First Minister of Ming Dynasty Chapter 190

At the end of the year and the end of the year, the fifteenth year is coming to an end.

Under Zhu Yuanzhang's rule, someone once suggested that the Dragon and Phoenix dates of Han and Song should be used to show a complete break with the Yuan court.

However, this proposal was collectively opposed by the three major advisors under Zhu Yuanzhang.

Jia Lu, Zhu Sheng, Zhang Ximeng, all shook their heads... Using the dragon and phoenix chronology to get rid of the Yuan court, but they got involved with the Song Dynasty.

Don't forget what was discussed at the unification conference... Zhu Jiajun wanted not only to overthrow Dayuan, but also to correct the maladministration since Zhao Song. Even the serious Song Dynasty did not buy it, let alone a grass-roots team!

It's just that Lao Zhu also has a problem, that is, he has not been crowned king for a long time, and he has not determined the country name and year. How to write it becomes a problem.

In the end, Zhang Ximeng made a suggestion, and there is no need to deny Dayuan. Anyway, we were originally the subjects of the Yuan Dynasty, and only because the Yuan court was ruthless and the people were struggling to make a living, did we rise up.

Before the success, the year of the Yuan court was used, and it would not be too late to establish a new dynasty when the time was ripe.

Therefore, on the side of Zhu Jiajun, the era name of Dayuan is still used, until the fifteenth year... This is definitely an important year recorded in the annals of history.

At the beginning of the year, Tuotuo was dismissed by Yuan Ting, and the army of several hundred thousand disintegrated. From then on, Yuan Ting entered the mode of waiting for death.

In the middle of the year, Zhu Yuanzhang crossed the Yangtze River, occupied Jinling, and possessed the capital to compete in the world.

At the end of the year, after the integration of the Zhu family army, with the strongest attitude, began to pass through Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

At the beginning of the year, the Yuan declined, and at the end of the year, Zhu Xing!

Falling together, it really is a great world!

Zhu Yuanzhang rode on horseback, glanced at the fields on both sides, and was fascinated. This is the best field on the banks of the Qinhuai River.

"If you have three acres of watered land, you don't want to improve and kill officials... We have come to this day, and it is all forced by the Yuan court!" Xingbang...Sir, how is the division of land in Lishui Prefecture doing?"

Zhang Ximeng smiled and said: "There is a lot of land in Lishui, and it is distributed according to the head, and each adult can be divided into about 25 mu. As for the ration field, it is a little less than that in Chuzhou and other places. It is not distributed according to the head, but According to the family, each family will be given ten acres of land!"

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Lao Zhu interrupted Zhang Ximeng, "Sir, in this way, families with many people and families with few people have the same ration field, doesn't it seem fair? If someone deliberately divides the family, just to get a little more ration. What about Tian?"

Zhang Ximeng smiled slightly, "My lord, splitting up a family is something you can't ask for!"

"Oh!" Old Zhu raised his voice and seemed to have doubts, but he quickly understood and couldn't help laughing: "Sir, what a good plan! This is a beautiful hand!"

After crossing the river, Zhang Ximeng discovered that in the south of the Yangtze River, the clan was very powerful... There are many villages, basically it is a surname, and everyone is related.

Because of this, some clan elders have a terrifying appeal.

For example, Sun Yan once found a group of old farmers to help him suppress Han San.

Afterwards, Zhang Ximeng relocated all these old farmers, but for the overall situation, it was insignificant and could not change anything at all.

So Zhang Ximeng started thinking about dividing the fields.

The land in the south of the Yangtze River is definitely not as abundant as in Huaixi, and there is not so much land per capita. So he started on the ration field.

According to the distribution, a family of three has ten acres of land, and a family of five has ten acres of land, even if there are twenty people, it is the same!

Undoubtedly, this is forcing family separation!

Dividing everyone into small families that survive alone is also a ruthless move for the entire patriarchal system.

Separation means economic independence and responsibility for survival... Do college students who don't know about future generations remember? Since when did you have the qualifications to bargain with your parents?

Is it when you got a job and got an income?

Because you can support yourself, which means your wings are hardened and you can be unscrupulous.

The same is true of family separation. As long as each small family is financially independent, even if they still care for their family, they will gather in the ancestral hall during the New Year and festivals to worship their ancestors, and they will listen to the advice of the elderly when they encounter problems. But this is completely different from the patriarchal system that could decide the life and death of the clan.

Eliminate clan power, realize direct rule over the people, eliminate middlemen who earn the difference, and subsidize tens of billions of dollars.

"My lord, there is one more thing. Although there are mulberry fields in Lishui, this mulberry field has to pay the land tax, and the tax is 50% higher than that of the farmland!"

After thinking for a while, Lao Zhu said, "Is it to suppress silkworm breeding?"

Zhang Ximeng said: "At present, silk is not an irreplaceable thing, but food, which is the foundation of everything. What I mean is to guide the common people to grow a variety of food, such as silk and cotton. Of course, I don't. I feel that we should blindly suppress sericulture and silk reeling. It is best to concentrate on skilled craftsmen and use the best means to make silk into luxury goods and make money from the rich!”

Lao Zhu couldn't help laughing, "That's a good word. To our minds, these two adjustments made by Mr. are good! After a little bit of Jiangnan, we will follow the new method of dividing land."

There is no policy that can be maintained forever and does not need to be changed.

Even if they are equal fields, they need to adapt to local conditions. There is no best strategy, only the most suitable.

That afternoon, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Ximeng arrived in Lishui Prefecture.

And here, there is a good show waiting for them... After Wu Datou returned, the troupe immediately moved.

Now Zhu Jiajun's troupe has reached more than 300 people.

Wu Datou's Hundred Households are not only worthy of their name, but also super doubled.

And many of the new recruits are from Yangzhou City and Qinhuai River. Their business is quite good. There are famous Pipa masters, Sanxian masters, and all kinds of capable people. Compared with them, Wu Datou is simply ordinary and cannot be more ordinary.

Who would have thought that this greasy middle-aged man would actually be the number one red thief in the world? I have to say, it's really ironic!

But when everyone discussed business with Datou Wu, everyone immediately put aside their contempt and realized the power of Captain Wu... Datou Wu told them a story.

There is a girl named "Zhen'e" who has been living with her father, living by renting and farming land. When Zhen'e was fifteen years old, suddenly the landlord did not lend them cattle for farming. The old father had no choice but to tie the rope with his daughter. Wearing it on his back, he ploughs the fields by manpower.

A thin old man, a girl, where did he get the strength, he couldn't even finish a row in one morning. Dad sat on the ridge and kept crying.

Zhen'e also cried!

Both father and daughter knew why the landlord was reluctant to borrow cows... Because the landlord fell in love with Zhen'e and wanted to take her over and be his concubine.

That's why the father and daughter were deliberately embarrassed.

Without cattle, there is no way to grow fields.

When the autumn harvest comes, if you can't pay the rent, you have to find a way to repay the debt. At that time, it is logical to repay Zhen'e to the landlord.

Everyone in the village knew about this, and they all gritted their teeth and secretly cursed the landlord for being immoral, but no one dared to help them, for fear of offending others.

The father and daughter are completely desperate, why don't they become concubines?

Naihe, the landlord is in his 60s, and his sons are not good. After a few years, once the landlord dies, there is no need to say more about the fate. It is simply life as death.

At this moment, a young man named Pei Dalang stood up. He was strong and took the initiative to help the father and daughter till the fields. Zhen'e had a good impression of this kind Pei Dalang.

Until the slack season, the two sides intend to get married.

Anyway, they are all poor, so there is no need to pay attention... Pei Dalang married Zhen'e, so he stopped thinking about being a landlord. And Pei Dalang is not too young, and having a virtuous daughter-in-law can kill two birds with one stone!

The people in the village all agreed with the marriage, and they felt that the sooner the better, so as not to cause troubles.

Pei Dalang thought so too. He made a decisive decision and went to the house to ask for a kiss. After getting the consent of Zhen'e's father, he got a wheelbarrow, went to Zhen'e's house, and pushed Zhen'e home.

A young man and woman were walking on the road in the countryside. Zhen'e happily sang about the village in the countryside. Many villagers were waiting at Pei Dalang's house, wanting to witness their marriage.

As long as it is done, everything will be fine.

No matter how shameless the landlord is, he can't destroy people's marriage!

But at this very moment, a group of people suddenly came. They rushed in like wolves and took the bride away.

Pei Dalang reasoned with them, but he was beaten so hard that he almost died.

Seeing a happy event turned into a tragedy in an instant, all the people in the same village were indignant.

Immediately, news came out that the landlord was jealous of Pei Dalang's destruction of his good deeds, so he tried to bribe a local Mongolian official, pretending that Zhen'e was his maid, with a beautiful appearance, and escaped to marry Ye. man.

When the Mongolian official heard that he was very good-looking, he was moved, and he sent someone to take Zhen'e away on the wedding day.

Seeing that her daughter was taken away, Zhen'e's father hung himself with hemp rope in the middle of the night.

Pei Dalang lost his bride and was full of resentment. He was born as a hunter, with a strong body and a knives and archery skills. After recovering from his injuries, he sneaked into the landlord's house and killed more than a dozen of their family.

It wasn't over yet. Pei Dalang went to the county town again. He hid in the middle of a group of beggars for more than two months. When the Mongolian officials came out, he shot them with a bow, and then rushed out with a hatchet, trying to assassinate the officials.

It's a pity that although Pei Dalang has the courage, his bow is a hunting bow, not a military bow, and he has no armor on his body.

At this time, Zhen'e had been in the Mongolian official's mansion for two or three months, and she was pregnant with a fetus.

She didn't know the situation at home at first, but a man from the next village came to give gifts to officials. After saying a few words, Zhen'e knew that her father was dead. UU reading www.uukanshu. com and Pei Dalang could not be assassinated, he died tragically on the street, and his body was still hanging on the city wall.

Like crazy, she rushed out of the house and ran to the city gate in one breath.

Seeing Pei Dalang's body, Zhen'e burst into tears, slammed her head against the wall, and suddenly passed out... I don't know how long it took, but she woke up. Although the person was alive, the child was gone.

Zhen'e's hair turned white overnight, and since then she has been insane... A few years later, she froze to death in a cold winter.

"I was in the prison in Bozhou, and I heard from one of Liu Futong's subordinates. That Pei Dalang was his cousin, and he learned all his skills from Pei Dalang. He said that this time the northern expedition, he will follow the Tatar For this blood debt, I would rather die in battle than surrender!"

"Okay! It's bloody!" Someone suddenly praised, "It's a good story, but it's too tragic. It's better to let Zhen'e live and look at the Yuan Ting Gouguan with a different head!"

Wu Datou nodded and said, "That's what I mean, let's not delay, the people from Ningguo Road are coming, and the play is ready!"

Everyone nodded together, and in just five days, the play was put on the stage.

The first official performance was watched by militiamen from Ningguo Road and Guangde Road... How successful is this show? Just to say one thing, the Mongolian official played by Wu Datou, after killing Pei Dalang, stood on the stage and laughed out loud.

A few militiamen who couldn't stand it, jumped onto the stage, pinned the first villain to the ground, and punched him! He was still shouting angrily, "Avenge Pei Dalang!"

Wu Datou, who was pressed on the stage, didn't know whether to cry or laugh... It turns out that the play was too successful and it was wrong!

Chapter end