The biggest failure of the tax system of the Ming Dynasty was that the poor paid for grain and the rich enjoyed the coolness!

In the early Ming Dynasty, after years of war, peasants could have a few acres of farmland, but there were not many privileged and rich households, and the contradictions could be covered up, so Lao Zhu felt good about himself.

By the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the national strength reached its peak, but the peasant uprisings continued, which was not unrelated to this absurd tax policy.

Zhang Juzheng implemented a whip law, which overcame this drawback to some extent, but unfortunately, Zhang Juzheng assisted the Wanli Emperor, and after his death, all reform decrees were cancelled one after another, and the greedy Wanli offended the wealthy people in the mining tax.

Therefore, in the next eight years of famine, Li Zicheng's slogan of "the king will not pay for grain when he comes" was so tempting to the peasants that the banner of righteousness was raised, and it suddenly became a prairie fire.

And a large number of gentry and nobles also behaved very cold-blooded, and watched from the wall, and even when they rode into the customs, many people had a schadenfreude mentality.

Officials at all levels, out of the same mentality, also had a kind of impatient desire to change the court, and the Qing court happened to adopt a very tempting policy of softness, so compared with the end of the Song Dynasty, there were more officials who surrendered to foreign races at the end of the Ming Dynasty like carp crossing the river.

A lowest-level eight-rank petty bureaucrat like Gan Feng basically changed into an official uniform and immediately put into a new job, not to mention a small official like Qian Tianfu, they have no sense of shame, anyway, they are all on errands to eat food, regardless of which master he is.

In the Ming Dynasty, the gentry were very powerful, and the gentry could even interfere in local administration, so whenever there was a major event in the local area, the local prefects and county orders always invited the gentry to discuss, and the policies set were always to protect these magnates, and the gentry also reciprocated, which would leave benefits to the magistrates.

The so-called gentry is a complex class, from the ministers of the imperial court, the feudal officials, to the families of the eunuchs, the powerful landlords, and the officials who have returned to their hometowns for various reasons such as Ding Wei, dismissal, and Zhishi, and the talents who have a name but have not yet become a leader, are all included.

They often have a very close relationship with the provincial feudal officials and even the imperial court, and even have hands and eyes to reach the inner court of the palace.

During this turbulent period at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, both sides focused on the military, especially in the warring areas where the two sides repeatedly contested, and had no time to take care of the governance of prefectures, counties and localities for the time being.

Therefore, the phenomenon of the gentry and wealthy families with deep roots in various places to protect themselves abounds, and the local officials are well aware of the difficulties of their careers during the war, and out of their own interests, they seize the opportunity to damage the public and private interests, and provide cover and convenience for the local gentry and wealthy families, and make political and economic capital from them.

This time the Ming army besieged the city, the Qing army demolished all the shops and houses outside Nanchang City, and most of the people were dispersed except for a small part of them who fled into the city.

If the Qing army wins, it will be a big deal to hand it over; In case the Ming army enters the city, then these people who have lost their household registration can be brought to the name of the gentry and nobles, and they will no longer pay taxes and errands, and they themselves can also make a lot of money from it.

After Liu Xulei saw that he was tired of it, the reason why he was so angry and why he held on to it was not just that he needed to be on an errand and clean up the battlefield, but that he had a more long-term consideration.

After recovering southern Jiangxi and sealing the retreat of the Qing army in Fujian, his second stage of the task was to take Jiangxi as the starting point, sweep all the way to the east, and pocket Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other provinces in East China.

In this way, he needs food, he also needs to expand the army, he knows that in the whole of Jiangxi, only in the hands of those wealthy families, there is a large amount of food hidden, and if he does not govern these people, he will not be able to free up his hands to move eastward.

In Lin Xiao's plan, even in the stage of cooperation with the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, he must firmly control the granaries of Liangguang, Huguang, and East China in his own hands, and cannot return them to the decaying Ming court.

On the one hand, he was ready to take the lead in implementing land reform in the richest areas, completely eliminating the way of governance. On the other hand, with the coastal areas, he was able to obtain large quantities of supplies and wealth through overseas trade, ensuring a source of military supplies.

With the gradual understanding of the domestic situation, Lin Xiao has become more and more soberly aware of the rotten rot of the Nanming bureaucracy, and he is also revising his future struggle policy step by step.

The great Ming scholar doctor, who talks about his heart and soul on weekdays, is an elegant person when he is in danger, a widow observes the festival without hesitation, and a Confucian traitor scrambles to be the first.

In addition to corruption and bribery, civilian officials don't know anything serious, and the generals have long lost their bloodiness when they have knelt for civilian officials for hundreds of years, and it's okay to bully the people, and it's a joke to go into battle and fight.

"The county order of the broken family, the government Yin who destroys the door", if the people do not obey, they will break the house at the least, and destroy the door at the worst, so that the liberated area will be handed over to these people again? Rule the world with them?

No matter how much food there is, what is the use of not being able to distribute it to the people? The people are desperately working in exchange for a lack of food, what do they rely on to unite the people?

It is the human heart that really needs to be saved today!

The world is the world of China, not the world of the Zhu family, they shed blood and sweat, not to regain the world for the Zhu family, but for the people of the whole world, to win a living space.

Now, Lin Xiao's goal is not just to drive the Manchus away, his eyes have long been aimed at the vast ocean.

In order to unify his thoughts, recently, when Lin Xiao was on the phone with his brothers, he talked about his thoughts more than once:

"Brothers, we have to hurry up and speed up the pace of progress."

"Keeping the people in the country fed and clothed is only the first step in our task, and there are more important things waiting for us to do in the future."

"In the far west, those white-skinned guys have explored the whole world, they know what the world is like, and we are still fighting with the barbarians of the north, fighting with our own nests."

"When we finish fighting, those territories have also been robbed by them, can we only nest on this continent, and imagine that we are the central country, the center of the world every day?"

"Can we let this history repeat itself? Of course not! In that case, what's the point of us traveling back? ”

"We Chinese, standing tall in the sky, we get rich, we rely on our own hands, we rely on hardships and suffering, we develop strong, it is natural and righteous, we never want to dominate the world, but we never give in to power, we want to beat them down before their strong ships and cannons arrive!"

"If you can shout out that the princes and princes have a kind of nation, do you think that some countries are born to be God's favorites? Born to be a king? ”

"Brothers, we must completely knock over the hegemonism that is riding on the heads of the people of the world in our lifetime, and then take advantage of the situation to step on it."

"Let us set our hearts for heaven and earth, establish our lives for the people, continue to learn for the saints, and open peace for all generations!"

"Come on, brothers! This is my Lin Xiao's political confession! ”

(Question: Liu Xulei helped Jiao Lian conquer Nanchang, where does Feng Suqin want to attack except for the several counties that have been recovered?) ）