After killing Li Zicheng, Emperor Chongzhen's wish was also fulfilled, and it happened to be the New Year at this time.In the past, people always called the New Year the New Year, because for ordinary people, the New Year meant paying off their debts.In the past, the common people were miserable, they worked hard to cultivate the land for a year, and in the end they had to pay a lot of debts.Most of the creditors take the 30th day of the lunar month as the deadline for repaying their debts, and many poor people can't earn a few coppers all year round, don't they feel sad this year?
What should I do if I can't pay off my debts?
Selling wives, sons and daughters, so the maids and servants in the past era were very cheap, and the rich could buy servants for only a few taels of silver.But regardless of whether the people are willing to celebrate the New Year, this New Year is still coming.The Ming Dynasty is too big, and the regional development is particularly unbalanced, at this time the snow covers the earth, and the north and south of the Yangtze River enter the new year at the same time.Some places have already purchased New Year's goods, such as Beijing, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Guangzhou and other relatively wealthy places, most of the people can eat and dress warmly, so these places have the most laughter.In Shaanxi, Gansu, Henan and other places, because of the annual famine, the common people have been on the verge of starvation.Although they have relief food from the imperial court to eat, there are many monks and little porridge, so such a little emergency food is not useful at all.Countless ordinary people have either become thieves and live by burning, killing and robbing; Or stay at home behind closed doors, freezing and starving to death.Chongzhen once naively thought that relying on sweet potatoes and corn, he could make all the people live a good life of food and clothing.However, reality slapped him hard.Not to mention the disaster-stricken wastelands such as Shaanxi, Gansu and Henan, these places are too severe for sweet potatoes and corn to be saved.Even the common people in Hubei, a land of fish and rice, are living miserable days, sweet potatoes and corn are used for fart?
No matter how much is harvested, it is also owned by the landlord.Daming can be said to be rotten from top to bottom, and it is not something that can be solved by Chongzhen killing a group of corrupt officials and copying the homes of a group of wealthy businessmen and gentry, in fact, it cannot solve the fundamental problem at all.The various interest groups are too complicated, colluding up and down, implicating a wide range of people, the imperial power is not under the county, and the county level is messing around, what can he Chongzhen do?
Take the maritime merchant as an example, Chongzhen obviously knows that the chief leader of the maritime smuggling is Zheng Zhilong, can he kill Zheng Zhilong?
Although Zheng Zhilong is loyal to Chongzhen, it is because Chongzhen did not touch his fundamental interests.If Chongzhen really wanted to control the maritime trade, believe it or not, Zheng Zhilong would immediately take his sailor and continue to be his great pirate?
Take the landlord as an example, the biggest landlord in the Ming Dynasty is the vassal kings of various places, and these large and small vassal kings occupy more land than his emperor.But did Chongzhen dare to cut these vassal kings?
If he dares to cut the domain, believe it or not, he will come to Qingjun's side again in minutes?
Don't look at the Ming Dynasty raising the vassal king as a pig, these people are really pigs?
In fact, there are many capable people among the kings of the Ming Dynasty, and they are really going to be cornered, so it's strange if you don't kill a dog emperor?
For example, Chongzhen had just canceled the clan Lumi system before, and he was almost assassinated.The cancellation of the clan Lu rice is only harming the interests of a group of distant relatives of the royal family, and the real great feudal king doesn't care about such a little Lu rice at all.So don't look at the dissatisfaction and complaints of the vassal kings around the country at that time, but after all, it didn't hurt their roots, so these vassal kings were quite honest.Chongzhen is worried!
What is more advanced than before is that the emperor's decree can finally go out of the palace, and the provincial officials still listen to him on the surface, and Chongzhen has more silver on hand, and he is no longer a poor ghost.And there are a group of loyal ministers and good generals around him, plus two factories and one guard, which gives Chongzhen a sense of security, anyway, he is not afraid of assassination or open killing.In the new year, the winter day is slowly rising, and the sun is shining on the snow, which is exceptionally warm.This made the officials and people of the Ming Dynasty have a delusion that there will definitely be a good year in the coming year.Only Chongzhen knows that the locusts and plagues have not yet gone into battle, and I don't know how many living beings will die by then?
Early in the morning of the new year, colorful lanterns are hung in the palace, there are colorful silk lanterns, there are also glass lanterns, colorful, and it is very beautiful.As soon as Chongzhen Fu got into bed, the palace maid and eunuch moved the emperor's dress and crown, which weighed at least dozens of catties.Luxurious is really luxurious, it is a very cumbersome, layered, and lively packed zongzi.The most depressing thing is that it is inconvenient to go to the toilet, which makes Chongzhen quite depressed.Then Chongzhen wanted to wear this emperor's dress and crown, and accept the worship of the military officials in the Fengtian Palace, the ministers were tired of kneeling, and he, the emperor, was also tired.finally sat down, returned to the harem, and had to accept the visit of the queen concubines, princes and princesses, and it was another messy etiquette, which almost made Chongzhen tired to death.The only thing that made Chongzhen happy was that the harem concubines had finally lost a little weight and were able to barely wear the brocade clothes given by Chongzhen.And in the evening, Chongzhen set up a banquet in the Qianqing Palace, feasting the queens and concubines, as well as the princes and princesses.Tonight, the dress of the Qianqing Palace is also new, and there are all kinds of plum blossoms and daffodils in the palace, which are also very good-looking.Since Chongzhen ordered the cancellation of the greenhouse, Daming has no out-of-season flowers.And Chongzhen finally changed out of the complicated dress crown and put on simple homely clothes, and he suddenly felt light.Queen Zhou and the concubines of the harem are also dressed up very gorgeously tonight, Queen Zhou is wearing a woven gold skirt, and there are really a hundred cute dolls woven on the skirt, which is festive when you look at it.And Tian Guifei and Yuan Guifei also dressed up deliberately, Yuan Guifei was dressed up quite well, the fat powder was very light, and her skin was moisturized just right.But Tian Guifei, who doesn't use fat powder on weekdays, is a little abnormal today, she actually wiped the white on her face, and I don't know how many layers of powder she slapped on her face?
Fortunately, the candle flame in the Qianqing Palace was very bright, and although Concubine Tian painted it white, it didn't look particularly strange against the backdrop of the lights.It's just a vampire who can't look closely, and if you look closely, you'll get out of it.Chongzhen has never understood the psychology of women, he really doesn't understand, this Tian Guifei's skin is clearly moisturized, why do you apply so much fat powder?
Ancient fat powder is not a good thing, and the fat powder with good effect is added with lead, otherwise how can it be called lead?
The heavier the lead powder, the less likely it is to agglomerate, and the more comfortable and natural it will be.But lead is a heavy metal, and long-term application of this thing will make people chronically poisoned, and then after only a few years, the woman's face will not be able to be seen.