Taiwan Government Office.

Liu Zhifeng was writing a note to the emperor in the study, and listened to Menzi's report: "Liu Zhixian is here!" ”

"Oh, please!" Liu Zhifeng commanded.

Not long after, Liu Guangshi entered the study and arched his hand: "Brother Yongming (Liu Zhifeng's words)!" ”

"Brother Chonggui (Liu Guangshi's words), please take a seat!" Liu Zhifeng nodded.

The two called each other brothers, Liu Zhifeng did not avoid Liu Guangshi when he wrote a song, and said to him: "Cigarettes have gradually become a climate, and there are already 100,000 taels of silver profit this year (Taiwan has purchased mainland tobacco to make cigarettes), and once Taiwan tobacco is produced next year, I am afraid that there will be more than 300,000 taels of silver profit!" ”

Liu Guangshi was also involved in the tobacco business, and nodded when he heard this: "How much is less!" ”

However, he said to Liu Zhifeng: "Brother Yongming, if you write this in, Banzai will not like it, but I am afraid that something will happen." ”

"Those who are ministers must say what they should say, and say what they should not say!" Liu Zhifeng sighed and waved his pen.

Before Liu Guangshi came, he had already written most of it, and he finished it soon and showed it to Liu Guangshi.

Liu Guangshi pointed to one of the paragraphs and said, "It's not appropriate!" ”

It turned out that Liu Zhifeng pleaded guilty to the emperor, saying that he was acting in Taiwan in the name of the Southeast Province and not under the banner of the Taiwan Government!

If the name of the Taiwan government is equivalent to Yan Changwu paying for Liu Zhifeng to put on a show, it is absolutely not allowed.

Liu Zhifeng had to change his course, the southeast mansion was the southeast mansion, but he did this, which was tantamount to committing the crime of bullying the king, the emperor asked him to go to the local place to guard the pastoral side, but he did not show the righteous name of the court, wouldn't the court give him a lot of money for nothing!

"It must be written!" Liu Zhifeng said helplessly: "What you have done, you must have an explanation!" ”

"Confess!" Liu Guangshi said with a deep feeling: "We have an explanation to the people, but we can't explain it to the Lord of Long Life!" ”

If they don't have to do it, they can explain to the Lord of Banzai, and now that they have done it, they have an explanation to the people, but they can't explain it to the Lord of Banzai.

Liu Zhifeng said open-mindedly: "If the long-lived lord doesn't like it and cuts our position, wouldn't it be exactly what we want!" ”

"Yes, yes!" Liu Guangshiqiang said with a smile.

After acting in Taiwan, he is a little reluctant to do the cause here, compared with the mainland's deceit, here advocates hard work, less talk and more work, and do things really fruitful!

……

Needless to say, after Emperor Chongzhen in Beiping received Liu Zhifeng's recitals one after another, jealousy and hatred gnawed at the heart of this supreme man in the world like a poisonous snake!

The annual income of the Southeast Province reached five million taels of silver!

Among them, two million taels of silver have been harvested from Westerners, 1.5 million taels of silver have been harvested from Orientals, and one million taels of silver have been harvested from the mainland.

Taiwan's population is only 800,000, divided into six towns: Taipei, Keelung, Taichung, Chiayi, Tainan and Kaohsiung.

Think about it, with a population of 80 million on the mainland, the pure silver received by the treasury is only three or four million taels of silver (Taicang income), which is not even as good as a southeast province!

If the Southeast Mansion is collected, the five million taels of silver will all go to the central government, so why not be afraid of the three major disasters of the Ming Dynasty!

Natural disasters have silver for disaster relief, military expenses for dealing with northern captives, and military expenses for dealing with peasant traitors!

The emperor's eyes are red, and he is jealous!

He didn't want people to move forward and earn money tirelessly, but blamed Yan Changwu for not having the duty of a courtier, not honoring the emperor, refusing to pay any taxes, and asking the court to allocate funds to him! (However, the court did not give money)

Xiong Wencan (Governor of Fujian) mistook the country!

The southeast government refused to pay taxes, and he also agreed, saying that Taiwan is a place inhabited by savages, and it is difficult to collect taxes. (More is better than less, if he says that the southeast province has a tax source, and the emperor wants him to collect it, how can he deal with the southeast fleet?) ）

Emperor Chongzhen believed in Liu Zhifeng more than believing in him, so he summoned Shoufu Han Yi and asked him to come up with a practical strategy to find a way to collect the silver of the Southeast Mansion into state ownership.

The emperor only saw Han Yi alone, because the emperor also wanted to save face, and he called many ministers, so that everyone knew that a little guy in Taiwan had the ability to be rich and rival the country, wouldn't it be that he was very useless as an emperor.

Han Yi is an understanding person, and he thinks that there is a lot of silver in the southeast mansion, just like the silver in the southeast region (the nest of the Donglin Party), but can he collect it!

Don't look at the Donglin Party fighting fiercely in their nests, but when they want to receive their silver, they are not ambiguous at all, even the emperor dares to push him back.

In the same way, if you want to collect the silver from the Southeast Mansion, you have to see if you can beat their fleet!

Seeing Chongzhen asking about the way to deal with the Southeast Mansion, Han Yi thought that it could fall on Xiong Wencan's head and let him understand the echo.

Chongzhen barely suppressed his anxious mood, and issued a decree to let Xiong Wencan find a way to collect taxes from the Southeast Mansion!

……

Xiong Wencan, who received the holy decree, turned his eyes back, and he had a heart that wanted to die.

If you can't collect taxes, you may be facing the emperor's butcher's knife.

To collect taxes, you will have to face the artillery of the Southeast Fleet!

He sent his staff Mr. Zhong to ask him to cross the sea to negotiate with Yan Changwu, hoping that Yan Dashao would automatically and consciously pay taxes to the state, which meant well.

However, Mr. Zhong sent a reply to him, saying that if he was short of silver flowers for the governor of Xiong, even if he opened his mouth, those below 10,000 taels of silver would be sent on call, and if they were more than 10,000, it would not matter.

But to pay taxes, there is not a single copper plate!

The state wants to collect their taxes, and the southeast government vigorously resists.

"They (the southeastern province) are stronger than before, and they are constantly adding new ships, and as soon as the ship on the slipway is launched, a new warship is immediately put on the slipway and the keel ...... is laid," Mr. Chung recounted.

In desperation, Xiong Wencan reported to the imperial court that if he wanted to deal with Yan Changwu, he could only strengthen the Fujian Navy Division and invest one million taels of silver in three years.

“…… He (the southeastern province) is like the northern captives, and its fleet uses red-haired plywood boats, which are fast and artillery, and our fleet has few ships and few guns, which is difficult to deal with. Xiong Wencan told the truth.

Soon after, he actually received 200,000 taels of silver from the emperor, asking him to reorganize the Fujian Navy Division and prepare to deal with the Nanyu.

Yan Changwu was fortunate to be regarded as a "Southern Captive" by the emperor, and he was as famous as the Northern Captives (Jurchens)!

Although he does not raid places, his silver is the original sin.

Therefore, if you treat him well, he is not necessarily grateful, but blames you for why you didn't sell your kidney and buy him apples!

In order to get his silver, the emperor also worked hard, trying to come up with some silver, wanting to build a fleet and seize the wealthy southeast province.

But the silver given by the emperor was given once for the first time, and there was no follow-up.

In October of the second year of Chongzhen (1629), Emperor Taiji raised hundreds of thousands of troops to bypass the Liaoxi corridor where the heavy troops of the Ming Dynasty were gathered, and entered Longjing Pass and Da'ankou respectively, destroying the city and marching straight to Beiping!

Cry wolf!