Not only Liu Zhaosun, everyone wanted to get money from the emperor.
Always remember, there will be reverberations.
The Battle of Sarhu was a disastrous defeat. City defenses in various parts of Liaodong needed money, and they needed money to recruit new troops. The guest soldiers also needed money to eat, drink, and have sex in Shenyang.
The Ministry of War and Household Affairs said that they had just collected the Liao salary and were already out of money. Everyone added it up and slapped their foreheads:
@ Zhu Yijun, Your Majesty, you still have private money!
Emperor Wanli: It is impossible to distribute money. It is impossible to distribute money in this life. They didn't know how to engage in maritime trade. They had to send mine supervisors to deal with corrupt officials, so they could maintain the Ming Dynasty like this.
A long time ago, when the old emperor was still a child, he witnessed Mr. Zhang's extravagant life despite his incorruptibility, which left a great shadow on Zhu Yijun's young mind.
It turns out that family affection, friendship, and the master-disciple relationship between me and Mr. Zhang are like beautiful bubbles, even if they sparkle for a moment.
There are only two things in this life that interest the emperor:
Make money,
Or make money
Some people say that Emperor Wanli fought many battles and won, which shows that he likes military affairs.
In this young year, in fact, many times, wars are also for the purpose of making money.
For example, when Yang Yinglong, the chieftain of Guizhou, was pacified.
Chieftains surnamed Yang have been entrenched in Guizhou for hundreds of years, and their ancestors can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty.
Although he was a chieftain, he had already been completely Chineseized. The prosperity of Bozhou, where Yang Yinglong was located, was no less prosperous than other Tongdu conferences in the Ming Dynasty.
In the twelfth year of Chenghua, Governor Zhang Zan led his troops to suppress the Miao rebellion with the chieftain of Bozhou. According to Mr. Zhang’s description, what he saw in Bozhou City looked like this:
"Bozhou is Xiangchuan Station. The mountain range from Yong'an Station to Bo was gradually lowering, the roads were open to traffic, the residents were prosperous, and it had the atmosphere of Jiangnan. Yang Xuanwei and his son led their native soldiers to set up camps in the suburbs ten miles away, with artillery and horses Hand in hand, the military appearance is very good..."
Even the governor who came from the capital was dumbfounded. It can be seen that Bozhou is very prosperous and the person named Yang is very rich.
In fact, in the three great expeditions of Wanli, in addition to being tricked by Li Jian's grandson, the Chinese army lost a lot of money in North Korea, asking for money and food. The remaining two major expeditions are theoretically profitable.
As for where all the money that was stolen went, one can only ask the generals and governors who participated in quelling the rebellion.
It is said that Liu Wei was also involved in these bad things when he was in Sichuan. It may be that the spoils were unevenly divided. He was also impeached by Yan Guan Yushi, saying that he respected his troops, took bribes, and the amount was very large.
Emperor Wanli severely punished Liu Wei. In Zhu Yijun's view, it was nothing to support his troops and respect himself. What was abominable was that these turtle descendants dared to covet his money!
According to this logic, somewhere in the southwest corner, Mr. Liu still has large boxes of white money.
I don’t know if Liu Zhaosun understands these situations.
It's a pity that the commander-in-chief died in the battle. The past has passed, and the money from the past can no longer be obtained.
Right now, the two things that Emperor Wanli was most concerned about were both messed up by Yang Hao.
Zhu Yijun wanted to hit Yang Hao on the head with a pickaxe, but in the end he dragged him to Caishikou and beheaded him for half an hour.
What left the emperor speechless the most was that for so long after the defeat of Juniper Marin, no one had any reliable strategies. Instead, they all asked the emperor for money.
Even Xuanda in the west is clamoring for the Mongols to take advantage of the situation and ask the court to give Xuanda some money to build the border wall.
This is nonsense.
Emperor Wanli has a big head recently, which makes everyone feel like they are short of money.
There is indeed a shortage of money.
If Emperor Wanli had basic knowledge of modern economics and had a little understanding of concepts such as silver circulation and inflation, he might be able to understand why the entire Ming Dynasty was so short of money.
The sprouts of capitalism in the middle and late Ming Dynasty were slow to develop, and what was lacking was the means of payment, silver.
The Ming Dynasty used silver as its currency. If there was a shortage of silver, there would be problems with payment.
The entire industrial chain dependent on payment is in danger of collapse. You can refer to the financial chaos in the Kuomintang-controlled areas in the late 1949. Of course, that one is more complicated.
In short, the more advanced and complex the industrial chain, the less likely it is to barter.
Therefore, Ming Dynasty cannot do without silver.
So, where does the money come from?
There are three main sources of white silver, not to mention self-production. The mine supervisors sent by Emperor Wanli said, "From the 25th to the 33rd year, Zhudang's mining tax silver amounted to three million taels." To the extent that people are complaining, the amount is only more than 300,000 taels per year. This drizzle is probably not as much as what is buried in the cellar of a certain Shanxi merchant in Shanxi.
The second source is Japan. After Tokugawa Kameson succeeded in stealing peaches, Japan implemented strict currency controls on foreign trade. Silver exports to China dropped sharply from more than 1.5 million taels per year before 1603 to less than 300,000 taels per year after 1620, only about one-fifth of the original volume.
The situation in Europe is more complicated. After the tulip bubble burst in 1596, the amount of silver flowing into China from Europe dropped from its peak of 2.8 million taels a year in 1620 to its lowest point of 800,000 taels a year in 1640, minus As much as 70%.
Insufficient silver circulation can cause all kinds of troubles, such as famine.
Even when the overall grain output in the country is stable, coastal industrial and commercial areas are unable to import grain from agricultural production areas due to shrinking exports and reduced silver payment capabilities, causing grain prices to rise sharply.
The Ming Dynasty did not lack supplies, but lacked the means of payment for transporting supplies.
The less money there is, the more prices go up.
The sudden reduction in silver imports dealt a major blow to the Ming Dynasty's economic powerhouse, and seriously affected the Ming Dynasty's finances, further deteriorating the Ming Dynasty's finances.
So now everyone is increasingly short of money.
Therefore, everyone is asking the emperor for money, and they want private money.
If Emperor Wanli sold his gold to Zuo Yinzi, I believe many officials would consider giving it a try.
The emperor was very unhappy. He was unhappy because Yang Hao, the killer, was still asking for money from him.
Jun Song was inexplicably defeated on the territory of Liao Town, but Li Rubai, who was not far from Jian Nu, was able to return safely. This is a bit unreasonable.
If you're not happy, someone's head will fall to the ground.
However, there is still a war in Liaodong. Killing generals before the battle will not only be detrimental to the war situation, but also make the Qiu Ba in Liao Town laugh.
In terms of not going to court for a long time, when he grew up, Zhu Yijun became Zhu Houcong and became his grandfather.
Fortunately, Emperor Wanli was not as elegant as Shizong Xuanxiu. He just liked to build palaces, and it didn't cost much to build palaces. However, the Ming Dynasty seemed to have been short of money, at least the emperor of the Ming Dynasty had been short of money.
The Anluxing Prince's Mansion, where grandfather Zhu Houcong was born, is actually not very prosperous, not even comparable to some of the big houses in Huguang.
Zhu Yijun's biological mother, Empress Xiaoding, was originally a palace maid, and was later promoted to a concubine. She came from a humble background. From a genetic perspective, Zhu Yijun's desire for money can be said to be deep in the bones.
So there were bad things like the mine supervisors and civilians rioting later.
The mine supervisors have been toiling in various places for more than ten years, causing public resentment. From the governor to the general soldiers, down to the ordinary people, they all hate the mine supervisors and mine blocks.
In addition to the more famous Gaohuai Rebellion of Liao Dynasty and Yang Rong Rebellion of Yunnan Province, these mine supervisors can be found in places with or without mines across the country.
Although the pressure is great, we still have to continue making money. What bad intentions can the old emperor have?
At worst, after my death, the flood will surge into the sky.
To a certain extent, Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youjian are perfect scapegoats.
Both of them are highly identifiable, one likes carpentry and the other is mean and ungrateful. Compared with their grandfather, the actions of these two brothers are more likely to be remembered by future generations.
The two scapegoats carried the big scapegoat of their grandfather, Emperor Wanli, and led the Ming Dynasty down a dark path, getting deeper and deeper until everyone was crushed to death by the big iron pot.
In the spring of the forty-seventh year of Wanli's reign, the old emperor, who had not been involved in political affairs for a long time, finally spoke in front of the snowflake-like memorial.
Emperor Wanli gave a brief reply to the report sent by Yang Hao. First, he put all the blame for the defeat on Jun Song. After all, this guy is dead now, and dead people don't speak.
At the same time, I did not forget to remind Yang Hao that if you make a mistake, you must do it well and you must not make another mistake. The matter of troop deployment is left to the Ministry of War, so you should not make arbitrary decisions.
When Yang Hao received this imperial edict, he felt even more depressed because he heard that the emperor's edict to Chen Yuting had also arrived, and there were also contents in the edict that were not conducive to him, which made Master Jinglue worried.
Relying on the relationship with Governor Zhou Yuchun, they quickly figured out the contents of Chen Yuting's imperial edict.
In the letter, the emperor first scolded Jun Jun, saying that he had brought his own fault for his death in the battle, and that there was no need to think about any compensation. The army to exterminate the slaves this time was a major event related to the safety of China and foreign countries. With so many people killed and injured at once, not only would it be possible in the future. The Liao Dynasty was difficult, and the chieftains in the southwest were also eager to take action. One Juniper was not enough to kill, and killing him would not relieve the hatred in his heart.
Yang Hao, Mao Yuanyi and others took a breath.
The emperor's intention was to have Yang Hao operated on.
The emperor has always valued wealth, even more than the Zhu family, the country, and the country.
It's okay to take life, but it's absolutely impossible to take money.
This time the four-pronged army annihilated Nurhaci, which cost millions of taels of silver. The Ministry of Household and Military Affairs had long been depleted, and they had to temporarily increase their salary. I don't know if the emperor used his own money to fill the hole.
If the emperor is allowed to spend his own money, these defeated generals and governors will definitely not get any good results.
Yang Hao knew that the old emperor's decision not to kill him now was not out of concern for the emperor and his ministers, but because he was still in Shenyang and was still useful to the war situation.
Yang Hao's only hope now lies in Liu Wei. He only hopes that Liu Wei can hold on and not collapse at the first touch like Juniper Marin. Even if he can escape safely like Li Rubai, he still has room to play in the memorial.
There was no news from the Sichuan soldiers and the Wolf soldiers. The guest soldiers and the Liao soldiers continued to confront each other in Shenyang. I heard that Mongolia in the west was also starting to make trouble, and there were signs of joining forces with Jiannu.
In the past few days, Yang Jinglue woke up with a big headache every day. He was now filled with regrets and regretted that he should not have taken this job last year. It would have been better if he had left the mess of Liaodong to Xiong Tingbi!
"Jinglue! The Eastern Route Army is back!"
