The whole Shaanxi unveiled the army of the displaced people is not less than 100 shares, the large-scale army of the displaced people has reached dozens of shares, these for the survival of the army of the displaced people like locusts in the early years of Chongzhen, swept a large area, the momentum is growing, not only disrupted the whole Shaanxi, but also into the territory of Shanxi, the land of Shanxi is a miasma, to Chongzhen four years, the army of the exiles in the official army under the suppression, but also into Henan, the situation in the hinterland of the Central Plains, has also fallen into complete chaos.

Of course, these exiles have their reasons for rebellion, this can not complain about them, it can only be said that the Ming Dynasty has completely entered the last years of the troubled times, and the vicious circle can not be reversed.

With more and more soldiers everywhere, the financial situation of the Ming Dynasty is becoming more and more overwhelmed, the war in Liaodong is erosive, the Central Plains provinces of the displaced army in all directions, the entire northern Ming Dynasty can be said to have begun to blaze the sky, press the gourd to raise the scoop, even some border troops have joined the rebellion because of arrears, many of the former border troops simply transferred to the exile army, standing on the opposite side of the Ming Dynasty.

In the midst of these troubled times, even cults such as the White Lotus Sect, which had already been extinguished, began to make a comeback, and began to flourish among the prefectures and counties in the border areas of Henan, Shandong, and Hebei.

In order to solve the problem of food and salary, Chongzhen had to increase the salary again and again, and at the beginning of the third year of Chongzhen, he ordered all localities to add fields and add three percent per mu of land, so that the whole country could increase the income of 1.6 million taels.

In this way, on the surface, it is only an increase of three cents per acre of land, which is not much, but in this era when a large number of land is annexed, the burden on the people everywhere is already very heavy.

So far, the Ming Dynasty has completely entered a dead end, and the increase in salaries has led to more and more people becoming homeless, and there are more homeless people, and the homeless army is naturally getting stronger and stronger, more and more numerous, and there are more and more homeless people......

If this continues, naturally Daming will completely enter a dead end......

This increase in land endowment, even Fujian, has also been affected to a certain extent, but fortunately Fujian itself is less, the involvement is not too wide, although the people are dissatisfied, but the weather in Fujian in the past two years is still normal, there is no more drought, plus there is Yu Xiaotian in Fujian, strong elastic pressure, once the formation of the tide of displaced people, it will be immediately moved out of Fujian, transported to Taiwan Island.

Even if there are some bandits with slightly stronger strength, but under the front of Xiaotian's soldiers, they will soon disintegrate and disintegrate, so Fujian has only been affected by a small extent, but it has not caused a major chaos, which can be regarded as a unique among the provinces in this troubled world.

On the contrary, taking advantage of this opportunity, Yu Xiaotian got a lot of hungry people from all over the country, and it can be regarded as making a fortune.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty has not reached the point of exhaustion, the Ming Dynasty is not without financial resources to excavate, first of all, after more than two hundred years of accumulation, the wealth accumulated by the Ming Dynasty is huge, and it cannot be imagined by outsiders.

Although the Ming Dynasty has been pursuing the policy of closing the country and sealing the sea since the founding of the country, it has never completely blocked the merchants of the Ming Dynasty from doing sea trade in private, especially after the Westerners appeared in Asia, after discovering these exquisite specialties of the Ming Dynasty, they are eager for many commodities of the Ming Dynasty.

Whether it was the Portuguese who came first, or the Spaniards who came later, or even the Dutch, and even the British who had just begun to extend their tentacles to Asia, they all tried their best to buy all kinds of goods from the Ming Dynasty and ship them back to Europe for high prices.

European aristocrats are almost proud of having a few pieces of Ming porcelain or other things at home, if anyone does not have a few decent pieces of Ming porcelain, they are embarrassed to go out to greet people, saying that they are nobles.

In addition, the tea of the Ming Dynasty was gradually accepted by Europeans, and many nobles fell in love with this mysterious leaf from the East, and they felt uncomfortable if they didn't drink a cup every day.

In addition, for those noble ladies in Europe, it is simply embarrassing to go out on the street without wearing a dress made of fine silk from the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, for all kinds of commodities of the Ming Dynasty, Europe is like a bottomless pit, you can absorb as much as you want, and it will never produce unsalable, and it will always be sought after.

These European countries, in order to get the goods of the Ming Dynasty, can be said to have tried their best, first shipped European things to the Ming Dynasty, but they found that their things, very few things that the Ming Dynasty needed, except for a very few luxury goods, they had almost nothing to sell to the people of the Ming Dynasty.

So they can only find a way to get the gold and silver from other places, ships of gold and silver, in exchange for these goods of the Ming Dynasty, for a long time, the Ming Dynasty is completely a net exporter, except for silver and a small amount of jewelry and spices produced in other places, the Ming Dynasty almost does not need anything.

The huge trade surplus of hundreds of years has caused a large amount of silver to flow into the Ming Dynasty, so that the silver in the south of the Ming Dynasty has been slowly depreciating, including a large amount of silver brass produced in Japan, and most of it has flowed into the Ming Dynasty.

And almost all of this huge amount of silver was deposited in the hands of the rich and gentry of the Ming Dynasty, and was stored in the cellar and left to mold.

Therefore, the amount of silver accumulated by the Ming folk is huge, almost an astronomical figure, the most conservative estimate, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the amount of silver accumulated by the Ming folk is at least hundreds of millions of taels or even billions of taels.

This situation was maintained until after the defeat of the Qing Dynasty in the Opium War, when a large amount of silver that flowed into China in the Ming and Qing dynasties gradually returned to the hands of the European powers because of the huge war reparations.

Before that, China had the most precious metals in the world, and there was no one.

Therefore, if Chongzhen is ruthless enough, at this time, he selects some powerful people to find some charges and uproot them, just confiscating their family property is estimated to be enough for him to raise tens of millions of male soldiers, and there is no problem.

But if you want Chongzhen to do this kind of thing, it is obviously impossible, because these powerful and wealthy families, whose relationship is not intertwined? Who does not have a spokesperson in the DPRK and China, and who is not a figure with hands and eyes? If Chongzhen wants to do this, it is estimated that the corrupt officials under him will be the first to jump out and quit, because no one knows who is next, and they will definitely oppose Chongzhen with the enemy.

Obviously, Chongzhen didn't dare to do this, and he was embarrassed to do it, let alone do it shamelessly, after all, these rich and powerful relatives were all regarded by him as the pillars of the country.

But when these pillars of the country were about to die in the Ming Dynasty, how many people were willing to spend their wealth to fight for the country? Not to mention pouring out all the family wealth, even taking out a part of it is not a few people willing to do it, everyone thinks that the country has no money, it is the emperor's business, do their, their money is their own hard work, the country has no money, so they can only let the emperor figure out his own way.

As for the addition of factions and endowments, will it make people angry, few people care, there is no money to raise soldiers, and the country will be finished, but it is still the emperor's business, everyone watched Chongzhen struggle so indifferently, until Daming was completely finished.

If Yu Xiaotian remembers correctly, in his last years, Chongzhen had repeatedly appealed to the rich and officials in Beijing to help them pay money, but there were few who were really willing to pay for it.

Later, Li Zicheng entered the Beijing division and carried out a city-wide search, and some so-called bullshit historians say that when Li Zicheng fled Beijing, he took 37 million taels of silver from the city of Beijing, most of which were stolen from the palace.

In fact, this is, is Chongzhen rich? There must be, but it can be said that there are definitely not many, because Chongzhen is not a miser, if he still has more than 30 million taels of silver and millions of taels of gold in his inner pocket, he will definitely not make the world so virtuous, so that even their Zhu family's dragon seat was robbed by others.

However, whether Li Zicheng took away 37 million taels of silver and millions of taels of gold from Beijing City is debatable, but Yu Xiaotian believes that this is possible, because after Li Zicheng entered Beijing, military discipline was corrupted, and his subordinates were forced to ask for the whole city, forcing those old ministers of the Ming Dynasty and the nobles and magnates in the city to buy their lives with money.

And it is certain that Li Zicheng did not take away most of the silver in Beijing at that time, because later after the Manchu Tartars entered Beijing, they also took a lot of silver.

This is only the amount of silver accumulated in the city of Beijing, but how many cities are in the Ming Dynasty, and how many rich people are there? I'm afraid no one can give an accurate answer to how much silver has been accumulated.

Therefore, it is not that Daming has no money, but that the money is in the hands of a few people, and these few people don't care about the survival of Daming at all, but they are like misers, holding their money bags until they are crushed into powder by the exile army or the Jiannu Tartars, and their silver and jade are burned.

(To explain, these chapters are foreshadowing, I don't dare to thank you, it's all a brushstroke, I want to explain, there is no idea of cheating the number of words, it has been compressed as much as possible, everyone understands!) In addition, I would like to thank the three brothers Baiyun Guocha, GZG1972, Coke and Ice for their rewards! Thank you so much! Hehe! ）