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Chapter 2144 Flower Controversy (52)
In the 27th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, Yang Rong, the former supervisor of Shangshan, went to Yunnan to serve as a tax supervisor.

The emperor of the Ming Dynasty used eunuchs heavily. These eunuchs sent out went to the localities to plunder gold and silver from the people, or set up a clever name to extort money, or seized land and destroyed houses in the name of mining. These arrogant emissaries aroused resistance from people everywhere.

Mining copper mines was extremely hard work. Although the Spaniards had shipped silver from South America to Daming at that time, copper coins were still the main currency in circulation in the region, and silver was mainly used for long-distance settlement.

The copper coins of the Ming Dynasty were all minted in the Baoyuan Bureau in BJ City, which belonged directly to the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Industry. This money was mainly used to pay military salaries, and then distributed to various places. Most soldiers received a lot of copper coins from where they were stationed. This has led to the phenomenon that there are too many copper coins in border posts, and the copper coins in economically developed areas are not in sufficient supply.

In the Qing Dynasty, reforms were carried out to allow localities to cast their own copper coins, which caused other problems. For example, the exchange rate between copper coins and silver in Zhili was inconsistent with that in Guangzhou and other places, and it was difficult to be fair when trading with foreign businessmen.

The biggest difference between the land regime and the sea regime is transportation. The sea regime can transport food and porcelain by sea, such as "ballast", while the land regime is very laborious and expensive to transport these things, and the freight has become a lot of money. Big expenses, and not just money, but also manpower.After a hard day's work, Tongmin may not even be able to eat enough, because it is also very difficult to transport food to Yunnan and Guizhou.

After Yang Rong arrived in Yunnan, he was both a mine envoy and a tax supervisor. He was in charge of mining and collecting taxes. The minions attached to him searched everywhere and built luxurious houses for Yang Rong.The students gathered together and wrote poems satirizing Quan Xun and his minions. The magistrates and prefects of Yunnan resisted mining.

Lijiang is a good place. Dali has Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake, and Lijiang has Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and Lugu Lake. Yang Rong asked chieftain Muzeng for this place on the grounds of mining.

Since Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, the Mu family has been guarding this place, guarding the iron bridge leading to Tubo. Does Yang Rong take this place because he intends to guard it himself?
Yang Rong's reckless behavior eventually led to civil uprisings. In the 30th year of Wanli, the people burned the tax factory and killed one of Yang Rong's minions, Zhang Anmin. Yang Rong was so angry that he ordered his subordinates to arrest thousands of people and torture them all to death. Fan Gaoming, the commander who refused to cooperate with him, was tortured and put on shackles to show the public.In the 34th year of Wanli, the commander He Shixun and others couldn't bear it anymore, and led tens of thousands of innocent people to burn Yang Rong's mansion, killed him, threw him into the fire and scattered his bones and ashes in the Jinsha River.

Later, the imperial court sent Chen Yongbin to end the situation. The first thing he did when he arrived at the place was to stop the mining tax.

As long as people can eat enough and live a comfortable life, they usually will not rebel.However, Chen Yongbin's memorial was "stayed in China" and was not seen by the emperor.At this time, bandits had already begun to riot in Yunnan. In the Yang Rong Rebellion, small officials and the public all participated. In order to appease the court, only He Shixun was sentenced to beheaded alone, and the rest were not asked. But who can guarantee that the court will not "settle accounts after autumn "Woolen cloth?

Those who had already participated in the rebellion escaped into the mountains and forests and became bandits, and mixed with the local aborigines. They attacked Wuding City together. The local prefect Chen Dian was afraid of its viciousness and fled with his seal.

Chen Hongmou's method of mining copper mines is to contract the mining rights to merchants. After obtaining the mining license from the chief envoy, they organize the mining of copper people gathered near the mine, and are responsible for the charcoal and tunnel support necessary for refining.

All the hustle and bustle in the world is for profit. If there is no profit to be made, who would do something thankless?
These manufacturers exploited the copper people, and the power of the imperial court did not go deep into these deep mountains and old forests, so the White Lotus Sect's rebellion was so powerful.

Guangdong was originally relatively rich, but the population was too large and the land was merged. Not everyone had land.However, compared with people in Sichuan and Chu areas, they have other ways of making a living. The academies run by Chen Hongmou in Yunnan have also made some people no longer easily believe in superstitions. Even though they are also located in places with inconvenient transportation, Yunnan has not joined them .

To put it another way, civil uprisings also need a basis for civil uprisings. The people in Guangzhou and surrounding areas still support the admiral. People believe that pirates are a greater threat than the White Lotus Sect.

During the reign of Chongzhen, there was a Minister of War named Xiong Wencan. When he was the governor of Fujian, pirates attacked Tongshan from Xiamen.

Xiong Wencan recruited one of the pirates, appointed him as a coastal defense guerrilla, attacked the pirates Li Kuiqi, Liu Xiang, etc., and completely pacified the pirates on the southeast coast.

Later, he recruited Zhang Xianzhong, Liu Guoneng, etc., but Zhang Xianzhong only surrendered on the surface, but actually demanded payment from Xiong Wencan. Tens of thousands of soldiers waited for the opportunity. Zhang Xianzhong rebelled again in the 12th year of Chongzhen, and Xiong Wencan was also arrested and imprisoned for failing to appease the Bureau. , was beheaded the following year.

The admiral is about to resign, and of course he doesn't need to recruit pirates like Xiong Wencan, but Nick can't "go to court" like those wronged people. He kneels and shouts wronged immediately when he arrives in the court, so he has to find something else to say.

Nick slept comfortably last night, but Juren has been trying to find a way for him. After all, he was rescued from the tiger's den and sent to the wolf's den.

Nick really couldn't explain how the note came from, and he didn't explain it if he couldn't explain it clearly. The confession is also a kind of story making, otherwise there would be no fortune teller "Zhang Siru".

Chen Hongmou's teacher, Yang Jiaxiu, once said that opera singers think they are good at acting, but whether it is good or not depends on the evaluation of those who have watched the opera, and it depends on the foreman in charge of the opera to say that it is good.

Nick can't speak Chinese very well, but it is impossible to call an interpreter on this occasion. He hastily recounted the "confession" given by Juren. Cao Xi and the admiral didn't urge him at all, and let him take it slowly. That's it.

"You mean it's pirates 'going around'?"

After Nick finished wiping the cold sweat off his forehead, the admiral asked.

"What is slapstick?" The scholar asked flatly.

Cao Xi smiled strangely, and the admiral didn't explain what he said just now, but fell into deep thought.

There was a dead silence.

"Is it true that foreigners didn't participate?" the admiral asked.

"Is there any loss in the city of Guangzhou?" Nick asked.

"A flour shop exploded, and several people were killed or injured," Cao Xi said.

Nick felt very surprised. It is understandable that gunpowder exploded, but could flour also explode?
But he did not discuss this topic with Cao Xi, and quietly waited for the admiral to figure it out.

"That is to say, by transferring our soldiers to Guangzhou, we fell into the other party's trick instead?" the admiral asked.

It can also be said that if Nick didn't hand over the paper to the admiral, it could have been treated as nothing happened, and everything was just a false alarm.

"You can't ignore the evil that such behavior breeds," Nick said anxiously.

"It is true that the illegal alliance cannot be given an opportunity." Cao Xi said.

"The priests on that island..."

"It's just some village folks and foolish women who were bewitched by demons."

Nick remembered that Yang Rong tortured thousands of people to death, which led to a larger-scale civil uprising, and immediately agreed with the saying "mercy, mercy".

"What about General Bing Liu?" the admiral asked.

Now Cao Xi didn't speak anymore.

Of course, the death of an official of the court cannot be easily dismissed, not to mention that there is a list of conspirators on him, although the names on this list may be made up by the villagers in order to avoid more physical pain, or it is possible it is true.

"Go down," the admiral said to the two, and then to Cao Xi, "arrange a place for Pingxi."

Then Nick was taken by Cao Xi to a house in the barracks.

Although Cao Xi didn't torture Nick, there were soldiers all around, and just like in the hospital, there were two guards at the door. Cao Xi told Nick that if there was anything he could tell them to do for him.

There is a kapok tree in the courtyard of this house, which is full of red flowers, but not a single green leaf.

This is the characteristic of the kapok plant. In winter, all the leaves will be lost. When it blooms, there will be only flowers. After the flowers bloom, the leaves will grow. In summer, the leaves will be green, and in autumn, the leaves will turn yellow. In winter, the leaves will fall. , and finally only the bare trunks remained.

And when the kapok falls, it doesn't look like cherry blossoms, the flowers will fall whole.There are many intact kapoks under this ancient kapok tree, which looks like a red carpet.

If you want red flowers to bloom, you have to wait for severe frost.

Now that the safflower has bloomed, will the severe frost come?

(End of this chapter)