When Wang Yan came out of the theater, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, these were two extremes from when he was dealing with the Tuke weapon fight in Kaiping.

The villagers at the bottom of the society did not hesitate to fight for their lives in order to compete for the little land and resources they needed for life, while the gentry and merchants living in Guangzhou lived a life of spending money.

Because of the origin of Emperor Taizu, the Ming Dynasty did not attach much importance to the affairs of merchants, coupled with the destruction of the economy at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, so that the dynasty did not realize the role of merchants, and adopted a light tax system of thirty and one in the commercial tax.

This situation did not change until the Wanli period, and the imperial court began to increase the proportion of commercial tax again, but in the tax of the dynasty, the agricultural tax still accounted for seventy percent of five, and the salt tax accounted for one percent, and the remaining Huangzhuang and other messy income accounted for half of the income, while the commercial tax still accounted for less than one percent.

Among the people of such a dynasty, the poorest ordinary people bear more than seventy-five percent of the country's taxes, while the merchants and scholars collude with the scholar class, but they only bear less than one percent of the court taxes, which is just the opposite of the Song Dynasty's commercial taxes up to seventy percent of the imperial court taxes, so the gentry and merchants of the dynasty are simply rich.

In the theater, the gentry and merchants who spent a lot of money made Wang Yan sigh in his heart, when he was worried about the funds of the Northern Expedition, the gentry and businessmen had enough wealth to invest gold and silver, and they didn't care at all.

At this time, Wang Yanzhi did not mean to attack the gentry and haojia, on the contrary, he also believed that the gentry and haojia were an important support of the imperial court.

In the "Song Treatise", there is a saying that "the great Jia enriches the people, and the country is the commander". There is a saying in the "Yellow Book" that "there are no rich people in the country, and the people are not enough to breed". Even Wang Fuzhi, the clan brother who taught Wang Yan since he was a child, also said that he regarded the loss of the rich and helping the poor, as if cutting the flesh of the fat and putting the body of the barren man, and the barren could not bear it with fat, and the fat man died.

In this regard, Wang Yan also has his own ideas, he will not attack the rich for no reason, but now that the dynasty is in danger, the gentry and merchants have to bear the responsibility they should bear.

At this time, Wang Yan already had the idea of reforming the tax system, but he also knew that the implementation would inevitably encounter strong resistance.

Because the collusion between officials and businessmen in this dynasty is unprecedented, as long as the emperor wants to collect business taxes, then public opinion in the whole world will jump out to oppose it. Anything that competes with the people for profit, and what kind of tyranny and extortion will become an excuse for the gentry to resist taxes. \u000bDuring the Wanli period, the emperor sent his chamberlains to the southeast to collect a tax on silk cloth, and the result was that wherever it was levied, there were riots.

At this time, although Tiannan did not have a big force like the Donglin Party that represented the interests of the gentry and merchants, the relationship between the merchants of Guangdong and the local gentry and even the officials was also intertwined.

After thinking about it for a while, Wang Yan decided not to touch the existing interests of the gentry and merchants, and not to change the tax rate, but to crack down on tax evasion and tax evasion on the basis of the present, and gradually improve the tax items.

Of course, these are very complicated processes, which cannot be completed by Wang Yan alone, and a good opportunity is needed to avoid a backlash from the gentry and merchants.

When Wang Yan returned to the Guogong Mansion, he was still worried about the money, and the 10,000 taels of silver offered by Xu Yanyan could only be regarded as a drop in the bucket for him, and at this time, the edict of the imperial court urging him to go on the expedition arrived.

It turned out that after Wang Yan released one million taels of silver to Fujing, the emperor, who was financially constrained by Zheng Zhilong, suddenly became more prosperous.

Longwu set aside the million taels of silver, 200,000 taels for the imperial court, 300,000 taels to the Jiangxi governor 10,000 yuan, so that he could block the Qing army in Jiangxi, and the remaining 500,000 taels were all allocated.

Emperor Longwu regained his ambition, first of all, he released the tax and silver into the pants everyone appreciated, even pressed for many days, has not been approved by the "Dingyue Please Lianfu Bingshu" was also approved, and then ordered Wang Yan, with Zheng Chenggong to send troops to the south of the Yangtze River, immediately went north, launched a campaign to attack Jingzhou and Wuchang.

The emperor has an order, Wang Yan has to follow, but close to 300,000 taels of silver, he wants to take Hubei, but it is obviously unlikely, he just purchases grain and grass materials, I am afraid that he will spend all the money.

For a while, Wang Yan couldn't help but be at a loss, but at this moment, Hu Weizong, who went south from Jiangnan, brought him money.

When Wang Yan evacuated, he secretly buried the silver stored in the Yangzhou treasury and the donations of the gentry at the beginning, totaling three million taels of silver, under the high slope outside the west city, for military expenses in the future Northern Expedition.

In August, Wang Yan personally went north to take the risk, but at that time Li Chengdong was ordered by the Qing court to recast the city of Yangzhou, so that his plan to take the silver failed.

When Wang Yan left Fujing, he asked Hu Weizong to go to Yangzhou to get the silver again, but he didn't expect that this time he actually took the silver back when he needed it most.

Three million taels of silver, Hu Weizong left one million taels to develop the Heaven and Earth Society, and the remaining two million taels were all shipped to Guangzhou, which immediately solved Wang Yan's urgent need.

Wang Yan, who was overjoyed, talked with Hu Weizong, only to know that Tiandi would merge with Jinyiwei, who escaped from Nanjing, and recruited many good players in the rivers and lakes, and had established rudders in various parts of the south of the Yangtze River, and after they established contact with Hou Fangyu, they also found out a lot of internal news in the Qing court.

Wang Yan then told Li Xiangjun about Hou Fangyu's affairs, and after hearing this, he couldn't help but burst into tears, but for the information Hou Fangyu collected from Hong Chengchou's side, Wang Yan's heart was heavy after watching it.

At this time, he already understood Emperor Longwu's urgency to let him send troops.

Although the shaving order was extremely brutal, the Qing court used him to distinguish the people loyal to the Han family, and then killed them all, solving many hidden dangers and gradually stabilizing the areas occupied by the Qing court.

In this way, all the loyal ministers and righteous men with backbone died, and the rest were obedient people, and at this time, the Qing court was reducing the land endowment, giving a little favor, and in a few years, it would completely rule Jiangnan.

Wang Yan saw this from the intelligence brought by Hu Weizong, and also saw that the Jiangnan resistance to the Qing Dynasty had entered a trough, so he understood that the Ming army must take action, and it was urgent to send troops.

Therefore, Wang Yan asked Hu Weizong to leave a capable backbone to facilitate communication, and then immediately returned to Jiangnan and developed the Tiandihui to the Huguang area, so as to cooperate with the arrival of his army.

Wang Yan got the money, and the only condition for restricting the dispatch of troops had been resolved, so he entrusted Su Guansheng to preside over the civil affairs, and paid attention to his henchman Liu Shun to lead the Zhongyong battalion to sit in Guangzhou, and left his staff Chen Bangyan to give him advice, so he decided to personally lead the superintendent of the standard army and the Zhongwu battalion, a total of 17,500 people, to the north and launch the battle of Jingzhou.

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