Before coming, and after arriving in the imperial capital, I found that this place was not a hell on earth as described, but a busy and tense prosperous scene.

But Zhang Dai thought carefully for a long time, and couldn't find a place, the classic taxation and servitude of the Confucian scholars were too heavy, and the rhetoric of inviting the government to meet was gone when they arrived here, and the imperial capital itself did not collect agricultural taxes, and it had already spread all over the country.

But they did do it, and no one knew how to do it.

As for the one who has been criticized a lot and does not respect the Holy Prince, Zhang Dai does know that no matter how bizarre the news is, the Prince of the Holy Prince of Yan did appear in the brothel and had a conflict with the Prince of Chengguo, and the version of the conflict has long since changed from the two competing for the singer to the countless versions of the two squeezing each other.

He had the heart to put on a compassionate appearance, and also wrote about some of the imperial capital's reckless and brutal soldiers, in order to unify Jiangnan, conscripted millions of soldiers, and coerced the masses, telling them that they should govern the world with benevolence and righteousness, and then comfort the Jiangnan scholars more, and in time, they may consider joining them.

However, Zhang Dai heard about it last night, a small guy brought out by a Jiangnan foot merchant accidentally went to the military camp on the outskirts of the imperial capital to deliver goods, and when he saw the food of those soldiers on weekdays, he couldn't hold back all of a sudden, and cried and asked to be a soldier at that time.

At that time, he refused to leave, which made the face of the foot merchant green, and the military camp did not want that person in the end, but everyone knew that the food of the soldiers in the imperial capital was good.

At this point, Zhang Dai also felt that he disagreed, the leading soldiers should be weak and abuse the army and bully the army, give a sip of soup to drink on weekdays, and strictly punish them to order them not to act rashly, and then put out gold and silver rewards when it is time to fight, how many heads are a person, plus the well-raised family Ding team is behind to supervise the battle, that is the real way to lead the troops.

actually gave so much meat to the soldiers, and it was really the same as those coerced rebels, who ate wherever they went, and they didn't care about the future, they caught all the local chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep and ate them.

Eat and drink fat like this, I'm afraid it's a pill, I usually eat it so well, when something really happens, won't I shrink my eggs?

Of course, such a thing, I'm afraid that it will offend people, and I don't know which bigwigs are profiting from it, so naturally I don't dare to say anything.

As for not allowing people to beg, it is naturally unheard of, those poor people have no food and clothing to be fed, and the government not only does not appear to rescue, but arrests them, sends them out of the state of their parents, and goes to a barren land, which is simply cold-blooded.

Where does it seem that he Zhang Gongzi, although he eats, drinks and has fun every day, but the death day of the elders in the family, various birthdays, and mother's hardship days, he will always give generous soup porridge and rice, and give winter clothes, every time Zhang Caizi feels that his character is so noble, I am afraid that he will not be reincarnated in a more wealthy family in the future.

Without beggars, where is there a way to do charity?

Zhang Dai naturally didn't think about how those beggars came about.

I don't think about it, but if there is self-esteem and self-love, and there is a way to live, there are a few people who will become beggars.

Of course, if you wear colored glasses, you can really make as many mistakes as you want, but when you get here, you find that it is far from the case.

The current situation is that the imperial capital conscription is only a small selection of strong people every year, and there is even a point where there is a queue to cry and ask to enlist, Zhang Dai has thought of countless history books, and there is only such a scene in history, that is, the scene when the Qin soldiers desperately sought military merit.

Yes, that's right, everyone is eager to enlist in the army, and what they think must be adultery and plundering booty, otherwise it is not enough to explain.

And comparing the salary, it is even more irritating.

The official position of these friends is not high, that is, they have a name in various ministries and commissions, almost six and five officials, and they have an income of about 1,000 yuan a year, which is equivalent to one hundred taels in the past, which sounds a lot, but raising concubines, raising maids, and having to hire servants, this cost is calculated, if there is no other income, it is almost impossible to live.

The most hateful thing is contrast.

In the past, as those literati clamored for, the era of the Dish Kingdom was the best era in China, because of respect for the literati, and those who would only hold low-key clubs were taking dozens of times the salary of ordinary jobs, and writing some anti-Japanese articles that were completely useless to the country.

And what Zhang Dai inquired about learned that even if it is a kiln sister, the income is almost more than ten taels a month, and those who work hard are all working all year round, even if they don't earn 1,000 yuan a year, but a few hundred yuan is no problem!

This feeling made Zhang Dai very frightened, they almost couldn't hire servants in the imperial capital, that is, people brought from their hometowns, and they could continue to do things loyally, but their morale was obviously very insufficient.

In the spirit of raising and dealing with it slowly, the wages given by the elders to these literati who surrendered in the imperial capital were far greater than their contributions, but they were only perfunctory for the time being.

But in Zhang Dai's view, this is the situation of the shortage of scholars, who spend a lot of money, but they do not have all kinds of filial piety and corruption, and they do not have a much higher income than others.

He was cruel to beggars, miserly to scholars and scholars, and was reluctant to use force, preferring to raise those illiterate soldiers than to raise the wages of scholars, and to the landlords to make them almost unable to live, and to petition the imperial capital.

Zhang Dai seems to think of the era of the five dynasties, at that time, it was also all kinds of festival envoys who commanded everything, and those generations of military households were trembling, they strongly supported the rulers who treated them well, and directly supported another general for those who did not receive many rewards, and those rulers of the five generations, in order to make those double-edged swords no longer deal with themselves, had to desperately loot the people.

It can be said that five generations of soldiers have lived very well, and five generations of literati have lived miserably.

Thinking of such a day, Zhang Dai shuddered even more, can this trip to the imperial capital be fulfilled.

The vegetable market in the new city, because of its pergola that shelters from the wind and rain and the sun, and the orderly management, has been accepted by the imperial capital, in fact, people are always inert, even if it is a vegetable seller, they also want to avoid the sun, and the boxy small business is not.

The elders only need to be careful, don't appear like that kind of rice ba, water ba, dung ba, vegetable ba, don't really want to care about these things, as long as you hold the train and high-speed transportation channels, you are not afraid of anything.

Because the price of rice is as stable as a dog, so the people of the imperial capital are also happy not to store too much at home, often come to buy vegetables, compared to later generations, the market here is on the right track, there are slaughtering live chickens on the spot, there are selling some braised pork pig's head meat, respectively, it is very convenient.

There were not many people in front of the grain and oil store, and there was white flour floating out of the air, mixed with the smell of sesame oil and soybean oil. ”

"Wuchang flour." The half-old man gritted his teeth and said, "I can't afford to mess with it." ”

"Dad, it's his family that sells such cheap flour every day, and the wheat from our family, and then find someone to grind it into flour, why can't it be sold so cheaply, they bully people, let's smash it."

Although the clothes around are half-new and not old, at least they are not shabby, and they don't look like they often do rough work.

They are landlords, no matter how small they are, they are still advanced elements representing the advanced productive forces, and at least they can read and write, but in the past three years, their lives have been inexplicably plummeting.

There are people who farm the land who run to work and then make money and go directly to the city, and there are those who grit their teeth and follow the elders as soldiers to make money to support their families, but they are always not up or down, and they have the heart as if in the past, and the big and small things in the county are handed over to them, and those projects are snatched down, and they continue to be masters.

But the elders soon found out what was going on, it was nothing more than the big brother villagers, can I still lie to you, there are all kinds of oil pumping water directly behind it, and it would be good if one percent could reach these farmers.

In fact, in the previous railway construction, the elders even painfully carried out "reverse" selection, that is, they did not choose those small landlords who knew at least words and had some identity, but looked for that kind of clever person at the bottom.

The "high-end" contractor doesn't look for you, and the low-end hard work you won't like to do.

Especially in the past three years, although at the beginning, relying on selling grain for gold bars and silver dollars, it was really beautiful, but soon, due to the direct abandonment of the burden of the Daming clan, in fact, the pressure was very small.

As we all know, according to the law of my ancestors of the Ming Dynasty, the clan is supported by the state, and is not allowed to engage in other occupations, nor can it leave the fiefdom at will.

For example, Shanxi has 1.52 million stone of rice and wheat, but 3.12 million stone is needed to pay Zonglu in full. Henan retains 843,000 stone of rice and wheat, while Zonglu needs 1.92 million stone, "which is the grain of the two provinces, which is still not enough to supply half of the rice in Lu."

Zhu Yuanzhang really got into the water in his head, and gave his children and grandchildren such a pit system, even if they were self-reliant, or attack Nanyang.

But after going through so many things, the ruling class of my Ming Dynasty has never considered changing this current policy, and is still unwilling to move the ancestral law, although there are some minor reforms, but they have not touched the core reform of the suzerain-feudal system at all. As a result, wages are effectively in arrears year after year.

Clans with relatively high ranks, such as princes and county kings, still have a lot of property anyway, and your arrears of wages will not hinder the nourishing life of others. But the low-level clans of the lower ranks were miserable, and they could only barely make ends meet, but they didn't pay for decades, and the law didn't allow the clans to engage in other professions to earn a living. In short, the only thing that awaits them is the death of poverty and disease.

The Ming Dynasty dealt with the guilty clans with more serious circumstances, and in addition to the death penalty, there were solutions such as local imprisonment and imprisonment in Fengyang, the central capital. After all, there are few people who have been arrested for crimes, so the rations of these people are still given by the imperial court.

Thereupon......

At the time of life and death, some low-level clans began to take advantage of this loophole, anyway, if I continue like this, I will starve to death, it is better to be caught in prison for breaking the law, so that I still have something to eat!

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, this situation intensified, almost to the point of embarrassment.

This is very realistic, it's like a person falling into the water, he is shouting there, help, I am the Daming Sect. The officials who passed by talked and laughed and turned a blind eye, so the man shouted, Down with Zhu Youzhen!

So he was rescued.

Of course, the later generations of Japan also explained this truth to us, if there is a huge loophole in a system, but do not change it, it will be too embarrassing, in later generations, a large number of Japanese elderly people deliberately committed crimes, in fact, they went to the supermarket to steal things, and then deliberately were discovered, after going to prison, life is good, sunshine is abundant, it is simply beautiful, isn't it.

Contrary to what others think, the real financial pressure on the elders has always been self-inflicted, and the factories and schools they have built are the ones who eat the money.

These landlords are actually desperate, last year because they really can't afford to sell at a price, many harvests can only be piled up in the granary, full of anticipation this year to have rain, snow and drought all kinds of turmoil, the more people who die, the better, but the old lady listens to you.

A joke in history is that after Chongzhen's death, the Xiaoice River period basically ended, and the wind and rain were smooth to the explosion, which is also one of the reasons why the elders quickly sat down in the rivers and mountains, otherwise why did Chongzhen Ye make disasters every day at that time, but now it is smooth every day?

In fact, in the last few years of the Chongzhen era, the large-scale famine had ended, and the real problem was that the peasant army had been formed and had completely lost the possibility of returning to the old life.

For these landlords, the local landlords in Hebei, in the original history, the main disaster area of the Manchu enclosure is Hebei, especially Baoding, Tianjin and other places near the left of the imperial capital, as soon as the large-scale free people woke up, there were cavalrymen with knives who came to the door and said, you read that you are already a slave under the master of a certain banner, and quickly send all the young women over to let the master play with them first, and you have to hand over the harvest.

Not to mention the large-scale exodus that led to this, under the fugitive law, the entire family of anyone who interfered with the illegal hiding of fugitives was linked, and the number of people killed in this way was more than tens of thousands.

The fugitive person will be whipped 100 times, and the owner will be returned, and the hidden person will be punished, and the family property will be confiscated.

This is completely different from the act of voluntarily surrendering under the hands of the Ming Dynasty to evade taxes, and it is the looting of Chiguoguo.

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