Nine hundred and fifty-nine The façade of three people
No one thinks they have a lot of money, let alone someone like Xiao Ruxun who wants to do many, many things.
The most basic requirement and the most important requirement to do these things is to have a lot of money, and only with a lot of money can you do a lot of things.
Therefore, Xiao Ruxun made up his mind to build his Great Qin Dynasty into a silver black hole, and took advantage of the advent of the Age of Discovery to absorb the world's real money and silver and then use it for construction.
And before that, there are two things to do.
The first thing to do is to get rid of all the landlords and gentry who control the traditional outlets to the sea in the three southeastern provinces, and put the land, population, and resources in the hands of the central government, so that there is no need to pay land rent and population rent to those landlords when the sea is opened up and built on a large scale in the future.
The second thing is to use the wealth obtained by these big landlords, gentry, and powerful people to accumulate wealth for several lifetimes to lay the foundation needed for the construction of the sea, lay the foundation for the school, and build the three southeastern provinces into a model for the new Great Qin Dynasty to start anew.
Experiment right here, and then gradually scale inward.
Of course, Myanmar and the newly mastered Luzon are also very important, in Xiao Ruxun's planning, Myanmar and Luzon are important food bases in the future Xiaoice period, and it is not yet the coldest time, and when the coldest whole north is difficult to produce much grain, the large amount of grain produced by Myanmar and Luzon will become the key.
Let them transport grain directly from Burma and Luzon to the port of Tianjin along the sea route, and from Beijing to the rest of the country, and Burma and Luzon will directly become the national grain base, and people with ulterior motives will not be allowed to go to Burma and Luzon to turn things upside down.
The Beijing-Hangzhou Canal was used to transport military supplies and military food, and the rest was transported by sea.
A Beijing-Hangzhou Canal doesn't know how many things have happened in the entire history of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, that is the real temple little demon wind, big pond shallow Wang Baduo, Xiao Ruxun who focuses on the big ocean, will not let that group of Wang Ba control the economic lifeline of the north.
Only the ocean has enough heart to accommodate the group of eight kings who think about making waves all day long.
Xiao Ruxun, who wants to do so many things, obviously needs a lot of money.
Where does the money come from?
Of course, it was from the group of kings in front of him.
Xiao Ruxun clearly remembered that after Li Zicheng occupied Beijing, he tortured out 70 million taels of silver from this group of Wang Ba dozens of days, and before that, Chongzhen cried and shouted that he didn't take out tens of thousands of taels of silver from their pockets.
The richest of these people is obviously the Xungui group, their family business is here, they have lived in Beijing for generations, and there are definitely countless real money and silver waiting to be developed in their old nest, and there are relatively few civil officials in Beijing.
They generally buy houses in their hometowns to be rich, and they pretend to be honest when they are bitter in the capital, and their homes in the capital are estimated to have no oil and water to squeeze, and they have to go to the local place to squeeze them.
This has been effectively demonstrated in the three southeastern provinces.
And then there is the royal property, the royal property handed over to the eunuchs in the capital, as well as the money in the hands of Jinyiwei, although Shen has always executed many eunuchs and internal officials who are interested in Zhu Yijun, but I don't know what the reason is, I haven't had time to start with those royal properties such as Huangzhuang, which is also a big piece of fat.
Then there are Prince Zhu Ming from all over the country, and these princes are rich when they die, and they are rich in their names and names.
Anyway, they are all objects to be cleaned up, especially the Wuxun Group, Xiao Ruxun has his own martial arts, and he doesn't need them, except for Xu Hongji, who can give some face, the rest will be abolished, and if one is not left, he will definitely die, but it seems to be a little ugly as soon as he comes up.
So even Shen Li, he didn't kill him, and even people like Zhao Shiqing and Cai Guozhen among the important people didn't plan to kill them now, and to leave a buffer period, he still needed a little time to master the administration of the entire capital, and it took a little time for his officials to adapt to this situation.
Of course, he actually did not lack manpower, two Fujian people and one Nanzhili man had already fallen into his hands, and these three people were enough to hold up the façade of a central government for him.
The two Fujianese are Li Tingji and Ye Xianggao, and the other is Wang Xijue.
Ye Xianggao accompanied Xiao Ruxun on the Northern Expedition with Ye Mengxiong when he was in Nanjing, and when Xiao Ruxun heard Ye Xianggao's name, he asked Heishui to check what happened to his family in Fujian, whether it had been cleansed, and the news he got was a bit surprising.
The Ye family has a sense of crisis, probably because of the experience accumulated in the early years of the Japanese rebellion, the land reform working group just stationed in their hometown took the initiative to donate land, thousands of acres of land all handed over to the working group, the result was set up as a model of enlightened gentry, retained part of the land and family property, and is now living a good life in Fujian.
After learning the news, Xiao Ruxun knew that Ye Xianggao was available, two days before the Lugou Bridge Mutiny, Xiao Ruxun secretly sent Zhou Yao to contact the available civilian officials to make a response, Ye Xianggao was one of them, and later it turned out that Ye Xianggao, who had been excluded, was indeed available.
Li Tingji is also a strange person, he was born poor when he was a child, so after becoming an official, he became addicted to doing good deeds, and finally made his door full of beggars, and whenever he went out, he surrounded him to ask for money, which made him destitute after resigning from the official position, and died in poverty and illness.
He also set a record, the longest record of resignation not being ignored by the emperor, he was also angry with Zhu Yijun, who later became more and more neglectful, decided to resign and go home, wrote five resignation letters to Zhu Yijun, and then donated the house in the capital to the poor, the family left first, and he lived in a broken temple.
As a result, who knew that this delay dragged on for five years, he wrote 123 resignation letters in five years without approval, and got a "elegant name" of the old man of the temple pavilion, he finally collapsed, didn't care, and went home at the risk of killing his head, Zhu Yijun actually ignored it, and let him die of poverty and illness four years later.
On the eve of Shen's rebellion, as an official of the Ministry of Rites, he actually left Beijing and fled back to his hometown after getting the news, but he ran into Xiao Ruxun's Northern Expeditionary Army in his hometown, and also encountered land reform.
But what is a bit strange is that Li Tingji was even classified as a poor yeoman farmer family because his family had too little land, and he was also mobilized by members of the land reform working group to fight the landlord, which made him stunned, and finally he was forced to reveal his identity as an official court official.
At first, the people of the land reform working group did not believe that how could a court official be so poor, and his family only had dozens of acres of land, but he had no choice, so he took out his official uniform and official identity certificate to prove that he was an official, and as a result, he was directly controlled by the army.
Later, after Xiao Ruzhi was appointed by Xiao Ruxun to be in charge of Fujian, he learned about it and told Xiao Ruxun about it.
On the eve of the Lugouqiao Mutiny, Li Tingji and Wang Xijue were sent to the Lugouqiao camp together and witnessed the whole process of the mutiny under proper protection.