【158】Fortune Plan (1)

Li Ziyuan regarded the one that went to Qixian County as the main division of the official army, just like when Zuo Liangyu rescued Kaifeng in the first month of this year, he first occupied Qixian County as a foothold, but he did not expect that a large number of elite troops of the official army had already come north from Fugou and Weishi in a straight line, and obviously wanted to seize Zhuxian Town and set up a large camp, and Kaifeng City was a horn against each other. Li Zicheng briefly discussed with everyone, and they all agreed that it was necessary to occupy Zhuxian Town before the official army arrived. But at that time, only Liu Zongmin and Gao Yigong were stationed in Yan Lizhai. Zong Min had to help deploy the military, and the Chinese military camp with high merit must not be transferred out of the old camp. Moreover, Li Zicheng knew that the combat was heavy, and he was Gao Yigong's specialty, so he urgently met the enemy, rushed and struck, and overwhelmed the enemy with momentum, and Gao Yigong was not as good as Yuan Zongdi. He thought for a moment, and then said to Yuan Zongdi: You are so ~~

On the thirtieth day of the first month of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng led the peasant rebel army to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army in the Zhuxian Town area of Henan. The Ming court appointed Hou Sui as the squire of the military department, responsible for the military affairs of Shandong, Henan, and Hubei; ordered Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, to quickly go out of the customs to reinforce Henan; He also ordered the governor Ding Qirui, the governor Yang Wenyue and the general soldier Zuo Liangyu to lead about 200,000 divisions and 10,000 artillery vehicles to aid Kaifeng. In late June, the Ming army led by Ding Qirui and others arrived at Zhuxian Town, 45 miles southwest of Kaifeng. Li Zicheng left a small force to continue to attack the city and clamp down on the Ming army in the city; He led the main force to occupy the favorable terrain west of Zhuxian Town and attacked the Ming reinforcements. After several days of fierce fighting, the left saw that the peasant army was strong, and fled by night, and the Ming troops from all walks of life also retreated one after another. Li Zicheng immediately sent elite troops to make a detour to intercept the attack. As soon as the left part retreated 80 miles, Li Zicheng immediately waved his army to block and chase after him, and then launched a fierce attack, and the left part of the army was in great chaos, and they fell into the deep ditch dug by the rebel army first, trampling on each other, and suffering heavy casualties. The peasant army was killed in the tens of thousands.

On February 19 of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng besieged Kaifeng for the third time.

When the news reached Beijing, Chongzhen was so angry that he fainted on the spot, and after the eunuchs and doctors were in a hurry, they finally woke Chongzhen up. Chongzhen said angrily: "500,000 taels of silver, you can't buy a victory." Song Youliang didn't want to pay a tael of silver, but also handed over 100,000 taels of silver every year, and collected three states in a row. Could it be that my Ming dynasty is only supported by this single tree? ”

Wang Chengen desperately rubbed Chongzhen's chest with his own hands, "Your Majesty, don't worry, Your Majesty, the old slave will send someone to Liaodong to call Song Youliang back." ”

Chongzhen knocked Wang Chengen's hand away, "What else are you rubbing~~Go quickly~~"

"The old slave obeys the order~~ The old slave obeys the order~~" Wang Chengen hurriedly drafted the order.

"Slow down~~" Chongzhen called Wang Chengen, "Let's change Hong Chengchou!" Chongzhen secretly said in his heart: Song Youliang is my last trump card, if he has any mistakes, then he has no hope?"

Let's say that when the situation in the Central Plains was deteriorating, Song Youliang was waiting for the stars and the moon to send someone to serve as the governor of the three prefectures in southern Liaoning. However, a month has passed, and there is no news from the imperial court. However, Song Youliang has long expected this, and today's southern Liaoning is like a blank piece of paper, and he can build how he wants.

Because the Ming court did not set up prefectures and counties in eastern Liaodong, only health offices, it was impossible for Song Youliang to openly start a new business and set up county-level administrative organs in Jinzhou, Fuzhou and Gaizhou. We can only continue to use the old system of the guard post and rebuild the Jinzhou Guard and the Fuzhou Guard and the Gaizhou Guard to be built, but this kind of guard post no longer has the distinction between military households, civilian households, and artisan households, and in essence, it is the civil affairs yamen that manages the local government with military administration. The subordinate garrison troops are all used to maintain the local garrison.

The management methods of the garrison, artisan battalion and gongfu battalion of the Jinzhou Guard were also completely copied to Fuzhou and Gaizhou, and the material was still under the militarized management of the rationing system. This management method will not change until the situation of material scarcity in southern Liaoning has not changed and the economy has not developed. The local health posts are mainly under the jurisdiction of the logistics department, and they manage the staffing well, as well as the fields and fishing grounds that are cultivated, and some important factories, salt fields, and mines are directly under the management of the tuntian, military, and civilian bureaus of Dengzhou Town. Select some people who are highly respected among the local people to join the management of the health center, send them the "Haiyangwei Measures" that have been printed, and build the three guards of Jinzhou, Fuzhou and Gaizhou according to the model of Haiyangwei.

In addition to building Sanwei according to the model of Haiyangwei, Song Youliang also began to promote new crops in Sanwei - corn and potatoes, changing the current single grain based on wheat. At the same time, it also began to promote the planting of an important oil crop in eastern Liaodong - rapeseed, and an important sugar crop - sugar beet.

On the eighth day of February in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Song Youliang convened Wenzhou businessmen Gu Yushan, Jiangsu businessmen Wu Zhizhi, Zhejiang businessmen Tong Jinying, Fujian businessmen Chen Zhili, Anhui businessmen Li Mingsheng, and Shaanxi businessmen Ji Hui to discuss the plan to make a fortune.

As soon as the shopkeepers of several merchant gangs met, they gave a generous gift, congratulating Song Youliang on his promotion to the rank of official and the title of Pingbeibo. Gu Yushan sent a cross made of pure gold and seven gems forward. "The lord believes in the Taixi religion, so the villain specially made this cross and gave it to the lord."

"You shopkeepers are busy with things, and they came all the way to Jinzhou, and they have worked hard~" Song Youliang gave up.

Gu Yushan said with a smile: "As soon as the lord said that we would discuss the plan to make a fortune, we would come even if we were on the edge of the sky, did you say?" ”

"Yes~~ Over the years, relying on the lord, we have earned a lot of silver, and it is too late to thank the lord, why the hard work?" The rest of the shopkeepers also roared.

Song Youliang smiled with satisfaction: "I have summoned everyone here today, and there are two things to discuss with you. The first is that I hope to gather you and the businessmen under your command to raise funds to start a bank. ”

"Money?" Gu Yushan was stunned and said, "What is Qianzhuang?" ”

Song Youliang smiled: "You always know about the money shop, right?" ”

"I know that." Gu Yushan replied with a smile: "Isn't it just a money shop, people use silver to exchange copper money, or if they want to exchange copper money for silver, the money shop will make some difference from it, and there are several money shops in Dengzhou, and they all make a living from this." Don't hide it from the lord, I have two money shops under my own name! That is, to earn some water! ”

Song Youliang waved his hand and said, "If you make a small fight, you can't make a lot of money." ”

Gu Yushan asked, "What is the master's plan?" ”

"Mint coins~" Song Youliang smiled.

As soon as these words came out, all the shopkeepers were excited, and everyone knew that minting coins was a huge profit among huge profits.

After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the minting and circulation of copper coins were completely out of control, almost completely controlled by private monopolies, and the government was basically completely powerless. For example, Jiajing banned private money for eight years, because of the traitorous party's private agreement, each closed the money market, and even the goods were rushed, and the ban was relaxed', and even seven or eight years later, when the officials of the Ming Dynasty again proposed to strictly prohibit 'private money', they had to worry that they 'had a plan in the past, and now they will attack it' ("Ming Shizong Records").

Such a fact may make some people dumbfounded, in their instilled concept, the Ming Dynasty is an extremely high-pressure society, in the words of some people, the so-called highly centralized imperial society, in such a society, every corner of society, every industry is controlled by the government, there is no freedom at all, how can such a thing happen?

You must know that the so-called private money, in today's words, is counterfeit money, counterfeit money, any current society, no matter how democratic and free, once counterfeit money and counterfeit money are found, they will be severely cracked down on and merciless. In the Ming Dynasty, which some people called highly totalitarian (said to be the peak of Chinese feudalism), couldn't even do such a trivial thing as cracking down on private money? Moreover, Emperor Jiajing is the most tough, most powerful, and most powerful emperor after Taizu became an ancestor, so can't he do such a thing? Even compared with previous dynasties, from the Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, once it was discovered that the minting and use of private money, they were all punished with felonies, and there were joint sittings.

Why couldn't this be done in the Ming Dynasty? In fact, the key problem here is that all the economic interests of the Ming Dynasty were transferred to the people, and a group of extremely arrogant industrial and commercial classes were cultivated, and the economy was completely not controlled by the central government. Moreover, the government is full of the interests of these private businessmen, who provide information, plan decisions, and even rely on them to carry out their execution, and in such a situation, the actual political and economic power of the people is much greater than that of any modern democratic and free government, and the actual political and economic power of the government is much smaller and much smaller than that of any so-called modern liberal and democratic government. This is why during the Jiajing period, private money was forbidden, and as a result, as soon as the businessmen united to protest, as soon as the market was boycotted, the government had no way to do anything, and it was also the reason why the later the Ming Dynasty, the more prosperous the economy, the more serious the government's financial crisis!

The situation of banning private money in the Chongzhen period at the end of the Ming Dynasty is: "At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the ban on private money, ordered to set up a stone mortar iron pestle, a private money, not time to melt in the furnace, can be mashed, 'the mortar is set in the door, the pestle is suspended in the mortar, the official sits and guards, from the dynasty to the twilight, half a month, the small people have no money to give up the chivalrous intestines, and the dealers have no foolish sticks that touch the net. To be bored, it is to buy private money and pound it. If you can't get out of the morning, you will want the squad to hold four or five thousand dollars and pound two incense. Gather the broken money and copper powder between the pestle and mortar for people to see. After a month, all the reports were named, and the private money was collected, and the extra money did not dare to increase, and the people all complied with the system, but they all blamed themselves, and the price of the people's money tended to be even worse."

This is a living farce and farce, banning private money, and the result is that it is completely dependent on the principle of voluntariness, no one pays private money, and officials have to pay for it out of their own pockets, and then make it look like destroying it. Chongzhen seems to be very powerful, how many ministers have been killed for dereliction of duty, and how many people have been selected, but he has no control over the people. No such thing as banning smuggling money can be done, let alone anything else. It is strange that such a government does not have a fiscal crisis! This is the evil result of the erosion of the entire government system of the Ming Dynasty government and the civilian-bureaucratic group by the interests of private industrialists and businessmen!