Ming History Museum, Ming History Museum opened the History Museum at the beginning of the second year of Shunzhi, because the political situation was undecided, Kangxi reopened the History Museum in four years, although it was opened twice, but because of the rebellion of the three feudatories and the atmosphere of anti-Qing restoration at that time, the Han people had few participants, so that the results were very small. In the eighteenth year of Kangxi, when the overall situation of pacifying the three feudatories had been decided, Kangxi reopened the history museum and organized scholars to revise the history of the Ming Dynasty on a large scale.

In the eighteenth year of Kangxi, a total of 50 people from the first to the second class were assigned to edit and review the officials, and directly entered the Ming History Museum to revise the history, mainly Tang Bin, Mao Qiling, Zhu Yizun, Pan Lei, You Dong, Shi Yanzhang, Wang Wan, Ni Cang, Fang Xiangying, Jiang Chenying, Yan Shensun, etc., all of whom were famous scholars and Confucians.

Although Wan Sitong, Huang Baijia and other great Confucians did not enter the history museum to receive the title, they participated in it with cloth clothes, and Wan Sitong participated in the compilation in Wang Hongxu's mansion and died in Wang Hongxu's mansion. The supervisors and presidents of the Ming History Museum have successively included Xu Yuanwen, Ye Fangwei, Zhang Yushu, Xu Qianxue, Tang Bin, Chen Tingjing, Wang Hongxu and others.

"History of the Ming Dynasty" project is huge, the Ming History Museum opened three times, although it has gathered countless Confucians, after decades, to the hands of Zhenwu, but it has not yet been written, to say that the study of the history of the Ming Dynasty, the deep understanding of the reasons for the death of the Ming Dynasty, is undoubtedly a group of editors and review officials of the Ming History Museum.

Zhenwu attaches great importance to the "History of the Ming Dynasty", and clearly put forward that the country cannot be without history, requiring the compilation of the "History of the Ming Dynasty", dare to write directly, do not need to deliberately avoid, beautify the dynasty, and deliberately cultivate the holy oracle of the historian who dares to write straight to the Ming History Museum.

For the officials who compiled the "History of the Ming Dynasty", the most important thing is to apply it to the world, otherwise what is the benefit of compiling the "History of the Ming Dynasty"? The purpose and purpose of historical research should be that the ruler is the historian, and the Ming Dynasty will be trained for the rise and fall of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhenwu ordered the reason for the death of the Ming Dynasty to be published in the Beijing Newspaper, which is to apply it to the world, to help the times and customs, so that more people can learn from the deeds of the Ming Dynasty, and a group of officials of the Ming History Museum are naturally happy to obey the order. After the seminar. It was unanimously decided to analyze in detail the reasons for the demise of Ming Ming from various aspects such as politics, economy, military, and diplomacy, and to come up with a rigorous and systematic long story.

Compared with the joy and excitement of these Qingliu officials in the Ming History Museum, the civil officials of the Beijing division are sad, the new deal not only infringes on the interests of the gentry, but also infringes on the interests of their officials. Not to mention, what makes them even more disgusted is the abolition of the collection of 'envy consumption' and the cutting off of 'envy consumption', which is tantamount to cutting off the source of filial piety for officials at all levels, and state and county officials cannot collect 'envy consumption', so there is no money to honor government officials. The filial piety of the officials of a province is naturally gone, and no one is filial to the local officials, who else will be the Beijing officials to pay their respects?

Although Zhenwu has begun to increase the salaries of officials, officials do not rely on money to live, and receiving gifts is the main source of income for officials.

The New Deal not only cut off their financial resources, but also forced them to run errands for their food. Naturally, the officials were resentful. What is even more annoying is that Zhenwu even asked them to write an article for the Beijing Daily to explain the necessity of the new policy and applaud the new policy. Isn't this disgusting, the officials listened to this edict, and they were all disgusted as if they had swallowed a fly, but no one dared to stand up and snort.

The civil officials of the Qing Dynasty are not as good as the former Ming Dynasty, the civil official group of the Ming Dynasty has no one to check and balance except for the emperor, but the Qing Dynasty has a huge clan, the Eight Banners and other military meritorious clans, the civil officials of the Qing Dynasty have to rely on the imperial power to fight for a place in the court, therefore, a group of ministers dare not speak out, who wants to drive the horse neighing, you can roll up the cover and get out of the egg immediately, maybe you will end up in exile.

Mingli didn't dare to fight, then it could only be passive slacking, a group of officials of all sizes or invited someone to catch a knife, or pinched their noses to go into battle in person, all focused on expounding the relationship between the gentry and the imperial court, and did not dare to take lightly the various measures of the new policy.

Although the generals rely on empty salaries and drinking the blood of soldiers, it has little to do with 'envy and consumption', which military attache who may get ahead in Beijing is not worth a lot of money, and who is not a landlord in these rich families? Who wants to pay grain and errand like the ordinary people, and pay silver to the court every year?

A group of royal family relatives, princes and nobles are even more dissatisfied, when Kangxi pressed them to approve the apportionment into the mu, they are all Tianda opinions, and now Zhenwu has intensified, and even wants to implement the integration of the official gentry and the grain and the integration of the errand, don't think about it, they must have to take the lead in responding to these clan nobles, this is not a paving into the mu, if they pay taxes and servants according to the acre, it is a lot of money for them, and the fields they occupy one by one are not a small amount, The landlords who hang thousands of cards on the local area are not worth mentioning in their eyes.

A group of royal family relatives, princes and nobles don't dare to be angry like civil officials, and they don't have the heart to write any bullshit articles, so they immediately began to walk around, looking for the flag lord to find the popular clan nobles.

To say that the most popular clan in the Beijing division is none other than the eighth, thirteenth, and fifteenth, but the thirteenth Yinxiang and the seventeenth Yinli are busy with the expansion of the new army of the Praetorian Guard.

Yin Xi had expected this, but when he returned to the mansion and saw a long eight-lift sedan chair outside the gate, he still couldn't help but secretly complain, fortunately, the old fourteen did not doubt him, otherwise the people who were offended by this situation would be in the sea.

After getting off the sedan chair, Yan Jin, the chief eunuch of Prince Lian's mansion, hurriedly greeted him, and reported step by step: "Master, Doluo Shuncheng County King Bumuba, Prince Yu Baotai, County King Wudezhao, Pingjun King Narsu, Belemundu Protector, Gong Oro Dai, Arsona. ”

Yinxi waved his hand and said, "You don't need to sign up one by one, there are many people today, please go to the Yin'an Palace, this king will wash up for a while, and then he will arrive." ”

Waiting for Yinxi to wash and change clothes, all the way to the Yin'an Palace, the hall was already a buzzing discussion, see Yinxi came in, a group of people hurriedly got up to greet the salute, not time to greet, Alsona said directly: "Eighth master, the official gentry is one grain and one errand is not a piece of landing, this is to be implemented, the silver handed over every year is not a star and a half." ”

Yinxi nodded slightly at everyone before saying, "You are free." He turned his head and said to Arson: "Sit down and say, don't worry." As he spoke, he walked straight to the main seat and sat down, and when everyone was seated, he spoke: "Imperial clansmen, the Eight Banners are the foundation of the Qing Dynasty, and the emperor's new policy is not aimed at you.

Have you not read the fundamental reasons for the fall of the Ming Dynasty that Beijing Bao and Ning Bao have debated in the past few days? The death of the Ming Dynasty was due to the fact that the imperial court had no money, what was the situation of the Ming Dynasty? The imperial court could not come up with money for quelling the chaos, disaster relief, relief, and water conservancy, but the wealthy merchants in Jiangnan could spend a lot of money and were extremely poor and luxurious. The people are rich and the country is weak, the peace is palpable, and in the event of a famine and the invasion of foreign enemies, it is a strange thing not to die.

The emperor's implementation of the new policy is to ensure that the imperial court has a stable annual income, how many years has the Qing Dynasty entered the customs? In more than 70 years, the number of officials and gentlemen has quadrupled, and the number of fields that do not pay for food and are even more terrifying under the names of officials and gentlemen.

The imperial court has no money, what do you use to support the soldiers of the Eight Banners? What kind of relief will be given to the victims? If the Qing Dynasty is gone, and your fields and shops are all owned by others, I don't understand, what will your opinions be on the trial of the new policy? ”

Oro Dai, who had been at home, said dissatisfiedly: "Eighth Master, this is a bit alarmist, hasn't the imperial court's taxes been steadily increasing over the years?" ”

Yin Yu glanced at him and said: "The taxes of the imperial court have been increasing over the years, and that is because there is new wasteland reclaimed every year. ”|

After a slight pause, he said in a deep voice: "Over the years, the steady growth of the imperial court's annual income is the number on the books, whether it has risen or not, it depends on the treasury silver, which is the most real." ”

Prince Yu Baotai coughed lightly before he said: "Starling, there is no shortage of land in the Qing Dynasty now, and the newly built provinces of Nanyang and Australia are all barren and fertile land, and there is no threat of reducing the imperial court's income. ”

Everyone in the hall became excited when they heard Bao Tai's words, and Bu Muba immediately said: "Eighth Uncle, with the speed of the navy opening up overseas territories, the Qing Dynasty will never have to worry about the lack of wasteland to be cultivated, and the emperor will not still annex the Nanyang vassal states, and there is no need to worry that the imperial court's income will not increase steadily, so why bother to scrape on our heads?" ”

"That's true." Immediately, a few people chimed in.

Seeing this situation, Yinxi couldn't help but secretly complain, this is the truth, the Qing Dynasty is really not short of land, there are many wastelands overseas, this truth is really untenable, he groaned slightly, he said: "The more overseas territories, the more soldiers are needed to garrison, and the navy and the new army of the Praetorian Guard are not expanding on a large scale?" Today, the salary expenditure of the Eight Banners Green Battalion and the Navy Janissary New Army alone exceeds the income of the imperial court. (To be continued.) )