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    The entire Ming Dynasty was really helpless.  The back money was gone, but the border troubles were not only not eliminated, but also became more serious.

    The Battle of Daling River not only resulted in the loss of more than 300,000 troops and the entire Liaodong region north of Shanhaiguan, but more importantly, it almost drained the Ming Dynasty of blood that could barely maintain the oxygen supply to the body.

    The loss of more than 300,000 troops forced the Ming Dynasty to urgently mobilize troops from various provinces to go north to guard against the Liaodong army of the Chinese Empire.  At the same time, it also caused the Ming court to increase taxes nationwide again.

    As a result, without the pressure of the army and heavy tax pressure, more and more people in various provinces who could not survive stood up and rebelled.

    Especially in the Shaanxi area where Hong Chengchou was transferred, Wang Jiayin, Wang Ziyong, Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and others were like wildfire, quickly burning through the entire Shaanxi and extending their power into Shanxi and other places.

    With all the imperial army mobilized, it swept through the northwest region with a more violent force than in the original history.

    In addition, in the originally peaceful Lianghu area, a female bandit named Xiao Mingqiu called herself Guanshiyin Xiansheng. Her power also developed crazily. Although the Sichuan army was chasing and intercepting her, she still became powerful.  He led more than 60,000 people into the northwest region of Hubei, threatening Henan and Anhui provinces.

    And the most troublesome thing is that wherever she goes, she kills all the local gentry and distributes the land to the local people, which to a certain extent wins the support of the landless people.

    Even so, God seems not enough.  Full text, no ads. At the end of the third year of Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty, which was completely panicked, continued to dispatch troops from various provinces to Shaanxi to quell the rebellion. Former Mao Wenlong subordinates Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others suddenly captured Dengzhou, raised troops and rebelled, claiming to be marshal and commander-in-chief.  .

    Within a few months, several prefectures and counties in northeastern Shandong were in ruins. Many officials in Shandong were either killed by Kong Youde or were brought to bear responsibility by the Ming court and killed.  By the end of the year, it had not been able to suppress it, and there were still signs of a large-scale attack on Laizhou.

    Faced with such chaos in the world, the Ming court had no choice but to take the risk of sending Hong Chengchou to the west to attack the rebellion in Shaanxi, and appointed Sun Chuanting to mobilize the southeastern army to go north to suppress Xiao Mingchou in Hubei and Kong Youde in Shandong.

    However, wars were going on everywhere, and the three southeastern provinces that were still able to contribute some food and wages to the Ming Dynasty were occupied by the Chinese Empire.

    Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other prosperous areas can only barely maintain the southern route army.  For other provinces, it is already good to be self-sufficient.

    Under this situation, Emperor Chongzhen also carried out reforms in military training and equipment. It is really difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without straw.

    Fortunately, at the end of the year, bad news came from the south. Food prices in Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangxi provinces controlled by the Chinese Empire dropped crazily.

    Even in a prosperous and stable area like Zhejiang, the price of grain has reached one to two seventy eight yuan per stone, but the price quoted by the smugglers who sell the grain is only one tael of silver to one stone.

    Such prices immediately caused the food prices in other provinces close to the three provinces to also fall.  Under this situation, Sun Chuanting urgently reported to the court, requesting the court to allocate silver taels to purchase the grain flowing out of the three provinces on a large scale and transport it northward to stabilize the people's sentiment in the northwest region.

    Sun Chuanting's proposal was immediately unanimously approved by the court.  Because they have realized that this time is an opportunity to make a lot of money, whether it is for the court or for them personally.

    As a result, millions of taels of silver flowed crazily to the south, almost swallowing up the food flowing out of the three provinces.

    Seeing this situation, Xiao Mingqian personally ordered to urgently mobilize a large amount of grain to enter the Ming Dynasty market through this channel.  Don't you need food?  I will give you food. If a million dan is enough, if not, how about tens of millions of dan!

    With the inflow of a large amount of grain, many grain merchants in the Ming Dynasty who originally thought they could make a fortune through hoarding soon discovered that this grain trend was like the water of the sea, which could not be exhausted.  If they continue to hoard, they will only be drowned in this terrifying wave.

    They have no choice but to give up the idea of ??making huge profits at super high prices and sell the grain at lower prices.

    With this price reduction, food prices have plummeted.  The price of grain in the southeastern provinces of Zhejiang is almost the same as that in provinces such as Fujian. Even in Beijing, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places, the price of grain has dropped from the original price of four to five taels per stone to less than 2 taels.

    With food falling so crazily, those who have just introduced?The officials and merchants involved in grain sales had nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty.  But those unscrupulous profiteers who had invested a lot of money in food hoarding before this were completely unlucky.

    Their wealth has basically evaporated by about half, and countless people who have participated in this industry by raising funds have gone bankrupt.

    Don¡¯t think that the drop in food prices is a good thing for Ming Dynasty.  For ordinary people in the northwest region who have been completely bankrupt, there is no difference between two liang and one stone and four, five liang and one stone. On the contrary, the peasant army has more food.

    ¡°For major grain-producing provinces such as Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Hunan and Hunan, large-scale homesteaders have gone bankrupt.

    At this time, a decision caused a huge impact on the national destiny of Ming Dynasty.  Wu Rongtang wrote to the emperor, requesting officials of the Ming Dynasty to stop all military pay being distributed in silver taels and to switch to grain.  All taxes must be collected in silver.  This time and again, the court can still make a lot of profits to support the huge military expenditure.

    This suggestion ostensibly solved the financial dilemma of the Ming Dynasty and maintained the stability of the army.  But what is its essence?

    Who is the subject of tax payment in Ming Dynasty?  It is those small farmers with few assets. The sharp drop in food prices has already made their lives difficult. However, Ming Dynasty will take this step and continue to settle taxes in silver, and it must be the same as in previous years.  After paying the taxes on the grain they harvested in a year, nothing is left.  In the end, they had no choice but to give up growing food and go up to the mountains to become bandits, which would make them live a better life.

    Therefore, having more food only made it easier for people in various parts of the Ming Dynasty to obtain food. On the contrary, it had a negative effect on the stability of the social structure of the Ming Dynasty.  In this way, the foundation of Ming Dynasty was corroded bit by bit.

    This is exactly the situation that the Chinese Empire hopes to see, that is, it can allow more people to survive, and it can also bring some trouble to the Ming Dynasty. It really kills two birds with one stone.

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