Since June, many things have happened in the Forbidden City.

However, whether it was the dismissal of Wang Zunde, the governor of Guangdong, because of the civil unrest in Guangdong, or the removal of a group of missionaries such as Long Huamin to the northwest to preach, or the establishment of the Huangming Institute of Technology, to improve the status of craftsmen and technicians, so that the artisan household and craftsman registration system was almost abolished, it did not have any impact on the lives of the people in Beijing.

The weather in Kyoto is still hot, and the market is still bustling.

However, although the small people of Shengdou did not care about the major events of the imperial court that took place in the Forbidden City, they still saw the more and more changes that took place in the market near the left of the capital division.

The rising price of food in Beijing during the Apocalypse has rarely risen so wildly since the current emperor ascended the throne, although it has also fluctuated slightly, but in general, it has been going down.

In particular, after a large number of new Fanbang agricultural products were popularized in Gyeonggi, although the peddlers and pawns in the streets and alleys still lived a tight life, it was no longer a luxury to eat a full meal every day.

For ordinary people, of course, polished rice and white noodles are still a rare luxury for a year, and only when weddings, funerals, and festivals can they be eaten once or twice.

However, coarse grains such as sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn, which are inexpensive, have gradually entered the homes of ordinary people and have become the main food for ordinary people to harvest in autumn and winter.

As for how to store and eat, there is no need for the emperor to worry about it.

The wisdom of the Chinese in this regard is absolutely second to none in this world, and there is no need for the emperor to worry about it at all.

Sorghum and millet, which used to be the daily staple food of the people in the north, are becoming more and more rare.

Because a large number of mountainous, sloping and dry lands that were used to grow sorghum and millet have now been planted with potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn that are more productive and more cold and drought tolerant.

The restructuring of the health center in Gyeonggi has also been successfully completed.

The tenants who had been reduced to the Governor's Office and its subordinate guards, and even the Gyeonggi Guard's military households, who were serfs, were also reclaimed or redistributed their land.

Therefore, since the end of last year, a large number of military households in Gyeonggi and poor tenants and peasants who cultivated land for the nobles of Gyeonggi have immediately become enthusiastic about farming after receiving the land.

Now, after harvesting the winter wheat that was planted after the autumn harvest last year, and under the guidance of the Governor of Naoli and the government at all levels, corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes have been planted non-stop, and the people of Gyeonggi are finally full of hope for their future life.

As the so-called cangli knows etiquette, food and clothing are sufficient and knows honor and disgrace, after eating a full stomach, he will naturally not take risks and make something wrong.

And Emperor Chongzhen's previous will to Nan Juyi, the governor of Zhili, made the people in the jurisdiction of the Zhili Governor's Mansion continue to be enthusiastic about growing grain.

Because now this Emperor Chongzhen, after Nan Juyi took over as the governor of Zhili, he asked him to quietly suspend the "law of whips" within the jurisdiction of the Zhili Governor's Mansion.

The so-called "whip method", that is, Zhang Juzheng's famous "whip method", its biggest feature is that the grain is changed to silver, that is, the true color is changed to folded color.

Before the passage of a whip law, the people planted grain and paid grain, except for the Ding tax and silver, the rest of the service was to pay grain and fold grain, as long as the people planted grain, no matter what the price of grain was, they could still hand over things, and there was a way to live.

However, after the passage of a whip law, the imperial court combined the field tax and the ding tax, and changed them to collect silver.

Including all kinds of conscription, which used to be replaced by grain, but now if you want to serve in the army, you also need to pay money to the government, so that the government can hire people to serve in the service.

In this way, when the imperial court collected the summer and autumn taxes, it was all changed to collect silver.

In terms of convenience, it is indeed a lot more convenient, not only to facilitate the development of industry and commerce, no longer to tie people to the land, but also to simplify the process and links of tax collection, but also to make the imperial court's tax and silver income, in just a few years greatly increased a lot, the number of silver deposits in the household Taicang has risen sharply.

However, after the implementation of a whip law, those ordinary people who honestly farmed the land, especially the grain, were unlucky.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, commerce developed rapidly, and silver was becoming increasingly scarce, and when the peasants paid taxes in summer and autumn, grain was concentrated on the market, and the price could not be high, and there was not much cash in exchange.

However, the government's land taxes and levies were all collected in silver, and the common people who honestly farmed the land had to sell their grain for silver in order to pay the taxes and silver on time, so that the peasants' lives became even more difficult.

What is even more odious is that after the implementation of a whip law, the problem of the people's fire consumption of paying taxes and silver immediately spread "blatantly" and "justifiably".

Local officials began to collect more in the name of levying fire consumption, and many local peasants demanded all the fire consumption silver

It was more than the tax silver itself of the total amount of the field tax tax.

Over time, farmers in the Jiangnan region, which was originally the main grain producing area, began to plant mulberry, hemp, cotton, tea, medicine and other cash crops, because this thing is more valuable than simply planting grain.

Therefore, decades after the whip law was passed, not only the silver shortage problem of the Ming Dynasty was not effectively solved, but at the same time, there was an increasingly serious and dangerous food shortage.

Therefore, in the final analysis, the problem of grain shortage in the late Ming Dynasty was of course due to the serious annexation of land, and the problem that a large number of peasants lost their land, while the gentry class who owned a large amount of land did not pay taxes, but it also had a great deal to do with the decline in the peasants' desire to grow grain under the passage of a whip law.

Therefore, if the silver shortage at the end of the Ming Dynasty is relative, then the grain shortage at the end of the Ming Dynasty is absolute.

The problem of silver shortage can also be gradually alleviated by minting Chongzhen silver dollars containing eighty or even seventy percent of silver.

However, if the problem of grain shortage cannot be solved fundamentally from the tax system, it will become an inextricable dead knot, and it will not be able to fundamentally solve the problem by simply relying on the purchase of grain from the South Seas or the promotion of high-yield crops.

Therefore, in order to solve the problem of grain shortage at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it is not only necessary to let the army lay more land and distribute it to the landless displaced people in the Ming Dynasty to cultivate, but also to further promote high-yield crops so that the grain output can be increased, and in the final analysis, it is still necessary to find a way from the root of the tax system.

And now after the Chongzhen Emperor told this truth to Nan Juyi, the governor of Zhili, he quickly won Nan Juyi's support.

In fact, for the traditional scholars and doctors from the landlord class in the north, it was also unfavorable for them to change the land tax to the collection of silver.

After all, as long as you own land, as long as you grow food, you can have as much as you want, but silver is not so easy to get.

Because the silver is more in the hands of those who are not engaged in agricultural production but in commerce.

In the eyes of traditional scholars who relied on farming and reading heirlooms, the merchant class at the end of the original Four Peoples was the biggest beneficiary of a whip law.

This is also one of the reasons why Zhang Juzheng was trying to implement a whip law all over the world, but was widely opposed.

Emperor Chongzhen asked Nan Juyi to implement the tax reform in Beizhili, which is very simple, that is, in the name of sympathizing with the hardships of the people, exempt the Ding tax, and only collect the land tax, and the people's land is also everything in terms of grain.

Whether it is the millions of displaced people who have been resettled in the entire Beizhili one after another, or the military households who have regained land after the restructuring of the health center, or the noble families and official gentry families, from the time of the summer and autumn taxes of the second year of Chongzhen, all the prefectures and counties in the north Zhili have been exempted from Ding Yin, and the field endowment has also been changed from the original silver to grain.

Specific to each mu of land, whether to levy five buckets or one stone, of course, there is no need for Emperor Chongzhen to have a headache, this problem is naturally handed over to Nan Juyi and his Zhili Governor's Mansion according to the current Mu yield of North Zhili to calculate the standard of expropriation.

However, Emperor Chongzhen made a big principle clear to him, that is, all those who grow new crops such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn will be taxed one out of ten, and all traditional crops such as rice, wheat, sorghum, and millet will be taxed at ten and two.

This is tantamount to encouraging the people of the prefectures and counties of Beizhili to grow more high-yield coarse grains in disguise.

The Ming Dynasty had a preferential amount of tax reduction and exemption for the clan Zhuangtian, for the princes and princes, the noble family and the officials and gentry at all levels.

However, the clan farms in Gyeonggi no longer exist, and after the killing of a group of noble families in Gyeongshi last year, the number of farms of the Gyeongshi nobles has not only decreased greatly, but most of them have begun to turn to industry and commerce, whether it is to pay taxes, silver or grain, under the eyes of today's Gyeongying and the Guards, no one dares to stand up against it.

Therefore, since June, the collection of summer taxes in the state capitals of Beizhili has been very smooth, and the common people who have been allocated to the land, although they still have no silver in their hands, have harvested a lot of grain.

Nowadays, the government treasury warehouses at all levels in Beizhili directly collect grain, instead of collecting cash, and the common people no longer need to sell grain at a low price for silver to pay taxes in the summer and autumn grain harvest seasons.

In particular, there is no need to pay the so-called fire consumption that was abnormal before, so the enthusiasm for paying grain has never been higher.

After the conversion of the Tian Fu collected by the Zhili Governor's Mansion this year, the income of the entire summer tax was of course reduced, but when Emperor Chongzhen got the report from the Zhili Governor's Mansion, he was still very happy.

Of course, the more silver, the better, and now this Emperor Chongzhen is of course still very short of silver, but no matter how short he is of silver, it is not short of this hundred thousand silver dollars.

The most important thing is that the large amount of grain that filled the granaries of the state capitals and counties in Gyeonggi is not comparable to the extra charge of hundreds of thousands of silver dollars.