The long river of history is running endlessly, there are calm waves, there are also waves, let Xiaobian take you into history and understand history.
We know that corruption is the main reason for the destruction of the country and the family in the past dynasties, and in the ancient feudal society, corrupt officials and corrupt officials harmed the people for their own selfish interests. Accumulated over the years, the folk are naturally full of complaints. Although it can be briefly suppressed by power, it is difficult to hide the public. Once the contradictions accumulated in the end break out, they will be unstoppable, and the so-called people who win the hearts and minds of the people will win the world, and on the other hand, those who lose the hearts of the people will naturally lose the world.
Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang came to prominence in the peasant uprising, step by step to the position of emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang's birth can be said to be low to the dust. Zhu Yuanzhang was born in the first year of the Celestial Calendar (1328), and his original name was Zhu Zhongba. Grew up as a poor farmer. In 1343, a drought struck Haozhou, and Zhu Yuanzhang's parents were starved to death in the drought.
And Zhu Yuanzhang and his family ran for their lives in order to survive. Zhu Yuanzhang defected to the Huangjue Temple and became a monk, and his main job every day was to travel around and make friends, to put it bluntly, Zhu Yuanzhang at that time was a beggar begging along the street. On the way to wandering and begging, Zhu Yuanzhang saw too many people suffering, and he hated the landlords and businessmen who oppressed the people, as well as corrupt officials and corrupt officials.
In 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang overthrew the rule of the Yuan Dynasty and established the Ming Dynasty. Although he became the Son of Heaven, he was born as a beggar, and he hated some corrupt officials who oppressed the people. Therefore, the means of rectifying corrupt officials can be described as extremely tough, as long as more than 60 taels of silver are embezzled, the death penalty is directly pronounced.
However, despite this, there were still many corrupt officials, and the former servants turned their heads to Zhu Yuanzhang's butcher knife one after another. According to statistics, during Zhu Yuanzhang's 31-year reign, more than 150,000 corrupt officials were executed. Despite this, corrupt officials and corrupt officials are still like wildfires burning endlessly, and the spring wind blows out again and again.
Zhu Yuanzhang was also helpless, why were the officials under him all lords who wanted money and did not want to die? As a result, many ministers of the secret departments of the DPRK and China were killed by Zhu Yuanzhang, and many things were done by Zhu Yuanzhang himself. Therefore, although Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor from a beggar, he did not enjoy a few days of happiness.
From this point of view, Compared with Zhu Yuanzhang, Yongzheng's means are much more advanced. First of all, he started with corruption, when the most important way for officials to earn extra money was to spend money and fire. To put it bluntly, it is a loss and consumption during transportation. In order to enrich their own pockets, some magistrates would report more of the amount of fire they consumed, and then scrape more from the hands of the people.
At that time, "fire consumption" had almost become an undeserved rule of the local government office, and whenever the local people paid for public grain, the local officials would send their subordinates to stare at it. All that falls during transport and weighing is confiscated as "fire consumption". There are so many people in the city, and the "fire consumption" alone is a lot of income.
However, in response to the problem of "fire consumption", Yongzheng issued the policy of "returning fire consumption to the public". No matter how much fire is reported, what the shadow of the tax has become must be handed over to the public. You can't swallow it yourself at all, otherwise it will be punished for corruption, and the local people can still report it, and the upper and lower levels are staring with wide eyes, and many corrupt officials will naturally relent.
In this way, the people reduced some of the burden, and at the same time, Yongzheng also had more spare money to implement the next policy of "raising clean silver", which is actually a salary increase, so that officials can live a better life without being greedy. Such a turnip is a big stick, and it actually gets a very good effect.
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