Comprehensive martial arts: Summon the thunder and lightning general, I will rule the world

Zhu Houzhao did not mind engaging in a war of attrition with the Song Dynasty. In fact, according to the normal order, if the Ming Dynasty wanted to occupy and destroy the Southern Song Dynasty with the least losses, a war of attrition would be the best choice.

After all, how could there be anyone in this world who is more suitable for fighting a war of attrition than the Ming Dynasty?
You know, nearly 50% of the land in the Ming Dynasty now belongs to Zhu Houzhao's imperial estate.

Although the taxes collected by Zhu Houzhao were not high, don’t forget that there were no middlemen collecting the money!!
The biggest blood-sucking worms that really depend on the Ming Dynasty are not the royal family, but the officials, gentry and landlords. With so few officials, gentry and landlords in the Ming Dynasty, there is naturally no need to worry about being sucked dry.

Officials, gentry and landlords, what do you want so much land for?
Do you grow your own?
Instead of helping these officials and landlords to farm, it would be better for the tenant farmers to farm for Zhu Houzhao!
At least they were working for Zhu Houzhao, they were working for the Ming Dynasty!! Moreover, the official gentry and landlord class were really abominable!
Even now in the Daming Daily, Zhu Houzhao would always publicize how hateful certain officials, gentry and landlords are.

Of course, it is impossible for them to directly say that such words should not exist about the official gentry and landlord class.

Although Zhu Houzhao was very dissatisfied with the official gentry and landlord class, he would not hold back when attacking them!
But some officials, gentry and landlords were still very good, and Zhu Houzhao would not kill them all!
At least these guys are not black-hearted and don't come here to seek death.

If the real officials and landlords can sell their land at a low profit and high volume, there are still many farmers willing to rent their land!
Zhu Houzhao didn't mind these people doing this. For example, Zhu Houzhao's income was nearly 20% or 30% of the rent, which was also the rent from the imperial farm.

This price is actually quite a lot.

After all, taking the tenant farmers in the past as an example, they cultivated the land for the officials and landlords, and in the end they could get 20% of the grain, which was already very good.

And eighty percent of it belonged to officials, gentry and landlords.

Perhaps these officials, gentry and landlords were more conscientious and paid nearly 10% tax to Zhu Houzhao!
But now, they give farmers 60 to 70 percent of the grain, and the rest of the money is their own income, while also paying a certain amount of taxes to Zhu Houzhao.

Perhaps these taxes were similar to previous taxes, but the key point was that officials, gentry and landlords received less money, while farmers received more money, which was also supported by Zhu Houzhao.

However, the lives of officials, gentry and landlords are no longer as good as before.

But do those officials really have no money?
Look at how much the Ming officials are paid now. Zhu Houzhao has always chosen to keep officials honest with high salaries!
During the five or six years since he became emperor, his salary and benefits have at least doubled, and his current salary is almost two or three times what it was before.

Facts have proved that Zhu Houzhao was actually very good to his own people.

The officials of the Ming Dynasty did not have a very good life in the past. Among all countries, the salaries of officials of the same level were not very high. Even after Zhu Yuanzhang set the salaries, there had been no price increase for hundreds of years. Just think about how much the prices in the Ming Dynasty have increased in the past hundred years, and you can understand how much the salaries of the officials of the Ming Dynasty were.

Not to mention the problem of accommodation, there were also big problems with other supporting services before the Ming Dynasty.

For example, the clothes of Ming Dynasty officials were initially provided by the officials themselves.

The prices of these official uniforms are not cheap at all.

Not to mention the price of official uniforms, even the price of servants is not the same as that of a younger brother-in-law. The roads in the Ming Dynasty are very dusty now. When they go to court, they don’t walk all the way, but ride in sedan chairs, which requires a lot of manpower. Otherwise, if you walk all the way and your clothes are dirty, can you still go to court?
Even if you are a minor official in Yanjing, if you want to attend court, you need to prepare these things.

But these things can’t be prepared just by saying so!!
These all cost money. If your family doesn't have any assets, you can't afford these things.

Those who don't have money at home also need to make money to do these things, so how do officials make money?
Then the only thing to do is to use the power in your hands.

Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, sometimes we cannot blame these officials too much for being unhuman, because there is really nothing we can do.

Zhu Houzhao admitted that Zhu Yuanzhang was a good emperor, but to his officials, Zhu Yuanzhang was indeed not a good emperor.

Zhu Yuanzhang wanted all the scholars in the world to work for the Zhu family. As for the life and death of others, Zhu Yuanzhang really had no control over it.

For the people of the Zhu family, having an ancestor like Zhu Yuanzhang is a good thing, but for the literati, it is not the case.

Of course, some policy issues in the late Ming Dynasty were also serious.

Fortunately, Zhu Houzhao appeared!
Zhu Houzhao cleaned out a large number of officials, gentry and landlords, and at the same time, improved the treatment of officials. At least now, these officials of the Ming Dynasty can live a good life as long as they are not too extravagant.

After all, Zhu Houzhao is not really a heartless person. On the one hand, he asks you to work hard for him, and on the other hand, he asks these people not to spend money?
Even capitalists are not so cruel. After all, capitalists just want you to get the least money and do the most work. Even if you have health problems in the end, you won’t die directly, or even your whole family will die!
But on Zhu Houzhao's side, if you don't do things well, your whole family will die, or even the whole family tree will be eliminated.

This is also the biggest difference between Zhu Houzhao and capitalists.

Zhu Houzhao himself didn't know what was worse between himself and the capitalists.

However, as long as those people do not do bad things, Zhu Houzhao can guarantee their wealth.

If there are no problems while serving as an official, then there will be a lot of silver.

Zhu Houzhao actually didn't care much about money.

Anyway, the thing that the Ming Dynasty has no shortage of the least is silver.

The Ming Dynasty is developing very well now, but Zhao Kuangyin is full of envy and jealousy!
Why is it that Zhu Houzhao's army is so powerful, while my own army is not, even though they both spent money to build it?
This unscientific?
But no matter how dissatisfied Zhao Kuangyin was, it was useless!
Indeed, Zhao Kuangyin was willing to spend money on the army, but as a cheater, Zhu Houzhao said that he was a cheater, and Zhao Kuangyin was no match!
Of course, Zhu Houzhao also knew that if he hadn't cheated, his side wouldn't necessarily be much better than Zhao Kuangyin's. (End of this chapter)