People in the Donglin Party felt a great deal of pressure from the chanting of the Imperial College students.
Without contrast, there is no harm.
Now Uncle Dingyuan has completely solved the problem in the north. Dong Lin asked for so many conditions and even canceled the supervision system. It is to provide Yuan Chonghuan with all convenient conditions. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses were handed over to Yuan Chonghuan's control in Ji Town, Liaodong Town, Tianjin Governor's Area, Denglai Governor's Area, and Dongjiang Town.
The Longhu Navy in Liaodong, the Denglai Navy in Shandong, and the Dongjiang Navy in Lushun were all handed over to his leadership. All materials, military pay, and grain were also sent to Juehua Island, and then he was asked to preside over the distribution. There is no longer even a governor in Liaodong. It is to prevent the problems like Xiong Tingbi and Wang Huazhen, where supervisors are at odds with each other and do bad things.
The emperor has almost made the greatest concession, giving everything that should be given and what should not be given. But it’s been more than a year. What did Yuan Chonghuan bring to the emperor.
First there was the Ningyuan mutiny. Bi Ziyan, the governor of Liaodong, was forced to death. At least it has calmed down without causing any serious consequences. But the emperor was very unhappy. In the end, the emperor settled the matter with money from his own internal funds.
Then there was the second mutiny in Jizhou. This time it swept through more than a dozen states and counties, and almost half of Ji Town was crippled. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians suffered losses.
Now Donglin unanimously put the shit basin on the unfortunate Wang Yingzhi's head. It was said that he had deducted the military pay, causing a quarrel with the military, and then went crazy and tried to poison the officers and soldiers to silence them.
This intensified the conflict and led to the Jizhou mutiny.
Wang Yingzhi was from the eunuch party. He is a remnant of the eunuchs. This is a counterattack that will destroy the Qing army. This is the conspiracy of the eunuchs.
Chongzhen finally pinched his nose and admitted. It doesn't matter if he doesn't admit it. After all, he supported the Qing army. He couldn't slap himself in the face. The only one who was wrong was Wang Yingzhi.
Poor Wang Yingzhi cried in tears every day in Zhao Prison and shouted every day that he wanted to see the emperor. He was wronged. But at this time, he could no longer see the emperor. There's no point in shouting.
Today, this matter was indeed not arranged by Chongzhen to defeat the Donglin cabinet. It's completely because the consort Gong Yonggu and some young students are hot-headed.
Stimulated by Dingyuan Bo's continuous victories, he tried to push the conservative ministers in the court to make more radical changes. Recover Liaodong as soon as possible, then abolish the Guanning Army and reduce military expenditures.
After all, there are many savvy people in this era. Domestic farmers are already overwhelmed. In order to deal with the collapse of Liaodong, Sun Chengzong created a Liao salary and allocated it to the fields. Increased the burden on farmers. This is a last resort expedient.
However, it has been fixed and has been collected continuously, and the climate has gradually deteriorated in the past two years. Large areas of farmland in the north have experienced reduced production or even no production. If the burden on farmers is not reduced, and some places even require the government to release grain for disaster relief, farmers may not be able to survive.
But now, Ming Dynasty is closed, like a self-sufficient small world. The wealth of the entire society is a zero-sum game.
In the absence of major technological changes in agriculture and handicrafts, the total social output has greatly increased. It can only be that the gentry, nobles, and clans get more, while the peasants get less.
If it is less than a certain level and natural disasters are added, farmers will not be able to survive.
Therefore, the simple economics of the ancients always believed that the wealth in the world is finite and fixed. There is nothing wrong with that. Starting from the well-field system in the Western Zhou Dynasty, agricultural output had been slowly increasing until the 18th century. This range is not large. And the population keeps increasing.
Taken together, the per capita supplies are basically unchanged. In fact, per capita wealth has not changed much. The distribution ratio between producers and consumers is a zero-sum game. Early to late dynasties. The coordinates always move towards the latter.
The raw materials for the handicraft industry mainly come from mining and agricultural products. For example, cotton and mulberry, etc. Agricultural output cannot increase, textile products in the handicraft industry lack raw materials, and it is difficult for a skilled woman to make a meal without rice. How can the handicraft industry improve?
In order to expand the supply of raw materials, if more of these cash crops are planted, they will occupy farmland.
Therefore, in a long period of time, there was always not enough food to eat, and there was always a lack of fabric for clothes. Not having enough to eat, not having enough to wear, not having enough clothes to wear was a common situation all over the world before the 18th century.
Until modern times, the West began to use bird droppings as fertilizer, which directly doubled food production.
This was an agricultural revolution. The number of people Europe could feed also increased. Sufficient grain production provides farmland for the cultivation of cash crops. Everyone knows that growing cash crops is more profitable than growing food.
The output of textile raw materials increased, thereby triggering a revolution in the textile industry.
There is a shortage of textiles all over the world. Because too much textile raw material is grown, it will cause famine. The world is in desperate need of buying fabrics to make clothes.
However, after the output of cash crops increased, the production technology became very inefficient and backward.
Facing the great geographical discoveries that began during the Age of Discovery, the entire world's hunger for cloth was shocking. A shockingly huge textile market has formed.
With more raw materials and a market, we can only adopt new technological innovations and increase production to meet market demand. This is also the reason why the first industrial revolution broke out in Britain, and the first industrial revolution also started from the textile industry. Watt's steam engine served the textile industry.
Advances in mechanical technology, power technology, and energy have led to unprecedented increases in output, resulting in insufficient supply of raw materials. Britain began to enclose a large amount of land and convert a large number of farmland into pastures to produce more wool and manufacture high-profit woolen textiles. The market demand for woolen fabrics has led to the tragedy of sheep cannibalizing humans.
The mass output of products has put forward higher requirements on the transportation link. So trains, locomotives, and steamships were invented. The power of capital has stepped onto the stage of history and opened a new era in human history.
At this time, the Ming Dynasty was still in this balance.
Therefore, the Taipei students believe that the effective way to solve the current national crisis is to resolve the border troubles as soon as possible, then disarm and get rid of the damn Liao pay. Reduce the largest financial expenditure and let farmers breathe a sigh of relief.
The party strife in the court has meant that for more than a year, the cabinet has done nothing at all on the most pressing matters. As natural disasters become more severe every year, time is not on Ming's side.
The civil unrest in Shaanxi became more and more serious. The cabinet and the court must be mobilized to accelerate reforms and take more radical measures.
The queen looked out the window, Gong Yonggu had an excited expression on his face.
He couldn't help but say: "Your Majesty, your consort is full of passion and patriotism."
Chongzhen sighed and said: "When I was selecting the prince-in-law, I fell in love with him at first sight. He is a talented person. I originally planned to depose him and let him become an official in the court. Unfortunately, Concubine Kang also fell in love with him, so she had to decide. He is the consort. I can’t refuse. I can only agree. It’s a pity for his talents.”
Becoming a prince consort basically cuts off the possibility of career development. Although the Ming Dynasty also had several princes-in-law who were in charge of military affairs. For example, the princes-in-law among the heroes who founded the country, and the prince-son-in-law during the Jingnan War. In ordinary times, Prince Consort Jingyuan was also reused by the imperial court. But those situations only occur under extremely special circumstances and are not universal.
Gong Yonggu was still a princess and the emperor's sister, which basically meant that he had no chance of an official career.
Chongzhen also felt a little regretful, he might as well have rejected Kang Taifei in the first place.
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