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Text Chapter 126: Live as the most annoying person

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    After negotiating a deal, it can be regarded as a small profit, but Li Mu has all kinds of tastes in his heart.

    The imperial court, as the lord of the world, actually cooperates with the martial arts sect for the logistics of the army. I am afraid that no one will believe it.

    This is not the last year of the dynasty. Calculated by the standards of the prosperity of Kangxi and Qianlong, it is still a peaceful and prosperous age.

    However, due to internal strife in the court, he has a national power but cannot exert it.  In order to suppress the rebellion as soon as possible, the commander and the supervisor had no choice but to compromise.

    After all, the Huashan faction is just an ordinary sect of the rivers and lakes, a good boy who has not carried out large-scale land annexation, and what he seeks is nothing more than some commercial interests that the imperial court has never collected tax.

    But the gang of guys in the court may have killed them.  Deliberately delaying the time to suppress the rebellion and let the rebel army continue to grow bigger can certainly force the emperor to cut off Liu Jin's head and give an explanation to the people of the world.

    However, as the person in charge of the counter-insurgency army, how can he get away easily if he is charged with suppressing the rebel army?

    The biggest possibility is to go on the road together with Liu Jin, as a victim of this wave of court struggle.

    For their own lives and their official careers, it is not surprising that the two chose to do business with the Huashan faction.

    Thinking of this, Li Mu mourned in silence for that brat in the Forbidden City.  The seemingly understated compromise, but the price behind it is the decline of the imperial court's influence in the arena.

    With great difficulty, the Demon Sect used the hand to make the martial arts world restless, taking advantage of the trend to beat all the martial arts factions, and this wave returned to the original point.

    Frankly speaking, Zhu Houzhao's reform of Liu Jin was also successful to a certain extent.

    It was mainly caused by Emperor Jingtai. After he came to the throne, he saw the barren military settlements in the border areas, so he took it for granted that "the powerful officials near the border should try their best to plant the seeds."

    ? On the day when the edict was issued, the whole country celebrated with joy. The royal relatives, feudal bureaucrats, monks, temples, Taoist temples, and local hooligans all ran to occupy the military village and Huangzhuang. Everyone praised Zhu Qiyu as a flourishing king.

    The price of being a Mingjun is the opening of the era of land annexation.

    The policy restrictions have been opened, and it would not be a disappointment to the emperor's good intentions not to do a big fight.  Therefore, everyone wants to grab the unowned land, and everyone still wants to grab the owned land.

    In the Zhengde period, it even developed to the point of insanity.

    The world-famous upright official Liang Chu, whose son clashed with others during a land annexation, directly mobilized the army to massacre more than 200 people, including employees, in order to silence them.

    ?No one dared to take care of the Ministry of Officials when it came to it.  What's more, similar things happened in the Ming Dynasty, and Shengdou Xiaomin was worthless.

    Later, he was stabbed in front of the emperor by his political opponents because of a court battle. Zhengde gave a verdict and issued a border guard for five years.

    Even such an understatement of punishment did not come to fruition. It was called exile, but in fact it was an official in a border area.

    For this reason, the emperor also earned the title of being harsh on his ministers.  Now Zhu Houzhao couldn't bear it anymore, and after Liu Jin's instigation, he launched the huge "Liu Jin New Deal".

    Li Mu did not study the specific measures carefully.  Anyway, the core is to combat land mergers, and the main measures are to rectify military settlements and check hidden acres of land.

    Looking at the financial revenue of the imperial court, we can see that it is still effective, and land annexation has been temporarily contained.

    It's a pity that this guy has a bad conduct, not to mention corruption and bribery, and he keeps doing all kinds of weird operations. Many policies that are obviously good are turned into policies that harm the country and the people in the end.

    Judging from the current situation, the only substantive attempt to reform the Ming Dynasty is about to fail.

    No way, the composition of the reformists is too bad, the strength of the opposition is too strong, and the strides are too big.

    The issue of land annexation has not yet been completely resolved. A few days ago, an order was issued to check the commercial tax, which once again added a wave of enemies for itself.

    In this regard, Li Mu has a say.  Judging from the business development of the Ming Dynasty, even with the ultra-low tax rate of 30 to 1, it would start with an annual income of tens of millions of taels of silver.

    It's a pity that everyone just doesn't want to pay commercial taxes to the court.  In addition to the income from the salt and iron franchise in the entire Ming Dynasty, the sum of various other commercial taxes was only more than 20,000 taels.

    Whoever dares to raise business tax, the ministers will immediately use it to compete with the people for profit, and then attach a thick stack of memorials crying for the poor and selling miserably for the merchants.

    On the contrary, it is easier for the martial arts sect to collect protection fees.  Taking the Huashan faction as an example, there are four main financial revenues: protection fees for businessmen, industry income in the sect, annual gifts from aristocratic families, and offerings from small and medium-sized martial arts gangs within the sphere of influence.

    The biggest income is the protection fee of the merchant, which occupies the sect.Entered Jiangnan.

    I didn't dare to move too much, for fear of arousing the vigilance of Shaolin and Wudang, and being under the black hand.

    Don't even think about overseas trade.  It was the private land of the big clans in the southeast and the dignitaries in the court. The emperor wanted to go in and get a share of the pie, but he was beaten back.

    ? As far as Li Mu knows, both Shaolin and Wudang masters have tried more than once.

    It's a pity that martial arts masters are only kings on land, and the sea is already the era of giant ships and cannons.

    You can still hide on land. With the speed of a martial arts master, it is almost impossible to be locked by artillery. When you are at sea, you will share your fate with the ship.

    In case of bad luck, you may be sent to see Hades a few kilometers away.  It's not easy to train martial arts masters, even if the hit rate is only one in a thousand, it can't afford to lose.

    The most tragic thing is that I was tricked by someone, and I still don't know who did it, and I can't even find a target for revenge.

    What's more, those who go to sea to do ocean trade these days are only in Korea, Japan, and Jiaozhi, and there are no Chinese businessmen in Nanyang farther away.

    Professional smuggling teams can't do it, and a bunch of landlubbers rush in. The Huashan faction can't afford the tuition.

    Perhaps before going to sea, the entire army has been wiped out.  Li Mu did not forget the tragedies in Southern Shaolin in the past few years.

    The famous family is decent, and it is no weaker than the Devil's Cult when it comes to black hands.  In addition to participating in necessary martial arts activities, no one of the major sects would dare to wander around the competitor's territory with the main force of the sect.

    Secretly rearing thugs is not the monopoly of the Songshan sect, each major sect has a group of people who specialize in shady things.

    These people usually operate under the banner of the Devil's Cult, and they will only activate it when needed.  If not, how will the protection fee be collected?

    After weighing the pros and cons, and looking at the map of the two capitals and thirteen provinces of Ming Dynasty, Li Mu finally set his sights on the Land of Abundance.

    ?The reality is cruel. Individuals cannot go against the general trend of the world. For the long-term development of the school, going west to Bashu is the best choice for the Huashan School, and it is also the only way to hope for success.

    Looking at the Bashu factions marked on the map, Li Mu sighed helplessly.  Unexpectedly, he would eventually become the most hated person and had to become the mastermind behind the martial arts.  </div&gt
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