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"Mr. Liu, please get up and speak! Do you have any insights into the crisis at this time? Is there any way to fix it? Chongzhen asked with some excitement!

"The emperor is serious! If there is a point of opinion, it is not my own opinion! Rather, it is the comments of many experts and netizens in later generations! I'll tell you about it! Liu Fan stood up and said

"There are many theories about the reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty! The most powerful argument is that the peasant uprising in the northwest, the Manchu Qing invasion and looting, and the financial bankruptcy, these three major reasons. But the most fundamental reason is fiscal depletion! That is, there is no money! ”

"Yes! No money! Even I, the emperor's inner treasury, have no money left! So much so that I can only keep reducing the expenses in the palace! Spend your extra money on state affairs! Chongzhen said with deep feelings.

"Hey, hey... I'm talking about no money, but the state doesn't have money! You! The emperor has no money! The common people have no money! There are many rich people! You don't know! Liu Fan said with a little sarcasm!

"Did you know? According to later statistics, how much does Damingguang inflow overseas every year? Nearly 10 million taels! ”

"May I ask how much is the tax of Daming now?"

"Plus less than 4 million taels of grain," Chongzhen said with a dark face!

"How much is the tax in Daming City?"

"Less than 40,000 taels!" Chongzhen's face turned even darker!

In the early years of Chongzhen, the financial situation of the Ming Dynasty, in the early years of Chongzhen, the country's financial revenue did not exceed 3.3 million taels, plus the tax arrears year after year, the actual income was only more than 2 million taels, and the expenditure reached more than 5 million taels! In order to fill the huge deficit and find more military spending, the imperial court increased the salary almost every year, and by now, the salary has increased to nearly 6 million taels, and the huge financial deficit is almost impossible to make up!

"There are too many problems with Daming's taxes, and we can't say it clearly for a while! There is too much resistance to reform! Zhang Juzheng is a good example! He just implemented the "One Whip Law" before touching the fundamental interests of the beneficiaries, and was dug up and dug up by others, and his bones were scattered! I don't have what it takes to solve this problem! Let's talk about the other two points! Liu Fan said a little helplessly!

"Liukou and Jianju are like fierce wolves constantly tearing the wounds of the empire, they cooperate with each other, and when Da Ming is exhausted, they will pounce on him and tear him apart!"

"Whenever the thieves are at the end of their ropes, they will cross the Shanhaiguan Pass and enter the Central Plains to plunder! So that the Ming Dynasty can never completely exterminate the rogue! ”

"The most obvious one is that in the seventh year of Chongzhen, Chen Qiyu was promoted to the governor of five provinces, and the governor of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Huguang, and Sichuan military affairs, mobilized all the generals to besiege the thieves, and almost annihilated the rogue in the carriage gorge. As a result, the plan to encircle and suppress the rogues completely failed, and the last chance to exterminate the rogues was lost! Since then, the rogues have been crisscrossing the Central Plains for thousands of miles, and there is no way to control it! Liu Fan sighed!

"It is the cooperation between Liukou and Houjin that squeezes the last living space of the Ming Dynasty!" ’

"How did the Manchus grasp the movements of the Ming Dynasty so accurately? It's because someone gave him a tip-off! Liu Fan said angrily

"Who dares to do that?" Chongzhen was furious

"The eight masters of Jinshang Group! Contributed to the Houjin attack on the Central Plains! Almost every time, Houjin handed over the gold and silver goods plundered from the Central Plains to them, and then they exchanged them for grain, iron and other materials that Houjin urgently needed. Decades ago, these Tunguska savages of Houjin were still hunting in the white mountains and black waters for a living! Weapons can't be forged! Without these traitors to transport materials, why did Houjin rise in just a few decades, and then become a big problem for my Ming Dynasty? According to the historical records of later generations, the Manchu Daoguang "Wanquan County Chronicles" recorded: "Eight merchants, all of whom are from the right side of the mountain, came to Zhangjiakou with trade at the end of the Ming Dynasty, saying: Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Fan Yongdou, Wang Dayu, Liang Guest, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang, Huang Yunfa. This dynasty (Qing Dynasty) Longxing Liaozuo, sent people to the mouth of the city, all of these eight masters. After the Dingding, the people were summoned, the banquet was in the hall, and the food was given. ”

Another piece of praise from posterity: these eight Shanxi merchants did Manchurian business in Zhangjiakou in the last years of the Ming Dynasty. Ignoring the Ming court's ban on blockading the border gates, they engaged in frequent trade activities with the officials and people of the newly rising Manchu Later Jin regime, providing them with all kinds of scarce materials, and made great contributions to the establishment of the Qing Dynasty. After the Qing court entered the Central Plains, these eight merchants in Mongolia and Jin were received by Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty, "invited to enter the capital, feasted in the palace, and were given food from above", and were named "Imperial Merchants of the Internal Affairs Bureau", obtained special permission to operate monopoly commerce, as well as loans from the government and other privileges, and became the great imperial merchants of the Sonic Boom Mongolian steppe. ”

"Damn! Damn it! I'm going to send the brocade guards to arrest them! I want to punish the nine clans! Chongzhen shouted with a flushed face

"Your Majesty! IMHO! This matter, Jin Yiwei can't do it! In the decades since the beginning, this has been going on almost every day! Why is it up to me, the one who lives hundreds of years later, to tell you? Didn't the Manchu Minister of Civil and Military Affairs know? No! Contrary! Not only are they well aware, but they are also acting as an umbrella for these traitors! Provide them with all kinds of convenience and protection! Why? Because the court has been fed by them! Some people are simply the spokesmen of their interests in the DPRK and China! It is estimated that even Jinyiwei will harvest a large number of "filial piety" from them every year! And you don't have it, so you don't know! Let Jinyiwei arrest it? Huh..."

"What? Are you happy? Chongzhen said with a gloomy face

"Don't dare! Can't! It's too late for the grass people to be angry! Liu Fan was shocked when he saw Chongzhen's face, this is not the afterlife! It's okay to joke! The person in front of him is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, holding the power of life and death, and he doesn't need to blink an eye to provoke this person who kills himself! Quickly smiled and said

"Humph! Is there no way to get rid of them? Just sit back and watch these damn traitors suck Daming's flesh and blood and slowly grow? Chongzhen snorted heavily before asking

"There is a way! Send an army that is absolutely loyal to you, and take them down quickly and with lightning speed in absolute secrecy! In this way, even if the civilian clique opposes it, it will be helpless in the face of the fait accompli! Liu Fan hurriedly said

In the face of Liu Fan's statement, Chongzhen thought carefully for a long time, and then sadly found that as an emperor, he did not have an army that was absolutely loyal to him! After a long groan, he said slowly,

"Let's talk about this later! I'm very interested in what you said about the "People's Liberation Army", can you tell me about it? ”

"That's too long! I don't know where to start! I'll read you a paragraph about the origin of the People's Liberation Army! After speaking, Liu Fan picked up his mobile phone and flipped it up! It's sad to have no internet! There are so many things that can't be consulted! This period of the origin of the People's Liberation Army was preserved only after looking at the information that Liu Fan consulted on a whim during the military parade.

"The PLA originated in the Red Army, which was born in 1927 ... After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was called the People's Liberation Army." Liu Fan said

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