A farmer asked Chongzhen to ask for an old debt of more than 200 years, why did he not have a result

This farmer is Li Shixuan. He once took the so-called Zhu Yuanzhang's handwritten letter to ask Emperor Chongzhen to make him the Duke of Korea. But no one could tell whether the letter was genuine or not, so there was no result.

Because of the request that this peasant put forward to Chongzhen, Chongzhen couldn't accept it, and his name was Li Shixuan. He wanted Chongzhen to give himself the title of Han Gong, but of course Chongzhen would not agree.

This farmer is naturally not an ordinary person, his name is Li Shixuan, a native of Jixi County, Huizhou.

The so-called Taizu's handwritten letter may be a **, Li Shixuan's ancestors prepared such a letter in advance, and publicized it in the local area, and when Li Shixuan's generation arrived, he took this ** seriously, so he risked the world's disapproval and deceived the emperor here.

It's not that he doesn't go, but he doesn't dare, because he doesn't have any troops himself, and going to raid his house can be said to force them to rebel.

Mainly because Chongzhen has no ability to surpass their homes, if these people are raided for money, isn't it lifting a stone to shoot themselves in the foot? Once the house is raided, the situation will be unstable, and his country will be even more unsafe.

Classic legend: The Ming Dynasty fell because it couldn't borrow money? Reveal why Emperor Chongzhen is at the end of his rope.

The immediate cause of the fall of the Ming Dynasty was indeed the financial crisis, and the taxes of the Ming Dynasty did not increase for almost two hundred and fifty years (in fact, they were constantly decreasing, the agricultural tax was decreasing, and the commercial tax was decreasing even more). The country's financial difficulties led to famine and no money to provide relief; There was a war, and there was no money to pay the salaries. There is no money to help the victims, and the hungry people are in turmoil; There was no money to pay the soldiers, so the hungry soldiers were in rebellion.

The combination of the hungry and the hungry led to a massive civil rebellion. ** The lack of combat effectiveness of the army led to the inability of the state to eliminate neither external aggression nor internal rebellion. The financial crisis led to a military crisis, and the military crisis led to an even greater financial crisis, and so on in a vicious circle, the Ming Dynasty eventually went to its demise.

The reason for the limited tax base was the fiscal policy of Emperor Hongwu, during his reign, a system of fixed tax quotas was established. Minor adjustments were made occasionally, but the basic quota was never abandoned. Therefore, no matter how much cultivated land increases, how much the population rises, and how much the productivity progresses, the agricultural tax in the Ming Dynasty has always remained at this level.

In addition, the fact that business taxes are constantly being lowered and even close to being abolished in some places is certain. However, there is no need to say much about the reduction of commercial tax, because even in the early Ming Dynasty, commercial tax was not seriously collected to a large extent. Commercial taxes have always been in a state of nominal existence throughout the Ming Dynasty, and it is of no real significance to reduce them or not.

On the whole, some data from the early Wanli period are more representative in the Ming Dynasty: "Commercial tax revenues include 2.5 million taels of salt tax, more than 10 taels of tea tax, 40,000 taels of city tax, 600,000 taels of passage tax, and 200,000 taels of business tax, with a total of only 3.4 million taels" (which increased later, but basically did not make much difference). In comparison, the territory and population of the Ming Dynasty are far larger than those of the Song Dynasty, but the financial income of the Song Dynasty from salt, wine, and tea is close to 50 million taels.

Moreover, the late Ming Dynasty, the greater the resistance to increasing taxes. The resistance came from two sides, one was the pressure exerted on the emperor by the upper echelons of the civil bureaucracy; The other is resistance and obstruction at the grassroots level.

No, countless people have endured situations similar or even more miserable than his, but others have managed to solve the problem, and he has not been able to solve it.