86_86695 "Who is the biggest reactionary in China's current environment?" I would like to sue comrades that the feudal landlord class is the most corrupt! The most depraved! The most reactionary! They are the biggest reactionaries! ”

——1622, Wang Shuhui, "It is Necessary to Resolutely Eliminate a Qiē Reactionary"

Wang Shuhui didn't know how famous he was. Before 1621, most people in Jingzhou did not know that there was such a person in their own territory. By 1622, there was no one in the upper class of Jingzhou who did not know about him.

Although in the feudal agrarian society, because of the backward level of productive forces, science and technology could not undergo transformative development for a long time, which led to the backwardness of communication technology. However, the slow pace of life in an agrarian society also made the characters of the upper class particularly sensitive to the wind and grass.

At the beginning, when Ma Songhua, the largest squire in Zhijiang County, was eliminated by Wang Shuhui, the upper echelons of Jingzhou society still thought that it was just a struggle between the rich landowners in the countryside like Zhijiang. After Wang Shuhui eliminated the power of the Zhang family in Jingzhou by means of unaware of people, all the big landlords and officials in Jingzhou had to start paying attention to Wang Shuhui, a person who did not follow the rules.

In particular, the commander of Jingzhou Wei and the Qianhu of Jingzhou Qianhu of Jinyi Wei, these two high-ranking military attachés, launched a strong armed force of more than 1,000 people to attack Wang Shuhui, but in the end they disappeared, and after the violent corpse wilderness, the upper echelons of the entire Jingzhou region all began to pay close attention to Wang Shuhui.

As they probed into all aspects of the Revival Society's power. A lot of information is still gradually grasped by them. For example, Wang Shuhui's dedication to land, such as Wang Shuhui's cruelty (many large landlords will be wiped out by the revival society), such as Wang Shuhui's unruly rules (free distribution of land to farmers for cultivation, only three layers of taxes, high price of grain, low-interest loans to farmers, contracting local taxes, etc.). These things were reported in more detail as the Fuxing Society began to implement its own policies on the land of the Zhang family in Jingzhou.

Among the things that Wang Shuhui did, such things as robbing other people's land and destroying other people's doors were considered normal by the upper-class figures in Jingzhou society. Because of this kind of thing, they themselves have done a lot. However, their methods are not as violent as Wang Shuhui, and their targets will not be landlords like Wang Shuhui, but most of their actions are aimed at homesteaders. But even so, they still feel that Wang Shuhui's behavior is not out of line.

What really made them feel vigilant was not the army in Wang Shuhui's hands (they themselves also kept a lot of thugs in captivity); It is not the serf-style farm established by Wang Shuhui (this is how they view the farms and breeding farms established by Wang Shuhui); It's not that Wang Shuhui opened a factory, did business, and engaged in smuggling (they also do the same thing), but that Wang Shuhui was outrageously good to the mud legs.

In their eyes, Wang Shuhui is definitely not the person who goes with them all the way, because Wang Shuhui has given countless benefits to the mud legs (free land distribution, low land rent, low-interest loans, high-priced grain, etc.).

What Wang Shuhui did directly threatened their actual interests. Because of the openly implemented policies of the Revival Society, there was a massive loss of serfs in their hands. The mud legs they control are becoming more and more difficult to discipline because of frequent disasters, and after Wang Shuhui, it is becoming more and more difficult for these untouchables to suppress.

Although they did not know that Wang Shuhui had long labeled them as "reactionaries" and "needed to be eliminated". However, proceeding from their own class position and interests, they gradually began to regard Wang Shuhui and the Fuxing Society as their enemies.

For the enemy, people always have to do something, and they always have to work hard to fight and suppress, and even destroy them.

The upper-class figures in the Jingzhou area naturally wanted to deal with Wang Shuhui. However, after they sorted out their usual methods, they found that their usual methods were not good for Wang Shuhui.

Because to deal with Wang Shuhui, you must consider Wang Shuhui's own identity. They found out that Wang Shuhui's identity was really a headache. Because, he is the son-in-law of the county king, the husband of the county lord, and he is a real royal family. In terms of his identity, he is both a figure in the system and not a figure in the system. This kind of person is very troublesome to deal with.

Even, they remembered a guy who once lived in Jingzhou City and was as difficult to deal with as Wang Shuhui. That is the person with the highest theoretical status in Jingzhou City in the past, the King of Liao.

His Royal Highness the King of Liao, like his ancestors in the past, is the best at four things, that is, eating, drinking and having fun. However, His Royal Highness the King of Liao, who only knows how to eat, drink and have fun, is very good at making money from buying and selling and plundering other people's land. During the Zhengde period, the old Liao King caused a lot of suffering to the gentry in Jingzhou. However, the policy of the Ming Dynasty towards the vassal king was that as long as there was no rebellion, generally speaking, the emperor was quite accommodating to the vassal king.

Fortunately, in the Jiajing period, because there was a feud between Zhang Juzheng, a cabinet scholar at that time, and the Liao Wangfu. Under the blow of this powerful bachelor, the entire Liao royal clan was completely wiped out. The countless acres of land saved by the last Liao king also became the pockets of the gentry of Jingzhou.

Although the Liao Wangfu has been extinct, the impression left by the last Liao King on the Jingzhou gentry is difficult to break. At that time, their land was occupied by the Liao Wangfu, and the shop was robbed by the Liao Wangfu, and in the face of all kinds of disasters, the helplessness of the Jingzhou gentry towards the royal family really made them unforgettable.

Thinking about it this way, the Jingzhou gentry's impression of Wang Shuhui was even more corrupted. However, just like they have no choice in the face of the King of Liao, they have no choice in the face of the son-in-law of the King of the County.

Of course, there is no way to refer to it, and they can't directly send people to attack Wang Shuhui (the number of their family thugs is not as large as the Fuxing Army); can't use officials to control Wang Shuhui (people have access to the inner court of the two capitals); You can't embarrass Wang Shuhui (don't say that those officials don't dare, even if they dare to do this, they will only end up becoming a missing person). However, they could unite the gentry of the entire Jingzhou region and isolate Wang Shuhui together.

In this way, under the strong promotion and propaganda of the Jingzhou gentry, the landlords, gentry and retired officials of various prefectures and counties in the entire Jingzhou region knew about Wang Shuhui's domineering and "evil" (referring to the land policy of the Fuxing Society).

The emergency faced by the Fuxing Army in Songzi County was the reaction of the landlords and gentlemen in Songzi County to Wang Shuhui's arrival after gathering in Songzi County to avoid disasters under the propaganda of the gentry in Jingzhou.

The second company of the 10th battalion, which went to the county seat to carry out the task of guiding the victims, except for Li Fengming's first platoon, did not go deep into the vicinity of the county seat and maintained sufficient vigilance in the process of rescuing people, so they did not encounter any special circumstances. However, the other four platoons of the second company did not have such good luck.

After they arrived near the county seat, they were discovered by the eyes of the county gentry who were hiding among the victims. When they began to provide relief, suddenly, a group of unidentified armed men armed with weapons (the landlords' family thugs) rushed out of the closed city gate and rushed towards the reconstruction army team that was providing relief.

The reaction of the fighters was completely subconscious. When they noticed that unknown armed men were rushing towards them, the fighters immediately rushed together and lined up. When the hundreds of domestic thugs reached the range of the soldiers' rifles, the soldiers immediately fired in a row under the command of non-commissioned officers or high-ranking soldiers.

Such a thing occurred at the same time in all four directions around the county seat, and of course, the death and collapse of the armed men was an inevitability. However, the great chaos that led the victims to fear and fear also inevitably happened.

Tens of thousands of panicked victims fled in all directions. Many children, the elderly and women have been injured or even killed in the chaos. Seeing this situation, the commander of the second company on the one hand arranged a defensive phalanx on the spot, and on the other hand, sent a communications corps to report the situation to the command.

Things never go their way to their intended outcome. This is a lesson that Wang Shuhui learned after carrying out a lot of work in the last years of the Ming Dynasty. People can only work hard to push things towards their own predetermined goals. However, no matter how much effort you make, all kinds of unexpected events will always break your plan and make things go off the track you predetermined.

Wang Shuhui found that what he could do was not to set a number of beautiful goals for himself, but to do things step by step, and try to make things develop towards better results.

Let's take disaster relief as an example. Wang Shuhui's idea is to do a good job in the construction of the refugee camp first. After that, the refugees were brought back into the camps, one by one, in batches. Once this is done, the refugees can be trained and trained in a unified manner. Finally, the Renaissance Society will lead the reconstruction of the refugees.

From the perspective of scientific co-ordination, Wang Shuhui hopes to integrate the work of "refugee camp construction" and "refugee absorption". It is hoped that the work of "refugee training" and "post-disaster reconstruction" will be integrated. However, before the first refugees arrived, an emergency broke out.

When Wang Shuhui led the remaining 10th battalion of men and horses to Songzi County, it took a lot of effort to let all the nearly 20,000 refugees sit honestly on the ground. Wang Shuhui learned that according to the statistics of the staff officers of the disaster relief command center, more than 400 refugees were unfortunately killed in the chaos.

In the first year of this plane, Wang Shuhui often got angry because of various things. In the second year, Wang Shuhui was obviously less angry. By the third year, Wang Shuhui was basically no longer angry.

Because the more he worked, the more he realized that anger was just a simple vent of personal feelings, and that it could not solve anything in itself. And all kinds of problems, that will definitely arise, will always appear. Therefore, from the perspective of seeking truth from facts, in order to improve his efficiency in solving problems, Wang Shuhui will not be angry at all.

However, in the face of such a sudden death, more than 400 deaths and nearly 1,000 injuries for no reason, it is impossible for the anger in Wang Shuhui's stomach not to burn more and more.

After walking back and forth for more than ten times, Wang Shuhui reluctantly suppressed his anger. He asked in a deep voice to the staff officers standing next to him waiting for orders, "Did the guy who caused the chaos catch it?" ”

The staff officer immediately replied: "Teacher, unknown armed men, a total of six people have been captured. ”

Wang Shuhui instructed the staff officers: "Let the investigators immediately interrogate these people and find out the matter immediately." The troops were ordered to immediately carry out the work of absorbing the victims. ”

I looked at the people who were sitting in the encirclement of the Baath Army soldiers. Wang Shuhui continued: "Let the health department immediately start the treatment work. Take good care of the injured victims. Let the logistics department start preparing and immediately feed the victims. After eating, according to the established plan, the victims were sorted out and brought to the refugee camp for resettlement. ”

The staff officer immediately recorded Wang Shuhui's order, and after that, he reminded Wang Shuhui: "Teacher, the construction of the refugee camp has not yet been completed. I'm afraid it won't be able to accommodate so many people. ”

Wang Shuhui thought for a while and said to the staff officer: "The construction of the refugee camp is carried out by the soldiers leading the refugees. Resettle the women and children in the camps that have already been built, and let the others endure the night outside. ”

After assigning the work to the staff officers, Wang Shuhui immediately went to the location of the logistics department and prepared to help them. After all, it is a very large amount of work to suddenly feed nearly 20,000 people. After issuing all the orders, the staff officers also began to help the logistics department together with Wang Shuhui.

With more than 500 soldiers and more than 16,000 refugees, can they control the residence? The answer is yes.

When Wang Shuhui led his troops to arrive, four platoons of the 2nd Company of the 10th Battalion, distributed in different positions, not only routed the unidentified armed men who came to attack, but also controlled the victims who were running around in their vicinity. And when Wang Shuhui led the first company of the 10th battalion to arrive, the phalanx of soldiers who were running slowly in unison and rhythmic immediately deterred the victims who were running around.

Under the shouting of the loud horn in the unconscious, the victims soon sat down on the ground honestly, and there were very few people even on the butts of their guns. Uniform uniforms, rifles with bayonets, uniform movements. Such a force is a very great deterrent to the people who have been affected by the disaster.

In fact, the actions of the Renaissance Army not only frightened the victims, but also the landlords of Songzi County, who were hiding on the city wall and secretly observing the situation outside. Many people saw Wang Shuhui leading the troops to come, and their hearts were cold. They were quite apprehensive that they had offended such a powerful person.

When Wang Shuhui and everyone were boiling water in a cauldron and putting salt and sugar in the cauldron. In a large mansion in Songzi County, seven or eight large landowners in Songzi County are complaining to each other.

As a medium-sized county, Songzi County is not very large. And because of the topographical characteristics of six mountains, one water and three fields in Songzi area, the land in Songzi County is not very much. In total, there are only more than 400,000 acres. Of the more than 400,000 mu of land, except for tens of thousands of acres of mountainous land that are cultivated by peasant households scattered in the mountains, most of the land is the property of these seven or eight landlords.

Unlike Ma Songhua, a big landlord born in Zhijiang County, the first big landlord in Songzi County is a Wu family that has been an official for generations and has produced many big names.

The grandfather of Wu Chaozong, the head of the contemporary Wu family, is Wu Wending, a famous minister who once quelled the rebellion with Wang Mingyang during the Zhengde period.

The Wu family has been an official eunuch for generations. Wu Wending's grandfather, Wu Hongdian, once served as the secretary of the Honglu Temple. Wu Wending's father, Wu Xiu, once served as a senator of the Guizhou Political Department of Zhengsanpin. Wu Wending himself, starting from the seven-rank promotion official, all the way from the same knowledge, prefect, according to the inspection envoy, the political envoy, the right deputy capital of the imperial history, the right squire of the military department to the right capital of the imperial history, and finally achieved the military department of Shangshu. In the entire Huguang area, the Songziwu family is also famous.

Although after Wu Wending's death, the descendants of the Wu family did not have much interest. Wu Wending's eldest son, Wu Yike, only took the test to make a name for himself. And Wu Yike's son, Wuwu Chaozong, is even worse at reading, he only took the test to show his fame. However, the family business accumulated over several generations is still very amazing.

Although the Wu family did not have the big "Qing officials" in the Jiajing period, the first assistant of the cabinet, Xu Jie, was so exaggerated, and his family had four or five hundred thousand acres of land. However, the Wu family is still the richest man in Songzi County, monopolizing 110,000 mu of fertile land.

And because Wu Wending used as a civilian official to do military affairs in those years, he not only participated in the counterinsurgency work led by Wang Mingyang against the rebellion against King Ning, but also presided over several encirclement and suppression of rebels in the southwest region. Therefore, the Wu family's family generals are well-known in the entire Jingzhou Mansion.

Wu Chaozong generally did not go to Jingzhou Mansion very much. However, he is clear about the wind and grass in Jingzhou Mansion. Because he himself is a member of the upper echelons of Jingzhou society. Therefore, Wu Chaozong, who lives in Songzi County all the year round, is very clear about what kind of person Wang Shuhui is. He has long hated Wang Shuhui in Linxian County, because the first wife of Ma Songhua, who was killed by Wang Shuhui, was from the Songziwu family.

Wu Chaozong, who pretends to be the crown of the generation, actually looks down on the turtle Ma Songhua very much. However, because he wanted to participate in the sale of illicit salt presided over by Ma Songhua, he pinched his nose and married a distant orphan girl of his family to Ma Songhua and married him.

However, Wu Chaozong just doesn't like Ma Songhua no matter how much, and Ma Songhua is also in-law with him. For this reason alone, it was impossible for him not to hate and dislike Wang Shuhui.

In the year of the catastrophe, the landlords did not have a good time.

This is not to say that the landlords really have no surplus food. But for them, this terrible disaster is not conducive to their usury business.

In a normal year, they would lend usury to the yeoman peasants to pay taxes (Zhang Juzheng was a great offender, engaging in monetary taxes, and making the peasants miserable), and in the second year, they could get the land of the yeoman peasants into their own hands with the interest on the rolling interest.

In the year of the great disaster, the landlords would not lend money to the peasants. First, the price of land at this time was scarce and cheap, and you could buy it directly with silver, or even directly with grain, and you could get the land. The second is that many of the victims will die in the famine, and when that time comes, they will be able to get the land of many dead peasant households into their own hands by directly contacting the officials in the guò county yali to control the zhì themselves.

So, they don't buy and sell at a loss