Chapter 037: Ready to Start

Zhu Youxiao announced his retirement with a dark face, not to mention how unhappy he was.

"Damn, I won't go to court in the future."

This idea came to Zhu Youxiao's mind, and he could understand very well at this time why Emperor Wanli had not been in the early dynasty for so many years.

The last dynasty is just uncomfortable.

This early dynasty, Zhu Youxiao has obviously fallen out with the Donglin Party, and at this time Zhu Youxiao must consider the consequences, obviously his reputation will not be long after these Donglin Party will be ruined.

Just like Emperor Wanli, because of the awkward quarrel with the Donglin Party, it is rumored that Emperor Wanli must drink every day, every time he drinks, he must be drunk, every time he is drunk, he must be scolded by the cane, and every person who is scolded by the cane must die, etc., basically all of the dirty water that is splashed on the body.

The Donglin Party is like this, if it can't defeat you in the front, it will attack you from a personality point of view, saying that you have no virtue.

The traditional Chinese system of respect and inferiority is based on the principle of 'subduing people with virtue', and everyone has an independent personality and dignity since birth. If you want people to surrender to the ground, you must play the 'De' card, so as to give the subject a step down, not a barbaric conquest.

Attacking the personality of others, even the personality of the emperor, is like taking a salary from the bottom of a kettle. It makes some ignorant masses hostile and repulsive to someone.

However, there is one essential thing that can never be changed, and that is the success or defeat of the king. As long as Zhu Youxiao wins the final victory, he can still ignore the temporary rumors and slander.

In order to achieve ultimate victory, it is necessary to improve fiscal revenues.

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After the dispersal of the dynasty, hundreds of officials walked down the steps in groups, looking at Fang Zhenru, who was beaten outside, and the saints of the Donglin Party blamed one after another.

"What a tyrant! Fang Zhenru just bluntly said that he went to Hajj, and he was canned on the spot. How good is such a tyrant! ”

"Not only is it brutal, but it is also mediocre, and the commercial tax is related to the interests of the people in the world, and it dares to collect it indiscriminately."

"I'm afraid that the emperor's collection of commercial taxes under the guise of the country's financial constraints is fake, and personal enjoyment is true! The world is all owned by his Zhu family, what else does he want! Ay! ”

Sighing, denouncing, all kinds of words came out of the mouths of the Donglin Party officials, who didn't take the emperor's majesty seriously at all, and even had eunuchs standing there on the side! Completely ignored by these Donglin parties.

Those Qichu Zhejiang Party officials were a different scene, they didn't say a word on the way out of the palace, but there was already a look in their eyes.

This is the second time since the emperor ascended the throne that he has been at odds with the Donglin Party.

The first time it failed, the Donglin Party was victorious. The emperor could only be manipulated by them step by step, but after more than half a year had passed, the emperor was obviously no longer willing to be at the mercy of the Donglin Party.

These Qichu and Zhejiang Party officials, who represented the interests of the landlord class, naturally saw some hope for striking at the Donglin Party.

Some people of insight dare not show their attitude, but they are very excited in their hearts, maybe there will be another saint in the Ming Dynasty.

Hundreds of officials have different thoughts, their thoughts are confused, and the signs of troubled times are already very obvious.

This kind of unification is not only the unification of the territory, but also the unification of internal ideas and values.

When authority is gradually lost, it is the time when the world is about to be in turmoil.

World War I and World War II are the best examples, the First World War was a major war with the British and Entente powers because of the rise of the German capital consortium to challenge the hegemony of Jewish capital. It's just that when this war happened, Britain was still a military hegemon, so the main battlefield was still only in Europe.

World War II meant that the British no longer had the hegemonic position, and Germany, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan all wanted to achieve world hegemony, resulting in the massive World War II.

The authority of the Ming Dynasty is the imperial power.

More than 200 years have passed, the capital power of merchants has gradually developed, and the financial resources controlled by merchants have surpassed those of the Ming Dynasty.

Why was the Manchus able to seize the world in the end? Mainly because of the Han people, not only the Ming Dynasty could not unify the world, but also the merchant groups that were crazy digging into the corners of the country could not be unified, and the merchant families in the south of the Yangtze River were not unified themselves, and the Shanxi Jin merchants supported wild boar skins.

The biggest advantage of wild boar skin is internal unification, and then use Han people to fight Han people, and pull up a large number of Han Eight Banners cannon fodder. Fortunately, at this time, the situation in Liaodong has not been completely eroded, and the wild boar skin has not yet begun to reuse the Han literati, and it is still at the level of a bandit gang, and it cannot be put on the stage at all. After the occupation of Shenyang, the Han people were massacred, and there were now not enough people to produce wild boar skins, nor enough Han people to form a large number of cannon fodder troops.

This also means that as long as Zhu Youxiao guards the inside of the pass well, does not let the wild boar skin enter the pass to plunder the population, and does not let the wild boar skin grab too many things on the front line, it is impossible to break the combat effectiveness with the kind of wild boar skin that can be poked and broken, and it is impossible to enter the Central Plains. Of course, there could not be a large-scale peasant uprising internally.

The Emperor of the Apocalypse in history was very sober-minded, and he was not fooled by the Donglin Party into raising taxes in the north, but instead drove the Donglin Party out of the court, and enabled the officials of the Qichu and Zhejiang Party to raise taxes in the south. As a result, the finances were improved, and relief was provided to the people in the north, and at the same time, the large-scale implementation of the armor protection system and the promotion of grassroots officials who understood the people's feelings stabilized the situation in the north.

Later, Emperor Chongzhen came to power and would be in chaos, which was nothing more than that after the Donglin Party returned to power, he immediately embezzled the salaries of the Jiubian army, and the natural disaster led to the fact that the border army could not survive and began to loot northern Shaanxi, and the victims of northern Shaanxi could not survive and fell into chaos. At this time, the Donglin Party did not carry out effective relief at all, and the peasant uprising became bigger and bigger, and in order to exterminate the peasant army, it raised taxes wildly in the north, causing agricultural production in the north to fall into a vicious circle.

In the general direction, the emperors of the Apocalypse in history all went right, but they were negligent in personal safety, and in the end, they died and fell short.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao, who came through time, learned the lessons of history, and was already very careful in personal safety, and the Donglin Party basically had no chance to kill him. At the same time, it also began to move towards a different path, that is, the road of replacing private capital with royal capital, fundamentally replacing private capitalists.

For Zhu Youxiao, at this time, it was all about money. If you have money, you can help the people in the north, and you can repair water conservancy and roads, so that the north can be restored.

After retiring from the court, Zhu Youxiao returned to the Yangxin Palace and immediately called Li Jinzhong over.

"What does the emperor command?" Li Jinzhong asked Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youxiao touched his chin and thought for a moment, and said, "You immediately take someone to arrest Wang An and put him in prison." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty. The slave and maid immediately went to arrest someone. Li Jinzhong's spirit was shocked, Wang An, this old guy wanted to kill him all day long, and he could finally kill him today.

"Go ahead! Look how much silver he covets. Zhu Youxiao nodded, Wang An's time bomb is time bomb to clean him up. Since he is already in a state of turning his face with the Donglin Party, Zhu Youxiao doesn't have to worry so much, he first cleaned up Wang An, and then cleaned up Luo Sigong.