Chapter Eighty-Three: The White Prostitute Emperor
The defection of Aru Timur and Naer without flowers also happened in history.
It's just that it was reported by Xu Huizu.
It is not surprising that they defected.
These two were originally enemies of the Ming Dynasty, but then they were really cornered and couldn't fight, so they had to choose to surrender first, but to say that they sincerely surrendered to Zhu Yuanzhang would be pure.
Zhu Di is really good to them.
Originally, in history, Xu Huizu reported them, in fact, there was a meaning of beating his brother-in-law, and Zhu Di trusted these subordinates in Beiping, and it was easy to be suspected that he was gathering his own forces. Xu Huizu didn't want him to go too far on this issue, and just found that Alu Timur and the two complained a lot on weekdays, so he simply said that they intended to defect.
They didn't act.
And with their relationship with Zhu Di at that time, it is difficult to see that they are really preparing to defect.
In the end, Zhu Yuanzhang killed them, which can be regarded as a warning to Zhu Di.
But now Zhu Di is obviously out of power.
These two are not stupid, they are both at the level of the princes of the original Northern Yuan Dynasty.
Zhu Di was thrown to Liaodong, and he had actually completed Zhu Yuanzhang's task, that is, he had not yet arrived in Nuer Gancheng, but the original Yuan Dynasty officials in Nuer Gancheng had also surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.
So it's just to wait until the beginning of spring next year, and take a boat down the river to go through the motions.
It stands to reason that it is time for him to return to Beiping.
Liaodong is guarded by the King of Liao, and he just goes to take a belt.
But now not only can he not return to Beiping, but Beiping has been replaced by Fu Youde.
That's pretty obvious.
Zhu Yuanzhang deliberately threw him to Liaodong.
It is difficult to say whether he will be able to return to Beiping in the future.
Those people like Alu Timur, of course, lost confidence in his future, if Zhu Yuanzhang really ordered to move the domain one day, let him be the vassal king in Huining, then these guards must also follow, what is the difference between the ghost place in Huining and the difficult river?
It's just as cold and snowy.
Just as bitter.
Then why did they stay in Daming and endure Daming's harsh laws?
Can't you go to the prairie freely?
"Old fox!"
Yang Feng couldn't help but sigh.
"Who?"
The little princess said curiously.
"Your father!"
Yang Feng said angrily.
Indeed, Zhu Yuanzhang was cunning enough, but he made his son's subordinates scatter with just one easy move.
He deliberately threw Zhu Di in Liaodong, so that those who tried to follow Zhu Di to seek wealth and nobility chose to abandon Zhu Di because they felt that the future was dark, and weakened Zhu Di's power in this way. And Fu Youde, as the elder of the Jin Dynasty, will definitely weaken some more in Beiping, just suppress the generals loyal to Zhu Di, and find excuses to dismiss several generals.
Even kill a few.
Since he is a town guard general, these are easy for him.
In short, Zhu Di's strength will become weaker and weaker.
It was weak until Zhu Yuanzhang thought that he could almost rest assured that he would let him go back to Beiping.
"How dare you speak ill of my father?"
"Is it the first time you've heard me speak ill of your father?"
"That's right!"
……
Then Yang Feng touched her dog's head like this and pushed the door open......
"Huh?"
He quickly lowered his hand.
The little princess also put away her smile and quickly switched to a dignified lady.
I didn't even pretend to see it outside.
After all, at least in front of these people, they have shown special friendship many times, so even Zhang Xianzong is at a loss about their relationship.
However, Yang Feng did not return to Nanjing with the little princess.
He was supposed to pick her up by the way.
In fact, he was accompanied by Zhang Xianzong on this trip, to Suzhou to recruit craftsmen, his agricultural machinery needs a large number of craftsmen, but the Ministry of Industry in the capital will not give him, the craftsman system of the Ming Dynasty is the rotation of craftsmen, craftsmen from all over the country to serve in shifts in the capital, those craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry in the capital belong to the service period.
It's like the guards are on duty.
But he is private.
Private factories employ state-owned enterprises in the ......
Not quite right, right?
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang allowed him to recruit among the craftsmen themselves who did not serve.
But these craftsmen still need to be rotated.
They can only work in their factories when they are not on duty, and once it is time to be on duty, they still have to report to the Ministry of Works, and this period varies according to the type of craftsman. In the latest regulations this year, the longest round is every five years, the shortest is one round a year, and the duty time is three months, and they are free to do any livelihood during the rest of the time. In this way, it is basically to learn everything he should learn from him, and then go to the Ministry of Industry, if he creates something new, the Ministry of Industry can directly prostitute for nothing.
Of course, Yang Feng doesn't care about this, what he wants is to promote technology, not just for profit, and his technology promotion is to benefit the world.
Not only the Ministry of Engineering, but in fact anyone can learn.
And the recruitment of craftsmen is, of course, to Suzhou.
This is the second largest industrial town outside of the capital.
However, at this time, it was the time when the autumn harvest was completed and the tax and grain transportation were carried in various places, so there were groups of grain ships everywhere on the canal, and they were all transported by people rather than soldiers.
"It's all for the public rations?"
Yang Feng said with interest.
A convoy of grain ships was passing by them.
An old man on the boat was shouting in Wu to the people on the boat behind.
"Pay the public grain, that's a very apt word.
After the autumn harvest, the local Lijia urged the people to send the tax grain to the grain chief, and after collecting 10,000 stones, the grain chief took the people who served as a servant to the warehouses.
This is a grain chief."
Zhang Xianzong pointed at the old man and said.
"What about the magistrate?"
"County magistrate? The magistrate didn't care, but just sent someone to go to Beijing with the grain chief to collect the survey before the collection, and His Majesty thought that the tax grain did not go through the hands of the local officials, and the greed for ink would be eliminated. These grain chiefs are not ordinary, they enter Beijing to listen to the proclamation, and the magistrate is to assign who is the grain chief, and supervise the grain chief, but the whole payment process is not through the hands of the magistrate. After the tax and grain are collected, those that are kept for local use are handed over to the local warehouse, and those that are handed over to the capital are sent to the capital by the grain chief, and those that are exported to the local health centers are also sent to the designated warehouses by the grain chief.
Moreover, the chief of grain has the right to make up books and send conscripts.
There is also the right to educate the locality.
even managed some civil lawsuits, took the people to repair water conservancy, and even reported illegal officials, and the most powerful person in the local area is now the grain chief.
There are not many counties in the world."
"So what do your magistrates do?
This has all been done by the following, there is a lijia in the village, and then there is a grain chief, is there anything else among the people?"
"There are also senior citizens, and the township respects the elderly to deal with civil disputes."
"The county magistrate just occasionally goes to the countryside to inspect?"
"Well, officials are not allowed to go to the countryside."
"Not going to the countryside?"
"It is strictly forbidden to go to the countryside, Your Majesty strictly prohibits officials from going to the countryside to disturb the people, and if there is something to summon, A will go to the subpoena with a letter card in the year, and only if he does not call can he send the soap to the countryside to be detained."
"He's a defense officer, like a thief!"
Yang Feng couldn't help but exclaim.
Zhang Xianzong just smiled abruptly......
I guess I agree with his evaluation as well.
This is really the defense of officials like thieves, tax grain can not be handled, in addition to tax grain, there is really no other large amount of income in the local area, the magistrate does not handle it, and it will put an end to the possibility of greedy ink. Officials are not allowed to go to the countryside, which also eliminates the possibility of extortion, after all, they have no conditions for extortion, no wonder the literati of later generations gritted their teeth with hatred.
This is simply an insult to their personality.
Can't we be a good official who is honest and honest?
Do you need to defend us like that?
Are we thieves?
Can't there be a little trust between people?
"Who can be a grain chief?"
Yang Feng asked.
"Those who have the most fields in their families, once the tax of 10,000 stones is insufficient, the grain chief will have to add it himself, so he can only find these people who have the most fields in his family."
"Landlord!"
"Landlord, that's fine."
So it is understandable that the Ming Dynasty soon appeared and the gentry became bigger.
Zhu Yuanzhang's design is good.
The grain chief, Lijia, this is actually the system of local self-government at the township and village levels, plus an elder acts as a supervisor, and officials are strictly forbidden to go to the countryside, in fact, grassroots autonomy is formed. And with the landlord as the grain chief, it also ensures that there will be no shortage of tax grain, after all, the lack is made up by the grain chief himself, first of all, to ensure that his interests will not be damaged.
In this way, local officials are prevented from harming the people, and local governance is also ensured.
But......
It also left a legal basis for the landlords to have complete control over the grassroots.
He didn't have to care at this point.
Because there's still his big deal.
The people can arrest the grain chief and go directly to Beijing, but the grain chief does not dare to do evil, so he can only bear this drudgery, and the situation of insufficient tax and grain collection must be common, and then he can only pay for it with his own grain, which is in fact weakening the financial resources of these landlords.
But after his death, the Great Decree was reduced to waste paper, and at that time the people had no deterrent effect on the grain chief, who easily completed the local gentrification of the collusion of the officials and gentry, and at that time the grain was not enough to collect taxes, so it was not the grain chief himself who made up for it, but forced the peasants to borrow usury, and then the grain chief took the opportunity to annex the land.
"But why didn't he just keep sinking the government to the level of the grain chief?"
He asked.
"What do you mean?"
"It's just to set up an administrative agency below the county level, such as a township."
"Do you know how many officials there are in a county?"
"How much?"
"Shangyuan County, as the first county of the capital, has one person in Zhixian County, one person in the county, one person in the main book, this is an official, and there are fourteen officials and twenty-six officials, this is an official, a total of forty-three officials, this is Shangyuan County, which can be regarded as the largest county in the world, a total of these officials. As for the other counties, there are those who lack counties, there are those who lack the main book, and the number of officials is twenty or thirty, and the number of officials is more than a dozen.
Then what does Your Majesty feed on?
Taxes also doubled?
Even these officials, Your Majesty thinks it is too much."
"But don't you have to give any benefits to the grain chief, Lijia, and the elderly?"
"I have already said that if they don't collect enough tax food, they have to pay for it themselves, so do you think such an errand will be paid for it?"
"? What about the servants?"
"The government is a servant, and it is one of the servitudes of the local people."
"White prostitute?"
"!"
"Damn, that's too much, isn't it?"
Yang Feng exclaimed.
Zhu Yuanzhang has taken white prostitution to the extreme!
The whole emperor of white prostitution!
This system is indeed thrifty, and it is simply too friendly to finances, after all, a county, or Shangyuan County, a county in the capital, is actually only forty-three in total, plus the teachings are only forty-four, and at most some counties have a patrol......
"What about the archers who catch thieves, the fast hands, and the like?"
He asked.
"Serving."
Zhang Xianzong replied very dryly.
Well, this one is also for nothing.
"How much is the servant?"
Yang Feng asked.
"The natives are officials, no, only exempt from servitude, those who are officials from other places, five buckets of rice per month, cotton and linen cloth for clothing in winter and summer, those in Beijing are different according to the grade of the yamen, the lowest Guanglu Temple warden is six buckets per month, and the subordinate officials of our embassy are according to the Guanglu Temple officials, six buckets per month."
"No wonder Mr. Liu often steals leftovers home, I thought I was going back to feed the chickens!
In this way, you had a lot of seven stone rice a month."
Yang Feng said with emotion.
Therefore, some of the officials prostituted for nothing, and some paid wages.
Then it is difficult to avoid those officials trying to make money.
Six buckets of rice......
This is brown rice, and polished rice will not be used.
The difference in weight between brown rice and polished rice is still not small.
Therefore, six buckets of rice are exchanged for seventy or eighty catties of modern standards, which is definitely not enough to support the family, mixed with some vegetables, and then exchanged for some cheap grains, such as beans and barley, at most it is barely enough for a family of three to eat, and if the child has more, it will definitely not be enough. After all, at this time, there are a few families of three, and most of them are a large family, so there must be fields, like those who work as officials in other places, they can only go alone.
It's impossible to drag your home with you.
Otherwise, not to mention that you can save a little, it is not enough for the family to eat.
In short, Zhu Yuanzhang's salary standard can only say that you will not be hungry and cold, and if you want to live a rich life, you don't have to count on it at all.
"Can the officials be promoted?"
He asked.
"Yes, but it's hard.
The system can be promoted, but the first step is to take the three exams in nine years, and there are some others after the exams, even if they all pass successfully, it has been fifteen or sixteen years, and they are only one or nine rank officials.
As for the rest, it's up to fate.
But it's okay.
I waited for ten years to study hard, even if I once won the top three, in fact, the vast majority of them are only 18 county Cheng.
This generation is a white ding, and it is enough to be able to upgrade to nine grades in more than ten years.
It's similar to reading hard in the cold window.
If you want to fly Huang Tengda, then you can only go to the battlefield, fight with your life to seek wealth and nobility, a hundred households are already six-grade officials, higher than the county, dare not work hard, if you want to be safe and stable, you have to follow the step-by-step order, don't want to fly Huang Tengda, one step to the sky. In the final analysis, the Holy Dynasty attaches great importance to military merits, and His Majesty relies on military generals to fight the world, and only those who can fight are important to His Majesty, and nothing else is nothing."
Zhang Xianzong said obviously wistfully.
Yang Feng was largely confused by him, ignoring that he belonged to a special existence, this is a Tama's example, in the entire Hongwu Dynasty for more than 30 years, there are only a dozen top Confucian students.
He reached the fifth grade at a young age, and he was not a normal existence of Confucianism.
He was the spire of the pyramid of Confucianism.
There are still countless Confucian students studying hard in the cold window, and even if they are in the Jinshi, most of them are doing Bapin County Cheng in various places.
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