At the same time, a secret report was sent to Emperor Chongzhen as soon as possible.

"Kill 20,000 Hulu, and kill one thief chieftain." Wang Chengen selected the most inspiring passage of the secret report and read it out

"How many Hulu have you killed?" Chongzhen didn't believe his ears

"Twenty thousand!" Wang Chengen raised his voice

"Isn't it two thousand? Wang Chengen, I heard you right, right? You read that right? Chongzhen still didn't believe it

"The old slave didn't read it wrong, His Majesty didn't hear it wrong, and the brocade guards didn't dare to write it wrong for such a big thing." Wang Chengen's old face wrinkled even more with a smile

"Bring it quickly~" Chongzhen snatched the secret report from Wang Chengen's hand, and wanted to see with his own eyes this fantastical victory in North Korea. Chongzhen read it three times in a row, and then he couldn't put down the secret report and said to Wang Chenen: "Wang Chengen, immediately gather the ministers, I want to use this Korean victory to spur them." ”

Wang Chengen hurriedly stopped: "Your Majesty, don't! ”

"Why not? The rewards and punishments are clear, this is what Mingjun did. Do you want to be a faint king? Chongzhen was surprised

"Since Wanli, the Ming Dynasty has repeatedly lost in Liaodong. Although there were small victories after that, they were all defensive battles, when did you have a big victory of killing more than a thousand? Now that 20,000 are killed at once, how many people do you say the ministers of the DPRK and China will believe it? Wang Chengen said: "If you don't believe it, you must be impeached en masse, fabricated charges for Song Youliang, and said that Song Youliang lied about his military exploits." At that time, the impeachment recital will fly like snowflakes, and a seedling that His Majesty has painstakingly cultivated will be drowned in the spittle of these ministers. ”

Chongzhen was a little depressed, what Wang Chengen said was true, and the situation he said was entirely possible. "Then I will sue the Taimiao and comfort the previous emperors, it's always okay, right?"

Wang Chengen smiled: "That's nature~"

"Then there must be a reward, right?" Chongzhen said with a smile

"Song Youliang has long thought about it, he wants to mine mines in Dengzhou and levy mining taxes." Wang Chengen handed over the notebook sent from Dengzhou

Chongzhen took the notebook and looked at it, and muttered: "It's no problem to open a mine, but if you collect a mining tax, I'm afraid you will be angry again." ”

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the entire government was almost entirely controlled by the interests of the bourgeois industrialists and merchants, which is by no means an exaggeration. Judging from the facts, this is also confirmed. A considerable part of the members of the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty were born in industrial and commercial families, and their words and deeds in the government did spare no effort to serve their own class, which is why Wanli levied mining tax and commercial tax was scolded by civil officials for hundreds of years, and the successors who abolished mining tax were praised by civil officials.

In the eyes of many businessmen. "Having a son but not being able to teach him the knowledge of the sages, so that the virtues of the articles will shine in the Ming Dynasty, and the villagers will be noble for the rest of their lives" Accumulating wealth through business and taking it as the economic backing of Confucianism is a common way for the people of the time to seek family prominence and improve social status"

The Fei family in Leadshan, Jiangxi Province, is a typical representative of this, who made their fortune by doing business, and then used this as a basis to train their children to study, so that a large number of family members entered the government. Genealogy. Filial piety. The frontispiece of the Fourteen Princes of Qian Facts states: "The Fourteen Princes of the Fourteen Princes are widely accomplished,...... Learn from Xiao Jia to give her mother autonomy,...... In the following years, the property of three thousand daughters 'laid the economic foundation for the long-term development of the family in the future,...... After Fei Guangcheng's death, his two sons: one was in business, and the other was Confucian. The eldest son, Fei Rongzu, 'inherited his father's business', and it is said that when he was in business, he 'accumulated virtue and did good, so as to give relief to people's needs',...... The fourth Fei Yingqi inherited the unfinished business of his parents, while doing business to maintain his physiology, expanding the family wealth, and becoming a well-known businessman,......, while inviting famous teachers to teach his sons and nephews,......, five sons under his knees, three of them to learn the sub-business, two to manage the housework, and implement the division of labor within the family. Later, the Fei family embarked on a career through the imperial examination and entered the government as high-ranking officials, including Fei Hong, who served as the first assistant to the cabinet in the early days of Jiajing.

For example, Wang Chonggu's father, Wang Yao, who once served as the secretary of the Ming Dynasty's military department, was a big businessman, 'Gong Pu is a good man, he is a good man, he is a businessman for support, he has a way to make money, and he is a good businessman.

Another example is the Jinshi, Xu Jie's father Xu Xi, who served as the political history of Shaanxi's right cloth, is also a big businessman in Shanxi, 'chasing the profits of salt pods' and 'accumulating huge millions'"

In terms of political and economic status, the Donglin Party members also belong to this class. For example, Gu Xiancheng, the main leader of the Donglin Party, and Gao Panlong.

Gu Xiancheng's father, after being a winemaker, a bean man, a glutton, a dyeer, and bankrupt, 'moved back to Jingli to sell pulp'", was a typical industrialist and businessman, a representative of the petty bourgeoisie. Let's look at another Gao Panlong, "Gao Panlong's grandfather is Gao Cai, and his father Gao Menglong is engaged in business lending. But Gao Panlong passed on to his grandfather's younger brother college as a son, so he became a brother with his father, and the college governed the production of rice and salt, and titheed for winning and intersecting with China", which is also a typical industrial and commercial family.

In fact, not only did a large number of civil officials come from industrial and commercial families, but many civil officials in the Ming Dynasty still did not give up their industrial and commercial activities after entering the official career.

Tang Shunzhi, a scholar during the Jiajing period, pointed out that at that time, Huizhou 'was not afraid to read the family' [200]. The writer Gui Youguang said that at that time, Huizhou 'although the family of scholars and doctors, they all traveled in all directions with animals'" In addition, "Wang Wenyan, a famous figure of the Donglin Party, was a giant businessman in Huizhou"

The industrial and commercial activities operated by the Ming Dynasty gentry were:

Borrowing. From Ge Qian's "Compassion for the People", we know that during the time of Hong Xi, officials had generally engaged in business and borrowed money in their ministries

Quality shop, a great literati in the Wanli period of Jiajing, the father and grandfather of the official Wang Shizhen were engaged in this industry, "Yuanmei Xi has a first business, and the family is also huge", "300,000 yuan a year, not as good as in previous years"

Official, this should be equivalent to the current bank, handling deposit and withdrawal business. Xu Jie's family has an official store.

Shops, Yan Song has '28 shops' in Nanchang,......, 'house shops (46 and a half in total)' in Linchuan County',......, Huang Zeng Province said, 'Wu Zhongjin's gentlemen and doctors are mostly anxious about the goods, if the Beijing master is the official shop, Liuguo Kaixing Debt Dictionary, selling salt and alcohol, and his skills are double in Qi Min'

Commercial trade, such as the scholar Chen Wen, who sold salt, and his protégés called him Hades. Compared with the late official Shangshu Tu Yong, 'selling smuggled salt, the villagers followed suit, several to thousands of generations'. The people regard food as the sky, and the gentry certainly can't forget to sell rice for profit. In Chenghua, Fujian's 'officials also have relatives and nephews who sell rice and goods'. There are also paper sellers: 'Kuocang Fan Doushan Xianke, let Guangdong Fu press the history of the tour. In a difficult day, it is a time of great editions, and they sell paper to Wenmaoli'

Overseas trade, Wang Wenlu said...... Lu Rong also said: "The recent benefits are all exclusive to the family of forces, and the poor people have to be hired by them" Zhu Kun strictly forbade the sea in order to crack down on the Japanese invaders, and as a result, Lin Xiyuan, a township official in Fujian, and others "so the officials of the Tuyan Dynasty impeached him for unauthorized killing, but the officials of the time did not seek to save him", as a result, Zhu Kun was dismissed and committed suicide, "China and foreign countries did not dare to say that the sea is banned"

Handicraft industry, the Ming Dynasty textile industry is unprecedentedly developed, "the scholar family is more textile for profit", the Ming Dynasty cabinet first assistant Xu Jie, "more weaving women, the accumulation of years, and the city for Jia", and Huo Tao's family operates kiln smelting, charcoal iron, wood planting, each has a special person responsible, 'the year into the city, reported to the goods, the owner of the goods at the end of the year to consult the parents, to know the most 'and the printing industry,' recently we have more movable type copper seals, quite convenient

Planting industry, the household department member Wai Lang Bi is a title of 'widely placed waste mountain, a little bit of wood,...... In fact, Xu Guangqi also planted a large amount of wasteland in Tianjin, conducted agricultural experiments, and obtained a lot of income and improved the family economy. ）

The Ming Dynasty officials engaged in industrial and commercial activities, which was the so-called collusion between officials and businessmen, the use of power for personal gain, and the manifestation of political corruption in the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, these officials are desperate to defend the interests of their own business groups, which are sitting on huge amounts of wealth but refuse to pay taxes to the state, and are trying to shift the tax burden that should have been borne by industry and commerce to agriculture and peasants, who are already vulnerable.

These officials are state moths through and through