The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 470
Although I, Qing Dynasty, insisted on shaving hair and making clothes easier to wear, I was very firm.

Even after the Revolution of [-], and even later generations, there are not a few old and young people who are unwilling to cut their braids.

But, that's later!
Now I am Qing, my figure is still very soft, and I know how to be flexible.

As long as no actual interests are involved, it is not a big problem to make a hole in such things as shaving hair and making clothes easier.

Bumbutai's rhetorical question made the expression on Fei Yanggu's face stagnate.

He... can't refute it!

Because, Dorgon is really not the emperor.

But he still spoke.

"No matter what, the old minister does not agree with the abolition of the decree to shave your hair and make clothes easier!"

On the other hand, Ye Bilong spoke again.

"My lord, what I mean by this slave is not to abolish the decree of shaving your hair and making clothes easier, but just to make a hole in the decree."

"For example, the Han people below can be asked to donate free shaving money, as long as they donate free shaving money, they don't have to shave their hair."

"But if you don't donate and don't shave your money, you have to keep your hair but not your hair!"

Ye Bilong's proposal caught everyone's eyes in the court hall.

This thing seems to make sense!

Now that the war in the south of the Qing Dynasty is tense, it is time to need a lot of money and food for military posture.

What if I don't have money?
Increase taxes!
But now the Qing Dynasty's taxes are already very heavy. After entering the customs, they pretended to abolish the Ming Dynasty's three-payment increase, but in fact the three-payment was included in the regular tax.

This operation can only be said to be worthy of my Qing Dynasty!
In terms of search, it's awesome!

Under such circumstances, if taxes are raised again, it will only intensify the already serious ethnic and class contradictions within the Qing Dynasty.

I am afraid that a large-scale uprising will break out in the relatively stable north.

This is not good!

However, it doesn't matter if you want to levy and exempt money from shaving.

Because the money is voluntary, if you don’t have the money to pay, you don’t have to shave the money, just shave your hair.

For the people at the bottom, in the face of real money interests, it seems that shaving their hair is not unbearable.

After all, hair or something, where money is important!
But for those gentry and landlords, literati, and wealthy merchants.

They are not short of money. In order not to shave their hair, it is estimated that many people are willing to pay such a sum of money to the Qing court.

After all, for the parents of the body, hair and skin, it is more excessive to shave the hair and make clothes easier than to wear the left lapel.

As long as there is a choice, which scholar can stand shaving hair and changing clothes?

At that time, I believe that with the extra income of exempting money from shaving, the financial problems of the Qing Dynasty will probably be alleviated a lot.

There will be military expenses for the army going south!
When Fei Yanggu heard the words, he didn't refuse any more outright words, but became deep in thought with a dark face.

"How much is this free money?"

Fei Yanggu pondered for a long time before asking.

In terms of attitude, he has begun to soften.

Since Bumbutai, who represents the imperial power, is unwilling and unable to bow his head, he is the only one who bows his head.

Ye Bilong said.

"It can be stipulated as ten taels of silver per person, and it will be collected together with the autumn tax every year."

Ten taels of silver a year doesn't sound like much, but it's not a small number either.

At the very least, for many ordinary people, it is an astronomical figure that cannot be obtained no matter what.

But it's not too much, ten taels of silver, the average small and medium-sized landlord can probably afford it.

After all, my Qing Dynasty is going to collect the shaving-free money as a regular tax, not to give privileges to big landlords and big merchants!

For ten taels of silver, although the number of individual collections has decreased, the base of collection has expanded a lot, and the number that can be collected in the end is probably not small.

Bumbutai nodded in agreement, and then ordered someone to draw up an imperial decree.

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On the other side, the Southern Expedition Army led by Tu Hai and Hong Chengchou had already passed Tongzhou and headed all the way to the south of the Yangtze River.

In order to reduce the consumption of military supplies for the transfer army, the marching route of the Qing army was completely along the canal.

A large amount of military supplies, food fodder, artillery, gunpowder, etc., were all lucky to go south.

It is only to reduce the consumption of on-the-road transshipment and to minimize the number of soldiers and civilians required.

Although most of the battles between Ming and Qing took place in the south, the north settled down from the chaotic times at the turn of Ming and Qing earlier than the south.

Counting from the Shunzhi period, it has been generally peaceful for more than ten years.

In the past ten years, the social environment has been relatively stable.

In addition, the turmoil in the late Ming Dynasty caused a serious loss of population in the north, the contradiction between people and land disappeared, and the involution was not serious.

In the past ten years, the population growth rate in the north has not been slow.

However, during the Chongzhen period at the end of the Ming Dynasty, under the scourge of bandits, rebellious soldiers, and our Qing Dynasty, the population loss in the north was too serious.

Even after more than ten years of recovery, the population of the entire north is no more than 3000 to [-] million.

If the army went south and recruited hundreds of thousands of young and strong men to be civilian husbands, it would have a huge impact on the production and life of the entire north.

It may even affect food production!

In order to avoid such a situation as much as possible, Hong Chengchou provided Tu Hai with the idea of ​​walking along the canal as much as possible.

Even if the price to be paid for this is that the water transportation is temporarily cut off, it doesn't matter.

Anyway, the war in the south is tight now, and it is impossible to transport food from the south to the capital.

The biggest use of water transport to transport grain from the south has been abolished.

Tu Hai was riding a horse, wearing a bright yellow mandarin jacket, tall and tall, surrounded by countless soldiers, looking extremely ostentatious.

Hong Chengchou also traveled with the army, but he didn't ride a horse, but sat in a sedan chair.

Hong Chengchou's health is not good, he is dying, and he is weak and weak.

As soon as he left the capital, he fell ill again. Although it was not an emergency, his body collapsed.

Riding a horse is no longer possible. If you want to accompany the army, you can only take a carriage or a sedan chair.

But the carriage was too bumpy, and Hong Chengchou's body couldn't bear the toss either, so he finally decided to sit in a sedan chair.

Sitting upright in the sedan chair, his old face full of ravines was full of sickness.

His face was pale and weak, and he was wearing a cloak. Even in summer, he held a stove in his hand.

The army stretched for dozens of miles, and the horse and infantry covered the sky and the sun.

Where countless groups of war horses pass by, they can almost gnaw away all the green visible to the naked eye.

The drinking water needed by a large army and horse for a day can drain a small river.

The villages that the army passed by were basically turned into ruins.

The men, women and children in the village ran away almost as soon as they saw the army coming.

Or hid in a hidden place such as a cellar to avoid the disaster of soldiers!

There are no fools who can survive the chaotic times of the late Ming Dynasty.

As for how to prevent and avoid military disasters, the common people have basically summed up their own experience.

The powerful clans and surnames formed a stronghold to protect themselves, and the walls of their Wubao were even taller and stronger than the walls of some prefectures and counties.

There is no shortage of weapons, armor, food and medicinal materials in Wubao, and there are even muskets and artillery.

It's not easy to beat it down!

For weaker villages and towns, the escape routes are prepared in advance, and cellars are dug to avoid danger in emergencies.

The Qing army went all the way south, and what they saw was such a desolate scene.

Hong Chengchou lifted the curtain of the sedan chair, forgetting to glance at the desolation outside, and sighed.

"The world is in turmoil, and the people are scattered!"

"When will this kind of suffering be the end!"

At this time, Hong Chengchou still didn't think it was wrong for him to be a traitor, but he just didn't understand why so many people in this world resisted the rule of the Qing Dynasty one after another.

(End of this chapter)