Chapter 90: The Pawn (2)
In recent years, Chongzhen has established a post station system in the general trend of the empire, and secret branches of the Espionage Department have been established throughout the country. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info due to the characteristics of Jinyiwei and Dongchang, many people are trained from an early age, and it is not suitable for recruiting people to expand manpower among ordinary people. In the case of insufficient manpower, Chongzhen began to ask the military department to recall retired soldiers to enter the post station.
Compared with the Espionage Division, which requires absolute loyalty, the post station has much more relaxed requirements for manpower, and the soldiers who can come back alive on the battlefield, even if they are disabled and retired, are not comparable to ordinary recruits when they return to the battlefield, and it is very suitable to use this group of people as post station guards, which can be used to guard the post station and transport goods.
Large post station, equipped with hundreds of people, now the new post station has as many as hundreds, of course, the empire has a hundred large post stations with a scale of 100 people, most of them are some small and medium-sized post stations of thirty or fifty people, with the establishment of the empire post station, the greater the gap in manpower, and finally prompted Chongzhen to order the recall of all soldiers under the age of fifty who have retired in the past ten years, and the re-enlisted post soldiers are paid 200 yuan per month (equivalent to 100 yuan now), Chongzhen remembers that he serves the empire for the second time, and all the post soldiers are in the army during the enlistment, Individual households are exempt from all agricultural taxes.
Exempt from taxes, if there is a choice, Chongzhen is unwilling, but there is no way, now the finances of the Ming Dynasty have almost collapsed, and the natural disasters in the north of the empire continue, it is good not to subsidize yourself, don't think about taxes, the southern region collects a lot of taxes from local officials every year, the key is that there are very few people who can go to the treasury, anyway, these taxes can't reach their own pockets, it is better to exempt those who serve for themselves from taxes, on the one hand, you can buy people's hearts. Second, it can also maintain stability within the empire.
The post station system is a comprehensive post station established by Chongzhen to imitate the long-distance bus transportation system of later generations and the world's dart bureau, cargo station, inn and restaurant, which transports personnel in peacetime, sends goods, and opens shops to do business to support themselves.
Compared with the post station that can recruit retired soldiers on a large scale, Chongzhen's newly established spy department can only use the manpower of Jinyiwei and Dongchang, who have been brainwashed since childhood, and the post station is generally a small post station of fifty miles, and a general post station in each big city, and the secret stronghold of the spy department, due to the generator driven by the waterwheel in this era, the transmission distance of the current is limited, and every twenty miles needs to establish a stronghold of the espionage department, and the distance between the imperial capital division and the southernmost Hainan is more than 5,000 miles. This route requires two or three hundred spy strongholds, and even if the telegram is completed, it will take more than half a day from receiving the news to the Beijing division from station to station along the way.
Of course, the current spy department is not so terrifying, the current spy department of the network has only set up three routes, one is the Beijing division to the three customs, one is to accompany the capital Nanjing, the last one is to Xi'an, the current completion is only these three days route, with the passage of time, the stronghold of the spy department is like a vein, from the imperial capital to spread to the whole country, when this vein spreads throughout the world, any wind and grass in the empire will be transmitted to Chongzhen's ears in the first time.
"Big companion, you said that among the group of uncles I am, that one is easier to control" Chongzhen sat in front of the dragon case in the study and asked Wang Chengen behind him, since he came to this world, think about it carefully, except for the time when he pushed all government affairs to the cabinet in the first few months, he didn't seem to have had a relaxed time. After the ceremony of sacrificing to the heavens took back power, he plunged into the study, and faced the twists and turns of the mountains and seas all day long.
Hearing Chongzhen's topic, Wang Chengen waved his hand and drove out a few henchmen and little eunuchs who were accompanying here, and asked people to guard the hall and say carefully, "What did the emperor say?" ”
"Those who hate me to the core, and at the same time are easily influenced by the people around them, and are easily controlled by emotions" Flipping through the twists and turns in his hand, Chongzhen suddenly felt bored, these twists and turns saw that he was dizzy, and it seemed that it was necessary to reorganize the cabinet, and with his own strength, even with the assistance of the celebrant and the celebrant so many twists and turns were enough for himself.
"The biggest opinion on the emperor should be King Fu, this time to recover the feudal king's fiefdom Fu Wang lost the most, in Henan, Shandong, Huguang and other formal fiefs have 20,000 acres, in addition to the coercion and temptation actually controlled in the hands of the fertile land has been close to 40,000 acres, the last time was forced by the emperor to take back, the prince was angry about this" King Fu for Chongzhen is not only angry, it is simply hateful, those who were recalled to participate in the ceremony of sacrificing the heavens of the vassal king that one is not resentful of Chongzhen, a vassal king lost his fief, That is, they have lost most of their sources of income, and cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents, if it weren't for the lack of soldiers and power, those princes would have learned to launch a rebellion against Jingnan by learning to become ancestors.
"Yes, it seems that I am still too merciful, pass on the order, all the vassal kings and princes, whether they are crazy or stupid, as long as they are not allowed to leave Beijing without my consent, those who go out without permission will not be killed" There is no emotion for this group of princes Chongzhen, and he directly issued an order that he could not let go of another mistakenly killed, and there are many guys in history who pretended to be crazy and stupid and ran back to their fiefdoms to raise troops to rebel, who knows if there will be such a character in the old Zhu family, Chongzhen will not make such a mistake.
"What is the character of King Fu" Although later generations Chongzhen knew that this guy was a fat pig straw bale, but a waste can grow into a premier vassal king in the deceitful court, how can it be simple, just blocking the way of people and wealth is enough for him to die a hundred and eighty times, it is better to be careful.
Now his throne is not as stable as it seems on the surface, and when the foundation is unstable, he rashly moves out of the Jiangnan landlord merchant group or the general trend to slaughter the royal family, which is a manifestation of looking for death. Monetary interests cannot be a one-line connection, in which the intertwined often involve the whole body, those who have taken money and sent money have done everything in order to protect themselves, pulling out the radish with mud no one wants to suffer from the pond fish. The current Ming Dynasty, there are Jiangnan landlords and businessmen who take the lead in raising prices to resist commercial taxes, there are Jurchen people eyeing each other, and there is a Shaanxi Jin merchant who eats inside and outside under internal and external troubles, and now he does not have the strength to clean up these cows, ghosts, snakes and gods that are adsorbed on Daming at the same time.
Daming is rotten to this point It is impossible to evolve peacefully, only a large-scale civil war can clean up those classes that have been decayed, you can meet that as long as there is a large-scale civil war in the country, the Jurchens led by Huang Taiji will definitely pounce as viciously as a wild dog, the Jurchens are a vicious dog, a vicious dog that will pounce on the Ming Dynasty at any time, in order to deal with this vicious dog, most of their troops have been consumed at the border.
"The pampered prince since he was a child is not a person who has achieved great things, he drinks alcohol all day long, loves only women, singing and dancing, and is indifferent to the chaos of the outside world. Whether it is the housekeeper in the palace or the eunuchs around him, they are all from Dongchang, and his every move is under the supervision of Dongchang, and the emperor can rest assured"
"In this case, let the celebrant find an excuse to remove his throne and throw him to the south of the Yangtze River, aren't there still a few generals loyal to the royal family in the south, inform that group of people, if there is an incident in the south one day, let them take refuge in King Fu, help King Fu regain the throne, and become the leader of the incident" Now there are only a few vassal kings who are qualified to raise the banner of the Qing monarch's side, and they are all under house arrest in the capital by Chongzhen, and now let a Fu Wang out, and that group of people want to use excuses such as the Qing monarch's side to rebel, and there is only one choice, King Fu, King Fu may have some ability, but it is by no means material for governing the country, and Chongzhen is still more relieved to let him go out and gather people who oppose him.
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