"Shu Gong!"

On the Xiaguan wharf, Yang Qing personally welcomed Zhang Xianzhong's arrival.

Anyway, it was the first time they had met.

The old bandit was now completely unable to stand up, and like the big fat men, he could only sit or lie half-lying on a special couch, and this couch was also equipped with wheels, so that he could be pushed around. In fact, it is an oversized wheelchair, but this wheelchair can also be carried by people, and it only takes sixteen people to lift Zhang Xianzhong and this set of equipment......

He also had a lot of pomp.

Of course, there is no need to carry it in Nandu, after all, Nandu is not Sichuan, and there are smooth enough roads for his wheelchair to pass.

Zhang Xianzhong also looked at the bustling city behind Yang Qing and the latter......

He was also here for the first time.

He had hit Fengyang at most before, and neither he nor Li Zicheng had crossed the Qingliu Pass to really threaten the southern capital, but the panic he brought to the city back then was real......

"Protector!"

He struggled to get up.

The two subordinates next to him hurriedly helped, but the fat on his body still made the efforts of the three people fail, and the butt fell back heavily before the cushion under it was completely completed.

"Please forgive me for not being able to get up!"

He gasped.

At this moment, he has completely lost the momentum that ran rampant in the world back then, this is not pretending, he really can't stand up, this man who dominated the world back then, and Li Zicheng, tortured Chongzhen to exhaustion, and now he is completely a long-term sick and dying patient, and even claims to have become old.

Although he was not yet fifty years old.

"Duke Shu doesn't have to be polite, it's enough for you to come."

Yang Qing said with emotion.

In other words, Zhang Xianzhong has become like this, even he can't imagine it! One of the two heroes died of exhaustion and the other died of fat, which really makes people feel the impermanence of fate. Speaking of this ending, it is also worthy of the words in the original history, before he fought a decisive battle with the Qing army, he finally instructed his subordinates.

Although it is difficult to know whether this sentence is true or false.

Then a few people who came with him to welcome Zhang Xianzhong stepped forward one after another, and no one from the old courtiers would definitely welcome him, whether it was a courtier or a gentry, they were all full of resentment against Zhang Xianzhong's surrender, after all, his surrender meant that the only force outside that could contain Yang Qing had disappeared. But originally Li Zicheng's subordinates still had a good relationship with him, and the old bandits still had some fighting friendship after all.

Their appearance and greeting can be regarded as completely reassuring to Zhang Xianzhong.

After all, he actually came here with an adventurous mind, he had no other choice, and his body couldn't hold on, whether it was to live a few more days or for his children and grandchildren, and the future of his subordinates, he could only take a risk. But he also knew in his heart that if Yang Qingzhen simply gave him a cup of poisoned wine, and then said to the outside world that he was tired from the journey and died of illness, he couldn't help it. But the current situation of these people made him really relieved, it was obvious that Li Zicheng's subordinates were doing well here in Yang Qing, in fact, if you really want to count it, the relationship between him and Yang Qing is much better compared to these people. He and Yang Qing had never fought, but Li Zicheng's subordinates had fought with Yang Qing, and Yuan Zongdi had even killed Yang Qing on the battlefield once, since Yang Qing could get along with these people, then he had nothing to worry about.

"Protector of the country, benevolence and righteousness!"

He took Gao Yigong's hand and said with emotion.

"Let's go, Her Majesty the Empress is already waiting for Duke Shu!"

Yang Qing said on the side.

This is the last link, Her Majesty the Empress summoned the Duke of Shu, which represents the cancellation of the old enmity between the Zhu family and Zhang Xianzhong, and also represents the turmoil that lasted for decades in the Ming Dynasty, and truly drew the final end.

"Let's go, then!"

Zhang Xianzhong also said with some excitement.

He also knew very well what the Empress had summoned him for.

Yang Qing walked behind him, pushed aside the man who had originally pushed the huge wheelchair for him, and then personally pushed the thing and walked to the special carriage waiting on the side......

"He's killed another one!"

Zhang Guowei lamented on the city wall.

"It's too cheap, this old thief, how many vassal clans have been killed in the Ming Dynasty, and they can be written off like this, why should the empress face the vassals?"

Qu Shiyun said indignantly.

He has obviously forgotten that it is precisely those gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang who have spared no effort to whitewash Zhang Xianzhong over the years, and after they have been whitewashing for many years, many of Zhang Xianzhong's old things have been well explained, and even the family of the King of Chu has become his subordinates doing it behind his back. But now with Zhang Xianzhong's surrender, his identity in the eyes of the gentry immediately returned to Liukou, and this old bandit gave them the final blow, which can be said to be the final blow to the ground. But no matter what the gentry thought of him, Her Majesty the Empress finally gave up avenging the clansmen he killed and pardoned him for burning the ancestral graves of the Zhu family.

What about the gentry?

It's none of their business.

As for those vassal kings, who are interested in taking care of this.

In the final analysis, they and the King of Chu and the King of Shu who were killed by Zhang Xianzhong were just an old ancestor more than two hundred years ago, and there were more than 100,000 clans registered in the Ming Dynasty, all of which were so many, and they still had a fart relationship with each other. What's more, how can these vassal kings have the right to speak now, they are all honest and honest in their fiefdoms to farm the land, to put it bluntly, they are a group of landlords without any privileges.

Now even King Gui has gone to Liaoxi to open up wasteland......

He bought 2,000 Japanese slaves who had undergone surgery, 1,000 Nanyang slaves, plus more than 300 European mercenaries who were unwilling to leave the Ming Dynasty, and together they formed the Reclamation Army. Then he took a large number of good seeds given to him by the Lord Protector and went to start his idyllic new life, and it is said that during this time the beasts in Quang Ninh City had been cleaned and the first potatoes had been planted.

But his sons stayed in Canton.

After all, he still has millions of industries to take care of in Guangdong......

It is said that King Gui is also very rich.

He went to Guangning just to show Yang Qing that he was honest, and in fact, he would go back to Guangzhou to live in a year or two, and leave some slaves on the land to cultivate the land. Now it's not that the vassal king was not allowed to leave the domain in the past, let alone go back to Guangzhou, even if he traveled abroad, no one cared.

As for the most powerful Tang King in the clan, he has long hooked up with Zhang Xianzhong for many years, and now he has taken the elite of Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates and has entered Myanmar to start a crusade. They had boarded the ship from Manmo a month earlier, and by this time they had already surrounded Awa, which was the dry season in Burma, and it was good weather for war until next summer. Including the crusade against Nanzhang also began, and the 18th Army arrived at Mang Thanh, that is, Dien Bien Phu, half a year ago, and waited until the beginning of winter to start its operation. It is estimated that at this time, it is almost to Nanzhang, after all, the 18th Army has been in Guangxi all these years, and it is not difficult to fight in a subtropical mountainous area like Nanzhang.

It was impossible for the Nanzhang people to withstand the elite of the Ming army with 20,000 full flintlock pistols and mountain howitzers.

"It's good to be young, in less than ten years, he has won without a fight, what Jiannu, what rogue, what vassal king, even the Gonggong princes in the court have all become losers!"

Zhang Guowei continued to lament.

"What if this vote fails?"

Qu Shiyun said.

In the final analysis, they also know how many people support the public land law, and how many people support the old land system, and although it is not a sure loss in the current situation where the representatives of the four peoples account for a quarter each, if they are not bought, I am afraid that the vast majority of the other representatives will choose to support the public land law, except for the representatives of the scholars. If the Gongtian Law is really passed, whether they accept it or not, if they accept it, it will represent the complete decline of the gentry, although the new capitalists can also be said to be the gentry, but the new capitalists do not like Confucianism much.

Confucianism is useless to them.

In fact, the emerging capitalists despise the science of science more, that is, they still like the study of mind, especially the capitalists of Jiangsu and Shanghai as the core group, but they only like the study of mind because the pot of the study of mind can put anything.

Even if it has nothing to do with Confucianism at all.

The end of the era of the landed gentry also marked the end of the dominance of Confucianism, and then it would gradually be completely crushed by new ideas in the years that followed. For these Confucian disciples, this result is undoubtedly cruel, and they must accept the fact that they have been kicked into the dustbin of history.

"Failed? So what, just admit defeat, all we can fight with him is that he follows the rules, as long as he is within his rules, he will not turn against us. In the same way, if we don't follow the rules, he will also use extra-rule means against us, and then we will have nothing, in fact he prefers that we will not follow the rules in the first place. In this case, let's have a fair fight, admit defeat if we lose, let him do whatever he wants if we lose, and let him enforce the Gongtian Law if he wants to.

We're all old!

Leave the rest to future generations!

At least we have a strong country!

We did lose the land, but we still have factories, and since we can no longer use the land to gain wealth for future generations, then the same is true with factories, maybe the factories are better, and in the end they leave us with a way out.

But if you don't admit defeat and continue to struggle, you will have no way out. ”

Zhang Guowei said.

Qu Shiyun sighed helplessly.

The two old men who resisted to the end as stubbornly as they resisted foreign invasion in the original history silently watched their era come to an end.

An hour later, Her Majesty the Empress officially summoned the Duke of Shu in the Wuying Palace, and gave a mansion to the Duke of Shu in the southern capital, and ordered that the Duke of Protector be personally responsible for the treatment of the Duke of Shu. The Duke of Shu also presented the full map of Xikang to the empress, and the empress took the Duke of Shu to develop Xikang, and named one of his sons as Hou and two sons as uncles, and at the same time issued an order to revoke the governor of Sichuan and take Li Dingguo as the governor of Sichuan. Everything else in Sichuan remained unchanged, all the officials appointed by the Duke of Shu remained in office, but they were under the management of the Ministry of Officials, Liu Wenxiu and Sun Kewang guarded Sichuan with Chengdu and Chongqing respectively, and Ai Nengqi continued to serve as the envoy of Xikang.

Sichuan has now fully returned.

At this time, the delegates of the old and new sessions of the Four People's Congress were pouring into the southern capital, and soon all the representatives of agriculture and industry of the current session of the Four People's Congress gathered in the city again, and a total of 70 new permanent representatives were quickly by-elected, and then the next day the vote on the land law began......

No more discussion of research.

On the way here, the delegates had already obtained two copies of the land law, and then they studied all the way, and when they arrived in Nandu, they had already studied the meaning of each of the two land laws. In this case, of course, it is necessary to vote as quickly as possible, so as to avoid any more gentry who do not give up and do anything behind the scenes, and just let them be too late to do whatever they want. In the end, they certainly can't all die, and the elites among them do accept a fair fight, but the elites do not represent all the gentry, and some of them are not enough landowners who want to struggle.

In fact, they will continue to struggle.

After the passage of the Public Land Law, in the next stage of implementation, the landlords in remote areas, especially in the mountainous areas, will definitely still resist.

"Delegates!"

Yang Qing stood on the podium and said.

In his hand, he has a copy of the land law, but the color of the cover is different, the red one is based on the public land law, and the green one is based on the maintenance of private ownership of land, and the two land laws are displayed to the permanent representatives in front of him.

These people also have two copies of this for each person.

"I don't want to say anything more, you know the content of the two land laws very well, so now please make a decision, which one do you want? Hold up which one you want, and your choices will determine the future of Daming. If you want the landlords and tenants to continue to exist, then hold up this green one, and if you want the cultivators to have their land, then hold up this red one.

Now the fate of this empire is left to you, to the people, and it is up to you to decide! ”

Yang Qing said.

The permanent representatives took up the land law of their choice in front of them and held it up.

"Start counting the votes!"

Yang Qing said.

The staff who had been waiting in the corridors for a long time quickly counted the red and green votes in their respective areas, and then they walked to the front of the speaker with their respective results, where the people's prosecutor Huang Duanbo, who acted as the teller, summarized and soon the final voting results were released.

"One hundred and fifty-six red votes, one hundred and forty-three green votes, and the red votes are the majority!"

Then he turned back and said.

Yang Qing looked around, and countless onlookers were silent, waiting for him to announce the results, including the vast majority of the delegates to the next Four People's Congress. At this time, they are basically all here, in fact, it is now the old and new Si Min's Congress, jointly deciding this vote, and behind those of the current Si Min's representatives, their successors are supervising.

"In the name of the people, I declare that the Red Land Law has been passed, and the Public Land Law has been passed!"

He shouted with a startled slap.

Cheers rang out immediately......