Chapter 90: The Gentleman
"Childe, Ge Qizuo and other officials who are unwilling to join my Han family army have been detained for a long time, and I don't know how to deal with them?"
Shang Tao has been helping Yang Ming select scholars who can be appointed these days.
But at the same time, he is also in charge of public security, supervision, criminal investigation and other matters, so he also has the right to interrogate detained officials, and he also cares about this the most, and it is very exciting for him to be able to interrogate his former boss.
But what made him strange was that Yang Ming had never mentioned how to punish these detained officials, so he had to mention it so that Yang Ming would not forget.
"Lord Shang cares about your former colleague, right?" Yang Ming asked with a smile.
"What's the matter, it's just that these foolish and stubborn people stay in prison for little use except to consume food, and they are full of filth, so Xia Guan wants to suggest that Gongzi deal with these people as soon as possible, so as not to increase his troubles", Shang Daoxing said with a smile.
"You're right, it's just that my son heard that Ge Qizuo, the former sub-patrol of Kuizhou Mansion, seems to have some ability, and he is also honest and honest as an official, although he is a little cunning and slippery, but in general, he is also a capable talent, and his encirclement and reinforcement strategy was almost broken by him, right?" Yang Ming asked.
Seeing Yang Ming ask like this, Shang Daoxing also guessed in his heart that Yang Ming intended to recruit Ge Qizuo, so he hurriedly said: "Gongzi said that he laughed, if this Ge Qizuo said that he had some wisdom, but if he said that he was honest and honest, he couldn't talk about it, and the lower official sent him a few girls a month ago, and although this Ge Qizuo had some talents, he couldn't match the son, and he was really hateful, oil and salt didn't enter, and the lower official thought that killing him was more beneficial than using him, so it could also deter and deter the imperial court!" ”
"Really? But this son still wants to meet him, so go and ask someone to bring him here. ”
Yang Ming saw that the business industry had a heart to prevent himself from recruiting Ge Qizuo, so he was even more sure that this business business had a deep contradiction with Ge Qizuo, so he had the heart to solicit Ge Qizuo even more. Although Yang Ming doesn't know how to control the next generation, he also knows that the harder the people below fight, the better he can control, but it can't be too much, and the battle between the party and the government is also an important factor in the fall of the Ming Dynasty.
Shang Daoxing was slightly stunned, he didn't expect Yang Ming to make such a decision, and he unconsciously had a deeper understanding of Yang Ming in his heart, secretly thinking that although Yang Gongzi was young, he was also unpredictable.
Ge Qizuo has been reflecting on it for the past few days, reflecting on how he lost to this group of thieves with more than 5,000 people, thinking that Zhang Xianzhong's posture was far greater than that of this group of thieves but he was still blocked by himself outside the city of Kuizhou Mansion, but now how did he break the city by this small group of thieves, and he has almost seen the thieves' methods, but he was still deceived into it, which is really incredible.
But when he was escorted out by the soldiers of the Han army and saw that the entire Kuizhou capital city was still as prosperous as ever, and these so-called Han thieves neither burned, killed, looted, nor destroyed the city, but registered the population, posted notices, and set up porridge shacks around the city gate to help the homeless, he realized that although this gang of thieves was small, it was not a simple gang of thieves.
Occasionally, when a few soldiers walked past him singing "Dongfang Hong, the sun rises, Daming has a Yang Gongzi", he was even more surprised, and said secretly: "This Han thief is not an ordinary thief, but a thief who wants to steal the world!" ”
"Although we now occupy the Kuizhou Mansion, but strictly speaking, we do not really own the Kuizhou Mansion, most of the wealth and land of the Kuizhou Mansion is still in the hands of the gentry who occupy a small number of people, these gentry have annexed a large number of land, causing many people to go bankrupt and become homeless, and at the same time causing the exhaustion of the court's financial resources, it can be said that the gentry class is the silverfish of the whole society, and it is also the biggest culprit of today's turbulent situation, and they are also the biggest enemies of our displaced people!"
Before Ge Qizuo came, the officials above the county magistrate level who were summoned by Yang Ming were listening to Yang Ming's speech, saying that it was a speech, but in fact, it was Yang Ming announcing his own governing program, in order to give these officials a yardstick.
However, Yang Mingzheng's words of denouncing the gentry for the great harm caused to the people by the Ming Dynasty were heard by Ge Qizuo, who had just come over.
At first, Ge Qizuo couldn't wait to come over and accuse Yang Ming of talking nonsense, but when he heard it deeply, he was a little deafening, and he had to admit in his heart that the gentry class who enjoyed tax-free privileges were indeed moths of the Ming court, and they gnawed at the national capital and embezzled the people's fat and ointment.
Moreover, Ge Qizuo had also been the head of the household department for a while, and he also knew that the income of the Ming treasury was indeed less than four or five million taels as Yang Ming said, but he didn't understand how Yang Ming, a thief from a talented background, knew this?
"It can be said that my Ming Dynasty is now poor and the people are rich, this sentence is not right, it should be the country is poor, the people are poor, the officials and gentry are rich, and they are so rich.
In the early days of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the treasury income was as high as 10 million taels, and now the treasury income is only millions of taels at most.
Now there is such an example, the silver sent back to his hometown by Ge Lao Chen Yan is as high as one million taels, the last time our Hanjia Village confiscated a few official eunuch homes in Dongxiang County, two or three million taels were confiscated, as long as these silverfish are still there, there will be more Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong popping up, and in this way, my Ming Dynasty will only perish step by step, and we people will not be able to gain a foothold, and it is very likely to be invaded by foreign tribes at that time, and the Jiannu outside the gate will take advantage of this to steal the world, do you know it! ”
"For this reason, the official must be the enemy of these gentry, even though he is also from the family of the eunuch, and most of you are also the gentry. However, in order for us Han people not to be taken captive by foreigners, and for the long-term stability of this court, we can't blindly covet pleasure with selfishness, we have to give the common people food, only by giving them food, they will not rebel, they will not become thieves, and if they want to give them food, they can only take it from the hands of these gentry! ”
"Since you have become an official of my Han army, you are destined to stand on the side of the people, and you are destined to become the enemy of the entire privileged class, of course, this son will not be too ruthless, after all, people of any class cannot generalize, otherwise you will not stand here, this official will not be like Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong to eat you alive at every turn, after all, you are the same as this son, you are still people who have the world and the people in their hearts!"
"So next, this official decided to change the rules of governance of my Ming Dynasty, and the purpose is to return everything in Kuizhou and Suiding to the people, everything must be controlled by my Han military government, you can obey it, don't obey it, but whoever dares to obstruct it, don't blame this official for being ruthless!" As Yang Ming spoke, he ordered loudly: "Lord Shang, announce the order." ”
Since Yang Ming decided to rest and recuperate, he naturally would not take the initiative to start a war, so he temporarily shifted his focus to political reform and production development, production development, that is, the improvement of industrial technology and the increase in the output of agricultural products, are not achieved overnight, and Yang Ming has already recorded all the technical information and subject knowledge he knows into a book, and he does not need to think about it personally, so Yang Ming's top priority in the next step is political reform, and this is also the basis for production development.
In fact, Yang Ming's political reform is, to put it bluntly, land reform, which is essentially to redistribute the relationship between land and people, because only in this way can the foundation of the imperial court's rule in Kuizhou be destroyed, and the foundation of the Han army's rule can be re-established.
"Childe, Ge Qizuo is here", here, Shang Dao Xing was about to clear his throat, unfold the scroll and read the new deal plan above, when he saw a military police soldier leading Ge Qi Zuo in, Shang Dao Xing immediately pulled down his face and snorted: "Childe, this Lord Ge has been a scholar for generations, and his ancestors have produced two scholars, but I am afraid that the family wealth is more than one million!" ”