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

In the Jinhua County Chronicle, there are direct records that the local area has not collected commercial taxes for many years.

During the same period, in Fenyang County, Shanxi Province, the commercial tax of a county was 6606 taels of silver. (Wanli 37th year)

The commercial tax collected by a poor county is a thousand times that of a wealthy province!

A county versus a province!

A thousand times!

In fact, this figure in Fenyang County is enough to show that the proportion of commercial tax collection is too low.

I list them to show that - what is even more shocking is that the taxation of the Ming Dynasty was actually linked to the number of civil servants.

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Big men have plenty of ways to convince people around them that they are corrupt.

Isn’t this the reason for “building bridges and paving roads”!

Well, it's time to collect.

What about when the emperor bought grain?

The price of grain in the Ming Dynasty could skyrocket when non-common people sold grain for the sake of the Ming Dynasty's chicken butt.

As a result, food prices have been rising!

0.26 two and one stone...

0.5 two and one stone...

0.8 two and one stone...

1.2 two and one stone...

1.5 two and one stone...

Grain prices have skyrocketed to the level in the 14th year of Chongzhen——

One tael of silver, one pound!

Are you satisfied?

One tael of silver per catty!

Count the grains and sell them!

Just grabbing a handful of grain would cost more than a dozen copper coins!

(What happened in the 14th year of Chongzhen’s reign is why food prices must be stabilized...)

If you haven’t intuitively understood this yet——

In the Ming Dynasty dry land, the average yield per mu was about one stone.

In other words, after being passed down by the officials and gentry, it was in the hands of the emperor that the grain sold for one acre of land was only enough to buy back one pound!

The emperor could only exchange the grain output of one acre of land for one pound of grain in the hands of the wealthy gentry!

This is an extra hand!

This does not include the money allocated by the emperor, which will be "disappeared" as usual by being deducted at every level!

For example, Mao Wenlong's famous memorial "Does the Emperor Know?" is written with blood-curdling words - less than one-tenth of the money allocated by the Emperor to Dongjiang Town was left in Mao Wenlong's hands...

(I'm bad at math, can someone help me calculate how many times this is a huge profit...)

That's it, the materials Mao Wenlong received were converted into silver again according to the "price" given by others!

Why?

Isn't it because Mao Wenlong was supported by Yuan Keli and is not from the same school as him!

It’s politically correct to mess with you Mao Wenlong!

What's more, only after cleaning up Mao Wenlong stuck in his buttocks can he smuggle it!

Show or not?

Even better than the Tihua Show!

Just like this situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty...

Chongzhen was able to last for 17 years before committing suicide, which is already impressive enough.

I said that he ranked in the middle and upper reaches of the entire emperor group, but a lot of people didn't believe it!

In this situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Lao Zhu would have to hang his neck on a tree when he came!

Unless he can start over!

When modern people talk about Zhang Juzheng's reforms, they say that Zhang Juzheng's reforms filled Wanli's money bag and supported Wanli's three major conquests...

But they didn't mention at all why Wanli immediately abolished most of Zhang Juzheng's reforms after Zhang Juzheng's death.

Why did Wanli abolish most of the reforms?

Is he stupid?

I wonder who will give me change again?

Isn’t it just because——

It's useless, Daming will die slowly.

If it is not abolished, Daming will die immediately!

I never thought about it - that "money bag is already full"...

Why did Wanli send eunuchs who were beaten to death again and again to collect business taxes?

Completely disregarding the face of his own emperor, he was humiliated by being pushed to the ground and rubbed!

Is it Wanli looking for trouble?

After the Three Great Conquests, why didn’t Wanli show up?

Wanli clearly has five major zodiac signs, but why only these three zodiac signs are mentioned?

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Why do they say that the Zhu family defeated the Ming Dynasty?

Why don't you let go of the matter of Wanli becoming the King of Fortune?

They won't mention it at all -

In the 26th year of Jiajing reign, Zhao Ying, the prefect of Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, proposed:

“The official land within his jurisdiction (that is, the land used for special expenditure, including Zhuanghu Tian, ​​​​Junhu Tian, ​​etc.) was written off in one go, and all registered official land was classified as private ownership; (this is the method of deregistration)

The land rent payable to the Ming Dynasty on these official lands was redistributed to all taxpayers as part of the government's land tax. (This is the sprinkling method)"

(The methods used by the gentry group to seize the land include not only selling off the land and spreading it, but also - deceitful mailing and false pretense...

As for tax evasion, that’s child’s play! )

Many people in modern times, if they have a little conscience, will tell everyone that the gentry in the Ming Dynasty passed on the taxes that their families should pay to the common people.

I dare not mention the fact that the gentry used a series of means to evade taxes and kill Ming Dynasty!

Why don't you dare to mention it?

That is why Shanxi merchants sold out to Ming Dynasty, a question known to all the people!

Isn't it because Shanxi merchants are almost gone, but they are still there!

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hey~!

You, Emperor Zhu, set the tax rate for ordinary people at 3.3%. Believe it or not, we will give him a tax rate of 93%!

I may never be able to restore the process of getting this proposal approved.

The result was that the official fields that should have been controlled by the Ming Emperor were no longer under the emperor's control!

Whether Emperor Jiajing knew this or not is unknown to future generations.

Anyway, as long as the amount collected by local officials remains unchanged, the emperor does not need to consider the ownership of official land!

Jiajing child, do you dare to ask?

Believe it or not, Japanese pirates are attacking the southeast again!

You see, in the second year of Jiajing, the front foot had just helped Lu Song, who had gone to South America, to drive away the Folangji people. (I talked about the history of Lu and Song Dynasty on Douyin.)

On the back foot, "Japanese pirates are booming" along the southeast coast!

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I can't explain Zhao Ying's purpose in becoming the leader who apparently annexed the territory directly controlled by the royal family.

but!

Soon after this measure was implemented in Jiaxing Prefecture, it was quickly expanded to Nanzhili and other surrounding counties.

By the end of Wanli, before Tianqi ascended the throne, almost all official land in the country was gone~!

The only special land that could only be used by the emperor was the Huangzhuang.

And even the Imperial Manor, which had less land than a single scholar, was repeatedly attacked by officials!

All special land—with the exception of Zhuangfu farmland used for social education expenses and some small plots of land reserved—all official land in the southern provinces has been permanently written off. (This write-off includes the Qing Dynasty! The difference is that the Qing Dynasty came to encircle the land directly to the south of the Yangtze River.)

So - everyone knows why the propaganda of "the Ming Dynasty vassal kings defeated the Ming Dynasty" is so overwhelming?

hey~!

Yes~!

It’s the vassal king who eats it down, and the pig eats it up!

(Sorry, lovely pig, I insulted you!)

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No matter who came to Daming, the only way to save her was to overthrow her and start over!

This was the establishment of the capital of the Han Dynasty and the emergence of a new interest class. Zhu Youjian dared to lead his troops northward and stormed Yaoerdusi, breaking the confidence of capital to support the Qing Dynasty!

It's as if Emperor Tianqi supported the eunuch (royalist) group and dared to go against the gentry group!

Zhu Youxiao was thrown into the water because he just implemented reforms on the original basis.

His reforms are not thorough!

If we change on the original basis, we will change again and again, but it will still be the same. The huge vested interest group will not let the Emperor of the Zhu family succeed!