Governing a big country is like cooking small dishes.
The matter of salt and iron is related to the vital interests of the 20 million people of the Ming Dynasty.
The salt tax of the Ming Dynasty was made of Gang salt.
Merchants holding salt citations are divided into 10 categories according to the region. Each category of salt citations is 200,000 yin, and each citation is worth 300 jins of salt, or six cents and four cents of silver, which is called "woben". There is an additional tax of three taels of silver. (Transportation) Three taels of silver. Named after "Holy virtue transcends eternity, Imperial style outlines nine surroundings", those who have not entered the outline have no right to operate the salt industry.
If you want to sell salt legally, merchants must first obtain a salt quota from the government. Merchants were led to salt farms to sell salt, and then to designated salt selling areas to sell salt.
After calculation, the Ming Dynasty’s salt tax revenue should be four cents for every sixty-six cents of silver, and the total should be one thousand three million two hundred and eighty thousand taels of silver! But in fact, the annual salt tax revenue in these years was less than two million taels of silver.
Salt is a necessity for human beings. Over 200 years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the population continued to increase, but the salt tax fell instead of increasing. What is the reason?
Not to mention, the big salt merchants colluded with Gou Guan to monopolize the salt fields, leaving many merchants unable to buy salt even if they had salt. What about sales?
Coupled with the private sale of official salt, the money that should have flowed into the national treasury ended up in the hands of a group of dog officials and salt merchants.
Previously, the secret guards had only done something in Yangzhou, and the price of salt in various parts of the Ming Dynasty fluctuated.
This shows the influence of Yangzhou salt merchants.
Yantie specializes in these two cornucopias, and Zhu Youjian certainly wants to take them back.
But it will indeed greatly affect the interests of existing classes.
For the stability of Ming Dynasty,
Until the secret guards completely caught the ironclad evidence of these people and the new salt road of the Ming Dynasty was formed, Zhu Youjian could only choose to turn a blind eye.
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Liaodong, Xipingbao.
Daishan and Lin Dan finally reached an agreement and each sent 20,000 troops to attack Youtun.
Although the Ming Dynasty left 50,000 soldiers in Youtun, the garrison is indeed a small classic in Jiangyin's history.
If Zhu Dingguo, Sun Chuanting, or Zu Dashou led troops to guard it, Daishan would never consider attacking Youtun, but now a small Jiangyin Dianshi has no qualifications to enter Daishan's eyes.
Indeed, in this world, a small Jiangyin classic has no qualifications to enter the eyes of major forces. Even if Zhu Youjian hadn't checked that Yan Yingyuan was on the recommended list of secret guards, he would not be able to compare with this later Jiangyin resistance. Yan Yingyuan, one of the Three Dukes of the Qing Dynasty.
"On the eightyth day, I pledged my allegiance to the great ancestor of the seventeenth dynasty. One hundred thousand people died with one heart and left a country of three hundred miles in the Ming Dynasty." This shows his loyalty to the Ming Dynasty.
Jiangyin eighty-one days. The Qing army defeated three kings and eighteen generals in a row, which shows the opponent's talent.
How could Zhu Youjian let such a loyal and talented person go?
After passing Zhu Dingguo's test, Zhu Youjian directly promoted Yan Yingyuan to the rank of commander-in-chief of Youtun, regardless of the civil and military obstruction of the Manchu Dynasty, and was responsible for the defense of Youtun.
It has to be said that Yan Yingyuan does have the talent to defend the city.
Intelligence from the secret guards of the Gen Army showed that although the defense plan formulated by Yan Yingyuan was a bit expensive, with the same personnel, weapons and equipment, even Zhu Dingguo would have spent a month to conquer it.
As for those Hou Jin who regarded the Romance of the Three Kingdoms as a classic, even if the entire army pressed forward, they would not be able to capture Youtun for three to five years.
After being stationed in Youtun, Yan Yingyuan immediately organized Qingzhuang to build the defense facilities in Youtun.
Due to time constraints, Yan Yingyuan trimmed turrets 9 feet (3m) long and 5 feet high on each left side of the official road 30 steps outside the four gates of Youtun.
There are 4 furlong machines on each turret.
Guarded by hundreds of elites.
The doors to the turrets were all sealed from the inside, and the soldiers on the turrets had to hang down in baskets if they wanted to come out.
The turret stores enough supplies for a hundred people to live and fight for a month for a long time.
There are dense obstacles in front of the turret.
With the combination of the gun towers and the city walls, as well as the trenches outside the city walls, as long as the Jiannu dared to attack, they would definitely make it impossible for them to come back.
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It has to be said that these nomads mobilize their troops very quickly.
In less than 2 days, the 40,000 coalition troops of Houjin and Mongolia had been assembled.
Then, under the leadership of Huang Taiji, an army of 40,000 people went out day and night, quietly heading towards Youtun.
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"Captain, can you lend us your treasure?"
"Here you go, pay attention. If you find something wrong, report it in time." The leading soldier said as he handed the 'treasure' in his hand to the other party.
The treasure they were talking about was the telescope that Zhu Youjian got by signing in.
Because the safety of Youtun is directly related to the subsequent Liaodong battle in Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, Zhu Youjian specially approved 20 telescopes for Youtun.
However, considering the impact of telescopes on the military, the holders of these telescopes are all biochemical soldiers.
Even Yan Yingyuan, the general manager of Youtun, had to return it immediately after using it.
"My lord, my lord, look, there are Tatars!" the soldier who had just received the telescope pointed to the north and shouted.
Biochemical Soldier No. 97 took the telescope from the soldier's hand and followed the direction of the soldier's finger, and sure enough he found three Tatars sneaking around and performing shady activities.
"Follow me, I will take you to make a fortune." No. 97 said as he stepped onto his horse and galloped in the direction where the Tatars were found.
Their actions on No. 97 were quickly discovered by three Tatars.
"What an arrogant Mingzhu, kill him." The leader, Jiannu, saw that there were only five Ming soldiers on the opposite side, and he suddenly felt as if he had eaten dog shit, and was terribly uncomfortable.
In these years of fighting with the Ming army, when did they not suppress the Ming army? When did a five-man team of the Ming army dare to cause trouble for themselves?
"When you kill the Bright Pig, you must not reveal the whereabouts of Lord Beile and the others?"
"Peng!" As soon as the leader of the Tatar finished speaking, his head exploded.
The other two Jiannu slaves had not yet reacted. They heard only two "swish, swish" sounds, and the two elite Jiannu slaves received the lunch boxes.
"Hurry up and search for the loot, and finally go back and report the situation to your Excellency!"
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There were only a few slaves and they could not withstand serious damage.
Although Huang Taiji looked down upon Yan Yingyuan, the guard general of Youtun, he did have to be careful about Zhu Dingguo.
After all, the name of the tree is the shadow of a person.
Zhu Dingguo, with 5,000 troops breaking into 100,000 troops, forced hundreds of thousands of Mongolian troops to surrender from thousands of miles away.
Although Zhu Dingguo's name has not been completely spread, as a senior executive of Houjin, Huang Taiji still knows these things.
If not, Huang Taiji already knew the surrounding terrain, and Yan Yingyuan was indeed not famous, and if Hou Jin had no shortage of war horses, wouldn't Huang Taiji propose to attack Youtun?
However, in order to ensure safety, Huang Taiji sent out a large number of Jiannu Tanma.
After hearing the gunshots in the distance, Huang Taiji felt something bad and hurriedly sent two teams to investigate again.
"This must be the eighth team of detective horses that were completely wiped out by Mingren. When did Mingren's detective horses become so powerful?" Huang Taiji couldn't help but sigh.
Tanma are all elites in the army, and the strength of Tanma can also reflect the strength of the army from the side.
Now in the battle of Tanma, Houjin was at a disadvantage. Eight Tanma were killed, and no one from the other side was left. This shows that the soldiers guarding Youtun are definitely elite.
