"Did there be any news about Cao Huachun who went to Shanxi" When he sent Cao Huachun to Shanxi to clean up the Jin merchants, now the time should come, the Ming in this period can be said to be very rich, of course, it is the wealth of the entire Ming Dynasty, and his own master and the court are still poor, as early as the beginning of coming to this world, Chongzhen considered the source of military spending. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The first part of the start-up capital can only be Wei Zhongxian's legacy, and he had considered leaving Wei Zhongxian as a knife to deal with the Donglin Party, but he finally gave up. When he first ascended the throne, he urgently needed a person of sufficient weight to establish his prestige, with Wang Chengen, a loyal eunuch, Wei Zhongxian was not so important, after all, it was not with his own heart, or it was beneficial to kill him, in fact, Wang Chengen did not have to be worse than Wei Zhongxian, whether it was the newly established West Factory or the later spy department, it developed extremely smoothly under his control.

As for Cao Huachun, this guy is also a person who came out of the palace back then, he can still be trusted with this background, it is still okay to push him to the forefront, let him be a mad dog of his own, who dares to go against his will, then let Cao Huachun come forward to bite him to death, these things that have to bear infamy, he is the emperor to establish a positive image It is not good to do it directly, and it is the best solution to instruct the eunuchs around him to come forward, but this kind of mad dog may have to be abandoned in a special period, So the loyal Wang Chengen Chongzhen didn't intend to let him be blackened, and after a few years, it turned out that Wang Chengen and Cao Huachun were still very capable, whether it was the Jinyiwei of the East and West Second Factory or the later spy department under the care of these two people, everything became just orderly. You can perform various tasks according to Chongzhen's intentions.

In the 2 years since he ascended the throne, Wei Zhongxian's legacy has almost been spent, although the eunuchs in various towns have participated in the stratification of various local black incomes, and they can get millions of silver back every year, and some cronies and little eunuchs are secretly instructed by themselves to take the calligraphy, painting and antiques in the palace out of the palace to sell, and in addition to the pitiful taxes of the original imperial court, they can get more or less millions of taels of silver a year.

But this money is still not enough, the formation of a new army, the repayment of military salaries, the expansion of the East and West No. 2 Factory, the construction of the Jinyi Guard, the secret construction of the spy department, the construction of official roads all over the country, the construction of new post stations, gun factories, shipyards, the money is gone after a few brushes like a bamboo tube pouring beans. What's even more terrifying is that the official road built to Shanxi and Shaanxi has now gathered millions of victims, even if this group of people is allowed to work non-stop, and then Yang Sichang extracts and trains the militia to control the overall situation, it also makes Chongzhen gradually unbearable, millions of people, the food consumed every day, that is terrifying, the imperial Jiangnan and Liangguang and other places because of the government's wanton purchase of grain, grain prices have already shown signs of rising, if it is the Dongchang people who do not collect grain secretly coerced and intimidated those merchants, the price would have flown up long ago.

Now not only Wei Zhongxian's inheritance, but also the money he got from killing people and robbing his family at the Heaven Sacrifice Ceremony has been lost. If it weren't for the fact that the Sacrifice to Heaven had copied the homes of a group of high-ranking officials, the finances of the Ming Dynasty would have gone bankrupt long ago, and most of the army would not be able to move itself without money to pay military salaries, and there was no money to buy food for the group of disaster victims gathered in Shanxi who were working for relief, and it was a riot of millions of victims in minutes.

If he really loses power in the reform, the group of aristocratic families, local tyrants and wealthy businessmen who have long been separated from him, Chongzhen believes that they don't mind killing themselves and letting this world change emperors.

If you want to say that the most profitable way in the world, there are only a few, one is to reopen the Silk Road, and the other is to open the sea ban on new ports, but both of these need strong military strength to ensure that there is no strong empire behind the Silk Road, and there is no strong empire behind the Silk Road, and it is waiting to be robbed by those messy countries along the way.

"Back to the emperor, at present, Cao Huachun has led the Dongchang brigade to Shanxi, this latest information sent" Wang Chengen held a secret fold in both hands and handed it to Chongzhen,

Shanxi is next to the capital, it can be said that it is under their noses, and the group of Jin merchants is really bold enough, like a group of rats, under their own eyelids, digging their own corners, the court is now without money, but those rich merchants and high-ranking officials in the Ming Dynasty have money, just say that these eight Jin merchants, they were getting the information of Jinyiwei, and when they saw those family properties, they were startled.

Chongzhen sat on the dragon chair and flipped through the secret folds handed by Wang Chengen, according to the information of Jinyiwei, the Jin merchants were in the border trade, first of all, they had special policies such as grain business with the officials and soldiers of the Nine Border Garrison, and salt exchange. Then there was the smuggling transaction with the Mongolian Houjin, the gold, silver and jewelry robbed by the Houjin front foot in the Ming Dynasty, and the back foot was exchanged for grain, swords and armor through this group of merchants. Each of these eight families has millions of taels of liquidity, plus land, shops, real estate, etc., the total assets of more than seven or eight million taels, and the less have a net worth of six or seven million taels, and the eight Jin merchants have taken down the family and exterminated the clan, and they have an income of forty or fifty million taels of silver, which is enough to support themselves through the weak period of the reform of the Ming Dynasty.

"There is so much money, there will be no accidents on the road, I remember that there were not a few generals with good abilities in the original Beijing camp who were later transferred to the new army by Sun Chuanting, one of them Zhou Yuji heard Sun Chuanting mention him a few times, one praised him for being good, then let him take 20,000 new troops to Shanxi, and at the same time let Cao Huachun deal with the governor of Shanxi and the general soldiers" So money, Chongzhen is still not very at ease with Cao Huachun, dealing with corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and rectifying illegal profiteers, maybe Cao Huachun's means are good, If you don't get that group of Jin merchant dogs to jump over the wall in a hurry and raise a rebellion, then it will not be Cao Huachun's specialty to suppress the rebellion and march to fight.

"Your Majesty, take the liberty of letting Dongchang dispose of the governor of a province, and the ministers of the court and the central government are afraid that they will be quite subtle" said that Wang Chengen wisely shut up here, and there are some things that he can only remind the emperor that he must not say more, otherwise he will cause trouble for himself.

"Then let Zhou Yuji bring a holy decree and appoint him as the governor of Shanxi, as for the original Shanxi governor and a series of officials, such as the general soldier of Shanxi, pass the decree to let him return to Beijing to report on his work" Chongzhen can be sure that these officials have colluded with Jin Shang, but for the time being, it is not time to kill this group of officials, it is still the same as Zu Dashou Yuan Chonghuan to be placed under house arrest in the capital, killing people will only kill people, and if you transfer one back to Beijing, you will kill one, so that no one is a fool, who dares to come back, and now the country itself is still the nominal master, as long as you don't raise a rebellion, Then he ordered the officials to return to Beijing to report on their work, and no one dared not to come back, and it was not a matter of his own words to kill or kill when he arrived in Beijing.

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