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

Zhu Youjian's mood was very complicated.

It has been ten months since I came to this world.

In the past three hundred days, he had hardly slept peacefully once.

To put it bluntly, even when I was having sex with my harem, all I could think about were the memories from my previous life——

Did I miss something?

What hasn’t come out yet?

Which sharp weapon can be used with the current technology...

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During these three hundred days, Zhu Youjian did not dare to waste almost a minute.

Nowadays!

He was finally going to succeed.

Zuo Liangyu's tentacles have already reached into Sanxuan and Liuwei.

Ling Yiqu has already gone to Sichuan, and together with Qin Liangyu, opened the gate of Sichuan.

Gao Doushu's Beiting Ye tribe has also sent Niu Wancai and Niu Chenghu.

The soldiers under these two men were armed with Fuhan guns that were most suitable for mountain warfare.

In a mountainous basin like Hanzhong, the recovery of Hanzhong is just around the corner.

Zhu Youjian's eyes were profound:

Jiangnan, who posed the greatest threat, had already let Fang Zhenghua go.

Yes!

His biggest enemy has never been any regime in the world - not even the whole world combined!

In Zhu Youjian's heart, there has never been any enemy that can compare with the wealthy gentry and civil servants group.

This sentence is extremely incredible in the eyes of later generations.

Why do internal vested interests become the biggest enemies of the regime...

However, within the small circle that really studies the history of the Ming Dynasty, this sentence is the consensus!

The biggest threat to the Ming Dynasty's regime was precisely the literati and gentry groups within the system.

For example, no one will publicize the Tumubao Incident - the cause was the ridiculous Ming Yingzong's tax collection in Jiangnan and the reduction of the "salary" (illegal income) of the civil servant group.

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[Don’t talk about the low salary of civil servants. This is bullshit. A good grade is 1044 shi per year. According to the price of grain in the Ming Dynasty, which is generally 700 qian, it amounts to [-] taels of silver.

Don't talk about discounted salaries - officials in the Ming Dynasty were not paid a salary, and they were paid just as well as they were given additional titles.

For example, for the cabinet, you get the salary of a fifth-grade bachelor, and then add the title of minister of a certain ministry, which is another sum, and add the three official and three guarantees, which is another sum!

In other words, the combined actual income of civil servants in the Ming Dynasty was higher than the official official salary.

Let’s compare it with the same period:

Let’s not talk about soldiers, let’s talk about the Jiubian soldiers who have been on the front line of the battlefield for a long time. They make more than ten taels of silver a year and they still can’t pay them all!

A first-grade civil servant can receive at least 700 taels of silver—in fact, it is definitely more than that!

Are civil service salaries low?

Of course, compared to the Song Dynasty... it must be lower!

When we compare, we compare with the same period. Only then can we have real comparability.

According to consumption level comparison, one tael of silver is roughly equivalent to more than 1000 yuan today.

(In terms of production level?

Nowadays, a catty of rice is generally more than 1044 yuan, 153.5 shi, times [-] jin, times [-] yuan, how much is it?

Not counting this, the rice yield per mu in the Ming Dynasty was about [-] kilograms, and now the rice yield per mu is about [-] kilograms.

In other words, the land and labor costs of food in the Ming Dynasty were dozens of times higher than today.

If this is taken into account, the purchasing power of one tael of silver at that time was even more astonishing. )

(Imagine the house purchase contract left over from the Ming Dynasty - during the Wanli period, it only cost 33 taels of silver to buy a standard courtyard house with four main rooms, a side room facing the hall, and a concierge at Zhengyangmen in Beijing! "China Contract Association of the Past Dynasties" "Compilation and Research"

This is the city of Beijing!

Buying a yard in the county only costs a few taels of silver!

This is a contract document from the Jiajing period

You can imagine the actual purchasing power of one tael of silver!

Don't listen to those people who say that ordinary people need more than ten taels of silver a year for living expenses. This is just "challenge" without proof! Nonsense!

Ordinary people, who can buy three houses in the county in a year? It’s still a separate courtyard! )

How much is the equivalent of 700 taels of genuine first-grade silver?

low wage? ? 】

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Of course - wages are just a facade, and officials never live off their wages.

The meaning behind it is that after Yingzong planned to clean up Sanyang, the power of Jiangnan civil servants was too great.

Zhu Qizhen first collected taxes from Jiangnan.

In the eighth year of Zhengtong, Guo Yan and Ma Yun returned to the West.

In the 12th year of Zhengtong, Zhu Qizhen began to cut the income of hundreds of officials for the first time in the entire Ming Dynasty (Yang Shiqi began to legalize illegal income).

In 13, I returned from my voyage to the West!!

Thus, in the 14th year of Orthodoxy, there was a collective defeat of the Xungui Group...

The emperor's wings were cut off in one fell swoop!

This is the origin of the Tumubao Incident.

Isn’t this a great time?

Ha ha!

For example, Xianzong Zhu Jianshen did not go to court - the reason was that in the eighth year of Chenghua, Zhu Jianshen cut civil servants' salaries for the third time, cutting them in half at once, and eliminating nearly 800 officials.

As a result, that month, Zhu Jianshen's prince died...

Historically known as - sudden death!

Ha ha!

From then on, Zhu Jianshen began not to speak in court.

You must come to the court. If you come, I will ignore you...

Through this move, Zhu Jianshen successfully achieved his goal of suppressing the cabinet with the ceremonial supervisor.

In his hands, the cabinet, the highest body in which civilians control state affairs, became an executive agency.

(Zhu Jianshen’s first eight years were truly wonderful!

The civil servant group directly manipulated the selection of the queen twice!

Zhu Jianshen didn't dare to punish him, he just demoted the person on the surface.

In the following years, Zhu Jianshen gained power through a series of wars.

This was Chenghua’s big move in eight years.

That's it - the crown prince died violently! )

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Such a thing——

In the Ming Dynasty, I caught a lot of them, and they have never stopped since Zhu Yuanzhang!

It can be said that not to mention the emperors after Zhu Di, the two of them lasted for more than ten years combined.

Let’s take a look at what their policies have in common and their results!

Yingzong Zhu Qizhen collected taxes from Jiangnan - declined, right?

Emperor Xianzong Zhu Jianshen tried to collect taxes from Jiangnan - but he also failed, right?

Emperor Wuzong Zhu Houzhao collected taxes from Jiangnan - his shit was hacked, and he actually fell into the water and died!

Zhu Houcong, the emperor of Jiajing, not only collected taxes from Jiangnan, but also sent troops to clear them - and the result... Daojun, how famous he is! Is it settled?

Wanli, Shenzong Zhu Yijun, collected taxes from Jiangnan - this is a hot topic, everyone knows it, right?

Xizong Zhu Youxiao collected taxes from Jiangnan - continue to fall into the water, you!

Chongzhen...

This is in this book!

see it?

Every emperor of the Zhu family who really moved the cheese of the civil service group has failed...

On the contrary, he was a compromiser and became a wise king...

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To be honest, the history of the Ming Dynasty, a rough reading, makes my stomach hurt.

Read carefully - I feel cold and sweat all over my body!

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As a textual research author determined to restore the true background of ancient times, Zhu Youjian believes that he is relatively aware of these.

This is why even if he fled the capital with his loyal ministers and started a new business, he would still suppress the civil servant group, and even gradually turn these loyal ministers into a noble group.

Politics has always been about "pull, fight, and isolate."

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Before our eyes, the war was raging.

Zhu Youjian was in a trance.

Chen Qiyu smiled happily, the battle in front of him was decided!

As new nobles, Chen Qiyu and his son all became the princes-in-law of the Ming Dynasty.

Chen Qiyu, who determined to become a poison warrior, was thinking about how to take advantage of this victory to regain the Ming Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, after this time, I think we should strike while the iron is hot and regain the capital."

Zhu Youjian was deep in thought and didn't hear this sentence at all.

Chen Qiyu shouted twice more in succession.

"what?

what? "

Zhu Youjian finally woke up from his deep thoughts.

Seeing that the emperor was distracted, Chen Qiyu had no choice but to repeat what he had just said.

Zhu Youjian laughed:

"Not urgent!"