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Chapter 1360 Rage (Part 1)

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    In this sudden and profound crisis, the fate of almost everyone has taken a turn for the worse. No one can be spared, but people have different attitudes towards the disaster

    On the wharf where Ma Liuye works, the cargo throughput is less than 10% of what it was in its heyday, so naturally it cannot support his more than 300 brothers.  In order to make a living, he asked his idle brothers to work hard in grain stores and construction sites. However, the world was difficult, and the brothers worked hard, but they could only earn a living, but they could not support the whole family.  Although Ma Liuye laughed loudly, his heart was full of worries. Fortunately, he was optimistic by nature, and for the sake of his brothers, he had to persevere.

    The old man Zhou's family had a great change.  Thirty years ago, he started his business with a single loom. Taking advantage of the boom in overseas trade and the lucrative textile industry, his family worked hard and saved money. Gradually, he bought more looms, hired weavers, and started a small business.  Small weaving workshop.  Afterwards, the scale became larger and larger, and in its heyday, it had become a medium-sized workshop with one hundred looms and five hundred employees.

    After the age of sixty, the old man Zhou handed over the business to his two sons, retired to take care of himself, and lived the enviable evening scene of Sangyu.  After the outbreak of the financial crisis, high-end fabrics suddenly lost their sales, and many silk weaving factories closed down one after another. The sales of his family's weaving factory were not affected much because of the low price of the products.  However, before the Zhou family had time to rejoice, heavy taxes were imminent again, and costs surged. They wanted to pass it on through price increases. Consumers did not buy it, and sales plummeted.

    Many similar factories have already laid off workers on a large scale, and the Zhou family is no exception. The remaining workers have to take turns to work, and can only reduce losses by reducing production.  The old man Zhou can no longer enjoy the blessings. He goes to the factory every night to watch the gate, and he has the money to hire a watchman.  Today, I came directly after the night shift, so I fell behind Ma Liuye.

    The worst thing was shopkeeper Hou. The silk factory he invested in was the most affected by the crisis, not to mention the serious losses, but the heavy and miscellaneous taxes were being imposed day by day.  A few days ago, the boss was detained by the tax office because he failed to pay the tax on the due date, and the store was also closed

    "Before the boss left, he told me to take good care of my home." Shopkeeper Hou's eyes filled with old tears, and he choked up, "In the end, that afternoon, the tax collectors came to the store with a cart to move things.  Seriously injured, and the store was smashed to pieces. How can I explain to the boss? How can I live this day"

    "At the beginning, Boss Qin told us to sell the property and save the gold and silver for the winter. None of us listened."  Lumicola, life always goes on.  But his decades of savings were turned into ashes in the stock market crash, and his losses were extremely heavy.

    "Now that I understand, what's the use?" Shopkeeper Hou laughed at himself: "For 30 years, I have been trying to get rich. I didn't spend the money I earned. I used it to buy land and invest. After decades of tossing,  But I only tossed out a butt of debts." As he spoke, he began to cry and said: "In the future, my brothers will advise the younger generations that if they have money, they should eat, drink, prostitute and gamble, and do anything wrong, but don't do good things! Tell them, there is a  The idiot surnamed Hou has toiled his whole life to understand this truth! He is a big joke!" As he spoke, tears fell down.

    "You said you were moving just now." Official Chen changed the topic and said, "Where are you going to move? Why are you willing to let us go?"

    "I can't bear it either." Shopkeeper Hou said gloomily, "But the shop was sealed up, the boss was locked up again, and the creditors forced me to sell the house to pay off the debt"

    "It's okay to move, don't you still have land in the country?" Old man Zhou comforted him, "Going back to be a farmer who has no worries about food and clothing is the best life among us." He said with a self-deprecating smile  : "It's not like my family. All the money I earned was invested in the factory, and I didn't save any land. Now I'm caught blind."

    "Those lands have also paid off their debts" Shopkeeper Hou said in tears, "I was covered with only one hundred taels of silver bills left this morning. After buying these side dishes, I will be completely naked."

    "Don't be so depressed, I've already become a poor man, why don't you be happy every day? Come, drink and drink." Ma Liuye held up the glass for him and said, "Didn't Li Bai say that if you have wine today, you will be drunk today, and your money will be gone."  come back!"

    "If you don't have a place to live, go to my place first," the old man Zhou also said, "If you have nothing to do, just follow me first. You can't get paid in this situation, but if my family has a bite to eat, you won't be able to starve your family."

    "Yes." Chen Guanren also said: "I will also search for you to see if you can find an errand in the yamen."

    "Thank you." Shopkeeper Hou bowed his hands to the crowd and said, "A friend in need is a friend, Brother Zhou, Master Liu, and Brother Chen. My old Hou has a few of you friends in this life, even if the work is not in vain, but what am I doing now?  The mood is gone. This?, how can it be less than a year, the paradise on earth has become the hell on earth.  What's more, the silver taels brought into the palace by the eunuchs are only tens of millions of taels, how can they hurt Southeast's fur?

    Therefore, he interpreted the minister's extreme remonstrance as solidarity with the southeast chaebol, but he was very tolerant of the eunuchs' outrageous behavior.  Every time a minister confronts an eunuch, he will definitely punish the former and protect the latter, showing his determination to fight against the wealthy clan in the southeast.

    Of course, Wanli is not unaware that he is playing with fire, and he is also trying his best to increase his own safety.  On the one hand, he allowed the eunuchs stationed in the provinces to pay part of the tax, gold, mines and silver, recruit troops, and expand their strength in case of civil unrest.  On the other hand, he expanded the inner guard to more than ten thousand people, all equipped with the latest muskets.

    But he also knows that when it comes to combat effectiveness, the eunuch army is definitely not comparable to those tiger and wolf divisions who are good at fighting, so Wanli has increased the strength of the eunuch army, whether it is the Beijing camp, the frontier army, or the provinces.  All the garrison troops were stationed with eunuchs to supervise the army, and they were given the power to mobilize the army and kill the officers.  On the other hand, he ordered the twenty-seven military officers across the country to send their family members to live in the capital, and when they would resign, they would be able to reunite.

    In order to resolve the grievances of the army and keep their support, Wanli also diverted a large amount of financial revenue to military expenditures, and also added ranks to military officers, giving them the power to sit on an equal footing with civilian officials In a word, everything is for the stability of the overall situation.  He firmly believes that as long as he has the power of eunuchs in one hand and the support of the army in the other, no matter how bad the situation is, his country will be as stable as a rock.

    As for the sufferings of the people now, and the end-of-the-world scene presented by the country, he is very open-minded. He believes that there will be great order only when there is great chaos. When the rich families in the southeast run out of fuel, there will be no more uncontrollable private wealth that threatens the rule of the dynasty.  At that time, the civil servants also became a tree without roots, and they reorganized the situation and returned to the beautiful era when the Taizu founded the country, which was based on agriculture, closed to the outside world, and monarchs and ministers

    It must be admitted that Wanli has wisdom that is difficult for ordinary people to match. The royal education he received since he was a child enabled him to detect problems that threatened his rule and quickly find solutions.  However, after successfully solving the silence of the powerful minister, he also lost his patience and became arrogant, thinking that as long as he did it himself, any problem could be solved easily.

    However, thinking about it in his own shoes, he also has deep helplessness.  After encroaching and boycotting by the ministers of the three dynasties, the imperial power has been isolated from the court. He was unable to appoint any officials, and his opinions on government affairs were ignored by his ministers.  If this trend is allowed to continue, perhaps the next generation of emperors will become a puppet completely, and even their lives will be lost.

    For the sake of his ancestors' foundation and his own imperial power, Zhu Yijun, Emperor Wanli, had to go against everyone - because in his opinion, everyone was against him first.  It's not that he didn't think about adopting palliative methods-such as supporting Zhang Siwei, clearing up the opposition in the cabinet, and promoting officials who eventually became emperors. However, all efforts were in vain under the counterattack of the huge bureaucratic group.  After years of struggle, everything remains the same.

    So he had to take drastic measures to savagely remove the vines that wrapped around the dragon chair. 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 perversion and madness of the eunuchs, and he would be punished most ruthlessly¡ªsuch as the uprising in faraway Luzon.

    However, apart from the eunuchs, who else could the emperor, who was already surrounded by bureaucrats, trust?

    ? Right and wrong merits and crimes have their own comments by later generations. People in this world can only follow their own thinking and struggle hard, even the emperor is no exception¡ª¡ª

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