Chapter 1296: Dissuading the Tenant Farmers
For the tenant farmers of the Far Eastern Army in the Central Plains to "persuade them to leave", the company is actually ready. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info once the traditional forces in various places react excessively, they will immediately stop their actions, after all, the Far East is not ready to tear face with the Ming gentry group.
The board of directors of the Far Eastern Company received telegrams from the garrisons in various places, and learned that it had received interference from local forces and that there had been conflicts with the local gentry and landlords, so the company immediately prepared some countermeasures.
Several members of the Standing Committee of the Board of Directors also made a special effort to obtain some official documents, the content of which was to reprimand the garrisons in various localities, to rectify military discipline, to conduct self-examination and self-correction, and to strictly deal with temporary workers in various departments who violated the regulations.
In fact, it is to make a gesture that as soon as a former Ming official in Beijing comes to the door, the company will end the operation, in case the situation becomes out of control.
But a large number of official documents have been printed, and the company is waiting for the cabinet and officials from various ministries to come to the door, who would have thought that after waiting for a few days, there will be no movement at all, as if nothing has happened.
Gao Jianguo, Li Ming, Wang He, and others also convened a special standing committee to analyze the matter, and then instructed the newly established Ministry of the Interior, the State Security Bureau, and the Central Intelligence Department to send a large number of intelligence personnel to various localities to secretly investigate the matter.
It was not until the three major intelligence agencies in the Far East passed back the results of their investigations after careful reconnaissance that everyone understood the ins and outs of the matter.
Several members of the Standing Committee of the Far East also suddenly realized, and they all secretly smiled bitterly, feeling that sometimes their ideas were somewhat influenced by modern society.
Gao Jianguo said with a wry smile: "We have come to this era, and we still hold on to our previous thoughts. In this era, with those traditional feudal forces, there is still a special talk about democracy and the rule of law. We should draw a lesson and make use of the feudal royal power in our hands as much as possible in our future work to fight against the traditional feudal forces of this era. ”
Wang He also smiled when he heard this: "After all, we are in the feudal era, so the company's code of conduct, when it should be feudal, should it still be feudal, haha......"
Everyone laughed when they heard what they said.
Li Ming thought for a moment and said: "Although the strategy we formulated before was safe, it seems that it is still a little too conservative now. Are we going to take advantage of this opportunity to intensify our action and rescue as many tenants and slaves as possible from the hands of the gentry landlords before the gentry groups everywhere react violently? ”
Hu Wei nodded and said, "I agree with Li Ming's opinion, in this way, our previous plan can be greatly advanced." ”
Gao Jianguo also smiled and said: "Since we have someone in our hands, of course we will no longer be as restrained as before." As long as we are given one winter, the company will be able to lay a solid foundation for us to carry out mass work in the Central Plains with these poor tenants at the bottom. ”
Through this compromise of the Central Plains Gentry Group, the Far East also changed some of its previous tactics in due course, and the board of directors of the company instructed the Military Commission to reformulate an action plan and strive to intensify efforts to "persuade tenants to leave" from various localities before several elders of the former Ming cabinet in Beijing could speak.
We must not be soft when we are obstructed by local forces, but at the same time, we also order all troops to pay attention to proportionality in their actions, minimize the casualties of the gentry as much as possible, and not allow the situation to continue to expand.
Originally, only a small number of troops stationed in various parts of the Central Plains participated in the task of "relocating" the people, but the plan of action was changed with the Military Commission. Almost all the troops in the Central Plains received orders from their superiors, but they quickly forcibly "persuaded the tenants" and slaves of the landlords' families in their respective jurisdictions to leave.
With the sound of a rapid rallying cry, all the camps of the Far Eastern Army began to get busy, and groups of officers and men rushed out of the barracks, and with the assistance of the intelligence department, they rushed to the villages near the station.
The order of the Military Commission was to "persuade" the local people as much as possible, so the officers and men of the Far East simply let go, and in order to gain time, the troops changed their previous moderate tactics, and in the following operations, they basically adopted the method of brutal forced expulsion, and wantonly relocated tenants and slaves from all over the country. The gentry and landlords everywhere complained, and the people's grievances boiled.
But in the face of the fierce and vicious officers and soldiers of the Far East, these landlords and gentry did not dare to stop them at all. Unable to bear it, they gathered together to cause all kinds of trouble and disturb the local situation.
In some areas, the local tyrants and bullies were unwilling to let their tenant farmers be plundered, so they spent huge sums of money to hire local bandits to ring horses and let them go down the mountains to wreak havoc and cause chaos. Moreover, they also colluded with local scoundrels and ruffians, spread rumors, and incited the melon-eating masses who did not know the truth to make a collective disturbance, in an attempt to aggravate the local chaos and interfere with the Far Eastern Army's "persuasion" action.
After years of operation, the traditional gentry landlords at the grassroots level in these places have been deeply rooted in the local area and have huge connections and influence.
Moreover, the tenants and servants under their rule did not really understand the migration policy of the Far East, and were very resistant to the forced "expulsion" of the company, especially after the local gentry and landlords instigated them, and in some areas there was a collective flight or armed confrontation.
Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "Shandong Xiangma Henan thief", which does not mean to belittle the people of the two places, it is said that the people of these two places are fierce, and there are many thieves and horses.
These thieves are different from those who have been cornered by natural and man-made disasters. He is a real "green forest hero", who runs a base area, has his own power, and is inextricably linked with the local landlords, gentry, and powerful bullies.
Because they had no intention of pulling the flag to rebel, the local government generally turned a blind eye. In fact, even if the officials and troops encircled and suppressed, the local tyrants and inferior gentry had already leaked the news, and the army was already prepared before the thieves arrived, and the officials and troops who suppressed the thieves would often return in vain, or even return in defeat.
The lairs of these bandits are all set up in places with extremely harsh environments, and the army encircles and suppresses them, and the thieves who are familiar with the terrain play hide and seek with you, and no matter how many soldiers and horses there are, it is useless.
The stubborn resistance of the feudal local forces in the Central Plains, coupled with the resistance of the poor tenants and slaves at the bottom, brought great trouble to the actions of the Far Eastern Army, and the situation in various places became chaotic again.
In the face of interference by local forces, the CMC's order remained unchanged, and it also strictly ordered the troops to adopt iron-blooded means to seriously deal with local tyrants and shoddy gentry, bandits and horses, and local ruffians and bullies who tried to obstruct the movement of the Far Eastern Army.
We must deal with it with great intensity, and we must ruthlessly deter the local reactionary forces. However, all the feudal landlords who dared to confront the Far East knew that the bayonets of the Far Eastern Army could also kill.
(To be continued.) )