The road to the imperial examination could not be passed, and he married a defective product and went home, and the squire was a little aggrieved, and often went to the grove alone and hugged his knees silently with two tears.

But the wood is already in the boat, and his arm can't break the master's thigh, so he deceives himself, and when he meets someone, he says: Whoever you marry is married, with your eyes closed and the lamp blown, it's all the same.

Although the squire said that he accepted his fate, he also climbed the high branches, enlarged the lintel, and relied on the care of his father-in-law Lao Taishan during his tenure to search the township, expand the house and fill the tiles, and hoard fertile land.

How many people who were robbed of the land by him cried and had no way to complain, and if they wanted to sue, they would be knocked over by the county magistrate with a board and thrown out.

Wang Yuanwai also began to raise thugs and secretly kill people, those who believed that God must have eyes, and vowed to fight him to the end, and finally died in vain.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, land was gradually annexed into the hands of a few vassal kings, clans and bureaucrats, a phenomenon that perhaps could not be avoided by any dynasty.

Well, in Huaxia, this is said after the well field system was changed to a private field.

Many people think that land annexation is normal, but many more believe that each expansion of this phenomenon represents the beginning of the demise of a dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty and all dynasties have such a section, and the more the land is measured, the less it is.

With a stroke of the pen, the paddy field became a dry field, and 9 acres became 6 acres.

This is just an example, but the official word has two mouths, saying that the big is big, and the small is small.

When you become an official, you can collect more money without paying taxes, and if you win, you will have imperial food to eat.

This is indeed the right that people have obtained for ten years, regardless of whether the people are happy or not, the rules are set by people for the stupid hat emperor.

Rao is like this, the gentry of the hometown may not be willing to pay taxes.

The landlords will also give money to the officials for rent free, as long as the magistrate has benefits, he will never come to ask for it again, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and the emperor Lao Tzu may not see such a squire give him a stone of grain in his life.

Many people will say that the watershed of the Ming Dynasty from prosperity to decline was the change of Tumubao.

But I didn't know that after the civil fort, the Ming army counterattacked again and again, and the war was still temperless.

During this period, Warat was also forced to release Ming Yingzong, and in the end, even the great chief Smecta, who was fully retaliated against by the Ming Dynasty, died in the internal strife between the Warat nobles.

Another incident during the reign of Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty was actually the biggest reason for the Ming Dynasty's transformation from prosperity to decline.

During the orthodox years when Yingzong ascended the throne for the second time, he changed the Jiangnan re-endowment of Guantian to Mintian, that is, the large area of fertile land in Jiangnan that had always belonged to the royal family from Taizu to Xuanzong was classified as Mintian.

Is it possible that Yingzong reached some kind of agreement with Jiangnan Shi in order to regain the great treasure? This is not known.

But even if there is no agreement, it is the scholars who benefit the most, and where are the talents in the world?

Sanjiang, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Jiangsu in Daming is the south of the Zhili, the left of the Jiang Huai right, the officials of the world, the most in the south of the Yangtze River.

The imperial court ordered that the official fields in Jiangnan be turned into private fields, and in the process of change, whose name will be changed in the field deed, of course, the first to reap the benefits are those officials in Jiangnan! They're close to the water.

This interest is too great, if there is a causal relationship in this, I am afraid that anyone will take the throne for Ming Yingzong because of thousands of good fields.

Of course, this may also be the reversal of cause and effect, that is, Ming Yingzong acquiesced in this policy that affected the fortunes of the country in the future in order to repay the scholars and doctors who helped him seize the door and regain the great treasure.

However, since then, the finances of the imperial court have deteriorated, and the annual tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty has dropped sharply from more than 40 million stones before the original restructuring to more than 26 million stones, which is an indisputable fact.

The Ming Dynasty, which had been smiling all the way, was not good from now on.

Think about the defeat of Tumubao, the three major battalions of the Ming army were all wiped out, but Yu Qian was able to immediately rebuild a strong army that could fight with tens of thousands of elite cavalry outside Beijing.

Of course, this stems from the superiority of the military household system of the Ming Dynasty, but the building of armaments, the requisition of grain and grass, including the transfer of new armies to the capital, and the people who eat and chew along the way, do you not need silver?

And what about after the defeat of the Ming and Houjin's Salhu?

After the defeat of Salhu in the last year of Wanli, after Wanli, Taichang, Tianqi, Chongzhen, and the four emperors for more than 20 years, the Ming Dynasty reluctantly organized two so-called counteroffensives with a scale of more than 100,000 people - the Battle of Hunhe and the Battle of Songjin.

Why can it take 20 years to fight two big battles? The answer must be that the Eighth Route Army is out of bullets.

And the reason why there is no money, in addition to taxes and land annexation, the biggest factor is that Yingzong changed the official land to the people's land.

The country's finances have plummeted by half all at once, can Daming not change from a superpower to a weak chicken?

Since then, people have never seen the Ming fleet that went to the Western Ocean seven times, and the Ming Iron Cavalry who conquered Mobei for six times.

Think about the period from Hongwu to Yongle, after more than 150 years of washing by the Mobei Iron Cavalry, China has been thousands of miles away, and the land of China is in mourning.

But how many times did Ming Taizu and Chengzu fight with the Yuan Dynasty in this situation?

After the victory of the fishing sea, Lan Yu raised his sword to the sky and roared, and said to the late Chang Yuchun in the sky: Boren, in the end, live up to this life, how heart-wrenching?

The two generations of the founding of the country were six expeditions to Mobei, Chengzu and Xuanzong went to the West seven times, what a powerful national strength, the prestige of the Ming Dynasty at that time was close to the Tang Dynasty, it can be said: "All countries come to the Han Dynasty, and the five tombs hunt the Qin Temple." Day and night, the song bell does not stop, and the mountains and rivers are four Saijing divisions. ’

In the Chongzhen period, when Chongzhen was fooled by the Donglin Party to cancel the tax supervision set up by Wei Zhongxian, the rich people in Jiangnan were the same as the Chinese New Year.

When the emperor found that the treasury revenue was not as good as his brother Xizong, Chongzhen wanted to set up a tax supervisor again, and the Donglin Party said, why did the emperor compete with the people for profit?

Chongzhen hesitated, but where did the military salary come from?

The Donglin Party also told him that he came from the poor boss's surname in the west, so he increased the three salaries, and almost no one in the Jiangnan scholars and doctors objected to this harsh tax and miscellaneous taxes.

The three salaries, all the money collected is the money of the people at the bottom, because the three salaries are harsh, until the beginning of the Yongli small court ascending the throne, the aforementioned said that Guizhou and Yunnan Yongli Dynasty are not controlled, that is, the three salaries are in trouble, Yunnan Shadingzhou is still rebelling now, and the whole of Yunnan is occupied.

The so-called officials protect each other, and it is also said that Wei Zhongxian is good, Cao Huachun scolded him before Chongzhen hanged himself, saying that if Zhongxian was there, he would not fall to this point.

Eunuchs do not protect the officials, especially during the Xizong period, the eunuch party has been fighting with the Donglin party.

Why are the contradictions so intensifying? It is because of the tax supervision, Wei Zhongxian does not oppress the people, he oppresses the Jiangnan gentry.

If he doesn't squeeze the people, it's not that he has a good heart, but because he thinks that mosquitoes are too thin and meatless, those Jiangnan gentry are different, they have no stake in him, and they are so rich.

(End of chapter)