86_86695 China's feudal society reached its peak in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Institutionally speaking, the level of control of the people by the imperial courts of the Ming and Qing dynasties was quite high.

However, even so, due to the limitation of the level of productivity and the backwardness of science and technology, the regimes of the Ming and Qing dynasties could only be deployed at the county level at most. In fact, until the era of the Republic of China, the main power in China's grassroots society was still the landlords. It's just that because most of the upper-class rulers are from these landlords, the powerful landlords with the support of the upper class have swelled very strictly, so that they have huge power in the grassroots society.

However, if we detach ourselves from the powerful landlords who have the support of the upper class, we can only talk about the power structure of rural China. It can be said clearly with a famous saying of the old man Mao, that is, "political power comes out of the barrel of a gun".

In fact, even in modern China, in the countryside, people with large populations, many brothers, and powerful people are easy to talk to in the villages. In the circulation of land in the rural areas and in the use of mobile land, the primitive law of whoever has the greatest fist will get more benefits, and whoever has the greatest power will be able to speak easily.

When faced with contradictions in the villages, the township and town governments still pay attention to a policy of "putting stability first", and the people do not hold officials accountable, and if the people do, the officials will still be pressed.

However, in the process of national industrialization, industry is constantly feeding and dissolving agriculture. Agriculture, the countryside and the peasants have become less important, and they are no longer important classes that can be involved in the life and death of the country.

Under these circumstances, Wang Shuhui distributed land to tenant farmers in the Jingzhou area and recruited serfs under the local tyrants and inferior gentry everywhere, although he severely harmed the interests of the landlords and powerful people in the Jingzhou area. In essence, it was a direct provocation to the feudal land system and the foundation of the landlord class.

However, because of Wang Shuhui's status as the son-in-law of the county prince and the guest of honor of the county lord, because although Wang Shuhui's approach was out of line, he still did not openly rebel, and in the method of plundering the land, he adopted the unspoken rules that everyone followed. This makes incumbent officials like Miao Weichang and Bao Huizan scratch their heads.

Miao Weichang and Bao Huizan both knew that for a clan nobleman like Wang Shuhui, who had an impression of the emperor and had a relationship with the Nanjing garrison eunuchs, it would never work to directly charge him with rebellion and send troops to arrest people. You don't see that whether Miao Wei often sends personal soldiers to Zhang Tianlu, or Bao Huizan sends Jinyi guards to Zhang Tianlu, they all take the secret road. No one dares to do things under the official brand in a big way?

Not to mention that Wang Shuhui, the son-in-law of the county king who has a relationship and a way, is an ordinary clan, and he is also related to all the vassal kings. They didn't kill officials, and they didn't attack the city. You say people rebelled, where is the evidence. Will the relatives of other feudal kings be left to you local officials?

As for a clan like Wang Shuhui with people on top, you can't treat it casually. You have a backer, and others have a backer. Your backer is the official department, and the backer of others is in the inner court. Once you arrest someone, they will pass a message to the Emperor of Heaven and poke the matter out. It is likely that the Emperor of Heaven will personally intervene.

The Emperor of Heaven is likely to say, "Isn't this the son-in-law of the Zhijiang Wang family who gave me a Western treasure mirror and Western crystal utensils, what's the matter, bring me the fold to see." ”

Once the emperor wants to see the twists and turns, the fathers-in-law in the inner court who have received the benefits of Wang Shuhui don't even have to help King Zhijiang's side. As long as they answered the emperor truthfully, then the commander of the guard post of a state capital and the thousands of households of the Jinyi Wei in a place dared to arrest the son-in-law of a vassal king, the county lord of honor who was personally appointed by the Son of Wanli Tianzi, without any order from his superiors and without the will of the imperial court.

Don't say it's a figure like you who are two domestic slaves of the Ministry of Justice. Even the elder Ge's own son can't escape the punishment of the emperor of heaven.

Therefore, what everyone can do now is to follow the rules like Wang Shuhui. What is this rule, that is, everyone does not follow the official path and acts according to their own forces. Your fist is big, and you can speak. The more people you can call, the more territory you have. If you have the ability, you can directly destroy people like Wang Shuhui killed Ma Songhua and burned Zhang Tianlu.

Speaking of which, in the countryside of the Ming Dynasty, most of the landlords and heroes still took this road. Of course, those vassal kings, nobles, and high-ranking officials of the ministry and the court, people don't know how to make blood, and they break their heads and bleed. In modern parlance, people are people within the system. The legal rules of the Ming Dynasty were formulated around people. They are supported by the state as a thug.

But the ordinary landlords and gentry followed the basic line. This led to the fact that the countryside of the Ming Dynasty was full of fortress-like buildings built by the squires. Every family keeps a family and secretly recruits manpower. Even some bold landlords and powerful people directly cultivated manpower and disguised themselves as bandits and bandits. Or those with less power will directly collude with those genuine bandits and bandits.

In fact, the Ma Songhua family, which was slaughtered by Wang Shuhui, was the most standard form of the rural gentry in the Ming Dynasty.

Especially from the forty-sixth year of Wanli, after the imperial court began to collect Liao salaries. This situation is even stricter.

Everyone understands the bureaucracy. Just like before the three rural issues were solved by the state. The imperial court only levied an additional nine cents of silver per acre of land. Below, the provincial side may become an additional nine cents of silver per mu. Below, the state government may become an additional nine coins of silver per mu. Below, the county may become an additional nine taels of silver per mu. Then to the tolerance of the officials, the convertible energy of each mu is ten taels and dozens of taels.

It was from the 46th year of Wanli that the imperial court imposed a levy on Liao, and under the collusion of landlords and bureaucrats, the yeoman farmers of the Ming Dynasty began to go bankrupt on a large scale. The problem of land annexation is intensifying. In the end, there was the rise of Li Zicheng.

In the past few years, the landlords and gentry, no matter how dull they are, have also discovered that now is the best time to annex and plunder the land. Under this general understanding, the social situation in the late Ming Dynasty deteriorated rapidly. On the one hand, land was rapidly concentrated in the hands of a few. On the other hand, under the influence of the climate of the Xiaoice River, natural and man-made disasters broke out together, and all kinds of rebels and all kinds of bandits and thieves flocked to it. They colluded with those local tyrants and shoddy gentry and were unscrupulous. The phenomenon of the inferior gentry expelling the good gentry is staged everywhere in China.

Wang Shuhui's approach in Zhijiang County seems to be a little cruel and tyrannical. However, what Wang Shuhui did was what all the feudal ruling class and all the vested interests of the Ming Dynasty were doing. You say that people are illegal, you say that people are dirty, are you just a clean person?

Actually, there are no clean people. It is those self-proclaimed Donglin Party members who scold the emperor and the court every day, and while they are not wantonly annexing land to raise serfs, they also have to meddle in commerce and trade, and even collude with those so-called maritime and actual pirates to carry out smuggling trade on a large scale.

Therefore, what Wang Shuhui did was not out of line. When someone divides the land on his own land, it is because he has a problem with his head, and it is not someone else's business. It's just that as an emerging force, as the son-in-law of a little-known, inconspicuous little county king in a remote area, everyone is not used to seeing him occupying land, selling illegal salt, and running various businesses.

If you want to say that what people do is a rebellion, all the officials and gentry and landlords and clan nobles under the sky are rebelling.

Therefore, the controversy between Miao Weichang's family in Jingzhou Wei became more and more intense. However, whether it was Miao Weichang, the supreme commander of the armed forces in the Jingzhou region, or Bao Huizan, the head of the Jingzhou regional secret service, or the thousands of households and their relatives brought by Bao Huizan, everyone also understood in their hearts that to deal with Wang Shuhui, they had to come secretly and follow the unspoken rules.

As everyone's discussion deepened, everyone's opinions became more and more unified. As for Wang Shuhui, it is necessary to use real force to solve the problem. Miao Weichang and Bao Huizan also know that for Wang Shuhui, they can only find ways to kill him secretly without leaving a trace.

At this point, everyone also understands that in the case of not being able to use official means, everyone still returns to the traditional method of solving problems with fists and knives and guns, and the law of the jungle.

However, there are still many problems with using this method. Bao Huizan and those thousands of powerful people don't know, but Miao Weichang, the person concerned, clearly knows that the power in Wang Shuhui's hands is not weak.

As the commander of the first-level guard post in the mainland, Miao Weichang has the armed forces directly under his control, which is his own family. To tell the truth, although Miao Weichang is not a hereditary military attaché, he is a small scholar. However, he also belongs to the kind of military attache who has more ideals. Then don't underestimate the background of the little scholar. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the famous armed separatist force, the murderous demon king Zuo Liangyu, was the scholar of the Hubu Shangshu Hou Sui during the period of Emperor Chongzhen.

Although Miao Weichang is just Zhang Wenda's scholar, he is also a scholar with ideals and ambitions. When he was a child, Miao Weichang, an armed scholar who liked to practice martial arts, admired Qi Jiguang and Qi's grandfather the most. After borrowing the power of his master Zhang Wenda to become a military attaché, he also specially invited a reader to explain to him the "New Book of Ji Xiao" written by Qi Jiguang.

Although, in the environment of the late Ming Dynasty, Miao Wei often did not have the conditions to train a Qi family army by himself. However, Miao Weichang, who served as the commander of the guard post in the Taiping Realm, did not practice a dozen or so and dozens of family members like other military attaches in the inland areas. Instead, he specially searched for "talents", and he bleed heavily, and made out more than 200, nearly 300 family members. These 300 family members enjoy Miao Weichang's personal worship. Not to mention eating, drinking, and dressing, even the level of training and equipment can also reach the level of the border army.

You must know that because of the Battle of Banzhou twenty years ago, the imperial court also called many guards in the Jingzhou area. So in Jingzhou Weili, there are one or two hundred strong soldiers who have been on the battlefield, killed the Tusi soldiers of Miao Territory, and walked through the sea of blood in the corpse mountain. Miao Wei often made a lot of effort to recruit these people into his family.

However, in Miao Weichang's eyes, this kind of family member who can be comparable to the northern border army sent out more than 100 people, and there is not even a single one to come back. Miao Wei often felt that Wang Shuhui must have a lot of those mountain bandits under Ma Songhua's command to work for him. Moreover, the number of people in Wang Shuhui's hands is at least not less than 500. Otherwise, we can't kill all the top 100 people in the army.

However, Miao Wei is often not ready to say this. On the one hand, he was afraid that if this kind of thing was made public, it would smear the face of his commander. On the other hand, he also saw that Jinyi Wei Qianhu Bao Huizan harbored evil intentions and wanted to push himself to the front to top the thunder.

What's more, Miao Wei often knows that these five thousand households have always been disrespectful to him before. The reason is that everyone is a hereditary military attaché, and they look down on their boss, who was born as a small scholar. He wished that they were unlucky, how could he remind them