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

The car made by Zhu Youjian is so considerate!

Put the groom behind the car. The whole car is either wrapped in gold foil or made of bright yellow silk. Isn’t it the Aisin Gioro family’s favorite means of transportation?

what?

Is bright yellow the color reserved for royal funerals in China throughout the ages?

What a bullshit!

I love bright yellow.

Look, it’s red and yellow, so eye-catching!

what?

Is this a piece of junk that burns coal?

go away!

This is baby, okay!

You see, coal is monopolized by Zhu Youjian, and for some reason the coal dug out by "I Shengqing" is poisoned when burned.

According to the Handu Company, only coal produced in the Ming Dynasty can be used in the world. Coal produced elsewhere is "poisonous coal" and can kill people.

Only the "combustion coal" produced in the Ming Dynasty could be used by steam engines.

Zhu Youjian has a dark heart. He robbed the "coal" mining area early and sold it at a very high price.

This is what Zhu Youjian is going to use to get stuck on his neck!

How wonderful this steam engine is!

Even if Zhu Youjian gets stuck in the neck of "my Qing Dynasty" in the future and won't sell coal to us...

Can't we still burn firewood?

Internal combustion engine Internal combustion engine.

Isn't it just a boiler? Firewood and coal can be burned.

They all emit smoke. "I Shengqing" tried it and it can run just like burning wood.

Thai pants are hot!

Still I love the cleverness of the Xinjueluo family!

This thing is much better than an internal combustion engine!

If he really bought a diesel locomotive and Zhu Youjian stopped selling diesel and gasoline to "Wo Shengqing", he would really have spent a lot of money to buy it and get it back!

A steam engine is better!

what?

One of these things costs 800,000 taels of silver?

joke!

I love that the Xinjueluo family is the master of the world!

How about spending hundreds of thousands of silver to buy a car and enjoy it?

what?

No money in the treasury?

We have no money - wouldn’t it be nice if we diverted military spending?

What a big deal!

A good navy - it should be parked in the harbor and be attacked and sunk by the enemy. It saves military expenses and allows the master to celebrate his birthday.

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What a pity!

Zhu Youjian really doesn't sell it so expensively.

The steam locomotive he sold to the Qing court, even the most expensive "Supreme BMW", only cost only silver dollars.

Converted into silver, the price is only 300,000 taels—a difference of three taels of silver!

(The latest silver to silver dollar exchange ratio established by Zhu Youjian for Jiangnan is one to three.)

However, if Zhu Youjian sells it cheap, that is Zhu Youjian's business.

The "good ministers" of the "Holy Qing" court had not easily carried the Aixinjueluo family into China, just for the sake of unlimited embezzlement of money!

Damn Zhu Youjian, he can’t do business!

This is your only business, why are you selling it so cheaply?

We were left with no choice but to grudge half a million taels of silver...

Only!

That's it!

That is, the market price of Nanjing Handu Company - only two and a half times...

The "adults" of the Qing court were angry that the selling price set by Zhu Youjian was too low, preventing them from earning more money.

However, when I think about the long-term flow of water, the most important thing is-the delivery is delivered to Nanjing City!

In this case, let's continue to cooperate...

Ok……

so far so good!

You can earn so much from each one.

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Dorgon was the father-regent of the Qing Dynasty!

How could the father of the Qing Dynasty travel without a convoy?

Three "Supreme BMWs" took the lead, followed by nine "King's Drives".

12 steam locomotives slowly drove off the ferry and drove to the "Qing Royal Hunting Ground" in Jiangxinzhou.

The technology that Zhu Youjian painstakingly promoted has provided convenience for "Wo Shengqing".

In order to allow the master to hunt better, the Qing court purchased three steam-powered ferries from Handu.

Each ship costs up to thirty million taels of silver!

The courtiers made a "small profit" of 25 million in tears.

As for the cement road, not even an inch should be missing.

A 50-pound bucket of cement only costs 18 silver dollars.

Buy it for me!

Only if you buy it can you be reimbursed for three hundred taels of silver per barrel!

Look, this is another two and a half hundred taels of silver...

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As a result, the road from Nanjing Imperial Palace to Jiangxinzhou, a total length of more than 40 miles, was all hardened.

In order to facilitate the Aixinjueluo family's hunting, the people were forced to have taxes increased dozens of times.

In response to the war, the Ming Dynasty temporarily increased the "three rates" temporary taxes - "Lian rates", "Liao rates", and "Suppression rates"...

It was designated as a Zhengfu by Dorgon.

It became one of the permanent central taxes under the rule of the Qing court.

The high taxation in the areas controlled by the Qing court became the only one in human history...

During the feudal period, the peasant class had to bear mainly the following types of burdens: tax, service, tax, and tribute.

To understand it simply, it means "regular tax", "additional tax", "manpower" and "tribute".

Fu can be understood literally.

The split of the word "Fu" is "贝" + "武".

Shell refers to coins. Were there shell coins in ancient times?

Wu naturally means force, which means expenditure to maintain the stability of the country.

"Regular taxes" can be understood as taxes collected directly by the central government in order to maintain national rule.

The central taxes submitted to the treasury are called "fus".

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Since there are taxes collected by the state, there are naturally additional types of taxes that local governments add to the regular taxes in order to maintain expenditures.

This is called "tax".

Exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes refer to this thing.

Such as "poll tax", "city tax", "slaughter tax" are all!

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"Servant" means corvee.

The government recruited people to participate in the "manpower tax" of various constructions. For example, modern people still remember the "labor", which is a type of labor service.

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"Tribute" refers to the additional tribute paid by the bottom to the top in addition to taxes.

The tributes in the Ming Dynasty mainly came from the member states of the vassal system, the chieftains of Jizhou, and the Mongolian chieftains, and they paid additional tribute to the Zhu family royal family.

Once you understand "tribute", you will know that the so-called "Zhu Ming used money to buy the vassal state" is pure bullshit!

In the tributary system of the vassal state, "tribute" is only a personal exchange between the royal family and the royal family.

It's like a "New Year's gift" for relatives to visit each other.

There are still normal commercial transactions between countries!

The Ming Dynasty relied on the "vassal tribute" system to earn more than 80% of the world's silver!

Just from 1567, the first year of Longqing, to 1644, the Jiashen Incident——

In 77 years, the total amount of silver flowing into the Ming Dynasty through overseas trade was approximately 3.53 million taels.

Equivalent to one-third of the world's total silver at that time!

If you add in uncountable smuggling and other secret channels, it can be said that in just these 77 years, the Ming Dynasty absorbed half of the world's total silver!

So, what about before Longqing opened the sea?

Whose pocket did this benefit fall into?

The corruption of officials in the Ming Dynasty was no less severe than that of today's officials.