Since Lord Yang likes it, it must be changed according to his standards, and then the new Jinyi Weibei Town Fusi Yamen began to transform according to the standards of the wolf's den.

It's not just the outside.

The inside also needs to be transformed.

In particular, all kinds of torture tools must be matched, of course, they must be complete, not only must there be Chinese-style torture tools, Yang Qing also gave full play to his advantages as a traverser to introduce a large number of European-style torture tools, such as interrogation chairs, iron lady, pear blossom pestle, etc., and even the cruciled crosses and piercing piles have to be erected, which can be regarded as foreign for Chinese use! As for how he knew about these things......

He had an epiphany overnight.

It was an overnight epiphany.

I don't know what special abilities he has awakened, in short, when he wakes up one morning, he can already draw the patterns of these things, even the pear blossom pestle with a complex structure, although he knew these things at most before this, and now he is really a little suspicious of any gods in this world.

"Sir, this thing is quite interesting!"

Gao Dejie held a pear pestle and laughed obscenely in the game.

After all, the combat effectiveness of this army is top-notch in the Ming army system, and it will not be affected by the officialdom of Nanjing, in fact, it has also been transferred to the Jinyi Guard, but it is not under the command of Yang Qing, but Wang Chengen is responsible for the command, and a separate military camp is stationed in the city, which is separate from the Beijing camp under the command of the Governor's Office and the Military Department of the Five Armies.

And the latter is Wang Zhiren and other Yingjia troops as the core, plus the original Nanjing Jingying adaptation.

Chongzhen's goal is to expand this new Beijing camp to 120,000 according to the standard of the Sixth Army of the Son of Heaven, so as to serve as Chongzhen's reliance on Zhongxing Daming, after all, he also knows that most of the towns in Jiangbei only listen to the generals, and what he needs is really controlled by himself. According to Yang Qing's suggestion, these six armies were trained according to Qi Jiguang's art of war, in fact, the Ming army did not lack the most suitable art of war for them, and at the current level, there was no need for those things in Europe at all, as long as Qi Jiguang's art of war could be strictly trained and guaranteed food, the Ming army could still beat all the surrounding enemies.

Even if you still use an arquebus.

Of course, the quality of firearms must be ensured.

But whether it is the reorganization of the army or the purchase of equipment, these require a lot of money, although Chongzhen already has more than three million, but more than three million is far from enough, Chongzhen is now very short of money, so he is as keen as Yang Qing, you must know that the entire area he currently controls, the annual income is actually only six million taels......

This number is true.

At present, the Ming Dynasty has an annual income of 6 million.

Not to mention this amount of money, let him rebuild the Beijing camp, even to feed the armies in Jiangbei, it can only be said that it is reluctant.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty actually did not have much control area, deducting Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Fujian, which are places that could not bring much income at all, as well as Huguang, which was destroyed because of the previous war, and the rest was Nanzhili and Zhejiang, and Jiangxi Province could provide tax revenue. As for the customs revenue of Fujian and Guangdong, it is not worth mentioning, because at this time, the maritime trade of the Ming Dynasty was basically all smuggling, and there are such guys as Zheng Zhilong, who is stupid to pay taxes to the imperial court? The salt tax is not worth mentioning, the salt tax of the Ming Dynasty is one million a year, the whole country, and the Huai salt is hundreds of thousands, and the total tax revenue to the household department of Nanjing every year is only six million, this number was originally calculated by Shi Kefa after Hongguang ascended the throne in history, and it was just enough to feed the armies at that time.

I have to say that our Daming is a tragedy.

Six million!

The profits of Yangzhou salt merchants are at least nine million a year!

His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty can't catch up with the profits of these guys with the taxes of the entire Jiangnan.

And this time, because of the southward movement of the Guanning army, the number of Ming troops is actually more, which is even beyond the current household can afford, you must know that Guangzuo Liangyu has to take away one million taels every year, in fact, even if Shi Kefa and Gao Hongtu sincerely help Chongzhen, the imperial court can't come up with the money, and even the placement of the first batch of Guanning troops and their families is paid by Wang Chengen from the inner treasury.

If Chongzhen did not raid his family, it would be impossible for him to form his new Beijing camp.

Therefore, Chongzhen's arrival in Nanjing is just the beginning, and he will have a lot of troubles in the future!

"You yin stick!"

Yang Qing snatched the pear blossom pestle and said speechlessly.

"This is a torture instrument!"

Then he reiterated.

"The next time you use this thing, please ask the lord to be called a humble position, the lord is a scholar, although the humble position is dull and can't look at the lord's back, but I can learn one or two points with the lord and have no regrets in this life!"

Gao Dejie said with a serious face.

"Ah, then it will be done for you!"

Yang Qing said with satisfaction.

Anyway, he didn't actually prepare this thing for female prisoners, so the appearance was modified a little, which was specially used to deal with male prisoners, but he couldn't prepare for Gao Dejie's kind of goods, so he liked to see this deal with male prisoners!

"Sir, there is a salt merchant named Jiang Guomao outside who asked to see the sir, saying that he wanted to report the traitor who fornicated with the slaves."

At this time, a brocade guard reported.

"Jiang Guomao?"

Yang Qing was surprised.

"Let him come here!"

Then he said.

Soon a man in a green shirt of about fifty was brought over, this person was obviously a little unaccustomed to the atmosphere here, especially the brand-new interrogation chair, the iron lady who opened the lid, and the dazzling array of other torture instruments, seeing that he was obviously a little weak when he walked, and wiped the cold sweat on his head from time to time. It was clear that he could basically understand the purpose of these things, especially under the interrogation chair that was being tested, there were a few brocade guards stuffing charcoal, and a few sharp triangular thorns were burned a little red.

"The student has seen the lord!"

He said cautiously as he saluted.

"You're a showman?"

Yang Qing said unexpectedly.

While talking, this guy was still playing with the pear blossom pestle in his hand.

As he turned the handle, the brand-new torture instrument slowly opened up like a blooming flower.

"Although the students have gone to school, they have not been able to go further, so they can only give up their studies and engage in business, and follow their relatives and friends to Yangzhou to sell salt for a living!"

Jiang Guomao wiped his cold sweat and said.

As a businessman, his mind is still clear enough, since this thing is here, it is definitely not a toy, the shape can obviously be inserted into a certain part of the body, and then Lord Yang's action also shows what to do after inserting it, and he even vaguely feels that somewhere in his body hurts now.

"Say, what do you want to report?"

Yang Qing said with satisfaction.

"The student reported that the Shanxi merchant Zhang, who bought grain in Yangzhou all the year round, and smuggled it to Liaodong to supply Jiannu in the name of trafficking in Shandong, and not only the Zhang family, but also other Shanxi businessmen were also involved in this. This generation ignored the laws of the imperial court, smuggled capital and made the Jiannu suffer from the Ming Dynasty for decades, and even invaded Zhili Shandong and killed hundreds of people in our Ming Dynasty. It is precisely by relying on this smuggling trade that the gold and silver stained with the blood of the people of our Ming Dynasty have all entered the hands of the Jin merchants, making them rich and rivaling the country. ”

Jiang Guomao said.

"Really?"

Yang Qing asked.

"Absolutely."

Jiang Guomao said.

"But there's no physical evidence!"

Yang Qing said.

"This matter is easy, the Zhang family has two sea ships about to set off from Songjiang to the north, their destination is Gaizhou, Liaodong, the ship is full of Songjiang rice, as long as it is taken down, there is a plan on the ship, and then torture will naturally confess, so that the physical evidence is complete. In addition, as far as the students know, the account books smuggled by the Zhang family over the years are all in the hands of his concubine, and if they can raid the Zhang family by thunderous means and get it before it burns down, they will have no way to deny it. And the Zhang family is only one of the Jin merchants involved in smuggling, if you can pry open the mouth of the Zhang family, then most of the Jin merchants in Yangzhou will not be able to escape, this generation has been in Yang for more than two hundred years, all of them have accumulated thousands of family fortunes......"

Jiang Guomao said like a traitor.

"What do you mean by that? Benjue is enforcing the law for the country, is it to raid the house? ”

Yang Qingyi shouted rhetorically.

"The student is talking nonsense, please forgive the sins!"

Jiang Guomao hurriedly said.

Yang Qing nodded to indicate that he wouldn't mind, and then he asked in a low voice, "Do you estimate how much cash can you copy out if these guys copy them all?" ”

"This, Jin merchants like to transport the silver back to their hometown and put it in a vat to bury it underground, so only part of their family wealth is Yang, but this generation is not only salt and grain trade, Yangzhou's money village, pawnshops and the like are also controlled by it, if it really has to be wiped out, and then its industry official sale, then ten million taels can be obtained, this generation of shops are profitable, and private businessmen want to get it."

Jiang Guomao said.

"So many?"

Yang Qing was stunned.

"If there are no ten million taels, the student is willing to accept the punishment."

Jiang Guomao said.

"Then we'll have to plan it out!"

Yang Qing said sinisterly.

The capital of Yangzhou salt merchants is estimated at 30 million, and the western merchants and Huizhou merchants each account for half, which is circulated locally, and it is not that these guys are hiding in their hometowns, so it is estimated that 10 million is not much, especially in the continuous war in the northwest in recent years, and the money earned by the salt merchants is estimated to have not had time to be transported back to their hometowns.

Then this is enough for Chongzhen to make up his mind.

If you really want to wipe out the Jin merchants, there will definitely be a big mess, and things like civil revolt in Yangzhou are absolutely inevitable, Zheng Yuanxun was originally killed in the struggle between Western merchants and Hui merchants in history, he tried to mediate during Gao Jie's siege of Yangzhou, and was beaten to death by the chaotic people on the charge of selling Yangzhou. But in fact, Ma Minglu, the leader of the Western merchants, was manipulating behind the scenes, and Ma Minglu died in Yangzhou with Shi Kefa, and finally ended the struggle between the two sides with the Qing army's bloodbath in Yangzhou.

After the war, Yangzhou's salt industry directly had no Western business.

Hui merchants, who returned to the city, took full control of Yangzhou's salt industry.

At this time, Yang Qing also remembered who this Jiang Guomao was, he was the great-ancestor of Jiang Chun, the head of Yangzhou salt merchants in the era of the old dog, from his son Jiang Yan to Jiang Chun, the leader of the three generations of salt merchants in the Jiang family, when the old dog toured south, Jiang Chun even partnered with others and donated 10 million taels of silver to him at a time.

(Hongguang Dynasty has an annual income of six million, which is what the national record Shi Kefa said when he calculated Hongguang's military expenses.) ）