Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 66 Pan Jiangnan Forces

"Qi Yuanfu..."

Inside the Wenhua Hall, Sun Ruyou, a scholar of Dongge University, frowned, as if he was holding a hot potato.

While he was talking, a figure also sat beside him, frowning tightly.

Unexpectedly, this person was Fang Congzhe, the chief assistant of the cabinet whom Zhu Youjian believed to have no party or affiliation, but he got together with Sun Ruyou, the leader of the Zhejiang Party that Zhu Youjian believed.

"Send Qi Yuanfu to the south to recruit soldiers, and then escort him to the north with the salary, caoyin, summer tax, and autumn tax for this year and next year."

"Long live's method is not clever, it is nothing more than trying to suppress the six southern provinces with strong troops."

Sun Ruyou looked at Fang Congzhe next to him, but Fang Congzhe said after hearing this:
"This year, there are still [-] million taels of Jiapai silver in the six southern provinces parked in Nanjing, and there are still [-] million taels converted from land taxes and miscellaneous items."

"Do you want to dismiss Long Live's will, and then write a letter saying that Jiapai Silver has been shipped?"

Fang Congzhe's meaning is too simple. If it is delayed until next year, then the combined total of more than [-] million taels of silver this year and next year will be transported away.

Simply let go, and send the [-] million taels of extra silver to the capital first, and it will be considered a peace.

As for the land tax and miscellaneous items of the autumn tax, it can be postponed until next year's summer tax, and then this year's autumn tax will be handed over.

In other words, use two million taels of silver to withhold more than ten million taels of this year's autumn tax and all taxes next year.

If Zhu Youxiao wants to use tough measures, he will use this year's Southern Jiapaiyin to block Zhu Youxiao's appetite.

During the summer tax in April next year, he will use this year's autumn tax to block his appetite.

When next year's autumn tax, use next year's summer tax to block his appetite.

In short, if you can keep the silver in the six southern provinces for one more day, you will keep one more day.

"I'm afraid Long Live will not agree. Don't forget how Qi Jiguang died, and what is the relationship between Qi Jin and Qi Jiguang..." Sun Ruyou raised his eyelids and said such a sentence.

Hearing this sentence, Fang Congzhe closed his mouth, with mixed feelings in his heart.

Qi Jiguang once followed Zhang Juzheng's reform, and Zhang Juzheng did not know how many people's interests were touched during the reform, and Qi Jiguang's own military reform thinking was also avant-garde and somewhat aggressive.

As a general in the north, Qi Jiguang was supported by Zhang Juzheng, who was trained by the Qi family army trained in the south. Therefore, it can be said that it was Hu Zongxian and Zhang Juzheng who realized his ideals and aspirations.

But Zhang Juzheng's reform involves too much. As a Huguang native, Zhang Juzheng's comprehensive reform involves taboos such as land, taxation, miscellaneous items, and population.

As a result, when he was alive, no one dared to slander him or do anything to him, and the emperor tremblingly handed over a batch of memorials that he handed over.

But after his death, his party was liquidated, and as Zhang Juzheng's subordinate, Qi Jiguang, the number one general, also became a fish to be slaughtered.

Originally, it was the Ming Dynasty that "ruled martial arts with literature", so it was quite normal for Qi Jiguang's views to be disapproved, and the status of military commander was also a part of Qi Jiguang's unfair fate, which he could not get rid of no matter what.

Therefore, after Zhang Juzheng, the chief assistant of the pavilion, died of illness, the northern officials took the lead in launching an attack, thinking that Qi Jiguang followed Zhang Juzheng, a southerner, and was a traitor to the northern officials.

During the military affairs, Zhang Dingsi took the opportunity to say that Qi Jiguang should not be placed in the north, so Qi Jiguang was transferred to Guangdong by the court, Qi Jimei was sent to Guizhou, and the rest of the generals of the Qi family were dismissed from office and returned home.

The northern officials took revenge, but the southern officials did not.

Compared with the northern faction's practice of sending Qi Jiguang to Guangdong, Jiangnan officials are even more desperate.

In the third year when he was transferred to Guangdong, Zhang Xigao, an official in the south of the Yangtze River, wrote to impeach Qi Jiguang many times. As a result, Qi Jiguang was dismissed and died of depression three years after returning home.

Four years after his death, the remnants of the Qi family army were sent to fight against the Japanese and aid Korea, and because the military salary was too high and made great contributions, the generals of the frontier army in Jiliao were dissatisfied, and their salary was withheld.

In the [-]st year of Wanli, Wang Bao, the commander-in-chief of Jizhen, issued an excuse to order Qi's army personnel not to bring weapons and armor to the school grounds.

After the Qi family army arrived, he ambushed his men, took the opportunity to frame the Qi family army for a mutiny, killed hundreds of people, and sent the rest back to Zhejiang.

This is the end of Qi Jiguang and his training of the army, and among them, the northern officials are naturally the most guilty.

But when it comes to who forced Qi Jiguang to death, the first to bear the brunt is the officials of the Pan-Jiangnan faction, which is the predecessor of the three Jiangnan parties such as the Zhejiang Party, the Xuan Party, and the Kun Party...

Therefore, in the capacity of Sun Ruyou and others, it is obviously impossible to win over Qi Jin and Qi Yuanfu.

With Zhu Youjian backing them, and Zhu Youxiao's trust in Zhu Youjian, the status of Qi Jin and Qi Yuanfu cannot be shaken in the short term.

Therefore, the way he wants right now must be to make Zhu Youxiao compromise.

But what can they do?Right now Zhu Youxiao's target is the Zhejiang Party.

The Chu party is also very dissatisfied with its tax money being seized by the Zhejiang party for several months every year. When the Qi party sees this decree, I am afraid they will celebrate it.

Perhaps, the only thing they can win over is Chaozhong Qingliu...

Thinking of this, Sun Ruyou told the other party Congzhe:

"Right now, we can tide over this difficulty only by joining hands with those idle Qingliu in the court for a short time."

"This..." Hearing this, Fang Congzhe had a headache.

As the chief assistant of the cabinet, if the court has money, it is naturally better for him to do things.

But power is not only bestowed by the emperor, but also lifted up by the officials below.

Below the officials are the gentry, and below the gentry are merchants and country gentry.

Now that Zhu Youxiao wants to mobilize the interests of gentry, merchants, and local officials, it is naturally easier to unite with Qingliu.

But the embarrassing thing is that the so-called Qingliu is actually a party formed by people from all over the world, that is, the Donglin Party.

When many of them saw this decree, they would probably only applaud. After all, most of them are from the background of small and medium landlords.

Once the Zhejiang Party loses power, they can also take the opportunity to push Tian Fu to miscellaneous items, so that the interest groups behind the Zhejiang Party will give up their benefits.

Therefore, if you want to unite with the Donglin Party, you can only win over the Jiangnan faction officials within the Donglin Party.

However, in the Donglin Party, there are only a dozen officials with power in the south of the Yangtze River, including Gao Panlong, Liu Yuanzhen, Gu Dazhang, Wei Dazhong, Liu Yixiu, and Zuo Guangdou.

Among this group of people, Liu Yixiu and Zuo Guangdou are Zhu Changluo's Minister Gu Ming. Zuo Guangdou and Yang Lian basically wear a pair of pants, and it is impossible to ally with them. Zhejiang party officials.

If you really want to count, only Liu Yixiu is the one they can win over, but Liu Yixiu is a wise man, and he is not liked by the lower-level officials of the Donglin Party at all.

Therefore, these three people are all people who can't wait to hand over Jiangnan's taxes immediately, and it is impossible to compromise with the Zhejiang Party.

In this way, it is really embarrassing that they can't find a powerful Donglin Party member even if they want to join forces...

The Donglin Party itself is not a close-knit organization composed of interests like their township parties, but a small team composed of a group of officials from Qingliu and Donglin Academy.

The only thing they have in common with other officials is the country gentry who owns countless fertile lands standing behind them.

Liaoxiang's additional faction is mainly to increase the field, and there is no increase in commercial taxes and miscellaneous items. The supporters of the lower-level officials of the Donglin Party, the gentry, will not support them to submit a letter.

In this way, things will be difficult...

But even so, Sun Ruyou still thought of a way.

He looked up at Fang Congzhe and said, "Maybe there is another person who can help us..."

"Who?" Fang Congzhe didn't think of anyone with such great energy for a while, but Sun Ruyou told him the answer in the next second:
"Ye Xianggao..."

(End of this chapter)