Chapter 109: The Second Day of Heaven (8)

Countless squires and tyrants were forced to relocate by the local government, and for a time on the official roads in the north of the Ming Dynasty, the carriages came and went from south to north, from east to west, and those who were lucky were driven to the city hundreds of miles away, and those who were unlucky were driven directly to thousands of miles away. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info for a time, the entire northern part of the empire was full of complaints about Chongzhen.

You said that those rich and well-connected magnates are doing well, you, the emperor, forced others to stay away from their homeland with a word, and lost a lot of interests, those small forces, when they saw that the court was powerful, they swallowed this breath, but those who were used to sitting on the soil emperor, suddenly let him lose all this, who can be willing, who can let go, in the city was forced out by the knife of Jinyiwei, that is the situation is stronger than people, people have to bow their heads under the eaves, no way.

However, after leaving the city, many powerful people who did not give up sent their servants back to the city secretly to collude with those families who were driven out together, or the manpower forces left behind in the city.

Chongzhen of Beijing City, after reading the information handed over by the spy department, shook his head, he was very disdainful of everything that the group of magnates had done, these people still didn't understand, no matter what power, interests, or relationships at any time, without the protection of the force that could confront the other party, they were all empty and vulnerable, just like after the Jurchens entered the customs, they cut a group of hard bones who were unwilling to surrender, and the remaining magnates were not obediently kneeling on the side of the road to welcome the group of Tunguska savages into the customs.

After the Jurchens entered the customs, this group of magnates still lived the life of the magnates, there were few Jurchens, and they needed this group of people to help rule this huge country, so the magnates still lived without paying taxes, they should eat and press, they should drink, and they had nothing to do with the days of leading a few evil servants to tease the women of a good family.

It's just that in the crumbling situation of the Qing Dynasty, no one expected that there was a ruthless person among the Jurchens: Yongzheng, this guy is a ruthless person, and he forcibly implemented the integration of officials and gentry in the whole country.

Those magnates in later generations, after being cut by the Jurchens with a group of hard bones, obediently knelt down to welcome the Manchurians into the customs, and after being cut by Yongzheng again a few decades later, the remaining magnates can also pay taxes obediently, Chongzhen understands how the group of magnates in the face of the butcher's knife is not at the bottom line, since this group of people can kneel under the butcher's knife of the Jurchens, they can also kneel at their feet, after all, only the living magnates are magnates, and if they die, they are nothing, compared to their own lives, And what is there that should not be given up?

"Some people, I don't want to see them, let people deal with them" With Chongzhen's words, an old eunuch at the back of the study quietly left the palace.

I don't know when, there are suddenly many robbers with different banners in the north of the Ming Dynasty, this group of people is different from the robbers who blocked the road in the past, after all, for the sake of future consideration, few robbers will do things absolutely, generally collect a part of the road to buy the road will be released, in this way, one will not let this road be cut off, no one dares to go, and the second does not want to make a big deal and attract the attention of the government, in this special period, as long as it is not too tossed, the government is not willing to work hard to exterminate these small bandits who do not hurt people's lives.

It's just that this group of people at the moment, not only robbed money but also killed, in just a few days, there have been rumors that many local tyrants and magnates who left the city met the group of robbers on the official road and were slaughtered, but this group of strongmen is also strange, it seems that they are here to rob those big households, but they have never heard of some small businessmen or civilians walking on the official road.

It's just a strange thing for many people, but there are a lot of post guards on the official road who come and go to pass information or deliver goods. Usually, as long as there is news of road bandits or something, the post station will have someone to verify, the news is true, and soon several nearby post stations will gather a large number of post guards to exterminate the bandits, but now it has been a few days down, but there is no post guard to come to inspect, there has been a keen sense of smell to catch fast, has found that the situation is wrong, follow the investigation, but after finding that the origin of these robbers is problematic, those fast catchers do not know what news they have received, and they are no longer nosy.

After a large number of local tyrants and magnates were robbed and killed, a series of assets such as good land shops left by those people were also unknowingly taken over by imperial merchants from all over the country.

During the acquisition period, it is very good to cooperate with the imperial merchant acquisition, and if you do not cooperate, you can only ask you to go to the prison of Jinyiwei to take a walk, and when the time comes, you will have to cooperate obediently without a penny, as for those who want to resist, have you forgotten what the essence of the imperial court is, that is the biggest violent institution, if you have the ability to resist, then you will have the ability to change the dynasty, and you will nest here to do these smuggling and perverting transactions.

A few days later, there were more shops with a big "Ming" character on the small flag on the streets, a big plaque of "Imperial Merchant" hung on the door of the shop, a notice was posted in a conspicuous place outside the door, and a lot of literate poor and sour talents were hired to explain to the surrounding people.

"According to the Ming Dynasty Commercial Law, all stores in the future will be managed by the imperial merchants, and at the same time, they shall not purchase and sell salt, iron, wine, tea, vinegar, alum, grain and other controlled commodities without permission, and the transaction price shall not be higher than the price of the imperial merchants.

Every month with the identity of the waist card can go to the government for free to receive the bill of the month, each time you buy food on the bill will have one more purchase record, up to five times a month, the bill is invalid when it expires, the purpose of this is to prevent someone from hoarding food, now the natural disasters continue to food is not enough, not controlled, or it will not be long before most of the grain will flow into the hands of a small number of rich businessmen, and then the price of food soars uncontrollably, the people can not afford to buy, there is no food, do not want to starve to death, whether it is to steal to rob, or to rebel, not only cause civil unrest, and it will also bring a lot of trouble to the government.

In the face of such a natural disaster, Chongzhen also felt powerless, although a large number of high-yield crops were introduced, but these fresh crops, except for the little eunuch in the vegetable garden of Shangshanjian, there were few people in the entire Ming Dynasty, let alone farming. If you want to have a high yield of high-yield crops, you must be familiar with the characteristics of these crops and have the correct management and planting methods, otherwise you will be forced to send seeds to the people to plant, and the people will not know what you are giving and how to plant.

At present, the solution is only to take Huangzhuang as a base for unified production, under the unified command of the small eunuchs who are familiar with the method of planting, collective large-scale planting, weeding on time, fertilization (natural fertilizer), careful care can obtain high yields, although Huangzhuang occupies a lot of land with the support of Chongzhen, but compared with the whole country, the cultivated land area is still far from enough, and there is still a long way to go to fight against natural disasters.