They were both juren and scholars, and they were all thorough businessmen. They had little say in this matter. Each of them put down their glasses or chopsticks and listened attentively to the two of them.

"Oh, what should I do?"

Ma Chaoren is over forty years old and is not young in this era. His eldest son has become married and will definitely be able to hold his grandson in the past two years. There may be someone who has not been married in later generations, but in this era, it is normal.

He has been in charge of the family for more than ten years and has been turbulent for a long time, but this time the incident still caused the juren to lose his face, and even showed a look of fear and anger on his face.

Yang Qiu and others went to prepare, and Zhang Han took out the mansion sent by Zhang Chun from Xinpingbao and started reading.

But everyone has the opportunity to see it at the first time. In the Xinpingbao official hall, they will receive regular copies from the Tongzheng Department to all parts of the country. Once they arrive in the hall, He Yusheng will receive copies as soon as possible. At the end of April, Zhang Han had already seen Nuerhaci officially rise up on April 13, proclaiming the "Seven Hates" and officially attacking the Fushun area. As for the specific situation of the battle, the diary was not detailed. It would be impossible to rely on the diary to analyze the specific situation.

Zhang Han planned to pick one or two cleverly from Yang Qiu's subordinates to western Liaoning, and directly find a way to copy the Tang newspaper. The generals reported to the center of the Tang newspaper, which had detailed battle situations and preparations. If they could go to the capital to bribe the people from the Zhengsi, copy some memorials like military department officials, and understand the general trend of the world, especially the development and front and back curves of the Liaodong incident, the reaction and response of the Ming Dynasty, and the many situations in the center.

Zhang Han has always believed that a successful businessman cannot involve politics, but he must not have no understanding of politics.

Of course, this is his experience in later generations. Now it is the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, if a successful businessman did not involve politics, he could achieve what Zhang Yun was like back then, and there was a visible ceiling above his head. He wanted to become bigger, without the support of officials and gentry, and without the support of a family of officials and gentry as a backing, and if he wanted to continue to break through and move forward, it would be impossible.

"Add a salary of two million taels?"

When he saw this mansion, Zhang Han suddenly stood up. The Jiang brothers who had been listening to storytelling with relish also stood up quickly. Jiang Yi whispered: "Master, what's wrong?"

"No wonder, no wonder..."

Zhang Han flicked the Di Zhuan in his hand gently, and finally had a clear answer to the actions of the gentry and the big grain merchants of Tianchengwei this time.

The so-called additional salary is the land tax that Wanli added to deal with the Eastern Affairs, and added about 2 million taels to the original basis. This is the famous Liao salary increase. For this matter, Wanli and the three emperors of Tianqi Chongzhen were scolded by scholars of the Ming Dynasty.

In terms of this, I am afraid that this can be written into a long paper. Zhang Han has also read some related books and discussions. In short, Wanli did not do a very authentic job of adding Liao treasury. He sent additional funds as soon as the Liao treasury started. The court did not have money. The three major strifes used the property accumulated by Zhang Juzheng, and the treasury was empty. But Wanli himself did have money at hand. Not to mention anything else, when Wanli died, Emperor Taichang even distributed silver in the treasury, which should be as many as million taels. Zhang Han could not remember the Qing Dynasty, but the number was indeed more than two million.

Moreover, the treasury had not been fully issued. Until the Chongzhen period, when there was a police officer in the border affairs and there was insufficient money, the Ministry of Revenue would ask the emperor to issue the treasury.

From the perspective of the emperor, the whole country is the kingdom. Since there is a warning in the border area and the country is not enough, what if you use your own money first? In terms of the system of the Ming Dynasty, the rigid boss, the officials and gentry and clerks are one, and the money will be added to the lower level. These worms will earn at least 10 million taels of silver into their own wallets, which is not worth the loss.

As for Wanli's mind, how can he use his own money whenever he has something to do? These scholars and officials usually speak loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, and once they have something to do, they point at the emperor to get money. Why? Since the country is insufficient and the military pay is not enough, then they will add land tax according to the actual cost, and one plus is as much as two million.

In fact, the tax level of the Ming Dynasty was never more than 5% and the commercial tax was even lower. In Wanli's opinion, it was not a big problem to add 2 million yuan. This is true. During the Chongzhen period, the tax was added twice, and this amount of tax was officially established in the Qing Dynasty. There was no big change in more than 200 years, and the people still suffered such taxes.

But the problem is that the central government's control over local areas was much weaker, and the control over gentry was even weaker.

The additional taxes did not pay attention to the uneven development of various places, and the whole country was consistent. For the people of Jiangnan, the extra silver was nothing more than a few feet of cloth to be earned. Until the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the southern provinces were still very quiet, and few people rebelled. In the north, especially in the northwest, the disasters during the Little Ice Age were particularly serious. They had basically relied on agriculture to make a living. In addition, taxes and natural disasters, and ineffective relief, the people were desperate and finally evolved into a large-scale peasant uprising.

Wanli's additional Liao tuition is definitely a bad move. Many Internet history enthusiasts have rebelled against the contrary. In order to rebel, they are disgusted with the Donglin Party and affirmed the eunuch Party without any bottom line against the Qing Dynasty. In fact, Wanli did have a skill in controlling the government, but he was not even a successful monarch in governing the country.

After reading it, a big article almost instantly passed by Zhang Han's heart.

Wanli increased the salary to open the door to the fall of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, if Wanli did not die, he would not have serious internal frictions based on his grasp of the court. Although there were minor setbacks in the Liao Dynasty, he would eventually go to the right path to resolve. Unfortunately, Zhang Han remembered that Wanli would die in the past two years. At the most critical point in the Ming Dynasty and the entire China, this emperor who had mastered the Ming Dynasty for nearly half a century died... It was really not the time to die...

"It seems that the counterattack between the Tiancheng Guards and the grain merchants was because they knew the movements of the court in advance and the increase in wages. There must have been rumors about the increase in wages, and now it has finally been concluded."

"There is no one in the court, and the news is still slow. I guess someone must go directly to the center here. Even when Zheng Guochang didn't know the news, someone here knew about this and made preparations in advance."

"What is important to compete for grain with me and Yusheng is to know that the price of grain will definitely rise sharply in the future, not for the difference between the two coins, but more importantly for the preparations in the future."

"Once the salary increases, the land prices fall and the grain prices rise steadily, not only Datong, but also Shanxi, Xuanfu, Datong, and Shaanxi, all of them."

"The disasters in the future will become more and more serious. It should be a few years since the large-scale peasant uprising..."

The peasant uprising in the northwest began in the Tianqi period and eventually became a beast-like existence during the Chongzhen period.

Zhang Han looked at Jiang Yi and Jiang Kui and smiled and said, "Let's go and go up to the village outside the city to have a look."

"Yes, Shaodong."
Chapter completed!