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"No, I just made a silent calculation in my heart, and now the rice yield here in Luzon is not small! Just now, all the way, although this is not the time to catch the market, but look at the people's baskets full of all kinds of daily necessities, how much their real income has reached, do you have statistics? Geng Jingzhong didn't know this, he was really startled when he thought of this, and immediately asked Li Guangdi and the others.

"Back to the prince, this really hasn't been counted. We only know that the people have a good harvest of the first crop of rice, and they have received a lot of silver from selling the rice, and they have returned all the money they borrowed from the king. Oh yes, starting in December of the previous year, until half a month ago, the Governor's Mansion successively received a total of 6 million stone of rice, which is enough for the people of Fujian to eat for two months. Li Guangdi was stunned for a moment, this prince changed the topic too quickly, and he was still talking about development and construction just now, and suddenly jumped to the people's income. However, they really haven't counted these, but the general situation can still be analyzed.

Geng Jingzhong nodded, as he expected. This is just a season's harvest, which can provide him with six million stone of grain, even if it is not a high-yield crop such as sweet potatoes planted, with these grains, Fujian will no longer have to worry about a famine! "Good! 350,000 people, more than 70,000 households, which means that each household has sold nearly 100 stone of grain, and the income is very considerable! Good! ”

"The prince's calculation is not wrong. It's in this Xinyang town. It can be said that every family has enough food for a year. I also had dozens of silver dollars in my hand to press the bottom of the box. No, it is precisely because the people are rich, and the things in this town are sold quite quickly, which is completely different from the first four or five months! Hua Youfu said with emotion. When the immigrants first came here, they only wanted food and clothing every day, and when they were allocated fields, they worked hard and diligently, and during this period, a few people would think about spending money. You must know that they are penniless, and the loans borrowed by the royal government are all registered and distributed in kind, such as ploughing cattle and seeds.

"I know this, hehe, prince, when the immigrants first came, they all had no long things, and the grain, houses, cattle, and seeds were all provided by us, if it weren't for the governor's palace to organize the people to build roads and rivers. They don't even have a penny left over in their hands, and they just have a workshop that has been opened in advance in Xinyang Town. If something is produced, it can't be sold! But now it's okay, the people really have hope, in fact, if you want me to say, the prince, you generously exempted the immigrants from paying taxes for the first two years, that is really unnecessary, even now, if the prince is like the people to tax, the people will not have the slightest complaint! Li Guangdi said with a smile. Of course, the royal decree has already been promulgated, and it will never be changed. Two years later, each mu of land will be taxed at 10 taels, and these two counties will be able to provide us with millions of taels of taxes every year, which is something that is unimaginable in the mainland! ”

"If you do the math, there's probably more to it than that. This is also according to the method of apportioning the land into the mu to have this effect, the eight layers of land on the mainland are concentrated in the hands of the landlords, those princes and nobles and all the scholars who have a meritorious name do not have to pay taxes, hehe, the total tax burden of the whole country is only more than 20 million taels. Look, we can have so much output in two small counties here, let alone the whole country. Geng Jingzhong is also very satisfied with this number, and now if you want to ask who is the richest person, it should be him Geng Jingzhong, even the Kangxi Xiaomazi in the Forbidden City, and he can't take out so much silver and so much food!

"The people are planting the land, but other construction can't be left behind. Brother Li, I still have to instruct Xu Shan and let him supervise and hurry up. Well, after walking all the way and talking for so long, I am really hungry and thirsty, and the restaurant should prepare the meal! At this normal noon, officials are not allowed to drink, so let's eat together! Geng Jingzhong was in a good mood, and these days he and Li Guangdi and others discussed major matters such as official arrangements and conscription, but he didn't know the real situation in Luzon until today. With that, he got up and walked outside.

By noon, there were not many people left on the streets. The people who came to see the excitement were also invited back by the guards outside, and all the surrounding areas of the town hall were under martial law, but some people who couldn't stay could still be seen on the street not far away. Until Geng Jingzhong and the others finished eating, there were still many people on the street who did not disperse, but they did not approach the town office and the restaurant next to it. This went outside, got on the horse and started to leave the town on the way, Geng Jingzhong was also warmly greeted by the people on the street, Geng Jingzhong took the lead, and kept waving.

"Hey, at the next stop, we all have to quietly enter the village, don't disturb any people! It's like this, this king really can't bear it! Geng Jingzhong rode on the horse and said with emotion.

"Do what the prince wills. But Lord Wang, are we still moving forward slowly? Or do you just go to the horse farm? Li Guangdi asked.

Geng Jingzhong was silent for a moment: "Let's speed up, this king just wants to see how the construction of this new town is doing, and he doesn't want to interfere in the actions of the governor's palace." Speed up a little faster, and when the sun goes down tomorrow, you'll be able to reach the racecourse! ”

"Well, tomorrow before the sun sets, I'm sure we'll be there." Li Guangdi patted his horse and walked forward a few steps quickly, but he was still half a horse's head behind Geng Jingzhong.

Along the way, the speed was much faster than in the morning, and the horses almost trotted forward, and soon left the confines of Xinyang Town. As the incomes of the common people increased, so did their consumption, which is most directly reflected in the caravans that were said to be on the road. Originally, when the immigrants first arrived, there were few caravans selling goods into the villages and towns, and the main road was repaired less than two months ago, and the stone road was full of caravans.

Since setting off in the morning, Geng Jingzhong felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say what was wrong. Until now, I have watched the caravans on the road, the pedestrians walking on the side of the comparison, and the people working in the fields. Geng Jingzhong finally noticed the difference. The caravan on the road. The vast majority of them are native Chinese. I had already immigrated to Luzon a long time ago, and the difference was evident in the attire.

The Chinese on the original Luzon Island still maintained the original Ming Dynasty costumes, regardless of their hairstyles or clothes, while the later immigrants and Geng Jingzhong themselves combed their pigtails like money rat tails. The clothes he is wearing now are also Manchu-style robes and cardigans, standard Manchu regular clothes, and the guards behind him are all the same. The difference is that they all wore hats. And some people on the road are not wearing hats, and when the two are compared, they find a difference!

Since ancient times, the Han people have attached great importance to clothing, and the "Book of Filial Piety" has a saying: "The body is skinned, and the parents who receive it dare not destroy it, and the beginning of filial piety is also." "Han Chinese are not allowed to shave their hair when they reach adulthood, and both men and women wear their hair in a bun and coil it on the top of their heads. The Manchu hairstyle was very different from that of the Han Chinese, with the Manchu men shaving the hair on the front of their head and braiding the hair at the back of their head into a long braid. The traditional costume of the Han people, Hanfu, has a unique form. Its basic characteristics are collar, right side, tie, and no buckle, and the traditional costumes of Japan, Korea, and Bhutan have inherited these characteristics.

The costume of the nomads embodies a kind of barbarism. The Chinese clothes are a kind of elegant, subtle beauty, focusing on the harmony between the body and nature, and believing that the clothes are the connection between man and nature. The customs of the Manchurians are very different from those of the Han people in the Central Plains, and the traditional hairstyle of the Manchurian men is to shave all the hair on the front and temples, leaving only the hair on the back of the skull about a copper coin area, which is braided into a long braid and hangs down. The Manchurian costume is also dominated by robes and horse coats, and the characteristics of the Manchurian costume are stand-up collars, plackets, and buckles.

In 1644, Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, led the Dashun army into Beijing, and Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty hanged himself. The Qing Dynasty, which arose in northeastern China, entered the customs with the assistance of the Ming general Wu Sangui and immediately implemented measures to shave the hair of the occupied areas, but was strongly opposed by the Han Chinese, and the Qing regent Dolgon suspended the shaving of the hair of the Han people in view of the unclear situation in the country. There has been no change in clothing, and there is even a situation where Manchu officials wear official uniforms of the Ming Dynasty. A year later, the Qing army pacified Nanjing, and the Qing court made up its mind and successively issued the "Hair Shaving Order" and the "Easy Submission Order", forcing the Han Chinese to change their hairstyles to Manchurian hairstyles and wear Manchurian costumes.

Although in history, the Tibetan, Western Xia, Jin and Yuan dynasties all issued orders to shave their hair and change clothes. However, it is not as large as the scope of the Qing Dynasty, and it is also the Qing Dynasty that has adhered to it for the longest time, has the most conflicts, and has the greatest influence, so "shaving and easy to wear" generally refers to the "shaving order" in the early years of the Qing Dynasty. In addition to the Han Chinese, the Manchurian rulers also ordered the Mongols (excluding the Erut Mongols) and other southern minorities to change their Manchurian hairstyles. Not everyone has to change their costumes: Erut doesn't, North Koreans don't, Uyghurs need fourth-class and higher Burkes, Tibetans only need Tibetan troops.

One of the reasons for this policy was to weaken the national consciousness of the Han people, facilitate the rule, and arouse strong opposition and resistance from the people of all ethnic groups, especially the Han Chinese, and was severely punished and bloodily suppressed by the Qing court. The standard of shaving hair is not the style of shaving only half of the head that people often see in TV costume dramas today, and the historical fact is to shave all the hair, leaving only a piece of hair the size of a copper coin. The hairstyle that only shaved the front half of the hair slowly appeared after the weakening of the Qing court in the late Qing Dynasty, and that hairstyle would be a capital offense if it was placed in the early Qing Dynasty. Because in the early Qing Dynasty, when the shaving was implemented, it was stipulated that "those who shaved their hair as well as the style should be beheaded", even if they shaved their hair, they still had to be beheaded if they shaved too little hair and left too much hair. In the fourth year of Shunzhi, Ding Quan, a citizen of Hushu Guan, was killed because he didn't shave enough hair, and his family, neighbors, and local officials were also implicated and convicted. At that time, men had to "do a dozen braids every five days and shave their heads every ten days."

Therefore, in history, the hairstyle in the early Qing Dynasty was generally a money rat tail style. After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, there was a trend of more and more hair retention, such as the Japanese book "Qing Customs Chronicles", in which in the painting of the "Crown Ceremony" volume, the teacher standing on one side of the back has hair on the top of his head, braided a long braid hanging down the back, its length has reached the waist, and the braid tail has a hair tie knot, of which the hair growth part has increased from a copper coin in the early Qing Dynasty to four or five copper coins, but it is still far less than the hairstyle of the late Qing Dynasty and the current Qing Dynasty drama with half a head.

For example, before entering the customs, it was mainly to shave hair and prohibit the Jurchens from practicing Han customs, while after entering the customs, it was to shave their hair and change clothes in parallel, forcing other ethnic groups to become Manchu.

For example, the people in Jiading and Jiangyin resisted the Qing soldiers from June to August of the second year of Shunzhi because of their resistance to shaving their hair and changing clothes, and finally caused the tragedies of "Jiangyin 81st", "Jiading Three Massacres", "Yangzhou 10th" and so on.

The Qing regime also strictly forbade the private possession of Ming Dynasty clothes, and many people were killed by the Qing government on charges of rebellion because of the private possession of Ming Dynasty clothing such as "square scarves". The Manchus vigorously promoted Manchurian costumes, forcing Han Chinese to wear horse coats, long shirts, melon skin hats, and hats similar to felt hats. The officialdom inherited the Ming Dynasty's supplementary clothes, and the court clothes also wore the system of tops and bottoms. The emperors of the Qing Dynasty spared no effort to protect the Manchurian costumes, saying that "the legacy of the Manchurian ancestors should always be observed", "a generation of crowns and clothes has its own generation", and "clothes should not be taken lightly". In this way, the implementation of the policy of "shaving hair and making it easy to wear" began with the Manchu Dynasty and continued until after the Xinhai Revolution in 1911. (To be continued......)

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