Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

Yuan Shu laughed and couldn't help laughing:

"Yao Cao is too arbitrary. After all, there are still one or two good people."

Ma Shiying raised his eyebrows, caught the loophole in Yuan Shu's words, and retorted:

"Bo Ying also said that there are hundreds of thousands of Donglin and Fushe, with gang members all over the world, but only one or two good people..."

"Uh!"

Yuan Shu laughed:

"It does seem to be a little lacking."

"It's true, that's quite a few!"

"Hahahaha!"

The two looked at each other and laughed.

I really don’t know if this is funny or sad.

The whole world is yelling at you, laughing and scolding the whole world...

Do not!

Donglin and Fushe, who prostituted a prostitute, could still make a name for themselves in history——

He actually had to rely on one or two people who were still willing to work for the country to support the situation...

They didn't even mention how talented Jiang Nan was...

Occupying so many important positions in the imperial court...

In the end, there are very few people who are willing to be loyal to the country!

Gee!

I really don’t know on their faces, whether His Majesty’s new type of fire dragon water blasted off a single hair...

……

Fang Zhenghua built a new city in Nanjing, while Zhang Guoyuan went to Jiangyin.

Although Jiangyin is a county town, Hanjiang business houses have semicolons here.

This is naturally Zhu Youjian's hand.

Zhu Youjian arranged for Hanjiang merchants to enter any place where the Qing army had resisted in history.

What we do is today!

Jiangyin is just a county town, but the Hanjiang business houses are not small.

Even after such a long period of development, the area has been reduced to half the city!

Jiangyin is under the jurisdiction of Changzhou Prefecture, South Zhili Province.

This place is close to the Yangtze River, with Yangzhou as your head and Hangzhou as your feet. Zhenjiang is on the left and Suzhou is on the right.

The famous Taihu Lake is across the Grand Canal and past the neighboring county of Wuxi.

Since the construction of the Grand Canal, this place has become a prosperous place.

Suzhou in the Ming Dynasty was the capital of new goods in the world and was known as "Suzhou-like".

Jiangyin has such a superior geographical environment and is naturally very prosperous.

How rich is Jiangyin?

Xu Xiake, who traveled around the world's mountains and opened a river of tourism, was a native of Jiangyin.

The Xu family can only be considered a second-rate family in Jiangyin, with more than 1 acres of land.

This is not even a shop!

Oh!

By the way, this is the property that Xu Xiake's great-grandfather received after the family split.

How rich is Xu Xiake?

When his mother celebrated her birthday, Xu Xiake built a garden to celebrate her mother's birthday!

That is Jiangyin - Qingshan Pavilion.

How did the Xu family get their money?

Naturally, it’s business.

As early as the Zhengtong period of Zhu Qizhen, Xu Min, the ancestor of the Xu family, was a very wealthy family.

In the sixth year of Zhengtong, Zhu Qi settled the capital in Beijing. (I have always been good at it before)

Of course, the Xu family was sending food and grass in the name of disaster relief.

This matter comes naturally if you understand it.

Are you flattering the emperor and whitewashing yourself?

After all, the Xu family's business is inseparable from foreign trade.

If you earn enough money that your descendants will not be able to spend for more than a dozen generations, you will naturally have to wash it all away.

In fact, when Zhu Qizhen came to power, he had already discovered that something was wrong——

How come my great-grandfather, Emperor Yongle, fought in the south and north, dug canals, built palaces, built Wudang, and built imperial mausoleums...

Big projects come one after another, and how can you afford to pay wages to civilian workers!

When they arrived at my place, the courtiers repeatedly stretched out their hands and asked me if I wanted to allocate internal funds!

Why is the national treasury insufficient for daily use?

Is there any input missing?

Comparing two and one - oh! It turns out that the voyage to the West was missing!

Later, Zhu Qizhen built 120 sea-going ships in Fujian to allow Ma Yun to sail to the West.

(These ships were burned during the "Great Civil Revolt" in Zhejiang, Fujian and Jiangxi. Twelve blessing ships, nearly a hundred building ships, stern ships, fighting ships, battle ships, patrol ships, etc....)

When the Xu family donated food, they happened to encounter Zhu Qizhen repeatedly spending internal funds.

Ming Yingzong took a look:

Hey!

Everyone is asking me for money, but you, a small commoner, are still donating money to us.

(Note: In ancient times, grain, cloth, and iron were even more valuable than money.)

You are such a good citizen!

With a wave of his hand, Zhu Qizhen asked Wang Zhen to present a banner of righteousness to the Xu family.

He also made Xu Yi, Xu Min's son, a member of Zhongshushe.

(As mentioned earlier, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty restricted the power of the cabinet by bestowing favors on the children of wealthy and distinguished families to become Zhongshu.)

After Zhu Qizhen failed and was "sent abroad to study", Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu succeeded to the throne.

During the Jingtai period, it was a period when the literati were completely in power.

The Xu family hurriedly sent another horse, and in the name of the dangerous border, they voluntarily donated their war horses.

After this incident, Xu Yi not only stood firm in the court, but the Xu family also established a relationship with Li Dongyang.

Although Li Dongyang was young at the time, he was an outstanding person who could explain "Shang Shu" to Zhu Qiyu.

Li Dongyang's teacher was Zhan Yu who was a Jinshi during the Yongle period and was worshiped as a foreign master.

In other words, Li Dongyang was trained with focus.

Li Dongyang met Zhu Qiyu when he was three years old, and when he was five years old, he explained Shangshu to Zhu Qiyu.

To put it more bluntly - this is the cabinet minister who has been appointed for a long time!

The Xu family is discerning. How good is the relationship between Xu Yi and Li Dongyang——

After Xu Yi died, Li Dongyang made an epitaph for Xu Yi!

Then the Xu family didn’t spend their money in vain!

Later, Xu Yi’s grandson became that very famous person——

The protagonist of the imperial examination fraud case with Tang Bohu - Xu Jing!

In fact, Tang Bohu was really wronged.

If this imperial examination fraud case does not break out, people and Xu Jinghui will take it all.

As a result - Tang Bohu became a scapegoat...

And Xu Jing was the great ancestor of Xu Xiake.

After Xu Jing's death, the Xu family was divided. Xu Xiake's lineage was allocated more than 1 acres of land alone!

When Xu Xiake passed the boy's examination, he failed.

So Xu Xiake learned from his father and traveled around the world with his money.

After all, for children from rich families - they are not afraid of losing their fortune, but they are afraid of starting a business!

It’s too common for people to die or die after trying to start a business!

And the prodigal...

How much money can Xu Xi spend on traveling all over the world?

The workshops run by Xu's mother alone employ thousands of workers!

……

Don't look at how much the Xu family has...

The Xu family is really not a top figure in Jiangyin!

Jiangyin County in the Ming Dynasty produced 75 Jinshi!

The Xu family, with only one member of the family being a civil servant, was a second-rate family at best.

Because the officials in this era are the real rich.

In fact, the population proportion, land tax proportion, and imperial examination proportion of these five provinces of Shandong, Beizhili, Henan, Shanxi, and Shanxi in the Ming Dynasty are enough to explain the truth about the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

Because the population of these five provinces fluctuates greatly, based on the non-final period, the population proportion has always been about 30%.

The five provinces account for only 30% of the country's population and produce 29.3% of the Jinshi people - this is data excluding military households.

The proportion of Jinshi among military households registered in the five provinces, excluding military households stationed in other provinces, accounts for 58.6% of the proportion of Jinshi among military households in the country.

If we include the number of military households stationed on the northern defense line, the number would naturally be even greater!

(I remember the detailed figure of the proportion. I verified it in the previous article, but I forgot about thirty or more.)

And this approximately 30% of the population was responsible for 56.6% of the total land tax of the Ming Dynasty!

This data is not yet the total number of land taxes actually paid to Beijing.

If actual payments are included, the five northern provinces bear a heavier share.

For example, on paper, Southern Zhili was responsible for 20.4% of the country's land tax, but in fact, the land tax sent to Beijing was less than [-]% of the total.

In other words, the actual payment rate is less than 6%. (The actual proportion is less than one-third of 20.4%.)

Some people say that the five northern provinces bear about 80% of the taxes.

This data is too exaggerated. Although it is indeed not much different, I will not do any research.

The actual land tax paid in the five northern provinces should account for about 60%-70% of the total land tax paid in the country!

Isn’t it scary that 30% of people pay more than 60% of taxes?

At this point, Jiangnan is still asking Qu Du to tax him heavily!

As shown below:

A map of the proportion of land tax in various provinces during the Ming Dynasty. The size of the map is not correct, so it barely affects viewing.

The proportion of land tax marked on the provinces in the figure is the proportion of the prescribed number of land tax.

In actual implementation, if there are many civil servants in the local area, a number will be calibrated on the original basis, and then a part of this number will be paid.

For example, Zhejiang's 7.09% is usually demarcated to 70% and 80%, and then based on this, 80% is collected and one-third is handed over to the capital.

After such a conversion, Zhejiang's tax rate is only about 1.5% even if the factors of waxing and waning are not taken into account.

In other words, the Ming Dynasty court relied almost entirely on the support of the five provinces of Henan, Shandong, Beizhili, Shanxi, and Shaanxi!

This is why once Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong rebelled, the Ming Dynasty was lost.

ps: I'll keep it simple and just talk about the results.

If anyone questions the above paragraph, I can list all the data.

I've read more than a dozen papers, and if I don't mind being verbose, this taxation alone cannot be explained clearly in dozens of chapters.