Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 755 Conspiracy
The holy place of Donglin Party, Donglin Academy.

Decades ago, Gu Xiancheng, who was kicked back by Wanli to grow sweet potatoes in his hometown, founded Donglin Academy with a cynical mood. While teaching and educating people, he also spread this mentality. Decades later, this A poisonous seedling grew wildly all the way, covering most of Daming, rooted in this vast land, frantically absorbing nutrients, but what bloomed were poisonous flowers, and what came out were also poisonous fruits.The motto of the Donglin Party members is "the sound of the wind, the rain, the sound of reading, the sound of the sound is in your ears; state affairs, family affairs, and world affairs, care about everything", and they really care about everything, such as which woman the emperor will choose No one cares more about being a queen, which prince should be appointed as the prince, and who should be dismissed.The result of their concern about everything is to mess up everything. When the situation is too bad, they will accuse the emperor of appointing courtiers instead of reusing them, gentlemen of Donglin, so the responsibility is entirely on the emperor!
——————The emperor is not according to what they say, he is a petty person and far away from the gentleman. Take responsibility?Don't even think about it!
The trend of advocating literature and deposing martial arts, which lasted for nearly six hundred years from the Song Dynasty, reached the level of obsession in the late Ming Dynasty, and gave birth to such a freak as the Donglin Party. The literati are above the country. They would rather let the whole country die than Not willing to take any responsibility, let alone expect them to sacrifice anything for this country.

But now, the supreme authority of the Donglin Party seems to have encountered a strong challenge, which made the Donglin Party and the big money behind them feel bad, so they all sat together.

boom!
Zhang Dai slammed a newspaper on the table, and cursed repeatedly: "Damn, hate!"

Zhang Pu cast a glance, oh, the headlines are still members of the Donglin party, exposing how one of their bosses saved hundreds of millions of wealth by evading taxes and living a life of extravagance.The person who wrote this article is really capable. He even found out how much he earned every month, how much tax he evaded, and how much money he spent on a certain day in a certain year. Just one thought: Look, these bastards spend much more than the tax they should pay for a meal, but they just don't want to pay, and they are forcing us ordinary people to pay!

He rubbed his temples with some headaches, and moaned: "How did the thief find out about this?"

Several people present looked at each other and said they didn't know.Although these things are not confidential, it is really not easy to find out so clearly, but Yang Menglong did it, and took off their underpants almost effortlessly!Damn it, does he have spies in everyone's house?If so, that would be terrible!

If you think wrongly, Yang Menglong is not interested in this. He bought all these information from Jin Yiwei with money.Jin Yiwei has long since lost the prestige of the early Ming Dynasty, but the centipede is dead but not stiff.Yang Menglong's remuneration is quite generous. This kind of low-risk and high-return pretty work has always been everyone's favorite. Jiangnan Jinyiwei has transformed into the most professional paparazzi. If you want to find out whoever you want, just say it. All the scandals of the generation will be revealed for you!
Qian Qianyi stroked his beard, looked at Zhang Pu, and asked leisurely: "Tianru, how is the progress of the anti-Yang movement we initiated?"

Zhang Pu smiled wryly: "Now the whole country is scolding me, who cares what I'm doing!"

Zhang Dai said: "Those fools in the countryside were deceived by that thief, they believed his rumors, and mistakenly thought that we were all selfish, incompetent people with high vision and low abilities, who only knew how to fight against differences. How could they listen to us?" Bitter words!"

The faces of everyone here are slightly hot... These evaluations are really appropriate for them.Of course, they wouldn't admit it, even if they were beaten to death, and even less if they couldn't be beaten to death!

Qian Qianyi picked up the newspaper, glanced at it twice, threw it away with disgust, and said: "It is vulgar and has no literary talent. How can anyone believe such an article?"

Zhang Pu and Zhang Dai laughed harder. The articles in "Nanyang Daily" are plain and straightforward, and it's true that they can't catch the eyes of scholar-bureaucrats like them, but ordinary people like it!The vast majority of ordinary people don't know a basket of watermelon-sized characters, who can understand what you mean?The vernacular is better, you can understand it at a glance, and you can understand it if you don't understand it!As a result, "Nanyang Daily", which was "no literary talent", became unprofitable, and its circulation increased steadily. The hailstorm some time ago also made the newspaper famous, and its circulation soared from 50 copies to 100 million. quickly gained the right to speak among the poor people. What does a circulation of 100 million newspapers mean? It means that if this newspaper wants to blackmail someone, it only needs one article to black him into ink!Even if only one out of ten people who read the newspaper believed it, that would be worth a hundred thousand. Every mouthful of saliva would drown you!As far as the current situation is concerned, at least in terms of the shamelessness and selfishness of the gentry, the supporters of newspapers are more than one-tenth, that is two to three hundred percent—don’t forget, behind every newspaper There are several people who can't afford newspapers several times, listening with relish to the newspaper readers reading the articles to them.The newspapers not only exposed the extravagance of the Donglin party members, but also revealed some of their political actions during the Wanli, Tianqi, and Chongzhen dynasties. Once these things were written in vernacular and then analyzed, most people would understand. Then there was a lot of scolding: You are filling your brain with soy milk, right? Do you mess around like this! ?
This is a headache.

Sitting opposite Qian Qianyi, an old man in purple clothes and white beard coughed and said in a low voice, "How long will it take for you to bring down that Yang?"

The big benefactor spoke, and expressed his strong dissatisfaction with them without any concealment. Both Zhang Pu and Qian Qianyi were sweating on their foreheads, and kept silent like cicadas.Several other elders in fine clothes also stared at these Donglin gentlemen with angry faces, their dissatisfaction with them was written all over their faces.That damned Yang Menglong, it seems that the whole meaning of his life is to make things difficult for Jiangnan businessmen. He smelted steel as soon as he debuted, directly destroying the steel industry in Jiangnan; Sea salt directly crushed Huaiyang salt merchants in terms of production and cost, and made salt into the price of cabbage; in recent years, it has even hit the grain market with cheap potato noodles, and there are wailing everywhere, potatoes that cost one tael and one stone Flour is worth three or four taels of silver, wheat or yellow rice that is short of taels, a fool knows how to choose, the result of the growing area of ​​potato planting is that the price of food will fall all the way, even in the year of catastrophe, it will be difficult The price of food has skyrocketed again; now the goods are even more excessive, and the textile industry in Heluo and Huguang districts is being developed, and cotton is being collected everywhere... Note that what they sell is not cotton cloth, but ready-made clothes!The consequence of this is that the price of cotton in Shandong, Henan, Huguang and other places has risen accordingly, and the cost of cotton cloth has risen sharply.Now, the several industries that the Jiangnan area depends on for prosperity have all been strongly challenged, especially the salt making and cotton spinning industries, which have been hit hard. These two are the lifeblood of Jiangnan businessmen!Now someone is kicking at their very roots, how can they bear it!

"After Wu Sheng took the post of Chief Soldier of Shandong, he immediately signed a contract with that surnamed Yang, mobilizing the guards of Shandong's various guards to reclaim fields and plant cotton, and will open up 200 million mu of cotton fields within three years! "The old man in purple tapped his fingers on the table, his voice was gentle, seemingly without ups and downs, but it was frightening." According to their estimates, each mu of cotton field produces 200 to 6000 catties of cotton, 8000 million mu, that is [-] Ten thousand to [-] million catties! Two lakes and Jiangxi are also actively reclaiming land to grow cotton. It is said that the Tianxiong Army is also aggressively opening up cotton fields in Mongolia. The cotton is supplied to the surname Yang. Selling cotton clothes and cloth to suppress us, if he is allowed to obtain such a huge source of cotton, we will suffer heavy losses!"

All the donors of the Donglin Party present here are indignant, Yang Menglong is so hateful!Fighting for steel has broken us down, fighting for salt has broken us down, and we have to fight for our cotton spinning and silk weaving industry!Yang Menglong's advantage is that he has the world's most advanced hydraulic machinery, which can use a large number of machinery to replace labor, which doubles the efficiency and greatly reduces the cost. With the support of such technology, the merchants of the Heluo Group are naturally very generous when purchasing cotton. Usually, you get the goods at a price that is [-]% higher than that of the Jiangnan merchants, which makes the Jiangnan merchants very angry. This is illegal competition!The worst thing is that cotton is obtained at such a high price, but the woven cloth is sold to a garment factory at a low price, and then the garment factory makes clothes from the cotton and then sells it. little bit.This forced Jiangnan merchants to pay a higher price to buy cotton, otherwise their workshops would be shut down.It's not over yet, in order to keep their market share, they have to lower the price of cotton cloth, otherwise customers will go to buy textiles produced in Heluo and Jianghan areas. This round trip will cost them quite a lot, although they can still make a profit, But earning a lot less than before, this alone has made everyone very annoyed.Fortunately, the Jiangnan area is a traditional textile industry base, and the background lies there. It is not easy for Yang Menglong to overthrow them for a while. The problem is that both the Heluo Group and the Jianghan Group are full of interest in the huge profits of the textile industry, and they are getting more and more involved. Many people are joining this industry. As time goes by, the Jiangnan area will face increasing pressure from competition. Sooner or later, this pressure will overwhelm them!They are eagerly looking forward to the dog they raised to bring Yang Menglong down quickly, but this dog seems to have lost its former fierceness in front of Yang Menglong, and loses one after another in the war of words...

It really makes no sense!

Zhang Pu gritted his teeth and said: "Masters, it's not that I'm incompetent. It's actually the Wen Party who controls the government. They are in the same league as Bandit Yang, taking sides and covering up. Plus Bandit Yang has some military exploits and is quite favored in front of the emperor. It's not easy to overthrow him in a hurry!" Thinking of Yang Menglong's sky-defying ability to call the wind and rain and his huge influence among the people, he couldn't help but shiver.The biggest mistake of the Donglin Party was that it didn't strangle this eccentric freak to death before he emerged. There is a newspaper helping him to slander his opponents. It is not easy to deal with such a monster!
The old man in purple was not satisfied with Zhang Pu's words: "Then how long will it take you to bring him down? You know, if this person lives in this world for a day, I will not be at peace!"

Zhang Pu said: "Tie Yang is powerful and has deceived the Holy Majesty. It is impossible to bring him down by satirizing the government in the past. The only way is..." He gritted his teeth hard, revealing a bit of madness, " Change the cabinet! Change the cabinet that fully supports us!"

Qian Qianyi frowned, knowing that Zhang Pu was trying to help his teacher Zhou Yanru to take over the position again.After Zhou Yanru was overthrown by Wen Tiren, Zhang Pu and others tried their best to overthrow Wen Tiren and let Zhou Yanru return to the cabinet.Zhou Yanru is a member of the Donglin Party, and his leadership is naturally good for the Donglin Party. The problem is... he, Qian, also wants to sit in that chair!After overthrowing Wen Tiren and letting Zhou Yanru go up, when will it be his turn?
The old man in purple groaned for a moment, and said, "Forget it, since the one surnamed Wen refuses to help me, I have to pull him down and replace him with someone who is of the same mind as us. You can go ahead and do it. Just ask how much it costs. As long as the surname Yang can be brought down!"

Zhang Pu was overjoyed and thanked him repeatedly.

In fact, Zhang Pu really wronged Wen Tiren a bit.He believes that the reason why the Donglin Party could not bring down Yang Menglong is because Wen Tiren’s cabinet refused to contribute, and he was with Yang Menglong. In fact, the Wen Party and Yang Menglong were almost out of their minds. If it weren’t for Lu Xiangsheng’s buffer , Tragedy happened every minute...

It can be seen from this that the only way for the Donglin Party to solve those difficult problems is to change people, change the emperor, change the cabinet, change the master...

(End of this chapter)