What is most important to a ruling group?

Li Xiao’s answer is money!

Money is so important. It costs money to raise troops and prepare for war, it costs money to rest and support people's livelihood, and everything else costs money.

If the country is a huge machine, money is the driving force and lubricant of this machine. The initial collapse of an empire all starts with money. Before this, Li Xiao had never truly understood the importance of money to an empire.

The importance of empire.

Fortunately, there is a guy named Ai Husheng next to Li Xiao. He took a big advantage when he brought this guy back from North Korea. Various factories allowed him to run the business well, and this guy actually found someone to invent the vermicelli.

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Li Xiao beamed every time he saw carts of vermicelli driving into the dock. This thing is really a treasure trove of export earnings! Last year, there was a bumper potato harvest in parts of Liaodong and Shandong, which directly caused a huge amount of potatoes to pile up. If it can be so short,

In a short period of time, the potatoes can be turned into vermicelli that is durable in storage and will never turn back into grain. This thought can be considered to be used to the extreme.

The Japanese and Koreans have an inexplicable sense of admiration for the Ming Dynasty. Things passed down from China from ancient times to the present represent advancement and civilization. Ai Husheng said that he found a cook to make vermicelli for Tokugawa Ieyasu and Maori Terumoto to eat.

After that, Tokugawa Ieyasu and Mouri Terumoto were very happy to sign a contract with Ai Husheng, and vermicelli noodle shops in Japan popped up like mushrooms after the rain.

When it comes to food shortage, the Japanese country is actually more food-deficient than the Ming Dynasty. In fact, there is a shortage of everything except volcanoes and earthquakes. Most Japanese people eat wild vegetable dumplings for a period of time in the year. The lack of food makes ordinary citizens short in stature.

.Only the specially supplied warriors will be stronger.

However, the volcanic earthquake also brought some benefits, that is, the Japanese country has a large number of gold and silver mines. When Ai Husheng first told Li Xiao, Li Xiao even didn't believe it. But after asking Sun Chengzong, he found out that since the Tang Dynasty,

.The Japanese country is actually one of the main producing areas of gold and silver in East Asia. Its status has never changed for hundreds of years, which shows that the Japanese country has rich gold and silver reserves.

Different from Japan, although North Korea also produces gold and silver, its output is far less than that of Japan. However, North Korea has very rich mineral reserves, especially the pyrite, iron ore and copper ore that Li Xiao often uses, which are all stored in North Korea.

An astonishing amount of rich ore.

These two countries have become the dumping grounds for Li Xiao's various industrial products. From matches to cloth, a large number of ships leave various ports in Liaodong, Shandong, and Hebei every day to Japan and North Korea in exchange for Li Xiao.

All kinds of ores, gold and silver that Xiao needed. Without the support of these things, Li Xiao couldn't even pay his army.

However, trade was no longer enough to support the growing army, and with the expenses of various local government offices, Li Xiao found that he was about to fall into a situation where he could not make ends meet, and everything else was easy to say. The army was especially difficult to control, with guns in his hands and no money in his pockets. God knows.

What can these guys who receive violence training all day do?

After discussions with Sun Chengzong, Zhang Huangyan and others, the Longwu court officially announced that from now on, officials and gentry in Liaodong, Shandong, and Hebei will begin to implement the unified payment of grain and work as errands.

In other words, the preferential treatment of scholars that began in Zhu Yuanzhang's time ended in these three places.

As soon as the imperial edict came out, the whole country was in an uproar, and the scholars refused to pay the food and acted improperly. This has been a practice for more than two hundred years. The Longwu court dared to collect money from the scholars, and it was immediately criticized by thousands of people.

The adults of the Jiangnan Consortium are even more red-eyed. The reason why Wei Zhongxian was killed was because this guy was planning to work as an errand for both officials and gentry. Although Wei Zhongxian has been cut into pieces, Li Xiao has appeared again.

This guy is not Wei Zhongxian, he can be killed as soon as he is told.

Although they can't beat Li Xiao, the Donglin Party is a man of letters. What a man of letters is best at is cursing, and it's also a literary scolding. A eloquent message is written with allusions within allusions, and foreshadowing after foreshadowing. Those with a little ink in their stomachs can read it.

I understand that I am insulting someone, but someone with no education may think that I am writing a letter of praise.

For a time, the Donglin Party in Jiangnan criticized the Longwu court both verbally and in writing. The issue of the qualifications of Emperor Longwu Zhu Yihai was also raised. One hundred thousand people marched on the streets of Jinling City, demanding that the court send troops to the Northern Expedition and depose Emperor Longwu.

Zhu Yihai shouted the slogan loudly, making Zhu Yujian's blood boil in the palace.

The emperor's profession was all about self-employment, and now Zhu Yihai actually came out to compete in the industry. Zhu Yujian was very angry and convened several imperial meetings and asked the Minister of War, Shi Kefa, to send troops to the Northern Expedition to quell Buchen.

Zhu Yujian was angry, but the consequences were not serious.

Because no matter Zhou Yanru, Wen Tiren, Ma Shiying, or Shi Kefa knew in their hearts that the Northern Expedition would not succeed, and they would get nothing except angering Li Xiao and throwing down mountains of corpses. The Jiangnan Forbidden Army, which was finally created,

This was considered as having some financial resources. A lot of ammunition had to be supplied by the Liao army. Talking about the Northern Expedition at this time was simply out of the blue.

Various movements were in full swing, but nothing could be done about Li Xiao. In July, when the weather was so hot that the officials and gentry worked together to collect food and work as errands, which was officially implemented in Shandong, Liaodong, and Hebei.

No matter how big an official or gentry your family is, as long as your family owns land, you have to pay taxes according to the land. The head tax, which has been implemented for more than two hundred years, has been completely thrown into the garbage heap. It is the gathering where the wheat has just been harvested, and there is crying.

Some were forced to do misfortune, and some threatened to hang their entire families. Some of the tougher ones even beat up local officials who went to the countryside to collect grain.

Liaodong is actually very peaceful, because when Li Xiao gathered the refugees and reclaimed the land, he implemented a policy where the officials and gentry all paid for food and worked as errands, and the people in Liaodong were divided into acres. The people in Liaodong, who were the first to become rich during the war, have become accustomed to this kind of policy.

system.

Every grain harvest season, villagers will pay public grain according to their own land. Every family is very conscious, no household pays less, and of course no fool will pay more tax. The reason is very simple, as long as you find that the amount of grain paid by your family is wrong.

Then you will be kicked out of the village immediately, and your family's property will be redistributed to other villagers. Even if you save a fortune, you will become pauper in an instant.

Strict dogmatism, every article starts with the promulgated decree. No one intercedes, and no one dares to intercede. After Li Xiao's instruction, Liaodong implemented severe punishments. The human society is not here.

It doesn’t work! In Liaodong now, there are only clear rules. As long as you abide by the rules, you will become a happy free man.
Chapter completed!