It's been a few months, and the court can finally deal with the private gang!

In the Battle of Baoding a few months ago, the Royal Army suffered heavy losses, and the power of the imperial court was sharply reduced, and since then the private gang has become more and more arrogant.

Private gangs are a kind of gangs in the rivers and lakes, the most ordinary and the most popular.

I came from a very low background, and I have lived in a small broken village on the edge of the Yellow River for the first twenty years, and I have never seen anything in the world, but I have really seen the private gang, and it is the most powerful salt gang among the private gangs. This can't be helped, the official salt costs one silver dollar for one tael, and the private salt only costs one copper dollar, my family is poor, and I can't afford to eat the official salt of the government, so I have to find a private salt dealer to buy illegal salt.

The Ming Dynasty implemented a monopoly system, everything had to be bought from the government, and everything had to be sold to the government.

The things that pass through the government are called official things, which are legitimate, moral, just, ethical, etc., anyway, all praise words can be used on it, such as official salt, official tobacco, official food, official cloth, official donkey, official people, official heart...... Or according to the professional terminology of the government, these can also be called real salt, real tobacco, real grain, real cloth, real donkey, real person, and true heart; Things that do not go through the government are called private things, which are illegal, selfish, evil, unjust, immoral, etc., anyway, all derogatory terms must be used on it, such as illegal salt, illegal cigarettes, illegal food, private cloth, private, selfish, and ...... Wait a minute.

Anyone who sells smuggling is a smuggler, and their gang is a smuggling gang.

There are hundreds of types of private gangs.

Note that it is "species", not "individual". If you use "one" as a measure word, it is thousands of tens of thousands of private gangs.

The relatively large gangs are: the Tea Gang, the Sugar Gang, the Salt Gang, the Oil Gang, the Cloth Gang, the Cattle Gang, the Donkey Tea, etc., which specialize in selling illicit tea, sugar, salt, oil, cloth, cattle, and donkeys.

They do not have a unified organization, and some of them are even hostile gangs, such as the Pig Gang and the Cattle Gang are mortal enemies, the Grasshopper Gang and the Cricket Gang are mortal enemies, and even the same kind of private gang in two neighboring counties may be hostile gangs.

These are the "good" smugglers, and there are also the "bad" smugglers, who sell tobacco, tobacco, slaves, children, women, knives and guns...... However, in the eyes of the imperial court, there is no difference, and the sale of smuggled salt and slaves are both equally illegal and capital crimes.

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The trouble in cracking down on private gangs is to distinguish what is a private gang and not how to fight them. Because there is no clear boundary between the private gang and the common people.

It's like a bald person, and a hairless person must be bald. If you have one hair, you are bald, two are bald, and three are bald...... 10,000 is certainly not bald. then How many hairs in the middle are considered bald? Is 5,000 counted? What about five thousand and one? What about four thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine?

Take, for example, the cloth gang's smugglers. The Ming Dynasty stipulated that private individuals were not allowed to sell private cloth, and cloth could only be sold by the government. A civilian pulling a cart and selling it in large quantities on the street, and there are accomplices with knives to protect him, they must be considered a gang of people, this is obvious.

If a commoner weaves and wears cloth by himself, it is definitely not a cloth gang.

If a commoner is too stupid to weave, or is too sick to weave, and his pants are already exposed to his buttocks, and it happens that there is no official cloth to sell in the government (in fact, they rarely sell cloth), then he can only exchange his own steamed buns for the neighbor's cloth. Excuse me, does this count as fornication? Does his neighbor count as a member of the Cloth Gang?

If the black and white words of the royal law of the Ming Dynasty are deducted, this is the act of buying and selling private cloth, and the house will be beheaded. But if it really follows like this, it is estimated that the civilians of the Ming Dynasty will be killed.

For example, Zhao Dakuo in our village, his family sells so much milk, it is simply a milk gang, Zhao Dakuo is the leader of the milk gang, and Zhao Xingyue is the wife of the milk gang. As for my family, my father often used our family's fat to exchange for his family's milk, that is, the dung gang fornicated with the milk gang, which is a great crime of rebellion!

As for whether it is a private gang or not, it is the government that has the final say. The government says you are you, and if you are not, you are not. Sometimes you say you are, sometimes you don't. In other words, whether you are a private gang or not has nothing to do with whether you are a private gang or not, only with the government. The government says you are you, and if you are not, you are not; Yes and no, no yes and no.

What would it be like if you really wanted to be a good law-abiding subject?

For example, the Li family raises white pigs, and the Zhang family raises black pigs. If the Li family wants black pork, you have to exchange it with the government, ten white pigs for one black pig; If the Zhang family wants white pork, they also want ten white pigs for one black pig. Everyone raised a total of twenty pigs, and after passing through the government, there were only two left.

Therefore, many people say that the poll tax of the imperial court is too small, it is said that it is only one percent. But what? The "monopoly system" is a kind of "dark tax", and it is a tax of more than 90 percent! You can't even see it.

Hey, they're too stupid to help.

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I once discussed this with Dongfang Mingyue's younger brother, Dongfang Yongyi, at his wedding.

He graduated from imperial university and was worried about where to find a job. He wanted to go to the Imperial Secret Office, because the secret office was powerful, so that he could better work for the emperor and the state - but that place was the territory of the inner court, so Dongfang Chengping just didn't agree.

So, Dongfang Yongyi had no choice but to go to the Royal Ministry of Commerce.

The Ministry of Commerce is in charge of private gangs.

Dongfang Yongyi: "I'm about to serve the royal family, kill all those private gangs, and burn all their gang rules!" ”

Me: "Have you ever wondered why there are private gangs?" ”

Him: "You don't understand this? The reason lies in the evil nature of the few. Those people always like to get something for nothing, they always want to empty the gloves of the white wolf. Labor, only labor can create the world, only labor is moral. There is no room for injustice! There must be no one who does not work for nothing! The private gang only wants to buy and sell things, they are the scum of humanity and must be removed! You see, how great our Ming Dynasty is, how prosperous our Gyeonggi is, but because of those private gangs, it is unstable. ”

I told him what I thought, and gave the example of the black pig and the white pig.

Him: "There are only two out of twenty pigs, doesn't this mean that labor creates the world, and buying and selling destroys the world?" Are you stupid? ”

Me: "There are private gangs all over the world, why is Gyeonggi the only one with the most?" ”

Him: "That's because Gyeonggi is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, and we are the most prosperous and developed." Those private gangs couldn't stand the poverty, and rushed back from poor places in other places to enjoy happiness. We should get rid of all these poor ghosts! ”

Me: "I understand what you say. He is truly a talented student of Imperial University! ”

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Gyeonggi bustling? Gyeonggi is bustling with a big-headed ghost!

In the first 20 years of my life, I thought that the first good place was as prosperous as heaven; In the first two years of my visit to the palace, I saw that the land of the first good was prosperous like heaven; But then I went deep into the countryside of Gyeonggi and I found out the truth.

There are 250 million people in Gyeonggi, and 30 million people live in the county seat, and they are indeed prosperous, but the remaining 220 million are so poor that they are much poorer than other provinces, and even poorer than our village. No matter how poor our village is, we will not go hungry or be unclothed, but the villages of Gyeonggi are full of people whose families are so poor that they only have a pair of pants, and there are many people who sell their children and daughters, and there are many people who go out to ask for food.

In fact, Gyeonggi counties are the most prosperous in the world, because they not only absorb the taxes of the whole world, but also suck up the countryside of Gyeonggi.

The provinces of the world, the closer to Gyeonggi, the poorer, such as Shanxi, Central Plains, Qianzhou, and Xiliang, are all so poor that they are to death - in fact, there is a proper noun to refer to this phenomenon - "Gyeonggi Black Hole"; It is better to be farther away from Gyeonggi, such as Hebei, Shandong, and Jiangnan; The farthest and richest provinces from Gyeonggi, such as Lingnan and Liaodong, were the ones who rebelled this time, and these two provinces never took Gyeonggi seriously, and the living standards of the common people were not below the level of the Gyeonggi Shi people.

The private gangs never rebelled in Lingnan and Liaodong, because they were legitimate, and the government there never cared about these things, as long as they paid taxes.

The private gang has the most in Gyeonggi, and that's because the government in Gyeonggi is too strict, and the pants are leaking and the butt is not allowed to buy cloth.

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Speaking of Lingnan and Liaodong, I have to say a few more words.

When the people of Gyeonggi talk about Lingnan and Liaodong, they all call the Lingnan people Nanban and Liaodong as the Beiyan, and in their hearts, these two provinces, one is so poor that he can't wear clothes, and the other is so poor that he wears torn cotton jackets all day long.

But this is not the case at all. I have read a lot of books, and although there are many fallacies in these books, I can still extract one result from so many books: Lingnan and Liaodong are much stronger than the mainland.

People in the mainland say that although Lingnan and Liaodong are richer than the mainland, it is because they are shameless and have no morals, private gangs are prevalent, and the people are not able to make a living.

But the following example will show you how rich Lingnan and Liaodong are.

For example, the nail households in Gyeonggi are responsible for making nails, they have been responsible for making nails for dozens of generations, and their children are responsible for making nails from the moment they can walk. These nail households can make dozens of nails a day, which is thousands of nails a year!

The imperial court said that thanks to the professional household registration system, the Ming Dynasty can have such a professional nail household, which is great, if there is no professional household registration system designed by the imperial court, then an ordinary person will not be able to make a nail in a day, so the world will not be over?! This illustrates the rationality of the Ming household registration system.

However, there is really no professional household registration system in Lingnan, and private gangs are also legal there.

I'm going to talk about how people don't have nails and how they make nails.

There is a big factory there with dozens of people who don't know anything, and each person is only responsible for one thing, such as one person burning the fire every day, one person melting iron, one person melting molten iron into iron wire, one person pumping iron wire, one person cutting iron wire, one person cutting the nail head, one person specializing in nail capping, one person specializing in packaging, and so on.

Guess how many nails this factory produces per person per day on average?

You'd probably say that none of them would make a nail!

Indeed, some people have worked in factories for several years before they find out that they are actually producing nails, and they still think they are producing scissors!

However, I'm talking about average. I'm going to say now, don't be surprised: at least 10,000.

You say,! A 50-year-old professional nail household, it takes a whole day to turn a piece of iron into dozens of nails, how can anyone produce 10,000 nails a day? But this factory can turn a few tons of iron into hundreds of thousands of iron nails a day, and the average is not 10,000 pieces per person?

Don't you believe it anymore? You go to the nail black market in Chang'an County and Xi'an County to have a look, all Lingnan nails! People's nails come from thousands of kilometers on their backs, and they are plucked by geese along the way, which is cheaper than the nails in Gyeonggi!

Even I, the head of the royal warehouse, don't buy things from Gyeonggi, I only buy from Lingnan, because things in Lingnan are cheap, and I embezzle more......

Therefore, it is not that Lingnan is a little richer than Gyeonggi, but that it is dozens of times richer than Gyeonggi.

Those Gyeonggi people must not be convinced, saying, nonsense, since Lingnan is so rich, why don't they call.

Haha, the reason is not because of the inner court and the forbidden army, you think it's because people don't want to fight! No matter how many nails Lingnan produces, it can beat the tanks and bombers of the forbidden army?

I even dare to say that if it weren't for the Inner Court and the forbidden army, Lingnan would have beaten the mainland down long ago!

Moreover, Lingnan is still strictly controlled by the inner court.

For example, the Ming royal statute stipulates that the nails in Lingnan cannot exceed five centimeters, because more than five centimeters can be used to build ships, which is strictly prohibited.

It is said that there was a "six-centimeter war" in history, because Lingnan made six-centimeter nails, and the patriarchs felt that Lingnan was too much, so they used aircraft, tanks and artillery to blow Lingnan to the ground.

Since then, Lingnan has been much more honest and no longer dares to produce nails larger than five centimeters.

However, since the Lingnan Rebellion, the nails sold by the private nail gang in Xi'an County have become longer and longer, and now they have reached 5.5 centimeters!

Of course, this matter is only understood by people like me, who like to ponder, and in the hearts of four billion people, Lingnan and Liaodong are still wild places, and Gyeonggi is the center of the world.

So, those Gyeonggi people don't laugh at the Nanban and the Beiyan, if there was no forbidden army, you would have been beaten down by others.