The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 652
Lingshanwei is connected to Qingzhou in the west, and Kong Youde's military chaos has not spread, so it has been under the control of the imperial court. There are three thousand households under Lingshanwei.

There are 600 registered military households in Lingshan, and they own 11 fertile fields.

This is also a big piece of fat that Ding Yi is eyeing.

In late May, Liu Yuan, governor of Jinan, and Zhang Yingqiu, governor of Denglai, both recommended Tongzhi Lu Chao, the commander of Dachongwei, as the commander of Lingshanwei.

The court forbids it.

In June, Ding Yi, the commander-in-chief of Denglai, recommended Lu Chao as the commander of Lingshan Guard. Feng, afraid that the military households below will be disappointed, and there will be another disaster.

Chongzhen was furious, why didn't you report your meritorious service before, but now you are asked to report to Denglai General Soldier?

The imperial court thought over and over again, and had to compromise.

The reason for the court's compromise was still Ding Yi's old routine.

Lingshanwei is in my hands, and I can pay 5000 taels of silver tax to the imperial court every year.

Ding Yi now also knows that the Ming court is short of money, and Chongzhen is short of money, so sometimes it is quite useful to use money to open the way.

Think about it at the end of the Han Dynasty, the emperor sold his officials wantonly, wasn't it because of lack of money.

Chongzhen is more face-saving, so naturally he dare not openly sell anything.

But he was able not to transfer Liu Yuan, the governor of Denglai, for seven or eight years, because Denglai paid more taxes than other places.

Now that Ding Yi said that he could pay the tax, Chongzhen thought about it for the money, and agreed with his teeth.

At this time, the entire Denglai area, Dengzhou and Calais, Jialingshan Wei and other guards, plus Lushun, Ding Yi promised to pay Chongzhen a total of 4 taels of tax silver every year.

Chongzhen was both happy and angry.

The happy thing is that the soldiers and horses in these places can not only pay less money, but also receive money. If all the soldiers in the world are like this, why is the affairs of the Ming Dynasty so corrupted to the point where it is now.

What is angry is that Ding Yi is equal to blatantly humiliating him with money.

Who do you look down on, throwing money at me?
But thinking about the empty treasury, Chongzhen could only hold his nose and admit it, smash it, smash me to death with money.

If the Ming Dynasty was strong, the courtiers would definitely stand up one after another, accusing Ding Yi of being a feudal official, controlling the territory, refusing to obey orders, and not letting Chongzhen do this.

But now some of the courtiers are loyal to the Ming Dynasty. Since the death of Wen Tiren’s egg case, Lu Chao has kept a low-key relationship in the capital everywhere and sent money. Ding Yi relied on his historical memory. Send any good goods to the capital.

There is basically no one in the court to make things difficult for Ding Yi, and Chongzhen is probably the one who wants to make things difficult for Ding Yi the most.

Therefore, Ding Yi transferred the general army of Denglai, recommended the commander of Lingshanwei, and passed them one by one. Now with the addition of Liu Yuan's Jinan governor, most of Shandong is already under Ding Yi's control.

However, Lingshanwei is far away, and the local military households are deeply entrenched, so it takes a little effort to control it.

So Lu Chao's appointment has not yet come down, Ding Yi is already impatient, ready to seize Lingshanwei.

Lingshanwei was built in the 31st year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1398). At that time, it had jurisdiction over the front, back, left, middle, and left. The Commanding and Envoy Division of the Capital (referred to as Shandong Beiwo Dusi) is the "Xingdu Division" of the Commanding and Envoy Division of Shandong Province and the highest military institution along the coast of Shandong to manage the coastal defense of Shandong in a unified manner. Daying [8] delineated the defense area and governed the guards. After the establishment of the three major battalions, the Lingshan Guards were under the jurisdiction of the Jimo Camp.

During the Shenzong Dynasty, the Wanli Korean War broke out. As the imperial court manages the rear of North Korea, Shandong urgently needs to strengthen coastal defense.In the twenty-fifth year of Wanli (1597 in the west), the Shandong Beiwadu Division was changed to be the commander-in-chief guarding Shandong. He is the deputy commander-in-chief of Shandong, also known as the deputy commander-in-chief of Denglai.

Then it was changed several times in the middle. In 1621, it was changed to Denglai Coastal Defense Chief, and in 1630, the town was changed to Xie (Xie was at the level of deputy commander).

At the time of Zhang Keda, it was changed to Denglai Commander-in-Chief. At this time, Lingshan Guard no longer belonged to the Jimo Camp.

During the Dengzhou Rebellion, the Dengzhou Battalion and the Wendeng Battalion of the three major battalions joined Zhang Keda in the battle, and the Jimo Battalion stayed on Lingshanwei's side all the time, and it was not broken by the rebels and suffered no losses.

After the war, the Dengzhou Camp and Wendeng Camp were almost wiped out.

Then at that time Chongzhen asked Ding Yi's subordinate Wang Weizhong to station in Dengzhou for the guerrillas of the Dengzhou Battalion, in order to divide Ding Yi's strength.

The original history of Wendengying was reorganized and existed until the Qing Dynasty.

But this time because Xu Fuzuo was the new general of Denglai, he did not reorganize the Wendeng camp.

Because Wendeng was occupied by Ding Yi's hoarding troops at that time, Xu Fuzuo was embarrassed to go to grab the territory. Now Ding Yi has taken this opportunity to reorganize the 38th Battalion, and Zhu Sheng will lead the troops to garrison Wendeng. people instead.

And Yan Xiong is stationed in Dengzhou, which is equivalent to the Dengzhou camp.

The original three battalions, Dengzhou Camp and Wendeng Camp, were all occupied by Ding Yi.

So now only Jimo Camp and Lingshanwei are still in the hands of the court.

The Jimo camp is also in Denglai. Ding Yi now controls the whole of Denglai, so of course he doesn't want to have such a force outside of himself.

Before Ding Yi convened the army from all over Denglai to discuss the future, he had taken advantage of the situation to solve the Jimo camp.

At this time, the Jimo Battalion set up one garrison, one general commander of the Chinese army, and two general commanders. Ding Yi moved to live in Dengzhou above the garrison. , was laid off by nearly half, and got young and strong in his early thousand.

But Lingshanwei is no longer under the management of Jimo Camp, but under the jurisdiction of the Shandong Metropolitan Division.

This time Liu Yuangang arrived in Jinan, and did not completely control the Shandong Third Division.

So Ding Yi can only rely on himself to strike first.

After he and Liu Yuan suggested to the imperial court that Lu Chao should be the commander of the Lingshan Guard, the imperial court passed the proposal, but before the official order was issued, someone in the capital had rushed back to report.

In June, Lu Chao led three thousand soldiers from Zhou Yougen's 34th Battalion to Jimo from Laiyang to the south.

Zhou Yougen’s troops came to take over the original Jimo Battalion, and left more than 100 people here to train the soldiers and horses of the Jimo Battalion. Afterwards, they will reorganize with other soldiers and horses to form a new army (later the Wendeng Battalion of Zhu Sheng’s 38th Battalion).

The rest of the soldiers and horses continued to go south, and first stationed in Jiaozhou.

After Lu Chao arrived, he waited in Jiaozhou for more than two months before he was appointed by the imperial court.

During this month, with the cooperation of local officials in Jiaozhou, I learned that there are more than 5000 registered military households in Lingshan Guard. There are a total of 1000 mu of military land under the guard.

The current commander is Fang Gang, who just took office last year and was transferred from Yizhou Wei.

The original commander was transferred to the Yizhou Guard. The two were very interesting. They also exchanged fields in the guard.

While Lu Chao was waiting for the imperial order and secretly investigating and preparing,
Ding Yi was spending a lot of money.

Because this time Ding Yi took the opportunity to serve as the commander-in-chief of Denglai, he incorporated all the battalions in Denglai, and the total strength of the infantry battalion reached [-]. After Lu Chao took office, the Lingshan Guards will soon join him Incorporating.

The more soldiers and horses, the more expenses will naturally be incurred.

But in the past, the Denglai battalion paid 40 yuan, and the imperial court paid about [-] shi for silver and grain, and [-] catties of salt.

Probably equal to [-]% to [-]% of what should be issued.

This is not bad. You must know that at this time in the Ming Dynasty, the battalions in many places have not been paid for a long time, so more and more officers and soldiers joined the peasant army.

There are two reasons why Denglai's battalion can send troops. One is that they are responsible for transporting Liao's salaries, and the other is that they often enter the Wei capital.

Therefore, the imperial court did not dare to stop their salaries easily.

Although Ding Yi has to pay taxes, this is related to Liao's salary and entry into the Wei capital. It is estimated that at least [-] to [-]% of this year can still be paid.

With [-]% to [-]% paid by the court, Ding Yi paid less by himself.

His salaries are all paid here. Ordinary sergeants only pay one or two silvers a month, and they are still feeding them. Military households are better, five silvers a month, and there is no food, because they only need to pay [-]% of the tax for hoarding land, and the remaining [-]% is their own. of.

In this way, Ding Yi calculates that in the Denglai area, there will only be 40 battalion soldiers, [-] cavalry soldiers, and [-] military households (Lingshanwei has not been counted at this time), and a year's salary needs [-] taels of silver. Neglecting it, it only costs a few thousand taels of silver, and Ding Yi's own production cost is lower.

In addition to food and meat for the battalion soldiers, it takes about 5 taels a year to convert silver, and at least 30 for armor and equipment. (Of course, this is a fixed investment, and generally the first year's investment can be managed for several years).

There is also the food for the family members and children of the camp soldiers, but the family members can help Ding Yi with work, which basically offsets it.

For example, although the family members need to provide food and distribute a small amount of silver, they also help Ding Yi create wealth, sewing clothes, building canals, cleaning, drying sea fish, raising poultry, etc., which can offset it.

So in the first year when he was the chief soldier of Denglai, Ding Yi had to spend only the soldiers and horses, reaching nearly 80 taels.

The imperial court can give about 15 a year, and he himself has to pay 65.

After raising so many soldiers, Ding Yi and his subordinates realized how difficult it is to raise soldiers.

It's no wonder that many general soldiers of the Ming Dynasty went out, only bringing [-] soldiers.

Ding Yi only has more than 2 people here, and it will cost more than 60.

In addition to other expenses, drainage of victims, wages of officials and craftsmen, and various constructions such as hoarding fields, hoarding castles, and ditches, it is properly close to 100 million.

Of course, armor equipment is the most expensive in the first year, and it will inevitably drop from next year.

Although it seems to cost millions, Ding Yi feels that there is no problem now.

One is that his income in Dengzhou is relatively high, and the other is that his income in Laizhou has not yet started.

When Laizhou's income increases, he will have no problem raising twice as many soldiers and horses.

Dengzhou's income began to turn positive the year before last, and there was a profit. At that time, there was no money left, and the remaining grain was 20 shi. After selling it, it made hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Last year, the remaining money was 5 taels, and the remaining grain was 25 shi. Due to the high price of grain, after the sale, the remaining money was close to 60.

Now in Du Ruhai's hands, after the past two years, there are two million 10 taels of surplus, and the grain storage is 30 taels a year. (and eat Chen Yuxin every year)

With Dengzhou's farmland reaching the limit of 35 mu (Ding Yi's own farmland), coupled with Dengzhou's developed commerce in recent years, and the land tax collected, the income this year should reach 70 taels.

But this time, there were so many additional troops at once, and the expenditure reached one million.

Du Ruhai didn't plan to make any money this year, and he must have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

When the taxes and money in Laizhou are raised next year, it will be net income, and it will definitely increase sharply.

If the same effect as Dengzhou can be achieved within two years, Ding Yi can earn more than 100 million taels a year in the Denglai area.

If Ding Yi can earn one million yuan a year in Xiaoxiao Denglai, then the Ming court's tax revenue of 300 million yuan a year would be a joke.

In fact, the money Ding Yi made in Laizhou should not be as good as that in Dengzhou.

Because there are no hoarders from Ding Yi in Laizhou, hundreds of thousands of stone grains are missing in this area alone.

So only relying on taxation and business, Ding Yi estimated that he could get 60 in Laizhou, which would be considered good.

That would not be easy. If he could get the whole of Shandong, his annual income would probably exceed that of the entire country of Ming Dynasty.

You must know that in the Qing Dynasty in later generations, the highest tax revenue per year was 8000-9000 million taels of silver, and it basically relied on agricultural taxes.

And Ding Yi's commercial tax and agricultural tax are all in one, and a Shandong is given to him. After three to five years, he is sure that after expenses, his net income will reach more than 500 million.

With Dengzhou's experience, considering that there are no hoarders here yet, and other battalion soldiers and guard soldiers are being reorganized and trained, they will not be able to use them until at least a year later.

Ding Yi re-measured the fields while preparing for trial collection of commercial tax.

Of course, this can only be said to be the first step in commercial taxation, with Dengzhou and Laizhou running simultaneously.

Before the start of the levy, at the beginning of June, all the grass-roots officials in the prefectures and counties were replaced with refugees who had been trained for several years. There were more than a dozen counties in Denglai and Lai. The number of people in more than a dozen counties.

A total of 8000 people were recruited.

These hoarders were all drawn from various places in the past. They hoarded land in Dengzhou and paid taxes. They are adults and strong enough to participate in at least three months of queue training every year, and they also need to learn to read.

After several years of training, there is already a certain foundation.

Now suddenly changed, many people are very excited to catch Yamen servants.

They used to be civilians, but they suddenly changed to officials. They used to be afraid of officials, but now they can make decisions. Do you think these people can be unhappy.

Those who are selected will give up the original farmland and hand it over to the new refugees.

They have families and drag their families to various counties.

Each county allocates a place to live in, and builds if there is no place, and then eats with the garrison or military households in the county and receives payment.

Even without hoarding fields, you can support yourself.

For the local county magistrate, those who are sensible dare not hum, and some are not convinced that they have changed their county government officials substantially.

After all, in this era, there are county magistrates who feel that they are better than the general soldier.

What's more, the county magistrate's private land has tens of millions of acres. Like the Laiyang county magistrate, Ding Yi will collect their taxes in the end anyway.

There is nothing to talk about with these people in the late Ming Dynasty. Later generations of Manchu Qing have already had good experience to teach Ding Yi.

When officials were changed in June, three county magistrates either slipped into the river, or committed suicide at home, or were killed by bandits. Danger.

Ding Yi, the general of Denglai, said: "The people in Shandong are fierce, and there are many refugees and disaster victims, which attract bandits and affect the local security. I will be the leader to clean up the bandits, fight crime, and protect the family and the people."

Zhou Yougen, Fang Duotai and others led battalion troops across counties and prefectures, and thunder strikes. From time to time, there were news of success reported to the court, bandits and rioters were killed, and from time to time, bandits broke through counties and prefectures. For example, Pingdu Prefecture was destroyed by rebels. , suffered heavy losses, and Jinshen suffered heavy casualties. Fortunately, Ding Yi quickly led his troops to suppress the rebellion.

A small number of officials in the imperial court impeached Ding Yi: "Kill good people and serve as military merit".

There is also the impeachment of Ding Yi: "Snatch the good land from the gentry and compete with the people for profit."

There was no response from the court, and nothing happened.

(End of this chapter)