After inquiring from all directions, Madoudou and Zhiguoguo found out that their place was Yingtian Prefecture, the capital of the Ming Dynasty (now Nanjing).

While the brother and sister were looking for a ready-to-wear shop, the streets began to gather and walk in the same direction.

Madoudou and Zhiguoguo were a little curious. They didn't know what it meant to rush to the city gate in a hurry?

It’s said that it’s a escaping, but looking at the prosperity in the city, it doesn’t look like it?

"Let's go, sister, let's follow them to see." Ma Doudou took Zhiguoguo's hand and followed the crowd towards the city gate.

I saw a man in a flying fish suit, holding a sword in his hand, standing in front of the posting list at the gate of the city. Behind him was the yamen guarding the city posting notices he brought.

The crowd was whispering, some people applauded and some people were directly applauding at the scene.

Because Ma Doudou was small, the people in front of him blocked his sight. He tried his best to tiptoe and finally saw only a little bit of the word "Li".

"What are you crowding with, your parents, and you are just watching these contents. What are you worried about as a furious child?"

Because Madoudou squeezed into the person in front, the bearded man in front scolded Madoudou angrily.

The man who had just been wearing a flying fish suit and rode his horse quickly, pushed away the man who spoke and scolded Ma Doudou, and he nodded to Ma Doudou.

"Come here, the others retreat."

When Ma Doudou saw that she was named by the man in the flying fish costume, she inexplicably started to play a small drum in her heart. The man in the flying fish costume in front of her was the Jinyiwei...

Ma Doudou protected Zhiguo behind her, walked forward carefully, and looked at the man in the flying fish suit at a loss.

"I'm sorry, my sister and I got separated from our parents when we came out because of a famine in our hometown. I saw you posting notices here, so I wanted to come and have a look..."

Before Ma Doudou could finish his words, the man in Feiyu Suit interrupted him.

"See that the clothes on you don't look like those of my Ming Dynasty, where is your hometown? Where is the famine?"

Facing the aggressive questioning of the man in the flying fish suit, Ma Doudou was so scared that she pulled Zhiguoguo and knelt directly on the ground.

"If you want to go back to your brother, we are really from a very far place..."

The man in the flying fish suit still had a childish face, and he was only fourteen or five years old. His deep eyes looked straight into Ma Doudou's eyes. After a moment of silence, he spoke quietly.

"How far is it, no matter how far it is, I will also go and see it in the future."

The man in the flying fish costume said that Ma Doudou was so shocked that he was very happy. Could it be that the person standing in front of him was the legendary Ma Sanbao (renamed Zheng He during the Zhu Di period).

Ma Doudou covered the joy in his heart, and he modestly asked the man in Feiyusu's clothes about the contents of the notice on the city wall.

"Brother, I wonder what the content of this announcement is?"

In fact, Ma Doudou didn't ask, and Ma Sanbao was interested in reading the content of the announcement to everyone.

It turned out that the content of the announcement was that the Ming Taizu reduced taxes from farmers in disaster-affected areas, and also implemented large-scale tax exemptions across the country.

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【Sesame brother and sister have something to say】

Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, whose courtesy name was Guorui, was originally named Zhu Chongba and Zhu Xingzong. He was born in Guzhuang Village, Taiping Township, Zhongli, Haozhou (now Fengyang, Anhui).[2]. The founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, with the reign of "Hongwu".

In the first month of the first year of Hongwu, Emperor Taizu of Ming was located in Yingtian Prefecture, and changed the country's name to Daming and the year name was Hongwu. In the autumn of the same year, Dadu was captured, ending the Yuan Dynasty's rule in the whole country. Later, it pacified the southwest, northwest, Liaodong and other places, and finally unified the country.

During the reign of Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, he strengthened centralization politically, abolished the Prime Minister and the Secretariat of the Central Secretariat, set up three departments to control local power, severely punish corrupt officials and illegal nobles; in military terms, he implemented the garrison system; in economic terms, he carried out large-scale immigration and military terms, developed water conservancy, reduced tax burdens, measured national land, checked household registration, etc.; in cultural terms, he focused on education, promoted the imperial examinations, and established Imperial College to cultivate talents; in foreign relations, he established a "non-invested country" (i.e., did not actively send troops to conquer and incorporated the other party into friendly and neighboring countries).

Ming Taizu was well aware of the pain caused by famine to farmers. After he ascended the throne, he often reduced taxes or provided relief to farmers in areas affected by disasters and wars, and implemented large-scale tax exemptions across the country many times. The second year of Hongwu was the first large-scale tax exemption for land in the early Ming Dynasty. In the following three, four, and nine years, he also successively exempted taxes in Yingtian, Henan, Beiping, Shandong, Jiangxi, Liangzhe and other places. By the 24th year of Hongwu, the land in the world had reached 4 million hectares. After the efforts of the Hongwu period, social production gradually recovered and developed, which was known in history as the "Governance of Hongwu".

Ming Taizu also cherished the people's strength very much and advocated frugality. Driven by his measures, farmers' enthusiasm for production increased. In the early Ming Dynasty, agriculture developed rapidly, and the ruined rural scene in the late Yuan Dynasty was improved. The recovery and development of agricultural production promoted the development of handicrafts and commerce in the Ming Dynasty. Ming Taizu's rest and recuperation policy consolidated the rule of the Ming Dynasty, stabilized the lives of farmers, and promoted production development.
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