HIS280Y1 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Yongle Emperor, The Peony Pavilion, Yongle Encyclopedia
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Yangtze valley: concentrate power in himself, tried to execute idea of farming/agricultural-based society, ordered all people in ming to set aside land to feed silk worms, farm lands = highest property of value. Juren: provincial level of scholar-official degree appointed a low government position. Pre-stamped documents scandal: expects people to be monitoring on ground censuses, grain tax = central, officials left forms blank stamped and sent to central bureaucracy -> became stamped. Jianwen emperor (r. 1399-1402: consolidation of central government, trimming power of his uncles/relatives, went missing, prince of yan, became yongle emperor, looked to neo-confucian ideas (righteous region/righteous filial son of former. Late ming may have re-exported to manchus ming trade essential to. Manchu rise: given title by the ming (bring people in by giving them titles and court presences, hereditary vassal , declares vendetta against ming claims family revenge he should take against.