"If I can't do anything, God won't help me!"

On August 24, the third year of the Apocalypse, when Wenchen was angry with the eunuchs and took action against them, when Zhu Youzhen was loose in Liaodong and rode horses in the suburbs all day long, in the southwest mountainous area, with the unwilling roar of one person, thousands of Ming troops went to the city to kill......

On the 27th day of the eighth month of the Apocalypse, Zhu Xieyuan sent people to expedite 800 li, and three days later spread the news of An Bangyan's self-defeat to the capital.

Since then, the cholera Ming Dynasty has been in the Ming Dynasty for nearly three years, and the Lu'an Rebellion has come to an end.

This battle cost 9.27 million taels of silver, and more than 390,000 soldiers and horses were dispatched before and after, mobilizing soldiers and horses from Yunnan, Guichuan, Liangguang, Huguang and other six provinces, and spending more than 12 million stone of grain.

Since the end of this battle, there is no more Tusi in Guizhou, and some Tusi in Yunnan, southern Sichuan, Guangxi and other places are also cautious because of the Ming army's war, and many careerists have bowed their heads.

Even the millions of people in the five northern provinces and Shaanxi who have been squeezed are overjoyed, and they tell their friends that the Ming Dynasty has finally finished fighting two wars.

For the people, they don't care who is in power, after all, officials are the same, and honest and capable officials are always rare.

For them, they are more concerned about the reason for the Battle of Fuliao and the Rebellion of Lu'an, because of the so-called Liao.

Liaodong was restored, Jianyu was broken by His Royal Highness the King of Qi in one breath, and An Bangyan and Song Wanhua in the southwest also died......

In this case, the Ming Dynasty has been leveled all over the world, so can the Liao salary be canceled and give the people a breather?

The idea of the common people was very simple, they did not ask the court and the government to exempt them from taxes, but only wanted to reduce the taxes of Liaoyu.

Perhaps for some people who regard themselves as high-minded, the so-called Liao salary is just nine cents of silver per mu of land, that is, nine cents, and these mud legs are reluctant to pay.

But for Zhu Youzhen, who is familiar with the deformed tax system of the Ming Dynasty, what does Liao Salary mean to the people of the world? He couldn't have been clearer.

The local officials shielded the gentry, large landowners, merchants, nobles, and civil ministers, and directly transferred the nine cents per mu that originally belonged to them to the heads of the Ming people.

Daming has more than 700 million acres of land, of which only two-thirds are in the hands of the people, and the other one-third has been occupied by them.

It seems to be good, because they have only usurped one-third, and they have left two-thirds for the people.

But here's the problem: of these two-thirds, the vast majority of acres are in one class.

Small and medium-sized landlords......

The common people have no silver, and even to put it a little ugly, they can be said to be poor ghosts compared to the gentry and the rich.

The poor ghost has no money in his hands, and if he wants to collect money, he has to find someone who is not so poor, and even a little rich.

In the economic language of later generations, this is "harvesting the middle class".

In all dynasties, only by harvesting the middle class can a dynasty continue to live.

Judging from the course of the Qin, Han, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, when the ruler aimed his sickle at this class, the dynasty became a dying man who entered the intensive care unit.

Whether or not it can continue to live depends entirely on whether the number of this class is enough.

When it came to harvesting this class, the Song Dynasty performed very well, so that it easily exceeded 100 million people, even though it occupied the least amount of land.

In the harvest of the middle class, the Ming Dynasty was far inferior to the Song Dynasty, because of the greed of the Shidafu and merchants, big landowners, and Xunqi, plus the sudden drought of the Xiaoice River, in fact, in only about thirty years, they were consumed.

In this consumption, the middle class of the north was undoubtedly the first to be harvested.

"The poor ghost has no money to collect, and the rich can't collect it, so they can only collect your group of people, Chongzhen, you are really unlucky......

When Zhu Youzhen figured out the ins and outs of Liaoyu, he looked at the document in his hand and sighed.

[This year, a total of 6,234,300 taels were collected, more than 3,730,000 taels of land endowments, more than 1,760,000 taels of miscellaneous items, more than 750,000 taels of salt, and more than 70,000 taels of tariffs......]

Looking at the types of tax items and the number of tax items in his hand, Zhu Youzhen stood up at the same time, put his hands behind his back, and walked out of the courtyard.

Jin Yiwei followed him, and he was walking in the general mansion that cost more than 3,000 taels of silver.

His mind flashed through all the information that appeared in Liao's world......

Liaojiao, also known as Xinjiao, was first conquered in the 46th year of Wanli and was mainly used for the military needs of Liaodong.

From the forty-sixth year to the forty-eighth year of the Wanli Emperor's death, except for a few areas such as Guizhou, the average amount of silver per mu of land was levied by nine cents, totaling 5.2 million and 62 taels.

This year, after Wei Zhongxian came to power, Zhu Youxiao used Wei Zhongxian to levy the customs and salt and other miscellaneous silver taels from merchants and ordinary people in the name of Liao.

This year, he was able to receive more than 6 million taels of silver, a new high, because Cui Chengxiu and others were doing things in Jiangnan.

In previous years, the salt tax levied by Liao was at most 780,000 taels, but this year it has risen tenfold all of a sudden, and the miscellaneous items of hundreds of thousands of taels on weekdays have also been raised by Cui Chengxiu to more than 1.7 million.

Is this a good thing? Not really......

Choi Chengxiu may need to bring down some salt merchants and officials who do not obey him to add miscellaneous items and salt lessons, but it is impossible to make up so many at once.

If you can make up so much, it will inevitably be against the common people, small and medium-sized landlords, small and medium-sized salt merchants, and small and medium-sized merchants.

The way to start is very simple, but it is just to say that the imperial court will raise taxes.

Zhu Youzhen doesn't know how many people there are in the Ming Dynasty, but even if it is calculated according to 150 million people, the average person will have to pay 42 yuan.

The adult who occupies one-third of the resources passes on one-third of the tax that should be levied to the other two-thirds, and finally the remaining two-thirds need to pay sixty-three yuan each.

These two-thirds of the people, even if they count 100 million people, but according to the smallest of five people per household, it is only 20 million households.

20 million households, that is, 20 million men who are the pillars of the pillars, share the more than 6 million taels of salary, but in fact, each person needs to share more than 300 yuan.

Judging from what Zhu Youzhen learned, in addition to the hundreds of county towns in the densely populated four provinces of Nanzhili, Shandong, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi, which can reach 20 wen a day, the wages in other provinces except for the government administration office and the provincial government office are only 10 to 15 wen.

In other words, this sharing will basically make more than 20 million pillars work in vain for a month.

If you add Tian Fu, then it will be two months for nothing, plus one month of forced labor......

Good! A third of the year is spent struggling to pay taxes.

This onerous taxation is also the reason why small peasants with only a few acres of land in their hands cannot survive when the land is annexed.

To be honest, Zhu Youzhen is short of money, and Daming is also short of money, but Zhu Youzhen knows what money can be taken and what money cannot be taken.

The six million taels of Liao's salary is a lot, but at this time, if this kind of tax is levied again, as long as the local area encounters a little disaster, it is tantamount to forcing the people to rebel.

"If you don't cure the disease, you can't cure the disease......"

Zhu Youzhen, who was walking, stopped, sighed, and then turned around and walked towards the study.

In the case of the lack of silver in the imperial court, he had to take action to cancel the liao salary.

Although he knew that even if the Liao salary was abolished, there would be many corrupt officials who would continue to use this tax name to fool the people, so as to corrupt and pass on the gentry's land endowment, but after all, such a situation is a minority.

It is impossible for him to give up the issue of reducing the burden on hundreds of millions of people for the sake of a very small number of circumstances.

After thinking everything through, Zhu Youzhen returned to the study, and then picked up the pen and prepared to write.

Seeing this, the brocade guard next to him immediately studied the ink, and then Zhu Youzhen began to write.

First of all, he explained to his imperial brother the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, the number of acres of land of the Imperial Horse Supervisor after the Tianxia Guard was abolished, and calculated how much grain the Ming could have to mobilize under such circumstances.

He tried to write the situation of Daming well, avoiding the Xiaoice period that he knew would break out.

Because he knew that if he didn't write the situation well, then his brother would not be willing to give up Liao's salary.

Once someone has established this thing, no ruler will want to abolish it.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen deliberately described the days of the people at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty, and then mentioned that "if the Liao salary is levied again, the rebellion of luxury and peace will be common." ”

In a word, the seriousness of the matter is said.

Although the Extravagant Rebellion has always been an opponent of the second and even third echelons of the Ming Dynasty, it has also dispatched the white pole soldiers and the two first-tier soldiers and horses of Shangzhi, and gathered nearly 400,000 troops.

If such a thing breaks out again, I am afraid that for Daming, he will fall into the quagmire of war again.

"Send this letter to Brother Huang."

After writing, Zhu Youzhen dried the ink and handed it to Lu Wenzhao, who was belated.

Lu Wenzhao responded, and then handed the letter to Lu Xian to escort, and after he finished arranging, Zhu Youzhen also looked at him suspiciously and said:

"It's not your character to be late for today's shift."

"Please forgive Your Highness, and go to the people outside the city and the Thousand Households in Jingcheng this morning to verify the information of the Korean merchants." Lu Wenzhao first admitted that he was late, and then said the reason why he was late.

"Let's talk about it" Hearing that the matter was related to North Korean businessmen, Zhu Youzhen knew that this news must have something to do with Jianyu.

As he expected, Lu Wenzhao quickly confessed the news that the Korean merchants had discovered for the Ming army.

"The old slave seems to have been shot in the first battle of Chaoyang Mountain, and he is still lying in bed, and the inside of the Jianyu is supervised by Dai Shan." Lu Wenzhao was the first to reply, but Zhu Youzhen immediately interrupted:

"Where's Huang Taiji?"

"Huang Taiji has not been seen either, but his status seems to have declined because of the loss of the Zhengbai flag, and the merchants did not waste much effort to find out about him." Lu Wenzhao responded:

"It is rumored that he was also seriously injured, and after lying in bed for two months, the old slave transferred ten of Engdel's Niu Lu and a battalion of Fan Wencheng's soldiers for his disposal."

"In addition, more than 4,000 men over the age of 16 in the Jianlu clan were assigned to various banners, and the two yellow banners of the old slave were divided into seven oxen, two thousand and one hundred people, and Daishan was divided into four oxen, one thousand two hundred."

"Huang Taiji's positive white flag was divided into two Niu Lu, six hundred people, and the inlaid white flag was also assigned to one Niu Lu."

"After that, the old slave merged the remnants of the white flag and the white flag into the white flag, and prepared to wait for the next year to prepare for the white flag."

"Right now, in Huang Taiji's hands, there should be eleven Zhengbai Flag Niulu, as well as ten Mongolian Niulu and a battalion of Han soldiers, totaling more than 9,300 people."

Lu Wenzhao made things clear, but Zhu Youzhen was no longer nervous, because he knew that Huang Taiji, who only had more than 9,000 people, could not become a big deal.

But there was one thing that caught his attention......

"Transferring Engdel and Fan Wencheng to Huang Taiji, Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai didn't say anything?" Zhu Youzhen asked, and Lu Wenzhao also replied:

"Mang Gultai was furious, but it seemed that this transfer was to punish him for rescuing Hetuala, which caused the destruction of more than half of his 40,000 army."

"As for Dai Shan, he didn't show any ......"

"This is very interesting......" Hearing Lu Wenzhao's words, Zhu Youzhen's fingers hidden behind his back couldn't help rubbing his fingertips, and said:

"I originally thought that the old slave would let Huang Taiji be his successor after the war, but now it seems that because the strength of the two white flags has been weakened, he is ready to pave the way for Huang Taiji."

"Paving the way?" Lu Wenzhao was a little puzzled, and after Zhu Youzhen walked back and forth a few times, he said:

"If Amin doesn't stand in line, then this old thief is probably ready to let Daishan and Mang Gul Tai fight to the death, and then let Huang Taiji take the position."

"He transferred the Han camp of Gurtai and the Beiyu Niulu of Dai Shan, but he actually interfered with the eyes and ears of the Huangtaiji team."

"Let Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai's people keep an eye on Huang Taiji all the time, and at the same time win him over."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youzhen chuckled and said:

"When the time comes, if Huang Taiji chooses to take sides, then it is very likely that he will become a weight scale after Amin and decide the reversal of the scale."

"But in fact, Nurhachi is to let Huang Taiji hibernate and absorb the soldiers and horses of the two of them, or let Huang Taiji do some things."

"What's the matter? Could it be that he is here to invade Liaodong? Lu Wenzhao frowned, and Zhu Youzhen shook his head with a chuckle:

"If he wants to withdraw Huang Taiji and Amin from the current power struggle, he will definitely mobilize troops against the Beishan Jurchens and Beiyu at the same time."

"Not only can it absorb a large number of Beiyu and Savage Jurchens, but it can also allow Amin and Huang Taiji to recover their vitality for Jianyu, why not?"

"If so, isn't the situation very bad? Why is Your Highness smiling so happily? Lu Wenzhao smiled wryly, but Zhu Youzhen stretched his waist and said:

"Have you laughed? Maybe it's because the old slave's methods are too inferior......"

After moving his body, Zhu Youzhen said as if no one was around:

"We beheaded one-third of the men in one go, and there have been internal problems for a long time."

"The old slave's methods have never been clever, I dare not say it to others, but as a person in the bureau, Dai Shan should be able to see it."

As long as Dai Shan doesn't want to give up the so-called "sweat position", then he must make some means to respond. ”

"But Your Highness ......," Lu Wenzhao hesitated:

"After all, the Beiyu control hundreds of thousands, with the less than 10,000 troops in the hands of Huang Taiji and Amin, how can they beat the Beiyu?"

"Huh?" Zhu Youzhen glanced at Lu Wenzhao sideways, and then patiently explained:

"Beiyu, like Jianyu, is actually the side close to my Daming, and can learn some of my Daming's methods the most."

"Important resources such as artisans and people who have fled north will become their firewood."

"But think about it, what are the Tuman, Karaqin, Tumut, Hetao, Ningxia and other departments close to my Ming Dynasty look like?"

"Even the guy from Tiger Rabbit Dun has eaten my Ming Dynasty reward for a few years, and there are no more than 10,000 iron horsemen who can wear triple armor."

"With such strength, in the face of the attack of Jianyu, I am afraid it will be very difficult."

Zhu Youzhen did not say that Mongolia would be annexed by Huang Taiji, because such a thing was impossible in the current situation.

Although in the previous life, Huang Taiji and Nurhachi used troops against the grassland several times, plundered a large number of people, cattle and sheep and other resources, and continued several mouthfuls of blood in the protracted war with the Ming Dynasty, but after all, that was when Jianyu had 60,000 triple-armored troops.

Even if Lin Dan Khan's gang is stretched again, it is impossible for Huang Taiji to be defeated by Huang Taiji with nine thousand stinky fish and rotten shrimp.

Zhu Youzhen does not deny Huang Taiji's ability, but in reality, no matter how good his personal ability is, no good platform is a complete calf.

If the old slave had died before the Battle of Fuliao, Huang Taiji had taken over the Later Jin, and the Later Jin had been united by the threat of the Ming army, then Zhu Youzhen might have been afraid of Huang Taiji.

Because at that time, Huang Taiji had 1120,000 men in Jianzhou, 20,000 Beiyu and 20,000 Han soldiers, as well as hundreds of thousands of Han people and hundreds of thousands of old and weak women and children.

If he had retreated to Wuyewuwei at that time, and then continued his life by liberating the men to work, and continuing his life by fighting the Beishan Jurchens and the Mongols, he might have been able to fight against Zhu Youzhen for a few years.

But the problem is that the current situation of Houjin is that there are less than 40,000 men over the age of 15, and the old and weak women and children have been killed by one-sixth or seventh, and most of the Han soldiers have been beheaded.

If we look at the land, even if the Haixi Jurchens, the Beishan Jurchens, and the East China Sea Jurchens have been cultivated for hundreds of years, the amount of cultivated land in the northeast beyond the Great Wall is still impossible to exceed 1.5 million mu.

Even if you add the new land cultivated by Wu Yewuwei, it will be at most two million acres.

How is it possible to raise 60,000 soldiers and horses and 300,000 people on 2 million acres?

Even if Huang Taiji really did it, it is estimated that the outcome at that time may be the result of half of the population starving to death.

Moreover, this is already the best way for Houjin to take at present.

But the problem is that Huang Taiji's two white flags were crippled and almost completely destroyed.

If Huang Taiji can't take the stage, then Nurhachi no matter who goes up, Houjin will only have the road of destruction.

Even if Huang Taiji takes the stage, Houjin will starve to death more than half of the people.

Now he put Huang Taiji to Beishan or Mobei, with the size of Huang Taiji's soldiers and horses, if he wants to fight to raise the war, then he can only pick Waikhalkha and Korqin to practice.

He found Transkhalkha and said that if he wanted to fight Horqin, then the cavalry of Liaodong would have a chance to make meritorious contributions.

The end of the Battle of Fuliao made the uncles of Karaqin faint and the barbarian fried flowers and others much more honest.

Therefore, it was easier for the Ming army to buy war horses, after all, the Ming army had proved that they had the cavalry mobility ability to go out of the north for 500 miles and fight continuously.

Five hundred miles, enough to penetrate the Tuman and Karaqin, and then return to the capital with cattle and sheep as if on an outing.

The reason why the Ming army could not plunder the Mongols like the Later Jin at the end of the Ming Dynasty was actually because of the problem of ability.

Even Li Chengliang did not send troops to Monan in a big way, and then plundered tens of thousands of cattle and sheep and successfully returned safely, the reason is very simple, there are too few families under him.

Nine thousand family members sound a lot, but once they go south with tens of thousands of cattle and sheep, it is estimated that they will be besieged to death by many northern captives along the way.

After the Tumubao Change, there were very few people who were able to march north and plunder cattle and sheep and successfully returned, basically Wang Yue and Ma Fang.

But even if they exist, the elites under their command are only between 10,000 and 20,000.

Looking at the current Liaodong, the current Beizhili, the 70,000 Ming army iron cavalry are all over the border, if it weren't for the obedient people and fried flowers, Zhu Youzhen would have sent troops to sweep the north.

What he is embarrassed about now is that among the richest tribes in the grassland, with the strength of the Ming army's expedition, everything that can be fought is at the door of the house, and among the tribes such as Tuman, Karaqin, Tumut, Hetao, and Ningxia at the door, the first two are still his younger brothers.

Tumut was also a tributary Ming and one that did not plunder.

In this way, he can only fight the Ordos Department of Ningxia and the Ordos Department of Hetao to the west of Helan Mountain.

And to fight these two tribes, you can't fight them like you would a normal steppe tribe.

One of them relied on the Mu Us Desert in later generations, and the other on the Badain Jaran Desert and the Tengger Desert.

If Zhu Youzhen wants to fight them, he can't simply say that he will use cavalry to support the war, but he still has to match the cavalry with enough people, but he doesn't have to be equipped as many as foot soldiers, and the logistical pressure is not so great.

The rebellion of Fuliao and Lu'an cleaned up Zhu Youzhen's family funds accumulated for three and a half years, and he still owes debts until now, and it is estimated that he will have to repay his debts well in the next year......

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen asked Lu Wenzhao with a slight headache:

"For the beheading of the Rebellion of Luxury, how much reward does the court still owe? Has the tax book of the Imperial Horse Supervisor been handed over to summarize? ”

"Back to His Royal Highness, the imperial court still owes more than 974,000 taels of silver to the soldiers and horses in the southwest, and the tax book has not yet been summarized."

As soon as Lu Wenzhao spoke, Zhu Youzhen calmed down and instructed him:

"Tell Chengen and Huachun that if the collection of documents is finished and the taxes and silver from all over the country are escorted to the capital, then the first thing is to pay back the reward silver owed to the soldiers and horses of Liaodong first."

"The pension field and the pension silver must first be issued a document to the bereaved families of the soldiers who died in the war, and then when the guard field is abolished, whether it is replaced or whatever, it must be properly arranged."

"As for the issue of children going to school, if there are children who have died in battle, their children and their families will be entertained near several universities in Yanshan, and if not, they will be given a bronze medal embossed by my handwritten letter."

"This bronze medal can be written with the name of the soldier, his place of origin, and his battlefield experience, and then placed in the courtyard, which can be exempted from taxes for five years."

"In addition, tell the counties, towns, and rural neighbors, announce the merits of the man in this family, and let the local Nanzhen Fusi Jinyiwei visit frequently, so as not to forget the righteousness of the small people."

Zhu Youzhen looked at the inkblot on the table that had not yet dried up, and muttered to himself:

"I'm afraid, this is the last thing Lone can do for them......"

Report the situation: ligament strain, I have to sit in a wheelchair for a month, and then I have to wait for the end of the National Day, October 9th to have surgery, after the operation, I can go home and sit in the wheelchair normally.

The company gave a paid leave of absence, and it is estimated that after the operation, it will be able to resume two shifts.

But even in the hospital, using a mobile phone code word can also ensure that a 6,000 words a day before the operation, don't worry about the basic update, at most, you may take a day off on the day of the operation, but it shouldn't be, it mainly depends on whether I use the mobile phone code word fast or not......

(End of chapter)