Yang Xin looked at Xiong Mingyu with interest.

This is going to be a showdown.

But even if it's time for them to take it back, in fact, these civil officials and gentry already know very well that at least for now, they can't solve the Red Turban Army, especially after the Red Turban Army has completed the defense system in the past few months, with the regimental training strength that they can currently use, they can't recover this area at all.

And Yang Xin blocked reinforcements from other places.

Because he always has the danger of rebellion, the surrounding provinces are all rumored, Huguang is absolutely not daring to send troops to reinforce, as soon as the Huguang troops in Guizhou withdraw, once Long Yingxiang and these people rebel, then the entire Guizhou Chuandong will immediately erode again, and it is even possible to directly attack Xiangxi, in case those Tusi in Xiangxi also join, the entire south of the Yangtze River is very dangerous.

And the gentry in Jiangbei were worried under the threat of Fengyang's Dangkou army.

Zhejiang has to face Yang Xin's sailor, this guy is still close to Li Dan, if he rebels, then it is difficult to say whether Li Dan will join the share of the founding father.

Other provinces are out of reach.

In the end, Jiangxi was able to send troops to join.

But the Dangkou army has been intercepted in Anqing, and the Dangkou army and the Jiangxi shantytowns are equally close, they go to woo the remaining shantytowns, then the Jiangxi gentry will immediately take care of themselves, this guy is indeed leisurely in Nanjing, but his minions are staring around, even the officials and troops in the north have to be wary of the 10,000 Dangkou army in Xincheng, as well as the possible trouble of fried flowers and others. In the end, it was the gentry in the surrounding area who faced the Red Turban Army, and their strength was no longer enough to regain the control area of the Red Turban Army, in fact, those gentry were also glad that the Red Turban Army did not continue to expand during this time.

If the Red Turbans continue to expand, they will still not be able to hold on.

At this time, there can only be a showdown.

"Brother Liangru is also right, I admit that it is too difficult to be rich and poor, but on the one hand, there is a hundred sheep and the other is hungry, which is very wrong, I have no objection to the rich having a hundred sheep, but at the same time, the poor must be fed.

They will rebel if they don't have enough to eat.

Their rebellion ruined His Majesty's country, I am a loyal minister, of course I want to feed the poor.

When the poor have enough to eat, Your Majesty's country can be passed down for generations. ”

Yang Xin said.

"But it's not right to fight local tyrants after all, right?"

Qiao Yingjia said cautiously.

"So what do you say should be done? Influence with love and justice? ”

Yang Xin said.

Qiao Yingjia stopped talking.

If you don't fight local tyrants, who will take the initiative to share wealth with the people?

"As for the noble and the lowly, isn't this a matter of course? They are all human beings, all of them are subjects of His Majesty, why are there masters and slaves? Did the Taizu system allow the gentry to keep domestic slaves? Does the Taizu system allow people to keep slaves? As far as I know, the folk have a hundred slave rods, right? The three dukes are allowed to have twenty domestic servants, even if Yingzong changes the rules, those who have no grade are not allowed to keep slaves.

So was the 5,000 child servants in Anguo a crime back then?

Since the gentry were not allowed to keep slaves in the first place, why was it wrong to wait for the nobles and lowly to release their slaves and maidservants as lovers? I don't think there's anything wrong with what the Red Turban Army did, according to the Taizu system, the slaves and maids they released should have been good people, but the gentry who kept thousands of slaves should be punished according to the law, and the Red Turban Army is just restoring the prosperity of Taizu. Their name is the Red Turban Army, when Taizu won the world with the Red Turban Army, and formulated these systems, but no one followed them after hundreds of years, then they also used the Red Turban Army to complete Taizu's will, according to me, at this moment Taizu's spirit in the sky is pleased.

They are restoring the prosperity of Taizu. ”

Yang Xin said.

Xiong Mingyu and the others all shut up.

He has moved out of Taizu, who dares to say anything?

Besides, what he said is true, Zhu Yuanzhang's system is very clear, the three public servants must not exceed twenty, the first grade is only twelve, Yingzong changed to four grades above sixteen, five grades six grades twelve, seven grades below two people, the common people are strictly forbidden to keep slaves, the keeper has a hundred rods, and the slaves and maids are released directly.

According to the Taizu system, the slaves and maids released by the Red Turban Army were all legal.

They should have been released.

But......

Now the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, there are no hundreds of slaves who are embarrassed to go out?

Back then, an ordinary bookseller in Anguo still had 5,000 child servants at home, if Taizu was alive, he would have to raid his family and destroy his family.

"Besides, the division of land is also the main reason why the Red Turban Army has the support of the people, but you can't deal with this trick? Not necessarily, right? They have agreed to my plan, that is to say, they accept the militia, and then pay the rent to His Majesty every year according to the maximum of 40% per mu of land, and the actual majority of 20% or 30% of the land rent.

So if you also reduce the rent, will your tenants still welcome them?

They rent 30 percent.

If you come down to forty percent, you will have less than half of the tenants come to them.

If you had also reduced it to two or three percent, I am afraid that there would be no tenants who would have defected to them.

So why don't you cut it down?

Since you still collect 60% or even 70%, then don't complain that the tenants have risen up to learn from them, you collect more than 60% of the rent, and you also have to pay them the flying field endowment, they also have to pay 3 yuan of silver per ding and the same 3 yuan of conscription silver, and the officials have to collect every 21 yuan of fire consumption, all kinds of messy donations, so have you counted, can a tenant have 20% of a year's harvest?

They worked hard for a year, and in the end, eighty percent of them were looted by the officials and gentry, so is there anything strange about the appearance of the Red Turban Army? According to me, the Red Turban Army has only appeared until now, which can only say that our people in Daming are too kind.

If it were me, whoever would dare to take away eighty percent of my harvest in a year, I would first knock him on the head with a hoe.

The emergence of the Red Turban Army is inevitable.

Even if it doesn't appear this time, it will still appear in the future.

There was a slave change in Changxing last year, isn't that similar? Ladies and gentlemen, you have to learn to put yourself in the position of the poor people, do they like to rebel? They don't like rebellion, as long as they can eat enough, who likes to rebel? But you don't even give them enough to eat, can't they rebel? If you continue like this, more and more people will rebel, and at that time, not to mention the money and the land, even your life may not be saved.

That's all Yang said.

Go back and think about it yourself. ”

Yang Xin said.

The civil servants didn't ramble any more, and then got up and left.

"Will they budge?"

Wang Wanqing asked curiously.

"Concessions? It's not that they don't understand this, they can make Bu give in early, they don't cry when they don't see the coffin, if they can give in, it's weird, but they can't do anything in the short term, they are also waiting, waiting for their group training to really train. ”

Yang Xin said.

Indeed, these civil officials and the gentry behind them would not budge.

This is a matter of principle.

But they will not do anything, and even create a false illusion of peace in the short term, so as to prevent the Red Turban Army from continuing to expand outward, for example, he partially agreed on his plan, in short, let the Red Turban Army see hope, and then hang like that, and wait for their force to increase enough to restart the war.

They have cobbled together four corps.

One is the ever-victorious army.

That is, Shen Tingyang was the leader, Songjiang, Tongzhou and other places were supported, a large number of Dutch mercenaries were used as officers, and the maritime trade and industry of Songjiang were backed by a total of six thousand, but they were all firearms, which was basically equivalent to ten Morris battalions and one heavy artillery battalion. And began to train reverse reloading, and also used ten rows of rotary shooting, not to say that it completely relied on Dutch mercenaries, after all, Yang Xin had already played like this, and those Dutch mercenaries were just more familiar with this tactic.

One is Chang Jiejun.

This was organized by the gentry of Suzhou and Wuxi.

The number is five thousand.

The commander is still Xu Xiake, of course, his name is Xu Hongzu, and Xiake is the number.

He really doesn't understand military affairs, but he travels all the year round, so that his knowledge, experience, and flexibility of mind are the best among these families, and his family is behind the front line, and there is no room for retreat, so the gentry in Suzhou and Wuxi support him. His Changjie army is different from Chang Sheng's army, they are hired a large number of veterans of the Zhejiang army, and they are more inclined to the improved version of the car battalion, that is, Qi Jin's set, with the help of the terrain of the water network in this area, this tactic of transporting chariots in small boats and short-distance attacks of chariots is very suitable.

After all, all traffic here can be solved by boat.

Then there is the Tianxiong army of the Lu brothers, but this does not rely entirely on firearms, on the contrary, it attaches more importance to martial arts, and even has a cavalry, the number of 5,000, in fact, Yixing and Liyang, in addition to the support of the gentry in Huzhou, Guangde and Ningguo. They are all brave miners, charcoal burners in the mountains, lumberjacks, in short, they are all of this category, all of them dare to engage in hand-to-hand combat with cold weapons, and the cavalry has a thousand people, completely modeled after the training of the elite cavalry in the north.

It is estimated that it is supported by Lu Xiangsheng.

Lu Xiangsheng is currently in Shenyang and is mixed with Cao Wenzhao, and Cao Wenzhao's department is the shock cavalry.

Mounted shooting, spear blasting, sabre slashing.

It's just that Cao Wenzhao's cavalry, with the support of Yang Xin, has begun to change the short guns that are fired by the wheel, and just like the European cavalry at this time, each person has several hanging guns.

But not to play exaggerated cavalry turnaround shots like European cavalry.

Rather, it acts as a substitute for bows and arrows.

After all, this one is easier to pierce armor than a bow and arrow.

There is also the Huwei army stationed in Jurong, headed by Ge Lin, the deputy general of the regimental training who escaped from Danyang, and supported by Yingtian, Taiping and even Yangzhou gentry, this one has reached 10,000, but the equipment is almost there, it is a group of miscellaneous infantry, and the core is the exiled gentry of Zhenjiang counties with the will of revenge. Ge Lin originally organized the rebel army during the Hongguang period in history, but was disbanded by Ma Shiying, and later followed Zheng Hongkui, Wu Zhikui, these Ming army generals, after these people failed, he and Lu Xiangsheng's younger brother Lu Xiangguan were in the Taihu Lake area until they died in battle.

This is the current four major group training groups.

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