Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 47 Concerns caused by house raids
  "Why so many!"

Because the competition between Li Shanchang and Feng Guoyong seemed to be a house raid, Zhu Wenzheng had to sigh deeply when he saw a large amount of looted property, which was doubly difficult.

Zhang Cheng also turned his sore wrist and his face sank.

Although he was happy to see Zhu Wenzheng, a Han Chinese from a lower-class background, see how big the gap between rich and poor in this era was, and he was more motivated to carry out a more thorough revolution.

but.

Zhang Cheng also didn't expect that the gap between the rich and the poor in this era has reached an extent beyond his expectation!

Even some powerful officials and gentry families in Chuzhou City could continue to copy so much wealth.

This will undoubtedly expose the gap between the rich and the poor in this era too nakedly. As a result, the rebels who come from the lower class may be completely unable to hold on, and may even become even more vulnerable. They may not want to build any more or give proper accommodation to more decent people. The powerful bureaucrats of the Yuan Dynasty only wanted to carry out thorough violent looting.

Because the gap between the rich and the poor is too large and very large, once this truth is understood by these violent rebel soldiers, they will feel that instead of having so much trouble organizing people to build and farm, they should be kind and tolerant to some classes that can cooperate. The enemy might as well mobilize the people to eat the big ones together.

Because people are inert, if the benefits brought by developing production together with class enemies who can cooperate are not sufficient, then these revolting soldiers will not be active in doing so.

such as.

Historically, when Li Zicheng's subordinates were torturing people in Beijing and found that the wages they had plundered had increased by tens of millions, they completely gave up on maintaining order and began to plunder completely and selflessly. In the end, they plundered a large amount of wealth. , but also missed the best opportunity to stabilize the country.

First, the officers of the Breaking Army, who had acquired a large amount of wealth in a short period of time, were greatly reduced in fighting spirit and wanted to retreat back to their hometowns as soon as the war was lost;

Second, the Chuang army killed too many officials and gentry and completely offended these people, making it impossible to establish an effective tax system immediately and being abandoned by them.

Therefore, Zhang Cheng had to be cautious because he was worried that the rebels at this time would also follow the same path as the Chuangjun because they found that there were huge benefits from confiscating homes.

"What's going on with Li Shanchang and Feng Guoyong?"

"Are you even trying to raid each other's homes?"

"Sure enough, no matter how smart the civil servants and bureaucrats are, they will inevitably fight internally and externally to be passive in the face of interests."

Zhang Cheng murmured to himself, and roughly guessed the reason, so he slandered, and then shouted sharply: "Qi Duizheng!"

Qi Xiang immediately ran over: "Please give me your instructions, Mr. Zhang!"

"Go and invite the superiors!"

Zhang Cheng shouted.

"Yes!"

Soon.

Zhu Yuanzhang was woken up.

"Isn't the house raid over yet?"

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang asked about Qi Xiang while putting on his shoes.

Qi Xiang replied: "No! Mr. Zhang's eyes are all red."

"It's rare that Mr. Zhang has done more for the people."

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said something after hearing this, but sighed in his heart: "It's a pity. Now, Zhang Cheng will definitely ask us for overtime work again, but money is a small thing. It's rare that Zhang Cheng is willing to work so hard." .”

People like Li Shanchang and Feng Guoyong often stay up late to work.

Zhu Yuanzhang was not surprised that they stayed up late to work and were still awake.

But when he heard that Zhang Cheng was staying up late to work, Zhu Yuanzhang felt inexplicably happy, and thought that it would not be too much for Zhang Cheng to ask for more overtime money because of this.

just.

After Zhu Yuanzhang arrived at Zhizhou Yamen, Zhang Cheng did not ask Zhu Yuanzhang to raise money or anything. He only said with a stern face: "Sir, although I know that Yuan Ting's tax package system will make the powerful officials and bureaucrats at the bottom extremely rich, I still underestimated their power. The level of wealth has been so exaggerated!”

Zhang Cheng indeed underestimated.

He believed that the fact that Li Zicheng in history used the method of ransacking and looting to obtain a large amount of property was related to the fact that the capital of the Ming Dynasty gathered a large number of top Ming Dynasty dignitaries and bureaucrats at that time. But now, he just proposed to let the Yuan court nobles and evil gentry who raided Chuzhou City He is a profiteer, so the stolen property should not be too shocking. But the facts were beyond his expectation. The tax-fixing system of the Yuan Dynasty made the gap between the rich and the poor even more terrifying.
  "I shouldn't let Li Shanchang and Feng Guoyong be responsible for ransacking homes!"

Zhang Cheng therefore said this again at this time.

Zhu Yuanzhang was quite surprised.

This was the first time he heard Zhang Cheng admit that he himself had made mistakes.

The key is that Zhu Yuanzhang didn't feel that Zhang Cheng had no fault recently and only made great achievements.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang asked Zhang Cheng: "Isn't it a good thing to copy a lot of property? In our opinion, this is the most admirable idea of ​​yours, Mr. Zhang, since you have been working with me. Let Shanchang and the others search the house, which is better than letting us It’s indeed better for brothers to copy it!”

"Because we asked people to inquire, Li Shanchang, Feng Guo used them to confiscate the house, it was great!"

Zhu Yuanzhang even laughed excitedly and was not angry at all because Zhang Cheng sent someone to wake him up in the middle of the night. He only said: "They didn't kill anyone, and they really copied a lot of gold and silver, and it was simply... It’s like raiding your own home, knowing exactly what the silver cellar and the grain cellar are.”

"Ascend!"

“They just copied it so well!”

"That's why I regret letting them search my house."

Sudden.

Zhang Cheng spoke excitedly and loudly to Zhu Yuanzhang, then picked up the cattail leaf fan on a grain bag and fanned it vigorously while watching the vehicles that kept appearing in front of him.

Zhu Yuanzhang fell silent because of this.

"I'm worried that the rebel brothers will find out that too much of the world's wealth is concentrated in the homes of powerful bureaucrats, and even compared to the wealth of the common people in the world, it is only 1/9th."

"From now on, the brothers only want to copy the big families, they don't want to farm and develop their skills, or they don't even want to preserve the culture. In short, they don't want to work hard to create money and food, and they don't want to accommodate and control most of the world's wealth but also own us. The scholar-bureaucrats who have most of the nation’s cultural heritage and advanced skills and knowledge are not conducive to the future of our country.”

"If this continues, the brothers will lose their fighting spirit, and those bureaucrats and gentry who still believe that Yuan Ting is their destiny will resist and become more stubborn."

Zhang Cheng informed Zhu Yuanzhang of his hidden worries in detail.

Although he knew that the historical Zhu Yuanzhang did not become the historical Li Zicheng, he still needed to remind Zhu Yuanzhang.

After all, there are indeed too many properties copied right now, and it is possible that Zhu Yuanzhang will become Li Zicheng.

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned slightly and glanced at the vehicles outside the door.

"Sir, please follow me first."

Zhang Cheng then said something else.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded.

So, Zhang Cheng took Zhu Yuanzhang to the warehouse square where the confiscated property was mainly stored. He pointed at the mountains of gold, silver, soft goods and grain and said: "These have just been counted and have not yet been put into the warehouse. As for the ones that have been put into the warehouse, they have already been put into the warehouse." The warehouse is full. In addition, there is a steady stream of vehicles bringing in goods to confiscate the property. The total value of gold and silver that has been confiscated so far has reached more than 2.6 million taels, and the total value of food has reached more than 3.7 million taels. stone."

The late Yuan and early Ming dynasties were different from those after the mid-Ming dynasty. In this era, gold and silver were scarce, so one million taels of silver was considered a huge sum of money.

otherwise.

Historically, after Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor, he would not peel off the straw for corruption of sixty taels. In fact, it was not that Zhu Yuanzhang was really demanding on officials. The main reason was that sixty taels was not a small amount at the time. Compared with the amount after the mid-Ming Dynasty, For sixty taels.

Of course, even in the middle Ming Dynasty, that is, after the advent of the Age of Discovery, and even during the Qing Dynasty, sixty taels was not a small number, nor was a million taels a small number.

Therefore, now that Li Shanchang, Feng Guoyong and others were ordered to steal gold and silver worth more than two million taels of silver in Chuzhou City, it will naturally be enough to shock people of this era.

After all, this is just a state-level Chuzhou city.

But Zhu Yuanzhang did not listen very carefully to Zhang Cheng's narration at this time.

Because his eyes were shocked by the large amount of gold and silver in front of him, he was stunned and said: "We have never seen so much gold in our lives!"

　In the previous chapter, some book friends said that it is right. If the house search is not well controlled, it is indeed easy to get out of control, and the people responsible for the house search are indeed prone to over-execution. I actually thought of it.

　　
  　
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