Chapter Seventy-One: The Great Ming
Until Zhu Heping left, Geng Tao didn't think about this problem. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
However, Geng Tao didn't dwell on this issue too much, the next time is still long, and he will have a time to figure out this problem.
He has decided to live in the town of Peace for a while.
In the few days since he came to Heping Town, his understanding of the world can be said to have grown rapidly.
He wanted to get to know Da Ming as quickly as possible, and this was definitely the best place.
It's complicated, but it's also simple.
This has to start from the reincarnation of Emperor Chongzhen into this world.
Emperor Chongzhen, who had died once, was naturally reincarnated in this world after he was reincarnated, and with the new establishment of the Ming Dynasty, he was the king of pioneering, and the power in his hands and his control of the country were far greater than when he was on the earth.
And this is a super world, with the human throne industry, the remnant treasure he obtained from the Wanbao Galaxy is the human emperor seal, as the emperor, practicing the human emperor exercises, his deeds are thousands of miles a day, three days to awaken the blood, five days to become a junior martial artist, three months to advance to the congenital, three years to complete the foundation, less than twenty years to achieve Yuan Dan.
In the initial development of the Ming Dynasty, he, the emperor, was definitely the first to make contributions.
At this time, not to mention the second Yuan Dan master in the entire Ming Dynasty, there are only a few foundation building masters, and Chongzhen alone can kill them all.
In this new Ming Empire, Emperor Chongzhen did exactly what he said.
Seeing through the essence of the Donglin Party, he can be said to have a deep resentment towards Confucianism, but it is true that Confucianism is needed to rule the country, and in the dilemma, he finally reformed Confucianism with great courage, almost eliminating all the rights of the Confucian gentry group, in this new world, the power of the Confucian gentry group is far from growing, to the extent that it can compete with the imperial power. If it is changed to the earth, Chongzhen has great energy, and I am afraid that it will not be able to shake the interests of the Confucian gentry group.
The privileges of the Confucian gentry clique are gone, and they naturally need to pay grain and even serve, which is far more thorough than the official gentry of the 'I Daqing' to pay grain as one.
This has dramatically increased the country's revenue.
Having suffered too much from the loss of the country's lack of money, Chongzhen naturally wanted to increase the treasury revenue more, so he increased the commercial tax.
However, because of the lack of the privileges of the Confucian gentry group, Chongzhen's increased commercial tax did not really increase to the merchants, on the contrary, the oppression of this new Ming merchant was far less than that of the earth world, and as a result, the best era of merchants came.
The boom of commerce brought about the great development of industry, and as a result, the Ming Dynasty began to run wildly towards capitalist society.
Thirty years after Chongzhen, the entire Ming Dynasty began to grow explosively, especially in population.
The concept of many children and many grandchildren in Chinese is deeply rooted in the bone marrow, and it is normal for a family to have five or six children, or even seven, eight, or ninety.
This world is both a super-powered world and a nascent world, with a sparsely populated population and almost unlimited land, and it is strange that the population does not grow explosively when the number of children is greatly reduced and it is not difficult to fill the stomach.
In almost ten years, the population of Daming will double.
This kind of population increase, that is, no matter how much land there is, it will one day be filled by the population of Daming, and the concept that the Chinese homeland is inseparable is also deeply rooted in the bone marrow, and after one or two generations live in peace, it is already difficult to leave.
This can easily lead to a large number of people in the region.
As a result, after a natural disaster, the Ming Dynasty once again appeared homeless.
Chongzhen's resentment against the displaced people is no worse than that of the Donglin Party.
The appearance of the homeless people stirred Chongzhen's sensitive nerves, and these homeless people were quickly resolved, but it still made Chongzhen worried, but because this is not the earth after all, whether it is the strength of the country or his control of the country, it is far from being comparable to the time on the earth.
So if Chongzhen wants to solve this problem, it is not impossible.
In fact, there are many ways, such as rescue, now the Ming treasury is abundant, and the granaries are full, not to mention that there are only a few displaced people, it is increased by ten times and a hundred times, and the Ming can easily be rescued.
But bailouts cannot solve the root problem.
Ten times and a hundred times the displaced people can be rescued, if there are more, what if it is for many years?
Chongzhen finally set his sights on the vast land of this world, these areas may be somewhat dangerous, there are some powerful barbarian monsters, but it is not impossible to solve, not to mention that he made a move, it is the foundation building masters who have emerged in these years, and they can solve it, after all, at this time, Daming Xinli has not had much time, and the strength of the barbarian monsters he faces is not too strong.
Therefore, when there were displaced people, he asked them to move these displaced people to the frontier area, and as far away as possible from the homeland of these displaced people, under the threat of death, the homeland was no longer a lock that bound the displaced people.
Some of these people may think that they will return to their hometowns when the year is good, but the long distance makes it difficult to realize this idea, not to mention that the displaced people will return to their hometowns in their lifetimes, and not many of their descendants will return to their hometowns, and the new place of existence has taken the place of the original hometown.
This policy continued to worship until the end of the era, and the result was an objective increase in the expansion speed of the Ming Dynasty.
During the reign of Chongzhen for 350 years, the entire Ming Dynasty expanded by 360 million square kilometers and had a population of more than 4 billion.
It's just that with the development of the times and the progress of society, some of the original problems are not problems unconsciously.
It's like the issue of displacement.
In the three hundred and fifty years of Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty has undergone great changes, and the merchant group has achieved great development, and the social status of the merchants has been greatly improved, which has affected all the people of the entire Ming Dynasty.
The social environment is changing, people's minds are also changing, the concept of the homeland is being stripped away little by little, and finally it is no longer difficult to bind the Ming people, many people run to the distance for wealth, to the frontier, and even outside the frontier.
At a time when gold was still a representative of wealth, the temptation of gold was irresistible, and a gold discovery could immediately attract a large number of people, even if it was far beyond the frontier.
As a result, far from slowing down, territorial expansion increased, but the pace of expansion did not satisfy some people, who were still too few to take risks, and some people saw the benefits of exile as a punishment. As a result, the punishment of exile has developed so much that for a period of time, no matter what crime is committed, it is subject to exile, but the distance of exile is different.
The result has continued to the present, after all, there are still many places in this world that have not been developed, and most of these places are extremely dangerous, and the development speed is extremely slow by ordinary means, that is, there is exile to speed up the development of these areas.
Dongming Prefecture is a dangerous place for people in Daming itself, and the last established Beihe County is even more dangerous, especially its border areas, but in order to compete with the United States and other countries, these areas have to be developed, immigration is the main means, but exile is necessary to cooperate.
The more dangerous the area, the more the need for exiles.
As one of the most dangerous areas in Dongming Prefecture, the number of immigrants in Anqu County every year is extremely scarce, and most of them are exiles, these exiles come from Tiannan and Haibei, and even exiles from Daming proper.
Nine out of nine of the more than 20,000 people in Heping Town were exiles.
At this point, however, the exile is no longer an exile, and everyone is able to regain their status, and depending on the culpability, it will take different merits and time to qualify for leaving.
However, most of the exiles want to leave the place of exile is a fantasy, and even a small number of exiles will take twenty or thirty years to obtain the qualification to leave the place of exile.
In the past twenty or thirty years, the time of exile is that the teenager has become middle-aged, the middle-aged has become old, and the old age has died directly, and the result is that it is very rare to see the exile leave the place of exile.
Exiles can't do it, but many of the descendants of exiles have left the place of exile, and it is much easier for them to leave the place of exile, but there are not many people who have the ability to leave the place of exile, and even fewer who actually leave the place of exile.
Geng Tao came to Heping Town and did not bear the blame, so he could leave here at any time.
But he finally decided to stay here, because the exiles here, want to understand the world faster and better, especially the Ming Dynasty, is there a better place than this place from Tiannan and Haibei, and even the local exiles of the Ming Dynasty?
Perhaps, but it's too far away from Geng Tao.
Only this is the best place that can really help Geng Tao understand the world faster and better, especially the Ming Dynasty, so he obtained his 'ID card' here, so he showed his strength and ability when he was in the beast tide.
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A beast tide passed, not to mention Zhu Heping, the mayor of the town, but the other five innate martial artists were all very busy, only Geng Tao, an innate master who had just joined Heping Village, was leisurely wandering around Heping Town.
This gave many people who were interested in making friends with Geng Tao, a new congenital master.
Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.
Heping Town is not big, but there are more than 20,000 people, and nine out of ten of these people are exiles, exiles, even if the scope of exile is extremely wide now, but most of the people who can be exiled to Heping Town are not good birds.
Not to mention careerists, these people can't afford it, but they are unwilling to be subordinate, and there are definitely a lot of people who want to get ahead, but this is a super world, and if you want to get ahead, you need the corresponding strength.
It's best to have your own strength, and if you can't, you can only rely on others.
Geng Tao is a good target.
He has just come to Heping Town, he has no foundation in Heping Town, and his strength is one of the strongest people in Heping Town, even if he doesn't do anything, he can still get great positions and rights in Heping Town.
And did he really come to Peace Town to do nothing?
If he doesn't want to do anything, what is he doing in Heping Town?
It's just that these people will not rush up rashly, they always have to observe and observe Geng Tao.
Geng Tao knew this, and he didn't care, he really didn't have a purpose in coming to Heping Town, and now he settled in Heping Town, although he had a purpose, it was definitely not what those people thought, and his goal was not them.