Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 643 Three Cases

Things are finally developing for the better. The blood of the seven Tujia families, and the county magistrates of more than a dozen counties have lost their black hats because of the unfavorable land. They also began to be active. After all, the land belonged to the landlord, and the Wushamao belonged to themselves. Many people were officials who had passed the imperial examination in the North, and they had little to do with the local wealthy families.

Since the 15th year of Wanli, with the emperor not going to court and ignoring state affairs, Song Qingshu took back the gradually lost public land bit by bit, and the tax recovered reached 460 million taels, although compared with the 3000 million taels of Jiannu tax The income is still a lot less, but it has been greatly improved compared with the Chongzhen period.

And this is only in the Jiangnan area, the Suzhou-Hangzhou area, Yangzhou in the north of the Jiang, and other parts of Zhejiang in the south, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Guangdong and Guangxi. There are still large areas that can be excavated in the actual control areas of the Nanming small courts. Even if the income does not reach 1000 million taels, there must be 800 million taels, which is enough to support the battle between Nanming and Jiannu in Jiangbei.

And this is still a good start, everything is difficult at the beginning, Song Qingshu cut out this difficult first cut with an iron fist, and when the next step of reform is carried out in the future, the resistance of these bureaucrats will become smaller, step by step, After all, Song Qingshu can turn Daming into that kind of modern capitalist powerhouse, leading the way in the world.

However, even though things were developing on the positive side, Song Qingshu did not relax, but became busier. Now the areas that are easy to eat have been gnawed down. The area in the south of the Yangtze River is either in the area controlled by his troops, or there is no one. The local forces that are too powerful are really troublesome in Huizhou and Yangzhou, and the governor of Zhejiang, He Tengjiao, has also expressed dissatisfaction, and the movements of Zhejiang soldiers have become suspicious.

In Jiangbei, Li Zicheng's sudden Huaiqing campaign obviously disrupted Jiannu's military deployment, and Zhang Hao sent an urgent report. The Duoduo tribe of Prince Yu, who was supposed to attack Nanming, suddenly made a [-]-degree turn in Linqing. They also went to the battlefield in Henan, and the military pressure in Jiangnan suddenly dropped a lot.

It happened to give Song Qingshu a chance to beat the three towns in Jiangbei, Chu Town and other mainland warlords.

"Oh, what a pity!"

Facing the complete map of the Ming Dynasty, Song Qingshu shook his head with emotion. Jiannu soldiers are strong and strong, but with the Mongols, the total force is only 22 to 25. He underestimated Li Zicheng. Jiannu wanted to destroy Dashun, and he was forced to do his best However, if he could take the opportunity to go north at this time, he might be able to beat the capital back in one go. No matter how bad it was, it would not be a problem to regain Shandong, which was already empty after Liu Zeqing fled.

"There is still no movement from Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo's department? What does Shi Kefa say?"

"Back to Commander! The Shidu division sent someone to send an order to ask the Ministry of War to pay the army and escort them to Yangzhou, and distribute the settling expenses before the army is willing to move out! But Commander, there is news from the inside of Yangzhou that the salt merchants bought it. A large amount of food is being transported to the Xuhuai area, I am afraid that with the support of the salt merchants, those military leaders will not bow their heads like us in a short time."

Salt merchants are mainly Huizhou merchants. Although they are Huizhou merchants, they are the same as the Shanxi merchants in history. These big merchants still have the idea of ​​land standard in their bones. After transferring money, they don’t think about how to expand their operations and production. They all invest in their hometowns to buy land and houses. , Now that Song Qingshu wants to copy the hidden land of their hometown, it is tantamount to cutting two swords on the lifeline of the salt merchant, not to mention that the salt merchant has always been friendly with Donglin. Under this situation, it is not surprising that they support Donglin's armed forces .

"Hehe, this Yangzhou salt merchant is really rich and powerful. He has suffered such a big loss, but he still doesn't want to repent! That's good, I will see how much money you have!"

Listening to Li Xiangjun's report, Song Qingshu couldn't help but sneer. The salt industry is his next goal of rectification. Not only salt, tea, iron, mines and other industries that were previously suppressed by the imperial court, Song Qingshu intends to open up the confinement and face the free market. The salt monopoly income is no less than 3000 to 100 million taels, but these salt rats only pay less than [-] million taels of salt tax. The country is scolded by the common people, but they actually fatten them up. This must be corrected sooner or later. Now However, since these salt rats are willing to pay for Gao Jie and others, they just took the opportunity to weaken their power again, so it will be easier to do it in the future.

But after the sneer just now, Song Qingshu's face became painful again. He is really not afraid of your opponent who will fight you desperately with real knives and guns. He is most afraid of teammates wearing the same uniform behind your back. There are three towns in Jiangbei and Chu towns to restrain you. Song Qingshu himself couldn't draw any troops, so he could only watch the great fighter plane fly away from his hand!Looking at the map again, Song Qingshu shook his head depressedly again.

"Oh, blind for nothing!"

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The game is still going on, but recently the Donglin Party seems to be more honest. The officials of various ministries and several other cabinet ministers are also busy with their own affairs every day, except that they are still fighting with the emperor and eunuchs in the draft. There was no movement on the ground, and Song Qingshu felt a little bored to be honest.

But just at this time, another incident of a small size broke out in Yingtian, and there was a lot of trouble.

"Go up!"

Recently, Lu Jiude obviously lost a lot of power. He was kicked out from the position of eunuch in the upper court, kicked out of the capital, and went to supervise the army in Zhejiang. Tian Cheng, who was worried, took this position himself. In the voice, Song Qingshu yawned, followed by kneeling and caressing three times listlessly.

"Long live the emperor, long live!"

However, the atmosphere of this court meeting was obviously different from the previous ones. The usually drowsy Emperor Hongguang actually slapped the dragon chair and shouted sharply this time as if he had been beaten with chicken blood.

"Come on, bring King Qi!"

"Biography, King Qi!"

The eunuch's sharp shouts whetted the appetites of all the ministers. While everyone was watching in amazement, a fat monk in cassock swaggered into the hall, and this guy was even more arrogant than Song Qingshu. He didn't even kneel down. Kneeling, he actually stood upright in the hall and clasped his fists at Zhu Yousong.

"King Qi has met King Fu!"

"Bold! Even if you are really the king of Qi, how dare you not kneel when you see me!"

It's really called not afraid of death, the monk with fat head and big ears shook his head, yelling with his neck on his neck.

"Ru Fu Fan is a great fan, and I, Qi Fan, are also a great fan! How can I kneel when I see you?"

"I am the emperor!"

Zhu Yousong was really going crazy, but what the monk said next made him almost vomit blood.

"King Lu is a wise man who was first known in the marketplace before becoming a king. Ru Fufan is rich and ruthless. He oppresses the people and expropriates them. What right do you have to rule the world? You should abdicate as soon as possible as King Lu!"

"Bold! Someone, drag this fang out and cut it off!"

It's really surprising that a monk can talk nonsense in the court hall, a sacred place where world affairs are discussed, but a few decades ago, with a villager holding a big stick, he almost broke into the East Palace and killed the prince It's not outrageous to shoot the case in court, and he mentioned an important person, King Lu, which shocked Song Qingshu's spirit.

Sure enough, facing the distraught emperor, Qian Qianyi, Minister of Rites, stood up and knelt down heavily in front of Zhu Yousong.

"At the beginning of His Majesty's accession to the throne, the world has not yet respected him. At this time, harsh treatment of the vassal king may make the world panic. Qi Wang is rude, and he can be reprimanded by the Zongzheng Temple. The dignified vassal king will lose the face of the court if he is punished by the official punishment!"

"Yes, what Master Qian said is absolutely true!"

"Think twice, Your Majesty!"

The scholar-bureaucrat was so capable, he knelt down and knelt down, but the emperor was alone, and all his subordinates objected to him, and he couldn't do anything about it. Seeing that most of the courtiers were wiped out, Zhu Yousong was so angry that his beard was rushing Trembling, he turned his head to look at Tian Cheng who was at the side.

However, when it was time to stand up for his master, Tian Cheng, a loyal servant, pretended to be his grandson, with his head drooping in a submissive manner. Zhu Yousong could only tremble with anger in desperation.

Standing at the bottom, Song Qingshu understood a little bit more. He watched TV dramas before crossing, and he remembered that there were three cases of Nandu in Hongguang Dynasty, the case of great tragedy, the case of prince, and the case of concubine Tong. This monk probably was the first case of great tragedy.

In history, there are different opinions on the three Nandu cases. Some say that the real prince came and was locked up by Hong Guang as a fake prince to prevent his position from being threatened. This posture, Song Qingshu believes, is absolutely inseparable from the gang of Donglin Party.

He, Song Qingshu, married Zhu Yousong's younger sister, and had the merit of supporting him. From the perspective of the Donglin Party, that's why he now has power. In history, Ma Shiying's family was also the dominant one. The best solution is to shake the legitimacy of Ma Shiying in history and himself today, Emperor Hongguang!All this makes sense then.

Even if this Zhu Yousong annoyed him, he still had to carry his banner after all. Seeing Zhu Yousong pitifully looking at himself again, Song Qingshu also stood out of the court helplessly, deliberately putting his foot down. Next to Qian Qianyi's nose who was kneeling, Song Qingshu looked at the complacent monk coldly and arrogantly.

"You say you are the king of Qi, but do you have a golden seal as evidence?"

"The golden seal was lost when the intruders attacked, and this king escaped only by dressing up as a monk. This king has the Tuanlong jade pendant bestowed by the Taizu as proof!"

A piece of ancient jade was proudly pulled out by the Great Monk Dabei. On the front was an octopus dragon, and on the back there were several seal characters of Pingfan Qilu. Qian Qianyi at the side endured Song Qingshu's big feet and kowtowed sadly.

"That's right, this jade is indeed Taizu's property!"

After taking the jade pendant and looking at it twice, who knew that Song Qingshu suddenly threw the jade pendant on the ground in disdain, and immediately started drinking violently.

"Where is the big Han general? Haven't taken down this daring villain pretending to be the clan!"

(End of this chapter)