After resting for several days, Yun Xi officially recovered on June 25 and began to ascend to the court and officially take over the great empire in the world. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

And the day before, Yun Xi assessed the current Ming Empire, in the way he was used to.

The latest census shows that in the 26th year of Hongwu, there were 10,652,870 households and 60,545,820 people in the Ming Dynasty.

The total number of fields in the country is 8,577,623 hectares. Hongwu paid taxes for 30 years, more than 29.4 million stone of grain, and more than 5 million yuan of various things.

After inquiring about the "History of the Song Dynasty", Yun Xi found that there was still a big gap between the Ming Dynasty and the Great Song Dynasty. During the Tianxi period of the Song Dynasty (1017-1021), the total land of the Great Song Dynasty was more than 30 million hectares, and the tax was 150.85 million yuan.

Although the land in the Ming Dynasty was larger than that in the Song Dynasty, it was still much less than theirs, and the taxes were more than four times worse.

Of course, this has something to do with the fact that there are still few people in Daming. In the last years of the Song Dynasty Shenzong (reigned 1048-1085), there were 16,569,874 households in the country, which was 1.6 times that of the Ming Dynasty.

From the perspective of social composition, the Ming Dynasty is now dominated by huge homesteaders, mixed with a small number of large landlord classes similar to the Chang family. At this time, there was no later bureaucratic and large landlord class.

After analyzing it, Yun Xi believes that the reasons why there is no bureaucratic landlord class are: First, Lao Zhu has become more strict in the management of the bureaucratic class, so that they dare not deprive the common people of their land through various means without permission.

The second is that after the land is divided into acres and the gentry pay the grain in one piece, it becomes unprofitable to donate the land to the official eunuchs, so the common people are unwilling to do such things.

Third, Yun Xi thinks the most important reason now, that is, there are too few people now! The territory of the Ming Dynasty is still above the Great Song Dynasty, but the population is only 60 million.

Now a lot of land reclaimed in the Ming Dynasty is in a barren state because there are not enough people. If there are fewer people and more land, labor is more important than the fields, and when a large number of fields are barren, who will rent someone else's land?

This was a great good thing for the rulers of an agrarian society in general.

However, for Yun Hee, who wants to develop outward, the population is too small, which means that there is not too much population to fill the vast land overseas.

Of course, Yunxi wants to develop sea power to grab the land of primitive people who are still in a primitive state and difficult to define in a cultural sense.

Yun Xi believes that it is very stupid to not give priority to the development of sea power, but to stay on the mainland, and gnaw on the hard bones of the Mongolian steppe and Central Asia.

When the national strength is exhausted in order to gnaw hard bones, you will find that the sea has been occupied by the Europeans, and China has lost the opportunity to formulate world rules and expand the territory of the Han people.

The Northeast region is not a hard bone at this time, but the input-output ratio is still not as good as that of Jingluo Nanyang, so it is also placed in a secondary position.

Therefore, in addition to focusing on the development of sea power, Yunxi should also encourage childbirth, and Yunxi has thought of several ways to encourage childbirth, just waiting to implement it.

But it is not enough to have people alone, it depends on whether people can do it.

When Napoleon was crisscrossing Europe, the Europeans in the whole of Southeast Asia did not know if there were three thousand? The Han Chinese definitely exceeded three million, but they were willing to live under the hands of Europeans, and were finally defeated by the Europeans who came to their senses.

Fortunately, the people of China have not experienced more than 200 years of domestication in the Ming Dynasty and more than 200 years of enslavement in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and their personality independence is much stronger than that of the Han people in the late Qing Dynasty, and even stronger than the people of the 21st century.

Why is the Chinese army increasingly unable to fight? Because the imperial power in China was too prosperous, since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty completely abolished the feudal system and implemented centralized power, the imperial power has completely lost its checks and balances.

And the result is that as long as the emperor is the emperor, he cannot tolerate the border army being good at fighting, because once the border army can fight, not to mention the generals, they will frequently provoke wars, in case they turn their guns and rebel, it will be over.

The emperor's pro-army lives in the capital, and there has been no war for a long time, and the dogs and horses are in the dark, and it will only be inferior to the next generation, and once the pro-army degenerates, the armies in other places will also be weakened accordingly. In order to stabilize the center, the emperor will never allow other departments to be stronger than the pro-army, so that one generation is not as good as the next, and by the end of the dynasty, the army is all flowery, and even after one or two dynasties, the army can no longer fight.

Successive emperors also did not allow the country to have forces that were not controlled by the central court. In order to gain control, the system of flowing officials must be implemented, and what is the purpose of the officials, the real intention is to flatten the local powerful and powerful, so that they will not commit rebellion.

Based on this principle, the weaker the people, the better the government will 'manage', and the more the government 'manages', the weaker the people will be.

It's not that the Han people can't fight, it's that the discipline and education of the dynasties make them not know how to resist.

Fortunately, the local Haoqiang clan will also rebel. Therefore, this process was extremely slow, during the Wuhu Rebellion, there was Ran Min who led the Han people to resist, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty was able to rely on the Jiang and Huai to hold the south of the Yangtze River.

By the time of the Tang Dynasty, the emperor also delegated power to the border generals, although it eventually led to the Anshi Rebellion.

The Song Dynasty strengthened its control over the country, so since the Pingbei Han Dynasty, the Song Dynasty's foreign offensive wars were basically not won.

But at this time, it was only the bureaucratic class that completely softened, and the people still had the heart, so Yue Fei and others led part of the defeated army to organize the people to defeat the army of the Jin State.

At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, China was the country that persisted in resisting the Mongols for the longest time. At this time, the Han people were probably the most organized and daring to resist in the world.

I've heard two little stories. A Mongol met four big cannibals in the desert and wanted to kill them, but when he touched his waist, he found that he did not have a knife with him, so he said: "I want to kill you, but I forgot to bring a knife, you wait, I will go back and get the knife, and I will come back to kill you later." Then he left.

Only one of the four big cannibals ran away, and the remaining three were all waiting here obediently to be killed.

Another story. A few Mongols entered a small village in Eastern Europe, and the villagers were trembling and brought out the best things to entertain them. When the Mongols had eaten and drunk enough, they set fire to the village and killed people.

There were hundreds of people in the entire village, and no one wanted to resist, so they would just run away or stay where they were and be killed.

And the Mongols, not knowing what they had in mind, did not carry out a mass massacre of the Song people, who resisted the most. According to records, the population of the Southern Song Dynasty decreased by only 26%, while the territory of the former Jin Kingdom in the north decreased by 89%, and more than 1 million people were killed by 30 million people in Central Asia.

During the expedition of the eldest son, the Mongols slaughtered the people of Krakkov, the capital of Poland at that time, and in the attack on the Balkans, they also continued to slaughter cities.

Moreover, the Mongols did not establish a nationwide rule, and basically adopted a system of local self-government, especially in the southern regions, as long as they paid enough taxes, they were all governed by themselves.

Of course, if you don't pay enough taxes, then the Mongol army will have to talk to you.

Therefore, after more than 100 years of rule by the Meng Yuan, the spirit of resistance of the Han people has not been curtailed much. In history, the domestication of the common people really began from Zhu Yuanzhang, and the domestication of the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years.

However, the Ming Dynasty is its own regime, and after Zhu Yuanzhang, it cannot use too drastic measures, mainly to continue to 'de-martial arts'.

After the Manchu Qing came, the strictest enslavement began. The Manchus created a state that could be compared to India, unprecedented in the history of China, and if it were not for foreign invasion, the Manchus could have continued their rule for many years, and it would have been difficult to overthrow.

However, this led to the complete backwardness of China in the world, and since then it has lost its cultural self-confidence, and has blindly learned from the West after experiencing a huge shock.

The situation between the East and the West is very different, and some of the so-called modern moral concepts in the West are not suitable for the situation in China at all, and the most typical one is the abolition of the joint sitting system.

According to the Western view, people are independent, so only one person is punished for committing a crime. But this is not the case in the East, how many people are abducted and deceived and are willing to go to prison and then let their families live a good life? Numerous! Therefore, the system of joint sitting will never be abolished! At the very least, parents, children and siblings should be implicated.

It seems to be a bit off, but what Yun Xi wants to express is that the Han people at this time can still afford the heavy responsibility of immigration. As long as Yunxi solves one more problem, he can rest assured that he will be able to immigrate overseas to the people in China.

It is a question of the unity of the people, not to the point of fratricidal slaughter. History has shown that it is much more ruthless for immigrant groups united by region and clan to kill other Han Chinese than outsiders.

The temporary solution that Yun Xi came up with was religion, which had been proven effective by the Great Cannibals and Europeans.

The most suitable method is actually to shape the views of the country and the nation, but this is very difficult, and I am afraid that Yun Xi will not see much effect in his lifetime, so he can only use religion.

What is the way to form a broader group? It's about finding more common ground. Imagine that one group of immigrants meets another group of immigrants and they start a conversation and say, "I worship the Jade Emperor." The person on the other side also said, "Oh, I also worship the Jade Emperor!" "That's where we find common ground.

Then, the local natives believe in the Heavenly Religion, doesn't this distinguish between inside and outside?

In addition, the Chinese people have always not believed in religion, most of them are shallow believers, and only a very small number of devout believers do not have to worry about the situation of divine power challenging the imperial power, and can only be used as a local check and balance, and this can just supervise the misdeeds of the local government.

In fact, the clan is the best check and balance for the local government, but the shortcomings of the clan have just been mentioned, so Yunxi can't support the clan.

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After chatting about people's problems, Yun Xi began to think about the political system again.

I have already talked about the disadvantages of the liuguan system, but Yunxi can't give up the liuguan system. Yun Xi is not very worried about the reduction of his power, at least not for now, but the local official system will inevitably lead to a large-scale reduction in taxes.

The series of policies that Yun Xi wanted to implement required a lot of investment, and some of the policies he wanted to implement, although beneficial to the Han people in the long run, would inevitably go against local interests and general ideas.

Yun Xi now has a sense of mission, feeling like Peter the Great, who wants to pull the nobles and common people full of rotten thoughts forward.

Just as Peter the Great moved the capital from Moscow to St. Petersburg, using imperial power to forcibly push the country forward.

Therefore, in the hinterland, it is necessary to implement the system of exile officials, so that local religious groups and powerful forces that have not yet been eliminated can supervise them.

When it comes to the official system, we cannot fail to mention the imperial examination system. Many people can't imagine that the real Confucianism is against the imperial examination system.

Zhu Xi, a great Confucian in the Song Dynasty, believed that the best system was the selection of the township residence, that is, the inspection system of the two Han Dynasty. Even the nine-rank Zhongzheng system of the Wei and Jin dynasties was better than the imperial examination system.

He also believed: According to the path of the imperial examination system, my Great Song Dynasty will definitely not be able to recover the northern homeland, and if we want to restore Bianjing, we must abolish the imperial examination system, restore the inspection system, and then defeat the Jin State in a few decades.

It's amazing, Zhu Xi's "Four Books and Chapters and Sentences" is the standard question bank and answer for the current imperial examination, but he scolded the imperial examination system the most.

In the imperial examination system, the selection of people is actually smart people, or people who can endorse books and take exams, but it does not mean that these people will govern the locality, let alone that they have enough character to be officials. This has led to the occurrence of 'thousands of miles of officials are only for money'.

As long as the country is not too bad, everyone must have the ability to govern or have high morals.

This is also the reason why the "Book of Han" and "Book of the Later Han" violently criticized the problem of corruption, but in fact, the corruption at that time was much better than that of the Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties.

And the Jiupin Zhongzheng system is another logic. Although the Jiupin Zhongzheng system leads to 'the upper grade has no poor family, and the lower grade has no scholars,' but this makes these scholars not have to worry about the livelihood of their descendants, so they will not be corrupt.

At the same time, the nobles will also compete with each other, and those who have no ability will not be able to be the chief officer, at most they will hang up an idle position, or squat at home.

However, for the same reason, Yun Xi must be based on the imperial examination system, and then appropriately supplemented by other systems for electing officials. Regarding this, Yun Xi has not yet thought about it. However, in the Lao Zhu era, in addition to the imperial examination system, there were various official election systems, so there was no need to worry about too strong resistance.

From the central level, Yun Xi believes that the best political system in Chinese history is the system from the early Han Dynasty to the early Han Dynasty to the early Han Dynasty, because at that time, the imperial power was checked and balanced, and there was a group of honors and nobles to check and balance.

And at that time, the noble group was not like a military merit to be knighted, and there were many civil officials who were knighted, which was a healthy aristocratic system.

There are checks and balances on imperial power, and the emperor is of course unhappy, but it is good for the country. Now Yunxi must shape the system of checks and balances while he is still sober and not lost in power.

The feudal system to be implemented in some border areas is one of the checks and balances on imperial power. In Yunxi's lifetime, perhaps they had very little checks and balances on the central government, but with time, coupled with the real aristocracy that Yunxi wanted to cultivate, similar to the two Han Dynasty, an effective system of checks and balances would eventually be formed, and the people's culture would not be weakened.