Chapter 333: Why Are We So Miserable?

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Zhu Yuanzhang also has a group of descendants of the founding heroes of the Ming Dynasty and the heroes of Jingnan, and now they gather in the Siguo Palace to cry!

I don't know if Zhu Yuanzhang in the Xiaoling underground palace will be so angry that he will show his spirit?

When Zhu Cihong saw this scene, he only sighed. What kind of ruthless people are everyone's ancestors! Pull one out at random, they are all characters who kill like hemp and kill without blinking!

But children and grandchildren are useless......

"Don't cry!" Finally, someone roared, it was the British Gong Zhang Shize, he is now the right capital of the imperial history, and the hereditary "lord of the guard" in the southeast hates the right class of the imperial history under his leadership.

All of them are the sons of the most vicious Beijing nobles and hereditary military attachés!

Originally, the "lord of the guard" in the southeast was a class brother, and everyone should take care of each other and covet the Ming Dynasty together. But now they have turned their faces and denied people, and for the sake of the 10% bonus, they are all as fierce as tigers and as evil as wolves. The owners of the guards in the southeast, no matter how many generations of hereditary commanders and hereditary thousands of households, fall into their hands, and if they don't die, they will have to be stripped of their skins - those who know each other will take the initiative to hand over the land, and they can also take the floating wealth to the city to become a rich man. If you don't know each other, all of them will be confiscated, and I will have to be exiled to the island!

And Zhang Shize did not offend people in vain, and he also had a share of the "10%" reward.

After a few months of "Zhang Papi", he has already made hundreds of thousands!

But while making a fortune, he didn't forget to reflect - there is no guard in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty that can still raise soldiers. And the battalions in the southeast, except for Gao Jie and Huang Degong, are acceptable, and the others are almost all paper paste and are useless.

"It's all about us, and we're doing it ourselves!" Zhang Shize had a dark face and patted his chest, "I have been inspecting the guards everywhere in the past few months, and I don't know how many ...... But is there one that is wronged? Here in the southeast, is there a guard that can raise soldiers? Without...... Not only in the southeast, but also in the north! And the land of the guard house was not built by our generation, but it was like this in our grandfather's generation! The land that was supposed to raise soldiers was rented to officials at a low price, and the officials were then leased to small military households. The land that should have been used to enrich armaments and raise soldiers has become a way for us people to make money! Every family has issued it, but the country has no soldiers and no generals, and it almost died! ”

He said this a little too sensitively, and after he finished speaking, everyone, including Emperor Chongzhen, was uncertain.

Zhu Cihong nodded at this time and said, "The British Duke said it well!" Today's discussion is to diagnose the country's illness and think about one's own mistakes. I know everything, and I can't say anything. If you have any thoughts about the disease of the country, please say it...... This country is not owned by this palace alone, everyone has a share! What can't be said? ”

"Not really!" Shoufu Wei Zaode also sighed, he was born in the military of Tongzhou Sanwei, and he was a talented young man, "Not only have the land of the world's guards been stolen, but the official fields of various states and prefectures are rented to the gentry and wealthy families for three dollars and two dollars...... Originally, the gentry were not exempt from tax exemption, but later they opened tax exemption, and then they exempted the rent of the official land that they did not pay much as a land endowment. So many official fields in the country have become private fields for the gentry to make a fortune!

There is also a commercial tax...... Hang a sign that lifts people and shows talents, and the tax customs below will not dare to collect money. If anyone dares to break the rules, it is the local gentry who incite tax resistance, but the government does nothing. There were so many tax resistances during the Wanli years, and most of them made a fuss like this! ”

Emperor Chongzhen suddenly interjected and asked: "Didn't they all say that the tax supervisors were lawless, and they were extorted violently, so that they forced the people to rebel?" ”

Zhu Cihong smiled: "The officials don't do anything, and the eunuchs sent out, hehe, naturally have to get a little more by the way, it's normal for people." And the eunuchs are all lonely and poor, and they have no ability to govern the people and manage their finances, so if they want to fulfill the will of the first emperor, they have to recruit minions to do things. Those minions, of course, have to make money...... And they know that their way to get money will not last long, and it is not surprising that they have to seize the time and work hard to make money, and it is not surprising that they will cause public resentment. But in the final analysis, it is the gentry of the Shili heirloom who are abusing the preferential treatment of the imperial court to evade commercial taxes and land endowments. And the officials from the imperial examination are simply in the same group as them, and they are not willing to collect taxes seriously! Otherwise, why would the temple grandfather send a eunuch to collect taxes? ”

King Fu had already cried at this time, wiped his tears and said: "The nobles and military attaches eat the military guards, the civil officials and gentry evade taxes, and we princes are no better!" Don't you also accept donations from large households? In Henan, there are Fu Wang's fields everywhere, Fu Wang's shop, Fu Wang's industry all over Henan, among which there are the first emperor's rewards, and there are also many of them are sacrificed and sent by tricks.

And Henan's official fields and military fields are also rewarded to the palace by hundreds of thousands or millions...... Now it's gone, the home is gone, the people are gone, there's nothing! I knew earlier, wouldn't it be good to take them all to raise soldiers? ”

Zhu Lunkui, the king of Zhou who had just attacked the seal, took King Fu's words and sighed: "There are too many of us...... Before the catastrophe, there were dozens of county palaces in the line of our Zhou kings! As for generals and lieutenants, there are even more of them. Everyone has to be fed by the people of Henan, and it is indeed a hardship for the people! ”

Zhu Cihong nodded, took over the topic and said: "I also complain about the court, I always can't trust the vassal king, I don't want to let the vassal king and the county king come out to do things, and I don't believe in the generals and lieutenants below." If you don't let them come out and do things, you have to feed them! As a result, people multiplied, and the number of people became more and more numerous, and they couldn't afford to raise them until later! ”

He paused, snapped his fingers and said, "First, the nobles and military attachés embezzled the land of the military guard; second, scholars relied on the preferential treatment of the imperial court to evade taxes; The third is that the ban on the feudal domain is strict and the clan people breed, and there are too many of them...... These three are indeed the key to our great tomorrow's corruption.

In addition to these three, this palace also summed up a few mistakes, and also said them for everyone to discuss...... One is the sea ban; the second is the tribute of the clan; The third is the country of fifteen non-levies! ”

As soon as Zhu Cihong's words came out, everyone in the hall was stunned.

What does His Royal Highness the Crown Prince want to do? Did he come to Xiaoling to ask for guilt, or did he come to ask Zhu Yuanzhang who was buried underground?

The sea ban, the tributary system of the clan and the fifteen non-conscripted countries are all the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty, and it is the ancestral system created by Zhu Yuanzhang!

Chongzhen looked at Zhu Cihong, and then at the princes and ministers in the hall, as if reminding everyone: The prince openly criticized Taizu, and he was very disobedient and unfilial!

Zhu Cihong coughed: "Has Emperor Taizu Gao been changed less?" Aren't the nine kings being circled and not doing anything? Since the emperors can change it, can't we change it? If there is a mistake, it can be corrected, and it is very good! ”