Another brilliant victory.

The Xujiazhuang Guardian Guard almost wiped out the guards of Qianhu Institution in Xinghua at the cost of slightly injured 33 people, one seriously injured and no one died.

He directly killed 237 people, injured and disabled 251 people, 289 people were surrendered and captured, and more than 30 people were fled by horses (the guards could catch up with them even on electric bicycles, but there was no need).

Through this battle.

Standing on the castle wall and using the DJI drone to observe the entire journey, Xu Yuan saw the reliable combat effectiveness of the patrol guards.

But I also found myself in a misunderstanding.

That is, like other time travelers, he attaches too much importance to the role of hot weapons, such as muskets and cannons, and is very concerned about the equipment and development of these weapons, and he despises defense a little.

In fact!

Among the weapons and equipment in modern society, although firearms and cannons are very powerful and have developed to a very high level, the progress in protective equipment is not only huge, but can be described as "an unprecedented peak".

In modern society, the anti-spun suits cannot be cut by the knife or needle-punched, and can withstand high temperatures. Even bullets with smaller power can block them, and their defense is far greater than those of armor.

The riot helmet in modern society is light in weight and high in strength. It can wrap the entire head without affecting the line of sight, and is far superior to the ancient helmets.

The explosion-proof shield in modern society is lightweight and cannot be cut into the knife or hammer. It can withstand thousands of hits, but it cannot be broken no matter how hard it is. Small powerful firearms can easily block it, far exceeding ancient shields.

Not to mention, in modern society, Xu Yuan can place an order directly on an e-commerce platform to purchase military body armor without being restricted by laws and regulations.

That is to say!

With the help of modern society, Xu Yuan could easily purchase a full set of protective equipment, greatly strengthening the defense of the guard team members, but it was difficult to directly obtain powerful offensive weapons through modern society. He could not even buy a compressed air gun, and the energy of toy gun bullets must not exceed 9 joules.

I have to say that modern society is very magical.

Previously, Xu Yuan did not pay much attention to protective equipment, and just wanted to reduce the casualty rate of the guard team members. However, today's one-sided battle proved a truth: adding defense to an extremely high level, even if using wooden sticks as weapons, it is equivalent to an invincible army and can create an amazing battle loss ratio.

Even as long as the defense is sufficient, even if you don’t develop weapons like “electric breech guns”, you don’t have to worry about being afraid of the coveted forces of hostile forces, and you can still easily defeat them.

That is, the effects of "strengthening defense" and "strengthening attack" are basically the same, except that the former is less restrictive, and it is more troublesome to implement the latter.

However, for Xu Yuan, both are important. Both attack defense must be strengthened, and walking with two legs is the most stable.

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Two battles that took place in Xujiazhuang (or could be said to be conflicts).

Although the Ming Dynasty's post station system was abolished by Chongzhen, the efficiency of sending messages was affected.

But more than ten days later.

Whether it is the memorial of Xin Shiqi, the magistrate of Xinghua County, reflecting the civil unrest.

It was also the Nanjing Commander-in-Chief. Through the military information system, the military information information reflected that Qianhushou in Xinghua, the defeat of the civilians, Yang Chenghui in Qianhushou, and the army of nearly Qianwei was wiped out.

These two pieces of information were sent to the capital one after another, and were known to the court.

Boom.

Frying the pot.

The Xujiazhuang incident soon caused surprise and uproar among all officials. We immediately conducted a specific understanding and investigation and found out that Xujiazhuang, which was rich enough to rival the country, actually resisted taxes and refused to pay taxes. With a bumper harvest of grain and a net profit of tens of millions of taels of silver for sale of overseas merchants, the court made such a difficult finance and many officials could not pay a grain of food, and did not pay a single tael of silver for the court?

He also killed officials and wiped out the garrison troops who quelled the rebellion of the court?

It's outrageous!

He is so bold and crazy!

The iron kingdom of the Ming Dynasty is still there. A mere businessman dares to act so boldly and not take the majesty of the court seriously at all!

If you let it expand, what else can you do?

All the officials of our country are so honest and poor, and their family property is generally only tens of thousands of taels or hundreds of thousands of taels. They are all dedicated to the Ming Dynasty, and they are working hard. Under the emperor's request for thrift, the number of times they go to the brothels has been reduced a lot. However, this so-called Xujiazhuang has harvested millions of stones of grain this year, and all kinds of strange goods sold are not known how much money they have earned, but they have not paid a penny and the tax on one or two taels of silver has not been paid, which has led to them becoming poorer and the court becoming poorer!

Can't bear it!

Absolutely unbearable!

The ministers and officials all expressed their tough voices to the emperor and made their strong voices in the morning court in the Golden Palace:

"Your Majesty, kill the officials, beat the magistrate, and fight against the guards, Xujiazhuang openly rebelled! The court should send a large army and immediately send troops to wipe out Xujiazhuang with the power of thunder. Such arrogant people will never be allowed to stay in this world!"

"Xujiazhuang is already rich enough to rival the country. She lives in the land of our Ming Dynasty, but she does not want to be loyal to the emperor and serve the country. She does not give up any penny, does not pay taxes, and will also increase the land. She collects refugees and private troops. She has ulterior motives and is clear about her unofficial intentions! If she does not send troops to wipe out, it will be a big disaster!"

"Your Majesty, now the Later Jin Dynasty is in power in the north, with bandits in the mountains and Shaanxi raging, Yun, Sichuan, and Guizhou are unstable, and there are police in the southeastern sea. Huguang is flooded this year and grain is not harvested. Only the Jiangnan area has good weather this year, and it has become the only place for peace in the Ming Dynasty. Xujiazhuang is in the heart of Jiangnan, but tax resistance has erupted. If it is not dealt with in time, the Ming Dynasty is really in danger. I hope Your Majesty will make a decision quickly!"

"Your Majesty, in order to destroy Xujiazhuang this time, the gentry in Jiangnan is willing to contribute money and efforts to raise military funds. There is no need for the Ministry of Revenue to pay a tael of silver. The people in Jiangnan have the ability to destroy a mere Xujiazhuang!"

An official from Southern Zhili not only asked the emperor to issue an order to quell the rebellion as soon as possible, but also came out of the west for the first time. Without the investment of the imperial court, the gentry in Jiangnan could raise money to quell the rebellion. In his words, he seemed confident that he would definitely raise money!

Zhu Youjian sitting on the dragon throne.

Hearing the advice of the ministers.

Seeing them indignation and righteous indignation, they even look very rare today.

Especially the officials of the Donglin Party camp, they usually oppose mining taxes and demand the reduction and exemption of commercial taxes. Today, they are abnormal in the issue of the Xujiazhuang Incident. They not only support the collection of taxes on Xujiazhuang, but also demand severe punishment and elimination of Xujiazhuang, and do not protect the interests of Xujiazhuang, which is mainly engaged in commercial operations. They particularly emphasize the obligation to pay taxes, which is completely different from their usual behavior.

From this we can see that Xujiazhuang and the Donglin Party are not in the same camp and have little interest, so they are not protected by the Donglin Party, even if they belong to Jiangnan merchants.

And in the face of the heated discussions of the ministers.

If under normal circumstances, seeing that all officials agree so unanimously, Emperor Zhu Youjian would definitely follow the flow and agree to send troops to wipe out Xujiazhuang and avoid chaos in the south of the Yangtze River, he would be as angry and urgent as his ministers.

But yesterday afternoon, Xujiazhuang representatives entered the palace again in Qichun year and proposed to meet the emperor.

When Zhu Youjian saw him, he saw Qichunnian take out several strange items and combine them into a machine called "projector". Then, several videos were played on a white cloth, completely restoring the causes and consequences of the "Xujiazhuang Incident".

Regarding Xujiazhuang, who could not bear it anymore and used a wooden stick to fight back in the video, although Zhu Youjian felt that Xujiazhuang's resistance was not appropriate, he could not pick out too many stabs. The party that took the lead was indeed Xujiazhuang, and the counterattack made him feel comfortable.

Now in the morning court, facing so many voices of confrontation against Xujiazhuang.

"My servants, there is another hidden truth about Xujiazhuang. It is not that as you said, deliberately resisting taxes and not paying it, but that Xinghua magistrate Xin Shiqi is greedy... In order to avoid being infringed by local officials, Xujiazhuang chose to pay the tax directly, sending the money and grains to my house, and bearing the additional losses in the transfer process. I agreed to Xujiazhuang's request, but I didn't expect that as soon as the negotiation was made, the Xujiazhuang changes came out. The money was touching. The owner of Xujiazhuang is an overseas businessman with no roots and no support, and was coveted by many covetous people, which is reasonable. However! From today on, I hope everyone will be discouraged, to avoid desires and greed, and not to harm and force good people like Xujiazhuang!"

With the majestic gaze of Emperor Zhu Youjian, he swept away the ministers in the hall and officially stood up for Xujiazhuang.

He thought that when he showed his domineering attitude, the ministers would bow their heads and remain silent and would not cause trouble for Xujiazhuang again.

Unexpectedly, the officials were silent for only a moment and immediately burst into more intense opposition.

Bi Ziyan, Minister of Revenue, stepped out and said: "Your Majesty, the national dynasty has been established for more than 200 years. It has always been a multi-level tax system for counties, prefectures, and governors. The seventh floor is intercepted and the three escorted the central government. Then the Ministry of Revenue coordinated the arrangements to transfer taxes from all over the country to Beijing. This has been the case in all dynasties. How can the central government pay the tax directly? The laws of the ancestors cannot be changed easily. If all regions learn to do this, the world will be in chaos. Besides, the taxes belong to the internal vacancies and the grain belong to the Ministry of Revenue. How can the grain from the Ministry of Revenue be intercepted by Your Majesty? "

Cheng Qinan, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Works, bowed and said, "Xujiazhuang is ill-intentioned and tries to bribe Your Majesty with a small amount of money and grain. His intention is to be punished! What's more, these money and grains are originally from Your Majesty. If you belong to the Ministry of Revenue, you will only be in the inner custody and use your left hand to rush to the right hand. Why should Your Majesty trust the unscrupulous businessmen for small profits and disrupt the tax system of the ancestors? This is a move that will be abandoned by the foundation and the big ones and small ones. Your Majesty will never work!"

Li Tengfang, Minister of Rites, said: "Xujiazhuang deceives His Majesty with small profits, has ill-behaved, and plans to encircle our country and country in the Ming Dynasty. It is urgent to eliminate Xujiazhuang!"

Chen Yuting, deputy censor of the Zuodu, said: "I agree, please ask Your Majesty to kill the lobbyists of Xujiazhuang immediately, and then kill all the people of Xujiazhuang, and burn all the magical things."

The censor Huang Daozhou said: "Your Majesty is far away from villains, be close to wise ministers, and accept loyal advice. The Xujiazhuang has a unknown origin and many evil things. It is incompatible with the Ming Dynasty. It will absorb all the money of the Ming Dynasty, making the people of the Ming Dynasty poor and weak, and the harm is no less than that of the Tartar bandits. It should be wiped out immediately and must not be delayed!"

Even the new cabinet chief Zhou Yanru said disagreeably: "Your Majesty, please think twice and make a decision after discussing with our ministers and other officials."

Other ministers: "Your Majesty think twice..."

Hearing these tides of opposition, one after another, demanding to be wiped out.

Zhu Youjian felt a headache. He admitted that what these ministers said was not unreasonable, but it was too far-fetched. A small problem could be infinitely amplified, which became a major event related to the survival of the country. Finally, he concluded that if Xujiazhuang is not destroyed, the court will be ruined.

He could only say a few hundred mouths. In order to enhance his persuasion, he asked Jinyiwei Li Jinniu and a few people to bring the projector from Qichunnian to the Golden Palace, and also played the causes and consequences of the "Xujiazhuang Incident".

But even if these solid evidences were placed before the ministers, except for a few ministers who were shocked by the magic of the projector, most ministers continued to oppose it.

He took out reasons such as "the monster is not trustworthy", "the sin of bewitching the king is unforgivable", "Xujiazhuang will not be destroyed, and the Ming Dynasty may be destroyed by a profiteer" to prove that it is even more necessary to destroy Xujiazhuang.

These ministers were very verbal, with sufficient reasons and endless talk. Zhu Youjian, who said several times, was seriously shaken and gradually leaned towards them, believing that destroying Xujiazhuang might be more conducive to the stability of the Ming Dynasty.

Until September 28th.

A large-scale transportation convoy entered the capital, and then entered the Forbidden City unimpeded under the guidance of the eunuch Jinyiwei, and finally entered the inner warehouse of Emperor Zhu Youjian.

Zhu Youjian came to the warehouse in person, opened the box, gently stroked the white silver dollars, learned to blow his breath and put it in his ear to verify the quality, and roughly estimated the number of silver dollars, which was indeed a million yuan.

When I had dinner at night, I ate fresh lazy rice produced in Xujiazhuang. It tasted very fragrant. The amount of more than 50,000 stones in the warehouse was enough to eat for a long time.

The most important thing is! He began to be willing to eat meat. He had to have a meat dish for every meal, and he also had to give the queen, sister-in-law, concubines, and everyone in the palace. He could not live a life without meat or fish, otherwise the emperor would be meaningless.

The significant improvement in the quality of life finally eliminated most of Zhu Youjian's suspicion, just as Qichunnian said: Xujiazhuang has money and food, and what can all officials and ministers bring besides making His Majesty frugal? Would you rather play with all officials than cooperate with Xujiazhuang with mutual benefit?

Stirring?

This word is very harsh. I want to revitalize the Ming Dynasty and become a wise ruler for all ages. How could it be a bad thing?

So in the matter of "The Change of Xujiazhuang", Zhu Youjian strengthened his attitude of protecting Xujiazhuang and ignored the advice of his ministers. Over time, the matter was left unresolved and no one mentioned it again.

But for some reason, he might have wanted to give Xujiazhuang some blows. Xin Shiqi, the magistrate of Xinghua County, did not lose his post, but continued to stay in office, making him stare at Xujiazhuang with cold triangular eyes. Every day in the future, his purpose of living may be to think about how to revenge and overthrow Xujiazhuang.
Chapter completed!