Bringing Glory to the Ming Dynasty

The author mentioned the Wanli finance and mineral tax issues, so I have to recommend Teacher Fang Xing's paper "Mineral Tax Silver, Positive Taxes and Late Ming Finance" which contains a lot of detailed discussion and specific data, which should help the author's plot design. Some excerpts are as follows: By counting various commercial taxes from the 25th to the 34th year of Wanli, Lin Feng pointed out that during this period, about 2 million taels of commercial taxes were collected every year. Excluding the original 600,000 taels of pass tax, 200,000 taels of business tax and the 60,000 taels of Huguang Yangtze River inheritance tax, the actual increase in commercial taxes was more than 1.1 Million taels, plus the mining tax of about 300,000 taels, a total of 140 The balance is 1,241,000 taels, which is close to the 1.241 Million taels of mining tax/regular tax levy estimated in this article. It should be noted that the mining tax taels collected by the mining supervisors and converted into positive taxes levied by local governments, whether it is 1.241 Million taels per year estimated by this article, more than 1.4 Million taels calculated by Lin Feng, or more than 1.8 Million taels estimated by Nan Bingwen, are all calculated based on existing literature. Incomplete data may lead to inaccurate calculations in some aspects, but this does not prevent a general estimate of the mining tax/positive tax. The mine tax silver taels/positive tax calculated above can not only be regarded as the plunder of urban industrial and commercial enterprises by the royal family and eunuch yamen, but also reflect to a certain extent the amount of new taxation that urban industrial and commercial enterprises in the middle and late Wanli period were relatively able to bear. This was of great significance to the tax system reform of the Ming Dynasty, which took the opportunity of increasing industrial and commercial taxes. In the post-Zhang Juzheng era, the central finance of the Ming Dynasty continued to be in deficit, and the main arrears were military pay. The royal family's uncontrolled spending and the three major Wanli levies made the Ming Dynasty's finances even worse. Starting from the sixth year of Wanli, first as an exception and then as a rule, the royal family borrowed 200,000 taels of comprador silver from Taicang every year, but never repaid it. By the 32nd year of Wanli, the royal family had borrowed a total of 5.2 Million taels from Taicang in 26 years, all of which were used as border payment silver. In the twenty-ninth year of Wanli, a total of 2.5 Million taels of silver were spent on jewelry and other items needed for the registration and wedding of the prince and the kings. Since it was not a rated expense, Taicang could not pay it, so it had to activate its reserves of Taipusi Horse Price Silver. In August of the thirty-fifth year of Wanli, Li Sixiao, the young minister of Taipu Temple, reported to the emperor that during the Longqing Dynasty and the early Wanli period, Taipu Temple had accumulated more than 1,000 taels of horse-valued silver. It borrowed 7.53 Million taels from Taipu Temple for the three major conquests of Wanli, borrowed 1.5 Million taels to raise side payments, and borrowed more than 700,000 taels for the registration and wedding of the crown prince and kings, but none of them were repaid. From the 18th year of Wanli to the 35th year of Wanli, the Ministry of Husbandry, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Industry borrowed a total of 10.58 Million taels of silver from Taipus Temple. As a total reserve, Taipusi only had 270,000 taels of horse-priced silver left. In the 32nd year of Wanli, 3.72 Million taels of border wages should have been paid, but only 1.84 Million taels were actually paid, leaving 1.88 Million taels in arrears. However, the internal officials urged the payment of 200,000 taels of comprador silver the following year. Shen Guanyi, a bachelor, said that he and Zhao Shiqing, the Minister of Household Affairs, could only "cry relative to each other" when faced with the current situation of being owed border wages from outside, pressing compradors internally, and "Taicang was like a wash".

These so-called novels that have no cheats or systems and rely entirely on the protagonist's own strategy are actually the author's biggest cheat. No matter how NC the protagonist is, the author cannot kill his protagonist. Otherwise, normally speaking, the eunuch with an obviously crooked buttocks at the beginning would be beaten to death as soon as possible by raising his left foot first, as a warning to other slaves to prevent other slaves from following the same example and saying that he should keep it first like the protagonist, maybe as a surprise soldier.

A constitutional monarchy in China? He was immediately ignored by the civil service group, and then fell into the water and drowned. From now on, the emperor will be a decoration, the generals will be used as dogs, the civil service family will dominate, and the head of the civil service will become the substantive emperor. There is no vacuum in power. Author, are you conscious of pursuing a constitutional monarchy in China?

Make money honestly, but if you don't have money, where will you get the money for reform? How can you buy soldiers without money? Without soldiers, if you reform the literati, officials and gentry, who will care about you?

The fall of the Ming Dynasty in Wanli refers to Zhang Juzheng and Qi Jiguang being liquidated by Emperor Wanli. Zhang Juzheng's reforms failed. It does not refer to Emperor Wanli's struggle for the country's foundation, or the failure of the three major expeditions or the failure of Saarhu. The latter are all consequences. Zhang Juzheng was liquidated because of it. After ten years of Wanli, the Ming Dynasty was hopeless. Land clearing is to prepare for tax collection and suppression of annexation. Zhang Juzheng's whipping method and examination method are all in the service of land clearing, and Qi Jiguang's Beijing camp is Zhang Juzheng's guarantee for the New Deal and Wanli. The reason why the Jiajing New Deal failed is because Jiajing did not have violent institutions to protect itself, protect the New Deal, and protect the empire. After ten years of Wanli, it is already difficult to rebuild the Beijing camp. This book, hahaha

Slaughter the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Ming Dynasty will last at least 100 years.

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Emperor Wanli was such a procrastinator. How could he break his guard when he heard that the Ming Dynasty could live for fifty years? Maybe I'm still a little happy, and I can continue to mess it up for decades, but I won't lose it anyway. . .

Write more about the court and less about the war. Judging from Jingming, the empress is not good at writing war scenes.

The protagonist of this book is too arrogant. He always feels that he is omnipotent. He looks down on this one and looks down on that one. Anyone who can be the chief assistant of Jiuqing is not a talent. The protagonist does not look down on anyone.