Chapter 118: Hope Clan

I don’t know how long I thought about it, but my beloved concubine Fang Jiao said, “My legs are numb.”

Minyue, wearing a samurai uniform, broke in, stared at the two people sitting on the chair with their eyes wide open, and looked at them in a daze.

Bai Qinghua's pretty face turned red with shame. Ma Cheng endured the touching feeling before he could speak. Minyue had already snorted lightly, her tender and slender body turned and walked away proudly. The good maid Yingxue, who was waiting outside, was pretty

My face turned red, and I couldn't help but close the door from outside.

Two days later, Kaiyuan.

A government order came out of the Kaiyuan Admiral's Office. The government order was brief. Because the treasury was empty, this year, Kaiyuan, Tieling autumn grain did not collect grains, but only cash money was collected.

This is a noun that Ma Cheng remembered after thinking hard, currency rent.

I have studied history books in military academy. The emergence of currency rent is one of the symbols of the budding of capitalism. It is absolutely right to do what is said in the book. As for the consequences, Liaodong has become corrupt, with more than 100,000 yuan.

The people have become refugees, and no matter how bad they are, they will not be worse. The one-whip method implemented by Zhang Juzheng, a famous prime minister, was actually the prototype of currency land rent, but it has been abolished this morning.

As soon as this order was issued, the Li family in Tieling and more than ten prominent families were invaded, contacting Shang Ben, a well-known official in the court, impeaching the Ma family and his son, and causing trouble for the people!

What a big joke? If you want more food, you don’t have any trace of silver!

Although Liaodong suffered a drought, only the untouchables were affected. The irrigated land on both sides of the Qinghe and Hunhe River were all owned by the Li family. More than ten prominent families had enough financial resources to dig deep wells, and a large amount of grain was collected in the field.

Oh. In the past year, the government paid for everyone’s food by spending money, but this year it turned over. If you want to dig out the money from the landlord Laocai, it would be better to kill them.

Hoarding goods and selling grain at high prices is even more ridiculous. Kaiyuan Tieling has nine out of ten rooms, so the grain needs to be sold to ghosts.

A few days later, the Censor of the Censorate of the Kaiyuan Ma family changed the ancestral system and slandered the national system.

The Ma family and his son were ready to write a letter to defend themselves, and there was only one sentence in the whole article, and they brought the money.

The autumn grain harvest in Ji Town, Xuanda, Shanxi and Henan was bumper, and the weather in Jiangnan was even better. The grain was worthless now. The military rations transported from Jizhou to Kaiyuan are being continuously transported. Kaiyuan has no shortage of money but only silver.

,The ministers in the court asked me to Kaiyuan to take back the government orders, and I will take the silver and the weapons. My Ma family and son will lead the order to train the new army. Is there no silver for the new army? I will restrain the construction of the army.

Most of the slaves, don’t you have to pay for the orders?

Anyway, just say, take the money, otherwise don’t use the ancestral hat to suppress others.

In the memorial, Ma Lin also asked fiercely. If he loses justice due to minor matters and loses Kaiyuan, my father and son of Ma will die in small ways. Who will bear the responsibility for losing Kaiyuan?

This sentence hits the point, and even Ma Cheng was surprised that his father had grown up. This sentence was very good.

As expected, as soon as this was said, the censors who impeached the Ma family's unance of the ancestor system did not dare to say anything. The responsibility of losing the important town of Tieling was naturally unbearable. They were written in black and white, and then even

It was impossible to deny it. Kaiyuan was lost. It doesn’t matter whether Ma Cheng and his son died or not, but their family was dead.

After a while, His Majesty Wanli still said nothing, and the court accused of this decree.

The Ministry of Revenue had no money, so the money for the training of the new army was still the emperor's inner-minded silver. The Ministry of Revenue really couldn't afford the money, and the Ministry of War had already emptied the warehouse.

The court acquiesced, and Ma Cheng was not polite. He picked the persimmons first and copied a hundred-year-old noble family that was hard to support the government order of the Admiral's government. Four cannons were set up and bombarded, and a burst of arrows were shot over. What about the hundred-year-old noble family?

What is the old emperor's experience in the past? He has not been a Jinshi for fifty years and dares to resist, not knowing how to live or die.

As soon as the cannon was blasted, the Li family in Tieling surrendered and obediently handed over the autumn grain and silver.

The Li family gave in and out of other families, so Macheng received 100,000 taels of silver. This money was used to repair the city and consolidate the city defense. No one could find any mistakes.

After paying the money, the prominent families had to organize a caravan to transport a large amount of stocked grains, and the grain could not be moldy in the warehouse, making the old grain even less valuable. In theory, the most profitable trade route was to go north, and Mongolian tribes were also affected.

Due to drought, new grain can be exchanged for wool and horses from Mongolian tribes. Jizhou is controlled by the Qi Party and the trade route is not accessible, but you can still take a detour to Shanxi. You can make a lot of money by selling it one by one.

The first caravan of the Li family in Tieling was detained as soon as he arrived at Guangshun Pass. The charge was for capitalizing on enemies, confiscated food, and all the people were imprisoned. Gao Zhen, the chief general of Guangshun Pass, was reasonable, and the grain transport team was released.

After Kaiyuan Beiguan, who knows whether you went to Mongolia or Jianzhou? Isn’t transporting grain to Jianzhou a way to invest in the enemy?

Two grain transport teams were detained one after another, and more than ten prominent tribes in Tieling finally understood that this was forcing them to death.

Ma Cheng'an sat in the newly built official hall of Guangshun Pass, drinking tea with Gao Daren, sneered in his heart, knowing what an official is, do you know what a monopoly is? This huge profitable business is not the turn of outsiders to do it. You can take care of it.

Grains of grain cannot be transported out. At present, a bag of Chengu can be exchanged for a sheep, and a bag of brown rice can be exchanged for a horse. Half a month ago, Kaiyuan Iron Cavalry came out in full swing to escort Jizhou to transport it

Chen Liang went to various Mongolian tribes.

What a shrewd man, Mr. Zhou, had already exchanged the old army food and food stored in Jizhen and Xuanda. All the food and food were replaced with new food to ensure that the army needed to fight. It was just the food and food exchanged.

If you transport it to various Mongolian tribes who are crazy, you can make a lot of money.

As for Zidi Macheng, he didn't care about it. If he didn't sell grain in Kaiyuan, the Shanxi merchants would also sell it. This is to grab food from the Shanxi merchants.

Mongolia lacked food, and the Ming Dynasty even lacked horses. War horses, pack horses, as long as they were horses, the Ming Dynasty would not think there were too many.

It is helpless to weigh the two sides. Things in the world will definitely not be perfect.

As for the more than ten prominent families, Ma Cheng would not be soft-hearted. It has also been said in later history that all the famous generals of Tieling had joined Jiannu and became officials of great size.

Macheng is not a economy, nor does he understand what macro-control is, he just takes advantage of the situation. However, he said that a large amount of grain was stored in the barn and the prominent families in Tieling still recognized it with their noses. Who knows what it will be next year

In the past year, it would not be bad if you save more food at home, and at most you lost some money.

It was soon after the autumn harvest season, and it was time to plant winter wheat, and the wealthy families were really panicked because no one was farming.

I don’t know when it started. Tenants from Tieling and Kaiyuan, who were all traveling to Kaiyuan to build a city with excuses of going far away and visiting relatives. They all went to Kaiyuan to build a city. The current market for Kaiyuan to build a city is calculated based on earth and stone, but they are people.

People have food to eat. A strong man can eat two dried meats a day and occasionally drink meat soup. The old and weak have dried meats a day. When they are sick, doctors will treat the doctor. The most important thing is that they have a skill.

Whether it is a carpenter, bricklayer, or blacksmith, he has a reward of five cents of silver every month!
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