Chapter 571: The Backbone of the Nation
Speaking of which, Fang Butang, the leader of the Hunan Party, although he is willing to help his fellow villagers get rich, he is very honest, has always advocated frugality, and has repeatedly gone to the imperial court, asking the Son of Heaven to "worship thrift and thrift, so as to enrich the world". However, after the former broke the White Lotus Holy Treasury, a large amount of the stolen money actually flowed into the inner treasury, and the huge amount almost made this old Shangshu's eyes breathe fire, and he was furious!
According to his thoughts, all the money, grain and taxes in the world belong to Taicang, what is the inner treasury? This institution should not have existed in the first place. There are two parts to the direction of the emperor's money, one part should and the other part should not. The part that should be approved by the Ministry of Natural Households, and the part that is not approved is a waste that should not be generated. The Son of Heaven should be thrifty-based, in order to set an example for the people, now the Ming Dynasty is full of extravagance, it is said that the cost of a meal for the rich in the south will be a thousand taels, and at the same time there are a large number of poor people, selling children and women for three meals without a piece of tile, no tile to cover the body, no inch of land under the foothold, in the long run, the country will not be a country. And if the emperor takes the lead in extravagance, how can he ask the people below to be economical? Neku Neku, isn't it just to encourage this unhealthy trend of the emperor taking the lead in spending money indiscriminately?
Therefore, during his tenure as Shangshu, he spared no effort to separate signs with the Son of Heaven, stuck in the money bag, and dug the internal carrier warehouse, and cut it if he could, desperately competing with it for money, in order to let Jiajing live a few more days of poverty, and also know what it was like to know that Lu Dao had no money. It's a pity that his hard work was all ruined by Yan Hong's little traitor, and a large sum of money was sent in, and the emperor was loose in hand, so his behavior was less scruples.
Not long ago, the emperor actually went against the norm and summoned his two sons into the palace to face the saints, and also let the two sons take turns to live in the palace for a period of time. This was almost unimaginable in the past. You must know that when the son of Lu Dao today, he is convinced that the two dragons do not see each other. Exchanges of information with his son. It all relied on the eunuch's decree, what kind of illness did he commit this time, and he was willing to take the initiative to summon him and keep his son for the night?
It is said that this is a good thing, and it has little to do with Fang Dut's work. But the problem is that not long after that, the emperor held a big feast, saying that he wanted to pray for his grandson. Bless him with no disasters and no diseases, and grow up healthy. As soon as this ritual was held, I don't know how much ambergris was consumed, and the silver was spent like flowing water, which made Lao Shangshu feel distressed.
If this money can be put in Taicang as a reserve, or used to do business, how good it is. Lao Shangshu couldn't help but write a book at that time, suggesting that the Son of Heaven immediately stop this kind of activity, expel the Taoist priests, advocate frugality, and transfer the silver from the inner treasury to Taicang for allocation! Don't blame Lao Shangshu for being unscrupulous. Da Ming Wenchen wanted to get rid of Neiku, he was not the first, nor was he the last.
In the plane where Yan Donglai is. After Emperor Wanli returned to heaven, Zhu Changluo, who reigned for only one month, was fooled by Wenchen. After ascending the throne, he lost all the seven million taels of silver that his father had worked hard to accumulate to Taicang, and since then, the Ming Emperor has become a poor egg. When Chongzhen became the emperor, he couldn't even get the money to reward the generals. At that time, the army was close to the Beijing division, Wu Sangui's army was far away, and he could not arrive in a short time, so Emperor Chongzhen had to order the first transfer of Tang Tong, the general soldier of Jizhen, and Liu Zeqingqin, the general soldier of Shandong. Liu Zeqing knew that King Qin would die, so he falsely claimed that he was injured after falling off his horse and could not lead his troops. And Tang Tong took 8,000 border troops, regardless of the hard work of the starry night to return to the master Qin Wang, but after entering the palace to face the saint, Chongzhen only rewarded Tang Tong with 40 taels of silver, 8,000 elite soldiers, and each person was rewarded with five cents! In the face of this reward, Tang Tong made a wise decision, and after leaving the palace, he led his troops to join the army. In later generations, there will always be people who attack Chongzhen for being stingy, but in fact, he is not an idiot, no matter how stingy he is, he will not be stingy to such a point, he really has no money in his hands. Neiku was defeated by Guangzong, and Chongzhen's hands were empty, what reward did he get? As a result, the Ming Dynasty was finished, and it also fulfilled Wanli's last words before his death: Don't make the internal money exhausted, then the country will no longer be owned by my Zhu family.
This blunt man repeatedly wrote in the hope that the internal funds would be allocated to the household department, and the emperor would use the money to ask the household department again. Ke Jiajing is not the kind of brain-dead of the Mingguang Sect in another time and space, how could he agree to such a request? This recital was left in Jiajing's middle and not released. This is still because the old emperor has been busy teasing his grandson recently, enjoying the joy of family, and he is in a good mood and has no time to clean up people, otherwise Fang Dull Shao will have to be severely punished.
But Fang Blunt was already old, and he didn't care about fame and disgrace. When he saw that the government was going wrong, he was disheartened, so he wanted to resign and go into hiding. At this moment, someone sent news that Yan Hong had colluded with the Japanese and planned to bribe the Son of Heaven with a million taels of silver to buy Wang Zhi's life.
During this period of time, regarding the issue of Wang Zhi, the court has been disrupted. This chapter was handed to the Beijing Division, and it is said that the Jinyi Guard also had a secret fold. Among them, Hu Zongxian went from suggesting not to kill Wang Zhi, to signing to please behead Wang Zhi, and Yan Hong also signed together, it is said that Wang Bengu and some Beijing officials appealed, Wang Zhi's head should be definitely dropped, but the palace has always ignored it, and has a cold treatment of this chapter.
The minister of the DPRK and China couldn't see what the wind direction was, so someone tried a few rounds and asked for a cut, but there was no follow-up. Although Fang Yu himself had never been in charge of the work of leveling the Japanese invaders, he hated the same as the Japanese Bandits, and naturally did not want the emperor to pardon the innocent of this Japanese leader. And according to the news he received, Xu Hai, the Japanese who had been amnestied before, recruited the old troops at sea, and had developed strength, and he didn't know when he would harm the Ming Dynasty again.
Wang Zhi's prestige status is far above Xu Hai, if he is really pardoned, then if he wants to harm him in the future, the degree is not comparable to Xu Hai. Furthermore, as soon as this example is opened, who in the world still has the heart to fear the law? If everyone is vying to buy their lives with money, then what is the system? What's more, this million silver went to the emperor's private treasury, and Yu Taicang did not help, and the emperor could use this money to squander it at will, and fattened countless Taoist priests in vain.
The so-called king of Chu loves a thin waist, and he starves to death in the palace. The emperor took the lead in extravagance, and the people below did not compete for wealth, and when the time came, the extravagance in the world would rise, and it would not be easy to control it. Combining these reasons, Fang Yu was determined to fight again before he became a leader, and took the million taels of silver into Taicang. When the time comes, it will just be a dismissal, and he will be begging for resignation, what is the dismissal?
As for the reason, he also thought about it, Zhejiang owed too much tax to the imperial court, and Suzhou alone owed 8 million stone for tax grain, which was converted into silver even at the lowest price of 4 million taels, and other places did not need to be counted. So to say that this million taels of silver is the tax arrears of Zhejiang Shangjie, which is completely in the past.
As long as this money enters Taicang, the emperor doesn't want to come out again, can he still say that this is not tax arrears, it is the money that Wang Zhi gave me to buy my life? Obviously, these words can't be said, and when the time comes, the emperor will suffer a dumb loss, and it will also make it difficult for Wang Zhi's trick to succeed. If you unite with a loyal and upright minister, you can win a big victory. This can be regarded as a resounding slap in the face to Yan Song before he withdrew from the court, so that the eldest grandson of his family, who is acting recklessly, will not succeed in his plot to bring disaster to the country and the people. It also let the emperor know that the Ming Dynasty is not what the emperor wants to do, he can do it.
Fang Yu also knew that in this matter, the Forbidden Sea Sect in the DPRK had the intention of using him as a gunman. However, Lao Fang didn't care, according to his thoughts, this sea couldn't be opened. Even if he didn't mention the law of his ancestors, just talking about the impact of opening the sea, he thought that this opening of the sea was definitely a move that would bring disaster to the country and the people. The benefits of merchant trade are far better than farming, and when everyone goes to do business, who will plow the land? And the imperial court has no food, only silver, isn't that just waiting for the destruction of the country? Besides, what has become of the dignified country, going to trade, and competing with merchants for profit?
If the imperial court wants to be rich, what it should do is to throttle, not open source. There are so many vassal kings and nobles in the world, and the more they reproduce like rats, they are born with a fortune and an official title, which occupies a lot of social resources. The imperial court should seize the shadow and cut the Lu, through this method, it is natural to save a lot of expenses, and what economic problems can not be solved? In Fang Yu's opinion, those parasites had no need to survive in the first place, and they deserved to starve to death. It's such a simple reason to hate, Yan Song is sycophant, but it's okay, Xu Jie didn't even come out to oppose it, it's really unreasonable!
Since Fang Yu had made up his mind to get this money, he naturally arranged it carefully. His information was very accurate, and he came here in advance to ambush him. Zhao Sheng and the others were just guarding against thieves, and they were all planning for armed struggle, but they didn't expect that the second-grade department of the dignified country and the dynasty would actually come here in person, and they suddenly had no ideas. Feng Yunchong and the others didn't dare to provoke these second-grade civil officials, and the six main halls could only let the other party scold. At this time, I saw the elder entourage beside Fang Laobutang, took out a cloud-piercing cannon from his arms, ignited it and set it on fire, with a fire rushing to the sky, the cannon sounded, and after a while, there was a burst of running sounds, and I saw hundreds of soldiers running forward.
These are the barnmen who are responsible for guarding Taicang, and they belong to the guards who can be directly commanded by the household department. I saw this dry man and others, everyone with swords and guns in their hands, and their eyes showed a cold light, surrounding the people on this dock. These people also got Fang Blunt's order, today everything just needs to be done according to the order, the big leak, Fang Lao Shangshu will bear it with all his might, and it will not implicate them. And each person will be rewarded with one or two silver, and there will be a meritorious battle, and there will be another reward, and the injured decoction will be preferred! Under this heavy reward, the cangding, who usually copes with the messengers, also has a new mental outlook today, with high morale and great strength to fight.
In terms of numbers and combat strength, the men and horses on the dock are completely above these warehouses, and the five hundred elite soldiers of Yu Dayou alone are not only well-trained, but also have a formation queue, and together with them, there are 3,000 people from Kuding, and I am afraid that they will not be able to resist. But the problem is that Cangding has a second-grade household department Shangshu Situ in charge, and this aura is not a little bit added. Although Yu Dayou is the chief soldier with the rank of governor and governor, from the point of view of grade, it is from the first grade, which is bigger than this second grade. But fools all know that the military general's first grade may not be comparable to the fourth grade of a civil official, as for the second grade...... It's better to wash and sleep, when the noble and the martial arts don't exist. As for other people's official positions, it is even more inadequate, Zhang Whale is shaking his majesty in front of Feng Yunchong, in front of Fang Dut, what kind of thing is he? (To be continued......)