Wanli North Wind

In the first year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng implemented the New Deal. A snowstorm that is colder than the Mongolian cavalry is coming in the North. Silver military pay cannot be exchanged for a stone of grain. A whip method only accepted silver. The peasants sold three shi of grain for eight coins of silver and could not even pay the tax. The Donglin Party said: Commercial taxes in the south of the Yangtze River cannot be increased, but land taxes in the north can be increased. The border troops sold knives and bows and arrows, the Dun troops froze to death on the piers, and the refugees walked among the bones. This is a sign of the resurgence of the Ming Dynasty. This is the end of the northern frontier army and the people. Zhou Shi'an, a householder in Xuanfu, guarded the border for 22 years, and his faith went from hope to despair. Liu Sanniang, the accountant of the grain store, wrote down the numbers for eight years with charcoal strips - those numbers were enough to kill them a hundred times. Shen Qingtong, the daughter of a refugee, carried a bone knife and fought her way through the wind and snow. Gu Qingyi, the eldest lady of the Donglin Party, fell in love with an officer whose father wanted to torture him to death. It has been snowing for forty years. When the snow stopped, the Ming Dynasty was gone. No one remembers them. Only the wind from the north is still blowing.