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

The ancestral graves were filled with smoke, and they were knocked unconscious by pie falling from the sky.

His Majesty actually inspected the land owned by the officials and gentry and allocated the land to himself...

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When the people become refugees, there is nothing more sad than the numbness of heart failure.

When the refugees become property owners again... that's the end of the world!

What they have now, although it is insignificant...

but--

They will use their lives to defend their wealth!

Even this wealth is so worthless in the eyes of superior people!

As long as someone takes away the last piece of cake from the people...

These ethnic groups, who are as weak as ants, as docile as lambs, and have always been ignored by others, will explode with unparalleled power!

The 5000 years of dynasty changes in China have long established an iron law - whoever dares to take away the last morsel of food from the people and force them into a desperate situation, the people will turn him into dung!

Wang Lian reached down and stopped the noisy crowd.

He said seriously:

"Don't worry, everyone, our Majesty will naturally block the enemy!"

Although Wang Lian said so, Zhu Youjian was indeed invincible since leaving the capital.

However, the clouds of sorrow still settled on the faces of every common people.

They are afraid that the beauty they just had will become in vain again...

Wang Lian smiled and pointed in the direction of Pengjia Town:

"His Majesty said that he would build a huge city wall to enclose all our land and protect us from others' covetousness!"

Li Shugen said hurriedly:

"My lord, where do you want your Majesty to build the city wall? I will work as a servant right now!"

"Count me in, I'll go too!"

"If His Majesty cannot hold it, where will our land be ours? I will go too!"

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One by one, ordinary people enthusiastically signed up...

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Farmers not only farm the land, they are also deployed as laborers in their spare time.

That is corvee!

Since the Spring and Autumn Period, when Qi Henggong "organized households and unified the people" - taxation and corvee became the heaviest shackles on the people.

After Qin Shihuang unified the six countries and replaced the feudal system in the true sense with the feudal system of prefectures and counties, taxation and corvee became the magic weapon of the ruling class.

In the three generations before the people were registered as households in the middle and late Spring and Autumn Period, and in the earlier tribal period, the tax system was essentially the same as the "industrial and commercial food official" system in the early Zhou Dynasty:

Private commerce is underdeveloped, and commercial activities are hosted by the government, that is, there are specialized officials of hundreds of merchants to run commercial activities.

With the further advancement of productivity and materials in the hands of the people, private trade will be formed.

This comprehensive government-run business activity has been impacted by private business.

As a result, the system of household registration for the people appeared.

Before the establishment of households, ordinary people were called savages and were not protected by the government.

The essence of the feudal system is to designate an area, and the feudal king leads the nobles to establish power.

To establish a feudal state?

In the feudal system, the lowest nobles were citizens. Enjoy the right to pay taxes and join the military.

These nobles live in cities.

The purpose of feudalism was to enslave the savages (aboriginals) in the feudal area.

Savages had no right to interfere in feudal affairs, that is to say, they were excluded from the feudal court.

However, with the advancement of industrial technology, these savages gained a lot of surplus wealth, spontaneously formed commercial activities, and had an impact on the nobles within the feudal system.

So, there was the system of household registration and uniforming the people.

What does household registration mean to the common people?

Has the imperial court registered your household registration for you, and given you the status of a citizen of the country?——

Therefore, you have to do corvee work, you have to pay taxes, you have to join the army and fight...

Basically - you are being exploited.

That's how taxes and corvee came about.

In fact, it is still the same sentence - the essence of rule is exploitation. (If I remember correctly, this is the content of politics in the third grade of junior high school.)

According to Marxism-Leninism, the essence of rule is exploitation, which will not disappear with the change of social system.

The shape of human society depends on the different methods of exploitation.

In other words, with the development of civilization, exploitation has shifted from explicit to latent...

This thing about corvee...

In later generations, there will still be some!

Common people commonly call it "going out to work".

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Civil servants who were called to participate in corvee service were called servants.

This servant~

Not only do they have to work hard, but in many cases, they are also required to carry their own rations.

If we catch up with large-scale fortifications, we may not be able to go back in a year and a half.

Look through the history books and see that all the large-scale fortifications are full of bones!

They are all composed of the bones of farmers...

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Although the Ming Dynasty implemented a multi-household registration system, the laws of the Ming Dynasty were very detailed. Which household registration did not require a handyman, and which household registration required how many handymen.

But, is it useful?

The laws of the Ming Dynasty also stipulate that the land with heavy taxes, such as military household land, kitchen household farmland, craftsman household farmland, and support farm farmland, etc., are not allowed to be bought or sold!

The results of it?

It’s not like he was swallowed clean!

The corvee system of the Ming Dynasty was based on the Fish Scale Register and the Yellow Register.

However, this thing has not been verified for hundreds of years...

Forget it, according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty: in addition to the common people assigned by the government, the servants who should be recruited must also have some recruited "forces"!

This Lifu needs money!

money!

What kind of virtue does being an official have?

Will they leave this loophole unexploited?

From the elders in charge of the corvee to the head of household in the village (village leader, head of the village), who wouldn’t take advantage of this?

The apportionment that should have been given to Zhang San, as long as Zhang San used copper coins from Li Zheng...

Li Si became a servant.

Li Si originally only had three months to complete the project, but because Wang Wu used money from the clerk, it became half a year...

The big boss will take the money from recruiting "Li Fu" and put it into his arms!

As a result, what was originally Zhang San’s three-month corvee period became—Li Si had to work hard for a year…

The chance that Li Si could survive this year of hard work and return to his hometown was less than half.

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Is this uncommon?

There are many of them!

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Who among the common people doesn’t know the secret here?

Don’t you know it’s Li Shugen?

Or do these refugees who have walked around the gates of death not know?

Or do the officials not know?

No - they knew that the common people knew, but they pretended to know that the common people didn't know, something happened, and they also said that they didn't know that the common people knew...

In large-scale fortifications such as building city walls, the mortality rate of laborers is usually about [-]%.

However, they still stood up without hesitation!

Seeing the scene in front of him of everyone vying for the first place, Wang Lian's eyes turned red.

He remembered the emperor's words - when a country is destroyed and a family is destroyed, it is often these people who have nothing who rush to the front...