Chapter 268: The People's Heart
In fact, public opinion is really not something that ordinary people can play with.
If there is a slight difference, the results will be even more different.
Beginners like Li Xian and Wu Sansi still want to guide public opinion? I can't even grasp the special point.
To put it bluntly, the last time the people overthrew the family, was it because the people had enmity with the family?
Of course not, no matter how evil the family is, there is no evil on the surface, and there is not even an intersection with most of the people, most of them are melon-eating people who follow the trend.
So why are the people so concerned about overthrowing the family?
Because patriotic!
It is not the interests of the people that the family is violating by collaborating with the enemy, but the interests of the country.
This alone is enough to make many people hate the family.
Then again, since you have already developed hatred, why is it not working this time?
In the final analysis, it is because - patriotic!
Li Xian and they ignored a key word, "opening up territory".
It is this "opening up the territory" that makes the people not only forgive the family, but also have a different meaning.
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But don't doubt the power of these four words, regardless of ancient and modern, as long as the country can expand its territory, the people will be happy.
Not to mention that they didn't let them contribute money and effort, even if they let them contribute to the battle, they were willing.
This is a manifestation of national pride, and no one can stop it.
Has the family been punished? Of course I did.
All the family property and fields were confiscated, and the clansmen had to go to the frontier.
Although they were not killed, Her Majesty the Empress gave them the opportunity to make meritorious contributions.
This is completely acceptable to the people, and there are even many praises.
"Your Majesty, this time, you have the face of our Great Zhou again!"
In Luoyang City, in a streetside restaurant, Zhu Er stepped on a low stool with one leg, and the expression on his face was not to mention exaggerated.
The surrounding spectators all looked at this splash with disdain and envy.
Well, people aren't splashing skin anymore.
Last time, this scoundrel raised a coax and incited the people to smash Lu Shilang's mansion. As a result, he was not only faultless, but also meritorious.
I don't know why, I was favored by Luoyang Ling and became an envoy at the Yamen'er.
Now eating imperial food and wearing green-faced official clothes, there are actually five people and six people.
However, the so-called country is easy to change, and the temperament is difficult to change, but this tongue-chewing problem has not changed at all.
No, now there are rumors everywhere, and the family that the people worked hard to fight down has turned over again.
But......
"Zhu Lao Er! Don't you hate the family to the bone? Why did you help them tout again? ”
Some people can't get used to it, and they have already begun to speak against Zhu Er.
I saw Zhu Eryi waving his hand, "That's different!" ”
glared and said: "Hate the family, that's because they are harming our Great Zhou!" ”
"But here and there! The family is willing to accept the guilt and open up the territory for us, and this kind of heart to serve the country should be praised. ”
"Cut!" The person who talked back was tired for a while, and said in his heart, you are justified on the left and right.
"I don't think it's good!" muttered, "I don't know what Your Majesty thinks?" actually let the family go! Didn't we do it in vain? ”
was even unwilling, and even burst out with a big sentence: "Could it be that Your Majesty is dizzy?" ”
"Look at it, look at it!"
Zhu Er pointed at the man's nose, "Just based on your words, I, Second Master Zhu, should take you to kill your head, you know?" ”
But obviously Zhu Er didn't really have that thought, and when he saw that the person was weak, he said, "What does it mean that Your Majesty is dizzy?" That's a good thing, you know? ”
The man knew that he had said the wrong thing, and his heart was very weak, "How is it good?" ”
"I'll ask you!" Zhu Er raised his eyebrows, "Do you want a benevolent emperor?" Or an emperor who cuts off people's heads at every turn? ”
"That'...... That's naturally good. ”
"Isn't that right?" Zhu Er said, "Your Majesty repays grievances with virtue and cherishes human life." That's a good thing for us, you know? ”
When the man thought about it, he also said to Ha, and said happily: "You say that, it's really like that." ”
The surrounding spectators also nodded in agreement, Zhu Er is to the point, who doesn't want a benevolent and generous emperor?
Moreover, expanding the territory is indeed a good breath.
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"Why didn't you make a fuss?"
The common people are happy, but Wu Chenghei is the opposite.
Wu Chengsi, Li Xian and Wu Sansi have a headache now.
"Why didn't you make a fuss?"
Wu Chengsi even threw the tea bowl: "These pedantic people are simply incorrigible!" ”
"Brother Huang, don't worry!"
Li Xian was able to hold on and comforted: "It can only show that we are still too hasty and overestimate these people." ”
Wu Sansi said, "Then what now?" Is there a remedy? ”
"Easy to do!" Li Xianyi gritted his teeth.
"In the final analysis, this matter has nothing to do with the people. When the time comes, it's related to them, and when you can't stand and talk, you won't have a backache, right? ”
Wu Sansi and Wu Chengsi's eyes lit up, and they asked urgently: "How is it related?" ”
Li Xian smiled, "Let's add some ingredients to him!" ”
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Not long after the news spread that the military Zetian wanted to carry out the strategy of expanding the border, another gossip quietly spread among the people.
That is:
It is not only the family that expands the borders and opens up the wasteland, but His Majesty wants to move the people from the Central Plains to go with the family in order to open up the situation faster.
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At this time, the people panicked.
In fact, if you think about it, the children of the family say that there are hundreds of thousands of people, but in the end there are still few people, so you must bring labor to go!
But with whom? Who wants to go to a place where birds don't?
As Li Xian thought, this hit the pain point of the people at once.
The wind has taken a sharp turn, and the voice of opposition has gradually risen.
In this regard, Wu Zetian fortunately noticed it early, and urgently ordered the province to issue an edict to announce to the world:
It is true that ordinary peasant households migrated with the family to expand their borders, but the imperial court would never forcibly relocate the people.
Those who moved must be voluntary, and mainly proletarian tenant farmers and servant households, and will not implicate civilians.
Moreover, for those who are willing to expand the border, the imperial court also has many support strategies.
Like what:
If the tenants were willing to go, the court would first bear all the travel expenses. When he arrived at the place, the imperial court sent three acres of fertile land for naturalization free of charge.
After that, all the land cultivated by the head of the household on his own will be half of it to the imperial court and half to himself, and he will be exempted from taxes for three years.
And if the slaves and servants can redeem themselves, as long as they are Han households, the court will allow them to have a good name, and the treatment will be the same as that of tenants.
Of course, if the family of good people who have property also wants to expand the border for the country, the preferential treatment given by the imperial court is even more generous.
First of all, the real estate in the Central Plains can be replaced with border land, one for ten, and five years of land endowment are exempted.
This decree immediately quelled the civil dispute.
The people finally understood that it was voluntary, not forcibly evicted!
But here's the problem, no one wants to go!
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From this point of view, whether it is a good citizen, a tenant, or a slave, he can voluntarily go to the three places for a future.
Moreover, the treatment is extremely favorable.
To put it bluntly, as long as you are willing to work and can endure hardships, it is not difficult to go to the frontier to buy a family business.
However, on closer inspection, this is not the case.
Good people have land and property, and they are certainly not willing to run to the barren land to take risks.
It was not so easy for slaves to redeem themselves.
This is not a question of money or not, but the law of the Great Zhou, the slave household redeems himself, not only to compensate for the money from the sale of his body, but also to the consent of the master's family.
To put it bluntly, I am a slave in your family, and I have the money to buy myself, but it depends on whether you let me go.
If you don't want me to go, then there's no way to do it, and even the government won't let me go.
Therefore, neither can the slaves.
The real main force of this will is the proletarian tenants.
But the homeland is difficult to leave, and there are many barbarians on the frontier, and the situation is unknown, who dares to take this risk?
So, this will look good, but it's actually just an ornament.
The recruitment operation launched at the same time was successful, but it was in line with the intentions of Wu Chengsi and others.
Hehe, I can't recruit people, I see how you go to expand the border and grow grain!?
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