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116 The Aftermath (End)

A passionate dynasty meeting ended with the court officials being killed and scared, and five or six people begging for bones to beg for office.?      ??

After walking through the Gate of Hell, Jinbao was both awe and grateful to the emperor, and his attitude towards Chen Bangyan also changed significantly. Not only did he no longer insist on impeachment, he also had a self-blame and reflection, and he also submitted a memorial of remorse to the emperor.

As the leader of the censors, Jinbao took the lead in rebellion and gave the censors a severe blow. The small group that gathered in a hurry in a short time was on the verge of collapse.

Zhu Youlang did not expect that a small method would make Jinbao so interesting and repay his kindness. Not only did he save him from his death penalty and the crime of losing his manners in the past, he also praised him greatly, and promoted him to two levels, promoted him to the doctor of the Ministry of Rites, and made up for Hong Shipeng's lack.

At the same time, Zhu Youlang searched for several other hard-core censors and Qingliu who still insisted on dealing with Chen Bangyan, and tried several reasons to move them or demote them, and transferred them from the center.

At this time, the censors and the Qingliu people who opposed Chen Bangyan's actions lost their energy and the small group was divided.

Zhu Youlang took advantage of the situation to issue an order, dictating that all gentry and noble relatives in Guangdong and Guangxi who were named after the name should be returned to the court as long as they took the initiative to return the occupied garrison land to the court, the court would not blame them for their crimes. If they had not been handed over a month later, the court would severely punish them according to the law and would never be forgiven.

This is a method of remedy for Chen Bangyan's killing of gentry. After the imperial edict, all officials in the court were overjoyed. With the cabinet assistant Zhai Shihu, they praised the emperor's kindness. The voice of praise overcame the previous voice of the storm. Some of the remaining rumors who were not firm in their wills saw that the wind was wrong, either change the party or tighten their tails and stop jumping up and down.

After a series of combined punches, a huge storm against the Xinjiang minister Chen Bangyan was finally calmed down by the emperor. The emperor did not hold the land accountable, and all the gentry and officials were appeased, and the emperor's reputation did not suffer much loss.

Seeing that Chen Bangyan was not removed from office because he was impeached by the censor, and the emperor issued an edict to voluntarily hand over the land to exempt him from punishment not long ago, the King of Jingjiang, who was in Guangxi, had to honestly hand over the thousands of hectares of military fields to the governor's office, and the additional 100,000 taels of silver owed were recovered, although the actual amount was far more than that.

After Chen Bangyan's decisive rectification, countless hereditary generals and schools were dismissed. Because of the decline of the garrison system, the rise of the garrison system had long lost any political status, and there was no strong party support in the industry. Whether it was demoted or killed was just a word from the governor Chen Bangyan.

Within just one or two months, through arrest, killing, and raiding, Chen Bangyan received 93,600 taels of gold, equivalent to about 1.2 million taels of silver, and more than 2.1 million taels of silver, totaling about 3.3 million taels of silver, with no rare jewelry.

In addition, there are more than 45,000 stones of fine grain, ten guards, and twenty thousand households and 10 households to clear out more than 33,000 hectares of military land, totaling about 500,000 mu.

In fact, in the early Ming Dynasty, the imperial court strictly prohibited the private transactions with silver, and the ban was not relaxed until the Hongzhi Dynasty.

The real large-scale universalization of silver and money was the case after the Wanli Dynasty. It was also because of the rise of Spain, and a large amount of high-quality silver was shipped from South America to purchase Chinese tea, porcelain and silk. Otherwise, China would not have enough precious metals to meet the increasingly high-quality commodity economy needs.

At this time, the purchasing power of one tael of silver is approximately as much as 300 yuan in later generations, and a county official's annual salary is only 45 taels. An ordinary family of five can spend less than ten taels a year.

More than 3.3 million taels of silver were equivalent to the purchasing power of one billion yuan in later generations in the 1990s. In that era when the per capita annual income was generally only a thousand yuan, it was considered an astronomical figure. This shows how much wealth accumulated by the gentry and hereditary generals.

It was indeed a very strange situation in the late Ming Dynasty. On the one hand, the people were rich and silver poured in, but on the other hand, the government was penniless, and even the emperor had to be poor as his pants.

As the gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger and bigger, social wealth is highly concentrated in a few powerful and powerful bureaucrats. "Three years of Qing Dynasty (not referring to the Qing Dynasty, but means being honest) the prefect, and one hundred thousand snowflakes." This is a true portrayal of this time, and the dirty money for the stolen money collected by Chen Bangyan is also a powerful verbal evidence of this sentence.

After the statistics on gold, silver and grain recovered were completed, in addition to the use of relief to the victims of Guangxi, the remaining Chen Bangyan sent two thousand guards through the waterway, and more than 400 large and small ships immediately transported them to the center to rescue the center's financial crisis.
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