Having nothing to eat is a terrible thing.
If you are hungry for one day, you may feel nothing. If you are hungry for two days, you may only feel slightly uncomfortable. If you are hungry for three days, you may still be able to persist.
Starve for four days, and as long as a piece of food appears in front of you, you may give up your dignity and all morals.
Once tens of thousands of people are hungry to a certain extent, there is no hope.
Mainly if someone waved it casually, these hungry people would transform into beasts!
When natural disasters strike, they are fatal to ordinary people, they are money to profiteers and corrupt officials, and they are a challenge to the country.
Even in later generations, transportation systems have undergone tremendous changes.
But once a natural disaster occurs, the first step for businessmen is not to ration sales to help people tide over the difficulties, but to hoard goods and try to turn 10% of natural disasters into 12% of man-made disasters.
In this beautiful country, there was a heavy snowstorm and the price of electricity increased 450 times.
The rich continue to live a life of feasting and feasting, while the poor can only freeze to death.
Another example is China's reforms in the electric vehicle industry. Helmets have suddenly increased several times in price. They are still busy collecting money first, but they will not deliver the goods to you.
No helmet? No, the company has a lot of inventory.
It is some businessmen who deliberately hoard.
A businessman refers to a person who uses certain tangible or intangible resources of himself or society as a tool to obtain profits and who has certain social responsibilities.
But the reality is often that many businessmen only care about profits and ignore responsibility.
Even for the sake of profit, many businessmen ignored the imperial ban and funded enemies.
Many times, natural disasters become business opportunities in the eyes of businessmen.
Once a natural disaster occurs, it goes without saying that the prices of necessities such as food will definitely rise first.
If the court doesn't kill them directly, it won't take long for these people to crazily collect necessities and form a monopoly to drain the people.
The common people are squeezed dry and can no longer survive. They will blame the businessmen, but they will also blame the government.
This is an absolute disaster for the country.
The founding emperor was not a fool. How could he not be aware of this situation? At the beginning of each dynasty, corresponding strategies were set up. For example, the Ming Dynasty set up special official warehouses to purchase grain at low prices during good harvests, and in disaster years, the court sold grain at low prices to farmers.
But as time went by, officials and businessmen colluded, and the court's legal system collapsed.
Before Zhu Youjian ascended the throne, this policy of the imperial court had become a piece of waste paper.
Many times, local officials will watch as food prices rise to a terrifying level in order to force people to sell their fields.
Treating the people as leeks, they want to squeeze them dry. After working hard all their lives, they can't even hold a coffin.
How could the people of such a dynasty recognize it?
Later generations said that the Ming Dynasty was fierce and the country was destroyed. The people of Ming Dynasty still resisted for decades.
But everyone knows in their hearts that it is a lie to fools.
When the Ming Dynasty fell, Jiannu entered the country under the pretext of avenging Emperor Chongzhen. Many landowners surrendered immediately upon seeing this.
I found out that Jiannu did not practice martial ethics. Then he secretly supported the rebellion.
If they were really strong-willed, how could they occupy the great land of the Ming Dynasty? They had slaves to the Han people for hundreds of years, and after the country was overthrown, there would still be a group of slaves bragging shamelessly every day?
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In fact, from a common sense point of view, vested interests such as officials and rich people share the same interests as the country. Only when the country is strong can their interests be guaranteed.
But in fact, since ancient times, those officials, wealthy people and other vested interests have never put themselves together with the country.
When the imperial court freely collected taxes from the rich, countless officials shouted that they would not compete with the people for profit.
But the funny thing is that they often lead the emperor to increase taxes on ordinary people.
In the hearts of most officials, they never regard ordinary people as citizens.
Zhu Youjian, who was well aware of the virtues of these officials, made all his reforms in opposition to the officials.
Zhu Youjian, who believes in information first, has also been committed to strengthening his ability to obtain information.
But I didn't expect that the other party would directly infiltrate the terminal of my information. ,
This also means that once he leaves the palace, his information will be leaked out soon.
This made Zhu Youjian even more worried about his life.
"Come here, pass the order. Immediately start the crackdown on gangsters and gang operations. We must complete the eradication of most of the social cancers in Ming Dynasty within two years."
After pacifying the Jian slaves, Zhu Youjian took advantage of the general trend and abolished the private soldiers of countless noble families overtly and covertly.
But the family was not willing to be a good boy, so they looked like a gang.
Human nature is driven by profit. Under the temptation of money, many gangs have become thugs of aristocratic families.
Zhu Youjian knew this very well, but the court needed a large amount of land at that time to resettle bankrupt farmers, and the court's main policy was external.
So just turn a blind eye to these gangs.
However, Zhu Youjian was not idle, and secretly formed dozens of gangs. The largest gang in Ming Dynasty, Liushui Gang, was formed by Zhu Youjian.
The rest of the gangs with more than a thousand people are infiltrated by Zhu Youjian's people.
Many gangs are ordinary people who are forced to gather together because of the oppression of the court and aristocratic families.
But with the passage of time and the bullying and shyness of many gangs, many gangs have become another big mountain on the people's heads.
In particular, after those gangs colluded with the local officials of the family, there seemed to be a trend of developing into the underworld.
However, these people were considered sensible. Although they collected protection fees and bullied the people, they did not cause any major troubles in the end.
If it were before, Zhu Youjian would have let them go.
But now Zhu Youjian is not ready to keep these cancerous tumors.
The reason is to do this. Mainly because Zhu Youjian is not a passive person who does not fight back when being beaten.
Although we still don’t know who is behind the scenes. But what is certain is that it is inseparable from those landlords from aristocratic families.
Cleaning up gangs at the same time has many unexpected benefits.
First of all, the court has not prepared for external battles in the past two years. Even if something happens, the court can suppress it.
Secondly, directly destroy the black hands of those aristocratic families and give the other party a warning. Let them know that the world's surname is Zhu.
Thirdly, the imperial court's projects in recent years have required a lot of manpower and material resources. Many gang members are young and strong, so there is no way to enjoy free sex.
Fourth: Regain the hearts and minds of the people, eliminate the major forces in the country, and prepare for the next plan to clean up officials.
"Send the order to the two capitals and thirteen provinces, and the chief envoy Si Yamen will each send 500 guards."
"Starting immediately, all soldiers from 493 guards and 359 units across the country are ready for battle."
"Pass the order..."
As Zhu Youjian's order was issued, 7,000 imperial guards quickly left the palace and headed to the political center of the Ming Dynasty local government with their tokens.
Guard posts everywhere were ready for battle.
