Chapter 66: Pan-Jiangnan Forces
"Qi Yuanfu ......"
In the Wenhua Palace, Sun Ruyou, a scholar of Dongge University, frowned, as if he was holding a hot potato in his hand.
In the midst of his chatter, a figure sat next to him, frowning.
Surprisingly, this person is Fang Congzhe, the head of the cabinet who Zhu Youzhen thinks has no party and no faction, but he got together with Sun Ruyou, the leader of the Zhejiang Party that Zhu Youzhen thinks.
"Send Qi Yuanfu to the south to recruit troops, and then escort the current and tomorrow's salaries and silver, Cao Yin, summer tax, and autumn tax to the north."
"Banzai's means are not clever, they just want to use strong troops to suppress the six southern provinces."
Sun Ruyou looked at Fang Congzhe next to him, but Fang Congzhe said after hearing it:
"This year, there are still 2.72 million taels of additional silver in the six southern provinces in Nanjing, and there are still 2.24 million taels of Tian Fu and miscellaneous items converted."
"Do you want to dismiss Banzai's will, and then write that the additional silver has been shipped?"
Fang Congzhe's meaning is too simple, if it is dragged until the next year, then the more than 10 million taels of silver added together this year and next year will be transported away.
Simply let go and send the additional silver of 2.72 million taels to the capital first, which will be regarded as peace.
As for the land and miscellaneous items of the autumn tax, it can be postponed until the summer tax of next year, and then the autumn tax of this year will be handed over.
That is to say, with 2 million taels of silver, more than 10 million taels of silver will be withheld from this autumn's tax and all the taxes for next year.
If Zhu Youxiao wants to use tough measures, he will first use this year's southern additional silver to block Zhu Youxiao's appetite.
When the summer tax is held in April next year, he will use this year's autumn tax to block his appetite.
When the autumn tax is paid next year, use next year's summer tax to block his appetite.
In short, if the silver of the six southern provinces can be kept for one more day, it will be kept for one more day.
"I'm afraid Banzai won't agree, don't forget how Qi Jiguang died, and what is the relationship between Qi Jin and Qi Jiguang......" Sun Ruyou shrugged his eyelids and said such a sentence.
Hearing this, Fang Congzhe closed his mouth, and his heart was also mixed.
Qi Jiguang once followed Zhang Juzheng in reform, and Zhang Juzheng did not know how many people's interests were touched in the reform, and Qi Jiguang's own military reform ideas were also avant-garde and somewhat aggressive.
Qi Jiguang, as a northern general, relied on the Qi family army trained in the south, and received the support of Zhang Juzheng, so it can be said that it was only by relying on Hu Zongxian and Zhang Juzheng that he realized his ideals and ambitions.
But Zhang Juzheng's reform is too involved, as a native of Huguang, Zhang Juzheng's comprehensive reform involves land, taxes, miscellaneous, population and other taboo things.
As a result, when he was alive, no one dared to slander him or do anything to him, and the emperor also trembled and handed him a batch of red.
But after his death, his party was liquidated, and Qi Jiguang, as Zhang Juzheng's subordinate and the first military general, also became a fish and meat to be slaughtered.
is the Ming Dynasty that "uses literature to control martial arts", Qi Jiguang's opinions are not recognized, and the identity of a military general is also a ring of Qi Jiguang's unfair fate, which cannot be put away no matter what.
Therefore, after the death of Zhang Juzheng, the head of the cabinet, the northern officials took the lead in attacking, believing that Qi Jiguang followed the southerner Zhang Juzheng and was a traitor to the northern officials.
During the military department, Zhang Dingsi took the opportunity to say that Qi Jiguang should not be placed in the north, so Qi Jiguang was transferred to Guangdong by the imperial court, Qi Jimei was sent to Guizhou, and the rest of the generals of the Qi family army were dismissed and returned to their hometowns.
The northern officials took revenge, but the southern officials did not.
Compared with the northern faction's practice of sending Qi Jiguang to Guangdong, the Jiangnan officials are even more desperate.
In the third year after he was transferred to Guangdong, Zhang Xigao, an official in Jiangnan, repeatedly wrote and impeached Qi Jiguang, who was deposed and died of depression three years after returning to his hometown.
Four years after his death, the remnants of the Qi family army were sent to resist the Japanese and aid the DPRK, and because the military salary was too high and the credit was greater, the border army generals of Jiliao were dissatisfied, and the salary was not paid.
In the twenty-first year of Wanli, Wang Bao, the chief military officer of Jizhen, made an excuse and ordered the Qi family army personnel not to carry weapons and armor to the school field.
After the arrival of the Qi army, he ambushed his men and took the opportunity to frame the Qi family army for mutiny, killing hundreds of people, and releasing the rest back to Zhejiang.
This is the fate of Qi Jiguang and his single-handedly training army, and among them, the guilt is naturally the biggest among the northern officials.
But if you want to talk about who forced Qi Jiguang to death, the first to bear the brunt is the officials of the pan-Jiangnan faction, that is, the predecessors of the three parties in Jiangnan, such as the Zhejiang Party, the Xuan Party, and the Kun Party......
Therefore, in the identity of Sun Ruyou and others, it is obviously impossible to win over Qi Jin and Qi Yuanfu.
With Zhu Youzhen's support for them, coupled with Zhu Youzhen's trust in Zhu Youzhen, it is impossible to shake the status of Qi Jin and Qi Yuanfu in the short term.
Therefore, the way we want now must be to let Zhu Youxiao compromise.
But what can they do? At present, the target of Zhu Youxiao's attack is the Zhejiang Party.
The Chu Party is also very dissatisfied with its own tax money, which is seized by the Zhejiang Party for several months every year.
Perhaps, the only thing they can win over is the clear stream in the court......
Thinking of this, Sun Ruyou said to the other party:
"Right now, we should join forces with those idle Qingliu in the DPRK and China for a short time to tide over this difficulty."
"This ......" Hearing this, Fang Congzhe had a headache.
As the head of the cabinet and the imperial court, if he has money, it is naturally better for him to do things.
But the power was not only given by the emperor, but more often it was the officials below who lifted him up.
Below the officials were the gentry, and below the gentry were the merchants and the squires.
At present, Zhu Youxiao wants to move the interests of the gentry, businessmen, and local officials, so it is naturally easier to unite Qingliu.
But the embarrassing thing is that the so-called Qingliu is actually a party formed by people from all over the world gathering together, that is, the Donglin Party.
When many of them saw this will, they would probably only applaud, after all, most of them were from small and medium-sized landlord backgrounds at the moment.
Once the Zhejiang Party loses power, they can also take the opportunity to push Tian Fu to miscellaneous items, so that the interest groups behind the Zhejiang Party can cede their interests.
Therefore, if you want to unite with the Donglin Party, you can only win over the Jiangnan faction officials within the Donglin Party.
However, in the Donglin Party, there are only more than a dozen Jiangnan officials with power, such as Gao Panlong, Liu Yuanzhen, Gu Dazhang, Wei Dazhong, Liu Yixiu, and Zuo Guangdou.
In this group of people, Liu Yixian and Zuo Guangdou are Zhu Changluo's ministers, Zuo Guangdou and Yang Lian basically wear a pair of pants, and it is impossible to ally with them.
If you really want to count it, only Liu Yixian is the object they can win over, but Liu Yixian is a virtuous person, and he is not liked by the lower-level officials of the Donglin Party at all.
Therefore, these three people are all people who are eager to pay the taxes in Jiangnan immediately, and it is impossible to compromise with the Zhejiang Party.
As a result, they couldn't find a powerful Donglin party member if they wanted to join forces, which was really embarrassing......
The Donglin Party itself was not a close-knit organization composed of interests like the township party like them, but a small group of officials from Qingliu and Donglin Academy.
The only thing they had in common with the other officials was the squire standing behind them, who owned countless fertile fields.
The Liaoxiang faction was mainly added to the fields, and there was no increase in commercial taxes and miscellaneous items at all, and the squires who were supporters of the lower-level officials of the Donglin Party would not support them in writing.
In this case, things will be difficult......
But even so, Sun Ruyou still thought of a way.
He raised his head and looked at Fang Congzhe and said, "Maybe there is another person who can help us ......"
"Who?" Fang Congzhe didn't think of anyone with such great energy for a while, but in the next second, Sun Ruyou told him the answer:
"Ye Xianggao ......"