In this way, Li Laiheng officially took over the heavy responsibility of the banner of the peasant and industrial class......

Anyway, he is Yang Qing's agent.

Yang Qing is only as the protector of the country, he must maintain a neutral identity and cannot end up in person, but if he wants to support the peasants and workers, he must integrate a political party, so that Li Laiheng, who has enough prestige and can reassure him, has become the best choice. Similarly, Wang Fuzhi's landlord-capitalist party is actually the agent of the bigwigs in the imperial court, and the political struggle of the Ming Dynasty is, in the final analysis, a struggle within the imperial court. He and Chen Zilong and Gu Jiang are all good friends, and the latter, as a member of the cabinet, cannot go down in person, so they entrust Wang Fuzhi as an agent.

In the final analysis, the emerging capitalists have already had many contradictions with Yang Qing at this time.

The Canton incident was a watershed moment.

If Yang Qing had been a tough crackdown on the workers in Guangzhou, he would still be good friends with the emerging capitalists, but his handling of the Guangzhou incident disappointed the emerging capitalists. These people also knew that the Protector and they were not in the same group, and the next struggle between the two sides was also inevitable, but they were more rational than the landlord and were more reluctant to openly oppose Yang Qing......

In fact, they still have to rely on Yang Qing.

In this respect they were fundamentally different from the landlords, who were simply hostile to Yang Qing, but the relationship between the emerging capitalists and Yang Qing was much more complicated, and they had to maintain their struggle without breaking down, and even had to cooperate.

So it's wisest to find a surrogate to fight.

That's for the best.

In this way, a cabinet fight will be avoided.

After all, these people really don't want to openly fight with Yang Qing in the cabinet.

Some struggles that tend to intensify contradictions are handed over to the Four People's Congress, and the two parties of the Four People's Congress are allowed to carry out proxy struggles, and the results of the struggle of the Four People's Congress are accepted as the rules of the game for future political struggles, so as to avoid the country falling into chaos. After experiencing the troubled times of the previous twenty years and the death of countless people, including countless gentry officials, these political elites also knew the preciousness of peace at this time. They also know the consequences of not leaving a way for the bottom to live, and they are actually afraid, after all, the current cabinet can be said to be the elite who have really undergone a lot of tempering......

All of them.

Chen Zilong, Gu Yanwu, Du Yinxi, He Tengjiao, etc., which one is sober enough.

Since Yang Qing has formulated this game rule that can avoid the intensification of contradictions to the greatest extent, then everyone should simply abide by it, not that it is really unacceptable! In the final analysis, the new capitalists are well aware that what they have to pay will not affect their rich countries at all, and they are already raising the price of their exports for various reasons.

Anyway, whether they increase the price or not, those Europeans have to buy it......

These guys don't have any other choice.

In fact, at this time, more and more countries were joining the trade with the East, the Netherlands, England, Spain, Portugal, France, Denmark, plus land Russia, and only seven major European countries were trading with China. Moreover, according to the information obtained by Jinyiwei, the Swedes are also planning to join the Eastern trade, and the first merchant ship to the East is likely to have set sail.

And that's not counting the vassals of the South Seas.

There was also overland trade with Central Asia, West Asia and even India.

Land trade in the latter remains.

Moreover, it includes northern Myanmar, that is, the famous Savage Mountain and Tibet two routes, Zhang Xianzhong's caravan, also loaded with all kinds of goods along the ancient tea horse road to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and then through Lhasa south to India and the Himalayan countries, although the transportation volume is not large, but it is still a profitable route.

But no matter where the trade is, it is still a seller's market for the Ming Dynasty.

Others don't have those goods.

Especially tea, which is becoming more and more popular.

Until now, even the nearest Wa people still don't know how to fry green tea, they only have steamed green, and the Wa people learned to fry green tea in the Qing Dynasty, and it was also stolen by a bald head in the name of studying Buddhism.

Not to mention Europe like this.

The Europeans tried hard many times, but they also failed to obtain tea seeds and bring out the Ming Dynasty, at this point those landlords who controlled the tea plantations are still very sober, after all, no matter how stupid they are, they will not be like Ma Ge, and let the Europeans learn these money-making things without reservation.

Everyone understands the benefits of monopolies.

In this case, of course, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty are qualified to raise prices, and if the monopoly suppliers do not even have this awareness, it is too stupid, and the cost paid is too much, which is nothing more than passing on to the buyers, and the capitalists will not lose money anyway. Cotton cloth will be made, but the promotion of the steam engine is actually greatly reducing the price of Daming cotton cloth, and because of the long-term dependence on Daming cloth, many places have gradually lost their ability to weave cloth......

This is not an exaggeration.

Not many of the natives of Luzon know how to weave cloth anymore.

After all, textile technology also needs to be inherited, and the Spaniards and overseas Chinese in Luzon imported a large number of Ming cloth to sell to the natives, and this trade had lasted for decades before the emergence of Yang Qing, and the natives were accustomed to buying cotton cloth over the years. After the death of the old people who knew how to weave, the younger generation could not still weave, they would grow cotton and sell it to merchants, but they would not spin and weave this cotton.

And they don't want to.

As the place with the highest cotton yield in the world, both the natives and those merchants like to sell cotton and buy cloth.

After all, compradors are all virtuous.

This is the age of technology.

And it is not so easy to recover this kind of generation, especially for this kind of place where the handicraft industry is very fragile, and the loss of the craftsmanship of an old craftsman may be the regression of the entire system.

In short, Yang Qing's kind treatment of the peasant and industrial class did have an impact on the capitalists, but it was only an impact and would not constitute a substantial loss to them.

It was only the landlords who were unlucky.

The landlord who had just been cut a leek was the only victim in the Ming Dynasty.

They also rebelled the most.

The Great Hall of the Four Peoples.

"Brother Jiang Zhai, are you supporting me?"

Yang Qing said to Wang Fuzhi with a pure face.

"Protector of the country, please forgive me for not agreeing with the Gongtian Law!"

Wang Fuzhi said.

"Well, that's really a pity, but why don't you support me, you should understand my good intentions, don't you understand that a wise man like you doesn't understand that the source of the troubled times before my Ming Dynasty was land annexation? Isn't the public land law the simplest and most effective way to solve land annexation? As long as the public land law is implemented, Daming can be said to get rid of the shadow of land annexation forever, why don't you support me. ”

Yang Qing said sadly.

"Protector of the country, if the imperial court wants to redeem the land, it should also be voluntary, someone is willing to sell the land to the imperial court, we have nothing to say, but if it is mandatory to ask others to sell it, it will not work."

Wang Fuzhi said on behalf of a scholar.

Wang Fuzhi nodded.

Then they walked proudly in front of Yang Qing with a group of scholars and delegates, and took their respective seats, while Yang Qing continued to stand there with a smile on his face, welcoming the delegates as if he were leaning on the door. However, this is his own job, and his duty is to serve the representatives of the four peoples, although he does not come often, but as long as he comes, he is still dutiful. In front of him, some of the representatives of the four people who entered in groups greeted him warmly, but some were obviously avoiding him, and it was obvious that the efforts of the gentry had achieved a lot of results, after all, he had caused a lot of misunderstandings about Cao Rong's treatment.

Soon, all 299 representatives of the four peoples were seated.

Yang Qing returned to the speaker's seat.

Then there was an influx of people who were watching.

The Protector began to formally explain his public land law, of course, this is just a procedure, and this thing has been picked up very thoroughly during this time, including the real purpose of Yang Qing's means of payment, especially those fifty-year land vouchers......

Fifty years!

Currency depreciation alone could bring down the value of these vouchers by two-thirds.

Metal currencies are also subject to depreciation.

In the 100 years of the 16th century, prices in Spain rose fourfold! The Ming Dynasty is now absorbing silver at no slower rate than the rate at which American silver poured into Spain, which is only absorbing American silver, and is also spending a lot of it. But the Ming Dynasty absorbs the silver of the whole world, or almost only in and out of the absorption, in recent years, except for the grain because of the strong interference of the protector, barely maintained normal, everything else is rising in price. Apparently there was an abundant supply of all kinds of goods, but the prices were always rising, and the wise people had already commented in the newspapers that the influx of silver and the massive issuance of paper money by the Protector were in fact a surplus of money.

It's just that the speed of currency depreciation is still worse than the rate of increase in people's income, and it is not enough for the people to really feel the currency depreciation.

But what about fifty years later?

Fifty years later, will the actual purchasing power of Long Yuan be left with one-third?

It's hard to say.

And the land vouchers paid after 50 years did not add 200% interest, which is also an important reason for the landlords to gnash their teeth, in the final analysis, they are not stupid, even if they were very simple in the past, after being cut by Yang Qing once, they basically knew the insidiousness of their opponents.

There are also northern reclamation fields.

This is obviously playing Zhu Yuanzhang's set.

It's just that Yang Qing is more cunning, unlike Zhu Yuanzhang, who tied the wealthy families of Jiangsu and Zhejiang with ropes and escorted them to the north with knives and guns. But Zhu Yuanzhang's methods are rough and rough, at least the reclamation is still his own, Yang Qing's methods are gentle and gentle, but the reclamation is not his own, but it is free to use for 30 years, and he still has to pay rent after 30 years. Those landlords worked hard to invest a lot of money to reclaim it, and as a result, thirty years later, he picked the fruits, and he was shameless to this point, which can be regarded as the pinnacle of achievement.

In a word......

"Delegates, please raise your hands and use your votes to bring Daming into a glorious and prosperous era!"

Yang Qing said.

"Yes!"

The first to raise their hand immediately appeared.

"Representative Xu, thank you for your support!"

Yang Qing looked at Xu Si and said.

The remaining deputies looked at each other, and some people raised their hands one after another, including agriculture and industry, while those scholars did not raise their hands, but instead looked at them coldly.

"Delegates, I ask once again to raise your hands."

Yang Qing said.

Then some hesitantly raised their hands.

In the crowd of onlookers, the old countrymen's eyes widened one by one, and a few of them were still shouting angrily, but the guards couldn't do anything with them, because they were all old coffins in their eighties and nineties. The latter, not to mention making noise in the Great Hall of the Four Peoples, is also exempt from the crime of injuring people, the old villagers have learned to take advantage of this, and the people who have been responsible for bribing the representatives of the Four Peoples have all been replaced by this kind of guy.

"Aren't there more people supporting it?"

Yang Qing said.

However, this time it was only one to give face.

"Alright, start counting the votes!"

He said.

Soon the counting of votes began, and the votes of a total of 299 deputies were well counted, anyway, they raised their hands publicly, walked around and counted them, and then summed them up, and the final result was soon revealed, and a total of 145 people supported the public field law.

Daming did not abstain from voting.

The rest are all unsupported.

One hundred and fifty-four votes against, one hundred and forty-four votes in favor, and the new land law of the Ming Dynasty was not passed.

Then everyone looked at Yang Qing.

It is said that this is the first time, the first time that the Four People's Congress has said no to the Protector of the Country, and the first time that the proposal proposed by the Protector has been vetoed. So how will he react, in relation to the result of the vote, in fact, this is what people are most concerned about, even the cabinet officials who are also present are watching him cautiously......

Yang Qing looked around.

Everyone waited with bated breath.

He slammed the startled wood on the table......

"Well, I declare, the new land law has not passed!"

He said.

The startled people breathed a sigh of relief.

"However, I will put forward the bill again at the next Four People's Congress, and I think the next Four People's Deputies will definitely support me, but fortunately, it won't be long before."

Yang Qing then said.

"Lord Protector, isn't this inappropriate?"

A representative of the scholars said cautiously.

"Does the Four People's Congress stipulate that a bill must not be raised again after it has been vetoed?"

Yang Qing asked.

"No, no!"

The representative said.

"That's it, your veto of the new land law does not mean that the next term will also veto, and if the next term vetoes it, then the next term, in short, I will work hard again and again to complete this mission. I'm only 30 years old now, and I still have a few decades to go, and I think a few decades will be enough time for me to wait until the day when the Gongtian Law is passed at the Four People's Congress. ”

Yang Qing said.

After saying that, he simply left, leaving behind a group of wide-eyed representatives of the four peoples.