Plane Travel Guide

Now that it has been brought up, Tang Shaozhe intends to finish it thoroughly. He has been preparing for these things for a long time. ,

After almost completing these reforms, his revision of the direction of Daming is basically complete.In the future, all that is left of Ming Dynasty is to conquer the world and fight continuously, so there is no need for him to worry about those small problems.

Anyway, we have all the weapons and organizations that should be allocated to Ming Dynasty, if we still can't fight the battle to conquer the world, I'm really speechless.

"Your Majesty, what do you think about the transportation situation in the country?" His Majesty the National Teacher didn't say anything, but when he opened his mouth, he threw out huge propositions to scare people.

But Zhu Di also knew about his habits, and didn't show any discomfort: "Well, transportation?" Plane Travel Guide 1641

After thinking about it for a while, the emperor recalled most of the situations.But this proposition is too big, even Zhu Di doesn't know the specific content of what Tang Shaozhe wants to say.

"What's your opinion, Master National Teacher? Why don't you tell me for me? Is it possible that Master National Teacher has another good idea?"

"After His Majesty moved the capital, although the northern border areas of the Ming Dynasty were calmed down, it also brought a lot of trouble. The most obvious problem is that the capital has a large population, and the consumption of various resources is extremely huge!"

Zhu Di didn't say anything about it, and then he nodded and admitted: "Well, if there is a benefit, there will be a disadvantage, and the harmony of yin and yang will not be satisfactory after all!"

The facts mentioned by Tang Shaozhe specifically refer to Zhu Di's move of the capital from Jinling to Yanjing, the original area under the jurisdiction of King Yan's Mansion.

This has significant national defense significance for defending against the attacks of grassland nomads on the northern border. It can stabilize various crisis situations in the northern border for Daming, and truly stabilize the Ming regime.

At the beginning, Zhu Yuanzhang entrusted Zhu Di in Yanjing to defend against the military power of the remnants of the Mongolian Yuan on the northern frontier.

But who knew that His Royal Highness King Yan returned to Jinling in a battle of Jingnan, and ascended the throne directly.

This was suddenly bad. Although Jinling was occupied by dragons and tigers and was prosperous in the Six Dynasties, it could be regarded as an excellent capital location. At this time, the economic center of China had shifted from the north to the south, and Jinling, the capital, was in line with the national conditions at that time.

However, if His Royal Highness King Yan stayed in the Golden Fen Emperor Capital of the Six Dynasties, then what if the remnants of the Meng and Yuan dynasties on the northern border would make trouble again?

Anyway, His Royal Highness the King of Yan is worried about entrusting another prince to guard the border in Yanjing. Who can guarantee that there will be no next Jingnan?

Zhu Di was worried about other people guarding Yanjing, but he had to guard against the remnants of the Mongolian and Yuan dynasties on the northern border, so he had to move the capital.Simply moving the capital north to Yanjing will save these troubles.

But after solving this problem, new problems emerged. Basically, the economic center of China has shifted from the north to the south during the Song Dynasty. For thousands of years, the north has been over-developed, and the soil erosion is too severe.What's more, many wars occurred frequently, which severely damaged the ecological balance in the north.

This has led to the geographical advantages of the south beginning to show the power of catching up from behind. Whether it is economically or academically, the north is now starting to lag behind the south.Apart from political and military significance, the North has no advantage over the South.

So Zhu Di moved his capital to Yanjing, and then millions of people gathered in the capital.

The huge consumption of resources generated by the massive population can make any minister of household affairs a headache to die.

Just for food, it is an astronomical figure to meet the needs of millions, not to mention the subsequent needs of hundreds of thousands of soldiers.Although Zhu Yuanzhang's military household policy claims that he can support millions of soldiers without paying a penny or a grain of rice from the treasury, in fact it is nonsense.

Even the generals and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty can hang around like beggars. In the hands of generations of generals, they can barely get enough food and clothing. In fact, in most cases, it is impossible to get enough food and clothing.

But even if they can have food and clothing, do these generals only need to eat and wear warmth?It will be training and fighting. Don't you need a series of equipment such as horses, weapons, bows and arrows, and armor?Plane Travel Guide 1641

For these losses, it is basically nonsense to rely solely on the north for supply.

Including the food mentioned above, most of the materials need to be transported from the south to the north to ensure the various livelihood and military needs of the capital.The economy in the north has long been severely damaged, and satisfaction itself is very difficult.

Now it is transferred from the south to be able to maintain the normal operation of the capital.Otherwise, just wait for the "government" to go bankrupt!

However, the traffic conditions in the Ming Dynasty were far from good, and could even be described with the word "bad".

Hundreds of years later, the country has promoted the construction of infrastructure on a large scale, and various slogans of "building roads first if you want to get rich" have been shouted loudly, and then the huge investment has basically improved the country's traffic conditions and built a top-ranked road in the world. A network of railroads and roads almost second only to that of North America.Then came the economic take-off, creating the miracle of the world's factory.

However, the Ming "government" has no money at all, and only relies on the little agricultural tax in its hands. Compared with the previous Song Dynasty, it is simply a beggar.

Hundreds of years later, when the "government" has money, it is basically supported by a wide variety of commercial taxes. Agricultural tax has already accounted for a very small part, and even later, the agricultural tax that has been passed down for thousands of years in China was completely abolished.

However, the Ming Dynasty only relied on part of the agricultural tax, and the countless rich and gentry classes did not need to pay taxes at all, which caused the owner farmers to bear a heavy burden.A little bit of natural disaster ** will not be able to bear it.

However, the self-cultivating farmers could not afford tax bankruptcy, and their own land would only fall into the hands of the powerful or the gentry, so the number of self-cultivating farmers decreased, but the tax demanded by the treasury could not be reduced, and the excess could only be passed on to other self-cultivating farmers to bear more.

Originally, the burden on farmers was heavy, but after the increase, it was completely unaffordable.So it went bankrupt, and then it was passed on to the remaining yeoman farmers.

Under the vicious circle, it can only lead to a bottom-up resistance war. This is how Li Zicheng got up.

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However, the Ming Dynasty only relied on part of the agricultural tax, and the countless rich and gentry classes did not need to pay taxes at all, which caused the owner farmers to bear a heavy burden.A little bit of natural disaster ** will not be able to bear it.

However, the self-cultivating farmers could not afford tax bankruptcy, and their own land would only fall into the hands of the powerful or the gentry, so the number of self-cultivating farmers decreased, but the tax demanded by the treasury could not be reduced, and the excess could only be passed on to other self-cultivating farmers to bear more.

Originally, the burden on farmers was heavy, but after the increase, it was completely unaffordable.So it went bankrupt, and then it was passed on to the remaining yeoman farmers.

Under the vicious circle, it can only lead to a bottom-up resistance war. This is how Li Zicheng got up.

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