As soon as Li Xiucheng sent troops, Wei Ze got the news. At this time, Wei Ze was attending a rural movement near Foshan. This is a "reasonable" meeting in the local town. At least half of them were ordinary peasants, and most of the other half were ordinary yeoman farmers or tenant farmers.

Wei Ze and the others all wore ordinary clothes and mingled with the staff of the Guangfu military government. He was joined by Minister of Finance Li Yuchang and Minister of Education Qi Yuchang. Li Yuchang was a very energetic man, and he did not give up after the meeting proposed to open the door to the gentry for promotion, which was strongly opposed by Wei Ze. Instead, he contacted the Minister of Education, Qi Yuchang, to speak to Wei Ze.

Both of them are people who are related to Wei Ze by marriage, but the reason why Li Yuchang asked Qi Yuchang to help him speak was not because he dared to suppress Wei Ze with the status of the so-called elder. is because Qi Yuchang served as a staff member in the Dongwang Mansion, and he can be regarded as a model for promoting literati and gentry.

When talking in private, Weser was not so excited. After listening to the two of them, Wei Ze said with a smile: "I will not change my views and positions, and not only will I not change, but I will also try to change the minds of the two of them." ”

So no matter how busy the two of them were at work, Wei Ze still took the two of them to participate in the "reasoning" in the countryside.

I watched the peasants calling friends and talking about their daily routines, and even some women brought their children to the meeting. This meeting did not have the indescribable sense of majesty and decency of the upper echelons of the Governor's Mansion. And Wei Ze is wearing a very ordinary military uniform, except for the red collar badge on the collar that can prove that he is an active soldier, there is no class badge, and there is no military merit badge. He looked like he was just an ordinary young soldier attending a meeting to maintain order.

With Wei Ze taking the lead, the two Wei Ze's in-laws and elders all wore very ordinary short clothes. Of course, the government workers of the Governor's Mansion are also dressed like this. The costumes of the two didn't look out of the ordinary in the crowd. There was a bit of pride in the expression on their faces.

It was an ordinary cadre who came to the stage to "reason", and the emblem of the Liberation Society on his chest proved that he was not a completely ordinary cadre. The cadres spoke in the local dialect. Cantonese is not very well understood. The cadres wrote some numbers on the blackboard, which the common people probably could not understand, and the cadres pasted several portraits on the blackboard, the people wearing robes represented the landlords, the incense burners represented the ancestral halls and temples, and the people wearing Manchu official uniforms represented the government. The figure with the hoe in his hand is an ordinary person.

The income of the peasants for how much grain they threh in a year is divided into fifty portions, each of which is represented by a vertical bar. The images of the two peasants are placed in the highest and second highest positions, and a full 5o vertical lines are drawn behind each peasant figure.

Then everyone began to settle the accounts. The landlord was in second place, and the peasants gave the landlord as much as they could, so they erased off a few lines of corresponding proportions from the peasants in the second row, and drew a few lines with the corresponding number jù behind the landlord.

As much as the yamen took away, they also wiped off a few lines from behind the peasants in the second row, and filled in a few lines behind the yamen.

Every year, the number of temples and ancestral halls is also taken from the peasants' lines in turn, and then added to the location of the corresponding temple.

With this name alone, there were not many vertical lines left in the position of the peasants in the second row, and the income of the landlords, the government, and the temple was greatly increased.

If you compare it like this, it's not conspicuous. The huge gap between the first peasant who did not hand over the income to the landlords, the government, and the temples, and the second peasant who paid the income to the landlords, the government, and the temples is so obvious. So much so that when the cadres asked everyone, "Who took your profits?" At that time, the peasants no longer had the same ease of visiting the temple fair as they did when they first attended the meeting. Everyone's face was ugly. It turned out that they worked hard for a year, and in the end, they didn't even have 30% left!

"Fellow villagers, we collect taxes when we restore the Governor's Mansion, and everyone knows it. We are now erasing the 30% tax of the Governor's Mansion. Let's take a look! After the cadre finished speaking, he wiped off the 30% tax behind the peasants in the first row. Even so, the gap between the first and second rows is staggering.

The cadre glanced around, "Fellow villagers, since we are settling accounts, such a single account has not been settled at all." Let's count the purchase of farm tools, the sale of grain, and the debts of everyone. ”

These are all the contents of the social survey, and the cadres took out the old wooden and wrought iron farm tools in the local area, and also took out the new agricultural tools provided by the agricultural supply and marketing cooperatives of the Governor's Mansion.

It's really people who have to die more than people, and goods that have to be thrown away. The vastly different quality of the farm tools, as well as the greatly different prices, were added to the calculation, one in and one out, and the vertical line gap between the two farmers became even greater.

The loan sharks in Foshan were also taken out. In order to buy farm tools and other daily necessities, everyone had to borrow money frequently, and these contents were expanded, and the income of the peasants in the first row was limited, while the income of the peasants in the second row was reduced.

After the basic accounts are calculated, the peasants in the first row probably still have about 40% of the income in their hands. The peasants in the second row had less than half of their incomes left.

The cadre was also tired, so he drank a few sips of water before putting down the teacup and asking, "Fellow villagers, do I have a problem with this account?" If you make a mistake, please tell us! ”

The people who came to the meeting had already begun to get excited, and all kinds of discussions, shouts, and even shouts that began in Foshan's local dialect turned the conference hall into a big honeycomb. Men are talking, women are talking, old men are talking. This is really a lot of people, and all the voices are mixed together, which makes Li Yuchang and Qi Yuchang, who originally didn't know Cantonese, even more unable to understand what the people are saying.

But at this time, there is no need to understand anymore, these two people have understood the mood of the people. Not to mention ordinary people, just looking at the proportion of the incomparably simple vertical line, people like Qi Yuchang who were born as bibliophiles know how unfair this world is. The people's hard-earned income throughout the year turned out to be a very small part of their labor income. Li Yuchang, who was born in a Hui businessman, knew that the world was hard, and the government's clever name of expropriation and extortion was much more than what the Guangfu cadres said.

Originally, there were a few people in the venue who looked like landlords, but at this time, Li Yuchang turned his head to look again, but saw that those people who looked like landlords had disappeared. Looking at the excited people, Li Yuchang had no doubt that if the cadres of the Liberation Association instigated violence against the landlords at this time, a few landlords who had a very low proportion of the people would only be in danger of escaping.

Li Yuchang turned his head to look at Wei Ze, but saw that Wei Ze's expression was as usual, and he even had some relief in it. turned his head to look at Qi Yuchang again, but saw Qi Yuchang's expression panicked. I don't know if it was the cruel world or the excited people that made Qi Yuchang feel terrified.

Why was the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom able to start from Guangxi and kill all the way to Jinling. Why was Wei Ze able to lead thousands of soldiers and horses at the age of less than twenty, from Zhili in the north to Guangdong in the south, across thousands of miles, and invincible. Now Li Yuchang completely understands!

There is no need to personally participate in the bloody battle, just look at the angry people in front of them, and look at the "truth" preached by the cadres of the Liberation Society. People struggle to survive in this cruel world year after year, and once they see the possibility of a better life, why don't they choose to rise up?

Of course, Li Yuchang knew why Wei Ze brought him and Qi Yuchang to the "reasonable" meeting, and some truths had to be spoken, listened to, and watched before they could be understood. Why did Wei Ze talk about the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the landlords and gentry, he had a kind of hatred from the bottom of his heart. As the leader of the rebels, Wei Ze would of course hate the Manchus and the landlords and gentry very much.

At this moment, the secretary came to say something to Weeser. Wei Ze got up and left the venue, and Li Yuchang and Qi Yuchang hurriedly got up and followed. I saw Wei Ze take a copy of the text outside the door, first read it hastily, and then read it carefully. Wei Ze signed and asked the confidential secretary to take Wen Jiàn away.

"Governor, what's going on?" Li Yuchang hurriedly asked. He didn't want to mention anything about the landlords and gentry now, and judging from the current situation, no amount of mention would change Wei Ze's position and attitude.

"Nothing. Something to fight a war. Wei Ze said, and after saying that, Wei Ze remembered something, "By the way, how is the wormwood collection arranged?" ”

Li Yuchang thought for a while before remembering this matter, and he hurriedly replied: "There are special funds to do this." Plant a part, buy a part. Is the governor going to produce mosquito coils on a large scale? ”

The military industry of the Liberation Army is not only the steel industry, and Wei Ze ordered the mass production of wormwood mosquito coils. The Liberation Army also immediately took action. Guangdong is not the only fertile land such as the Pearl River Delta, northern and western Guangdong is mountainous, and there is very little land suitable for farming, and the mountain people in these areas are living in great difficulty. The Restoration Army asked them to plant a large number of mulberry trees and wormwood, and the mulberry leaves were sent to the sericulture factory, and the wormwood was collected and sold to the Liberation Army, which used it to produce mosquito coils.

Wei Ze replied: "Part of it is used to produce mosquito coils, and the other is to be transported to Qiongzhou in large quantities. Mosquito bites are a big problem when mining Shilu iron ore over there, and the wormwood shipped there is used. ”

Hearing that the purpose of buying so much wormwood was to send it to Qiongzhou, Finance Minister Li Yuchang was stunned, and he said tentatively: "Governor, do you spend so much effort and spend so much money to transport wormwood like this?" There are very few people in Qiongzhou, and the land where wormwood is planted is always easy to find, right? ”

In northern and western Guangdong, where transportation is inconvenient and there are many mountains and few lands, the price of labor is extremely cheap. The price of mulberry leaves and wormwood is very low per load, but for those mountain people, the income is very considerable compared to the past. However, this means that the financial departments of the Liberation Army will have to spend more financial expenditures. That's not a small amount of money.

Wei Ze can fully understand Li Yuchang's surprise, if he hadn't seen so many things in the 21st century, Wei Ze himself might not have accepted such an approach. So Weeser did not criticize, but only explained: "In an industrial society, each member obtains the resources of his or her own life by the trade of the whole society, and the small-scale peasant economy is self-sufficient. If we want to continue to expand the Governor's Office, we must be able to undertake such operations. Grit your teeth and persevere, and in a few years you will be able to see how powerful such an industrial system really is. The industrial society will completely destroy the current China, and then build a great China that you can't think of! ”

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