Chapter 171: The Proletarians

"This is a good play!"

Huang Degong looked at the white-haired girl in costume on the stage and said: "This is much better than those babbling talented and beautiful women!" ”

He is now the commander of the Wuchang camp.

Yang Qing's new cabinet has been formed, of course, the first assistant is still Shi Kefa, although he is a little pedantic and not very careful, but Yang Qing wants a tablet, and Shi Kefa is also a veteran, especially in the hearts of the people, although the image is very good, as for the Donglin Party, although he regards him as a traitor, but at least they know each other and know each other, and basically accept such a role as an intermediary between the two parties.

Now the Ming Dynasty is de facto two parties.

The Northern Party headed by Yang Qing.

There is also the Southern Party, or the Donglin Party.

In a sense, it is a two-party coalition.

The Donglin Party got five of the twelve seats in the cabinet, including the civil and military and the first assistant, that is, the five Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials, Li, Soldiers, and Criminal Workers, and the Northern Party actually got five, the four chief governors of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, and one more Hubu Shangshu, and the remaining two seats were the neutral first assistant Shi Kefa and the chief of the navy. The latter must be Zheng Zhilong, originally Yang Qing was worried that he was unwilling to give up the military power in Fujian, but he didn't expect Zheng Zhilong to agree very simply, and he is actually close to the Donglin Party, but he is also close to Yang Qing, which can be said to be a wall-riding faction.

In this way, the Northern Party and the Donglin Party in the cabinet are evenly matched, but the final decision is in the prison country, and even if the cabinet makes a resolution that Yang Qing does not like, it is nothing more than letting his fiancΓ©e directly veto it.

Of course, this is something that will try to avoid.

Everyone is also a smart person, but to the point of tearing their faces, they will definitely not let such a thing happen.

Yang Qing is also the chief of staff.

The other three chiefs in the organization department is his confidant Li Yutian, although Li Yutian is a civilian official, but the transfer to the military post is just a sentence, the chief of logistics is also a civilian official to the military position, in Huai'an was captured by Li Zicheng, after the armistice and put back Lu Zhenfei, he is the previous governor Caoyun, equivalent to the Tarqing Caoyun governor, doing logistics work.

The armament department is a yellow dragon.

At the local level, it is a military region system, that is, the camp is unified.

Wuchang Xingying is in charge of the upstream, Fengyang Xingying is in charge of the Huai line, Hengyang and Ganzhou are responsible for the attack on Guangxi and Guangdong respectively, in addition to Huang Degong's Wuchang Dutong, the remaining three are Fang Guoan, Wang Zhiren and Liu Zhaoji, and the three southwestern provinces are theoretically under the control of Chongqing Xingyingdu, but because it is outside the actual control of the imperial court, Yang Qing simply summoned Grandma Qin to come out as a tablet town.

This old lady isn't dead yet!

Although it is a bit exaggerated for a woman to be the commander of the war zone, in fact, if you need a tablet to be used as an ornament there, there is no one more suitable than her.

The civilian magistrateship system remains unchanged.

But the system of governors of the provinces was established.

The governor was in charge of the various departments, including the envoys, just as the imperial court was headed by the first assistant to the ministers of the cabinet.

The army was all reorganized, the weak were retained, and the strong were trained according to the standards of the Beijing camp, and all the original general soldiers were abolished, and the subordinates of Huang Degong, Huang Fei, Cao Youyi, Ma Jinzhong, and Gao Jie were all reorganized into one army after another. Huang Fei and Cao Youyi's troops were mixed into three armies, Gao Jie's army was one army, Huang Degong's department was two armies, Ma Jinzhong's army was one army, plus the original three armies, as well as the new four mountain armies, and a cavalry army, totaling 300,000 field troops of the 15 armies of the Ming Army, and a separate Yangtze River water division, that is, Zhang Mingzhen's water division.

The navy was reorganized with Huang Binqing's Chongming Naval Division and Zheng Zhilong's Fujian General Army.

Zheng Zhilong is in charge of this.

He, the commander-in-chief of the navy, had to form a naval fleet of no less than fifty new warships within two years according to Yang Qing's requirements, and then go to drive out the Dutch in Taiwan.

This is the reformed Ming military and political system.

"I want to see a troupe go back to Wuchang and perform in each army one by one!"

Yang Qing said.

At this time, they were in civilian clothes in a restaurant.

The white-haired girl who rehearsed Yuanyuan bought a small building along the street across the street from them, and then transformed it into a free theater, and performed in front of pedestrians on the street, without charging any fees, or the cost was paid by the Marquis of Zhongyong.

It's the fourth day of a show here every night.

It's summer.

Not to mention the city of Nanjing, that is, the people outside the city have specially come to see it, it is nothing more than too late to get out of the city, just find a place to make do with a night's sleep, all of it is to cool off, as for the repercussions, I can't see it for the time being, but the degree of love of the people definitely makes Yang Qing satisfied, after all, there is no entertainment among the people in this era, and many of the dramas of those talented and beautiful people in the past can't understand it! That is, some gentry love to watch, who is interested in the common people?

But the white-haired girl is different!

For the people in the surrounding countryside, who has not experienced the forced rent of the landlord? It's not uncommon to be like being robbed of your daughter, this thing really empathizes!

It's common to cry while watching a play!

Next, Yang Qing had to spread this plague to the gentry outside Nanjing, and Yuanyuan had hired ten troupes for him to rehearse the white-haired girl every day, and then they would tour from Nanjing under the protection of Jinyiwei, and in this most direct and clear way, the relationship between the landlord and the tenant was bloodily displayed. And this is just the beginning, Yang Qing still has a bunch of propaganda methods already in the planning, Li Zicheng is too poor at this point, or he doesn't understand it at all, but Yang Qing will not make such a mistake, he must take the right to speak from the gentry, and the first step to seize the right to speak is to destroy their image first.

"I heard that you are also from a poor background?"

Yang Qing asked.

"Transporting goods, raising a few donkeys at home, whoever hires them will transport things to whom, once transported goods to Mr. Yang Longyou, the in-law of Yaocao Gong, and met a thief on the way to save Mr. Yang Longyou, so he recommended it to Yaocao Gong to join the army from then on."

Huang Degong said.

"That's a proletarian!"

Yang Qing said.

"Proletarians?"

Huang Degong asked curiously.

"Yes, all of us in the Ming Dynasty can carry out a pyramid classification, and the pyramid is like this!"

Yang Qing said as he took a knife and carved a three-dimensional pyramid directly on the table, then placed it between the two of them, cut a small piece under the tip of the pyramid, picked up the small pyramid and continued: "This is the royal family, including the emperor and the clans of the feudal kings in various places!" ”

He finished and put it down.

Then he cut off the pyramid, which had been turned into a platform, from above.

"Honorables and officials."

He said.

Huang Degong watched with interest.

Yang Qing cut another section.

"The gentry, including the wealthy merchants."

He cut it again.

"Homesteaders, small businessmen, small landlords without merit, officials, did your family originally have land?"

Yang Qing took this section and said.

"Nope."

Huang Degong said.

"Then you're not even qualified for this level."

Yang Qing said.

"You are a hired laborer, you have to be at this level, alongside tenants, lowly people, craftsmen, military households, stoves, and even slaves and beggars, and you are proletarians, and of course, you have a few donkeys, and you have a house where you live, so you are a little better in this class. But you still have to be considered a proletarian, after all, it doesn't matter if you have a family with hair, your donkeys may die of an epidemic at any time, and you will even have a problem eating at that time, so you are still a proletarian. ”

Yang Qing continued to bewitch the crowd.

Huang Degong nodded.

"And the Ming Dynasty in the past, you are all at the bottom of this pyramid, officials can bully you, and small businessmen can squeeze you."

Yang Qing said.

Huang Degong nodded silently.

It is estimated that the memories of the officials whipping him when he was young, and the merchants who hired him to squeeze his commissions as much as they can, are already emerging from the depths of memory.

But the gentry and wealthy merchants above their heads can oppress them at will, and those officials and nobles can also oppress the gentry and wealthy merchants, and then the royal family is the highest, so that one level is higher, one level is held up to the next, and in the end, all the burdens are pressed on the body of the largest number of people at the bottom, that is, you once were. Of course, now you have climbed up, you have climbed to the second level, but for those who have not yet climbed up, is such a country fair? ”

Yang Qing said.

"It's not fair, but they can climb up, right? The imperial examination, joining the army, are all ways, I can go from a hired laborer to today, and they can do the same! ”

Huang Degong said.

"Actually?"

Yang Qing said: "Your success does not depend on your ability, but on the fact that you were born in a troubled world, if you were not born in a troubled world, would you still have today's status?" The military system of the imperial court is the guard system, almost all the officers are hereditary, and the promotion depends on the drill camp of the imperial court, even Qi Jiguang must rely on holding Zhang Juzheng's thigh to achieve his merits, and he is the hereditary commander of the Dengzhou Guard, he is originally in the second layer, you are a donkey hire and the Dengzhou Guard commander The gap does not need me to explain, right?

You did succeed.

Huang Fei: They also succeeded.

But your success is all because in such a troubled world, you all crawled out of the sea of corpses and blood.

So here's the problem.

When the lowest level must be in the chaotic times of the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood to climb out, is there still peace and order in this country? Peace and order means that the bottom is always at the bottom, and those at the bottom must first destroy order if they want to climb out of their poor and humble quagmire.

So Li Zicheng was born.

So Zhang Xianzhong was born.

Daming has become what it is today.

I don't want to be like this in the future, I don't want to work hard, with blood, and even with my life, to restore the order and the peace that was re-established, but once again collapse because of the unbearable at the bottom, and once again become a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and then rebuild, collapse, rebuild, and collapse again and again.

So first I'm going to destroy this. ”

Yang Qing said as he wiped out the pyramid he had just restacked.