Zuojia Village in the traditional sense died out like this.

Before, the yeoman and kulak were the happiest. Not only did they escape the blow, but they also expanded their family business a little, and now they have started a new life.

However, it is only three seconds to be handsome, and under the blow of the world-destroying climate at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it is estimated that they will face bankruptcy again in two or three years. When the time comes, they will have to sell the land to the farms opened by the Crossing Crowd next to them, and then take a boat to the vast new world and start a truly happy life.

The middle class escaped for the time being, and the landlords of Zuojia Village faced a catastrophe. Even if they honestly only collect the tax arrears over the years, it is enough to shrink most of the family assets of these people.

After being forced to sell their land, these landlords lost the means of production on which they could exploit others, and became empty people.

So they went around in circles, and the gang began to move again: they needed to buy land elsewhere to survive. In fact, some of them have become rich peasants, and the hat of landlord is no longer worn.

Xiong Dao and the land requisition office under his leadership naturally don't care about the lives and deaths of these people, it's best to stay away, and if you stay, you have to find a way to clean them up again, it's too troublesome.

After squeezing out the upper strata and luring away the middle strata, what remains is the lower proletariat, which occupies the majority of the population. This part is the favorite population of a certain force: revolutionary bricks, you can move wherever you want.

The 1,000 tenant farmers in Zuojia Village have now begun the process of transformation: two-thirds of the strong laborers and some women have been driven to Zhangsutan, the men build the port, and the women cook. They have changed from sharecroppers to hired laborers, and they will be transformed into industrial workers in the future when these people are transported away one after another.

The remaining old and sick people in the village, as well as some of the laborers, began to level the land and prepare for the sowing of new crops brought by the owner's family - the surrounding area had become a large and contiguous farm that was rare in the Ming Dynasty, so the remaining people were enough to cope with the farm work.

Those who remained behind lost the right to manage the land and the right of the tenants to make independent accounts. They are now in the same nature as those workers in Taiwan, and they are all salaried employees on "state farms."

Although they are very uncomfortable and do not understand the stakes, for the poor and low-level people, they have no choice at the moment - if they do not do what the new owner wants, they will be driven away and become outcasts, or they will be captured and turned into slaves to pay off their debts.

Sooner or later, however, this confusion will disappear: the peasants, though illiterate, will feel the improvement of their living conditions in the future. Not to mention that at the end of the year, when they see the miserable situation of the tenants around them, they will turn around and blow a wave of new owners.

Since the construction of the port was slowly expanding, the adjacent fields such as Zuojia Farm would exist for some time. Exactly when it will start to be converted into residential and industrial land depends on how quickly the port is developed.

In short, after spending a lot of resources, the land acquisition work on the "experimental site" of Zuojia Village can be regarded as a phased result.

This is the first time in the history of the crossing force to transform the original ecological social environment in the hinterland of the Ming Kingdom, and the whole thing is of great significance. So even though it seems that this matter is presided over by the Ming natives, the traversers hidden in the shadows are still very concerned about the development of the situation.

In the whole process of transformation, the spirit of resistance and the strength of resistance embodied by all strata of the Ming Kingdom are the focus of some people's investigation.

Xiong Dao has collected a lot of information and sent it back to the rear. In the future, according to the development of events, there will be continuous social information that will be summarized, and these are the basic information of the future of the crossing country in the large-scale transformation of society in the Ming Kingdom, which is very precious.

Of course, the renovation of Zuojia Village is only the first step in a long march. This ordinary village does not represent the whole picture of the Ming Empire, and there are problems such as gentry and urbanization waiting for the traverser to overcome.

In addition, due to the slow transmission of information in the Middle Ages, the Xiongdao side did not dare to be careless. The aftermath of the land expropriation is currently fermenting, and he must keep his eyes open to public opinion to prevent a rebound - the news of a large farm in the hinterland of the Ming Kingdom is bound to attract attention.

Before you know it, it's the end of April. When Zuojia Village came to an end for the time being, the confrontation between Master Xiong and the Deng family in the county was about to be decided.

To tell the truth, the Deng family is unwilling to be right with Master Xiong from the bottom of his heart. In the eyes of Deng Hu, the chief treasurer, the confrontation between the two sides was purely a misunderstanding.

Yes, he took Zhang Sutan's order from Wu Meng and planned to send someone to the bear house to set fire, but isn't this a normal business dealing? There shouldn't be personal grudges involved, right? If you pay for it, we will help you do it Wu Meng! Shopkeeper Deng thinks that this is a simple business, Xiong Dao should not take revenge on the bank, let alone bite it all the time - Wu Meng has already run away from Taihu Lake, and the thieves have also been copied from the nest, isn't this enough?

However, Master Xiong said: Not enough.

For Xiong, who has an overall plan, since he wants to open a port in the local area and establish a country, all the forces that may pose a threat to the new area in the future are on his cleanup list. So now it's not a question of whether Deng Hu wants to stop or not, but whether Master Xiong will let him go: want to run away after pretending to be forced?

So the follow-up of this matter was deliberately made bigger by Xiong Dao.

When Wu Meng ran away to Taihu Lake, and Deng Hu once again asked the Chinese to come to the door with gifts to make peace, Master Xiong's request was still so vicious - the thief who set the fire that day stole the heirloom glass bicycle from the master and me, and now it is carried to Taihu Lake by Wu Meng. Since you want to make peace, you either bring the car or take the compensation of 10,000 taels of silver.

Deng Hu didn't know what the glass bicycle was, but he knew that he didn't lose anything that night. So Shopkeeper Deng completely discarded his illusions and began to stalemate with the people of the bear house.

At the beginning, the two sides still attacked and defended each other. There were a lot of idlers around the bear house overnight, and people began to throw torches and incense sticks into the wall at night.

However, he went to make trouble at night and never returned. When the sentry at the top of the wall had identified all the outsiders, they all disappeared even during the day.

What frightened Deng Hu the most was that these people all disappeared silently, without making any noise at all, and even the secret post he specially arranged could not be found, Deng Hu, who had lost more than a dozen elite brothers, completely stopped at this time, he tightly sealed the news, and then suspended all business, and began to prepare for the other party's revenge.

The tense standoff between the two sides lasted for nearly a month, and then Deng could no longer hold on.

It is said that this kind of underworld organization has to start working after all, so what will the brothers eat if they don't work? Therefore, after a month of soldiers, after finding that the opponent did not take any excessive actions, Deng Hu finally couldn't suppress the following calls, so the brothers began to pick up the list again.

This time, the list was very ordinary: Zhang Butcher and Xie Yuan in the west of the city were fighting for the "Pig Road", and the two sides recruited troops and horses to prepare for a big fight, so Zhang Butcher invited his acquaintance Deng to fight to support the field.

According to the words of later generations, "pig road" is "pig purchase and sales channel". In a super-rich county like Jiading, the annual sales of live pigs are more than 10,000 heads, so this is a big business.

In the Middle Ages, guilds were everywhere, and the pig trade was no exception. Zhang Butcher is the chief scoop of the "Meat Stall Alliance" in the west of the city. He and dozens of butcher stalls under his command monopolized nearly a quarter of the slaughtering and sales of pigs and sheep in the west of the city.

And Xie Yuanwai is the proprietor of the "Yanke Building" in the west of the city. Xie Yuanwai is a professional chain restaurant, not only in the county business, but also in Suzhou and Hangzhou around the opening of several branches, is the local catering industry of the people, can be regarded as a wealth of power.

The quarrel between the two sides because of the "pig road" is also an old contradiction: the restaurant alliance wants to suppress the price of pigs, and the butcher alliance naturally has to fight hard.

This type of commercial dispute is common. Just like the labor negotiations in the NBA, the supply and demand sides always have to show their carts and horses every once in a while, and they will fight while negotiating until an agreement is reached.

Therefore, in this "Anti-Restaurant Alliance Price Reduction Action", Zhang Butcher invited the familiar Deng family to back up, ready to play a big game with the surname Xie.

Why play big this year? Because this time, Xie Yuanwai put forward an idea: the restaurant alliance itself will set up an internal pig killing organization, and from now on, the butchers will be thrown off as a channel.

This kind of idea of taking a salary from the bottom of the kettle is naturally unbearable for channel dealers, so this negotiation Zhang Butcher is ready to make a few ruthless moves first, so that the surname Xie knows that he knows how powerful he will say.

The plan went well.

When the shopkeeper Deng Hu Deng took the order, he first took the brothers and the pig killers under Zhang Butcher to fight twice with the thugs invited by Xie Yuanwai.

There were casualties on both sides during this period. However, this is all expected, and the employer has the money to settle the family and the government, so the morale of both sides is still high, and the fight will continue.

The next thing is the genius on the butcher's side: after the Deng people got the accurate news, they accurately intercepted the team of the Restaurant Alliance who bought pigs from the east of the city on a night when they couldn't see their fingers.

After hacking dozens of live pigs to death and throwing them into the stinky mud pond, and then breaking all the villagers and men who transported the pigs and throwing them on the official road, the elite of the Deng family won the class.

After returning to the west of the city, everyone was warmly welcomed by Zhang Butcher, not only a large amount of silver was sprinkled, but also fine wine and braised elbows were served.

Then early the next morning, a shocking news stunned Zhang Tuhu and Deng Hu: Xie Yuanwai died. If you want to talk about "Luming" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find a confidant~