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

Later, a little emperor came out, a great man, who played an even more ruthless game.

From then on, the literati group held the emperor's granary, but the emperor could only take out real money and silver and hand it over to the Ministry of War.

The Ministry of War found someone to subcontract, and then bought the grain from the grain depot from the literati group and distributed it to the soldiers.

After everything is done, all ministries will have to "disappear" as usual...

This is someone who understands engineering.

General package, second package, third package... eighty or ninety packages...

And who made this rule?

The literati group during the Zhang Juzheng period!

Before the Ming Dynasty, taxes in kind were collected, that is, grains were collected directly.

After Zhang Juzheng's reforms, the common people first needed to sell grain to the gentry in exchange for money, and then use the money to pay taxes to the government;

The emperor also had to take the money and exchange it for grain from the gentry.

This hand is cruel!

Not only did he eat all the food from one place to the next, but he also ate it inside and out, and he ate it more than a dozen times!

Since then, the Ming Dynasty originally had enough grain to feed the whole country for three years - but now there is not even a single grain left!

Zhang Juzheng's reforms, from the perspective of the people, the crows in the world are still black.

When the gentry collected grain, it was normal operation to lower prices.

It is a normal process for petty officials to make things difficult for them when collecting taxes.

From a national perspective, this is a strategy to subjugate the country.

From the perspective of the gentry, this is benevolent government.

The butts are different, and the answers to the questions are definitely different.

All analysis depends on whose side you are on...

For example - some time ago, they had public opinions all over Douyin: The wolf made a mistake, and the wolf cub cannot be restricted from becoming an official...

Sit with your butt right, absolutely correct.

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So much evidence has made it very clear.

Sanyang took away the granary - just to plot to control the imperial power!

Ming Yingzong's disobedience became the best way to weaken Zhu Qizhen's ability to control military power!

Because - military households manage granaries, they only need an edict from Zhu Qizhen, and the army can set off immediately!

Before Tumu Fort, General Shi Heng dared to confront Sanyang.

Why is he so brave?

Just because he has food, the civil servants cannot control the generals!

After the Tumu Fortress, the generals became the dogs of the literati group!

Even in Nanming, it is still the same!

Troubled times in the Southern Ming Dynasty!

The gentry can be carefree without directly controlling the military power...

Isn’t that why!

No matter how awesome the army is, they will starve you for three days...

Still hard-boned?

Then I’ll be hungry for another seven days!

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Why did Zhu Qizhen immediately fall into chaos everywhere after leaving Beijing?

Food power is gone!

The leader of the army was grabbed by the throat...

Just like Yuan Chonghuan and Sun Chengzong treated King Qin's reinforcements - if you don't obey me, I will make you hungry and run back and forth for hundreds of miles!

Dare to come to support the emperor?

I can’t starve you to death!

Look, look...

Exactly the same routine!

Take a closer look at the attitude of the generals during the Tumubao Incident...

You will find that it is exactly the same as a past event in the Ming Dynasty——

Battle of Jingnan!

Zhu Di pretended to be crazy and acted foolishly, and made a desperate comeback.

With only 900 guards left, Zhu Yunwen broke through the city of Beijing. The vanguard who fought the hardest was immediately recalled.

next moment……

Zhu Di turned 900 into [-]!

Zhu Qizhen's civil fort change was the same.

There were only 3 men at first. The Ming army, which had just defeated all the unrivaled enemies in the world, let him run wild.

I also took Zhu Qizhen first, just like walking around, to the outside of the capital city...

He could easily kill Ye Xian's general, but he just sat back and watched Wala go on a rampage, never leaving the city to fight, and never defeating Wala.

Why?

This is what they did during the Battle of Jingnan!

Fighting life or death is an internal matter of the Zhu family...

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Sanyang is such an upright minister!

Our "never-be-corrupted" literati group has taken over the power of food and will never be "corrupt."

But in just 13 years...

66 military households of the Ming Dynasty have fled!

Of course, you have to say that Zhu Qizhen is in power and does not care about the affairs of civil servants...

After the food power was taken away, Tianshun conducted an inventory in three years.

As a result, as many as 120 million military households fled...

During this period, a certain Qing God has all the power, right?

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These 66 people fled.

It can only show that after Zhu Qizhen took power, they restrained themselves a little and did not dare to continue to act so wantonly!

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If Yu Qian is loyal to the emperor - may I ask, where is he?

Why didn't he point this out?

Things have happened, why didn't he stand up and point out the problem?

After I lay out the timeline, I can see the problem clearly as long as my brain still has some ability to turn around.

Why——Yu Qian shut up and said nothing?

Just because he is a member of Wenchen Group!

Or, to zoom out a bit - he is part of the Yangtze River Delta literati and gentry group!

His allegiance is not to the Zhu family emperor, but to the core interests of this literati group!

Let me tell you another sad fact——

It was after Yu Qian's memorial to distribute food to the poor was carried out.

Not only Yu Qian won the hearts of the people in Shanxi and Henan.

(Yu Qian's popularity among the people was the core of his ability to win Zhu Qizhen's battle to seize the capital, and it was also another reason why he must die.

During the battle to defend the capital, Yu Qian gave the order and it took just one month.

Nearly 30 troops and civilians were mobilized from Zhejiang, South Zhili, Henan, Shanxi, and Shandong.

Moreover, 126 million weapons were transferred away!

Artillery alone—800!

44 Shenhuo Feiyang rockets packed with explosives!

There are more than 3 muskets!

This ability to mobilize the army, civilians, and ordnance is the main reason why Yu Qian must die.

A minister of the Ministry of War actually has such great ability. If he doesn't die, who will?

On the front foot, Zhu Qizhen encountered an incomprehensible rebellion. On the back foot, you come to show yourself...

Is he still alive?

Forget it, in just a few days, Yu Qian transported all 900 million shi of grain from Tongzhou back to Beijing.

Well, military power, people's hearts, food and grass, weapons...

All taken!

This was another reason why Zhu Qizhen wanted to kill him - Yu Qian, who had such strong logistical support capabilities, happened to make the emperor go without food for several days when Zhu Qizhen went on an expedition!

Zhu Qizhen was restored. No matter whether Yu Qian was loyal or traitorous, he would only die.

Just like - no matter whether Zhang Juzheng is good or bad, when Wanli comes to power, he must be liquidated!

If you take the rights you shouldn’t have and stand on the team you shouldn’t be on, you will have no way to survive in politics...)

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Yu Qian won the hearts and minds of the people in Henan and Shanxi by distributing food.

It even got to the point where hundreds of thousands of civilians came to Beijing with just one order.

Others are naturally not far behind.

In the sixth year of Zhengtong, after Yu Qian obtained the right to distribute grain, the Literati Group even gave Zhu Qizhen this statistics:

Within the territory of Northern Zhili, there are more than 1 hungry households in the prefectures and counties of Shuntian, Baoding, Hejian and Yongping...

There are hungry households in the prefectures and counties under Zhending Prefecture...

There are more than 5500 families who have fled from Yizhou, which belongs to Yanzhou Prefecture in Shandong Province...

In the prefectures and counties under the four prefectures of Jinan, Qingzhou, Laiyang and Dengzhou, many households have fled and their fields have been abandoned...

More than 2400 people have fled from one county in Zhucheng...

Why is there suddenly so much incomplete data?

Isn’t this just telling Zhu Qizhen——

"Hurry up and give us the power to distribute food!

Not only are there poor people under Yu Qian’s rule, there are also poor people under our rule! "

Brothers, can you understand this operation of the scholar?

This is all economics!

This is all white money!

you know...

If you don’t understand, take a look at the low-rent, subsistence allowances ten years ago... Who was there...

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So has Zhu Qizhen discovered this problem?

Have!

In the tenth year of Xuanzong after Wang Zuo succeeded to the throne in Zhu Qizhen, he proposed a memorial to transfer the ownership of grain.

After Zhu Qizhen came to power, he began to take action.

Orthodoxy for six years.

Liu Zhongfu, the Minister of Household Affairs, was directly imprisoned.

Then the civil servant came up instead of Wang Zuo.

Still jailed.

This is the minister. As for the ministers below, Zhu Qizhen caught a lot of them.

Even Yu Qian was imprisoned.

Zhu Qizhen’s attitude is already very clear——

He wants to investigate the food problem!