Although Ming Pao was not well received by Shilin, its audience grew day by day, and its circulation in Beijing soon climbed to 10,000 copies.

After Wang Yue returned from Tianjin, he saw that the circulation of the newspaper was so impressive, so he published an article under his real name entitled "Why the Imperial Court Has No Money", which elaborated on the disadvantages of the imperial court's tax structure and maritime ban.

The article said that from the tax of 20 million taels at the beginning of the dynasty to the current tax of 4 million taels? Compare the income of the Song Dynasty with the income of today, illustrate the importance of maritime trade, etc., one by one in detail in front of the reader, all the spearheads point to one direction, that is, the Donglin Party.

This issue of the newspaper was doubled and distributed free of charge, and the public period ended and the next issue will start to be charged.

The publication of this article can be regarded as the beginning of "Ming Pao" gradually competing for the right to speak and grasping public opinion. As soon as this article was published, it was like stepping on the tail of the Donglin Party.

Although since Wen Tiren sent Qian Qianyi home to eat himself and squeezed Zhou Yanru out of power, the Donglin Party has not been as strong as before. But most of the imperial historians are from the Donglin lineage, and many court officials are from Jiangnan, and they are inextricably linked with the Donglin Party.

The officials of the imperial history have successively impeached Wang Yue, pointing out that Wang Yue has ill intentions and intends to shake the country's foundation, and even some officials knelt in the court and begged Chongzhen to issue an order to eliminate thieves for the country.

If this article in "Ming Pao" touched the interests of most officials, then it was Chongzhen who was most in favor of this view, so these impeachment twists and turns were left by Chongzhen and refused to express his position.

Since Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, he overthrew Wei Zhongxian, eliminated the eunuchs, and finally came to power. But in the past few years, the state affairs have become increasingly difficult, and the biggest problem is that the imperial court is short of money everywhere, so he has vaguely felt where the crux of the problem is.

After Qian Qianyi, the leader of the Donglin Party, stepped down, Chongzhen was not used for a while, and finally mixed with Nanming, which can explain Chongzhen's attitude. And Wang Yue's article just clarified Chongzhen's thinking.

Since his accession to the throne, at the suggestion of Donglin, the "National Security Bureau" of Dongchang has been abolished.

Then take back the country's river supervision eunuchs, and the entire Chongzhen Dynasty has never repaired a river or treated a water in 17 years, whether it is the Yellow River or the Yangtze River, whether it is Shandong or Zhejiang. In the past 17 years, the river has been allowed to flood again and again, and every time the Donglin gentleman has used the excuse of "saving" to get rid of the money for repairing the river and controlling the water.

The Donglin cabinet and the Donglin party in the government and the opposition shouted long live for the wise decision of the Son of Heaven, and then the cabinet proposed a package of tax cuts.

The first thing that the Donglin gentleman proposed was the tea tax, and the Son of Heaven took back the eunuchs who were overseen by the various political departments. Of course, since then, the tea tax revenue of the provinces has dropped sharply, the civil officials have reported disasters one after another, and the tea harvest has failed, and in the tenth year of Chongzhen, the tea tax in Zhejiang Province alone has been reduced from 200,000 taels of silver in the Wanli and Tianqi years to 12 taels of silver per year - yes, you read that right, not 120,000 taels, but 12 taels.

Then there was the sea tax, and the Ming Dynasty civil officials and maritime merchants were inextricably linked, and they proposed to the emperor that the "forbidden sea" should be restored. The Son of Heaven once again recognized the judgment of the Donglin cabinet and ordered the eunuchs of the various customs to return to the palace.

Since the Wanli Tianzi Xinghai trade, customs tariffs have always been a major pillar of the Ming Dynasty's finances and an important source of domestic currency. By the time of the fortieth year of Wanli, the Son of Heaven of Wanli could get four million taels of silver in sea tax every year.

Since the first year of Chongzhen's cessation of customs duties in the name of reinstating the ban on the sea, the inner treasury can no longer get a tael of silver from the increasingly prosperous national maritime trade - however, this ban does not mean that no one collects taxes, on the contrary, the cashiers have changed from eunuchs to maritime merchants and officials, and they have greatly improved their efficiency, such as Zheng Zhilong.

Then there is the silk tax, Wanli thinks that if the merchant sells silk and weaves silk, he will be able to make money, so he collects industrial and commercial tax, Donglin gentleman thinks that this is called "the Son of Heaven and the small people compete for profit", is one of the reasons for the natural disaster, this tax exemption plan will naturally abolish it, Chongzhen agreed.

Then there is the cloth tax, the land and mineral tax, and the horse administration.

According to the request of Wenchen, after abolishing all kinds of taxes that "compete with the people for profit" and violated the ancestral system, the new emperor once again enjoyed the high praise that his grandfather, father and brother had never enjoyed.

However, it is a pity that God's response is relatively slow, and during the Chongzhen period, the north was still plagued by famines, and Houjin was still alive and kicking up - fighting wars and disaster relief required money.

Since the Chongzhen Dynasty carried out a large tax cut, the income of the inner treasury was almost completely cut off, and the treasury could no longer be subsidized, so the Donglin Party suggested that the nongfu be added.

After a series of genius financial policies, the treasury was gradually empty.

While a large number of officials shouted at Wang Yue and shouted at him, another part of the people applauded the article. Except for some people of insight, the most extensive number are the common people, who are the part of the people who have the least right to speak.

Wang Yue's article clearly illustrates the importance of taxation, the main sources of taxation in the imperial court, the role of taxation in the state, and so on. These are written in the vernacular, and conclude with the conclusion that the gentry, who make up 10% of the population, control 90% of the country's wealth, but do not pay taxes. Is it normal for commoners, who account for 90% of the population, to use 10% of their wealth to pay 10% of the country's taxes? It hits the nail on the head.

It is no wonder that so many officials jumped to their feet, even if he offended the rich businessmen of the world, Wang Yue was not afraid, and the goods in the starting point city were not sold, and he could also support the new bourgeoisie.

As the first good place of the Ming Dynasty, Jingshi is known as the most important capital of the Ming Dynasty at the foot of the Son of Heaven, and everything that happens here will be concerned by the officials, gentry and even the people of the world throughout the Ming Dynasty, so the influence of "Ming Pao" has also spread rapidly.

Wang Yue did not hope that the imperial court would be able to improve internally, nor did he think that an article could change the imperial court's policies. Without strong strength, such a reform cannot be carried out, and it is unimaginable that there is so much resistance.

The purpose of this article is to set the tone for the implementation of relevant policies when the starting city expands outward in the future, that is, the government and the people will pay for food together. At the same time, it is also to win the hearts of the people and be the spokesperson of the people. He knew that this article would definitely be right for Chongzhen, so he was not worried about other people's impeachment.

The shouting and killing of "Ming Pao" has not yet ended, and it is just the fifth day of the first lunar month, and Chongzhen has received another piece of impeachment against Wang Yue.

These two pieces were written by the newly appointed secretary of the military department, Yang Sichang, and the governor of Tianjin, He Shishou, who impeached Wang Yue for ignoring the imperial court's ban on the sea and privately building a naval division. He Shishou originally planned to turn a blind eye, but Wang Yue's article made him angry, so there was this impeachment.

Chongzhen hadn't figured out how to make a statement, and on the sixth day of the first month, the envoy from North Korea arrived in Beijing.

Before Huang Taiji arrived in Seoul, the king of Joseon, Yi Liang, sent a distress messenger to the Ming Dynasty.