: The common people of the Qing Dynasty suffer again

People's joys and sorrows are not the same,

Just like the joyful Liaonan and the cheerful Ming Dynasty, Huang Taiji did not feel happy. He only felt that these Ming people were too noisy.

Because the biggest problem he faces now is not that someone broke the capital and robbed the queen just after he ascended the throne. The biggest problem is that the treasury is out of food!

Yes, the Qing Dynasty ran out of food!

No one is defeated, and if you work hard to train your army, you can start over again.

If the capital is broken, it will be built stronger next time.

Even if people's hearts are scattered, they can slowly come together again.

But there is a prerequisite for all this, you must have food on hand!

But the problem is that Huang Taiji doesn’t have any food at the moment!

It used to be that grain, firearms, etc. could be purchased from Shanxi Shanxi merchants in the Ming Dynasty. However, as the eight major Shanxi merchants were taken over in one pot, the existing Shanxi merchants basically belonged to the court merchants of the Ming Dynasty. How could they export grain to the Qing Dynasty again?

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So Huang Taiji is now trapped in a strange circle called the food dilemma: Huang Taiji needs food to stabilize the morale of the military and the people to make plans for next year, but he currently has no food at all to stabilize the internal situation.

Huang Taiji couldn't figure it out on his own, but he was not the only smart person in the Qing Dynasty. There were all the Crouching Dragons and Phoenix Youngs in the Qing Dynasty.

Su Mingzhe, Fan Wencheng, Wei Gongchao, Wolong, Fengchu, and Xu Shu of the Qing Dynasty came together again, and this was the Han power of the Qing Dynasty; plus Huang Taiji, Dorgon, Duduo, Baltai, Mandahai, Sa

Ha Lian, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, the leader of the major belles and banners, represented the Manchu forces.

Well, as Daishan, the leader of the two red flags, was beheaded, his two red flags were also distributed by Huang Taiji to his two sons, Saha Lian and Manda Hai, to win over people's hearts.

This meeting was held on how to deal with the food crisis that the Qing Dynasty would face next.

Huang Taiji was sitting on the throne wearing a dragon robe. Dorgon, Duoduo and others on the left remained silent, while Su Mingzhe, Fan Wencheng and Wei Gongchao on the right were discussing in low voices.

In fact, Dorgon and others also knew that these government affairs issues really had to rely on the Han people. Who allowed the Han people to have many scholars and real abilities?

Huang Taiji watched himself, the young man of the Qing Dynasty, discussing with Xu Shu, and nodded with satisfaction: These Han people are still reliable. With these people assisting the Qing Dynasty, the future of the Qing Dynasty must be prosperous.

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It seems that in the future we will need to recruit more scholars from the Ming Dynasty to come to the Qing Dynasty!

Huang Taiji couldn't understand why the emperor of the Ming Dynasty didn't want these scholars. Didn't the young emperor of the Ming Dynasty know that scholars are needed to govern the world?

Just as he was thinking about it, Wei Gongchao spoke: "Your Majesty, my ministers and others have discussed it. The current situation can only be dealt with from three aspects."

"oh?!"

When Huang Taiji heard that he was starting from three aspects, he immediately asked: "Where are you starting from?"

Wei Gongchao stroked his beard and smiled and said: "Your Majesty, although we are at odds with the Ming Dynasty, Mongolia is still sitting on the fence and watching. Now the Mongolian Tatar tribe is betting on both sides. They neither want to provoke us, the Qing Dynasty, nor the Ming Dynasty, and the Tatars

There are many tribes in the Tartar tribe who yearn for me, the Qing Dynasty."

"Now that the Ming Dynasty and the Tatar tribe are opening border markets for mutual trade, why not let the Tatar tribe buy the Ming Dynasty's grain for us? We only need to pay some gold and silver. This is the first aspect."

"Secondly, although our Qing Dynasty has no food now, North Korea does have food. North Korea is a small country with few people, but it does not respect our Qing Dynasty and is willing to become a vassal of the Ming Dynasty. The emperor can definitely send troops to North Korea. First, it is to teach North Korea a lesson.

Let them know how powerful our Qing Dynasty is, and secondly, we can plunder a sum of money and food from North Korea."

"Your Majesty, now that the Qing Dynasty has suffered a defeat just after its founding, it is exactly when we need a great victory to boost our morale. By sending troops to North Korea at this time, we can not only gain money and food, but also boost our morale."

Huang Taiji nodded repeatedly when he heard this, and his eyes shone: "What about the third one?"

Wei Gongchao smiled and said: "The third step is to start from our Qing Dynasty. Although the treasury of the imperial court is out of food, the land of our Qing Dynasty is fertile and there are so many fertile fields. The people have enough food and clothing and sufficient granaries. The imperial court can definitely do this this year."

Collect more taxes."

Although Dorgon did not understand this, he still asked: "Master Wei, our Qing Dynasty is facing three enemies. In order to deal with North Korea, Mongolia and the Ming Dynasty, the taxes of our people in the Qing Dynasty are already very high. Now we will raise them again.

Isn’t it not good?”

Of course, Wei Gongchao did not dare to speak ill of Dorgon. He smiled and said: "Fourteen Beile is worried too much. Now that I have established the Qing Dynasty, the people should pay more for the court."

"It's more difficult now, but when the imperial court conquers Korea and Mongolia, won't the burden on the people be lighter?"

"So the reason why the people are suffering now is for the future. After all, if the court has no food, how will it attack North Korea and Mongolia, and how will it obtain population money and food?"

Huang Taiji nodded frequently, what he said was right, what he said was right!

The Ming Dynasty is not easy to mess with at the moment, but the Tatars in southern Monan and North Korea in the east are indeed soft persimmons. The Qing Dynasty really needs a big victory to boost morale, so that both the Eight Banners and the Han people can see that their emperor

Tai Chi can still be done, and the Qing Dynasty will not take jujube pills.

At present, the Qing Dynasty needs North Korea's food and population, so it must requisition grain and grass from the country to serve as military rations.

And letting Mongolia help the Qing Dynasty buy food from the Ming Dynasty would also require domestic people to pay more taxes.

"Now let's suffer the people for two years. Let the people work hard for two years, and then things will be easier." Huang Taiji made up his mind. Now that the Qing Dynasty's national situation is difficult, let's suffer for the people.

Wei Gongchao and Fan Wencheng looked at each other and saw the smile in each other's eyes, but Su Mingzhe had no better way at the moment.

If we don’t increase taxes on the common people, should we collect taxes from them, the scholars and officials of the Qing Dynasty?

Then what are they doing in Liaodong?

Therefore, regarding the issue of increasing taxes on the people, Su Mingzhe, Fan Wencheng, and Wei Gongchao reached a rare agreement: if the people suffer, everyone will be better off.

Huang Taiji issued an imperial edict, but the problem was that the officials below changed during the execution. Huang Taiji ordered the people of the Qing Dynasty to pay an extra pound of grain and one penny of silver. The Donglin scholars below dared to say that the imperial edict was great.

The Qing Dynasty required the people to pay ten more pounds of grain and one tael of silver.

However, it is bitterly cold in Liaodong. Although the land is fertile, most of the land is used to grow soybeans and cotton. Corn, wheat, sweet potatoes, and potatoes are not grown. How can the people have any surplus food?

Whether the people have food or not is not what these scholars care about. They are only responsible for issuing orders and sending people to collect and tax food.

If you don’t want to give it? Then arrest them, beat them up, put them in jail, use coercion and inducement, and force them to confess. If you don’t believe that you can’t extract money and food, you’ll have nothing. Don’t you still have land and a house, a daughter, a wife, and a young man like you?

Labor?

Huang Taiji's plan to collect military rations turned into a money-making feast for the scholars of Liaodong.
Chapter completed!