stjorthotic Chapter 474: Abolition Of Corvee In Disguise And Replacing Labor With Work! [Please Subscribe, Pleas
Chapter 474: Abolition Of Corvee In Disguise And Replacing Labor With Work! [Please Subscribe, Pleas
Below, Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, could not help but frown slightly after hearing what Yan Changqing said about "the imperial court giving money to the people".
Thinking to himself.
The imperial court hired a large number of people to build water conservancy projects, civil engineering projects, urban defense and military projects, and then paid the people wages?!!
Why does this sound so familiar?
After a while, King Yan Zhu Di suddenly raised his head, looked at Yan Changqing with some uncertainty and said:
"Mr. Yan, don't you want to abolish corvee service?"
The imperial court organized a large number of people to build water conservancy projects, civil engineering projects, and urban defense and military projects. Isn't this the corvee work of the Ming Dynasty!!!
There were three major corvees in the Ming Dynasty, namely Lijia Zongfu, miscellaneous corvee, and Jun corvee.
Among them, the corvee service of Lijia is based on the Lijia system.
When Zhu Yuanzhang first launched the Lijia system, Yan Changqing pointed out its shortcomings, so Zhu Yuanzhang gave up and did not continue to implement the Lijia system.
In other words, the corvee of Lijia's official service does not exist now.
However, although there are no regular servants in Lijia now, the miscellaneous servants and equalized corvee labor do not exist.
Menial labor refers to those non-recurring and temporary local errands that the government forces households to undertake.
The specific handymen include: cutting salary, carrying firewood, building roads, building rivers, building warehouses, building cities, transporting 630 materials, station shop, waiting, prison, warehouse, door, warehouseman, Zaoli, Pubing, Postman and so on.
As Yan Changqing just said, the imperial court organized a large number of people to build water conservancy projects, civil engineering projects, and urban defense and military projects, which were part of the miscellaneous labor.
Equal corvee refers to the various regular chores that the government conscripts according to the amount of rations of households.
For example, the errands, discounts, power differences, silver differences, etc. levied by the government offices at all levels are all equalized corvee labor.
For example, the so-called errands refer to private households taking turns serving as errands for the government.
If the force is poor, it means the labor is borne by the servant himself.
Discounting refers to using food, money and other physical goods to replace corvee labor. Its main forms include jailers, treasury clerks, scribes, long husbands, horsemen, waiters, soldiers, official postmen, etc.
Silver difference refers to the use of silver taels by servant households in place of servants. The form of silver difference includes discounts on horses, fodder, firewood, annual tribute, memorial archways, fasters, and diners, etc.
Of course, there is currently no clear distinction between miscellaneous labor and equal corvée in the Ming Dynasty, and they are basically not all called corvee.
As for the corvee labor in the Ming Dynasty, if we sum it up, it can be said that the people of the Ming Dynasty are like bricks, they can be moved wherever they need to be!!!
More importantly, all of this is a free obligation of the people, and the court will not give a penny to the people (bhfj)!!!
Even the people of the Ming Dynasty were forced to pay money to the court because of these corvees!!!
Now, as Yan Changqing said, "The imperial court hired a large number of people to build water conservancy projects, civil engineering projects, and urban defense and military projects, and then paid the people wages."
This is actually turning the original unpaid corvee work of the people of the Ming Dynasty into a healthy business that now requires the court to actively pay to recruit and hire people to work!!!
This move is actually equivalent to abolishing the Ming corvee in disguise!!!
Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan and other princes on the side, heard the words of King Yan Zhu Di and immediately understood where the strange feeling of familiarity in their hearts came from.
What Yan Changqing just said is indeed corvee, but it is paid corvee!!!
But can paid corvee still be regarded as corvée?!
The eyes of Zhu Yuanzhang, Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes were all focused on Yan Changqing. They wanted to hear Yan Changqing's accurate answer.
On the podium, Yan Changqing's eyes fell on King Yan Zhu Di, and he smiled slightly:
"It's not that we want to abolish corvee labor, but I think the 'work instead of labor' approach would be more reasonable."
"After all, unpaid corvee is still a kind of forced squeezing of the people's surplus value!!!"
"And this kind of forced oppression is extremely easy to cause dissatisfaction among the people!!!"
"In other words, it is actually easy to cause public resentment!!!"
"After all, if you work for others, not only will you not make any money, but you may also have to be responsible for your own three meals a day, and you may even have to repay others. Anyone who happens to this kind of thing will be resentful."
"It's like the story of the late Yuan Dynasty: 'One eye of the Mo Dao stone man stirred up rebellion in the Yellow River world.'"
"The reason why it was so easy to provoke the Yellow River people to rebel is that those people had great resentment because of the unpaid and forced Yellow River corvee in the former Yuan Dynasty."
"When the people's resentment rises, and then they are provoked by thoughtful people, and finally they become impulsive, they rebel!"
"So instead of continuing to implement unpaid and forced labor for the common people, it would be better to implement "work-for-service" instead!!!"
"At least in the case of work-for-service, the people who come to participate in corvee work are voluntary, and there is also a certain amount of remuneration for them."
"The common people who come to participate in the corvee basically have no resentment, and some are just grateful to the court!!!"
"Under such circumstances, no matter how much someone with intentions incites them, these people who participate in corvee labor because of 'work as a substitute for labor' will not be instigated or incited, let alone follow someone with intentions to rebel."
"In addition, the abolition of corvee actually improved the life happiness of the people of Ming Dynasty!!!"
"As the people's life happiness in the Ming Dynasty increases, the people's desire to have children will naturally increase."
"By then, the population of Ming people will further increase, and at the same time, the overall market of Ming will further expand."
"Eventually, the imperial court's overall fiscal revenue will further increase!!!"
When King Yan Zhu Di heard this, he couldn't help but rolled his eyes.
The idea of "replacing labor with work" sounds nice, but in the end it does not mean the abolition of corvee!!!
Of course, King Zhu Di of Yan did not mean that he disagreed with the abolition of corvee service.
In fact, he also knows that things like corvee can actually easily arouse the resentment of the people and lead to public resentment.
It's just that the Ming Dynasty was indeed poor in the past. In addition, the Ming Dynasty had just pacified the world, and the entire Central Plains was in ruins.
If you want to quickly restore the vitality of the Central Plains without spending money, you can only force the people to perform unpaid corvee!!!
But today’s Ming Dynasty is different from the past.
There are peanuts, sea salt, salted fish, and Yan Changqing sold two parts and two Saint colleges to Daming for a profit worth "ten billion yuan".
To a certain extent, the future Ming Dynasty will actually be very "rich"!!!
And when the court has money, then changing the people's unpaid corvee to work-for-service seems to be something worth considering.
After all, unpaid corvee can easily arouse the resentment of the people, but replacing labor with work can make the people feel grateful to the court.
At the same time, it can also improve the happiness of people's lives, stimulate the desire of Ming people to have children, increase the population of Ming people, expand the overall market size of Ming, and increase the fiscal revenue of the Ming court...
Whether you should choose the former or the latter, any normal person knows how to choose.
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