Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1522, the most ingrained problem

At the hotel where Liu Jin stayed in Nanjing, Wang Shouren was sitting alone with Liu Jin, reporting to Liu Jin what happened this time.

"This matter is extremely difficult."

"Zeng Qing, Jiang Cheng, and Zhang Yuanting are just small fish on the surface, and there are many more people behind them."

"The reason why they deliberately did not pay the workers at this time point is to make things worse. When hundreds of thousands of people make trouble, it is very likely to become a huge riot and rebellion. Once the turmoil starts, Enough to sweep half of Ming Dynasty."

"Once I get to a certain point, it is a trivial matter for me to lose my head. I am afraid that the prosperity of my Ming Dynasty today will not be returned. Many of the current policies that benefit the country and the people are very likely to be hit by unprecedented attacks. , is very likely to be ruined here."

"Among them, merchants and gentry in the south of the Yangtze River hate business taxes the most. The land in the south of the Yangtze River has been very prosperous and prosperous since ancient times, and it is also a place of heavy taxation in Ming Dynasty. However, the business taxes today are far inferior to those in the north."

Wang Shouren reported the situation to Liu Jin in detail, and at the same time expressed his deepest worries.

The deeper you understand and investigate things, the more difficult it becomes.

The old-fashioned forces in the south of the Yangtze River are trying to use this to make the best of Daming's current situation. They want to bring Daming back to the previous era. In the era when they had the final say and everything was controlled by them, they could do whatever they wanted. The era when lying on top of Daming's huge body and sucking blood.

"It's them again~"

After Liu Jin heard this, he couldn't help but feel murderous.

The decline and demise of the Ming Dynasty in history certainly had its historical inevitability, but after the Ming Dynasty, Huaxia Shenzhou fell and fell under the rule of the Tunguska wild boarskin. For three hundred years, the country was closed and strict ignorant policies were implemented, causing Huaxia After a century of suffering, falling behind the world, the backbone was almost broken, the inheritance was almost cut off, and the pride and self-confidence of the nation was completely lost.

Tracing back to the source, although the emperors of the Ming Dynasty could not be said to have a few good emperors and emperors with achievements, they were still emperors with integrity after all. At least the emperor guarded the gate of the country and the king died in the country.

But the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty, especially those officials who were born in the south of the Yangtze River, only cared about the struggle and interests between the parties, regardless of the life and death of the country.

The combination of government and businessmen, collaborating with the enemy and treason, if there were no merchants collaborating with the enemy and treason, the little wild boar skin in Liaodong would kill them even if they were hungry, how could they eventually win the world.

When the Ming Dynasty fell, they turned their heads and knelt on the ground to vote for a new master, but they couldn't see the land of Huaxia, and they didn't know how many people died and how much blood was shed.

Looking at today, what they do is not for their own selfish desires, for the benefit of small groups, regardless of the safety of the entire country.

Once these hundreds of thousands of workers are considered traitors, the government will force the people to rebel. Once the hundreds of thousands of workers rebel, and they are still workers who have mastered many skills, their strength is far stronger than that of scattered farmers who have no skills. , once it erupts, it is not impossible to sweep Daming.

When it really came to that point, the country of Daming was in turmoil, and the prosperity and prosperity that had been so hard-won would disappear in a blink of an eye.

This is absolutely unacceptable to Liu Jin, and absolutely unwilling to see it.

I traveled here by myself, worked hard for more than ten years, and finally came to where I am today. Finally, I saw that China is criss-crossing the world, occupying the most wealth and land in the world. How can these short-sighted people destroy it.

"This group of rats, how could they know that the wheel of history is already rolling, and the prosperity of our Ming Dynasty is the mainstream of the times. No one can stop it, and no one can reverse the wheel of history. Take death."

Soon, Liu Jin laughed and made a conclusion for them.

Today's Ming Dynasty has embarked on the road of capitalism and colonialism. The rolling wheels of history have led to the rapid development of Ming Dynasty. Any force that wants to stop it will be crushed and crushed by it.

"Yeah, they are just a bunch of short-sighted people, don't want to destroy the prosperity of my Ming Dynasty."

Wang Shouren also nodded solemnly. He has also seen the arrival of a great era, and the prosperity of Ming Dynasty will be unstoppable.

"Old Wang~"

"Your Majesty has already given me a secret decree to take advantage of this incident to clean up the south of the Yangtze River and completely sweep those old-fashioned stubbornness into the dust of history."

"On your side, let go of your hands and feet and do a thorough investigation. The matter in Jiangnan must be more than the matter in front of you."

"For a long time, factories, workshops, commercial firms, etc. have sprung up like mushrooms in various places in my Ming Dynasty. Only this place in the south of the Yangtze River, except Songhu, seems to be unable to match the prosperity and prosperity of this Jiangnan place. identity of the place."

"There must be many reasons behind this. You have been here in Jiangnan for many years, and you must be very familiar with the situation here. Why don't you just take this opportunity to do a good job of investigating and doing a good job."

Liu Jin looked at Wang Shouren and conveyed the above meaning.

"It's true~"

"I have been in Jiangnan for many years, and I know something about the situation in Jiangnan."

"The disadvantage of Jiangnan is first of all in terms of ideology. The old-fashioned ideas still occupy the mainstream. Local officials are inextricably linked with the gentry, big families, and big businessmen in Jiangnan. They are all working for the families behind them. Serve."

"Just taking the Yangtze River as an example, outsiders can't get involved in the many interests of the entire Yangtze River Basin. The ships sailing on the Yangtze River are all behind the big families, and the big and small families almost monopolize the entire Jiangnan. interests of the region.”

"From food, tea, silk, porcelain, shipping, docks, etc. to factories, workshops, commercial firms, etc., almost everything is divided up by these families, and outsiders can't get involved at all."

"So apart from Songhu, in the entire south of the Yangtze River, factory owners and commercial firms in the north have no way to get involved. Unless they cooperate with them, they don't even want to open factories."

"These big families have a large number of people. Some of them are engaged in business and trade. After earning money, they set up private schools and academies to support their children in their families to study and obtain fame. Bigger, more good."

"This cycle goes on and on for more than a hundred years, and it has formed the current situation in the south of the Yangtze River where the literary style is at its peak, talented people come forth in large numbers, and half of the scholars in the Ming Dynasty are in the south of the Yangtze River. The trade situation has almost monopolized the entire Ming economy."

Wang Shouren pondered for a while, and then slowly explained the situation in Jiangnan. He is from Zhejiang himself, so he is naturally the most familiar with Jiangnan.

Liu Jin listened carefully, nodding while listening.

Regarding this point, Liu Jin realized it a long time ago. In fact, it is not only the Jiangnan side, but the entire Ming Dynasty is actually the same, but the Jiangnan side is the most serious. The clan forces are all over the Ming Dynasty, only in the new territory. .

When the imperial court was emigrating, Liu Jin specially formulated a policy to disrupt and mix immigrants from all over the country, completely breaking the clan power, so that there were no clan power in the immigrant places of the Ming Dynasty.

The imperial power does not go to the countryside, and the local clan power has the final say, but because of the prosperity of Jiangnan, the clan power in Jiangnan eventually became larger and larger, and eventually became super big families, and became the power of Daming. blood sucking worm.

"Secondly, these big families and big merchants in the south of the Yangtze River like to use the court's policies to serve themselves. Simply put, they use the court's policies for their own personal gain."

"The salt merchants and marine merchants in the past were like this. On the one hand, they strictly implemented the policy of monopolizing salt and iron. In name, salt was under the control of the imperial court, but in fact all the large and small salt farms were divided up by them, and then the imperial court used the means to Prohibit others from getting involved in the lucrative industry of salt, so as to achieve the purpose of monopoly, so as to obtain super high monopoly profits."

"They dare to sell a catty of sea salt for dozens of pennies, which is why the famous and rich Salt Mountain came into being. The imperial court's salt administration did not benefit the imperial court. The people ate high-priced salt, but in the end it was Rich these salt merchants."

"There are also those maritime merchants. On the one hand, there are strict routine sea bans, and sails are not allowed to enter the sea. On the other hand, they wantonly smuggle and trade with foreign countries, and they control the huge profits of foreign trade in their own hands. Colluded with pirates and Japanese pirates, ravaged the southeast coast, and prevented others from going to sea to obtain maritime trade benefits."

"The imperial court is impoverished, the treasury is empty, and they can't do anything, but they, salt merchants, sea merchants, grain merchants, tea merchants, etc., are all rich and powerful, and they spend a lot of money on the Qinhuai River without even blinking their eyes. .”

"The imperial court has always encountered their strongest opposition to the collection of business taxes. Even if taxes can be collected, they are the most stubborn in this Jiangnan area. It is too difficult to collect taxes from them. , and tried every means to abolish policies that are beneficial to the country.”

Wang Shouren shook his head as he spoke. He is from Zhejiang and he knows the situation in Jiangnan too well.

He has been thinking about why Liu Jin insisted on carrying out many reforms and implementing new policies. A person as smart as Lao Wang soon thought clearly and understood Liu Jin's good intentions. I can clearly see why the conservative forces in Jiangnan are so opposed to the New Deal.

(End of this chapter)