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

In fact, every powerful emperor in the Ming Dynasty repeatedly requested grain reserves.

The Emperor of the Zhu family issued many, many similar imperial edicts requiring villages to build granaries to store grain.

The granaries of the Ming Dynasty can be roughly divided into granaries directly under the central government, granaries under the royal palace, canal water secondary granaries, local government granaries, private charity granaries, and village communal granaries.

During the period of Emperor Chenghua, there was such a situation in the memorials - "Three hundred shi of grain were accumulated per mile", and there were even "people who accumulated [-] shi of grain per mile."

There are only 110 households in one mile of Ming Dynasty!

The food stored in the village alone is enough to feed the entire village for a year!

The total number of these granaries was enough to feed the whole country for three years before Hongzhi!

Can't believe it?

Before Hongzhi, there were many records like this:

"In the sixth year of Xuande's reign, the old warehouse of Guangyingcang in Xiangyang, Huguang, accumulated more than [-] shi of grain and wheat."

"In the third year of Zhengtong, Jian was in the warehouse in Tingzhou, Fujian, with an accumulation of 33.2 shi of grain."

"Nanjing's various military warehouses have 450 million shi of grain stored in them. The annual military salary is only 75 shi, which can last for six years."

"In the sixth year of Jingtai, the Guangying warehouse of Hengzhou Prefecture had 14 shi of grain and 28 shi of military supplies, which could last for [-] years."

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As for local disasters and famines, the most common operation in the Ming Dynasty was not only to exempt taxes, but also to open warehouses and borrow money.

It is agreed that those who sow in the spring and return in the autumn will be either interest-free or only one penny.

Or even don’t want it anymore!

such as:

In the 25th year of Hongwu's reign, relief was provided to Chenzhou, Yuanwu and other places for free.

In the tenth year of Yongle, Laizhou and other places were hit by disasters, and nearly 60 shi of relief grains were directly distributed.

In the 11th year of Yongle's reign, there was a flood in Qingzhou Prefecture, and the victims were not allowed to return.

In the sixth year of Zhengtong in Zhu Qi Town, Wujin and other counties in Changzhou Prefecture were hit by disasters, so they simply refused to return them.

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As for the government giving porridge, it is even more normal.

I have talked about so many food records just to explain one of the causes of Yu Qian's death.

Since we are talking about Yu Qian, let’s take the Zhengtong Dynasty as an example.

Let’s talk about Zhu Qizhen’s character first——

Didn't Zhu Qizhen want to build sea ships and restart the great voyage, so Fujian launched a rebellion.

How did Zhu Qizhen solve it——

He saw the true nature of the rebellion!

Therefore, in addition to sending troops to quell the rebellion, Fujian was also asked to open warehouses to release grain, and agreed:

Borrow one stone of grain and return two stones and five buckets of grain. However, there is no limit on the return time.

Just by looking at this one item, you can see Zhu Qizhen’s skills.

Hitting and pulling at the same time, isn't this a low-level method?

Don't say that Zhu Qizhen is petty, or that he didn't see the truth about the Fujian rebellion!

Let’s take a look at what he did after he ascended the throne again:

In the first year of Tianshun, 30 people in Hejian and other prefectures were affected by the disaster, and Zhuqi Town directly distributed nearly 25 shi of grain.

Just don’t ask the people to return it!

If you want to see through a person, small things are the best place to start.

Just from these two disaster relief operations, we can see Zhu Qizhen’s character.

During the Fujian rebellion, what he wanted was not to kill everyone, but to use profits to lure the people back home.

You see, there is no limit on the return date – isn’t this a free gift!

Isn't this just telling the people - don't follow them in rebellion...

This is enough to show that Zhu Qizhen is a benevolent and righteous person.

So, why did he kill Yu Qian?

In fact, this matter should start before and after Zhu Qizhen took office.

Zhu Qizhen officially took charge of the government in the seventh year of Zhengtong, when Empress Dowager Zhang died.

In fact, after Yang Rong died in the fifth year of orthodoxy, he gradually gained power.

In the sixth year of Zhengtong (the sixth year of Zhengtong), one year before Zhu Qizhen took office, the granary was directly under the central government of Fujian and was changed to local control.

Brothers should all understand the meaning behind this, right?

The gentry has seized power...

In fact, this is not the first time.

The original policy of the Ming Dynasty was that local taxable grains were stored and received by various health offices.

The central granary was located at the location of the garrison. The military warehouse not only stored military rations, but also included rations for the royal family and officials' salaries.

A military household in a guard station has been a soldier for generations. After the father dies, the son succeeds!

In other words - this is the Emperor's man.

The Zhu family asked military households to take care of the granary.

In other words, under such regulations, the granary belongs directly to the emperor.

The tenth year of Xuanzong's "Reign of Renxuan" was the year that Zhu Zhanji died.

Zhu Zhanji died in the first month, and the young emperor Zhu Qizhen succeeded to the throne.

At that time, Zhu Qizhen was only 8 years old, and the power was in the hands of Empress Dowager Zhang and San Yang.

Wang Zuo, the right servant of the Ministry of Finance, reported:

“Corruption occurred at the Henan Health Center.

I feel that allowing the health offices to receive local grain taxes will lead to them taking bribes and bending the law~, breeding corruption~, and being full of disadvantages~...

Please give me some advice from the big guys..."

(The original text is too long, so I’ll just tell you the core meaning.)

This is the reason.

In fact, what this means is——

"Oh, the old emperor is dead and the new emperor is a brat. Let's get the benefits quickly..."

So, Sanyang waved his hand——

"From now on, the jurisdiction over food will no longer be in the hands of local health offices, but will be left to our civil servants!

We scholars, how noble and noble we are, if we are left here, we will not be corrupt! "

Zhu Zhanji died in the first month of the year, and this happened in the seventh month.

Zhu Qizhen had just ascended the throne.

Ming history does not describe much about this incident, but the final result is:

——Except for the outer circle of places where war is to be fought, the food power in other places has all fallen into the hands of the civil servant group.

That is to say, except for Liaodong, Gansu, Ningxia, and Coastal Guard Stations, they are still under the control of the Guard Station;

Jurisdiction over the country's granaries has been placed in the hands of civilian officials.

It is worth mentioning that Yu Qian, the Henan Health Office who led to this incident, was patrolling Henan and Shanxi at that time.

When he was the governor of Henan and Shanxi, he wrote a memorial, which is still there today.

In the sixth year of Zhengtong, before Zhu Qizhen completely took power.

Yu Qian reported that Henan and Shanxi both had millions of stones of grain. How about asking local officials to count the number of people who had no food to eat, set a standard, provide relief to them, and then return it to them when they had food...

During San Yang's reign, Yu Qian's status was very high.

Sanyang regarded Yu Qian as his successor.

All the memorials he submitted were submitted in the morning, approved by the cabinet in the evening, and issued immediately!

The efficiency is so high that it ranks first.

In fact, almost none of Yu Qian's reports were dismissed.

In other words - whatever he says is what he says!

Just imagine, Yu Qian is in charge of Henan and Shanxi;

San Yang will not make things difficult for him in what he is doing.

Yu Qian is a well-known upright official. Why didn't he discover the corruption problem among military households in Henan in advance?

There are only two possibilities here:

One is to discover something but not say it; or to be unable to say it.

Secondly, Yu Qian, who patrolled Henan and Shanxi with the honor of being the right minister of the Ministry of War, really did not notice that such a thing happened under his rule.

You know, when this incident happened, he had served as the governor of Henan and Shanxi for five years with the title of right minister of the Ministry of War!

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For the sake of logical rigor, I wrote this paragraph for four days. I not only looked through history books, but also searched many papers, and even studied it for a long time on a map.

Not finished yet...