"Your Majesty, Xiao Ming, the chief secretary of the Chenqin Tianjian has a book, and the Jiangnan salt class has been decreasing year by year since Wanli. The year before last, the Jiangnan salt class was 1,800 taels of silver, and last year it was only seven taels. The minister really doesn't know where the 200,000 taels he said come from? The military situation is urgent, and the silver is a matter of great importance, how can I guarantee that I can have 200,000 taels of salt? Xiao Mingyi asked Hou Sui directly.

This is actually a well-known secret, salt and iron have always been national weapons, but unfortunately there was no state monopoly in the Ming Dynasty, do you need to talk about it? Where did the big salt merchants in Yangzhou get their money?

It's just that everyone has been hiding it from the emperor all along, no, or the emperor also knows, but because the interest groups behind it are too huge, they pretend not to know! Now that he was stabbed by Xiao Ming, all of a sudden the ministers trembled in their hearts, is this guy dying?

"This ......" Hou Sui looked shocked, and he couldn't hide it at the moment, and looked at Wu Zongda, Wen Zhenmeng and the others slightly.

Hou Sui is also the boss of the Donglin Party, up to his father, down to his son are all Donglin Party members, especially his son, who is one of the three major prose masters in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, one of the so-called "four sons" in the late Ming Dynasty, and the leader of the Restoration Society.

The Donglin Party was disgraced by Xiao Ming's sudden betrayal, Wen Tiren and others naturally liked to see it, watching the excitement on the sidelines, ready to add firewood to the fire, and take down Hou Sui, the head of the household, so that they could replace it with their own people.

Xiao Ming didn't give the Donglin Party time to react, and fired at Hou Sui, "And Shaanxi has been in drought every year since the first year of Chongzhen, with thousands of miles of red land, no grass grows, and the whole Shaanxi sky is as red as blood." In the third year of Chongzhen, Shaanxi was hungry, and Ma Maocai, the governor of Shaanxi, said in "Beichen Great Hunger" that the people fought for the grass in the mountains, and after the grass was eaten, the bark was peeled and eaten, and the bark was eaten, and the bark could only be eaten Guanyin soil, and finally the stomach was distended and died!

Five years of great famine, six years of great floods, Yaozhou, Chengcheng County, more than half of the people died, seven years of autumn locusts, great famine, September Xixiang drought, slightly yang waterlogging, all the houses are gone.

Lu Weiqi, the former secretary of the Ministry of War, wrote to the imperial court: "For several years, the ministers and townships have no years and no hardships, no months and no hardships, and no days and no hardships. Gengwu (Chongzhen three years) drought; Xin Wei Dry; There was a great drought in Renshen. There is no grass in the wild, and ten rooms are empty. …… There are no barking dogs in the village, and they are still knocking on the door of the conscription; The trees have cries, and they are sprinkled with the blood of the whip. Huang'ai Chidi, the countryside is a few people; White bones and green phosphorus, night after night like hearing ghosts crying. If you want the poor not to become thieves, you can't get it."

Xiao Ming's expression was sad when he said this, he sighed loudly, and said to Yang Su:

"This attack on the capital, digging my Ming royal ancestral tomb, burning the imperial tomb of one of the thieves is the general Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng is a post soldier in Shaanxi, Chongzhen was laid off in the first year due to insufficient funds of the imperial court, before most of the people in Shaanxi from the thieves were thrown to Li Zicheng.

Now that Shaanxi is already ten rooms and nine empty, there are still disasters every year, the people are easy to eat, and the adults don't think about disaster relief and life-saving, and they have to increase their income by 200,000 yuan. ”

Xiao Ming's heart-wrenching words shocked the courtiers, everyone used to tear up, and said in the court of the Ming Dynasty that you can still beat people directly, and if you are beaten, it is generally in vain, who makes you can't beat people.

But everyone is a scholar, they are all educated, they all pay attention to means, they have always smiled on their faces and cared about the overall situation, stabbed in the back after work, like Xiao Ming bites like a mad dog, and they don't let go, looking like they are desperate to the death, or the first time.

The party Hou Sui is even more sweaty, but he has also seen the big scene, open the history of the Donglin Party to know that this is actually a history of struggle, since its inception just three long live, one nine thousand years old, and finally dragged three long live, one nine thousand years old, and finally dragged three long live, one nine thousand years old, and achieved the final victory! Then he was unreasonable Manchu Qing, threatened with a razor, and cut off his backbone.

The Donglin Group can be beaten, but as long as this interest group is not eliminated, they will have a steady stream of successors, and it won't be long before they make a comeback in the court.

Hou Sui saw that Wu Zongda and the others were at a loss, and knew that they didn't know either, and although the old rival Wen Tiren and his party were eyeing each other, they did not take action.

The heart slowly let go, although it was not clear why Xiao Ming was dying, and attacked himself frantically. But as long as it is not the conspiracy of Wen Tiren and his party, of course he is not afraid of Xiao Ming alone, not only is he not afraid, but he also teaches him to be a man backhandedly.

I saw Hou Sui calmly come out of class and knelt on the ground, "Your Majesty, please explain!" ”

"Speak!" Yang Su still had an indifferent expression.

"What Lord Xiao said, partly true, but there are many but hearsay, Jiangnan salt class has always been there, although it is indeed reduced compared to before, but there is absolutely no seven taels, and it has not been transported to the capital for other purposes, and this matter is recorded by the Ministry of Households.

Second, the disaster situation in Shaanxi continues every year, although the disaster affects the whole of Shaanxi, but there are still some areas in Shaanxi that are less affected, so Shaanxi's tax revenue is enough to spend 200,000 taels. There has never been a mention of increased salaries! Hou Sui refuted Xiao Ming's questions one by one.

"Your Majesty, Zhang Yandeng, the imperial history of the minister's left capital, has something to do, Xiao Ming has malicious intentions, disrupts state affairs, falsely accuses Shangguan, and asks the emperor to expel him from the door and dismiss him for investigation!" Zhang Yandeng stood up to sue Xiao Ming and blew the horn of the Donglin Party to kill traitors.

For a while, most of the courtiers were suing Xiao Ming, and all kinds of black materials were thrown out, proving from all sides that Xiao Ming was a heinous person and a scum hidden in the official system, and asked the emperor to condemn him.

This is the guiding ideology of the Donglin Party all along, and I am very moral. Then my enemies are immoral, anyway, we must stand on the moral high ground anyway, and all the enemies of the Donglin Party are immoral.

The specific work policy, a long time ago, was the same party to fight against differences, and now the Donglin Party is in power again, and the power is very strong, and after it is so strong that it is unshakable, it has become a non-our race, and its heart will be different.

This kind of seemingly dick bombing the sky, the corporal of the world, not my Donglin, are all national moths, and they should be punished!

Even if the opponent surrenders and admits defeat, and has returned to his hometown, he must take advantage of the victory to pursue until he is sent to prison one by one, and from then on there is only one voice left in the world, and then the emperor will rule by hanging the arch, it is best to stay in the deep palace and have children, and our group of idealistic and ambitious people will help the emperor govern the country.

Then it really exploded, at the critical moment of life and death, the three parties of Qi, Zhejiang, and Chu abandoned their prejudices, united and fought to the death with the Donglin Party, and then were crippled by the Donglin Party after some tossing.

Of course, as the most capable and top handful of people in the Ming Dynasty, when they found that it was useless to beg for mercy from the Donglin Party, there was no way to retreat. Of course, it would be shameless, they came from all over the world for the same goal, and took refuge at the feet of Wei Zhongxian to continue fighting.

The result is self-evident, the nine thousand years old with the support of the emperor, with the eunuch party reorganized and listed, beat the entire Donglin Party in minutes.

But this time is different, the reborn Donglin Party is not only more powerful this time, but also learned the previous lesson, they have their own strength, powerful and wealthy, Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, rich in the world of thousands of elite maritime merchants, salt merchants. The interest groups wrapped in this vast net were able to stop anyone, not even the emperor, and no one could stop this monster, and in the end they carried the Ming all the way down the road to destruction, until they were taught by the Manchus to be human with a razor.