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

Chapter 527: Yongle Prosperity
The old man in the sky looked at the map of the territory with his hands tucked into his sleeves.

He said slowly:
"If the people can live in a well-off society, I will have achieved my wish."

The scene changes.

A plump, pale-faced man looked at Zhu Di with a sad face.

"Dad, I have no money."

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Ming Dynasty Yongle Period
Zhu Di looked at the scene in the sky and trembled all over.

"It's such a disgrace..."

……

[One day in September of the first year of Yongle (1403), Zhu Di suddenly sighed and said that it was his wish to let the people of the world live a prosperous life.]

[The ideal was wonderful, but the economic situation in the early days of his reign was relatively bad.]

【In terms of responsibility, he was the one who caused the trouble.】

[The Jingnan Campaign was not long, but the scale of the war was extremely brutal.]

[Several major wars involved nearly a million people, and it was an era of mixed cold and hot weapons, with a large number of firearms used on the battlefield, with considerable destructive power.]

[The scope of the war extended from Hebei to the Yangtze River Basin, all of which were economically developed areas of the Ming Dynasty.]

[The people's livelihood and economy of the Ming Dynasty suffered a severe blow. ]

……

On the canopy.

The village that was once full of bustling atmosphere is now deserted.

The thatched roof had collapsed.

The fence made of branches also fell to the ground.

On the yellow earth, brown stains dried up
Looking into the distance.

The fields are overgrown with weeds.

……

[Even the "Ming Taizong Shilu" admitted that thanks to this war, "the area north of the Huai River was turned into wild grass"]

[Zhu Di himself also admitted this matter. ]

[Early in his reign, he issued an order: Officials at all levels who arbitrarily make the people suffer will be punished severely.]

[Similar to the early Ming Dynasty, the land was barren and the population fled. ]

【The solution is to follow the old experience of the early Ming Dynasty and recruit people to reclaim wasteland.】

[It is stipulated that as long as those who have returned home to cultivate the land, local officials should provide generous pensions, and taxes on newly reclaimed land will also be suspended.]

[All the farmers who fled were exempted from tax on their newly reclaimed land and all the taxes owed before their escape were also exempted.]

[This trick worked very well. After the order was issued, not only did many farmers who had fled during the war return home, but even many villagers who had fled to evade taxes before the war also came back.]

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Ming dynasty.

Old Zhu curled his lips.

"What's the use of just giving orders?"

"These guys are the best at deceiving their superiors and hiding the truth from their subordinates!"

"It's no use just talking."

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[The most common phenomenon in ancient Chinese officialdom when it comes to managing people's livelihood issues is deceiving superiors and concealing the truth from subordinates.]

[Especially when disaster strikes, local officials are afraid of trouble and often conceal the incident and do not report it until they can no longer conceal it.]

[Zhu Yuanzhang was extremely angry about this issue when he was in power. He punished officials many times and even put them in prison.]

【Zhu Di soon encountered this problem as well. 】

【And his method is to set rules. 】

[When floods or droughts occur in a local area, local officials must report them within a certain period of time. If they report late, they will be punished.]

[If the local officials do not report it, but someone else does, then the person who conceals the information will be punished, and the person who reports it will be rewarded.]

[In this way, officials supervise each other and the number of cases of underreporting is greatly reduced.]

[The reclamation and immigration are proceeding rapidly. ]

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Ming dynasty.

Empress Ma confronted Zhu, who had a stern face.

"What are you doing!"

Old Zhu grumbled in dissatisfaction.

Queen Ma said these heart-wrenching words with a smile on her face.

"Copy it."

"It's not shameful for a father to copy his son."

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Southern Song Dynasty Xiaozong period
Zhao Shen pondered silently for a while.

"These policies alone are not enough to support five large-scale northern expeditions."

"So Zheng He's voyages to the West were to raise military funds?"

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[As for the process of providing relief to disaster victims, Zhu Di's requirement was just one word: fast! ]

【Starting from the Yongle period, when there was a disaster in the local area of ​​the Ming Dynasty, as long as the local officials verified it, they could implement relief without reporting to the central government.】

[In addition to distributing money and food to disaster victims, the state often provided funds to help disaster victims redeem their sold children. ] [This rule was used throughout the Ming Dynasty. ]

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Song Dynasty: Zhezong Period
Zhao Xu could see that Zhu Di cared about the management of people's livelihood.

But this law has too many loopholes.

If the subsequent emperors did not make special supervision plans for it.

This is a wide avenue of corruption that can reach everywhere.

"The intention is good, the order is good, but unfortunately the person doing the work may not be good."

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[In many disaster relief systems, Zhu Di surpassed Zhu Yuanzhang. ]

[The most representative of these is the abolition of the Ming Dynasty's system of paying tribute. ]

[The so-called accompanying tax means that if a peasant flees from a village, the peasants who have not fled will share the taxes and labor service of the fleeing peasants.]

[In Lao Zhu's eyes, this trick can make the peasants keep an eye on each other to prevent them from running away, and this trick is indeed very convenient and effective.]

【But Zhu Di discovered a problem. 】

[The one who ran away owed taxes, and the one who stayed behind took the responsibility. 】

[If this continues, won't it force everyone to run away? If everyone runs away, who will farm the land? ]

【So from the early days of Yongle, Zhu Di summoned people from all over the country to completely abolish this system. 】

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Tang Dynasty - Wuzong Period
Li Yan finally understood.

"What Zhu Di? Just call him Zhu Buhao."

"This is to patch up Mr. Zhu's arbitrary system."

"What kind of extraordinary idea is this, Zhu Yuanzhang..."

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【At the same time, water conservancy construction also began. 】

[There is nothing we can do about this. Zhu Yuanzhang's several water conservancy projects were mainly focused on seawalls, and the problem of waterlogging was very serious.]

[Especially in the south of the Yangtze River, it is easy to cause disasters when it rains heavily. ]

【At this time, Jiangnan was already the financial center of the Ming Dynasty, and disasters were unlikely to happen easily, but what you feared came true.】

[In the first year of Zhu Di's accession to the throne, a flood hit Jiangnan. ]

【From Suzhou to Shanghai, the whole area was flooded, and local officials took great efforts to fight the disaster, but to little avail. 】

【Zhu Di made up his mind: rule! 】

[Recruited 100,000 civilian workers and selected the Minister of Revenue Xia Yuanji to control the flood. ]

[Xia Yuanji was also unambiguous. After two years of hard work, the flood control army dug through the Liujia River, Dahuangpu and other tributary rivers and established a dense flood discharge network.]

[Not only are the waterways unobstructed, but they also irrigate countless fertile fields. ]

[This also formed the famous "Huangpu River takes over the Song River", laying the foundation for the current pattern of Wusong River (Suzhou River) becoming a tributary of the Huangpu River. ]

[This water conservancy project is also the plan for today's Wusong River water conservancy project. ]

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Tang Xuanzong Period
"There are so many talented people."

Li Longji looked at the water conservancy project in the sky with envy.
What kind of talents have been the most rare since ancient times?

Prime Minister? General?
neither!
The most rare thing is to have someone who knows how to manage water!

It can be like Zhengguo Canal and Dujiangyan Irrigation System, which will benefit the present and future generations.

Small irrigation can be used to irrigate fertile fields, increase per-acre yield, and stabilize the national foundation.

"As long as he doesn't mess around, his people's livelihood column will also reach the top."

Yang Yuhuan puffed her cheeks and looked up at the emperor when she heard the words.

"Then is moving the capital and marching north considered a waste of time?"

Li Longji's eyes flashed.

"I see……"

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【With the completion of water conservancy management in the Jiangnan region, the local economy has developed rapidly. 】

[Even the North's military supplies are increasingly dependent on the South's supplies.]

[At the same time, another major problem also surfaced. ]

The picture on the sky curtain slowly moved upwards and fixed on a familiar canal.

【Reconstruction of the Grand Canal.】

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Great Sui.

Yang Jian shuddered!
"Take it away! Take it away now!"

"I can't bear to see this! I can't bear to see this!"

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Tang Dynasty and Emperor Gaozu's period
“There is a difference between water management and canal dredging.”

Li Yuan squinted his eyes and looked at the sky.

"Young man, don't be too arrogant!"

Not everything can be touched.

Haven’t you seen what happened to Yang Guang?
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(End of this chapter)