Daming: I, the emperor who trains the carpenter

Chapter 605

People's sorrows and joys are not the same,

Just like the joyous Liaonan and the elated Daming, Huang Taiji didn't feel happy, he just felt that these Ming people were too noisy.

Because, the biggest problem he faces now is not that the capital was broken and the queen was taken away just after he took the throne, the biggest problem is that the treasury is out of food!

Yes, the Qing Dynasty is out of food!

No one is defeated, hard training army can start all over again.

The capital city is broken, and it will be repaired stronger next time.

Even when people's hearts are scattered, they can slowly gather together.

But there is a prerequisite for all of this, there must be food in hand!
But the problem is that Huang Taiji has no food right now!
In the past, we could still buy food, firearms, etc. from the Shanxi merchants of the Ming Dynasty, but as the original eight major Shanxi merchants were taken over in one pot, the existing Shanxi merchants basically belonged to the court merchants of the Ming Dynasty. How could they export grain to the Qing Dynasty? ?
So Huang Taiji is now caught in a vicious circle called the food dilemma: Huang Taiji needs food to stabilize the morale of the army and the people to plan for next year, but right now he has no food at all to stabilize his internal affairs.
Huang Taiji couldn't think of a way by himself, but he was not the only smart person in the Qing Dynasty, and all the crouching dragons and phoenixes of the Qing Dynasty were there.

Su Mingzhe, Fan Wencheng, Wei Gongchao, the crouching dragon, phoenix chick, and Xu Shu of the Qing Dynasty are together again. This is the Han Chinese power of the Qing Dynasty; plus Huang Taiji, Dorgon, Duoduo, Baltai, Mandahai, Sa Ha Lian, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, the major Baylors and banner owners, represents the Manchu forces.

Well, as Daishan, the owner of the two red flags, was stabbed in the head, his two red flags were also distributed by Huang Taiji to their two sons Sahalian and Mandahai to win people's hearts.

This meeting on how to deal with the food crisis that the Qing Dynasty will face next was held in this way.

Huang Taiji was wearing a dragon robe and sitting on the throne. Dorgon and Duoduo on the left were silent, while Su Mingzhe, Fan Wencheng and Wei Gongchao on the right were discussing in low voices.

In fact, Dorgon and the others also know that these government affairs issues really have to rely on the Han people, who makes the Han people have more scholars and have real skills.

Huang Taiji looked at himself, the crouching dragon and phoenix of the Qing Dynasty, who were constantly discussing with Xu Shu, and nodded with satisfaction: These Han people are still reliable, and with these people assisting the Qing Dynasty, the future of the Qing Dynasty must be prosperous. ?
In the future, it seems that more scholars and scholars from Ming Dynasty will be recruited to come to Qing Dynasty!

Huang Taiji couldn't even understand why the emperor of the Ming Dynasty didn't want these scholars and scholars. Didn't the little emperor of the Ming Dynasty know that scholars were needed to govern the world?
Just as he was thinking about it, Wei Gongchao said, "Your Majesty, I have discussed with you, and the current situation can only be dealt with from three aspects."

"Oh?!"

Huang Taiji became energetic when he heard the three ways to start, he immediately asked: "Which way to start?"

Wei Gongchao stroked his beard and smiled and said, "Your Majesty, although we are fighting against the Ming Dynasty, Mongolia is still sitting on the sidelines. Now the Mongol Tatars are betting on both sides. They don't want to provoke us, the Qing Dynasty, or the Ming Dynasty. There are many tribes in the Tartar tribe who yearn for my Daqing."

"Now that the Ming Dynasty and the Tatars are opening border markets for mutual trade, why not let the Tatars buy Ming Dynasty grain for us? We only need to pay some gold and silver. This is the first aspect."

"Secondly, although the Qing Dynasty has no food, North Korea has food. North Korea is a small country with few people, but they don't respect my Qing Dynasty and are willing to be a vassal of the Ming Dynasty. The emperor can send troops to North Korea. One is to teach North Korea a lesson. Let them know how powerful our Qing Dynasty is, and secondly, we can search for a sum of money and food from North Korea."

"Your Majesty, now that we have just established the Qing Dynasty, we have suffered a defeat. It is the time when we need a big victory to cheer people up. Sending troops to North Korea at this time can not only reap money and food, but also boost morale."

Huang Taiji nodded again and again, his eyes lit up: "Then what about the third one?"

Wei Gongchao said with a smile: "The third thing is to start from our country today. Although the imperial treasury is out of food, our land is fertile and there are so many fertile fields. The people have enough food and clothing, and the granaries are sufficient. Raise more taxes."

Although Dorgon didn't understand these things, he still asked: "Master Wei, our Qing Dynasty faced enemies three times. In order to deal with North Korea, Mongolia and the Ming Dynasty, our people's taxes in the Qing Dynasty were already very high. Now we will raise them again. Is it not very good?"

Of course Wei Gongchao didn't dare to speak ill of Dorgon, he said with a smile: "Fourteenth Baylor is worrying too much, now that I am clean and upright, the common people should pay more for the court."

"It's more difficult at the moment. When the imperial court conquers North Korea and Mongolia, won't the burden on the people be reduced?"

"The reason why the people suffer now is for the future. After all, if the imperial court has no food, how can they fight against North Korea and Mongolia, and how can they get money and food for the population?"

Huang Taiji nodded frequently, he was right, he was right!

Right now the Ming Dynasty is not easy to provoke, but the Tatar tribe in Monan and North Korea in the east are indeed soft persimmons. The Qing Dynasty really needs a big victory to boost morale, so that the Eight Banners and Han people can see it. Tai Chi can still be played, and the Qing Dynasty will not take jujube pills.

Right now, the Qing Dynasty needs North Korea's food and population, so it must collect food and grass from the country as military rations.

And asking Mongolia to help the Qing Dynasty buy grain from the Ming Dynasty also required the domestic people to pay more taxes.

"Right now, let the people suffer for two years, let the people suffer for two years, and it will be easier in the future." Huang Taiji made up his mind, now that the Qing Dynasty's state affairs are difficult, then let the people suffer.

Wei Gongchao and Fan Wencheng looked at each other and saw the smile in each other's eyes, and Su Mingzhe had no better way at the moment.

If we don't increase taxes for the common people, should we collect taxes from scholars like them and Qing officials?

Then what are they doing in Liaodong?

Therefore, Su Mingzhe, Fan Wencheng, and Wei Gongchao reached a rare agreement on increasing taxes for the common people: if the common people suffer, everyone will be better off.

Huang Taiji has issued an imperial decree, but the problem is that the officials below changed during the execution. Huang Taiji ordered the people of the Qing Dynasty to pay an extra catty of grain and one coin of silver per person. The Qing Dynasty asked the people to pay an extra ten catties of grain and one tael of silver.

But Liaodong is bitterly cold. Although the land is fertile, most of the land has been planted with soybeans and cotton. Corn, wheat, sweet potatoes, and potatoes have not been planted. How can ordinary people have surplus food?
Whether the people have food or not is not what these scholars care about. They are only responsible for issuing orders and then sending people to forcibly collect food and taxes.

do not give?Then arrest people, beat them, put them in prison, coerce them, and force confessions. If you don’t believe that you can’t squeeze out money and food, you have nothing. Don’t you still have land and a house, a daughter and a wife, and a young labor force like you?

Huang Taiji's plan just to collect military rations turned into a money-making feast for scholars and scholars in Liaodong.

For a time, the people of Liaodong were forced to have their families ruined, sold themselves into slavery, and hanged themselves.
(End of this chapter)