It seems that in history, the whole Chongzhen thirteen years of the year is still very bad, the successive bad years have entered the third year, even Su Song and other places that have regained the status of the granary of the world over the years have also suffered a large scale of floods, although there is no drought in the north and other places at the level of the early years, but the drought is still raging along with the locust plague. In this year in history, the peasant movement, which had been suppressed by the three salaries and factions, intensified again with the increase in border troubles in the north.

It's just that at this moment, it all seems to be gone. After three successive internal wars and countless small-scale internal strife and quelling chaos in the past ten years, the entire structure of the Ming Dynasty, which is still nominally still alive, has been reborn to a large extent, and the entire ruling structure and even the political foundation have undergone a change of blood that is even more than the ordinary change of dynasty. The wealth and class structure of the world has also changed greatly.

At the same time, the successive "patrols and purges" from the eleventh year of Chongzhen to the twelfth year of Chongzhen have made the originally very sloppy and simple and even very immature political structure at least become efficient in a short period of time.

It was also at this time that the mass media "Central Monthly" also published an article signed by Xiao Xuan himself: Heaven has its way, and man will win the day. Without any scruples, he launched a critique of the so-called "heaven and man induction" theory. And believe that everything that runs in nature has its own laws. People have joys and sorrows, and the moon is cloudy and sunny, but there is no inevitable relationship between the two. There will still be countless tragedies in the world when the moon is bright, and there will still be tyrannical squires who will cause countless human tragedies in the past when the wind and rain are good. If God needs to warn with the lives of hundreds of people, it is a manifestation of no way, such as Dayu as a virtuous monarch can always lead the people to sweep away the bane of the world and minimize the harm of natural disasters. Tianxingjian, a gentleman should strive for self-improvement is the eternal law of the world.

If this had been said in the past, I am afraid that it would not be convincing, and maybe there will be some special people who have been led to Beijing to come to Beijing, and even some things such as the map of displaced people will be dedicated. However, in the past few years, due to various reasons, many contrasts have been too obvious, and next year there will be many disasters year after year, but because of various rectifications and foreign finances such as thorough renovation and even overseas interests, although the people's livelihood situation has not recovered from the most prominent time a few decades ago or in line with the best places, the changes brought about have begun to dwarf all those who plan to talk about natural disasters for many years.

Xiao Xuan therefore unceremoniously pursued and vigorously pursued and published a second editorial in the month after the autumn harvest and near the New Year: Who is the source of suffering, and did not hesitate to point out that the middle and lower management, the vassals of the noble and the rich, which are difficult for ordinary emperors to control, are the source of suffering. The suffering of the people in the Spring and Autumn Period of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Warring States Period was not in the scourge of war, but in the aristocracy. The vast majority of the turmoil of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms is not in the extravagance of the Son of Heaven, but in the powerful family and the gate valve. Since the Tang and Song dynasties, the people's sufferings have been divided into three natural disasters and military disasters, and seven points have been divided into squires and magnates; Since the Ming Dynasty, it was the exuberance of the monarch's power that brought about various interest groups and even clan groups, which were largely contained. However, the clan is decaying, the civil and military are decaying, and only by coming from the power of the people and truly realizing Wen Yanbo's counterwords: the Son of Heaven and the people rule the world together, not with the powerful, can the interests of the world be ensured to the greatest extent...

This so-called "monarchical supremacy", Xiao Xuan, the "emperor-only view of history" in the style of the February River pigtail play, also used to be a little disapproving, feeling that in the eyes of modern people, this is a feudal remnant, and it is "the foolish thinking of anti-corrupt officials and not anti-emperor". However, it is only through my own experience over the years and careful reflection on many East Asian societies and their histories from modern times to modern times that I have found that even in the capitalist era, the monarchy is, to a large extent, a link in the balance of interests that are indispensable for the development of those per capita resources that are simply not comparable to those of ordinary developing countries such as the United States or Australia, Canada, and Sweden. Perhaps under the backward conditions of Confucianism-style feudal society and even ancient China, it is the fundamental reason for the "unbearable Feila", but when the rapid transition to modern times, how many civilizations can confidently get rid of the dependence on the so-called "Ming Jun"? There is no system that can guarantee the rise of civilization, and civilization, like the success or failure of man, often depends on this seemingly unreliable luck. I'm afraid this is also the reason why there are still many parliamentary, democratic, and constitutional currents in many historical spaces in Xiao Xuan's impression, but the atmosphere has changed later.

In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the financial system began to be significantly different from the past, in the case of continuous natural disasters. Although we dare not say that the whole society has undergone radical changes, the fiscal revenue has been relatively balanced for the first time in the situation of continuous use of troops and many natural disasters, and the overdraft has been reduced to about 4 million compared with the cost of converting the price of 91 million stone grain.

Among them, the "cost of political rule" from the judiciary to the administration and then to the administration has not decreased much, and even increased a lot compared with a few years ago, about 25,000 catties of grain to support a total of about 300,000 internal and external affairs, law halls, and grassroots officials; However, compared with most of the previous dynasties, the military burden in the domestic region has been greatly reduced in the face of successive wars against foreign countries, because the modern military system has made it possible to make the proportion of war-worthy in most cases much higher, and the number of empty salaries has also been reduced a lot, and the army and navy, which have a total of 350,000 people supported by the price of only 20 million catties of grain, have effectively fulfilled many combat missions in internal affairs and foreign wars.

In this case, Xiao Xuan also has as much as 30 million 200 catties of capital at the price of grain for the expenses of various expenditure items such as education, industrial and commercial investment, and heavy awards. If we get rid of some of the compromises that have had to be made in these bad years, there is no doubt that the overall fiscal capacity will catch up with the historical peak in the near future. This is not the product of exhaustion, but the economy itself has begun to have a lot of internal dynamics that did not exist in the old era.

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