a month, and it was really similar to a snail.

If everything goes well, he only needs to send a cavalry of hundreds of people to pick up the goods transported by Feng Qingwu and Sobud. Of course, Lin Danhan will not stand by and watch. It is not difficult to grab the goods, but the difficulty lies in the fact that he has to take the goods back. This matter has to be discussed for a long time. After pondering for a while, he nodded and said in a deep voice: "Very good! Just continue to collect information for me! I'll inform me immediately if there is any news!"

Wang Qinian agreed, then lowered his head and stopped talking. When Xu Xingxia walked to the door, Wang Qinian suddenly said deeply: "Xu Xingxia, I thank you!"

Xu Xingxia smiled and said lightly: "There is no need to say this."

Wang Qinian said in a somewhat old tone: "If you have time, I will tell you about the grudges between me and them. Speaking of which, it was also in North Korea."

Xu Xingxia nodded and left the grocery store. As a result, as soon as he went out, he found outside the door, Chen Denglong, Liu Guangliang, Gao Zhengcheng and others, waiting for him to come out! Looking at their faces and looking cautious and serious, he knew that they had something big and wanted to discuss with Xu Xingxia. No need to ask, they knew whether it was for rebellion.

There is no airtight wall in the world. Chen Denglong and others knew about the murder of Xu Xingxia in the Fireguard Manor. For them, this was not a bad news, nor a shock, but a real good news. Because they finally found a reason to allow Xu Xingxia to embark on the road of rebellion without hesitation. Killing the two thousand households of the Jinyiwei and the sixteen Jinyishiqi, how could you not rebel immediately?

Xu Xingxia casually said, "Everyone knows? Well, everyone sit down and talk about it!"

Chen Denglong and others were silent, but in fact they seemed quite excited. They couldn't wait to suggest that Xu Xingxia immediately revolt and declare a rebellion. The group came to the old military camp and sat down in the conference room. That night, there were seven households in the management board of Weizhen Fort, led by Chen Denglong and Liu Guangliang. The other four people also sent people to inform them, and it should come soon. For such a big event, all households must be present.

Xu Xingxia roughly explained the reason for the incident. His statement hid the grudge between Tian Ergeng, Xu Xianchun, Wang Qinian and others, and only said that the people from the Jinyiwei wanted to arrest him, and he refused to arrest him and killed them all. He finally said slowly: "This is the situation. Let's see how we should deal with it?"

Chen Denglong was the first to stand up, his eyes wide open, and he said enthusiastically: "Master Qianhu, good job! We are waiting for you this day! If you kill the people of the Jinyiwei, the court will definitely be charged with rebellion! You are a rebel! You are unforgivable! I don't think you have to wait for the court to be charged, we will rebel directly!"

Lin Hainiu stood up and said loudly: "Those guys from the Jinyiwei deserve to die! It would be better to die all of them! The best ones from the Dongchang are also death! I agree with Chen Denglong's words, we don't have to wait for the court to be charged, so we will go against it directly! Anyway, I have long disliked those bastards in the court!"

Gao Zhengcheng also said excitedly: "I just said we can't hang out with the guys above, they are all garbage! It's worse than garbage! They have long disliked us and have been trying to kill us behind our backs! Anyway, we don't like them, so we might as well turn the other way around, draw a clear line with them, and kill them!"

Sun Mo said muffled: "I will never forget who threw us to the Tartars and who saved us! I can represent the vast majority of the brothers who were abducted by the Tartars. I am here to express my solemnly! Our number one enemy is the Tartars! The second number one enemy is the imperial court! Lord Qianhu, as long as you lead us to rebel, we will never have any words!"

Hu Yishan said loudly: "Yes, we would rather die than let them continue to lead us. The Tartars are our number one enemy, and the court is our number two enemy. We want to kill the Tartars and overthrow the court! Sir, if you don't want to rebel, just kill us. Anyway, we have long thought about rebelling in our hearts!"

Zhang Yunda said in a daze: "I will do whatever you do!"

Xu Xingxia frowned and said, "Rebellion is not about playing house, not a joke, it is about losing one's head. It is about the whole family to be executed or even the nine clans! Do you really want to rebel so much? If it fails, we all have to move. At that time, it will not be about us using a carriage to load other people's heads, but others use a carriage to load our heads."

Hu Yishan said in a muffled voice: "Our head has fallen countless times, what are you afraid of? Lord Qianhu, if you hadn't saved us, we would have died sooner or later at the hands of the Tartars! You saved our lives! We owe you! We will do whatever you ask us to do! If you don't want to rebel, you will give us to the court, and you will chop our heads and hang your heads in public, and we will have nothing to say! Who told us to follow the wrong person?"

Sun Mo also said, "It's right! Our lives have long been gone! Now this life is favored by God, and we have picked it up. The number of Tartars we killed seems to be almost the same, and there are almost no dog officials who killed the imperial court! My hatred for the dog officials is second only to the Tartars! I must kill those dog officials! At the beginning, it was them who pushed us into the fire pit! Thousands of Tartars came, but they actually stayed in Ningxia City, motionless, watching us being broken into the city and being kidnapped by the Tartars! This revenge is not a gentleman! "

"This...you... are you too active?" Xu Xingxia suddenly realized that his biggest problem was not to incite these people to rebel, but to try his best to dissuade them from rebelling. Or, don't start to rebel in such a hurry. The people in the conference room, when they heard that they had killed the Jinyiwei, were not surprised or panic. In their opinion, this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
Chapter completed!