Wanli 1592

Chapter 954
No one would think that they have a lot of money, let alone someone like Xiao Ruxun who wants to do many, many, many things.

The most basic and most important requirement for accomplishing these things is to have a lot of money. Only with a lot of money can you do a lot of things.

So Xiao Ruxun made up his mind to turn his Great Qin Dynasty into a black hole of silver, taking advantage of the advent of the age of great exploration to suck up all the real money in the world and then use it for construction.

But before that, there are two things to do.

The first thing to do is to get rid of all the landlords, gentry and tyrants who control the traditional sea outlets in the three southeastern provinces, and put the land, population and resources in the hands of the central government. population rent.

The second thing is to use the wealth obtained by these big landlords, gentry, tyrants, and tyrants for several lifetimes to lay the foundation for the construction of Kaihai, to lay the foundation for the school, and to build the three southeastern provinces into a model for the new Great Qin Dynasty to start again. .

Just experiment here, and gradually expand internally.

Of course, Myanmar and Luzon, which has just been mastered, are also very important. In Xiao Ruxun’s plan, Myanmar and Luzon will be important food bases in the Little Ice Age in the future. When it is difficult to produce much food, the large amount of food produced in Myanmar and Luzon will become the key.

Let them transport grain directly from Burma and Luzon to Tianjin port along the sea route, and transport it from the capital to other places. Burma and Luzon will directly become the national grain base, and people with ulterior motives are not allowed to go to Burma and Luzon to make up their minds.

The Beijing-Hangzhou Canal is used to transport military supplies and military food, and all the rest are transported by sea.

A Beijing-Hangzhou Canal has caused many troubles throughout the history of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is a real temple, a small demon, a big pool, a shallow king, and more. Xiao Ruxun, who has his eyes on the ocean, will not let those bastards control the economic lifeline of the north. .

Only Haiyang has enough heart to accommodate those bastards who think about making waves all day long.

Xiao Ruxun who wants to do so many things obviously needs a lot of money.

Where does the money come from?

Of course it came from the bastards in front of me.

Xiao Ruxun clearly remembered that Li Zicheng tortured out 7000 million taels of silver from these bastards dozens of days after he occupied Beijing, and before that, Chongzhen did not take out tens of thousands of taels of silver from their pockets. come out.

The wealthiest of these people is obviously the Xungui Group. Their family business is here, and they have lived in the capital for generations. There are definitely countless real money waiting to be exploited in their lair, and there are relatively few civil servants in Beijing.

They usually buy real estate in their hometowns and become rich, while in the capital they pretend to be clean. Their homes in the capital probably don't have much to squeeze, and they have to go to the local government to squeeze.

This point has been effectively certified in the three southeastern provinces.

Then there is the royal property, the royal property in the capital that was handed over to the eunuchs of the eunuchs, and the money in the hands of Jin Yiwei. Although Shen Yiguan executed many eunuchs and eunuchs who were interested in Zhu Yijun, he did not know why. , I haven't had time to start with those royal properties like Huangzhuang, which is also a big piece of fat.

Then there are Prince Zhu Ming from all over the world. These princes are all rich and famous.

Anyway, they are all targets to be dealt with, especially the Wuxun Group. Xiao Ruxun has his own Wuxun, and they are no longer needed. Except for Xu Hongji who can save some face, the rest will be abolished. If one is not kept, death will definitely happen , but it seems a bit ugly when it comes up.

So he didn't even kill Shen Li, and among the important people, even Zhao Shiqing and Cai Guozhen didn't plan to kill them now, but to leave a buffer period, he still needs a little time to master the administration of the entire capital, and he needs a little time. Make your officers comfortable with the situation.

Of course, he is actually not short of manpower. Two Fujianese and one Nanzhili have already fallen into his hands. These three people are enough to support him as a facade of the central government.

The two Fujianese are Li Tingji and Ye Xianggao, and the one from Southern Zhili is Wang Xijue.

Ye Xianggao and Ye Mengxiong accompanied Xiao Ruxun in the Northern Expedition when he was in Nanjing. When Xiao Ruxun heard Ye Xianggao's name, he asked Heishui to check how his family in Fujian was and whether they had been cleaned up. Accident.

The Ye family is very crisis-conscious, probably because of the experience accumulated during the Japanese invasion in their early years. The land reform working group took the initiative to donate land as soon as they entered their hometown. Thousands of acres of land were handed over to the working group, and they were established as enlightened gentry Typical, retaining part of the land and family property, and is now living a good life in Fujian.

After hearing the news, Xiao Ruxun knew that Ye Xianggao was available. Two days before the Marco Polo Bridge Mutiny, Xiao Ruxun secretly sent Zhou Yao to contact available civil servants to support him. Ye Xianggao was one of them. It turned out that Ye Xianggao, who had been excluded It does work.

Li Tingji is also a strange person. He was born in poverty when he was a child, so after becoming an official, he became addicted to doing good deeds, and finally made the door of his house full of beggars. Whenever he went out, he surrounded him asking for money, which made him After resigning, he was impoverished and died in poverty and illness.

He also set a record, the record for the longest time when resignation was ignored by the emperor. He was also pissed off by Zhu Yijun, who became more and more negligent in politics, and decided to resign and go home. After writing five resignation letters to Zhu Yijun The house in the capital was donated to the poor, and the family left first, and he lived in a ruined temple by himself.

In the end, who knows that this dragged on for five years. He wrote 120 three resignation letters in five years but was not approved. The risk went home, but Zhu Yijun ignored him, allowing him to die of poverty and illness four years later.

But in this era when the road was crossed, Li Tingji still didn't change his strangeness. On the eve of Shen Yiguan's rebellion, as an official of the Ministry of Rites, he actually left the capital and fled back to his hometown after getting the news. In the end, he met Xiao Ruxun in his hometown. The Northern Expedition also ran into land reform.

But what is a bit strange is that Li Tingji was even classified as a poor owner-peasant family because of too little land in his family. He was also mobilized by members of the land reform working group to fight against landlords, which made him dumbfounded. He became an official official of the imperial court.

The members of the Land Reform Working Group didn't believe it at first. How could the court officials be so poor? His family only had dozens of acres of land. He had no choice but to show his official uniform and official identity certificate to prove that he was an official. As a result, he was directly controlled by the army. up.

Later, after Xiao Ruzhi was appointed by Xiao Ruxun to be in charge of Fujian, he learned about this and told Xiao Ruxun about it. After Ye Mengxiong reminded him, he remembered this famous Miao Zhuge elder and ordered Li Tingji to be sent here.

On the eve of the Lugouqiao mutiny, Li Tingji and Wang Xijue were sent to the Lugouqiao camp together, and witnessed the whole process of the mutiny under proper protection.

(End of this chapter)