Although I, the Qing Dynasty, are very stubborn in insisting on shaving my hair and wearing clothes easily.
Even after the Revolution of 1911, and even in later generations, there are many old people and children who are unwilling to cut their braids.
But, that’s later!
Now that I am Daqing, my figure is still very soft and I know how to adapt.
As long as there are no actual interests involved, it is not a big problem to open an opening on things like shaving your hair and changing clothes.
Bumubutai's rhetorical question made the expression on Feyanggu's face freeze.
He...can't refute it!
Because Dorgon is indeed not the emperor.
But he still spoke.
"In any case, I don't agree with the abolition of the decree on shaving your hair and changing clothes!"
However, Ye Bilong, who was in a plate, spoke again.
"Old Prince, my servant does not mean to abolish the decree on shaving your hair and changing clothes, but just to make a hole in the decree."
"For example, you can ask the Han people below to donate money to avoid shaving. As long as they donate money to avoid shaving, they don't need to shave their heads."
"But if you don't donate the money to get a shave, you have to keep your hair or your hair!"
Ye Bilong's suggestion made everyone in the court shine.
This thing seems to make sense!
The war in the south of the Qing Dynasty is now tense, and it is a time when a large amount of money and food are needed to support the military.
What to do if you have no money?
Increase taxes!
But now the taxes in the Qing Dynasty were already very heavy. After entering the customs, it was called the abolition of the Ming Dynasty's three-rate tax system, but in fact, the three-rate tax was included in the regular tax.
This operation can only be said to be worthy of my Qing Dynasty!
In terms of searching, it's awesome!
Under such circumstances, if taxes are increased further, it will only further intensify the already severe ethnic and class conflicts within the Qing Dynasty.
I am afraid that a large-scale uprising will break out in the north, which was originally relatively stable.
This is bad!
However, if you want to increase taxes and exempt money, then it doesn't matter.
Because the money is paid voluntarily. If you don’t have the money to pay, you don’t have to pay for shaving, just shave your hair.
For the people at the bottom, shaving their hair seems not intolerable in the face of real monetary benefits.
After all, hair and other matters, where is the money?
But for those gentry and landlords, literati and wealthy businessmen.
They were not short of money. In order not to shave their heads, there were probably many people who were willing to pay such a sum of money to the Qing court.
After all, your body and skin are affected by your parents, so shaving your hair to make it easier for you to wear clothes is even more extreme than wearing your hair at the left lap.
As long as there is a choice, which scholar can bear to shave his hair and change his clothes?
By then, I believe that with the additional income from the free shaving money, the financial problems of the Qing Dynasty will be alleviated a lot.
There is enough military expenditure for the army going south!
When Fei Yanggu heard this, he did not refuse outright, but began to think deeply with a dark face.
"How much should I charge for this free shave?"
Feiyanggu pondered for a long time and then asked.
In terms of attitude, he has begun to soften.
Since Bumbutai, who represented the imperial power, was unwilling and unable to bow his head, he had to be the one to bow his head.
Ye Bilong opened his mouth and said.
"It can be set at ten taels of silver per person and collected together with the autumn tax every year."
Ten taels of silver per year may not sound like much, but it is not a small number either.
At the very least, for many ordinary people, it is an astronomical figure that cannot be obtained no matter what.
But it's not too much. Ten taels of silver can probably be paid by ordinary small and medium-sized landowners gritting their teeth.
After all, the Qing Dynasty is planning to levy the free shaving money as a regular tax, instead of giving it to big landowners and businessmen as a privilege!
Although the amount of a single collection of ten taels of silver is less, the base of the collection has been greatly expanded, and the number that can be collected in the end is not likely to be small.
Bumbutai nodded in agreement, and then ordered someone to draw up an imperial edict.
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On the other side, the southern expedition army led by Tu Hai and Hong Chengchou had passed Tongzhou and headed south of the Yangtze River.
In order to reduce the consumption of transporting military supplies, the marching route of the Qing army followed the canal.
A large amount of military supplies, grain, artillery, gunpowder, etc. all moved southward via the canal.
Just to reduce the consumption of transportation on the road, and to minimize the number of required military and civilian attendants.
Although most of the wars between the Ming and Qing Dynasties took place in the south, the north settled down from the chaos at the turn of the Ming and Qing Dynasties before the south.
Counting from the Shunzhi period, it has been generally peaceful for more than ten years.
In the past ten years, the social environment has been relatively stable.
In addition, the turmoil in the late Ming Dynasty caused serious population losses in the north, the contradiction between man and land disappeared, and the involution was not serious.
Over the past decade or so, the population growth rate in the north has not been slow.
However, during the Chongzhen period at the end of the Ming Dynasty, due to the repeated disasters of rogue bandits, rebels, and the Qing Dynasty, the population loss in the north was too serious.
Even after more than ten years of recovery, the population of the entire north does not exceed 20 to 30 million.
If the army goes south and recruits hundreds of thousands of young men to serve as civilian laborers, it will have a huge impact on the production and life of the entire north.
It may even affect food production!
In order to avoid such a situation as much as possible, Hong Chengchou provided Tuhai with the idea of walking along the canal as much as possible.
Even if the price to pay for this is that water transportation is temporarily cut off, it doesn't matter.
Anyway, the war in the south is intense now, and it is impossible for food to be transported from the south to the capital.
The greatest use of water transportation for transporting grain from the south has been abolished.
Tu Hai was riding a horse, wearing a bright yellow mandarin jacket. He was tall and surrounded by countless soldiers in the middle. He looked very arrogant.
Hong Chengchou also traveled with the army, but he did not ride a horse, but sat in a sedan chair.
Hong Chengchou's health was not in good condition. He was old and weak.
As soon as he left the capital, he fell ill again. Although it was not an emergency, his body collapsed.
You can no longer ride a horse. If you want to accompany the army, you can only ride in a carriage or sedan chair.
However, the carriage was too bumpy and Hong Chengchou's body could not withstand the torment, so he finally decided to sit in a sedan.
Sitting in the sedan chair, his old face with ravines was full of illness.
His face was pale and weak, he was wearing a big cloak, and even in summer, he was holding a heater in his hand.
The army stretched back and forth for dozens of miles, with horses and infantry covering the sky and the sun.
Countless swarms of war horses can eat away almost all the green visible to the naked eye wherever they pass.
The water needed by the army and horses in one day can drain a small river.
The villages that the army passed through were basically turned into ruins.
The men, women, and children in the village ran away almost as soon as they saw that the army was coming.
Or they hid in a hidden place like a cellar to avoid the disaster!
No fool can survive in the chaotic times of the late Ming Dynasty.
People have basically summed up their own experiences on how to prevent and avoid military disasters.
The powerful clans formed strongholds to protect themselves. The walls of their forts were even taller and stronger than the city walls of some state capitals and counties.
There is no shortage of weapons, food and medicinal materials in the Wubao, and there are even muskets and artillery.
It’s not easy to defeat!
Weak villages and towns prepare escape routes in advance and dig cellars for emergency escape.
As the Qing army marched south, they saw such a desolate scene.
Hong Chengchou opened the sedan curtain, forgot about the desolation outside, and sighed.
"The world is in turmoil and the people are scattered!"
"When will this kind of suffering end?"
At this time, Hong Chengchou still did not think that he was wrong to be a traitor, but he did not understand why so many people in the world resisted the rule of the Qing Dynasty one after another.