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Chapter 143 Yang Shaobao’s armed salary demand plan
"So what is this?
Are the sages in Gyeonggi welcoming slavery?
After reading the books of saints and saints all your life, can you find out about slavery?

All the Gonggun princes miss the prosperous days of the Yuan Dynasty? "

In the busy fields in spring, Yang Shaobao looked indignant.

Of course, everyone knew that he was actually furious.

After all, after the Battle of Texas, everyone believed that Dorgon was unable to stabilize the rear. After all, the food conflict really could not be solved. This was not a question of how much money there was. It was useless to have money but no place to buy food. In the late stages of the Texas War, the price of rice in the capital had soared to eighty liang and one stone. Because Yang Feng blocked the canal and Huang Fei blocked the coast, even smuggling was impossible. After all, there was no place for smuggling in the north. It is true that the south can smuggle grain to them, but transportation cannot be solved. Food transportation to the north is nothing more than coastal smuggling and canals. Those Shanxi merchants can't use cars to push grain to the capital, right?

There is no way to even push.

Because the remaining overland trade routes are mainly Huguang, that is, the Han River goes north to Xiangyang, or transfers to Tang He and goes north to Shengqi Dian.

This was also the main trade line operated by Shanxi merchants.

But at this time, if you dare to travel west of Henan to transport grain northward, the only result will be to be used as fat meat by hungry people, bandits, and defeated troops. Not to mention that the grain will not be left behind, and maybe even the merchants who transport the grain will be eaten.

Regardless of land enclosure or grain expropriation, they could only force the Northern Zhili gentry to resist.

This made the Shandong gentry feel itchy.

The final result was that Dorgon was recognized by the gentry.

The prosperous age of Bahuang Xiange!
Think about those insects in the Zhu family again, it’s a world of difference!

Even the great scholars in Northern Zhili have begun to beautify this system.

I am in the prosperous age of the Qing Dynasty!

Let Li Zicheng issue an imperial edict on behalf of Chongzhen!

As for the original low-level tenants who were forced from good men to slaves...

Also recognized by the Eight Banners Hardcore Crops, old and new slave owners united around the regent and lived a happy life together riding on the slaves' heads and doing whatever they wanted.

He was still counting on a windfall of three million taels of silver and two million shi of rice, and Yang Feng had agreed that after receiving the money and food, all the money would be returned to the Shandong Tongshan Association, because they had previously raised military expenses and used loans. The means were lent to him as military expenses. After all, Shandong's tax revenue is limited. Unless taxes are increased, the sudden increase in military expenditures can only be allocated by the local gentry. This is the responsibility of the Shandong Tongshan Association. They are responsible for asking the gentry from all over the country to contribute money, and then lend the money to Yang Feng and Qiu Zude. But there is interest, although it is not high, but there is still interest, otherwise the gentry would not have the motivation to pay. This is also considered a war bond, and now this huge sum of money has to be settled by the Nanjing court.

We have to rely on him to get money and food from the south.

After all, they still had to point to Yang Feng to make up for the losses in the Texas War.

And fertile land will not flee.

So the rest can get good land for cultivation.

Yang Feng and Qiu Zude were governors of the imperial court, so the military expenses should be paid by the imperial court.

So retro!
The royal government is back to ancient times.

Except for Zhu Yuanzhang, no ruler in the past dynasties would care about them. Since ancient times, they have shared the world with the scholar-bureaucrats, and I have never heard of anyone sharing the world with mud-legged men. In this way, the Beizhili gentry suddenly seemed to have returned to the prosperous age of the Yuan Dynasty, even more powerful than the Yuan Dynasty. The prosperous times were happier. After all, the Great Yuan Dynasty only asked them to turn tenants into serfs, but now Dorgon directly asked them to turn tenants into slaves.

Just dissatisfaction, of course.

But no one expected that Dorgon would solve this problem easily after he introduced slavery. The gentry from all over the country stopped resisting. Instead of resisting, they helped the Qing army to suppress those unruly people who were unwilling to be slaves. Also with the deaths and large numbers of fleeing caused by the suppression, the effect was similar to killing people without food. In fact, people without food were killed at the same time. In short, the food problem was alleviated. After all, there were fewer people, and the food that was not enough to eat began to be enough. The slave manor system also allowed the local gentry to squeeze to the maximum extent and obtain as much surplus food as possible. As for those slaves who were squeezed, they could of course escape.

Although he became a slave and suffered more severe oppression, he was still able to survive starvation in the end.

And the court...

Recently, the Shandong Tongshan Association was very dissatisfied with Yang Feng's decision to expand the scope of the census. After all, you were still going against the trend when Dorgon was engaged in slavery. This is a bit too much.

His Majesty the Emperor issued an imperial edict at the Xi'an Palace to deliver Jiangnan grain and tax money from Nanjing to Xuzhou, and then hand it over to Yang Shaobao, Governor of Jiliao, to use as military expenses. The rest is whether Shi Kefa will send the money and grain, or the outcome of the Nanjing court discussion.

As for the results...

Don't give.

Of course, it’s not like giving nothing.

After all, the Minister of Household Affairs in Nanjing was still Gao Hongtu. After he argued with Su Jing and others, and the gentry group led by Song Jicheng expressed their righteousness in various places in Jiangnan, the result of the Nanjing court meeting presided over by Shi Kefa was that only one One million taels of silver and five hundred thousand shi rice. And their reason is also very simple. Nanjing has no money and food, Huguang is already devastated, Zhang Xianzhong has already invaded Sichuan, and all upstream taxes have been cut off. At present, Nanjing can only receive Nanjing, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang. As for the tax revenue in Fujian and Guangdong, there is not much tax. For example, the customs in Guangdong, Ming Dynasty, is only 40,000 taels a year, and the real tariff is only 20,000, and this money has to be paid to the Jingjiang Prince and the Navy.

I won’t go to Nanjing at all.

However, Nanjing only had to raise taxes from three provinces to support Zuo Liangyu and other ministries and maintain the pursuit of Zhang Xianzhong.

Really no money.

Of course, the real reason was that the officials in Nanjing were unhappy that Yang Feng had ruined their plan to unite with the pirates.

This bastard was messing around in the north and ruined the originally good alliance with the pirates. Especially since there were rumors that he had rewarded me, the Queen Mother of the Qing Dynasty, with the army, so many shameless people used the excuse of sending supplies to Ninghai City. They rushed to have a taste of the Holy Mother Queen Mother Lafayette of the Qing Dynasty. Even the merchant ships transporting goods from Jiangnan to Shandong are out of control. These shameless people would rather spend more time going to Ninghai City to have fun in the name of supporting the defenders. In fact, there are some people who go to Lushun and Dengzhou because they are too full and there is no queue. After all, there are some of my Qing Dynasty princesses there, and then these bastards are not ashamed but proud, and go back to Jiangnan to publicize them.

It caused various folk jokes to spread.

After all, you are also a scholar and a disciple of sages. Can you have some bottom line as a human being?

Where is your moral bottom line?

That is also the queen mother of a country!

We all belong to the upper class, and we must protect the dignity of the upper class. It doesn't matter how unruly people at the bottom are, but the upper class must have dignity.

Dorgon is better than you.

Dorgon still treats Queen Yi'an with courtesy and has never humiliated the prince.

You are worse than a Huru.

The point is, you are the governor of the imperial court, and you will embarrass both parties by doing this. He also gave another queen mother as a gift to the emperor.

Then Tama has done something wrong. You not only insulted others but also insulted the emperor. Fortunately, you met Li Zicheng who was as shameless as you and cut him off directly...

Well, I, the Queen Mother of the Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, did not complete her collection of stamps for the Ming Dynasty Emperor in the end. Li Zicheng felt that this kind of good thing would be better to benefit himself than to benefit Chongzhen. Although it is said that he was not in good health, this kind of thing is not a political marriage. ? So he wrote an imperial edict for Chongzhen, saying that both Lin Dan Khan and Huang Taiji were hypocrites and not worthy of comparison with His Majesty the Emperor. He gave Namu Zhong to the King of Qin as his concubine, and then Li Zicheng began to meet the Mongolians with her. Messenger. His move was very cunning. It not only made the Mongols realize that our situation in the Qing Dynasty was not good, but also provided the latter with new options.

He can do it too!
What's more, his men are already very mixed, and there must be a large number of Mongolians.

In short, he robbed the woman Yang Feng gave to Chongzhen.

In short, the final result of the Nanjing court discussion was to only give one million taels of silver and 500,000 shi of rice. Now the price of rice in Jiangnan has exceeded one tael, and in some places has reached 30 taels. With the development of the textile industry in the area around Taihu Lake, the Ming Dynasty has long since lost its foothold in Suhu and the world. Textile industry workers in half the city of Suzhou have filled Jiangnan with cotton, and food has become dependent on Huguang and Jiangxi.

But Huguang has been abolished.

Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong disrupted Huguang, causing Huguang's external sales of grain to drop sharply.

Then Jiangsu and Zhejiang also suffered from drought, and there were continuous rebellions. It was inevitable that food prices would rise. In fact, with the continuous natural disasters in various places, food-producing provinces like Jiangxi have also begun to experience food shortages, so that food transportation has to go to Quzhou. Merchant ships in Zhejiang were often intercepted by people along the way, and merchants were not allowed to transport grain outside the province. However, although Yang Feng doesn't care much about food, after all, the canned industry is expanding rapidly along the coast of Shandong, and the promotion of new crops is also going smoothly, but money is definitely not enough. Three million taels is the bottom line, and this requires repaying the loan. In addition, this is also an important means for the Shandong gentry to continue to tolerate him. After all, compared with him conducting a census and forcing the gentry to turn slaves into husbands, it seems more worth looking forward to him getting money from outside to share with everyone.

After all, there are not many gentry who have slaves at home. After all, Shandong is not Jiangnan. Most of them are small and medium-sized landowners. Even if they have a few slaves at home, they are actually their confidants.

There are no child servants with thousands of levels.

However, most of the thousands of child servants are actually hired workers.

For example, Xu Jie was found by Hai Rui to have thousands of slaves. In fact, most of them were slave weavers who spun yarn and weaved cloth for his family in Xu Jie's textile factory with thousands of looms.

Shandong is much worse.

In fact, the textile industry in Shandong has been very weak due to the textile industry in Jiangnan. The areas along the canal have turned into cotton cultivation that only supplies raw materials to Jiangnan. Shandong also lacks aristocratic families like the Xu family. After all, the entire Ming Dynasty The number of Jinshi from Shandong is less than half that of Zhejiang. Although there are four chief assistants, three of them are actually from the Chongzhen Dynasty. Before the Chongzhen Dynasty, there was only one, which is incomparable with Jiangnan.

There are more than a dozen chief ministers in Jiangnan and Zhejiang alone.

At least for now, Yang Feng has to maintain his alliance with Shandong Tongshan Association so that the latter can tolerate him.

They all wanted to be slave owners.

This is true.

Who doesn't want to be a slave owner?

But the problem is that I can’t defeat the Qing Dynasty, so I can’t risk rebellion by myself, right? In case of failure, the possibility is still very high based on Yang Feng's combat power, and even if he welcomes me, the Qing Dynasty King, Dorgon will not be able to give them millions of taels of silver. On the contrary, he will have to get it from them. They had money in hand to maintain the army, but Yang Feng was now getting money from outside to give them.

Being a slave owner is unrealistic and can only be regarded as an ideal at most, but following Yang Feng is a reality, and it is a reality with money.

So as long as he is not too crazy, the old guys from Shandong Tongshan Association can still tolerate it. After all, he is just conducting a census and forcing each household to reduce rent, not directly equalizing land.

In these turbulent times, don’t ask for too much.

Compared with other warlords, he is actually very gentle.

but……

He must be able to make money.

Otherwise, if they just let the Shandong Tongshan Association pay, they will eventually have enough patience. This time they can spend a huge amount of money to win the battle of Texas. If they can't gain anything, they won't spend it next time.

In that case, Yang Feng would have to spend more money and food to maintain a system that forced them to pay.

What's more, Lubei is still building more fortresses.

In fact, Yang Feng is working on a major project in northern Shandong. He has opened up the canal to reconnect the Majia River that was originally cut off by the canal, and also allowed a large amount of river water that originally entered the canal to enter the Majia River. In this way, people in Texas have A large transverse river was created in the south, which the cavalry could not wade through. Coupled with the southward canal, a complete river barrier was eventually formed in northern Shandong, blocking the infiltration and harassment of Qing cavalry and ensuring agricultural production behind this barrier. Dezhou, Caozhou and other places outside this barrier have become a series of forward fortresses. They are the first line of defense, followed by the second line of defense of Dongchang, Linqing, Jining and other riverside cities, and the most important is Lubei. There are also three lines of defense along the Daqing River in the direction.

Then ensure the two core areas of Qilu.

Although the Qing army could still walk across the ice in winter, as long as agricultural production could be guaranteed in other seasons, it would be nothing more than marching into the city and clearing the fields in winter.

If the Qing army dares to go deep into winter again, it will have the same result as last time.

As for counterattacking the capital...

At present, it is better to save the troops under his command who can only form strongholds and fight dull battles!

For at least three to five years, he would not be able to train enough troops to actively attack the Qing army. Besides, this was not his own business, and the Ming Dynasty was not limited to Shandong Province.

"Fengsheng, Li Zicheng's imperial edict has arrived!"

Su Dunsheng said with excitement.

"Okay, it's finally here. With the imperial edict in hand, it's time to go to Jiangnan to make some money."

Yang Feng said with satisfaction.

He wants to go to Nanjing in person to ask for his military funds.

Of course, he needed an imperial edict. After all, he was the governor of Jiliao and could not leave the jurisdiction without an imperial edict. So he asked Li Zicheng to send him an imperial edict, ordering Yang Shaobao, the governor of Jiliao, to personally lead troops to Nanjing to supervise the transportation of money and grain. In addition, he also has the title of right deputy censor of the capital, so he has the right to impeach officials from various places, which of course includes Nanjing. Although Shang Fang's sword cut off does not have this power, as the right deputy censor of the capital, he has the power to impeach officials still have.

As for whether his impeachment can be approved by the emperor, it depends on Li Zicheng's mood.

It is said that His Highness the King of Qin has also been very dissatisfied with the ministers in Nanjing recently.

He didn't get the money or food he asked for!

The two cooperated once, taking advantage of Dorgon's new defeat and not being able to cause trouble, to kill a wave of fat sheep.

(End of this chapter)