Yan Yingyuan was a little flustered, this opening would cause countless blood feuds, but it would not be able to dissolve.

The people in Jiangnan, who doesn't know, the surviving Madame Xing, the military leader Gao Jie, now actually accepted the support of the imperial capital after holding the military power, but viciously stretched out her claws to the southern states, claiming that whoever dared to claim the title of emperor would be beaten.

Why bother to cause a military disaster for such a small "trivial matter".

The so-called wicked people have their own wicked people to grind, that's it, if it is really the bitter lord who comes to the door, the PK between the outsiders and the local gentry is naturally biased, but now, at a glance, people are from the legendary imperial capital, and people are hard top, isn't it to cause trouble for the people of the city.

Yan Yingyuan kept shouting below, of course, it seemed useless.

However, on the dirt road in the distance, a group of people rushed in the distance, although they were armed with agricultural weapons, they were menacing, but they were not the legendary clan army, were they?

"Interesting."

Li pointed forward and said, "This place in the south of the Yangtze River is not as powerful as the north, and the clan is too powerful. ”

Yan Yingyuan sweated a little and said, "These are all villagers who don't know the truth, wait for me to persuade them." ”

Looking at Li Xiangqian's ghost-like eyes, Yan Yingyuan hurriedly ran over and explained to the clan strongmen who rushed over after hearing that something had happened to the Cao family.

It's okay if you don't explain it, but it's bad when you explain it.

What the? The northerners came to us to arrest people, not only did you not try your best to stop them, but you also let us disperse here, by the way, you kid is also a northerner!

Sure enough, it's all a raccoon dog.

Yan Yingyuan was also scolded a lot, as a foreigner, in order to gain a firm foothold here, he really needs to pay a lot, do things fairly, and dare not slack off every day, the most important thing is that the foundation of the rule is these people.

Since the Cao family has been lifting people for decades, although they have taken the imperial examination in the imperial capital several times, because those Donglin Party controls the examination too strongly, and it is too disgusting to eat and wipe clean, so they have given up a long time ago, but relying on this identity of lifting people, the poor talent who was originally ridiculed and discriminated against suddenly became a big man with thousands of acres of fertile land.

As the head of the Cao family, Cao Juren can't have an accident, Cao Juren has an accident, and the agricultural tax that he used to pay for shelter and evasion will be paid again.

Although the dozen or so crazy guys are also shouting about free food, how can outsiders speak as reliably as their own people? Cao Juren said that they deserved to die, and they naturally deserved to die.

Zhu Yuanzhang suffers when he is big and small.

Therefore, when he became an emperor, as a character who can discriminate against scholars, his thinking direction is a little wrong.

What he thinks is that stability is overriding everything, that is, the system of the Ming Dynasty can be continued, what craftsmen work, what military households are soldiers, how harmonious, how ......

At the same time, only the ghost knows what a terrible impression Zhu Yuanzhang left on him when he was a child, and it is estimated how much damage those people caused to China's commercial development.

Hatred of business is not an empty phrase.

Compared with the Southern Song Dynasty, most of the income, even if it is only half of the south of the Yangtze River, can find opportunities to compete with the northern enemy.

Zhu Yuanzhang lacks understanding of the role of commerce, in the treatment of the national policy of commerce, full of perverse practices, throughout Chinese history, although there has always been a view of agriculture and the end of the business, but from the Han and Tang dynasties to the two Song dynasties, the status of merchants is still rising, and the important surname of commerce in the national economy is getting higher and higher, and by the time of the Southern Song Dynasty, it has even replaced agriculture and become the main source of national finance, even if it is the Liao, Jin and Yuan dynasties of the Central Plains, commerce is also prosperous and developing.

In fact, the essence of commerce lies in circulation, in addition to the promotion of the entire national economy, prosperous commerce will inevitably inject an open, enterprising, and free atmosphere into the whole nation.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born as a small peasant, could not see the benefits brought by commerce, but only saw the impact of this kind of flow on the static economy of small peasants, because his family was reduced from a homesteader to a tenant farmer in the midst of repeated social fluctuations, and from a tenant farmer to almost all starved to death. Perhaps it was the bitter experience of the same year that led him to pursue a stable state of state all his life, and to do so to eliminate all the factors that would cause social fluctuations!

It is estimated that it is the indelible impression left by a certain profiteer brother on Zhu Yuanzhang when he was young.

Understand this, and then interpret Zhu Yuanzhang, you will understand all his behaviors after the founding of the People's Republic of China, basically, Zhu Yuanzhang's way of governing the country is to eliminate corrupt officials with his left hand, and focus on cracking down on rich merchants and trade with his right hand, and devote his life to making everyone follow his assigned roles, generation after generation.

He didn't want to create an ideal country where the rich and the poor were equal, what he did was still for his own country to be able to come for generations to come, because of his contempt for scholars, and the pride of building a huge empire for himself from scratch, Zhu Yuanzhang completely ignored the opinions of others, insisted on building his empire according to his own experience, he believed that when there was a large gap between the rich and the poor in society, a large number of small farmers would lose their homes and land, and they would lose their special surnames that hated social fluctuations, and eventually the stability factor of society would become a terrifying force that destroyed society…… Zhu Yuanzhang, who once farmed land, let go of cattle, became a monk, asked for food, and finally embarked on the road of rebellion, firmly believes in this point more than anyone else.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor who hated the rich and discriminated against businessmen in Chinese history. He believed that only the labor of sweating down the soil and growing grain and cotton was labor, and that the merchants, who were idle all day long, never produced any products, but lived the luxurious life of a wealthy prince, were obviously parasites of society, and who, together with the corrupt officials, were the source of evil that caused the disparity between the rich and the poor, and must be removed from their own kingdom.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang believes that engaging in commercial activities is illegal, does not recognize the identity of businessmen, in the early Ming Dynasty, when the household registration system was unprecedentedly perverted, all walks of life had their own unique household registration, and those who were soldiers were military households all their lives, and those who were craftsmen were craftsmen, as well as private households, stove households, shop households, wine households, medical households, vegetable households, and even the women who had lost their feet and the turtle Gong had a happy household, but the merchants did not have their own household registration, and for a long time, they were ignored by the imperial government, but it is impossible for the power of individuals to change the laws of society, even if it is as strong as Zhu Yuanzhang, It is also impossible to stifle the needs of the society, which is not obvious in the early Ming Dynasty, because at that time the country was empty, abject poverty, increasing the population, resuming production is the most important, the demand for commerce is at the lowest point in history, but after decades of recovery, with the recovery of the economy, and the entry of the strong emperor, commerce once again flourished and developed, but sadly, the Ming Dynasty could not benefit from it as the previous dynasty, Taizu did not recognize commerce, commercial tax naturally could not be talked about, this kind of thing that will profoundly affect society, If it had not been formulated with the help of the earth-shaking and vigorous spirit outlined by Ren Jun at the time of the founding of the country, it would have been difficult to add it later.

Because the merchants have long relied on various household registrations to engage in business activities, and because the state cannot provide protection for their normal operations, they can only take refuge in the landlords and nobles, and have already formed a community of interests with them...... And because of Zhu Yuanzhang's stupid attitude, the officials who oppose commercial taxation have the invincible shield of the ancestral law, and no one can break it, and no one can do anything about it.

The imperial court cannot be strong because of the prosperity of commerce, and the prosperity of commerce is not helpful to those provinces that have been in poverty and disaster for a long time, on the contrary, various interest groups have been formed to block the collection of commercial taxes, in fact, there are some ulterior factors, such as the officials are mostly southerners, and they do not want the imperial court to fight the idea of the rich. In short, in this divided empire, the political center is in the north, and the economic center is in the south.

The first problem here is Confucianism.

As we said before, three generations of poor peasants have slowly raised a person who can study part-time, and if he is lucky and has good genes, he may have a chance to be a talent.

Xiucai is already the top figure in every county, and every time Xiucai examines people, the acceptance rate is basically a single-digit percentage, 5%.

The Jinshi exam may be better, but there are only 300 people every three years, and the cruelty of the competition is obvious.

In this case, it is even more difficult for ordinary civilian families to change their fate by relying on the imperial examination.

In the past 100 years, there may have been border troubles such as the Japanese in the south, and all kinds of civil unrest have not stopped, but the north has gradually become unbalanced.

The history of the evolution of the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty is that the south is getting stronger and stronger, and in the end, most of the bureaucrats have become southerners.

At this point, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born in the south of the Yangtze River, made an authentic way, and the north and south list are a lifesaver.

But he can't change that.

And those who become officials naturally return the favor and repay their financiers.

In the end of the Ming Dynasty, commercial taxes have never been able to occupy the majority of fiscal revenue, and this is the root of this.

And Zhu Yuanzhang's so-called "heavy peasantry" and the status of lifting people are no longer a one-time thing like the Song Dynasty, although the local people have some defenders of the Ming system, but it has also caused the rise of the clan.

Once a poor ghost shows up in the examination, then this person will immediately get countless contributions, and the fastest is naturally in his clan, which is naturally attached to it, and he does not have to pay taxes after finishing his food.

This kind of thing, almost no one can compensate.

And Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born in a peasant family, only hoped to give the people a way to live, but forgot the situation of being too late, so the clan coerced the people, resisted justice, privately mined mineral deposits, and all kinds of lawlessness, naturally there were many people.

And those magistrates, when they saw the horizontal ones, had no choice, so they put the heavy responsibility of paying taxes on those small families or honest people.

Honest man, your poor and deserving nature is recognized even by the ancients.

The rise of clans is a manifestation of the problems of the Ming Dynasty's system, its inability to resist foreign enemies outside its state apparatus, and its inability to manage order internally.

At this time, Li Xiangqian was absolutely sure that the efficiency of the mobilization of these clans was definitely not comparable to the speed at which the government recruited them.

"Warning shots."

Li Xiangqian commanded, and immediately someone shot into the sky, which immediately frightened the surrounding crowd who were about to move.

Li Xiangqian took the megaphone and shouted, "All of them give me back back!" Want to eat guns! ”

He took two steps forward and looked at the people, they all looked honest, but they were quite terrible, once they were instigated.

"Throw him! Throw him! His gun won't go far. ”

Although they were not taught, the villagers learned how the Palestinians of later generations would use to confront the Israeli army, throwing stones......

In later generations, the Palestinians gradually became weaker and weaker in the process of confronting the Israelis because of various internal and external problems......

However, for these villagers, this is the most efficient means.

Li Xiangqian was helpless, and as soon as he commanded slightly, he blocked the men of Cao Juren's family in front, and the stone was thrown at Cao Juren's son and others, and they all whined and wailed.

Seeing this, it was natural to stop.

Yan Yingyuan hurriedly pulled up, "Everyone, stop, this is an adult from the imperial capital, and he is going to enter the city to ask about the case, you are trying to provoke the imperial capital, but you are harming the Cao family." ”

Yan Yingyuan is also a celebrity, and many people know him, but now, these outsiders are really despicable enough to use the people of our Cao family as shields.

Li Xiangqian remembered that in later generations, the most difficult point of entering the village to arrest was the unreasonable maintenance of the villagers, and it happened that the policeman's hat was buttoned down, and he could not do anything to the people, and the humanitarian bullshit made many police officers besieged by the villagers while still having to protect the prisoners.

"The new plane is good."

How good it is now, the sooner you learn to use prisoners as shields, it is naturally invincible.

At this time, a voice suddenly appeared on the city wall: "Who are you, why do you dare to detain the history of this county!" ”

Li Xiangqian held up the megaphone and shouted: "We are from the imperial capital, open the city gate immediately, we entered the city to find your county commander to have business, if we don't open the door, I can only break in!" ”

"You first released Yan Dianshi, and then released Cao Juren's family, this is a place under my Ming rule, and you are not allowed to come and insert a pole!"

Li Xiangqian sneered and shouted: "I will let Mr. Yan go first, let him tell you, tell you that human rights are greater than sovereignty, greater than the earth, greater than democracy, and infinite, and since we have conclusive evidence, then we have the right to try the case." ”

(End of chapter)