Zhou Yanru presented some important summary this year.

It mainly includes the following points:

1. The Shaanxi case at the beginning of the year.

That is the case of the death of the juren Zhang Chunlai.

As a result, 32 officials were involved in Shaanxi, of which Zhang Zhian colluded with King Rui, so 31 other officials were all involved in the case.

Strictly speaking, this case is considered a prince's case.

2. The Kong Mansion case.

Shaanxi Chengxuan announced that the Left Consort of the Political Envoy of the Political Envoy Zhang Zhian wrote a letter to Yanshenggong. Yanshenggong entered Beijing and was investigated.

Among them, hundreds of thousands of acres of land were found, tax evasion, and relevant people from the Confucius Mansion were killed.

This incident was actually a separate case. Zhang Chen wanted to get involved in the Confucius Mansion, and the Confucius Mansion and King Rui were involved in some connection, so he took advantage of this.

3. The case of King Shu.

The King of Shu and King Rui fooled him, and the King of Shu rebelled in Chengdu at the beginning of the year.

On the surface, they were just to clear the king's side, but in fact they wanted to be emperor, but the fundamental reason was that traditional landlords were dissatisfied with the new policy.

The King of Shu is the largest landlord in Sichuan.

How many places did King Shu have in history?

It occupies 70% of the fertile land in Chengdu Prefecture!

As early as the Zhu Yuanzhang period, Zhu Yuanzhang was a bit too good to the first king of Shu Zhu Chun.

In addition to annual salary, rewards, etc., the Shu Palace also has local income, such as land rent, tax collection, etc.

As soon as Zhu Chun arrived in Chengdu, Zhu Yuanzhang rewarded him with the land rent of the "Zhengnian Pond of Chengdu Prefecture and Nandu Temple Pond".

Zhu Yuanzhang also gave him the Chengdu Taxation Department, which was in charge of local commercial taxation, and commercial taxation became a large amount of daily income for the Shuwang Mansion.

All of these have been passed down from generation to generation.

It is said that the King of Shu has more than 300 royal villages in Chengdu Prefecture, and can change to different residences every day.

The land division in Chengdu Prefecture is as follows: the King of Shu accounts for 70%, the military camps account for 20%, and the people only have 10%.

Why is this happening?

It was still the same rule. In the late Ming Dynasty, the heavy taxes on levies were very heavy, and the count tax was also very heavy.

Free farmers cannot afford to plant fields at all, so they give the fields to the King of Shu and rely on them to become tenant farmers. Instead, it is easier.

So, in fact, there is a big problem with the tax system.

The old tax system was obviously beneficial to traditional literati and royal family, and small and medium-sized landlords were also thinking of various ways to conceal the land.

In this way, it is reasonable for the King of Shu to rebel. After all, as soon as the new policy comes, his land will be dismantled.

The land of literati and landlords in Sichuan may be dismantled.

So to sum up, the Shu King case is actually a confrontation between traditional conservative forces against the new policy.

Chengdu has long been broken, and the King of Shu has now been escorted back to Beijing.

However, Sun Chuanting was still guarding Chengdu Prefecture. After all, it was not only the King of Shu who rebelled, but there was no peace in Sichuan Province.

4. Datong Town Crisis.

The essence of the crisis in Datong Town is military and political corruption, which is just a microcosm of military and political corruption in the nine borders.

Zhou Yanru mainly summarized these four major points.

These four points, none of them actually caused storm, so now there are quarrels in the Beijing court every day.

Zhou Yanru added: "Your Majesty, the most quarrel among the ministers now is the transportation of food and grass for Datong Town."

"What's wrong with transporting grain? Isn't this matter Sun Chengzong planning?"

Zhou Yanru paused for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, the order to transfer grain is sent to Huguang Province. Zhang Pengchun, the head of the Qingguan Department of Huguang Province of the Ministry of Revenue, submitted a memorial saying that the grain from Wuchang Prefecture cannot be transported out of Wuchang Prefecture, and the grain from Jingzhou Prefecture cannot be transported out. Now the ministers are arguing about their attitude towards the prince."

Chongzhen immediately understood.

There is a proverb in the Ming Dynasty: Huguang is familiar with the world.

Huguang is the place with the most grain. Now Datong Town needs a large amount of grain, so Sun Chengzong will definitely find a way to allocate it from Huguang.

As the King of Chu rebelled, the local interests naturally found ways to get the food.

Chongzhen said calmly: "Where is the food from other places?"

Zhou Yanru said: "The grain in southern Zhili can be mobilized, and the grain in Shandong Province, northern Zhili, Shanxi Province and Henan Province can be mobilized."

"Then take the lead in mobilizing food from these provinces."

"I think so too, and Lord Sun is doing this, but the food in these provinces may not be enough in the future. It is best to be transferred from southern provinces, especially Huguang."

What Zhou Yanru said makes sense. Although there is a lot of food in Nanzhili, Datong Town in Nanzhili is farther away and the transportation consumption is greater.

Although the northern provinces are close and consume relatively little, the amount of grain storage is not much. If excessively transferred, it will easily cause local grain prices to soar.

And there is a sociological problem here.

The imperial court recruited food from all over the country, which was definitely a constant indicator for every place.

Will the upper class in the local area take this opportunity to scrape and squeeze out people's fat and paste?

It may be that there is food in the local granary, but some officials took the opportunity to make money from the national crisis.

Yes! Sure!

Some people, if they can’t do things, get corrupt, they are just taking advantage of the situation!

Therefore, there are many difficulties in transferring grain to Datong Town.

At least before the train appears, it's really hard.

Chongzhen was thinking this way, and Zhou Yanru continued: "There is another thing."

"What's the matter?"

"Liu Dequan, the promoter of Taiyuan Prefecture, submitted a memorial saying that in the Daizhou area, officials did not transfer grain from the granary, but instead squeezed the people. On the grounds that Datong Prefecture was in trouble, they forcibly collected grain from the people, and there was not much grain to be requisitioned in the people's homes, which caused anger to the gods and people's grievances."

Chongzhen suddenly became angry. He knew that someone might do this, but after hearing this, he still couldn't help but get angry.

"Go! Let Li Zicheng send someone to investigate. As long as it is true, it will be executed on the spot. It will be circulated to be the thirteen provinces in the two capitals! Go now!"

There is definitely more than one place in Daizhou, but there are many places that are playing like this.

This is also the reason why so many people rebel in the late Ming Dynasty in orthodox history.

Because any social problem has social logic in it, adjusting grain is not simply adjusting grain, and taxation is not simply levying taxation.

There must be an upper class of powerful people who use the power in their hands and use the things of the court as an excuse to seek personal gain.

What we can do now is to cut off the Daizhou first to deter other places.

After all, there are only two ways to alleviate this phenomenon:

1. Start with the purification of the bureaucratic system and the ideological system of the bureaucratic.

2. Establish more complete transportation and speed up information transmission, so that it will be more convenient whether it is reporting or managing officials.

He also doesn't expect that information technology in the 21st century can expose corrupt officials, that's impossible.

"Your Majesty, the ministers are still arguing about Huguang Province. Now the princes are ready to move at this critical moment."

"I will find someone to deal with the matter in Huguang Province. You can collect the food transfer this time. Whoever did this like Daizhou? Collect all of them and leave them to Li Zicheng to send someone to investigate them one by one!"

"yes!"

After Zhou Yanru left, Chongzhen called Hong Chengchou: "You immediately lead 5,000 elite troops to Wuchang and get the King of Chu to the capital. I will only give you three months! Three months later, I will see the King of Chu in Beijing! You can take any measures!"

"I will receive the order!"

After Hong Chengchou left, Chongzhen immediately summoned Sun Chengzong again.

He is about to start the real Civil War.

No prince who emerged this time could escape, and there were also those landlords and bureaucrats in the south. The grassland pattern is temporarily stable. I will have half a year to fight you!
Chapter completed!