The purge of Yangzhou Jin merchants finally temporarily solved Chongzhen's financial predicament......

Of course, only temporarily.

After all, everyone understands that this kind of thing can't be the main business, but it's also a three-hundred-year-old Son of Heaven, and Li Zicheng has stopped copying his house in the north, but the Ming Emperor has continued to copy the south, so what is the difference between the three-hundred-year-old Son of Heaven and the Liukou? After the Ming Dynasty, we still have to rely on taxes, but the annual income of six million a year is not enough in any case, so we must also consider increasing taxes.

But this was strongly opposed by the ministers.

The ministers were not interested in reinstating a whip, but they were interested in Chongzhen's windfall.

In fact, this time the ministers of the DPRK and China carried out a siege on Chongzhen that lasted for more than a month, and wanted to share a share of this windfall, and even the governors of various places wrote books, and vaguely expressed dissatisfaction with the property of the copied family into the inner treasury, after all, according to the rules, this has to be done by the Ministry of Households, although it is copied by Jinyiwei, but this has to be done according to the procedure.

Of course, Chongzhen doesn't care!

He's going to be a miser, anyway, the silver has already entered the palace, is it possible to give it to the household again?

Not only the ministers of the imperial court, but also the warlords everywhere are also red-eyed, 10 million, this will be red no matter who it is, even Zuo Liangyu wrote to the household department for misappropriating the military salary originally given to him very dissatisfied, and asked Shi Kefa to make up for him, in addition, he also lost hundreds of thousands when he copied his home, this court should compensate him, he is very supportive of the court's copying of Jin merchants, but there are also business dealings between him and Jin merchants, you can't let me be damaged.

Where did poor Shi Kefa get him silver?

This has to be the emperor!

But if the emperor doesn't come out, he can't go into the palace to rob it!

In addition, there are Gao Jie and Liu Liangzuo, these two bastards also sent people to cry poor, they have recently been receiving refugees from the north in Huainan The armed strength of the landlords who fled from the north has expanded rapidly, Liu Liangzuo's own department has been running for 100,000, Gao Jie's department has also got 50,000 or 60,000, and the food and salary given by the court is indeed not enough.

Gao Jie was especially nervous.

After all, he was still attacking Yangzhou at this time in history!

In order to force Chongzhen to give money, this old bandit even sent people to Huaibei to engage in friction with Gao Yigong, and then alarmistly scared Chongzhen, saying that according to his intelligence, Li Zicheng was going to invade the south on a large scale, and in order to defend the Huaihe defense line, the emperor has to give me money! If I don't have money, my soldiers are disobedient! At the same time, he also acted to make the soldiers pay him, so that I couldn't make trouble? Huang Fei blockaded Yangzhou, can't I block Xuyi and cut off the Huai River transportation?

In short, they stared at the piece of fat in Chongzhen's hand like wolves, and they all wanted to bite it hard......

Of course, this has nothing to do with Yang Qing.

He is a brocade guard, he is only responsible for raiding the house, but how Chongzhen uses this windfall has nothing to do with him, and the silver is in the palace, Chongzhen can't keep it because he is incompetent, but his windfall has to be taken care of.

"Two million taels!"

Yuan Yuan said excitedly holding the account book.

The pretty face was also very excited, like a landlord's wife who watched the tenants pay rent.

"It's only two million!"

Yang Qing said somewhat dissatisfied.

This is all his property, including the looted in the Kong family, the income from the robbery during this time, and part of the bribes received, what? He also took bribes? Nonsense, how can an official in the Ming Dynasty not take bribes? Zheng Zhilong alone gave him 50,000 yuan! This is a thank you for repaying the favor, Zheng Zhilong pit Li Zicheng with a boatload of sweet potatoes for 500,000 taels of silver!

and Li Zicheng sent it.

This can't be said to be a bribe, but a technical consultation fee, 10,000 taels of silver in exchange for Yang Qing's handwritten sweet potato planting and storage manual.

There are also Hui merchants who sent them.

Guangjiang Guomao sent 10,000 taels!

As a reward for the first complaint, Jiang Guomao got the monopoly right of 20,000 yuan per year and the Zhang family's real estate in Yangzhou, which means that he can earn more than 100,000 taels of silver every year, and officially ranks among the top salt merchants in Yangzhou.

"Two million is not enough?"

Yuan Yuan exclaimed holding the account book.

Compared with Daming's income of six million, the property of two million is indeed exaggerated.

"Is two million a lot? Li Zicheng broke through Laizhou, and just one rich man's house copied out two million! We can't even rank in the top 100 for this property, so we have to find a way to make money! ”

Yang Qing paced sinisterly.

He has to make money, because he still has hundreds of thousands of people behind him to feed, and he wants to avoid Chongzhen kicking him away, and he suddenly becomes self-made, so he must run his own territory and raise a force of his own, which is naturally the Guanning Army. Li Yutian had already arrived in Anqing, and the Liao people who had migrated south had all arrived at their resettlement sites under the leadership of this guy, with a total of 32,000 officers and soldiers and 220,000 relatives, all scattered in the plain from Xinyang to Anqing, which was backed by the Dabie Mountains, and they were still used as military households of the imperial court to carry out tuntian in the west of Chaohu.

These people are his best bet.

He's also the best choice for these people.

In fact, these people were completely abandoned by Shi Kefa and the princes of the imperial court, they did not receive any food and salary from the imperial court in Huaixi, and the gentry in Jiangnan did not even welcome immigrants from Shandong and Henan, not to mention these people from the distant Liaodong, the gentry in Huaixi even had a fight with these people, but because of the difference in combat effectiveness, they were quickly beaten by these Liao people who were too fierce compared to them.

At this time, these 250,000 soldiers and civilians did not starve because of the harvest from the previous looting of the Kong family, plus the military salary allocated by Wang Chengen from the inner treasury, and Yang Qing's assistance.

And this process will have to continue for another year.

Because they missed the solar terms, they didn't have any harvest this year, at most, they would grab the winter wheat, but there would be no harvest until next year's wheat harvest, and in the future, Yang Qing and Chongzhen will deal with the Beijing camp in the same way as they do in the middle of the compulsory education, free medical care and nursing homes and orphanages, etc., these have to cost money, and it is not so easy to copy the house in the future, Chongzhen will continue to copy the house It should be a civil war, so he must be transferred to the normal money-making, he must engage in sustainable development, and he must engage in a profiteering industry......

Tobacco?

This one doesn't work, although there is no technical difficulty, but the problem is ......

Chongzhen is non-smoking!

Chongzhen strictly prohibits tobacco planting and smoking!

The reason is very simple, planting tobacco will reduce the farmland and aggravate the famine, I have to say that this emperor still really cares about the people, but it is useless, and the mulberry area in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is not worth mentioning tobacco.

So tobacco definitely won't work!

Open a bank?

His capital is enough, but it's a pity that he has the support of the gentry to open a bank, and the gentry in Jiangnan can't afford to skin him and cramp him! Who cares if he opens a bank? Those money banks are attracted to these rich people in order to become bigger, who will take care of him when he opens a bank? Maybe he will be beaten by the Qian Zhuang group, after all, these people can't kill him, and it is still possible to vent his anger in his property, unless he can get the right to issue money, but this is also impossible, he is not qualified as an earl, and Wang Chengen can only get it.

Maritime trade?

He didn't want his friendship with the Zheng family to end here, saying that Zheng Zhilong was developing towards his important ally outside.

Building mirrors?

This already exists, in fact, Europe has exported glass mirrors to Daming.

Of course, it doesn't matter.

The important thing is that he can't make it!

He opened the physical fitness hanging, the language hanging, and the medical skills hanging, but he didn't open the industrial hanging! He doesn't even know how to make glass, the only thing he knows is that the sand melts, but the problem is that this thing has already been understood by the Ming Dynasty, and he doesn't even need to open it to know it, and that day it is written on the artificial thing! This book was published several years ago, and Song Yingxing himself is still alive!

I have to say that he is still full of resentment towards the god that may exist, and in such an era when industrial civilization has begun, he gives him a body that is rampant in the Middle Ages, instead of giving him the science and technology that the time-travelers of this era need most, isn't this purely playing with him? Not to mention opening a big industrial hanging for him, even if he knows how to burn cement! Of course, he can only say that he is resentful about this, but fortunately, he still thought of a way to make money, and this way of making money is also good for the army, and it is also good for increasing the food supply of the Ming Dynasty......

Very simple.

Let's make rations!

Canned food, canned fish, whether marine fish or freshwater fish, can all be used to make canned food, and then use these cans to replace part of the military rations, and at the same time can also increase the nutrition of soldiers.

Especially marine fish.

In this way, it would be too wasteful to bring marine fish, which could only be eaten along the coast, inland, or even into the army, to reduce the need for food to alleviate famine, and to guard the huge Zhoushan fishing grounds, but not to really use them effectively. It's not that the fishermen of the Ming Dynasty can't provide more marine fish, but because in the era of no refrigeration technology, no matter how much sea fish they catch, it is meaningless, and they can only eat salted fish fifty miles away from the coast, and salted fish is not pickled casually by seaside fishermen, because they have to buy and pay taxes on the salt of salted fish.

Fishermen at the seashore are not entitled to dry their own sea salt.

Catching is to kill the head.

They have to use tax-included salt for salted fish, and buy as much salt as they want, and later it seems that in the Mago era, in order to avoid confusion, this salt was also dyed red, so that the good thing of salted fish smuggling salt is not to be considered.

It is said that Diao Min always underestimates the wisdom of the officials.

But it's not so easy to make cans, because he still has to burn glass bottles, the price of which is much more expensive than fish at present, but military supplies are easy to do, and they can be recycled, and in fact, porcelain jars and even clay pots can be, depending on the shelf life. Fortunately, this kind of glass bottle does not need any technology that is ahead of the times, and the craftsman of this era can solve it, all he needs is a large workshop, and then get the military food supply order from the household department. This is still very easy, not to mention that Gao Hongtu, the head of the household, is a northerner, and in theory, Yang Qing is also considered a northerner, and the two sides are still relatively easy to talk to, and even if the household department does not buy it, at this time, those military leaders will also give Yang Jue face.

In this way, he can be an official and businessman to suck the blood of Daming together.