Chapter 393

The silver incubating action planned by Liu Bu and them swept the whole Jiangnan, and made the rich in the whole Jiangnan participate. They put a lot of silver and life-long silver here, hoping to take advantage of the wind of silver incubating to double their property and get rich.

Jiangnan is the richest area in the Ming Dynasty, and it is also an important place for the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty. The taxes of the 13 governments in Jiangnan are equivalent to that of more than a dozen other political envoys. Jiangnan is also the root of the Ming Dynasty, where taxes are important. Such a major event has had an extremely bad impact.

You know, at this time in Europe, capitalism has begun to rise in an all-round way. They are competing for power with feudalism, and they have won in the competition. Capitalism also has a budding momentum in the Ming Dynasty, with a large number of factories, workshops and many very rich people.

It can be said that Daming's economy has developed very fast and has a good momentum. However, after this attack, it has been hit by a serious stock disaster to future generations. The whole market is depressed.

The economic society of the Ming Dynasty must take the landlords and gentry in these places as the core backbone. They are also the main elite of the society. Now the people at the top of the pyramid are beginning to collapse, and the people at the bottom are beginning to panic.

The popular uprising in Yangzhou was just one corner of it. After the accident in Qingyun cave, it immediately spread to more than a dozen governments in the south of the Yangtze River, but the people of these governments were in turmoil and made trouble. If there were not hundreds of people hanging outside the gate of Yangzhou, it is estimated that the people in other places would also make trouble.

However, the failure of this silver incubation event left many people without money, resulting in extremely terrible consequences and extremely bad consequences. Many people lost their money for this.

Some people died and were forced to take risks to join the ranks of bandits. Some people saw that their lifelong property was gone and all their possessions were gone. They threw themselves into the river in anger. It can be said that the whole Jiangnan fell into depression and desolation.

Under such an extremely harsh environment, Liu butan, the general soldier of Fengyang, ordered several of his troops to assemble in several major cities of Fengyang mansion in case of change. All those who dared to make trouble were arrested and killed by them, which was merciless and unhesitating.

Not to mention that Liu Bu decided to do so, even Zhu Dadian also gave strict orders. That is, if there is a problem, it should be suppressed immediately, without hesitation and mercy, and we can't let a single spark start a prairie fire.

Fengyang and Lin'an are just two prefectures of nanzhili in the north of the river. More are in the south of the Yangtze River. The nanzhili area in the south of the Yangtze River has also been seriously affected by this silver incubation event. Many rich people have gone bankrupt, their families have been broken and their families have died, and the society has been greatly disturbed.

Due to the helplessness of the situation, the governor of Yingtian in Nanjing, Lord Li ruosung, also took the initiative to send all his troops to guard the major state capitals in case of change.

It can be said that the whole Jiangnan area is in an extremely turbulent and miserable situation, and many people are crying for it.

To be honest, it's more miserable for these rich people in Jiangnan than the bandits who attacked once. You know, the bandits attacked and maybe they still have a chance to escape, but they failed to hatch silver this time, but all their silver was taken away, leaving them with nothing, nothing and nothing.

Of course, many rich people still have many things, because their current property structure is relatively simple. In addition to their own silver, that is, fields, luxury houses, antiques, calligraphy and painting, they will take their own silver to incubate silver, but no one will sell their own fields and ancestral houses to incubate silver.

You know, in the Ming Dynasty, selling farmland and land is regarded as an extremely unfilial behavior. If it is not desperate and there is no way, it is absolutely not possible.

The people are in deep water. They are very angry and angry. The main reason for their anger is that they hate Hong Chengchou. If Hong Chengchou didn't make trouble, destroy the practice of Qingyun cave and disturb the immortal Baiyun who is practicing the Dharma, their silver wouldn't be gone. Therefore, his impeachment memorials for Hong Chengchou poured into the capital like snowflakes, All the civil and military officials and rich squires in the south of the Yangtze River impeached Hong Chengchou for all kinds of lawlessness, as if Hong Chengchou were our sworn enemy and we hated him to the bone.

After fleeing Qingyun Mountain that day, Hong Chengchou did not dare to stay any longer. Day and night, they escaped from Yangzhou Prefecture and fled back to Fengyang. Then they led the army northward and began to hunt down the roving bandits who fled back to Shaanxi.

Hong Chengchou is desperate now. He has no other way but to go back and command his army and continue to pursue and kill the wandering bandits. You know, once he leaves his army, he is expected to be assassinated at any time.

Now he has become the public enemy of the whole Jiangnan. Everyone wants to eat his meat and drink his blood. Many people threaten to go to Nan'an, Fujian, dig his ancestral grave and kill all his family.

The impeachment of Hong Chengchou was also overwhelming. Not only the people, rich and powerful people in the whole Jiangnan impeached him, but also officials in Beijing impeached him. Hong Chengchou became the No. 1 traitor and No. 1 villain in the world in an instant.

In fact, the wind of hatching children from Yangzhou in the south of the Yangtze River also spread to the north. Many people were moved by the wind. The matter even spread to the emperor's ears. The emperor is now poor and crazy. What he thinks day and night is where to get more silver, where to recruit more soldiers, wipe out the wandering bandits and recover the lost land.

But he had no way to get silver or more money. He worried about it every day and night?

You know, Daming is really too poor. There is no silver in the Treasury and Taicang. Taicang was guarded by heavy soldiers. Now all the soldiers responsible for guarding Taicang are not left. They all go home on holiday.

The Minister of the Ministry of household is the most difficult position in the court. He has no other way except to tear down east walls to make up west walls and misappropriate silver. It can be said that no Minister of the Ministry of household can do it smoothly and happily. As long as he sits for three months, he will resign one after another, because he can't endure at all, because he can't meet the needs of the emperor at all, They can't meet the needs of the imperial court and local generals. The Minister of household is also recognized as one of the most difficult officials in the imperial court. It's just a mouse in the bellows and gets angry at both ends.

The imperial court is so difficult and there are so many disasters. Emperor Chongzhen is also very sad and helpless. He has not changed his clothes for a long time. His clothes are patched, and he only eats two or three dishes every day. Now even his harem is saving clothes and food.

He and the queen ate some green vegetables and tofu every day, that is, the little prince bought some meat when he grew up. Now the queen secretly weaves and subsidizes her family. Seeing that she was so difficult, the emperor heard that there was such a thing as incubating silver in the world. At that time, he was very excited. He was thinking, Wouldn't it be great to put the silver collected from various places in it, incubate it, and double the silver?

However, Emperor Chongzhen is also a disciple of Confucius. He has always been a child without language, strange forces and gods. He doesn't believe these absurd and strange things. He thinks these are just folk legends. Who knows that this legend is more and more believed, and people's words are conclusive, he thinks it is true.

At that time, he also summoned the Minister of the Ministry of household and several cabinet ministers to discuss with them. The emperor meant to send an envoy to the south to invite the immortal Baiyun to Beijing. If he could invite the immortal Baiyun to the Treasury and incubate silver for them, it would be equivalent to solving all the problems of Daming.

In fact, the elite officials of Daming do not think there is any problem with Daming. They think there is only one problem in Daming, that is, poverty. As long as the problem of money is solved, Daming will have no problem.

Whether the emperor Chongzhen or the first Fu Wenti Ren, they all believe that there is only one disease in Daming today, that is, the disease of poverty. After solving this disease, they will have no problem, so they try every means to get silver and more money and food.

They believed that as long as they had enough money and food, they could recruit more troops and buy more equipment, and they could wipe out the wandering bandits and defeat JianNu.

But now the Ming court is really too poor. Despite the repeated tax increases and exploitation of the place, there is no way to get more money. At the moment, it is said that someone can use silver to incubate silver. If there is such a magic skill, invite him to worship as a national teacher and incubate some silver for the Ming court in half a year, Daming will never be short of silver and will solve all problems.

At first, the emperor and Wen Ti Ren didn't pay attention to this problem, but when they saw that the wind of incubating silver was getting louder and louder, more and more people became rich. Many people in the capital went south with silver and were ready to join the ranks of incubating silver. Only then did the imperial court and the emperor face up to this matter.

At this time, the emperor privately made an appointment with his confidant eunuch Wang Chengen. He said to Wang Chengen, "you keep my middle intention, go south day and night, go to Qingyun cave, find immortal Baiyun, and invite him to come to the capital on behalf of me to incubate silver for me. As long as you incubate silver for the first half of a year, I would like to designate him as a real protector of the country and enjoy the worship of the imperial court and Daming for generations."

Eunuch Wang Chengen, although he was a eunuch, grew up in his study. He was also a scholar. Although he was also very greedy for money, he was very surprised and couldn't believe such an absurd and strange thing. Therefore, he resolutely persuaded the emperor to let him see the wind. In addition, as a result, they haven't done anything yet, Then came the collapse of the Jiangnan silver hatching incident, which surprised the whole dynasty.