Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne and established the Ming Dynasty.
Although he was already the emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang still lived a frugal life.
Zhu Yuanzhang was thrifty, but not as thrifty as Emperor Daoguang of the Qing Dynasty.
Emperor Daoguang's stinginess had reached the height of humanism. He was stinginess when it came to matters, stinginess when it came to oddities.
On the Empress 'birthday, Daoguang invited the ministers to drink cabbage noodles together.
As for Zhu Yuanzhang, he was used to living a hard life when he was a child. He knew that a bowl of porridge and a bowl of rice were hard to come by in the hands of ordinary farmers. It was the same for clothes and furniture, so he was very frugal.
Not only was Zhu Yuanzhang thrifty, but he also instructed his subordinates to be thrifty.
All the ministers who went into court to ask questions were sweating profusely after they came out.
Because once they were found out who was wearing new clothes, Zhu Yuanzhang would have to ask how much they had spent.
If he spent too much, he would definitely be scolded!
There was even a time when a chamberlain was walking in the rain wearing new boots and was discovered by Zhu Yuanzhang. He was so angry that he cried bitterly.
This was very normal. According to the tradition of the Zhu family, it was not allowed to wear new shoes when it rained. It was just like how the workers on the construction site knew that it was natural not to wear new clothes when working.
However, the chamberlain was wearing new shoes, so how could he feel heartache? It was mainly because he felt that this kid was purely wasting things!
Or maybe he thought that his parents didn't even have shoes to wear when they died and were buried?
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Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang's frugality was not only focused on these small things.
He was the Emperor of the world, the Son of Heaven of Ming!
What he was thinking about was the livelihood of the entire world!
They started from the people's daily life, such as the tea that people were used to.
Before the Ming Dynasty, the trade of tea leaves was mainly based on cake tea and round tea.
It was Zhu Yuanzhang who ordered to stop making dragon and phoenix cakes and change them all to "scattered tea". There were three main reasons for this.
Firstly, the process of making Dragon Phoenix Tea was complicated and consumed too much manpower and material resources.
Zhu Yuanzhang denounced it as "luxury".
It only satisfied the enjoyment of a few people. Most people, or rather, commoners, could not afford it.
At that time, there was a saying that "once baked, the price was as high as gold".
It was true that gold had a price, but tribute tea was priceless.
Zhu Yuanzhang was poor when he was young and knew the hardships of the people at the bottom of society.
He knew that the continuation of this method of making tea with dragon and phoenix cakes would only make the tea leaves more and more distant from the ordinary people.
Therefore, he decided to ban this tea making method and switch to the relatively simple "loose tea". The purpose was to make his subjects enjoy the joy of drinking tea all over the world.
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Secondly, the tribute tea system that was passed down from the Tang and Song Dynasties.
It caused the officials at all levels to exploit the tea farmers and tea workers more and more fiercely.
In the Yuan Dynasty, small-scale peasant riots broke out many times, rebelling against the exploitation of tea farmers by the imperial court, causing social instability.
Therefore, when Zhu Yuanzhang banned the "Dragon Group Phoenix Cake", he also revoked the Beiyuan Tribute Tea Garden and no longer set up the Royal Tea Garden.
It was to reduce the burden on the tea farmers so that they would no longer suffer the pain of being exploited and oppressed.
Zhu Yuanzhang knew how desperate it was for the ordinary people who had food to eat to be forced to a dead end by the imperial court.
And he didn't want the billions of people in the world to poke his spine because of this.
Third.
The Song Dynasty placed too much emphasis on tea-making skills and pursued the highest craftsmanship.
When his tea making skills reached the peak, he had no skills to use.
This caused some tea craftsmen to start to go to the unorthodox path after they ran out of skills.
In order to enhance the aroma and taste of the tea leaves, they mixed some spices and decoctions into the tea.
It made the tea drinker feel that it was different from other teas in order to win.
This method of " adulteration " was not rare at that time, but a common phenomenon, recorded in many tea books.
This was obviously a bad atmosphere.
It was a departure from Zhu Yuanzhang's routine of frugality.
The commoners at the bottom of the social ladder did not even have enough to eat, and some people even added spices to their tea!
There was even a way to compete for wealth like "tea competition"!
In Zhu Yuanzhang's opinion, this was absolutely not allowed to exist!
Haven't you heard that the struggle for wealth in the State of Jin has become a wild talk about hundreds of generations and thousands of years?
It was truly the stench of wine and meat in the vermilion gate, and the bones of the frozen dead on the road!
This was the fundamental difference between a commoner emperor and an emperor from a noble family.
When the emperor of the aristocratic family was still shouting,"Why don't you eat meat?”At that time.
What Zhu Yuanzhang was thinking about was how to let the people of the world drink a mouthful of tea!
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Zhu Yuanzhang had said countless times,"I'm just a farmer!"”。
And that was exactly what he did.
Even after he became the emperor.
There was no golden dragon on the bed he slept on!
"It's no different from a middle-aged man's bed!"
The parts of the dragon chariot that should have been made of gold were all replaced by copper!
The officials in charge reported that they did not need much gold, but Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang said that he was not stingy with this bit of gold, but advocated frugality, and he should be a model.
Although the palace still had the appearance of a palace, its simplicity was still the foundation of Zhu Yuanzhang.
One day, Zhu Yuanzhang even took out a sheet and passed it on to the ministers.
Everyone looked and saw that they were all made of small pieces of silk.
Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang said: "This is the remains of the clothes, used to make a quilt, but also better than abandoned."”
It was better to use the scraps of clothes to make bedsheets than to throw them away.
Zhu Yuanzhang had never forgotten the earnest teachings of his simple old farmer father.
That was to be diligent and frugal, and one would have a happy family.
This logic was obviously correct. The reason why his father did not have a happy family was because of the chaotic times at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.
However, did Zhu Yuanzhang want to compare his own dynasty to a dying Yuan Dynasty?
In Ming Dynasty's world! Under Zhu Yuanzhang's rule!
As long as the farmers worked diligently, they would be able to obtain happiness!
Zhu Yuanzhang used his father's teachings to govern the country.
If the head of the family is diligent and thrifty, he will have a good family.
If the ruler of a country was diligent and thrifty, there would be thousands of people who treated their families like this!
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Someone might have said something here.
Zhu Yuanzhang was just putting on an act.
He was stingy and mean to his subordinates.
Moreover, changing tea was only for the sake of spreading it to the world so that they could collect more taxes.
In fact, it was wrong to think from the perspective of benefits and speculate on other people's actions.
When conspiracy theories and interest theories became mainstream, people might as well reflect on themselves and see who was the truly narrow-minded person.
If Zhu Yuanzhang really only wanted to collect taxes, why would he order that one-tenth of the country's land must be used to grow cotton without collecting taxes?
Although cotton was not a precious item in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, cotton cloth was an important item.
Only the nobles, ministers, and relatives of the royal family had the capital to wear cotton clothes. The civilians could only wear linen clothes.
A decree was issued that farmers must take out a portion of their land to grow cash crops.
Zhu Yuanzhang promoted the planting of cotton as a national matter, so that the area of cotton planting was greatly increased.
The increase in cotton production also led to the development of the cotton textile industry.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang had contributed greatly to the development of cotton.
If Zhu Yuanzhang did not have the experience of early farmers, he would not have paid so much attention to the planting of cash crops. He was indeed a far-sighted farmer.
From then on, when winter came, the common people could have clothes to hide from the cold.
He no longer had to use his body to resist it like he did when he was traveling!
And which dynasty and which generation had this kind of concern for the commoners?
Only Emperor Zhu!
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Similarly, Zhu Yuanzhang reduced taxes on non-cash crops.
Moreover, during the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the status of tenant farmers was extremely low.
A landlord killing a tenant was a lesser crime than killing an ordinary person.
The Yuan Dynasty even explicitly stipulated that the landlord could: " Whip and drive, treat them as slaves!"
Moreover, the boys born to the tenant farmers were also slaves in the era of buy one free one!
The girls would become female slaves!
On the other hand, in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang.
"The Ming Law" stipulated,"Those rich families who use their tenants to carry the sedan chair will not only be beaten sixty times, but they will also be paid an additional sixty wen a day!”。
In other words, those who dared to make the tenant farmers slaves would not only be punished, but they would also have to pay!
"Huangming imperial edict" in the "Zhengli custom edict" also records: Tenants see the owner of the field, do not follow the etiquette, such as the ceremony of young things long. If it is a relative, regardless of the main tenant, it is carried out according to the etiquette of relatives.
It meant that when a tenant saw his own landlord, regardless of age, he had to follow the etiquette of a younger brother meeting an older brother. If both parties were relatives, then regardless of the identity of the landlord or tenant, they had to perform the etiquette of relatives.
When the landlord's nephew saw the tenant farmer's uncle, he also had to bow!
From then on, the status of the tenant farmers would rise in a straight line! They were no longer domestic animals that could be slaughtered like chickens and dogs!
It could be said that the tenant farmers only lived like humans when they came to Zhu Yuanzhang!
It was also because Zhu Yuanzhang was once humiliated as a tenant farmer and could not see the light.
That was why Zhu Yuanzhang had done such a feat for his old friends!
The most valuable thing was that the same experience, the same great change, might not necessarily result in the same result as Zhu Yuanzhang.
After Zhu Yuanzhang ascended to a high position, he did not feel inferior because of his previous identity.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have treated the farmers like this.
He was high and mighty, cutting ties with them, and was even more ruthless to the tenant farmers than before!
If it was someone else, it was not impossible.
Therefore, this was enough to show how open and upright Zhu Yuanzhang was!
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Moreover, it was not just the farmers. Zhu Yuanzhang was also very good to the workers.
In the eleventh year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the Ministry of Works: " Craftsmen in the capital will be given firewood, rice, oil, and salt every day."
It was also stipulated that "those who are off work should stop, and those who are allowed to make a living should not be restrained."
It meant that the craftsmen who worked in the capital would be given firewood, rice, oil and salt every day.
Those who don't work can do other jobs. Don't arrest them.
Craftsmen before the Ming Dynasty couldn't live if they didn't enter the household. Once they entered the household, not only would they have to do this for the rest of their lives, but their children and grandchildren would also have to do this.
Household registration was to make it easier to arrest people if there was a problem with the construction.
For example, if you are recruited to come to the capital, not only will you pay for your own travel expenses, but you will also pay for your own living expenses in the capital. You are also not allowed to do other jobs.
After Zhu Yuanzhang's edict was issued, the craftsmen would come to the capital to serve once every three years, and each time would not exceed three months.
They had more time to engage in other businesses, which undoubtedly gave the workers more freedom and dignity, and also liberated the labor force.
When a wise emperor acts, the interests of the country and the interests of the people can often be carried out simultaneously.
Under Zhu Yuanzhang's measures, the farmers had a higher status, and the craftsmen could also work with their backs straight. They would not be forced to work for free, and there would no longer be such a thing as being registered as a worker or being registered as a lowly person!
And the result of Zhu Yuanzhang's actions was…
From the first year of Hongwu to the thirteenth year of Hongwu, the newly reclaimed land reached 1,833,171 hectares!
In the 26th year of Hongwu, the amount of cultivated land was four times more than in the 1st year of Hongwu!
In the ancient history of the Dragon Country, there was no other miracle like this!
The Ming Dynasty's porcelain and silk industries were also as rough as they were during the Yuan Dynasty!
She was radiant and beautiful again!
Compared to the world of Zhu Yuanzhang when he was young, everything was like heaven and earth.
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"Emperor Hongwu is awesome!"
"He is an emperor who walked out of the commoners. He is also an emperor who truly stands on the side of the commoners!”
"Can you believe that the historical projection of Zhu Yuanzhang after he became the emperor is the same world as the historical projection of him at the beginning?”
"The world is so lucky to have Zhu Yuanzhang, and the descendants of the Yellow Emperor are so lucky to have Zhu Yuanzhang!”
"Like Liu Bang, he was the most suitable person to be the emperor at that time!”
"Because other than him, no one else would do this!”
"In the eyes of the other emperors, the commoners are mostly pigs and dogs, but Zhu Yuanzhang will think for the commoners!”
"Holding the sun and moon in one's hands to open a new chapter, this was really a brand new world for the common people at that time!”
"F * ck! Don't release it anymore! How could there be such an emperor? This must be fake!"
"Ah Xiba! We all want a Zhu Yuanzhang now!”
"Then you want to go. Tell your wealth to make one for you!”
"Hahahaha!"
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Zhu Yuanzhang's deeds undoubtedly made the people of the world feel his charm as a civilian emperor!
Everything was for the sake of the commoners, they were wealthy and had the highest authority.
However, he was able to control himself at all times, and even the entire imperial court.
During the reign of Hongwu, there was no harm to the people.
The greatest happiness for the people was to live and work in peace and contentment.
When the world is at peace and the rivers are clear, the power will not harm the people, but will greatly benefit the people!
It was truly a rare blessing!
It was a good scene that the commoners had never seen before!
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Speaking of the Kimchi Nation, there was one more thing that had to be mentioned.
That was the name of their country.
It was given to them by Zhu Yuanzhang.
In the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, Li Chenggui deposed the King of Koryo and proclaimed himself emperor.
He asked Zhu Yuanzhang to give him a country name.
Zhu Yuanzhang approved the use of the reported name.
That was how they got their former country name.
Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang was an extremely tough emperor.
Later on, Li Chenggui sent Li Tian, a civil official, to the Ming court to thank him, but something happened.
It turned out that in order to show his respect, Li Chenggui did not dare to use the name of the country granted by Zhu Yuanzhang in the gratitude form.
Instead, he used the title of "Power to Know State Affairs".
Zhu Yuanzhang was suspicious and thought that he was disrespectful to him, so he ordered people to beat Li Tian on the ground!
"Bang Tian is dead!"
He also ordered him not to ride a horse when he went back. Li Tian could only endure her injuries and walk home.
On the other hand, after Li Chenggui learned of this matter, not only did he not dare to have any resentment, he was instantly scared half to death.
He hurriedly sent someone to apologize. In the "Apologize Form", it was written: "It shines on the remote place of the small country. The language is impassable, the knowledge is not extensive, the language is rough, and only the matter is understood. He is not familiar with the body, resulting in mistakes, dare not deliberately insult.”
The intention to kneel respectfully was obvious.
Moreover, this had become a family heirloom for the Li royal family of the Pickle Nation to the Zhu royal family of the Great Ming Dynasty!
In the end, it was brought to glory by their Taizong and King Sejong, and they once knelt down and stood up!
However, it was far from over for Zhu Yuanzhang.
In the twenty-ninth year of Hongwu, the Pickle Country's congratulatory letter for the new year caused trouble again.
Zhu Yuanzhang believed that there were "insulting words" in the table and detained the envoy, who was not allowed to return home.
He also ordered the Kimchi Nation to immediately arrest the person who drafted the memorial. Later, the author, Jin Ruoheng, was sent to Nanjing and explained,
"I live overseas, and my voice and language are different from the Yellow Emperor. I have to rely on translation and only learn the meaning of the text. I have learned a lot, and my wording is shallow. I can't fully understand the system of letters, so my words are frivolous. How dare you deliberately tease and insult me, so as to make me angry?”
Soon after, Li Chenggui requested the Ming Dynasty to grant them an imperial mandate and seal, and the memorial quoted the allusion of King Zhou of the Shang Dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang was unhappy again. The author and the proofreader were arrested again.
Among them, the envoy, President Zheng, was also unlucky. He was escorted here along with his entire family.
The result of these two incidents was that President Zheng, as well as the authors Jin Ruoheng and Lu Rendu, were beheaded.
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"Ah Xi! Why does that Zhu guy humiliate our country every time he appears?”
"Is this a tradition of the Zhu family?”
"Hurry up! Kill me to liven up Zhu Yuanzhang!”
"You're thinking too much. Killing you won't liven up Zhu Yuanzhang.”
"If he was really targeting you, he would have sent troops to attack long ago!”
"At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang was just dealing with the complicated affairs of the government. He also had to face you stupid pigs with different interests who made frequent mistakes, and he was annoyed!”
"Besides, Zhu Yuanzhang will only punish your envoys. As for killing, it must be your own king!”
"In order to appease Zhu Yuanzhang's anger, he would do the same!”
"So don't say anything about beating up Big Ming again. It will really make us laugh our heads off!”
"Furthermore, if it weren't for your arrogance, how could the high-dimensional creatures not be able to stand it and specially come to slap your faces?”
"Is the Zhu Family's Big Ming someone your Li Family's Kimchi Nation can scam?”
"You don't know what you're talking about!"
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The two emperors of the Zhu family on the rankings undoubtedly helped the Dragon Country vent their anger!
They would deal a severe blow to their pretentious behavior of fabricating history and wantonly slandering others!
Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di were professionals in cracking down on pretentious people!
Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang expressed that it wasn't over yet. He hadn't had enough of fighting.
During the reign of Zhu Yuanzhang, he was also very cautious when it came to the use of troops in the surrounding countries.
He believed that sending troops to attack those remote small countries would not only deplete the Ming Dynasty's national strength, but even if they could conquer them, it would be difficult to manage, and the locals might not be willing to submit.
Therefore, in the 14th year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang announced that the 15 neighboring countries were listed as " non-conquering countries " and warned future generations not to take the initiative to attack these 15 countries.
Among them were the Kimchi Kingdom, Annan Kingdom, Cherry Blossom Kingdom, Siam Kingdom, Chenni Kingdom, and Zhenla Kingdom.
These were territories that Zhu Yuanzhang had once looked down on.
To these countries, it could be said that it was not harmful but extremely insulting!
Moreover, the Cherry Blossom Kingdom was once again dragged out to flog their corpses.
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"Look at how they treat you when they're strong.”
"I feel ashamed for you!"
"Repaying kindness with ingratitude, you have a conscience!"
"Does your mother know that you're so shameless?”
"You're wrong. Most of their mothers are also so shameless!”
"Otherwise, why would they say that their mother lied to them?”
"Hahahaha!"
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In the Heroic Spirit Ranking space, the historical projection continued.
However, this time, his perspective was more focused on the royal court.
Between monarch and minister.
Some people said that Zhu Yuanzhang was a tyrant.
Some people said that he slaughtered meritorious officials.
Some people said that he would not let the general see peace.
However, these were all said by ancient scholars and passed down.
As for looking at this former heroic spirit from the perspective of the common people, it was impossible for him to escape.
Perhaps he wouldn't be like them!
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