The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 655 How many decades are there in life
But for Ding Yi, this kind of money can only be regarded as small money. If Jiangnan is occupied in the future, the business tax will be even more terrible.

Of course, this is also the reason why the Shandong area is not seriously affected by disasters in this era, Ding Yi's management is good, and the population is relatively large.

If you switch to Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places, many counties do not have a large population, and the commerce is not developed. If you ask for five thousand, no one may be willing to do it.

It was not that the Ming Dynasty had no spending power. People in the Ming Dynasty hid a large amount of silver, made it into wax gourds, and kept them at home one by one.

There was plenty of silver in the Ming Dynasty, but people didn't use it for consumption.

Ding Yi put Dufang and Red Building together to form a bustling commercial street, and then sold special products from Europe, Japan, North Korea, Dayuan, Jeju, Dongjiang and other places to counties, and there was no curfew under his rule Yes, you can also be active at night to promote consumption.

Then control the quantity and let them compete with each other for quality and customers.

The power of business tax is gradually emerging, and the people are willing to consume.

In order to collect farmland tax and commercial tax, Ding Yi first collected [-] officials, and then collected another [-] officials the following year.

The number of new officials in Denglai and Denglai reached [-].

This was an unimaginable exaggeration in the Ming Dynasty.

The total number of officials in Shandong Province in the entire Ming Dynasty is estimated to be less than half of this.

But thinking about future generations, in any county, there may be tens of thousands of people who eat financial food.

In this era, there are few officials, but they can do things. In the past, they relied on the gentry from all over the country.

Now Ding Yi kicked out the squires and let his own people do all the work. As long as there are many people, things will be easy to handle, and if there are many people, he will have control.

Dan Ding Yi has nearly 8000 officials in the 1000 counties and prefectures of Denglai (Dengzhou is the largest, and there were more than [-] in the past).

On average, there are thousands of officials in each county, and they have a strong control over the local villages and towns.

Officials are divided into counties, villages and towns.

The family members of officials in the county are all arranged by the county to do things, such as construction, sewing, cleaning, cleaning ditches, drainage and resettlement of victims, etc.

The family members of officials in villages and towns were allocated fields in each village, hoarding them to raise fish and poultry.

As a result, Ding Yi's men and forces have completed the five levels of control from the prefecture, state, county, town, and village.

Of course, such costs are also huge.

The wages, benefits, food, etc. of so many officials, and those who have children have to go to school together, so that the annual expenditure is nearly 50 taels of silver.

This would be a huge expense for Ding Yi in the past.

Now he collects taxes on 110 million shiliang every year. According to the current grain price, it is enough to sell 30 million shiliang.

And the family members of the officials also helped Ding Yi sell food and other kinds of labor, so as to ensure that the whole family of the officials depended on Ding Yi to live and followed Ding Yi wholeheartedly.

After Ding Yi's commercial tax and farmland tax are fully collected, the Denglai area only has two taxes per year, which is equivalent to nearly 300 million taels of silver.

Once he had money, he immediately spent money recklessly, because his battalion soldiers and family members of officials had to support them.

He began to repair roads in various counties, clean up sanitation, build canals, build waterwheels, increase employment, promote local employment, and improve the quality of farmland, and the money flowed out.

In the next year, more than 100 million yuan was spent, and so much money was spent, which not only stimulated various consumption and employment, but also changed the appearance of the entire Denglei prefectures and counties.

And after Ding Yi's efforts, not to mention the sanitation situation in the county, the disaster resistance ability of rural farmland has also been greatly improved.

Seeing the high taxes for farmers and businesses in Denglai and Denglai, the people of Dongjiang Town finally understood that as long as they have a fixed site, a large population and prosperous business, the money is easy to come by.

Ding Yi advanced layer by layer, first to fully control Denglai, and then to promote commercial tax. Finally, after nearly ten years of operating Denglai, he began to get rich returns.

After a few years, when the people's hearts are more stable, he will collect commercial taxes on all other shops.

At that time, I can make a small profit again.
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Time goes back to June of the 12th year of Chongzhen (1639).

In May, Ding Yi left Juqiang, a general of the battalions above the garrison level in Denglai, in Dengzhou, and then he himself returned to Lushun.

On Lushun's side, Wang Cheng'en, the imperial eunuch who announced the decree, was waiting for him.

As an old friend of Ding Yi, Wang Chengen hit it off with Ding Yi when he first came here to announce the decree. But later, as Ding Yi became more and more powerful, Chongzhen became more and more impressed with Ding Yi, and Wang Chengen seldom Come again.

But every time he came over, Ding Yi respected him very much and was very polite to him.

This time the imperial court issued an edict again, and Chongzhen chose to choose, but let Ding Yi's old friend Wang Chengen come over.

Sure enough, when the decree was announced this time, Wang Chengen didn't even have the chance to go to Phi Island, and Ding Yi directly told him that the entire Dongjiang Town's imperial decree should be given to me.

Then Ding Yi didn't go to Dengzhou to serve as the commander-in-chief of Denglai, and wanted to send someone to send Wang Chengen back to the capital.

Wang Chengen suddenly felt that something was wrong, and privately advised Ding Yi, do you have any thoughts? Although His Majesty has promoted your subordinates, he still misses you. You have a prince and less protection, and you are the governor of the left. , can no longer be promoted, and if you are promoted, you will be granted a title.

If you have any ideas, you can tell us.

At that time, Ding Yi said that Zhang Yingqiu should be the governor of Denglai.

At this time Liu Yuan also resigned, refusing to serve as governor of Baoding.

Wang Chengen and Jin Yiwei immediately rushed back to the capital and told Ding Yi's request.

Chongzhen had no choice, and finally compromised. Zhang Yingqiu was the governor of Denglai, and Liu Yuan was the governor of Jinan.

After that, Ding Yi ignored Wang Chengen and turned a deaf ear to Wang Chengen's call for Zhang Ji, Xu Wei, Mao Xin, Xiao Yongqiu and other generals to announce his decree, and went directly to Denglai to incorporate the Denglai battalion.

Wang Chengen didn't dare to leave, so he had to stay in Lushun and wait.

The Jingjun and Jinyiwei who came from the capital are all under house arrest in a courtyard, and they can't go there. People from Ding Yi come to deliver food every day.

When Ding Yi incorporated the Denglai Camp Army, Wang Chengen and the others lived in this courtyard. He found that the people who came to deliver food were different every day. If he wanted to spread the news or bribe people, he couldn't do it.

Wang Chengen is an honest man. Before everyone said that Ding Yi was cunning and cunning, he still didn't believe it.

He always thought that Ding Yi wanted to protect himself, and like Zu Dashou, he was afraid that Emperor Chongzhen would turn his back on him, so he didn't dare to go to the capital.

But now they live here, but they are under house arrest, and the people who deliver the food are different every day, and they are indeed more sophisticated than ordinary people.

This day, Wang Chengen was chatting with Wei Guan, a hundred households of Jinyiwei, and a few Beijing soldiers. It was really helpless here, and Wang Chengen could only chat with others to pass the time.

Wei Guan also wanted to make friends with him, and he would cooperate with him from time to time, looking for topics to talk about.

Several people talked and talked about Dongjiang Town.

One of the Jing soldiers couldn't help it, so he couldn't help but shouted: "What does Ding Yi mean? It's fine to lock us here. Even the prince is cold. It's really rebellious."

Wang Chengen smiled awkwardly: "It's okay, Mr. Ding may be busy with military affairs, and he will definitely come when he is free."

Wei Guan signaled the Jing army not to talk nonsense with his eyes, and said with a smile: "Zongbing Ding's way of hospitality is also the same, it's okay not to let us go, let us wander around, I don't know what has become of Lushun in the past few years? "

"Our family doesn't know either." Wang Chengen sighed.

It turned out that they came here by boat from Laizhou.

Since Ding Yi began to build the North Port in Denglai, all the officials of the imperial court thought of Lushun and took boats from Laizhou Bay.

Before disembarking, everyone wore black cloths on their heads and covered their eyes.

At that time, Ding Yi's behavior shocked everyone, but no one dared to resist, so they could only be covered with cloth.

So they couldn't see what Lushun had become.

When Wang Chengen was mentioned by Wei Guan, he was also very curious about what it was like outside.

He visited Lushun a few years ago, and felt that Lushun was very clean and different from the capital city. Now that he thinks about it, he really wants to go out and have a look.

But there were soldiers guarding outside, and they couldn't get out.

Everyone stood in the yard, looking at the high wall in the distance together, with various moods.

Suddenly, there was a commotion outside, and then someone came in carrying two boxes, which were delivering lunch that day.

I saw a middle-aged man, dressed in a decent blue cloth clothes, looking bright and walking vigorously. When he came in, he said a few words to the guards, and then he laughed loudly, as if he knew him very well, and then picked him out.

Wang Chengen and the others looked at each other, and their hearts became more complicated.

Like the food deliverers in the past few times, the people on Ding Yi's side were full of hope and joy, and everyone was happy, unlike many people in the capital who were lifeless.

He was amazed that even an ordinary person delivering meals could wear silk clothes.

It was the same with the food delivery person the day before yesterday, and after Wei Guan asked a few words, the other party said that his son had just started working as a craftsman, and his wages were relatively high, so he bought a silk forging to make a dress for him to wear.

And workers like them who deliver meals and do odd jobs start with only three renminbi a month, and their wages increase by one renminbi every three years when they stay in Lushun, and the other adults provide breakfast and lunch.

At that time, Wei Guan wanted to ask more questions, but the other party only said a few words and refused to say anything.

"My lords, general, it's time to eat." The middle-aged man who was new to deliver the meal laughed, put down his shoulder pole, looked up and looked at Wei Guan.

Swipe, the expressions of both of them changed drastically at the same time.

The middle-aged man reacted quickly, quickly turned his head to look at the defenders outside the door, then quickly lowered his head, opened the box, and took out boxes of meals.

When he took the box out, his hands were already shaking uncontrollably.

Fortunately, his psychological quality seemed to be good. After taking a few deep breaths, he finally calmed down slowly.

Wang Chengen also felt that something was wrong, and looked at Wei Guan in bewilderment.

Wei Guan's face was flushed, and he looked left and right: "Let's eat, let's eat." He called several people around to eat.

He also went up to get a box himself, then stepped back step by step, walked behind a pillar on the right, and looked up at the middle-aged man from time to time.

The middle-aged man stood where he was handing out boxed lunches, looked at him from time to time, and looked outside the door from the corner of his eye.

He seemed to be very tangled in his heart, he hesitated for a while, and finally walked forward under Wei Guan's gaze.

When the two walked behind the pillar, Wei Guan quickly took a few steps and hid in the room, and the man quickly followed in, squeaked, and closed the door.

Wang Chengen breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the boxed lunch and started to eat, feeling much better.

The middle-aged man just walked in.

With a splash, Wei Guan knelt down on one knee, and said in an excited tone, "My lord Baihu, I didn't expect you to be alive, my lord."

It turned out that this middle-aged man was still in the same group as Yuan Gui back then, and mixed into Lushun's Jinyiwei Baihu Wang Hailiang.

At that time, Jinyiwei sent a large number of spies to Lushun, some were arrested by Zhao Dashan and others, and some directly voted (such as Yuan Gui), and this Wang Hailiang found a child who had just died in Pidao, and led him all the way to Lushun, he actually got past him.

Wang Hailiang almost cried: "Get up, you, you are also a hundred households."

"It's been almost ten years. I thought Master Baihu was dead—" Wei Guan was Wang Hailiang's subordinate back then, and he was a good brother. He also volunteered to come to Lushun this time.

Because when Wang Hailiang came, there was no more news, and everyone thought they were dead.

Wang Hailiang was able to sneak in, and he stayed for nearly ten years without any problems, which is also a bit level.

He reacted immediately: "I can't talk to you for too long, I'm leaving soon, what do you want to say? Hurry up?"

"Master Baihu can't get out?" Wei Guan feels that Lushun is so big, there must be a way to get out, right?

"I can't go out, and I can't go out." Wang Hailiang said here: "If you have something to say, tell me, if you don't tell me, I will leave."

"The imperial court wants to know what Ding Yi has done here, and the generals under him, who have been greatly promoted this time, will their hearts turn to the imperial court?" Wei Guan asked hurriedly.

Wang Hailiang thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Please persuade the court not to think too much about it. The trick of splitting up and picking discord can be used in other places in Ming Dynasty, but it is useless here in Dongjiang Town."

"What?" Wei Guan was dumbfounded, unable to believe it.

Wang Hailiang sighed: "You are not here, you don't know, I have lived here for almost ten years, how many ten years are there in my life? Hey-here-I said, you don't understand, anyway at home-and Daming It's different anywhere else, sigh, when you go back, don't mention me, just treat me as dead."

"What?" Wei Guan was shocked again.

This is, this is, do you want to stay in Lushun in the future?
"Master Baihu, the sister-in-law in the capital, Heping'er, misses you very much." Wei Guan said.

Pain flashed across Wang Hailiang's face, but he turned around abruptly, opened the door and ran out.

Wei Guan didn't dare to call loudly.

He could only watch helplessly as Wang Hailiang packed his things. When Wang Hailiang lowered his head, tears were already in his eyes.

Wei Guan closed his eyes helplessly and took a deep breath.

"Who is this person?" Wang Chengen did not know when he appeared beside him.

Wei Guan's expression changed, and his mind started to spin rapidly.

He pulled Wang Chengen to the side, and said in a deep voice: "This man is Wang Hailiang. He used to be one of our Jinyiwei Baihu. Chongzhen was sent to Lushun three years ago. After he came, he didn't make a sound. He has lived here for nearly ten years."

"Hiss..." Wang Chengen also gasped.

Unexpectedly, someone in Jinyiwei lived here for nearly ten years.

These ten years are the key ten years for Ding Yi's development. Although he looks like a handyman, he must know something about it. He is an important person.

"You asked him if he would go back with us, and he must find a way to bring him back." Wang Chengen said excitedly.

"He refused to go back." Wei Guan said.

"Ah, this." Wang Chengen's expression also changed.

Wei Guan thought for a while, then suddenly knelt down in front of Wang Chengen with a plop.

(End of this chapter)