"Did I really ruin the gentry?"

Yang Xin said.

Obviously, Gao Hongtu's visit to Zhaoyi City these days is still effective, at least he is facing up to the changes in this land.

Of course, this is mainly because he is a northerner.

He can't empathize with the gnashing hatred of the gentry in Jiangnan, and the distance of more than a thousand miles allows him to face this new thing from an objective point of view, if it is the turn of the Gao family in Jiaozhou next time, he will not be able to do this. But this is still very rare, he can say these words to prove that he is worthy of the situation that Jiaozhou has been cleared, a lonely old man after the fall of Jiangnan, entrusted his little grandson to the door guest to talk about relocation, and then went on a hunger strike and martyrdom......

He could have gone back to his hometown.

The Gao family is the head of the Jiaozhou family, he is the head of the Gao family, and he is a famous minister of the Qing Dynasty, as long as people like him go back, they will definitely be welcomed by our Qing Dynasty.

But he went on a hunger strike anyway.

He can be regarded as loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

"Isn't it?"

Gao Hongtu said.

"The Hua family, the Qin family, and the Zou family, are all the top families in Wuxi?

Indeed, We divided their lands.

But I divide their land, in essence, it is still protecting them, the land annexation of the Ming Dynasty has reached a shocking point, the Hua family collects 450,000 stones a year, even if one acre collects one and a half stones, this is also 300,000 acres of land, how much arable land is registered in Wuxi?

More than 1 million acres only.

With the addition of hidden fields, there are only two million acres of sky.

His family is at least one-seventh.

The remaining Zou family is no worse than his family, and none of those wealthy families are less, in the end, I am afraid that eighty percent of the fields in Wuxi are in the hands of their families, and more than half of the population of the entire county is their tenants or serfs, and the people of the entire county are supporting them with blood and sweat? This is the so-called rich Tian Lianqian Mo, the poor have no place to stand, the Eastern Han Dynasty those who were destroyed under the torrent of the Yellow Turban Army will tell us the final result, since we know the inevitable result, why not solve it in advance?

I didn't ruin them.

The Hua family lost their land, but they still had the industry of being booksellers, and the Zou family lost their land, as well as the cotton cloth business.

They can also take the imperial examination.

They have money.

They have connections in officialdom and in the field.

Even they still have industry and commerce, without land they are still wealthy, they can still have fine clothes and food, but they are safe. The peasants who had divided the land were well fed, and they could survive even in the event of famine, and they would not rebel, but the militia could ensure that the area would not be attacked by bandits, and that these wealthy families could enjoy their wealth and glory in peace.

You see.

Best of both worlds! ”

Yang Xin said.

"Hejian Hou, you're quibbling."

Gao Hongtu said with a smile.

This is purely an insult to his IQ, he never thought that Yang Xin would actually prepare such a set of crooked reasoning.

"Time will tell."

Yang Xin said.

In fact, this is really not a bad thing for these guys, for the gentry of an industrial and commercial city like Wuxi, they can maintain their wealth and glory without leaving the land, on the contrary, the militia after the division of the land will ensure the safety of this area. In the same way, the domestic demand market after the division of the land will increase the prosperity of industry and commerce here, and the profits of those gentry in industry and commerce will definitely increase significantly, and in the final analysis, they will have contacts and business networks throughout the country.

The land was indeed lost.

But these will not be lost, on the contrary, after losing the land, they will have no choice but to focus on industry and commerce in order to maintain their fine food and clothing.

Of course, there is no time to chant the wind and moon in the garden like in the past.

"But even if the Hou of Hejian has such ambitions, it can't change the fact that you forced the Jiangnan gentry, because of what you did, the whole of Zhejiang has fallen under the control of the Datong Army, and in the same way, Susongjiahu, Hangzhou and other places are actually in the hands of the regimental training, if Gao is not mistaken, when Zhang Mingzhen's Northern Expeditionary Army arrived in Suzhou, it was when they joined the Datong Army.

Not only Zhejiang, but even these prefectures, which are the pillars of the Ming Dynasty's taxation, will also join the Datong Army and stop paying taxes to the imperial court.

Will Your Majesty sit idly by?

Hejian Hou is not afraid to make mistakes?

It's too late to stop at this moment, as long as you are willing to stop here, Gao is willing to be this lobbyist to persuade them to accept the status quo, and even Gao can persuade Xu Du and Zhang Mingzhen to hand over Zhejiang in exchange for His Majesty's pardon.

They will accept it.

The monarch and the minister started again, all the previous things have been revealed, and the Ming Dynasty has regained its tranquility, isn't this bad? ”

Gao Hongtu said.

"Do you think you can go back in time?"

Yang Xin said.

"Why not?"

Gao Hongtu said.

"I don't want to answer you, but I have a proposal for you, you can go to the territory of the Datong Army first, and then come back and tell me if you think you can go back to the past.

Past?

Da Ming has no past to go back to.

There is a book here, not Datongguo, you must have read it, this one was written by Huang Zunsu after he returned home, and it is said that his son, who is known as a prodigy, also participated, and Liu Zongzhou, as well as a bunch of Confucians in Shaoxing, they got together and made a witness society, which they wrote. In fact, it is a study of Datongguo, and there is also the conclusion of the investigation of the area controlled by Xudu, you pick it up and take a good look at it, and see if Daming can go back to the past you said. ”

Yang Xin threw a book to him and said.

He didn't make it up.

This is something similar to a political program that these great Confucians in eastern Zhejiang have come up with, to be precise, it is a high-definition version of Datong based on their investigation of the area controlled by Xudu, under the banner of interpreting Confucianism.

The title of the book is the Essentials of the Holy School.

But it has nothing in common with Liu Zongzhou's Shengxue Sect in the original history.

This is purely to find out those things in the Confucian classics that are in line with the ideas of the Datong Kingdom, and then interpret them in detail according to the system currently implemented in the control areas of Xu Du, which can be regarded as a more detailed and realistic version than Zheng Zheng's book, which can be called a political program.

You must know that these guys surpass Zheng Zheng in Confucianism, what kind of person is Liu Zongzhou, the two great masters of Confucianism in the late Ming Dynasty, he and Huang Daozhou, but now Huang Daozhou's reputation is not as good as him, he is recognized as the head of Confucianism in Zhejiang, not to mention Huang Zunsu. The two of them, in fact, have a bunch of people involved, these guys are together, and what they write is not comparable to Zheng Zheng, but Liu Zongzhou is a diehard, so he eliminated the things related to the Netherlands in Zheng Zheng's thoughts, and turned Datong into a pure Confucian.

Or classical Confucianism.

But no matter how they smear it up, in the end, the bones are still the local autonomy of Datong State, the cabinet of the hypocrite, and the discussion of politics in the academy.

So......

Da Ming really can't go back to the past.

The seeds of thought have already passed the germination period and entered the stage of vigorous growth, and even have borne the first fruit, tasted the sweetness, and showed a bright future.

"Uncle."

Yang Huan walked in and said.

"Zhang Mingzhen has arrived in Hangzhou?"

Yang Xin said.

"Zhang Mingzhen led 50,000 troops to capture Hangzhou, but in fact, the Hangzhou gentry themselves opened the city gate to welcome into the city, and Xu Du led 20,000 Datong troops to capture Shaoxing, which was also opened by the Shaoxing gentry themselves, and the Ningbo Customs Anti-Smuggling Team disarmed the officers and soldiers left behind in Zhenhai City, and then welcomed Xu Du, and the Taizhou gentry sent the Taizhou prefect to leave the country by boat."

Yang Huan said.

"In other words, Zhejiang is all finished?"

Yang Xin said.

"Well, for the time being, Jiaxing Mansion and Huzhou Mansion have not surrendered to the Datong Army, but it should be soon, and the Chang'an Army has already gone south to Hangzhou under the banner of resisting the Datong Army, and they have surrendered to the Datong Army in Hangzhou. Qian Shijin, the commander of the Chang'an Army, is a native of Jiaxing, and then he will definitely take the Datong Army directly north to Jiaxing, as for Huzhou, it is difficult to say, whether they surrender to the Datong Army, it depends on the Tianxiong Army, after all, if the Tianxiong Army does not surrender, it will definitely be transferred to Huzhou by the Nanjing Military Department. ”

Yang Huan said.

"What about Zhoushan? How about my cannery? ”

Yang Xin said somewhat eagerly.

Now Zhoushan's canned food production has surpassed that of Xincheng, mainly because of the large number of whales in Zhoushan fishing grounds, and his fishing team hunts countless whales there every year.

"It's all so critical, and you're still thinking about your own cannery?"

Gao Hongtu was stunned.

"Of course, what's wrong with the cannery, the canning factory is the future of our Ming Dynasty!"

Yang Xin said.

"Zhoushan was not affected, it happened that a convoy of transport ships passed by Zhoushan in the south, and the local gentry in Zhoushan also relied on canneries to make money, so they repelled the anti-smuggling team that went to take over Zhoushan."

Yang Huan said.

Zhoushan is the main supply station for Yang Xin's chaotic clippers to go south, and at present, Mrs. Yang has built him a whole 300 clippers, that is, brigs, whether they go to the South Seas for trade, transport grain from the south to the north, or even transport guano, all of them are these fast ships.

Their route is to take the coastal current to turn south to Taiwan and take the warm current of Taiwan to the north, which happens to be a circular route, which itself can sail in the wind, coupled with the assistance of ocean currents, even if it is fully loaded with goods from Taiwan to Xincheng, it will not take a few days. And they all sail in formation, usually a team of clippers has to have dozens, and they are all equipped with artillery, so a bunch of clippers to Zhoushan, the dozen or so small cruisers of the anti-smuggling team really dare not provoke.

"That's good, that's good."

Yang Xin said.

"Hejian Hou, you should hurry south to quell the rebellion now."

Gao Hongtu couldn't bear to say.

"That's good, you go to the Wangting Pavilion and let the group practice go!"

Yang Xin said with a pure face.

"Huh?"

Gao Hongtu was dumbfounded.

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