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This "Yangzhou Slow" is the famous poet Jiang Kui of the Southern Song Dynasty, singing about the ancient city of Yangzhou, which was famous all over the world in the past, and the depressed and dilapidated scene after the southern invasion of the Jin soldiers.

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Yangzhou was known as Guangling Weiyang in ancient times, with a long history, densely populated, and the prosperity of Wu land, which has been prosperous for a long time after the two Jin and Northern Dynasties of Eastern Wu and Wu. In the Sui Dynasty, before Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty ascended the throne, he served as the governor of Yangzhou for nine years, during which he devoted himself to the development of Yangzhou, thinking that he would be the foundation for his future succession.

After ascending the throne, Yang Guang used the strength of the whole country to dig the Grand Canal connecting the north and south, and the Grand Canal and the Yangtze River converged in Yangzhou. Since then, the merchant cargo ships from the south to the north are like carp crossing the river, and Yangzhou is even more prosperous, compared with Chang'an and Luoyang, it is also much better. Even if the world was in turmoil later, Yang Guang still remembered the prosperity of Yangzhou, and simply came to Yangzhou in the name of the southern tour. This one didn't go until he was killed by the forbidden army general Yu Wenhua and launched a mutiny. Xing in Yangzhou, also died in Yangzhou, and then Tang lord Li Yuan for Yang Guang on the nickname "Yang", although it is derogatory, but also with "Yangzhou" homonym, such a coincidence, perhaps it is the creation of people.

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Sun Budi is not cool, and the ball battle is lonely and early, but recruiting soldiers costs money, where does this money come from? Shi Kefa has long planned for this, and he mainly starts from three aspects:

Later, during the Tang Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty, Yangzhou was still prosperous, and even after a short period of turmoil in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, it was not greatly affected. Until the Jin soldiers went south to break through Bianliang and kidnapped the second emperor of Huiqin, Gaozong Zhao Goucang fled to Lin'an. Although the Southern Song Dynasty wanted to be safe, the Jin people did not give up, and went south many times, and the farthest one had reached the edge of the Yangtze River, because they could not cross the Yangtze River moat, so they gave up. Lin'an is safe, but Yangzhou as a big city on the north bank of the Yangtze River was tragically plagued by war, and after the Jin soldiers retreated for many years, they still could not recover.

At this time, after Guanning Tieqi was welcomed into the city by Shi Kefa, the prefect of Yangzhou, it was the miserable scene hundreds of years ago. The streets of the city are deserted, and there are almost no pedestrians, but everywhere you can see the corpses covered with white sheets, all of whom were killed in the fierce battle of defending the city yesterday. There are cries in every family, and everyone has a sad face, and the hearts of Wen Zhao and others have been sinking.

As the prefect of Yangzhou, Shi Kefa's mood is even heavier.

Shi Kefa took office as the prefect of Yangzhou just two months ago. Last year, the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the Kou, and the second Bel Amin led the army with white flags to storm Funing County, and it was Shi Kefa who was there as the magistrate of the county, and he led the whole city to resist desperately, and finally won the city without losing. After the war subsided, the imperial court rewarded meritorious deeds, and of course Zhu Youzhen had to reuse such talents.

And as a person who has crossed over, Zhu Youzhen certainly knows the heroic deeds of Shi Kefa in history who insisted on Yangzhou and was killed, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he was the first national hero in the late Ming Dynasty. After thinking about it, Zhu Youzhen also promoted Shi Kefa to the prefect of Yangzhou, and he wanted to fight with history to see if he could resolve the extremely miserable "Ten Days in Yangzhou".

Zhu Youzhen's appointment of officials was often questioned by courtiers, but Shi Kefa was an exception. He is one of the "Six Gentlemen of Donglin" Zuo Guangdou's high feet, and of course the Donglin Party is willing for the emperor to promote "his own people". Yangzhou is a place in the south of the Yangtze River, and letting Shi Kefa be the prefect is much better than letting Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru's people be the prefect.

However, Shi Kefa just rushed to Yangzhou, Zhu Changxun and his son rebelled, hundreds of thousands of thieves marched eastward, and the people in Yangzhou City were panicked, and many wealthy families fled to Jiangnan, and those who did not escape also pestered Shi Kefa all day long, asking him to ask the court to transfer troops to protect Yangzhou, and not to let the thieves rob them of their rich family property.

At this critical juncture, Shi Kefa withstood the pressure, and from the already small number of guards, he allocated the most effective team to guard Nanjing, which was Huang Degong's one. As for the defense of Yangzhou itself, Shi Kefa did not point to the remaining Weisuo army, and he directly recruited troops from the local low-level people according to his experience in Funing County.

But the money for recruiting soldiers costs money, so where does it come from? Shi Kefa has long planned for this, and he mainly starts from three aspects:

The first is the allocation of the imperial court. It is said that it is an allocation, but in fact, there is a household treasury in Yangzhou City, which stores 150,000 taels of silver, but the local government has no right to manage it. Shi Kefa immediately asked Jingshi and Nanjing to temporarily borrow 50,000 taels of silver from the treasury for the needs of city defense.

The local government wanted to touch the money of the imperial court, but this move was really a bit out of line, and of course the household department and the cabinet opposed it, and they had already written a vote to reject it. But after Zhu Youzhen, he immediately granted a special permit, because he knew the importance of Yangzhou, and he also knew that since Shi Kefa wanted to use this silver, there must be a reason why he had to use it. With the Holy Decree, the 50,000 taels were successfully obtained.

The second is to exempt the people from forced labor and pay for silver. At that time, except for a few areas in all parts of the country that were temporarily exempted from forced labor because of natural disasters, the vast majority of areas had forced labor, and they were given light labor and heavy labor. The reason is also very simple, most of the land is in the hands of the landlords, and the landlords will pay more money when the land is heavy, and of course they will not want to. Conscription, on the other hand, was divided according to the capitation, and the common people, who made up the majority of the population, naturally had a greater burden. For example, the people in Yangzhou have no land, and they are often forced to do more.

Previously, the imperial court was not unaware of this problem, during the Wanli period, Zhang Juzheng implemented the "one whip law", the main purpose was two: one is to unify the field endowment and forced labor into silver taels, and the imperial court only levied silver; The second is to fold the conscription into the field endowment, so as to realize "more land and more labor, less land and less labor, and no land and no service", so as to reduce the burden of the people at the bottom. Although the idea is good, in fact, it is difficult to implement because it touches the interests of the officials and landlords, and it is even recited by crooked monks in some places, which leads to a heavier burden on the people and less income for the court. As a result, the "One Whip Law" has basically become a dead letter, and has not been truly implemented.

But now Shi Kefa also used conscription to offset silver, that is, anyone who was recruited as a "regimental warrior" could be exempted from all conscription in his family and used to offset a part of the salary. This is a bit of a "special matter", and there is no need to use cash, so there is no resistance in the imperial court.

The third, and the most resistant, is to apportionment of money to the local wealthy merchants...

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