Chapter 352 Internal Fight

Another year of flowers fell, Taiwan was in bloody storm in the second year of Chongzhen, while the Ming Dynasty was in turmoil. Another year of severe drought in the Central Plains, Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong, and Beizhili had no harvests. The most terrifying thing was Lian Fujian.

There have been large-scale droughts, which have affected Fujian. It shows that the entire north of the Ming Dynasty was in a state of drought reduction or even extinction. In short, from the second year of Tianqi to the second year of Chongzhen, Shaanxi, which suffered the worst disaster, was severely drought.

After three or four years, the particles were not harvested.

The drought caused high grain prices for several years. Shaanxi Governor Fu Zonglong complained in the letter, saying that the particles in Lantian, Sanyuan and other places had no harvest for several years, and no deaths were starved. Human traffickers from Shanxi, Henan and other places flocked to the price of women and children

Less than one-third of a dou of rice, Fu Zonglong struggled to support in Shaanxi and asked for help everywhere. However, the government was in turmoil in the second year of Chongzhen, and the Donglin Party members were busy scrambling to seize power, so they were not concerned about the drought in Shaanxi.

Ma Cheng was nostalgic and sent Zheng Zhilong to Guangdong to buy grain to support Shaanxi. Zheng Zhilong's ability to do business was amazing. He actually bought rice from Chameng and Annan, and 200,000 stones of rice were transported from sea to Fujian.

Kaiyuan Iron Cavalry was escorted to Shaanxi, traveling thousands of miles away, alleviating Fu Zonglong's urgent need. The Zhou family and Chang family in Shanxi also did their best to buy grain from the two lakes. The merchants in various places were full of grain, but they still could not meet the huge demand for grain in Shaanxi and Mongolia.

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Fu Zonglong was barely maintained in Shaanxi, and Ma Cheng felt bitter in his heart and finally realized the hardships of governing the country. Large-scale disaster relief was millions, and it was not something that only a few officials could feed. It needed to go from the emperor to the court, the inner lord, the Ministry of Revenue, and the middle-level officials.

The eunuch, officials from all over the country, were still two words, silver. The emperor kept the silver tightly and was very stingy. Shanhaiguan still had twenty-five troops to support.

The Ministry of Revenue had no money, and the Donglin Cabinet abolished the tea tax, mining tax, Southeast tax, and commercial tax reduced to 50 taxes and one owed. The Ministry of Revenue suddenly lost two or three million taels of commercial tax per year, and the Ming Dynasty's finance collapsed again

.These are striking discussions in the dynasty and are clamoring to ban the factory guards. Five hundred scholars started to cry again. They were idle at home. Han Kuang, the senior of the Donglin Party who had just arrived in the capital, appeared in the Confucius Temple and comforted the scholars in the cry Temple.

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Ma Cheng is not a rookie without political experience. He saw at a glance that this was the Donglin Party member who created momentum for the respected veteran Han Kuang. The purpose of building momentum was naturally to enter the cabinet. With the reputation of Lord Han, he had to be appropriate.

The chief minister, Li Biao, now the chief minister of the cabinet, did not say a word, obviously could not shake the storm of public opinion from the court and the country. As Nan Juyi said, Li Biao was too shallow in the Donglin Party and was destined to be a short-lived chief minister.

It was a foregone conclusion that Han Kuan entered the cabinet. The court and the opposition discussed the matter, and the Donglin Party raised its sword and slashed at the factory guards.

Li Biao is still a little talented. If he refuses to speak out, he does not support the abolition of the factory guards. At this time, the court can still save him. What is the factory guard? The factory guards are the slaves of the emperor. They have been with him for more than 240 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

The factory guard has not been abandoned, and whether the factory guard is abolished or not depends on the words of the emperor. Now the chief assistant of the Chaozhou Bureau is under tremendous pressure and does not agree with the abolished factory guard. If the emperor can support the chief assistant at this time, he can make public opinion.

Suppress easily.

The chief minister Li Biao faced great pressure, and any normal person also understood the basic framework of the three-party checks and balances of the Ming Dynasty. The three-party checks and balances of the cabinet, civil officials, nobles, and guards of the factory, were the political system that the Ming Dynasty had been operating for more than two hundred years.

Since the Yingzong Tumu Fort Incident, all the nobles were killed and injured. The Ming Dynasty supported by three pillars shortened one pillar, and it became two legs and could be maintained while walking. If the factory guards were abandoned and one leg was lame, it would really become

It's a cripple.

Li Biao is not stupid, the Donglin Party members are not stupid, the Donglin Party members are just completely crazy. No one in the court is fool, they all pretend to be confused, but there is a real fool, the emperor, the fourteen-year-old fool Chongzhen

Emperor. In April and May, when the drought in Shaanxi was at its worst, the fourteen-year-old emperor ordered the abolition of factory guards, the central government and the inner court, the tax supervision and river workers, and the abolition of the court and the country were filled with joy to praise the emperor's wiseness and harm the Ming Dynasty.

In the Dongchang year, the tumor of Jinyiwei was finally abolished. Li Biao stepped down from his country and returned to his hometown to retire. Han Kuang, a veteran of the Donglin Party, took the power of the abolished factory guards and entered the cabinet to become the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty. In this way, the six departments of the court and the Censorate,

From Shanhaiguan to Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian, everything is under the control of the Donglin Party.

Emperor Chongzhen issued an edict saying that if the border guards were dismissed, the central officials would not leave the forbidden palace unless they were ordered. The border government would be subject to special management by the governors of various places.

Before one wave was settled, another wave started again. Qing Dynasty discussed that the scholars asked to abolish the "Three Dynasties Essentials" and said that the Three Dynasties Essentials were private letters of Wei, so please abolish them.

The cabinet approved the request and the request was very relevant. The Ministry of Rites and the ministers of the History Museum discussed and submitted the memorial in detail.

Emperor Chongzhen issued an edict saying that he would burn it immediately after the order was to be executed.

In May, the "Three Dynasties" compiled by the Tianqi Dynasty turned into ashes in the raging fire. From then on, Emperor Tianqi, who loved his younger brother and treated others generously, became the carpenter emperor. I don’t know if there would be any hurried person in the spring. In June, the "Imperial Decree"

"The Rebellion Case" was promulgated to the world, and 260 officials of the rank were cut off. The fourteen-year-old emperor killed and abolished his slaughter and his government and the people were cleared, and the scholars and the people praised him as a wise and sage king.

In mid-June, the Holy Lord Chongzhen issued an order to abolish the Ming and Mongolian covenant, saving 400,000 taels of military expenditure per year for Mongolian aid. The Mongolian troops loyal to Lin Dankhan were in an uproar and were furious at the Ming Emperor's betrayal of the covenant. Admiral Kaiyuan,

Kaiyuan Hou Malin was shocked and sent someone to comfort him. He wrote three consecutive memorials to the court to persuade the emperor that Lin Dankhan's troops were the main force to restrain the enemy from going deep into the grassland, and this 400,000 taels of silver must not be saved.

The emperor was also angry and issued an order to urge the Mongolians to give 400,000 silver in vain? What's wrong with me diligent and thrifty family management!

Ma Lin had no choice but to use the military rations hoarded by Kaiyuan to support Mongolia. Ma Cheng even tried to persuade him several letters in a row. The Ming Dynasty and Mongolia are now on the same rope. It is a relationship of both losses, and they are talking about it.

Lin Dankhan was still angry and was revenge for the Ming Dynasty to betray the covenant, and married his sister to Huang Taiji as his concubine. Ma Lin, Ma Cheng and his son were in trouble, and the Ming Dynasty was at first to betray the fault of the covenant.

The Ming and Mongolia concluded a military alliance. The court said it would be abolished and Lin Danhan could not blame him for turning against others. The situation in Liaodong was developing in an out-of-control direction, and Ma Cheng could not stay in Taiwan anymore. Lin Danhan now married his girl.

Huang Taiji, Mongolia and the Later Jin Dynasty actually negotiated peace. The originally stable situation in Liaodong took a sharp turn for the worse. The 200,000 army of the Later Jin Dynasty could pass through Lin Dankhan's territory at any time, detoured Mongolia to cross the Great Wall and enter the pass in a large number.

In early July of the second year of Chongzhen, Hongmao City, Tamsui, Taiwan.

Ma Cheng, Nan Juyi, Zhou Yongchun and the other two looked at each other speechlessly, wanting to cry without tears. The dynasty and a mentally retarded emperor can make a country like a country? Now I finally know that the world is in chaos.

The situation in Liaodong is in danger. The Ming Dynasty lost the extremely important ally of the Mongolian Lindan Khan tribe and the 50,000 Mongolian cavalry that cooperated with each other, and lost the final field capabilities. Now it has gone from the Kaiyuan line to the Korqin grassland, inside and outside the Great Wall to Shanxi.

The capital of the capital and the north of the Yangtze River suddenly became a large piece of fat meat that was unprepared.

Zhou Yongchun cried in tears. For a mere 400,000 taels of silver, he ruined his great country, just 400,000 taels of silver. Nan Juyi was also ashamed, holding the "Chinese officials were ordered to leave the ban."
Chapter completed!