012: The Dispute over the Land and the Soil Officials

After a little bit of clarity about the composition of the people in the village, Deng Shifeng did not dig further on this issue, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and each of them will have its own story and its own role, for this, it is absolutely unrealistic to figure it out as soon as they meet, but if Deng Shifeng decides to use this group of people...... He believed he had the time to get it done.

Ending the question on the ingredients, Deng Shifeng quickly threw out the next question he was very concerned about - who were those people who attacked the village today?!

Speaking of these people, Qin Er and the other people present suddenly became quite angry, even before they began to talk about the origin of these people, the hatred value had quickly exploded. Soon, under the condemnation of these people, as well as the supplement of historical memory in Deng Shifeng's mind, Deng Shifeng understood the ins and outs of the whole thing and the special environmental background.

The first thing to mention is that the actions of those attackers were not personal grudges, but the armed seizure of land openly or even strongly supported by the Ming Dynasty's political axe in Guangxi's special social environment.

The peasant uprisings in Guangxi during the Ming Dynasty were often closely related to the land issue. The history of "Huaiyuan County Chronicles" contains: "All thieves start from the disturbance of officials and the dispute over land." One sentence clearly expresses the characteristics of peasant uprisings in the social environment of Guangxi in the later period of feudal society in the Ming Dynasty. In particular, since Guangxi is an area inhabited by ethnic minorities, this kind of "land dispute" is linked to ethnic struggles and has a number of characteristics that are different from those of other provinces.

The so-called "land dispute" is the struggle between the landlords and the peasants for annexation and anti-annexation. One of the outstanding manifestations of the process of land merger in Guangxi in the Ming Dynasty was the large-scale armed occupation of land by the feudal government. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, heavy troops were stationed in Guangxi to prevent and suppress ethnic minority uprisings. Zhu Yuanzhang believed: "(Guangxi) Xitong Yao Fang is mixed, and its people do not know reason and righteousness, and if they go with it, they will obey it, and if they go against it, they will change, and they cannot be moved lightly. Only guard the key points with soldiers and subdue them. Therefore, from the sixth year of Hongwu, the Ming court began to set up a series of military repression organs in Guangxi. In addition to the 10 guards, there are also more than 30 inspection divisions under the guards. Since then, military strongholds have been scattered all over Guangxi, and troops have been stationed at each important stronghold. It is reported that during the Hongwu and Yongle years, the number of officers and soldiers in Guangxi reached 120,000". With so many officers and troops stationed in Guangxi, a large number of troops were needed every year, and in the early Ming Dynasty, due to the implementation of the military cantonment system in Guangxi, the military situation could still be barely solved. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, according to the record of volume 66 of the "Hongzhi Record": the military tun was destroyed, "the tuntian led by the pawn was all sold, and the "army" fled as soon as it was dispatched. "By the Hongzhi period, there were only 18,000 officials and troops left in Guangxi," and there were many cowardly officials, many old and weak scholars, no military and political repair, and no military prestige. ”

In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Guangxi, like all parts of the country, saw a peasant uprising that shook the Ming court. The larger ones include the Datengxia Uprising, the Fujiang Fujiang Uprising, the Bazhai Uprising, the Gutian Uprising, etc. In order to suppress the peasant uprising, the Ming rulers recruited a large number of soldiers as pawns to suppress the peasant uprising. This kind of recruited soldiers, also known as cultivators or field soldiers, are divided between land, ploughing cattle, farming tools, and seeds, and are ploughed and defended. The vast majority of the land of these cultivators was forcibly seized from the peasants by the rulers of the Ming Dynasty by means of armed occupation of land.

The Ming rulers first called the land in the revolted areas "thieves' fields" and occupied them by armed force, and then distributed them to soldiers for cultivation, making them a powerful tool for suppressing peasant uprisings and plundering peasants' land. The Ming rulers' method of occupying land by armed force was to use the so-called method of "attacking the peasants with razing" to suppress the peasant uprising in Guangxi. As recorded in volume 312 of the "Jiajing Record": Feng Bin, the governor of the Ming court in June of the 25th year of Jiajing, pointed out when summing up the experience of suppressing the peasant uprising in Guangxi: "If the soldiers in Guangxi are less than 10,000 and there are tens of thousands of thieves, they must be recruited every year to prevent thieves, and it is better to recruit to suppress thieves,...... according to its nest, plough the common soil"; He also said, "The cave of the thief is full of beautiful fields and fertile soil, and there is no one who my soldiers do not want to get, and he will order it because of his wishes, and he will be contemptuous." ”

In the process of encroachment, the rulers not only forcibly occupied the fields cultivated by ethnic minorities, but also did not let go of the land of some low-level Han people, thus exacerbating the contradictions among the people in Guangxi.

The rulers of the Ming Dynasty have publicly praised this method of armed occupation of land to rule Guangxi, and with the instructions and support of the high-level, the people below have the courage to work extremely hard in the armed occupation of land. In the process of implementation, the government is the leader, and in the implementation, it is the landlords, large families and local officials as the main executors, these people because of their special status, and the interests of the government are more in-depth, and in the implementation of the majority of the benefits, so in the process of armed seizure of land can be found in their figures, and among them, the local officials are trying to rush to the front of the vanguard.

Tuguan was formed from the Song Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty set up Tusi (Tuguan) in the northwest and southwest areas inhabited by ethnic minorities, which were held by the upper echelons of the ethnic group, and were divided into military positions such as Xuanfu Envoy, Xuanfu Envoy, and Tuzhi County according to rank, as well as civil positions such as Tuzhifu and Tuzhi County, which were hereditary by their descendants. The ruling dynasty recognized the actual right of the local officials to rule in the local area and recognized their right to be private soldiers, but the local officials had to serve the ruling dynasty when the country needed to suppress rebellions and go to war abroad. Since the formation and perfection of this fetters system in the Song Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty gave full play to the fetters system, which not only played a great role in ruling the local officials of Guangxi, but also allowed the local officials and their private soldiers to gradually go out of the original depths of the mountains, and enter the whole Guangxi and even out of the provinces of the larger and broader Chinese stage. In Guangxi, local officials have repeatedly appeared on occasions to suppress various popular uprisings; In other provinces, there are also stories of Mrs. Washi taking wolf soldiers to the north to fight against the Japanese invaders, and the word wolf soldiers has since begun to appear in Chinese historical records.

Although there are still many debates about whether the combat effectiveness of the wolf soldiers is high or low, there are different opinions and views on whether the Japanese war is repeatedly defeated or won a great victory, and we will not mention this in detail later, what has to be said here is: the local officials in the Ming Dynasty era of the eastward march out of the original place of residence, it is indeed the entire social environment and population composition of Guangxi has played a real role in promoting, whether it is active or passive, has stimulated the mutual contact and integration of the population of various ethnic groups, and gradually let the original population Han, Zhuang, Yao, Miao, Dong is composed of four places in Guangxi, southeast, northwest and northwest with distinct development, and truly began the great era of great integration of Guangxi's population and ethnic groups and in-depth cultural exchanges in later generations. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, the whole of Guangxi had basically fully accepted the main body of Han culture and recognized the idea of great unification.

Although Guangxi was included in the Chinese territory during the Qin Dynasty, by the time of the Song Dynasty, Guangxi was still extremely poor, and when the Central Plains was in a thriving feudal society, most of the Zhuang and Yao regions in western Guangxi were still in the primitive economic form of slash-and-burn cultivation. Compared with the Central Plains, it is recorded: "Guangxi is barbarian, the mountains and rivers are far away, the characters are scarce, the power is meager, and a county is not a county in Zhejiang." "The economy is like this, and education can be imagined. In Guixi, not only are there no jinshi, but also there is no county school. Guangxi has a history of more than 100 counties in 30 prefectures, and there are only 11 government schools. According to statistics, there were 279 Chinese-style liberal arts scholars in Guangxi in the Song Dynasty (including 7 special performances), 83 in the Northern Song Dynasty and 196 in the Southern Song Dynasty, which accounted for 0.67% of the national total compared with the total number of Jinshi in the Song Dynasty of about 41,597! Look at it, it has not even reached one percent, which shows the isolation and backwardness of Guangxi before. After the great exchange and integration of population and culture in the Ming Dynasty, in the Qing Dynasty, even if Guangxi was affected by the war, it also reached 5,075 liberal arts sergeants, 585 sergeants and jinshi, accounting for 2.18% of the country's 26,845 people, more than any previous dynasty. Among them, there are 4 champions, ranking fifth after Jiangsu (49), Zhejiang (20), Anhui (9), and Shandong (6), which shows the role played in the cultural unification of the Ming Dynasty (Note: The information on the number of scientific expeditions in this paragraph comes from Chen Xiaojin, the author of "A Brief Exploration of the Imperial Examination in Guangxi"). And the last to mention a few characters is the late Qing Dynasty in Guangxi Baise Xilin County Nalao Township out of a door three governors, Yunnan and Guizhou Governor Cen Yuying, Cen Yubao, Liangguang Governor Cen Chunxuan, these three people are from the Cen family, Cen family before that was the local Tuguan in western Guangxi, let a Tuguan family accept the Central Plains Han culture and open Nanyang Academy in the family to form a systematic Sinology culture education, which shows how important the Ming Dynasty is to the historical process of the integration of Guangxi's entire ethnic culture.

After talking about the background and future role of the Tuguan Eastward Exit Back to the present present, the original motivation of the Tuguan Eastward Advance is actually very simple, that is, the Tuguan gradually realized that the world where they are located is only a small corner of the world, and the desire for land and wealth made them take their subordinates out of the mountains and began to have more contact with the outside world, in this process, from the principle of proximity and the same surname of the social culture of ethnic minorities, the encroachment of the Tuguan on the land of Guangxi Province has naturally become the first choice, so it is not difficult to understand, Why do the local officials always appear in the vanguard role of the armed land grabbing?

And this battle in the village this time is actually a typical armed seizure of land. The people in the village have no household registration in the Ming Zheng Axe, and there is no enlistment, not only absolutely in line with the standard of "thief land", but also after years of reclamation and fertilization, these fields have gradually become ripe fields and the yield is gradually rich, which has caused many people to covet and covet, and it is not difficult to understand the occurrence of the battle for land......

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