Chapter 412

The problem of the Ming Dynasty is the financial problem, and the financial problem has been tormenting the Ming Dynasty since Zhu Di, and the further it goes, the more serious it becomes, and when it comes to the Chongzhen Dynasty, it is almost to the point of being terminally ill.

Although with the rise of the Ning Navy Group, the Ming Dynasty has a new source of tax revenue, and the situation has improved, the problem is that with the Ning Navy Group moving towards the ruling party of the Ming Dynasty, coupled with this battle, most of the north has been broken, plus millions of military households and military family immigrants, as well as captive immigrants, it is difficult to restore the north of the Ming Dynasty in a short period of time without tens of millions of taels of silver.

The money to be spent here is gone, where can I find so much money?

Anyway, Sun Zhili can't think of a way, in Sun Zhilan's inertial thinking, it is incomparably open source and throttling, but there is no way to throttle at the moment, Cheng Shijie, the regent, doesn't even want to build the Forbidden City, because to repair the Forbidden City, it is also necessary to repair Beijing City, and it is necessary to appease and buy the people of Gyeonggi, and real money needs to be spent everywhere.

A little more than the habitual thinking is to launch an economic war against Jiangnan, or a military war, and plunder the wealth of the Jiangnan gentry through war means, but he did not think of attacking the vassal king.

In Cheng Shijie's understanding and cognition, the two dynasties with the most serious corruption were actually the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, if it was Cheng Shijie's view, the most serious was actually the Qing Dynasty.

However, these three types of corruption all have a common characteristic, there is a group of groups that have been issued corruption licenses by the imperial court, the Song Dynasty is the Northern Song Dynasty Jiangmen, the Ming Dynasty is the vassal royal clan, and the Qing Dynasty is the clan, the vassal king, and the Eight Banners hardcore crops.

In the Ming Dynasty, if you want to be corrupt and surrender to the generals, in the Ming Dynasty, you want to be corrupt and surrender to the vassal king, in the Qing Dynasty, it is easier to become a minion.

Xie Zongze said with some difficulty: "Your Majesty, this ...... Something wrong, right? ”

"There's nothing wrong with that! The court has no money, and the vassal king has been copied, so won't there be money? ”

As Cheng Shijie's words just fell, all the ministers rolled their eyes in unison. Co-authored with your old man, who is not afraid of falling into the infamy of a harsh clan? Hey...... The Zhu family clan has nothing to do with Cheng Shijie and the vassal king. Wouldn't you be rich if you raided the vassal king's house? Can you be a little more simple and rude!

Cheng Shijie looked at everyone's reluctance, so he said lightly: "Back then, Chengzu made an agreement with the vassal kings to exchange wealth for military power, and now Ben Shuai has made another deal with the vassal king, exchanging military power for wealth, they can use fields, grain, silver and treasures to exchange for their military power!" ”

Sun Zhili smiled bitterly: "Even if they have money, those vassal kings may not be willing to sell their fields to the imperial court...... They take the fields too seriously, and they will never sell them until the last resort! ”

Cheng Shijie said lightly: "Then spend a little more time to investigate their evil deeds of embezzlement of ink, corruption and perversion of the law, and encroachment on people's land, and then hang them all on the tree." In fact, Ben Shuai prefers to hang them on trees, which can save trouble and make it easier to get a lot of money! ”

The generals such as Zhang Yu and Zhou Ning were excited and eager to try, while the ministers rolled their eyes fiercely.

As a result, another decree was drafted, and the cabinet was to set up a statistical team within a month to measure the property of the vassal kings throughout the country and to take stock of the land registers.

In addition to the land rewarded during the founding period and the previous emperors' rewards, other fields are regarded as illegal occupation, and the illegally occupied fields will be recovered according to law, and at the same time, they will have to pay back taxes and silver, as well as late fees and interest......

This new policy caused an uproar, and many feudal lords unsurprisingly jumped up and rebelled.

They have saved all these properties for generations, so why do you take them all back with a word? Why? Even if you want to be honest, it won't work, those taxes, late fees and interest, so that they can't afford to sell all their family property, and they can only die.

In fact, there are not a few vassal kings in the area controlled by Cheng Shijie, first of all, Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, he ran to Nanjing to claim the emperor, and the Lu king's industry in Yanzhou was directly seized.

King De of Jinan, King Tang of Nanyang, King Fu of Luoyang, King Lu of Luzhou, King of Linyi Jing, King Heng of Qingzhou, King Hui of Kaifeng, King Chong of Runing, but these vassal kings were not unexpected, they either ran away, or came to the capital, found Cheng Shijie to cry, and had the courage to make trouble with Ning Haijun.

At the same time as the cutting of the domain, there are also various guards, some of the guards want to rebel, they are worse than the vassal king, because Cheng Shijie is only for the generals, not for the ordinary military households, and it can even be said that the ordinary military households get the greatest benefits, the rebellion of the vast majority of the generals of the guards is whirling and extinguished, and the vast majority of the rebellion was suppressed by the military households before the Ning Navy was dispatched.

In the eyes of the military households, the fields of these generals are equal to their fields, and these bastards who have drunk the blood of their generations not only refuse to hand over their fields, but also take them to rebel against the court that tries to divide the fields among them.

There are even many generals who have not yet had the idea of rebellion, so they let the military households be charged with rebellion, cut off their heads and take them to the court to invite merit, and then Mei Zizi divided the land and family property, for a while, the generals of the guard office became a high-risk profession, and the fanaticism that seemed to be weak and bullying in the face of the hope of obtaining the land made their hearts tremble.

Of course, it may be unjust to kill all of these generals, but if nine out of ten are cut off, there must be some who have slipped through the net, so the imperial court basically turns a blind eye to what the military households do. Those moths have been lying on Da Ming's body for so many years to suck blood, and it is time to pay a little price.

The Ming Dynasty has two major redundancy, and the Wei Institute and the vassal king have become a thing of the past, and it didn't take much effort, everyone thinks that this thing should have been abolished a long time ago, and doing something that should have been done two hundred years ago, what is there to make a fuss about?

However, the military reform thrown by Cheng Shijie made the Manchu civil and military explode, and he wanted to follow the example of the Tang Dynasty and reopen the Governor's Mansion!

This can stab every Wenchen's chrysanthemum. Although they were very dissatisfied with the stubborn scholar class's frenzied suppression of the military general group, and even the practice of abolishing the Ming Dynasty's national defense force for this reason, they also did not forget the tragic situation of the military general group attacking each other all year round during the rebellion of the feudal towns, the lives of the literati were as cheap as ants, and the common people were reduced to ten rooms and nine empty rations.

Reopening the Governor's Palace? No, absolutely not, isn't this another rebellion in the feudal town! Absolutely not! And the generals felt that it was very necessary, and the reopening of the Governor's Mansion could allow them to obtain a higher status and more opportunities for promotion, and the benefits were obvious. The civil and military sides engaged in fierce arguments, and the quarrel was red-faced. In the end, it was Cheng Shijie who made the decision, the governor's mansion, it must be opened!

Of course, unlike the Governor's Mansion of the Tang Dynasty, Cheng Shijie does not need to adopt a weak and weak way, because in the era of thermal weapons, the center controls the channels for weapon manufacturing, and with the large-scale construction of railways in the future, it is impossible for the local government to become an emperor behind closed doors as before.

The first to be established was the Andong Metropolitan Governor's Office, the Andong Metropolitan Governor's Office, which governed the entire Nurgan Metropolitan Prefecture and the Korean Peninsula and the Liaodong Metropolitan Prefecture.

The second is the establishment of the Anbei Metropolitan Governor's Office, Anxi to the Annan Metropolitan Governor's Office, after these four major metropolitan governors are erected, they will make every effort to restore the old territory.

However, the current situation is that only most of Anbei and Andong are under the control of Cheng Shijie, and most of Anbei has not been actually controlled, in Cheng Shijie's planning, the Anbei Governorate covers the entire Siberia, up to Lake Baikal, and the responsibility of the Anbei Governorate is to completely incorporate this vast and cold land into the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

First of all, there was no accident in Anton's capital, and Li Xiaodong under Zhang Yu served as the commander, and Shen Shikui, the former naval capital, served as the deputy superintendent.

The Metropolitan Protector of Annan is temporarily absent, the Metropolitan Governor of Anxi of Changyu Annan, and the Metropolitan Governor of Annan is served by Shen Mingyu, and the Annan Raider is about to be launched.

It is worth mentioning that all governors are not hereditary and are transferred every five years. In the same way, the troops of the governor's office are transferred to the defense zone every ten years, which gives them the maximum autonomy and also gives them the maximum restrictions.

In five years' time, no shrewd careerist could have prepared all the necessary preparations for a rebellion. Of course, there is no way to infer a coercion like Cheng Shijie with common sense. Without an order from the imperial court, local troops were not allowed to enter the city in formation, even on holidays, and those who violated the order were severely punished.

The Ming Dynasty will abolish the military service system that combines conscription with compulsory soldiers.

Cheng Shijie originally wanted to adopt the compulsory military system, but the problem is that there are now more than 10 million compulsory soldiers of appropriate age in the Ming Dynasty, of which the proportion of men will reach five or six million, how can it be obliged?

Cheng Shijie can't afford to raise five or six million soldiers and horses, even if Cheng Shijie only controls a little more than one-third of the big ones, but the problem is that it can still be expanded to two or three million soldiers and horses, and the key is that it doesn't need so many.

In particular, the treatment of the Ning Navy is the most suitable way out for the young people of the Ming Dynasty, and even more out than studying to be an official, studying may not be able to become an official, and it takes thousands of troops to squeeze the single-plank bridge, but being a soldier is different, the Ning Navy, especially the soldiers with thermal weapons, basically go up to collect the corpse after the cannon washes the ground, which is very safe.

Cheng Shijie stipulates that all young people of school-age can participate in physical examinations as long as they are not disabled or have congenital diseases, and those who are selected for admission can enlist in the army and receive training in the army for two years.

Except for temporary promotions on the battlefield, normal cadres need to go to military academies to study part-time and be uniformly assigned after graduation......

The pinnacle of the military general is the marshal, the marshal is a lifelong system, once promoted to the marshal, he will become a senior staff officer of the Ming General Staff, but the top leader below the emperor of the entire empire is the prime minister of the empire, and the prime minister is fully responsible for the people's livelihood economy, politics and diplomacy, and personnel appointments and dismissals, and the marshal has no right to interfere.

Of course, the prime minister implements an election system, and a marshal can also run for prime minister, but before the election, he must take off his military uniform and cut off ties with the military, otherwise he will not be allowed to run for election.

This article undoubtedly reassured Wenchen Group. Although the reopening of the Governor's Mansion and the establishment of the Navy and Army Marshal's Mansion basically cut off the possibility of civil ministers interfering in the army, so that the status of military generals has been greatly improved, but the basic national policy of the Ming Dynasty is still to govern the country by civilian officials, and their status has not been reduced, but they have to accept the limited challenge of the military general group.

The military rank system of the Ming Dynasty is not directly linked to the military rank system, there is no way to link it at present, the Governor's Office of Anton is basically an armed patrol, there is no great possibility of war, the situation in the Anbei region is similar, but it is possible to encounter Da Mao, the main development direction of the Ning Navy is in Anxi, that is, the Guanzhong region, it is in charge of Changyu, and Annan is in charge of Shen Mingyu, as for the Jiangnan region, it is commanded by Cheng Shijie, assisted by Song Xiance......

When Changyu takes the Anxi Governor's Mansion and restores to the territory of the Anxi Governor's Mansion in the Tang Dynasty, he will be promoted by the Ming Marshal, and at the same time, Shen Mingyu also needs to take the entire Annan, which is not a good task.

In terms of system, the Ming Dynasty has a maximum of ten marshal positions, after ten marshals, the future will need a radish and a pit, only after the death of the old marshal, or the marshal to participate in the prime minister's election and take off the military uniform, can the new marshal be promoted.

For the strategy of Jiangnan and Guanzhong west of Annan, it is estimated that it will take half a year or even longer to complete, and it will take ten years to Chongzhen to really complete, no, it should be started after the spring ploughing in the first year of Dingxin.

At this time, the small imperial court in Jiangnan sent a document, which of course can also be regarded as an ultimatum, first of all, to congratulate the regent Cheng Shijie on his return to Beijing and the expulsion of the Tartars.

Cheng Shijie, the regent, was canonized by Empress Zhou's decree, which is actually more legitimate than the small court in Jiangnan, after all, Empress Zhou and the crown prince are in Liaodong, including Emperor Chongzhen.

After a large number of flowery words but not much substantive meaning, they put forward the conditions for solving the Jiangnan problem, first, unconditionally release Emperor Chongzhen, so that Emperor Chongzhen arrived in Nanjing safely.

secondly, abolish Moxue and miscellaneous studies, and continue to respect Confucianism; Then the Dingxin Dynasty continued all the preferential policies of the previous dynasty and reduced or exempted commercial taxes; Then there is the national policy of continuing to emphasize agriculture and suppress business, and limit the power of the peasant, industrial, and commercial classes, and prohibit non-scholars from participating in politics......

There is no need to look at the latter conditions, just these few made the Manchu Dynasty Wenchen shake his head and scolded him to death.

Although the vast majority of the Ding Xin Dynasty were from traditional literati backgrounds, it naturally favored those Jiangnan scholars who had been cornered, and it was happy to see the small court in Nanjing reach a reconciliation with Beijing.

But the question is, release Emperor Chongzhen and let Emperor Chongzhen arrive in Nanjing safely?

What is the nature of this? They really dare to think that this disaster was caused by them, and if Emperor Chongzhen is free, the first person to clean up is Cheng Shijie.

Abolish ink studies and miscellaneous ...... Even Sun Zhili cursed, why don't you die!

How many sons and nephews of our clan have painstakingly studied ink and miscellaneous studies for many years, and have already learned something, and they will be able to get ahead and show their strengths. Believe it or not, we'll abolish you first!

Continue the policy of preferential treatment of scholars in the previous dynasty and reduce or exempt commercial taxes? Since Taizu, the Ming Dynasty has treated scholars for more than 200 years, and what strange things have been raised? It's not a big corrupt official who can't do anything but make money, or a big squirting dog who can't do anything but scold the emperor!

This kind of garbage should be extubated and discontinued as soon as possible and sent to the crematorium, and it will be preferential? Treat your grandma well! There is also a reduction and exemption of commercial tax, is the commercial tax of Daming not low enough? It's all so low that European businessmen are dumbfounded, okay, you don't want to pay this business tax, and you want to continue to reduce it, what do you want!

After Cheng Shijie read it, he threw this ultimatum to everyone casually, and after everyone read it, Cheng Shijie threw it directly on the ground and stepped on it twice.

"Ben Shuai wants to solve the Jiangnan problem peacefully, it seems that they are really thieves!"

"Marshal, do you want to send troops?"

"No, we can't disrupt our development rhythm just because of a few jumping clowns!"

Cheng Shijie said lightly: "Military reform can't be stopped, where are we talking?" ”

"Navy!"

Cheng Shijie thought of Lu Xiangsheng at this time, and he couldn't help but get up.

Now the Ming Dynasty is the Ming of the Ning Navy, and he is just making the Ning Navy's private army public, and the process of nationalization cannot only have Ning Navy, he eats meat and others must drink soup, otherwise it will cause public anger.

Cheng Shijie thought for a while and said: "Ning Navy Army, now renamed the Daming Royal Army, the Navy has been renamed the Daming Royal Navy, by the way, invite Lu Xiangsheng over, this commander wants to talk to him!" ”

(End of chapter)