Can you live forever

Chapter 217 Difference between North and South

Chen Ming seemed to understand, but the light in his eyes was much brighter.

The most difficult thing in the world is to enlighten wisdom. Firstly, the master must be willing to teach, and secondly, the students must be willing to learn. Anyone who can be enlightened is the real wealth in a lifetime.

The power of the family and the wealth of the parents can be protected for a while, but not for a lifetime.

If the emperor can't control his subjects, he will be emptied and usurped the country. If the master's family can't control his servants, he will also be insulted and robbed of his family property by his servants. The Cao family in "Dream of Red Mansions" is not an exception. The Cao family cannot make ends meet, but the Lai family is very rich In the final analysis, it is still a human reason.

Aunt Chen and the others didn't know that Zhang Zhixiang was teaching dragon slaying.

But they could feel the wisdom in it, and they could feel that what Chen Ming gained was extraordinary, so Aunt Chen hurriedly asked Chen Ming to thank Mr. for his teaching.

A meal in the evening, the guests and hosts enjoy themselves.

After sending Zhang Zhixiang and the others away, Chen Wu's wife was still a little distressed. The two old hens in the family were slaughtered, and the son would not be able to eat eggs for a long time.

She muttered: "Seeing that the emperor likes dogs very much, I thought there would be a reward."

Aunt Chen's face suddenly pulled down.

When he was about to set rules for his daughter-in-law, Chen Ming hurriedly grabbed his mother's hand and said, "Mother, my son is now a student of the National Teacher, what reward is better than this?"

"If the emperor rewards gold, silver and jade, the child will have no face to go to see Mr. in the future."

"Isn't that what Mother said?"

Mrs. Chen nodded, and immediately beamed with joy. Aunt Chen paused for a moment, but she didn't scold anymore, she just said: "Mothers are not sensible enough for children, so they are only given to flesh and blood, and the spirituality is given by God."

But Chen Ming said: "Grandma, my mother has never studied, she has never experienced anything, she has never experienced the hardships of being a homeless man, and she doesn't know the tastes of life. You have to teach her more, and you can't just scold her."

Aunt Chen smiled, embraced Chen Ming and called "good grandson".

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After Zhang Zhixiang and Jiajing left Chen Wu's house, they also wanted to find a place to rest.

The palace was not interested in going back. Jiajing asked the Wang family how the Guiyuan was. Zhang Zhixiang was going to find the steward of the Guiyuan, but unexpectedly his old acquaintance Zheng Rongsheng was there. He heard that it was Wang Zhi who asked him to wait here a long time ago.

Guiyuan has long been ready to welcome the emperor.

Jiajing let the guards of honor go in by land, while he and Zhang Zhixiang entered the Osmanthus Garden in a small boat. Along the way, they admired the landscape and manors of Nanjing City. Green as blue. Can you not recall Jiangnan?"

The more you travel in Jiangnan, the more you can feel that the south and the north seem to be two worlds.

Jiangnan is extremely rich.

But as far as the land tax is concerned, the north accounts for [-]%, or even [-]%. The south of the Yangtze River is often "suffered by disasters" and cannot collect taxes. After a few years, the imperial court had to cancel the old debts.

In the final analysis, there are still too many officials in Jiangnan.

Zhang Zhixiang heard Jiajing's emotion, and said: "Since the north and the south are so divided, it happens that we do things in the north, and the resistance should be smaller."

"The rural areas in the north and the south are also very different."

"Most of the villages in the north still have an administrative structure, with the Lijia system as the core, so the imperial court can still collect food, but it is different in the south of the Yangtze River. Even if the land does not belong to the gentry and wealthy merchants, it belongs to the clan."

"The Wang family has survey data on this."

"Leaving aside the gentry and rich merchants, those local clans hold together for warmth, and there must be enough internal fairness to fight against foreign land annexation, so they have actually completed the equalization of land and exemption of taxes."

"Equalization of land is the common labor within the family. The limited labor force is used to deal with the clan's arable land, and then the surplus labor is gathered to produce all kinds of industries in the form of village clans, creating more wealth value."

"Thus, their internal food is allocated according to the population, and then according to different contributions, the dividends are distributed to get money."

"Jiangnan is different from the north."

"Based on Ming's overseas trade, only raw materials such as agricultural products and ores can be sold in the north, while in the south, there are various handicrafts and industrial products. A piece of red brick and an iron pot are all extremely valued products overseas."

"As long as they produce, they can basically sell for money."

"The social form of the two is already different."

"Thus, the local clans in the south of the Yangtze River have completed the equalization of land to a certain extent, and realized the common prosperity of the whole clan. With a surplus of wealth, the clans can run schools and let their children go to school. Therefore, the culture and education in the south of the Yangtze River are at two levels from those in the north. .”

"This has also led to far more scholar-bureaucrats in Jiangnan than in other regions. More than half of the chief ministers of the Ming Dynasty's cabinet are from Jiangnan."

"Based on this power."

"With the cooperation of important officials in the court, the number of households paying taxes every year is getting smaller and smaller. Many local clans have been substantially exempted from taxation, land tax and corvee, and the imperial court has not collected it through formal channels."

"They only need to discuss with the local government, because the clan is big enough and powerful enough, so they have the right to bargain."

"so."

"In the south, where the clan is strong enough, the lives of the people are already very good."

"The changes we're going to make are not really attractive to them because they already have those."

Jiajing is not aware of these situations. Although he has a factory guard, the factory guard itself is an intelligence agency, not an information agency, and rarely does this kind of basic data investigation. this aspect.

Although it was the first time I heard about it, Jiajing quickly grasped the key points.

"These local clans are the ballast stones of Jiangnan. They not only maintain the stability of Jiangnan, but also are the beneficiaries of the current system situation. They are actually the most staunch supporters of Nanjing."

"Yes."

Zhang Zhixiang nodded and affirmed that those tenants who lost their land would not have much loyalty to the lords, and these people who actually lived in a fair environment did not want this beautiful balance to be broken.

"Looks like there won't be a scene in the south of the Yangtze River where people eat pots of oatmeal to welcome Master Wang."

Jiajing was a little emotional.

"That's not true. After all, they are scattered, and what we have to do is what they have. At most, it's just a change of name. Their resistance to us is mainly due to trust issues."

"Thousands of years of accumulation, compared to the government and the clan, the common people naturally believe in their clan."

"That's why they resist fiercely, because they don't trust, they are afraid that this is just a lie, so they will desperately protect what they have."

"But we only need to do a good job in the north to make the exchanges between the north and the south more frequent."

"They naturally know that there is no need to oppose His Majesty."

"The Jiajing Japanese Rebellion, in the name of the Japanese pirates, the war between the imperial court and Nanjing is not a real battlefield. Your Majesty wants to unify the country. The real battlefield lies in the reform in the north."

"Village-based reform."

　Thanks for the 199 starting point coin reward from "Stability Tuheng".

　　
　
(End of this chapter)