Traveling through the Ming Dynasty, as soon as you open your eyes, you will die

Chapter 162 The Difficulties of Dashun Dynasty

The theory of a fixed number of goods in the world was proposed by the sage Ouyang Xiu. Loyal ministers of great Confucianism have always taken this as an excuse. As long as the emperor wants to spend money to do something, I will tell you that the wealth in the world is fixed. If the emperor takes one more bite, the common people will lose one, and the common people will starve to death to refute the emperor's idea.

Lu Jian didn't want to make a lengthy debate about promoting the economy on this matter. He thought that was unnecessary.

"We spent two million dollars, whoever benefits first."

"Of course they are the people we employ."

"Now that people have money, what do they do?"

"Flowers."

"By the way, now that the common people have money, they should make an exception to have a drink when eating in the evening, and buy some clothes for their children and wives. In this way, the grocery store that originally only had one hundred yuan to buy and sell will have more money. Has the turnover increased? To put it bluntly, when we spend the two million, it is equivalent to increasing the consumption of the market by two million. So does this extra consumption need to be transported by merchants? Then does the merchant Has it increased?”

There is no need to talk in detail with these rotten people about how to boost the economy. There is no need to talk to them about stimulating consumption.

There is no need to stimulate consumption. As long as people have money, they will naturally consume it.

If he has no money, what do you want him to spend on it? Do you want to stimulate zero-yuan shopping without spending any money? That would be really exciting.

After Lu Mou said this, everyone was convinced.

"And the opening of the straight road can also promote economic operation. For example, materials from Shandong and Jiangnan materials that have the means to pass through enemy-occupied areas can travel quickly through the straight road from Beijing to Sihaiguan, and our tax revenue on the straight road will also be greatly increased. Growth. For example, I now estimate that the Mongolian trade tax revenue from the four customs and our ancestral Wu family will reach as much as one million taels by the end of the year. If the direct line is opened, it will be at least doubled.

By then, the total fiscal revenue of the Ministry of Household Affairs at the end of the year will exceed 10 million taels. "

Then he looked at the ministers with a smile and said: "When the time comes, I will ask the supervisor to report to the emperor and prepare to allocate a sum of money to repair Shoushan Academy."

Shoushan Academy is Donglin's base in Beijing, which just scratches the itch of Donglin Party members. If this is the case, we cannot object to the Regent's construction of the Straight Road.

Looking at Chen Que: "I will allocate funds to expand the number of students in the Imperial College."

Most of the graduates of the Imperial College were officials and students, and they were preparatory officials who had one foot in the officialdom.

All officials decided not to obstruct the opening of the straight road.

"I will expand the Erxian Hall that is under construction, so that Mr. Liu and Mr. Huang can gather all the sages, and let a hundred schools of thought in the capital contend and a hundred flowers bloom.

Liu Zongzhou and Huang Daozhou immediately gave up the idea of ​​objecting and wanted to start construction now.

The two of them are named Donglin, but they are very different from Donglin in their thinking. They continue to promote their own school of thought and have a lecture hall of their own. How happy is that?

The cake painting came out, and everyone started working enthusiastically in front of the fragrant cake painting.

Then, there is no need for Lu Mou to do anything about this matter, as it will be taken care of by his own department.

Then, he began to turn his attention to Chen Que's upcoming imperial examination in August.

Regarding the imperial examination, father and son have already discussed it and are planning to recruit talents from the north.

The north has suffered from nearly two decades of war. The students have experienced the pain of war and deeply feel the suffering of the people at the bottom. They will understand the suffering of the people and the methods of governing the country better than the pampered scholars in the south.

It was originally a North-South exam. This time, in order to avoid the public opinion of not opening the South exam, we decided to announce it to the world. Because the South was isolated from the North by bandits, and to take care of the safety of students in the South, this imperial examination will no longer be regarded as a formal imperial exam. , and then organize the formal imperial examination after the north and south are connected.

So this time it’s Special.

But just as Chen Que worried at the time, because Ming Dynasty only had a place as big as Zhili, and after several ravages, its talents had already withered away, especially Huang Taiji's five invasions to capture scholars, which further exacerbated the scarcity of talents.

In order to avoid the embarrassment of having Lü Mou, the chief examiner, and Chen Que, the deputy examiner, supervising one candidate once the imperial examination started, Lü Mou ordered the imperial guards lurking in the enemy-occupied areas to immediately start secret propaganda in the northwest, claiming that the northwest has the status of a scholar. And the students they thought were talented people were secretly protected when they went to Beijing to take exams. This is interesting. You were afraid that students from the south would be harmed if they crossed the bandits-occupied areas, so you refused to take the exams from the south. However, in the northwest, you sent people to protect them when they came to Beijing to take the exams. Your thoughts are already known to everyone on the road.

In Xian'ergou, Wutai, Shanxi Province, Jin Yiwei Wang Erdan and Li Hongkun were quietly lurking and were closely protected by the villagers. They even made arrangements for these two bachelors to get their wives here.

Once a bandit came to kidnap Ding, the villagers immediately sent the two of them into the mountains to hide.

They are not only the leaders of the land distribution, but most importantly the villagers, who are asked to serve as official witnesses when the Ming Dynasty counterattacks in the future. Testify that the land in your hands is yours and will be passed on to your descendants.

Is the Dashun Army arresting Ding now? It's impossible not to catch Ding.

The reason is that these latent Jin Yiwei mobilized the masses and quietly divided the fields, and in addition, the weather has been going smoothly in the past few years.

In years of disaster, as long as they have food to eat, people are not willing to commit thieves and bring shame to their ancestors. Now that we have enough to eat, who would want to be a thief?

Wealth in troubled times is tempting, but is wealth in troubled times so easy to get? There must be thousands of bandits, and the remaining ones who are dead are absolutely lucky.

How lucky can you be? Let's put it this way: the sky thunder chases you and strikes you a hundred times in a row, but you are still safe and sound. First you have to be struck by lightning a hundred times, and then you have to be alive.

Is it possible not to catch Ding? The answer is definitely no.

The reason is that after more than twenty years of chaos, the northwest has been depleted of ten houses and nine empty houses. In addition, a great plague last year reduced the remaining population by half.

However, Li Zicheng did not break his promise and went to Jiangnan and brought the main force with him. The remaining troops of Gao Yigong and Hao Yaoqi were severely lacking in strength in the face of the imminent Ming Dynasty's counterattack.

What if we don’t catch him?

This makes the contrast between Dashun and the Ming Dynasty obvious. After all, the Ming Dynasty has announced that the Ming Dynasty will not seize food, women, or corvee labor. In this way, people's hearts began to turn away from Dashun.

There is also the acquisition of military food and supplies, which has also become a big problem.

King Chuang promised the world, but King Chuang refused to accept food. And more than two decades of plundering against the powerful landlords and gentry have resulted in the fact that there are no wealthy households in the northwest, and there is no target for collecting grain. All the wealthy people have been forced to abandon their homes and businesses and go to the south of the Yangtze River to beg for food. What should we do?

It’s easy to handle, we keep our promise, we don’t levy taxes, shall we buy it?

In the past few years, the natural disasters have passed, the man-made disasters have also subsided, and the grain harvest has been good year after year. In the original ten years of Chongzhen, the price of grain per stone reached a terrifying amount of more than 10 taels, and the price was still unmarketable.

It's good now, with good harvests year after year. According to the evaluation of the Dashun government, every stone of grain now costs one penny.

Yes, you heard it right, the Dashun government said that the government stipulated that grain should be purchased at one penny per stone.

Isn't this an obvious robbery?

Don't talk nonsense, otherwise I will charge you with false accusation and defamation, and let you go through the process in one step.

Don't complain, we didn't rob, we traded fairly. You don’t want to sell? How can it be possible? The Dashun government will come to persuade you to sell it.

In this way, compared with the Ming Dynasty, where the emperor's benevolence is so great and only charges four coins per mu, it is a world of difference.

So under the covert instigation of the Jinyiwei Military Work Team, the people began to rebel against Dashun.

Now Dashun is confused. Why, a group of rebels are rebelling again? Or are you the ones leading the rebellion? What kind of world is this?

Suppression must be suppressed. As a result, the northwest was in chaos again.

The people in the northwest were looking forward to Master Wang's return day and night.

The Jinyiwei Martial Arts Team, the representative of Master Wang, was regarded as a hope by the people and was even better covered and hidden.

(End of this chapter)