The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

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"To collect taxes, it must be collected from big households!"

"The big family has money, even if they pay some taxes, at most, a meal will change from four dishes to three dishes!"

"The most is to live a simple life, so that I can't even afford to eat, or be reduced to the point where I sell my sons and daughters!"

"But those Shengdou people are suffering!"

"It's already a difficult life. If I collect taxes from them, they will have to sell their fields, houses, and children."

"Plus some exorbitant taxes and apportionments, and then there will be military service, conscription, or natural and man-made disasters!"

"It's possible that I won't be able to survive at any time!"

"And then, there will be refugees all over the place, and they will rise up, and the flames will burn the mountains and rivers!"

Did the Ming Dynasty really fail to wipe out the rogues back then?

In fact, this is not always the case. Before Chongzhen 13 years ago, the Ming army still had the upper hand against the bandits.

Li Zicheng was once beaten to the point where there were only eighteen riders left, and he hid in Shangluo Mountain in embarrassment, almost being wiped out.

But how could Li Zicheng recover again by relying on eighteen horsemen, and entered the capital to ask for salary with arms?

Is it really just because of the prophecy of "Eighteen sons, the main artifact"?
Bullshit!
To put it bluntly, the imperial court raised three salaries, coupled with continuous natural disasters, forcing local refugees to rise up and rebels, providing Li Zicheng with an army of one million, and finally destroying Ming Dynasty.

Translating Zhu Hongyu's words, it is roughly equivalent to Lao Tzu wanting to rob the rich and help the poor.

Fang Yizhi didn't dare to refute Zhu Hongyu, but just leaned forward and said.

"Your Majesty is right!"

However, it was obvious that Fang Yizhi agreed with some reluctance.

But it was normal, as a traditional literati, his butt was originally on the side of the landlord and gentry.

As for Zhu Hongyu's policy, it would be good if he didn't oppose it.

How can you expect him to agree with you from the bottom of his heart?

Zhu Hongyu is not stupid, he doesn't think he will be so attractive.

While cutting off the flesh of the landlords and gentry, he can also convince the landlords and gentry.

But it doesn't matter, what Zhu Hongyu wants is their obedience on the surface and cooperation with the court's work.

As for whether they were convinced or not, to be honest, Zhu Hongyu didn't care!
As long as these people don't show it, Zhu Hongyu doesn't care what they think.

Zhu Hongyu ended his conversation with Fang Yizhi, and then threw it into his own secretariat for exercise.

Fang Yizhi also readily agreed, because in his opinion, the current secretariat is the former Ming cabinet.

Humble but powerful!
Naturally, he had nothing to be unhappy about being able to enter the secretariat.

After Fang Yizhi stepped down, Zhu Hongyu continued to handle government affairs.

He held a cabinet meeting, at which he finalized the development of Shanghai as Daming's next development zone.

After the matter is finalized, Zhu Hongyu has to decide on relevant policy support for Shanghai's development, as well as resource allocation and other issues.

All these need to be seen by him in person, and then he will issue relevant orders!

……

Outside the city of Nanjing, Li's shop!
This is a fairly densely populated village. In a small village, there are more than 300 families and thousands of people.

In the pre-Ming Dynasty, this place used to be the Zhuangzi of Duke Wei's mansion!

Thanks to the power of Duke Wei's government, Li's shop does not need to pay taxes to the court, it only needs to pay rent to the government.

Apart from being exploited by Duke Wei's mansion, there were not so many exorbitant taxes, and it was not even their turn to serve as corvee.

After all, if all the people in Li's shop were conscripted into corvee service, who would farm the land for the father-in-law?

Therefore, the lives of the people in Li's shop are still decent.

Even in the most difficult years at the end of Ming Dynasty, the Li family's shop would have to change sons at most.

The whole village will not be starved to death!
However, with the entry of the Qing Dynasty, the Hongguang court was destroyed in an instant, and the power of Duke Wei's mansion collapsed in an instant.

This Li's shop has naturally become my Qizhuang in the Qing Dynasty!

The common people in Li's shop have all become my coated servants of the Qing Dynasty.

Afterwards, the people in Li's shop lived a happy life of farming in the Qing Dynasty.

Except for the habitual starvation of some old people when the crops are lean every year, life is also barely passable.

For the common people, there is no difference whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty.

The Qing Dynasty was no different from the Ming Dynasty except that the hairstyle was a bit uglier.

Isn't it all farming for them?

Who is it not to plant?

There is no difference between being a tenant for Wei Guogong's mansion and being a coat for the Qing Dynasty.

They have long been used to it and take suffering for granted!

No matter how hard or tiring the days are, as long as they can barely survive, they can bear it.

It wasn't until Daming came back, and Zhu Hongyu's policy was spread in the local area, that these people suddenly realized it.

The suffering they have experienced is not justified!
Their life should not be like this!
Li's shop is very close to Nanjing City. When the local state capital was still waiting for officials to arrive, the reform of Li's shop had already started.

Li Xu will never forget that scene that day!
That day, their family had run out of food, the child was screaming with hunger, and the old woman was lying on a bed with a brick missing a leg, waiting to die.

The whole family is waiting for his old mother to die before eating!
As for what to eat...

At this moment, a Ming official in official uniform appeared at the village entrance of Li's shop.

Some yamen servants followed behind the official, pushing two grain carts.

There are big bags of grain in the car.

As well as baskets, each of which contained miscellaneous grains and steamed buns.

After the yamen servants arrived at the entrance of the village, they began to bury the pot and make food.

The white rice was poured into the boiling water, and the thick rice fragrance quickly wafted away.

The official lord ordered all the people in the village to be called together, and when they arrived, he ordered the people in the village to come out and register their names and household registration without a word.

After registering, you can drink porridge and eat steamed buns.

Many people are wondering, what exactly is the imperial court registering the population for?
Is it going to collect taxes, or is it going to impose corvee, or is it a slave?
In short, no one thinks that the registration of the population by the imperial court will be a good thing!
Everyone is clueless!
However, looking at the white steamed buns and smelling the strong rice fragrance in the air, many people couldn't resist the temptation and took the initiative to register.

Li Xu is also one of them.

Because his family is poor enough, there is nothing to care about.

Regardless of what the imperial court is going to do, there will always be no fakes if you eat what you eat.

Just register, no matter what the court wants to do, first fill your stomach before talking.

Li Xu took the hot porridge and poured it into his mouth.

His mouth was full of blisters from the scalding hot porridge, but he continued to swallow with grinning teeth, unwilling to waste even a single grain of rice.

Because, he is really hungry!

Some people even stuffed a big steamed bun into their mouths in three mouthfuls, and refused to spit it out even if they just rolled their eyes because they were choked.

Li Xu gulped down the porridge. While drinking, he couldn't help crying.

He has planted the land for most of his life, but this is the first time in his life that he drank rice porridge.

In the past, even during Chinese New Year, he only ate multigrain porridge, which was thicker than usual.

Seeing his children devouring porridge and steamed buns, Li Xu swore that he would never forget this day.

Because he knew that his old lady could survive for the time being!
(End of this chapter)