My Daming New Empire

Moreover, their rebellion was not only a rebellion, but also a beginning for hundreds of years of civil rebellion in the future.

The influence of the White Lotus Sect started from them and developed like a raging fire.

Wild fire, in spring.

"Pingshen..." Zhu Zhanji said lightly, carefully looking at each of them, especially Tang Sai'er, who claimed to be from the Tang family.

However, his eyes were not lewd, even if Lin San looked up and saw his eyes, he would not think that Zhu Zhanji had any plans for his wife.

Some were just curious, Lin San thought to himself, it must be that His Highness has never seen a country woman.This time, the five silver dollars have not been spent yet. If I can save some money, I will buy a piece of cloth for my mother-in-law to make a good dress when I go back to Shandong.

"Sure enough, all of them are heroes, but no matter how good the martial arts are, they can only bow their knees in the face of injustice. Lin San, you have read the book, tell me why?"

Lin San looked up at Zhu Zhanji, cupped his fists and said, "Your Highness, the imperial court is powerful, and we grass-headed people can only follow along."

Zhu Zhanji didn't say whether he was right or wrong, and asked again: "It is said that you have formed a party in your hometown and there are hundreds of athletes. Then why didn't Zun Yue suffer injustice, but didn't rise up?"

Terrified, Lin San quickly knelt down and kowtowed again. "His Royal Highness, Caomin and others have practiced martial arts with their father-in-law, and they have established contact with each other. They have never dared to form a clique. Even if their father-in-law suffered injustice, Caomin still wanted to go to the capital to sue the embassy, ​​and did not dare to object. meaning."

"Get up, sit down and talk."

Lin San still wanted to say that he dared not sit down, but he remembered what the old eunuch taught him.He didn't dare to be stubborn, and according to the old eunuch's instructions, the four of them sat in the last four seats of the row of chairs on the right.

Zhu Zhanji said at this time: "Sit closer, I don't want to have to shout when I say something."

Yang Zhangde, who sat at the head of Zhu Zhanji's left hand, also said: "Sit up, Your Highness is benevolent and righteous, and he is not a man-eating tiger."

After they sat down, Zhu Zhanji said: "I have learned a little about your affairs. I came here today to explain something clearly to you."

Several people dared not answer, they looked at Zhu Zhanji and waited for him to continue.Zhu Zhanji hooked his fingers, and Jin Kuo behind him took a step forward with the ledger in his hand, opened it and said, "Your Highness has been out to sea since the 15th day of the first lunar month in the [-]th year of Yongle, and returned to Beijing on the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month. Daming. But before His Royal Highness left, he once explained that the grain roads in Shandong and Hebei are not stopped. Rice is grown three times a year in various parts of Nanyang, and there is plenty of food.

In Luzon alone, the annual surplus of food exceeds 20 shi. The cost of transporting food is nothing to my Ming Dynasty.I have records of grain transportation from Yongle from 15 to 17 years. Every month, grain transportation ships arrive in Dengzhou and Laizhou. That is to say, the imperial court has never stopped supplying grain. "

Zhu Zhanji said: "The matter has not been found out yet, and I don't want to tell you anything about punishing corrupt officials. I just want you to know that I have been deceived. This is my dereliction of duty and I am ashamed of the people in Shandong."

Fortunately, Zhu Zhanji has not yet ascended the throne, otherwise this would be an edict of guilt.

The three of Tang Sai'er still don't understand the twists and turns, but Lin San does!He knelt down again, and shouted on his forehead: "Your Highness was deceived by traitors, and His Highness is not to blame."

Zhu Zhanji shook his head, and Li Liang stepped forward to help Lin San up. Seeing that his forehead was swollen, he exclaimed: "He is a loyal and courageous scholar! Your Highness is very observant. Now that you know about it this time, Naturally, justice must be returned to you, and justice to the people of Shandong.”

This time, the other three understood, and they all got up and knelt down. "Your Highness is aware of the details, and the grass-roots thank Your Highness."

Zhu Zhanji waved his hand. "Sit down and talk, don't kneel back and forth. This kneeling is a ritual, you respect me, and I will naturally uphold justice for you."

He changed the subject and asked again: "Shandong and other places have suffered disasters year after year, and the Yellow River is not calm, so it is difficult to live a good life, but the imperial court now encourages free immigration. Why do you wait for nothing but martial arts, but you have to stay in Shandong to suffer poverty?" ?”

This time, the four of them were a little confused.Lin San became more sober and replied: "Your Highness, there are immigration notices in Caomin's hometown and other places, but they can only emigrate to the northwest. Jiayue has been there several times in the northwest, and there is sandy soil, and no food can be grown there. Instead of going there, It’s better to stay in Shandong. As long as there is no flood, all parts of Shandong can still have enough food.”

Zhu Zhanji suddenly understood that this is a typical policy at the top and countermeasures at the bottom, and the court's will was deliberately distorted by local officials.

There is only one restriction on immigration in Ming Dynasty, that is, among ordinary people, immigrants south of the Yangtze River can only go south, and immigrants north of the Yangtze River can only go north.

This is because southerners cannot stand the cold in the north.Let the southerners immigrate to the north. In the era when there was no heating and not even enough warm clothes, they might freeze to death.

However, there are few people in the north now. In order to prevent everyone from running south, there will be no one in the north, so the people in the north can only immigrate to the north.

But apart from this limitation, there are no other limitations.

Moreover, according to the climate characteristics and product characteristics of different regions, the size of the land and the amount of food distributed to different regions are all different.

For example, Han people are now encouraged to immigrate to Beihai, that is, around Lake Baikal. As long as they are willing to immigrate there, Ming Dynasty will give them several hundred acres of land.

In addition to land, food, and seeds, there are also differences. They are all crops suitable for local cultivation, and they will never make it difficult for people to survive anywhere.

However, Putai County deliberately designated a place not as good as Shandong for the people to immigrate, and the people were naturally unwilling to go.

This kind of policy distortion will be repeatedly banned in later generations, let alone this era.

Sometimes, a wrong word can change the meaning of the entire policy, not to mention deliberately going against the meaning of the upper echelons.

This is also easy to understand, because in today's era, population is a resource, and population is a tax.There are fewer local people, and it’s not that there are fewer tax payments, and officials are all subject to performance appraisal.

Therefore, even if the people are poor, it is the idea of ​​most grassroots officials not to leave the people.

Except for areas like Zhejiang and Fujian, where the population is dense, there are many mountains and little land, and clan conflicts are relatively large, so immigration is implemented relatively quickly.

But when it comes to Jiangxi, the two lakes, and even the northern Central Plains, officials do not support the immigration policy.

Now is not the end of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the population was several times that of the present, and large tracts of land were occupied by landlords and officials, and ordinary people had less and less land.

Now is the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang divided property into households, and Zhu Di also vigorously cracked down on land encroachment.No matter how poor the common people are, they still have a few acres of land at home, and every family is a landlord.

Now most of the tenants who become tenants are forced to sell their land because of illness.

In addition, because today's Ming Dynasty vigorously develops industry and commerce, and earns more money by working than farming, some common people with a little craftsmanship will also sell their land and move to the city to live.

As long as a man has a stable job and a woman does something casually, she will earn more money than farming.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji is mainly to blame for such a situation, because he transported a large amount of grain back from Nanyang, resulting in low grain prices, so the enthusiasm of the people for farming is not high.

But this is also a difficulty that must be faced. People in the disaster-stricken areas must not starve to death, nor can officials and officials start to occupy the land one by one because of the high income from farming.

Therefore, suppressing food prices, for the current Ming Dynasty, will not make life easier for the people, but it can maintain stability for a longer period of time.

Of course, with the development of society, various policies need to be adjusted at any time.When low grain prices affect stability, and when it is better to increase grain prices, Zhu Zhanji will not hesitate to adopt grain protection purchase prices.

Now, facing the problems in Shandong and other places, Zhu Zhanji has an irrepressible murderous aura.

Officials colluded with each other to embezzle the food that should be distributed to the people. This is a major event that will cause civil unrest.

And the officials were obedient and obedient, and misinterpreted the imperial court's policies, which would also delay his many plans.

Zhu Zhanji also wanted to let the Han people go westward to occupy the Ural Mountains and limit future Russia to Europe.But according to the current speed, Zhu Zhanji's goal may not be achieved in 100 years.

Of course, he didn't need to tell Lin San and the others about these plans, but it didn't mean that he couldn't use Lin San and the others' power now.

He didn't know if Tang Sai'er had received the inheritance of the White Lotus Sect at this time. For many rulers, this power was the source of disaster, but for Zhu Zhanji, he dared to use it with confidence.

Because the White Lotus Sect originated from Buddhism, and has been influenced by Confucianism and Taoism in the development history of hundreds of years, it has formed a special pan-belief group.

This is like a mask, no matter men, women, old or young, you can put it on your face.

However, the core of this sect is still Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and it is a sect that maintains the cultural traditions of the Han people.

So although they can cause chaos in the inland areas, if they are used to expand the territory, they will definitely not turn it into a foreign country.

Wherever they are, there is China, and no one can change them.