Chapter 394

The officials and emperors of the Ming Dynasty accepted the miracle of incubating silver. It was a process from disbelief to belief. After they believed it, they were ready to start and join the ranks.

But after all, they are court officials, emperors and the top privileged class of Daming. They can't hatch silver with these little people. They have made up their mind that they are going to invite immortal Baiyun to Beijing to hatch silver for them.

They even offered him a price, that is, they made him a real person and national teacher to protect the country. If the other party didn't agree, they couldn't continue to incubate silver smoothly. After all, they were the top dignitaries and privileged class in Daming. They still couldn't get what they wanted.

Many people have secretly prepared silver. As long as this real person comes, he will hatch the silver immediately.

As for what he said, they will become immortals in a few months. They don't believe it. They prefer to believe that real Baiyun will hatch silver rather than that the other party will become immortals. There is no immortal in the world.

So they immediately made an idea in this regard. If the other party refused to come, they could directly send someone to tie him up, because the imperial court was originally a violent organization and a powerful organization. Reasoning with you is to give you face. If you don't want face, you should hit the face directly.

Originally, they had no hope for this matter, but they saw that they heard that many people had become rich and their property had doubled over the past few months. Their hearts were warm. Many people bet their treasure here. They hoped that through this silver incubation wind, they could turn over the imperial court and everyone, and make a fortune by the way.

Many of them have the same mind as Hong Chengchou, that is, they are solving problems for the imperial court, and they also make a fortune by the way. This is the idea they want to play. This is what they want.

They compare themselves to big men and are the top class figures in this society. If there are any benefits, they will score them one, and the priority score is the best one.

When they put all their hopes here, something like this happened again. Of course, they, the powerful and rich in the north, have not invested money in it, and the loss is not so serious. However, after hearing the news, they are also numb, very scared and shocked.

Because Jiangnan is the important tax area of Daming. More than 70% of the taxes of Daming come from here. This happened here, but they were very shocked. They all knew that something big was going to happen.

Daming is now in difficulties at home and abroad, but he can still support hard. The main reason is that there is also Jiangnan, a heavy tax area, supporting Daming's expenses.

Without the continuous flow of silver, money and food from the south of the Yangtze River, they would not be able to support it at all.

You know, after years of war, the whole North has been disrupted and destroyed. Many places not only can't collect taxes, but also paste them upside down. For example, Liaodong was self-sufficient in those years, but now Liaodong is a huge burden and a huge pit for Daming.

In addition, the bandit rebellion caused by Shaanxi has gradually spread to the Central Plains of Shanxi, with an increasing tendency of expansion. However, the extravagance and security rebellion that has been fought in the southwest for more than ten years is still going on. The chieftain rebellion entrenched in Guizhou has extremely tenacious vitality, and the main force has been defeated by the imperial government for many times, They still have the ability to recover again. This extravagance and unrest destroyed Guizhou and half of Sichuan. You know, Sichuan used to be a place of heavy taxes, but now many places have withered people's livelihood and can't pay taxes. Daming's finance can only rely on Jiangnan. They know that Jiangnan is extremely rich, They still have a lot of spare power to exploit. Both the emperor and the princes of the imperial court understand that the Ming court is poor, but the people of the Ming Dynasty, especially in the Jiangnan area, are extremely rich, but there are many millionaires with more than a million dollars.

In terms of money alone, these people may be richer than the emperor, but they don't have the emperor's business.

Even the emperor and the ministers of the imperial court were thinking about how to make the idea of these rich people. At such a time, such a disaster occurred. According to the report of local officials, nine out of ten rich people in Jiangnan put all their money into Qingyun cave to incubate money, hoping to make a fortune, but they lost it all, It can be said that this time, all the silver of the rich in Jiangnan was lost.

This also means that there is a huge loss in Jiangnan. It is impossible for Daming to receive more taxes and increase taxes from here, and even to reduce or reduce taxes to some extent. Daming is so sad now. The imperial court only wants to increase taxes in Jiangnan again. Now it has to face the situation of reducing taxes, but they immediately panic.

You should know that the whole Daming Dynasty is deeply dependent on the south of the Yangtze River. Although Daming rose in the south of the Yangtze River, their exploitation of the south of the Yangtze River was also very thick at that time. The taxes in the south of the Yangtze River are much higher than those in the local areas. If anything happens here, it will be great.

The emperor summoned the minister all night to discuss how to deal with and deal with this matter. At this time, it not only means that the people and rich in Jiangnan hate Hong Chengchou, but also in the eyes of the emperor, his impression has become bad.

The emperor must have appreciated Hong Chengchou's ability and talent very much and promoted him exceptionally. But now he was shocked to see Hong Chengchou stabbing such a big Lou son. He was disgusted at that time. He said, "what is Hong doing now?"

Wen Tiren had to say, "after someone Hong broke through such a big break, he has urgently withdrawn to the north and led the army north to pursue and suppress the roving bandits."

Emperor Chongzhen said angrily, "what have you done? He should have gone all out to pursue and suppress the rogue bandits. Hong is really hopeful. You know, when he has more than 100000 troops in his hand, he is like a tiger and hesitates for the enemy. If he was in Xuzhou that day, he would attack decisively and quickly eliminate the rogue bandits, why is there endless poison today."

Since even the emperor scolded Hong Chengchou, other officials and ministers denounced him one after another. Many people even suggested that Hong Chengchou should be replaced immediately, and he should be directly removed from the position of governor of five provinces.

Why do so many people hate Hong Chengchou? He has offended the rich in the whole Jiangnan. You know, many officials of the imperial court are from Jiangnan. As long as they are officials from the south, there are no officials who don't hate Hong Chengchou and don't want to destroy it.

Although the matter of incubating silver is too tortuous and bizarre, Hong Chengchou also wrote a letter to expose and justify such a thing. This is a fraud, but many people prefer to be ostrich, that is, they believe that Hong Chengchou is the biggest vested interest.

Even if this is false, Hong Chengchou may have taken away the silver himself, and then said that the silver was gone and turned into nothingness. You know, everyone is an official and an expert in conspiracy. They have done a lot of things like this, so it is impossible to deceive them and evade them with this skill, They decided to get Hong Chengchou first.

Another thing we all know is that the local snake Zhu Dadian, Liu Bu, Gao Wang and others are very suspicious. After all, this is what happened on their territory. They are duty bound and have a great responsibility for all this. Moreover, they are also capable of transferring so much money, setting up this bureau and the behind the scenes of transferring so much money.

So there was a lot of discussion in the court, and many people asked to punish them and clean up several of them.

Now the ministers are talking and the crowd is surging, but it's not easy to say that they want to directly engage in Hong Chengchou or Liu Bu and Zhu Dadian. After all, they are local powerful, feudal officials and have real power. It's not easy to remove them without full evidence or reasons.

Hong Chengchou now has hundreds of thousands of troops in his hands. The imperial court also hopes to use his troops to wipe out the exiled bandits. To clean them up, we must clean him up as soon as they wipe out the exiled bandits and calm the civil unrest.

Local powerful factions such as Zhu Dadian and Liu Bu, who keep the pastoral side and have real power, have become one with the local government. It is not easy for you to get rid of them, even if you get rid of them before lifting their ties with the local government.

So the emperor and the officials discussed with each other, and they came to a conclusion that Hong Chengchou could not move, Zhu Dadian and Liu Bu could not move, and they finally found that they could not move anyone if they wanted to maintain the current situation and not collapse.

When they found that no one could move, they could only make a decision, that is, they could not have greater unrest in the south of the Yangtze River. Therefore, the imperial court overnight gave governor Li ruosung of nanzhili and governor Zhu Dadian of Fengyang to do everything they could to stabilize the situation. If the situation collapsed, Take them for example.

At the same time, the emperor also knew that the situation was urgent, so he sent Wu Yida, a cabinet minister, to the south of the Yangtze River to find out the truth of the matter. At the same time, it also represented the imperial court to frighten the place and appease the people.

The fact that the Imperial Court adopted such a weak and powerless policy after such a huge event did not only disappoint the people in the south of the Yangtze River, but also make Liu Bu and others who planned and manipulated it more arrogant and arrogant.

Liu Bu said arrogantly and proudly, "Daming is really exhausted."