"Do you know the public opinion situation in Jiangnan?"

The atmosphere of the luncheon was very quiet, although the ship was still parked in the palace, it was only a matter of time before it moved out, and in fact, there were not many people left here to eat.

I have eaten in the canteen for a few years, no matter how delicious it is, it is greasy, on the contrary, at this time, the imperial capital has gathered cooking masters from all over the world, and the elders all have women, and they cook and eat with women every day when they are happy.

Therefore, the demand for the spaceship is only the clean and hygienic vegetables in the vegetable factory, who really likes to live in that small single room for a long time.

The spaceship will be the last card of all the elders, moored in the north of the residential area, as a guarantee of safety, and the day of take-off is not far away, and after that, the palace will officially become the Palace Museum.

Of course, the spaceship is still the perfect place to enjoy, and the medical and entertainment equipment that can be provided here cannot be replicated for the time being, so it is still a club where everyone gathers.

There are not many people who can't eat here, but they are all people who have to deal with government affairs, and Zhao Jiaren said something at will, which naturally meant something.

"I know that there are some problems with their finances."

Li Xiangqian said: "No matter what kind of data you look at, the finances of several provinces in the south of the Yangtze River are very problematic, just by looking at the price of grain, you can see that there are ups and downs. ”

"It's not like you're doing evil."

Li Xiangqian shook his head and said: "*** is good, all problems can be attributed to internal and external reactionaries, and in the past, Jiangnan in the past, whether it was the roller coaster problem of prices, or the problem of lack of money, or even the problem of chaotic soldiers, in essence, it was the problem of local bureaucrats, and their governance ability could not meet the complex social situation that the local people needed to face, and the greedy clans, without the suppression of imperial power, the means of exploiting the people were still very tricky, it was really stupid, just like after 1945, their methods of exploiting the people were the same, It's just that this time, they can't hire literati, what to say, why don't you be hungry, or there are many masters in our country, your rebellion is uncivilized, the master should be in the city, the peasants should starve to death honestly, dare to rebel, just hire the public to slander you, you see, how interesting. ”

Zhao Jiaren sneered and said, "This external reactionary seems to be talking about yourself, and you are not clean." ”

Li Xiangqian was surprised: "Are you talking about me?" ”

"It's not that you use a lot of gold and silver to stir up the internal fire of the people's house, and the people over there in Jiangnan basically have no financial knowledge, and they have the ability to take the opportunity to squeeze the people."

Li Xiangqian said: "Well, I thought that with our suppression, they would at least be kind to the people considering the possibility of a popular uprising, and don't let them revolt, but now, I ignored a big problem......

He flattered Zhao Jiaren and pushed a plate of green leafy vegetables, and said with a wry smile: "As long as it is a person, there is the possibility of self-aggrandizement and self-boasting, those people are either ambitious, or purely to make money, and now, without the suppression above, in fact, many people have evolved from bureaucrats to small warlords, at least they are relatively independent associations, of course, the specific level of people, towards solo, is not what we know, but people, always feel that they are wise and martial, You can stop at the little point before squeezing the people to the moment of the final outbreak and get the maximum value. ”

"But they will directly cause riots."

Li Xiangqian shrugged his shoulders and said: "In the final analysis, the problem of the system of the Ming Dynasty, the structure of the emperor, civil officials, and the common people is too dangerous. ”

"You are also a son-in-law in Suzhou now, why don't you hurry back to help your hometown?"

"Ahem, don't say that, don't I stay alone in the empty room every day, if ......"

"When are you going to leave?"

"It's spring now, I plan to set up our propaganda team in Jiangnan before autumn, some things are not okay without doing it yourself, and our relationship with Jiangnan officials is ridiculous enough, obviously we have taken the opportunity to worship Chongzhen, how many times have we secretly sent people to contact us, but the people have not been cut off from collecting money to resist the attack of the northern demons."

Zhao Jiaren said: "According to the intelligence, those officials in the south have learned about our situation and colluded with each other, and our pamphlets that are permanently exempt from agricultural taxes have also been hidden by them, and they have often searched them. ”

"This is indeed a difficult problem, I used to think that the exemption of agricultural taxes will give the people a chance to breathe, even if they are officials, it will be easy to make money, but now, it is obvious that the main strength is the vested interests of collecting agricultural taxes."

Li Xiangqian suddenly took out something and said: "A new problem, those talents, obviously also noticed that something was wrong, we exempted the human tax, exempted the agricultural tax, in fact, it also caused the yeoman farmers and tenants to no longer make contributions, people are not stupid, they don't get anything, but they have lost a lot, and they all feel deceived." ”

"Men are really hypocritical, they keep saying that they are for the country and the people, and they are a little fairer, and they immediately change their faces, as if they say that you are so beautiful today, and then you want to touch it with the hand of the wild woman you touched last night."

"What is a wild woman, is he touching the woman of the family, me, me, are all my women."

"Cut ......"

"Okay, let's get down to business, Vietnam is the focus of our work, but it's time to push the people in Jiangnan, anyway, as far as I know, our money is very easy to use in the south."

"Of course, after all, it is the casting technology that has led many generations, these people, we don't want good things, and the money is very happy."

"No, in fact, they have benefited us a lot, but people will not be grateful, then, in fact, the things that are donated are really not to blame on others."

In the Ming Dynasty, there was a very bad situation, the wind of land donation prevailed, and it has become a terrible social atmosphere, the so-called dedication, that is, the land is free to dedicate the land to the emperor's relatives, honorable officials and gentry, and even the local heroes, this kind of dedication, and is divided into two kinds of vain sacrifice and self-sacrifice.

The former refers to the fact that the fields of ordinary people are donated to the powerful and powerful by gangsters and scoundrels who falsely claim to be their own business or ownerless idle land, while the latter refers to the common people, and even small and medium-sized landlords, who dedicate their fields to the powerful and powerful without compensation.

If it is a person in the future, it may not be able to understand it.

The land is the lifeblood of the common people, why did the people of the Ming Dynasty abandon it like a shoe? Are people stupid?

If the agricultural tax is high and the people can't afford it, it's easy to understand, but the agricultural tax in the Ming Dynasty has never been high, and the messy taxes add up to be more than their own land.

The real problem is still in the addition of dispatch and conscription.

The weight of conscription, even more than the tax grain, conscription is shared according to the number of acres of land, the specific content is varied, from thousands of miles away to escort the levy of hundreds of city bricks to Yanjing, it may be to send the military supplies produced in the south, to the northern front, or to serve in the post house for half a year, or to carry a sedan chair for the lord of the government for half a year, the turn of the kind of family that transports errands thousands of miles, the end is often bankrupt, even the latter, but also seriously affects the personal production and labor of the people, so that they are disturbed!

However, the dignitaries enjoyed the right to be exempt from servitude, and once they became their householders, tenants, or even slaves, they could be exempted from state servitude under their shadow. The peasants who were unsustainable often surrendered to the nobles in order to avoid the hardships of the errand service, and even the small and medium-sized landlords, in order to avoid the disturbance of the government and rely on the power of the officials, also joined the army of contributors and became a glorious family.

The evil consequences of the sacrifice were obvious, in addition to reducing the tax revenue of the imperial court, and the free labor that could be mobilized became less and less, so it could only be sent to the rest, and the remaining people had no choice but to follow suit. Who should be used to build the Yellow River, build the Great Wall, and transport grain and rice?

Honest people.

This is the same as the green tea who have been young ladies for a few years, and after the junior, the first thing that comes to mind is to find an honest man to marry, honest people, whether in the Ming Dynasty or in the 21st century, are the most miserable and sad existence.

However, it is often difficult for such an honest person to survive, and the last one to survive is ......

"If a regime cannot protect the happy life of the honest people under its rule, but always allows the traitors to benefit, then the honest people are getting poorer and poorer, and the traitors are getting richer and richer. It's like the Ming Dynasty. ”

Li Xiangqian wore a jacket and trousers, it looked like an outing dress, the material of this dress is special, not afraid of rain, just suitable for running to the rainy Jiangnan.

He patted a horse in front of him, but his whole body was red, and it was almost as high as his shoulders, Wu Sangui and Li Guo saw this horse together, and they couldn't turn their eyes away, and they called it, "Red Rabbit"!

The red rabbit should not be the Mongolian horse that the Mongolians are used to, nor the traditional Chinese domesticated Hequ horse, but the wild horse obtained by the Horqin tribe.

Of course, Wu Keshan got a lot of benefits, his sister's life was saved, and the business transactions with the Han people were also carried out, no matter what kind of food, tea, and silk were all sold, he took the opportunity to be a middleman to make the difference, and at the same time, with the core troops of the elders completed the Mauserization, basically did not care about the indigenous army of this era at all, therefore, a lot of swords, bows and arrows were sold to Wu Keshan, and for a time Wu Keshan's fish belly troops also became sharp-tongued. At least not for other Mongol tribes to despise.

Wu Keshan is a staunch supporter of building the railway to Mongolia, and what a profit it should be.

Of course, the destination of Li Xiangqian's trip is not to think about the train for at least a few years, and at the same time, in order to show his compulsion, he found such a horse.

Buying a horse is still a trivial matter, training, washing, but it takes time, the horse is a very strong and delicate thing, compared to the short-distance "ten-mile horse" thoroughbred horse that will not run far in later generations, this wild horse is one or two years old, but it is very unruly, Li Xiangqian's biggest at present, but it will not bite itself directly, and it will not turn itself down when riding, as for really riding a freewheeling gallop, then I don't know how long it will take.

Touching the horse, he smiled soothingly, took out some food, fed it to Chitu, and said: "Beauty, let's go to Yangzhou together, wrap three thousand yuan around your waist, and ride you down to Yangzhou......"

Chitu is a mare.

Zhao Jiaren was on the side, suddenly happy, and said: "Even horses have to be teased, it's really a hooligan." ”

"According to legend, the red rabbit horse followed Guan Yu and was captured by the Wu people, but he died of hunger strike because he missed Guan Yu, so it can be seen that this horse is more loyal than people, just like me, I am also very loyal."

"Nonsense, how old is that horse, it's not too early to die, by the way, your little beauty took a boat in the morning and went south, so you don't have to worry, there are many handsome guys in the south, and people run away by themselves?"

"Don't worry......" He suddenly pulled, pulled Zhao Jiaren into his arms, and said, "As long as you can't leave this earth, I have a way to find you." ”

Zhao Jiaren pushed, really couldn't break free, so he took out a piece of paper and said: "This is the person who has always begged me in the past two years, although I won't take their money, but if there is anything good, I will still send it to buy, they are all merchants who come to do business by themselves, and they are very envious of our various things, and have repeatedly asked, how much money can be used in their own construction of the railway, it can be said that it is a good way to open a breakthrough." ”

"It's okay, this time I don't plan to have any conflict with the government in Jiangnan, and it is impossible to open any breakthrough in negotiations, as long as the propaganda is opened, our construction was not completed before, and the imperial capital is a big construction site, but now, at least it is a big construction site where you can see people, what are you afraid of."

"Back then, who had blood on his hands, but the people who were sent down to carry out reforms were also stained with blood, and they could be called executioners, but when they went down, weren't those county magistrates killed one by one? That's just a rent reduction, you are directly pumping people's bones, without land rent, how many masters take the opportunity to get their hands on it? ”

"You have to let the gentry pay first, take the people to donate money, the gentry donates, the people can donate, after the money is in hand, the gentry's money will be returned in full, and the people's money will be divided into three or seven."

Li Xiangqian said: "Let the bullets fly, I have already explained how the people were exploited in ancient times." ”

The Ming Dynasty can actually be called a model of a low-tax country, at first even the army did not pay silver, but the state received a point, and the middle exploiter could collect several times!

(End of chapter)