Chapter 5 Hell on earth is separated by

This idea is actually the opinion of many officials.

If you only look at the previous discussion, many people probably think that the court has been in a very difficult life in the past few years.

But in fact, this is not the case.

Most of the severe droughts and disasters are in the north, northwest and southwest. Although there are occasional floods in the south, the imperial court is still very effective in disaster relief.

Han Yong chose to implement the Law of the Officials and the One-Whip Law first. This is also based on the difficulty of implementing the law.

In terms of the law of officials, as long as no one in the court opposes it. After reaching an agreement within the court, the seemingly arrogant clerks in front of the people are just lambs to be slaughtered.

If you want to cut the knife horizontally, you can cut the knife horizontally. If you want to cut the knife vertically, you can cut the knife vertically.

These clerks have no ability to object.

After all, they are the lowest level in the officialdom.

So, it's more of a matter of money.

But the method of a whip is different.

The one-whip method itself is a major compilation of taxes and services, so capable officials need to participate.

That's why Han Yong arranged this order.

The order of the implementation of the One Whip Law was after the implementation of the Official Law. Until now, that is, the 42 years of orthodox work, the Official Law was barely implemented throughout the country.

There are still many places that are very reluctant to implement.

Han Yong turned a blind eye to this and did not forcefully suppress the officials below, because the one-whip method was not very suitable for poorer places.

Although this series of reforms increased the burden on the court, it was not without benefits.

The biggest advantage is that it is above business.

The one-whip method has caused many laborers to leave the countryside, and the factory model of Shaofu has been fully developed within the past few years.

With private factories allowed, these industries are like mushrooms springing up after a rain.

There are also rich people of all sizes.

The two largest ones are the Xian family in Guangdong and the Xu family in Songjiang.

Needless to say, the Xian family in Guangdong.

Xian Jing is the prince consort and the prince's wallet. He moves frequently in Nanyang and even controls several pirates. Some maritime merchants even say that Xian Jing is the Dragon King of the Sea.

Although his industry is centered on the iron industry, its determination is not limited to the iron industry.

With the prince as his backing.

Many new technologies in the Attendant Court quickly spread to Guangdong, including steam engines, becoming the only place in the Ming Dynasty that could produce steam engines.

If the wealthy man of the Xian family is still accepted by many people, after all, many people in the Ming Dynasty did not regard the wealth of the Xian family as his own, but regarded the wealth of the Xian family as the wealth of the prince.

In the eyes of many people in the Beijing officialdom, the Xian family, who became the King of Sea Dragon by merchants, was the emperor's southern palace.

But the Xu family is different.

The Xu family in Songjiang has a different model.

Xu Shenchun, the head of the Xu family, was a scholar who failed to learn literature. He grasped the historical experience, but in just a few years, he had a net worth of tens of millions.

He is not as rich as a country, but he is also the most powerful tycoon in the world.

Xu Shenchun himself is good at dancing. His strength is more or less related to the family of Duke Wei, and he is also very sloppy to officials.

The methods are extremely clever. Although many people in the officialdom are greedy for the Xu family's property, they are not easy to deal with.

The Xu family's industry is like the Xi family, not just the same industry. The Xu family worked as a salt merchant in the early years and had a lot of wealth, but what really made him jump up was the fabric industry.

The so-called Songjiang is the best in the world. However, the Xu family's cloth is the best in Songjiang.

It is precisely the leader in the fabric industry that the Xu family's industry has skyrocketed wildly.

Of course, Xu Shenchun's development is so smooth that it has Songjiang's unique geographical environment. Songjiang is the Shanghai of later generations, so there is no need to mention its geographical location.

Especially for how many years it has been opened.

The Ming Dynasty has formed a complete maritime trade chain.

In fact, although the share of overseas trade in the Ming Dynasty was not low, it was not much. The most was coastal transportation between provinces.

What the Xu family has to do is to enter cotton from Shandong.

Today, Shandong is the largest cotton production area in the Ming Dynasty. Then it uses Songjiang's manpower and technology to produce cloth and distribute it to various provinces along the coastline and Yangtze River waterways.

This is why the Xu family can grow up.

Even this incident has a side effect.

That is the prosperous cotton trade that has led to a significant reduction in the land of Shandong. The grain output in the north has decreased, and in various disaster relief, it is necessary to transfer food from the south.

The officials below all responded to this situation.

Want to limit it.

But Zhu Qizhen was all put on hold.

No, Zhu Qizhen protected the Xu family, mainly because the thoughts of the Ming government were basically stuck in ancient times. What they did was just to send a command to limit the area of ​​cotton planting.

This kind of uninnovative measure is often useless.

It’s nothing more than having policies above and countermeasures below.

However, the proposal of Jiangsu Governor Chen Yue is somewhat novel, that is, to open cotton fields in northern Jiangsu.

Because the Jianghuai area needs to produce salt and floods occur frequently, there are a large number of wastelands in the coastal areas of Jiangsu. These wastelands are mostly saline-alkali land, and if you want to grow grain, you need to spend a lot of effort to rectify them. Secondly, these wastelands are all for the purpose of boiling salt.

Now the salt-drying method is vigorously promoted. The price of salt in Daming is lower by one day and is even distributed overseas.

None of these wastelands are useful.

Chen Yue proposed to open up these wastelands in Jiangbei and seed cotton on a large scale to relieve the difficulties of Shandong's grain fields.

Zhu Qizhen agreed with this method very much, so he approved it.

Moreover, the Xu family is just a representative of merchants in the Jiangnan area. It does not mean that the Xu family is the only one in the Jiangnan area.

From Songjiang, Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places, almost every mansion has a wealthy family with millions of dollars. If you really want to count it, the world of clothing and quilts in Jiangnan is definitely not a false statement.

Zhu Qizhen had to admit one thing.

That is the Jiangnan area, which is the best place with the economic foundation of the Ming Dynasty.

In the same matter, Zhu Qizhen put in great effort. Since he ascended the throne, he has taken Hebei as the fundamental business operation. After so many years of industrial foundation, it has been completely overtaken by the Jiangnan area in just a few years.

People will naturally consume when they have money, and they will drive various industries, which are extremely luxurious.

This formed one Ming and two worlds.

In a world, there are many famines and frequent earth movements. Zhu Qizhen was in a state of great difficulty. I don’t know where to start, but the court spent a year in a tight life.

But in the Jiangnan area, there are beautiful wine and beauty, and the wind and moon in the Jiangnan area are really drunk by the warm wind.

There were even a large number of gentry who joined this wealth feast in public and secretly. In the Jiangnan area, there was already a clear tendency towards merchants.

Some people borrowed Chen Baisha's knowledge that scholars, farmers, industry and commerce are just careers, and what people really matter is the heart. The rest are all appearances. Even if a person is in business, if he can value faith and compassion and practice the way of the Master, who can say that they are not good?

This kind of businessman is a Confucian businessman.

There is also a business that fails to learn, and a business that goes back to school that goes to success. A person may not be able to jump repeatedly between businessmen and officials, but a family can do it.

Every big family has the first-class talents to enter the officialdom, and the second-class talents go to business, protect their families through business, and build their families through business.

Although not every family is like this, there are already obvious signs of this.

Of course, there are also many businessmen who can really do this, making money righteous and donating money in Jiangnan for all disaster relief. It can also be regarded as serving the country.

But most businessmen are not like this.

After all, businessmen must put interests first, otherwise they will not be able to survive.

How can these ministers in the Ming Dynasty cabinet tolerate such a situation?

Of course, we have to hit hard. Perhaps the emperor Nanku can be preserved, but the merchants in Jiangnan need to teach them a good lesson to let them know what etiquette and etiquette are.

Maybe someone would ask? In the late Ming Dynasty, there was a monster called Donglin Party in Jiangnan. Why is it now developed at the same time? Instead, it has become the target of the civil and military officials in the court? Everyone shouted and beat them, but they didn't speak for them?
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