C15 (1/2)

Along the way to the north along the official road, there were very few people riding on the horse carriages, and most of them were on foot. Besides the pedestrians, most of them were merchants, pulling carts full of food.

Farmers to farm food, Zhang Juzheng changed the method, a ”1 Whip” method, asked farmers to no longer pay food, but silver instead. After all, with the same value, would it be convenient to transport silver to the capital's Ministry of Revenue or food?

In the past, millions of stones were transported to the capital. Along the way, he had to spend a large amount of money. Now, it was much easier to transport the silver back than to waste it.

The system of local security armor was abandoned with the introduction of a flogging law. The former chief security officer and chief security officer were in charge of local security and were in charge of recruiting corvée and so on. Now, they were also responsible for administering the taxes of the common people. The yamen petty official only asked them to collect silver according to the records of the land, while the head of the yamen and the head of the yamen were responsible for collecting the taxes under the yardstick.

Food tax is easy to collect? How can you accept money if you don't have it in your family? We can't force the people to sell our wives, can we? But if the people do not pay taxes, the guards will have to pay for themselves. The guards were just ordinary rich farmers, so they might as well kill their fellow daoists.

What about the peasants? The poor guards had to pay for themselves. So when one came and two went, no one was willing to be a bodyguard or a head guard. As a result of this abandonment, the government's ability to take control of the grassroots system collapsed, and the subsequent taxation was affected.

A whip law could measure more than 200 million mu of farmland concealed by the people, which greatly delayed the budget deficit of the imperial government. One part of the population benefits, and one part of the population suffers.

Zhu Hongzhao could not see anything from the imperial court, but he still knew a bit about the place. For example, using food to sell silver, and then using silver to pay taxes. There was a lot of profit, and the creator of that profit was the hardworking people.

This year was one of the few years of prosperity, and compared to the past few years, it was only a few years.

In the past, when summer harvest time, grain prices are extremely low, grain merchants cheap to collect food. However, the people had no choice but to sell it. The tax on two stones of grain usually required the sale of three or four stones of grain in order to gather silver.

The taxes were sufficient this year, leaving the family with only a small amount of food left. If they were able to survive through the coming summer, they would already be considered lucky. Even if the summer was bad, we could still get some wild herbs and fruits to eat. What if he got sick? There was no money to cure it, and it couldn't be cured either. If it was cured, the whole family would starve to death.

In the next year, farmers will starve to death or borrow to buy high food prices. This was a vicious circle. The black-hearted merchants were getting richer and richer, and the farmers were heavily indebted. They had to throw away their land and flee, starving to death while women and children ran away. Without ties, the young men would often gather and become bandits, causing even greater production damage.

For example, Li Zicheng, Zhu Hongzhao remembered some information about him. In essence, he was an honest man, but he was forced into a corner and had no choice but to pull the flag and eat.

Li Zicheng was tall and strong, with a good appearance so he became a civil servant of a relay station. In the end, Emperor Chong Zhen wanted to reform it, so he abolished some unimportant departments, namely the ones without oil and water.

So Li Zicheng lost his job. The imperial government didn't even give him any subsidies, nor did they buy all of his seniority …

In order to survive, he did not think of betraying such a great cause, but instead asked the provincial graduate's Old Master to lend him money. After he had been extorted of his debts, his wife and the men he had stolen from him, Li Zicheng had not thought about his great cause of rebellion and had left for the western border town to join the army.

It wasn't easy for a superior to appreciate him, and he became an executive director. And yet, he was also short of pay. What about the military salary?

No matter how confused the imperial government was, it had to feed its border army to the fullest. Usually, when a salary of 10 thousand soldiers is paid, there would only be 67 thousand silver left. The local people called it ”the family of generals will do everything they can” and ”send it down at 1 o'clock.” The lower ranked officer earned 1 point, as for the large soldier … It was good enough to have a meal.

This time, the amount of silver sent by the imperial government had also decreased. However, the officials would not let themselves suffer a loss when they took the bounty. They had done as they had before, causing the lower officers to not be able to take it or even eat their fill. Thus, Li Zicheng exploded. Between starving to death and rebelling, he chose to kill his superior who admired him.

Soldiers with pay took up a spot on the mountain as bandits, and soon found out that sitting on the mountain while eating the sky wasn't an option, so the rebel militia got mixed up with them.

Zhu Hongzhao opened the curtain and looked out of the car.

This Ming Dynasty flourished by relying on a whip technique for a while. The desolation of the local security system, and the rampage of the hungry led to a series of vicious cycles. All of this was magnified in the harsh climate of the Little Ice Age. Fortunately, he still managed to come up with a set of Jianzhou Jurchens.

Between life and death, the peasants naturally would not choose to starve to death. Instead, they chose to live a vigorous and vigorous life.

Because the other party was disobedient, Yuan Chonghuan's plan to kill Mao Wenloong caused the Dongjiang Town to lose control from top to bottom. The rest of the Dongjiang Town were dispirited as they ran to Shandong, but were pushed aside, resulting in Kong Youde's rebellion, bringing the advanced firearms for the Jianzhou Jurchens, as well as the backbone of the Han Army who would attack the city.

There was also Emperor Chong Zhen, who had changed his mind and was eager to achieve quick results while also temperamental.

Although Zhu Hongzhao couldn't remember all of this clearly, but the whole of the Ming Dynasty gave him a feeling that he was courting death. If the heavens wanted you to die, you had no choice but to die.

Seeing his son's depressed expression, Zhu Yisu thought it was because he couldn't bear to part with Lee Yuvniang.

The carriage slowed down, Zhao Qi pulled open the curtain and said: ”Master, another three miles and we'll be at the Yanmen Mansion.”

In the system of Ming Dynasty's Acropolis City, there were a thousand places to defend, and a thousand other places that directly belonged to the local army and goverment office. This kind of place on land was called the Guardian Office, and the ones close to the sea were the thousand places to defend.

For example, although the Swallow School was only a thousand households in name, it was still a large territory. It was a huge city. And Zhu Yisu's Tiancheng Guardian of a thousand households, was also the size of 91 townships.