Land Annexation!

Shi Min suddenly thought of this kind of thing!

Land annexation refers to the increasing concentration of land in the hands of a small number of big landlords and big bureaucrats, while the peasants increasingly lose their land, or even have no land at all. Land annexation was an incurable disease of centralization in feudal society.

In order to own more land, the big landlords used all kinds of despicable means, especially in disaster years, when the landlords took advantage of the land to let the peasants who owned the land sell their land and real estate and become tenant farmers!

Shi Min knew that the phenomenon of land annexation was indispensable in all dynasties, especially in the last years of a dynasty, when land annexation intensified, and the contradictions and polarization between the peasants and the landlords and gentry had reached an irreconcilable level, and peasant uprisings would break out.

The Yellow Turban Uprising at the end of the Han Dynasty, the Huangchao and Gao Xianzhi uprisings in the late Tang Dynasty, the Li Zicheng Uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, etc., these peasant uprisings were all due to the uneven distribution of land and the difference between the rich and the poor.

If nothing else, it's Ming.

It is well known that land annexation, natural disasters, court corruption, forced labor, peasant uprisings, and the rise of the Manchu dynasty led to the demise of the Ming Empire.

In this process, land annexation plays a role in affecting the whole body, which is the fundamental reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty!

In fact, since the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, became the king of the descendants of Dafeng, he opened the land annexation model. After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the royal family, eunuchs, officials at all levels and landlords frantically annexed land, coupled with the corruption of the imperial court at this time, failed to take effective measures to stop it, resulting in more and more landless peasants, shaking the cornerstone of the Ming Dynasty and causing natural disasters.

With the advent of the Ice Age, unprecedented drought continued to appear, and the imperial court failed to organize effective disaster relief, and increased forced labor taxes, resulting in a more serious famine, and starvation people everywhere, and the peasants had no choice but to rise up and fight for a way out.

In order to suppress the peasant uprising, the imperial court levied additional taxes, which led to a worse famine, and the peasant rebel army suppressed more and more, gradually making the Ming treasury extremely empty, resulting in no money for the defense of Liaodong, the Manchu Qing gradually growing, and the Liaodong defense line collapsed.

The Manchu Dynasty's incessant plundering made the Ming Dynasty even worse.

After the peasants in the north reclaimed the grassland and destroyed the ecological environment, the rats in the north started a long-distance transfer in order to survive, and ran into Shanxi and Hebei, and the drought in the two places was the most serious.

What's even more deadly is that the soldiers were infected with the plague, and the army was greatly reduced, resulting in the border defense of Shanxi and Hebei being self-defeating!

The peasant rebel army marched from Shanxi to Beijing in only 10 days.

Therefore, there is a way for rats to cut off the Ming Dynasty.

If there had been no land annexation, there would not have been so many landless displaced people, and there would not have been a natural disaster, which was full of people and frequent uprisings, resulting in an empty treasury and no money to resist the Manchus, leading to the rise of the Manchus.

There would have been no landless peasants in the south going north, rats going south, plague outbreaks, people dying, and military power lost. Disasters were the factors that accelerated the demise of the Ming Dynasty, but man-made disasters were fundamental.

Therefore, it was the land annexation that triggered a chain reaction that followed one link after another, which played a role in affecting the whole body. Land annexation was the fundamental cause of the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

The current Great Zhao Kingdom is actually almost the same, and the situation of land annexation is already very serious, and if it is not reconciled, I am afraid that the embankment of thousands of miles will collapse in the anthill!

Over the years, the peasants of the Great Zhao State have continued to revolt, and in addition to encountering disaster years, I am afraid that there is also the role of land annexation.

After Shi Min and his entourage rested for a while, they came to a house with a poor family surrounded by walls!

This is really a family with four walls.

Two thatched huts, a thatched latrine, and not even the simplest fence walls, only a few rudimentary shelves.

"Anyone?" Shi Min politely stood at the door.

At this moment, a young voice came out of the room and looked out. The girl may have been a little afraid of life, so she didn't dare to go out of the door, but asked through the dilapidated door panel, "Is there anything wrong with you?" ”

Seeing that the girl was like a frightened deer, Shi Min was a little amused, and couldn't help but shake his head and said, "We are passers-by, it's hot, and we want to go to your house to ask for a bowl of water to drink." May I? ”

"Oh, come in."

The girl is still a little defensive, it seems that the adults are not at home. However, the people's hearts in this era are still simple, and there are not so many barriers between people.

For those who want to stay overnight or ask for a bowl of water to drink, they will generally not refuse to come to the host's house.

Shi Min and the other four sat down, and the girl took out a few bowls, fetched water and put them in front of them.

"Girl, where are your adults?" Shi Minfa asked.

The girl was very vigilant, but when she heard Shi Min's question, she still answered honestly: "Daddy went to work in the city." ”

Shi Min nodded, nothing.

After a while, Shi Min drank the water and felt hungry again, so he asked Chen Changsheng to take out some pastries and put them on the table.

The girl probably has never seen such a delicate pastry in her life, let alone eaten, smelling the tempting aroma of the pastry, the girl was a little intoxicated, looking at the pastry, her eyes unconsciously emitted a blazing light, and her stomach screamed out of time.

Shi Min smiled, then picked up a piece of mung bean cake and handed it to the girl: "Eat it." ”

The girl hesitated, then snatched the pastry and began to gobble it up.

"Slow down, there's still something to be done." Shi Min sighed.

This six- or seven-year-old girl is still like this, and it is estimated that she is already hungry, and it is estimated that the girl will feast on an ordinary piece of pancake at this time, let alone such a delicious pastry.

Shi Min ate each of the pastries, let the girl eat her heart's content, and was about to get up to say goodbye, but at this time, the sound of quarreling sounded outside the house.

"Daddy!" The girl screamed, and ran out in a puff of smoke.

Shi Min and the others followed out, only to see that at the door, three men in cloth clothes stopped a man who was dressed plainly and had a somewhat gray face. Behind these rao, there is also a middle-aged man with a beard.

The man pleaded with a pleading face, "Chief, you can be accommodating." This is the rice millet I just bought, and it is the ration for me and my daughter for a few days! You can give some grace to the poll tax, and after a few days, Mr. Li will settle his wages, and I will make up the poll tax and the taxes owed over the years, what do you think? ”

Unexpectedly, the middle-aged man was very unsympathetic, and said coldly: "Sun Zheng, don't dream!" How long have you owed so many taxes to our government now? Do you want me to spare your time? I forgive you time, who will forgive my time? I can't afford to be held accountable by the people above! ”

The man named Sun Zheng was still pleading.

The middle-aged man, that is, the head of the village (village head), was already impatient, and took out an abacus and played there: "Sun Zheng, I'll calculate the new and old accounts for you." Last year, the land tax was 1,302 yuan, the agricultural implement tax was 621 yuan, the salt and iodine tax was 246 yuan, the poll tax was 1,426 yuan, and the endowment (to the emperor) was 571 yuan...... A total of 15 yuan and 76 yuan, you can give 15 yuan directly! ”

“……”

Sun Zheng said with a bitter face: "Chief, please do well for the sake of our fellow villagers." Fifteen dollars, you can't even sell me! ”

"Can't take it out? All right! It seems that the only way to do this is to take you to serve in the labor and pay it back! Come! ”

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