Chapter 39 Angry

There are no less than 100 crippling armies in Shaanxi, and the large-scale crippling armies have reached dozens. These crippling troops, like locusts, swept a large area in the early years of Chongzhen. The momentum is not only disturbing the whole Shaanxi, but also entered Shanxi and messing up the land of Shaanxi. It had to be smoky. In the fourth year of Chongzhen, the exile army, under the advance and suppress of the officers and army, even killed Henan, and the situation in the whole hinterland of the Central Plains also fell into complete chaos.

Of course, these exiles have a reason to rebel. This can't be blamed against them. It can only be said that the Ming Dynasty has completely entered the end of troubled times, and the vicious circle can no longer be reversed. Although Chongzhen has been exhausted and diligent all day long, trying his best to reverse the situation, but it has shown that he has returned to the world. Powerless state.

With the increasing use of troops everywhere, the financial situation of Daming is becoming more and more overwhelmed. The war in Liaodong is rotten, and the civilian army in several provinces of the Central Plains is everywhere. The whole north of the Ming Dynasty can be said to have begun to start a beacon fire. Even some border troops have joined the rebellion because of their unpaid pay, and many former border troops have done He quickly turned into the exile army and stood on the opposite side of Daming.

In this troubled times, even cults such as the White Lotus Religion, which has been extinguished, began to take advantage of the situation and began to make a big hit between the prefectures and counties at the junction of Henan, Shandong and Hebei, and there was a faint trend of sparks.

In order to solve the problem of grain and salary, Chongzhen had to increase the salary repeatedly. At the beginning of the third year, Chongzhen even issued an order to add land to various places, plus 3% per mu of land, so that the whole country can increase the income of 1.6 million taels of farmland.

In this way, on the surface, it is not much to increase by only three percent per mu of land, but in this era when a large number of land is merged, the burden on people everywhere is already very heavy. In fact, when it is allocated to every ordinary person, it is no longer as much as three percent, but several times in a row. This forces many people to no longer live.

So so far, the Ming Dynasty has completely entered a dead end and increased the salary, resulting in more and more people becoming exiles. With more exiles, the exiles will naturally become stronger and stronger. There are more and more exiles, and more and more exiles, so it is necessary to increase the number of soldiers and horses to carry out the advance and suppress. It will cost money to mobilize soldiers and horses. If the money is not enough, it will continue. The increase has led to more people's dissatisfaction, unable to survive and become exiles...

If it goes on like this, the Ming Dynasty will naturally completely enter the dead end...

Such an increase in Tianfu, even in Fujian, has been affected to a certain extent, but fortunately, Fujian itself has few land and is not too extensive. Although the people are dissatisfied, the weather in Fujian has been normal in the past two years, and there has been no major drought. In addition, Yu Xiaotian is sitting in Fujian and is strongly suppressed. Once When a wave of people formed, they immediately moved them out of Fujian and transported them to Taiwan Island.

Even if there are some bandits with slightly stronger strength, under the front of Xiaotian's soldiers, the ice will soon disintegrate, so Fujian has only been slightly affected, but it has not caused great chaos, which is also unique among the provinces in this troubled times.

On the contrary, Yu Xiaotian took this opportunity to get a lot of hungry people from all over the country, which is also regarded as making a fortune.

In fact, Daming has not reached the point of exhaustion. Daming is not without financial resources to dig. First of all, after more than 200 years of accumulation, the huge wealth accumulated by Daming cannot be imagined by outsiders at all.

Although the Ming Dynasty has been pursuing the policy of shutting down the country and sealing the sea since it established itself, it has never completely prevented Daming merchants from doing sea trade in private. Especially after Westerners appeared in Asia and discovered the exquisite specialties of Daming, they were attracted to many commodities of Daming.

Whether it is the Portuguese, the Spaniards who came immediately, the Dutch who came later, and even the British who just began to reach out to the Asian side, they are trying to buy various goods from Daming and ship them back to Europe at a high price*.

European aristocrats are almost proud of having a few Ming porcelain or other things at home. If they don't have a few decent Ming porcelain in their homes, they will be embarrassed to say hello to others and say that they are nobles.

In addition, Daming tea has gradually been accepted by Europeans. Many nobles like this mysterious leaves from the East and feel uncomfortable without drinking a cup every day.

In addition, for those ladies in Europe, it is simply embarrassing to go out without wearing a skirt made of exquisite silk from Daming.

So for all kinds of commodities of Daming, Europe is like a bottomless hole. It can absorb as much as it can, never produce unsalable, and will always be sought after.

These European countries have tried their best to get Daming's goods. First, they shipped European things to Daming, but they found that their things were rarely needed by Daming. Except for a few luxury goods, they had almost nothing to sell to Daming people.

So they can only find ways to ship the gold and silver they have hard to get from other places in exchange for Daming's goods. For a long time, Daming is a net exporter. Except for silver and a small amount of jewelry and spices produced in other places, Daming hardly needs it. Anything.

The huge trade surplus for hundreds of years has caused a large amount of silver around the world to flow into the Ming Dynasty, so that silver has been slowly depreciating in the south of the Ming Dynasty, including a large amount of silver brass produced in Japan, and most of it has flowed into the Ming Dynasty.

And this huge amount of silver has almost been deposited in the hands of the rich and gentry of the Ming Dynasty, stored in the cellar and let it be moldy.

Therefore, the huge amount of silver accumulated by the Ming people is almost an astronomical figure and the most conservative estimate. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the amount of silver accumulated by the Ming people was at least hundreds of millions or even billions of taels.

This situation was not reversed until the defeat of the Qing Dynasty. A large amount of silver flowed into China by the Ming and Qing dynasties gradually returned to the hands of European powers because of huge war reparations.

Before that, China had one of the most precious metals in the world.

Therefore, if Chongzhen is cruel enough, if he chooses some powerful to find some charges and uproot them at this time, it is estimated that it will be enough for him to raise tens of millions of soldiers, and there is no problem.

But it is obviously impossible for Chongzhen to do this kind of thing, because these powerful and rich families, whose relationship is not intertwined? Who doesn't have a spokesperson in the court, and who is not a well-sighted person? If Chongzhen wants to do this, it is estimated that the corrupt officials under him will be the first to jump out and quit, because no one knows who will be next and will definitely fight against Chongzhen.

Obviously, Chongzhen does not dare to do this, and he is embarrassed to do so, let alone shamelessly. After all, these rich people and powerful relatives are regarded by him as the pillars of the country.

But when the pillars of these countries died in the Ming Dynasty, how many people were willing to spend all their wealth to fight for the country? Not to mention pouring all their wealth, few people are willing to do it even if they take out part of it. Everyone thinks that the country has no money, which is the emperor's business. It's nothing for them to do. Their money is hard for them. If the country has no money, he can only let the emperor find his own way.

As for Jiapai Jiafu, will it make people angry? Few people care about it. If they don't have money to raise soldiers, the country will be finished, but it is still the emperor's business. Everyone looks at Chongzhen struggling so coldly until the Ming completely finishes playing to the end.

If Yu Xiaotian remembers correctly, at the end of his year, Chongzhen had repeatedly appealed for rich people and officials to pay for their pay, but there were few people who were really willing to pay. Even his father-in-law did not pull out a penny, and he cried with tears. He would rather put the knife on his neck and resolutely The hair is not pulled out.

Later, Li Zicheng entered the capital and carried out a large-scale search of the whole city. Some so-called bullshit historians said that when Li Zicheng fled Beijing, he took away 37 million taels of silver from Beijing, most of which was captured from the palace.

Actually, this is bullshit. Does Chongzhen have any money? There must be, but it can be said that there are definitely not many, because Chongzhen is not a miser. If he still has more than 30 million taels of silver and millions of taels of gold in his money, he will certainly not make the world such a virtue, so that even the dragon seat of the Zhu family will be robbed by others.

However, Li Zicheng did not take 37 million taels of silver and millions of taels of gold from Beijing. This matter is certainly debatable, but Yu Xiaotian believes that this is possible, because after Li Zicheng entered Beijing, the military discipline was ruined and let his men force the whole city to force those old ministers of the Ming Dynasty and the city. The nobles took money to buy their lives, and they should have made a lot of money from these people.

And it is certain that Li Zicheng did not take away most of the silver in Beijing at that time, because after the Manqing Tah entered Beijing, he also fished a lot of silver.

This is just the amount of silver accumulated in Beijing, but how many cities are there in Daming and how many rich people there are? I'm afraid no one can give an accurate answer to how much money has been accumulated.

So Daming is not without money, but the money is in the hands of a few people, and these few people don't care about the survival of Daming at all, but they are like miser, covering their money bags until they are crushed into powder by the exiles or Jiannu, and burned with their silver and jade.

(To explain, these chapters are a foreshadowing. I don't dare to thank you. They are all in one stroke. I have to explain that there is no idea of cheating the number of words. It has been compressed as much as possible. Please understand! In addition, I would like to thank the three brothers, Bai Yun Guogao, GZG1972 and Coke for adding ice! Thank you very much! Ha ha!)