Chapter Eighty-Four: The Storm is Coming
There are many bases for the existence of a political regime, money is indispensable, and huge financial expenditures have put the new Han Heavenly Kingdom regime under heavy pressure, but Luo Yang, guided by the modern social outlook, has never used violent means, and has patiently used all social resources to persuade and explain to the wealthy class for almost a month, in the hope of being able to influence them and make them smoothly transform into his own supporters.
The effect was remarkable, and in the end, more than 65 percent of the super-rich really sided with the Han Heavenly Kingdom, especially Luo Yang's promise that the future form of economic development, in addition to the necessary social uniform policy, would continue to ensure the fairly free development of industry and commerce, and provide the ability of the state to protect it, and use the bitter facts of the northwest region to contrast, so that they quickly changed their minds.
"If the country wants to develop, you can continue to make a fortune, and this patriotic tax can be said to be your vote!"
"The ethnic chaos in the northwest has turned into a large-scale genocide, and if we can't unite and quickly quell this chaos, the country and the nation are in danger!"
"If the Manchu captives are overthrown and expelled, our country will at least be relieved of the extravagant and wasteful burden of millions of Manchu magnates, and our country will develop better!"
"This king doesn't think that he will compromise and retreat, this king also has a bottom line! Many of the king's generals, officers and soldiers have very opinions about the king's harmonious policy, and I hope you will be cautious! ”
The vast majority of people are wise and know the priority of the matter, and there are many rich people, when discussing in private, they sincerely praise the Han Heavenly Kingdom, which is indeed different from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and different from any peasant rebel army and thief army, there are three rich people, seeing the development prospects of the Great Han Heavenly Kingdom, they simply donate their families, including a total of movable and immovable property, together donated more than 5 million taels, especially all their own land and property free of charge, and let the poor people who rent to enjoy ownership.
There is a difference between any group of people, anywhere. As the great man said, there is a left, a center, and a right everywhere.
Luo Yang used a gentle and moderate policy to encompass a considerable number of Sichuan tycoons, expand their social base, and, because of this united front policy, won the favor of many wealthy people, they spread this information to their relatives and friends around them through letters and other forms, and the influence of the Han Heavenly Kingdom also increased dramatically.
If a country and society want to develop, it is not possible not to crack down on those so-called elite strata, but it is also impossible to strike a complete blow at them, and it is the same for every stratum, which must not only rely on, trust, and retain, but also drive out its inferior nature and give full play to its positive energy.
That being said, the policy is so good, but things are far from being so happy.
On Luo Yang's desk, there was a lot of negative information, and the officer in charge of the intelligence was emotional: "King Rui, these guys are definitely going to fight against our Han Heavenly Kingdom to the end!" ”
"Well, you're right, it's time for us to take the necessary measures. These bunnies always like to take kindness as weakness! If you don't go to the Yellow River, you won't give up, and if you don't see the coffin, you won't cry! These things must be punished. ”
There are some wealthy people, some medium-sized families, not only openly resisting the patriotic tax of the Han Heavenly Kingdom, but also secretly colluding and brewing rebellions, and the channels for their collusion and infiltration are not only some of the rich people, regimental training, but also more than 10,000 released former Qing officers and soldiers, as well as the original tenants, family members, or robe brother organizations under their command, anyway, all the methods and forces that can be used have been mobilized and organized by them.
Some secret groups openly clamored that they wanted the center to blossom, completely overthrow the Han Heavenly Kingdom, and hang Luo Yang, and some people secretly spread the news that the Manchu Qing government army of 300,000, together with 1 million foreign Mao soldiers, was killing from all sides, and within a few months, the Great Han Heavenly Kingdom would be wiped out.
"None of them are left! Both the court and the emperor have said, who dares to sponsor the Han thieves, destroy the nine clans, and raid the house! Ling Chi was executed! ”
"Thirty foreign soldiers, one million soldiers, carrying three thousand cannons, come over and Chengdu can be flattened!"
All kinds of gossip are flying all over the sky, and they are all rumors created by the guys who resist the Great Han Heavenly Kingdom. These news, which spread rapidly, also caused considerable confusion throughout Chengdu and beyond. In particular, some threats made many of the middle forces, rich gentlemen, who had already expressed their support for the Han Heavenly Kingdom, nervous, and some simply took their families with their families and secretly absconded.
Even ordinary people are seriously panicked, and there is a sense of crisis in society that a catastrophe is coming.
When he was united with the wealthy class, Luo Yang naturally did not give up paying attention to social information, and the intelligence department he set up specially set up to collect intelligence in a timely manner and report to him played a very important role.
"It's time to catch the net!"
Under Luo Yang's command and deployment, the intelligence department closely monitored and monitored those who resisted and secretly operated by the tycoons, landlords, wealthy merchants, officials who had served as officials in the former Manchu regime, petty officials, or the underworld.
There was another thing that also caused Luo Yang's shock.
When Zeng Shihe was patrolling at night, he encountered sniping by unknown killers, and several people on the other side bombarded Zeng Shihe with foreign guns, seriously injuring Zeng Shihe, and his subordinate guards also killed two people.
In the five days before and after, dozens of officers and soldiers of the Han Heavenly Kingdom were assassinated while patrolling or wandering the streets!
Some officers and soldiers disappeared without a trace, while others were killed in the streets or dumped their bodies in the wilderness outside the city.
One day, an intelligence officer came to report, and Luo Yang personally led the guards to inspect it, only to see eight corpses hanging on the street fifty meters outside the gate of the ruling government.
Luo Yang dismounted, surrounded by many officers and soldiers of the guards, and carefully inspected the corpse, and couldn't help but gasp.
On the naked corpse, there were countless bloody holes, all of which were stabbed with knives, and some parts of the body were cut and mutilated, and there were three women, who were even more miserable.
The corpse hung from the branches of the trees on the edge of the street, and there was a wooden sign with the inscription: The fate of betraying the imperial court and defecting to the Han thief country.
All the officers and soldiers of the Great Han Heavenly Kingdom who watched the corpse were shocked and angry, while all the citizens who watched the corpse were infinitely terrified and the people's hearts were in turmoil.
Luo Yang hurriedly sent someone to take down the body, find the true identity of the bitter master, check the case, and then bury it in a coffin.
It soon became known that these people were all wealthy families, and because they donated their family property, they were commended by Luo Yang, awarded official positions, and became the elite of the new regime.
In the past few days, dozens of people have been brutalized, and many rich, moderately wealthy, and well-to-do families have been threatened openly and covertly.
The remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty lurking inside and outside Chengdu were ready to move, and gradually joined forces to create incidents, brewing a great storm that would subvert the world.
Only then did Luo Yang deeply realize why he suppressed the counterrevolutionary hostile forces in such a bloody and terrifying manner in the early days of the founding of New China.
"Humph! Look for death! ”