Why is Zhu Yuanzhang so cruel that he can still sit on the mountain?

Clinton and Lewinsky are ridiculous enough! At that time, many forces tried to impeach him, but the American people forgave him only because his economy was doing well.

Ming people are smarter and more realistic than Americans.

The economic achievements in the early Ming Dynasty were really Zhu Yuanzhang's.

In the farming era, it was also very simple to engage in economy. Farming? That's enough. Less tax, more money for farmers, and the economy will live.

At the same time, it is necessary to use state power to carry out water conservancy projects, because a company really has no ability to build large-scale projects.

Zhu Yuanzhang often said to people:

Among the four people, farmers are the most hardworking and bitter. In spring, the chickens get up as soon as they crow and drive the cows to the fields to plow. After the seedlings are planted, you have to weed and fertilize, and you are sweating in the big sun, and you are also hard. It's easy to get the harvest, and there's not much left after paying the tax. In the face of drought, flood, insect disaster and locust disaster, the whole family was so anxious that there was nothing they could do. However, farmers pay all the taxes in the country, and it is their duty to be a policeman. Only by making the country rich and strong can farmers live and work in peace and contentment. ?

In order to let the peasants live and work in peace and contentment, Zhu Yuanzhang began to work before he became emperor.

In May of the first year of the Prince of Wu, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered:

Where Xu, Su, Hao, Si, Shou, Pi, Donghai, Xiangyang, Anlu and other counties, as well as Xintian and the future people, mulberry, hemp, millet, grain, corvee. Exemption for three years.

However, after decades of war, the people in these areas have long been poor and have no tools for labor.

Because people like Yuan Zhen, Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youliang didn't engage in production at that time. They only plunder, not engage in it? Dig a deep pit to accumulate grain? .

Zhu Yuanzhang has been in Nanjing for more than ten years and has money and food in his hand.

All newly recovered areas not only don't need money and grain, but also subsidize money and grain to the people in the newly occupied areas, lend them money to buy seeds and rent cattle.

Zhu Yuanzhang lent money to the people. Of course, people buy Zhu Yuanzhang's seeds and rent Zhu Yuanzhang's cattle.

Pay back the money after three years of grain collection!

In this way, people in Xu, Su, Hao, Si, Shou, Pi, Donghai, Xiangyang, Anlu and other counties will not think that Zhu Yuanzhang is cruel!

At that time, North China, especially the Central Plains, was already deserted.

In June of the third year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang gathered more than 4,000 unemployed and landless families from densely populated places such as Suzhou, Songjiang, Jiaxing, Huzhou and Hangzhou, and gave them money to cultivate cattle breeds, so that they could open up wasteland in Haozhou and give land titles. No tax was levied for three years.

These 4,000-odd households and tens of thousands of unemployed and landless people will not feel that Zhu Yuanzhang is cruel!

From then on, Zhu Yuanzhang began a great immigration. The Ming government will give title deeds and land to anyone who is willing to open up wasteland in a place with a large population and a small population. By the same token, Zhu Yuanzhang will lend it to you without cows and seeds.

However, land reclamation by one household is, after all, a small farmer and producer, and it is impossible to carry out large-scale water conservancy construction.

After Zhu Yuanzhang entered Nanjing, he began to engage in water conservancy construction in the areas under his control, especially after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

In the first year of Hongwu, Tongzhou Tongcheng weir sluice was repaired. Hongwu renovated Guangxi Lingqu in four years and opened 36 steep canals. Hongwu opened Hujia Port in Shanghai in six years, with a distance of 1200 feet from Haikou to Caojing, which is a feasible seagoing vessel. In eight years, Hongwu opened Penglai Pavilion River in Dengzhou, Shandong Province, and rebuilt Hongqu weir in Jingyang County, Shaanxi Province. Hongwu rebuilt Dujiangyan in Pengzhou, Sichuan in nine years. In the twelfth year of Hongwu, the sweet canal in xi 'an, Shaanxi Province was lengthened, and the Longshou canal water was introduced into Xi 'an City, and the people ate sweet water. Hongwu fourteen years built the Jiangnan Haiyan seawall and Yangzhou Guanfu River. In the seventeenth year of Hongwu, the Bahe River in Shenzhen and Hong Kong was in Jiangdu County, south of the Yangtze River. In the eighteenth year of Hongwu, the banks of the Yellow River, Qinhe River, Zhanghe River, Weihe River and Shahe River were built and raised. Hongwu built Fujian Changle seawall in the 19th year.