"Something is going to happen to Donglin." Liu Hongxun said in a low voice.
Yang Fan was not too surprised, because he and Chongzhen had had many problems over the years. This master was a mean master, and all the people he used would eventually be abandoned.
Donglin helped him defeat Duke Wei and the Qing army. Judging from historical experience, Chongzhen was not far away from taking action against Donglin. Donglin was just a tool in his eyes, and he would throw it away after use.
From the first time he secretly recruited Wen Tiren and had a secret conversation, Yang Fan knew that he had begun to plan for the post-Donglin era. That is, an era without the Donglin Party.
Many people, especially those from lower classes, have a misconception.
They all agreed that the emperor was good, and the bad government of the court was due to treacherous ministers who deceived the emperor. The emperor did not know, and this caused the suffering of the people below.
In fact, this is not the case. The superiors have a very good understanding of the situation below. They even know it more comprehensively than the people below. The reason why there are many perverse situations is because of the restrictions of various interest entanglements.
The people above made the choice that was best for themselves.
This choice, many times, is a disaster for the following.
The decisions they made were all the best solutions for their own interests under various conditions and situation constraints at the time. Although these solutions often looked very screwed up.
What's more, what the people below don't expect is that the upper levels not only know the situation at the lower levels. There must be a secret channel for direct communication between the top leaders of the two hostile forces. They can communicate directly.
Just like Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, they can communicate directly through Zhang Liang and Xiang Bo.
One is to prevent people below from deceiving the people above and causing trouble. The other is to avoid misfires and misjudgments. Especially when the two major groups are confronting each other, unless it is the wish of the supreme leader, anything else is absolutely not allowed to happen.
war caused by factors.
Yang Fan looked at Liu Hongxun with burning eyes, this was breaking news.
"Your Majesty has been secretly summoning Zhou Yanru, Minister of Rites, Wen Tiren frequently recently," Liu Hongru said.
In August of the second year of Chongzhen (1629), the post of Minister of Rites in Nanjing was vacant. The Ministry of Officials recommended Wen Tiren as a candidate and Luo Congyu as an alternative. However, Emperor Chongzhen chose Luo Congyu and left Wen Tiren in Beijing.
Yang Fan had known about this for a long time. When he was guarding the palace, he was favored by the palace maids and eunuchs, and many people were willing to do things for him. Lin Yueru also had spies in the palace.
Recently, the emperor has frequently secretly invited Wen Tiren, Zhou Yanru and others to hold meetings. He is obviously holding back a big move. These people have either been manipulated by Dong Lin, or have conflicts of interest with Dong Lin, or have quarrels, or are hidden
The eunuch party. Their common characteristic is that they all have no dealings with Dong Lin.
"Now that the nine sides have been abolished, most of them have been completed. The Qing army is also nearing its end. The financial burden has been greatly reduced. Taxes have also increased in the past two years, increasing by two million taels per year. Now there are two things that His Majesty has to deal with.
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Yang Fan knew what two things he was talking about. One was the issue of Donglin's dominance over the court. The other was the issue of financial scarcity. In fact, these two issues were the same issue. The country had no tax revenue because people like Donglin had never paid taxes.
From the beginning, each dynasty took advantage of the preferential treatment and privileges of scholars to annex land without paying taxes.
The problem in Donglin is the court's money bag and the tax evasion problem in the south of the Yangtze River. In the north, there is the problem of tax evasion and smuggling by the clan, nobles and nobles.
If Chongzhen really wanted to make a difference, it would be impossible for him not to touch these two cancers.
If it is pus, it must be squeezed, and he cannot get around this hurdle. Now that the military power of the Beijing camp has been taken back, the nobles have become more honest for the time being. It seems to him that they should also start to suppress Donglin.
"Your Majesty plans to use Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru to bring down Donglin. Without external force, it is not very certain." Yang Fan said thoughtfully.
"What your Majesty has to deal with is not just a simple Donglin. It is a huge smuggling group formed in the imperial court starting from Wanli. It established slaves and robbed, eight Shanxi merchants sold stolen goods, nobles in the imperial court, local military leaders,
There are even clan kings involved," Liu Hongxun said.
Yang Fan knows all these things. In Liaodong, a horse costs 300 taels, rice costs 50 taels per stone, and a horse of wool and green cloth costs seven taels. At this price, a person would go crazy. As long as you can get the supplies to Liaodong
, that is, a hundredfold profit. This profit allows the capitalist to sell the noose that hangs him to the executioner.
"However, Donglin killed Xiong Tingbi, and then robbed the governor of Jiliao and Guan Ning's army. He changed his offensive strategy to a wall-building strategy. In fact, he and Jiannu crossed the Daling River to rule. They took the initiative to have a truce. They did not
I don’t want to really develop north of Jinzhou.” Liu Hongxun said.
This is the fact. Originally, the nobles were smuggled along the Great Wall, smuggled to the Mongols, and those in Liaodong who didn’t know what ethnic groups they were.
Donglin took advantage of the maritime smuggling of Nanzhili and Fujian. They did not interfere with each other's wells.
However, first Li Chengliang became hysterical and insisted on dreaming of becoming the king of Korea. He started all kinds of sleazy operations and went against the grain. He ruined the good situation in Liaodong. Then he raised tigers and caused the rise of Jianzhou.
There is a lot of controversy as to what ethnic group Nurhaci's family is. The Mongols believe that his family is Mongolian and later became Jurchens. They themselves say that they are Water Tatars who came from the Huli route in the Yuan Dynasty.
His fifth-generation ancestor is called Mengge Timur. Judging from his name, he seems to be a Mongolian.
Seventy percent of the vocabulary in the Manchu language comes from the Jurchen language. However, this does not mean anything. It is also a common thing to accept the local language after migration. The Manchus later were not a nation composed of blood.
, but formed after being organized.
But that’s okay. It’s never blood that makes up a nation, but a common language, a unified market, and mutually recognized cultural customs.
At that time, their family was still wandering around Yilan in today's Harbin. Later, they were defeated and almost exterminated, so they fled south to Fushun.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Wanli had not had time to deal with the consequences caused by Li Chengliang. The Japanese came again. Although the war to aid Korea and the other two wars of the Wanli Dynasty were won, they were all consumed.
They robbed the national treasury and spent all the last bit of dividends left by Zhang Juzheng’s reforms.
Liaodong, on the other hand, exhausted its war resources. All the field troops that could fight were consumed in North Korea.
Yang Fan asked: "Trade in the north has existed for a long time, but I have investigated and found that the materials smuggled out of the customs in the past two hundred years actually exceeded the needs of the Mongols and various ethnic groups in Liaodong. Where did these things go? Historically, the north
Does the trade have anything to do with the continuous rise of powerful nations in Liaodong?"
Liu Hongxun said: "Has Uncle Dingyuan ever heard of the Sable Road?"
"In the past history, there were Donghu, Wuhuan, Xianbei, Shiwei (ancestors of the Mongols) in Liaodong, Bohai, Sushen, Jurchen, Mongolian Qiyan tribe (the family of Genghis Khan rose in the upper reaches of Heilongjiang), and today's Jianzhou Jurchen
.As vast as the stars, don’t you think it’s strange why so many ethnic groups have emerged in Liaodong?”
"In particular, the speed of the Jurchen's rise is jaw-dropping. They destroyed the Liao Dynasty first, and then the Song Dynasty. It is dizzying to watch. Not only did they have the ability to fight in the field as soon as they appeared, but they also had the ability to attack cities. Look through the history books of the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty. They
The technology of the crossbows, armors, and trebuchets they made far surpassed that of the Northern Song Dynasty. Ordinarily, shouldn’t the people who came out of these old forests be left behind? Isn’t it reasonable that they should learn from the surrounding ethnic groups for a few generations before they can rise again?”
This period of history is indeed very strange. The city walls built by the Jurchens were all made of composite materials. One layer of city bricks, one layer of clay, one layer of sandstone and one layer of rammed earth. They also had some characteristics of a fortress.
These people are at their peak when they debut. The power of their bows and crossbows, the majesty of their horses, and their advanced siege weapons are beyond comprehension.
Nothing in this world is achieved overnight, everything is developed step by step.
If these things were not caused by their own brainstorming while hunting in the old forest, then there is only one possibility.