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Chapter 427 Who Said to Open the Jiangnan Advisory Council?
On the banks of the Qinhuai River, Wuyi Lane, Taishi Mansion.
This is the mansion that Kangxi gave to Huang Zongxi, and now the plaque of Taishifu has been hung.At the entrance of the alley, there is an additional stone tablet that reads "Civil and military officials, soldiers and civilians wait here to dismount from their sedan chairs".
This stele is the legendary dismounting stele, and it can only be erected in the alley outside the house of a high-ranking official with a real reputation.
At this time, all kinds of carriages and sedan chairs were parked outside Bird Clothes Lane, and they could be discharged for several miles along the Qinhuai River.
And the owners of these carriages and sedan chairs are all sitting respectfully in the lobby of the Grand Master's Mansion at the moment, accompanied by Huang Zongxi's son Huang Baijia and his disciple Wan Sida to talk!
These people are not officials, but regiment training leaders from Jiangnan, Zhejiang and other places, and some are profiteers who donated money to Zhu Heqi.
They all came here one after another from all over the place after Zhu Heqi broke through the Zijin Mountain Jiangnan Camp.
What are you here for?Of course, I am here to participate in the Great Ming version of the Jiangnan Advisory Council!
Although Zhu Heqi never said that he would open the Jiangnan Advisory Council, Huang Zongxi and his disciples were still very proactive in handling this matter for Zhu Heqi, bringing together the leaders and generals of the regiment training on the ground in Jiangnan and Zhejiang provinces. All the profiteers were called to Jinling City.
Of course, they are so active for the country and the people!
The situation here in Jiangdong is different from that in Guangdong, Fujian, and Jiangxi.Guangdong is equivalent to the basic plate of Zhu Heqi. Before being "liberated" by Zhu Heqi, Cantonese, especially the two major ethnic groups of Chaozhou and Cantonese, had suffered enough from the Qing Dynasty, and after Zhu Heqi came to power, they sincerely He has done many good things for the Cantonese.Even before he left Guangzhou and went to the south of the Yangtze River, he left Cantonese with three major specialties: "Dolomite Blast Furnace", "Graphite Crucible Steel", and "Milk White Porcelain" (bone china)!
Earlier, Guangdong's sugar industry was "super-upgraded", turning sugar from a condiment into a major weapon of the country's rise and fall!
In addition, during the two or three years when Zhu Heqi ruled Guangdong, a meeting of all ethnic groups similar to a consultative meeting was held, and the equalization of fields, taxes, and labor was completed, and the Haizhu University Hall, Guangzhou Public Medical Hall, and Huangpu Military Academy were established. , Guangfu No. [-], [-], and [-] Colleges and a series of new schools.A Guangzhou public hospital was also set up to prevent and treat infectious diseases and save lives with allicin...
It can be said that Zhu Heqi spared no effort to benefit his hometown in Guangdong!
Therefore, Cantonese people are extremely supportive of him, and he can do things in Guangdong like his fingers. Therefore, Guangdong's social reform has been relatively thorough.
Fujian Province was handed over to Yanping King Zheng Jing for governance. The Yanping Palace has a deep foundation in Fujian, and has a large number of supporters both in southern Fujian and in Shiyi, Fuzhou.Moreover, the grassroots society in Fujian at this time was also similar to that in Guangdong, and the clan power was also quite large.Therefore, the implementation of land equalization based on the common ownership of land and clan has encountered quite limited resistance.
In addition, due to the coastal relocation implemented by the Qing Dynasty in Fujian, the best land in Fujian was actually abandoned!
Moreover, the population of Fujian also suffered heavy losses due to the Ming and Qing wars and the coastal relocation, and the conflict between people and land is quite insignificant...Compared with the hometown of eight mountains, one water and one field, the people of southern Hokkien and Fuzhou in Fujian still hope to be able to Go to sea and work hard.
Therefore, Zhu Hechi's overseas policy is actually very much in line with the needs of the Fujianese.
Under such circumstances, Fujian's reforms in equalizing land, equalizing taxes, and equalizing labor are also progressing smoothly.
The situation in Jiangxi is quite different from that of Guangdong and Fujian.
Jiangxi is a mountainous inland province, and the clan power at the grassroots level is not as strong as in Guangdong and Fujian, and there is no desire for the sea, and there is no such thing as moving along the coast.Due to the sharp drop in population caused by the war between the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the conflict between people and land was eased to a certain extent, so Jiangxi was considered a relatively peaceful province before it was captured by Zhu Heqi... The local people are gentry, although they also welcomed Daming, But it is far less enthusiastic than Guangdong and Fujian for the arrival of Ming Dynasty.
For the time being, Zhu Heqi did not bring the "equal land, equal tax, and equal labor" successfully implemented in Guangdong and Fujian to Jiangxi.After all, it was Prime Minister Zhuge's rear, who rejected Wu Zhou in the west and resisted the Qing demon in the north, and had to maintain stability as much as possible, so Zhu Heqi handed over Jiangxi to Zhuge Sanhe for full governance.
Zhuge Sanhe was busy with the military, and didn't have much energy to manage internal affairs, so he used a large number of Jiangxi-born Ming survivors and let them maintain it first.
So now the situation in Jiangxi Province is "the brightest"... The imperial power does not go to the countryside, and the grassroots governance is also extremely loose. Even the tax collection standards are based on the Jiangxi tax and grain quota formulated by Zhang Juzheng during the Wanli period. The annual tax and grain quota is 260 million shi for white rice.
However, since Jiangxi's scholar-bureaucrats have not participated in any advisory councils, nor have they obtained the right to practice regiments, they do not have the strength to challenge the Ming court. difficulty.
The situation in Jiangnan and Zhejiang provinces is more complicated!
This is the hometown of the Donglin Party, and it is rich in talk!
Moreover, before Kangxi ran away, in order to earn more from Jiangnan and Zhejiang, he also held a consultative meeting, and sold all the group training rights in the counties of Jiangnan and Zhejiang.
This is terrible, the mouth cannons have armed forces!
This armed mouth cannon is much more powerful than an unarmed mouth cannon.
However, when Zhu Heqi marched into Zhejiang and Jiangnan, because of insufficient troops, he only occupied a few important cities, and most of the county towns were determined by passing the call...to whom?Of course, it is passed on to those who donate to the team to train the head.
Although they didn't have many regiments in their hands, Qing officials from all counties fled with their seals.This group of donated teams naturally filled the power vacuum and became the rulers of most counties in Jiangnan and Zhejiang.
As soon as Zhu Heqi's proclamation arrived, they became "rebel leaders", and their rule gained certain legitimacy.
In order to strengthen their own legitimacy, they provided Zhu and Qi's Northern Expedition with a large number of civilians, ships and supplies... Now they are all heroes of the anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty!
Zhu Dajian has only won one-third of the world now, even if he wants to kill heroes, it is not now, right?
And these anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty heroes, profiteers who donated money to Zhu Heqi, and scholar-bureaucrats like Huang Zongxi and Wan Sida are actually all in the same group.
So Huang Zongxi beckoned to them, and they came to Nanjing... to participate in the Jiangnan Advisory Council to raise funds for the imperial court!
"Although the Jianguo sage took Jiangdong smoothly this time, it cost a lot of money... The military discipline of the Ming army was actually fed with silver! The Jianguo sage gave rewards to the Guangdong and Fujian soldiers below. This money is paid by the catty!
According to the information that my teacher inquired, the officers and soldiers of the second town who attacked Zijin Mountain could get about 200 million taels, and the four towns that attacked Anqing and the seventh town that raided the periphery of Nanjing could get 100 million taels. The income of the Shanghai Navy is 800 million taels just for rewards! "
"800 million! Such style, such financial resources... If Emperor Wei Zong can give rewards like this, there is no certainty in the five-year Ping Liao! But my father thinks that this expenditure is still a bit too big, after all, the imperial court last year's annual income It’s less than 500 million! So if the imperial court wants to make up for this shortfall, I’m afraid it will have to rely on the hard work of everyone here to raise funds to pay for it! Are you willing to help the imperial court raise money?”
Those who are talking are Huang Zongxi's favorite student Wan Sida and his precious son Huang Baijia, and their questions... If the Emperor Chongzhen who hanged Meishan listened to it, he might be moved to tears.
They actually discussed with the people below how to make a few million for the court to make up for the shortfall when Zhu and Qi didn't ask for money.
If the literati and bureaucrats in the south of the Yangtze River had this awareness, Li Zicheng would not rebel, and Huang Taiji would have been beaten to death long ago...
Chapter 428 Let's have a meeting, there will be money in the meeting!
"Yes, we are willing to serve the imperial court!"
"Isn't it just money, don't bring it with you when you are born, don't take it with you when you die... As long as the sage who supervises the country and the court allows us to hold a consultative council, are we afraid we won't be able to raise a few million?"
"That's right! If there had been such an advisory council back then, Jiangnan would have paid for Dudu Yuan's five-year Ping Liao!"
"That's right! Qingyao is too abominable, even throwing money at them will kill them!"
"The Qing Yao is not dead yet! We have to continue smashing money and smashing them to death!"
Of course, a group of leaders are willing to raise money for Zhu Heqi's court... First of all, they really hate Qingyao. The Qingyao is so hateful. After killing so many people, they also want to engage in literary inquisition and move to the coast. This fucking doesn't give people a happy life!
Secondly, to raise money... they asked the small landlords, small businessmen, and ordinary people below to raise money. Zhu and Qi took at most [-]% of the money they raised, and they kept the rest!
Moreover, Zhu Heqi had to give them complete legitimacy before they could help Zhu Heqi raise money.
Thirdly, Zhu Heqi is actually very efficient in spending money. He really does things with the money, and he does it beautifully.
With more than 1000 million military expenditures, Kang Mazi lost three provinces of Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Jiangnan...about three to four million a province, how many provinces does Kangxi still have now?It seems that there are eight provinces in Zhili, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Jiangbei, and Huaibei. If you spend 400 million taels of silver, can you smash Kang Mazi into Emperor Shun of the Qing Dynasty?
If you gave him this number back then, Emperor Chongzhen would not be able to beat Huang Taiji to death!
Wan Sida and Huang Baijia looked at each other and laughed.
Vance laughed loudly and said, "Since everyone thinks so, the Prisoner Sage should not refuse to convene an advisory council."
Huang Baijia also laughed and said: "Of course, now Wu Sangui will send troops to the Northern Expedition soon... If Wu Sangui is allowed to enter Beijing first, it will be hard to say who will be the master of the world in the future! You are willing to contribute military expenses to support Jian Guo's Northern Expedition , Jian Guo is too late to be happy, how could he refuse?"
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Zhu Heqi, who has been in charge of Nanjing for almost half a month, has actually learned from his attendants that many big businessmen from Jiangnan and Zhejiang, as well as "donors and trainers" have been called to Nanjing by Huang Zongxi...but he didn't pay any attention to it. He blocked it, on the one hand, because he also wanted to have a good talk with these Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui people, so they might not be able to agree!
On the other hand, the Northern Expedition is not over yet.Therefore, Zhu and Qi's great attention was concentrated on the battlefield.
On the eastern front, Jiangbei Daying in Guazhoubu was Zhu Heqi's next target.Without taking down the Jiangbei camp, the main force of the new Ming Dynasty would have no way to attack the Qing Dynasty north along the Grand Canal, and it would be difficult to open the Yangtze River waterway.
It's tantamount to making people's necks stuck, and the small courts in the south of the Yangtze River will feel uneasy!
And on the western front, Prime Minister Zhuge has concentrated the forces of two towns to storm Anqing... The Qing army has deployed defenses in Anqing for a longer time, and the defense line has become stronger!
Moreover, Zhuobutai's new army with Xianghuang Banner and Zhenghuang Banner is also more powerful than Sun Sike's new army with Zhenglan Banner and Xianglan Banner.
In addition, Zhuobutai also has more troops than Sun Sike. The former governor of Anhui, the governor of Anhui, the governor of Anhui, and the governor of Anhui, a total of [-] green battalion soldiers were surrounded by Zhuge Sanhe in Anqing In the city.Moreover, these [-] green battalion soldiers were all recruited from Huaibei, and their hometown was still under the firm control of the Qing Dynasty, so they were relatively reliable.
Therefore, Zhuobutai's actual strength is as many as 6000!
Moreover, Prime Minister Zhuge couldn't spend money to fight a psychological war like Zhu Hexi, so there was no way to force Zhuobutai out, so he had to gnaw hard bones bit by bit.
On the third day after Zhu Heqi entered Nanjing, Zhuge Sanhe had just cleared the outer strongholds of Anqing City, and began to bombard the walls of Anqing City with rocket launchers and ten-jin cannons. Anqing City Wall.
And Zhuobutai sent soldiers from the Eight Banners New Army to repair the damaged city walls like crazy.
The two sides fought like this for seven days. On September 21st, Zhuobutai finally exhausted and withdrew his last stronghold in Anqing City - the Chief Minister's Yamen, but he still couldn't get it. The 1000 elite soldiers, relying on the chief minister Yamen, fought to the end... until September 25th, the entire army was wiped out, defeated and died.
When the news reached Nanjing, it was already the evening of September 26.
Early the next morning, Zhu Heqi, who was in a good mood, called all the ministers, generals and senior military officers in Nanjing to the Hall of Martial Arts, and announced to them in public that the Battle of Anqing had been completely won. good news.
"The prime minister is really capable of fighting. Zhuobutai is Oboi's elder brother, a veteran who has been famous for decades. He was defeated by King Li Jin in Mopan Mountain. Otherwise, it is very possible to kill Wu Sangui! But that's it. The veteran and famous general of the prime minister was also beheaded by the prime minister in the city of Anqing. The [-] army he led was wiped out, and the army that the prime minister actually used to attack Anqing did not exceed [-]... The ability to use such troops is no better than " Zhuge Liang in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, right?"
Zhu Heqi was very interesting to Zhuge Sanhe. Although his Anqing battle was not very good, and he could even be described as "mediocre performance", Zhu Hechi still had a blast.
After blowing, he kept winking at the people below, meaning to let them help blowing together.
"Jianguo," said Grand Master Huang Zongxi, who was the first to get up from his chair, "the veteran thought that after the Anqing War, the middle reaches of the Yangtze River were in my hands, and Prime Minister Zhuge could do his best to guard against Wu and Zhou, so the western front could rest easy. Seeing that there is no chance for Wu Sangui to attack my back, Wu Sangui will definitely go all out for the Northern Expedition... For our dynasty, the most urgent task is to launch the Northern Expedition as soon as possible, and we must seize Beijing before Wu Sangui."
"Oh," Zhu Heqi said with Huang Zongxi's words, he didn't have the heart to brag about imitating Zhuge Liang any more, but frowned, "Now four of the five towns in Jiangxi are exhausted...the ones in Jiangdong are exhausted. The second and seventh towns are also a little tired, and they should take a rest after taking down Yangzhou. Moreover, the weather is getting colder and colder, and the soldiers from Guangdong and Fujian have difficulty adapting for a while. Still need time to raise some.
Therefore, the large-scale Northern Expedition may end next summer. "
In fact, Zhu Hexi had already arranged a surprise army for the Northern Expedition, but this surprise soldier cannot be talked about with people like Huang Zongxi.
So he found a lot of reasons, and said that the start time of another northward march would be next summer.
However, Huang Zongxi's next words surprised Zhu Heqi a little. He said, "Jianguo said just now that the military expenditure is insufficient? The insufficient military expenditure is easy to solve. You can call the Jiangnan Advisory Council and apportion the military expenditure to the counties in the south of the Yangtze River... There is plenty of silver in the south of the Yangtze River, and the gentry and big merchants in all counties are willing to contribute, once the advisory council is held, 2000 or [-] million taels of military expenses can be raised!"
Open a conference to raise money?
Zhu Heqi immediately became vigilant, thinking: "What do you want to do? You want to hold a third-level meeting?"
He kept his composure, shook his head and said, "Isn't it right? Back then, my grandfather forced the common people to rebel because of the extra payment, causing external troubles and internal troubles one after another, so he couldn't cope with it, so that the country perished."
"Don't worry about Jian Guo," Huang Zongxi said, "Back then, Emperor Wei Miao didn't know who was rich in the world, and all the apportionments fell on the poor.
Moreover, due to natural disasters and man-made disasters in Shaanxi back then, the people were in dire straits, and there were rebels like Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong who caused disasters, so the world was in chaos.
However, in the Ming Dynasty today, the weather is smooth, the people have enough food and clothing, and there are no rebels now...so as long as the advisory council is held, money can be raised. "
Now there are no rebels?Zhu Heqi was a little bit wrong after hearing this!What's the meaning?The rebels are now grandsons of Jian Guo, so no one will rebel anymore?
Thinking of this, Zhu Heqi asked coldly: "Teacher, besides fundraising, does this council have to discuss other things?"
Chapter 429 This saint wants to cut off the lifeblood of the scholar-bureaucrats!
As soon as Huang Zongxi heard Zhu Heqi's question, he immediately laughed. As long as this advisory council can be held, it will be his victory!
As for what to discuss, it doesn't matter at all... Even if it is about supporting Zhu Dajian as the emperor, even if it is discussing the selection of beauties for Zhu Dajian's palace, it is not a big deal.
Thinking of this, Huang Zongxi immediately replied: "Jian Guo, as long as this advisory council is opened, you can discuss whatever you want, and the gentry and students in Jiangnan have always supported the imperial court, and they know that what Jian Guo wants to do is for The country is for the people, and the world is for the public.”
Is it really that good?Zhu Hechi sneered in his heart: "Don't you Jiangnan gentry want me to kneel down and beg for money? You think that the Gu family is in a hurry to raise military funds to fight Kang Mazi, so you want to use this matter to take advantage of the Gu family so that the counselor Institutionalize parliament... and legalize your monopoly!"
Thinking of this, Zhu Heqi laughed, as if he was satisfied with Huang Zongxi's answer, he smiled and said: "Then let's issue an order, the regiments of the counties under the jurisdiction of Jiangnan and Zhejiang provinces, and those who once donated money to the Northern Expedition Rich people with more than 1 taels can come to Yingtianfu City in Nanjing before November [-]st to sign up for the Jiangnan Advisory Council... The convening of the advisory council, the training of participating groups, the qualification review of the rich, etc. Tianfu and Taishifu are jointly responsible.
Mr. Lizhou, you are a great Confucian, you are also the leader of Jiangnan Shilin, and you also helped Kangxi organize an advisory meeting, so you are familiar with the way, so you should take the overall responsibility for this matter! "
Huang Zongxi saluted immediately and said in a loud voice: "The sage is dedicated to serving the public and the world. It is indeed a blessing for the common people and a blessing for the country. The veteran will definitely do his best to organize this advisory meeting for the sage... The veteran promises that next year the imperial court will make a northern expedition to the Central Plains." The people in Jiangnan and Zhejiang provinces can afford at least [-]% of the funds needed!"
"Okay, this is very good..." Zhu Heqi praised repeatedly on the surface, but in his heart he thought: "The lonely family wants to dig up the roots of your Jiangnan gentry, can the council agree to this matter? The council... dare Do you disagree?"
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"Teacher, has Jian Guo agreed to hold an advisory council?"
"My lord father, you are full of spring breeze today, has the matter of convening the advisory council been completed?"
Niaoyi Lane, Taishi Mansion.As soon as Huang Zongxi entered the gate, his lover Wan Sida and his son Huang Baijia were waiting inside the gate. From the expression on his face, he could tell that a great joyous event had happened.
Huang Zongxi did not lie to his disciples and son, he laughed loudly and said: "Jian Guo is indeed a rare wise king... he is indeed a saint! Chongzong, Baijia, let's talk three times!"
After finishing speaking, he strode towards his own deep house compound.
When father and son, master and apprentice met again in the third hall of Taishi Mansion, Huang Zongxi had already changed into a loose Taoist attire, with a black sand square scarf on his head, and no sword and sword were hung on his belt. Empty hammer.
Like Huang Zongxi, Wan Sida and Huang Baijia were all dressed as homely scholar-bureaucrats. While drinking tea, the three of them discussed the upcoming Jiangnan Advisory Council of the Ming Dynasty.
"Anqing has been taken... Kangxi has lost two of the three major fortresses along the Yangtze River, and there is only one Jiangbei camp in Guazhou, which will not last long. In the spring, we will definitely go north to the Central Plains, and then we will have to It’s a lot of money.”
"Father, the child has already had trouble with the people below... Money is not a problem!"
"Teacher, although the Jiangnan and Zhejiang provinces have experienced wars and their vitality has been greatly damaged, but the old foundation is still there. If you press it down, you still have 2000 million taels of silver."
"Really? There are really so many?" Huang Zongxi was a little surprised by the number reported by his disciple Wan Sida, "When the previous dynasty was at its peak, the tax and food quotas of Nanzhili and Zhejiang were only 850 million shi... commercial tax and salt tax Adding one piece is more than one million taels at most. How can you take out 100 million taels casually now?"
Wan Sida, who has been the governor of Jiangnan for a period of time, took over the teacher's question and before answering, he sighed: "Hey, isn't it because of successive years of wars, the violence of Qing demons, and the continuous destruction of our Jiangnan scholars...Now Jiangnan 4000. The two provinces of Zhejiang have few gentry farms but many private farms. According to what the students know, the farmland in Zhejiang Province should be more than 9000 million mu, and the farmland in Jiangnan is almost the same. There are 600 to 400 million mu in total! And there are a lot of them The income of mulberry fields, cotton fields, and tea fields is several times that of rice. Among the rice fields, there are also paddy fields that are harvested twice a year. In the land of fish and rice, the land in the land of fish and rice is apportioned for less than two yuan per mu, and the total is 2000 million taels. , and apportion another [-] million to the merchants, [-] million taels will be enough?"
Hearing this, Huang Zongxi couldn't help but sigh: "Even if the three pay increases in the previous Ming Dynasty were paid in full, they were only more than 2000 million taels. This was still apportioned to the whole country, and as a result, they were forced to rebel everywhere. Now Jiangnan, The two provinces of Zhejiang can actually afford 2000 million... really there will be no trouble?"
"No," Vance shook his head. "In the past, there were many people and few fields... the rent for an acre of gentry in Jiangnan and Zhejiang was far more than two yuan! Now, there are fewer people and more fields, and the gentry pays for it. Naturally, it will be much less, and after the chaos of the world, small farmers will have more land. In addition, the gentry in the previous Ming Dynasty did not pay taxes, but there is no such rule in this dynasty."
What he said to put it bluntly is that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, most of the land was not taxed or apportioned, so 2000 million three rates were pressed on a small number of lands, which caused large-scale bankruptcy of small farmers, coupled with natural disasters. The attack makes the people miserable.