Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 411 There is not much time left for the Qing Dynasty (please subscribe!)
Ying Tianfu.

Under the drizzle and misty weather, teams of guards are gathering to prepare for battle.

This is the No. [-], No. [-], and No. [-] towns of the Guards, and they are preparing for a large-scale Northern Expedition in the future.

Except one army after another is gathering.

The boats going north to transport grain and other ammunition supplies also went to Yingtianfu without stopping.

White rice from Siam and Cochin, a large amount of natural rubber from Luzon Dufu, boxes of saltpeter and sulfur from Dongying Dufu, and piles of military coats, rifles, and artillery from the old industrial area of ​​Chengtianfu .

Therefore, the entire river course and the sea can be said to be ship to ship, connected in a line, day and night.

With the blessing of the sky garden, the grain harvests in all parts of Daming broke out, and there is no need to worry about the military grain for this Northern Expedition.

In the evening, Zhu Kezang, who inspected the delivery of supplies, looked at the red sky on the Yangtze River.

He knew it was the result of the lighting of the multitude of ship's lanterns.

With the vigorous development of the Ming Dynasty, patriotism and nationalism gradually rose, and the voice of the civil Northern Expedition became louder and louder.

Zhu Kezang is naturally good at doing good things. The state machinery of Ming Dynasty is like clockwork, and every link is so efficient that it is incomprehensible.

In order to shorten the time for the latest information to reach him, he had already ordered Chen Weiguo to set up a secret room in the palace to deal with telegrams sent from various places.

Once Zhu Kezang is not in the palace, Chen Weiguo will ride his horse and send the information to Zhu Kezang as soon as possible.

Now Zhu Kezang heard the rattling of horseshoes and immediately guessed that it was Chen Weiguo who had come again.

Panting heavily, Wu Mengming came to Zhu Youjian's body, "Your Majesty, the latest news has come from the Jinyiwei underground organization in the north. Kangxi's decision to let the northern gentry hold group training is Nalan Mingzhu's idea!"

"This Nalan Pearl is really punished, and the northern gentry is about to move!" Zhu Kezang couldn't help saying after hearing this.

Nowadays, many emerging capitalists in Ming Dynasty who opened factories and started industries have long been greedy for the population and land resources of the northern gentry, so this Northern Expedition must be a fierce battle between the North and the South!

"Your Majesty, according to Jin Yiwei's findings, the northern gentry are also quite resistant to the Ming Dynasty's current policy of emphasizing business taxes and neglecting agricultural taxes. Because among the northern gentry, coupled with the regiment training system, these northern gentry will really do their best to support the Qing Dynasty in the future." Chen Weiguo Continue to analyze.

But when Zhu Kezang heard the word Tuanlian, he showed a weird smile.

"Although the Daqing regiment practice is not good for Ming Dynasty and slows down our pace of recovering the whole country, I believe that because of the regiment practice, the Daqing regiment finally ushered in the countdown."

At this moment, Chen Weiguo couldn't understand.

Is there any inevitable connection between this so-called group training and the demise of the Qing Dynasty?
He felt that if the Qing Dynasty carried out this "private army policy", it would be very difficult for the Ming army to advance.

Because they not only have to face the regular army of the Qing Dynasty, but also the bravery of the local forces. In this way, the target of the battle has changed from one to two, or three.

Although the Ming army has strong combat effectiveness, it is not what Da Ming wants to see falling into the vast sea of ​​bravery. These are the future population of Ming, so it is a pity to consume them like this.

Zhu Kezang said: "Kangxi is dividing power, and he has divided the most important military power. I can imagine that the future Qing Dynasty, if there is no Ming Dynasty to intervene, it will be an era of separatist regimes. What will happen then? Warlords will come out, it's just a matter of time."

This reminded Zhu Kezang that he did the same thing in the late Qing Dynasty in his previous life.

Because the "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom" defeated the Qing Dynasty so much that the Qing Dynasty could not hold its head up, and all the Eight Banners and Green Camps were abandoned.

There was even a dumbfounding thing happened, the Green Battalion fought against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, only to hear the sound of the cannon, the Green Battalion collapsed immediately, and the Qing army was completely defeated before the fight started.

The combat effectiveness of the Qing army has been so low that it can only rely on regiment training to maintain its face.

At that time, the Qing court paid more and more war reparations, and all the family properties were lost.

Where does the military expenditure come from?
Therefore, we can only implement such a policy, set up regiment training, allow the governors to train their own regiments, and maintain the provincial system.

However, as we all know later, the warlords separated the regime, the heroes rose together, the imperial power was emptied, the harem intervened in politics, the emperor changed one crop after another, and the "empire" did not see any improvement.

"It's so magical that the great power is myself." Zhu Kezang sighed.

Just started to organize group training, although he earned a lot of donated money, but Kangxi planned to expand the new army to 15, and the money was not enough.

So what to do, we can only suffer the common people more.

The question of how much to continue to increase taxes, of course, has been studied a long time ago. Kangxi's principle is that if you don't increase it, it's enough. If you want to increase it this time, add enough!

He has carefully studied the three pay increases in the Wanli, Tianqi, and Chongzhen dynasties these days, and he came to the conclusion that the increase was correct, and the fault was that the increase was too late, and there was no one-step increase.

After Kangxi, the holy master, conducted research with the method of hindsight, he concluded that the best time to increase Liao's salary was actually after the Battle of Goryeo.

After the Wanli Anti-Japanese War to Aid Gao, the Liaodong Ming Army suffered heavy losses, and the elite Li Chengliang had managed for many years was completely lost.

If the Wanli court can resolutely increase Liao's salary at this time, don't increase it, and send several million taels to Liaozhen so that they can make up for the losses in the Korean War, then nothing will happen later.

Because all the soldiers under the wild boar skin, Nurhachi, have gone to serve as soldiers for Daming to earn money, who the hell is free to rebel?

After all, the fighting power of the Ming army with full pay is very impressive, such as the Eight Banners of Han Dynasty.

Kangxi raised a little tax before, but considering the survival of the people, he dared not increase more. This time, he can no longer be picky.
The Eight Banners New Army is only [-], which is definitely not enough!

At this time, Nalan Mingzhu, a scholar of the university, said: "Your Majesty, not counting outside the Guan, Northwest and Gansu, just say that Henan, Shandong, Huaibei, Zhili, and Shanxi, which are directly under the jurisdiction of the Qing Dynasty, have more than 2 million land in their accounts. Mu, with an extra three cents of silver for one mu, there will be 600 million taels!"

"That's why the servant suggested that the positive amount of the tax package should be set at three cents, and the package tax should also be several million, so that the imperial court can collect 800 million yuan every year from the land tax and two taxes alone. .

"Tax cards are widely set up at the main road intersections of provinces and state capitals, and taxes are collected by plucking wild goose. It should not be difficult to collect three or four million yuan a year."

"With the addition of salt tax, customs duty, mining tax and other taxes, the revenue of the imperial court can be maintained at 2000 to 300 million!"

"With this income, the imperial court can build firecrackers, forge Weiyuan cannons, recruit Mongolian warriors, and train them strictly. In less than a year, 15 new troops can achieve great success!"

Kangxi still seemed hesitant, "Will the tax of six cents per mu be too heavy?"

Nalan Mingzhu persuaded: "Your Majesty, there is not much time left for the Qing Dynasty. If there is no further levy, the Qing Dynasty will be in danger!"

Kang Mazi was stung by the remarks about eating jujube pills in the Qing Dynasty, and he made a decision: "Add it, add it!"

"Emperor Shengming!"

The ministers below had expected this result long ago, and now they are all pretending to call Shengming.

(End of this chapter)