After Ming Dynasty

Chapter 84 Publicity
Zhu Yiyuan took decisive measures to deal with the scum of the collaborators under his rule, and time passed quickly. Looking back on this year, it is destined to be a very chaotic year.

Among other things, the small court of Nanming alone has two reign titles, namely the first year of Hongguang and the first year of Longwu, and corresponding to the Qing court, it is the second year of Shunzhi.

For Zhu Yiyuan, the same is true. In the first half of the year, he was mediocre and inactive. In the second half of the year, he joined the rebel army, had his own team, occupied several counties, and had tens of thousands of soldiers.

Looking back, it was like a dream.

"Mr. Ning Ren, I'm going to write something and summarize my experience." Zhu Yiyuan said with a smile.

Gu Yanwu also smiled and said: "If you have anything to write about, just order it down, I am willing to do it for you."

Zhu Yiyuan smiled and said: "What I want to write is not complicated, I just want to talk about how long Daming's banner can last and what we should do."

Gu Yanwu was shocked, and gradually became serious. This is not the question he has been thinking about.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but pulled the chair forward, leaned forward, and asked, "What's your opinion on this matter?"

Zhu Yiyuan smiled and said: "It's not a high opinion, it's just some simple ideas. First of all, we have to make one thing clear. Da Ming's failure lies first in himself. If Da Ming himself has no problems, or even is not terminally ill, it is impossible for him to be punished by only a few ten. The Eastern captives with tens of thousands of people were beaten back steadily. They even gave the Eight Banners a chance to enter the customs. This is the most fundamental one, and everyone must understand this."

Gu Yanwu listened more seriously, and even picked up a pen to write it down.

In fact, since Li Zicheng occupied Beijing, or even earlier, a large number of insightful people have been thinking about what happened to the Ming Dynasty?

When the Qing soldiers entered the pass, the pain of subjugation became even more unforgettable, forcing too many scholars to start thinking seriously, what is the problem?

"First of all, we must admit that the Ming Dynasty has maintained its state for 300 years. It did not die suddenly, but it was hard to return, and it can even be said to have come to an end."

End of life?

In other words, the Ming Dynasty should perish!

Gu Yanwu smiled helplessly, but he didn't correct anything.As a minister of the Ming Dynasty, it was inappropriate for him to say this, but as a child of the clan and a member of the Zhu family, Zhu Yiyuan had a different meaning when he said it.

"The root of the Ming Dynasty's subjugation lies in the loss of people's hearts. There are tens of millions of people who have no clothes, no food to eat, and it is difficult to make a living. In order to survive, the people had to rise up. Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were all made by the Ming Dynasty. They came out, and their growth was also caused by Da Ming's continuous supply of soldiers. It can be said that it was Da Ming who destroyed himself."

Hearing Zhu Yiyuan's words, Gu Yanwu only felt that he spoke to his heart. Whether it was the old slave, or Huang Taiji, including Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, put them together with the Ming Dynasty, not to mention that outsiders can't stand it. Even they themselves dare not accept it calmly.

Such a large country cannot be killed if it is attacked from outside. The centipede is dead but not stiff. Only by committing suicide can it be completely defeated.

If there were no various ills of the Ming Dynasty, how could the country be subjugated?
Speaking of this, Gu Yanwu felt that he could write a very good article.

But what Zhu Yiyuan said next made Gu Yanwu stand in awe.

"There are so many disadvantages of the Ming Dynasty. If you want to talk about it, I'm afraid it's enough to write dozens of books. What I want to talk about is what to do now!"

Gu Yanwu frowned, and immediately said: "Please give me some advice."

"I thought that the old shackles should be broken, reborn, and reborn... What are the old shackles, that is, the taxes and corvees formed around the land, renting and borrowing. It was these things that made the Ming Dynasty hard to return and went to perish of."

Gu Yanwu's hand holding the pen trembled slightly.

"Speak, go on."

Zhu Yiyuan said: "In the past 200 years or so, big families and wealthy families have annexed land, evaded corvee and taxation, robbed the government's treasury and taxes, and devoured the people's bones and marrow, detrimental to the public and private, and enriched their own pockets. At the beginning, Zhang Juzheng promoted a whipping method, clearing up the land, and suppressing the rich. It means that his demise means that Daming’s self-rescue has failed, and in the following decades, the people have been defeated for thousands of miles, and the people finally can’t survive, and there are smoldering flames and wars everywhere.”

"According to common sense, readjusting land finance and taxation is a good thing to do at the beginning of the country. The Ming Dynasty was ruined and its family was destroyed. It happened that the Eight Banners entered the customs. They are different from the previous dynasty changes. The emperor of the Qing court is Master, the Eight Banners are all slaves, and as for the Hanchens, they are even worse than slaves. They definitely don’t have the ability to change the world and completely re-approve the land tax rates, and they even want to connive at the Eight Banners, enclose the land, and continue to harm the people.”

"This gave the Ming Dynasty a possibility of revival. It completely broke the old pattern, re-approved the land tax, established a new relationship with the people, won the hearts of the people, and won the support of the people. The equalization of land we advocate is not simply the land. Distributing to landless farmers is a complete change, freeing the people from the burden and starting over."

Hearing this, Gu Yanwu couldn't hold back his excitement, and couldn't wait to write down what Zhu Yiyuan said.

And with his knowledge and ability, he can naturally write a penetrating brilliant article.

In fact, Zhu Yiyuan made it clear that equalizing the land is not simply dividing up the land.

It can even be said that equalizing fields is only the first step of this huge project.

Take Shandong as an example. Because of the war, the population has decreased a lot. It is not a serious situation simply by calculating the number of acres of land and the population. It is enough to do some land equalization, directly recruit refugees, and reclaim wasteland.

I'm sorry, but it's really not okay to do this.

The problem is that land is a thing, and there are many things attached to it. The most important land tax, corvee, and messy exorbitant taxes are all based on the land.

Take the annexation of land by big families and rich families as an example, why can’t it be tolerated from the perspective of the state... The reason is very simple, the land rent paid by the tenant farmers to the landlord is actually a tax collected by the landlord from the tenant farmers, and this tax was originally the state’s .

The tenant farmers work long-term and short-term labor for the landlord, which is essentially to perform corvee for the landlord, and this corvee, in principle, also belongs to the state.

In a word, the actions of the rich and wealthy families are actually cutting the flesh of the court and sucking the blood of the country, in a physical sense.

Once you understand this question, you will also understand what the essence of Juntian is.

It is not as simple as granting land according to the head, but signing a new contract with all the people to exclude middlemen. The past is invalid, and we start again, that is, we smash the old rope frame and start over. Vientiane update.

By the way, Zhang Juzheng was promoting a whip method, and [-]% of his energy was devoted to Qingzhang's farmland... The reason is very simple, a whip method is nothing more than exchanging grain for silver, so why bother?
The real trouble lies in who will pay for the money!

That's why it is necessary to clarify the acres of land, clarify tax responsibilities, and whoever owns the land pays taxes... This is the real core.

Just like Zhu Yiyuan, when he allocated land to the people, the key lies in the latter. The common people have to pay land taxes, serve in the military service, obey orders, and abide by Zhu Yiyuan's rules... There are many things behind it!
It stands to reason that for a dynasty, these things can only be formulated in the early stages. Once the rules are formed, there is almost no better way than waiting for collapse.

This is why Zhu Yiyuan said that the Ming Dynasty deserved to perish.

There is really no way to save it.

It's just that the Qing court was born with a body of slavery, so it was impossible to really treat the people kindly.Therefore, the people of insight now have a slight chance.

"Mr. Ning, there is only one way to save the peril, and that is to temporarily avoid the main cities where the Qing army is powerful, enter the mountainous areas, rely on the people, mobilize the people's forces, win the support of the people, and form an army of soldiers belonging to the people. Continue to grow and grow , and finally expel the Hulu. This is the only feasible way we have concluded in the past six months, and I hope it can be spread throughout the world as soon as possible.”

Gu Yanwu was startled, "Zhu Qianshi, aren't you afraid that others will learn from you?"

Instead, Zhu Yiyuan smiled and said, "I hope that everyone can learn from it, so that the destruction of the Qing court will be just around the corner."

Gu Yanwu took a deep breath, then nodded vigorously, "I understand, please rest assured, this article will be spread to Jiangnan in the first month of next year!"

(End of this chapter)