In July of the 31st year of Wanli, the chief general of the Zhongyong Hou Imperial Army, Li Hutou, died in battle outside the frontier. This incident shocked the world and was of extraordinary significance. It can even be said to be a key to the great changes in the world.

At that time and now, countless people wrote down reliable or outrageous guesses and records in their notes, and a large amount of true or false news also spread.

In the fourth year of Taichang, a Portuguese missionary left Tianjin. During a routine inspection, the Jinyiwei found a booklet. Although it was written in Portuguese, it was not a problem in Tianjin. The language was not a problem and it quickly translated all the contents.

This booklet records various secrets of the political arena of the Ming Dynasty, and many of them were taboos. The missionary was severely punished and sent to Luzon to do lifelong labor.

However, the secrets of the Jinyiwei were really poor. The content translated from this booklet was spread to the market. Several privately engraved bookstores saw the business opportunities and printed a large number of them, making money. When the government noticed the book and began to explicitly order the ban, various versions had been circulated everywhere in the Ming Dynasty, and even the northern part of the South and the northern part of the State. Moreover, the ban of the booklet proved the authenticity of the content recorded in this booklet from another perspective. Is this reasonable? People have always judged it this way.

The two attendants' comments in the restaurant were mostly from this booklet, or interpreted by the contents in this booklet.

After Wang Tong ascended the throne, the ban on this book no longer existed. The people's pursuit of secrets from the top leaders gradually calmed down. Finally, there was a saying that the book was not written by a Portuguese priest, but was deliberately released by Emperor Wu, because a lot of the content on it was not something that a priest could know, although there were indeed two white people among the top leaders of the empire.

Some people even said that someone had seen this missionary in Luzon, but this man was already a large merchant in Luzon and was responsible for the sale of certain commodities. Of course, no one could verify this.

"The era in which the Crown Prince Zhu Changxun was located was different from any prince of the Ming Dynasty. This was a huge expansion of outwardness, with rapid expansion of wealth and everything was developing rapidly. The control and influence of civil servants over the empire was compressed to the minimum. Under the reconstruction of Wang Tong's genius, the military and financial systems not only achieved great achievements, but also became the most solid pillar of imperial power..."

After the 25th year of Wanli, the Ministry of Revenue's impact on the Ming Dynasty's finances became increasingly low. You should know that the Ministry of Revenue once refused taxes other than land taxes and salt taxes to enter the treasury. At that time, this was done so that the civil service group's industry would not have to pay taxes, but this later became a loophole and weakness.

Originally, the Ming Dynasty's industrial and commercial taxes and taxes that were not collected before were collected by the Jinyiwei Public Security Department. Later, even the function of the Maritime Commission became the Public Security Department, because Wang Tong's Jinyiwei system had the current rules and regulations, and it was efficiently implemented, and the silver collected was more. Baidu Tieba was updated the fastest

Obviously, it is inappropriate to let the internal guards such as the Jinyiwei take the tax power. The Daming Taxation Bureau was established. The financial and taxation department should be a civil servant, but the Taxation Bureau was born from the Jinyiwei, and most of them were military-born roles. As a result, the powerful color of this department is very strong.

Generally speaking, the various yamen in the Ming Dynasty were very small, and officials and staff had to hire a large number of idle people in order to handle the work. The Taxation Bureau gave sufficient personnel budget from the beginning. In addition to tax officials and tax collectors who collected tax accounting, there were also tax soldiers responsible for strong execution.

The establishment of the Taxation Bureau caused a stir in the Ming Dynasty. The huge organization and strong execution of the Taxation Bureau were considered to be a rebellious act and a disaster to the world, especially in Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Huguang, Jiangxi and other places that were accustomed to tax exemption, which were even more opposed.

But they soon discovered that they had no way to fight, the tax corps was nothing, and the local tyrants could gather more people to fight, but they could not resist the military force of the imperial guards. Moreover, the center of the court is not controlled by people who represent them and are from them. Those people are used to solving problems with force and do not think that there is anything wrong with killing people.

As for the military system, there is no need to say more about this. The Emperor's Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang and the Emperor Chengzu Zhu Di went down from generation to generation. The emperor's control over the world's army became weaker and weaker. The army gradually became the army of civil servants. The emperor established the Beijing camp and his command was soon taken away by civil servants. He had no choice but to establish the imperial guards in the Imperial Horse Supervisor. The situation began to slowly be reversed.

By the 25th year of Wanli, the main military force in the north of the Yangtze River had become the backbone, and there were enough large navy troops. These were all obedient to the royal family, and the Ministry of War and even the logistics could not reach in.

Such an independent military system was obviously not suitable for the previous system. At Wang Tong's suggestion, Emperor Wanli changed the Xiyuan to the Imperial Guard's Office, and ordered the army from here and rebuilt a set of rest systems.

The military and financial power controlled by civil servants gradually returned to the royal side, and the authority of the Ming emperor was becoming more and more important. Similarly, the important officials under this imperial power system were becoming more and more prominent.

More importantly, no discerning person is needed. Everyone can see who made these changes now. The first thing they can think of is Wang Tong, and then Ming Yu, a civil and military official who was rising like a rocket.

"~~~ The emperor and the queen's spoiling of the prince made the prince a cowardly and loyal person, but this personality made the royal family very worried. Everyone knows that the generals were not very loyal. The worried emperor once told the prince in private that the country now seems like a thorn. I have to pull out all the thorns on the thorns so that you can hold them well. Anyone who is familiar with the history of this country will know that at the beginning of the founding of this country, the first emperor Zhu Yuanzhang also said this to his grandson~~~"

Politics is a scheming strife. Baidu Tieba is updated as soon as 23 years after the 193rd year of Wanli. The power structure of the Ming Dynasty was actually unbalanced. Wang Tong, who was named Prince of Lelang, was too powerful. Although he did not have a real position, everyone knows that his influence in the inner security system, the army and the financial system was too great, even surpassing the emperor.

"~~ The emperor was embarrassed to find that the several actions he made back then, the suspicion, frivolous beatings and warnings, and Wang Tong's obedience and humility were brought to a situation. Any suppression and depression of Wang Tong now will arouse dissatisfaction and rebound from all sides. However, the long-term indulgence and physical weakness have left the emperor with little time. He must solve all this for the prince when he is still healthy. What the emperor needs to do is to master the army first and win the support of key figures, especially Li Hutou, the commander of the imperial guards, today... "

This booklet, called "Merian's Notes", brought a style to Dahua, similar to plain language, with no allusions or verbal modifications, but also a tone that is not in vernacular. Some people who are close to the center say that Wang Tong called it "translation style", and later it was attached to it as "fanyi style", and also brought up a false great scholar, which is a later story.

"Li Hutou is from a military officer family in the capital. His father was once Wang Tong's escort. Later, he served as a senior official in the Jinyiwei and made great contributions in various events in the capital. But this is not the main thing. Li Hutou himself has a very deep friendship with the emperor and Wang Tong, and the eunuch leader Zhao Jinliang also has a deep relationship with him. It can be said that Li Hutou is a person that can be accepted by all parties."

"—~~ The emperor sent an envoy to inquire, or in a summoning question, testing Li Hutou's attitude towards Wang Tong. What Gu Xiu said was no longer verified, but Li Hutou's position was obviously something the emperor did not want. Perhaps there were physical reasons, or perhaps felt the difference in the current situation, the emperor began to take extreme measures, an inexplicable chaos, an unreasonable mobilization, and a fatal injury on his back."

In addition to Emperor Wanli asking about Li Hutou, someone from Wang Tong also asked about this. This matter was not instructed by Wang Tong, but the people below were afraid of the situation and made unauthorized actions. When asked about this, Li Hutou gave a very straightforward answer, "Your Majesty is not such a person, brother is not such a person..."

"After the fact, the reason why the emperor did not take action in Beijing, Tianjin and Northern Zhili provinces was that Wang Tong had too well-informed information in these places, and the intelligence system was also omnipresent. But what the emperor did not expect was that Wang Tong's intelligence ability was much stronger than he estimated. Moreover, for the control ability of the army, the imperial officers called the Tiger Power Army were more loyal to the group itself, rather than the imperial power. After the assassination, the battle ended quickly, the assassinators were arrested, the people sent by the emperor to take over military power were controlled, and the news was quickly passed to the capital...~~~"

"Facts have proved that the simplest person in these incidents is Li Hutou..."

"Wang Tong received the news two days earlier than the emperor. He lived in the capital and left with his whole family overnight. As a side note, under the escort of the cavalry of the Jinyiwei armored guards, the surveillance force arranged by the emperor had no effect at all, but instead covered Wang Tong's departure from the capital..."
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