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In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, when Li Zicheng's army was 'pressing' close to Juyong Pass, the Beijing Military Department could not even get the travel expenses for sending a messenger to other places to ask for reinforcements.

The extent of the central government's financial embarrassment is no longer possible, whether it is to use troops against Liaodong or to suppress the peasant army internally

。 Not to mention a huge country, even if it is a small family, everything is safe without money. In fact, in the last year of the Chongzhen Dynasty, the central authorities and the emperor were almost unable to do it, and they only blindly waited for death in the city of Beijing.

The reason why the Ming Dynasty became so poor was that in addition to the drought and locust plague in the northern provinces for many years, the more important reason was that the tax could not be paid, and in order to suppress the domestic counterjudgment and meet the challenge of Liaodong Jiannu, the number of troops and officials swelled year by year, and finally the Ming Empire was finally brought down.

The ancients had a very famous saying: There is a certain amount of wealth in the world.

In fact, it is only talking about agricultural output. At a time when capitalism was still in its infancy, agricultural taxes were the most important source of revenue for the state. And there is only a little bit of land, and there is a fixed number of taxes collected each year.

However, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, because a large number of lands were annexed by scholars, dignitaries and royal families, these meritorious scholars and royal families had tax-free privileges. In order to evade taxes, ordinary people also put their land in the names of scholars and royal families. As a result, the amount of money collected by the state has shrunk year by year, and the state finances have gradually exceeded its expenditures and are on the verge of crisis.

Wanli and Emperor Tianqi keenly discovered that this was wrong, so the two emperors began to use their brains in open source. After all, the agricultural tax involves the interests of too many princes and officials, and if you want to move, it will be a hornet's nest, and the political risk is too great. It's better to 'spend' some effort on open source.

As a result, the two emperors sent their cronies and eunuchs to be mine supervisors, collect mineral taxes, and set up checkpoints in various places to collect commercial taxes. Before these two emperors, the ancients did not have the concept of commercial taxation at all. By the time of the Wanli and Tianqi dynasties, the budding capitalism was flourishing in the Jiangnan region, and the wealth produced was not comparable to that of agriculture.

From this point of view, the eyes of these two emperors are also ahead of their time. Relying on the mineral tax and commercial tax, the Wanli and Tianqi dynasties finally survived the financial crisis smoothly.

Not only that, but also accumulated a lot of wealth. This is the great martial arts of the three major expeditions of Wanli, and this is the Liaodong military action of the Emperor of the Apocalypse.

But in the feudal society, the status of the merchant is low, and in the eyes of the government, he is a 'fat' pig to be slaughtered. But if a businessman's business reaches a certain scale, it will inevitably collude with the government. Gradually, the commerce and mines in Jiangnan were gradually controlled by the scholar class.

The two emperors of Wanli and Tianqi used their brains on commercial taxes, undoubtedly snatching food from the mouth of the bureaucracy.

Therefore, when Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, the civil officials fooled Emperor Chongzhen into abolishing the factory guards, abolishing all commercial taxes, and surrendering the only reliable source of tax in the Ming Empire during the Xiaoice River period to the scholars

。 When the Xiaoice period arrived, the northern agriculture was finished, and the Ming Empire could not collect taxes, and whether it was fighting a war or providing relief to the victims, and rehousing the peasants who were recruited to settle the peasants, silver was needed. Without silver, Emperor Chongzhen could only close his eyes---- and there was no cliff in front of him.

So from this point of view, the reason why the Ming Dynasty 'made' the situation it is today has nothing to do with the nine-thousand-year-old Wei Gonggong.

Not only that, Wei Zhongxian is also a person who can do things and wants to do things.

Lao Wei is a good person, but he has a better name. Otherwise, he would not be alive, so let officials from all over the country build a shrine for him.

Generally speaking, people with a good name are willing to do some real political achievements, and they will be famous for eternity.

In the years when he was in charge of the government, the eunuchs sent to the local government to collect taxes were fierce and domineering, and they were very effective. Relying on his best position, although the battle on the Liaodong side is getting bigger and bigger, it can be maintained. Even, a large amount of funds were provided to allow the Guanning Army to build a fortress group in the western Liaoning corridor that was no less than the Maginot Line in later generations.

Moreover, with him as a powerful figure, the monarchy, prime minister, and eunuch power of the imperial court are in a stable state, and the country is also developing in the good aspects of the court.

The problem is that as soon as Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, he consolidated his imperial power by taking down the entire eunuch party.

The eunuch case has been made into an iron case, and on the surface it seems that there is no possibility of turning it over. And any official who is designated as a eunuch by the imperial court will not have any political future.

Emperor Hongguang had only heard people say that the dynasty was plagued by Wei Zhongxian, eunuchs and factory guards. When he ascended the throne and knew what politics was all about, he was stunned to find that if he wanted to say that the plague of the Ming Dynasty was not related to the eunuch party, the civilian official group and even the Chongzhen Emperor.

It is not that anyone has the intention of 'making a mess' of the government and government, but the key is that the civilian-bureaucratic clique is dominant, and there is a lack of restraint. And people are 'selfish', even the so-called Donglin gentlemen are no exception. When formulating national policies, it is inevitable to favor big bureaucrats and scholars.

Looking at it this way, the abominability of Donglinduan must be restrained! Otherwise, what else do you want me to do as an emperor?

Therefore, Hongguang asked someone to take a look at the original record of the King James Rebellion

。

As the heir to the throne of Chongzhen, Emperor Hongguang did not have the courage to overturn the case of the eunuchs.

But Ma Shiying was keenly aware that the Son of Heaven was ready to build up and strengthen his own strength to fight against the Donglin bureaucracy.

At this time, he immediately threw out Qian Qianyi's "Foolish Ministers Serving the Country and Other Things", which had been pinched at hand for more than two months, and recommended it to Emperor Hongguang on the grounds that "Qian Qianyi is a person who works hard", asking the court to restore this former high-ranking official of the court and the former head of the Donglin Party.

Judging from the current difficult situation in the Ming Dynasty, the hundred officials in the DPRK and the Central Committee should take into account the overall situation, and stop talking about the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party, as long as they are talents, they can be used.

If there is a 'door' view, it is a party.

"The ministers of the 'door' household planted the party and ran the 'private', ruined the social system, and ruined the monarch's father." The disaster of the late Tang Dynasty is not far away!

A big hat was buttoned down, which also laid the foundation of public opinion for Ruan Dacheng's comeback. The meaning of his excerpt is very clear, whoever disagrees with Ruan Dacheng as a young Sima is a sinner who destroys the stability and peace of the Hongguang Dynasty, and who has ulterior motives.

Qian Qianyi is the leader of Donglin and has a great reputation in the government and the opposition. He suddenly turned back, which shocked the people of Donglin and was helpless.

Lao Qian has been 'mixed' in the political arena all his life, and his 'door' is all over the world. For example, Qu Qitian has served as the governor of the three provinces, and later served as the deputy assistant of the cabinet, and as for the other 'protégés' who have achieved the level of county and state, there are countless others.

As a result, Donglin split.

Qian Qianyi firmly stood on the side of the emperor and Ma Shiying, which naturally surprised Emperor Hongguang, and immediately made him a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy again as the assistant to the prime minister and the chief examiner of Enke. As soon as the 'spring' is over and the time is ripe, the court will discuss it and be elected to the cabinet.

At the same time, Ruan Dacheng also took the opportunity of the Donglin Great 'Chaos' to take up the post of 'waiter' of the military department and officially returned.

Qian Qianyi, an old slippery man with rich political experience, plus Ruan Dacheng, who has explosive action, and Ma Shiying, who controls the cabinet, Donglin ushered in the most ferocious enemy like the iron triangle.

The end of complete defeat is decided.

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