Chapter 605: Messing up

The people in Jinyiwei and Dongchang flocked to Liaozhen, and the various documents of the war reports on the desks of the emperor and the six cabinets quickly increased.

Information from all sides has been gathered through various channels, but except for the 35,000 Huazhou troops stationed along the Da Liao River east of Quang Ninh until this time, the other situation is still very vague, and it seems that the other side will not cross the Da Liao River for the time being, and there is no new view in the judgment of the Ming court, the opponent's strength is insufficient, and the current stretch of the battle line has reached the limit.

This made the center of the Ming Court breathe a sigh of relief, thinking that since the other party could not continue to move forward in a short time, he could still mobilize troops and horses here and slowly turn the situation back.

Jiajing relied on the silver money and grain looted by the tax supervisor to store it in the rapid consumption, although it could still support it for a period of time, but the war was imminent, although he did not dare to say when it would start and end, so Emperor Jiajing needed to collect money and grain in various provinces, especially the three northern provinces and Jiangnan Huguang.

Although the three northern provinces are because of cotton and maritime trade industry and commerce, they have become much richer than before, but after the recent tax supervision and the so-called cotton gentry rebellion, it is also a little hurtful, after all, it is a war and chaos, thieves are numerous, and the merchants who come to buy cotton are not willing to come at all, and there are only a few fixed ways to ship, but the demand has not been too large, on the one hand, there are no raw materials in the textile factories in the south of the Yangtze River and the northern coast, and the price of cotton remains high, on the other hand, the cotton in the cotton fields of the three northern provinces is piled up in large quantities, and no one buys it.

In this case, many cotton gentry are preparing to start planting grain in the second year, in the past, it was not as cost-effective as buying grain, many people's fields were all planted with cotton, giving up grain, who would have thought that the chaos together, the most real thing is not silver, but the grain that fills the stomach. These cotton gentry are all pondering, they must have some grain in their hands, if there is a similar thing, it is better to gather Zhuang Ding to close the village and defend themselves, than the current situation of sending people out to buy grain.

In the north, don't want to put away the silver, the situation in Jiangnan is also not optimistic, the central team in Nanjing City, is completely the base camp of the East Party, after the Jiajing coup returned to the center of the Beijing Division, all the East Party officials in the Beijing Division were swept away, but at this time, the governors and important positions in the whole world are almost all the officials of the East Party, and Emperor Jiajing cannot all be taken out, in that case, the world will be in chaos. Therefore, the emperor adopted the method of Xu Xu Tuzhi mentioned by Lu Bing, and nearly three years or so have passed, and the Ming provinces north of the Huai River have been replaced by officials trusted by Jiajing, but Jiangnan, that is, Nanzhili and Zhejiang, Jiangxi have not had time to adjust.

The difference between the Ming Dynasty and the previous dynasties is that he has two sets of exactly the same central team, in Beijing and Nanjing, Nanjing's six departments and various yamen are complete, except for the cabinet, Nanjing City has always arranged for reserve officials and those officials who failed in political struggles, but their crimes did not lead to death.

Because Nanjing manages Jiangnan, the richest country in the world, there are many people who are willing to be officials here, but to say a thousand ways and ten thousand, the officials of Nanjing and Jiangnan are all members of the East Party, and since the Song Dynasty civil and official party disputes, this party struggle has never cared about the survival of any country.

The purge some time ago made these officials hate Emperor Jiajing and those ministers of the Western Party, and when they can dismantle the stage, they will definitely not let it go.

The will of the imperial court to apportionment and collection was sent to Nanjing by expedited horses for hundreds of miles, and the Nanjing Hubu Shangshu immediately regarded this thing as a major matter, first convened his colleagues to discuss, and then issued it one level at a time, and then the tax collectors at all levels, and the officials also followed suit.

But it takes time from Nanjing to Nanzhili and the various prefectures and counties in Jiangnan, not to mention how big the latent power of the gentry in Jiangnan is, not to mention that the officials at all levels are full of money and money from the merchants, and not to mention what kind of organization the Thirteen Chambers of Commerce in Jiangnan is.

Anyway, the order to increase taxes and transfer grain and money cannot be carried out at all, and everyone can afford to drag on in officialdom.

The three northern provinces are ruined because of the local ruin, and Jiangnan is sincerely procrastinating and prevaricating, and they can't collect money at all, Emperor Jiajing and the cabinet ministers are annoyed, but they are helpless, at this time, there are enemy soldiers outside the territory, no matter what, they can't be messed up inside, anyway, the treasury can still support a period of time.

However, in the process of all the additional distribution and tax collection, some places have not been affected, Shanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Huguang are not among the tax increases, these places in the wave of industrial and commercial prosperity in the past few years, it is true that they have not received any benefits.

However, Xi'an has always been in the forefront of the world's tax payment, Chengdu's and Chongqing's provinces in Sichuan are also rich places, and Huguang is the world's granary.

The reason for this is very simple, the officials of the Western Party and the descendants of the Imperial Party were born in this place, and they naturally had to protect their hometowns.

Soon, the disparity between taxes and taxes in various places will be in an uproar, and it is even more smoky and chaotic, Emperor Jiajing knows that if it drags on like this, I am afraid that it will be entangled, so he is simply ruthless, and it is directly the inner study to pass the decree, and each of the three northern provinces and Jiangnan provinces will send a tax envoy, two Jinyi Wei, and the provinces will open the "Pingliao donation", adding two percent to the previous tax standard.

He ordered the envoys and local officials to jointly urge the collection, and said in the decree that the taxation of Pingliao was an important matter for the rise and fall of the country, and that it should not be delayed, and that the violators could be arrested and imprisoned immediately. As soon as this decree was made, not only the local magistrates in the provinces expressed their opposition to it.

Even the local literary societies, associations, and literati groups, which had never dared to express any opinions, began to oppose it, and even the important ministers of the court expressed concern about this order, and the government and the opposition reached a rare consensus on this matter, and they were all opposed to raising taxes and donations.

However, this time Emperor Jiajing insisted on his opinion, and the so-called Huazhou army that was hesitating in Liaozhen in the north, although they still don't know their details, and they are also saying that the Huazhou army is insufficient, and it can only be stationed in the Great Liao River and cannot move forward.

The situation in front of him seems to be completely the advantage of the Ming Dynasty, but Jiajing always feels that something is wrong in his heart, things are not under his control, since the fifteenth year of Jiajing, most of the things in the world are unreasonable, the political wisdom and the methods of dealing with it that I knew before, the strategies to achieve victory over the civilian officials in the Dali case, and the means of balancing the various forces in the DPRK and China, have been used for almost 200 years, and they have been tried and tested.

But in the past 20 years, it seems that everything is earth-shaking changes, but these changes have not hurt the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, on the contrary, they have also made the Ming Dynasty appear prosperous and rich as never before, but the chaos and small chaos are continuous, what Chen Deaf, Wendao, Wakou, White Lotus Sect, Westerners, there have been no disasters in the past, and the chaos has appeared, but fortunately, they were all quickly pacified.

It seems that the world is extremely normal, but Emperor Jiajing always felt that there was still something big to happen in the two power repetitions, whether he was defeated or victorious, and this kind of repeated vision and abnormality always foreshadowed that something out of control would happen.

When the sudden invasion of Huazhou invaded Liaozhen, and knew that the exiles outside the customs and the Huazhou occupying North Korea were originally Huazhou, Emperor Jiajing suddenly understood that the biggest threat to the Ming Dynasty appeared, this threat was more terrible than the Tatars, the thorns, only by eliminating this threat, the Ming Dynasty could continue to survive, he now does not regret his tax supervision policy, but regrets that he did not scavenge on the ground that day is far from enough, did not train more new troops.

The current Emperor Jiajing did not care about anything, regardless of the opinions between the government and the opposition, and regardless of whether there would be any chaos in the local area, but he only insisted on collecting taxes and levies, and at the same time recruited soldiers in the three northern provinces for training.

These policies are just policies, the envoy may have just left the capital, and Emperor Jiajing has only to do it except for stuffing the troops and horses that can be mobilized into the military town between the capital division and Shanhaiguan, and everything else to do is just a plan.

At this time, Fujian was completely ignored, of course, because of the circulation of information, the news of Liaozhen is not known here, not only the Ming army in Fujian, even Yang Shi They also do not know what has happened in the north, and the current Yizhou is nervously mobilizing troops and horses to Zhangzhou.

In the previous battle under the city of Zhangzhou, because of the narrowness of the terrain and the excessively light enemy, the Ming army suffered heavy losses, but the new instructions above did not come down, so Yang Shi had to hold on to Zhangzhou and expand the scope of occupation, so the soldiers and horses of Yizhou continued to drive by boat.

Most of the soldiers in Yizhou are ordinary people from Fujian, Zhejiang, and Guangdong, and most of the officers in Yizhou are pirate families on the seaside, which can be said to be the head snake of the land.

Compared with the Ming army stationed here for generations, it is like a local army, and the scene of Zhangzhou City, Fujian is naturally very anxious, but what is even more strange is that the reinforcements from Zhejiang and Guangdong who were halfway to the road have withdrawn back.

The 22nd year of Jiajing passed in such a chaotic situation......