HIS280Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Yongle Emperor, Hongwu Emperor, Jianwen Emperor
Document Summary
First time a native chinese dynasty unified the empire for 250 years, also the last time. Fixated on the mongols, the ming court built a series of fortifications that taken together constitute the great wall. Zhu yuanzhang hongwu emperor (1368 1398) Designed a fiscal system for a frozen, unchanging agrarian economy. Each man was to register his occupation with the authorities, who fully expected his descendants to perform the identical task in perpetuity. Six boards revenue, civil, appointments, rites, war, punishments, and works. Lijia system system of centralized control, grouping the population into groups of one hundred households, with ten head families in charge of taxation, also a system of mutual accountability. Yellow registers - detailed information about each individual and their landholding. Distrusted eunuchs, warned against their having too much power. The hongwu emperor named his grandson heir, the jianwen emperor.
