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Chapter 1140 Emperor Industry: Before the Painting (The Finale)

".During the period from the first year of Taichang to the fifth year of Taichang, the contemporaries' notes were quite distinctive. In an era when the dynasty was about to change, the atmosphere of despair and pessimism often permeated the people, and there were many riots and strange things. Rich people, etc. , The common people are either mourning and discouraged, or indulging in carnival, the whole society is sick.

However, the past five years have been very different from the past. Wang Tong has proven his talent to the world. He has made the world better and better. It is conceivable that when the change is completed, it will only get better.

Because of this judgment and thinking, the overall atmosphere of folk and even Shihlin official circles is relaxed and happy, which has been proved by various works. "

"In the middle of the night of the fifth day of April in the third year of Taichang, the King of Qin raised troops in the name of the Qing emperor, and he was defeated when he left the two streets of the palace. There were 85 people in the chaos, all of whom were officials and servants in the palace. Xi’an is on guard, but I don’t know what to do. When the silver arrives at the guard, there are only 200 pieces left to accuse the King of Qin of making trouble.

"The king of Tang in Henan was in rebellion. The king of Tang was extravagant and spared no expense. He scattered all his wealth and gathered three thousand people in disorder. However, the money was tempting. The bandits rebelled and plundered the property of the king of Tang. The king of Tang had no choice but to report to the officials for help."

"The Marquis of An Le was deceived by treacherous evil, and he gathered the forbidden army and monsters with the intention of doing wrong things. When Emperor Wu heard about it, he entered the palace and questioned Marquis An Le, saying: "Your Majesty wants to rebel?" The matter of 'conspiracy against rebellion' is nothing more than spreading false rumors, which is ridiculous."

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After Wang Tong became the king of Ji, it was a signal to the world. Although everyone has not experienced it, there are many clear words in the history books, and there is nothing wrong with following it.

In the first year of Taichang, there was a speech made by officials, asking the emperor to obey the destiny and the voice of the people, and abdicate the throne. Such remarks were outrageous, and the emperor was furious, and the king of Ji was furious. The censor of Shanxi Province was demoted and went to Datong Prefecture to be a border magistrate .

For those who want to talk about wealth and wealth, this is a warning to everyone. There may be nothing wrong with what they said, but the timing is not right now, and Wang Tong still has a lot to do.

Except for the first regiment of the Huwei Army, which was directly led by Wang Tong and stationed in the capital, the rest of the regiments were also stationed in various places. Among them, Han Gang led his troops to station in Henan, Chen Dahe's troops went to Nanzhili to station in Xuzhou, and Sun Xin's troops were withdrawn from Ningxia Town. Go out to Huguang, while Tan Jian's troops are stationed in Shandong.

In the third year of Taichang, the Seventh Regiment of the Huwei Army became the Seventh Army. Each army consisted of three regiments organized by the Imperial Army, that is, 1000 firecrackers, 500 spearmen, plus three artillery and corresponding personnel. There are 1000 horsemen, 500 artillerymen, [-] artillery pieces, [-] people in the supply battalion, and several battalions reorganized from the former garrison, including [-] people directly under the infantry battalion and [-] people directly under the horse battalion. The governors, pacesetters and generals' personal guards were reorganized, and the rest of the battalions without direct titles were stationed in various important places, and they were mostly streamlined and reorganized former soldiers and horses.

The first army is different. The first army has six regiments and three battalions directly under it. One of the six regiments is Wang Tong's guard regiment with 2000 people. The remaining five regiments are the imperial army. 3000 people, three battalions directly under it, roughly reorganized from the former Forbidden Army and the Beijing Camp. In the First Army, two regiments were stationed in Tianjinwei, and one regiment was stationed in Tongzhou.

In addition, Jin Yiwei can mobilize about [-] troops capable of fighting when necessary, not to mention the armed guards of Tianjin Wei, where more than [-] people can be mobilized when necessary.

The size of the Navy has been expanding, and the size of the Sanjiang Fleet has expanded even faster. Tianjin Wei and Songjiang Prefecture continued to build large ships and launch them. In the second year of Taichang, Nanzhili seemed to be showing signs of instability. At this time, the Sanjiang Fleet The capital ship of the fleet has doubled the size of the ten seas of the year. This fleet sailed into the Yangtze River. After an armed voyage, everything died down.

Wang Tong controlled the northern part of Daming by relying on the Seventh Tiger Army and the armed forces of the merchant group, and then subdued the coast of Daming through a powerful navy. The remaining ones were no longer able to resist the general trend.

In the middle of the third year of Taichang, at the same time as the reorganization of the imperial army, Wang Tong began to reform the politics of the clan. The ban on the pro-vassal clan from all over the country was abolished, but the fief of Huangzhuang was also abolished.

Two choices were given to the pro-vassal clan, the two levels of prince and county king, who could bring their family property to live in Tianjin Wei and Songjiang Mansions, and below the county king, they could make a living by themselves.

That is to say, princes and county kings have fiefs of Huangzhuang, and the rest rely on Zonglu for a living, and Zonglu is only a concept that exists on paper. They are now supporting themselves. He has already gone to make a living outside the Great Wall, and has no effect on the clan under the county king at all.

But at the level of princes and county kings, they are reluctant to part with their own glory and wealth. Their fiefdoms and land properties are the best in the local area, how can they be willing to part with such properties.

The sad thing is that they have been locked in the city for too long, and they have lost the courage to fight. The local people and gentry have been harmed by these suzerains for generations, and everyone applauds their departure. No one is willing to help or do anything. something else.

A few princes who are unwilling to do so want to cause chaos, thinking that there will always be people who are willing to follow after the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years. There was also one who knew that resistance would be impossible, but was unwilling to be arranged in this way. After King Lu got the news, he committed suicide in the palace. King Fu in Luoyang happily went to Tianjin Wei, and even went to Shutaichang, intending to His own mother, Concubine Wang Gong, took him out of the palace to take care of her, and this request was also granted.

Xu Zong's family went out of the city to make a living by themselves, and moved the vassals and counties to Tianjin and Songjiang. On the one hand, nearby monitoring has greatly prospered the economy.

These princes have a lot of money in their hands. If they don't want to sit and eat, they have to do business, set up business and trade. If their money is invested, even if it is just for consumption, it will greatly benefit the economy.

After most of the princes went to these two places, on the one hand, they were worried about the future of the Zhu family. The most prosperous scenes are all exhilarating. Of course, it is unknown how many of them have the mentality of being drunk today.

More importantly, the departure of suzerains and vassals in various places left behind a large number of good fertile land and industries. Paying the imperial grain and national tax is not allowed to be reduced or exempted, and then an order was issued, saying that the soldiers of the Huwei Seventh Army belonged to farming, and they could be exempted from tax during their service, and they could reduce their taxes after retiring. Tong's ruling base became more solid and broad.

Beginning in the 34th year of Wanli, there have been constant rumors that officials have been dismissed, and some ministers have suggested that the decree that gentry are exempted from taxes based on their merits is harmful to the country and should be abolished.

In the third year of Taichang, the two places in the north and the south of Zhili began to try out the decree that the gentry should pay the grain together. This was not because the officials were thinking about how to benefit the country, but because in the two most developed provinces of the Ming Dynasty, the north and the south of Zhili, the industrial and commercial class treated landlords Occupying a large amount of labor is becoming more and more dissatisfied. At the very least, they must legally make it less profitable to hoard land, cultivate land and eat rent.

Grain transportation by water began to change from the first year of Taichang, saving a lot of costs, and sea transportation with greater capacity began to replace water transportation. In the second year of Taichang, because the funds allocated to river construction were greatly reduced, the treasury reached an unprecedented abundance.

In the fifth year of Taichang, Liaoning soldiers and horses, as well as part of the armed forces of Jianzhou and Haixi merchant groups, were reorganized into the Eighth Army of Huwei, stationed in Liaoning, Jianzhou, Haixi and North Korea, and the Haidong Commander's Mansion of the Navy was established, as well as the Ninth Army of Huwei. Stationed all over the country.

At the end of the fifth year of Taichang, Xu Guangguo, the chief assistant of the cabinet, Lu Wancai, the second assistant, and Yang Sichen, a bachelor, jointly signed the Shu, and asked Taichang to follow the principles of the sky and follow the people's hearts, and Zen was located in the King of Ji.

Then, the next thing is that everything is in order.

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"Talking to Sun Xin, the pursuit of the remnants of the Mu family is not the main thing. The key is to stop the territory of the southern barbarian countries. Didn't many businessmen from Sichuan, Chu, Guangdong and Guangxi follow them? Let him think more about how I was naturalized and It would be too costly to fight in Jianzhou with our own soldiers and horses, but if we let the merchant group join in, it would save effort."

In the study, Wang Tong was talking, and a few people around him were there to record. This will soon be sent to Sun Xin, the Duke of Chu in Yunnan. Sun Xin is now in charge of the strategy of Burma, Siam and Jiaozhi. The Mu family of the Qian State Duke of the former Ming Dynasty refused to surrender and tried to support a new emperor in Yunnan. This is what Dahua called "the remnants of the Southern Ming Dynasty".

However, before the reform, Wang Tong appointed Sun Xin as the governor of Sichuan, Chu, Guizhou and Yunnan, and he controlled the troops. As soon as the Mu family took action, they were immediately defeated by the prepared imperial army, and had no choice but to retreat step by step to Burma.

The Mu family has been running Yunnan for nearly 200 years, and they are deeply rooted. Almost ten thousand soldiers and horses followed him into Myanmar. They did not rush to press on the army led by Sun Xin, but followed him from afar.

A large number of merchants assembled their teams and followed them into Southeast Asian countries. They were greedy for the wealth obtained by the northern merchants, and they also wanted to replicate this model.

"Our family will have unworthy children and grandchildren in the future. Now we will expand the territory as much as possible, and even if it is corrupt, we will have the foundation to make them corrupt."

Whether Wang Tong said these words has been debated in the historian circles, but since the beginning of Dahua’s self-establishment, it has been continuously expanding outwards. This has been the case from generation to generation. The folks evaluate the reigning emperor by how much territory they have expanded.

In the tenth year of Wang Tong's reign, the patrol cavalry of the so-called "Three Jurchen Provinces" in Beishan Province encountered colonists from the Raksha Kingdom. The expedition team organized by the business group took a cart and used firearms to pull out the colonies of the Raksha people one by one, and followed the Raksha people's colonial road from west to east, pushing back step by step, and produced a series of Events and battles, and finally turned the entire Western Regions upside down.

The change of the old and the new, the season of the tripod revolution, cannot always be smooth sailing, but the first turmoil was not caused by the Zhu family in the former Ming Dynasty, but because the world was clear and the fields were clear, and there was chaos in Nanzhili. , the world was in turmoil for more than two months, when the imperial army marched by land and water, and the guards of Sanjiang Commercial Bank captured Changzhou Mansion, the chaos was settled.

This chaos made people in the world realize that Wang Tong already had a large enough foundation to distribute the land of the former Ming clan to the warriors and common people who supported him. In addition, the army and business system he operated had no power to shake it. His empire is gone.

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Completely realistic oil painting with Western techniques is time-consuming, not to mention there are other inconveniences. For example, Li Shun has been stationed in Wa, and it is rare to come back once.

In April of the third year of Dahuawu, Wang Tong came to Wangtian Tower again. The light on the second floor was very bright. After the painter tore off the cloth, he bowed and retreated, leaving Wang Tong alone in front of the painting.

Wang Tong stood there dumbly. The two guards behind him didn't quite understand the painting, but they also felt Wang Tong's emotions. The two guards held their breath and stood quietly.

In the painting, more than a hundred teenagers are chasing and fighting, so they fight more and less, and they surround and beat three people. The three people in the center of the picture, one tall and one short, stand in front of a little fat man.

Some people seem to be shouting, some people seem to be rushing forward, and some people seem to be discussing something. Everyone is very nervous, very angry, and very excited, but if you look carefully, you will find that everyone on the screen is very happy. Under the various expressions and movements, there is carefree happiness

they met
they become friends
they grew up
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(End of this chapter)