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In July of the 31st year of Wanli, Li Hutou, the chief general of the Huwei Army of the Loyal and Brave Marquis Forbidden Army, died in battle, which shook the world, and the significance was extraordinary, and it can even be said to be a key to the great changes in the world. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At that time and now, countless people have written reliable or outrageous speculations and accounts in their notes, and a large number of true and false news have also been circulated.

In the fourth year of Taichang, when a Portuguese missionary was leaving Tianjin, Jinyiwei searched for a booklet during a routine inspection, although it was written in Portuguese, but in Tianjin, language was not a problem, and all the contents were quickly translated.

This pamphlet recounts the political secrets of the Ming Dynasty, many of which were taboos, and the missionary was severely punished and sent to Luzon for a lifetime of hard labor.

But Jinyiwei's ability to keep it secret is really poor, the content of this booklet translated has spread to the market, several privately engraved bookstores have seen the business opportunities, printed a large number of them, and made a fortune, and when the government noticed this book and began to ban it, all kinds of versions have been circulated throughout the Ming Dynasty, and even the Nanyang North has traces, and the government's ban proves the authenticity of the content recorded in this booklet from another angle, whether this argument is reasonable or not, the people have always judged so.

Most of the content of the discussions of the two attendants in the restaurant came from or was an interpretation of the content of this booklet.

After Wang Tong ascended the throne, the ban on this pamphlet no longer existed, and the people's enthusiasm for pursuing high-level secrets gradually calmed down, and finally there was a saying that this pamphlet was not written by a Portuguese priest at all, but a public opinion deliberately released by Emperor Wu's side, because many of the contents on it were not known by a priest, although there were indeed two white people in the upper echelons of the empire.

It was even said that someone had seen this missionary in Luzon, but that this man was already a big merchant in Luzon, and was in charge of the licensing of certain goods, and of course no one could verify this.

"The era of the crown prince Zhu Changxun is different from any prince of the Ming Dynasty, this is a great expansion to the outside, the wealth is extremely inflated, everything is developing rapidly, the control and influence of the civil officials on the empire is compressed to a minimum, and the military system and financial system have not only achieved great achievements under Wang Tong's genius reconstruction, but also become the most solid pillar of imperial power......"

Twenty-five years after Wanli, the influence of the household department on the Ming Dynasty's finances is getting lower and lower, you must know that in the past, the household department once refused to pay taxes other than land taxes and salt taxes, and this was done so that the industry of the civil official group could not pay taxes, but this later became a loophole and weakness.

Originally, the industrial and commercial tax of the Ming Dynasty and the taxes that were not collected in the past were collected by the Jinyi Wei Public Security Division, and later, even the functions of the Municipal Department of Public Security became the Public Security Division, because after Wang Tong's reform, the Jinyi Wei system has the bundle of the current chapter system, has efficient implementation, and collects more silver. Fastest updates

Obviously, it is inappropriate to let the internal security forces like Jinyiwei grasp the power of taxation, and the Daming Taxation Bureau was established, and the finance and taxation department should be a civilian function, but the Taxation Bureau was born out of Jinyiwei, and most of them are military-born characters, and the result is that the strong color of this department is very strong.

Generally speaking, the establishment of each yamen in the Ming Dynasty is very small, and the officials and the errand officers in the establishment have to hire a large number of helpers in order to run errands, and the tax bureau has given a sufficient personnel budget at the beginning, in addition to the tax officials and tax collectors who collect taxes and tax accounts, there are also tax soldiers who are responsible for strong implementation.

The establishment of the Taxation Bureau has set off an uproar in Daming, and the huge establishment of the Taxation Bureau and the strong implementation of the tax corps are considered to be deviant and troublesome to the world, especially in Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Huguang, Jiangxi and other places that are accustomed to tax exemption, and there is even more opposition.

But they soon found that they had no way to fight, the tax corps was nothing, and the local wealthy families could gather more men and horses to fight, but the force of the forbidden army was something they could not resist, and now the center of the court was not controlled by the people who represented them and were born from them, and those people were used to solving problems by force, and they didn't feel that there was anything wrong with killing people.

As for the military system, there is no need to say much about this, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di from generation to generation, the emperor's control over the world's army is getting weaker and weaker, and the army has gradually become the army of civilian officials.

By the twenty-fifth year of Wanli, the forbidden army, the main military force in the north of the Yangtze River, had become the backbone, and there were large enough sailors, all of which were under the orders of the royal family, and the military department and even logistics could not reach in.

At the suggestion of Wang Tong, Emperor Wanli changed Xiyuan into the Forbidden Army Governor's Mansion, and orders to the army were issued from here, and a set of rest was rebuilt.

The military power and financial power held by the civil officials have gradually returned to the royal side, and the authority of the Ming Emperor is becoming more and more important, and similarly, the important ministers under this imperial power system are also becoming more and more prominent.

What's more, there is no need for a discerning person, everyone can see who made these changes now, the first thing that can be thought of is Wang Tong, and then there are rocket-like civil and military officials Mingyu.

"~~ The emperor and the queen's doting on the prince made the prince a cowardly and loyal person, but this character made the royal family extremely worried, everyone knows that those generals are not very loyal, the worried emperor once said to the prince in private, now the country seems to be a thorn, I want to pull out all the thorns on the thorns, you can hold it well, anyone who is familiar with the history of this country will know that at the beginning of the founding of this country, the first emperor Zhu Yuanzhang also said such things to his grandson~~"

Politics is the intrigue of people, the fastest update in the twenty-third year of Wanli, the power structure of the Ming Dynasty has actually been unbalanced, Wang Tong, who was named the king of Lelang County, is too powerful, although he has no real position, but everyone knows that his influence in the internal security system and the military and financial system is too great, even more than the Son of Heaven.

"~~ The emperor was embarrassed to find that he had made several moves back then, suspicion for no reason, frivolous beatings and warnings, as well as Wang Tong's obedience and humble retreat, hand ~ machine view has created a situation, now any suppression and reduction of power on Wang Tong will arouse dissatisfaction and backlash from all sides, but the long-term indulgence and physical weakness have made the emperor have little time, he must solve all this for the prince when he is still healthy, what the emperor has to do is to master the army first and win the support of key people, Especially the commander of the forbidden army, Li Hutou, ......"

This booklet, known as "Merrian's Notes", brought a style to Dahua, similar to the language of Pinghua, without allusions and rhetorical embellishments, but there is a tone that is not found in the vernacular.

"Li Hutou is from an officer family in the capital, his father used to be Wang Tong's bodyguard, and later served as a high-ranking official in the Jinyi Guard, and made great contributions to various events in the capital, but this is not the main thing, Li Hutou himself has a very deep friendship with the emperor and Wang Tong, and the eunuch leader Zhao Jinliang also has a deep relationship with him, it can be said that Li Hutou is a figure acceptable to all parties"

"-~~ The emperor sent an envoy to ask, or asked in a summons, testing Li Hutou's attitude towards Wang Tong, what Gu Xiu said is no longer testable, but Li Hutou's position is obviously not wanted by the emperor, maybe there are physical reasons, maybe feel the difference in the situation, the emperor began to take extreme measures, an inexplicable chaos, an unreasonable transfer, and a fatal wound in the back"

In addition to Emperor Wanli's side asked Li Hutou, Wang Tong also asked here, this matter was not instructed by Wang Tong, but the people below felt panicked about the situation and made an unauthorized move, to the inquiry here, Li Hutou gave a very simple answer, "Your Majesty is not such a person, and the eldest brother is not such a person......."

"It was speculated afterwards that the reason why the emperor did not act in Beijing, Tianjin and Beizhili Province was that Wang Tong's information in these places was too well-informed, and the intelligence system was also pervasive, but what the emperor did not expect was that Wang Tong's intelligence ability was far more powerful than he estimated, and in terms of the control of the army, the officers of the forbidden army known as the Huwei Army were more loyal to the group itself than to the imperial power, and after the assassination, the battle ended quickly, the assassin was arrested, and the people sent by the emperor to take over the military power were controlled, The news was quickly delivered to the Jingshi ...... ～～”

"It turns out that the most simple person in these incidents is Li Hutou ......"

"Wang Tong got the news two days earlier than the emperor, he lived in Beijing and left with his family overnight, incidentally, under the escort of the Jinyi Guard armored cavalry, the monitoring force arranged by the emperor did not play a role at all, but covered Wang Tong's departure from Beijing......"

"Tientsin Wei is the city of Wang Tong, where tens of thousands of heavily armed militiamen and a large private fleet protect him......"