No one would dislike having more money, let alone Xiao Ruxun, who wanted to do a lot of things.
To do these things, the most basic requirement and the most important requirement was to have a lot of money. Only with a lot of money could he do a lot of things.
Therefore, Xiao Ruxun made up his mind to build his Daqin Dynasty into a silver black hole. He would take advantage of the arrival of the Age of Navigation to absorb the real money of the world and then use it to build.
But before that, he had to do two things.
The first thing was to get rid of all the landlords and gentry who controlled the traditional seaports of the three provinces in the southeast. The central government would control the land, population, and resources. In the future, when the sea was opened for construction, there was no need to pay land rent and population rent to the landlords.
The second thing was to use the wealth that these landlords and gentry had accumulated over several generations to lay the foundation needed for the construction of the sea, lay the foundation of the school, and build the three provinces in the southeast into a model for the new start of the Daqin Dynasty.
He would experiment here, and then gradually expand it inward.
Of course, Myanmar and the newly controlled Luzon were also very important. In Xiao Ruxun's plan, Myanmar and Luzon would be important food bases in the future Little Ice Age. It was not the coldest time yet. When the coldest time came, when the whole north could hardly produce much food, the large amount of food produced in Myanmar and Luzon would become the key.
They would transport the food from Myanmar and Luzon directly to the port of Tianjin, and from the capital to other places. Myanmar and Luzon would directly become the national food base, and people with ulterior motives would not be allowed to go to Myanmar and Luzon to cause trouble.
The Jinghang Canal would be used to transport military supplies and food, and the rest would be transported by sea.
A single Jinghang Canal had caused countless troubles throughout the entire history of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. That was truly a small temple with a large pond and many turtles. Xiao Ruxun, who had her eyes set on the big ocean, would not allow those turtles to control the economic lifeline of the north.
Only the ocean was broad-minded enough to accommodate those bastards who thought about making trouble all day long.
If Xiao Ruxun wanted to do so many things, he obviously needed a lot of money.
Where would the money come from?
Of course, it came from this group of bastards.
Xiao Ruxun clearly remembered that several weeks after Li Zicheng occupied Beijing, he managed to extract seventy million taels of silver from this bunch of bastards. Before that, no matter how much Chong Zhen cried and screamed, he could not extract several tens of thousands of taels of silver from their pockets.
Among these people, the wealthiest was clearly the Xungui Group. Their family business was here, and they had lived in the capital for generations. There was definitely a lot of gold and silver waiting to be developed in their nest. In contrast, there were relatively fewer civil officials in the capital.
They usually bought property in their hometown and became rich. In the capital, they lived a poor life and pretended to be incorruptible. Their homes in the capital probably didn't have much to gain. If they wanted to gain anything, they would have to go somewhere else.
This had been proven in the three southeastern provinces.
Then there was the royal property. The property in the capital that had been handed over to the eunuchs to manage. There was also the money in the hands of the Imperial Bodyguards. Although Shen Yicheng had executed many eunuchs and internal officials who were loyal to Zhu Yijun, for some reason, he hadn't had the time to deal with the royal property such as the Imperial Plantation, which was also a big fat piece of meat.
Then there was the Prince Zhu Ming from various places. These princes had all died rich. All of them were famous and had money.
In any case, they were all targets to be dealt with, especially the Wusun Group. Xiao Ruxun had his own military achievements, so he didn't need them anymore. Other than Xu Hongji, whom he could give some face to, the rest would be abolished. None of them would be spared. Death was certain, but it would be a little unsightly to do it right from the start.
Therefore, he didn't even kill Shen Li. Among the important figures, he didn't plan to kill people like Zhao Shiqing and Tsai Kuo-chen right now. He wanted to leave a buffer period. He still needed some time to control the administration of the entire capital, and some time for the officials under him to adapt to the situation.
Of course, he didn't lack manpower either. Two people from Fujian and one from Southern Zhili had fallen into his hands. These three people were enough to support the facade of the central government for him.
The two people from Fujian were Li Tingji and Ye Xianggao, and the one from Southern Zhili was Wang Xijue.
Ye Xianggao and Ye Mengxiong had accompanied Xiao Ruxun on the northern expedition when they were in Nanjing. When Xiao Ruxun heard Ye Xianggao's name, he asked Black Water to investigate what had happened to his family in Fujian and whether they had been purged. The news he received was a little surprising.
The Ye family had a sense of crisis, probably because of the experience they had accumulated during the Wokou rebellion in the early years. When the land reform working group had just entered their hometown, they had taken the initiative to donate land. They had handed over thousands of acres of land to the working group. As a result, they were regarded as the model of enlightened gentry, and kept part of their land and family property. They were now living a good life in Fujian.
After learning this news, Xiao Ruxun knew that Ye Xianggao could be used. Two days before the Lugouqiao Mutiny, Xiao Ruxun secretly sent Zhou Yao to contact available civil officials to support him, and Ye Xianggao was one of them. Later, it was proven that Ye Xianggao, who had been ostracized, was indeed useful.
Li Tingji was also a weirdo. He was born in a poor family when he was a child, so he became addicted to doing good deeds after he became an official. In the end, there were beggars in front of his house. Every time he went out, they would surround him and ask for money. After he resigned, he was as poor as a church mouse and died in poverty and illness.
He also set a record, which was the longest time the emperor ignored him when he resigned. He was also angered by Zhu Yijun, who became more and more indolent, so he decided to resign and go home. After he wrote five resignation letters to Zhu Yijun, he donated his house in the capital to the poor and left his family first. He lived in a dilapidated temple by himself.
In the end, this dragged on for five years. He wrote 123 resignation letters in five years, but none of them were approved. He even received the "elegant title" of a temple elder. In the end, he broke down and didn't care anymore. He risked being beheaded and went home. Zhu Yijun actually ignored him and let him die of poverty and illness four years later.
In this era, Li Tingji still did not change his weirdness. On the eve of Shen Yicheng's rebellion, as an official of the Ministry of Rites, he left the capital and fled to his hometown after receiving the news. As a result, he ran into Xiao Ruxun's Northern Expedition Army and the land reform in his hometown.
But what was a little weird was that because Li Tingji's family had too little land, he was even assigned to a poor family of self-employed farmers. He was also asked by the members of the land reform team to play Fight the Landlord, which left him dumbfounded. In the end, he was forced to reveal his identity as an official of the imperial court.
At first, the members of the land reform team did not believe it. How could an official of the imperial court be so poor? His family only had a few dozen mu of land. He had no choice but to take out his official uniform and official identification to prove that he was an official. In the end, he was arrested by the army.
Later, when Xiao Ruzhi was appointed by Xiao Ruxun to be in charge of Fujian, she learned about this and told it to Xiao Ruxun. After Ye Mengxiong's reminder, he remembered the famous Master of the Temple and ordered Li Tingji to be sent to him.
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