In the orthodox history books, when it comes to the fall of the country, "traitorous ministers are in charge" and disrupt the government, while "loyal ministers" have waged an indomitable struggle against "traitorous ministers".

In the end, the "loyal ministers" who are loyal to the king and love the people are finally overwhelmed and eliminated by the powerful and evil traitorous forces.

This is very much in line with the creative approach of tragic art.

It's a pity that it may not be in line with historical facts.

Wei Bao exchanged pleasantries with a group of officials, and then made love with a number of familiar high-ranking officials.

"You're ready for the feast, right?" Wei Bao said to Lin Wenbiao: "All officials above the fifth rank in Beijing must be invited, and everyone from Dali Temple and the Metropolitan Procuratorate must be invited. ”

Lin Wenbiao agreed, "Someone has been sent to do it, please rest assured." ”

Wei Liangqing hurriedly said: "What's so embarrassing about this, let the lord spend so much?" Moreover, the lord invited so many people, I'm afraid there are tens of thousands of people, right? ”

"It's okay, it's all trivial." Wei Bao smiled slightly, secretly wondering what is the great deal about tens of thousands of people, the standard of two taels of silver per person is only 20,000 taels of silver, which is nothing.

"It's still Lord Wei's style." Gu Bingqian couldn't help but admire: "It seems that this time the matter of solving the Liao Yin for Gonggong Wei and His Majesty has been settled." ”

Wei Bao was shocked when he heard this, damn, what does it mean that Liao Yin has fallen?

The salary of the border army is looking for me to find a way? When I am the God of Wealth?

Lord Wei's attachment to Wei Zhongxian is in line with the trend of history, but he does not agree with Wei Zhongxian in his heart, Wei Zhongxian does not say that he does not learn and has no skills, at least he has no great ability, at best he is the spokesperson of the emperor to carry out political tasks.

If it is said that Father-in-law Wei has the ability, go back to the end of the Ming Dynasty and ask the suffering people if they agree, the citizens of Jiangnan, the peasants of northern Shaanxi, and the soldiers who are in arrears, as people of this era, they will definitely feel great sorrow for the whitewashing of Father-in-law Wei.

In the first year of the Apocalypse, Yu Chongming rebelled, and in February, Taizhou mutinied.

In the first month of the second year of the Apocalypse, Guangning fell, in February, Guizhou Shuixi Tumu An Bangyan rebelled, in April, the newly recruited soldiers of the Beijing Division mutinied in order to obtain arrears of wages, and in May, Xu Hongru in Shandong rebelled.

In May of the third year of the Apocalypse, the soldiers of the Beijing camp went to the door of the Governor Rong Zheng Gongshun Marquis Wu Ruyin because of the delay in distributing the monthly rations, and in July, the soldiers of Shanhaiguan fled in large numbers because of the lack of food.

In the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Wu Yeqiao uprising in Changxing County, in May, there was a mutiny in Funing Prefecture, in June, the Nanjing Cao army clamoured a mutiny, in August, in October, the Shanhaiguan soldiers fled, and in August, Xu Hongru's righteous army rebelled.

In the first month of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Lushun fell, in September, Liuhe was defeated, in November, the household department played, Shanhaiguan had an annual salary shortage of 1.7 million taels, and repaired three major halls, crazy wealth.

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, on Ningyuan's military exploits, Wei Liangqing, the son of Wei Gonggong, was named Su Ningbo, in March, the Suzhou people's uprising, and in August, a small-scale peasant uprising had occurred in Shaanxi.

In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Yuan Chonghuan was dismissed from his official position after the victory of Ning Jin, and Wei Pengyi, the adopted grandson of Wei Gonggong, was An Pingbo, Wei Liangqing Taishi, Wei Pengyi was a young master, and Wei Liangdong was an Anhou.

In March, there was an uprising in Chengxian County, Shaanxi, and Wang Er, a starving man, killed Zhang Douyao, the county governor, officially opening the prelude to the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

During the Apocalypse, it was almost never really peaceful, it was rotten, but because of the short time, it gave people a misunderstanding, and felt that the pot had to be carried by Chongzhen.

The complete collapse of Chongzhen is actually the manifestation of the flowering and fruiting of the Apocalypse Seed, just like cancer, it is not cancer in the early stage?

Moreover, the main thing was that there was no money, and a large number of mutinies in themselves provided the basis for the human security of the peasant uprising movement that was about to flourish.

Without a large number of soldiers leading the way, it is difficult for the peasants alone to develop so quickly all at once.

Of course, how to evaluate a person actually depends on the position, in the eyes of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, Wei Gonggong and his family are really "full of loyalty" and "merit".

Gonggong Wei is a tool in the emperor's hands.

Gonggong Wei was very harmful to the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

The death of the Ming Dynasty was a systemic collapse, and what Gonggong Wei did undoubtedly played an accelerating role.

Wei Zhongxian relied on nepotism to become the actual operator of the political situation in the Ming Dynasty, which caused great defects in the political morality of the Ming Dynasty and led to the dispersion of the people.

Wei Gonggong destroyed the political order of the Ming Dynasty, cronyism, and selfishness, and he did so in the era of internal and external troubles, which undoubtedly accelerated the process of the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

The so-called Wei Gonggong was able to fight for the people and officials, which was obviously obscene, and there was no foreign king in China who had to rely on the people and the parliament, similar to the so-called Donglin Party, fighting to achieve control of the country.

The emperors of the Ming Dynasty were not powerless, but many emperors were irresponsible or had limited abilities.

Legally speaking, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were supreme, and if they were serious, no minister would dare to do it.

The facts of the Apocalypse have proved that the Apocalypse Year is full of crises, but the time is too short, and when the crisis does not completely erupt, the Apocalypse Year is over.

If the year of the Apocalypse is longer, Gonggong Wei will not be much stronger than Chongzhen.

In short, the so-called capable minister Wei Gonggong is imaginary, and the real Wei Gonggong is a person with bad character and low political level.

Wang Yingjiao, a native of Huizhou who ranked 133rd on the list of Donglin Party members, proposed a number of financial open-source measures when he first became the secretary of the household department in the first year of the Apocalypse, such as coinage, pawn shop discretion, grain storage, deduction of work and food, leveling the barn, the case of the Eastern Expedition, the house tax deed, the donation of cares, the saving of banknotes and customs silver, the monk's Taoist degree, the horse price silver of the Ministry of Urging Troops, the Nanzhi Horse Pasture, the southern grain reform, and the Kuzhi cloth millet.

These are also known as miscellaneous, and the total amount of silver that can be levied is about 2,960,000 taels.

Among them, pawn shop discretion and house tax deed belong to the category of commercial tax.

Property tax deed: Where there is land, there is a tax deed, and if there is a cut, there is a tax deed.

When private real estate is bought and sold, the discretionary tax deed is levied in two cents per tael, that is, the real estate transaction tax, with an amount of nearly 290,000 taels.

Pawn shop: A merchant who engages in the pawn business makes a lot of money. The pawn shops in each province are divided into five classes according to their assets, and the annual taxes range from 10 to 50 taels, with a total levy of more than 195,000 taels.

Later, the official levy of "preferential exemption of grain and silver", Ming Dynasty civil and military officials, lifters, supervisors, Confucians, officials and other categories of personnel enjoyed the privilege of exempting from a certain amount of rent and forced labor.

At present, in addition to the students who are still exempted, the rest of the civil and military officials and eunuchs are also exempted from grain and silver, with a total of more than 444,000 taels.

During the reign of Gonggong Wei, Shaanxi was even exempted from taxes.

During the Apocalypse, the annual income of Liao was about 4 million taels, and this was only Liao.

Zuo Guangdou made a great deal in the tuntian of Hejian Province.

During Zuo Guangdou's management of Tuntian, he actively promoted Lu Guanxiang, a talented person in Tuntian, and at the same time advocated taking agricultural administration as the main criterion for evaluating the performance of local officials.

In addition, Zuo Guangdou recruited southerners to come to the north to teach northerners to farm in view of the fact that northerners were not good at planting rice and that taxes in the north were lighter than those in the south.

At the same time, it also opened the "Tun School", which was a school specially set up for the Tun Army and their children.

If you want to enter the "Tunxue" study, you also need to learn to ride and shoot; The admitted tun students are also given a certain amount of land for cultivation; Tun school students can also be directly exempted from the county examination and directly take the college examination.

What's even better is that Tuntian and Tunxue have not yet used state financial expenditure, and have achieved self-sufficiency.

"Yesterday was 600 acres, today is 4,000 acres, looking at the grass, now it is full of yellow clouds, chickens and dogs smell each other, fish and crabs are outlined, the scenery is vague, absolutely like the south of the Yangtze River", these are all Zuo Guangdou's political achievements.

Yang Lian also did a good job in Changshu County, and in the 42nd year of Wanli, he was the "first honest official" in the country.

Attaching importance to education, adding 800 acres of school land and 300 acres of righteous land to collect rent, which is used for school expenses; Donate money to build 40 miles of Futang stone embankment, known as Yanggong embankment.

Commercial taxes are mainly divided into two categories: 1. Customs duties, including mainland customs duties and customs duties.

Among them, the mainland tariff is divided into banknote tariff, industrial tariff, gate tax, dam tax, and ship tax.

Miscellaneous items include collapse tax, wine and vinegar tax, fishing tax, deed tax, and market stall tax.

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse and the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the share of arrears in arrears on the nine sides reached 72.38% (about 2.37 million taels) and 61.29% (about 2.01 million taels) respectively, where did the money go.

The share of arrears in the first year of the Apocalypse was 36.58%, 20.54% in the second year, 9.76% in the third year, 0.51% in the fourth year, and 8.38% in the fifth year.

Why is it that Gonggong Wei is in power, and the number of arrears of the nine-sided salary is getting higher and higher.

In the first year of Chongzhen, through the efforts of the new head of the household department, the Ming Dynasty barely alleviated the fiscal deficit.

Therefore, we must not have any stereotypical impression of history, thinking that the eunuch party will make money, and the Donglin party will not make money at all, and will only know how to quarrel and not think about the country.

There are also many very capable ministers in the Donglin Party who are very good at planning for the country and doing practical things.

The emperor urgently recruited Wei Bao to enter Beijing this time, on the one hand, he asked Wei Bao to accompany him and let Zhu Youxiao, the emperor of the Apocalypse, go to Shanhaiguan to play.

On the other hand, it is necessary to solve the problem of money, in the eyes of the emperor and Wei Zhongxian, Wei Bao is an omnipotent existence.

The shortfall of more than 4 million taels, plus Wei Bao's disarmament of 100,000 yuan, and the need to reissue the silver, totaled at least five million taels of silver.

Five million taels of silver, this kind of thing, tomorrow, except for Wei Bao, I'm afraid no one can solve it.

Of course, the Jin merchants can also do it, but once the Jin merchants are allowed to do it, they will get five million taels of silver from the hands of the Jin merchants, and they will be able to rely on exploitation from the people, rely on private business with Guanwai, enrich the material supply of the Mongols and Jiannu, and get back tens of millions of taels of silver, or even more.

In that case, the already crisis-ridden Ming will make matters worse.

In fact, everyone knows these things.

No one in this world is a fool, the emperor knows it, Wei Zhongxian knows it, the eunuch party knows it, the Donglin party ministers are also very clear, the neutral ministers, and even the ordinary people, everyone knows it!

Gu Bingqian, Wei Guangwei, Huang Liji, Feng Quan and other cabinet ministers gathered around Wei Bao, Wei Bao and a few people exchanged a few words, and took the initiative to let Li Chengnei and Luo Yangxing help him greet a group of cabinet elders, and then went to talk to Ding Shaoshi.

Lord Ding Shaoshi is now the only seedling of the Donglin Party in the cabinet.

Ding Shaoshi doesn't like Wei Bao, and he doesn't hate it very much, mainly because Wei Bao belongs to people who tend to be eunuchs, but he hasn't done much to harm the Donglin Party, but he has saved many Donglin Party ministers.

"Hello Lord Ding." Wei Bao took the initiative to greet Ding Shaoshi, "Thank you Lord Ding for coming to welcome me, I am a junior of the younger generation, when I first entered the Hanlin Academy, I also got the support of Lord Ding, Lord Ding can be regarded as half of my teacher, which makes me really unbearable." ”

"Lord Wei is not welcome, we will welcome Lord Wei, this is what His Majesty meant." Ding Shaoshi said that he was not salty or light.

Wei Bao smiled slightly, "Then I also need Lord Ding to come, Lord Ding can find an excuse not to use it, which means that I am okay in Lord Ding's heart." ”

Ding Shaoshi couldn't help but smile, he knew Wei Bao's eloquence, Wei Bao can say that the dead are alive, this ability can be said to be known to the whole dynasty.

At this time, Zhang Zhiji came, breaking the embarrassment that Wei Bao and Ding Shaoshi were walking together and had nothing to say to each other.

If the British government calculates it, it should be regarded as a neutral, and it will definitely not stand with the eunuchs, and it will be a little inclined to the Donglin Party, so that's all.

Therefore, Ding Shaoshi is more enthusiastic about Zhang Zhiji than Wei Bao, "The prince is good, Grandpa Guo hasn't seen him for a while, how is he?" ”

"Don't mention it, my dad is annoyed, every year is very annoying, isn't this year's salary about to be opened? Usually put it off and say that in the past, if you don't settle it for the New Year, you won't have a good year. Zhang Zhiji said.

Ding Shaoshi and Wei Bao both nodded.

Wei Bao knew the situation in Jingying, and raised more than 30,000 straw bales, all of which were waste, all of them were hereditary people who relied on the shadow of their ancestors.

More than 30,000 people, eating 50,000 soldiers, are about to catch up with the border army.

Wei Bao felt that Jingying should have been eliminated a long time ago, which was simply the biggest burden.

The war is completely unreliable, and the treatment is good, and the military salary of 50,000 people can catch up with the military salary of 70,000 or 80,000 people of the border army.

However, as the Imperial City's Imperial Guards, the revocation can never be revoked.

"This is easy to do, the Guogong Mansion has such a capable son-in-law as Lord Wei, even His Majesty has to look for Lord Wei if he is short of silver, you can also find Lord Wei to think of a way." Ding Shaoshi said with a smile.

Wei Bao smiled slightly when he heard this, but he was very unhappy in his heart, because Ding Shaoshi's tone was playful, obviously a little disrespectful to himself, and he was not in charge of the household department, so he was looking for me?

"This is impossible, my brother-in-law can't drop silver from the sky, nearly three million taels of silver, where can he get it." Although Zhang Zhiji is not keen on government and military affairs, he is not stupid, and he heard the banter in Ding Shaoshi's words.

"As far as I know, the Daming treasury silver has already run out, except for your lord Wei, I really can't think of who has the ability to pay the border army and the Beijing camp, otherwise Your Majesty would not be in such a hurry to let the lord return to Beijing." Ding Shaoshi said softly: "Lord Wei blocked Jiannu with his own strength, which is the best fight in so many years, and also knocked a large number of Mongolian tribes from Jiannu back to my Daming, and suddenly overshadowed Inspector Sun's achievements in Liaodong in the past few years, but this is only one aspect, the main thing is that His Majesty wants to discuss with the Lord how to collect silver, and those who can work hard." ”

This time, Wei Bao didn't feel uncomfortable, because Ding Shaoshi's tone was much more natural and a little worried.

Obviously, Ding Shaoshi also hopes that someone has the ability to get this silver, otherwise there will really be a mess.

"I have no choice, these two items add up to nearly more than eight million taels of silver, and I only have one Yamen, the governor of coastal defense, which is directly under the jurisdiction of Hejian Mansion, Cangzhou Mansion, Denglai and Shandong, all of which are poor places, and no matter how you tighten your belt, you can't get so much silver." Wei Bao said: "It also depends on a capable person like Lord Ding who has become a country." ”

"Right now, Daming is full of holes, it's not easy to do." Ding Shaoshi said: "I can't think of a way and there is nothing, I just hope that Lord Wei will not hit the heads of the gentry everywhere again, that is killing chickens and taking eggs, and there will be a big mess." ”

Wei Bao blushed at what Ding Shaoshi said, knowing what Ding Shaoshi meant, Ding Shaoshi was referring to the text inventory he had carried out, which affected the entire north, especially the area under the jurisdiction of Beizhili and his coastal defense governor, Yamen, which was equivalent to scraping the ground.

Wei Bao himself knew that this was a way to kill chickens and take eggs, and it would bring down the landlords, which would not be beneficial to the economy.

But Wei Bao's eyes were red at that time, and he wanted to make money.

"Lord Ding, some people do not respect their elders and have no court, when they should be taught, they should still be taught, as for this process, they may be beaten heavier, or they may be beaten lightly, and there are always certain omissions in the work of the people below." Wei Bao defended himself by a sentence.

Ding Shaoshi smiled: "I don't want to talk about this matter, I just think it's better to have fewer things like this in the future." ”