It was not the first time that immortals and gods had appeared. It was the second time.
Everyone knew the process of the Immortal God Award Ceremony. It could be said that almost everyone had remembered it by heart. At this moment, when the Immortal God announced the most proper title to Zhu Yuanzhang.
Everyone in the historical planes.
They all began to look forward to the rewards bestowed by the immortals and gods this time. Of course, everyone knew that before this, the Immortal God would reveal Zhu Yuanzhang's life in detail.
As expected.
As the light in the immortal god's hand spun, Zhu Yuanzhang's life began to be displayed in detail. Everyone paid close attention to this emperor, so they were especially serious.
He had no choice.
After all, the story of Zhu Yuanzhang could be called a legend. It was used to write a mythical story in a supernatural novel. Naturally, no one would not be curious about how a beggar could be called an emperor.
Even though the Immortal God had already roughly explained it, there were still many places that everyone wanted to understand in detail. This was unprecedented in the history of the rise of any emperor.
Who wouldn't be curious?
The people of the various historical planes all had this mentality.
Zhu Yuanzhang's life slowly unfolded.
It could be said that Zhu Yuanzhang's life experience was indeed complicated. In a novel biography, he would definitely be the male lead. His life could be roughly divided into three periods and eight stages.
The first period was when he was a teenager.
There were two stages.
From the first year of the Heavenly Calendar to the third year of Zhizheng, he lived a poor life with his parents in the countryside of Fengyang. The people of the various historical planes could use the streaming scenes to fast-forward.
He clearly saw Zhu Yuanzhang's experience at this time---living with his parents and brother in a small latrine without a roof to cover his head and a foothold.
That living environment was really extremely difficult. The ground in the house was still yellow. Once it rained, the house would really be muddy and wet.
There was definitely no furniture in the room. Everyone was squeezed together and there were no beds. They only used a few wooden boards and placed them on the ground to pile up a lot of weeds.
Such an environment would definitely not be able to defend against small creatures such as insects and ants. Perhaps in the future, people would think that there was no way to rest, but in this era, the lower class people were the same.
Afraid of insects?
It didn't exist.
The people of this era were not afraid. Instead, they looked forward to discovering insects and ants. In the scene shown by the immortal god, Zhu Yuanzhang's family found a big rat in their house when he was young.
No one showed any fear. Instead, they were all excited. What did it mean to find a mouse in the house? It meant that there was meat to eat at home tonight!
Not to mention rats, even small insects and ants could be stuffed into their mouths as food. It fully demonstrated that no matter how small an ant was, it was still meat.
Even Zhu Yuanzhang, who would become the emperor in the future, was covered in rags and dirty. His eyes would light up at the sight of ants, insects, and moths.
He was already a landlord's cowherd boy, but he was still the same. Don't look at how carefree and carefree the cowherd boy was on television. Everything in television dramas was fake.
The real cowherd boys didn't have any flutes, no childhood sweethearts, and even less could they be cultured and recite poems. They were just a group of people who ate the leftovers of the landlord.
It was impossible for her to be fair and clean. She was just dressed in rags and dirty all over. What? Why didn't she take a shower? It was unnecessary to ask this question.
In ancient times.
Even the landlord family did not have the ability to bathe often. Ordinary families, or families like Zhu Yuanzhang, could only swim in the river in summer.
This was the scene of Zhu Yuanzhang's family life when he was a child. It was also a microcosm of the life of all the people at the bottom of the class in that era. It could be said that Zhu Yuanzhang's family represented the lowest class in the Yuan Dynasty.
It was also the living conditions of most people.
Compared to other people, they did not have their own land, so their status was lower. Even the most basic food was a very big problem.
Because there was no land, they could not farm. The biggest problem every day was what to find to eat. The so-called Guanyin soil was an important food for people of this class.
What was Guanyin clay?
Guanyin clay originated from legends.
It was said that in ancient times, the locals of Mount Wangwu suffered from a disease that caused nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite. Even the doctors within a radius of a hundred miles could not do anything about it. Later, people prayed to God, and Guan Yin Bodhisattva took the soil from the Temple of Heaven and fried it with flour for the patients to take. In a few days, the patients improved.
Other than this, there was another legend. It was related to the Foolish Old Man's move of mountains. The Foolish Old Man's descendants transported the earth and rocks they dug to the Bohai Sea. However, because the journey was long and it would take a year to go back and forth, it was inconvenient to carry food. Therefore, the Foolish Old Man made the earth and rocks into cakes to satisfy his hunger on the road.
It was not just a legend.
Guanyin clay was also recorded in the Compendium of Materia Medica. It was made from clay on the wall and stir-fried in a pot. It could treat diarrhea and spleen deficiency. Later, experts specially tested the composition of Guanyin clay and found that Guanyin clay was rich in potassium, which could improve gastric mobility and promote digestion and absorption.
No matter how Guanyin clay first came about, different stories could not be separated from the word 'earth'. This was indeed food made from a mixture of grain and mud.
Because it could fill one's stomach, prolong one's life, and prevent one from starving, people called this soil Guanyin Soil, which meant that Guanyin pitied the world and gave them many gifts from hunger.
How should he put it?
Behind the feudal superstition was a tragic social phenomenon.
In the era of famine.
Guanyin clay was regarded as a life-saving food by people.
In the era of famine.
The green and yellow were not connected.
Almost all the food had been eaten.
The grass and tree bark that grew on the ground were also plucked by the people, crushed and made into food. This scene was displayed in the eyes of the people in the historical planes through the flowing light in the hands of the immortals and gods.
Some of the commoners who had experienced it felt the same way as they shed tears. Some of the emperors and generals were also moved when they saw this. Most of them were people who lived in the golden age who were deeply shocked.
People who had never experienced it.
It was impossible to imagine such a scene.
"When I was young, many people lived like this. The reason was the corruption and inaction of the government.”Zhu Yuanzhang recalled the hardships of his childhood and could not help but cry. Of course, Emperor Hongwu quickly adjusted his emotions back to normal.
He looked at the civil and military officials below his platform with a meaningful and stern gaze.
"Take a good look, you must take a good look. Dear ministers…take a good look, and then I want you to answer me, is it wrong for me to be strict with you?”
These words carried a hint of questioning.
Countless people lowered their heads.
He didn't dare to speak.
Until today.
Although it had been a long time since the founding of the country, these officials all understood that the scenes presented in the immortal and god images had not completely disappeared from the land of the Great Ming Dynasty.
There were still many people who lived on this Guanyin clay.
And if the emperor were to blame him.
These people were going to be in big trouble…How should he put it? He couldn't blame these officials for not doing anything. In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang also understood how difficult it was to completely change the lives of his people.
Because of this.
Seeing the guilty, guilty, and self-reproaching faces of the officials, Zhu Yuanzhang could only sigh in his heart, but he did not intend to continue to pursue the matter.
The problem here was not just the officials.
He also knew.
Even though it was the Hongwu era, there were still many people who starved to death.
The reason for this.
It was due to some reversal of the production relations in the Yuan Dynasty.
The cruel exploitation of the ruling class and the bloody suppression of the peasant war by the Mongol and Han landlords at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.
The resulting social and economic damage was severe.
It was already much better than when the Ming Dynasty was first established.
One had to know that when the Ming Dynasty had just been established, the fields were barren and sparsely populated. The people were exhausted and their lives were extremely difficult. The tax sources of the court were also on the verge of drying up.
Facing such a situation.
As the emperor, he felt deeply intertwined.
Therefore, he proposed the idea of "pacifying the people" and "storing wealth among the people".
Carry out the policy of recuperation.
The so-called recuperation policy was to focus on agriculture.
According to the peasant war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the land allocation had been disrupted. Zhu Yuanzhang adjusted the land relationship and stipulated that all the land abandoned by the landlord after fleeing in the war and cultivated by the peasants would belong to the peasants. He also counted the number of people and granted the land to many people who had no land.
Moreover…
In places with a lot of wasteland, villagers were encouraged to cultivate more.
All the people open wasteland, according to the first harvest, the first harvest a year later, the government for the collection of taxes.
What did this decree mean?
He was saying,
The land reclaimed by farmers could be registered with the government. As long as they paid taxes to the country according to law, the government would recognize the ownership of the land of the farmers.
Not only that.
While using this method to encourage farmers to produce more.
Big Ming was still implementing the national migration.
Move the people of the "narrow township" to the "wide township" and open up wasteland.
In this way.
Counting the people and granting land to the people and the implementation of the national immigration.
The most important factors of production, namely labor and land resources, were reallocated in a very close way to promote the two to be more closely integrated.
Therefore, in recent years.
It had already allowed many farmers with little land to obtain small plots of farmland and become farmers.
The farmers had the ability to expand reproduction and were more adaptable and flexible than the tenant farmers, which was conducive to the recovery and development of agricultural production.
It was precisely because of the implementation of these laws.
Thus, it effectively promoted the recovery and development of production.
In addition to the relaxation of the personal attachment relationship of laborers, the burden of taxes and corvee was reduced, and many measures such as rewarding farming and building water conservancy were implemented.
Ming's agricultural production was already gradually recovering and developing.
Until now.
The country's cultivated land area, population, and national financial revenue far exceeded that of the Song and Yuan Dynasties.
On the basis of the restoration and development of agricultural production, cash crops were widely planted, and crafts and commerce flourished day by day. It was just that they had not really achieved the effect of " Great Harmony of the World " that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted. It couldn't be helped. The grain production was too low. If they encountered some natural disasters, the harvest would be greatly affected.
If he wanted to truly reach the golden age... Zhu Yuanzhang thought that he was just short of a good weather to accumulate a foundation for his Great Ming Dynasty. Fortunately, the gift of God seemed to be present to every emperor on the rankings.
At the thought of this.
Zhu Yuanzhang's mood improved a lot after seeing the painful scenes of his childhood.
It had to be said.
Zhu Yuanzhang was indeed a founding emperor.
His series of measures laid a solid foundation for the prosperity of the commodity currency economy in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the change of economic structure, and the transformation of Chinese traditional society to modern times.
This was one of the reasons why Jiang Sheng admired Zhu Yuanzhang.
In an era where the industrial revolution had not yet liberated manpower.
Zhu Yuanzhang's current decrees were very similar to those of later generations.
Such advanced thinking and foresight.
Such an emperor.
He definitely had the qualifications to be evaluated on the rankings.
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