Seeing his son fall to the ground, Sun Li screamed, hurriedly helped Sun Yuan up from the ground, and kept reaching out to touch him: "Are you okay, but where are you hurt?" ”

Sun Yuan rushed his mother like that, jumped up from the ground with a smile, and then moved his limbs exaggeratedly: "Mother, your son is in good health, and it's not made of porcelain, how can it break when he falls?" You see, I've been a lot stronger lately. ”

As he spoke, he made another muscular man's appearance and showed his biceps to his mother.

It didn't matter if it was this light, he himself was startled. Originally, his two arms did not rise or fall at all, from the shoulders to the wrists, like a burning stick. But now, when I exert myself, I have raised a small piece, although it is not very large, but it is also a little full.

The mother breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Don't make trouble, like a monkey." You are a scholar, what do you do with knives and guns all day long. Look at the adults in the yamen, who is not quite a big belly, thin arms and legs, that is called magnificent! Only the coolies who do rough work are covered in ugly tendon meat. ”

"This is also called magnificent, what kind of taste did the ancients have?" Sun Yuan was dumbfounded.

However, on second thought, it seems that this era has such an aesthetic orientation. Women are beautiful with weak wind, three-inch golden lotus, and pigeon milk. As for men, according to a book by Lu Xun, during the Ming and Qing dynasties, men, especially scholars, mostly had bee shoulders, as if they were not considered to be an elegant scholar with education and status.

Sun Yuan: "Mother, whether I am a scholar or not, it is always a good thing to practice a good body." ”

"You're not taking the test?" Sun Li was stunned and couldn't help asking.

"Not really." Sun Yuandao: "To tell the truth, this time I was able to pass the county test, because Zhou Zhixian had a good eye for his son." In fact, I know best what level my own family is, even if I read for another ten years, I will not be famous. Therefore, this thought, the son was broken. ”

"In this way, it's okay if you don't study, anyway, our family is poor, and we are outsiders, so we can't afford you to study." Mother's eyes darkened.

"Okay, okay, don't be sad, mother, your son is not the material for reading. Besides, there is more to the world than just reading. "It has been more than a month since he traveled to the Ming Dynasty, and in this more than a month, Sun Yuan got along with his mother day and night, and he had already accepted his mother in this life in his heart. Seeing that his mother was in a bad mood, he couldn't help but hug her and asked with a smile: "Mother, you ran home just now, and you looked very happy, but what is the happy event?" ”

Hugged by his son, Sun Li shouted repeatedly: "Yuan'er, see that you are covered in sweat and mud, let go of your mother, don't stain your mother's clothes." ”

"Huh." Sun Yuan laughed a few times, and then let his mother go.

"Look at you, you're so dirty." Sun Li's face was full of kindness, and he twisted a rag face towel that could not be seen in its original color, and wiped the sweat on Sun Yuan's back lovingly.

While wiping, he said: "My mother is in a good mood today." ”

"Oh, mother, tell me about it."

Sun Lishi: "Here's the thing, isn't our family going to finish the autumn grain of two taels of silver?" You borrowed two taels of silver from your brother-in-law last time, and recently you have spent some more, and you have finally made up enough by selling mats. However, with such a large amount of debt, it is estimated that it will take a year to repay it. However, this time is good, according to the villagers, this time the autumn grain sent by the government does not collect silver, only grain. This year is a good year, and it is a good year. The new grain is 30% cheaper than in previous years, and if we go to buy grain to pay the tax, we will have to save six dollars of silver. ”

Speaking of this, Sun Yuan's mother's eyes flashed with joy, and she recited Amitabha Buddha and said, "Yuan'er, according to my mother, this Zhou County Zun is a big clean official!" ”

"No cashiers, just Shinya?" Sun Yuan was puzzled.

In fact, in the early years of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the people's fields were basically levies. That is to say, if you grow wheat, at the time of the summer harvest, you need to pay a certain amount of wheat as the national tax of the imperial grain, if you are planting rice, you will pay the new grain after the autumn harvest, and if you are a hunter, then you will pay the fur, which is called the true color.

You can pay in kind, transfer to the center, and the consumption on the road and the expenditure of the porter are a large expense. Usually, ten percent of the grain will be consumed on the way to the capital, and there is not much that really fills the treasury.

It is about to see the drawbacks of this, during the Wanli Dynasty, Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the cabinet, simply converted all the field endowments and labor into cash, and did not levy taxes in kind, saving the cost of transportation and storage, which was called folding.

Once the state needs supplies, they directly spend money to buy them on the market.

This method is the famous "One Whip Law" in history.

It was also because of Zhang Juzheng's Longwan reform and the implementation of a whip law that the Ming Dynasty finally temporarily got rid of the dilemma of an empty treasury and continued the national fortune for decades.

This time, Yangzhou Mansion did not accept silver, but only collected Yellow Valley, Sun Yuan was surprised no matter how he looked at it.

"Yes, no silver." Sun Li smiled and said: "By the way, I have already agreed with the three families of Mao Lao at the head of the village, and after the autumn grain is dried, I will buy some millet from his family and hand it over to the official warehouse, which has more than 1,000 catties." My mother is a little old, and I want to ask you if you are better. If it really doesn't work, my mother will send it to ...... by car alone."

Before he finished speaking, Sun Yuan smiled and said, "Mother, don't worry, I'll go alone." ”

"You...... Is it done? ”

"Why not, look at the tendon meat that I just trained." Sun Yuan began to exaggerate the newly grown muscles on his body again, making his mother laugh incessantly.

After laughing for a long time, Sun Li wiped his eyes and stopped, with a trace of worry on his face: "Yuan'er, this autumn grain is collected by Mao Cheng." You offended him last time, so beware of him taking advantage of your troubles. ”

"Pretend, villain, don't be afraid of him." Sun Yuan smiled faintly and comforted his mother: "No matter how you say that my son can be regarded as a person who can speak well in Zhouzhi County, he doesn't dare to mess around." Of course, some small filths are still inevitable. ”

Sun Li hurriedly said: "Yuan'er, it would be good if this was the case. If it comes true and wants to find you some little dirt, you can bear it. Don't be as impulsive as last time. ”

"Mother, don't worry, my son can save it."

The new grain in the field has been harvested, and it is worthy of being a rich area in the south of the Yangtze River, and the harvest of the spring water is excellent. Wherever there is vacant land in the village, it has been opened up as a drying field, and even the courtyard of Sun Yuan's family has been lent to the three families of Mao Lao at the head of the village.

When the autumn grain is dried, you have to wait for a few days, and the sky is full of sunshine these days, but the wind is blowing with a chill, and it seems that this year's winter should come very early.

Sun Yuan still kept grinding his muscles and bones, but he didn't dare to be naked like before, if he caught a cold because of this, it would be troublesome.

In the past few days, he has also wondered why the government has started to levy the government. You must know that the "One Whip Law" has been implemented for almost 60 years, and relying on this tax law, the imperial court has gained great benefits. If the levy should be made in kind, wouldn't it have reduced a lot of fiscal revenue?

According to Sun Yuan's knowledge from later historical materials, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, there were very few areas where rice was collected in kind, and it was limited to a few counties in Suzhou that produced good rice, which was eaten as a tribute to the royal family.

And the rice produced here in Quanshuitai is basically equivalent to feed in the eyes of Sun Yuan, a small boss who is accustomed to eating Thai fragrant rice for six yuan a pound in later generations.

Naturally, such rice is not eligible as a tribute.

After thinking about it for a few days, Sun Yuan suddenly figured it out, and slapped his forehead suddenly: "But I forgot, it's now the seventh year of Chongzhen, it's been half a year since Caoyun was cut off, the north is already a piece of erosion, and the capital is short of materials, even if you get money, you have to come to the south to buy it, it's better to directly let the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River release grain into Beijing."

For the Ming Dynasty, according to later generations, it was quite sad.

First of all, there was civil strife, and not only did the peasant army's conquest and suppression not see any effect, but the war became bigger and bigger. Today, the peasant armies from all over Shanxi have burned the flames of war to Henan, the core area of the Ming Dynasty's rule, and the thirteen families and seventy-two battalions of peasant armies have gathered in Henan, turning the heart of the Central Plains into a blank land.

By the eighth year of Chongzhen, an army led by Zhang Xianzhong and Gao Yingxiang went out of Henan, occupied Fengyang, the central capital of the Ming Dynasty, set fire to the imperial tomb of Zhu Yuanzhang's parents and Longxing Temple, and played the banner of the Guyuan Zhenlong Emperor, completely tearing his face with the imperial court.

The change in Fengyang caused a great earthquake in the government and the opposition, and since then, no one dares to despise this peasant army. The Fengyang Revolution also marked that the civil strife in the Ming Dynasty had developed to the point of being out of control. Whether it is suppression or appeasement, both methods have declared complete failure.

Secondly, in May of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Hou Jin unexpectedly bypassed Shanhaiguan and entered the capital through Mongolia.

The Later Jin army galloped across Hebei, Jingshi, and Shandong for two months, and basically did not encounter any decent opponents. In fact, at this time, the Ming Dynasty had no troops available, so it could only hold on to the city and watch the enemy burn, kill and loot outside the city.

It was also because of this light-hearted armed parade that the Later Jin leader Huang Taiji saw through the weak nature of the Ming Dynasty. After returning to the north, in April of the ninth year of Chongzhen, he was called Emperor Kuan Wenren and officially called the emperor the founding of the country.

It can be said that the seven years of Chongzhen was a watershed for the Ming Dynasty that slipped from weakness to the abyss of national extinction.

It is precisely because Beijing, Hebei, Henan, and the northeast of Shandong have been turned into a northern land that the imperial court continues to replenish materials, so a certain amount of physical goods are levied in the Jiangnan region to supplement the state.

Thinking of the erosion of state affairs like this, Sun Yuan's heart suddenly became a little heavy.

I couldn't help but sigh and shook my head.

However, the major events of these countries have nothing to do with the current self, and the meat eaters seek it, but the current self needs to take care of his body and do something to change this lifeless life and improve the life of his family.

Only by doing this can we talk about anything else.