vrcanaries Chapter 665 Cabinet
Chapter 665 Cabinet
In the eighth year of the Hongwu reign, Zhu Yuanzhang was frustrated. The Ming Treasure Notes had just been issued, and he was already told that it had failed!
Zhu Biao sighed: "With the devaluation of paper money, people are exchanging gold and silver for goods. If merchants and officials hoard gold and silver, it will probably amount to a considerable sum a hundred years from now."
Prince Zhu Shuang of Qin, who had not yet taken up his fief, suddenly realized: "Oh, no wonder the younger generation said that the common people were poor, the emperor was poor, and only the landlords and officials in the middle were the richest. So that's how it came about!"
The young Zhu Di, who was listening, suddenly said, "Then in the future Ming Dynasty, the currency circulating among the people will be silver, which will replace paper money!"
Prince Zhu Gang of Jin followed up: "But our Great Ming Dynasty has limited gold and silver mines..."
Prince Zhu Su of Zhou found the answer and said in a deep voice, "Since Fourth Brother has lifted the sea ban, we don't have silver, but we still have silver mines outside."
Zhu Di: Fourth Brother, thank you so much! You've brought up the very thing I shouldn't have said!
Old Zhu's eyes narrowed suddenly, filled with shock. He had come up with the idea of using paper money, which had a very low cost, as a substitute because of a shortage of copper coins. Who would have thought that it would cause such a hidden danger!
Zhu Yuanzhang believed in the saying: "Mountains may crumble if you rely on them... If we rely solely on foreign silver and one day it's not enough, wouldn't our Ming Dynasty descend into chaos?"
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"However, the problem of monetary economy is only one of the many problems at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Let's go back to the Yongle period."
"The civil war in the Ming Dynasty lasted for at least four years, and it was impossible for ordinary people not to be affected."
"After the Jingnan Rebellion, Zhu Di immediately set about restoring production, exempting the war zones from autumn taxes and summer grain rations, and allowing people who had been displaced by the war to return to their places of origin and resume their livelihoods."
"Especially for the fleeing people, some local officials were still chasing after them for the taxes they owed. Zhu Di was very angry. They had fled because they couldn't survive, and this was even worse. So he exempted them all. Overall, he was quite enlightened."
"Let me mention Zhu Yuanzhang's household registration system. In the fourteenth year of the Hongwu reign, he roughly divided the national population into several categories: military personnel, civilians, artisans, and kitchen workers."
"This is the Yellow Register, which is updated every ten years. It is also used in conjunction with the Geographical Fish Scale Register for verification, which rationally plans the taxes and corvée labor of the population and households, and clearly stipulates that the occupation is inherited by hereditary and cannot be changed. It basically established the household registration system of the Ming Dynasty."
“In the early years of the Hongwu reign, Zhu Yuanzhang carried out a large-scale migration. When it was Zhu Di’s turn, there were few people in the war zone, and it was all land. In the non-war zone, there were many people but little land, so a large-scale migration was also carried out.”
"Then, Zhu Di thought that other emperors had a prime minister to share the burden, but his father was a prince who was not afraid of being tired or suffering, and was not afraid of having too many words. Anyway, Old Zhu would take care of it!"
"But Zhu Di, with a quick thought, came up with the candidates for the Wenyuan Pavilion, such as Xie Jin, Yang Rong, Yang Shiqi and seven others. This was the prototype of the Grand Secretariat."
"After all, a person's energy is limited, and no one is as energetic and physically fit as Zhu Di! Zhu Di was not young when he became emperor, and he couldn't possibly read hundreds of memorials a day like his father. He still had to continue his campaigns."
Judy, the Great General Who Conquers the North: I can't be idle for a moment!
Zhu Yuanzhang, the Eighth Prince of the Ming Dynasty: "..."
Emperor Zhezong of Song, Zhao Xu: To be honest, having a healthy and long-lived father is just wonderful!
Emperor Shenzong of Song, Zhao Xu: ??? …
Cheng Yaojin of the Tang Dynasty: A pitiful father and son who died young!
Zhao Xu & Zhao Xu (with an arrow piercing their hearts): "..."
"At this time, the cabinet was still in its infancy, and power was still in Zhu Di's hands. However, he probably did not expect that some of his descendants would slack off and not go to work for thirty years!"
Zhu Bajie of the Ming Dynasty: ? ? !
"Now that we have a cabinet, how far away can the Embroidered Uniform Guard be!"
Imperial Guards: It's time for us to be deployed!