Chapter 19 The Storm
"Yes, let's go and ask the emperor!"
Yang Feng, who was standing high in a carriage, said as he took the drumstick from the soldiers beside him and suddenly hit the war drum in front of him. The rumbling drum sound immediately echoed in the air.
The boatmen who had been motivated by him looked at him...
“He is the emperor, don’t ask him who he wants?
Let’s ask him why those corrupt officials are corrupt but no one cares about the law? Why do those landlords suck our bones and marrows but no one cares about them? Why do the poor people who farm pay those harsh taxes, but the rich gentry don’t pay? What’s the reason for the poor people who don’t pay taxes to support officials, but the rich gentry doesn’t pay taxes but are supported by officials?
Let’s ask him again, Emperor Taizu Gao set so many good rules, why did he disappear when he arrived at him?
Taizu stripped the corrupt officials to be skinned, why did the corrupt officials here become famous?
Taizu beheaded the officers of private military households, why did he let the officers use the officers as animals?
Taizu ruled that new wasteland would never be able to afford the law, so why did he charge those heavy taxes here?
Taizu did not have an imperial village.
Then why are our Ming Dynasty imperial villages everywhere?
Taizu forbidden the common people to acquire slavery.
Why do those wealthy business landlords all raise family slaves?
This Ming Dynasty was ruled by Taizu and passed down by Taizu to the descendants of the Zhu family. Why didn’t he follow Taizu’s rules? Emperor Gao of Taizu is here. Look at what is written on it. Who else is still concerned about it now? Let’s follow Emperor Gao of the Imperial Edict and go to Beijing to ask the emperor, and ask him, can Taizu’s rules be used in our Ming Dynasty?”
Yang Feng shouted with the imperial edict.
"Yes, when you go to Beijing, meet the emperor, and ask him what the reason is?"
The Qi family army also shouted.
There was a boiling roar ahead.
Yang Feng beat the war drum again...
"Women, children, take food back with you, and take as much as you can. I will leave my brothers to break the back until dark, and you can take it any time during this period.
The rest of the men followed us into Beijing.
We are not troublemakers, we don’t make trouble, we just need to live a clear understanding.
This is the imperial edict of Emperor Taizu Gao. The rules of Emperor Taizu Gao are clearly here. If we follow the rules of Emperor Taizu Gao, we would not have lived like this. Of course, we must understand. If the emperor said that this rule had been invalidated, we had nothing to say, just think it was a dream! But if the emperor said that this was not invalidated yet, then we should ask why no one followed it?
Emperor Taizu Gao’s rules are correct.
The emperor is right.
Then who is wrong?”
Yang Feng held up the imperial edict and shouted at the four big words above.
The crowd was already boiling. Women and children went to collect grain. Most of them carried baskets and broken pockets. Most of the food in the warehouse was actually in bulk, and the stock was rice, and they could not store rice. They just went in and packed it themselves. Anyway, the Tianjin military roads were locked up. In fact, not only the boatmen, but also the nearby military households also came to collect it. These military households lived a very hard life. Including the nearby poor people, and even the stove owners who dry salt on the coast in the east. From here to the east to the beach, it was the largest salt farm group in the north of the Ming Dynasty. As for the stove owners...
The most miserable stove household in the world.
This is what civil servants of this era evaluated themselves.
The salt merchant is rich enough to rival a country.
But those who are drying salt are hungry and cold.
In fact, it can be said that the refugees are refugees, military households, and stove households. Almost all the most miserable people in the world are flocking, and then they are quickly mobilized by Yang Feng to become frantic and gather into a terrible torrent.
They are just like Yang Feng said, not for anything else at this moment, just to live a clear understanding.
Emperor Taizu Gao’s imperial edict is here.
This book has been refrigerated for more than a hundred years. In Zhu Yuanzhang's era, every family had a mandatory family. If there were great edicts at home, the crimes would be reduced by one level. The people themselves seized criminal officials and brought great edicts to the capital. No one along the way could stop them. If they dared to stop them, they would immediately suffer a Hongwu-style attack. However, this book poses too great a threat to officials and gentry. He quickly refrigerated them as soon as he died. Only the government can have it, and the people have long known it, let alone these lowest-level people who can't even recognize words and do not know the content. Now Yang Feng takes this book and directly gives them the grievances against each other. Through the explanation of the great edict, he lets them see if they should have suffered.
What do military households hate the most?
The hereditary officers regarded military households as serfs and forced them to work for him for free.
All right!
There are clear cases in the Great Edict, and those who are privately veted and soldiered are killed.
The officers beat or even kill military households at will.
There are also clear cases in this case, and the officer killed a military household that was not a death sentence and paid directly.
Needless to say, the stove owner.
Zhu Yuanzhang's stove household system is completely different from now on. He only needs to dry salt in the middle system. He handed over salt to the salt farm. The salt farm exchanged grain. There is a system for how much salt and grain. After completing the salt farm task, you can farm and fish, or continue to dry salt, or give it to the salt farm, or give it to the corresponding grain.
Salt households will not go hungry.
Even the salt farm has a special granary, which is to keep food for them.
As for farmers who hate it most, of course they donate bad taxes.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang's system was that the newly opened wasteland would never afford to be a science.
Never charge taxes.
Most of the north are newly opened wasteland!
In the entire Northern Zhili, the population census in Hongwu in 25 years was only 1.5 million. This is the total population of men, women, young and old. The population of Yulin is listed. Now, the population of a capital is almost the same. Of course, the majority of the population has been opened.
Places like Xuanda Jidong in Liaodong are estimated to be the new wasteland standard by Zhu Yuanzhang, except for the land in the garrison.
Of course, things are not that simple.
Just like the total amount of official taxes in Beizhili has always been similar to those of Zhu Yuanzhang, but the people are hungry and cold, so what do they pay? In fact, it is very simple. All kinds of messy donations are far beyond the actual fire consumption, corvee-service discounts, and cap taxes. Even the county magistrate has special money for sedan chairs. Of course, the poor are still the gentry?
But these messy things do not need to be explained. Yang Feng’s purpose is to motivate emotions, and of course he will not explain these things.
What you need is to simplify.
What you need is the impact that reaches the soul directly.
Let everyone fall into a state of madness in a short period of time.
Then……
"Let's go to the capital!"
He yelled as he beat the war drum in front of him.
"Let's go to the capital and meet the emperor!"
"Go!"
...
The soldiers yelled excitedly.
Chapter completed!