The basic characteristics and development trend of China's economic structure during the Ming and Qing dynasties

Like today's China, there were only different levels of development of productive forces.

The emergence of artisanal capitalism in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The central and western parts of the country were still characterized by deep-rooted feudalism.

The ruling class, the upright Donglin Party and other scholars, arose mainly in the highly developed Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, and colluded with the capital of rich merchants and landowners, tilting its policies in favor of the richer regions. Commercial taxes were almost non-existent, taxes were mainly collected from land, land annexation was serious, landed peasants were heavily taxed, landless peasants formed vagrants, and the budding capitalism couldn't tolerate enough transfer of labor. When natural or man-made disasters came, the displaced people naturally rebelled. The displaced persons themselves that the rabble, iron blood means can be suppressed, but also out of a, the bandits also my red son of Chongzhen Emperor, so that the internal war within the line, outside the war outside the line of the bandits drilled a hole.