Chapter 876: Peaceful Evolution
The cavalry contingent was followed by the cavalry troops, and the main reason for arranging them to march behind was the spare horses carried by the 16,000 cavalry companies, a total of more than 30,000 horses.
More than 30,000 horses along the way, where is the scale small, the common people can't pick up the horse manure in time, if the bicycle infantry follows behind, won't they fall all over the horse manure?
Horse manure is farmhouse manure, and it will take less than three days for the cavalry to cross the border, and the people in the villages and towns along the way will collect the manure and keep it for the fertile fields.
Along the way, the military and civilians and the eunuchs all saw the difference between the cavalry and the cavalry infantry, and they were able to run in front of the cavalry without eating forage, so that more people yearn for bicycles.
The surrounding prefectures and counties along the route of the army have been touched, and the number of military families in the entire Gyeonggi region has reached 40,000.
The "Red Banner Army" bought and occupied a large number of acres of land in Gyeonggi and handed them over to military families, tun people, and peasants for cultivation, and collected half of the harvest and all taxes and fees.
In return, these families must send a male child to participate in military training once every three days and study at the nearest literacy class for more than half an hour every night.
The method adopted by Huang Han was to raise the knowledge of the peasants through education, and to rally the scattered peasants around the "Red Banner Army" through military training, so that everyone could feel the strength of the collective.
Three or five years have passed since this was done, and the Yongpyeong area, which was first touched, has been infiltrated in this way for seven or eight years, and it has proved to be very effective.
The most obvious effect is that the local landlords and old fortunes have repeatedly reduced rents and interest rates, and they have not discussed it passively or actively.
In short, if the landlords did not do so, the original tenants would no longer rent their land, and their acres of land would be barren.
Most landlords need to hand over land to the government, and if there is no output, wouldn't they need to pay silver to raise the fertile land in their hands?
Strictly speaking, no one in the Ming Dynasty was a slave, let alone a tenant, but a free people.
Before the support of the "Red Banner Army", the landlords and old wealth had a tacit understanding, and they formed a powerful group to advance and retreat together, and tenants who dared to negotiate rent and interest reductions with the owner's family would be characterized as Diao Min.
If they refuse to rent the land of the master's family, they will not be able to find a master in the neighborhood who is willing to accept them, and in the end they will have to leave the country with their families, so they can only accept it.
In recent years, the situation has been completely different, and the peasants who have developed into awakened and raised their consciousness have formed a powerful group and have the right to speak.
At the instigation of the banner guards, they advanced and retreated together, negotiated fairly with the landlords, and if the landlords did not agree to reduce rents and interest rates, they might not find anyone to cultivate their acres.
In fact, this is not an agrarian revolution, and there is no need for saber rattling.
Rather, it was the collective strength of the "Red Banner Army", which owned a large number of acres of land, to support the tenant farmers, so that they had no worries about the future and dared to engage in labor-management negotiations.
Huang Han will not let the peasants be exploited to the point of desperation, nor will he go to extremes, nor will he force the landlords to go bankrupt.
As the saying goes, poverty begets bad intentions, wealth grows conscience, and treating the rich as enemies is perverted, which will eventually seriously hurt the foundation of the country and lead to the country's poverty.
The rich should have a reasonable income from their legitimate land, and the output of the fields is the bottom line as rent, and the landlords can no longer be forced to reduce the rent.
When the peasants are stable, the society is stable, and the peasants in Gyeonggi have hope, especially in the areas of Jizhou, Tianjinwei, Denglai, and Yongpingfu, where they do not need to pay the imperial court taxes and only need to bear the true nature of the "Red Banner Army".
Of course, they are grateful for the kindness of the "King of Hanjiang County", and it is not an exaggeration to describe the "Red Banner Army" as a pot pulp when it crosses the border.
Peaceful evolution is what Huang Han wants! To this end, it not only controls the guidance of public opinion from the military and politics, but also guides Daming Capital into the "Red Flag Army" system.
The capital outflow of the Ming Dynasty has intensified, and many well-known private workshops have moved to the cities touched by the "Red Banner Army" by the sea, and some have simply crossed the sea to the "Hanjiang Province".
Shaanxi, Henan, Shanxi, Huguang, and Sichuan basically do not collect taxes, and the direct consequence is that the taxes in Jiangnan are increasing more and more.
In this era, even the splendid Jiangnan is difficult to withstand natural disasters, and a flood or typhoon will cause a large number of small owners and homesteaders to go bankrupt and become homeless.
Moreover, the "Red Flag Army" system has imported a large number of high-quality cotton from India, and due to large-scale production, work efficiency has been improved, and technological innovation has improved the width and quality of cotton cloth, saving costs.
The cost price of cotton cloth produced by the "Red Flag Army" system is already a little lower than that of the products in Songjiang Prefecture, and as long as Huang Han Songkou comes to reduce the price of promotion, I am afraid that more than 100,000 industrial workers related to weaving in Jiangnan will lose their jobs.
The current market is not yet saturated, there is no need to fight a price war for the time being, Huang Han has maintained restraint, but every year the system will increase hundreds of thousands of industrial workers, and the Ming Dynasty due to frequent wars led to a decline in purchasing power.
As a result, a large number of fabrics produced in Songjiang Prefecture were sold to the "Red Flag Army" system, and Huang Han did things in line with the principle of rotting meat in the pot, and has been urging the system to do its best to organize textile exports.
After competing for the markets of Quang Nam, Da Viet and Lesser Luzon, they have been seeking the European market, and now the wide canvas coated with tung oil and antiseptic produced in the system has become one of the most popular commodities among the Spaniards and Portuguese.
With the increasing output of cotton cloth, the next has to adopt the model of price reduction, whether it is to crush the manufacturing industry in the south of the Yangtze River and cause the consequences of the problem has to be divided into two.
The technological revolution is to obtain products with larger output, better quality and lower cost.
If the price of cotton cloth can drop by 30%, how many children will not have to run around with their bare butts all day long? Can a big girl who loves beauty add a flower dress?
However, the price of cotton cloth in the system is reduced by 30%, and the weaving mills in the system can still maintain a gross profit of 10% to 20%, while Songjiang cloth not only does not get profits, but also has to lose at least 10%, which will definitely directly lead to the closure of a large number of manual embossing, spinning, weaving, printing and dyeing workshops.
If a large number of weavers in Jiangnan lost their jobs, the Ming court would be even worse.
In another two or three years, Emperor Chongzhen's finances may be exhausted, and the "Red Banner Army" system in great development will definitely be prosperous and powerful.
Huang Han has 500,000 young soldiers with less servile knowledge, guns and warships ahead of the times, and it is not a dream to surrender without a fight.
The great Han nation will never be absent again in the Age of Discovery, and the Chinese language, square characters, Tang and Song poems will spread throughout North and South America.