In the past, Hongmen collected sea taxes, which was not justified, and only stopped outside the Daming sea area, and never dared to move between inland prefectures and counties.

But now that Li Tianyang has concurrently served as the tax supervisor of Fujian, he has Shang Fang's sword in his hand, and how he wants to wield the power in his hands is well deserved.

Therefore, as soon as he came to power at the beginning of this year, Li Tianyang took the post of Fujian tax supervisor in the Ming Dynasty, and while informing Governor Zhu Yifeng of the meeting, he posted notices among the various prefectures and counties in Fujian: From now on, all merchants who return goods by land and sea must pay taxes and fees according to one-half of the total value of the goods, and there is no right to collect taxes at the Yamen Pass of any other prefecture and county under Fujian.

In any other place, I am afraid that the order of the new tax supervisor to take office with three fires will have long been stiffened.

It was not easy to use the ancestral law and other reasons to make the government give up the right to collect taxes from merchants, and drove the salt and iron tax supervisors sent to various places back to Beijing, but it was only a few years, but they began to collect taxes and fees again.

But who made Hongmen have a deep foundation in the coastal area of Fujian, you have a deep background, it doesn't matter if you sue the emperor in Beijing, if you don't pay taxes and fees on my side, I will make you unable to move even a step.

Anyway, Li Tianyang has never really wanted to work hard in the officialdom, otherwise, with his original skills from the dragon, even if Emperor Chongzhen's selfish temperament really has the heart to manage the local language, Li Tianyang will not still be a third-grade military attache of a mere naval commander until now.

He was not afraid of being sued in front of the little emperor, anyway, the first batch of tax silver escorted to the capital in advance in about half a year and ten years was waved in front of Emperor Chongzhen, even if the others yelled at their throats, it would be difficult for Emperor Chongzhen to have the slightest dissatisfaction with Li Tianyang.

As for those scattered and small and medium-sized businessmen who do not have much strength, in fact, they are grateful to Li Tianyang, the new tax supervisor, and it seems that the new tax supervisor has a lot of taxes, but he has prohibited the abuse of private tax collection by his subordinates, but has reduced the cost of small and medium-sized businessmen.

Of course, the benefits for Hongmen are also obvious, Hongmen not only has an extra income, but also allows Hongmen to influence in Fujian more deeply into the bottom of the Fujian government, and has installed countless team members and tax officials in various parts of Fujian.

The footsteps of the peasant uprising team are getting closer and closer to the south of the Yangtze River, and the great demon king Zhang Xianzhong even went south along the Yangtze River, and he has entered Henan since last year, moving and turning in its territory, making the officers and soldiers miserable.

And in February of this year, there was a thief Li Zicheng, who went north from Anhui Province and arrived in Kaifeng from Xiao County, Jiangsu, and was fortunately defeated by the general soldier Chen Yongfu in Zhuxian Town in the south of Kaifeng, and finally the elite was lost and fled to Hubei.

You must know that Henan is so close to Beijing, or even only one province away, if Henan is in turmoil, it will inevitably affect the safety of the entire Beijing Division, and finally turmoil the entire dynasty.

And Anhui, Jiangsu, northern Jiangsu and other places, the actual distance from the Ming Jiangnan prosperous place, but only one Yangtze River natural danger, if it leads to the Ming Dynasty's cornerstone Jiangnan chaos, I am afraid that the Ming Dynasty is really a lack of skills!

Li Tianyang's heart is actually very contradictory, he has seen too many kinds of folk sufferings and purgatory in the world caused by the displacement of the troubled times, if he does not have a little compassion, then he Li Tianyang is too cold-blooded.

If he really has the heart to serve the country with his fists, not to mention anything else, with the strength of Hongmen in the open and in the dark, he does not dare to say that he has the ability to annihilate the endless peasant uprisings, but there should be no problem in suppressing Henan, Anhui and other provinces.

But he also knows that the Ming Dynasty at this time has accumulated a lot of difficulties, if Li Tianyang and them Hongmen jumped out at this time, there is a heavenly imperial power of the Ming royal family on their heads, and the result of Hongmen in the end may not be much better.

However, Li Tianyang also hoped that the Ming Dynasty could hold on a little longer, so that he could have more time to develop, so that the peasant rebel army and the Qing army in the north would suffer more losses.

Therefore, Li Tianyang asked Qi San and others to continue to step up the recruitment of displaced people, and on the other hand, he deployed batches of outstanding talents to the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty army and the peasant rebel army.

At the same time, Guan Juxiong and others are in charge of the Hongmen foreign guard system, with the economic prosperity of Hongmen in recent years, it is also quietly laid out in various important places in the south of the Yangtze River, and even many merchants and pawns have chosen to travel to and from the accommodation of the important towns in the south of the Yangtze River, in the "Youjian" inn, just because its price is affordable and there are semicolons in various important towns.

When the time came to August of the ninth year of Chongzhen, a news that shocked Li Tianyang, Shanshan was late, but it also made him feel that the thick mountain rain was coming.

In May, King Gao Yingxiang was forced to go south to Huguang to break through because of the relationship between the long-term attack on Shouzhou in the north, and at the beginning of July, King Gao Yingxiang went out of Nanshan to drive directly to Xi'an, and the army was ambushed and defeated by Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, when the army was killed in the Heishui Valley, and finally King Gao Yingxiang was captured and escorted to Beijing.

Subsequently, Gao Yingxiang's nephew, Li Zicheng, who had great prestige in the peasant rebel army at this time, inherited his throne and was known as King Chuang, leading the peasant rebel army to continue to fight the Ming Dynasty to the end.

Li Zicheng's inheritance of the throne of King Chuang is just a natural thing in the eyes of others, but when this matter reached Li Tianyang's ears, he had to feel that the trajectory of history is still so strong, even if he has his own butterfly now, in fact, the impact on the entire historical trend has not changed much.

Li Zicheng became the king of Chuang, which also opened the clarion call for the Ming Dynasty to step into the abyss of doom, and Li Tianyang could even imagine how the Ming Dynasty would fall apart in the next ten years.

The pendulum in his heart that was counting down was swinging more and more frequently, forcing him to speed up his pace and make more preparations for the next troubled times.

As the light and dark forces of Hongmen became stronger and stronger, Li Tianyang's inflated mind was finally no longer satisfied with those remote islands on the sea, but had some confidence to join the chess game of competing for the entire Huaxia foundation.

Maybe at this time, their Hongmen is still a little thin in front of the chess players of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, but Li Tianyang feels that the strength of his team today is not much different from the vigorous and vigorous peasant rebel army in full swing.

(End of chapter)