Chongzhen chat group

Chapter 347
He didn't get the emperor's permission, so he made such a statement, obviously with the emperor's permission, otherwise he wouldn't dare to say that if he had the guts.

Emperor Chongzhen's intention was to hope that the new army could take action as soon as possible.The meaning of coming here in person is not only to show importance, but also to take Lu Xiangsheng's good news to tell these new soldiers that Jianlu is not terrible.Such soft and hard beatings made the new army soldiers tighten their strings for training.

If the training time is delayed for too long, Emperor Chongzhen will be overwhelmed.Don't look at it as if you can pinch Jianlu for the time being, so that they no longer pose a threat to the capital, but in fact, there are still many enemies in Ming Dynasty, the chieftains in the southwest, the pirates in the southeast coast, the western barbarians, and more importantly, , Disasters in various places, severe floods in the south and drought in the north, it is easy to cause civil uprisings if the hungry people are not appeased.

His worries were not superfluous, no, as soon as he returned to the palace from the Beijing camp, the eunuch Cao Huachun, the supervisor of ceremonies, came to see him with a memorial.

This memorial was sent by Xue Guoguan, the assistant minister who is still in Xuanfu, saying that the drought in Jin this year has appeared, and it seems to be more serious than in previous years. He is worried that Jin will be like Qin, because famine occurs everywhere Civil uprising.

In order to illustrate the authenticity of this situation, Xue Guoguan also reported in the memorial that the original grain storage in Shanxi was purchased by Shanxi merchants last year, and now it has been transported to the capital to comfort the people and help the capital.Once a more serious drought occurs, the consequences are absolutely unpredictable.

Therefore, Xue Guoguan requested in the memorial to reduce or exempt taxes and even make preparations for disaster relief.Otherwise, wait until the civil uprising occurs before suppressing and pacifying it, and the loss will be great!

If it was elsewhere, Cao Huachun knew what Emperor Chongzhen was thinking, so he would reply and report the result to Emperor Chongzhen.However, because Jindi had such a big case involving Shanxi merchants, and he knew that the emperor hated the traitorous Shanxi merchants, he was a little uncertain about the emperor's attitude.Therefore, he directly handed over the memorial to the emperor himself.

When Emperor Chongzhen saw the words "the drought is worse than in previous years" written in the memorial, he knew that the severe drought in northern Shaanxi had begun to spread.Suddenly, his face changed a little.

Emperor Chongzhen remembered that those thieves from Shaanxi had just rushed into the land of Jin, and happened to encounter a catastrophe after such a series of disasters in Jin, wouldn't it add fuel to the fire, and a single spark could start a prairie fire!
He felt that the situation was a bit serious, but Jindi was different from the inland provinces, it was a border province of Ming Dynasty, and the land taxes collected were all useful.

Generally speaking, the land tax collected by the local government in Shanxi is divided into two parts, namely retention and shipment.Among them, the shipping part is not for the central government, but for the military supplies of the border towns.If this part is reduced, Bianzhen will have nothing to eat, and the consequences will be disastrous, and it is obviously impossible to reduce it.

The other part is retention, that is, staying in the local area.But generally there are several uses.One is for the military supplies of the local guards, the other is for the suzerains and vassals, and the third is for the food for the students and so on.

Emperor Chongzhen thought about it, so he immediately called the dossier and began to check the status of these land taxes.

He found that among these land taxes, the two largest expenditures were military supplies for border towns and vassal vassals, which accounted for more than half of the land taxes.Among them, the vassal's salary has always been insufficient, otherwise, all the land taxes added up to give the vassal's salary would not be enough.But it can be seen from this that the vassal's salary is already too much.

As a result, the issue of the vassal king's clan was immediately placed in front of Emperor Chongzhen again.And the purpose of Xue Guoguan's memorial is also very obvious, that is, to let the emperor come forward and waive the vassal's salary.It's just about royal matters, he can't point it out directly.

Actually, Xue Guoguan was too worried about this point.What is royal or not, in the eyes of today's Emperor Chongzhen, these are not a problem, he himself is thinking about how to cut down those vassal kings and clans!

In the past, Wen Tiren, the chief assistant of the cabinet, had already mentioned the issue of the vassal clan. Now that it was brought before him again, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but seriously think about the idea of ​​going to feudal vassals outside the Ming Dynasty.

After a long time, Emperor Chongzhen took up a pen and began to write letters to the vassal kings of Shanxi. No matter what, with outsiders watching, he couldn't directly decree to reduce the part of the vassal's salary.

In the letter, he explained the difficulties of the imperial court and the current situation in Shanxi. He hoped that the suzerains and vassals, those who are capable, at least those vassals will not only remove this year's land tax, but also take part of it for disaster relief.Only in this way can we avoid civil uprisings that threaten their future income and even others.

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen would not be the kind of begging for help in a low voice, and there was some faint threat in the words of reasoning and presenting the facts.

After finishing writing, he simply threw the letter to Cao Huachun, asking him to copy a few more letters according to his meaning, and send them to the feudal lords in Qin.

After dealing with this matter, Emperor Chongzhen found one of the biggest problems, which was once again in front of his eyes.This problem is the problem of food shortage!
The problem of thieves, which shook the foundation of Da Ming and finally overthrew Da Ming, was actually easy to solve at the beginning.It is to allow the victims of the disaster to have food to survive. Without these, the thieves are like a tree without roots, and they will never make any waves under the siege of the government.

But in this little ice age, in fact, the provinces will not have much food wealth.Although I have paid enough attention to it, I even sent Xu Guangqi, Minister of Rites, as an imperial envoy to inspect various places and promote high-yielding crops.But it will take time, and it will take at least a few years to scale up.

But in the past few years, the disasters brought about by the Little Ice Age have become more and more serious.It may be too late to wait until the day when the high-yield crops will play a role, and we must find another way to solve the food problem!Even for food, you can spare no expense!
When Emperor Chongzhen thought of this, he immediately thought of Nanyang's grain.When I was young, I sent imperial envoys to various countries in Southeast Asia to ask them to pay tribute to food. It should be a feedback, right?

Although I have a chat group in my hand, the number of people does not cover the whole world, and I cannot immediately know the movement in the distance.Now I just hope that everything goes well, and the countries in Southeast Asia can pay tribute to food, so that at least part of the disaster can be alleviated.

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help worrying about another problem, which was traffic.The food from the Southeast Asian countries must be transported by sea, but even if it comes from Tianjin, it will consume a lot of food on the way to Shanxi and Shaanxi, which are the hardest hit.Unlike later generations, a train skin can be pulled in.

It seems that the train still has to be prepared in advance, even if it is a primitive train!Emperor Chongzhen felt that there were so many things to do, and he was simply too busy!
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