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Chapter 448 Emperor Hongguang sits in Beijing (4)

Zhu Yousong ascended the throne in Beijing, and enshrining civil and military affairs was only one aspect. Zhu Yousong then began to promulgate new policies for governing the country.

The first item is to vigorously develop farming, to reduce or exempt common people's rent and taxes within three years, and to start to levy a small amount of agricultural taxes after three years.

Zhu Yousong's this item is for recuperation, and it is also for gaining the support of the general public.

But such a huge country must increase taxes, how can the state machine be supported without economic income?
Therefore, Zhu Yousong promulgated the second new policy, increasing taxes on landlords and merchants, collecting taxes according to the area of ​​land and manors owned by landlords, and increasing the tax weight of merchants.

This may be opposed by landowners and merchants.In order to increase execution and kill chickens and monkeys, Zhu Yousong first punished a group of corrupt officials.

First of all, Hou Fangyu, one of the four sons of the late Ming Dynasty, was executed in the busy market of Caishikou.

This young master Hou is a typical Donglin Party member, a leftist figure, who specially made trouble with the imperial court. Following the fall of Zuo Liangyu and his son in Wuhan, Hou Fangyu was taken to the capital (Nanjing) and put on death row.

Zhu Yousong felt that allowing him to live up to now was already a blessing from heaven.During the period, Gao Hongtu, Minister of the Ministry of War, sent someone to search Hou Fangyu's home. Hou Fangyu's father, Hou Xun, fled after hearing the news.

Zhu Yousong ascended the throne in Beijing, and three days later, Hou Fangyu's head fell to the ground.

The scum of this nation can be regarded as getting what it deserved.The reason for saying this is that Hou Fangyu was not a good person in history, not to mention that his father and son have been the backbone of the Donglin Party for generations, and there is no big crime in opposing the imperial court.

The main reason is that he advised the Tartars to enslave the Han people. In history, he crossed the Yellow River, causing millions of deaths in Shandong, Henan and Zhili. This is a national scum whose hands are stained with the blood of Han compatriots. He betrayed his ancestors and willingly became a traitor.

It is precisely because he not only has real crimes, such as rebelling against Zuo Liangyu and his son in Wuhan, but also has deeper crimes in the history books. In view of his numerous crimes, Zhu Yousong wanted to put him to death.

Then Zhu Yousong issued an order to search Fan Jinzhong and Xu Xianren's family.

These two people are both from Wu Jinshi. Zhu Yousong personally signed the imperial pen last year. He was the same Jinshi as Ma Jinhua and Zheng Chenggong. Zhu Yousong competed with them and granted them senior guards in front of the imperial court. He turned out to be a criminal and acted as an undercover agent for the Tartars, tipping off information and leaking military information.

Because of these two spies, Zhu Yousong and Ma Jinhua He Xuanjiao were almost killed in the battle of Sanhe Town. Thanks to Zhu Yousong's time-traveling physique and the bravery and invincibility of the two heroines, they killed several in and out of the ten thousand horse army. Dorgon's 3 horses did not trap their three monarchs and ministers. Dorgon lost his troops and lost his generals, but Zhu Yousong chased them all over the mountain.

After Zhu Yousong returned to the camp, he used some tricks to bring the two spies to the surface. In a fit of anger, he grabbed them both and cut them to pieces.

But the matter was not finished, Zhu Yousong kept him in his stomach.Not because of anything else, because this man's origin is different.Fan Jinzhong was a descendant of Shanxi merchant Fan Yongdou, while Xu Xianren was a descendant of Huizhou merchants.

For the merchants in the late Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yousong knew their bad nature before crossing over. In order to make huge profits, they did not hesitate to sell the interests of the country and the nation, and sold the ironware and even military information of the Central Plains to the Tartars. The Tartars can make the country rich and powerful. The soldiers were invincible, and they entered Tuyuan. These profiteers helped them a lot.

From the perspective of the interests of the Han people, these businessmen committed heinous crimes, and Zhu Yousong hated them deeply before crossing over.

But for these two Wu Jinshi, Zhu Yousong did not discriminate against them because they were descendants of profiteers at the beginning. It was because they showed the essence of traitors that Zhu Yousong would not spare them easily.

After Zhu Yousong divided them into five horses on the battlefield, the news spread to the capital (here refers to Nanjing at that time), and Jin Yiwei soon appeared in Fan Zhai and Xu Zhai, and quickly found out that they were secretly colluding with the Tartars. Enter the house and arrest people.

Now the Fan family and the Xu family have hundreds of people, men, women and children, all of whom are being imprisoned in the death row in Nanjing.

Zhu Yousong felt that now was the time to clean them up.Several prison vans were quickly taken from Nanjing to Beijing. Zhu Yousong delivered an order to parade through the streets to demonstrate the crimes of these profiteers, and then beheaded all of them in the bustling Caishikou.

Zhu Yousong's execution of these people at this time undoubtedly played the role of killing chickens and monkeys. More importantly, when his new policy was promulgated, he killed so many criminals at once. There are businessmen and big landlords. Dare to resist donations and taxes, and raised an objection.They all wholeheartedly supported it, including some civil and military ministers in the DPRK who were originally reluctant to speak out.

Of course, the common people support Zhu Yousong's new policies even more.

When the news reached Jiangnan, only one family dared to oppose the imperial court's new policy, and that was Zheng Zhilong who was entrenched in Jiangnan.

Sure enough, Zheng Zhilong was not a thing in the pool. When he heard Zhu Yousong promulgate such a new policy, he was furious. He immediately rebelled against Tang Wang Zhu Yujian, proclaimed himself emperor in Fuzhou, supported Zhu Yujian as Emperor Longwu, and announced that he would not recognize Zhu Yousong. Daming.

It turned out that Zheng Zhilong had been entrenched in Fujian for many years. He was deeply rooted, wealthy, possessed tens of thousands of private troops, and thousands of warships. He was named Nan'anbo, and the general town was Fujian.

Zheng Zhilong has not been idle these years. On the surface, he surrendered to Daming, who surrendered to the court.In fact, he listened to the instructions and did not listen to the announcement, and no one dared to recruit his army. This area of ​​Fujian was his one-acre three-point land. He became his local emperor here, and all local taxes were not paid. Into his personal pocket, secretly expanding his strength.

Especially after the death of Emperor Chongzhen, Li Zicheng's men invaded Beijing, and then they were defeated by lightning, and the Manchu Tartars came in.

Zheng Zhilong felt that the opportunity was rare, and it was time to do a big job.At this time, Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong was helped to the throne.Zheng Zhilong didn't like Emperor Hongguang, who was born as a little Fuwang, and he did whatever he wanted in Fujian.

For more than a year, there are two reasons why Zheng Zhilong has not moved. One is that he needs to pull the tiger's skin to make a big banner. First, he lacks a tiger skin.With the arrival of Tang Wang Zhu Yujian, the problem of the tiger skin was solved, and the two hit it off and got what they needed.Zheng Zhilong supports him as the king of Tang, and the king of Tang needs Zheng Zhilong even more.

The second is that they need to be famous as teachers. His brother Zheng Hongkui and son Zheng Chenggong both served in Zhu Yousong's camp, which made him dare not act rashly.Zhu Song promulgated the New Deal, taking big businessmen and big landlords under the knife. Zheng Zhilong found an excuse for this. In order to satisfy his own ambitions and selfish desires, he did not hesitate to take risks.

Now Emperor Longwu has more than one Zheng Zhilong under him, and Huang Zongxi, a Donglin party leader who opposes the arbitrary imperial power, advises him. Emperor Longwu has more than 20 soldiers and horses, and his sphere of influence covers the entire Fujian and most of Guangdong. He openly announced his relationship with Zhu Yousong The Ming Dynasty was divided into courts.

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