Chapter 605: Chaos

People from the Jinyiwei and the Dongchang flock to Liao Town, and various documents on the desks of the emperor and the six cabinet departments quickly increased.

Information from all aspects gathered through various channels, but except for the 35,000 Huazhou troops stationed along the Daliao River east of Guangning until now, the other situation was still very vague. It seemed that the other party would not cross the Daliao River for the time being. The Ming court's judgment had no novelty. The other party's troops were insufficient, and the current front stretching had reached its limit.

This made the Ming court's center relieved, thinking that since the other party could not continue to move forward for a short period of time, he could still mobilize troops here to slowly turn the situation back.

Jiajing relied on tax supervision to store the money and grain plundered by the tax supervision and was stored in rapid consumption. Although it could still last for a while, the war was imminent, and although he didn't dare to say when it would start or when it would end, Emperor Jiajing needed to collect money and grain in various provinces, especially the northern three provinces and Jiangnan Huguang.

Although the northern three provinces have become much richer than before because of cotton and marine trade, the industry and commerce have become much richer than before, but recently after the tax supervision and the so-called cotton gentry rebellion, it has also been a little damaged. After all, it is a mess and thieves. The merchants who come to buy cotton are unwilling to come at all. Only a few fixed channels can ship. However, the demand has not been too large. On the one hand, the textile workshops along the south and north coasts have no raw materials, and the price of cotton remains high. On the other hand, the cotton in the cotton production areas of the northern three provinces has accumulated a large amount of cotton and no one can buy it.

In this case, many cotton gentry are preparing to start growing grain in the second year. In the past, it was better to buy grain than to grow grain. Many people planted cotton in their fields and gave up on grain. Who would have thought that the most real thing was not silver, but food to fill their stomachs. These cotton gentry were thinking that they must have some food in their hands. If there were any similar things, it would be better to gather the village to keep the village and keep the village to defend themselves than the current situation of being in chaos and sending people out to buy grain.

In the north, don’t want to put away the money. The situation in Jiangnan is also not optimistic. The central team in Nanjing is completely the base camp of the Dong Party. After the Jiajing coup returned to the central government of the capital that day, all the Dong Party officials in the capital were swept away. However, at this time, almost all the governors and important positions in the world were all officials of the Dong Party. Emperor Jiajing could not have all been removed. In that case, the world would be in chaos. Therefore, the emperor adopted the method of slowly drawing the situation. Nearly three years have passed, and the Ming provinces north of the Huai River have replaced the officials trusted by Jiajing. However, Jiangnan, namely, Nanzhili and Zhejiang, Jiangxi have not had time to adjust.

What is different from all dynasties is that he has two identical central teams. In the capital and Nanjing, all the six ministries in Nanjing are complete, with everything except the cabinet. Nanjing City has always arranged reserve officials and those officials who failed in political struggles but did not die.

Because Nanjing manages the richest Jiangnan in the world, many people are willing to be officials here, but they only say a thousand words. The officials in Nanjing and Jiangnan are all from the Eastern Party. Since the civil servants in the Song Dynasty, this party struggle has never been in the survival of any country.

The great purge some time ago made these officials hate Emperor Jiajing and the ministers of the Western Party to the core. They would never let them go when they could destroy the state.

The imperial decree of the imperial court was delivered to Nanjing for hundreds of miles. The Minister of Revenue in Nanjing immediately treated this thing as a major event. He first summoned his colleagues to discuss it, and then issued it one by one. Then tax collectors and yamen runners also followed suit.

However, it takes time to travel from Nanjing to Nanzhili and Jiangnan prefectures, not to mention how powerful the gentry of Jiangnan is, not to mention that officials at all levels are prepared to be fed by merchants with money, not to mention what size the Thirteen Chamber of Commerce in Jiangnan is.

Anyway, the order to allocate taxes and transfer food and money cannot be implemented at all. Everyone can do the procrastination in the officialdom, and everyone sincerely slanders, so they will naturally become slower.

Because of the local dilapidation in the northern three provinces, Jiangnan was sincerely procrastinating and could not collect money at all. Emperor Jiajing and the important officials of the cabinet were angry, but they had no choice but to do anything. At this time, the enemy soldiers invaded the territory outside, so they could not be in chaos internally. Anyway, the treasury could still last for a while.

However, in the process of all tax increases and tax collection, some places have never been affected. Shanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Huguang are not among the tax increases and tax increases. These places have indeed not gained any benefits in the wave of industrial and commercial prosperity in recent years.

However, Xi'an Prefecture has always been at the forefront of the world's tax payment. Chengdu Prefecture and Chongqing Prefecture in Sichuan are also rich places, and Huguang is even more a granary in the world. These places should also be the target of levying and collecting taxes, but they seem to have been selected and ignored.

The reason for this is very simple. The officials of the Western Party and the Imperial Party were both born in this place, so they naturally had to protect their hometowns. Everything in the world was not worried about the lack of worries but the unevenness. The capital used hundreds of miles of expedition stations to pass the orders and documents to various provinces.

Soon, the huge gap in tax increases and tax increases in various places caused a lot of controversy, and it was even more chaotic. Emperor Jiajing knew that if he dragged on like this, he might be entangled, so he simply made a cruel decision and directly sent an order to the inner study room. Each of the three northern provinces and Jiangnan prefectures sent one tax donation envoy and two Jinyiwei, and each province issued a "Pingliao donation", which increased by 20% to the previous tax standards.

The envoy and local officials jointly supervise the collection, and said in the decree that donating taxes to Liao is the key to the rise and fall of the country and must not be delayed. Violators of the Jinyiwei can be arrested and imprisoned immediately. After this decree, not only local officials from all provinces expressed their opposition.

Even local cultural society, socialist party, and literati groups that have always dared not express any opinions began to oppose it, and even the important officials in the court expressed concerns about this order. The government and the opposition reached a rare agreement on this matter, and they all opposed the issuance of donations and taxes.

However, this time, Emperor Jiajing insisted on his own opinion. Although the so-called Huazhou Army, which was stagnant in Liao Town to the north, did not know their background yet, and they were all saying that the Huazhou Army was insufficient in military strength and could only be stationed in the Daliao River and could not move forward.

The situation in front of him seems to be the advantage of the Ming Dynasty, but Jiajing always feels something is wrong in his heart. Things are not under his control. Since the fifteenth year of Jiajing, most things in the world have been unreasonable. The political wisdom and response methods we have known before, the strategies to win against civil servants in the Dali Case, and the means to balance the various forces in the court have been used for almost two hundred years, and have been tried and tested.

But in the past twenty years, everything seems to have been a total change, but these changes did not hurt the foundation of the Ming Dynasty. On the contrary, the Ming Dynasty had never experienced prosperity and prosperity, but the chaos was constantly occurring. Chen Zhenzi, the sword, the Japanese pirates, the White Lotus Sect, the Westerners, and the disasters that had never been harmed, but fortunately they were all quickly pacified.

It seems that the world is extremely normal, but in the two repeated powers, Emperor Jiajing always felt that there was still something big to happen, and this kind of vision and abnormality that always foreshadowed things to happen in the end.

When Huazhou broke into the city, he invaded Liao Town and knew that the refugees outside the pass and Huazhou occupying North Korea were originally integrated, Emperor Jiajing suddenly realized that the biggest threat from the Ming Dynasty had appeared. This threat was even more terrifying than the Tatars. Only by eliminating this threat can the Ming Dynasty continue to survive. He does not regret his tax supervision policy now, but rather regrets that he had plundered on the ground that day and did not train more new troops.

The current Emperor Jiajing ignored nothing, no matter what the opinions between the government and the opposition, or whether there would be any changes in the local area. He just wanted to pay taxes and recruit soldiers from the three northern provinces.

These policies are just policies. The envoy may have just left the capital. In addition to stuffing all the troops that could be mobilized into the military town between the capital and Shanhaiguan, all he had to do was just a plan.

At this time, Fujian was completely ignored. Of course, due to the circulation of information, the news about Liao Town is not known here. Not only the Ming army in Fujian, but also Yang Shitou and the others do not know what has happened in the north. At present, Yizhou is currently nervously mobilizing troops to Zhangzhou.

In the previous battles under the city of Zhangzhou, due to the narrow terrain and excessive underestimation of the enemy, the Ming army suffered heavy losses. However, the new instructions above did not come down, so Yang Shitou had to stick to Zhangzhou and expand the scope of his occupation, so the troops in Yizhou were constantly sailing on a boat.

Most of the soldiers in Yizhou are composed of ordinary people in Fujian, Zhejiang, and Guangdong, and most of the officers in Yizhou are pirate families on the beach. They can be said to be local snakes. One person is familiar with his head, and every time he goes to a place, he will have no worries about the guide. There are also several local gentry and businessmen who come to get close to each other and make friends.

Compared with the Ming army stationed here for generations, the scene of Zhangzhou City is naturally very anxious. However, what is even more strange is that the reinforcements that had already walked halfway through Zhejiang and Guangdong retreated back.
Chapter completed!