Scholars, scholars again!

There are not many other creatures in Jiangnan, and there are many scholars as creatures, and they are extremely domineering, and they are not easy to mess with.

They are so difficult that the threats between the rich people in the countryside have become "hire a show to beat you", to this extent.

And they have infiltrated all corners of economic life, with Xiucai helping to sue for lawsuits, Xiucai covering tax evasion, and even passing a banknote pass, all of which have Xiucai to help suppress the formation.

According to the banknote system of the Ming Dynasty, the Grand Canal could only receive 350,000 taels of silver every year.

Every ship goes all the way to Beijing, and it is impossible not to pay two taels of silver, and there are 6,000 ships and grain ships that go to and from the canal every year, and it is impossible for civilian ships to be less than official ships, and they cannot get two million taels of silver for one trip and another.

Smart ship owners have various ways to evade taxes, there are three rules on the canal, the first is that the official does not collect, the official ship passes, it is naturally impossible to charge, the second is that there is a master who does not collect, Jinshi and Juren, two kinds of qualified officials, can be called the master, also do not collect, but Xiucai does not have this power, but the Ming Dynasty Xiucai is too domineering, forced into this industry.

On the canal, some boat owners pretended to be official ships, and some made a pair of fake signs, erected them on the bow of the boats, writing "Prime Minister's House" on one side and "Tongzheng Department Hall" on the other side, pretending to be official ships; Some people invite Jinshi or lift people to sit on the boat as a talisman, and when they pass the banknote customs, people ask for money, so they let the amulet come out and pay it.

But the risk of pretending to be an official ship is too great, but it is very safe to invite a jinshi or lift people, but there are many merchant ships, and the number of jinshi is small, you must know that jinshi can be an official 100%, at least a county order, and it is very rare to make money for merchant ships to escort, and the number of people is slightly more, but it is not difficult to obtain a staff membership, so there are very few cases of jinshi escorting, even if there is a asking price.

Therefore, the shipowners began to entrust the business to Xiucai, and the rewards for them were also rich. In the Ming Dynasty's mimetic book "The Legend of the Literary Maniac", a Xiucai escorted two civilian ships at the same time and took a consulting fee of five taels of silver.

A show can earn five taels of silver to pass the customs, and letting the shipowner pass the customs first will definitely be able to evade more taxes. There are thirty-three banknotes on the Grand Canal, and the evaded taxes are calculated in one hundred taels. Every year, he only contributed 300,000 taels of silver to the Ming Dynasty, so it was really better for the later generations to build a highway and collect tolls.

However, this time the scholars' business expanded to fight against the warlord, to be precise, to fight against the warlord Yang Chao, but the warlord Yang Chao was too powerful, obviously only one or two scholars could not fight against it, so the Hao family invited 10,000 talents.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were more than 100,000 Xiucai on the register, and the Jiangnan region did take the lead, and there were more than 30,000 Xiucai on the register. The wealthy family invited these 10,000 talents, and almost all the Jiangnan talents were invited.

Of course, the wealthy family may not spend money to invite, because their families are originally large producers of talents, except for the children of wealthy businessmen in a few cities, the world's talents are produced by the landlord class, so the biggest possibility is that Yang Chao's Qingzhang land has offended all the big families, so they sent their children to make trouble with Yang Chao, because these children have a reputation for showing talents, and there are many powerful people, they believe that Yang Chao does not dare to kill all 10,000 talents.

Yang Chao's army of 10,000 was at their doorstep. They really didn't dare to fight with these elite soldiers, but 10,000 Xiu was sent to Nanjing, and they believed that Yang Chao would also have a big head.

Does Yang Chao have a headache, no, no, no. It's very welcome, Yang Chao, who is short of scholars in the army, is going crazy.

Huangfeng Mansion Qingzhang land took away almost all the paperwork, recruited the refugees to read and train themselves, Yang Chao's literate soldiers and officers and soldiers, still no more than 3,000 people, the Hao family sent Yang Chao 10,000 meritorious talents at once. How he is not welcome!

The trouble is that these Xiucai are too well-behaved, and they have learned to protest peacefully, not to fight or make trouble, to sit in front of the Confucian Temple, before the Taixue, and even at the entrance of various vegetable markets and water bridges, wherever there is a lively place, they sit on the ground, and recite the books of the sages, especially those that exaggerate the brutality of the sages.

made Yang Chao want to start, but he couldn't find a chance, and he couldn't teach them how to smash and rob.

Speaking of which, this is still Yang Chao's bad idea, when he taught Erli Society the method of helping scholars, when a group of scholars sat at the door of Taixue, Confucius Temple and even Taimiao to recite the sage book was too impressive, and even the emperor was forced to punish the emperor's relatives Tian Wan under pressure.

But now it's Yang Chao's turn, but Yang Chao feels that they are not fierce enough.

"We have to find a way to make these scholars make trouble!"

Yang Chao thought maliciously in his heart.

But that's easier said than done.

To solve the problem, we have to start with Huang Fengfu, Huang Fengfu is also from the Erli Society, and it was also a think tank around the fourth prince back then, and letting the scholar silently recite the sage book was the idea that Yang Chao taught the fourth prince through him.

This time the organization of tens of thousands of talents, this is not an ordinary scholar, it is a real talent, the top students among the scholars, if the wealthy family alone is afraid that it will not be organized, there is no Erli Society, an organized group of young scholars, the local tyrants can't play, so don't think about the organization behind the scenes, it must be the Erli Society.

This is a non-violent non-cooperation movement against Yang Chao's tyranny, which is operated by the wealthy family with money and people, and is operated by the Erli Society.

And with the background of Huangfeng Mansion, it is almost impossible for Erli Society not to find him, and they also hope to be able to plot against Huangfeng Mansion.

"Fengfu. We all know that you are a staff member of the Yang thief, and you are really forced to do so. Now that the saint is suffering in Fuzhou, Yang Thief is doing a good job in the south of the Yangtze River to loot the people's fat and people's ointment. Thou shalt recognize right from wrong this morning, and abandon the darkness and turn to the light! ”

took the initiative to come forward and lobbied Huangfeng Mansion several times.

Huang Fengfu sighed: "I also know that what Yang Dudu has done is unpopular, but Du Du has always acted arbitrarily, I really can't do it!" ”

The scholars have been meditating in Nanjing for three months, and it seems that it is almost the end of the year, but the old god Yang Chao is here, what should they do, clear the land, suppress bandits and train soldiers, and it seems that they don't care about the scholars at all.

The methods used to put pressure on Emperor Chongzhen back then seemed to be completely useless to Yang Chao, although the scholars' movement had been launched throughout the south of the Yangtze River, and Fujian, Guangdong, and Zhejiang were all supporting them, but it was useless to Yang Chao.

Chongzhen was out of the emperor's face back then, and he still cared about these scholars suing in front of Confucius, and suing the ancestors of the Zhu family in the Taimiao, but this Yang Chao is not a cheeky guy at all, the scholars love to make trouble, as long as they don't break the law, he doesn't care.

is to scold him, he never cares, I heard that he proudly told his friend that this is called enlightened **, that is, "You say yours, I don't object, I do mine, don't object to you." ”

is simply a shameless scoundrel, the fourth prince is really out of luck, so he plans to plot against Yang Chao's first staff, their former think tank Huang Fengfu.

To this day, the four princes do not think that Yang Chao is a resourceful figure, and attribute the miracles on the battlefield of Yang Chao to Huangfeng Mansion in their hearts, thinking that it is Huangfeng Mansion that makes plans and makes Yang Chao able to win so many battles, otherwise a military general knows how to flood the Seventh Army and know how to fight in the dark night of fart.

Is this all a strategy that literati like to play, how tall and tall, how the generals play, so everything is the idea of Huang Fengfu, which can explain the past, when you don't see Huang Fengfu is not by Yang Chao's side, Yang Chao is a small boss, Huang Fengfu went to him as a staff, it has only been a few years, and he has become the governor of Nanzhili, who has all over the world.

If he can rebel against Huangfeng Mansion, the fourth prince thinks that Yang Chao's fart is not it, and he will have to be beaten back to his original form in the future.

But the most important thing at the moment is how to let them move Yang Chao, they really want to knock Yang Chao down with their own hands, as for what will happen to Yang Chao if he loses Huangfeng Mansion in the future, they can't wait.

The fourth prince has a reason to hate Yang Chao to the bone, if it weren't for Yang Chao to let Ge Nenniang's stinky biaozi, tear their clothes, drive them to pick them up, and then chase them from the end of the street to pour and urine on their heads, all the way to the other side of the street, so that they are really famous and stinky to the extreme, and now the fourth prince should still be in the Qinhuai River, enjoying the reputation of a merry and talented man, and now he is like a street rat, there is no place to stay, and they are really not interested in this kind of thing of studying at home.

But they came up with a way, Hou Fangyu didn't even say that it was good to move Zuo Liangyu Qingjun's side, Zuo Liangyu's army of more than 200,000 people came violently, and as a result, Yang Chao ate it in ten days, and there was not even any scum left, and more than 100,000 people were made by Yang Chao to do hard labor.

This time, if Yang Chao hadn't been too anxious to loot the people's fat and ointment, and offended the entire gentry class in Jiangnan, the fourth prince really couldn't find a chance to make some trouble for Yang Chao.

However, the imposing 'non-violent non-cooperation' movement did not have any effect after three months, but the emperor of Fuzhou spoke out and said that he sympathized with the scholars, but the emperor could not control Yang Chao, a great warlord.

"Fengfu, I don't ask anything else, you just say, where is the death hole of the Yang thief?"

Mao Bijiang found that he couldn't rebel against Huangfeng Mansion, so he retreated to the second, and it was not bad to be able to get Yang Chao's weakness from Huangfeng Mansion.

Nanking.

The situation in Jiangxi made the small court in Fujian frightened, Jin Shenghuan and Wang Tizhong had 100,000 troops, at first their attack direction was mainly Zhejiang, obviously the rich Zhejiang attracted them more, but after the arrival of the Eight Banners, the direction of attack was immediately adjusted, and the forces of Jin Shenghuan and Wang Tizhong were transferred to the Fujian border in a large area.

Therefore, no matter how much he hated Yang Chao, the Fujian court still sent an envoy to discuss with Yang Chao the plan of Zhejiang, Fujian and Nangi to jointly attack Jiangxi.

Among the people who came, including a squire from the Fujian Military Department, including Zheng Hongkui, the representative of the Zheng family, and a eunuch on behalf of the emperor, Zhejiang sent a soldier.

If it weren't for the arrival of these people, Yang Chao really didn't know how to deal with Xiucai, these people came, and Yang Chao immediately had an idea.

However, it was still necessary to meet their requirements first, and Yang Chao specially invited these people to the palace to discuss, on the grounds that there was only one complete map of the Ming Emperor in the Nanjing Imperial Palace. (To be continued.) )