From the Western Han Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, it lasted for more than 1,800 years.
Earning ten thousand taels of silver a year is equivalent to eighteen million taels.
Although the accounts cannot be calculated in this way, if the Kong family is now completely poor, it can only explain one problem.
That is, it is not that they have been incorruptible for generations, but a super prodigal son has appeared in recent years!
Regarding me, Holy Duke Dayan, a certain prince only knows that this guy is absolutely afraid of death!
This is enough, knowing other things seems to be of little use...
It's a lot to ask the Kong family, who have been accustomed to freeloading since the beginning of the dynasty, to spend five million taels of silver?
It would be nice if you didn’t let your whole family go down and have a look first!
With a certain prince here, the Kong family still wants to demote all dynasties?
Complete the grand slam of surrender circles? ? ?
How can there be such a good thing in the world?
If Ming Dynasty dies, the Kong family must be buried with him!
Let me, Dayan Shenggong, understand something.
If the Ming Dynasty is good, then the Kong family can be good!
When the Ming Dynasty falls, the Kong family must die!
Forcibly bound, blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, a certain prince does not need to reason with me, Dayan Shenggong!
Otherwise, the descendants of saints will become traitors from generation to generation, and this has happened in every dynasty, where would they put their faces?
Besides, a certain prince has asked Zhou Yuji to be merciful. It would be nice if he didn't invite me, the Holy Duke Dayan, to live in the capital permanently!
As long as you can't move away from Qufu, it'll be easy!
Who do you think of when you are short of money?
you guess? ? ?
In view of what the Kong family had done before, a certain prince didn’t even leave me, Dayan Shenggong, with a loan.
Not to mention the principal, there is no interest!
The five million taels this time is a pure donation of 24K, without adding any impurities!
Want to be an iron rooster and never pluck a dime?
You are really made of iron, and a certain prince can melt this chicken and sell it for scrap after cooling!
Doesn’t the Kong family have a holy land and a sacred forest?
The ground is bulldozed!
Cut down all the trees!
Always plant crops!
If you don’t pay a penny, this is what you’ll get!
Until the grain grown can be exchanged for five million taels of silver!
For me, Dayan Shenggong, there is no need for kindness or mercy. The threat of force is the gentlest way to negotiate!
Zhou Yuji went to Qufu with 10,000 elite troops and dozens of artillery pieces.
Without these, you still want to knock on the door of the Kong family?
The imperial court can no longer hold on any longer, so a certain prince will ask me, the Holy Duke Dayan, to show his support.
Otherwise, it will make him understand that once a person is poor and crazy, he can really do anything!
A certain prince said - Withdrawing money is not considered robbery!
With this money, we can realize the results of the war for the soldiers of the Ming-Japanese Allied Army who have made great contributions.
In the Jinzhou area on the west coast, less than 6,800 enemies were killed. In the peninsula on the east coast, 500 enemies were killed, and about 1,500 Shuotuo troops surrendered.
According to the standard of killing one person and wounding 30% off, the result of the war on the west bank is 13,600 people, with a discount of more than 3 million taels of silver, and on the east bank, it is nearly one million taels.
Adding the two items together equals five million taels of silver, and more than half of it was spilled without covering up the heat.
In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the spring and summer offensive launched by a certain prince undoubtedly achieved another great victory.
Although the result is far less brilliant than last year's defense of the capital, it can still be boasted about in the "Jingshi Daily"!
Last year, there was a big fight and more than 50,000 pigtails were killed.
This year, even with a small fight, more than 10,000 results were recorded.
It seems that the strategic situation between the Ming and Qing Dynasties has been completely reversed, and the situation has tilted in favor of the Ming Dynasty.
On the day when the results of the victory were published in the "Jingshi Daily", the capital was naturally filled with gongs and drums, firecrackers blasting, and the streets crowded with people as people rushed to celebrate this great victory.
Now the people were completely convinced. The prince was indeed protected by immortal magic. Since returning from the immortal world, the Ming Dynasty has achieved great victories again and again!
People like Wang Yangming, Qi Jiguang, Li Rusong and others combined are not as talented and capable as the prince.
These people are considered to be famous generals of the generation, but they are relatively damaged in battle. There is no doubt that the crown prince is firmly in the top spot.
The prince's style of play costs a lot, but it doesn't cost much of the people's money!
Merchants who can earn at least a hundred or ten taels of silver per year are not considered poor people.
If you think about it this way, it's completely feasible. As long as you don't spend more money on the people and don't increase taxes on the people, the prince can do whatever he wants!
At least it is much better than the previous emperors who raised taxes whenever there was a war. Therefore, the money in the pockets of the people was not taken away, so they were more willing to use it to spend and celebrate.
After the troops retreated, the capital city regained its previous vigor and vitality, and became increasingly prosperous.
A certain prince built a large number of factories in the middle city and the outer city of the old city, attracting tens of thousands of young people from around to work.
Behind one or two young men is a family. It is undoubtedly much more convenient to see a doctor and shop in the city than in the countryside.
Many farmers have taken a fancy to this, rented out the only land they had, and came to the city to live and work.
In this way, you can definitely earn twice as much money in a year. Although it is not doubled, it can be more than before.
The families of the soldiers and soldiers of the East Palace Guards were the first to bear the brunt, thus saving the officers and soldiers the trouble of traveling back and forth after the holidays.
Although it is a bit stiff, once everyone gets used to it, it is very convenient. Going into the city is like going home.
The family is safer living in the city than in the countryside. At least they are not afraid of pigtails coming to rob and kill again.
And it doesn’t mean that the whole family will be affected by it, as long as the immediate family members move to the city to settle down.
This move directly added no less than 500,000 people to the capital, of which at least 80,000 to 100,000 could become workers.
Construction sites and factories all over the city need these people, and even a strong woman skilled in needlework can find a job making down jackets and other light industrial products.
Compared with the wind and sun exposure of hoeing, these jobs that pay well and are tax-free are naturally welcomed by farmers.
Although prices in the city are more expensive than in the countryside, money is easy to earn. As long as you don't buy a house directly, you can save a lot of money in a year.
These country people poured into the capital in large numbers. Their initial unruly behavior disgusted many officials, who petitioned the prince one after another to restrict their ability to work in the city.
A certain prince gave a very simple and clear explanation. Have you ever played with building blocks?
The larger the chassis area, the easier it is to stack the building blocks!
These farmers are the bottom line. They don’t have much income, they don’t have much literacy, and they don’t have much knowledge, but in the end their numbers are enough.
It is because of these people that many manual jobs in the capital can be done.
This means that work varies from person to person, and labor must be divided reasonably.
Don’t farmers also need food, clothing, housing and transportation?
Do you also eat fish every once in a while?
Don’t you also want to buy new clothes for your family during the Chinese New Year and the holidays?
If each person eats one fish per month, don’t one million people need a hundred fish?
If the fish sells well in the market, wouldn't it invisibly encourage Yu Min to work hard to catch fish and sell it for money?
Isn’t this the case in other industries?
The increase in population means an increase in consumption. When these people spend the money they earn, doesn't it form a virtuous cycle?
Why is it that a house with many servants means that the head of the house is powerful, rather than a house with fewer servants that is poorer? Isn't this the truth?
Why is Cheung Chau (Suzhou) richer than other cities?
First, there are many people in the city, second, it has developed commerce, and third, it benefits from the geographical advantages of Jiangnan.
These conditions can also be applied to the capital city, and the capital city has a larger population than Cheung Chau, more developed commerce, and is the capital of the Ming Dynasty.
I said that within five years, the strength of the capital city will be equal to the sum of the four cities in the south of the Yangtze River. This is not to achieve this goal with words, but to speak with facts.
Without a population, where would the consumption come from?
If there is no consumption, where will the tax money come from?
Without tax money, where would the strength come from?
Without strength, wouldn’t it be just a daydream?
Why can goods from the capital be sold to the grasslands and make money?
Isn’t that just the people on the grassland who buy the goods produced in the capital?
It’s just that these herdsmen do not live in the capital!
With a large number of workers, a large amount of goods can be continuously produced, much faster than collecting agricultural taxes!
In the opinion of a certain prince, as long as the Emperor Taiji does not come to the pass immediately, there will be enough food even if the population of the capital exceeds the two million mark.
Although there was a large-scale rebellion in the Jiangnan area, it could not cause much trouble.
The reason is that a certain emperor is still the Ming Dynasty's orthodoxy. To resist for any reason is to launch a rebellion, which is an unpopular move.
What's more, Donglin was suppressed, Fushe was severely damaged, and several societies existed in name only.
Under the counterattack of the upgraded version of a certain emperor, the three major gangs have lost their courage.
Without a leader, the temporarily organized troops had no actual combat experience, so naturally they were no match for the official army.
As long as there is no large-scale massacre of the city, order will be restored soon after the Jiangnan rebellion is suppressed, and the autumn harvest will not be delayed.
Even if the worst happens, all it takes is a few large households from each area to be sacrificed.
These people are not short of money or food, they are fat and strong, but they just lack conscience, so they can be killed directly!
In fact, a certain emperor and his subordinates did the same thing. As long as they broke into the city and captured the big households, they would not go on a killing spree.
A certain emperor ordered a ban on the massacre of a city. Any general who did this should not take credit or receive a reward.
Even Zuo Liangyu, the "bandit general" back then, did not dare to openly massacre the city.
This time to suppress the rebellion in the south of the Yangtze River, a certain emperor adopted the strategy of a certain filial son, which was - the culprit must be punished and his accomplices investigated!
As long as there are no lives in the hands of the people who are fooling around, then you can forget about it. After all, Nanting still relies on these people to collect tax money!
A certain prince didn't know how a certain father did it. The only thing he knew was that the food transported should not be too little, otherwise the people in the capital would starve.
The food in Jifu area can actually meet normal consumption, but a certain prince must save some war food reserves every year for the large-scale Northern Expedition in a few years.
Part of the grain harvested locally was reserved for such purposes, and the grain from Jiangnan and Nanyang arrived in the capital via water and sea transportation before being put on the market.
The original plan was that before Zu Dashou's garrison ate up all the food in Jinzhou City, Master Wang had to relieve him. Looking at the situation this year, it seems a bit worrying!
Counting this year, it will be three years later, that is, the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, before the end of 1642 in the Western calendar. The reinforcements going north will join the Jinzhou defenders.
If he wanted to repel Huang Taiji's 200,000-strong army, the King's Division would have to dispatch 200,000 troops, plus an additional 100,000 Japanese troops, for a total of 300,000, which is just a little more.
Three hundred thousand people, including 30,000 cavalry, consume no less than 100,000 dan of food every month, and 600,000 dan of fighting for six months.
This is only based on the minimum standards, not even paying the established rice stipends to the officers and soldiers, but only providing frontline rations.
If you really count the rice stipend, I'm afraid you have to prepare two to three million stones to be enough.
There is also the question of where the money will come from.
The imperial court has been fed by a certain prince who is very good at eating and drinking. If 50,000 enemies are killed in a battle, the silver reward alone will be more than 10 million taels of silver.
How to raise this large sum of money, a certain prince has not yet figured out.
Although there were many cattle and sheep exchanged from the grassland, they could not be used as money. The money obtained in cash was used for the daily expenses of the court.
The money earned from Zheng Zhilong was soon given to Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting for the purpose of suppressing the bandits.
Without the support of these five markets: Grassland, Kimchi, Japan, Northland, and Southern Bashu, Beiting would be on the verge of bankruptcy again.
Compared with the turbulent life in the Ming Dynasty, the vassal kings who moved overseas really lived a leisurely life.
According to the report of Zheng Zhiwan, who was responsible for transporting the troops and horses of the vassal state, the vassal kings began to vigorously expand the territory of their respective vassal states after the beginning of spring.
A certain prince also learned through Zheng Zhiwan that there was a large-scale melee between the princes and the princes in the vassal state because of the territorial grab, and no one else...
The closer to the south, the better the natural location.
The two kingdoms of Dai and Jin that settled on Sakhalin Island have been transformed into small towns.
Since there are no gangsters or bandits, although life on the island is harsh, it can make the people feel safe and content.
Both countries can dispatch a large number of fishermen to catch seafood, so there is no need to worry about eating meat in the first place.
The Jin State in the south has coal mines, and the climate at the port is very good. Among the northern countries, the trade conditions are the first to bear the brunt.
Dai State in the north has arable land resources. Although it is harvested once a year and can only grow wheat, with the fishing grounds in the Sea of Okhotsk, it is enough to feed these 18,000 people.
The two vassal kings were reluctant to move overseas at first. They did not expect that they could establish a royal paradise overseas. Apart from the lack of local prosperity, other aspects made them reluctant to miss Shu.
The main reason is that no one is looking after him, and he can just walk around in his own domain.
After the beginning of spring, you can take a group of followers into the mountains to hunt every day.
Every three months, ships arrive with all kinds of locally produced goods, as well as newspapers and magazines that are most popular among literate people.
Such a comfortable life in Xianyun Yehe made both the feudal king and the county king feel that it was much better than being locked up in a fiefdom at home.
As long as their hands and feet were diligent, the common people who moved here with the two feudal kings could eat fish or meat every time.
Seafood on the island is extremely cheap, and there are free per capita quotas for the elderly and children.
Compared with not being able to eat meat once a year in the mainland, no one would not be grateful to the prince and the feudal king.
There are two things that make Dai Wang Zhu Chuanfu and Jin Wang Zhu Shenxuan most anxious. One is goods, and the other is population.
Naturally, the more goods, the better. You can take away whatever you like, the island’s specialties.
The same is true for population. The more people there are, the faster the development of the island will be.
If you don’t have many people at hand, you will be afraid of falling prey to wild beasts when you go hunting in the mountains...
Both vassal kings requested 10,000 vassal princes and princes every year, but Zheng Zhiwan expressed his inability to do so.
There are seven vassal states in the north. If the vassal kings all ask for it, the fleet may not be able to carry much goods.
