Daming pirates

Yu Xiaotian glanced at Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen, shook his head and said: "You two are loyal people. Yu admires you two very much. Looking at the Ming Dynasty, you are the only ones who can be so loyal to the Holy One.

You two, so please be patient!

If Yu had the intention to harm the Holy Sage, why would he go to such great lengths? Could it be that Yu couldn't capture the palace after so many days?

But Yu did not do this, precisely because Yu had no intention of harming the Holy Sage. Otherwise, if Yu had the intention to harm the Holy Sage, what would happen if you people are here?

I just want to have a quiet talk with the Holy One. As for whether the Holy One agrees to Yu's conditions, Yu will never be unfavorable to the Holy One! Here I, Yu Xiaotian, can swear to God that if Yu has

If you break your oath, you will definitely not end well in this life!"

Seeing Yu Xiaotian's vows, Cao Huachun and Wang Cheng'en both looked at each other, not knowing what to do.

Because what Yu Xiaotian told the truth, if Yu Xiaotian had the intention to be detrimental to Chongzhen, then he really didn't have to spend so much effort. With his current means, it can be said that he took down the imperial city without any effort, that is, using force

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With the current guards in the imperial city, there is no way they can stop the Yu family's army from attacking the palace. Even if Yu Xiaotian wants to take action now, the guards here may not be able to do anything against them.

So Yu Xiaotian really doesn't have to go to such trouble. If he wants to do something and doesn't want others to know, he can always ask his men to kill all the insiders in the palace. Naturally, no one will know about the palace.

What happened inside.

After listening to Yu Xiaotian's words, Chongzhen calmed down somewhat and felt that what Yu Xiaotian said made sense. If Yu Xiaotian wanted to commit regicide, then he indeed had the ability, and there was no need to go to such trouble. Since he

If he didn't do this, it means that Yu Xiaotian has no murderous intention towards him yet, so it doesn't matter whether Cao Huachun and the others are here or not.

What's more, he is the flesh of the emperor now. No matter what Yu Xiaotian wants to do to him, he has no choice. Even if he commits suicide immediately, Yu Xiaotian can still control the palace and help a prince from among the princes to take over the throne.

He became the emperor, which would help him control the world.

So now Yu Xiaotian wants to have a deep talk with him, but he doesn't necessarily know what he will do to him, so he waved his hand and said, "Please all step aside! I want to hear what this traitor wants to say to me!"

Cao Huachun glared at Yu Xiaotian and said with a stern expression: "Marshal Yu, you can swear to heaven that you will never harm the Holy One. If you break your promise and get fat, even heaven will not be able to spare you!"

Yu Xiaotian smiled calmly and said: "Don't worry, Yu is not the kind of villain who breaks his promises and makes himself proud!"

Cao Huachun, Wang Chengen and other eunuchs then bowed to accept the order and slowly exited the Wenhua Palace with a group of guards. Yu Xiaotian also waved his hand and drove Liu Wang and other guards out of the Wenhua Palace, but Yu Xiaotian

They left a suitcase behind. At this time, only Yu Xiaotian and Chongzhen were left in the palace.

Yu Xiaotian walked to Long An with his suitcase and said to Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, don't be nervous. Since Yu said he would never harm His Majesty, he must keep his word. There are some things here. Yu

I would like to ask your Majesty to take a look at it for a while! How about asking Your Majesty to calm down your anger first, calm down, and listen to what Wei Chen has to say with a normal heart?"

Chongzhen took a deep breath. This feeling of being controlled by others was really not good, but the handle of the knife was now in Xiaotian's hand. Yu Xiaotian had complete control over the life and death of everyone in the palace. He was almost alone now.

, how can I take it from Yu Xiaotian?

So he didn't say anything, fell down on the dragon chair, glared at Yu Xiaotian and said, "You can say whatever you have to say!"

Yu Xiaotian also turned around to find a chair, sat down, and began to chat with Chongzhen.

Yu Xiaotian first started with the general situation of the world, and told Chongzhen in detail the current hunger and suffering of the people in the Ming Dynasty and the miserable conditions of the people in various places.

Regarding these matters, Chongzhen had already read the memorials sent to the capital by many local officials. Of course, he knew what kind of conditions the people in many parts of the Ming Dynasty were living in today.

He also felt heartbroken and saddened by the memorial of entering Beijing, and was deeply saddened by the hunger of the people.

But over the years, he has become a little numb. Since he came to the throne, there have been too many such things, and the Ming Dynasty has been in chaos year after year, with financial shortages and no way to provide relief. So now he begins to feel uncomfortable about such things.

Got numb.

Yu Xiaotian went on to point out that the reason why Ming Dynasty's refugee armies are now everywhere is inseparable from the policies of the imperial court. The imperial court is now in financial difficulties and continues to increase wages and taxes. In fact, it is killing the goose that lays eggs and destroying the Great Wall. Doing so is

After drinking poison to quench their thirst, the common people themselves could no longer make a living. The imperial court still had to collect taxes and raises, so the government could only push the common people. The common people could no longer survive and could only rise up. As a result, more and more refugee armies were suppressed.

Although it seems that the imperial court has achieved some results in the suppression campaign last year, in fact, as long as it relaxes a little, the refugee army will immediately resurgence and the suppression will be overwhelming. Even if Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others are eliminated, there will be more in the future.

Wang Zicheng, Zhao Zicheng and Ma Xianzhong continued to rebel.

This cycle goes back and forth with no end at all, until the entire Ming Dynasty is completely exhausted, and finally the Ming Dynasty is completely destroyed.

Chongzhen was a little unconvinced by this, but his thinking was gradually led by Yu Xiaotian into a state of mind. He began to be influenced by Yu Xiaotian and began to consider this aspect.

So Chongzhen and Yu Xiaotian started to argue. Now the Ming Dynasty was in financial difficulty. To suppress bandits and control bandits, we needed to use troops. To use troops, we needed to spend money. If we don’t have money, we can’t fight. If we don’t increase wages, where would the money come from?

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Yu Xiaotian did not answer his question directly, but just said that this kind of thing is a trivial matter to him and can be solved in minutes. There is no need to spend a lot of time to intimidate these people.

Chongzhen didn't believe this at all, thinking that Yu Xiaotian was just talking nonsense.

But regarding Chongzhen's doubts, after Yu Xiaotian thought about it, he finally came up with his solution, which was to collect business taxes, impose maritime restrictions, support agriculture with business, and support agriculture with industry. He cited the examples of the two Song Dynasties.

For example, during the Song Dynasty, although the country's military power was weak, the country was quite wealthy. The annual tax revenue was many times higher than that of the Ming Dynasty today. Even at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, when the Southern Song Dynasty was close to half of the rivers and mountains in the south of the Yangtze River, the annual tax revenue exceeded that of the Northern Song Dynasty.

There are many periods.

In addition to various exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, this has a lot to do with the Song Dynasty's opening of sea trade during the Song Dynasty. Each year, the contribution of shipping companies in various places to the court's fiscal revenue accounted for more than half. In addition, sea trade promoted

The development of handicraft industry has absorbed a large amount of labor force, and various commercial taxes have exceeded agricultural taxes.

However, since the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has banned the sea, and at the same time despised commerce, and did not collect or only rarely collected taxes from merchants, which led to the Ming Dynasty's strong reliance on agricultural taxation, and as a result, the farmers of the Ming Dynasty were overburdened.

There is also the fact that in the nearly three hundred years since the Ming Dynasty, over the years in the Ming Dynasty, the nobles, nobles and officials have annexed and occupied too much land, but they have never contributed any taxes to the court.

, even if it was paid, many acres of land were concealed, colluded with local officials, deceived the superiors and deceived the inferiors, and passed on the taxes they should pay to ordinary people, making it impossible for ordinary people to bear it.

Therefore, what the Ming Dynasty did could only get worse and worse. The constant increase in allocations made the burden on farmers everywhere too heavy. The grain harvested by farmers throughout the year was not even enough to pay to the government. Who would farm? If they did not pay, they would be arrested and tortured.

Urgent, if you pay, you will starve to death. It would be strange if the people don't rebel.

In addition, the various expenses incurred by water transportation every year consume too much of the Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue. Water transportation can be completely abandoned. The sea route will transport the food taxes and taxes from the south to the north. In this way, a lot of money can be saved in a year.

Consumption.

When Chongzhen heard this, some ministers mentioned the matter of sea transportation. However, many ministers objected, saying that the sea was unpredictable, and if there were hurricanes and waves, heavy losses would occur, so sea transport could not be replaced by water transport.

Yu Xiaotian immediately laughed and asked Chongzhen: "Weichen started his career from the sea. Although he has encountered hurricanes and waves over the years, he has not suffered much loss. Even in Nanyang,

The wind and waves are many times stronger than those on the northern sea, and we have not suffered heavy losses due to hurricane waves!

This time, Wei Chen used nearly a thousand large ships to go north, but he did not suffer much losses. Doesn't this explain the problem?

The Holy Spirit was deceived by those ministers again! They were not worried about the loss of shipping money and grain due to hurricanes and waves, but they were worried about their own interests!

With so much water transportation expenses every year, does the Holy Spirit really think that it is spent on the canal? That’s wrong! At least 80% of the money and food wasted falls into the hands of various people. Anyone who opposes the replacement of sea transportation

Most of them use water transportation because they want to get a lot of profits from it every year, so once sea transportation replaces water transportation, these people will have no money to take!

In this case, it would be strange if they did not object! This is why Wei Chen said that too many officials in the Ming Dynasty deserve to be killed!

And I am afraid that the Holy Spirit once had the idea of ​​collecting taxes from merchants to supplement the insufficient fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty! Was this matter also met with collective opposition from the ministers?

That's right, because these ministers claim to not compete with the people for profit, but in fact a few of them secretly do not collude with the merchants, and even do business secretly themselves, charging merchants

Tax, then it means collecting money from them. How can they agree?

These are the ministers of the Holy Sage, and this is how they work for the Holy Sage and the Ming Dynasty!

The Holy One has been working hard all day long for the lack of money, but all these ministers are lining their own pockets. Apart from other things, the Holy One asked the officials to donate money to help with salaries, but how much food and salary donations have been received? If there is no trace of it.

As I expected, I'm afraid there are only a few, a drop in the bucket?"

(Thanks to the two brothers of Xiaoxiaochunfeng in the Desert and Mudanjiang in the thick for the reward!)