People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 680: The destructive power of a military commander is incomparable to the corruption of hundreds of civil officials.
Of course, this method is actually very cunning. Many foreign friends came to Ming Dynasty to do business and found that they were charged a lot of taxes, and they all gritted their teeth. Isn’t it said that people in Central Plains have always been hospitable?
How come they are so savvy in doing business now? They are even more savvy than those of us who come from outside. I don’t know who came up with the idea.

The people who said these words certainly didn't understand why Chen Han had to do this. Chen Han's actions would indeed make people feel that the Ming Dynasty is not as rumored before, that it is all about doing business, or building relationships, and that they don't take business very seriously, but they value friendship very much. However, Chen Han's side is the opposite.

Because Chen Han always knew that if he wanted the people of the Ming Dynasty to live a good life, if he wanted them to give a thumbs up to his reforms and changes, then the people's lives must be prosperous.

Now that Chen Han has allowed those overseas foreigners to come to the Ming Dynasty to do business, the common people have indeed benefited a lot from it, because when Chen Han does business, he will never let the common people just sit back and watch.

In order to allow the common people to earn this money, and to allow the common people to get rich this time, Chen Han came up with a very decisive idea. First of all, he stipulated that the common people's businesses, as long as their annual income did not exceed ten taels of silver, did not need to pay taxes at all.

Another thing is to set up a special urban management team like the previous urban management team. Although the name of this team seems to have not been decided yet, some people have already started to carry out the work, and the first step is to clean the market.

In the past, ordinary people had never heard of anyone hiring people to clean the streets, nor had they ever heard of not pooping or peeing on the road. Yet they even saw some public toilets being slowly built.

Those who sell manure water also have a fixed place.

In the past, they would shout to the people in the city to take out the toilet bowls, also known as night incense, and buy them.

Now there is no need for a place for them to collect the night incense, and they are still doing business with the court.

The management of big cities in ancient times was actually very chaotic, and the phenomenon of defecation and urination everywhere was very common. As Guo Degang said in his crosstalk, until the Republic of China, there were people who went to the large square in front of Tongrentang every night to defecate and urinate.

However, Tong Ren Tang never regards the feces and urine on the square as dirty things. Instead, it considers them as a source of income for Tong Ren Tang.

Of course, it was a different concept. When the public toilets were built, the people started to complain, saying that people were not allowed to poop on the streets. Are there any laws? It was the opposite of what it is now.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has begun to implement this concept, the people are complaining because they have become accustomed to this lifestyle of peeing and defecating everywhere, and every corner is filled with the stench of feces and urine.

In fact, this phenomenon is not only in ancient China. Even the so-called romantic capital of France, the so-called perfume capital and fashion capital was once, not just in the past, but also now, a place where shit and urine are dumped everywhere.

Many people even say that perfume was invented to cover up the smell of urine and feces on the body.

And high heels were also worn by men at that time, because wearing high heels would reduce the amount of shit you would step on when walking on the street.

Perhaps these rumors are exaggerated to some extent, but they also illustrate that under the circumstances back then, peeing and shitting were allowed everywhere. But now Chen Han has made a new rule, that is, peeing and shitting are not allowed on the streets. Peeing and shitting must be concentrated in public toilets. There must be new regulations in the streets and alleys, especially in coastal areas.

This is partly to establish a good image and prevent business people from finding feces and urine everywhere and a foul stench when they arrive in coastal areas.

The other most important thing is to prevent infectious diseases from occurring.

According to later research, most infectious diseases are actually transmitted through these things. The first is excrement, which includes not only feces and urine, but also vomit, which itself contains a lot of bacteria.

Another possibility is blood transmission.

Of course, Chen Han thinks that the transmission of feces, urine and excrement is the most serious. Why did the plague kill people almost everywhere when it occurred? It is because the transmission through excrement to the air can allow these bacteria to breed.

If the Ming Dynasty had a large amount of trade in coastal areas, with people coming and going, you would not know who would have an infectious disease, so it would have to establish a very serious and strict epidemic prevention measure.

If we can control things like feces and urine, we can greatly reduce the occurrence of infectious diseases.

Especially those who came from overseas. Although they were able to survive and must be in good health and may not have any diseases, you must know that the Ming Dynasty was originally in a semi-closed state and had no contact with outsiders. Once the germs carried by those foreigners from overseas entered the Ming Dynasty, it was very likely to cause some infectious diseases.

The human body has a fixed flora. Once foreign flora enters, it may disrupt the balance. Once the balance is disrupted, you will get sick, and if you get sick, you will be contagious. Once you are contagious, you may not have strong resistance, or you may not have resistance to this bacteria. Later, it will become a super bacteria, and then it will inevitably cause a huge infectious disease.

So Chen Han took these things to reduce the occurrence of infectious diseases as much as possible. Similarly, Chen Han also combined many things that later generations said about the Ming Dynasty. Or the reason why these dynasties in ancient times had no way to develop industry or increase productivity on a large scale was that these basic basic medical care was not in place.

Now Chen Han has to work hard in this regard in the more developed coastal cities, or even in the current capital of Yingtian Prefecture to establish such measures. Therefore, these measures may cost a lot of funds for infrastructure construction to a large extent, but these infrastructure construction must be invested slowly, otherwise it will inevitably cause huge impacts in the future.

Moreover, Chen Han did this not just to prevent the occurrence of epidemics, but also to make the city cleaner, change people's living habits, and prevent them from getting sick too much in the future. This has also been understood by many people.

Of course the most important point is that those who were hired by Chen Han to clean toilets, clean streets, and even the folk doctors who set up on the streets to prevent the outbreak of the epidemic were all paid very high salaries.

In this way, even if the common people do not do business, they can still enjoy these benefits.

Because where do these wages come from? They are collected from the foreigners who come to Ming Dynasty to do business. All these taxes are used in these places, and the common people have also felt the benefits, after all, they have increased their ways to make money.

Of course, there are some very smart people who walk around the streets and have been to all the streets and alleys, so they understand the local situation very well. Sometimes, if there are some overseas shopping malls that want to do business, they can find them more quickly. Chen Han even heard from many Jinyiwei that many smart people have started to learn overseas languages.

Ordinary people can also make money by bringing in overseas businessmen, so this is an all-round development. Chen Han not only wants to make business more prosperous, but also wants everyone to feel the benefits, which can stimulate everyone's recognition of the business.

Finally, Chen Han's achievements have achieved certain results, so now the coastal areas are less and less resistant to Chen Han's reforms, because they have truly felt the benefits.

Any reform or change, if it cannot benefit the people and cannot be recognized by the majority of people, will be a bubble in the air no matter from which angle you look at it.

Therefore, the information that Chen Han had gathered after receiving so much understanding gave Zhu Biao great confidence in it, although he and Zhu Yuanzhang both felt that since the Ming Dynasty had changed the course of history, Chen Han's predictions might not be verified in the future.

But what Chen Han is doing now just proves that Chen Han has real talent and knowledge. He definitely knows what will happen in the future not just through accumulation of more than 600 years.

Simply be a person who can predict the future like a wizard.

Instead, through his own knowledge, his own learning, and his own experience, he put into practice reforms that would have been impossible in the Ming Dynasty itself, and achieved such good results.

So Chen Han actually has a lot of support from both father and son, which also gives Zhu Biao a certain amount of confidence. Maybe this is the reason why Zhu Biao is a little confused now, but also somewhat relieved.

What confused him was that if his father really passed away in the future, he would have to carry the Ming Dynasty on his own, and he didn't know what he should do.

Just like Chen Han said, you should not have appeared in history, and you were not qualified to be the emperor.

But now that I'm here, I've changed history, I've changed your destiny, and I'll make sure the Ming Dynasty has a more virtuous monarch in the future, then you may really have to bear a lot of pressure.

There may not be many people who can share these pressures with you. Even though I, as your son-in-law, have come from the future, what I know and what I perceive may not be as good as you.

Apart from my knowledge about the future, I am no match for a politician like you.

In fact, when Chen Han said this, it was undoubtedly a very strong blow to Zhu Biao. Tranquilizer, because no one knew how excited he was when he heard Chen Han say this.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw Zhu Biao's expression and said, "Boss, I trained you. I know your ability and your worries. It is true that you will have to shoulder the responsibility of the Ming Dynasty a hundred years from now, but you have more advantages than your father now."

When Zhu Biao heard what Zhu Yuanzhang said, he was stunned for a moment: "Dad, don't joke with me. You founded the Ming Dynasty and your prestige is unmatched. No one dares to oppose your words. You are in charge of both civil and military affairs. What do I have?"

"No one dares to say no to your words, but your son did not follow you to establish the Ming Dynasty, but he has gained a lot from you in terms of prestige."

There was actually a reason why Zhu Biao said this. As Zhu Biao said, he had innate advantages in founding the Ming Dynasty, but as the Crown Prince, he did not have them. However, Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes suddenly became serious.

"You have the kindness that your father doesn't have. No one can compare to you in this respect." When Zhu Biao was about to say what kindness meant, Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Because of my family background, your father never had any trust in those officials. I hated them very much.

"But you are different," Lao Zhu swallowed his saliva when he said this. "Back then, even civil servants like Liu Bowen, Li Shanchang, and Song Lian did not dare to speak loudly in front of us because they knew we did not trust them."

Liu Bowen, Li Shanchang and Song Lian were almost all the real civil servants when the Ming Dynasty was founded. Especially Liu Bowen and Li Shanchang, one was good at making plans in the front and the other was good at raising food and organizing the army in the rear. These two civil servants can be said to be one of the greatest contributors to assisting their fathers in establishing the Ming Dynasty.

Although Song Lian did not make any contribution to the Ming Dynasty in terms of literature or martial arts, he trained a large number of princes and grandchildren in the rear.

But today, my father actually said that even these three people could not gain any advantage in front of his father, and were still suspected.

Liu Bowen's fate was even better, he died of illness. But Li Shanchang was almost killed because of his ability to manipulate power, because he was a little bit obsessed with power, or because he was a little reluctant to follow Hu Weiyong's case.

Perhaps. The old man felt that he was about to suffer a great defeat and was afraid that someone like Li Shanchang might launch the Gaopingling Incident like Sima Yi did back then.

After all, Sima Yi was in his seventies or eighties when he launched the coup, and Li Shanchang has also lived to that age, so of course he has to be on guard.

Fortunately, Chen Han's arrival allowed Li Shanchang to avoid the fate that happened in history.

Zhu Yuanzhang then continued, "But you are different. You at least have a teacher-student relationship with those civil officials. At least on the surface they respect you and are willing to listen to you. This is where you are better than your father and me.

"Your father sneered at civil officials, but it must be said that military generals are not good at governing the country. The destructive power of a military general cannot be compared to the corruption of hundreds of civil officials."

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(End of this chapter)