Wanli Youming

Chapter 206 Suppressing the Righteous Forces

Chapter 206 Suppressing the Righteous Forces

"Master Hui Bing, the younger one only knows that the second owner's family lives in Jurong County, and they are Mr. Huang from the county, but the eldest owner doesn't know, it is said that they live in Nanjing City."

Many gentry and landlords in the Ming Dynasty would play the tricks of cunning and flying.

Therefore, the nominal landlord of a property may be different from the actual landlord. The real landlords of many fields are high-ranking officials and gentry from other villages.

Some fields also have the second owner and the first owner.

It is precisely because the real landlords of many fields are big officials and gentry from other villages, rather than the farming society before serious land annexation, that is, the situation where most of the landlords are local landlords.

Therefore, compared with the local landlords, these high-ranking officials and gentry from outside the country will not pay attention to the friendship and clan friendship, nor will they be willing to help the tenant farmers in times of catastrophe, or reduce rent and interest to benefit the tenant farmers. We hope to increase the exploitation as much as possible, and only ask for more rent and interest, so the exploitation is even more serious.

This situation is most obvious in Jiangnan.

The local landlords are basically the middle and lower class landlords and self-cultivating farmers, the so-called rich peasants.

Because it is difficult to become a big landlord just by annexing land locally.

If you want to become a big landlord, it is not enough to annex the township.

Therefore, the middle and lower class landlords and self-cultivating farmers are the basis for maintaining the stability of a natural economic empire, which is equivalent to the middle class of later generations.

They have the initiative to maintain the stability of the local grassroots for the imperial court, and they are also the main source of taxation for the imperial court.

But generally speaking, the number of this group will decrease, and they will either be reduced to tenant farmers or refugees, or become large landlords who occupy fertile land across the county.

The abolition of preferential exemption is to avoid the reduction of the number of this group, to ensure the long-term fortune of the country, and to curb the annexation of big landlords.

Therefore, Hai Rui, as an official who is also a small landlord, also supports this, and knows that ensuring the interests of these small landlords is not infringed, which is conducive to the stability of the country.

After hearing this, Chen Yijiang had no choice but to let Xia Dongyang say the name of his second employer.

Next, Chen Yijiang continued to take his own patrol team to other places in the area he was in charge of to clean up according to the intelligence.

boom!

boom!

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It is precisely because of the officers and soldiers of the patrol team, Chen Yijiang and Hu Huaide, who were suppressing everywhere, that for a while, there were gunshots everywhere in the Nanzhi area.

One by one, the country bullies and thieves were shot.

However, large-scale suppression operations are still only carried out in the countryside.

Therefore, the big bureaucrats and gentry who live in the city don't know much about the situation. They just know that Hai Rui has posted a notice that the National Taxation Department will continue to supervise the taxation, and has ordered the release of Qi Jin, a pro-army military officer. Order to Yingtian government office.

"This Hai Rui, why did he suddenly change his mind again!"

At this moment, Gu Bingren, a wealthy gentry, asked Huo Weida, a son of a bureaucrat who pretended to be a pro-military guard and participated in the gang-rape of a girl from Ge's family, with a puzzled expression.

Huo Weida said: "I don't know, Lu Qianxian and several other officials have gone to the governor's office to ask about the situation."

"But thinking about it, it might have something to do with Hai Rui knowing that Jin Yiwei came to Yangzhou to take people, and he also guessed that the court's attitude is actually very tough, so he decided to continue to be tough and avoid being blamed by Jiang Ling. It is also possible that he knew about it in advance. Attitude!"

"Forget it, stop guessing!"

Gu Bingren waved his hand, said something, and then said: "There is no turning back when you open the bow. There are some things that we have done, so there is no reason to stop. Otherwise, we can only be despised by these officials and the court. Local officials and gentry can really make decisions at will!"

"Order, let us send out to pretend to be pro-military guards or directly serve as domestic slaves of thieves and bandits, and send them to buy local ruffians, continue to launch civil uprisings, continue to abandon farmland and strike the market!"

"He, Hai Rui, is nothing more than tens of thousands of soldiers and guards who can be relied on, and the rest are just cowardly and fearful fools who are as unrespected as sand. It's okay for him to make decisions for them. Do you really expect them to make decisions for him?"

"However, as far as the students know, this Hai Rui has been letting the pro-military guards contact and train the villagers from the very beginning, and now they have even set up a patrol team to hunt and suppress bandits everywhere."

Howard said.

"We can only maintain stability in the countryside!"

"We still control big cities such as prefectures and counties, and even some big towns. Which big family doesn't have hundreds or thousands of domestic slaves or hundreds or thousands of hired workers? Adding in the people of their own tribes, it can be said that these places are not only The government office is not ours, everything else is ours, and Hai Rui can't rely on tens of thousands of pro-military guards and a few organized militias to eliminate the civil uprising, at least it won't be that easy!"

"In any case, the advantage is on our side!"

"Hai Rui has only one person, and we need the support of many powerful people on the surface and secretly, and we can mobilize more money and food than him, and he, Hai Rui, will never be willing to transfer money and food from the court to those untouchables! What else would he change!"

Gu Bingren spoke at this moment.

After hearing this, Huo Weida nodded and said, "Then let them continue to fight?"

Gu Bingren nodded.

……

Here, Hai Rui directly refused to see Sun Guangyou, Lu Huo and others on the pretext of illness, but stayed in the backyard, eating sweet-scented osmanthus cakes to satisfy their hunger, and at the same time told Lu Kun and Tang Chuanxun:

"In the name of this hall, I would like to ask the imperial court to abolish all humble registries, and all households such as Danmin will be exempted from Dingyin for one year. If you can actively participate in the activities of reducing rent and interest, you will be rewarded if you do meritorious service. Silver, and even appointed inspectors and inspectors of the inspection department on the spot!"

"However, don't delay farming and fortifications. Participate in clean-up operations and rent and interest reduction activities while working."

"Since the emperor has made up his mind, we just need to win the support of the people now."

After Hai Rui finished speaking, Lu Kun asked, "How about the money and food needed to organize these activities?"

Hai Rui had already made up his mind about this, so he said: "Don't worry about the money and food. We will issue a general order to all the prefectures and counties, asking them to take out all the food in the Changping warehouse and the money and food in the treasury, and pay the newly recruited people in advance. After the taxes of the officials and gentry are collected, the church will make up for them, and everything has evidence in hand, so don’t worry.”

"In addition, I will write another book to the imperial court, asking the imperial court to allow the hall to select outstanding civilians in the patrol team to be patrol officers and soldiers of the inspection department after the restoration of order in one place, and in some important towns where no imperial officials have been stationed, Add an inspection department!"

"Large cities and towns directly set up counties, and even asked the court to allow the main hall to set up towns in some important towns, the same as in Li, but mainly govern new emerging cities and towns, and allow the main hall to directly select local scholars to act as county magistrates and master Bozhi. Officials should be in charge of these towns, or officials should be stationed at the ri level!"

"The south of the Yangtze River is rich and rich, with a large population, especially a large number of unemployed people. There are also many new towns and new stores. However, there are also many big officials, gentry, and bureaucrats. Many places are even dominated by expatriates!"

"Many places are only managed by a few wealthy businessmen with rich gentry backgrounds, and these wealthy businessmen only blindly steal or monopolize the market, and do not actively maintain local stability. Instead of being active in disaster relief like traditional clans, they took this opportunity to hoard and annex fields, forcing more farmers to go bankrupt and become refugees and become their hired laborers.”

"The court can't really let the gentry govern themselves in order to save money!"

"The gentry's self-government has always been inferior to the imperial court, and most of the squires don't care whether the whole world is stable or not;"

"Even virtuous gentry with local origins mostly only know how to protect their own place, but are not active in paying taxes, and their sense of responsibility for disaster relief is not as good as that of the imperial court. At least they cannot coordinate, at most they are more concerned about their own local disaster relief Be positive."

"Especially in Jiangnan, most of them are high-ranking officials and gentry, and they don't care if there is chaos outside the city!"

"In short, since there is going to be a river of blood to clean up, then we can't let blood flow like a river. We might as well take this opportunity to send more officials to take care of more people's livelihoods, take on more functions of maintaining the country's destiny, and open up more Tax sources come out."

Hai Rui then ordered again, but he didn't say that all his plans actually came from the instructions in the handbook Zhu Yijun gave him.

When Hai Rui made such an arrangement, the local diehard rightists did instruct the slaves, hooligans, and even bandits to start making waves, and also began to let the major tenant farmers and merchants under their control abandon their farms and strike the market.

Only this time, the slaves and hooligans they ordered did not succeed.

On this day, it was a sunny day in the golden autumn. Outside Moling Pass, a group of merchants had just been stopped by a group of hooligans pretending to be pro-military guards. A plowing patrol team led by Zhong Changdong gathered from the nearby farmland and charged. Come over, grab the firearms, spears, swords, wooden shields and other guys hidden in the haystack and rush forward, beheading these hooligans to the ground.

However, after Hai Rui knew that some people in the city were on strike and even threatened small merchants to strike, he specially ordered some patrol teams to enter the city, began to strengthen urban management, maintain business order, and forced some grain stores and other stores controlled by large households to open the market, or directly Let the eunuchs of the inner court set up grain stores and other imperial stores to open the market to meet the daily needs of urban residents.

Bang!

In a large food store in Shangyuan County, a patrol team led by Li Juexian, who had just arrived in Shangyuan County, forcibly broke in.

Wang Gangui, the second owner of this big grain store, immediately walked out of the backyard of the grain store with a dozen thugs, and shouted: "Who are you, dare to break into our grain store, do you know the origin of our big owner! "

"It doesn't matter what your boss's origin is, the strike now is a rebellion, a rebel, you should be punished!"

After Li Jue finished speaking, he stepped back, and immediately a group of gunmen aimed at Wang Gangui.

Boom!

Before Wang Gangui had time to beg for mercy, he was beaten and riddled with holes.

Li Juexian came over and asked, "Who are the shopkeeper and accountant?"

Two half-aged middle-aged men in cloth shirts immediately knelt down: "We are!"

"This grain store is already owned by thieves, but it has been forfeited by the government. It will be auctioned soon, but before it is auctioned, it belongs to the governor's office!"

"Therefore, I ordered you to open the market immediately with the governor's official letter! And don't raise the price indiscriminately, otherwise, you will be punished as a traitor!"

After speaking, Li Jue took out Hai Rui's official letter and ordered.

The shopkeeper and accountant hurriedly agreed, and opened the market immediately.

For a while, many rightist forces in the southeast were suppressed by the patrol team.

(End of this chapter)