Conscription, since the Qin and Han dynasties, is a kind of unpaid labor that the government forced civilians to do. This includes forced labor, miscellaneous labor, military service, and so on. In essence, conscription is also a tax.

Unlike taxes on gold and silver in kind, the government distributes forced labor and collects the labor of the people.

In ancient times, conscription was one of the most important rights of the government, equivalent to gold and silver taxes. Over the years, the conscription was numerous and severe, and by the end of the dynasty, it had evolved into the fuse of the rebellion of the people at the bottom.

As small as the rough work of carrying a sedan chair and sprinkling and sweeping in the yamen, including building bridges and paving roads, cleaning rivers in winter, and even going to the border sand field to fight and deliver grain and carry burdens, the government relied on the conscription system to levy and distribute them free of charge.

For the feudal dynasty, conscription was the basic condition for maintaining the operation of the government. Without taxes, the government will go out of business, and without forced labor, the government will not last for three days.

In short, any act of the government requisitioning the labor of the people without remuneration can be classified as conscription.

Even in later generations, in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, where productivity was low, the government would also mobilize the people to engage in infrastructure construction, no matter what the starting point was or what slogan they shouted, which was a disguised form of conscription.

To put it bluntly, if you are still poor, you have no money, and you want to engage in construction, so you can only do this.

However, the social management model of conscription is necessary in an era of low human productivity, because the government cannot receive enough money from the people to support public services.

In ancient times, the social economy and finance were underdeveloped, the government did not have a money printing machine, and the people did not have WeChat transfers and credit banknotes in their hands.

In fact, since ancient times, people have hired people to "serve on behalf of others" by paying money, but this behavior mostly occurs among urban residents and rural landlords, and was not mainstream before the Ming Dynasty.

What really put an end to the social form of forced labor was the improvement of human productive forces.

The spread of industrialization turned everything upside down. As early as 1937, during the Great Depression in the United States, Roosevelt began to hire people to dig holes...... One group of people digs the pit, and the other group fills the hole.

Look at the commodity wealth that has been spewed out of the machine, which is no longer digestible by society, and the government needs to pay for people to dig and fill the holes to make the stagnant economy flow.

The above, including the milk poured into the Mississippi River, is a sign of the reversal of industrial society, the government began to find ways to pay the people to create jobs, and there is no such thing as free servitude, because only by allowing the working people to obtain wealth, these people dare to consume endless industrial goods, can the social economy function, and life can barely go on.

This time, Ding Liqiu, the number one person in the Guangzhou Special Economic Zone, promoted the "new version of the new social experiment project of conscription" in Zengcheng County, which is a combination of history and future generations, and is a freak.

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In the early Ming Dynasty, there were three kinds of conscription, one was the Lijia service, the second was the uniform service, and the third was miscellaneous.

Lijia service is community labor, and the conscripts usually work in the local lifang. Junzi is a regular errand service of the government, and everyone takes turns to work and all kinds of work to travel far away. The remaining miscellaneous is temporary in nature and is used to respond to emergencies.

These forms of conscription were carried out in the middle of the Ming Dynasty and changed.

First of all, with the arrival of foreign colonists with silver coins produced in Mexico, the Ming Empire naturally experienced a certain amount of inflation, which objectively added a certain amount of circulating currency to the economic environment.

Next is the appearance of a generation of famous ministers Zhang Juzheng: a whip method.

A whip law stipulates that the land endowment, forced labor and other miscellaneous levies in each state and county shall be one article, and the silver taels shall be collected together and paid according to the conversion per mu.

A whip law greatly simplified the tax system and facilitated the collection of taxes. At the same time, it made it difficult for local officials to cheat, which in turn increased the financial revenue of the imperial court.

Since the whip law, the monetization of enslavement has become the norm, and the practice of people handing over "service silver" instead of levying has been widely promoted throughout the Ming Dynasty.

Although after Zhang Juzheng's death, a whip law was frantically resisted by vested interests and finally destroyed and overthrown, some items were naturally retained, including the conversion of forced labor.

However, this time, after Comrade Ding Liqiu came to Zengcheng County, he was about to turn back the clock on history: restore the old system, requisition and issue conscription, and recruit and transfer personnel.

At the end of December of the solar calendar in 1630, Zengcheng County issued an official announcement to the people of the county on the day of the Laba Festival, and sent Chongzhen four years of conscription in advance.

After the whip law, in order to adjust the uneven burden of households between the villages, the bureau was expanded from the lijia to the prefecture and county. And this time, Zengcheng County's order to levy and issue conscription was issued by the county government.

Of course, although the order was ostensibly issued by the county government, it was actually promoted by Ding Liqiu's operation. After deeply understanding Ding Liqiu's background and the general soldiers Cao behind him, Gu Taigu County ordered this sesame official to have no ability to resist in this regard.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the officialdom was full of evils, since the "three salaries" were added, the upward and downward effects, in addition to the "three salaries", in some places, even duck salaries, cattle salaries, grass insects and other salaries also appeared in a grand manner. As for the early collection of taxes for future years, it is even more commonplace and not news.

Therefore, the Zengcheng County Ya sent the inventive conscription in advance this time, which did not cause much turmoil. The crux of the matter is that this time the official document is clearly written: the service silver has been doubled.

After this official document was issued, several families were happy and thousands of households were worried.

The doubling of the service silver is probably nothing to the rich, it is nothing more than a matter of missing a restaurant. However, for the majority of poor farmers who are struggling in the bankruptcy line, this is a matter of life.

But I'm sorry, what Uncle Ding Liqiu wants is this effect, what is the poor ghost family doing on those two acres of land with yellow faces and thin muscles? Why don't you come to meet my uncle's conscription and take you to Xintiandi to be a farmer?

Therefore, in the fourth year of Chongzhen after the New Year, after the conscription promoted by the public back, it was officially implemented in the Zengcheng area: a large number of poor peasants who could not afford to pay the service silver were officially requisitioned and transferred to the county seat by the official conscription of the Ming Dynasty, and then transported to the Huangpu Military Port, and then went to Taiwan by boat to "build a border fortress".

Yes, according to Cao Zongbing's recent excerpt to the imperial court, Taiwan is now the border fortress of the Ming Dynasty, and the imperial court needs to send people to build some city towers and piers, and then build a Great Wall or something "in case of foreign enemies".

With so many infrastructure projects, of course, Daming has to send someone over, and there is nothing wrong with it.