Chapter 1: The Way of Reward and Punishment

In the Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who came from the north, does not wash the dust. Look at the music in your hand.

Zhu Yuanzhang returned from Liaodong. It also took two months. It is now the winter of the twentieth year of Hongwu.

The chaotic situation in the whole Jiangnan. Within these two months, it was dealt with by the prince one by one. Now Zhu Yuanzhang sees these files. He looked at the files one by one. Most of these thieves were killed. It's just that it's far from being satisfied with Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Is that all? ”

The prince said: "The Qingzhang in various places has been promoted. On average, 20% of the land came out of each prefecture. In the next year of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty will be able to increase taxes by about 5 million to 6 million stones. But. Here are some questions. Some of the land is too thin. Only some homeless people farm. In the mountains and forests, if you don't pay taxes, you may still be able to survive, but once you do taxes, I'm afraid that your sons will have something to say. It's ------"

Zhu Yuanzhang said; "You want a tax cut?"

The prince said: "What you can do is the right way in the world." The court rules the world, is it in the goods? In Germany. Now although the imperial court is marching south and north. His Majesty is benevolent. There has always been a surplus. Not to mention, since the opening of the sea, the relevant taxes have been in the millions. It is enough to supplement the lack of the imperial court. Why compete with the common people for the benefit of an inch of land, the top is strict, and the bottom is ten. Erchen was worried. It will make the people below freeze and starve to death because of this tax, which is not the beauty of the new policy of the imperial court. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Since the land is thin. If you are not enough to feed the people, you should not live in the south. There has been a lack of people in the north, so let's do it, and in this case, all of them will move to Liaodong. Give 100 acres of barren land. A set of farm tools. Three years of rations. I can guarantee that. What does the prince think? ”

The prince was stunned and didn't know what to say.

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly, and the son he raised was fighting with him. It's too tender.

Does the situation that the prince said exist? Exist. But the law of Da Ming is also very perfect. There are detailed rules for the collection of taxes. Ueda has a complete conversion with Shimoda. Five liters per mu is just an average. If it's a dryland with a particularly low yield, it's like some barren land in the northwest. There are only a few buckets per acre. Naturally, it will not be levied so much. As for how to convert it. I won't go into detail here. In a word. Zhu Yuanzhang is diligent and loves the people. It's all about it. As the prince said, this is the case. It was only today that Qingzhang found out. No. All the time. How could it not have been solved.

The prince said this, but he didn't mean it.

In the prince's opinion, this time to all parts of the south, it is necessary to slap in the face. Give a sweet date. The slap has already been slapped. Now it's for sweet dates. Of course. Advance two retreat one. It is still scraping out a layer of oil in the major families in the south of the Yangtze River, and now it is loose in the hands. Calm down.

After all, we still have to cooperate in the future.

In the prince's view, these clans are still the foundation of the Ming Dynasty. We must fight but not break, and we must fight for the interests that should be sought. But the relationship that should be maintained is also to be maintained.

But Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't seem to be like this.

Zhu Yuanzhang's plan to vacate the cage for birds is already coming step by step. For these scholars in the south. The fate of the next few decades is already predestined. Zhu Yuanzhang will slowly remove these big families from the foundation of the empire.

Not to mention Zhu Yuanzhang, he was not polite to these people. I didn't want to continue to deal with these people at all.

And perhaps in the eyes of the prince, the fields are clear. Increasing the amount of taxes. It's already good. But for Zhu Yuanzhang. This is just the beginning. At this moment, it is time to give in. What will happen in the future? Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang directly proposed a plan to immigrate to Liaodong.

this program. He Xi will definitely raise his hands in agreement. After all, He Xi has a painful annoyance at the moment. That's that there are too many people. The most accurate thing is that there are too many Koreans. Originally, it was a fusion of Han Chinese with Koreans. But if the Goryeo people in the Liaodong region become the mainstream. This is not what He Xi wants to see.

The premise of not discriminating against other ethnic groups and embracing all rivers is that the Han nationality is the main body, and this point must not be mistaken.

There are not many Han people in Liaodong. Even now, there are a large number of Mongols and Jurchens in the population under He Xi's rule. There are also some small local tribes whose names are not named. The core of the Han people is dominated by the brigade brought by Ma-Yunyewang.

That is, more than a dozen guards. Forty or fifty thousand people and their families only.

But. The Hu and Han in the north have been living together for a long time. Although some people say that they are of different races, they are no different from Han people in their style of acting, so they don't have to worry so much.

It's just that hundreds of Koreans have come over, and it's still a big problem.

Therefore, Liaodong is extremely eager for the Han population. Even a Han person, when he arrives in Liaodong, it is easy to start from the long armor of the li. Although this position is not considered an official. But his subordinates can always manage a few families.

It can be regarded as having status. If then there is itself. Become the head of the village, become the head of the river, the head of the canal. Or it is possible to be promoted to the army, and to be a minor official in the local administrative system.

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "What does the prince think of my plan? ”

"Father." The prince said: "Governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh. Cumbersome and fragile. It's a big fight today. Prestige is insufficient. The sons did so. It is also to ease the situation. Otherwise, everyone in the South will be in danger. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Not bad. It's also good to govern the country. The way of using soldiers is also good. It's also a good way to control people. It's all about the four words of grace and punishment. It's just that the rewards and punishments are messy. Then the law of the world does not exist. There is no law in the world. Then it fell apart for a while. ”

"As far as this matter is concerned. Whoever has merit, who has had. Who should be rewarded and who should be punished? The grace of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. It's for whom. ”

The prince naturally understood very well that his original intention was to give some benefits to the Jiangnan clan. to win these people over for their own use. And this time the mastermind behind the trouble. The prince doesn't know who it is? But by virtue of the correlation of interests. The prince can actually delineate the scope of suspicion.

It wasn't necessarily because of this one thing that he appeased.

He mobilized almost half of the armies of the southern provinces. Tens of thousands of rioters were captured. Even in Guizhou, some remote places in Guangxi, the war has not yet been fought. Still surrounded by mountains. That's when there is a compromise to ease up.

The crown prince said: "Father, the world cannot be judged purely by rewards and punishments. This is what you educate your children. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was silent for a while, this truth is really Zhu Yuanzhang's education of the prince.

Yes. The merits of many things are not too important, just like Hu Weiyong's party is a damned person. Naturally not, Hu Weiyong's party, in fact, many of them are Li Shanchang's old people. Hu Weiyong himself is also Li Shanchang's person.

This group of people presided over money and grain, and supported the great cause of pacifying the world for Zhu Yuanzhang. Wherever an individual is a sinner.

However, Hu Weiyong was in chaos. Take the prime minister of the Yuan Dynasty as an example. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty had just been established, and the system was not perfect. Zhu Yuanzhang is inevitably a little simple and rude in politics, and he is a big killer with talent.

In the eyes of some people, the world is black and white. Some people see the world as chaotic and gray.

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed and said: "Buddhism has a threefold realm, seeing the mountain is the mountain, and seeing the water is the water. See that the mountain is not a mountain. Seeing water is not water. See the mountain is still the mountain, see the water is still the water. Now I understand. ”

When Zhu Yuanzhang started the army, he didn't think about it so much. is purely with enthusiasm, and it can be regarded as desperate. As a last resort. It is the first realm. gradually became a generation of emperors. also suffered a lot of losses. He has been betrayed by countless people. It's not that he was so suspicious at the beginning, but he has suffered losses and almost lost his life several times. Then look at the situation in the world, and naturally reach the realm where the mountains are not mountains, and the water is not water. At a glance, it can be regarded as a conspiracy. In the open, it's all about hooking up.

Zhu Yuanzhang ensured his rule in the future. Naturally, it is also a killing spree.

However, now that Zhu Yuanzhang is in the north, he understands a truth. That is, people are actually very small in history, and under the power of time, there are very few things that can be done by letting you be an emperor through the ages.

Previously, the Confucian worldview was dominated by stillness. For the difference between ancient and modern, it is often said that morality is decayed. The people's hearts are not ancient, but now Zhu Yuanzhang fully accepts the so-called advanced and backward, dynamic historical outlook of later generations.

Naturally, they are willing to take advantage of the trend.