Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

With such one-stop considerate service, the Kang family has accumulated more than [-] million net worth in Daming, but their current profit is not in the interior of Daming, but like the Fan family, the Kang family also has a way of smuggling grain to Liaodong. www>

A large amount of grain was collected from the mainland, and then sent to Liaodong by camel teams.

During the Little Ice Age, farmers in northern China were struck down by successive years of drought and severe cold. A large number of farmers either starved to death or fled. The only way to avoid these two fates was to rebel.

During the Wanli period, Shenzong could barely maintain the northern peasants and military towns. During the Chongzhen period, due to internal and external troubles, despite several additional land taxes, the Ming court was bankrupt and could not even maintain military expenditures, let alone provide relief to the victims.

So this is a vicious circle. On the one hand, the imperial court increases taxes to maintain the operation of the imperial court and military expenditure.On the one hand, the peasants were unable to support themselves due to the famine, and at the same time they had to pay their grain and pay taxes. The two were forced to rebel. [

The more rebels, the greater the court's military expenditure and the more taxes it needs.

At the same time, the Manchus who were outside the customs entered and raided from time to time, which also made the already weak giant of the Ming Dynasty worse. Fall, the last empire of the Han people, thus perish.

There are many inevitability and accident in the fall of Ming Dynasty and the rise of Qing Dynasty. The details of history are particularly interesting.

Why did the peasants in the north go bankrupt and unable to be self-sufficient, while the Manchu Qing regime, also in the north or in the bitterly cold Northeast, maintained its vitality?

In the era of Nurhachi, because of the disasters brought by the Little Ice River, the old slave owner felt that he could not support too many slaves, so in the reign of Tiancong, Nurhachi issued a massacre order. The landlords, businessmen, and scholars among the Han people , all were killed, and farmers who did not have a certain amount of food in their families were also within the scope of killing.

At the beginning of the rise of the Later Jin Dynasty, there were nearly 700 million Han people outside the pass. By the end of Nurhachi's rule, there were not even 200 million Han people in Liaodong.

The lack of manpower made Houjin extremely weak. If Nurhachi's rule continued for a few more years, I am afraid that there would be no problem of the Qing army entering the customs.

But at the critical moment, Huang Taiji stepped forward.

Needless to say, this man is a great talent. The Qing Dynasty indeed completed the most critical steps in his hands, and achieved the most basic foundation for the unification of China.

Inducing Yuan Chonghuan to kill Mao Wenlong and stabilize Liaonan was Huang Taiji's first step.

After a long march of thousands of miles, in the grassland for more than a year, Lin Danhan of the Chahar tribe was beaten and fled. In the end, he died of poverty and illness. Under the command of Taiji, Mongolia and Houjin joined forces to enter the pass to rob, and achieved great success... After acquiring Mongolia, Houjin is actually a big country covering thousands of miles, and it is indeed qualified to be on an equal footing with the Ming Dynasty. It is already a fact The enemy country... It is a pity that no one in the Ming court can see this, or no one can face it squarely.

Then there is a broad mind, who keeps subduing the famous generals who come to surrender, invades North Korea with heavy troops, and completely solves the worries for the future.

With the efforts of Huang Taiji, by the 11th year of Chongzhen, Houjin had entered the customs twice, and succeeded each time. In Huang Taiji's words, he was cutting off the branches and leaves of the Ming court. Next, uproot the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, what he did was indeed successful, and it also turned Hou Jin from a bandit group into a real half-slave and half-feudal country. An emerging country called the Qing Dynasty, it is likely to replace the Ming Dynasty and become the master of luck in the new 300 years.

Under this kind of speculative psychology, Shanxi merchants colluded secretly with the Qing Dynasty, and imported a large amount of military supplies such as grain and pig iron to Liaodong. While earning profits for themselves, they also placed a heavy bet on an emerging regime.

From a businessman's point of view, this is a very smart approach, killing two birds with one stone, but these Shanxi businessmen obviously ignored these two things at the national and ethnic levels.

In other words, in the minds of these businessmen, there is no concept of motherland or nation at all.

This kind of import is what made the Manchu Qing survive the difficulties of the Little Ice Age. The military strength not only did not decline, but also increased. The large amount of gold and silver they robbed in the customs was replaced by food and military weapons, and then arrived every few years. The mainland was robbed again, and a large number of people robbed them as slaves, farmers and craftsmen, or as auxiliary soldiers for the Eight Banners soldiers, and the gold and silver they robbed were used to strengthen themselves, and this cycle was repeated until the entire Ming Dynasty was robbed. until.

Of course, Lin Wenyuan doesn't know the details and details of this, but with the political sense of a current small banner official and the business acumen of a former salesman, after hearing some key words, his brain naturally starts to run at high speed... [

After continuing to eavesdrop for a while, there was another sound of farewell and closing the door from the next door. After a while, the elder just casually turned back and said to Lin Wenyuan, "Mr. Lin, Mr. Xiang is calling."

"Yes, thank you for calling."

While thanking, a red envelope was also stuffed in the past, and the other party's face was full of laughter. While leading the way, he also gently reminded: "Mr. Lin, if you have anything to say, just speak slowly. It will take a while, and there will be no more outside." Bring someone in."

"Yes, Tsunaki has a heart."

"They're all my own people, you're welcome, Mr. Lin."

While speaking, he left the original hall, turned under the dripping eaves, and opened a door curtain. The room was also brightly lit, and the long follower flashed to the door first, and whispered: "Master Xiang, surnamed Lin The little banner officer brought it."

"Oh, let him in."

"Yes!"

The long follower winked, and Lin Wenyuan strode in. After entering the door, he also bowed according to the ritual.

In any case, the middle-aged man sitting in the armchair in front of him, holding a book under the Juyao candlestick and concentrating on it, without raising his eyelids at all, is the second assistant university scholar of the current Ming cabinet, also known as the civil servant. Known as the elder of the pavilion, the prime minister.

In terms of Daming's political inheritance, this person is considered to be under two people and above ten thousand people. Although his power is incomparably compared with that of the prime ministers in Tang and Song Dynasties, there is no doubt that at this time, Daming, at least in name, has no one except the emperor. In addition to Liu Yuliang, the first assistant, is this person in front of him, that is, Xue Guoguan, the second assistant of the cabinet, the most powerful elder of Daming Pavilion!

"Xiaguan Lin Wenyuan, the small flag officer of the Qianhu Office guarding Fushan, kowtow to the boss of the pavilion!"