"Treacherous! The moths of the Great Qing Dynasty! You don't have a good thing! Kang Mazi, who returned to the Heart Cultivation Palace, was furious. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"The Empress Dowager has arrived!" Bumu Butai, supported by Su Malagu and Li Yinzhen, the chief eunuch of Cining Palace, walked into the Heart Cultivation Hall unhurriedly.

Seeing his grandmother coming, Kangxi rushed to Bumu Butai, tears rolling out: "Huang Ma ......"

Bumu Butai hugged Kang Mazi tightly: "Good grandson, what's wrong?" ”

"Huang Ma, they are all a bunch of traitors! The emperor and grandson will kill them all! These moths, traitors! deceived and deceived the superiors and subordinates, and there was such a big thing, but they refused to ban the special offerings of the Eight Banners that hurt people! Only God knows how much benefit this group of moths has received from Wu Sangui in private! How did the previous dynasty perish? It's just that the corrupt officials and corrupt officials are full, but the court can't receive money! If this continues, our Qing Dynasty will repeat the mistakes of the previous dynasty......" Kangxi said with a whimper.

Bu Mu Butai gently stroked Kangxi's head: "The mourning family only now understands that this special offering of the Eight Banners turned out to be a poisonous ploy of the Southern Barbarians!" And this poisonous plan is simply a poisonous plan with no solution! In fact, the special offerings of the Eight Banners are not produced by Wu Sangui Yunnan at all, but produced by the Southern Barbarians in Myanmar! It can be seen from this that this special offering of the Eight Banners is the Southern Barbarian who deliberately used Wu Sangui's hands to trap our banner people! It is also named Eight Flags Special Offerings, and its intentions are really outrageous! ”

"Huang Ma, since it is a poisonous substance, we should ban this poison!" Kangxi gritted his teeth.

Bu Mu Butai shook his head: "This poison has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, if it is the peace of the country, it can be forcibly solved by thunder means, kill his head and fall to the ground, see who dares to use this poison to harm my Daqing!." But now the world is undecided, if it is strong, I am afraid it will cause a fierce backlash, especially Wu Sangui's old thief! ”

"Wu Sangui don't have to be afraid, his son is in our hands!" Kangxi said viciously.

Bumu Butai said: "Wu Sangui just wants to be in a safe corner, he doesn't have any big ambitions. But this person is another generation of heroes, if Wu Sangui is forced to be anxious, he won't even want a son! ”

"Are we going to swallow our anger and suffer this big loss?" Kangxi said with grievances.

Bumu Butai sneered: "The reason why we love the Xinjue Luo family to have today's glory is to be able to endure it!" What about losing once or twice? Now is the time! When our time comes, we will definitely return to the enemy double the grievances we have suffered and the losses we have suffered! It doesn't matter, you're still young, there's still time, Wu Sangui's old thief can't survive you! ”

"Could it be that we just let go of Wu Sangui who colluded with the Southern Barbarians?" Kangxi, who was narrow-minded, felt that his teeth were sour, "And Aobai, and those Hanchens who only know corruption!" They all deserve to die! ”

"Of course we can't just let go of these rebels and thieves!" Bumu Butai's eyes suddenly showed a fierce murderous aura, "These people deserve to die!" But now the first thing we have to deal with is the Southern Barbarians! Only by pacifying the southern barbarians first, let's go back and clean up these chaotic ministers and thieves one by one! ”

"Emperor Ma, your Pope's grandson, what should we do now?" At this time, Kangxi was still a child after all, and he didn't know how to deal with it.

Bumu Butai said: "Give Wu Sangui a tax first!" Also, all the smoke houses in the capital are taxed! The collected taxes can develop a new army! Didn't the Southern Barbarians use the poisonous tricks of the Eight Banners Special Offerings against us? We're going to take a heavy tax on special offerings! Turn their special offerings into silver, and then turn them into salaries and weapons against them! ”

"With the tax raised, these profiteers are willing to pay for the silver?" Kangxi asked.

Bu Mu Butai smiled bitterly and said, "The mourning family is also dyed with this Eight Banners special offering, and I didn't know how powerful this thing was at first. When the report of the southern war came, the mourning family tried not to smoke it, only to realize how terrible it is once addicted! Addicted, if you forcibly cut it off, you can do things like killing people and taking money just to take a sip! So we put a tax on it, and they'll buy it too! These corrupt officials and corrupt officials, the local heroes and the powerful, which one is not a rich country? As the saying goes, in three years, the Qing prefect has 100,000 snowflakes of silver, and they are corrupt and bribed to scrape the land, and they all fill their own pockets! The mourning family asked them to take out the money honestly! After defeating the Southern Barbarians, we will completely ban this harmful poison, kill those who should be killed, and exile those who should be exiled. ”

Knowing that it is poisonous, but allowing it to exist, and using heavy taxes to increase income, this is the same as the truth that some bricks in later generations said that poisons should be made legal by pumping heavy taxes, which is a matter of drinking water to quench thirst. But now Bumu Butai has no way at all, she doesn't dare to force Wu Sangui.

However, Wu Sangui secretly colluded with the Ming army, and Bumu Butai couldn't pretend to be stupid, so she asked Aobai to send someone to properly beat Wu Sangui, and through this incident, Wu Sangui increased the tax on the special offerings of the Eight Banners, and by the way, even the tobacco tax was also increased.

Although the tobacco industry does not have such huge profits as the Eight Banners special offerings, the profits of tobacco are not low, and the cigarettes from Nanyang were sold to the mainland from Wu Sangui, and the taxes paid before and after were only less than 10 percent. Now Bumu Butai has directly increased the tobacco tax to 100 percent.

And the Eight Banners special offerings are even more profitable, Bumu Butai through Aobai, the tax on the Eight Banners special offerings increased to 200 percent, this is not counting, the smoke houses in each city have to increase taxes, and add another 100 percent taxes.

For a time, the price of tobacco and Baqi special offerings skyrocketed, and in the capital, the price of a pack of ordinary cigarettes skyrocketed from the original 50 wen to 150 wen. This price is too expensive, one or two pieces of silver can make a family live for a month, one hundred and fifty copper plates is more than one penny of silver, and the purchasing power is equivalent to more than 100 yuan in later generations, and a pack of cigarettes is so expensive, few people can afford to smoke.

The consumer price of the Eight Flags special offerings is even higher, and you can enjoy it in the smoke house for a silver or two, in addition to smoking a bag of special offerings, you can also enjoy free snacks, tea, and the maid's pinching service. Now that the price has risen, there is no additional service for four taels of silver.

But the addiction of the Eight Flags special offerings is indeed too great, and those addicted people have to take a sip at any cost. And those addicted hardcore crops are miserable, originally they gave enough silver every month, but now after the price has skyrocketed, at first they tried to quit the special offerings and change to smoking, but found that smoking is not useful at all, so they tried every means, from the beginning to sell armor, weapons, war horses in exchange for silver, to the pit in the back of the abduction, enclosure and scourge the people nearby, and even join gangs to collect protection money from merchants and other methods to obtain silver.

In the long run, the way to increase the tax on the special offerings of the Eight Banners was indeed to quench their thirst, especially to plague the hardcore crops, which accelerated their degeneration and corruption, but now the Qing court could not find any other way to deal with it.

In addition to increasing taxes, Bumu Butai's response measures also strengthened the monitoring of Wu Yingxiong, and immediately took down Wu Yingxiong as soon as there was any trouble. In response to the rampant smuggling of smuggled salt, Bumu Butai summoned Wang Xi to the palace, appointed him as the minister of the Qin Mission, and gave him a golden sword and yellow coat, which could be cut first and then played, and went to investigate the two Huai salt officials and salt merchants.

Thousands of miles away, Hui'an County.

"Boom" The Ming army blew up the city wall of Hui'an and poured into the city.

The magistrate committed suicide, and the remaining Qing soldiers, Minzhuang and government servants in the city all surrendered.

In the camp of the Ming army, agents of the Heaven and Earth Society sent intelligence from the north.

"The Tartars have taken countermeasures, they have increased the tax on the special offerings of the Eight Banners, and Wu Sangui must have suffered a heavy loss. In this case, we can let Wu Sangui smuggle and evade a part of the tax revenue! Cai Jiuyi made a suggestion.

Wang Yuyou said with a smile: "Wu Sangui is a smart person, smart people don't need us to teach, what to do, Wu Sangui must know better than us!" ”

"What about salt? Now the Tartars have sent someone to investigate thoroughly, and according to the exact information from the insider, it was Wang Xi who was sent by the Tartars to investigate the case this time. If we want to bring salt in again, I'm afraid it won't be so easy. Wang Xinyu knows very well that Wang Xi, his own family, is iron-faced and selfless, known as a famous Qing official in the early Qing Dynasty, and his family is so poor that he can't give face.

"Do you want Yang Qilong to move over there and plant some dirt in Wang Xi's house? This person has offended too many people, and the Tartar court kept him to balance those corrupt officials. If we do something to him, those who hate him will definitely be eager to get rid of him. Chen Yonghua made a suggestion.

Wang Yuyou said helplessly: "Since this person is a Qing official deliberately left by the Tartar court, it is used to contain corrupt officials and corrupt officials, so many corrupt officials want him to die, but the Tartar emperor and the old witch will desperately try to protect him, even Ao Bai and Suke Saha are also protecting him!" This man was very important to the Tartar court. ”

"Wang Xi is indeed a good official who loves the people like a son, but it is not a good thing for us to have such a good official in Tartars! In using people's hearts to balance officialdom, Tartars do have a set in this regard! Wang Xinyu sighed.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was not that there were no Qing officials, but that Qing officials could not be promoted at all, and when there was a little sign of it, they had already been impeached by a large number of officials who were honest but greedy on the outside, and then they went home, and they didn't even think about having a chance to be promoted. Occasionally, there are one or two Qing officials, who are also members of the Donglin Party, and it is impossible to deal with the insatiable Donglin Party officials. In the Ming Dynasty, it was the eunuchs who could really contain the civil officials.

But in the Qing Dynasty, the Manchu rulers learned their lesson and would always deliberately promote a few Qing officials to contain the officialdom. It was not until after the late Qianlong period that it became more and more difficult for Qing officials to mix, and then they disappeared.

At this time, it is simply impossible to bring down Wang Xi.

Wang Yuyou said: "The matter of private salt, let our people temporarily slow down during this time, but we can give Wang Xi a little credit and catch a few corrupt officials from the Tartar court to pay the errand." When Wang Xi leaves, we will bring the salt in. The profit of this thing is so high, it is impossible for the Tartar court to ban it! ”

It is impossible for Wang Xi to be nailed to Lianghuai forever, whether it is Bumu Butai or the four ministers who care for their lives, they are not so stupid, if Wang Xi has been nailed to Lianghuai and does not leave, then Yanding and salt merchants will rebel. Wang Xi's role for the Qing court was to beat a group of people and make some corrupt officials withdraw their hands slightly. As for the back, how should it be or how it should be.

As for the entry of a large amount of salt into Lianghuai, that was only the first step of Wang Xinyu's economic war against the Qing court, and Wang Xinyu had more powerful follow-up methods later.

In Dongfan and Qiongzhou, there are many new factories, many of which are textile factories, and water-powered looms can spin large quantities of cotton cloth with high efficiency. Because of the adoption of hydraulic mechanized production, the production efficiency of cotton cloth is high, the price is cheap, and the quality of these cotton cloth is good.

The cotton cloth produced was shipped to Shanghai in batches, and after being unloaded in Shanghai, it was transported to the mainland by small boats on the Yangtze River.

The Qing court officials Liang Huafeng, Jiang Guozhu, Zhang Chaolan, and the Manchurian Eight Banners officials Ma Leji and others have long been fed with silver, and they can be said to turn a blind eye to those cargo ships that go upstream. In this way, these cheap goods were transported to the mainland in large quantities, impacting the lives of men and women weaving.

Although Aobai is located in Anqing, the cargo ships that enter the Yangtze River are the ships of the Qing merchants themselves, and Aobai's subordinates and officials along the line have long been fed with silver, and no one wants to take care of so many things, so these ships can sail unimpeded on the Yangtze River and sail all the way to Jiujiang.

The cotton cloth produced in Nanyang is cheap and of good quality, especially for farmers, wearing clothes made of various cotton cloths such as "Nanyang brand" is better than their own homespun cloth, and durable, and the price is cheap, so many farmers no longer weave their own cloth at home, but choose to buy cotton cloth.

With the cooperation of the local government, the cotton and other raw materials produced in the mainland were transported through the ships of the Yangtze River and turned into raw materials for the textile factories of the Nanyang Company.

This is only the impact of cotton cloth on the Qing court, and there are other industrial products that are also infiltrating step by step and entering the interior for dumping. As for the various luxury goods produced in Nanyang, they were the favorite items of Qing court officials, gentry and wealthy people. A large number of artificially cultivated pearls, factory-produced glass products, exquisite glasses, large glass mirrors, horse-drawn carriages with bearings, etc., were all shipped to the mainland in batches and turned into white silver.

However, the Nanyang Company did not disadvantage the Qing court officials, and the merchants did not directly bring the silver out, but turned the silver into raw silk, tea, and ceramics and shipped it out.

It's just that Zhang Changgeng and Zhou Peigong in Huguang are a little old-fashioned, so the Yangtze River channel still can't be fully opened, and it is difficult for the Ming army in Jiangnan to get in touch with the Kuidong Righteous Army.

Zhang Changgeng is not not greedy, but he does not dare. His position is just too important. Since the Qing court lost half of the south of the Yangtze River, Huguang is the most important granary of the Qing court, and the Kuidong Righteous Army may threaten the security of Huguang at any time.

And Zhou Peigong is a hardcore traitor, he himself is from a strong background, and he is also tasked with training the new army, so it is impossible for Zhou Peigong and Zhang Changgeng to let go of the Yangtze River route. (To be continued.) )