The first year of Chongzhen - April 18th, sunny day.

In the early morning, after breakfast, Jin Yuniang carried a small medicine hoe and carried a thin bamboo basket. She walked to Lianglang Mountain more than 30 miles away to collect herbs. There was no way. Now that her family is poor, the burden of life is all on her shoulders, and she cannot tolerate any slackness.

Qin Feng originally wanted to go with him, but was rejected by Jin Yuniang and asked him to stay at home to recuperate.

Unable to let go of the beauty's kindness, Qin Feng had to stay and stay in the house. He was idle all over the place, so he would clean up his personal hygiene!

After closing the door, a bucket of clear water was lifted from the deep well in the courtyard. Qin Feng took off his clothes and washed it carefully. He quickly washed it clean, revealing his fair skin with large red patterns on it. This was the trace left by the lightning!

The pattern starts from the heart position, climbs upwards over the left shoulder, extends from the back to the right rib, then goes forward to the left side of the lower abdomen, and then goes down along the thighs... It's like a red dragon wrapping around the body, with both head and tail, appearing vividly!

The only drawback is that this dragon has no eyes.

There is a saying: if you draw the finishing touch, you will fly straight into the sky and travel proudly between the universe!

And a dragon without eyes is like a lack of soul, and can only be trapped in the mortal world and cannot become a great person!

After taking a shower, Qin Feng sat on a bluestone pier, basking in the sun while thinking about his life plans... By chance, he came to this world. Since he came, he had to live well. If he wanted to live well, he had to understand the situation in this world first.

Now sitting on the dragon throne is the 16th emperor of the Ming Empire. Zhu Youjian, who has ascended the throne for less than a year, is only 18 years old this year, and his year name is Chongzhen!

Young people are inevitably impatient and have poor safety in their work, and the emperor is no exception.

After Zhu Youjian ascended the throne, he immediately used thunder to kill Wei Zhongxian, the nine thousand-year-old who had been controlling the court for several years, destroyed the three clans, killed hundreds of his gang members, and wiped out the eunuch party forces in the court.

To eradicate power and consolidate imperial power, we cannot say that what we did is wrong.

The problem is that in the Ming Dynasty, the political pattern of the eunuch party was originally a eunuch party. The Donglin party fought and restricted each other. Now that the eunuch party has been wiped out, the Donglin party has become the dominant force.

The Donglin Party members always regarded themselves as pure streams and shouted the noble slogans of "being honest and dedicated to the public, revitalizing the government and eliminating the accumulated traits of the government and the opposition." In fact, they are the spokespersons of the big landlords and the big merchant interest groups.

After taking control of the court, they immediately fooled the emperor into exempting commercial taxes, customs duties, mining taxes, tea taxes, salt taxes, etc. (About one million taels of silver, and several physical goods, accounted for about one-fifth of the national fiscal revenue at that time.)

The young man was so fooling, so Zhu Youjian immediately agreed to the suggestion of the Donglin Party members. As a result, he got a few false reputations of "Saint Lord", but it damaged the national plan.

Liaodong has been using troops for years and has a huge military expenditure; the population of the Zhu royal family has been increasing, and it requires a lot of money and food to support it; and the salaries of civil and military officials, palace maids and eunuchs are also not small... Now that the national treasury income has dropped sharply, where does this money and food come from?

There is no money lost in the sky, no money grows in the ground, and the commercial tax is abolished again... There is no way, I can only squeeze oil from the common people who farm.

More than two months ago, Emperor Chongzhen issued an order: 'From this year, the whole world will cultivate three cents of silver per mu, and the proceeds will be used for the Liaodong war!'

The imperial edict was issued, and the world was in an uproar, to be more precise, complaints were everywhere!

You should know that in the spring of the 46th year of Wanli, Nurhaci raised an army with the "Seven Great Hate" and launched an attack on the Ming Dynasty... The Ming Dynasty did not show any weakness and immediately decided to send troops to suppress it.

If you want to fight, you have to spend money!

The problem is that the treasury of the Ming Dynasty was empty and could not afford to pay. Emperor Wanli was a famous miser and refused to use his own private treasury. There was no way, so he had to increase the tax... The whole world was plowing the fields, and he was given an additional three cents and five millimeters per mu, and he received a total of more than two million taels of silver, which was called: Liao salary!

It was agreed at that time that it would only be charged for one year.

Unexpectedly, in the Battle of Sarhu, the Ming army was defeated and more than 100,000 people were killed or injured. The situation in Liaodong further deteriorated. The Ming court had no choice but to continue to increase troops and pay: in the 47th year of Wanli, the whole country was cultivated, and another three cents and five millimeters per mu were added.

In the 48th year of Wanli, two cents were added per mu.

Now that Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, he not only did not reduce taxes for the people, but also added three cents of land taxes, with a total of one cent and two cents of silver. It would be strange if the people didn't scold them.

Someone asked, is it a lot of silver to charge one cent or two cents of acre of land?

To be fair, not much.

Today's Ming Dynasty, if you spend one or two cents of silver, it is just a dozen copper coins, you can buy five kilograms of white rice. Compared with the output of one acre of land, it will not cause much burden on the people!

The problem is that the administration of the Ming Dynasty was too corrupt, colluding with each other and plundering them layer by layer.

The court collected one or two cents of silver. This order came to the Ministry of Revenue. The officials of the Ministry of Revenue thought that they were working hard for the country every day. In order to appease the suffering little mind, it would not be too much to increase the gray income. Moreover, we are not greedy. Just double the amount. The people will definitely afford to collect two or four cents of silver and a few kilograms of rice!

When the order arrived in various provinces, the governor thought that he was too hard and needed to increase his income a little, not be greedy, just double the amount, four cents and eight cents of silver!

The prefect, double again.

The magistrate, doubled.

Master...

Team leader...

The clerk...

Officials of all sizes increased their prices at a time. When they reached the common people, the land tax that needed to be paid had become several times, dozens of times, or even dozens of times the amount collected by the state.

The climate in the south is mild, with rice ripening twice a year and high yields. The people are sluggish in their diet, tighten their belts, and can barely pay taxes.

The weather in the north is cold, the crops are ripe every year, and the yield is low. Even if the people break their belts, they can't make up money!

There is no way. In order to pay the land tax, the people can only sell plowing oxen, land, houses, and even children.

When all the children are sold out, there are only two ways left to go. One is to find a big tree to hang it and strive to join a good family in the next life; the other is to cut down the big tree, cut down the wood as a soldier, and rise up.

In fact, anyone with a little brain will choose the second path.

...

As expected, a grand peasant uprising drama is about to begin!

The world is about to be in chaos, where should I go?

Rich experience tells Qin Feng (from reading third-rate novels) that as a time traveler, the easiest, safest and most promising way is to hold on.

For example, when traveling to the end of the Western Han Dynasty, I went to hug Liu Xiu's thighs. This guy was the son of the plane, with great luck and cheating in wars. He won whatever he wanted, and won even if he didn't fight!

When I traveled to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, I went to hug Prime Minister Cao's thighs, with high officials and generous salaries, and a group of beauties. I would definitely have a good life.

When they traveled to the end of the Sui Dynasty, they hugged Li Shimin's thighs.

When you travel to the end of the Yuan Dynasty, you will hug Zhu Yuanzhang... Wait for a while, this thigh is too dangerous, and it is very likely that the bird will be hidden all over the bow, and the rabbit will be cooked by the dog. Don’t hug it, and find a place to live in seclusion!

Now it is the late Ming Dynasty, who should I hold?

He immediately set off for the capital and met Emperor Chongzhen-Zhu Youjian, and persuaded him with good words to help him with his mistakes and strived to be a good minister in the country, which was famous in history?

inappropriate!

The capital is thousands of miles away. I am now penniless and weak, and the road is not peaceful. I am afraid that before I can get to the place, I will make a call.

Take a step back and say, even if I arrive in the capital, how can I see the emperor as a small son of a hundred families?

Take a step back, even if you meet Emperor Chongzhen, can the other party follow his advice?

Emperor Chongzhen was famously stubborn and self-righteous in history. He was never ruthless when killing ministers. He was afraid that he would lose his head when he was a good minister in his country.

If the emperor cannot hold his thighs, how about hugging the Yinchuan postman's thighs? Try to be a founding hero?

Also inappropriate.

The Yinchuan postmen were talented but not broad-minded, short-sighted, had no cleverness, and only knew how to destroy and did not understand construction. At most, they were just a bandit leader. It would be difficult to have a good result with him.

Who else is left?

The horse dealer surnamed Gao is a horse dealer with great ambitions and talent, and it is difficult to achieve great things!

The constable named Zhang - a despicable villain, capricious!

Several vassal kings of the Zhu family - human heads and pig brains, one is worse than the other!

...

The descendants of the "wild boar skin" outside the pass - forget it, even if they hit the head and hang themselves, they would hang themselves for a rope, jump into the cesspool and drown them, they would never follow the Tartars and would lose the face of the descendants of Yan and Huang!

Qin Feng used his fingers to pass through the storm figures he knew in the late Ming Dynasty one by one, but none of them caught his eye.

Alas, there are no heroes in the world today, what if it is done?

If it really doesn't work, how about being the hero who saved the world?

No, it’s too tiring to be a hero, it’s better to be a hero, traverse all over the world, look down on the world, not afraid of criticism from the world, not afraid of being responsible and not reputation... wake up the killing sword, lie drunk on the beautiful knee, hehe!
Chapter completed!