Chapter 336: You Rebel and Thief
Qinzhou's opening of the warehouse to release grain, so that the next stop Nanning will be directly bloodless......
In fact, it was the Nanning slave mutiny.
Xinguo Gong sent a large army to Guangxi to fight the local tyrants and divide the fields and release slaves, so the explosive news reached Nanning three days later. Then, when the prefect of Nanning was still studying how to deal with a group of officials and village sages, a cavalry post accompanied by the Marine Corps appeared outside the city of Nanning, and a group of impatient house slaves rushed into the street first. They shouted the slogan Long live the Duke of Xinguo, which instantly detonated the enthusiasm of the city, and then those domestic slaves, poor people, and even the Nanning guards who acted as defenders......
In short, eighty percent of the people of the city rushed out and rushed to the city gates.
They opened the door for the king.
When the prefect of Nanning was still in a daze, more than 100 cavalry entered the city in cheers.
And then......
Nothing more.
The prefect of Nanning, who fled in a hurry, was recognized on the street and was killed in a group beating, and when a subsequent brigade of marines arrived, the city was completely controlled, and the military households of Nanning Wei under the leadership of more than 100 cavalry had even restored order, and seized the homes of those local tyrants and inferior gentry and waited for the land reform team to do it.
As for the big and small officials of the city......
They also entered the station cage, this thing is the favorite use of those ordinary people, but in the past, the people were in it, and now it is replaced by officials and gentlemen to go in to experience that kind of taste, because the number of station cages in front of the government is insufficient, and there are many temporary productions.
And on the same day that Nanning was taken by a sentry cavalry, the fleet riding the tide also arrived at Lianzhou Mansion. After learning that his lowly status was cancelled by the Duke of Xinguo several years ago, and not only could he live ashore, but he could even be admitted to the rank of sergeant and official, the Tan people of Beihai were the first to welcome Wang Shi. Then their fleet carried a brigade all the way to Hepu, and the Lianzhou gentry, who were enraged by the Qinzhou tyrants who divided the land, made a concerted effort to show their strength......
But they're still mantis arms as cars.
Because before they could show their strength, the people in the city who couldn't wait for a long time first showed their strength to them, and all stuffed these guys into the station cage in front of the Lianzhou Mansion.
"What the hell do you want to do?"
In the quiet room of Nanjing Wanshou Palace, Empress Dowager Yi'an asked while drawing circles on the chest of Duke Xinguo.
Around them were countless mirrors.
These were all large flat mirrors that together formed the four walls of the circular room, and above them a huge chandelier hung down, and whale brain oil candles burned, and the clear light reflected the purple velvet surrounded by the mirrors......
And, of course, the man on velvet.
"I just want to force King Jingjiang to comply!"
Yang Qing said.
"You think I'm going to believe this nonsense? We're all so opposed, shouldn't we be more honest? ”
The Queen Mother turned over and said dissatisfiedly.
"I can't affect you what I want to do, why are you so busy doing so much?"
Yang Qing, who was honest with her, said.
"The old man is still the surviving member of the Zhu family, this Zhu family still respects the old man, even if I have no children, I can't ignore the survival of the Zhu family! One day, after a hundred years, he will also be buried in the mausoleum of Emperor Xizong, is it still buried in the tomb of your Yang family? ”
The Queen Mother said with a smile.
"Then you tell me how to make the Zhu family eternal?"
Yang Qing said.
Zhang Yan immediately fell silent.
"Since ancient times, there has been no immortal country, as strong as the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, all of which have become smoke and clouds, and thousands of generations are just jokes, and the empire will always perish, without exception! Because the empire itself is a mistake, this world is not the Zhu family, the Zhu family is just a part of the world, the country will be for thousands of generations, the Zhu family will be for thousands of generations, but the Zhu family's country will not be for generations! Without my push, the people will understand this in the end, Huang Zongxi's set of things is not taught by me, and the awakened people will one day stand up and overthrow the emperor.
Why did they want an emperor?
The family world is deceitful, and the emperor is not supported by the gods behind the immortals, so why do the people give up the power they should enjoy to accept the rule of one person or a family?
Can't they run the country themselves?
The English just cut off the king's head a few months ago.
The crime is treason.
The king betrayed the country, the king betrayed the people, then the people will overthrow him, the people will cut off his head, I don't hope that one day in the future, the people of the Ming Dynasty will also stand up, shout that the emperor betrayed the country, and then cut off your heads too.
However, the British still did not do it thoroughly.
They are more like Huang Zongxi's people, they really don't want one person and one family to rule, but they want the gentry to rule, just like those people in Guangdong did, to rule with the gentry as a group. It is indeed possible to do this, and even the development of Guangdong is not inferior to that of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but as more people awaken, such rule will also be overthrown, after all, they have only replaced the rule of one person and one family with the rule of one group. And this group does not represent the people, they are only a very small minority of the people, the emperor is the rule of one person, they are the rule of a small number of people.
It is true that they are more progressive than the emperor, but they still cannot really represent the people.
And then the people will overthrow them.
This is an inevitable result.
So why don't I go a little further and just take this step? Why don't I build a country that represents the interests of the majority? And as an exchange for the Zhu family to stand on the side of the people, this country retains the throne of the Zhu family and guarantees the interests of the Zhu family, such as the land of King Fu, such as those industrial and commercial groups you control. That is to say, you exchange power for the title of emperor and the glory of wealth.
Maybe it will last for generations!
The era of monarchy has begun to end, which is the inevitable result of the wisdom and enlightenment of the people, and everyone who learns to think independently will regard monarchy as an enemy. Unless you continue to fool the people, but the result of fooling the people is to let the whole nation continue to sink in the abyss, and then become a stepping stone for those countries and nations that have risen as a result of civilization. I did get the Ming out of the shadow of the northern barbarians, but if the Ming didn't rise through civilization itself, then I couldn't make it not the object of those countries and nations that were surpassing the Ming Dynasty.
Open the wisdom of the people, and the monarchy ends.
If you don't open the people's wisdom, you can only be opened by the fish and meat of the people's wisdom.
My choice is the former.
Let the monarchy come to an end!
So now do you think I'm honest enough? ”
Yang Qing said.
"You rebel thief!"
Zhang Yan bit him on the chest and said.
Rebels and thieves are chaotic ministers and thieves! Zhang Yan and the eunuch group behind her actually want wealth and glory, and as long as the interests of those enterprises in their hands can be guaranteed, wealth and glory can be guaranteed for them. They just watched Yang Qing become more and more radical recently, especially the land reform in Guangxi is obviously violent, so they are a little bottomless in their hearts, after all, this kind of thing is Li Zicheng's patent. Yang Qing used to set up a big prison at most, framed and framed selective raiders, and these people gave him enough excuses, but the land reform in Nanning and Lianzhou was comprehensive, not for a certain gentry but for all gentry.
During this time, the newspapers controlled by King Gui and King Jingjiang continued to report on the land reform in Erfu, which were then sent to their allies in Nanjing, who used the newspapers they controlled to make a big splash in various places.
The gentry in Jiangnan were in a hurry.
They are not stupid, Yang Qing is obviously experimenting, this guy has always admired Jia Yidao's Gongtian Law is well known, the previous Huangzhuang is not counted, after all, Huangzhuang was originally an official field. The immigrants who cleared the land began to rub the edges, especially in the war-torn areas, and even if the original gentry returned, their land would no longer be recognized. There are many such examples, especially the land of the gentry who fled south in Huaixi, even if they have a title deed, it is not recognized, on the grounds that they have abandoned farming for too long, and they automatically give up the ownership of these lands, and there are still such gentry in litigation for this. But this is better than they gave up first, and the second government of Nanning simply directly seized the gentry Tianhuang Zhuang, not only Qinzhou, the gentry of Lingshan took the initiative to surrender, and they did not get rid of the clutches of the land reform team, at most they left their family property.
However, all the land in these two prefectures, whether it was owned by the gentry or the guards, or even by small yeoman farmers, was nationalized and turned into an imperial village.
Homesteaders welcome this.
After all, they bear the most harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and after Huangzhuang, except for the maximum forty percent of the actual vast majority of two or three percent of the land rent, there is no other exacting taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and in terms of the yield per mu under this climatic condition in Guangxi, this land rent really represents abundant food and clothing.
But the gentry were all finished.
The landed gentry was in a sense completely erased as a class.
The industrial and commercial gentry still existed, but they were also severely impacted, after all, the well-fed common people would rather cultivate the land than go to their factories to work as coolies, and there was a rent-free period for reclamation! Farming is better than being an industrial slave to the capitalists, unless the gentry increase their wages so that the wages of the workers exceed those of farming, but then the capitalists ......
That's about Yang Qing's.
Anyway, there are only two prefectures at present, and it will not have any impact at all, at most, the European merchants who purchase cane sugar will be forced to Guangzhou and other customs.
At this time, Guangxi's main export was sucrose.
The Portuguese were engaged in a large-scale guerrilla war in Brazil and the Netherlands, which had to last five years in history, and was currently the main sugar base outside of the Ming Dynasty. The influx of tea has greatly increased the demand for cane sugar among Europeans, and the loss of Taiwan's cane sugar base, Java's cane sugar industry has not yet developed, and the vast majority of the cane sugar shipped to Europe by the Dutch currently has to be purchased from Daming.
As for tea, it's a completely seller's market.