Spoiler History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 709: One Family, Three Wise Emperors
Silence once again filled the Huagai Palace.

Even if you don't understand the terms such as productivity reform or feudal state.

Even if you don't understand what a state-run economy is and what economic nationalization is.

But 40 million strings of cash versus 2 million strings of cash, nearly 8 million strings of cash versus 50,000 strings of cash, it is really hard not to be surprised by such simple numerical comparisons.

Especially those who can stand here must be familiar with the history of Song Dynasty.

Who doesn't know that during the reign of Emperor Shenzong of Song, there were repeated battles with Western Xia, and that they suffered great defeats in Lingzhou and Yongle City?
No matter how you look at it, whether in terms of territory, national strength, or even the level of stability, the Song Dynasty is far inferior to our Ming Dynasty.

But in the end, the Song Dynasty's tax collection was dozens of times higher than that of the Ming Dynasty, and the difference in liquor tax was a hundred times.

This contrast was so tragic that the Ming Emperor, who had just enthusiastically said that Jia Sidao's methods were too ruthless, was now silent.

Zhu Di looked at his eldest brother who was also silent, and then looked at his eldest father whose eyebrows were about to be tangled together, and hesitated and said:

"Dad, otherwise the business tax..."

The voice of the young man named Wen Mang sounded similar to his, but he could only understand the words he said, not to mention half of them.

However, Zhu Di could understand the meaning of this statement, which was a very straightforward statement of his father's mistakes in governance.

This matter concerned finances, which in turn were related to military expenditures, and the amount of military expenditures was related to the safety of Peking. He had originally planned to become a vassal in Peking after the Chinese New Year, so it was no wonder that Zhu Di was concerned about it.

But based on past experience, there is usually only one result when telling your dad about these things.

"You know nothing. We just said that the Ming Dynasty must be based on agriculture!"

When he lowered his head to be scolded, he saw Zhu Zhen grinning at him. Zhu Di couldn't help but roll his eyes. He knew it.

Then he heard his elder brother's voice:
"Dad, we can discuss other things, but we can try out the liquor tax."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded in approval:

"Wine production requires grain, and raising the wine tax is in line with the agricultural-based approach. Biaoer has really considered everything."

Zhu Di suddenly felt a little toothache.

Having said this for now, Emperor Mingtian also turned to another matter:
"Then who is this good and holy Sun Xuande Emperor?"

Having said that, Zhu Yuanzhang's gaze had involuntarily moved to Zhu Xiongying, who was happily whispering with Zhu Bo.

Isn’t Xiongying his own great grandson?

Previously, I knew from the Dragon-Toulong Bamboo Slip that Zhu Bo was forced to death by his nephew in the 32nd year of Hongwu.

Zhu Bo's posthumous reputation was restored by his son Zhu Biao.

Then I think it was during the later years of Hongwu's reign that we followed suit and trained Biao'er, allowing Xiongying to get involved in political affairs, which resulted in trouble that was not resolved until Biao'er ascended the throne?
If Xiongying could be called the "good saint grandson", which is a highly praised title, it might be because Xiongying learned from the past and reflected on himself.

In this case, doesn’t our Emperor Hongwu mean… three wise emperors in one family!

The Emperor of Ming Dynasty was moved. Seeing the harmonious relationship between him and Zhu Bo, the eldest grandson's eyes became softer and he said to his son:
"I have often talked to you about government affairs. If Biaoer has any ideas, you may as well tell Xiongying about them."

Although the good saint grandson has made some mistakes, if he is trained in advance, he may be able to break through the established barriers with the help of this light curtain!

……

In the Guangzheng Hall, Master Kong Jiong almost wanted to shed two tears.

He couldn't remember the last time he heard this junior refer to Taizong's temple name so seriously.

He put down the rosary in his hand for the moment and slightly raised his chest and head.

Isn't this business tax a good thing about Emperor Taizong of Song? He doesn't ask for the title of King of Jin to be restored, but can his status as a monk be discussed?

He had almost forgotten the delicious taste of the many tasty meats in Bianliang.

As a result, when I looked up, I saw that my elder brother looked at me unkindly:
"If the Gaoliang River incident had not happened, if you could have known a little bit about warfare, if you could have relied on the strong imperial guards I trained to slowly attack the Yanyun area."

"Why do you need Emperor Hongwu to clean up your mess?"

"As the emperor who unified China and promoted commerce to prosper the country, if you could really build a foundation like Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, how could I say anything against you? Why would future generations keep remembering you?"

So Master Kong Jiong's shoulders, which had just straightened up, collapsed again little by little.

Shaking his head, Zhao Kuangyin stopped looking and turned to ask Qian Chu:

“What is economic nationalization?”

Qian Chu hesitated again and again, but finally shook his head:
"I really don't know. I need to think about it again."

Zhao Kuangyin nodded in understanding, but this made Li Yu a little dissatisfied:

"Why didn't the government ask me?"

After looking Li Yu up and down, Zhao Kuangyin shook his head:

"If you care about business matters, why would you meet like this?"

Jinling's business was indeed prosperous, but Li Yu obviously did not understand this prosperity.

The King of Tang in Jiangnan was speechless, while Qian Chu of Qiantang laughed out loud.

[Some people say that Jia Sidao's planning method and public land system led to the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Although this method may be suspected of being partisan, it is essentially an anti-corruption measure against the military.

If we say that anti-corruption will lead to the collapse and demise of a regime, it would be better to say that the regime is already dying.

The significance of the Public Land Law is much more complicated. It can even be said that the process of this policy from its implementation to its completion is an excellent model for studying traditional landlords in ancient China.

Ancient feudal landlords did not care about the production process. Their main economic function was to appropriate the rent. For the landlords, the rent was the material for their living consumption.

Therefore, the more land one has, the higher the living standard will be, and the stronger the desire for material life will be, which will prompt the landlords to find ways to occupy more land and thus satisfy more material desires.

This simple cycle is the nature of the landlord class.

The Public Land Law not only restricted the landlords' possession of land by dividing it according to their rank, but also required them to forcibly purchase land to reduce the area of ​​land they owned. This directly led to a decline in living standards, which was naturally extremely difficult for the landlords to tolerate.

For the people oppressed by the landlords, the public land system did not ease class contradictions. It only changed the exploiting masters.

The situation of the common people did not improve but became even more miserable due to the fierce conflicts, so it was natural for the common people to be hostile to the public land system.

Of course, the most important thing is that in the late Southern Song Dynasty, the political power of the Southern Song Dynasty had undergone a subtle shift.

Because of the unprecedented annexation of land, landlord land ownership has become dominant in all land relations.

The interests of the landlords thus overlapped with the interests of the Southern Song regime, and the landlord class had become the actual masters of the Southern Song regime.

We have said before that the essence of the public land system is to replace the landlord land ownership with the feudal land nationalization, which is essentially an attempt to kill the local rich.

It can be said that the problems faced by Jia Sidao were essentially the same as those faced by previous reforms during the Northern Song Dynasty. They all wanted to complete political reforms without bloodshed and were full of compromise.

But little do people know that revolution is never a dinner party. 】

(End of this chapter)