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Cheng'an Bo Guo Zuoyong (first named Guo Liang, Marquis of Jingnan for military merit, world earl), Dongning Bo Jiao Mengxiong (first named Jiao Li, knighted for military merit), Ningjin Bo Liu Guangpu (first named Liu Ju, and knighted for military merit).
Chongzhen took away a total of eight people, including the First Duke, the Third Marquis, and the Fourth Uncle, or eight noble families. The gold and silver they extracted were equivalent to nearly three million taels, and other treasures, house deeds, and land properties were not included.
It was impossible for the nobles to resist. First, Zhao Zhilong's men couldn't defeat Huang Degong's Yongwei camp, and they couldn't even parry.
Secondly, Shi Kefa, who had just been transferred to the Ministry of War of the Southern Capital, was completely loyal to Emperor Chongzhen and would not sit back and watch the Southern Capital tribe launch a rebellion.
Third, the garrison eunuch Han Zanzhou surrendered to Emperor Chongzhen on the day he arrived and handed over his power as a factory guard to show his loyalty.
In this way, the possibility of the nobles even making a fuss is very slim, and the chance of winning is even impossible to talk about.
Following the traitor's plan, he was indeed caught off guard.
After obtaining a large amount of physical evidence, it was impossible for anyone else to exonerate him.
Seeing the victory in the first battle, Chongzhen took advantage of the situation and began to vigorously reorganize the six departments of Nandu and form a cabinet.
Because a certain traitor told Qian Qianyi's later experiences, the status of the leader of Donglin in Chongzhen's heart plummeted.
But fortunately, Qu Shichen, a student who was highly regarded by a certain villain, came to give the teacher the full details. Based on the principle of giving it a try, Chongzhen temporarily let Qu Shichen be the first assistant for a while to test his ability.
In view of Qian Qianyi's reputation in Donglin, he was appointed as the head of the Hanlin Academy. This arrangement can be regarded as a wise use of people.
According to the established standards, the cabinet must have five people, who are selected by the ministers and appointed by the emperor.
But since the traitor could control the number of cabinet members, he only had two people to deal with the problem. One of them was a quasi-state warlord, so Chongzhen would not fill the cabinet with all the members at once.
The first assistant is Qu Shichu, and the second assistant is Gao Hongtu. Two positions are reserved for the contemporary great scholar Liu Zongzhou and Yuan Jixian, who knew the military. The remaining one depends on the specific situation.
Letting someone from Donglin serve as the first assistant is a good deal for Donglin. Qian Qianyi also has a good job, and it would be excessive to make a fuss anymore.
The officialdom of Nandu was reorganized by Chongzhen. It seemed that the weather had cleared up after the rain, but in fact there was an undercurrent.
Officials, especially those who can participate in court discussions, are divided into four categories - namely, Donglin, Fushe (several societies), Beiguan, and Nanguan!
The six ministers and ministers totaled eighteen people, and Beiguan, who followed Chongzhen to move to the southern capital, accounted for nine.
There are only two people in Donglin, namely Hou Xun, the left minister of the Ministry of Justice, and Zhang Wei, the right minister of the Ministry of Personnel.
There were three people in the Fushe: Zhang Kentang, the left minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Zhang Pu, the right minister of the Ministry of Rites, and Zhang Cai, the right minister of the Ministry of Punishments.
"Nanguan" means not Donglin and Fushe or Zhejiang, but they are from the south, and they did not come with him. There are Yuan Jixian, the Minister of the Ministry of War, Jiang Yueguang, the left minister of the Ministry of Industry, Zheng Sanjun, the minister of the Ministry of Hubu, and Wan, the left minister of the Ministry of Industry. Yuanji and these four people.
Although the number of people is not very large, they are all fat men who make Dong Lin envious and jealous. If the attack fails, they will have to work hard to win over them to fight against the huge "Beiguan Group".
When the emperor and the prince had a dispute, this group all sided with Chongzhen. They did not hesitate to lose their official positions in order to accompany him. Naturally, Chongzhen regarded them as direct descendants. After arriving in Nandu, they would try their best to arrange new missions.
In addition to the nine people assigned to the six departments, there are also Chengde, the minister of Dali Temple, and Chen Tailai, the censor of Zuodu of the Duchayuan. In this way, the seven ministers (the minister of the six ministers plus the censor of Zuodu) account for five (Fu Guan, the minister of the Ministry of punishment, Fu Guan, the minister of the Ministry of punishment, and the censor of Zuodu). Zhang Shenyan, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, Meng Zhaoxiang, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Ni Yuanlu, the Minister of the Ministry of Rites, and Chen Tailai, the Yushi of Zuodu).
Even if there is a stalemate on a certain issue, if the vote is held by voting, with the help of nine close ministers in the six ministries, half of the votes can be obtained without losing.
Chongzhen learned the tricks of a certain traitor, but he couldn't defeat a certain traitor, and he couldn't defeat Donglin?
Then simply abdicate and live out your days in Nandu!
According to the information obtained by the factory guard, although Donglin was dissatisfied with this distribution, he wanted to increase the number of positions in the Sixth Department.
It is said that "a strong dragon cannot suppress a local snake". This strong dragon just crossed the river and ransacked Xungui's home first, and then took away the "half pot of meat" in front of Donglin.
However, since Qu Shishu had obtained the position of chief assistant, Donglin was temporarily inconvenient and would not attack immediately. He also planned to take the opportunity to win over Nanguan in the court to fight against Beiguan.
This is still the credit of Qian Qianyi, who calmed everyone down. The reason is very simple. His Majesty has moved to Nandu and is now showing his sharpness. Donglin must consider the long term in seizing power and must not act too hastily.
Qian Qianyi gave the example of Zhang Pu and Zhang Cai, two people who were restored to society. These two people were very good at sizing up the situation and spent 400,000 taels of silver to buy the errands of two ministers.
Of course, in name, it is not to buy an official position, but to congratulate His Majesty on his transfer, which is regarded as a filial gift from a courtier. However, both the buyer and the seller are well aware of the money.
Originally, the two of them wanted to buy a minister, but unfortunately the emperor had made arrangements in advance, so they had to settle for the next best thing, but they finally got what they wanted.
In contrast, Dong Lin received five fat offers without spending a single tael of silver, so what could he be dissatisfied about?
If he really wanted to spend money to buy an official position, Qian Qianyi would naturally look down on him.
If you want to buy it, you have to buy a pavilion!
I inquired privately and found out that the price tag for a senior position was a whopping five hundred thousand taels!
Is the emperor so short of money?
Didn't I just raid Xungui's house?
Compared to Emperor Wanli back then, Lord Chongzhen was simply better than him!
Qian Qianyi didn't know that a certain prince told a certain emperor that officials could be sold, but they had to be in private, and they couldn't sell them all.
It is enough to take out one-third to one-fourth, and arrange the rest for capable people.
Otherwise, all the ministries and yamen in Nandu will be completely paralyzed.
Chongzhen also had lingering fears about this, so he temporarily bought two errands, and the rest had to be sold at a price.
It depends on whether the wealthy Donglin Group is interested in this and whether it will take the bait!
Five hundred thousand taels of silver is a lot of money, but for Dong Lin, who has many connections, he can raise it all in one day.
By carefully looking through the bound volume given to him by a certain villain, Chongzhen also gained a deeper understanding of gangs such as Donglin, Fushe, and Jishe.
Since ancient times, couples must be selfish!
But now, Dong Lin is too big to lose.
After setting up our home in Donglin, we have to take one step at a time.
Chongzhen did not intend to break up with Donglin until he had accumulated enough strength.
However, from the moment you arrive in Nandu, you have to start preparing. The first thing is to take over the factory guard.
Wang Chengen, who was highly praised by a certain traitorous son, continued to serve as the most powerful eunuch in charge of Li Bingbi and printing.
Gao Yushun was put in charge of the east factory, and Tian Youwei was in charge of the inner factory. These three people were Chongzhen's most trusted companions.
In view of Han Zanzhou's submissive behavior after taking refuge with him, and thinking that this guy was familiar with the local situation, Chongzhen gave him a huge job - mine supervisor!
Since there was no need to ask for money from salt merchants, nor to collect taxes from other mines, but to open a new iron mine in Ma'anshan, Han Zanzhou immediately agreed.
Ma'anshan Iron Mine was regarded by Chongzhen as one of the main sources of internal funds in the future. It was necessary to arrange for confidants to rest assured that Han Zanzhou could manage it well. If you don't manage it well, you may even enrich yourself, then you'll have to move your head.
Although there are coal mines in Huaihe and Jiangxi and tungsten mines in Jiangxi, the biggest piece of meat is undoubtedly Ma'anshan, which contains 10 billion stones of iron ore.
Based on the net profit of one penny per stone of wrought iron, selling ten billion stones can make a huge profit of one billion taels!
If you only mine 1% of it in a year, you can pocket 10 million taels of silver!
Of course, the initial stage of mining will not be so optimistic. There should be at least three to five million taels.
From now on, Ma'anshan's annual income is 500,000 taels, Lianghuai Coal Mine's annual income is 400,000 taels, and Jiangxi Tungsten Mine's annual income is 100,000 taels, totaling one million taels.
This money can support the Yongwei camp, and the money obtained from other sources can be used to pay for the expenses of the rear residence.
Originally, Chongzhen wanted to rope in the nobles to do this kind of business together, but he couldn't hold back and just did it for a bunch of nobles.
How can we continue to play together?
If you want to develop Ma'anshan, you must either recruit wealthy gentry from Jiangnan or go into battle yourself.
Chongzhen was definitely not happy with distributing hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to those tax evaders, so he decided to try it himself first, and if it didn't work, he would think of another solution.
According to the agreement with the nun before leaving Beijing, Nanting must provide Beiting with five million taels of silver and five million stones of rice every year.
Rice is easy to talk about and easy to raise, but it is quite difficult to earn five million taels of silver per year.
This has to be the expenditure after deducting various supports from Nanting, otherwise it will definitely not be enough.
Even if Chongzhen paid one million taels of silver out of his own pocket, there would still be a gap of four million taels. The difference was huge!
This year I copied a bunch of nobles, including gold, silver and other valuable items including house deeds and land deeds, so I can reach this amount.
But what about next year?
How can we raise five million taels of silver if all our honors and honors are gone?
If Nanting was really unable to achieve such an income, it would have no choice but to turn to merchants in the salt, iron, cloth, porcelain, tea and other industries.
At first, it was said that it would manage the eight regions of South Zhili, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, and Yunnan on its own. However, Fujian is Zheng Zhilong's territory and can basically be ignored.
The remaining seven places, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi are all poor areas. If the tax revenue reaches 500,000 taels, they can set off firecrackers to celebrate.
The three places that Chongzhen could count on were Nanzhi, Zhejiang, and Guangdong. Each place needed at least one million taels, and even better if it reached 1.5 million taels.
A certain prince formulated two plans for his father. One was to collect taxes based on industry, and the other was to collect taxes based on region. No matter how the tax was collected, it was reasonable.
Nanzhi's annual share is 1.5 million taels, Guangdong's is 1.3 million taels, Zhejiang is 1 million taels, and the three places total 3.8 million taels.
Jiangxi's is 800,000 taels, Yunnan's is 600,000 taels, Guizhou and Guangxi are both 400,000 taels, and the total is six million taels.
Nanting kept one million taels for himself, and the remaining five million taels were just enough to support Beiting.
If it’s not based on region, then it has to be collected based on industry.
The four industries of salt, tea, cloth and grain are one million taels each, iron and porcelain are each 500,000 taels, and the remaining sugar, wine and others total one million taels. The total is still six million taels. If circumstances permit, naturally The more the merrier.
What should we do if we cannot collect enough taxes by region or industry?
A certain prince also made a backup plan for his father, which was for Chongzhen to step aside and let Hong Chengchou lead an army to collect taxes himself!
You have to give it when the time comes, and you have to give it if you don’t!
If you want money but not your life, then a certain prince wants your money but not your life!
What does it feel like to use an army of 100,000 to cut leeks?
You’ll know then!
For example, if the army besieges Yangzhou, if you pay one million taels of silver, you can relieve the siege on your own.
Otherwise, the rich gentry in the city would be waiting to starve to death with their money in their arms!
This is called using force, but if you don't use force, you can still achieve your goal!
Anyway, everyone knows that Chongzhen is short of soldiers, and the hundreds of thousands of horses in the Ming Dynasty are owned by a certain traitor.
This allowed Chongzhen to clear his relationship with the tax collection army, and a certain traitor was responsible for everything.
Whoever is dissatisfied can go to Beidu to ask for an explanation like Zhang Pu.
This guy was promised by a certain emperor. If he could really get a traitor to admit defeat and write down something in black and white, Chongzhen could promote Zhang Pu to the rank of Pavilion Elder!
Isn’t it tempting?
But the premise is that this guy can return safely and get the piece of paper.
Based on his own experience, Chongzhen felt that Zhang Pu would never come back in all likelihood.
Even if he says a wrong word, the traitor can seize the opportunity and strike back.
Zhang Pu had never experienced the treacherous son's power of words. If he suffers a loss once, he may not be able to turn around for the rest of his life.
But think on the bright side, that is, if Zhang Pu cannot come back, the position of minister is vacant again, and he can still sell it for 200,000 taels of silver...
If Zhang Pu really can't come back and Dong Lin takes the opportunity to cause trouble, Chongzhen won't mind borrowing the help of a traitor to deal with a group of Dong Lin!
The treacherous son became violent, but because he was disowned by his relatives, even grandpa Guozhan's house was confiscated and his house was confiscated, and his uncle Zhou Yanru was fined one hundred thousand taels of silver.
It is said that Zhou Yanru was moving around in private again and wanted to be reinstated by the court. It seemed that he was still unwilling to accept the last time and planned to regroup.
Thinking of this, Chongzhen took out the information about Zhou Yanru again, read it briefly, and started to make some calculations in his heart.
Perhaps we can sell Zhang Pu's property to Zhou Yanru, earn 200,000 yuan first, and then send the animal to Beidu...
Zhou Yanru had done a lot of harm to himself before, but now he was somewhat compensated, and Chongzhen thought it was reasonable.
Thinking of Zhou Yanru, Chongzhen thought of Qian Qianyi, the leader of Donglin, the bastard who took refuge in Donglu!
If this animal is really greedy for life and afraid of death and obeys its own arrangements, then it can be given a way to survive.
Otherwise, it will be like a best-of-both-worlds approach. In the future, the current chief minister, Qu Shishu, can lead Donglin.
If Dong Lin can use it, he can use it, but if he can't, he may even have to hide it from his superiors and deceive his subordinates, guarding and stealing, just follow in the footsteps of Qian Qianyi!
It’s no wonder that Chongzhen hated Donglin so much. According to the rebellious son’s description, on the day he hanged himself, a group of Donglin scholars from Nandu were still reciting poems and drinking, happily hugging women...
When the Donglu army came to the city, Qian Qianyi led his troops to greet them. He knelt down and kowtowed, showing no intention of resisting and abandoning all the so-called propriety, justice and honor.
Donglin surrendered to Donglu!
They all start with the character "东", so they are considered peers!
He also said that the Ming Dynasty was a "barbarian dynasty" and the Qing Dynasty was the orthodox one!
Isn't this really the same as farting in public? ? ?
Is this what Dong Lin calls serving the country?
This is for the Qing Dynasty, right?
Chongzhen originally did not believe that Donglin would be so shameless, but Fushe's purchase of official positions confirmed from the side that Jiangnan's gang indeed "does something and doesn't do something"!
Now that he has made his move, it depends on how Qian Qianyi and others respond.
If you pick it up well, you can continue to pretend for a while.
Otherwise, flaws will be exposed, or even the true thoughts will be completely exposed.
If possible, Chongzhen really wanted to capture most of Donglin and send them to Liaoxi to guard the border.
If these people escape, they can be brought down as soon as possible so that they can kneel down and lick the trotters of their new master!
