Chapter 832: Master Wang is Here Again (Asking for a Monthly Pass)
In November, winter has arrived.
The land north of the Daqing River in Shandong Province has come to the city to change the Dawang Banner again. Since the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, this land has changed several owners. The first stubble was the Ming Dynasty, and the magistrate sent by Dashun replaced the officials of the Ming Dynasty and became the local marquis of Baili. Then there was a period of Ming and Qing dynasties, and a group of local heroes came into being, which was the second stubble. Then Gao Hongtu, the governor of Shandong of the Ming Dynasty, came to appease, and many heroes became the parents of the people of the Ming Dynasty, which is the third stubble. The fourth change of master was the first southern expedition of the Qing Dynasty, that is, the time when Haoge was killed, the Qing Dynasty and Hebei were all returned to the Qing Dynasty, and some Haoqiang shaved his head and became a good servant of the Qing Dynasty, and the other part of the good landlords of the Ming Dynasty who were unwilling to be Qing slaves ran to the south of the Daqing River, followed Gao Hongtu and Zuo Maodi.
After the fourth change of hands, the situation in Daqing Hebei gradually stabilized. The Qing Dynasty looks like it is "doing a long line", and it will take several years to take it! Moreover, he began to implement the dictation of fields in the prefectures and counties of Hebei in the Qing Dynasty - this is a beautiful thing that the people have been thinking about for many years! King Chuang didn't do it for the people of Shandong, but he actually asked the Qing Dynasty to do it......
Of course, there are people who are not satisfied! A bunch of landlords and rich peasants who stayed in their hometowns and did not run away were all dissatisfied.
How can a good family business be shared with others?
However, these people can't make much waves, because the most tossed among them is either to vote for Gao Hongtu and Zuo Maodi, or to vote for the Qing Dynasty and become good slaves. The rest are either dead studying, or are single-mindedly engaged in production.
Of course, if you don't starve to death, you will become the poorest person in the village, and you will become a typical example of the uselessness of reading.
And the business can always find opportunities to make money, and after Dolgon released the quota of the green flag, many of them bought a flag man identity and moved to Datong. There are also some who did not go to Datong, and later most of them bought the identity of flag bearers from Kong Youde or Geng Zhongming, or simply crossed the sea to the Northeast - from Shandong to the Northeast to be a flag bearer is the easiest and the lowest cost. As long as you get on the sand boat of the Koreans or the Japanese Banians who speak Shandong, cross the sea to Liangfangkou (Yingkou), and find a shaving stall to shave your braided head after going ashore (the people of the Guannei Banner are masters, so the Hermes-Epitek can't shave their heads casually, there is no such rule outside the Guan), and then go to the Yamen of the Ten Banners outside the Guanwai to report to Liangfangkou. Those who want to farm say that they are the clothed servants of one of the nine banners in the Guannai, because the master is broken, and he has to go out of the customs to make a living. If you are willing to serve in the military, you are the banner people, and those who are not willing to serve in the military are the banner slaves...... If you don't want to farm, but want to do business, then apply for a green flag.
The green flag does not have to serve in the military, and can move freely around the customs area, but it is not allowed to occupy land, it is not allowed to lend money to the flag people, and it is necessary to pay a poll tax. Moreover, the commerce outside the customs is not developed, and the monopoly of the Nine Great Imperial Merchants is also very strong, so it is not easy for ordinary Green Flag merchants to buy and sell.
Therefore, farming in the eastern part of the country is still the mainstream...... It is precisely because of the existence of this way out that the Qing Dynasty enclosed land in Shandong, and it was planned to dictate the fields, and it did not cause much movement.
Just when everyone thought that the rule of the Qing Dynasty had been stabilized and that the Ming Dynasty would never come again, the king came on a mule with a black gun!
This is really unexpected! Although the Qing soldiers who ruled Jibei Mansion were not serious Eight Banners Old Manchuria, their strength looked okay, and the soldiers wearing green cotton armor and green helmets looked very majestic, and there were many horse teams, coming and going like the wind, showing off their might, how could they be more powerful than the Ming Dynasty called flower soldiers in the impression of the big guy.
But no one expected that as soon as Wang Shi came on a mule, he relied on the black gun to beat away the green M soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, and the two armies did not fight against each other, and the green M soldiers were left in Liaocheng, Anping, and Dezhou strongholds in the whole Shandong.
This thing is normal in the eyes of people who know how to do it, and the two major advantages of the Qing Dynasty Heavenly Soldiers are that they can fight hand-to-hand combat; Second, the cavalry is strong and able to control the battlefield. Now that the Ming army is familiar with the Morris phalanx, hand-to-hand combat is useless. Therefore, the cavalry is their only advantage, and now they are always beaten by the "mule soldiers" of the Ming army, fighting black guns, ambushes, and night attacks...... What other tricks are there if you don't shrink back and defend the city?
As soon as the Qing Dynasty green M soldiers left, the Ming Dynasty's iron M black spearmen were awesome, and began to patrol around Jibei, Dongchang, and West Yanzhou, declaring the authority of the Ming Dynasty, and by the way, they also caught a few Qing soldiers who refused to cut their braids and pretend to be bald and cut off their heads to show the public, and there were also notices posted everywhere with the lyrics of "Welcoming the Ming Dynasty" - usually a wooden pole was inserted outside the door of a village, with a braided head hung on it, and a notice board was erected on the side of the wooden pole, and a notice was posted on it.
Outside Haifeng County, which is not too far from Bohai Bay, a group of peasants have just sent away ten soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who are carrying terrible "black guns" on their backs, and now they have gathered in front of a sign that has just been erected, and they have also found the last village Xiucai in the village who knows more words. When he saw that he was almost hungry, he hurried to feed him some food, so that the poor old master could have some strength, and then he was told to look at the signs......
The old man's surname is Wang, known as Wang Lao Xiucai, in fact, he has never been in Xiucai at all, he is just an old boy, that is, he has passed the county examination and the government examination, but he has not passed the academician - Xiucai is actually not easy to test!
However, in the Ming Dynasty, Wang Laoxiucai was also a figure in the village, he had taken many college exams, and he also had a few well-known friends in Shilin, Jinan Prefecture, so the family could occupy a large piece of saline-alkali land (belonging to hidden fields) for rent, and also opened a private school to recruit a little Mengtong, and the life was quite nourishing.
But when it came to the Qing Dynasty, Wang Laoxiucai was miserable, and there was no Xiucai in the Qing Dynasty...... And plan to teach the field, after teaching the field, you have to pay the grain as an errand, Lao Xiucai can't farm, and he can't be a errand, his son is a disobedient and unfilial person, listened to the bewitchment of his classmates, and signed his name on what "Asking for Hu Luxuan", afraid that the Qing Dynasty soldiers would take him, so he slipped away when the Qing soldiers hit Haifeng County. Leaving Lao Wang Xiucai alone, he relied on selling to survive, and his belongings had been sold out in the past two years, so he had to go to Haifeng County to beg for food, and he would die. During this time, the army was in chaos, and Haifeng County did not allow outsiders to enter, so Lao Xiucai had to be hungry at home.
As a result, I didn't expect the life-saving Wang Shi to come......
After eating a full meal, and taking a few large bags of dried sweet potatoes (there are many saline-alkali lands in Haifeng, which are suitable for growing sweet potatoes, so the sweet potatoes in the Ming Dynasty were passed over), the old man finally began to sing: "Seeking promotion in the morning, seeking harmony in the evening, it is difficult for the poor to survive recently." Open the door early to welcome Daming, and discipline everyone is happy. Kill cattle and sheep, prepare wine syrup, open the city gate to welcome the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty will not pay for the grain when it comes......"
At this song, the surrounding farmers were a little confused.
"Why don't you pay for food? Which master is here? Da Ming or Da Shun? ”
"Yes, old man, take a closer look, is it Ming or Shun?"
The old man's eyes were dizzy, and he really looked at it carefully, "It's Da Ming, that's right...... It was also said above that three years of free food! Counting from the seventh year of Hongxing, there will be no food for seven, eight, and nine years! Whether it is the imperial grain or the gentry grain (that is, the land rent), one cover is exempted! All miscellaneous pies and pies are also exempt! Household cloth is no longer charged ......"
"Really? Don't have to rent the flag man in Texas? ”
"Master of the flag man, look at what's on the pole? The heads were cut off......"
"Now we have a good life!"
"The Emperor's grace is immense!"
"Da Ming is out of Mingjun!"
"It's better to be Ming!"
The peasants are really happy, big and small—because of these years of tossing, the contradiction between man and land here in Jibei has completely disappeared. What is pressed on the common people is the "rent and yong tune", that is, the payment of grain, nabu, and errands...... Because the situation of the Qing Dynasty is not good, the burden on the common people is increasing, and now it is completely free, can the people be unhappy?
I can be happy for at least three years...... As for three years later, maybe the king will change again!