Daming pirates

It is a pity that Chongzhen never thought of using this method to bring the money back under his control. Otherwise, let alone getting all the money into his hands, even if he only got one percent or even one thousandth,

It is estimated that it is enough for him to feed an army of one million without any problem, and he will not have to increase the pay every year. As a result, it will eventually lead to anger and resentment, the collapse of people's hearts, and the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.

And even if Chongzhen was unwilling to use this method to raise money, there was actually a way for Ming Dynasty to solve its financial problems without having to send more troops every year.

That is taxing, taxing merchants! The Ming Dynasty has always been light on business, but the strange thing is that it has never thought of taxing the merchants of the Ming Dynasty. Even if it is a tax, it is only symbolic.

Although the Ming Dynasty government used some means from time to time to force some businessmen to take on the supply of materials in the form of submission or sharing, it did indeed cause many small handicraftsmen and some small businessmen to go bankrupt.

But in fact, for big merchants, the taxes they bear are extremely low.

That's not to say that every emperor of the Ming Dynasty hasn't thought of this method, but they are faced with a problem, that is, among the wealthy businessmen, who is not secretly colluding or having nepotism with those officials?

Who among the officials of the Ming Dynasty did not benefit from this? No matter what sage books those officials had read since childhood, they were all inferior in speech and speech. Only those who were well-educated looked down upon businessmen. Moreover, in terms of the system, businessmen were always despised and regarded as businessmen.

The status of farmers is much lower than that of farmers.

But in fact, the interests of businessmen have always been tied to the interests of officials. For example, the salt merchants among Huizhou merchants secretly sell private salt, control a large number of underground private salt sales, and obtain huge profits from it.

It can be said that every country is extremely wealthy, but if these people do this kind of thing, if they say that there are no officials to protect them, then no one will believe it.

Officials have to take various filial piety from these businessmen every year, so they naturally have to speak for the businessmen because they are short-handed.

Sometimes the emperor wanted to tax businessmen to increase fiscal revenue, but without exception, the ministers would immediately collectively admonish him, saying that it was not easy to compete with the people for profit, and that this kind of thing would cause very bad consequences. In short, the emperor wanted to

If you want to ask businessmen for money, there is no way! They have to keep the money in their pockets, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the country! Asking businessmen for money means robbing them of their money, and the emperor will not do it! Everyone will form a group and fight to the end with the emperor.

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As a result, the emperor saw that his ministers were so opposed, so of course he had no choice but to let it go, because he wanted to tax, but someone always had to do the work for him! The ministers were opposed, and this kind of thing could not be carried out.

, His Majesty, the Emperor, cannot personally go door to door to collect taxes from merchants!

There is such a bunch of bastards, all of them are sanctimonious on the surface, standing and talking without pain, all of them look noble and upright, but they are full of male thieves and female prostitutes who are serving the emperor. Ming Dynasty wants to increase its fiscal revenue.

It’s really not easy, so I have no choice but to keep reaching out to those farmers at the bottom of society. If they have no money, they will receive more stipends, and if they don’t have enough money, they will increase their gifts!

If you do this, even if Ming wants to finish the game, I'm afraid God won't do it!

Of course, if Chongzhen still wanted to get money from other places, there was nothing he could do. At least he could completely abandon the sea sealing policy, open up the sea ban, and set up municipal shipping departments in various places. Following the example of the two Song Dynasties, he could collect money through the municipal shipping departments.

Import and export taxes, I'm afraid, will collect more than a few million taels of silver this year! It can easily support a large number of troops, instead of watching catastrophic disasters in various places. Instead of providing relief, they have to continue to send more troops.

, keep playing yourself to death.

Speaking of the Shipping Department, the reason why the Song Dynasty was so rich is undoubtedly related to the Song Dynasty's policy of opening ports, encouraging business, and encouraging export trade.

The annual fiscal revenue of the Song Dynasty, even in the late Southern Song Dynasty, exceeded tens of millions of silver. Based on the exchange ratio at that time, it was almost one tael of silver. Even in the late Southern Song Dynasty, the annual income was quite large.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the state's annual fiscal revenue was only two million taels. Zhang Juzheng worked hard during his time in power and doubled it to four million taels. During the Apocalypse period, the annual fiscal revenue was continuously increased, and it was basically fixed at 500 taels.

One hundred thousand taels. During the Chongzhen period, due to the continuous increase in Liao, Lian, and Suppressant rates, it was greatly increased to more than six million taels. However, this almost killed the entire country's peasant class, and eventually destroyed the Ming Dynasty.

It was too frustrating.

The huge gap during this period shows how big it is. This is also a tragedy caused by the Ming Dynasty's long-term isolation. It is not easy to be the emperor! There is really a lack of money.

It is unreasonable to say that the Ming Dynasty will not be finished. This is like sitting on a treasure mountain but being poor. It is clear that the country has accumulated huge wealth, but it is unable to collect it. Every day, Emperor Chongzhen loses his hair because of the lack of money.

, we can only continue to exploit the poor peasants, forcing them to survive and not to rebel.

However, Yu Xiaotian was too lazy to take care of this kind of thing, let alone go to the imperial court to give advice on how to make money. Now he controlled the sea trade channels along the coast of Fujian. By the third year of Chongzhen, he was only a single

He collected the money from Tonghai merchants to buy the way, and in one year a net amount of nearly two million taels of silver was recorded in his account.

This income alone accounted for more than one-third of the entire Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue. If the Ming Dynasty were to open its ports and set up a shipping department to collect taxes, wouldn't it mean that they were trying to steal his job?

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That's why he won't care about the problem of whether Ming Dynasty is short of money or not. Since the whole Ming Dynasty is completely rotten now, he would rather just watch and let Ming Dynasty rot so completely. One day he will kick this Ming Dynasty building down.

If we want to completely eliminate the shortcomings of the Ming Dynasty from the root, we will never take action now to help the Ming Dynasty survive.

When the sky changes in the past dynasties, people inevitably die, many people die, but this is also the price that must be paid for historical changes. If such a price is not paid, then it will be impossible to build a new social system and social structure, and now he has to do it.

What he wants is to take advantage of the opportunity to continue to make money, and to obtain enough funds to support his march northward to compete in the Central Plains.

From the current point of view, he is doing quite well. At least Sea Wolf no longer wants to make money with one hand and spend money with the other as he did in previous years. There is almost never enough money left in the bank.

Although it has only been a few years since he was adopted, Sea Wolf's financial situation has undergone earth-shaking changes. Yu Xiaotian no longer has to feel stretched out for lack of money. Now he is living in Tamsui and Keelung.

In the secret warehouses set up in the two places, at least more than four million taels of silver have been reserved. This does not include the large amount of daily working capital and various temporary reserves in Weitou Bay.

If we now take stock of the value of the entire Sea Wolf Group, then the most conservative estimate is that the fixed funds and various movable and real estate assets that Yu Xiaotian currently has on hand are at least 20 million taels of silver, which is definitely not enough to cover it.

If this figure were revealed, it would probably scare a large number of people. This is the total fiscal revenue of the entire Ming Dynasty for four to five years. If it could be handed over to Chongzhen, it is estimated that Chongzhen would not have to worry about lack of money for at least many years.

!At least the Ming Dynasty will no longer force the people to a dead end by adding more troops every year due to lack of money, and the Ming Dynasty will not eventually kill itself.

Of course, now Yu Xiaotian would never reveal to anyone that he had such a huge wealth. On the contrary, he continued to complain to Xiong Wencan about his poverty and demanded payment from Fujian.

In fact, Fujian's financial situation has not been very good in recent years. Although it is not as poor as several northern provinces, there is still a problem of payment arrears.

In the past, when Yu Xiaotian was in charge of a small number of soldiers and horses, Xiong Wencan could favor him and try his best to ensure that his men were given food and wages first. But now that Yu Xiaotian is the chief military officer of Fujian, he is in charge of a large number of Fujian troops.

As for the army, Xiong Wencan still wants to favor him and ensure that his soldiers and generals can get their food and pay in time, but this is not very realistic.

Therefore, in the past two years, Fujian has owed Yu Xiaotian a lot of food and wages. For this reason, Yu Xiaotian often went to Xiong Wencan to complain about his poverty. Now that Xiong Wencan saw Yu Xiaotian, he felt embarrassed. After all, Yu Xiaotian gave him

After helping so much, he always followed orders and never ignored his instructions. He sent troops immediately when he was told to send troops, and provided disaster relief immediately when he was told to do so. He did not hesitate at all.

However, he was unable to provide Yu Xiaotian with sufficient military pay. It was equivalent to letting the horse run without letting it eat grass. If it were another general, he would have stopped doing this a long time ago, even if it was not a public quarrel.

Pay, at the very least, would be negligent and delaying, but Yu Xiaotian did not do this.

Whenever there is a pirate attack along the coast, the navy under the control of Yu Xiaotian has always been alerted and dispatched. Even if there is gangsterism on land, as long as Xiong Wencan asks Yu Xiaotian to send troops, Yu Xiaotian will also send troops immediately without delay.

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His behavior made even some Fujian officials who had always been wary or hostile towards Xiaotian feel speechless. Although they did not look down on Xiaotian in their hearts and even maintained a hostile attitude towards Xiaotian,

I have to admit that after Yu Xiaotian was cared for, the whole of Fujian seemed to have become much more stable.

In particular, Yu Xiaotian has a very strong ability to control troops. All the officers and soldiers under his control will soon be docile and obedient by him. Military discipline is strict and he basically works in various places and rarely harms the local area. This is consistent with

In the past, there was a huge difference in how the officers and soldiers behaved. Even the people in many places had a great change in their attitudes towards the officers and soldiers under Xiaotian.