Shi Jin initially thought of sending troops to capture Qingzhou, Jeju, and then Yanzhou to connect the three states and raise the banner of rebellion against the Song Dynasty.
I just heard Wu Yong say that he wanted to give up Qingzhou City, give up Xucheng, and retreat to Liangshan to hide his power and bide his time.
Could it be that the time is not yet ripe?
The rebellion was related to the life and death of tens of thousands of people, so Shi Jin could not afford to be careless.
He asked humbly: "Why do you still ask Mr.
Jialiang for advice?"
Seeing that Shi Jin was not arrogant just because he conquered Qingzhou City, but was still willing to ask him for advice humbly, Wu Yong nodded with satisfaction.
Wu Yong expressed the reason he had already thought of: "Although we have conquered Qingzhou City, we will be able to capture Qingzhou, Jeju, and Yanzhou if nothing happens.
But we are still not really prepared for an uprising."
"The Zhao family has been raising scholars for more than 150 years, and they have never killed a single scribe.
All literati in the world are devoted to the Zhao family.
Now that the eldest brother is revolting, I am afraid that he will not get much help from scribes.
Without the help of scribes, the eldest brother is going to find someone to govern these states.
Without the help of scribes to govern, if these three states are entrusted to other people, not only will they not be able to help us collect food and wages, but they will also cause the people to be dissatisfied, resentful, and want to resist us. " "Although the current emperor is greedy for pleasure and favors treacherous ministers, it has not yet reached the point where the sky is angry and the people are resentful.
The people of the world still yearn for the Song Dynasty."
"Although Qingzhou City has high walls and thick walls, there are no strong and dangerous places in Qingzhou, Jeju, and Yanzhou that can guard and block the imperial army.
Moreover, the imperial court has always adopted the strategy of strong branches and weak branches.
There are 800,000 central forbidden troops and more than a dozen northwest forbidden troops.
Two hundred thousand.
Although Liangshan The army is well-trained, but there are not many soldiers.
Even if there are three states, it can only meet the needs of 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers and horses.
When the time comes, the imperial court will send a large army to encircle and suppress us.
I am afraid that I will be defeated one by one by the imperial court and die without a burial place."
"The right time, place and people are not on our side.
It is not the right time for me to start a rebellion.
I hope you will think twice."
Shi Jin fell into deep thought after hearing Wu Yong's reasons.
Although the land tax in the Song Dynasty was not light, the Song Dynasty team attached great importance to sea trade.
Taxes from trade accounted for a large part of the court's finances, so the reliance on land taxes was not as great as in the Ming Dynasty.
Unlike the Ming Dynasty, the government's finances mainly relied on land tax, mineral tax, and salt tax.
If any of these three items went wrong, the Ming Dynasty's finances would have problems.
When there was a shortage of money, the only option was to increase land and mining taxes.
Originally, the late Ming Dynasty was in the Little Ice Age, and the harvest was not good.
How can the peasants survive if the land tax increases again and the corrupt officials impose extortionate taxes?
Because of this, in the late Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng and others were defeated several times by officers and soldiers, but they were still able to make a comeback and easily raise hundreds of thousands more troops.
It was because the people had no way to survive and had no choice but to rebel.
Now the Song Dynasty has not increased the land tax.
Although there are corrupt officials, it can still survive.
It is impossible to rebel at this time like in the late Ming Dynasty, when hundreds of thousands of people could be easily dragged into rebellion.
Although the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty both valued culture over military affairs, they were fundamentally different.
What about the Ming Dynasty?
When you become a county magistrate, without corruption, it will be extremely difficult to eat meat for a month.
It was said that it was the birthday of the upright official Hai Rui's mother.
Hai Rui gritted his teeth and bought two kilograms of meat to celebrate her.
Jin Yiwei immediately took it as news and reported it to the central government.
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It is so difficult for even a magistrate to have a meal, but imagine how low the salaries of those officials in the Ming Dynasty were.
This resulted in a large number of corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty, and almost everyone was corrupt.
Moreover, greed is all the same, no matter how much or how little, why not be more greedy?
It has also created a vicious cycle in which corrupt officials exploit the people even more, and the people become increasingly unable to survive.
Unlike the Ming Dynasty, the Song Dynasty really valued scholars.
There were a lot of benefits, and high officials were really well paid.
According to the current conversion, as long as you become an official and are not greedy or corrupt, you will have a minimum annual salary of 100,000 yuan.
If you are above the ministerial level, your annual salary will be one million.
The salary is high and the benefits are good.
With such good treatment, how could the officials of the Song Dynasty easily follow you and a bandit to rebel?
Without the help of scribes, who will manage the chassis?
Rely on the rough guys under my command?
Think about it and forget it.
There are a few of them who can read, and a few who don't even know the alphabet.
They are still expected to know how to collect taxes, understand the law, do copywriting, do accounting, read account books, and judge cases.
If there is no one to manage the territory, even if it is occupied, what is the use?
Not only does it not help, it can even become a drag.
How can I go about attacking cities and territories with peace of mind?
The Qin Dynasty was able to unify the world.
In addition to the military commanders such as Wu'an Jun Bai Qi and Wang Jian, it was also because of the help of administrative talents such as Shang Yang and Li Si that the Qin State's treasury was sufficient to support the army.
Liu Bang was able to seize the country in the end because Xiang Yu's military ability was not as good as Liu Bang's or Han Xin's.
Liu Bang was defeated by Xiang Yu one after another.
He abandoned his army and city and fled by himself.
His parents were captured by Xiang Yu.
But in the end Liu Bang was still able to mobilize an army to defeat Xiang Yu.
The civil servants headed by Xiao He ensured logistical supplies and gave Liu Bang the capital to make a comeback.
Liu Bowen, Li Shanchang and others under Zhu Yuanzhang are not talented people who govern the country and help the world.
On the other hand, Li Zicheng They don’t know how to govern and they don’t have the talent to govern the country.
Many people said that if Li Zicheng did not allow his men to rob Chen Yuanyuan, the Qing Dynasty might not have a chance to move into the Central Plains.
But in fact, even if he had not captured Chen Yuanyuan, Li Zicheng would not have been able to capture the world.
Just look at what he did after entering the city.
They tortured Ming officials and ransacked their homes everywhere, and stipulated that the salary amount should be "100,000 yuan for the central hall, 70,000 or 53,000 yuan for the imperial palace, 53,000 yuan for the Taoist department, 32,100 yuan for the Hanlin department, and 32,000 yuan for the subordinates."
"The next number is a thousand each."
Liu Zongmin made five thousand clamping sticks.
"The wood is all ribbed and connected with nails.
When used to clamp people, all bones will be broken."
The atmosphere of terror in the city gradually became serious, and people were panicked.
"Every official who was tortured and tortured, and most of them had tens of thousands of dollars, was forced to exceed 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.
If they were not satisfied with the number, they would then compete harshly, and they would be beaten and tortured.
They would be extremely vicious and would not stop until death." , Li Zicheng's soldiers looted, and his generals were arrogant and extravagant.
"They killed people in vain, and most of the soldiers looted people's property."
The Dashun Army set up officials to manage affairs in the occupied areas, and the first task was to collect wages.
For example, in Chenggu County, "the thieves demanded wages and they were cannoned"; in Fenyang, "wealthy houses were searched and packed with stringers to help pay";
In Jiangzhou, “the scholar-bureaucrats were severely punished and many were tortured to death”; In Xuanhua, "General Quan claimed that the surnames of the gentry and the gentry were the most important, and that they were covered with five trees.
They were extremely cruel and cruel, and they demanded money."
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Governing a big country is like cooking small dishes What it means is that to govern a country, you must have patience.
Although there were many corrupt officials in the late Ming Dynasty, at least it could ensure that the entire national system would not collapse and fall into disorder.
The normal and reasonable approach is to severely punish some corrupt officials who have committed serious crimes, eliminate public grievances, and accept most of the old officials.
Then while strengthening governance, we train officials and slowly replace old officials.
When the new system established can support the operation of a country, then we can settle the scores later.
The Manchu Qing Dynasty inherited the old bureaucracy of the Ming Dynasty and stabilized the system, so that they could slowly eradicate all opposition forces and finally stabilize the country.
Li Zicheng had just conquered the capital and had not even unified the country, so he couldn't wait to arrest all the civil servants and torture them.
As a result, the entire country's system was completely paralyzed.
Apart from grabbing tens of millions of taels of silver, there was nothing else.
There was no one to collect grain and grass, no one to make soldiers and armor, and no one to calm the people and resume production.
Nothing at all, no stable territory, no stable logistical support.
Only after Li Zicheng's defeat in Shanhaiguan did he lose again and again and never stand up again.
Those tens of millions of taels of silver were finally cheaper than the Manchu Qing Dynasty The more Shi Jin thought about it, the more he felt that what Wu Yong said made sense.
Li Zicheng should be taken as a lesson.
Without civil servants to govern, military officers alone cannot hold a city even if it is captured.
Now Song Huizong's squandering of his family and committing suicide was not enough, and the people's determination to rebel was not enough.
There are not many scribes to recruit, and there are not many talents who know how to govern.
It’s really not the time for an uprising.
Wu Yong advised him to hide his strength and bide his time, and he must have had a countermeasure in mind.
Shi Jin immediately stood up and raised his hands and said: "Since Mr.
Jialiang advised Shi Jin to hide one's strength and bide one's time, he must have a good strategy in mind.
Please give me some advice."