"Of course, this brocade guard is still quite strong, which is a big credit."

"It can be said that after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang learned from the experience of the early Han Dynasty and implemented the policy of light taxation and light taxation and recuperation."

"Careful planning and hard work for the interests of the people of the world, so that the ordinary people living in the early Ming Dynasty lived a happy and healthy life after the devastating war."

"At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty after the long war, in view of the social reality of the drastic population decline, Zhu Yuanzhang implemented the policy of resettlement to the tuntian, that is, to relocate some residents from populated areas to sparsely populated areas, and the state also distributed ploughing cattle and seeds to immigrants for free."

"It is stipulated that all those who grow mulberry, cotton and linen will be taxed only from the fourth year, and so on, through a series of policies to support and protect farmers, the people's enthusiasm for production has been greatly mobilized."

"Zhu Yuanzhang attaches great importance to agricultural infrastructure such as water conservancy and provides necessary help for normal agricultural production."

"In terms of taxation, not only agriculture is lightly taxed, but commerce also implements a policy of 30 taxes and one tax, and small stalls and vendors are exempt from tax."

"Vigorously implement the military tun and the merchant tun, the so-called military tun means that the military is also engaged in agricultural production to be self-sufficient, and the so-called commercial tun is the merchant transporting grain to supply the army."

"The merchants obtained the right to operate salt and other special materials, and the merchants transported grain from the interior to the border areas too far, so they hired people to farm in the border areas, and the military and commercial tuns successfully reduced the burden on the state and the common people."

"Zhu Yuanzhang also established a social assistance system."

"Like the disaster relief system, whenever there is a flood or drought or other disaster across the country, not only will the taxes of the year be exempted, but also the disaster relief will be opened."

"There is also a system of poverty relief, which directly sets up an almshouse, and takes in those who have no place to live, and gives them food and so on on a monthly basis."

"If the poor family cannot afford to bury the deceased, the government will sponsor the cemetery and funeral expenses."

"The state will give knighthood and pension benefits to the elderly who have reached the age of eighty."

In terms of legislation, there are more "blessings for the poor and suppressing the rich", and the government pays for the poor to buy their children, and at the same time arranges for the rich to accept them as tenants, and encourages the rich to lend rice to the poor, and the state does not bear the interest in the form of miscellaneous labor for the rich households. ”

"When the price of grain rises, the state opens a position to sell rice at a flat price to stabilize the price of rice, and sends rice to officials at all levels in advance to suppress the price of rice."

"When the hungry people return to their hometowns, the government pays them daily rations, and the state runs public works to resettle the displaced people......

"In short, through the formulation and implementation of a series of policies, Zhu Yuanzhang quickly stabilized the society and the people's hearts, restored and promoted the development of agriculture and economy, and the Ming Dynasty was able to make great strides on the road to prosperity and health."

"Because Ming Taizu has experienced it, I want to hold an umbrella for everyone."

"Agriculture is prominent in helping the people, and there is a certain reason for this brocade guard."

"This is also a contribution of Ming Taizu, who set up a supervisory agency and a secret service agency, Jinyiwei."

"The supervision agency is used to deal with officials, and the Jinyi Guard is in charge of the guards and the like, and the Jinyi Guard can arrest people at will, and they are not restricted by the law at all."

"What dynasty did not have corrupt officials? Isn't this protecting the people? ”

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"Internally, Zhu Yuanzhang, in order to consolidate the world of the Zhu family, started the sub-feudal system again, and divided 24 sons and 1 grandson."

"Among these kings who were sent to all parts of the country, they belonged to the northern powers, especially Zhu Di, the king of Yan, and Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, in the north."

"As a system, hundreds of years later, Jinyiwei is still being used by countries around the world for reference and learning, as far as the CIA, the National Security Agency, etc. in some countries now, in fact, there are some shadows of Jinyiwei designed by Zhu Yuanzhang, which also shows the necessity of this system for the development of the state apparatus to a certain stage."

"In fact, the Jin Yiwei of the Ming Dynasty played a positive role in the country most of the time, although the Jin Yiwei had a bad reputation, it was only sometimes used by bad people to carry out political struggles such as fighting against dissidents."

"Politically, Zhu Yuanzhang has taken extremely tough measures."

"The improvement and innovation of the political system have been carried out by forceful means, and on the one hand, this improvement is certainly aimed at further strengthening the imperial power and stabilizing the political power structure."

"However, subjectively and objectively, it also improved the feudal system to a certain or even considerable extent, promoted the progress of the political system, and even laid a solid foundation for its qualitative leap in modernity."

"In order to overcome a series of shortcomings in the Yuan Dynasty, such as the difficulties of the people's livelihood, the high degree of government corruption, the huge oppression of the people, the slack of authority of the central government, and the failure to resolutely implement policies, Zhu Yuanzhang adopted a series of measures to strengthen imperial power and centralize power to reform the political system."

"On the one hand, Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the powerful prime minister in the institutional setup of the central government, and set up a palace scholar to assist the emperor in handling government affairs."

This was the prototype of the Ming Dynasty cabinet system. The cabinet system was basically formed by the time of the Ming Dynasty. ”

"After that, the power gradually increased, such as when Xuanzong gave the cabinet the power to draft the vote of the university, and when he came to Xianzong, he formed the first assistant of the cabinet."

"In short, through the efforts of several generations of emperors in the Ming Dynasty, the cabinet system became more and more perfect and mature, and later, it was learned by other people, and finally formed the cabinet system and the prime minister system in the modern sense."

"Hundreds of years ago, the Ming Dynasty cabinet system was completely copied in a small day, and even today is practicing a very typical cabinet system of governance."

On the other hand, Zhu Yuanzhang also decomposed the power of local governments at all levels. For example, the provincial-level local powers have been changed to three newly established organs, namely, the Department of Political Envoys, the Department of Procuratorial Missions for the Prosecution of Criminal Cases, and the Department of Command and Mission, to divide the three powers of administration, justice, and military, and these three organs of equal status do not govern each other and are all separately responsible to the central authorities. ”

"In terms of the army, Zhu Yuanzhang divided the central metropolitan governor's mansion into five prefectures: left, center, right, front, and rear."

"The Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces is in charge of the management and training of the military forces throughout the country, while the power to transfer troops is in the hands of the Ministry of War."

"At the local level, a complete set of health guards and military households have been established."

"Zhu Yuanzhang firmly controlled the military power in the hands of the emperor through the establishment of this series of military systems, and as a result, the army of the Ming Dynasty also maintained a strong centripetal force and combat effectiveness from beginning to end."

"The military system of today's modern country also shows the legacy of the excellent military system of the Ming Dynasty."

"The greatest achievement must be that after many years of arduous conquest, the army was leveled, the rule of the Mongol and Yuan dynasties was ended, the whole country was unified, a new and powerful state was established, and the Han nation was restored to its long-lost political power within the traditional national territory."