Chapter 236: Fellow Open the Door, We Are the Tang Dynasty King
However, although Li Xuan really wanted to fight the local tyrants and divide the land in his heart, he was quite cautious about this, although he thought in his heart that it did not necessarily mean that he would do it.
Since it is such a thing as rebellion, we have to learn from history!
How did the vigorous Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in history come to an end? They did not die from the mistakes of military strategy, nor from the intervention of foreign powers, or even from the degeneration of the middle and late periods, but because they rejected everything in Confucianism, which completely angered the backbone of society at that time: Confucian scholars!
And what are the origins of these Confucian scholars? All the landlord class, even if they are poor disciples, but they will still become the landlord class after they have successfully studied and graduated!
In other words, if you beat the landlord, you are almost the same as beating the scholar, and what is the end of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom when you beat the scholar?
Countless Confucian ministers and military generals raised their armies one after another to fight against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and countless Confucian ministers such as Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang worked so hard to suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom because they were loyal to the foreign emperors of the Manchu Dynasty?
No, they worked so hard to suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it was because the first thing the Taiping army did everywhere was to destroy the Confucian Temple and kill scholars.
This kind of thing is more hated by these scholars than the overthrow of a dynasty, and since the Han Dynasty, no matter how the dynasty has changed, no matter who is the emperor, the Confucian disciples have always been the ruling class.
Therefore, the change of dynasty is actually nothing for many scholars, and it is a big deal to change the allegiance object.
For example, after Li Zicheng entered the Beijing Division, so many officials surrendered, and after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, these officials would still surrender very simply, because both of them were retained or even relied on Confucian children to continue to rule.
But what about the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they didn't just want to change the dynasty, he even wanted to change the entire ruling class!
Therefore, the uprising of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was definitely not a simple rebellion or a peasant uprising, it was a class war!
A war of the challenge of the ** class against the elite!
This kind of class war is the only one in the thousands of years of Chinese history, and even in the thousands of years of history of China and other countries, but it is more difficult than rushing out of the galaxy, so there is no doubt that it has failed.
Although Li Xuan himself doesn't know much about these, he knows not to easily stand on the opposite side of a class and make enemies for himself.
The current Tang Dynasty is a little bigger, and if you shout slogans indiscriminately, it is easy to put yourself in a desperate situation, so Li Xuan thought about it for two days, and finally shouted the slogan pirated from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, "The cultivator has his field, and the dweller has his house".
However, it is just one sentence, and it does not mention the core of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's land acre system: where the land is divided according to the population, regardless of the male or female, the number of their families is counted, and the number of people is divided, and the number of people is divided.
Li Xuan only said that those who farm should have land, and people should have houses, but he didn't say that all the land should be divided equally.
This unequal distribution means that the landlords' land does not have to be forcibly distributed to the poor.
This slogan actually doesn't have much practical things, and it sounds good to ordinary people, because Li Xuan didn't propose how to divide the land and houses for them at all.
It's like shouting a slogan in later generations: "Everyone should have money in their pockets!" ”
But how do you have money, do you share Ma Yun's money with everyone, or do you want to move bricks to earn it by yourself? They didn't tell you.
However, this slogan is external-oriented, but within the Tang Dynasty, more precisely, among the soldiers in the Datang New Army, there is a more practical slogan: Anyone who joins the New Tang Army can divide the land.
And this land does not belong to the wasteland in the mountains, but the land outside the mountains!
The soldiers in the new army of the Tang Dynasty are not paid, and the so-called welfare is just a meal, and now the official introduction of the distribution of land to the soldiers can be regarded as a welfare for them, and it is also a tie to tie them to the chariot of the Tang Dynasty, and attract more poor children to join the army.
As for where does the distributed land come from? It's easy!
At present, there are only a few hundred people in the Datang New Army, and the land needed is not much, and some of the ownerless wasteland can be placed, and the missing part can also find a few big landlords with bad deeds to kill and divide the land.
In the later period, if the army expanded, the number of fields that needed to be divided was more, and there were many official fields and Huangzhuang that could be divided, and because the scale of the fields was only controlled by the Tang New Army, the scale of the fields was controllable, and it would not cause a large-scale phenomenon of killing local tyrants and dividing the world.
Even at present, in order to control the situation and avoid accidentally turning into a large-scale killing of local tyrants and division of land, Li Xuan is strictly allowed to kill only those inferior gentry landlords who have great public resentment or maintain clear opposition to the Tang Dynasty and make rebellious behaviors.
The ordinary big landlords and gentry did not move, and as for the small and medium-sized landlords, they did not move.
And even if they killed the local tyrants, it was not under the banner of dividing the land, but they were charged with fighting against the Tang Dynasty Heavenly Soldiers and colluding with the Ming Dynasty to confiscate their homes, and all the land belonged to the Tang Dynasty officials, and then distributed to the soldiers for free.
In order to avoid causing panic, Li Xuan took measures to unite all the forces that could be united, and every time he went to a village, he appointed the original village chief or Li Zheng as the village chief or the township head on the spot, and would also take the initiative to make goodwill contact with some ordinary local gentry and landlords.
Many gentry and landlords were quite positive about the arrival of the Tang Dynasty, all of them sang and danced, and they also took wine and food to treat the army, looking like a harmonious appearance between the army and the people.
The specific scene is like this: the landlord said with a warm smile on his face: "Master Wang, I finally look forward to you, quickly, you can accept all these wines and dishes, don't be polite!"
The bandit leader said with a righteous face: "Don't accept it, our Datang New Army will not disturb the people and will not loot, this is discipline!" ”
The landlord was anxious when he heard this: "How can this be said to be disturbing the people and looting, this is a contemptible person who saw the king's hard work all the way, and he really didn't want to go so he took the initiative to donate, not a robbery!" ”
When the bandit leader heard this, he was embarrassed: "In this way, since you took the initiative to donate, if we don't accept it, we will also live up to your hard work, alas, forget it, we will reluctantly accept it!" ”
The landlord said: "Yes, yes, take it, take it well!" ”
Seeing that the bandits had collected all the wine, food and grain, the landlord said with a flattering smile: "Master Jun, look, can this gun be put down!" ”
The bandit leader looked back at this time, glared fiercely at the few people behind him with bayonets, and aimed his guns at the musketeers of the landlord master: "What are you doing, who asked you to raise your guns, you don't understand the rules at all, what should you do if you are frightened!" ”
"What are you still doing in a daze, you haven't loaded the grain into the carriage, you don't have any eyesight!"
Those soldiers would carry the grain onto the wagon, and the wagon was already half loaded with grain, and the big families 'took the initiative to donate'.
After that, the bandit leader would turn to the landlord and say, "I'm really sorry, these rabbit cubs don't understand the rules at all, so they didn't scare the outsiders!" ”
The landlord wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and forced a smile on his face and said, "No, the military master is serious!" ”
The bandit leader snorted, and then came: "I'll wait for the military affairs to be busy, so I'll leave first, and ask the staff to go back!" ”
The landlord returned to the gate with his trembling legs, and when he closed the door, he glanced out and found that the soldiers of the Tang New Army who did not take a stitch from the masses had knocked on the door of a large family next door.
"Fellow open the door, we are the kings of the Tang Dynasty, we are all good people, we don't loot or disturb the people!"
shouted twice, but the door never opened, and there seemed to be a sound of footsteps, and there were bursts of sound from inside: "My thieves even dare to call themselves kings!" ”
After hearing this voice, the leader of the bandits directly pulled out his waist knife: "Good thief, you dare to harbor a false and secret spy!" ”
"All of them!"
"Ready!"
"Shoot!"
With the sound of gunfire, the landlord who had just donated food was finally so frightened that he couldn't stand and collapsed on the ground softly!
Gunshots rang out frequently in this big village called Liushazhuang, and in a palatial mansion in Liushazhuang, Li Xuan was talking cordially with the richest man in Liushazhuang, who had a reputation for talent and fame, and was over seventy years old!
In this cordial conversation, Li Xuan, on behalf of the Central Committee of the Tang Dynasty, cordially greeted Master Huang's health and whether his children were filial, and then announced to Master Huang some of the Tang Dynasty's policies to benefit the people, and reaffirmed the Tang Dynasty's policy of not disturbing the people and not looting.
And I hope that Master Huang can lead the villagers to contribute wholeheartedly to the cause of the Tang Dynasty and build a beautiful Tang Dynasty!
It's over, Li Xuan is smiling again as the schoolwork of the great-grandson of Master Huang, and said that Master Huang's great-grandson is really a first-class talent within a hundred miles, and it is also the talent that the Tang Dynasty urgently needs.
Master Huang was moved to cry on the spot, and he was about to kneel down and hug Li Xuan's thigh to thank him!
Li Xuan's guards were old and old, and they were afraid that they would not be able to stand it if they knelt for a long time, so they hurriedly helped him up, and carried him back to the room with him in their hands.
Subsequently, Li Xuan left the royal family with Huang Xiyan, the great-grandson of the local governor of the Huang family, who was crying and crying, and was reluctant to leave home.
Out of the Huang family, Li Xuan listened to Huang Xiyan's cry behind him, looked up at the sky, and sighed deeply: "Alas, filial son, this dynasty has always been a heavy school, Huang Aiqing is loyal and filial, and he should be rewarded, well, the official is promoted to one level!" ”
Qian Mengjiu looked at Li Xuan's demeanor, his face was quite strange, and he walked to Li Xuan's side and lowered his voice: "Your Majesty, forcibly kidnapping the descendants of these big families, I'm afraid it will cause turmoil!" ”
Li Xuan glanced at him after hearing this, but he didn't answer his words, but snorted lightly!
Then he turned to the guards and said, "Let's go, go to the next house!" ”