Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 587
Beijing.

Inside Di'anmen, a small shop in Xilou Lane.

The four Song family masters got up before dawn again, and got busy early.

"Morning, second master."

Old Si Zhenzhao saw Liu Er coming from a distance carrying the birdcage, and hurriedly greeted him.

"Morning, what new dishes have been added today."

Lao Song came out to say hello, "Good morning, Mr. Liu. Recently, the prices have skyrocketed, and I can't do business. I can't buy anything here, only stinky tofu sauce, dried beans, pickles, and some potatoes and sweet potatoes. Corn sorghum." He said, beckoning Liu Er into the room.

There has been a famine in Beijing for a while, and the ordinary people haven't seen fine grains for a long time. Even the bannermen, they always have fine grains mixed with coarse grains, and they still have to eat corn buns and even boiled potatoes.

The life of ordinary Han people is even more difficult. Many people have already dragged their families to flee the famine, and the rest are still struggling with one meal after another, starving to death every day.

Of course, Erye Liu, who was in charge of the household department, had a good life, and even got promoted to a miscellaneous job. Although he didn't have a formal grade, he had already crossed the threshold with half a foot.

Others eat zucchini and melon soup every day in summer, radish soup in winter, Chinese cabbage soup, or boiled potatoes, and occasionally fried potato shreds.

But Liu Er's family can often close the door and secretly eat good food. He often has luxury items such as shrimp skin and lard, and he can get fish and meat from Lao Song every now and then, and he can still eat them in January. Two or three times mutton, although the staple food is cornmeal steamed bread, but white noodles are also often eaten, and dumplings can often be made for dinner.

Others eat bran swallowed vegetables when they are hungry, but his family can often eat fried noodles and even candy.

The old Liu's family was able to maintain such a life during this famine, not because of the little salary added after his promotion. In fact, his promotion was also managed by him out of the little yellow croaker.

"I got some good things here today, fish meat balls and beef balls, deep-fried until golden, take them home and cook them in a copper pot, not to mention how fragrant they are."

"Look and see." Liu Er said with a smile.

Lao Song led Lao Liu into the backyard, said a few words in the yard, then opened the curtain and entered the back room, closed the door and the two got together.

"What's new?"

"Beijing has had no food for a long time, and now the two regents are in a hurry. At the just-held meeting of the kings and ministers, it is said that the princes and ministers quarreled and blamed each other. Some impeached Li Guohan and lost Hanzhong, and some accused Wu Sangui of not Those who returned to aid in time, and those who said that Oboi's death of his teacher was wrong for the country.

"There were also those who proposed sending troops to take back Kaifeng, Luoyang, and those who said they would abandon Xuzhou and Yingzhou. In short, it was chaos."

When Liu Erye talked about these things, he was very relaxed.

Although he was in charge of the household department of the Qing Dynasty, under the guidance of Lao Song, he has officially joined the Beijing sub-helm of the Tiandihui led by Lao Song, and has become an underground righteous man who helped the Ming Dynasty and wiped out the Qing Dynasty.

Liu Er used to get information for Lao Song, but made a lot of little yellow croakers. Now that the situation is getting worse and worse, he actively seeks to join Lao Song's side, in order to give himself a way out.

Life is pretty good now, he works as an errand in the Beijing Urban Household Department, he has a Beijing errand on the outside, and an underground righteous man on the inside, he can take both.

Bannermen were starving, but Lao Liu was able to get food, meat, vegetables and other supplies that were in short supply through Lao Song, and lived a comfortable life. Lao Song even provided him with gold, allowing him to make connections, seek promotions, and get in touch with more people. intelligence.

"Now the regent is angry and has issued death orders to various places. He must collect grain from Shaanxi, Shanxi, Beizhi, Liaoxi, and Liaodong to supply Beijing. The positive figures over the years will be reported to the imperial court."

Lost Huguang, Jiangnan, Huaiyang, Henan, and Shandong, the important food producing areas, and even Guangdong, Guangxi, and Shuhan. The Tartars are now completely out of control and corrupting the Central Plains. The army is involved.

It can be said that the Tartars still have quite strong Eight Banners soldiers on the surface. There are a lot of them, and the main force is still there.

Even the Beijing imperial court couldn't afford it.

Under such circumstances, the Regent King, Co-Regent King, and Prince Baylor have no choice but to find a way to get food from the existing control area.

Regardless of wars or disasters in various places, food must be handed over, and Baojia Lianzao is also established. One household has ten households, and one household flees or fails to pay, and the other nine households will pay in installments.

No matter how the people flee or how poor they are, all localities must collect the total amount according to the entitlement.

Even if the full collection is not enough, then find a way to recover the arrears.

Dai Shan directly said that the serious debts in various places were all due to the fraud of officials. In the past, the imperial vassals invaded, the gentry scattered, and the private households evaded taxes. Officials occupy more than [-] acres of land, do not pay rent and tax, and instead coerce Yousi, and the guards' farms are corrupted, etc.

It used to be done in the Ming Dynasty, but now it doesn't work.

must be paid in full.

Now the two regents have ordered that the payment should be strictly paid, and the tasks will be distributed layer by layer, and included in the performance evaluation of the local governors, guards, and county officials. If the tasks are completed on schedule, they will be promoted to ranks. Jobs or even direct dismissal.

Under the will of the two regents, the scope of the settlement has been clarified.

First of all, the royal family, vassals, and relatives of the original Ming Dynasty. All the fields they occupied will be confiscated. Before that, they pretended to give preferential treatment to the old officials of the Ming Dynasty. Nothing was confiscated, nothing was kept.

The second is the original guard.

In the past, some Qing government officials in various places also began to follow the example of the South in setting up the evacuation of the guards and taking back the farmland, but only in some places, but now, the Qing court directly ordered that all the garrisons be withdrawn, even those along the canal. The guards in charge of water transportation were not left either.

Because the canal has already been completely blocked, so what is there left for.

In addition to clearing and recovering the fields of the royal family, vassals, and guards, it is necessary to clear the number of lands occupied by those powerful gentry.

This time the focus is also on these gentry and powerful men from all over the place.

Especially last year when Shanxi, northern Shaanxi, and Gansu revolted, a large number of gentry and landlords followed to rebel against the Qing Dynasty, which made the Tatar court angry and felt that it was a betrayal.

So Yue Le slaughtered the city in Shanxi, and Wu Sangui slaughtered the city in Shaanxi. Not only were they not punished, they were rewarded instead.

Now that the Tartars have no place to squeeze out money and food, they can only attack these gentry who are unwilling to surrender sincerely.

Moreover, Daishan and the others also heard that Zhu Yihai did the same thing in the south, and it was very successful, so why didn't they do it?Although many Han officials in the Beijing imperial court objected, they no longer had any directors for Han Chen in this era. Even people like Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan were no longer trusted by them, and they even lost the title of Minister of State.

There have been so many capricious Han surrenders, and the loss of Huang Taiji and Dorgon, who paid more attention to the surrender of Han people and reused Han officials, the princes such as Daishan, all hated Han officials.

The Beijing court has purged several waves of Han people who have been demoted. Many demoted generals from various places have been transferred from the position of chief general, and there are very few who can still be trusted and reused.

"Jierhalang has already said that no matter how much he owes, he will be pursued. Now that he resists the payment, even if he owes only one cent, he will be dismissed from his reputation and even ransacked his home to be charged!"

Lao Song couldn't help shaking his head when he heard this, "The Tatars seem to have pursued the payment in Shandong before. A Tanhua was falsely owed a penny, and his home was ransacked and executed. Now the Tartars want to do this all over the place. It seems that they have lost their minds. "

Liu Er laughed.

Anyway, their subordinate class has nothing to do with this kind of thing.

Besides, he actually felt that it was the same no matter who was in power, just like the son of tomorrow in the south who is now known as the Great Emperor. Didn't he once pursue the payment of debts in Jiangnan, and also pursue the ten-year tax arrears?

When the Tartars first entered the customs, everything went well, so they were good to the civilians and generals who surrendered, and even those gentry and landlords, but now the situation is getting worse and worse, and they are becoming more and more unscrupulous.

Now that the Tartars are initiating such a severe debt settlement, they are actually not only trying to grab money and food, but also attacking the Han gentry and powerful.

"The gentry with a reputation, the land they invaded, and the taxes they evaded through sly posting, flying and other names, should be pursued for ten years and paid in full within a time limit. For two months, the house was confiscated to pay taxes, and those who resisted a large amount of payment and had a bad attitude could also be sentenced to prison, exile, exile, beheading, etc.

In addition, if the brothers, relatives, and clans of the gentry defaulted in paying the payment, they would also be sent to the Ministry of Punishment. The gentry was jointly and severally liable and had to help pay. "

This is revenge, but also deterrence.

It also used this to weaken the strength of the gentry in the occupied areas.

When they first entered the customs, they still wanted to call themselves civilized and sit on the dragon chair of the lord of the Central Plains, so they had a gentle attitude.But when the resistance was fierce, especially when the situation was unstable, they showed their ferocious true colors and began to massacre, hoping to deter them with force and brutality, especially these gentry.

"Now the banner people in Beijing have been in arrears for seven or eight months. The Eight Banners garrisons and green camps in various places have also been out of payment for at least a year. They are all self-raised. However, in many places, soldiers and horses can only rob the people, but There are many places where they can’t be robbed, and many places even go to rob people to eat.”

"If this continues, Beijing won't last long."

"Old Song, when do you think the emperor will call back to Beijing?"

Old Song stroked his beard, "It should be soon, get more reliable news when you go back."

Now the Tartars are massacring cities and slaughtering everywhere, and at the same time they are doing so, even the gentry are not spared. It seems that the end of the mountain is indeed over.

He can be sure that with the order from the Tazi court, the local officials and soldiers will not immediately hold chicken feathers as arrows, and take the opportunity to embezzle and loot wantonly. This way, not to mention the powerful gentry, even ordinary people will suffer. No way.

The Tartars are trying to force all the Han people to rise up against them.

　Sorry for the late update, insomnia, I fell asleep in the morning.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)