Chapter 286: United Front
There is no problem for the security army to represent the interests of the poor, as long as there is a mouthful of food, a large number of poor people will join the security army and become the most basic force of the security army, but how to treat the rich is a very difficult problem next. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
China has developed for thousands of years or an agricultural society, land has always been the most important means of production, the last years of each dynasty are almost the power of the landlords to continue to grow stronger, resulting in the continuous concentration of land, at the same time the population of the society has grown a lot, a large number of hungry people have no food to eat and began to rebel, kill the landlords and starve to death, establish a new dynasty society towards a new balance, the tragedy of the last years of the Ming Dynasty is not due to the absolute lack of food, but because the government of the Ming Dynasty lost its executive power, the Ming Dynasty national financial bankruptcy and inability to develop the army, The real reason for the fall of the Ming Dynasty was the inability to provide relief to the victims, the large number of new wealthy people resisted state taxes, and the large number of land annexed by the feudal kings and other powerful people, and the state-mandated tax exemption policy for officials and scholars, which made the country's finances unable to make ends meet.
Zhang Chu's heart was painful, and from his heart, he always hoped that he could represent the interests of the broadest masses of toiling people, but this was the end of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhang Chu remembered that a great man said that the ruling class should represent the direction of the development of advanced productive forces, and at the same time represent the interests of the broadest masses of the people. As for the direction of cultural progress, this is not difficult for Zhang Chu. However, this feudal society will continue to develop for several hundred years according to the original process, and it is difficult to say whether the local class is an advanced productive force.
It is not easy for Zhang Chu to eliminate all the landlord classes in the Ming Dynasty, and if the original ones are eliminated, new landlords will appear, and the organizational form of society must be determined by the level of productive forces.
At the beginning of the establishment of the security army, because of the need for food and supplies, it was inevitable to suppress the landlords and other wealthy people. But now, the attitude towards the propertied class is related to the life and death of the security forces.
"I am going to set up a united front organization, you will be the minister, it is only a very small organization now, if you are able to do a good job, it will be a very important department in the future." Zhang Chu finally decided to compromise with reality, the development of the social system has its own internal laws, and it is not advisable to forcibly change it. The security forces still have to win the support of the existing rich class, and if they can't do it, they must also win the support of the new rich class.
"What is this united front for?" Cao Qian was a little confused, he had never heard of the name United Front. What is the use of this department is even more unknown.
"The united front is simply to win over people, unite all the forces that can be united, and unite all those who support us into the security forces."
"But what should I do?" Cao Qian still didn't understand a little, the name United Front was too unfamiliar to him.
"It's simple, you are mainly responsible for persuading the officers and generals captured by the security forces in the future, and at the same time find a way to get more rich people to support us. You do it first, and then we'll discuss it together if you don't understand something. Zhang Chu felt that he couldn't understand it for a while, so he had to let Cao Qian do it first.
"Yes, I'll do my best." However, Cao Qian understood what Zhang Chu was going to do, wasn't it just to recruit and rebel, and he had to give the name of the united front, but this name was also very good, unified to fight, and finally overthrow the Ming Dynasty to achieve a change of dynasty. Cao Qian didn't make things as complicated as Zhang Chu thought. The Chinese are accustomed to the rise and fall of one dynasty after another, and the change of dynasty is considered inevitable, but they don't know when it will happen. The Ming Dynasty is now in danger of internal and external troubles, and it is difficult to say that it is not a precursor to its demise. Cao Qian felt that if he could integrate more people into the camp of the security army, his credit would not be ordinary, so he was very satisfied with Zhang Chu's arrangement.
Cao Qian enthusiastically began the united front work, his first goal was to convince himself that the officers and soldiers who were captured together, Cao Qian's ability was still very strong, and it didn't take too much time to make most of these soldiers join the security army. Of course, the purpose of joining the security forces is not exactly the same. Zhang Chu commended Cao Qian with satisfaction, and Cao Qian's enthusiasm became more sufficient, and he gradually extended the tentacles of the united front beyond the territory controlled by the security army.
While Cao Qian was busy with the work of the united front, Zhang Chu was not idle. This time, Zhang Chu even robbed and deceived the resettlement of the craftsmen in Zhongyang, which was a major project.
Tens of thousands of craftsmen came at once, and it was difficult to settle them even in Zhongyang, some of them found a place to live, and most of them still lived in tents. In order to stabilize people's hearts, Zhang Chu first sent the craftsmen of Zhongyang to find relatives and make friends, show up to say, and impress the craftsmen who were still confused with the facts, these new craftsmen finally understood that what Zhang Chu said at the beginning was not a lie, and the craftsmen in this world can really live such a happy life.
The leaders of the various factories in Zhongyang were happy, and after they came into contact with these new craftsmen, they found that the heritage of the craftsman family that had been inherited in Beijing for hundreds of years was completely incomparable to others. The skills and experience of those veteran craftsmen are beyond the reach of others.
A war for people began, and many people ran to Zhang Chu to ask for more craftsmen to be assigned to their factories. Zhang Chu couldn't keep bargaining with them, and within two days, all the craftsmen were assigned. Seeing that there was no one to want, the director of some factories was unwilling, and found Zhang Chu to encourage him to grab it again.
Zhang Chu is very helpless, this kind of thing depends on the timing, how can there be so many craftsmen in the world for you to rob. The directors left disappointed. These new craftsmen breathed new life into Zhongyang's factory, and they quickly became familiar with the new way of working in Zhongyang's factory, and learned about new technologies that they had not seen before. Their experience has brought many new improvement solutions and solved many technical problems for the Zhongyang factory. The quality of the new products produced by the Zhongyang factory has been improved by another notch.
Some people have said that science and technology are the primary productive forces, and this science and technology not only includes the research results of some social elites, but also has to be manufactured by a large number of workers to turn science and technology into real materials, which really promotes the development of society.
Zhang Chu feels very satisfied these days, and now Zhongyang's scientific and technological level should be the most advanced in Daming. Even in today's world, it is the international leading level. What is lacking now is the scale of production and the institutions to continue research and development. These are all things that require a lot of money, and they can only be solved slowly.
Production has developed greatly, and the war has temporarily stopped, and Zhang Chu eats and sleeps all day long. People always have to think about something when they are full.
Zhang Chu decided to bring Li Mei, who was far away in Fugu, to improve her life. (To be continued.) )