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

It was this very casual action that moved Meng Zhaoxiang to tears.

He became more determined to die for the Ming Dynasty and to be loyal to His Majesty.

Not every minister’s pursuit is money!

Some people spend their entire lives pursuing that illusory yet ubiquitous thing - the National Scholar!

There is such a group of people, their lifelong pursuit is just a touch of persistence in their hearts...

The king's guards bow their heads in salute, the king comes down the steps to greet him, the king holds the minister's hand, and the king sees him off when he leaves the palace... This is the greatest respect for a courtier!

Yu Lin bows his head and the emperor is demoted. This is the highest honor for every civil servant and general!

Now, His Majesty actually patted him on the shoulder...

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The emperor did not see Meng Zhaoxiang's excitement.

In later generations, this was just an act of kindness.

How could Zhu Youjian know what this guy was thinking? In response to Meng Zhaoxiang's confession, he nodded casually and asked:

"Has the Qing family done any statistics? Have any of the people who have enemies with the county magistrate and the four major families been separated?"

Meng Zhaoxiang nodded: "Your Majesty, there are 600 people imprisoned in the county jail. Most of them cannot pay taxes and were arrested by Liu Teru to force them to pay taxes!

After a rough interrogation, I made a simple distinction and found that there were about two hundred people who had enemies with Liu Gouguan and the four major families.

Most of these people are military households of Mushan Guards, as well as a small number of middle-class families who have been robbed. "

This dog officer!

Meng Zhaoxiang was so angry that if Liu hadn't been killed by the bomb, he would have stabbed him dozens more times!

Your Majesty knows that it is not easy for the people to survive, so he has already decreed to reduce or reduce all taxes for the people in the disaster areas and clear old debts.

Who would have thought that not only did this idiot continue to collect money, but he even united with four major households in the city to arrest people who couldn't pay for food!

What he did was his money, land and house!

These idiotic officials and gentry got benefits, but His Majesty took all the blame...

"A military household of Maoshan Guard?" Zhu Youjian was stunned for a moment.

Meng Zhaoxiang said: "I have found out clearly that in order to prevent the sergeants of Maoshan Guard from equipping gunpowder to support Baoding, Magistrate Nagou went one step ahead and found an excuse to lock up these military households..."

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The military establishment of the Ming Dynasty implemented the "guard system".

The army is organized at two levels: guard and station. In principle, one prefecture has a station and several prefectures have guards.

The commander of the guards commanded 600 soldiers.

Usually, the military offices of the Ming Dynasty were relatively scattered, and most of them were stationed in one office near important county towns, roads, and passes.

Offices can be divided into thousand-household offices and hundred-household offices.

These people who were arrested were the Baihu Station of Maoshan Guards stationed in Xincheng County.

The Ming court treated military households relatively well.

Military households are divided into Zhengding, who is elected to join the army, and Yuding, who is registered as a military household.

Zhengding carries a gun, protects his family and country in wartime, and trains in his spare time.

The state allocates land to military households, and Yu Ding cultivates it. Most of the grain earned is used for his own use, and the excess is turned over to the state.

In addition, those who were elected to the guard office also had a salary.

According to local wars and guarding needs, military households will make some adjustments.

For example, Liaodong and Jiubian mobilized military households from all over the country.

There are also three major battalions in the capital, with soldiers mobilized from all over the world.

What if you are a single military household who is unfamiliar with the place after being transferred and is alone and unwilling to fight? What if you escape?

What to do about this?

Don't worry, the emperor has already thought of it.

According to regulations, the state paid for the purchase of wives for unmarried military households.

In this way, a man can protect his family and country, and when he returns home, he can still have a hot meal cooked by his wife!

Can't think of it?

The country allocates wives to people at the bottom of the class. This is true in history!

It’s the Ming Dynasty!

According to data from Chenghua, Hongzhi, Jiajing, Wanli, Tianqi and other years, the average amount of money spent by the state for each military household was around 70 taels at the peak and around 50 taels at the trough.

Of course, now...

All this treatment has become a flower in the mirror and a moon in the water!

The whole world was corrupted by civil and military officials...

Who do you blame?

The emperor is incapable?

Is the emperor cruel?

The emperor is not considerate of the people's sentiments?

Bullshit!

You are so shameless as an official!

When the entire officialdom is bent on greed, let alone the emperor, even if God Haotian comes, there is nothing he can do!

What the emperor sees and hears with his eyes is what the courtiers want him to see and hear!

Not to mention what will happen if Jin Yiwei and Dongchang are still there, how about...

Because these two are the emperor's personal soldiers, the officials can be dismissed by the emperor at any time, so they are indeed much better than the dark officialdom.

But - in a big dyeing vat, what if the emperor's own troops are there?

Wanli wanted to pick up the commercial tax, mining tax, and customs tax, which were only thirty to one, so he sent a large number of pro-army troops.

The results of it?

Jinyi guards were beaten to death, Dongchang eunuchs were beaten to death, and even tax collectors were stripped naked and hung in front of the temple. Local gangsters gathered to cause trouble, and they were openly written into memorials, local chronicles, and martyrs' records, in order to Humiliate Wanli!

Forget it, wasn't it because Wanli's leg muscles were atrophic and he didn't listen to the nonsense greetings from the officials in the morning?

What did you get hacked into...

Not going to court for 30 years means not running the government for 30 years.

Go to his uncle!

The morning court in the Ming Dynasty was ceremonial in nature, and all the officials just asked the emperor how he was doing!

People discuss government affairs called Wu Chao (Wan Chao), and those who discuss a specific matter are called Dui!

Which of these two events was not held in Wanli?

Is this 30 years of ignoring government affairs?

Even with 30 years of brain atrophy, I can’t compile such a history book!

but……

People just made it up like this, and even not only the people at that time, but also their descendants were going around saying that Wanli ignored the government!

If you don’t believe me, look at the current books. Who doesn’t write like this?

So, at this time, the Ming Dynasty, the Jade Emperor and the heavenly soldiers and the heavenly generals are not saved!

If you want to save the Ming Dynasty - the only way is to overthrow it and start over!

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However, as the saying goes, the centipede is dead but not stiff!

The Ming Dynasty is now 270 years old!

With nearly 300 years of rule, it is natural that he has die-hard fans.

These "famous fans" in Xincheng County were all locked up by the county magistrate Liu Youru...

That is to say, Chongzhen arrived quickly. If the intruder army came to station, what would be the fate of these people? You can even think about it with your toes...

Zhu Youjian figured out the cause and effect, and immediately led the courtiers towards the county government hall.

"I am the Son of Heaven!"

Zhu Youjian sat on a chair in the middle of the yamen, with the four characters "Mingjing hanging high" above his head, and a green dragon robe with a little dust on it.

"His Majesty?"

The more than two hundred military households kneeling in the lobby were stunned.

Why is Your Majesty here?

It was Wang Chengen who coughed hard several times that woke up the group of bitter people.

"The common people are waiting to pay their respects to Your Majesty..."

More than two hundred untrained military households lined up in the courtyard, and the commotion lasted for half a stick of incense before it calmed down.

Zhu Youjian could see clearly that there was a guy among them who actually worshiped three times...

Every time someone shouts, this guy will yell a little later, causing the people around him to shout again, and then this guy can't keep up...

Looking at the chaotic scene in front of him, for some reason, Zhu Youjian felt inexplicably that the group of ragged guys in front of him felt a bit familiar.

I don’t know if this lively scene reminded him of the scene in elementary school when he called the teacher hello...