Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

"Suffering from hunger" for more than ten years, just like leeches and mosquitoes, they will urinate blood when encountering blood!

Originally, in the Chongzhen Dynasty, the bottom class could still get one-tenth of the money issued by the emperor.

Arrived in Nanming...

What?

one tenth?

You're thinking about ass!

After so many years of being unable to "float away", why don't we let others make up for the "debt"!

That is to say, Shi Kefa had a good background. Not only was he the disciple of Donglin boss, he was also a Donglin boss himself.

They gave him three points of face and left him a tenth share...

And Shi Kefa had hundreds of thousands of troops under his command!

Military pay is really not enough!

Of course, Shi Kefa also knew that Zhu Yousong really had no money.

It was the eunuchs who went down to collect the money.

Emperor Hongguang not only had no money, but also wanted to recommend talented people to serve as ministers of the Ministry of Household Affairs, but this was also rejected by everyone in Donglin.

As a last resort, he had no choice but to follow Ma Shiying's suggestion and directly appoint Zhang Youyu as Minister of Household Affairs.

As a result, Gao Hongtu, the current Minister of Household Affairs, gave him a single vote to veto...

The emperor's newly appointed Minister of Household Affairs was rejected by the current Minister with one vote.

Interesting?

This is the real status quo of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty!

Without an imperial edict stamped with the minister's seal, it might as well be wiped clean!

Ma Shiying begged her grandfather and grandmother in many ways, and Zhang Youyu was able to serve as the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

As a result, when Zhang Youyu first took office, he was so worried that he vomited blood because Shi Kefa was offered a share of the four towns in Jiangbei and asked for a discount of 20 yuan in salary.

I haven’t been able to raise them all...

It's not that the officials have no money, it's that the court has no money.

Shi Kefa received the imperial edict from Emperor Hongguang with a bitter look on his face.

The court had no money, so it had to ask the local government for it.

However, the local government also rejected his news.

The excuses used are still the same as before, something has suffered a disaster, something has been bandited, something is in trouble...

Even many salt merchants, Huizhou merchants, and wealthy gentry in Yangzhou rejected his request for help.

Shi Kefa's face turned gloomy:

The imperial court...or Ma Shiying really had no money!

And the place...

Just because the local treasury has no money does not mean that the local officials have no money!

If they don't give it, what can he do?

Tell the truth about Donglin's corruption?

Believe it or not, he was voted down by Boss Donglin!

Shi Kefa is so angry!

What’s even more hateful are these Yangzhou wealthy families!

Do they have no money to build gardens?

They are just merchants and can build large gardens.

You know - the Northern Song Dynasty built a garden... and the country perished!

Wu Zong built a garden and it was sprayed to the sky!

But Yangzhou gardens are the best in the world!

They have no money?

Fart the fuck!

"You all only care about yourselves, and you don't realize that it's time for your country and your family to perish!

Don't they know that in Beizhi, the people are like pigs and dogs, being slaughtered?

Without the court, who will protect them? "

Shi Kefa sighed.

Don't these wealthy gentry in Yangzhou know that their property can only be preserved if the army is there?

Especially that Zheng!

Mr. Zheng, who has a garden for each person, will have no money?

The Zheng Zhilong family in Fujian dominates the China Sea!

None of them have money!

As a member of Donglin and a leader, Shi Kefa naturally knew the ins and outs of the Zheng family.

The Zheng family in Yangzhou was originally a wealthy family in the former Yuan Dynasty, and they had been officials for generations.

After the establishment of the dynasty, all Zheng's children became ministers of the state. One of them served as the Chief Secretary of Henan Province and participated in politics, and the other became the Supervisory Censor of Henan Province.

During the Battle of Jingnan, the two Zheng brothers were killed.

From then on, the Zheng family returned to Huizhou and relied on the savings left by their ancestors.

In this way, 200 years have passed, and the family fortune has not yet been exhausted.

(How rich does an official have to be to accumulate enough money for future generations to build for more than 200 years?)

This is the fundamental reason why the Zheng family can connect with Huizhou merchants!

Until the Kaizhong method was broken, the salt industry became a highly profitable industry.

Zheng Jinglian, the contemporary head of the Zheng family, saw an opportunity, so he gave up his ancestral business of living and waiting for death, and entered the salt merchant industry in the fourth year of Wanli.

The Kai Zhong Law has been abolished, and the salt industry is making huge profits!

However, in just a few years, Zheng has made a lot of money.

Soon, the Zheng family alone had thousands of customers!

It is said in history: "You can count thousands on your index finger"!

In the 44th year of Wanli (1616), Yuan Shizhen rectified the salt affairs and implemented the Cross Program.

The so-called cross outline law is to include salt merchants in special household registrations. From then on, they will be hereditary and engaged in the salt merchant industry for generations!

Why Yuan Shizhen did this cannot be verified.

The only thing that is certain is that at this point, Zheng Zhiyan, the contemporary head of the Zheng family, has become the "salt pod sacrificial wine"!

This name, in the Qing Dynasty, was called "Salt Industry General Merchant"!

In any industry, as long as there is a monopoly, it will definitely bring huge wealth!

As the leader of the salt industry, the Zheng family naturally has a lot of wealth.

To describe the Zheng family as being as wealthy as a country is to overestimate the country.

The country has built a garden that will destroy the country, and everyone has one in hand!

And this identity of "salt pods and wine" is also the fundamental reason why the Zheng family can become political brokers.

From the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, the Zheng family had a recognized title——

"The Zheng family has always been the leader of the literary alliance"!

What do you mean?

Literary leaders are nothing, the Zheng family has been the leader of the literary world for generations!

In other words - the financial owner.

(Note: Wang Xin, an associate professor at the School of Social Development of Yangzhou University, studied the history of Yangzhou. In order to research Yangzhou merchants, he wrote nearly 60 words of personal notes alone. He published the nearly [-]-word "Jiangsu Local Cultural History Yangzhou Volume".

His master's thesis, "Research on the Literary and Cultural Activities of the Salt Merchant Zheng Family—Focusing on Zheng Yuanxun," explored the ins and outs of the Zheng family in detail.

The above part of the information on the Zheng family in this book comes from Professor Wang Xin. Some of the sources mentioned above have been mentioned in detail. )

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Just at noon, Shi Kefa invited Zheng Shixun, the current head of the Zheng family, and wanted Zheng to contribute money to pay for the army.

But I didn't expect to be rejected.

Even, I couldn't even enter the Zheng family's garden...

But Shi Kefa - there was nothing he could do against Zheng Shixun.

What can he do?

He is a real big shot in the literary world!

That's the emperor underground!

Not to mention that Shi Kefa was just the governor of Jiangbei. Even the emperor of the Zhu family had to think carefully if he wanted to touch the Zheng family!

Move others?

Before the knife was even placed on someone's neck, his head moved first!

Shi Kefa sighed.

Yan Ermei lowered his head and said nothing.

With the state affairs at this point, what else is there to say?

The food, military pay, and the hearts of the soldiers and the people are all gone!

Ever since Shige Lao compromised with Ma Shiying and the war faction ascended to a high position in the court, the taxation of the court was in complete chaos.

The princes of Donglin cannot get the power to preside over the government...

How can the financial backer behind this family just let it go?

Simply cut off Hongguang Chaotang's taxes!

On the contrary, they pocket taxes.

On the other hand, we will expand miscellaneous taxes and intensify them.

Even the reed fields, which are used exclusively for boiling salt, are taxed.

What's more, they even collect taxes for the coming year in advance!