This kind of situation in which a large number of Wubao residents consciously threw themselves into the actual control area of Qingzhou is exactly what Xu Shiyang wants to see.

He didn't know what his father was going to do with the Dock Castle Lord, and he didn't know what others thought of his policy, but he was very clear about his purpose - to eradicate the Dock Castle Lord's class!

The first is economically.

The establishment of an agricultural company and the establishment of a bank can serve this goal.

The former can slowly deprive the Dock Owner of his land control, and the latter can easily destroy the Dock Lord's ability to issue usury.

The combination of the two is actually the personal control of the owner of the dock fort over the people of the fort.

Of course, the owner of the dock can also use violent means to control the people of the dock.

It's just that, in terms of violence, the lord of the dock castle still can't fight against the Jieshuaifu, and the Jieshuaifu is also looking forward to the other party being able to give him a reason to use force.

At this time, any Wubao people who successfully fled to the actual control area of Qingzhou could be sheltered by the Jiemarshal Mansion as long as they expressed their willingness to join the army and accept the command of the Jiemarshal's Mansion, regardless of whether they could join the new army or not.

At the beginning, some dock castle owners came with dogs and legs according to the previous rules, trying to bring people back, but they were rejected by the Marshal's Mansion.

Later, the owners of the dock fort changed their methods, took out the loan documents that they did not know when they signed and did not know whether they were true or false, and demanded that the fugitives repay the loan with interest.

The Marshal's Mansion directly declared these IOUs illegal, and on behalf of the fugitives, they forcefully refused to repay the loans—neither principal nor interest.

Even, if the fugitives still have their families left in the dock fort, the Marshal's Mansion will come forward to demand that these people be taken away.

Some of the owners of the fort were so angry that they used their personal acts against the families of the fugitives, killing and injuring many people.

The Jiemarshal's Mansion was also not polite, and directly sent troops to these dock forts where the situation was unclear, and sentenced the owners of the dock forts to death, and the other high-level dock forts were exiled, and the people of the dock forts were incorporated into the household registration directly under the jurisdiction of Qingzhou.

After this happened a few times, many of the Dock Fort owners realized that they were not capable of taking a hard line against the Qingzhou Jiedu envoys, so they could only strengthen patrols as much as possible to ensure that their tenants did not have a chance to escape.

However, in the fourteenth year of Jianxing, Qingzhou issued an edict to start preparing for war within Qi Province - the owners of Wubao in all parts of the country should go out and build a defense line on the Yellow River/canal.

The requirement of the Marshal's Mansion was to mobilize at least 100,000 strong men in the entire control area and distribute them to each dock fort, with each family having more than a few dozen to a hundred people.

This order made the Dock Fort owners feel like they were mourning, not because they mobilized so many Ding Zhuang to delay their own production, but because once these people were included in the Jieshuai's Mansion, it was basically impossible to come back - if there were good free people who didn't do it, who would want to go back to be serfs for the Dock Fort Lord?

What's more, from serfs to free people, they only need to say one sentence to the Qingzhou soldiers who oversee the work: "I want to organize the household and the people!" "Well, the Marshal's Mansion will also help the people of the castle to get their families left behind in the dock fort.

This time and again, each dock fort can reduce the population by at least half!

As a result, the owners of the dock fort who took the initiative to surrender to Qingzhou, but still remained semi-independent, stood at the crossroads.

Some of them simply took the initiative to release the burghers, and even took the initiative to sort out the accounting relationship with the burghers, recover part of the property as much as possible, and then sell the land owned by the family to the agricultural company, and only keep the part that their core manpower can cultivate.

In addition to the fact that the land can be invested in the agricultural company, Xu Shiyang also opened the equity of the salt company and the steel company, and allowed the owners of the dock fort to invest.

Xu Shiyang hoped that these people would taste the benefits of industry and collective agriculture in the future, and gradually transform from landlords to the first batch of private capitalists.

Of course, there are very few people who consciously give up power in their hands so consciously, and most of the dock lord is still trying to resist the policy of the Jieshuai Mansion by all means.

It's just soft or hard.

The lord of the dock fort, who adopted the method of hard resistance, simply regained his independence from the Qingzhou system and refused to continue to accept the orders of the Jiedu envoy.

Such fools, of course, will be ruthlessly suppressed - because they are too widely dispersed, the resisters cannot be connected in tandem, and can only rely on their own forces to resist in arms, and the tenants who usually serve as the basis of force are all oriented to Qingzhou.

As a result, most of the armed resistance was quickly suppressed, and only a very small number of Wubao owners who were related to the bandits, or who were themselves in the nature of a sect, could still survive with their cronies in a few mountainous areas that Qingzhou could not control.

As for those who resort to soft confrontation, the approach is a bit more complicated.

On the fifteenth day of the first month of the fourteenth year of Jianxing, taking advantage of the festival, more than 100 local powerful family owners took advantage of the opportunity to gather in Qingzhou to give the Jiedu envoy a New Year's greeting, knelt in front of the gate of the Jiedu envoy's mansion, and cried in unison.

The cries of more than 100 old men are still a little shocking, not to mention that most of the traditional Chinese regimes attach great importance to the demands of these "squires" and "village sages" - these people are equivalent to the media of later generations, directly controlling public opinion.

For the sake of his own ambitions, Xu Muhe has to pretend to pay attention to "people's feelings".

So, he had to go out of the door himself and welcome the old patriarchs into the house.

The request of the village sages is not at all surprising:

The aim was to ban agricultural companies and banks, which were "competing with the people for profit", and at the same time to demand that the Marshal's Office support their previous rights to claim debts from the people of Wubao.

"The so-called debt repayment is a matter of course, even if the Tartar didn't say that he could not repay the borrowed money!"

An old trembling old man shouted in front of Xu Muhe:

"What's more, we squires didn't force those untouchables to borrow, when we lent them money and food, it was for the sake of the villagers, if it wasn't for us, they would have starved to death!"

"There is also land, there is not an inch of land in our family, which is not saved by our family, and it has been slowly accumulated over more than ten years, not stealing or robbing, but the young marshal has established the Nalaoshizi Agricultural Company to take it from us!"

"Now the young marshal is on the side of those untouchables who will take revenge, persecuting us everywhere, how can this serve the world!"

"You know, we squires are the cornerstone of the country!"

The other old man excitedly kept hitting the ground with his cane, yelling and dealing with:

"My lord, as an envoy of moderation and a father, how can you allow the young marshal to act perversely like this?"

"If the army is short of food, we will voluntarily give one or two! But let the young marshal continue, and we squires will have no place to stand! ”

A group of old men cried for a long time, and finally bowed down in unison, and said to Xu Muhe, who was unhappy:

"Please stop running the company, and don't compete with the people anymore!"

Xu Muhe almost couldn't help but throw the teacup in his hand in the face of these old men!

Saving money? For the sake of life-saving loans in front of the villagers?

I believe you're evil!

Don't forget, Xu Muhe is also the lord of Wubao, he has been a jinshi, and his political status in feudal society is even higher than that of the squire, he is a gentry!

What do these ignorant old men usually play with honest tenants that he Xu Muhe doesn't know?

I still want to fool him with such nonsense!

It's ridiculous!

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