Chapter 203: Yan Changwu
Taiwan government office.
Liu Zhifeng was writing a memorial to the emperor in his study, and he heard a report from the door: "Liu Zhixian is here!"
"Oh, please come soon!" Liu Zhifeng ordered.
Soon after, Liu Guangshi entered the study and said, "Brother Yongming (words of Liu Zhifeng)!"
"Brother Zhonggui (words of Liu Guangshi), please sit down!" Liu Zhifeng nodded.
The two called brothers and brothers. Liu Zhifeng wrote the memorial and did not avoid Liu Guangshi. He said to him: "Cigarettes have gradually become a climate. This year there is a profit of one hundred thousand taels of silver (Taiwan has purchased mainland tobacco to make cigarettes). Next year, once Taiwan tobacco is produced , I'm afraid there is a profit of more than 300,000 taels of silver!"
Liu Guangshi is also involved in the tobacco business, and nodded when he heard the words: "There are more and more!"
But he said to Liu Zhifeng: "Brother Yongming, if you write this in, Long live will not like it, I am afraid that something will happen."
"As a minister, you must say what you should say, and what you shouldn't say!" Liu Zhifeng sighed, and shook his pen.
Before Liu Guangshi came, he had already written most of it, and he finished it soon, and brought it to Liu Guangshi to see.
Liu Guangshi pointed to one of the paragraphs and said: "It's not appropriate!"
It turned out that Liu Zhifeng petitioned the emperor, saying that he was acting in Taiwan in the name of Southeastern Prefecture and not under the banner of Taiwanese Government!
If the name of the Taiwanese government is equivalent to Yan Changwu's money to let Liu Zhifeng as a show, that is absolutely unacceptable.
Liu Zhifeng had to change his course. The Southeast Mansion should be the Southeast Mansion, but by doing so, he had committed the crime of deceiving the emperor. The emperor asked him to go to the place to guard the pastoral side, but he did not reveal the righteous name of the court. Isn't the court white? Give him salary!
"It must be written!" Liu Zhifeng said helplessly: "You must have an explanation for what you have done!"
"Explain!" Liu Guangshi said with a sense of roots: "We have an explanation to the people, but there is no way to explain it to the Lord Long live!"
They can not do it, and they can explain it to Lord Long live. Now that they have done it, they have an explanation to the people, but they can't explain it to Lord Long live.
Liu Zhifeng said openly and honestly: "If Long live Lord is not happy and cut our position, wouldn't it be what we want!"
"Right, right!" Liu Guangshiqiang laughed.
After acting in Taiwan, he is a little bit reluctant to do his career here. Compared with the intrigues of the mainland, the place advocates hard work, less talk and more work, and the work is tangible and rewarding!
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Needless to say, after the Emperor Chongzhen in Peking successively received Liu Zhifeng’s memorials, he bit the heart of the world’s supreme in jealousy like a poisonous snake!
The annual income of Southeast Mansion has reached five million taels of silver!
Among them, two million taels of silver were harvested from Westerners, 1.5 million taels of silver were harvested from Easterners, and one million taels of silver were harvested from the mainland. Just to mention, Liu Zhifeng spied out Taipei's massive production of gold!
is all real money. Taiwan has a population of only 800,000 people. It is divided into six towns: Taipei, Keelung, Taichung, Chiayi, Tainan, and Kaohsiung.
Think about it, the mainland has a population of 80 million, and the pure silver received by the state treasury is only three or four million taels of silver (Taicang income), which is not even as good as the Southeast Mansion!
If the Southeast Mansion is collected, the five million taels of silver will go to the center, so why not be afraid of the three major troubles of the Ming Dynasty!
There are silver relief for natural disasters, military expenses for the northern captives, and military expenses for peasant rebels!
The emperor is jealous and jealous!
He also didn't want people to forge ahead and earn money with exhaustion, but blame Yan Changwu for not being a courtier and not honoring the emperor. He refused to turn in any taxes, and the court should allocate funds to him! (But the court did not give money)
Xiong Wencan (Governor of Fujian) missed the country!
The southeast prefecture refused to pay taxes. He also agreed, saying that Taiwan is a place where savages live and it is difficult to collect taxes. (More is worse than less. If he says that the Southeast Mansion has a tax source, the emperor wants him to collect it, how will he deal with the Southeast Fleet?)
Compared to believing in him, Emperor Chongzhen believed in Liu Zhifeng more, so he summoned the chief assistant Han Xu and asked him to come up with a practical strategy and try to nationalize the silver of the Southeast Mansion.
The emperor only saw Han Xu, because the emperor wanted to save face, and he was called a lot of ministers, so everyone knew that a little guy in Taiwan had the ability to be a rich and adversary country. Isn't it useless for him to be an emperor?
Han Yao is a sensible person, and he is concerned about the amount of silver in the Southeast Mansion, just like the amount of silver in the Southeast region (the nest of the Donglin Party), but can he charge it!
Donglin Party members don't look at their fighting in the nest, but when they want to receive their silver, they are not at all ambiguous, even the emperor dared to push him back.
Similarly, if you want to collect the silver from the Southeast Mansion, you have to see if you can beat their fleet!
Seeing Chongzhen asked about the way to deal with Southeast Mansion, Han Xu thought it could land on Xiong Wencan's head and let him understand the answer.
Chongzhen reluctantly suppressed his anxiety, and ordered Xiong Wencan to find ways to collect taxes from the Southeast Mansion!
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Xiong Wencan, who received the imperial decree, turned his eyes back, and he wanted to die.
cannot collect tax, may face the emperor's butcher knife.
To collect taxes, you have to face the cannons of the Southeast Fleet!
He sent Mr. Zhong, his staff member, and asked him to cross the sea to negotiate with Yan Changwu, hoping that Yan Dashao would automatically and consciously pay taxes to the country~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The meaning is good.
However, Mr. Zhong sent a reply to him, saying that if his governor Xiong Da is short of silver, even if he speaks, those with less than ten thousand silver will be delivered on call, and those with more than ten thousand will be fine.
But tax is required, and there is no copper plate!
The Southeast Government strongly resisted the country's desire to collect taxes from them.
"They (Southeast Mansion) are stronger than before, and they are constantly adding new ships. As soon as the ships on the berth are launched, a new battleship is immediately mounted on the berth and begins to lay the keel..." Mr. Zhong said.
In desperation, Xiong Wencan reported to the court that if he wanted to deal with Yan Changwu, he had to strengthen the Fujian Navy and invest one million taels of silver in three years.
"...He (Southeast Mansion) is like a northern captive. Its fleet uses red-headed splint boats. The boats are fast and the guns are good. Our fleet has fewer boats and fewer guns, which is difficult to deal with." Xiong Wencan told the truth.
Soon after, he unexpectedly received 200,000 taels of silver from the emperor, asking him to reorganize the Fujian Navy and prepare to deal with the southern captives.
Yan Changwu is fortunate to be regarded as a "southern captive" by the emperor, and is as famous as the northern captive (Jurchen)!
Although he does not invade the place, his silver is the original sin.
So, if you are good to him, he is not necessarily grateful, but blames you for not selling the kidney and buying him an apple!
In order to get his silver, the emperor tried his best. He tried every means to come up with some silver, and wanted to build a fleet and seize the wealthy Southeast Mansion.
But after the silver given by the emperor was given for an unprecedented time, there was no more information.
In October of the second year of Chongzhen (1629), the post-gold master Huang Taiji drew hundreds of thousands of troops to bypass the Liaoxi Corridor where Daming's heavy troops were assembled, and entered Longjingguan, Da'ankou, etc., destroying the city and marching straight to Beiping!
The wolf is coming!
