Chapter 768

Nanjing City

Since the battle of Yiling came, Nanjing continued to fall into great unrest.

This city has just been occupied by the Chinese army. Because of their policy of light corvee and low taxes, the people have been rehabilitated, and these people have begun to gradually forget the Zhu emperor in Xiaoling outside the city, but are serving the Liu emperor from Shandong.

For these people, who is the emperor is the same, they still have to pay taxes. For these people, only one thing is eternal, that is, paying taxes and death.

That is because of this idea, many people are actually in a happy go lucky attitude towards the changing King flag at the head of the city.

Many ordinary people will not be proud of being a common people of Daming, nor will they feel inferior because they are a common people of the Chinese Empire. This is because they have not considered this matter at all. Daming has hundreds of millions of people. Of these hundreds of millions of people, it is estimated that 99.9 million have to consider how to fill their stomachs, Only then did he consider other issues, which emperor he should be loyal to, and speak of etiquette and shame. Cang reported that he knew etiquette and music.

Daming has been rooted in the Central Plains for more than 200 years and has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. However, his policies over the past few decades are really not good. Officialdom is corrupt, society is dark, and the people have no means of livelihood. Many people can't live.

Therefore, when the emperor of the Liu family proudly entered Nanjing to serve as the new emperor, many people were also insensitive. Maybe they themselves realized that no matter who was the emperor, they had to pay taxes and corvee.

What they are thinking is how to meet the government's taxes and corvee when they can't fill their stomachs.

But the emperor of the Liu family seems to be a little different. In the past, the government had to collect taxes and bear corvee.

In those days, the Taizu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born as a cowherd boy, began to summon millions of craftsmen from several nearby provinces to build Nanjing city and the magnificent imperial palace after he captured Nanjing city. Would he not pay money to the people for such a big project? They all forced these people and craftsmen to work for them in the name of collecting and distributing corvee, but only for food at most, That's pretty good.

The Liu family's father and son seem to have a little different. They are said to have been born as businessmen. Before they became emperor, they were the richest rich in Shandong. Their way of thinking is the way businessmen think about doing business.

The relationship between the government and the people is the relationship between fire and water. The government will forcibly collect taxes from the people and forcibly apportion them. Do you disagree? Until you serve, so many officers and soldiers and so many yamen servants don't eat dry food!

Because they are officials and have supreme authority, they can ask the people to pay for them without conditions and bottom line.

But the idea of the emperor of the Liu family is really different from the emperors of previous dynasties. It may be related to his being a businessman or his being a kind man.

The starting point of the emperor of the Liu family is that if you want to work, you have to pay, which is equivalent to the rich hiring the poor to help him. You can hire, but you have to pay.

So when the Chinese army was repairing and arresting the Nanjing city wall destroyed by war, many people didn't believe it, but they believed and accepted it after all.

Because no one can refuse the white silver and delicious rice at all. The Liu family and his son have plenty of money. It is said that the Chinese Empire also has plenty of money. If you are asked to work, you have to eat, live and return the money. This kind of practice will make the people in the South return to it all at once.

Many people can't help but sigh: this day is going to change!

It's time for the Ming Dynasty to change.

Many ordinary people also realize that when any dynasty just rose, he adopted a policy of light corvee and low tax to let the people recuperate and let the people have a good life for decades. This is the experience and lessons they have summarized in the past few thousand years.

This means that the new Chinese Empire will be implemented in the same way. It also means that the people in the South will have a peaceful life for decades, which makes many people full of hope and joy.

Although these people were forced by the Chinese army to welcome the emperor of the Liu family into the city with bayonets, no one resisted and opposed after the emperor of the Liu family entered the city, but they silently accepted the policy of the Liu family father and son.

In the past, the government always said that they were parents' officials. However, such parents' officials did a little too much. They were like parents. They had supreme authority and could ask the people to make any kind of sacrifice and pay.

The emperor of the Liu family has a new saying. An official or an official must have dignity and authority. They no longer flaunt their parents' officials and do not flaunt themselves as loving the people as a son. They have formulated a set of rules, which are the rules they set when they were doing business.

This rule is that everything is a transaction, and all the fields in the world are royal. Therefore, people have to pay taxes when they cultivate, which is a matter of course.

This is the same as all the practices in the past thousands of years, so that the people have nothing to say.

However, their treatment of corvee makes many people feel incredible. The Liu family's practice is that if I hire you to work, I have to give money. This is the bottom line. If an official doesn't give money, he will scold the official and do the official.

This approach, for the common people, was surprising at first, followed by freshness, and then joy. Although the emperor of the Liu family did not flaunt that he loved the people as a son or that he was a parent official, his approach was to really love the people as a son and treat the people as people.

This also makes the Liu family easily get the support of the people and gradually get the support of the people in the south.

The common people are the most practical. There is no doubt that others can let them eat, wear warm clothes and live in a house.

The emperor of the Liu family took this as the goal of their efforts. Therefore, in terms of competing for the support of the people, they abandoned Daming in the north for several blocks. This is also the confidence of the octahedral Buddha Liu Yuanqiao. Given him ten years, no one in the South will miss Daming in the north, and Daming has really become history.

Even if their cities were lost, the people would automatically rise up and defend the Chinese Empire.

It was in this atmosphere that the defeat of Yiling came, and the practice of Zhu Xieyuan, the commander of the Ming army, in dealing with the surrender of troops also came out, causing panic.

Only then did the people realize that things were big.

They are now subordinate to the Chinese Empire. In the eyes of Daming, this is Cong thief, Zhu Xieyuan, another commander of Daming who is good at fighting. Will he attack Nanjing and kill everyone after winning the war?

It is said that many Ming generals did so in the north, which made the whole city panic.

Not at this time, Liu Yuanqiao reorganized his six novels and began to have six Jiuqing novels, which is regarded as the value of building the imperial court. However, in the eyes of many traditional officials, he is a chicken and dog rising to the sky, a clown jumping on the beam and making his debut.

This is because in the eyes of many ordinary people in the past, those who can be officials are scholars with outstanding learning, and only scholars with outstanding learning are qualified to be officials and shepherds. However, unlike the Chinese Empire, their main officials used to be either businessmen or servants, or craftsmen. Among the six ministries, only Qian Qianyi meets this condition.

This makes the Chinese Empire, which was originally a grass-roots team, more like a cottage. Even the people in southern capital are thinking, is the emperor of the Liu family so short of people? They can't hire some local talents and scholars, which is better than attracting a group of businessmen, craftsmen and servants to become six Hall officials. How can this be maintained in the long run?

There is only one thing that the people still recognize. Although these people are only craftsmen, businessmen and servants, they have strong ability to manage their own huge departments, and they also appear to be able to do so in an orderly manner.

At the same time, there is also a hope. In the past, only when you wanted to be an official could you be an official if you could read four books and five classics and do eight part articles. Now the way to be an official is wider. If you can do business, it means that you will be an official; You can be a craftsman, which means you have the ability to be an official; It means that the rising road is wider and more choices are made.

Some people used to shout: princes and generals, would you rather have seed? But in Daming, you really have to have seed. Even if you don't, you have to read. Only by reading can you stand out.

But in the Chinese Empire, you have more choices, which makes these people full of hope and hope.

There is a saying that birds of a feather flock together, and people are divided into groups. Businessmen serve as the Minister of officials, servants as the Minister of households, and craftsmen as the Minister of work.

This means that when they were born so low, they would not only choose scholars to choose officials and appoint officials. The threshold for being an official is lower, which makes many people feel that the princes would rather have seed? You have a bright future in the Chinese Empire.

This is the new atmosphere of the Chinese Empire, which makes many people feel fresh and novel. If in the past, such an action would certainly be a sensation in the whole south.

People in the south, the hot topic discussed after dinner is because the war of Yiling happened in the west, and the Huaxia army is facing a disastrous defeat. Now, the war in the direction of Yiling is naturally the most concerned.

Although the king of the Chinese Empire has sent his son Liu Bu, the God of war, to lead the army, this is not enough to reassure the people. Only when the enemy is defeated will the people be relieved.

While everyone was in fear, there was exciting news.