Chapter 358 Huizhou Rural Survey Report
Just as the Emperor of Longxing was ambitiously inspecting his imperial camp, Yang Qing and Princess Kunxing also left Nanjing again, and their destination was ......
Huizhou.
"You are Yang Jiyun?"
Yang Qing looked at the lame veteran in front of him.
The latter lay on the ground and was speechless with excitement.
This triggered the fuse of the slave release order, and was finally acquitted in legitimate defense, but the house slaves of the Fang family were imprisoned for intentional injury. However, in view of the fact that they are domestic slaves and accomplices, the Fang family can be released if they are willing to pay bail, and the Fang family will be punished with hard labor if they are unwilling to pay bail. In the end, of course, the Fang family would not pay bail for them, and those domestic slaves were sent to the Jiangxi copper mine for three years of hard labor, as for the young master of the Fang family who died, he could only be regarded as to blame, although he was the main culprit, but he was dead.
The Fang family and the gentry of Huizhou were silent about this result.
But they bought the highest number of government bonds in the country.
After all, Huizhou merchants are the core of Yangzhou salt merchants, and these guys are still very rich, and this is the final result of the last Huizhou incident.
Because he has been released as a slave, Yang Jiyun also moved to the bottom of the mountain with confidence, and was regarded as an idol by those slaves and maids. Under his leadership, many slaves and maids took the initiative to leave the gentry, and then joined the Huangzhuang to become a militia, and those gentry were helpless about it, after all, the deeds of sale in their hands from the law had become waste paper.
"Are you Yang Sun?"
Yang Qing's gaze turned to the woman holding a child beside him.
The latter bowed his head in fear.
"I know your business, our policy is to harm the family, I am also very happy that you can start a new life, and I will ask people to check where your other relatives are scattered, and the relatives should still move around!"
Yang Qing said.
"The women of the people thank the prison country, and believe in the kindness of the public!"
Yang Sun said with his head down.
"This is a little bit of the prison and my heart!"
Yang Qing handed a bag of palace specialty seeds to Yang Jiyun with satisfaction and said.
"This is cabbage, which came from the West, similar to our cabbage, especially suitable for winter storage, and it can be regarded as adding food and clothing to you!"
He then explained.
Now Jian Guo and Xin Gong like to give seeds to others, but they are indeed more popular, and for ordinary people, a new crop with their gimmicks will be equally popular, and in fact it will be useful. In this way, they can make a huge profit by selling these things, and if they grow cabbage and get it to the bazaar as a royal item, they will definitely be sought after.
All the hotels in Nanjing do this.
Whether their seeds are rewards, stolen by palace maids and eunuchs, or counterfeits, as long as they are crowned with the name of this kind of court royalty, their value will immediately double.
Yang Qing used less than a pound of kohlrabi seeds and a planting manual in it to send Yang Jiyun and his family, anyway, his wife is literate, and she is also the waiter of our Qing Dynasty Rite Department, and the granddaughter of the Taifu. Even if she has completely become a peasant woman with a black face and a thick waist, she is also a qin, chess, calligraphy and painting in her bones, and it is definitely not a problem to teach her men to grow vegetables according to the planting manual.
"Who is this woman?"
Princess Kunxing whispered suspiciously.
"The granddaughter of the badger that was cut in front of Xiaoling, her father organized a militia in Zichuan, followed Jiannu to defend it, and was killed by Xie Qian, who broke through Zichuan."
Yang Qing said.
"That's the best way to deal with it!"
Princess Kunxing also said with some emotion.
Indeed, even if Yang Qing opposed him after he came to power, he had some respect for this, although Yang Qing was cruel to the gentry, but in fact, he rarely killed people. Even if the house is raided and the door is destroyed, only the main members are killed, and the vast majority of men are exiled, even if they are exiled to Hainan Island, Taiwan, they will save their lives, and women have never killed a single one, and they will not be official prostitutes if they are enslaved, and they are basically officially assigned to a militia. Although it needs to be self-reliant, it is a good ending compared to the habit of throwing it into the teaching department as an official prostitute in the past.
"Two masters!"
A young man next to them said.
Yang Qing turned his head to look at him, and then took a stack of manuscripts from his hand.
"That's the result of your investigation?"
Yang Qing looked at the top of the Huizhou Rural Survey Report and said.
"Back to Master, yes!"
The young man said.
"Let's go, find a place to see what you've gained!"
Yang Qing said with satisfaction.
The head of the Huangzhuang village next to him hurriedly led the way, and they arrived at the Huangzhuang office, Princess Kunxing went to the elementary school next door to play with the children surrounded by a group of maids, and Yang Qing was in the Huangzhuang office, checking the results of his student's investigation in the countryside of Huizhou for half a year. Most of his students were in Huizhou, Quzhou, Jinhua, and some went to Guangxi for internships with the land reform team.
"Huizhou is actually half merchant and half farmer, and the mountainous areas here have many limited fields and can no longer afford the current population, but Huizhou merchants control Huai Salt and can buy it from outside the world through the profits of Huai Salt. In particular, the grain-producing areas of Raozhou were their main grain selling areas, and for this reason, they often clashed with the local gentry, such as the grain ships of the Hui merchants were often destroyed. In this way, the major families have a strong control over the place, so as the last time, whenever something happens, they quickly gathered tens of thousands of people and even dared to use force. It is because these gentry use the profits of the salt industry to buy grain to supplement the shortage of the clan, and the young and strong clans sell salt with them, and the same clan at home is short of grain to accept their relief. This is just like our army in the past, the salt merchant gentry are the generals, and the clan is their family, controlling a larger number of tenants and peasants as cannon fodder.
This creates a cohesive organization.
The organization is constrained by family laws and clan rules, forming a country that is almost within a country, and when these wealthy gentry clansmen pass the imperial examination, or even simply donate, and finally enter the officialdom, they will not only affect the locality, but even the imperial court will be affected by it.
Because they have money.
They can pay to prop up a group of officials who are in line with them, such as the Donglin Party, and their financial resources guarantee the promotion of these people, and the promotion of these people ensures that the imperial court formulates a system that is more in line with their wishes. For example, after the last incident, almost all the civil officials of the Manchu Dynasty supported the Fang family, and even some military attachés maintained an evasive attitude, if it were not for the sudden issuance of the slave release order by Shizun in Yuanqiu, the student could guarantee that even if the interrogation of the Military Justice Department of the Dadu Governor's Mansion was likely to convict Yang Jiyun.
In this way, the Fang family's authority in the local area will still not be affected in any way.
It was the master who saved him.
The system of the imperial court was useless.
Whether it is a civil official trial or a military official trial, the Fang family has the means to settle it, and whether it is a local official or a court official, they will not really uphold justice for Yang Jiyun. Whether it is out of self-interest or public intentions, they will only protect the Fang family, and even if they are out of public intentions, they do not want to offend a wealthy gentleman who controls the place and cause chaos in the place in such a trivial matter.
Unless it's for pure justice.
To put it bluntly, a veteran like Yang Jiyun, who does not have any backstage, is impossible to confront a wealthy gentleman with huge connections and financial resources.
The latter has a myriad of means by which he can be killed.
In fact, in this matter, the Fang family made a wrong move, they should not solve it by force, or it may be that they were dizzy or too confident, after all, they have been the emperor of the soil for hundreds of years, and in the end they took the wrong important step. But their biggest mistake was not to attack the militia to intercept Yang Jiyun, but that they let their strength be exposed, if they could win, they would definitely gain an inch, but they were defeated by the militia and their original form was revealed.
They knew that this Huizhou was not something they could do as they wanted.
Of course, it is also important for Huangzhuang to react resolutely.
If the Emperor Zhuang had chosen to retreat at that time, instead of uncovering the essence of the paper tiger they often said through battle, they would continue to think that they could still do whatever they wanted and continue to make trouble. ”
Yang Qing's student looked at Zhuang Tou on the side and said.
"The little ones didn't think much about it, it's just that the military households have been oppressed by them for many years, and now there are prisoners and Xingong to uphold justice for the military households, so they can't be weak, Yang Jiyun can't handle the small ones, but it's an order to send him safely to the brigade headquarters, and the small ones have to complete the task no matter what."
Zhuang Tou said.
In fact, he didn't say that it was largely because he wanted the gentry to see the power of the military household after turning over.
"So how do you dismantle the system?"
Yang Qing said with interest.
"It's very simple, just like Guangxi's land reform, just divide the fields and hold a grievance conference, no clan system can hold this, and any patriarch will be exposed after the grievance meeting."
The student said.
"But you also said that Huizhou has a shortage of grain, to a large extent, it depends on the profits of salt merchants, and purchases grain from other places to supplement the locality, if the land reform implements land equalization, it is impossible for salt merchants to use their profits to supplement the clan, so won't the result cause a shortage of local grain?"
Yang Qing asked.
"No, as long as there are enough corn and sweet potatoes, Huizhou is not short of land, but there is a lack of fertile land suitable for growing rice, after all, there is such a little flat land in the mountains that can be cultivated. However, some of the wastelands in the mountainous areas are reclaimed into terraced fields, and even if there is a lack of water for irrigation and rice fields, you can still grow corn, sweet potatoes, wheat or rape in winter, and finally double cropping a year. In the past, this kind of reclamation required a lot of manpower, and it was difficult to really organize it, and those gentry did not look down on this kind of mountainous and thin land, and it was all a kind of reclamation for refugees, and if they were all changed to Huangzhuang, it would be easy to organize. The small one organized manpower to open several terraced fields last year, and the harvest of corn was higher than that of wheat, and the harvest of several terraced fields planted with sweet potatoes was a bumper harvest. You can even plant a large number of tea leaves in the terraces, and the small ones are discussing planting a piece of tea in the Zhuangzi to pick and fry the tea themselves, even if they can't sell it, they can fry and drink, anyway, it is just a few terraced fields in the mountains. ”
Zhuang Tou said.
"But they are still needed."
Yang Qing said.
"Yes, they are needed now!"
The student nodded in acknowledgement. ()
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