Chapter 433: The Richest Man in the Ming Dynasty
Let's talk about Wu Sangui first. Wu Zongbing currently has tens of thousands of soldiers, all of whom are capable of fighting, but the amount of silver he offered is 2 million taels......
In other words, if you want General Wu to send troops, no problem, give money - two million taels, one less son, uncle, I won't serve!
Speaking of tension, in fact, Emperor Chongzhen and Wen Tiren didn't want to mention tension, the reason is naturally understood by everyone, and that tension is already like separation.
If he is allowed to lead troops into Shandong, Shandong will definitely be surnamed Zhang, Zhang of tension. This is like the idiom "drink to quench your thirst", knowing that it is poisonous wine, do you still want to drink it? ……
However, if these two in the northeast do not send troops, there will be no troops in the north of the Ming Dynasty!
Daming has nine sides, and this time the Tartars entered the Kou, and the nine sides were beaten to pieces. The vitality of the Xuanda army has been greatly damaged, and now it is good to be able to hold Xuanfu Datong, how can there be troops to be deployed? Thinking about it to the west, Wang Pu, the chief soldier of Shanxi Town, is famous for his "Wang Runran", he is the first to fight for the first place, and he has no interest in saving Shandong. Then look further to the west, what are the soldiers of Yulin Town and Yansui Town-that can be called soldiers? It's almost the same as calling them Hanako, and if they are really mobilized, they will have to spend millions of taels of silver to feed them before anything else......
The south has been peaceful for a long time, Wen Tian is martial, and there are many soldiers who are unbearable, even if they are forcibly transferred, whether they can win Zhang Xianzhong will not say first, and when they go north, maybe the capital will be lost.
Wen Tiren sighed heavily, and said to Emperor Chongzhen with a sad face: "Your Majesty, the lesser of two evils. If you want to save Shandong, you still have to rely on Wu Sangui and Zhang Li. As for whether to use Wu Sangui or tension, please ask Your Majesty to make a decision! ”
This is equivalent to kicking the ball back to Emperor Chongzhen, but it can be regarded as a choice - whether to spend money to invite Wu Sangui. Or drink to quench your thirst and let Zhang Zhang go to Shandong, your emperor, think about it yourself!
Emperor Chongzhen's brows twitched. Soon he made up his mind - no matter what, he would never make any money. Never pay out of pocket!
At present, the treasury can still starve the rats to death, and there is no silver to ask, so let Wu Sangui send troops, it must be Emperor Chongzhen's own internal money. Previously, Emperor Chongzhen had sent a lot of money out in order to save his life, and his heart was dripping blood recently!
"Wen Aiqing, then let Zhang Zhang send troops to rescue Shandong? After letting him kill Zhang Xianzhong, he returned to Liaodong. Defend the northeast country for me. ”
When Emperor Chongzhen said this, Lord Wen only had two words in his heart, "hehe".
Your Majesty, you are really too tender, there is a way that it is easy to invite God and difficult to send God, how can that tension be so good?
However, Lord Wen did not object on his face, but responded in a slippery manner: "Weichen obeys the order!" ”
Anyway, it is the emperor's decision, whether the surname of Shandong is Zhang or Zhu, and the matter of Guan Wen Tiren is what Lord Wen is most concerned about now. It's just working hard to get the silver, and the money that was offered before has not been returned!
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If you want to rank the rich people of the Ming Dynasty, the first place is definitely not Wen Tiren. If you say that before the Wanli Dynasty. With Lord Wen's means of making money, and being in the position of the first assistant, he will definitely be ranked first in the country.
However, the officials were compared with the big businessmen of the late Ming Dynasty. The net worth is still much worse. For example, the Jin merchants produced a Fan Yongdou, and the shopkeeper of Fan actively developed "trade with the enemy". Wearing the same pants as Jiannu, the grain, iron, and firearms sold were simply exchanged for countless mountains of gold and silver.
Pity. Fan Da's shopkeeper is not ranked first on the rich list.
Whether it is Wen Tiren, the NO.1 in officialdom, or Fan Yongdou, the traditional businessman, the wealth of the family is simply weak compared to one person!
In the eyes of that person, Master Wen and Shopkeeper Fan were not much different from those who asked for food......
This person is Zheng Chenggong's father, "One Piece" Zheng Zhilong.
Zheng's Manor, Nan'an Mansion, Fujian Province, Daming Dynasty, is full of lights and lights here today, jubilant, and a scene of singing and dancing.
Not long ago, on October 22, Zheng Zhilong's sailors defeated the Dutch fleet at Liuluo Bay and won a major victory, and the imperial court named Zheng Zhilong the governor. This matter is not known much in later generations, and it is necessary to talk about it in detail.
First of all, let's compare the Ming Dynasty and "I Daqing", both at the end of the dynasty, and there is a world of difference between the Ming Dynasty and "my Daqing".
In fact, in the eyes of many people, during the Chongzhen period at the end of the Ming Dynasty, China already belonged to many backward Europeans. This is also an indisputable fact, not that the court is too ignorant and closed off the country, but that the court has no money.
However, in the development of science and technology, in addition to the promotion of the private sector, how the government guides and supports it is also very important. For example, Xu Guangqi, Song Yingxing, Fang Yizhi, Sun Yuanhua and others in the late Ming Dynasty all had high attainments in science and technology, and also wrote many popular science books. It is a pity that the imperial court is in internal and external difficulties, the state finances are bankrupt, and there is no money to support scientific and technological construction. For example, making guns and cannons, making steel and so on -- no money? I don't have the money to make an egg......
I don't know whether it is appropriate to compare the Guangxu period with the Chongzhen Dynasty, but one thing is certain, the situation of the country in the Chongzhen year is a hundred times worse than the Guangxu year of the "I Qing Dynasty".
First of all, there are at least some major natural and man-made disasters in the year of Guangxu, but in the year of Chongzhen, it is the Xiaoice River period, and there are droughts, floods, locust plagues, and military disasters every year, and even large-scale plague outbreaks......
Besides, the old witch of Yehenala called the Guangxu year and the previous Tongzhi year "Tongguang Zhongxing", which means "I am in the Qing Dynasty". Of course, this is mainly to say that Zeng Guofan, the commander of the Tongzhi Dynasty, wiped out the "evil sect * sect * master" Hong Xiu, and the Guangxu Dynasty raised the peace of the country all over the world and vigorously promoted the "Westernization Movement", which is like a prosperous atmosphere!
However, in the sixth year of Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty, which was troubled internally and externally, defeated the Dutch in one fell swoop in the Battle of Liuluo Bay, which shocked the entire Far East......
On the other hand, Guangxu Zhongxing's "I Daqing", in the first year of the First Wu Dynasty, I won't say what kind of battle I fought, I didn't have the face to see my ancestors...... "I Daqing" has always been very normal to lose to Westerners, and the big guys are also accustomed to it, after all, it is a "foreign adult", and the pulled by the foreign adult is fragrant. Didn't the old witch keep saying, "I'd rather be with friends than with house slaves"? It can be seen that the "foreign adults" are invincible, and they must be well supplied.
However, it was the Oriental people who lost in this Jiawu year, and this Nima was trampled by China for thousands of years since Xu Fu of the Qin Dynasty, and once turned over into the queue of "foreign adults" -- what "Treaty of Shimonoseki" was signed later, not to mention the "Xinchou Treaty", that is, even the principal decades later did not pay off the debt. The principal expressed his dissatisfaction on the treasure island, and the feelings of Nima lost the flowers, which were all sins done by the previous dynasty!
Therefore, compared to the end of the Qing Dynasty, I am afraid that it is still a little bit stronger, at least we have no money, and we don't lose! Even if you lose, you can lose to anyone, you can't lose to the Japanese Kou! (To be continued.) )