Chapter 260: The Fall of the Holy Lord Mingjun
Thirty years?
Anyway, Qian Qianyi definitely can't wait!
And he is also very difficult to agree with Gong Dingyu's self-confidence, it is hard to say how Li Zicheng is here, anyway, Yang Qing must be choking there.
Anyway, this enemy is desperate!
Playing military people are invincible, playing economic people make Jiangnan prosperous, playing public opinion people are playing high-end atmosphere, the only vitality left to Donglin Qunxian is to welcome the car, but to take out the food and silver, and then dig out the food and silver, those gentry who originally hated the same enemy broke up instantly......
Qian Qianyi is angry and hateful!
If these guys are not angry, why can't you fight with the enemy?
It's only 10 million taels.
At the beginning, Li Zicheng copied out 70 million in Beijing, the gentry in Jiangnan are richer than in the north, and a family pays a hundred taels, it is estimated that the three provinces of Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi have no pressure to make up a few million, and the rest of the grain is simpler, who doesn't have tens of thousands of acres of fertile land? You grit your teeth at Yang Qing on weekdays, and you can't wait to share the sky with this guy, why are you all wilting now? The whole of Nanjing made up 200,000? There is also a large part of it that is actually from Yang Qing and his gang, don't you feel blush when you look at that bit of silver?
He hated the ignorance of the foolish.
Why can't you see the true face of this traitor?
The Four People's Congress?
Then which is the Four People's Congress, it is purely to manipulate public opinion, it is said that last time he used the Four People's Congress to steal power, this time I am afraid that the Four People's Congress should be used to steal the Ming Dynasty, right? The wolf's ambition is obvious!
Thinking of this......
Especially thinking of his shameless face when he coveted Liu Ru, Qian Qianyi suddenly became full of fighting spirit, he took a deep breath, put on a warm smile like a spring breeze, and walked to the busy construction site in the distance like a relative, and walked to Li Zicheng, who was digging channels with his subordinates......
And on the same day, another Holy Lord, Mingjun, finally fell as well.
Dorgon ordered a tax to be levied on the gentry.
Our Qing Dynasty officially entered the era of the gentry as one errand and paid food.
He had no other way, at this time, even if Yang Qing lifted the blockade on him, he would not have much money to buy food, after all, the price of three taels and one stone was beyond his ability to bear, and it was impossible for Yang Qing to accept the money he printed. And he has a small amount of financial income a year, and at most he earns some monopoly income through the imperial merchants, but these are not enough, and at this time, the number of hardcore crops has also skyrocketed, and he has too much to feed. In the past, they had actually relied on looting to survive outside the gates, but now there is nowhere to rob, and when a regime maintained by plundering has nowhere to plunder, it will inevitably face a dilemma.
After the failure of the last southern invasion, Dolgon's predicament was already doomed.
There is only one solution.
Taxes were collected from the gentry who did not pay taxes in the first place.
This order did not meet with too much fierce resistance in the city of Beijing, which had just experienced a turmoil, among the Korean Chinese officials who had just been frightened by the raid. After all, the tragedy of Feng Quan and others being raided has just passed a few days, and at this point, Dolgon has won the unanimous support of the Eight Banners, and like the fourth elder brother, he is supporting the Eight Banners by robbing the Han gentry, and the Eight Banners will of course support it. As for what will happen locally, at least for the time being, it has not yet appeared, after all, it will take time for this order to be implemented in the Qing control areas of Beizhili and Shandong, and it is not yet time to collect taxes.
Boycott is inevitable.
When the fourth elder brother was instigated, Yue Zhongqi rebelled, let alone at this time, but fortunately, the army under Dolgon also had butcher knives, and those gentry couldn't find the Holy Lord Mingjun to surrender......
It's sad.
Just like the water is too cold to say, the world is so big, where is there a Ming Jun?
In this way, the Qing Dynasty also joined the ranks of taxing the gentry.
Yang Qing collected taxes on the gentry.
Dorgon also taxed the gentry.
Li Zicheng directly eliminated the gentry from his territory.
On the land of China, there are only King Gui and Zhang Xianzhong, as well as Jin Shenghuan, who are exempt from taxes on the gentry.
King Gui's finances depended on overseas trade, and he had actually begun to break away from the feudal era, and he was now playing very advanced, and he was playing pure liberal capitalism.
Of course, the reason for this was not that his officials were more advanced, but that King Gui had no power at all. To put it bluntly, he was an alliance, the gentry of Liangguang who didn't want to pay taxes, the old department of Zuo Liangyu who was driven out of Huguang by Yang Qing, and the alliance of the Jingjiang Wang family who didn't want to be driven out by Yang Qing to open up the wasteland.
King Gui is just an ornament.
His words were barely effective in the city of Guangzhou, and it was up to the gentry from all over the country to take care of it when he left Guangzhou.
Yang Qing shouted slogans to limit the monarchy's power, but King Gui had no monarchy at all, and the Liangguang gentry relied on barbaric growth in this arguably completely indulgent environment and quickly entered liberal capitalism. Although the yield per mu was very high, most of them were mountainous areas, and this natural agricultural disadvantage made the gentry of Liangguang pay more attention to industry and commerce, and became more intimate with the ghosts, which also made the European political system begin to influence them. At present, Yang Qing's Nanyang Company, one of its main competitors at sea, is the two Guangxi maritime merchants who have flocked south after the coastal ports have been fully liberalized, and even the latter has begun to attack the merchant ships of the Nanyang Company at sea.
It also includes collusion with the Fujian gentry to play coastal smuggling.
Foshan's steel industry is growing by leaps and bounds.
Guangzhou's textile industry is thriving.
Guangxi tea plantations are flocking.
The power of liberal capitalism is beginning to be unleashed in Guangzhou, and of course, on the other side of prosperity, slave laborers who have been squeezed to the last drop of blood and sweat have also appeared. Female workers in Guangzhou's water-powered textile workshops work at least 18 hours a day, and in the iron mines of northern Guangdong, thirteen or fourteen-year-old child laborers pushing heavy carts can be seen everywhere. There are even similar situations like sheep eating people, but instead of sheep eating people, silkworms eat people, and sugar eats people. In order to increase the production of silk and sugar, the gentry of Liangguang constantly forced their tenants to convert their fertile land to sugar cane and mulberry trees, and then used the export proceeds to buy rice in Southeast Asia, especially Vietnam, and then used the price of rice to squeeze it again.
The old mode of exploitation is gradually being eliminated in Liangguang, while the new mode of exploitation is emerging, for the poor people of Liangguang......
They're not as good as they used to be.
The process of primitive accumulation of capitalism is being played out bloodily in Guangzhou.
The rich and the poor live side by side.
On the other side of Guangzhou's increasingly prosperous business districts and the growing number of textile workshops on the banks of the Pearl River, workers in the slums, barely seeing the sun at both ends, are crowded in the quagmire of poverty, and may only have a few sweet potatoes to feed their stomachs every day, and they have to exchange blood and sweat for ......
By the way.
The first colony of the Ming Dynasty has been established.
But it was not established by Yang Qing, a traverser, but by the maritime merchants of Liangguang in a preemptive way, forcibly seized from the hands of King Zhenla, and the position was in Hexian, that is, the location of the port state established by Mo Jiu, who was originally unwilling to endure the rule of the Qing Dynasty and moved south. The two Cantonese maritime merchants established the first overseas colony of the Ming Dynasty here, which was used as a transit point for Nanyang trade, and even built a fortress designed by the Portuguese in Ha Xian.
It's also a free port.
It is said that when Yang Qing first got the news, he was a little sad, as a traverser, he was actually surpassed by a group of natives.
As for the remaining Zhang Xianzhong, the ancient order is still maintained, and the order is good, after all, he has the country of abundance in the Chengdu Plain, and there is nothing bad about this land not fighting. Although the gentry did not pay taxes, he controlled the salt industry, and the trade with Li Zicheng was under his control, not to mention the taxes at checkpoints such as the Three Gorges Sword Pavilion, and his army was also in Tuntian, which alone was enough to make his life very comfortable.
The common people are also doing okay.
Although the land was still in the hands of the gentry, Sichuan was not Jiangnan after all, and there was a large amount of wasteland that could be cultivated, and Zhang Xianzhong encouraged reclamation, so there were many yeoman farmers, and this forced the gentry to reduce the rent a little to retain the tenants.
The key, of course, is high food production.
In the Dujiangyan irrigation area of the Chengdu Plain, there is no difference between the grain yield per mu and the paddy fields in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, even if the land rent is seventy percent, the tenants' annual income can still be guaranteed to be full. The yield per mu of five or six stones or even more than seven stones, even if seventy percent of the land rent, the tenants can still have three or four hundred catties left per mu, and even if the grain has to be shelled, it is nearly three hundred catties of rice, as long as there is no harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, a family of five and two laborers, renting ten acres of land can barely support the whole family, which is essentially different from those in the north who produce one stone per mu.
The rich land made Zhang Xianzhong successful.
Even if Yang Qing's territory is averaged across the board, the living standards of the common people under Zhang Xianzhong's rule are not as high.
After all, many people under Yang Qing have to eat sweet potatoes and Zhang Xianzhong does not eat sweet potatoes at all, everyone eats rice and noodles, of course, a big reason for this is that Sichuan does not have to pay taxes to the imperial court, and the self-sufficient Sichuan is closed, and in the current situation of less than 10 million people, that small day must be happy and happy.
Jin Shenghuan is also having a good time there.
He is actually an entire Nanyang Basin with Xiangyang Zaoyang as the southern boundary to the north, although it cannot be compared with the Chengdu Plain, but fortunately, there are a total of more than one million people under his rule, and this basin bears the rain of the surrounding mountains, and it is barely able to maintain it after all. Moreover, he controlled the Han River and the trade routes north of Jianghan, and although he did not collect taxes from the gentry to gain the support of the big clans, he still lived well by relying on the control of commerce, in fact, the further south the better during this Xiaoice period.
The Huai River is a dividing line.
The Huai River and even a small part of the north bank of the Huai River, and then to the south, are self-sufficient.
The further north this line goes, the worse it gets.
The northernmost ones like Dolgon had no choice but to loot, and Li Zicheng was actually considered a loot, because he collected Yang Qing's protection money and plundered the northwest. And the reason why Dolgon was the most unlucky was because he couldn't beat Yang Qing and Li Zicheng, and he couldn't rob them, so he couldn't maintain it. (https:)
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