C15

Along the way to the north along the official road, there were very few people riding on the horse carriages, and most of them were on foot. Besides the pedestrians, most of them were merchants, pulling carts full of food.

Farmers to farm food, Zhang Juzheng changed the method, a "1 Whip" method, asked farmers to no longer pay food, but silver instead. After all, with the same value, would it be convenient to transport silver to the capital's Ministry of Revenue or food?

In the past, millions of stones were transported to the capital. Along the way, he had to spend a large amount of money. Now, it was much easier to transport the silver back than to waste it.

The system of local security armor was abandoned with the introduction of a flogging law. The former chief security officer and chief security officer were in charge of local security and were in charge of recruiting corvée and so on. Now, they were also responsible for administering the taxes of the common people. The yamen petty official only asked them to collect silver according to the records of the land, while the head of the yamen and the head of the yamen were responsible for collecting the taxes under the yardstick.

Food tax is easy to collect? How can you accept money if you don't have it in your family? We can't force the people to sell our wives, can we? But if the people do not pay taxes, the guards will have to pay for themselves. The guards were just ordinary rich farmers, so they might as well kill their fellow daoists.

What about the peasants? The poor guards had to pay for themselves. So when one came and two went, no one was willing to be a bodyguard or a head guard. As a result of this abandonment, the government's ability to take control of the grassroots system collapsed, and the subsequent taxation was affected.

A whip law could measure more than 200 million mu of farmland concealed by the people, which greatly delayed the budget deficit of the imperial government. One part of the population benefits, and one part of the population suffers.

Zhu Hongzhao could not see anything from the imperial court, but he still knew a bit about the place. For example, using food to sell silver, and then using silver to pay taxes. There was a lot of profit, and the creator of that profit was the hardworking people.

This year was one of the few years of prosperity, and compared to the past few years, it was only a few years.

In the past, when summer harvest time, grain prices are extremely low, grain merchants cheap to collect food. However, the people had no choice but to sell it. The tax on two stones of grain usually required the sale of three or four stones of grain in order to gather silver.

The taxes were sufficient this year, leaving the family with only a small amount of food left. If they were able to survive through the coming summer, they would already be considered lucky. Even if the summer was bad, we could still get some wild herbs and fruits to eat. What if he got sick? There was no money to cure it, and it couldn't be cured either. If it was cured, the whole family would starve to death.

In the next year, farmers will starve to death or borrow to buy high food prices. This was a vicious circle. The black-hearted merchants were getting richer and richer, and the farmers were heavily indebted. They had to throw away their land and flee, starving to death while women and children ran away. Without ties, the young men would often gather and become bandits, causing even greater production damage.

For example, Li Zicheng, Zhu Hongzhao remembered some information about him. In essence, he was an honest man, but he was forced into a corner and had no choice but to pull the flag and eat.

Li Zicheng was tall and strong, with a good appearance so he became a civil servant of a relay station. In the end, Emperor Chong Zhen wanted to reform it, so he abolished some unimportant departments, namely the ones without oil and water.

So Li Zicheng lost his job. The imperial government didn't even give him any subsidies, nor did they buy all of his seniority …

In order to survive, he did not think of betraying such a great cause, but instead asked the provincial graduate's Old Master to lend him money. After he had been extorted of his debts, his wife and the men he had stolen from him, Li Zicheng had not thought about his great cause of rebellion and had left for the western border town to join the army.

It wasn't easy for a superior to appreciate him, and he became an executive director. And yet, he was also short of pay. What about the military salary?

No matter how confused the imperial government was, it had to feed its border army to the fullest. Usually, when a salary of 10 thousand soldiers is paid, there would only be 67 thousand silver left. The local people called it "the family of generals will do everything they can" and "send it down at 1 o'clock." The lower ranked officer earned 1 point, as for the large soldier … It was good enough to have a meal.

This time, the amount of silver sent by the imperial government had also decreased. However, the officials would not let themselves suffer a loss when they took the bounty. They had done as they had before, causing the lower officers to not be able to take it or even eat their fill. Thus, Li Zicheng exploded. Between starving to death and rebelling, he chose to kill his superior who admired him.

Soldiers with pay took up a spot on the mountain as bandits, and soon found out that sitting on the mountain while eating the sky wasn't an option, so the rebel militia got mixed up with them.

Zhu Hongzhao opened the curtain and looked out of the car.

This Ming Dynasty flourished by relying on a whip technique for a while. The desolation of the local security system, and the rampage of the hungry led to a series of vicious cycles. All of this was magnified in the harsh climate of the Little Ice Age. Fortunately, he still managed to come up with a set of Jianzhou Jurchens.

Between life and death, the peasants naturally would not choose to starve to death. Instead, they chose to live a vigorous and vigorous life.

Because the other party was disobedient, Yuan Chonghuan's plan to kill Mao Wenloong caused the Dongjiang Town to lose control from top to bottom. The rest of the Dongjiang Town were dispirited as they ran to Shandong, but were pushed aside, resulting in Kong Youde's rebellion, bringing the advanced firearms for the Jianzhou Jurchens, as well as the backbone of the Han Army who would attack the city.

There was also Emperor Chong Zhen, who had changed his mind and was eager to achieve quick results while also temperamental.

Although Zhu Hongzhao couldn't remember all of this clearly, but the whole of the Ming Dynasty gave him a feeling that he was courting death. If the heavens wanted you to die, you had no choice but to die.

Seeing his son's depressed expression, Zhu Yisu thought it was because he couldn't bear to part with Lee Yuvniang.

The carriage slowed down, Zhao Qi pulled open the curtain and said: "Master, another three miles and we'll be at the Yanmen Mansion."

In the system of Ming Dynasty's Acropolis City, there were a thousand places to defend, and a thousand other places that directly belonged to the local army and goverment office. This kind of place on land was called the Guardian Office, and the ones close to the sea were the thousand places to defend.

For example, although the Swallow School was only a thousand households in name, it was still a large territory. It was a huge city. And Zhu Yisu's Tiancheng Guardian of a thousand households, was also the size of 91 townships.

Since they had already left the Daizhou realm, even though Zhu Yisu was going to take over, he still had to take the lead to achieve it. Therefore, he wore a set of official clothes, carrying around the body and seals produced by the Ministry of Rites.

He stuck his head out and immediately saw Hee Chong clasping his fists and bowing, "The summer heat is difficult to resist, Lord Zhu's body is weak and cannot withstand the summer heat. "Leave this matter to me."

"Then this old man will be disrespectful."

There was a reason why Hee Chong wanted to sell himself well. Although his secret service of the Ming Dynasty was glorious, it was extremely difficult for him to rise in rank. Jian Dianbiao had already hinted to Zhu Yisu that this Hee Chong had the intention of hopping off the wall.

In Zhu Yisu's eyes, it was His Majesty who was worried and wanted to place someone from secret service of the Ming Dynasty next to him.

When he heard that Yanmen Gate was about to close, Zhu Hongzhao got curious. He put on a conical bamboo hat and got out of the carriage, and sat with Zhao Qi on the left and right on the front of the carriage.

Yanmen Pass was not a wall blocking the mountain gorge, but rather layer upon layer, relying on the terrain, it was composed of various defensive fortresses, beacon platforms, and defensive walls.

At the entrance, guards from the station were checking the carriages and luggage. They were all wearing mandarin ducks' war coats, holding long spears in their hands and a daggers at their waists. On the wall, large flags, dragon flags, and the flags of the guards and generals were waving in the wind. In addition to the archers standing guard, there were also a few fire blasters set up at the top of the battlements.

"Is secret service of the Ming Dynasty worthy of investigation?"

Most of the people who went in and out of the city were merchants, and in addition to paying the customs fees, they also had to pay tribute to the guarding officers.

Taking out his identity card, Hee Chong was very arrogant.

This attire had always been in line with the secret service of the Ming Dynasty. The surrounding caravans had always been avoiding them, but now that the identity badge was lit up, they had to avoid them as if they were avoiding a tiger.

The gatekeeping officer was a full flag of the seventh rank, so he didn't even dare to fart, much less have a small squad of soldiers under his command.

Zhu Hongzhao watched everything lazily and couldn't help but shake his head with a smile. Just how important was this Swallow Gate trial? It was guarded by a bunch of cowards. The secret service of the Ming Dynasty's reputation was indeed huge. At the very least, one would have to check Hee Chong's identity card 'military registration' and his position and status.

No wonder after a few years, the Jianzhou Jurchens made a detour through defensive loopholes and managed to reach a hinterland like Shandong. When they surrounded the capital's teachers, the surrounding troops had already unleashed their 'Immovable Mountains' spirit of Sun Zijun's tactic to the extreme.

Yanmen Pass is a comprehensive defense system, with defensive walls, garrisons. There were also areas where the families of the army lived, as well as streets dedicated to trade.

After a little replenishment, the convoy left Yanmen Pass and proceeded northwards along the mountain road. They followed the official road and estimated that they would reach the prefectural city of Da Tong as soon as possible.

The mountain road was long and rugged. Zhu Hongzhao observed the terrain along the way and felt a chill in his heart.

Using the cannons of this era to attack Yanmen Pass from the front was a difficult thing. The winding mountain roads, 9 greatly limited the logistics. Moreover, no matter how many soldiers there were, the number of soldiers on the 1st line was limited. The attack power of the soldiers was limited by the terrain.

The cannon's range was not far this year, so it was quite heavy. If he led his troops to attack from the north, it would take some effort to break through Yanmen Pass. His cannons were low down, so they could only be densely packed together due to the terrain. On the other hand, there weren't many cannons shut down at Swallow Gate, but they were scattered around the walls, inside the steep mountain garrison.

Unless their cannons could carry out technological innovations, granular gunpowder? What a joke! 56 years ago, Qi Jiguang's military book had written about the advantages of granule gunpowder and its manufacturing methods. This was a technique that everyone had.

He's in the mechanical department, not the chemical department. He knew how to make nitroglycerin, nitrided cotton. But I do not know the nitric acid, sulfuric acid production process.

Lu Li pondered over the creation of some godly weapon. Zhu Hongzhao didn't know that the serious look on his face, with his head lowered in deep thought, had attracted someone's attention.

Shanxi merchants was a huge system. At this time, the main thing was to operate the tea leaves, followed by silk, porcelain, food and so on. Buying and storing tea from the southern tea producing area 9, high density brick tea is shipped to the north for sale.

The timid ones would sell off their Mashi. If they had the guts, they would go and kill the tiger and sell it in Northern Lu. Usually, the Northern Beings would intercept and kill the scattered caravans, but they would give them a wide berth. This was a relationship left behind by generations of ancestors.

As for the fleeing Horse Bandit, they were even more content with their actions. The so-called family of generals in border army was also fed to the point of being full.

In the afternoon, they met from Yanmen Pass. The team that came along the 1st Road stayed in Shanyin County, Inner Yin-Village. There was a small relay station in the village. From this, one could tell that this place could be considered to be a traffic hub.

Zhu Yisu's status of a thousand households was nothing but trash in the eyes of the relay station's petty official. His Datong Town was one of the most important towns on the 9 sides, the one he did not lack the most was Qiu 8. It was more than eight o'clock, and it was more than nine. If not for their notorious secret service of the Ming Dynasty, how would the relay stations serve them so well, and even slaughter a sheep?

Last year, Saaru was defeated miserably, 5 elite troops were completely wiped out on 4 roads, and 3 generals were killed in battle. In order to replenish the lost command of the border army of the various towns, the Imperial Court had promoted a large number of middle and lower ranking military officers.

This petty official might have treated Zhu Yisu, the thousand man household, as the lucky guy who caught the last bus of the promotion.