Last time, I talked about Zhu Youxiao's successful transformation and upgrading of the "train" with the help of his younger brother, and learned that the "steamer mechanism" had many wonderful uses, which led to the industrial revolution.

"Okay, okay, uncle, don't be angry, our sisters won't tease you, right? Cluck. The women giggled and laughed, thinking that the man in front of them was cute and cute, and he was really a good material for a craftsman, but he had nothing to ask for power and desire, so he could rest assured, so they nodded to the emperor's husband in affirmation. And after Zhu Youzhen got the affirmation of the concubines, he also smiled and nodded in response: "Brother, please take care of yourself, I have something to say goodbye." ”

As soon as the words fell, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen and his concubines smoked under their feet, and the green clouds flew towards the "Shihua Cave" hundreds of miles away to the north, as if they were planning to find a "carpenter" to discuss things. And that's exactly the case, after all, with the title of "son-in-law", he failed to hold the beauty.

"The younger son-in-law/junior has seen the father-in-law/the national teacher." Zhu Youzhen and the concubines descended from the sky one after another, and after entering the "Shihua Cave", they stepped forward to greet the carpenter.

"Haha, all excuse me, get up and speak." The carpenter opened his eyes slightly, swept the other party and said, "It's not a family, don't enter a family." ”

"Oh? Could it be that my father-in-law/national teacher knows what I mean? ———— "Haha, of course. The carpenter smiled: "There is a method of 'unpredictable prophet', of course I know what you are doing here." The eldest girl, the second girl, the third girl, and the nine younger sisters such as Jianger were called over, and Lao Tzu had something to say. ”

"Giggles, obey, here." After urging my brother, urging your brother, urging her brother, after answering the voice, he went to the depths of the cave and called out all the nine sisters who were meditating and refining qi, so he chattered and asked his father: "Dare to ask Daddy, what are you calling the children to come to?" Cluck. ”

"What's the matter? Of course, I married you all! The carpenter smiled: "The in-laws have already found it, it is this kid's 'Zhu Ming Dynasty'." ”

"Giggles, it turns out that the emperor's brother and concubine sisters came to pick up our sisters? Welcome, welcome, cluck. The women giggled and greeted.

"Be serious! The stinky girls are about to get married, so can't they be reserved? When the carpenter saw this, he couldn't help but scold: "If you let your mother see it in person, I'm afraid you will have to be angry." In addition, the emperor's wedding must be solemn, and it is good to make arrangements as soon as possible, and this big day is set on the ninth day of the ninth month of September. ”

"The ninth day of September? Isn't that Chung Yeung Festival? ......After hearing this, everyone was puzzled: "It's only now that the spring equinox has just passed, and it hasn't yet arrived, is it early?" "————, it's not early. The carpenter smiled and said: "Make preparations early, take advantage of the 'Qingming Sacrifice to the Ancestors', and comfort the ancestors of the Zhu family at this time." ”

"Oh? I see. Thank you father-in-law for the reminder! After Zhu Youzhen listened, he suddenly thought of something, so he asked again: "Why can't you advance it?" Must be chosen on the 9th day of September? "———— haha, this is because the 'yin energy is too heavy' in the palace, and you need to choose a day that is 'full of yang energy'. The carpenter smiled and said: "While there is still half a year to equip it, you can spread the news to the world, and you can also take the opportunity to see what the attitude of Kunyu Wanguo is towards this?" ”

"Giggles, that's a good dare." After hearing this, all the women applauded: "It's great that you can collect tribute again!" But what if someone comes to smash the field? ”

"Hmph, smash the field? Unless you are tired of living, let it just take a look at the power of my Ming Dynasty! Zhu Youzhen said disapprerovingly: "Long before I met you, the 'national teacher', I was really stormy. But after three years of hard work, it is no longer what it used to be, and the last thing I am afraid of is war! ”

Zhu Youzhen is right, because since he got the "heirloom jade seal" presented by the carpenter, it seems that all kinds of natural disasters and man-made disasters that should have occurred in the history of the late Ming Dynasty in a different time and space have not happened, and the Ming court, which was originally due to financial exhaustion, did not collapse, but embarked on the road of rejuvenation.

You must know that the Ming Dynasty in a different time and space died in a peasant uprising led by Li Zicheng. However, in Chinese history, large-scale peasant uprisings generally occurred in the middle and late stages of various feudal dynasties, but the situation of the Ming Dynasty was special because peasant uprisings broke out continuously from the beginning of the founding of the country.

In fact, since Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, peasant uprisings have been like sparks that have been burning everywhere on the land of China. During the 31 years of the reign of "Hongwu Emperor" Zhu Chongba, there were more than 200 large and small peasant uprisings nationwide recorded in historical records. That's weird!

In addition, in the "Hongwu period", during the reign of other Ming emperors, peasant uprisings of large and small scales also continued one after another, and on average, several or even dozens broke out every year (including "peasant riots"), because some good people have made statistics, only in the "Longqing period" and the beginning of the "Wanli Dynasty" in this short period of ten years, there is no record of peasant uprisings (riots) in the historical materials about the Ming Dynasty, and the rest of the time, uprisings continued.

Therefore, compared with the previous dynasties, the Ming Dynasty was simply the "concentrated outbreak period" of the "peasant uprising" in ancient China! The suppression of "peasant uprisings" was a "compulsory course" for the emperors of the Ming Dynasty in all dynasties. Why were peasant uprisings so frequent in the Ming Dynasty? The reason is that Zhu Yuanzhang's concept of governing the country is problematic.

In 1368, when Zhu Chongba established the Ming Dynasty in Nanjing, Jiangsu, he said: "Hu Yuan died in Kuan, so I will be fierce." The first half of the sentence means that the "Yuan Dynasty" died because it was too tolerant of the common people, because the "Mongol Yuan Dynasty" was established by the Mongol aristocracy. Because they are steppe nomads with a low level of civilization, they have a backward level of management, only believe in the power of fast horses, scimitars and bows and arrows, and scoff at the "Tao of Confucius and Mencius" and "Chinese etiquette", and only care about collecting taxes.

In the eyes of the Mongol aristocracy, the subjects under their rule, whether ordinary Mongol herdsmen, the bureaucratic class of the Semu, the Han Chinese, the Nan, or the gentry and landlords, as long as they could collect the full amount of taxes, and it did not matter whether slavery, feudalism, bureaucratic compradors, or usury were practiced.

The ruling class of the Mongol aristocracy did not care how the bureaucracy below managed the people and collected taxes. In the middle and late Yuan Dynasty, when the rich people of the Semu people, Han people, and even the "rich households" (bureaucratic compradors, local tyrants and inferior gentry, etc.) among the southerners went out, even if they all took the "big sedan chair" carried by 16 people, which was equivalent to the treatment of the emperor, no one cared, because the Mongolian ruling class only cared about the status of the class equal to money in the eyes of the Mongol ruling class, and did not care about any bullshit etiquette.

However, in the later Ming and Qing dynasties, only when the "Emperor Laozi" went out, could he enjoy the "sixteen sedan chairs"! If others dare to trespass, they will be put on death row for "attempted rebellion" and will be beheaded. During the Yuan Dynasty, the rich people's homes were decorated with splendid gold, and even carved dragons and phoenixes, which would not attract the "Mengyuan Imperial Court" to make trouble, even if someone deliberately secretly stirred up trouble and spread rumors and framed them, at most, they could send the officials away with some money.

Why is this happening? Because the official messenger only cares about completing the "tax task" assigned above, and the other party is just a "good citizen" rather than a "bad people" who are generally rising and wasting, why bother with each other? After all, the hands are short, the mouth is short, as long as the other party pays taxes on time, he can toss as much as he likes.

The ordinary people of the Yuan Dynasty (wealthy families) did not have to worry about committing crimes due to "trespassing", but in the Ming Dynasty, the situation completely changed. According to the Ming Dynasty, a "Book of Rites", that is, the famous writer Yu Shenxing said: "Yuan Ping Jiangnan, the government decree is sparse, the tax is reduced, and he does not levy it." ”

It is these 16 words that are enough to prove everything. Moreover, this is said by a high-ranking official of the Ming Dynasty, which is simply puzzling.

In fact, the Mongols attach great importance to "trade" and "business", but the most important thing about "trade" and "business" is that the people engaged in it must have enough freedom to do so, which requires the population to be mobile, because only when the population is moving, can the goods be passed through the world, can they earn money, and they can pay taxes to the Mongols. At the same time, the Mongols took a very light view of the common people's farming, because the nomads were used to eating meat and milk, but they did not like to eat rice.

The Mongols thought that as the ruled, you just had to pay taxes according to the prescribed amount, and they didn't care what industry you did, and they didn't ask you to pay more than you went bankrupt, because Mongolians like to eat "old tartar roast leg of lamb" and don't like to eat white rice. Therefore, the people of Jiangnan at that time lived a decent life.

The "common people" (the wealthy class) among these "southerners" have full freedom, and they can farm if they want to, and they can buy and sell if they don't want to farm.

The tax system of the "Yuan Dynasty" was adjusted at different times, including "local tax" and "ding tax", "autumn tax" and "summer tax", "branch difference method", "manager law", etc.

The "land tax" and "Ding tax" of the Yuan Dynasty were formulated and stipulated by the staff of the "Yuan Taizong" Xiao'er Zhijin Wokotai (the Khitan Yelu Chucai) during the period of its "predecessor" - the "Great Mongolia". Following the law of determining the levy of profits, the number of households in Zhulu is inspected, one stone per year of Kesu, five liters of driving Ding (also known as driving mouth), and half of the new households and driving each half, the old and the young are not with.

In the meantime, there are cultivators, or the number of their cattle and tools, or the spring of the land, etc., and those who have less tax and more land tax pay the land tax; If the land tax is less and the ding tax is more, the nadine tax will be paid. craftsmen, monks, and Taoists; Officials, businessmen, and merchants. ”

"Yuan Shi • Food and Goods Chronicle" recorded: "Land tax, three liters per mu in the upper field, two and a half liters in the middle field, and two liters in the lower field." paddy fields are five liters per acre". "Yuan Shi • Yelu Chu Cai Biography" records: "In the seventeenth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1280 AD), Kublai Khan, the "ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty", stipulated that the whole household should have three stones per Ding Su, one stone for each Ding Su, and one stone for each Ding Su for half a branch household. ”

At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Jiangnan only collected "autumn tax", and in February of the 19th year of "Zhiyuan" (1282 AD) after the Yuan Dynasty changed the country name to "Da Yuan", Jiangnan tax grain was ordered to lose one-third of rice according to Song Zhen's example, and the rest was folded into cotton, silk and other sundries. In the second year of "Yuan Zhen" (1296), the "summer tax" was levied in Jiangnan.

The "autumn tax" only ordered the grain to be transported, and the "summer tax" was to collect cotton cloth, silk, silk, cotton and other things, all depending on the number of grains, one stone of grain or three times (3,000 copper coins, equivalent to 3 taels of silver), or two times, or 500 Wen.

In the eighth year of the reign of "Yuan Taizong" Wokotai, he began to implement the "Branch Method". Its name is "silk material" and "silver". "Silk material" is one pound of silk per household for national use. Five households produce a pound of silk for the kings to bathe the capital. It is levied by checking the upper and lower levels of their household registration.

"Silver", only six taels of Minkona, half of the silver two, half of the color silk. Paying taxes in silver, starting from there. "Yuan History: Food and Goods" said: "The meridian is abolished and there is a manager. Lu acres and Han nuclear fields are all made by them. The strong man of the people has more land and less tax; The weak are given away and the taxes are saved.

There is no harm to non-managers. However, if the manager's system is not good, the harm will be greater. Those who have the name of "manager" are said to be "meridians" in the Song Dynasty, and "through inspection and pushing" in the Jin (Dynasty).

"Yuan History: Food and Goods Journal" contains Zhang Lu's comment on the manager law: "The great affairs of managers, the ancestors have tried to do it, but during this period there are still many deceptions, failed to do the truth, there are those who use ripe fields as wasteland, there are those who are afraid of poor and break their households, and there are rich people who buy poor people's land, but there are still those who deceive the old name and lose taxes." Because the income does not increase, the small people complain of illness. ”

The rulers of the Yuan Dynasty adopted the "manager method" for the purpose of "no hidden tax revenue and equal servants", but it did not achieve the expected purpose. In the second year of "Yanyou" in the Yuan Dynasty (1315), the "Yuan Renzong" Erjin Aiyu Li Bali Bada issued an edict to abolish the "Manager Law".

Moreover, many places under the rule of the "Mengyuan Imperial Court" are basically "autonomous", because the Mongols usually come to collect taxes once a year, that is, to collect "autumn taxes" when they catch up with the autumn high horse fat, and usually on the desert grassland north of the Great Wall, "the grassland with running horses, a slippery cloud......

It is precisely because of the loose policies of the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty that "reckless heroes" such as Zhang Shicheng, Zhu Yuanzhang, and Chen Youliang took advantage of the loopholes and became a "big deal". Therefore, after Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, everything changed. As a beneficiary of the "loose policy" of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang lacked "I am fierce"!

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