Zhu Zhanrong also began to think.

As for who the Ming Dynasty fell into, later generations also have different opinions.

If you want him to come and see, Zhu Zhan Yuan just wants to say that it is not so much that the Ming Dynasty died from others, such as natural disasters, man-made disasters, faint monarchs, or party strife and the like, but rather that the death of the Ming Dynasty was actually due to finance!

The source of all problems is finance.

Because of the distorted and chaotic finance, the three mountains were nourished and strengthened, and finally the Ming Dynasty was crushed alive, and finally to the Chongzhen Dynasty, which was completely destroyed!

And these three mountains are: first, the sea ban policy; Second, the Donglin Party; Third, the defeat of the three major battles.

The first is the sea ban.

The Ming Dynasty opened a sea ban and prohibited commercial trade, but the Ming Dynasty's sea ban was not completely isolated from the world like the foreign dynasties of later generations, and the Ming Dynasty prohibited merchants from doing business overseas, and opened up tributary trade.

That is to say, the Ming Dynasty only allowed tribute, but not trade, and any good things in various countries could pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty and nourish the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, in Zhu Zhandong's view, although this is not conducive to economic development, at least it will not derail Daming from the world, so as to fall behind and be beaten.

"With Lao Zhu's eyes, I'm not sure if he can see the pros and cons of the sea ban, but Zhu Biao and Li Shanchang can definitely see it. But the result has not changed, and perhaps one of the biggest factors in this is related to the Japanese invaders. ”

Zhu Zhan thought and glanced at Lao Zhu.

The plague of the Japanese has deepened, and the sea ban has become stricter and stricter!

This state lasted until the Longqing period, which began to open, known as the Longqing switch, when the Ming treasure banknotes were basically completely abolished.

Gold and silver became hard currency!

The abolition of the sea ban increased the income of the Ming Dynasty and gave birth to another evil organization, the Donglin Party.

Except for a few who have died in battle, they can be regarded as individuals, almost all of them are evil!

These silverfish, fighting for everything, power, profit, and land, are truly without a king and a father, without a country or a home, from the bone marrow to a group of scum on the epidermis.

It is because of this group of people that Daming tariffs and commercial taxes are almost not collected!

Because of this, the Ming court obviously opened the sea ban and allowed merchants to trade, but in the end there was no money at all.

Otherwise, the huge pressure brought by the expenses of the vassal king can also be alleviated a lot.

There are so many ministers in the Ming Dynasty, no one will see the disadvantages of not collecting customs duties and commercial taxes, but once someone says that they will collect customs duties and commercial taxes, the officials of the coastal department will jump out to oppose it, and the high-sounding reason is that the country does not compete with the people for profit.

People? What is Min?

In their eyes, the people refer to the coastal gentlemen behind the Donglin Party!

These gentlemen, in the sea trade and trade, make a soft hand, naturally refuse to let the court collect taxes.

The officials of the Ming Dynasty were produced through the imperial examination!

The southern coastal areas have a developed economy, a large number of scholars, and a high level, and it can be said that they have taken advantage of the unified imperial examination from the beginning!

For a long time, the south of the Yangtze River has raised the number of people and crushed the north for a long time, so most of the time, the national policy is controlled by the southern system.

Well, this group of people is also known as the Donglin Party!

In this way, customs duties cannot be collected, and commercial taxes cannot be collected.

Where should the Ming Dynasty's finances come from? It goes without saying that the land tax!

However, even so, the land tax was still cut by these civil officials and the Donglin Party!

Why? Because officials and gentlemen do not pay taxes!!

That is to say, officials and scholars in the middle of the lift, the fields do not pay taxes!

For the Ming Dynasty, there was nothing to see at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, but with the growth of the dynasty's time, there was a problem with this financial black hole!

In addition, the emperors in the later period were all wonderful.

One by one, they spent money lavishly, and the emperor's own small treasury was not enough at all.

The main source of the emperor's internal money came from the Huangzhuang and Huangdian.

It can produce hundreds of thousands of taels a year, and in the Wanli Dynasty, in order to spend money, Wanli, a bastard, actually sent eunuchs out to annex land into Huangzhuang, merge shops into Huangdian, and also open mines and collect mining taxes.

In this way, the officials below began to follow suit.

Local officials could not control the land annexation, and in order to complete the calculation, they had to find a way to do it to the remaining yeoman farmers!

Homesteaders add land levies!

As a result, the burden on yeoman farmers is becoming more and more serious.

However, as the saying goes, there is a policy above, and there is a countermeasure below.

Just because the gentlemen did not have to pay taxes, it led to yeoman farmers who voluntarily "donated" their land to the officials and gentry!

Although these self-followers are unwilling, there is no way!

In the later period, the huge tax burden had to give their own land!

A cyclic ecological system in which yeoman farmers conspired with the gentlemen to divide the government's tax revenue was born, and in Zhu Zhandong's view, this system is simply a cancer in a cancer, the kind that kills!

In this way, the imperial court could neither levy commercial taxes and customs duties, nor could it levy taxes on officials and gentlemen, in order to pay for the increasingly large military expenditures!

Then Wanli's brain was pumped, and he began to add three new taxes one after another: 1, Liao, 2, suppression, 3, training, which is what later generations called three salaries.

After entering the Xiaoice River period, it led to the explosion of agricultural harvests in the north, superimposed land annexation, and the addition of three salaries, and the later three salaries directly reached several times the talent, directly leading to the bankruptcy of a large number of homesteaders.

can cause these situations, all of which were made by the Ming court itself!

Putting aside the position, from an objective point of view, Zhu Zhan Yuan only wants to say two words:

1. Oh, hey, you deserve it!

2, Made, the garbage Ming Dynasty, no matter whether the people live or die, you deserve to perish!

Ahem, of course, Zhu Zhan can't say these words now, he is also a royal man, and he must always keep in mind his position!

But this kind of problem will not happen in the future.

This kind of land annexation is not unique to the Ming Dynasty, because since ancient times, officials and gentry have not paid taxes.

The end result was a sharp decline in the imperial court's tax revenue.

The fiscal revenue has also declined very much, and this financial black hole was not solved by the five elders of the Xianming Cabinet until some time ago!

And this policy, called "the official gentry pay food in one", as soon as this policy came out, it was directly praised by the world's readers, and they could wake up with a smile when they dreamed.

Why? Paying taxes to a certain extent counts as contributions!

When the contribution accumulates to a certain extent, it will be transformed into merit, which means that you will get the immortal law!

In this way, the financial black hole of the Ming Dynasty was naturally solved.

Of course, there are also policies proposed by his father Zhu Gaochi to "spread the land into the mu" and "return the fire to the public", which benefit the country and the people, all of which have made Xianming's development thriving.

The financial and land problems have arisen from the beginning, and these are some problems that should have existed, and the problems have been left behind since Lao Zhu himself.

After that, it was the Ming Dynasty's "pig" system.

This thing originated from Lao Zhu, and it was carried forward more than the old man's handwriting!

The vassal king can't go out of the fiefdom and can't interfere in politics, just like raising pigs, because he has nothing to do, just eat, drink, and have children.

The child also has a title, and the title is given to Yulu according to the system, manors, fields, and so there are more and more descendants in the later period.

As a direct result, the state finances, which were already in the cold winter, became even worse, and the burden became more and more serious, and almost all the financial expenditures were given to the vassal kings and officials, and the people were almost ignored.

In the early days, it was okay, there were not many children and grandchildren, and the financial burden was not large, but by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the number of children and grandchildren was huge and collapsed directly.

In the 21 years of Jiajing alone, the royal family's expenditure can be said to account for more than half of the state's fiscal expenditure.

In the late Wanli period, the fiscal year was in deficit!

In the end, there will be only a massive reduction in spending, and then the various imperial infrastructure will be dismantled.

Don't dismantle the most useless, only dismantle the most voiceless!

Then there is no money, then it begins to be in arrears of military salaries, and in the two generations of Apocalypse and Chongzhen, arrears of military salaries have become the norm!

Directly led to the weakness of the army, and the border army was in a state of trouble!

Liaodong's military affairs began to be abandoned, and it can be said that everyone in the Ming Dynasty watched a foreign barbarian tribe develop, grow, and grow.

Nothing was done during the period!

After the arrears of military spending, the arrears of officials began to be paid!

There was already the lowest salary for officials in previous dynasties, and by the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was no minimum wage.

This disaster, if Lao Zhu doesn't carry it, who will carry it? Isn't this a good start?

And then the officials don't have money, so they naturally don't work, or they go to find a way to make money on their own, how to do it? Do bad things, collaborate with the enemy and betray the country!

Corruption is rampant, and bureaucrats at all levels are like wolves and tigers, greedy for all kinds of money.

Chongzhen begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother to save money on the little military salary he had earned, but before he left the capital, he was going to be stripped of his skin layer by layer!

In the later period of Chongzhen, after the mountains and rivers were exhausted, and all parties were in arrears, and then even the vassal king's Yulu began to be in arrears!

The clan vassal kings who had no income began to make trouble, shooting and plundering, and the entire Ming order collapsed directly!

In the end, because of financial problems, the Battle of Sarhu, the Battle of Songjin, and now the Battle of Tongguan failed!

completely sounded the death knell for the Ming Dynasty.

And all this, in the end, is still two words: finance!

Because of this, Zhu Zhanrong thought that all kinds of social chaos in the late Ming Dynasty, anti-thieves, rampant corruption, etc., finally led to the fall of the Ming Dynasty, all due to financial reasons.

So where does the source of finance come from? Lao Zhu!

These thoughts flashed through Zhu Zhandong's mind, and the atmosphere on the deck was still a little strange at this time.

Especially looking at Lao Zhu's face of pinching the old man, Zhu Zhan Rong blushed for him, Lao Zhu, if you talk about merit, it is naturally unprecedented.

But when it comes to political achievements and contributions to the Ming Dynasty, there are almost none, but a lot of problems have been left behind, and these problems have become ancestral rituals.

"Tsk, I really don't know what kind of expression his old face would have if one day, Lao Zhu realized that he was the source of all problems." Zhu Zhan thought about it, and suddenly looked forward to the arrival of that day.

But he didn't intend to say it.

First, the immortal Ming has now developed and driven the heavens to the Ming, and these problems will not appear.

Second, he is a junior, and he offends people for no reason.

The main thing is that it's meaningless, don't do meaningless things, and if you do it, it's thankless and find guilt for yourself.

Is there nothing wrong with me? Chongzhen looked at Taizong, then at Shizong, and then at Wuzong, and was very surprised.

To be honest, he thought that Taizu Taizong would blame him, but when he heard Taizu's meaning, the demise of the Ming Dynasty had little to do with him?

"Boom!"

At this moment, the ship suddenly let out a roar, and its speed slowed down, and everyone immediately came back to their senses.

"Ancestors, we have arrived at Tongguan!" At this time, Chongzhen, who was all kinds of uncomfortable, hurriedly opened his mouth to relieve everyone.

Hearing Chongzhen's words, everyone, including the old man, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

At the same time, the place where Tongguan garrisoned.

Sun Chuanting, who was wearing armor and had a long sword at his waist, stood outside the barracks to fight, looking at the soldiers below, and a look of unbearability appeared in his eyes.

These soldiers, in today's battle, don't know how many people will be able to come back.

For this battle, to be honest, he doesn't have any confidence in his heart.

can only rely on this last battle.

"What's that!?" Suddenly, at this moment, I heard an exclamation from the crowd.

Immediately after everyone, it felt dark overhead.

When everyone raised their heads to look, everyone, including Sun Chuanting, was dumbfounded.

With a look of horror, he looked at the terrifying ship floating in the sky.

The ship, even went to the sky?!

“……”

(End of chapter)