That's right, Emperor Chongzhen was indeed thrown into a black-hearted mine. He was caught by these people. In this black mine, he had to work day and night to squeeze human physical strength to the limit. Emperor Chongzhen personally experienced what hell is.

The insensitive work and mining made Emperor Chongzhen think more. He remembered the words his son Zhu Cilang advised him:

All silver in China, there are old pit sites in Zhejiang and Fujian, and the country was either mined or closed at the beginning of the country. There are pits in Rao, Xin and Rui counties in Jiangxi that were opened from the end. Huguang that was Chenzhou, Guizhou that was Tongren, Yiyang that was Zhaobao Mountain in Yiyang, Yongning Qiushupo, Lu family Gaozuier, Songxian Maba Mountain, Huichuan, Sichuan and Dahuang Mountain in Gansu that were all called American mines. Others are difficult to list.

Ancient people had already found a method of mining silver, and silver mines were exploited in various ways. For example, the book records that there are rivet sand in the stone mountain cave, and small stones appear on it, and slightly brown, which are divided into paths. The miners' caves are ten or twenty meters or twenty meters, and the project cannot be planned by the sun and the moon. Find the silver seedlings in the soil, and then find the reef sand. The woodcutter sand hides deep soil, like branches and branches, and each person digs them horizontally according to the seedlings. The top of the slab is placed on a horizontal plate to prevent collapse. The mining bonnet lights are used to complete the mines.

Any silver seedlings in the soil may have yellow gravel or cracked stones, or the cracks of the rocks are in a messy shape. This means that the ore is not far away. Any silver is called a reef, and the most broken one is like a sand, the face is divided into a stitch or branch is called a rivet, and the outer ring stone is called a mine. The ore is large like a bucket, and the small one is like a fist, which is used to discard useless things. The reef sand is like coal, the base is lined with stone but not very black, and there are several levels and lower levels.

However, the mining of these silver mines is accompanied by a series of sad and bloody history. In order to maximize their interests, these miners will also take into account the lives and deaths of these miners. They hire thugs to exploit these miners at will.

The silver mine collapsed, died of illness, and countless people were beaten to death without obeying the rules. In these black silver mines, such things are often performed.

Emperor Chongzhen probably won't bring it to such a black mine. If he can't hold on, the consequences will be unimaginable.

What is more serious is the exploitation of the government, and the silver mines run by the government are also severe. Some private mine owners openly fight against the government for the sake of their interests. Wherever there is oppression, there will be resistance.

In Zhejiang, Ye Zongliu, who was born in a miner, was punished to serve as an official for stealing the mines privately. Then he accumulated a small amount of wealth by walking around and began to hire many workers who voluntarily defected.

He even dared to slogan "Listen to me, not to kill people" to the government to show his contempt for the strictly prohibited private mines. Finally, he made weapons privately and guarded the mountains and rivers and had to openly confront the government.

No one can stop the so-called gangsters and martial arts. Most of the official troops who came to suppress the enemy were killed or injured. The Ye family armed forces simply divided their troops into two groups, and some of them fought at the border areas of Fujian and Zhejiang, and captured Fujian Pucheng, Jianyang, Jianning, Bozhou County, and Jinhua and Wuyi in Zhejiang.

The other route attacked Qianshan, Jiangxi and controlled Chepanling. The people who passed by responded one after another, causing the three provinces of Zhejiang, Fujian and Jiangxi to suddenly appear as sparks.

At the beginning, most of these miners were composed of military households, prisoners, refugees and poor peasants. The military households had a slightly higher status, but they were still inevitably exploited by the government.

Why did the Ming Dynasty eventually perish when it owned more than half of the world's silver? The reason was that it was rich in officials and businessmen.

It is true that hiding wealth and the country are hiding wealth and the people are also right. No matter which policy, it will make the dynasty prosperous. However, hiding wealth and the officials and businessmen are digging their own graves.

Huge wealth was in the hands of these unkind officials and businessmen. Overseas trade brought huge amounts of silver to the Ming Empire, but did not bring real overseas wealth. After all, silver itself could not improve national welfare, and in the end all wealth still came from the production labor of every ordinary person.

These silver eventually became a weapon for excessive land annexation, the feudal bureaucrats once again completely looted the wealth of the entire society, and refugees once again filled the Ming Empire.

Therefore, the most direct way to reform smoothly is to get the support of Emperor Chongzhen.

In order to get the support of Emperor Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen had to go deep into the people and experience the sufferings of the people. In this way, Emperor Chongzhen's determination to reform would not be shaken.

In history, several reforms have pulled national strength back from the brink of weakness and become strong.

Even the Ming Dynasty, if it weren't for Zhang Juzheng's whip method, I was afraid that the Ming Dynasty would have been over. Zhang Juzheng once commented on the word "reform" in this way: Today, he inherited the throne, subjects, country and map, reform, reform, reform, reform, how can he not be able to do this today? The law of ancestors is still the original people. The new law is just a few new names, so how can we expect the old people to follow the new law? The so-called reform is just a group of sluts who make their own decisions, trying to break the current framework of interest distribution and seek benefits!

Therefore, the Dharma must not be changed lightly!

Turning the tide when it has fallen and supporting the building to fall, what is most needed is not reform, but changing people, changing minds, and especially becoming officials. It is only in pursuing the administration of officials. As long as you "according to the constitution", you can control these arrogant feudal bureaucrats.

To put it bluntly, "Examination is a method" means business assessment. Governance does not depend on those useless empty texts, but the difficulty lies in the law and the words must be effective. If you never evaluate, summarize lessons, and hold people accountable, everyone will have the idea of ​​being miserable. Even if Yao and Shun are kings and Yu Gao are assistants, it is difficult to have the power to turn things around! Therefore, "there are tests in the month and the reviews in the year", a small test in the month, a year-a-large test.

The two methods are to measure land, verify property, and collect taxes from the rich. The Ming Empire's Taicang was deficit every year because the rich plundered the land of ordinary people through various names, namely Feiwen, allusion, raising the title, raising the capital, raising the capital, and raising the sacrifice..., plundering the land and concealing the land.

It can be said that it is not an exaggeration to Zhang Juzheng save the Ming Dynasty. Zhang Juzheng promoted the "One Whip Method" and took away the land that the strong profit-sharing group had accumulated through hardships. At the peak of power, decades of insight from the ups and downs of the officialdom told Zhang Juzheng that he was very likely to not have a good end. In a letter to the local governor, he said this: The world will change, and the high platform will be pacified in the future, and the imperial edicts will be destroyed. I am afraid that even an inch of burial place will not be available, but the state is difficult, so let me be Huo Guang and Yuwen Hu.

As he said, Zhang Juzheng was liquidated by Emperor Wanli after his death. Nine months after Zhang Juzheng's death, Emperor Wanli announced that Zhang Juzheng had committed three major crimes: treason, rebellion, and treason, and even almost cut him off the coffin and killed his body.
Chapter completed!