People in the Donglin Party felt a great deal of pressure amidst the chants of the Imperial College students.
Without comparison, there is no harm.
Now Uncle Dingyuan has completely solved the problem in the north. Donglin asked for so many conditions and even abolished the supervisory system. In order to provide Yuan Chonghuan with all convenient conditions. Ji Town, Liaodong Town, and the Tianjin Governor's jurisdiction,
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in the Denglai Governor's area and Dongjiang Town were handed over to Yuan Chonghuan's control.
The Longhu Navy in Liaodong, the Denglai Navy in Shandong, and the Dongjiang Navy in Lushun were all handed over to his leadership. All supplies, military pay, and grain were also sent to Juehua Island, and then he was asked to preside over the distribution. Governor of Liaodong Company
It’s all gone. It’s just to prevent problems like Xiong Tingbi and Wang Huazhen, where supervisors are at odds with each other and do bad things.
The emperor has almost made the biggest concession, giving everything that should be given and what should not be given. But it has been more than a year. What did Yuan Chonghuan bring to the emperor?
First, there was a mutiny in Ningyuan, which forced the governor of Liaodong, Bi Ziyan, to death. At least it calmed down without causing too many negative consequences. However, the emperor was very unhappy, and in the end the emperor settled the matter with money from his own funds.
Then there was the second mutiny in Jizhou, which swept through more than a dozen states and counties. Almost half of Ji Town was destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians were lost.
Now Donglin unanimously put the shit basin on the head of the unfortunate Wang Yingzhi. He said that he deducted the military pay, causing a quarrel with the pay, and then went crazy and tried to poison the officers and soldiers to silence them.
This intensified the conflict and led to the Jizhou Mutiny.
And Wang Yingzhi was from the Eunuch Party. He was a remnant of the Eunuch Party. This was a counterattack to destroy the Qing army. This was the conspiracy of the Eunuch Party.
In the end, Chongzhen pinched his nose and admitted it. He couldn't deny it. After all, he supported the Qing army. He couldn't slap himself in the face. The only one who was wrong was Wang Yingzhi.
Poor Wang Yingzhi cried in tears every day in Zhao Prison, shouting every day that he wanted to see the emperor. He was wronged. But at this time, he could no longer see the emperor. There was no use shouting at him.
Today, this matter is indeed not arranged by Chongzhen to defeat the Donglin cabinet. It is entirely the result of the consort Gong Yonggu and some young students who are hot-headed.
Stimulated by Dingyuan Bo's continuous victories, he tried to push the conservative ministers in the court to make more radical changes. He would recover Liaodong as soon as possible, then disband the Guanning Army and reduce military expenditures.
After all, there are many people who understand in this era. The farmers in the country can no longer bear the burden. In order to cope with the collapse of Liaodong, Sun Chengzong created a Liaoning rate and distributed it to the fields. This increased the burden on the farmers. This was a last resort and expedient.
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However, it has been fixed and has been expropriated. In the past two years, the climate has deteriorated day by day. Large areas of farmland in the north have reduced production or even stopped producing. If the burden on farmers is not relieved, and some places even need the government to release grain for disaster relief, farmers may
I won't be able to endure it.
But now, under the closed model of Ming Dynasty, it is like a self-sufficient small world. The wealth of the entire society is a zero-sum game.
In the absence of major technological changes in agriculture and handicrafts, and when the total social output has greatly increased, the gentry, aristocrats, and clans can only take more, while the peasants will get less.
If it decreases to a certain level and natural disasters occur, farmers will not be able to survive.
Therefore, the simple economics of the ancients always believed that the world's wealth is finite and fixed. In fact, it is not wrong. Starting from the well field system in the Western Zhou Dynasty, until the 18th century, agricultural output has been slowly increasing. This range
It's not big. And the population is constantly increasing.
Taken together, the per capita supplies are basically unchanged. In fact, the per capita wealth has not changed much. The distribution ratio between producers and consumers is a zero-sum game. From the early to the late dynasty, the coordinates are always backward.
or move.
The raw materials of the handicraft industry mainly come from mining and agricultural products, such as cotton, mulberry and hemp. The agricultural output cannot increase, and the textile products of the handicraft industry lack raw materials. It is difficult for a skilled woman to make a meal without rice. How can the handicraft industry improve?
In order to expand the supply of raw materials, if more of these cash crops are planted, they will occupy farmland.
Therefore, in a long period of time, there was always not enough food to eat, and there was always a lack of fabric for clothes. Not having enough to eat, not wearing warm clothes, and even not being fully clothed were common conditions all over the world before the 18th century.
Until modern times, the West began to use bird droppings as fertilizer, which directly doubled food production.
This was an agricultural revolution. The population that Europe could feed also increased. Sufficient food production provided farmland for the cultivation of cash crops. Everyone knows that growing cash crops is more profitable than growing food.
The output of textile raw materials increased, which in turn triggered a revolution in the textile industry.
There is a shortage of textiles all over the world. If more textile raw materials are grown, famine will occur. The world is in urgent need of buying fabrics to make clothes.
After the output of cash crops increased, the production technology became very inefficient and backward.
Facing the great geographical discoveries that began during the Age of Discovery, the entire world's hunger for cloth was astonishing, forming an astonishingly huge textile market.
With more raw materials and a market, we can only adopt new technological innovations and increase production to meet market demand. This is why the first industrial revolution broke out in the UK, and the first industrial revolution also started in the textile industry.
Reason. Watt's steam engine served the textile industry.
Advances in mechanical and power technology, energy, and unprecedented increases in output have resulted in insufficient supply of raw materials. Britain began to enclose a large amount of land and converted a large number of farmland into pastures to produce more wool and to manufacture high-profit woolen textiles.
.The market demand for woolen fabrics has resulted in the tragedy of sheep cannibalizing people.
The mass output of products put forward higher requirements for transportation links. So trains, locomotives, and steamships were invented. The power of capital entered the stage of history and opened a new era of human history.
At this time, the Ming Dynasty was still in this balance.
Therefore, the Taipei students believe that the effective way to solve the current national crisis is to solve the border troubles as soon as possible, then disarm and remove the damn Liao pay. Reduce the largest financial expenditure and let the farmers breathe a sigh of relief.
The party disputes in the imperial court have meant that for more than a year, the cabinet has done nothing at all on the most urgent matters. With natural disasters becoming more severe every year, time is not on the side of the Ming Dynasty.
The civil unrest in Shaanxi is becoming more and more serious. The cabinet and the court must be mobilized to accelerate reforms and take more radical measures.
The queen looked out the window, Gong Yonggu had an excited expression on his face.
I couldn't help but say: "Your Majesty, your consort is full of passion and patriotism."
Chongzhen sighed and said: "When I was selecting the prince-in-law, I fell in love with him at first glance. He is a talented person. I originally planned to depose him and let him become an official in the court. Unfortunately, Concubine Kang also fell in love with him, so she had to decide
He is my consort. I can’t refuse. I can only agree. It’s a pity for his talents.”
Becoming a prince-in-law basically cuts off the possibility of career development. Although the Ming Dynasty also had several princes-in-law who were in charge of military affairs. For example, the prince-son-in-law among the heroes who founded the country, and the prince-son-in-law during the Jingnan Campaign. In normal times, the prince-son-in-law Jingyuan was also favored by the court.
Reuse. But those situations only occur in extremely special circumstances and are not universal.
Gong Yonggu became a princess and the emperor's sister, which basically meant that he had no chance of an official career.
Chongzhen also felt a little regretful, he might as well have rejected Kang Taifei in the first place.
