"Congratulations! Your unborn child can enjoy the preferential tax exemption policy and does not need to pay the salary. However, there are a total of eight people in your family, and each person has a salary of two taels of silver, which must be handed over. At the same time, the higher authorities have stipulated that the training salary should be paid once every three years. Therefore, I sincerely benefit your whole family thirty-five taels of silver. ”

"Huh? Why is one or two missing? Dude, you're such a smart person, you've noticed it. Originally, I wanted to do something good without leaving a name, but you found out, so I'll tell you the truth. Actually, this is all the extra kindness of the adults above, and I will give you a waiver! You see, how much you think about you! One or two white flowers of silver, if you say it's free, it's free! Where do you find such officials who ask for the lives of the people? ”

"What? Thirty-five taels of silver, you can't take it out? Dude, don't be kidding, this is a salary! What is Training? You know? It is to give the army training and kill the enemy's food! Hear me clearly, this is a special allocation for the army! What does the army do? It's murderous! Think for yourself, if you can't get these thirty-five taels of silver, how will the army react? I tell you, the army is angry, and none of your whole family wants to live! ”

"Brother, can't you really get a penny? Okay, you go back to the prison with us for a few days! When we get together the silver and hand it over, we will release them when we want. Remember, we don't care about the food, you have to ask someone to deliver the food yourself. Otherwise, we will starve, faint, and starve, and we will not be responsible! Also, we have to collect money in our prison, and we have to charge a penny of silver for a day! When you get out of prison, you will settle it together! ”

"Brother, if you want to be enlightened, you have to find a way to make money! Going to jail is no joke! You see that your daughter is full of Peugeot, hurry up and sell it, you can still sell it for three or four taels of silver. You have three daughters, and if you sell them all, you will have a dozen taels of silver. Also, your two sons can also be sold, don't think that only daughters can sell it......"

…… Xu Xingxia can almost imagine how the tax collector responsible for tax collection communicates with the people. As for the outcome of their communication, it is basically conceivable what it will be. The Ming Dynasty was dark [***] to such a point, if it did not perish, there was really no heavenly reason. In the face of such heavy tax pressure, if the people do not rise up to resist, they can only say that they deserve it. If it was him Xu Xingxia, he would have done it a long time ago.

In fact, in many places in Beizhili, small-scale riots broke out. The direct reason is this salary. Small-scale riots are a harbinger of large-scale upheaval. History has proven many times that when the number of small-scale riots reaches a certain level, large-scale riots will break out. However, Ye Xianggao was indifferent to this. The small turmoil in Beizhili, compared with the rebellion of the white-clothed army in his eyes, is simply pediatric. His top priority is to kill Xu Xingxia first. He believes that the source of all turmoil is Xu Xingxia.

Subconsciously, Ye Xianggao has always felt that the southeast half of the wall is still relatively wealthy, and taking on such a small endowment will not be affected at all. The southeastern half of the wall is the stronghold of the Donglin Party, and local officials at all levels basically have some connection with the Donglin Party. With their help, I am not afraid that the salary will not be collected. As for the north, he simply did not count on it. It seems that several provinces such as Beizhili, Shanxi, and Henan, in Ye Xianggao's eyes, it is impossible to have any tax income at all, even if it increases the salary.

However, what Ye Xianggao didn't expect was that the decrees he suggested to be issued by the imperial court would be a golden cash cow and a cornucopia in the eyes of officials in the northern provinces. Such a great opportunity, of course, they will not miss it. They don't care whether the salary can be levied or not. They only care about whether they can use the name of Lian Yu to enrich their private pockets. Anyway, in the name of the imperial decree, even if they cause riots among the common people, it is the problem of the imperial court, and it has nothing to do with them.

This time, the Fuwang Party played the slogan of stopping the increase in endowments and punishing the first evils of the endowments, which indeed incited a considerable number of people. Many ordinary people in the capital expressed clear support for the slogan of the Fuwang Party. Judging from the appearance, this coup d'état really has a bit of a "righteous" flavor. The common people don't care who you are the emperor, who is the prince, and who is the orthodoxy. For ordinary people, the most important thing is to have benefits. Without endowment, nature is the biggest benefit.

The unlucky one is, of course, Ye Xianggao. Who made the salary he first suggested? The charge of adding the first evil naturally fell firmly on his head. The Fuwang Party desperately advocated this crime, let it go indefinitely, and even placed other charges that had nothing to do with Ye Xianggao on top of Ye Xianggao's head, and chased and beat him fiercely. It feels like Ye Xianggao is definitely the most criminal guy in the past 5,000 years.

The target of the Fuwang Party is of course not only limited to Ye Xianggao, but also the Donglin Party behind Ye Xianggao, and even the entire Nanjing Imperial Court. This time, Ye Xianggao was able to leave the capital unharmed, which is probably also related to the strategy of the Fuwang Party. If Ye Xianggao was really caught and executed, there would be no way to attack the Nanjing Imperial Court.

…… At the end of April, Xu Xingxia finally returned to Ningxia Town. As soon as he returned to the official residence of the chairman of the committee, Xu Xingxia immediately convened an emergency meeting of the political affairs committee. When he set out from Jiayuguan, he had already sent a fast horse to issue relevant orders and inform the relevant person in charge. Therefore, all the more than 20 members of the Political Affairs Committee have arrived.

Under Xu Xingxia, the supreme chairman, there are many organs such as the Political Affairs Committee, the Military Committee, the Equipment Committee, the Law Committee, the Science and Technology Committee, and the Commercial Committee. They are all directly responsible for Xu Xingxia. Mutual is an equal relationship of non-subordination. Each committee has a director, seven to thirteen standing committee members, and about twenty-five or so members. Generally speaking, the director is the permanent head of the committee and is directly accountable to his superiors. However, the Director does not have the power to appoint or dismiss any Standing Committee member or member at the same level.

This coup d'état occurred within the Ming Dynasty, and the most directly affected was naturally the Political Affairs Committee. Because the Foreign Affairs Department is under the jurisdiction of this committee. The relationship between the white-clothed army and Beiming and Nanming, how to position, all need Xu Xingxia to make an idea. To be honest, there will be a division between the north and the south in the imperial court, which makes many political councilors feel incredible. Prior to this, no one expected that the Fuwang Party would have such great power.

The core content of this meeting was to determine the relationship between the White Clothes Army and the Northern Ming and Southern Ming Dynasty. The situation in the Ming Dynasty has become so chaotic, on the whole, it is definitely good for the White Army. The more fierce the competition between Yanjing and Nanjing, the more they did not give an inch, and the more they lost both, the greater the benefits to the white-clothed army. But there is still a clear indication of what it takes to turn these benefits into reality.

"Chairman! Hello! Zuo Guangdou greeted him properly.

It was the first time for Zuo Guangdou to participate in a meeting of this level. Of course, this was specially approved by Xu Xingxia, and he was not qualified to be selected as a political councilor. Xu Xingxia didn't expect Zuo Guangdou to do things for himself wholeheartedly, and he was determined to serve the white-clothed army. However, if Zuo Guangdou is regarded as a representative sent by Nanming in advance, it is still quite useful.

Before convening the government affairs meeting, Xu Xingxia had already decided on the basic principles and policies, that is, to ask for Nanming's money, Beiming's life, and use the wealth provided by Nanming to eliminate Beiming. If there is excess military spending, it can also actively expand externally and include the Yarkand Khanate in the territory. As long as this is done, the white-clothed army will be almost difficult to level the Northern Ming. After getting the Beiming, there is a lonely Nanming left, and it's not as much as you want to rub it?

In fact, it is not impossible for the white-clothed army to wage war against the Northern Ming and Southern Ming at the same time. It's just that in this way, the price to pay may be slightly larger. From the perspective of military strategy, it is the most basic principle to concentrate superior forces and destroy the enemy individually. At present, the white-clothed army only has elite cavalry units, lacks elite infantry, and has no navy or the like, so it is naturally the most cost-effective to take the Northern Ming Dynasty first. When the Northern Ming Dynasty is almost wiped out, the newly formed infantry and navy should be almost ready.

The biggest feature of the current Nanming is that it is rich. The wealth of Jiangnan is the most in the world, especially in the southeast half. The germ of capitalism, as it is called in the post-secular world, appeared in Suzhou, Changzhou, and Songjiang. The number of handicraft farms here accounts for more than ninety percent of the country's total. In addition to the capital, this area was home to some of the wealthiest people in the Ming Dynasty. The wealth they possess is staggering. Their ability to create wealth is also quite amazing. Every day, a large number of white flowers and silver taels poured into their private storerooms.

At that time, China was basically the world's wealth center. Even after the Age of Discovery, world trade was still dominated by China. The porcelain, tea, silk and other materials sold by the Ming Dynasty are like three huge whirlpools, constantly absorbing the wealth of the world into the Ming Dynasty. Regardless of how emerging countries such as Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom continued to discover gold and silver wealth in other places, in the end, these gold and silver flowed into the territory of the Ming Dynasty through trade.

It is correct to say that there is no silver tael in the imperial court's warehouse. It is true that the tax revenues of the imperial court are gradually drying up. However, if it is said that the dynasty did not have silver taels, it is nonsense. At that time, more than half of the world's silver taels were concentrated in the territory of the Ming Dynasty. If calculated in absolute terms, there are at least 300 million taels or more. A slightly more optimistic estimate may even reach more than 500 million taels. Moreover, this number is constantly increasing.

(To be continued)