Wu Sangui put down the telescope, feeling depressed.
After all, he is a character who is passionate about fame and wealth, and he hopes to make more meritorious deeds in order to make further progress. However, the current situation in Henan is so corrupt that there is no chance for him to make meritorious deeds. The thieves who attack hundreds of thousands of people are looking for death.
Sitting back and watching the invaders attack the city is waiting for death.
The thieves in Henan are so rampant that no one can plant crops anymore. Even if the weather is good this year, there will still be no harvest next year. The people who are lucky enough to survive this year will still have to become thieves next year.
Wu Sangui said: "Doesn't Governor Sun know the situation on the front line?"
Wang Pu smiled and said: "As smart as Sun Chuanting, how can he not know what's going on?"
"It's just that Sun Du has nothing to do. If one hundred thousand officers and soldiers are defeated by the intruders, the situation will be even more irreversible. What can Sun Du do?"
"At this moment, we can only hope that the emperor's 100,000 new troops will go south and use firecrackers and cannons to bombard the bandits. There may be a chance of victory." After a pause, Wang Pu said: "It's just that the emperor's original intention of training the new army is to deter Tianjin.
My lord, this new army is not willing to be used easily. The bleak situation in Henan must still be maintained by ordinary frontier troops like us."
Wu Sangui sighed helplessly when he heard Wang Pu's words.
Wang Pu looked at Wu Sangui and said with a smile: "Uncle Chang seems to be unable to bear such misfortune. He won't go to Tianjin to join the Duke of Jin like Zu Dashou, right?"
Wu Sangui said: "Shaobao is joking."
It’s not that Wu Sangui didn’t have the idea of defecting to Li Zhi, it’s just that when Li Zhi led his army to the outskirts of Beijing to ask for orders, Wu Sangui disagreed with Li Zhi several times, and his attitude of supporting Li Zhi was not firm. Apparently Li Zhi also had some feelings for Wu Sangui at that time.
Dissatisfied. So Zu Dashou could defect to Li Zhi, but Wu Sangui could not.
Wu Sangui looked at the army of thieves gathered under Kaifeng City like dark clouds, and sighed again.
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Qian Qianyi was sitting in the hall of Jiangyun Tower, looking at the waves of guests leaving with a rather contented look.
Seeing that the guests had left, Liu Rushi walked down the stairs and curiously asked Qian Qianyi, "How come there are so many guests here in the past few days?"
Qian Qianyi turned to look at Liu Rushi, feeling even more confident. Liu Rushi was twenty-six years old at the time, when a woman is most attractive. Qian Qianyi saw her swaying when walking, and felt more and more that his life was not in vain.
.I am already sixty-two years old, but I can still marry such a beautiful woman. What more can I ask for?
Although he had been deregistered and returned to his hometown, he still occupied more than 100,000 acres of fertile land and was extremely wealthy. He even married Liu Rushi, a famous woman from the south of the Yangtze River, as his concubine.
Qian Qianyi was a Donglin boss and the leader of the Jiangnan scholars. When he took the famous prostitute Liu Rushi as his concubine, it shocked the entire Jiangnan scholar community. Everyone originally regarded Qian Qianyi as a model scholar, but they didn't expect that he would do so at such an old age.
To marry a prostitute.
But after a while, everyone accepted it. After all, who is not among the scholars these days? Marrying a prostitute when you are old is not a big deal. Qian Qianyi still has the prestige to call upon the scholars in the south of the Yangtze River.
In the past few days, Qian Qianyi's home has been constantly visited by guests.
Most of the people who came to see Qian Qianyi were celebrities from Jiangnan provinces. Moreover, these people came not one by one, but in batches.
These people came to Qian Qianyi for a common reason, which was to fight against Li Zhi.
Li Zhi killed Zhou Yanru, Zheng Sanjun and Liu Zongzhou, which shocked the world's gentry. And Li Zhi's success in equalizing land tax in Shandong this time touched the fundamental interests of the world's gentry.
Li Zhi's rise was so fast and unstoppable that the gentry in the world were afraid. Li Zhi's original title was Duke of Jin and his official title was Admiral of Tianjin Military and Military Affairs, but he was able to reach out to Shandong and finally forced the emperor to admit his control over Shandong.
Occupy the entire province. So why won’t he extend his tentacles to Southern Zhili, Zhejiang, Huguang and even the entire Jiangnan in the future?
Li Zhi's policies are terrible.
The end of the Ming Dynasty was an apocalypse. In this apocalypse, what was most lacking was fairness and justice, and what was least lacking was bullying. Although there were some landlords who made a fortune by being diligent and thrifty, and careful management, they were in the minority, and these landlord societies
Their status is not high, and their status is almost the same as that of farmers. Those who show up in society and become local leaders are all officials and gentry. These officials and gentry rely on their fame and status to get tax exemptions, and use this to make a fortune by plundering the land of the common people.
Li Zhi's policy of equalizing land taxes was to kill these gentry.
To understand the destructive power of equalizing land tax on these officials and gentry, we only need to explain one point: even if the Han people were massacred along the way in history, and the Manchus who left their hair uncut during the Jiading Three Massacres on the Tenth Day of Yangzhou, there was no equalizing land tax after entering the customs.
.In the early Qing Dynasty, the distinguished gentry of the Han nationality still did not receive land tax.
The Manchu Qing Dynasty, which frequently killed tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people, did not dare to equalize land taxes rashly. This shows how great the resistance to the policy of equalizing land taxes was.
But Li Zhi only occupied two places, and then he directly went to war with the gentry all over the world.
Li Zhi's policy of equalizing land taxes was coordinated with the courts, and he directly ruled against the gentry and landlords who accepted the donations, and punished the land donated by the common people to the officials and gentry as public land, almost taking away all the property of some officials and gentry. Li Zhi
The equalization of land tax in Shandong directly turned many gentry and landlords into poor people who did not have enough to eat.
After all, the gentry are a large family that is parasitic on the peasants. If their source of nutrition is suddenly cut off, they will of course go bankrupt.
Li Zhi's policy can be said to be the nightmare of the Ming gentry.
And based on Li Zhi's momentum in recent years, it is obvious that his policies will spread to other provinces before long.
The most anxious ones were the gentry in South Zhili. South Zhili borders Shandong and is far away from the capital. It is likely to be Li Zhi’s next target. The gentry in South Zhili subconsciously visited and tried to unite to find a counterbalance.
Li Zhi's method. As celebrities in southern Zhili talked about Li Zhi's threat to the gentry, other Jiangnan provinces were also affected.
The celebrities in the south of the Yangtze River formed a trend of public opinion and thought, all thinking about how to resist Li Zhi's expansion and protect the interests of the gentry.
No one in the world can stop Li Zhi through power or authority. Now even the emperor has to discuss everything with Li Zhi. If Li Zhi wants to kill his chief minister, the emperor will immediately take action.
Li Zhi was a nakedly violent leader, relying on tens of thousands of tiger troops to go on a rampage. The gentry in the south of the Yangtze River saw this and understood that the only way to stop Li Zhi now was to rely on the army.
We must find a reliable force to counter Li Zhi and protect the poetry, calligraphy, etiquette and music of Jiangnan.
This matter needed a reputable person to take the lead. The scholars in Jiangnan tested each other for a while, and gradually they all found Qian Qianyi, the leader of the Donglin Party.
Qian Qianyi's originally deserted courtyard suddenly became noisy with cars and horses again.
Qian Qianyi touched Liu Rushi's face and said with a smile: "Did you know that? Although the old man is not in the court, but if this happens, all the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River will gather around the old man, led by the old man!
