It is interesting to say that today on the Internet, there are a lot of cp, what Lin Daiyu fell in love with Voldemort, the US team fell in love with Wang Baoqiang, and some people carved the CP of historical figures.
Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Yongliang are often put together, saying that they are a life and death enemy, but this is somewhat inappropriate for the cp mainstream.
Don't you say that Old Zhu lived for decades longer than Old Chen, even in the era when the masses were juxtaposed at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. The protagonists of the era are not only Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang, sandwiched between the two of them, there is also a tyrant who cannot be ignored.
That is Zhang Shicheng, so if you must pull Lang to match CP, it must be a triangular relationship. Can be juxtaposed with Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang, we are also a hero who steps on the colorful clouds and holds the Sword of Zixia in his hand.
What is the origin of this Zhang Shicheng? What's the big deal? How did you get involved with Uncle Zu?
Zhang Shicheng's original name was Jiusi, you can also call him Zhang Jiusi, as I said before, ordinary people in the Yuan Dynasty were generally very casual in their names.
Most people's names are the simplest number collocations, such as Zhu Yuanzhang's real name is Zhu Zhongba, his father's name is Zhu Wusi, and his grandfather's name is Zhu Chuyi.
Zhang Shicheng, his name is Zhang Jiusi, although he is one number away from the Nine-Five Emperor, his birth is not much different from Zhu Yuanzhang. It's all proletarian mud legs.
Born in today's Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, the eldest in the family, there are three younger brothers below, the Zhang family has no money and no land to support, so many sons, can only send them out early to make a living on their own.
Then Taizhou is the commercial capital nantong in the east, and Yancheng, an important salt-producing town, in the north. The poor people who have no money and no land in the surrounding area are either working as salt transporters or salt sellers who sell salt.
It may also be both employees and smugglers, and the Zhang Shicheng brothers are no exception, embarking on the dangerous road of selling smuggled salt.
The one who said, I sold a salt? Obviously, a bag of salt is only a few dollars, and I can't make any money. In ancient times, in addition to salt, it was also one of the most important financial sources for governments in successive dynasties.
Selling salt is like robbing the treasury of silver, you say that the danger is not dangerous? In ancient China, agriculture was the mainstay, and the commodity economy was underdeveloped.
Most of the tax revenue is basically carried by bitter farmers, and they can't squeeze out much oil and water. It was not easy for the emperor to get more money.
If the emperor is naïve and romantic one day, speaking of this year? I want to get a little more money, taxes plus a loss of money can not be.
No, if you don't get it right, the people will rebel. Therefore, successive dynasties and dynasties have been pondering how to quietly collect more money from the common people.
Under this line of thinking, the government has set its sights on salt. First of all, whether rich or poor, whether you are an individual, you have to eat salt, and raising taxes on this is equivalent to covering the whole people.
Second, salt production is limited. It is either a salt field near the sea, or a few salt ponds inland, and the well salt is also easy to control. The cost of producing table salt in the end is very low, so there is particularly room for mark-up.
In this way, today's sale of one or two dollars a pound of salt was monopolized by the government in ancient times as a luxury product. Expensive is just that, the quality is not good, some of the lack of salt in the place is not able to afford to eat salt, you can only use peppers to replace.
After all, peppers can be planted, but salt is not enough, so you see until today, why the coastal areas of Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang people do not eat spicy.
They are all ancestral flavors, and there are salt pools who still eat chili peppers. I don't have money to eat chili peppers. Living in ancient times, we ordinary people could only buy inferior salt purchased and sold by the government at a high price.
This is equivalent to paying taxes to the state in disguise, but what can you do, don't eat salt? Or do you want to eat salt without giving money? The common people could only obediently send silver.
Taizhou is close to the Lianghuai Salt Farm to produce sea salt, and at its peak, the salt tax revenue of the Two Huais accounted for more than half of the country.com. There are two sentences about how to say that the most profitable business in the world is written in the criminal law, which is the same in ancient times.
The government's control of the salt works is indeed strict, and ordinary people cannot interfere at all, but driven by huge interests, there are always those who want money and do not want to die, who can secretly transport salt, the so-called private salt, which is how it comes.
As for these people, not only is the price far lower than that of official salt, but the quality is also much better than the bitter and astringent salt sold by the official, which is very popular with the people.
Zhang Shicheng and his brother did this kind of business. On the surface, the Zhang family brothers are driving small boats, transporting official salt is engaged in logistics, and secretly they sell private salt.
The wool of the country is vigorously squeezed, and the more private salt there is, the less the income of official salt is reduced, so the successive governments have not been soft on the crackdown on the sale of private salt.
Grab it together, light weight and kill the head, so although the sale of smuggled salt is profitable, it is also very dangerous. A careless head moved.
In addition to being caught by the government at any time, they must also be eaten by local evil forces, such as some local rich and wealthy households. He coveted the cheapness of private salt, but he did not want to give money, did not give money, and threatened to go to the government to report Zhang Shicheng for selling private salt.
Sometimes, even the lowest-ranking people in a county can use their identity within the system to scold the Zhang Shicheng brothers.
Collect a protection fee today, and tomorrow you will have a tobacco, wine, and tea, and squeeze it in every way. Many times, the Zhang Shicheng brothers swallowed their anger. Hide from the government and endure the evil forces.
One after another, Zhang Shicheng's business has become bigger, the upgrade has been more strange, and some famous halls have been mixed up on the island. The jianghu has the rules of the jianghu, Zhang Shicheng preached righteousness and light money, and gradually became a small leader among the salt smugglers.
Finally, one day, Zhang Shicheng couldn't bear it, gathered 18 good brothers, and took advantage of the dark wind in the night to kill the autumn yi. Probably feel that you have killed people, kill one without loss, kill ten blood to earn.
Zhang Shicheng and his brothers continued to work hard, and killed the rich households who sold private salt without paying money and threatened to report them.
After the quick revenge, Zhang Shicheng did not stop doing two things, and burned the rich family's house and held high the anti-flag. In this way, Zhang Shicheng embarked on the road of rebelling against the Yuan Dynasty uprising.