Chapter 395: The Enemy of the Whole People
One of the princes' gang immediately went back to tandem.
Theoretically, there is no such position as a chairman, and only a prime minister appointed by the state of supervision to serve the delegates, and the current prime minister is Yang Qing.
But he's just a servant.
He has no authority over the deputies.
He was only entrusted by the prison state to run errands for the delegates at the Four People's Congress.
The representatives of the four peoples are all centered on a certain person who is respected and has enough prestige, forming small groups, and this is the inevitable result. Then these small groups formed large factions according to their interests, and in the Four People's Congress, they either fought or cooperated, basically similar to parties, except that there was no formal organization, but the day was almost coming. After the end of their term of office, some of them will definitely continue to stay in Nanjing, as representatives of the forces behind the scenes, to guide or simply induce the next representatives of the Four Peoples, so as to continue the influence of the forces they represent on the Four People's Congress.
That's the standard partisanship.
The Standing Committee, with a total of 299 deputies, is in fact currently divided into three factions according to their interests.
Conservatives.
That is, the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang are old-fashioned.
Not only those scholars from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but also from other provinces who supported some of the old systems, and even other representatives of the three peoples who were bought by them.
This is not surprising.
The Four People's Congress system has been in operation until now, and the gentry have long found a way to deal with it, and although they cannot achieve the land-based election they are pursuing for the time being, it is very easy to buy off those representatives of the Four People's Congress. Even targeted laws are useless, just like a merchant representative, a gentry who wants to buy his goods at a high price, and a peasant representative, who only needs to sell his land at a low price.
These means will be played.
Under such circumstances, it is not surprising that the representatives of the four peoples were bribed by them.
In fact, the deputies of the four peoples are no longer the ones who decide who to vote for purely by their origins, and there are those who support the representatives of the scholars at that time, and this kind of problem will only become more serious at this time. It is inevitable that these representatives will be bought by interest groups, and it is impossible for Yang Qing to change this, and no matter how perfect the system is, it will be useless. A large number of presidents from the bottom of the United States also serve the consortium, or even only serve the consortium, but a billionaire is still more or less concerned about the interests of the bottom, and Yang Qing, who can't be solved by the Americans, can't solve it.
The more time passes, the more serious the problem becomes.
The more time passes, the more severe the infiltration.
The original representatives would only speak for their own class based on their origins, because they didn't have time to understand anything else, and after three years they knew to speak for the financial owners behind them. When a system cannot be resisted, there will always be someone who finds the means to adapt to it and deal with it, with the ferocity with which a certain wave swept the world back then, did not it stop the original enemies from adapting to infiltrate and change and decay and destroy it? Yang Qing's Four People's Congress is nothing more than a hastily created system that is like pulling out seedlings and fueling it, which is neither perfect nor scientific, and its performance in this regard will only be worse and its resistance will be weaker.
But that doesn't change its progressive nature.
After all, it still has a bottom line.
For example, those gentry want to change to the same land as the village sages of Liangguang to elect for election, even if they are bribed by the representatives of the four people, they will not agree to such a request.
At least not for the time being.
Well, Yang Qing actually doesn't know the bottom of this question.
Enlightened.
That is, the reformers who cooperated with Yang Qing with Su Song and other representatives as the core, just like those reformists in the late Qing Dynasty, but at this time their own strength was not enough to overwhelm the conservatives, but fortunately, with the support of the representatives of Huangzhuang who were changed from Wei to Wei, they could basically maintain parity.
The latter is a big force.
After all, the selection of local deputies is based on counties and guards, and Daming currently has more than 100 militia units at the guard level.
They are the most supportive of Yang Qing.
They are also Yang Qing's most important force in the Four Peoples Conference, and they are the most difficult to buy, after all, behind them is Huangzhuang, and their life, old age, sickness and death have to be in the collective of Huangzhuang.
Neutral.
That is, Wang Fuzhi's gang.
They represent the interests of Huguang and Yungui, the three provinces that are relatively weakest in the imperial court, but not all the representatives of these three provinces are of this faction. In fact, the three factions cannot be said to be divided by geography, but more of a political concept, that is, to continue to take land as the core of the local master, or to be a new industrial and commercial capitalist, for example, the core of the first two factions are all Nanzhili and Zhejiang. This problem also exists in Huguang, Yungui and Guizhou, but compared with Jiangsu and Zhejiang, where there are serious differences in political concepts, the unity of the representatives of the four peoples of the three provinces, which are relatively weak in the imperial court, is still slightly higher.
After all, their core purpose is to change the political pattern of the imperial court, with Jiangsu and Zhejiang as the core.
The way is to support Yang Qing.
Yang Qing's reforms were conducive to reducing the dominance of Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the imperial court and winning more official positions for these provinces, so they supported Yang Qing and hoped that the current pattern dominated by Yang Qing would continue, and the new provincial system of the imperial examination would be beneficial to them.
And the emperor will ruin all this.
So in terms of treating the emperor, those who supported Yang Qing hadn't done it yet, but they couldn't wait.
Wang Fuzhi quickly connected more than 50 permanent representatives, and then boarded the carriages and headed west along the newly built highway. At this time, Ding Qixiang and the two had already exhibited in Chizhou, and it is estimated that they will meet them in Wuhu......
"Duke Chu, they've already set off!"
Xu Ping said to Yang Qing.
Chu Gong, who was growing vegetables in the greenhouse, nodded with satisfaction, and then continued to fiddle with his few out-of-season tomatoes.
In other words, this is the important task entrusted by the prison state.
As she gets closer to the throne of the Queen, Her Royal Highness has become more and more difficult to serve, not only eating out-of-season vegetables, but also eating tropical fruits, and the demand for chocolate is increasing. He was threatening him with an expedition to South America to find cocoa seeds, and even asked him to send a fleet to New Zealand to catch moas......
She thought that a bird that was that big must be delicious.
She has a common language with the European colonizers in the original history, but fortunately Yang Qing told her that it was not an elephant bird, and the poor elephant bird has not been seen since last year.
His greenhouse is made of wood and glass, and it works well, but it can't hold the hail, but the hail doesn't appear in the winter, and the slab glass will be removed in the summer. This thing is still very valuable, because of technical limitations, flat glass can only use the casting method, in fact, except for those real wealthy dignitaries, or palaces, there are few people willing to put on the windows, the main use of glass is mirrors and various handicrafts.
Especially stained glass lost-wax castings.
Because the soda ash required by the glass industry can still only be made from plant ash, the higher-end Lubran method has only just been tested......
This salt-to-alkali method requires a large amount of sulfuric acid.
The lead chamber method for sulfuric acid is also only the beginning of the test......
This is Yang Qing's most important scientific research project.
It's not that in order to make glass, after all, the current glass is as expensive as making a lot of money, and it's not a big deal that the people can't afford it, Daming is more accustomed to using porcelain, and the glass industry doesn't use much, but the cotton spinning industry is more and more restricted by soda ash, which must use a large amount of soda ash. For this reason, he has even begun to import plant ash from the Japanese country and Vietnam, although Jiangsu and Zhejiang are not short of this, and it can even be said that every household can produce it, but it can't stand more and more textile factories to consume ah! Originally, the Lubrand's alkali method was forced out by this situation, and in order to have enough soda ash, the French even went to the Americas to import plant ash.
To solve this problem, Louis XVI offered a bounty of 12,000 thousand livres.
The end result was Lubrand.
Although he had not yet had time to receive the prize from Louis XVI, the latter was guillotined.
Yang Qing was also forced.
Although he can be said to have a huge production area of grass and wood ash in the south of the Yangtze River, the 20% alkali content coupled with the loss in the production process still makes the output of those alkali-making workshops increasingly unable to meet the consumption of textile mills.
The crazy development of industry is forcing him to force the entire Ming Dynasty to move forward on the road of technological innovation.
Technological innovation, in turn, drives industrial development.
A virtuous circle has been formed, even the first batch of patents have appeared, the most fashionable thing in the whole Ming Dynasty is to open mines, open factories, engage in trade and engage in technological innovation. Although the real core of overseas trade is still the same as in the past, the Ming itself is a huge market, a huge market of more than 100 million people. The internal circulation of this market is enough to support the soaring of Daming industry, not to mention anything else, that is, those who were originally unable to wear clothes, but now because their lives have improved, the poor people who have money to buy clothes buy a piece of cloth are enough for all textile factories to maintain a long time of rapid development.
Even those farmers who can't afford to use iron farming tools because they are poor, and buying a set of iron tools for each family is enough for the steel industry to complete that critical kick.
A household needs 100,000 tons of iron for 10 catties!
In the post-industrial geming of the UK, the annual steel production is nothing more than this.
Daming itself is enough to support an industrial geming, this market is too huge, far from being comparable to those countries in Europe, of course, the premise is that you can eat enough and have the most basic consumption power, and the past state of extreme poverty is not good. And Yang Qing's reform over the years is currently to solve the problem of eating to the greatest extent, and let the people have more or less surplus money in their hands, even if a lot of this surplus money is the money he printed.
But the basic spending power is there.
There is no big deal about banknotes.
As long as the freely convertible metal currency standard can be maintained, the value of paper money is no different from that of metal money, and even the Japanese merchants in Nagasaki now accept dragon dollar banknotes.
Not to mention the markets around North Korea and the Japanese Kingdom that have been opened.
He spent six years hard through various means, from high-end finance, to low-end copying, from hanging to honest farming, from capitalism to socialism, in short, it can be said that he was unscrupulous, and finally pushed Daming to the doorstep of real industrial gemming, and even many people have seen the scenery in the door......
And then the emperor returned!
What are you doing here?
Who's welcome!
You are not welcome to the emerging industrial and commercial capitalists!
Those emerging industrial and commercial capitalists have no time to talk nonsense with the emperor, everyone can't take care of making money and making gas, what are you doing here? Can't you die quietly? I have to run back and scare people! We are all hundreds of thousands of silver per minute, how can we be interested in messing around with you? You're just doing something!
Anyway, it's really hard to say whether there are any shadows of these people behind those who want to kill the emperor along the way.
It's one thing for them to buy Treasury bonds.
It's not that the national debt will not be repaid, the national debt is issued by the imperial court, it was issued by Yang Qing, and Yang Qing will definitely cash it out in the end, but it is just a long-term investment.
But it's another thing for the emperor to really come back.
They just killed the emperor, and Yang Qing would also cash out the national debt in their hands, there is no doubt about this, so buying the national debt does not affect them to blow up the emperor halfway, which is completely different.
The emperor was not welcome in the army.
The army only recognized Yang Qing, Yang Qing gave them everything at present, they were poor military households when the Zhu family was the emperor, and now they are the easiest occupation to find a daughter-in-law, they naturally reject the emperor of the Zhu family, and the latter has left them too much damage. It's only been six years now, and they still remember what it was like six years ago, and they don't want to go back to the state of not being able to eat enough in the past, they are now full of canned whale meat......
Occasionally, you can eat other meats.
After all, the deserted Henan is very suitable for grazing, and the sweet potato seedlings are also good for feeding pigs.
What they are looking forward to most now is the news of the emperor's violent death, and they even do not hesitate to find a way to make the emperor die violently.
The emperor was likewise frowned upon by the common people.
What reason do they have to welcome the Zhu family?
What the emperors of the Zhu family have in their memories is only harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, hunger and cold, rampant banditry, corrupt officials, local tyrants and inferior gentry, what is there to welcome such an emperor?
The common people are not cheap!
In the final analysis, what really welcomes Zhu Cihong is just a handful of careerists, and there are also large landlords with the same very small proportion of the population, and even small landlords may not welcome him, after all, small landlords mean that they are indispensable to face harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and small landlords want to get ahead in the imperial examination, and it is obviously easier to take five subjects now. And these careerists and big landlords who welcomed him could not provide him with enough help to make him successful, not to mention that these people have always been very timely, just like Yan Shenggong's escape.
The poor emperor is still too naïve after all.
He thought that he was the return of the king, and he thought that there was only one rebel in his way, but he didn't know that he had been abandoned by 99% of the people in this empire, and even became a thorn in the side of these 99%.
Yang Qing dealt with him personally?
No, some people can't wait to rush to the front, he has blocked the way of too many people!