The victory of Hongzui Fort and the victory of Jinzhou brought some joy to the capital. The streets and alleys are littered with confetti left behind by firecrackers.

The military victory still made the people very excited, so on the day the news was published, the firecrackers in Beijing were sold out.

The people of the Ming Dynasty were not unrelated to the country. In fact, similar to the social environment of later generations, ordinary people have no channels and methods to change the current phenomenon of the country, although they are related to the country and even want to change the current phenomenon of the country. Heaven seems to be unheard and invisible.

However, when the situation in the country improves, they will also be excited and celebrated.

The sanitation workers began to clean up the confetti early in the morning, and the newspaper workers had already begun to deliver the newspapers everywhere, and the newsboys also came out by the hour.

"Selling newspapers, selling newspapers, the Donglin Party's fallen officials confessed and pleaded guilty."

"Sell newspapers, sell newspapers ......"

It was another morning, and the people who got up early soon heard the shouts of the newsboys, which was already a habitual phenomenon for all the people in the capital.

Many people have also become accustomed to buying a newspaper on their way to work.

The headline of today's "Daming Daily" was extremely sensational, and pedestrians who could basically read and write immediately looked sideways when they heard the cries of the newspaper boys, and many people hurriedly took out their purses and bought a newspaper.

I saw that on this day, the front page of the "Daming Daily" reported the news of the confession of the fallen officials of the Donglin Party. At the same time, Li Sancai's "Donglin Corruption Record" officially began to be serialized in "Daming Daily", and people were immediately surprised to see these incomparably detailed corruption records confessed by Li Sancai.

The inside story of Li Sancai's suicide in prison was also reported, which was an operation by the top level of the Donglin Party, who transferred Li Sancai from the labor camp to the prison of the Criminal Department, and then was sent by the top level of the Donglin Party to poison him with poisoned wine.

This report is even more shocking.

The "Daming Daily" reported on the charges of corrupt officials of the Donglin Party for three days, and devoted a large number of pages to a large number of corruption charges.

For a while, the reputation of these people was completely stinky.

On the other side, Zhu Youxiao was happily counting the silver, and after some statistics, the factory guard reported the confiscated assets after some statistics.

A total of 6.3 million taels of silver were seized in cash, and the rest of the real estate, land, and antique jade were countless, with a value of at least 7 million taels or more, but it would take a little time to realize it.

Ye Xianggao and Liu Yixian both served as the first assistant of the cabinet, and it is naturally convenient to stand high and see far, and it is naturally convenient to make money, among which Ye Xianggao's family property is worth about two million taels, and Liu Yixiao is more, reaching about two and a half million taels.

At the same time, it also implicated many landlords and wealthy businessmen, and even more assets.

The value of those real estate that needs to be converted will actually fluctuate, but 6.3 million taels is actually available, which is equivalent to 7.59 million yuan.

As the tip of power, these Donglin Party members, coupled with China's historically official-based society, have confiscated the property of more than 70 Donglin Party members of the three ethnic groups, and it is normal to get so much silver. You must know that some top businessmen in the late Ming Dynasty had tens of millions of taels of silver in liquidity alone.

There was a wealthy family of hundreds of thousands of taels in the family, which was everywhere in Jiangnan, but later it was basically cheaper than the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

After reading the raid situation reported by Dongchang and Jinyiwei, Zhu Youxiao was very satisfied.

"Your Majesty, Weichen and Father-in-law Wei sent people to investigate in Shanxi, Zhangjiakou and other places this year, and have found a lot of Jin merchants involved in smuggling. Tian Ergeng said to Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youxiao thought for a while and said: "The Jin merchants are not moving for the time being, if the Jin merchants are raided on a large scale, those chaebols in the south may have to rebel together." ”

The financial resources of the chaebols in the south are naturally very terrifying, but these chaebols are divided into various families and are not very united. After all, China is so big, it is difficult for these chaebols to dominate alone, but to show a situation of blooming everywhere. After all, China has a history of at least tens of thousands of years since the emergence of the ancient Taoist system. Entering the feudal society, there are at least 2,000 years, and no one is stupid or stupid, and they attach great importance to things that can flow for a long time, so they will not sell their industries unless they have to.

This kind of concept is different from that of Westerners. Westerners often sell their land and factories to speculate in stocks in order to speculate in stocks, and as a result, they are played around by consortia with finance.

Many of the financial methods of Westerners are not successful in China. First, the government does not allow it, and second, not everyone is stupid and will stupidly fall into the financial trap.

If these chaebols had united at the end of the Ming Dynasty, then the Manchus and the peasant army would not have been able to jump at all. But because there were too many portals, and in their opinion, it didn't matter if there was a change of emperor, so they didn't care about the peasant army uprising. Later, it was Li Zicheng who was stupid and completely offended the Donglin Party bureaucrats, but the Donglin Party controlled public opinion! And Li Zicheng's kind of military discipline, Jiangnan chaebols are also afraid.

At the same time that Li Zicheng lost the support of the Donglin Party, these Donglin Party and Jiangnan chaebol asked Wu Sangui to put the Manchu Qing into the Guannai in order to deal with Li Zicheng. So the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs under the banner of avenging Chongzhen.

It's just that in the end, the Jiangnan chaebol found out that the Manchus did not follow the rules. So he supported Wu Sangui to oppose the Qing Dynasty, in which Zheng Zhilong's father and son were also involved, but Wu Sangui and Zheng Zhilong's father and son were not Manchu opponents at all. Changing camps, Li Dingguo, who allied with the Jiangnan chaebol, was also powerless.

It was not until the end that these bureaucrats and businessmen knew that the Ming Dynasty was the best. But the country has been completely destroyed by them.

The history of the late Ming Dynasty has taught future generations a very profound truth, private capital is definitely unreliable. In particular, the private capital that has begun to sprout the ambition of the gods is extremely dangerous.

Because these private businessmen have no borders, they can switch camps at any time.

The fact that Britain was crippled by the Rothschild consortium in the First World War and the weakening of the empire on which the sun never sets proves that once these businessmen without borders become strong and become chaebols and conglomerates, for a country, it is simply like a cancer.

A truly reliable consortium must have national borders, that is, a national consortium.

The earliest national consortium in history was the Junker Foundation, which was formed by the Germans before and after the Franco-Prussian War, and then Japan also developed a national chaebol in World War I. After World War II, the Rothschild consortium weakened, and Britain and France also took the opportunity to form national consortiums.

Therefore, the earth in the 21st century is actually a world controlled by conglomerates, monopoly is the basic rule, and the so-called anti-monopoly law is only an effective weapon used to deal with private capital.

For example, if a private company develops a very profitable new product, then the consortium can use the anti-monopoly law to sanction it and force it to squeeze out market share. Then use various advantages to monopolize this new product.

As for the industry monopolized by the consortium, it is very simple to circumvent the anti-monopoly law, just control a few companies separately, and then play the right hand with the left hand and show it to the people! And companies like Microsoft, because there are too many operating systems, will lead to market chaos, and then simply blatantly trample on the anti-monopoly law.

For Zhu Youxiao, who came through the country, the only thing that may be fortunate is that the chaebols in the south have not yet united, although they have money, they also compete with each other and pull each other's back, which is the reason why they were finally taken advantage of by the Manchus. Zhu Youxiao wants to develop royal capital at this time, and obviously the environment is still good.

However, at this time, the strength in Zhu Youxiao's hands was still insufficient, and once the southern chaebol rebelled, the momentum would be absolutely terrifying. In history, Zheng Zhilong's father and son alone could pull out more than 100,000 soldiers and horses. Although Zheng Zhilong has not been edicted at this time, and he still belongs to the level of pirates who are not in the stream, but other chaebols have a lot of money.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao can fight corruption, but he can't challenge the nerves of those big businessmen, which is definitely a force that is more difficult to provoke than bureaucrats.

"Wechen is reckless." Tian Ergeng knew that he had said the wrong thing, it was okay for the businessmen to catch one or two at this time, but if those smuggling merchants were wiped out at one time, there would definitely be chaos.

"Your Majesty, the slave maid thinks that next year you can set up cards in various rivers to collect taxes, and you will definitely be able to get a lot of silver." Wei Zhongxian also built yì road at this time.

"This can be there." Zhu Youxiao nodded and said, the canal has a high loss of transportation, after all, the middle canal has not been repaired. However, Zhu Youxiao was too lazy to repair the Central Canal, and the grain would not be transported by river for two years. These canals were left to private businessmen to use well, and the checkpoints were set up on them, and this route could not be walked.

Wei Zhongxian no longer interfered in the political operation of the court at this time, and this kind of operation was handed over to Shen Yu to be responsible, so Wei Zhongxian also spent his mind on the tax bureau, thinking about how to collect some money all day long, but he achieved a lot of results, so that the tax revenue of the tax bureau began to grow rapidly.

However, the tax collection method of the tax bureau is still principled, and Wei Zhongxian's collection and scraping activities are based on these major principles. For example, it must not affect the lives of ordinary people, which is the biggest principle. In addition, we cannot exterminate all small and medium-sized private capital, which has a very good ability to organize production, which is beneficial to economic development.

After a report, Zhu Youxiao said with great satisfaction: "You have also worked hard this year, I see it in my eyes, since it is also the end of the year, I will reward you with 100,000 silver dollars each!" ”

"Thank you for your grace."

Tian Ergeng and Wei Zhongxian hurriedly knelt down and thanked them, everything else is false, and the silver is real. Moreover, the silver was personally rewarded by the emperor, and it was an income that could be obtained.

This made Tian Ergeng and Wei Zhongxian the highest-paid officials in the system.

In fact, this is the simplest, single and most practical way to control the wrist, as Yuan Shikai said: holding a butcher's knife in one hand and silver in the other. The obedient will be rewarded, and the disobedient will eat the knife. (To be continued.) )