Empress Ma's death had a great blow to Zhu Yuanzhang, so Zhu Yuanzhang was eager to find a replacement. Xiaoju was Queen Ma's maid. Empress Ma passed away. The little maid was also very sad at the funeral and cried so hard that she couldn't help herself. Zhu Yuanzhang saw this little maid as sad as himself, and thought that his wife took great care of her when she was alive.

The little maid who died of his wife would be assigned to other palaces according to the rules to serve the new master. In addition, the little maid was very young and had a good appearance, so Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to include her in his harem.

The little maid was not happy to hear the news, but was very panicked. She had a very deep affection for the queen, but she only respected and feared the emperor. She was not very willing to know that she wanted to serve the emperor, but as the bottom-level little maid in the palace, she could not refuse the emperor at all.

On the day of bedtime, the little maid also wore gorgeous clothes according to the rules. Compared with the maid's clothes, it was much more luxurious and made the little maid look more beautiful. Zhu Yuanzhang was quite happy to see the other party on the night of bedtime, and when the two were about to rest.

Zhu Yuanzhang took off the little maid's gorgeous coat, but found that she was wearing a white mourning uniform. In ancient times, people also paid a lot of attention to color. They wore red during the wedding, which meant a festive meaning. When someone in the family passed away, their relatives and children needed to wear white mourning uniforms.

White often represents the death of a relative. Zhu Yuanzhang was surprised when he was wearing a white mourning uniform on the wedding day. At this time, the little maid knelt in front of the emperor to explain her clothes. She said that the queen was very caring and pampering, and she also learned a lot during her time with the queen.

He looked at the queen as if he was facing his own mother. Although the status and status gap between him and the queen was huge and he did not dare to call him the other party a mother, he always treated the queen as a mother in his heart. The queen had just passed away and as a child, he had to keep mourning for his mother for three years.

Now that the emperor is valued, even when he is a big wedding, his children should not take off their filial piety clothes. Zhu Yuanzhang was very moved and did not accuse her. Instead, he released her out of the palace on the wedding night and allowed her to mourn the queen outside the palace. After the three years of mourning, the little maid did not return to the palace, but went to the queen's cemetery to guard the tomb.

Zhu Yuanzhang is such a person, and his love for Queen Ma is truly unparalleled.

This was just a small episode. For the following days, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao... all went to the Narcissus Village, where they fished, grilled, and watched the show every day... that was so happy.

Many things in the imperial court were handled by Zhu Lang. However, today, Zhu Lang handled things and found that the Ming Dynasty was a little different from what he thought.

Zhu Lang remembered that the Ming Dynasty should be very stable, with a prosperous country and a healthy people. However, after reading the memorials for many days, Zhu Lang realized that the Ming Dynasty was really a bit troublesome.

In fact, in the early years of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's good intentions and various efforts did not produce corresponding expectations.

What people see is an almost incomprehensible contradiction: on the one hand, Zhu Yuanzhang established a huge standing army in order to strengthen his rule and implemented strict political, ideological and cultural autocracy.

In particular, we should use the greatest strength to restore the social economy, adjust production relations, allocate land, organize taxes and service, crack down on the powerful, fight corruption and promote integrity, and do everything possible to recuperate with the people, in an attempt to resolve social conflicts.

But on the other hand, class relations were still extremely tense, fierce confrontation and struggles continued to occur, and society was not at all calm. From a few months after his ascension to his death, peasant uprisings against him broke out everywhere, from south to north, from east to west, whether in the mainland, border areas, or on the sea.

In April of the 12th year of Hongwu, the people of Meixian County were unable to withstand the oppression and exploitation of the Ming government, and uprising under the leadership of Peng Pugui, "turning to attack prefectures and counties", defeating the Meixian County Magistrate Yan Shisheng, and leading the Ming army and kill Yan Shisheng.

The power of the rebel army was greatly enhanced, and it occupied fourteen prefectures and counties one after another. It was defeated repeatedly in Sichuan's commander Puliang.

Finally, it was suppressed by the army led by the right censor Ding Yu. In the early Ming Dynasty, the people in Guangxi continued to uprising and resist feudal rule.

Shortly after the Ming Dynasty ruled Guangxi, in the third year of Hongwu, the 100,000 Shanzhai people in Yangshan County gathered to revolt, opposing the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and were suppressed by the Ming army of Nanning Wei. In the fifth year of Hongwu, Nanning Wei commanded Jin Shi Zuo Junbi, forcing the people to be the army, which aroused the resistance of more than 3,000 people.

The Datengxia area is a settlement area for the Yao and Zhuang people in Guangxi. They could not bear the oppression and exploitation of the Ming rulers. In the eighth year of Hongwu, they revolted and resisted, and were suppressed by the Ming army in Liuzhou.

By the 18th year of Hongwu, the Yao and Zhuang people gradually gathered tens of thousands of people. They used Gengwu, Lianhua, Dateng and other villages as bases to develop their forces towards nearby Dukang, Xiangwu, Shanglin and other places.

The Ming Dynasty government sent General Yang Wen and others to the southeast of Fengyizhou to jointly suppress the uprising people with the army led by the commander Han Guan of Guangxi.

They inhumanely killed more than 18,360 rebels and more than 8,280 rebels. The leader of the rebel army, Huang Shitie, also bravely sacrificed his life in the Ming Dynasty government and moved the remaining 648 households to Wuxian County, Xiangzhou. In order to prevent the people in this area from revolting again, Fengyi and other guards were set up.

This year, the uprising just happened in Huizhou. Zhu Lang knew where this was. It was not that Zhu Yuanzhang exploited the farmers, but that the Ming Dynasty had just been established at this time. The reign still implemented the captive tax (Dingyin Rules and System). Farmers were the last group to pay the most taxes. It was one of the reasons why this tax reform was the most essential exploitation and oppression of farmers.

Grasp the factors of production... farmers with at least farmland are not allowed to move by the rules and regulations that pay taxes according to the number of people; while the landlords, senior officials, and royal families who grasp this many farmlands make profits, pay less taxes than farmers (because they are all based on the number of people, the total number of landlords is much lower than that of farmers).

In this way, all the tax burden fell into the hands of farmers, which made them bear too heavy.

It is worth mentioning that the exploiting class can use the member privileges in hand to carry out tax evasion or to make farmers pay more taxes when eating and taking credit, which further intensifies the farmers' burden. The strict household registration system formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang tightly bound farmers to farmland, without personal freedom, and cannot move at will, and can only bear exploitation silently.

In the Ming Dynasty, the merger of farmland enterprises was also very serious. The farmers with farmland were getting lower and lower. They could only rely on the landlord class, without any randomness, and could not keep the class moving more and more.

Whenever there is a natural disaster, due to the corruption of senior officials, the bribery is serious and the responsibility for disaster relief and rescue is urged to come to a critical crisis when farmers cannot survive and have to raise troops to rebel.

This time, Huizhou had no choice but to revolt because it encountered a severe drought. Zhu Lang also saw the causes and consequences of this uprising, so Zhu Lang did not suppress it as soon as possible.

Because suppressing this uprising is very simple, it is really simple. A group of peasants holding swords and swords confronting soldiers with flintlock rifles who are stronger and weak. It is obvious at a glance. What Zhu Lang wants is how to make such things less.

In the Ming Dynasty, the corvee service was originally a regular labor service of Lijia, and all labor service were mixed. Among them, Lijia was the main trunk and households were the basic unit. The household was divided into three grades and nine according to the amount of grain, which was used as the basis for levying labor service.

Ding refers to male resident aged 16 to 60 years old, and grain refers to land tax. The amount of grain depends on the land acres, so corvee also includes a part of the land acres. The implementation of this corvee system is based on the widespread existence of small land ownership by self-cultivated farmers and the relatively stable land rights.

However, with the changes of time, especially in the late Ming Dynasty, the corvee and tax system formulated in the early Ming Dynasty had been completely destroyed.

First of all, with the development of private land ownership in the Ming Dynasty, land was becoming increasingly capitalized, and land annexation gradually intensified. Landlords and powerful people colluded with the government, occupied the land of farmers, and used all feasible means to evade corresponding taxes. In addition, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, eunuchs took power, manipulated the government, sold official positions and titles, and corruption were very serious. In order to cater to the eunuchs who loved money, officials from all over the country tried their best to plunder the people's wealth. This eroded the tax base to a considerable extent and caused a sharp reduction in national taxes.

Secondly, the imperial court's expenditure gradually increased, and the finances were very difficult. The huge expenditures of the royal family and the royal family's extravagant and corrupted officials, and the huge military expenditures used to resist the invasion of Japanese pirates in Zhejiang and Fujian and Altan from the northern ethnic minority Altan, made the financial income at that time not enough.

Again, the commodity economy has developed significantly.

The increase in the monetization of commodity transactions has weakened the personal control of farmers by the ancient centralized system. Many farmers abandoned farmers and joined business, which promoted the development of handicrafts in the Ming Dynasty and promoted the progress of commodity economy. The prosperity of commodity economy drove the circulation of silver currency.

So Zhu Lang is determined to change.

Zhu Lang came to the Narcissus Village with the memorial of the Huizhou Uprising. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao were watching the opera. After listening to the opera, the father and son were about to go fishing. When they saw Zhu Lang coming, they were also going to Zhu Lang together.

There was something to say, but Zhu Lang didn't refuse. So the father and son went fishing together and said fishing, but in fact they were more about chatting. At that time, Zhu Lang told the story of the Huizhou Uprising.

Maybe it was because there were too many uprisings, and Zhu Yuanzhang didn't care about the uprising in Huizhou.

However, what Zhu Lang said next attracted Zhu Yuanzhang's attention. Zhu Lang told Zhu Yuanzhang that he wanted to implement a whip. The first step was to clear the land, expand the scope of collection, and make the tax relatively even

Because at this time, there are situations where more land occupies increase and taxes are reduced. Only by starting with clearing the land can the taxes and labor service be evenly achieved. As long as the land is cleared, some people will not be able to hide the land.

The second is to unify taxes and service, restrict harshness, and make taxes stable.

In the past, taxes and service were separated. The taxes were collected by land and households. In addition to taxes and service, there were also many additional sub-items and local tributes. After the one-whip method was implemented, all of them were simplified into one.

The taxes were assigned to the land and collected in a mu; the labor force was changed to employment, and the government hired people to serve on behalf of the government. Due to the unified tax and service, it was difficult for officials at all levels to use their names. Therefore, the shortcomings were cleared, which made the tax more stable and the farmers calm.

Finally, the amount of silver was calculated and the official was settled, making the collection method more complete.

In ancient times, land tax was basically collected before the Tang Dynasty. Although the two tax laws in the Tang Dynasty were calculated in currency, the payment was still dispensed with real items. In the Song Dynasty, taxes were collected only occasionally. Although the Yuan Dynasty's quarantine had silver, the accumulated grain was still a physical item of grain.

In this way, all the servants can be changed to silver. In addition, except for a few areas such as Suzhou and Hangzhou, the land tax still levies for royal food for consumption, the rest have also been changed to color, that is, to color silver.

At the same time, the tax and service recruitment classes were no longer handled by the village chief or the grain chief, and instead directly collected by local officials and transferred to the warehouse. From then on, the courses were not collected in kind, saving the fees for transportation and storage; the baojia personnel did not handle the collection and disbursement, eliminating the disadvantages of erosion and division, and making the collection method more perfect.

After Zhu Lang finished speaking, Zhu Biao frowned and said, "Brother Lang, if you do this, you will offend many people.

You remeasure the land, and the land concealed by the landlord was found out, and now all taxes and labors are converted into silver. That is to say, all the land, labors, labors and labors are now based on people, and the land is converted into silver for payment.

These landlords will definitely not give up if they suffer losses. They will actively attack you."

But after Zhu Biao finished speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang laughed: "Biao'er, you are wrong. These people will not actively attack Lang'er, but will actively attack us."

"Father..." Zhu Biao was stunned.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said, "Our reputation is the worst. No matter how bad it is, it will not be much worse. Let us implement this whip method, and we are not afraid of anything."

Zhu Lang was moved, but Zhu Yuanzhang laughed and said, "It doesn't matter whether our reputation is good or bad. What matters is whether the people live in peace. How do you plan to do this Huizhou thing?"

Zhu Lang looked at Zhu Yuanzhang without hesitation: "First kill corrupt officials, then kill the leader, and then appease the people and allocate funds and provide relief."

"Okay...Okay..." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded.

Following Zhu Yuanzhang, "Langer's method is great, and you can also make a decision based on this method in the future."

"Yes..." Zhu Biao headed repeatedly.

At this moment, the fishing line in the lake started to move. As soon as the fishing line moved, Zhu Biao quickly hooked it, and soon a big fish appeared on Zhu Biao's hook. The scene of this scene seemed to indicate something.

The next day, Zhu Yuanzhang returned to Yingtian and he was about to start the implementation of the whip technique.

The implementation of this whip method will definitely be successful and will definitely be good to the people, because this whip method has the blessing of at least two generations of emperors. The previous whip method was left alone after Zhang Juzheng's death, and it almost became a method to harm the people.

Those officials took advantage of loopholes, but this time it was different. Zhu Yuanzhang was the first generation emperor and Zhu Biao was the second generation emperor. Two generations of emperors guarded this whip method and could definitely allow this law to be implemented.

It will definitely allow the people to live a better life!
Chapter completed!