Ten days later!

There was good news from the front line, Liu Guoneng, like the Zheng family, accepted Zhao'an in advance. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Liu Guoneng, a native of Yan'an, Shaanxi, nicknamed Chuang Collapse, was the leader of the peasant rebel army in the late Ming Dynasty, and later recruited an allegiance to the imperial court.

In the original history, he was in Suizhou in the first month of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, and immediately told Xiong Wencan that "the foolish people have been trapped in injustice for ten years, and Lai Gonghao has been reborn." I wish all of you to join the military and do your best. ”

Xiong Wencan was overjoyed, comforted him, and signed it as a garrison, so that he was subordinate to Zuo Liangyu. From then on, Liu Guoneng was constrained by the imperial court and no longer had different aspirations.

And now, this history has changed, and he accepted Zhao'an a few years in advance. Obviously, there are also the historical effects and consequences brought by Zhu Zilong.

However, Zhang Xianzhong was still resisting, suffered a defeat in Jiangbei, and went to Huguang. ran all the way to Valley City, which can be regarded as a temporary settlement.

Yang Sichang's ten-sided ambush plan has achieved great success. Li Zicheng was dying, Liu Guoneng surrendered, and Zhang Xianzhong was trapped in Gucheng. The other rebel teams were all small units, and they were beaten out of shape.

After Liu Guoneng surrendered, Ma Shixiu and Du Yingquan also surrendered.

It can be said that Zhang Xianzhong at this time was very hard, in the words of the textbook. The "revolutionary cause" has entered a low ebb. Surrender, with Zhu Zilong's murderous aura, it is estimated that he will be killed halfway without recruiting An.

After all, this product has pushed the grave of the old Zhu family in the central capital, and the hundred officials can't find a scapegoat!

Therefore, he cannot surrender and has to continue to fight for the cause.

However, if there is no miracle, it is probably a cup.

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At this time, Zhu Zilong didn't care about him.

Instead, I put my mind on the canal. He, the governor of the five provinces, simply chose the provinces to be determined by the five provinces along the canal.

The so-called canal is also called the Grand Canal, or the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

It is the world's longest mileage, the largest ancient canal, and one of the oldest canals, together with the Great Wall and Karez, known as the three great projects in ancient China, and has been used to this day.

It is a great project created by the ancient Chinese working people and one of the symbols of China's cultural status.

The Grand Canal starts from Yuhang (now Hangzhou) in the south, reaches Zhuojun (now Beijing) in the north, passes through the four provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong, Hebei and Tianjin and Beijing, and runs through the five major water systems of Haihe, Yellow River, Huai River, Yangtze River and Qiantang River, with a total length of about 1,797 kilometers.

It has played a huge role in the economic and cultural development and exchanges between the northern and southern regions of China, especially the development of the industrial and agricultural economy along the Belt and Road.

On June 22, 2014, the 38th session of the World Heritage Committee announced that China's Grand Canal project was successfully inscribed on the World Cultural Heritage List, becoming the 46th World Heritage Site in China.

In the early seventh century AD, after the reign of Emperor Yang of Sui, the capital was moved to Luoyang.

In order to control the vast area south of the Yangtze River and transport the abundant materials from the Yangtze River Delta region to Luoyang, Emperor Yang of Sui ordered the excavation of the "Yongji Canal" about 1,000 kilometers long from Luoyang through Linqing in Shandong to Zhuo County in Hebei Province (southwest of present-day Beijing) in 603 AD!

It can be said that in the general environment of the sea ban, there was no comprehensive liberation.

This was the aorta of the Ming Dynasty, just like the largest blood vessel in the human body. Whoever controls the Grand Canal controls the largest transportation in the Ming Dynasty.

The control of the Grand Canal, and the support of the queen regent, and now the Houjin has also been beaten away, and it is still during the civil strife for the throne.

Zhu Zilong felt that his time was ripe to start the Canal A plan in advance.

Jining, Shandong!

It is located in the southwest of Shandong Province, at the junction of Shandong, Suzhou, Henan and Anhui provinces. One of the most important transit areas in the middle of the Grand Canal!

It's busy on the docks, and usually no one stops the card here, but today is different.

Zhu Jiajun, a village warrior, suddenly appeared here wearing clothes with the word chengguan.

Ahead, a cargo ship was stopped.

A man dressed in silk appeared on the boat and shouted on it: "This is the ship of the grandfather of the country, and you dare to stop it?" ”

However, this time it was an old officer in the Zhu family's army who led the team, not to mention the grandfather of the country or something, as long as Zhu Zilong gave the order, even the emperor would dare to fight. So, the next minute.

More than a dozen soldiers fired directly into the sky, and the sound of thumping was terrifying.

Then, he rushed to the boat and knocked the man who had just pretended to be more than the man to the ground. After the fight, it was not enough, but he also said loudly: "Listen well, because the details of Houjin and the canal are overwhelmed, and the passing ships will be inspected from now on according to the order of the Governor and the Marquis." According to the size of the canal pollution control fee, that is, the centi, the gold also, those who resist and do not obey, will be killed on the spot. ”

"I think you dare?" The man who was beaten still wanted to pretend, but as soon as he finished speaking, another team of soldiers went up and directly beat him screaming.

A literati like this is brain-dead, but he has to be unreasonable, just beat.

It is estimated that no one here understands the cost of canal pollution control proposed by Zhu Zilong, but the word centijin is believed to be understood by a person in the Ming Dynasty.

Centigold, also known as donation.

Originally, centigold was generally divided into centi, and sat centi, which was divided into centi. The former is a passing tax, levied on goods in transit, and drawn from merchants; The latter is a transaction tax, which is levied at the place of origin or sale, and is drawn from the merchants.

Just to take the name of pollution control fees, in fact, it means that half of the cottage collects commercial tax.

This even stopped the goods of Grandpa Guo's house, and he didn't let him go without paying. Other businessmen, under the bayonet, dare not say a single more.

So, one by one, they began to pay in order.

And Hu Hansan is one such businessman.

He paid the money, took the so-called bills, and hurried on the road, leaving Jining and going north along the river. In other parts of the canal, there were similar chengguan officers and soldiers to inspect them. When he complained in his heart that he was about to break his fortune again, the chengguan looked at his bills and did not collect the money again.

At this moment, Hu Hansan was dumbfounded.

This is not scientific, according to the bird nature of officials and soldiers in other places in the Ming Dynasty, shouldn't the charges be repeated at this time?

When did the officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty become so incorruptible, isn't this scientific?

Then walk along the canal, this way, show the documents, all the way to Texas unimpeded. There is no difficulty at all!

At this time, many businessmen like Hu Hansan were surprised.

And, if you take a closer look at the cost, hey, it's several times less than before. It turns out that the benefits of paying taxes are greater than not paying taxes?

Then we are still opposed, what are we going to do with this business tax?

In the past, this shipload passed through Shandong to other provinces, and now it has to spend thirty or forty taels to dot up and down, and this trip only pays five taels of tax. It's all over the Grand Canal, it's really worth it!

Not all merchants were big landowners and big merchants, and in the Ming Dynasty there were also many merchants who were small merchants, like Hu Hansan.

They will all be careful in their calculations, no, after comparison, they find that within the five provinces and the Grand Canal managed by Zhu Zilong, it seems that it is not unacceptable to collect taxes. Only less, save trouble, save money, save trouble, real TM calculation!

What, you say that other big landowners don't think it's calculated?

What does that have to do with us, they don't usually take care of our business.

Of course, along the way, there were also many officials' caravans that rebelled against those who did not pay taxes, and as a result, many were captured and imprisoned along the way.

This matter was passed on to Zhu Zilong.

He yawned and replied: "As long as you don't pay the money, you just have to do things, and if you offend people, Benhou will carry it." The rules and regulations formulated at the Caoyun meeting should be resolutely implemented. Those who resolutely resist can be shot on the spot. I don't believe it, on the territory of the Ming Dynasty, there is still the army and caravan guards, and they don't take the national law and the Zhu family army into account? ”

- (To be continued.) )