Chapter 527: The Scythe and the Hammer
What is the greatest danger of a political leader who truly speaks for the bottom?
Of course it's ruined!
Assassination is always the most effective means of dealing with such a person, and when the landlords and capitalist groups are unable to deal with him in a political struggle, and the army is neutral, the easiest way is to hire a psycho to give him a shot.
There are too many such examples.
But Li Laiheng can be immune to this method to the maximum.
Dare to assassinate him?
Not to mention how difficult it is to assassinate such a battle-hardened veteran, after all, if you really want to say that you can beat him alone, there are still only a handful in Daming, and even if the assassination is successful, the consequences are terrible, because there are still a large number of officers and soldiers in the Ming army who regard him as an idol. There are also more than one million Qin clan militia in Guanzhong and Shanxi, and he is also regarded as a symbol of the Qin domain's submission to the imperial court, and if he has an accident, then the anger of these people can give Yang Qing enough excuse to launch a purge. The southern generals may shield those gentry because of their interests, which Yang Qing is not pregnant, he uses these people to deal with the gentry, they must be in disobedience, and make a lot of mess, trying to play bad for him.
But the soldiers of the old Qin domain would not.
If someone dared to use assassination to deal with Li Laiheng, then the Protector directly ordered Zhang Nai's cavalry army to raid his home.
These people are very useful.
Even if they were to slaughter the city in Jiangnan, they would not hesitate.
This is the peculiarity of Lee Rae-hyung.
Behind him are the old Qin Domain, and even the entire north has achieved the equalization of land, those self-cultivated peasant soldier system, these people are the armed backing of Yang Qing's implementation of the public land law in Jiangnan. And to bring out Li Laiheng as the leader of the peasant and labor class is to use him as the banner of the northern forces, and let the northern group suppress the southern gentry group, so that Yang Qing can hide on the side and sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.
"Then I'll give it a try!"
Li Laiheng said.
Obviously, he is also looking forward to this identity.
In the end, he is only in his thirties, and he is still a little unwilling to completely withdraw from the political arena like this, he is just a disillusionment of his ideals, and now Yang Qing has given him the opportunity to continue to fight for his ideals, so of course he has re-found his goal in life.
"Then you can check out this book!"
Yang Qingshen said mysteriously.
Then, just like he had bewitched the old king back then, he stuffed a book into the little king.
"Capital?"
Li Laiheng looked at the cover and said with interest.
"This is my analysis of the root cause of this incident through my understanding of the workers in Guangzhou after the defective Guangzhou incident, and of course, my purpose is to prevent such a thing from happening again. So I forced the factory owners and the workers to sign an agreement with the queen as a guarantee, but I still can't guarantee that the conflict will not intensify again in the future, after all, one side of them will do whatever it takes to make money, and the other side wants them to pay more. If you can build a political group to defend the interests of the workers and peasants, then you can use political struggle in the Four People's Congress to ensure the interests of the workers to the maximum extent possible and prevent another war between them and the capitalists.
In fact, the same is true for farmers.
If the imperial court really had a political group that defended the interests of the peasants at the bottom and suppressed those landlords and gentry, maybe the world would not have been in chaos! ”
Yang Qing said.
Li Laiheng nodded approvingly.
"But can the Four Peoples Congress really do what you want?"
He then asked.
"The Four People's Congresses can't, but the Four People's Congresses have legislative power, and if you can get the upper hand in the Four People's Congress, then you can formulate systems that protect the interests of workers and peasants to the greatest extent, and I am responsible for implementing these systems. The empress and the government must be neutral, similar to the treasurer, and the Four People's Assembly is the owner, the owner formulates the system, and the treasurer implements it. As long as you can gain a dominant position in the Four People's Congress and formulate a system for safeguarding the interests of the workers and peasants, then whoever dares to violate these systems, I will punish him in the name of the law. On the other hand, if Wang Fuzhi and these people gain the advantage of the Four People's Congress and formulate systems that are beneficial to the landlords and capitalists, then I will also defend these systems.
I only act as a neutral executor.
I will not directly lean towards any side, I will not help you, I will not help them, I will abide by the system established by the Four People's Congress.
But who will formulate this system, this requires you to work hard, you want the rich to come up with more, you want the poor not to be squeezed, then you have to find a way to get more support from the representatives of the Four People's Congress. But no one is allowed to rebel again, the landlords and peasants, the capitalists and the workers, are only allowed to fight in this way at the Four People's Congress, but no one can use force, the peasants cannot rebel, and the workers cannot rebel as they did in Guangzhou.
Of course, strikes can.
I support a reasonable strike.
But it is not permissible to smash factories and hang capitalists.
The same goes for landlords and capitalists.
It is absolutely forbidden to hire thugs to suppress the workers, or to manipulate local officials, or to use police force against the workers, and if they dare to do so, the army will intervene.
We jointly abide by a bottom line to ensure that the country will not be chaotic, whoever crosses this bottom line will have to be attacked by the whole world, the empress and the government and the Ming army are the guardians of this bottom line. As neutrals we will not intervene in your struggles, we respect the results of your struggles, but we will stop either side from trying to break the line. ”
Yang Qing said.
This is the country of the future that he designed.
The political struggle was fought at the Four People's Congress, with Li Laiheng's Workers' and Peasants' Party and Wang Fuzhi's Landlord-Capitalist Party fighting through the Four People's Congress, and the Empress and the government and army controlled by the Empress were neutralized.
But to ensure the stability of the country.
In the struggle of the Four People's Congress, no matter who wins or loses, the other side must accept defeat.
That's it.
In fact, after the completion of the public land law, the landlord class basically did not exist, at most the capitalists and plantation owners, and the tenants did not exist, and basically all the yeoman farmers. In addition, the class of scholars is also degenerating, because the traditional sense of scholars did not follow the reform of the imperial examination, and the current scholars refer to those talents in the new imperial examination, which can be regarded as an elite class.
Many of them do not study Confucianism......
These guys are often the most knowledgeable about current affairs, in the past they relied on Confucianism as a stepping stone, and now when the protector prepared several stepping stones for them, some people immediately abandoned Confucius, and now there are people who openly claim to be Legalists.
Their transformation is still very fast.
Moreover, these new imperial examination scholars do not have any privileges except for a title, and they were exempt from conscription when Zhu Yuanzhang was in power, but now that the Ming Dynasty has no conscription, they don't even have this privilege. They also have to pay the taxes that others should pay, and even if they are lifting people, they are not qualified to be officials now, after all, the five branches of Jinshi are waiting, in the past, there were few Jinshi, and it was possible to get an official and a half-post if they were raised or not.
But now there are a lot of jinshi!
Moreover, with the popularization of compulsory education, this class is becoming more and more common, and it is likely that only a few of the 100 people in the past were born from low-level peasants, but the vast majority of them will be in the future. After all, compulsory education allows the descendants of the low-level peasants to enjoy the opportunity of education, and learning is no longer the monopoly of the family, and the practical knowledge they learn is easier to get ahead in the imperial examination of miscellaneous subjects.
On the contrary, the son of the family is a little worse in this regard.
After all, they are still very proud.
In this way, the four peoples will be completely degenerated.
Taxis became elites.
Or it can also be said that scientists, doctors, artists, etc., but the latter is definitely weak, after all, there is no piano, chess, calligraphy and painting in the five imperial examinations, and it is even more impossible to expect to perform and excel, that is, literary scholars can take the liberal arts exam. And the rest of the workers, peasants, merchants, and doctors correspond to scientists, agronomists, economists, and medical scientists, who are still very practical, and although economists are often disgusting in the end, we have to admit that they are still useful.
Merchants became new capitalists and plantation owners.
That is, the wealth class.
It is impossible to be rich and poor, Yang Qing does not have this ability, so the rich people will eat the rich and the poor, if you really want to be rich and poor, the first one is to equal his family, for example, he has to sprinkle rose essential oil when he goes to the toilet.
But they will not turn the country into their own puppet anymore.
After all, the representatives of the four peoples are not voted.
Yang Qing's drawing of lots is wonderful, but the advantages in this regard are obvious, even if the capitalists do not know who to invest in advance, this kind of randomly generated representatives are very tangled in the management of the purchase is still inevitable, but at least every five years of the lot so that the capitalists will inevitably be in a hurry, especially the cost has increased significantly. After all, the validity period is at most five years, and after five years, you have to buy it again, and it is impossible to be re-elected, and the current representatives of the four peoples do not participate in the casting of lots for the next office. If the investment is too high, it is obviously not cost-effective for the capitalists, but if they bid too low, the representatives of the four peoples are obviously not interested in risking their lives for it.
After all, they are also afraid of death.
In short, this method seriously restricts the pace of domination of the state by the capitalists.
Farmers became yeoman farmers.
They will be the support of the Ming army.
It is also the support of the Ming Dynasty's external expansion.
As for saying that the Chinese do not have the spirit of foreign pioneering, it is pure nonsense, the Chinese in the era of yeoman farmers have never lacked the spirit of expansion, whether it is the Han Dynasty or the Tang Dynasty, the base alcohol that pioneered abroad is the yeoman farming group. It is said that the wife and children are hot on the kangtou, just because the tenants who can't eat enough, can dream of these, how dare they have other dreams, modern Chinese can run to Africa in groups to do business or even open up wasteland, has proved that the Chinese under the homesteaders system, the enthusiasm to run out is quite high.
Homesteaders are the foundation of a strong country.
The last class of workers was also gradually transformed from the artisans into the real working class.
"But you still can't be rich or poor!"
Lee Rae-hyung immediately discovered the problem with his system.
"Yes, I have never said that I want to be rich and poor, I just want stability, and the premise of maintaining stability is that the contradictions between all parties will not intensify. The purpose of the struggle is not to make everyone the same, but to help those workers and peasants who can compete more for the benefit of the poor.* I can't do such a great thing as rich and poor, I can only guarantee to the greatest extent that there will be no abject poverty, of course, if you have the ability you can you can do it, but only if you can't rebel. ”
Yang Qing said.
"You dare to be a Fang Congzhe!"
Li Laiheng said speechlessly.
"Do you still want me to be the king? It's impossible for me to break into the king, you see if I want to be the king of Chuang, I am the first to get on the stick, what I can do is Fang Congzhe, and strive to balance the interests of all parties on the premise of ensuring stability. ”
Yang Qing said very frankly.
"But Fang Congzhe still failed after all!"
Li Laiheng said.
"But he doesn't have the power and I do, he has nothing else to fear, and he won't have it until Wanli dies, but I do, so I can guarantee that there will be no problems with this system before I die. As for what happens after I die, it can only be resolved little by little before I die, and the contradiction will always exist, and this cannot be solved, only for all parties to learn to compromise with each other and learn to coexist. ”
Yang Qing said.
He doesn't know the bottom of this kind of thing!
What he can do is to use his own repression to make all parties learn to coexist, learn to compromise with each other, and then use time to gradually merge into a whole, but what will happen after his death, at least for now, he can't see. The only thing he can guarantee is that this Da Ming will clean up all foreign enemies during his lifetime, but in the end, he can't guarantee whether it will be destroyed by internal divisions. In the end, empires will always perish, without exception, the empire he created will also perish, the only question is how long it can last, and all he can do is ensure that it will not die to foreign enemies.
That's fine.
All you need to do is sweep away all the foreign enemies.
At that time, even if it died in internal division, this was nothing more than a bunch of Han countries, in fact, in his opinion, this was inevitable, especially after the large-scale colonization in the future, he would definitely have to face the separation of the colony and the mainland. Once colonization has been carried out for a long time, colonial independence will inevitably occur, even if it is a colony with only its own people. When a group of Ming immigrants lived in a rich land for a hundred years, it was difficult for them to have much affection for their homeland, and it would be completely unbearable if the native still asked them to pay taxes.
He was mentally prepared for this.
All he could do was for the Han Chinese to occupy all the most valuable places in the world, while at the same time reducing the number of aliens so that even if the empire fell apart, it would still be the same culture.
"One more good thing for you!"
He then threw a piece of wedge to Lee Rae-hyung.
"What is this?"
Li Laiheng said suspiciously.
The flank is made of bronze, with a red obverse and a crossed symbol in the middle, which is composed of a hammer and a sickle.
"Your Peasants' and Workers' Party badge!"
Yang Qing said with pride.