My Days as a Military Craftsman in the Ming Dynasty
我在明朝做军匠的日子
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- Completed
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- 640k Words
- Genre
- Historical
- Subgenre
- Song-Yuan-Ming Dynasties
- Updated
- 2y ago
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I don't quite understand why the author wrote a novel about Ming Dynasty artisans. In other dynasties, perhaps there would be more freedom. But in the Ming Dynasty, being an artisan was a profession that preyed on people from beginning to end. Even if you don't consider yourself, you should at least consider your descendants. Besides studying and becoming an official, the best profession was being a merchant.
Looking at the catalog makes me laugh. The Divine Machine Battalion has their eye on his weapons! It's hilarious! Who's going to pay for it? The Ministry of Revenue is so poor they're practically selling their pants! The Emperor gives you 100,000, but you'll probably only get 10,000. Then he'll ask you for 100,000 worth of goods. If you don't have enough, you'll be blamed.
The official artisans of the Ming Dynasty were craft households. They couldn't even have freedom or autonomy. The better you did, the stronger the control became. You weren't even a free citizen. Who did you think you were? You couldn't even use your strength.
Do you know why ancient China couldn't develop? If you had any skill or something good, you would be 100% robbed. You would either become a slave, working diligently for others your whole life, and your descendants would be the same, or you would obediently die.
Even if you can't even have these achievements, then everything you've done is useless.
There was a family in history named Wang Fugui. His family had been servants from the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, a full 140 years. During those 140 years, there were several opportunities for them to rise to commoner status, but they failed for various reasons.
I was told to go back and become a dog for the Zhu family. I didn't understand, and I was utterly shocked.
I didn't even want to read it after seeing the synopsis; the content is probably just about the life of a somewhat skilled lackey.
Other blacksmiths aren't incapable of making good ones; they're just not given enough money to buy materials, so naturally they won't pay out of their own pockets.
Craftsmen are really not even as good as merchants.