"Zhong Yuangong is too worried, right?"

Wang Fuzhi said.

Of course, he understood that Sun Qifeng was entrusted by the gentry from all over the country to lobby the Four Peoples Conference, and at present, Liu Zongzhou, one of the three great Confucian masters in the north and south, was bedridden, and Huang Daozhou did not ask about foreign affairs, to be precise, he had returned to the mountains and forests......

In fact, Lao Huang's reputation has been greatly damaged.

After all, he escaped in the struggle against Yang Qing.

The rest is Sun Qifeng.

And it just so happened that Sun Qifeng and Yang Qing had a grudge, because his family was reformed, although the crime of traitor did not fall on the head of this great Confucian, but as a famous landlord in Baoding, his land was divided. Originally, his family's land was surrounded by the Eight Banners in history, and he finally lectured with the support of his friends, but this time Dolgon relied on the northern gentry to support him, and of course it was impossible to condone the land of the top Confucian in the Eight Banners. But I didn't expect that even Jiannu didn't do it, but the officials and troops who recovered the north forcibly confiscated his land and property, and then directly distributed it to those tenants to set up Huangzhuang, which was really disappointing. Although Sun Qifeng didn't want to eat, he could be regarded as bankrupt, and he didn't want to stay at home to listen to those family members crying poor, so he simply traveled to Jiangnan, and then was quickly invited by Donglin Academy to go over.

Now the major academies in Jiangnan are competing to invite.

It is undoubtedly very important for such a top Confucian to come forward and lobby the representatives of the four peoples, especially Wang Fuzhi, who is in fact recognized as the soul of the representatives of the four peoples.

"Worried?"

Sun Qifeng smiled slightly and said, "It seems that you still don't know how those Huangzhuang militiamen in the north poisoned the gentry!" ”

"Please make it clear to Zhong Yuangong!"

Wang Fuzhi hurriedly said.

Since the official army recovered Hebei, it was initially only for those who depended on the slaves, and the family members were wantonly confiscated for the crime of traitor, and the serious ones were beheaded for public display, and the minor ones were exiled to Taiwan, and the female dependents were matched with the poor people without wives. To say that this is the only way, although it is contrary to the way of mercy, but it is also the crime of those traitors who deserve it. However, in fact, it encourages whistleblowing, connivs at the malicious false accusations of the people, and there are many people who take revenge, and the deacons are conducive to raiding the house and do not investigate in detail, so there are many people who are not guilty and destroyed! ”

Sun Qifeng sighed.

Wang Fuzhi's expression was unwavering......

Everyone is an adult, and they all know this kind of thing!

Of course, the officials and Jinyi guards in charge of the trial of traitors and heretics in the north can't really be good children, their main duty is to raid the house, and then to deal with traitors, as for encouraging whistleblowers to expand, this is inevitable.

Take down a traitor and copy a home.

Of course, the more the merrier.

As for whether it is wronged......

Which injustice did the northern gentry want to rectify?

Sun Qifeng himself was carefully entangled, and there were still a lot of students who were traitors, and when the teacher taught a bunch of traitors, he said that he was not responsible?

"That's it!"

Sun Qifeng said.

"There are no cool officials, at most, there are more unjust cases, until those land reform teams arrive."

He went on to say.

At the same time, there was a hint of fear on his face.

His expression suddenly made Wang Fuzhi serious.

"They forcibly confiscated all the land, whether it was owned by traitors or not, and if the gentry had rebels, they encouraged the poor to do it themselves, and they arrested these innocent gentry, put them on high platforms, and put them on high hats, and let the poor people be humiliated wantonly. They even drove their entire families out of their homes, divided their possessions and houses, locked them up in firewood houses and livestock sheds, beat and humiliated them almost day and night, and treated them like livestock. The victims had no way to ask for help, regardless of the garrison or local officials, and the Guy Land Reform Team was subordinate to Jinyiwei, who was Yang Qing's cronies, just like those eunuchs in those years. And this is not an occasional thing, it is the case in all places, they call this a grievance, and all the imperial estates are going on, during which even those gentry who have not resisted are not spared, and it can be said that all the northern gentry have been purged by it!

The old decay had to go.

If you don't leave, even the old decay will be locked up in the firewood room! ”

Sun Qifeng said.

"Really?"

Wang Fuzhi took a deep breath and said.

"Is the old man a liar?"

Sun Qifeng said.

He wasn't lying.

Of course, the land reform in the north will not be easy, those gentry who will obediently hand over the land, they are all farmers under Dolgon, and now they want to hand over the land, and then honestly farm their own land for a living, this is not forcing them to rebel!

Almost everywhere there was a gentry revolt.

Overtly, not openly, directly engaged in armed confrontation, pretending to be bandits attacking the land reform team, mobilizing connections to find someone to help, in short, they use all the means they can to resist. And those land reform teams deal with this experienced and don't have to bother to appeal directly to the bitter assembly, which is almost invincible, and then leave the rest to those poor people, they just need to take the lead.

But this kind of thing is not openly advertised in the newspapers of the South.

Yang Qingke has a censorship system.

Moreover, at this time, the news source of the southern newspaper was Yingtian Daily, and only this newspaper could get the news sent back by Jinyiwei's communication tower, and what this newspaper did not report, the vast majority of newspapers could not obtain. As for the personal correspondence of officials in the north, they are also subject to censorship by the postal system controlled by Jinyiwei, and merchants returning from the north will also be warned at various checkpoints. In fact, even if anyone dares to talk nonsense, they will be quickly arrested by Jinyiwei, and Yang Qing's spy rule can be said to be quite mature. Of course, it can't be said that there is no rumor at all, but Yang Qing will also wash the floor, and his propaganda machine will use various means to annihilate these rumors into invisibility.

In this day and age, the means of information transmission are limited.

What's more, in the past, the southern gentry didn't have to care about the life and death of their northern kind, they publicized these things and it was not good for them, in vain to provoke Yang Qing to make themselves uncomfortable. But now it's different, Yang Qing has already provoked a war, and the southern gentry are already in a state of de facto decisive battle with him, so they just use this to fight back.

But Wang Fuzhi really didn't know.

"You are still deceived by his mask, but you don't know his true face, he is implementing his plan to destroy Confucianism step by step, first introducing non-Confucian officials to the officialdom with a new style of imperial examination, and then destroying the gentry class with land reform. Without the gentry, there would be no seowon to pass on the teachings of the sages, and he used compulsory education to train the next generation of non-Confucians, and he took action step by step, all he needed was time. And he happens to be the least lacking in time, he has fifty or even a hundred years to wait, he first cut the foundation of Confucianism, and then use time to boil the towering tree of Confucianism, fifty years later, when this big tree dies, all he needs is a gentle push.

So can we sit back and watch this big tree be toppled by him?

Don't forget that we are Confucian disciples. ”

Sun Qifeng said.

Wang Fuzhi was silent.

"This is a battle of Taoism, the battle of Confucianism that has been inherited for more than 2,000 years, we want to keep Confucianism, the only choice is to keep the gentry class, the foundation of Confucianism is in the gentry, the gentry die Confucianism, the gentry prosper and Confucianism prosper, there is no other choice!"

Sun Qifeng said.

I have to say that the Great Confucianism is different, and he suddenly raised this struggle to the height of the battle of Taoism, but what he said is also right, even if his original intention was just to lobby these scholar representatives led by Wang Fuzhi, but people like Wang Fuzhi are definitely not fooled with lies. This must be done with dry goods, and Yang Qing's purpose was basically guessed by him, this guy is destroying Confucianism step by step, although he said that he had gone too far to destroy Confucianism, and the Protector never thought of destroying Confucianism. But if the gentry are solved, the old education system controlled by the gentry is solved, and the compulsory education system is used to cultivate the next generation, who will still take care of the Confucian set of things fifty years later?

It is estimated that except for those who specialize in learning, no one will read the Four Books and the Five Classics anymore.

At that time, it was no longer important whether Confucianism was extinguished or not.

It's impossible to revive.

The garbage in the garbage heap is garbage, there is no chance to turn waste into treasure, no matter how much you whitewash, you can't cover up the stale stench, this kind of thing doesn't need to be taken seriously in a hundred years, as long as compulsory education is popular, who will care about this kind of thing? After all, Confucianism only controls their minds by pandering to the rulers, and what can they do when the rulers don't need them? Do they have the audacity to defend the Tao with force? In that way, Yang Qing will fulfill them, but unfortunately history has proved that Confucianism is not as good as a stubble after picking up the ashes, and now except for a few special ones, the rest are all mouth cannons.

It is impossible to defend the road with martial arts.

There may still be some people who defend the way with death, but that's all for now, and after boiling these people to death, there are no more people who defend the way with death.

In short, there is no urgency to protect the country.

But from the current point of view, it cannot be said that he is destroying Confucianism little by little with his black hands, at least from the way the northern land reform region treats the big Confucians and the small Confucians, the protector is indeed implementing an evil plan.

A plan to exterminate Confucianism.

However......

"Brother Jiang Zhai, what should I do?"

A representative of the scholars watched Sun Qifeng's carriage leave, and then asked uncertainly.

"What should I do?"

Wang Fuzhi smiled bitterly.

"Are we going to agree to the Public Land Law?"

He said.

Several of the scholars beside him shook their heads.

How can they agree to the public land law, this is related to their vital interests, and they must vote against it, regardless of whether anyone lobbied for this point or not. The same is true for Wang Fuzhi, the Wang family is also a landlord, even if they have turned to industry and commerce in recent years, but the land is still an important asset of their family.

There's no way they're really willing to hand it over.

"But it's useless for us!"

A scholar said weakly.

It would be useless even if all the scholars voted against the Gongtian Law, after all, they only had a quarter of the votes, and in order to stop the Gongtian Law, they had to have more than 50% of the votes against, which means that they had to have a quarter of the allies. But in the last few meetings, it is clear that this is very difficult, and although the representatives of the merchants and some of the yeoman farmers are not very fond of it, it is still very difficult to get them to stop the protectors. After all, this is not their vital interests, the merchant class does not have much land, they have the money to open factories to do trade, they don't like it just because they need to pay more wages, but if the land is fully publicized, the purchasing power of the peasants will skyrocket, and the prosperity of industry and commerce is inevitable.

After all, it is difficult to count on tenants to consume.

Those tenants who could only eat enough had no extra money to spend, and the royal people of the Huangzhuang had money to spend.

Although the yeoman farmers also had to lose their land, according to the redemption method of the public land law, those less than 50 mu were directly paid cash. The yeoman farmer is nothing more than selling the land to get a lot of money, and then entering the public estate to enjoy the same treatment as the imperial village, and in addition to the thirty-year tax exemption in the north.

That's not a loss.

It is impossible to go to the north to reclaim the land, but such a share of the land can be resold or given up in exchange for guano compensation.

And compensation for thirty years.

You can get a free quantitative fertilizer ticket every year.

It is said that since the plan to develop guano in Nauru was put on the agenda, the Lord Protector has completely let go of the fat ticket, and he will be able to sail the sail-powered merchant ship over anyway in ten years at most. No matter how many fat stamps he prints now, he will be able to cash them out when the time comes, and not only Nauru, but also South American guano can be developed, and guano is already being used there at this time.

Fat tickets are the safest.

It was comparable to a freely convertible gold standard banknote.

In this way, the homesteaders are not lost.

The workers have nothing to do with the Public Land Act at all.

On the contrary, if the public land law is really implemented, they will have more confidence to bargain with the capitalists, after all, in the past, the number of imperial villages was limited, and if they were to be arranged in other provinces, it would be better to continue to endure the exploitation of the capitalists. But if Jiangnan is full of Huangzhuang, then the capitalists exploit it too ruthlessly, it is nothing more than quitting their jobs to become farmers, according to the public land law, as long as the people of the Ming Dynasty who have no arable land now, they can register with the government and then land the land.

Of course, it has to be cultivated.

Whoever receives it but does not plant it idle, or changes its use, is not only punished, but exiled.

In short, it is true that not everyone likes this public land law, and even many people other than the landlords do not like it, for example, the capitalists do not like it, they have to pay more wages to the workers, but it is also unrealistic to expect them to fight against Yang Qing for this. Whether it is fear or respect, this kind of thing of head-on conflict with Yang Qing is absolutely not something that the vast majority of the representatives of the Four Peoples dare not try.

But......

"But we don't have to worry about it!"

Wang Fuzhi said.

"All we can do is vote for what we should vote for according to our original intentions, as for what to do with the others, some people are in a hurry, and they will solve the rest of the things!"

He continued.

Indeed, they do what they have to do.

This is not their business, or not their own business, this is the battle between the gentry and Yang Qing in the world, they are at best only one of the gentry, and they are also the one who has a better relationship with Yang Qing. At this time, there are gentry who are going all out to participate in this decisive battle, and these people are the real main force, it depends on how they solve those representatives of the four peoples.

"I'm always a little uneasy, I'm afraid this move of the protector is not so simple!"

Wang Fuzhi said quietly.