The six-dimensional pictures of emperors of all dynasties were exposed, and the ancestors panicked

Chapter 488: Tenants have status, craftsmen have freedom

On the canopy.

A thin boy in patched clothes stood on a haystack.

The area was filled with half-naked people.

The boy waved the rag in his hand, which had faint carbon stains on it.

"Uncles! His Majesty has issued an edict!"

"From now on! We are no longer slaves of the landlords!"

"They can no longer treat us like animals!"

"Our status! Is the same!"

They looked up at the boy with a bit of disbelief on their faces.

"Xia Jia Dalang, is this true?"

"Really...really not..."

"Da Lang, you didn't see it wrong, did you?"

The people still had some disbelief.

The boy blushed and said loudly:
"I can be wrong, and my father is also right!"

"Uncles and aunts, don't you still believe in my father?"

The villagers felt a little embarrassed.

"Even Teacher Xia said so...it's really..."

"Long live your Majesty!"

Suddenly shouted loudly!
A white-haired old man kneels down to the south.

He hit his head on the ground and his shoulders twitched continuously.

……

Ming Dynasty Yongle Period
Zhu Di looked at the sky thoughtfully.

Why does this guy look so familiar?
His surname is Xia, he is poor, and his father is a teacher...

"Natsuhara Yoshi?!"

……

[Zhu Yuanzhang was born in a poor family, he knew what the people at the bottom wanted]

[The peasants in the Yuan Dynasty had a strong personal dependence on the landlords]

[The law stipulated that tenants should treat landlords as masters and servants. If a landlord beat a tenant to death, he could just punish him with "170 strokes of the cane and 50 taels of silver for burning and burying the tenant".]

[Ming Dynasty: Father is called "Zun", and elder brother is called "Chang"]

【Zhu Yuanzhang's edict was to upgrade the personal relationship between peasants and landlords from servant-master to junior-senior.】

[The meaning of the first decree is that when tenants meet their landlords, regardless of age, they must follow the etiquette of a younger brother meeting an older brother.]

[If the two parties are relatives, then regardless of the identity relationship between the landlord and the tenant, they must follow the etiquette of relatives]

[This decree is insignificant, but it is a rare respect. ]

[Also, the Yuan Dynasty law on the punishment of landlords for beating tenants to death was abolished.]

[It was also stipulated that if a landlord beat a tenant farmer to death, he would still be punished with death.]

If the landlord wants the tenant to work for him, he must pay the tenant for the labor. The legal price is "one stone of rice to cover the cost."

[Although the landlord is still in a higher position, their status has been leveled. ]

[If you want to treat tenant farmers like animals, the law will not allow it.]

……

Great Qin.

Ying Zheng looked at the sky, then at the "Lüshi Chunqiu" in his hand.

"You do have a point."

Liu Bang secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He exchanged glances with the others.

Finally I managed to persuade this stubborn donkey.

"Your Majesty, Qin Law is not completely useless. On the contrary, its meticulous nature is precisely its strength."

Xiao He pointed at the bamboo slips and said:
"But the harshness towards the people and heavy punishments for minor crimes made Qin law a scourge."

"Your Majesty, Zhu Yuanzhang mobilized the people's power without collapsing the country, which meant that the people were not only subject to the law, but also protected by the law."

"Everything in the world is for profit."

"The people must also benefit." Several people nodded unconsciously, only Feng Quji remained silent.

He always felt something was wrong.

Relocating people and reclaiming land are indeed good ways to recuperate.

It's reasonable to say that it's profitable.

But not all people in the world are law-abiding and good citizens.

How could he be sure that nothing would go wrong after the migration?
……

[The second edict was to provide subsidies to the craftsmen]

[This small matter touched upon an important system of the Yuan Dynasty handicraft industry, namely the craftsman registration system]

[The so-called craftsman registration system is to organize craftsmen across the country into special household registrations]

[Artisans who are naturalized are called artisans]

[If a craftsman does not become a naturalized worker, he will have no way to make a living. If he becomes a naturalized worker, he will not only make a living for his whole life, but also his descendants and grandchildren will have to do it for generations.]

[The Yuan Dynasty implemented the craftsman registration system mainly for the convenience of employment]

[Arrest people based on their craftsman status based on the job they are doing]

[The craftsmen who worked here not only had to pay for their own travel expenses, but also their own living expenses in the capital, and they were not paid for their work.]

[Only some coarse food, and no other livelihood is allowed]

[If caught, it will be a serious crime and the fate will be extremely tragic]

……

{Yuan Dynasty...Your death was not unjust.}
{Fur. These are just fur! There are many bigger ones, but they are not mentioned.}
{The status of fourth-class civilians and craftsmen is miserable enough, what is the difference between them and Indians.}
{What do you think is the main source of Zhu Yuanzhang's fame?}

{To make an inappropriate analogy, this is the successful Chen Sheng and Wu Guang! }

……

Ming dynasty.

Old Zhu licked the tip of his pen and looked helpless.

"This metaphor..."

Queen Ma smiled and took a sip of tea.

“That’s right.”

"The end of the Yuan Dynasty is similar to the end of the Qin Dynasty, and you are similar to Chen Sheng and Wu Guang."

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the girl who was smiling mischievously and said unhappily:

"Is it possible? That's not the successful Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, that's the successful Emperor Gaozu of Han!"

Queen Ma swayed her feet and said with a smile:

"But it wasn't Emperor Gaozu of Han who said, 'Ning You Zhong Hu'."

Old Zhu rolled his eyes at him, and then a feeling of sadness surged in his heart.

Would you rather have a kind of...

This is not possible...

……

[This system was also used in the early Ming Dynasty, but the fate of the craftsmen did not improve with the change of dynasties.]

[It was not until this edict in the eleventh year of Hongwu that everything began to change]

[Although the amount was not much, the craftsmen were given an allowance, but life was finally better.]

[Then in the 1386th year of Hongwu (), the Ming Dynasty officially stipulated that craftsmen from all over the country should serve in Beijing once every three years, and each service should not exceed three months.]

[In this way, the craftsmen finally no longer had to perform corvee labor all year round and had more time to engage in their own business. ]

[In the 1393th year of Hongwu (), the law was revised again]

[Re-arrange the service time according to the different types of work of the craftsmen and the distance of the journey]

[These craftsmen who took turns to serve were called "shift craftsmen"]

[Craftsmen serving in the Imperial Palace can receive monthly wages according to their type of work.]

[Tenant farmers have status, craftsmen have freedom]

[Tenant farmers can work with their backs straightened, and craftsmen will not be forced to work, but will have more opportunities to create. ]

[This is a remarkable achievement of Zhu Yuanzhang during his lifetime in office.]

……

｛In fact, there is a question that historians have been arguing about, which is when Zhu Yuanzhang betrayed the peasants and became the spokesperson for the interests of the landlord class.｝
{But this question is boring}
{Because we cannot ask those peasants who followed Zhu Yuanzhang in the uprising to embrace the revolutionary ideals that followed.}
{As small farmers in the natural economy era, their dreams could not transcend the historical stage, nor could they transcend the contradictory psychology of longing for equality and superstitious belief in authority.}
{Over the past thousands of years, the social ideals of the farmers living on this land were nothing more than a few points.}
{First, there must be a stern, fair, and unyielding ruler}
{Second, the sky is above, the earth is below, the father is the superior, the son is the inferior. I long for a stable and unchanging society with clear hierarchy and orderly order.}
{Third, there are fields to plant and food to eat.}
{Fourth, fairness and justice, no corrupt officials exploiting people at all levels, no powerful families bullying the weak, and no ruffians committing crimes}
{Given the historical context at the time, what did Zhu Yuanzhang fail to do?}
{How is he not the "Emperor of Peasants"?}
(End of this chapter)