Chapter 377: Hiding Wealth from the People

It's the New Year, but the People's Army doesn't have time to celebrate the New Year, and the People's Army north of the Yangtze River, as long as it is not blocked by heavy snow, will advance and advance again, and they want to rescue the remaining ordinary people who are still suffering as soon as possible.

Spring is the season of hope, and the People's Army must distribute the land to all the people before spring ploughing, so that the people's lives will change from this year onwards, at least the problem of food will be completely solved first!

The news that Beiping City was breached by the People's Army and the emperor's death has spread all over the land of China, and the Ming Dynasty has died, but some people have not given up, especially the princes of the Ming Dynasty.

The princes of the Ming Dynasty were kept in captivity in their fiefdoms and did not have much power in their hands, but since the People's Army occupied the land of the five provinces, the Ming court allowed the gentry and merchants to establish escort teams.

Now that the emperor is dead, Beiping City is under the control of the People's Army, and the prince does not want the Ming Dynasty to perish like this, so he stands up and calls on the people loyal to the Ming court to continue fighting.

It's just that there are very few responders.

The People's Army is not an alien race, and when a foreign race comes, it is to grab money, food, and women, and after the alien race leaves, there is a river of blood, and in order to prevent their women, food, and wealth from being robbed by outsiders, in order to survive, many people will stand up and resist.

The People's Army came to divide the land among the poor people, and as long as the forces with the army surrendered to the People's Army, they could avoid death, and when the People's Army was about to be reunified, there were not many people who stood up to support these princes, and the few people who stood up to support the princes had at most some money and food, but not many troops.

When the People's Army came, the princes were either killed in battle, captured, or fled with people, and they couldn't stop the People's Army at all.

The People's Army trampled on the thick ice of the Yellow River to the northernmost part of the land of China, and they took the place of the Northern Division, allowing the Northern Division to converge at the border passes, and the Northern Division was originally established with the goal of fighting in the cold north.

The only lancer division of the KPA is also preparing, and when the New Year is over, the lancers will immediately go to the north, and only actual combat can hone a strong army.

Since Wang Shengrong's vanguard army occupied Beiping City, the powerful gentry and businessmen in Beiping City were screened and their homes were raided.

In order to investigate these powerful gentry and businessmen, the Military Intelligence Department also spent a lot of effort, these powerful gentry and businessmen came from all over the land of China, and there were also from Guangdong, and before the People's Army occupied Guangdong, they fled from Guangdong and fled all the way to Beiping City, probably thinking that Beiping City was the safest.

A large number of powerful gentry and businessmen poured into Beiping City, which also made the housing prices in Beiping City skyrocket, and the mansions and courtyards were not enough to live, so they bought the houses of ordinary people, and the common people sold their houses at a high price and left Beiping City to live in other places.

So many powerful gentry and businessmen gathered in Beiping City, so much wealth gathered in Beiping City, when the People's Army raided their homes, they only counted metal currency, and the value of gold obtained even exceeded the value of silver.

Gold is more valuable than silver, the powerful and wealthy gentry and businessmen fled in a hurry, it is impossible to take all the wealth away, gold and silver in troubled times, antiques in prosperous times, antiques are definitely not worth much now, there are too many silver and too heavy, the target is still big, maybe it was robbed by "thieves", it is better to bring more gold or gold, silver, antiques and other things are buried in the ground.

The People's Military Governments in various places have put up notices to seek clues about the wealth buried in the land by the gentry and merchants, and once the wealth is dug up, those who give the clues will receive a large reward, which really allows the People's Army to find a large amount of wealth and strongly supports the development of the People's Army.

Wealth is very important to the People's Army, for example, the craftsmen in the arsenal, the People's Army is the army of the common people, and the craftsmen cannot be forced to work, once it spreads, it will have a very bad impact on the reputation of the People's Army, and if the People's Army wants to make the craftsmen work, they must pay the craftsmen, and under the incentive of wages, the craftsmen work hard to create all kinds of firearms for the People's Army.

Even the soldiers and officials of the People's Army have to give soldiers and salaries, the soldiers' salaries are mainly military land, lower-level officers will get more military land, middle-level officers also have military land, and at the same time, equal coins will be issued, and soldiers have meritorious service, there are military field rewards, there are also equal currency rewards.

Government officials only have equal coins, and they will work in the government until retirement without accident, while soldiers are old and physically weak, and must be discharged from the army, and if they are illiterate, they can only go back to their hometowns to farm, and giving land is the best choice.

It can be said that the People's Army has come to this day because it is supported by a large amount of wealth, which mainly comes from the wealthy gentry and businessmen who have been raided.

The People's Army must continue to develop after the unification of the Chinese land, and there must be enough wealth support in the early stage, and then self-sufficient, the wealth of the powerful gentry and businessmen in the newly occupied area is the first goal of the People's Army, but the wealth of the Ming Court is ignored by the People's Army.

Ten years before Wanli under the leadership of Zhang Juzheng, the treasury of the Ming court was full, but in one war after another with the People's Army, the wealth of the Ming court was quickly consumed, it can be said that the Ming court is very poor now, and the value is probably only the royal supplies and antiques in the imperial city, these things can not be sold, and they will be used as museum exhibits for tourists to see in the future.

When the People's Army's raid on Beiping City ended, Fang Nan got an unimaginable figure, with this large amount of wealth, even if the People's Army did not have any financial revenue in the next two years, it would be able to support the continued development of the People's Army, and counting the wealth obtained by the People's Army by raiding homes outside Beiping City, it would be able to support at least five years without any financial revenue.

You must know that the People's Army has been building concrete roads, railway tracks, water conservancy facilities, and schools, all of which require a large amount of investment.

It is worthy of hiding wealth in the people, the Ming court does not have much money, the money is in the hands of the "people", the people do not belong to this "people", only the powerful gentry and businessmen belong to this "people", most of the wealth of the entire Ming Dynasty is in the hands of the powerful gentry and businessmen, the daily pursuit of the people at the bottom is only to eat well, they continue to squeeze the people at the bottom, so that the net worth of the powerful gentry and businessmen continues to increase.

A small landlord can squeeze and exploit hundreds of people, and a big landlord can squeeze and exploit tens of thousands of people.

The majority of the country's population is occupied by the people at the bottom, and the people at the bottom can still have savings on the basis of having enough to eat, and when hundreds of millions of people come up with money to buy goods, you can imagine what a lot of wealth it is.