"The governor of Liaodong, Gao 100,000, reported urgently: On the ninth night of the first month of April in the first year of Chongzhen, the eunuch of the Jiannu thief chief was not in a hurry and died of illness in Shenyang. On the same day, there was internal strife in Jiannu, and the great chieftain Mang Gultai Dege was all dead, and the rest of the emperor was not in a hurry, and the eleventh son Bomu Bogol was the new thief chieftain, and he was still an infant child; The false name 'Tongzhi', supplemented by thieves such as Zilharang, Dolgonhauge, etc. Recently, I heard that Jiannu is a strong soldier, and it is expected that there will be a big move in the near future, so I must guard against it! ”

The enemy is far away, the enemy is in the enemy's ball, and the ball battle is secretive

It was not until half a month after the Shenyang Revolution that the urgent letter of Gao Di, the governor of Liaodong, was delivered to the cabinet, and the news of Huang Taiji's death was revealed to the world, and the government and the opposition were shaken. Unlike Nurhachi's death a few years ago, although Nurhachi also fought against the Ming Dynasty for many years, he was always confined to Liaodong; Huang Taiji personally led the Eight Banners army into the customs last year to ravage Gyeonggi, and even besieged the Jingshi, whether it was the gentry, businessmen or ordinary people, all deeply felt the real threat of the Tartars.

Therefore, when it was learned that Huang Taiji was dead, public opinion in the government and the opposition was boiling. Regardless of the world, ordinary people all rushed to tell each other, and some even took out the money they saved to buy wine and meat, and called friends to have a big meal, so as to celebrate the Tartar head "blowing the lamp and pulling out the wax". When the wine was hot, everyone shouted at the death of Huang Taiji, in their words, this is the Tartar who has done too much evil and has been punished by God!

The official and gentry also used this as an excuse to drink and feast on a large scale, and when they talked about this matter during the banquet, they had long forgotten their embarrassed appearance when the Qing soldiers came last year, and all of them showed disdain, saying something like "since ancient times, the Hu people have no national fortune for a hundred years, what is terrible about these barbarian foreigners, and we should do what we should do, and what should we do with him."

However, soon some Donglin officials took the opportunity to play and asked the imperial court to cancel the "three salaries" such as Liao's thistle salary and training salary. The reason is also high-sounding: Liaodong Jiannu is just a disease of ringworm for the Ming Dynasty, and now that the thief chief is newly dead and the young son succeeds to the throne, it is even more difficult to pose a threat to the imperial court. And the people have suffered from the three salaries for many years, and the people are not able to make a living, so that the thieves have risen one after another, and they have not stopped yet. If the three salaries are abolished, the people can be rich, and if the people are rich, the country will be strong, and the sea will naturally be peaceful.

After the knot is not a branch of the family, he hates the sun and I am by the moon

After the knot is not Koko, he hates Zhanyang, and I am by the month, and the cabinet is also very controversial about this. In addition to the reason for the financial deficit, he also proposed: It is said that the burden of the three salaries is heavy, but if you calculate it seriously, it is actually not much. Taking the largest amount of Liaoyu as an example, the amount of five million taels a year is not small, and it is even more than the annual land endowment, but it is more than 7 million hectares of private land in the whole country, and the average is less than nine cents of silver per mu.

As soon as the music was played, it immediately caused an uproar. These officials stood and spoke without backache, but the yamen in charge of money, such as the household department, immediately raised fierce objections. The reason is also obvious: now that the imperial court is using troops everywhere, the finances are already stretched, and there is still a gap of more than 10 million taels, all of which can only be maintained by temporarily borrowing the deposit treasury bonds of the Daming Bank and using domestic money. If you pay three more salaries, you will suddenly have a deficit of several million taels. Such a big hole, how can it be filled with a few fluttering words on the recital?

However, the Donglin Department has always held the right to speak in the imperial court, and has put on a posture of "asking for the people's life", and those who should make peace are very serious. After discovering the tremendous role of the "Beijing Times", the gentry in various localities also began to set up newspapers and periodicals, and these newspapers and periodicals also vigorously advocated the abolition of the three salaries, and public opinion was raging for a while.

However, the "Beijing Times" continued to write articles pointing out that the death of Huang Taiji did not mean the destruction of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Tartars still had strong strength. The imperial court's finances are already beyond their means, and at this time, the three salaries will be greatly disadvantaged, and the gentry are called on not to be only for immediate benefits at this time, forcing the imperial court to abolish the three salaries.

The Cabinet is also controversial about this. In addition to the reason for the financial deficit, he also proposed: It is said that the burden of the three salaries is heavy, but if you calculate it seriously, it is actually not much. Taking the largest amount of Liaoyu as an example, the amount of five million taels a year is not small, and it is even more than the annual land endowment, but it is more than 7 million hectares of private land in the whole country, and the average is less than nine cents of silver per mu.

One tael is ten coins, one coin is ten, one is divided into ten cents, according to the official price of one tael of silver in thousands of copper coins, one acre of land is only sent nine copper coins. Even if the yield per mu is one stone, and the price of one stone of rice is calculated by one or two, the tax rate of the additional salary is not even one percent, how can it be considered too much? The reason why there are too many people is just because in the past, they always used various names skillfully, and they underpaid the land endowment that should be paid, so that the "positive supply" was too little!

However, only Xu Guangqi supported his idea, while the ministers of the Donglin and Wen Zhou factions unanimously agreed to the dismissal. These two factions have always been at odds with each other, so how did they come to an agreement this time? In fact, it is very simple, they are all spokesmen of landlords and wealthy businessmen, and even big landlords themselves. Although they are officials who do not need to pay food, their relatives still have to pay food.

For these landlords and rich gentry, the less the land endowment, the better, if they can not pay it, they will not pay it, if possible, the court will find them silver! As for the fact that the imperial court could not collect the land endowment, which led to financial constraints, they were too lazy to take care of it. Anyway, the whole world belongs to the emperor's family, and the emperor will find a way, as long as they don't let their small family suffer losses.

In the end, the cabinet ignored the opposition of Bi Ziyan and Xu Guangqi, and forcibly made a vote: remove the three salaries. But the vote alone does not count, and only the emperor's approval can take effect. The courtiers have dealt with Zhu Youzhen for more than a year, and they also know that this young emperor is not easy to deal with, although after the edict was issued some time ago, basically every vote must be approved, but this time it is a major matter involving three salaries, and I am afraid that the vote will be rejected. For this reason, the pen players in the Donglin Department have also been prepared, as long as the emperor refuses, they will immediately "fight according to reason", and they must force the emperor to comply.

The bitter hatred of the enemy is the lonely ghost by the examination

The ticket was intended to be sent to the Heart Cultivation Hall for several days, but there was no movement at all. When it was time to go to the court, the emperor simply passed down the edict: because of the occasional cold, the day of the boycott, the officials had something to do, just hand over the folds. There are also some other votes that have been approved, but there is no one to boycott the three salaries. In other words, the vote is intended to be "retained".

At this time, the ministers were greatly dissatisfied. Because in the past, Zhu Youzhen occasionally kept the concert in the middle, but the cabinet vote was never left in the middle, and it was either approved or dismissed. And staying in the middle is noncommittal and drying you up, which makes the Donglin officials who are full of enthusiasm and ready to fight embarrassed!

So headed by the first assistant Li Biao, courtiers from all walks of life rushed to the Qianqing Gate and asked to enter the palace to ask for peace, to put it bluntly, they were not pretending to be sick. However, the Qianqing Gate had already been guarded by the female officials of the secretariat and the guards of Teng Xiang's right guard, and the female officials only told them shyly that the emperor was indeed ill, and they would be silent when they asked again.

Some Donglin officials who didn't know what to do wanted to break through were immediately taken down by Teng Xiang's right guard unceremoniously, and were punished with a day of shackles for violating the palace prohibition regulations, and the punishment of showing public outside the Forbidden City. But these people are not ashamed but proud, and they also regard themselves as "direct ministers", trying to win the sympathy of everyone and blackmail the emperor.

But what they didn't know was that Zhu Youzhen was not in the palace at all at this time. He was looking at the woman in front of him affectionately in the Kite Flying Fish Leaping Pavilion in Changchun Garden, but this woman was with her hands tied behind her back and glared at him angrily!

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