Chapter 18 Step by step, the battle in Liaodong began

Zhu Jiansan asked, after all, the Imperial Conference ended with a compromise.

This is not only a compromise of the Manchu courtiers, but also a compromise of Zhu Jian. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Because of the words of Yang Sichang, the first and auxiliary minister of the cabinet.

"The empire is in ruins, if Your Majesty ascends to the sky in one step, I am afraid that the wolf smoke will rise again, and the empire will be in turmoil!"

For this sentence, Zhu Jian was finally silent, although he is the emperor of the empire, but if he wants to completely abolish the servant system, how many people's interests must be involved.

Zhu Jian is not afraid of obstacles, he has also thought about the huge interests behind this, and in the final analysis, it is definitely not something that can be really solved by killing a few people.

And the only way to solve it is that the servant system has already violated the interests of the majority of the people, who are undoubtedly the new merchant class of the empire.

Ocean trade and handicraft workshops are not enough.

But the industrial revolution that really belonged to the Ming Empire came, and at that time, the abolition of the servant system was really a broad road.

But compromise does not mean Zhu Jian's abandonment, he has his bottom line.

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A day later, the "Jingshi Daily" and the "Imperial Party Newspaper" published an article from the last meeting of the empire.

Titled, "The Reform of the Imperial Servant System".

In the article, there are all the bottom lines of Zhu Jian's precedent stage and servant system.

First, more than half of the palace maids and eunuchs were dismissed in the palace, and they were given household registration, reverted to their places, and given consolation money;

Second, within the empire, the clan relatives above the county king shall be abolished and seven-tenths of the servants in the prefecture shall be abolished, and the local household registration shall be granted, and after naturalization, they can move freely;

Third, the rest of the officials, large and small, the first rank of the big officials and hundreds of servants, the second grade, the decrease of ten, and the remainder, one by one;

Fourth, the local gentry have meritorious names, the number of Jinshi is five, and the rest are three;

Fifth, the local gentry and merchants who have no merit and fame shall not keep slaves, and those who violate them shall be guilty of a felony, but they may hire servants on the basis of rent, but they shall not sign a sochi between the two.

(The above number of servants is to sign Sochi, and those who are subjects of the empire but have funds can hire servants, but not between the two.) )......

With the issuance of this paper newspaper, for a time, the entire empire was full of people, some people were excited, and some people were sad......

In addition, in order to cope with the new servant policy, the imperial party members of the provinces (in October of the third year of the imperial Chongzhen, Zhu Jian set up the imperial party members under the governors of the provinces, as the highest executive officials of the provincial party affairs, directly under the central government of the empire, and have no relationship with the governors) as the executive ministers of the new policy of the empire, and selected powerful and important members from the Ministry of Supervision or the Ministry of Supervision within the party, and assisted the ministers of the new policy in handling the new policy affairs according to the provincial envoys.

and set up a law enforcement team, selected from among the newly liberated servants, and anyone who obstructed the new policy was dealt with by the law enforcement team.

However, on the first day of the promulgation of the new policy for imperial servants, the news had already spread throughout the entire Shuntianfu region, and Zhangjiakou was naturally no exception.

Despite the Fan family's best efforts to cover it up, the news about the reform of the imperial servant system has spread throughout the large and small courtyards of the Fan Mansion.

Perhaps because most of the slaves were illiterate, or because of the strict control of the Fan Mansion, the already armed servants did not seem to appear**.

Here, the inner courtyard of the Fan Mansion.

Although everything was ready, in the face of this sudden news, Fan Yongdou felt a little cold in his heart.

"What a salary!"

Fan Yongdou couldn't help but gasp when he thought of such a newspaper from Jingshi at this point in time.

"Big brother, you call me!"

Just when Fan Yongdou still had a hint of coolness in his heart, Fan Yongzhi came to the front.

Facing the arrival of his younger brother, Fan Yongdou frowned.

"Things have changed, it seems that these slaves are useless, Yongzhi, you immediately organize competent people, you and I quickly take our families out of this place!"

Regarding the eldest brother's statement, Fan Yongzheng was stunned.

"Brother, why do you say this, brother, I have been preparing for a long time?"

Faced with the doubts from his younger brother, Fan Yongdou handed over a newspaper beside him.

As for a newspaper that his eldest brother suddenly handed him, Fan Yongzhi was stunned at first, and then said a little abruptly.

"Big brother, little brother is illiterate, but you know."

Regarding his younger brother's remarks, Fan Yongdou was a little apologetic.

"I've had a lot of trouble lately, but I forgot about it, this newspaper is the most powerful newspaper in Beijing, and there is an article from the Ming Dynasty on it."

"How?"

"Abolish Sochi and give the untouchables a free body."

"What?!"

Fan Yongzheng was shocked by this news, and at that moment he vaguely seemed to feel that all this seemed to be controlled by an invisible hand, and they seemed to be just playthings.

"Big brother, why is it this time?"

At this moment, the two brothers fell silent one after another.

And just when the Fan brothers were speechless, in the courtyard used by the Fan Mansion to organize the servant army, three thousand servants had already formed an army, in fact, it was said to be an army, but it was just one person and a simple knife.

And these servants were surrounded by heavily armed men in black, the dead soldiers of Fanfu.

Here, the servants were in groups of four, and five were sitting together, but at this moment, for Li San, it was extremely excited, because of a newspaper.

The Emperor will release some of his servants, and all of them as merchant's servants will be freed from slavery, deposed from Sochi, and become real people.

It's just that all of this has to be passed through the current level.

Then, for the sake of now, the only way to do this is to let this news know to all the servants present, and as a result, a news about the new policy of the imperial servants quietly spread throughout the side court.

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"Third brother, now that the court has returned our freedom, what should I do?"

"Wait, when the time comes, I'll wait for a throw!"

"Good! Brothers, listen to the third brother. ”

However, it was said that outside Zhangjiakou here, the Huwei army and the Xuanfu cavalry had arrived.

"Mantaibao, the emperor wants me to lead the army to come, and I must return to the division as soon as possible to achieve good news!"

"It's all up to General Huang's decision!"

As the elite unit of the empire, the Huwei Army has its own pride, and Huang Degong also has his own pride, facing a group of rebel merchants, tactically it needs to be paid attention to, but strategically it needs to be despised!

And this was given to him by His Majesty the Emperor.

"The whole army listens to the order, the gunners move forward, fire empty shells, and after a stick of incense, reload live ammunition!"

With Huang Degong's order, twelve artillery pieces were launched in the Huwei army.

These artillery pieces are not red-coated cannons, only because the red-coated cannons are clumsy in field battles, so as a field army, the Huwei Army is not equipped with more red-coated cannons, and Zhangjiakou did not bring a red-coated cannon on this trip.

The 12 cannons in front of him were indeed imitations of the later Napoleonic cannons made by the Imperial Ordnance, and the 12-pounder field guns made of wrought iron, so they were much lighter than bronze cannons.

And it also has a resounding name, General Ming Kamui 12-pounder cannon!

"Put!"

With the order flag being lowered, twelve artillery pieces fired at one time at once, but it was not spectacular!

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! ”

The speed of the imperial army was beyond everyone's expectations, and just when Fan Fu was hurriedly preparing for the so-called 'battle', the cannonballs in the sky were already rushing in the face, even if it was just an empty bullet, it would still be blue and swollen when it hit people.

"Third brother, look, there are words in the projectile!"

And when Li San took the paper, his face changed suddenly.

"Third brother, what's wrong!"

"There is no time, if my brothers want to survive, the only way to survive may be to have a chance to survive."

At this time, Li San was only dragging the note in his hand, because it was written on it that after a stick of incense, the imperial army outside the city would use live ammunition.

He didn't know what the live ammunition was, but the empty bullets in front of him had such power, and what was the power of the live ammunition, but he didn't dare to imagine, and at this moment, there was only a stick of incense left for them!

"Brothers, the Imperial army is out there, let's fight out!"