Although Gong Zi took his stupid son Gong Zimian away in a gloomy way, and lost the face of Jiang Zuosan's Gong family, he still retreated after all, but the gamblers who did not have the backing of Jiang Zuo's Gong family were not so lucky.

On the first day, after losing all the money in the casino, there were enough 1780 people who were arrested, and these people were trembling and signed the deed of sale with the IOU, and they were immediately locked up.

This is the second role of the casino, to collect people!

Who built the United States? British prisoners, exiles, illegitimate children, ruffians, hooligans, scoundrels, poor and desperate people are generally not a last resort, even adventurous Westerners, in fact, they are not willing to leave their homeland and move to a strange new world to survive, Westerners are still like this, let alone the Ming people who are difficult to give up their homeland.

If you want to expand overseas colonies, Mao Jue also has to think of a ruthless move, now all the prisoners in the north, even the death row prisoners are not sentenced, as long as it is a major crime, enough to squat for more than ten years, they will all be sent to Dengzhou, and then this casino will find out all the bad gamblers in the society, just Wu Sangui volunteered to stay in India, and sent him over with a boat.

Although these people are useless at home, they are useful overseas, and those who dare to commit crimes are first of all bold and unruly, and rotten gamblers are generally smart-minded and good at petty theft.

Of course, the biggest advantage is that you don't feel distressed when you die, and the waste is utilized!

After the opening of the first day, the second day began, the Imperial Plaza was not so hot to the perverted, but compared with the general small merchants, but it was still lively, it became the largest exchange place for goods from the north and the south, the merchants brought all kinds of spices, sumac, and agate to the department store, and then were exchanged for special products such as mink, ginseng, and deer antler velvet by the northern merchants, and many merchants from the south of the Yangtze River also took over the wholesale of a part of the goods from the north and south, and went to the Nanming market to market, after all, these are not from Jiangnan. Whether it is luxury goods or liquor and cigarettes, cheap Dongjiang homespun cloth, Jiangnan also needs it.

But if the discerning person pays attention, this transaction is extremely unfavorable to Jiangnan, after all, the raw silk, tea, silk, and bulk rice and grain and other goods of Jiangnan specialties should be added to a cluster of taxes, and the price has no advantage, and it is impossible to push into the big trade ports of Hangzhou, Fuzhou, and Quanzhou.

Once the silver was exhausted, Jiangnan's economy collapsed.

There is another change that is slowly happening in important trade ports such as Hangzhou, moisturizing things silently and so unnoticed, but extremely significant changes in people's lives, that is, paper money!

People travel, has become less and less directly carrying silver copper coins, trade payment is more willing to take out a silver ticket, after all, the silver with a heavy weight, but this thing is fluttering, but also divided into one hundred taels, fifty taels, twenty taels, ten taels, five taels, one tael and so on denominations, pay not afraid to not be able to find, and most of the cities, have opened the Imperial Bank, want to exchange silver, you can change it at any time, do not have to worry about the problem of credit.

In fact, China has not issued banknotes, like the Jiaozi of the Song Dynasty, the gold banknotes of the Yuan Dynasty, and the Ming Taizu also issued the Ming treasure banknotes, but these banknotes without reserves are like a castle in the air, depreciating too fast, and the people do not agree, but if you want to develop business, banknotes are also essential! So Mao Jue could only accept the lesson cautiously and come little by little.

But now the omen looks, very good!

Everything in the world is one thing or the other, Mao Jue's Beiming is good, and the corresponding Nanming is very uncomfortable.

In order to arrest people to do business with the Dongjiang River, the Great Western Army of Sichuan once again mustered up the courage to launch an attack to the south, and the Great West, which had only taken Beichuan, broke through the southern Sichuan in the past few months, and reached the border of Yunnan.

Huguang, the main grain producing area, the tug-of-war between Li Zicheng and Zuo Liangyu has lasted for more than a year! To what extent did Zuo Liangyu have an army of 200,000, and Li Zicheng's 50,000 remnants of the army who were beaten and cried, and in one year, he beat the 50,000 Dashun army to 178,900, and the originally rich land of Chu was a war.

Here in the south of the Yangtze River, the towns that have finally flourished are like the mushrooms that frost after autumn, rapidly wilting, which is the harm of hiding silver! Occupying about 80 percent of the land and social property, the Jiangnan family has only 5 to 8 percent of the population, and the rest are almost all poor, after Mao Jue stuck the road to the exit, this population could not support domestic demand to cope with the spread of commerce, so a piece of originally prosperous towns became ghost towns, and the silk and satin tea houses were closed down at a speed visible to the naked eye, and recently the export of rice and grain had been a big defeat, and the rice that had been expected to turn the situation around could only rot in the cabin or rot in the ground.

It can be said that the situation in Jiangnan is quite not optimistic!

However, for those amateurs in Jiangnan, to investigate these socio-economic factors, it is too high to look at them, traditionally speaking, the gentry and the common people are not doing well, then there must be traitors in the court! A new round of political struggle is brewing sharply in the sky above Yingtian City.

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The biggest change for Yingtian this year is that there are more mutinies and the palace has become beautiful.

The three towns of Jiangbei were almost wiped out, leaving only the most unsuccessful Liu Liangzuo with about 30,000 people fled back to Jiangnan, Nanjing faced the heavy military pressure of Mao Jue's Xuzhou army in Jiangbei, and Shanghai County, the mouth of the Yangtze River, was also ceded out, in order to ensure their own safety, or to make themselves feel safe, the Nanming bureaucrats recalled Liu Liangzuo, and desperately recruited troops locally.

Participating in the defeated army, more than 20,000 Nanjing forbidden army, plus a year of new recruitment, the Southern Ming Dynasty has another 150,000 troops, and Ruan Dacheng, the secretary of the military department, also proudly called it the Beifu Army, stationed in the stone city in the north of Nanjing.

But this reputation is loud, the actual combat effectiveness is really hard to say, these Jiangnan bureaucrats are best at fooling themselves, the Beifu soldiers are paid more than 2.2 million taels a year, at a glance profitable, big officials and small officials go together, the rich gentry and even the ruffians in the city are also their own gods to entrust people to enter, except for the forbidden army composed of 20,000 old Nanjing nobles, the rest is no different from the three major battalions of the Beijing Division, and even quite inferior.

On the other hand, since the Nanjing Imperial Palace moved the capital to Emperor Yongle, the silver repaired by the eunuchs and civil officials was either greedy or misappropriated, where can Zhu Yousong stand this, Mao Jue in the north made peace, and he naturally rolled up his sleeves boldly in the south.

Repair!

For more than a year, in order to repair the palace, the Southern Ming Dynasty conscripted 200,000 laborers, spending tens of millions of taels of capital and materials, and rats at all levels made a fortune in it, the only unlucky thing is the lower-class residents who were expropriated for labor, and the most fundamental difference between Mao Jue's labor, Zhu Yousong can not give silver, it is useless!

This palace has been repaired, but the hearts of the people have been scattered a lot.

Compared with last year, this Qian Mansion seems to have become a little more gorgeous, early in the morning, Qian Qianyi was solemnly tidying up his clothes in front of the Dongjiang Dressing Mirror, and behind him, Liu Ruyi carefully helped him hairpin hairpin.

"If so, Mr. Gandu, have you ever prepared it?"

"Back to the master, the students of the Restoration Society are already gearing up, just waiting to respond to the call of the master!"

Zhang Pu of this Fushe is also a character, with a cloth coat, he forcibly influenced the major affairs of the imperial court, and pushed his teacher Zhou Yanru to the position of the first assistant university scholar, relying on Zhou Yanru and even remote control of the government, and finally forced Zhou Yanru to poison him ruthlessly.

There is Mao Jue in this time and space, and now Zhou Yanru is not mixed with Chongzhen's cabinet chief, and has become Mao Jue's cabinet miscellaneous, the one at the bottom of the ranking, although he has no power to lean towards the government and the opposition, but he is not shining well for Beiming in Beijing, staring at the enlightened little emperor, Zhang Pu is not alive and kicking with the.

However, he and his Fushe have become a dog in the Donglin Party and biting people! Listening to Liu Ruye's answer, Qian Qianyi nodded proudly, and immediately put on the outermost official robe.

"That's right, sir, I'm going to the court!"

Sending Qian Qianyi out of the door with a full stomach, when he arrived at the gate of the mansion, Liu Ru couldn't help but ask.

"Master, bring down Ma Yaocao and Ruan's beard! Let's Daming, can we really see the moon through the clouds? ”

"Of course!"

While climbing towards the carriage, Qian Qianyi replied with confidence.

"As long as the righteous people and gentlemen of the DPRK occupy important positions, drive away those villains, develop the Ming Dynasty in our right direction, enrich the country and strengthen the army, and the recovery of the northern capital is not just around the corner!"

"That's right, sir, I'm leaving!"

"The concubine is here, bless the lord with a victory!"

The pupils finally lit up, and behind Qian Qianyi's carriage, Liu Ru bowed heavily.

This can be regarded as a premeditated action of the Donglin Party, not only Qian Qianyi, but also Gong Dingyu, who was disgraced a few days ago, as well as Gao Hongtu, Zhang Shenyan, Liu Zongzhou and other Donglin cadres are also full of fighting spirit.

Entering the palace from the Daming Gate, these people were looking at each other, and immediately stood quietly on both sides of the court, and they were still ignorant of the impending danger, and Ma Shiying, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Ruan Dacheng, the secretary of the military department, were standing at the forefront of the ministers.

In a group of Donglin Party suffocation, the last ten minutes before the court passed by by minute by minute, and finally, the sharp shout of the great eunuch Tian Cheng rang out.

"The emperor drove to the !!"