Chapter 917: Rise (Part 1)
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In this sudden and profound crisis, almost everyone's fate took a sharp turn, and no one survived, but people's attitudes towards disasters are different...
At the dock where Ma Liuye works, the cargo throughput is less than 10% of his heyday, so naturally he cannot support more than 300 brothers under his command. For the sake of his livelihood, he asked his idle brothers to work hard at the grain shop and construction site. However, the world is difficult, and the brothers can only make a living, but they can only eat, but they cannot support the whole family. Although Ma Liuye smiled loudly, he was so worried that he was so optimistic that he had to hold on for his brothers.
Old Man Zhou's family had great changes. Thirty years ago, he started with a loom. Taking advantage of the overseas trade, the textile industry was profitable. His family worked hard and saved money. He gradually bought looms, hired weaving workers, and opened a small weaving workshop. After that, the scale became larger and larger. At its peak, it had become a medium-sized factory with 100 looms and 500 hired workers.
After the age of 60, Old Man Zhou took care of his two sons, retired to live a long life, and lived a peaceful and enviable evening. After the outbreak of the financial crisis, high-end fabrics suddenly lost sales, and many silk weaving factories went bankrupt one after another. His weaving factory was not affected by the low price of products. However, the Zhou family still had time to be glad that they were facing heavy taxes, and the cost increased. They wanted to pass on the price increase, but consumers did not buy it, and sales dropped sharply, and they did not raise prices and suffered serious losses.
Many similar factories have already laid off employees on a large scale, and the Zhou family is no exception. The remaining workers have to take turns to start work, and they can only reduce losses by compressing production. Old Man Zhou can no longer enjoy the peace of mind. He goes to the factory to see Mén every night, and the remaining dollar for hiring a husband. Today, he is also working for the night shift, so he falls behind Ma Liu.
The worst thing is Shopper Hou. The silk shop he invested in was the most affected by the crisis. Not to mention the serious losses, the levy taxes were heavy every day. A few days ago, because he did not pay the tax on the deadline, the boss was detained by the tax office and the store was also sealed off...
"Before the boss left, I want to take care of my family." Manager Hou's eyes soaked in tears and choked, "As a result, in the afternoon of that day, the taxman pulled a cart to the store to move things. The guy stopped him and was seriously injured. The store was smashed to pieces. How could I go about the boss? How could I live this life..."
"At the beginning, Boss Qin told us to sell the industry and spend the winter with gold and silver, but none of us listened to it." The only thing that was easier was Chen Guanren, because he was a middle-aged man in the yamen. In addition to issuing money, he could still live a life. But his decades of savings have turned into ashes in the stock market plunge, and his losses were extremely heavy.
"Now I understand, but what's the use?" Manager Hou mocked himself: "For thirty years, I have been trying to make a fortune. I don't make money. I've made money, but I've used it all to buy land and invest. I've been struggling for decades, but I've only made a lot of debts." As he said that, he cried and said: "In the future, my brothers and brothers should be advised to have money, so he should eat, drink, gamble, and do whatever he wants, but don't tell them what good things are. There is a fool named Hou who has been struggling for a lifetime to understand this truth, he's just a big joke." As he said that, tears fell down.
"You just said to move." Chen Guanren changed the topic and said, "Where are you going to move? Why are you willing to give up on us?"
"I can't bear to leave either." Manager Hou said depressedly: "But the store was sealed, and the boss was locked in jail. The creditor came to me and asked me to sell the house to pay off the debt..."
"It's good to move, don't you still have land in the countryside?" Old Man Zhou comforted him, "When I go back and be a landlord with food and clothing, it's the best among us." He said, "It's not like my family. I've invested all my money in the factory, and I haven't saved any land. Now I'm caught blindly."
"Those lands have also paid off the debt..." Manager Hou said in tears: "I was left with only one hundred taels of silver notes this morning. After buying these side dishes, I was completely naked."
"Don't be so depressed, I'm already a pauper, I'm not happy every day? Come and drink." Master Ma Liu picked up his glass and said, "Didn't Li Bai say that there is wine today and I'm drunk now, and I'll be happy every day, and I'll be happy again after all the money has gone."
"If you don't have a place to live, go to my place first," said Old Man Zhou, "If you have nothing to do, just work with me first. This situation cannot pay for your salary, but if you have a bite of food from my family, you won't be hungry."
"Yes." Chen Guanren also said: "I'll look for you to see if I can find an errand in the yamen."
"I thank you." Manager Hou bowed to everyone and said, "True feelings are revealed in times of adversity, Brother Zhou, Sixth Master, Brother Chen. My old man has you friends in this life, and even if he didn't live in vain, I'm not in a mess. I've never done my best in the past few years. I've bribed those who should be bribed and pretended to be grandsons. But I have never done anything unethical or harmed the gods. Why don't I let me live? Who did I offend? Who did I offend? The emperor, the empress, and the eunuchs who killed the gods in various wineries, why don't I let me eat steamed buns? Who came up with the idea?"
"Come on, let's not talk about this." Everyone was silent, but Manager Hou seemed to have recovered from his spirit and poured wine for the three old friends one by one, "After drinking this glass, we will not be able to drink together in the future. Don't forget me when you gather during the holidays."
"That's what you said." Everyone said 'poo': "It's really unlucky to say something else."
"I've said nothing, drink bar." Manager Hou picked up the wine cup and said to everyone.
"Yes, drink bar, you won't have to worry about getting drunk." Everyone also left their worries behind, drinking and recalling the prosperous scene of the early years of Wanli. At that time, when sitting at home, silver rolled in, wearing silk and satin, and a bell glass at home. They wanted to eat something that was delicious, and they wanted to drink something that was spicy, and they watched it every day, leisurely and leisurely, and good days were like a dream.
Who would have thought that this beautiful dream would wake up so quickly and turn into a nightmare in a blink of an eye?
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That day, everyone was drunk and no one went to work. They helped each other wander around Shanghai for a long time. In the afternoon, they went home to sleep.
When he was holding the lights, Ma Liu, who was snoring at home, was called up. The whole family told him a bad news - Manager Hou was hanged in his shop.
Ma Liuye woke up and started to drink without wearing any shoes. He ran to the silk shop in front of the street. The silk shop had been surrounded by people, and the coroner was taking a mortal examination. The wife of the shopkeeper Hou cried and collapsed.
Old Man Zhou and Guanren Chen also arrived one after another. Seeing the old guy who was drinking and shopping together in the morning turned into a cold corpse, the three of them were stunned.
In the next few days, despite being confused, the three of them still arranged to deal with the funeral of Manager Hou. Even the thin wooden coffin was bought by the three of them. On the day of the funeral, they watched Manager Hou get burial with their hands. While scattering paper money, they said in tears: "Old Hou, go to Yin room and start over. When our brothers go, you have to eat and drink and treat it..."
On the way back, the three of them seemed to have been hollowed out, walking on the road one deep and one shallow. Old Man Zhou sighed, while Guanren Chen remained silent, but Ma Liuye clenched his fists and pounded his chest.
As soon as we entered the city, a newspaper boy shouted: "No, No, Luzon riots and uprisings, expelling tax officials and eunuchs proposed eight articles of autonomy to the court, otherwise they would declare independence."
The three of them looked up at the sky and saw that the black clouds were swaying the city, and the mountain rain came and the wind filled the building...
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Emperor Wanli sent mining tax envoys to harm the world in the name of saving the market. The Southeast industry and commerce were almost wiped out, and the people's lives were in a difficult situation, which naturally caused unanimous indignation among the government and the country. Faced with Zhu Yijun, who was determined to act and extremely greedy, the mine tax envoys who were crazy, and the people who were angry with each other, all expressed their anger in their own ways and ways.
Among the ministers, from cabinet ministers, six ministries and nine ministers, to the doctors and local magistrates, they all gave me some comments on the harm of mining tax, and some discussed the tyrannical tyranny of taxation, and even collectively handed over the resignation to threaten Emperor Wanli to take back his orders. In a memorial sent by more than a thousand officials, they said to Emperor Wanli with heartache:
‘The mining tax prospers, the people are unemployed, and the government is irritating, and no one knows how to do it. The emperor is democratic, not only does not wear it, but instead takes it away. He is eager to find the sparks and the order to plunder is as dense as a cow. Today, a certain mine has obtained silver, and a certain silver will be added tomorrow; today a certain place has several taxes, and a certain tax will be added tomorrow; today a certain official blocks the mining tax, and tomorrow a certain official is dismissed from playing the mining tax, and the upper and lower levels will fight, but only profit is heard. The mountains and rivers are sent to four places, and the scoundrels will be sent to death, and the winged tigers and wolves,
The false orders are used to cheat money, and they move thousands of times. They dig graves along the way and knock out all the bone marrows. Only when they get money will they stop. Are the holy hearts? Are they uneasy? Moreover, the hearts of one person are the hearts of thousands of people. The emperor loves pearls and people also loves food and clothing. The emperor is worried about all the years, and people also loves wives and children. However, the emperor is higher than the Beidou, so that the people will have the reserve of chaff and rush? The emperor is for his descendants for tens of thousands of years, but he will not let the people have peace for a day and a night? Look at the past, the court has such a government order, and there is such a scene in the world, but there are no ones who are not?’
This memorial represents the voice of the entire society. Although the people in the Jin Party are not as determined as those of officials from the Southeast, and some are ambiguous, no one dares to stand up publicly to waving the flag and shout for the mining tax envoy.
However, Emperor Wanli Zhu Yijun was determined to be calm without the wind and rain. He believed that the officials' description of the suffering of the people was exaggerated. How could the heaven on earth become hell on earth be in less than a year? What's more, the eunuchs' silver taels from entering the palace only cost tens of millions of taels, how could they hurt the skin in the southeast?
Therefore, he understood the minister's extreme advice as support for the Southeast chaebols, but was particularly tolerant of the eunuchs' special actions. Whenever the minister and eunuchs counterattack, he would definitely punish the former and protect the latter, and demonstrate his determination to attack the Southeast tycoons.
Of course, Wanli was not unaware that he was playing with fire, and he was also trying his best to increase his security. On the one hand, he allowed the eunuchs stationed in various provinces to pay a portion of the tax, gold, silver, and silver to recruit soldiers and expand their strength to prepare for the people. On the other hand, he expanded his inner guards to more than 10,000 people, all equipped with the latest muskets.
However, he also knew that when it comes to combat effectiveness, the eunuch army would definitely not be able to compare with those tiger and wolf troops who could fight well. So on the one hand, Wanli increased the efforts of eunuch army supervision. Whether it was the Beijing camp, the border army, or the garrison troops of various provinces, they all sent eunuchs to mobilize the army and give them the power to kill and seize the officers. On the other hand, he forced the 27 general officers of the country to send their families to the capital to live, when they would resign and when they could be reunited.
In order to resolve the resentment of the army and keep their support, Wanli also tilted a large amount of fiscal revenue to military expenditure, and also promoted the officers to increase their ranks, giving them the power to be on par with civil servants... In short, everything is for the stability of the overall situation. He firmly believes that as long as he has the power of a eunuch on one hand and the support of the army on the other, even if the situation is bad, his country will be as stable as a rock.
As for the sufferings suffered by the people and the end of the country, he was very open-minded and believed that only great rule could be achieved. When the wealthy families in the southeast were exhausted and no longer had uncontrolled and endangered the dynasty's rule, civil servants also became unfounded trees. They cleaned up the situation again and returned to the beautiful era when Taizu founded the country, which was based on agriculture, seclusion, and the ruler, ministers and ministers...
It must be admitted that Wanli has wisdom that ordinary people cannot reach. The royal education he received since childhood allowed him to detect problems that endanger his rule and quickly find a solution. However, after successfully solving the powerful minister Shen Mo, he also lost his patience and became arrogant and believed that as long as he did it himself, any problem could be solved.
However, when he put himself in his shoes, he also had deep helplessness. After the encroachment and boycott by ministers of the three dynasties, the imperial power has been isolated from the court. He was unable to appoint any official, and his ministers were also treated as a warning by his ministers. If this trend continues, perhaps the next generation of emperors will become a puppet and even have no life to protect.
For the foundation of our ancestors and for his own imperial power, Emperor Wanli Zhu Yijun had to go against everyone - because in his opinion, everyone was against him first. He did not think of taking a eased approach - such as supporting Zhang Siwei, knowing the opposition in the cabinet and promoting officials who finally promoted the emperor. However, all efforts were shattered under the counterattack of the huge bureaucratic group. After working hard for several years, everything was still the same.
So he had to take rigorous means to savagely remove the vines wrapped around the dragon throne. As an emperor, this was his natural job.
To be fair, his only mistake was to appoint eunuchs to do these things. He underestimated the eunuchs' perverts and madness and would inevitably be punished the most ruthless punishment - such as the uprising in the distant Luzon.
However, in addition to eunuchs, who can the emperor, who has been surrounded by layers of bureaucratic groups, trust?
The right and wrong, merit and crime will come from later generations commented that people in the world can only struggle hard according to their own ideas, and even the emperor is no exception.
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