86_86695 "The enemy will not destroy itself. Neither the reactionaries within the Han nation nor the invading forces of foreign nationalities will withdraw from the stage of history on their own. ”

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

For the landlords, the biggest problem in the year of the catastrophe was the rebellion of the victims. The experienced local tyrants and gentry knew that even with the protection of the landlord's compound with high walls and deep ditches, angry and desperate ordinary people would fill in the deep ditches with their bodies and break down the high walls.

The landlords' solution to this problem was to transfer all their food and property to their houses in the county town at the beginning of the disaster. They are to use the county seat as a talisman to protect them through the early stages of the disaster.

After that, they will wait quietly for all the victims to die of hunger and despair, and finally go to harvest their land.

We Chinese have a mantra, which is "since ancient times". "Since ancient times", mercenary people have seized the opportunity to plunder profits. The landlord class in feudal society was the same.

In fact, not to mention the ancient feudal society, even in the modern society, once there is a major disaster, it is difficult to make a fortune and go abroad to be difficult to name.

Under the leadership of Wu Chaozong, the landlord gang in Songzi County had already made up their minds and was ready to make a fortune in this great drought and further expand their land. Then, Wang Shuhui, who was famous for his land grabbing and brutal methods, suddenly appeared in Songzi County, which made it impossible for them not to react violently.

Of course, Wu Chaozong's deliberate promotion also played at least a third of the role.

"Duke Wu, who knew that Wang Peeling actually had such means, even the generals of Duke Wu's family couldn't resist it. How can we be good if we offend this killing god? Wu Gong, you are the leader of the Songzi gentry, you have to speak! ”

The person who spoke was Zhao Wannian. Zhao Wannian's ancestor was born as a businessman, and after making a lot of money in business, he returned to his hometown in Songzi and bought a lot of fields. The Songzi Zhao family, while being the owner, continued to engage in business. By Zhao Wannian's generation, the Zhao family's land had more than 70,000 acres. Half of the main big shops in Songzi County belong to his family.

Zhao Wannian and Wang Shuhui also have a feud. The hatred between him and Wang Shuhui lies in the support of the Renaissance Society for the Zhijiang Business Alliance. This is because while the Zhijiang Business Alliance has set up its own factories, it can also obtain a large number of low-cost products from the factories of the Fuxing Association. This makes the Zhijiang Business Alliance's destructive power against local individual businessmen very huge.

Zhao Wannian's shop is mainly based on buying the products of local small craftsmen for sale. Therefore, his family's goods, whether in price or quality, could not compete with the industrial products sold by the Zhijiang Business Alliance. Because of this reason, last year alone, half of Zhao Wannian's store pù closed down.

Zhao Wannian is a well-informed person, and he knows that the Zhijiang Business Alliance is supported by Wang Shuhui's revival society. The Renaissance Association not only provides low-priced commodities to the Zhijiang Business Alliance, but also provides technical support and financial support for the Zhijiang Business Alliance. The treatment enjoyed by the Zhijiang Business Alliance in the Fuxing Society made Zhao Wannian, who also wanted to buy goods from the Fuxing Society, very jealous.

Among the landlords in the entire Songzi County, Zhao Wannian is the second person who wants to deal with Wang Shuhui in addition to Wu Chaozong, who has a personal vendetta against Wang Shuhui.

In his heart, Zhao Wannian had a wishful thinking that could not be made public. In his mind, once Wang Shuhui and Wu Chaozong became a fire and water, and the gentlemen of the entire Songzi County fought against Wang Shuhui together, then Wang Shuhui would definitely need someone to help make peace. At that time, I will be able to take on the role of peace from it.

In this way, Wang Shuhui owes him a favor, and he can rely on it and enjoy the same treatment as the Zhijiang Business Alliance in the Fuxing Society.

Therefore, seeing that everyone always thought that they were "invincible in the world", the Wu family Ding who was trained by Mr. Yang Ming's method, was easily defeated by the Revival Army, Zhao Wannian was the most panicked.

Wu Chaozong listened to Zhao Wannian's words, and his heart was slightly proud.

In Songzi County, the Zhao family, who was regarded by Wu Chaozong as a businessman who was full of copper smell, was the only one who disagreed with the Wu family's Songzi leader's status. The family has made a lot of money by doing business, and Zhao Wannian, who has very strong economic strength, has always criticized the Wu family as an empty official. Because neither Wu Chaozong nor his father achieved the fame of Jinshi, Zhao Wannian made a lot of mockery of Wu Chaozong's self-proclaimed crowned family, either explicitly or implicitly.

Although Wu Chaozong, who had seen the strong performance of the Fuxing Army, was also very apprehensive in his heart, he didn't want to lose face in front of the Songzi gentry who he had always looked down on. Therefore, he took a sip of tea lightly, and pretended to be safe and said to the local gentry who were talking about it: "It's Wang Shuhui's family who has great ability, so what!" The inspection of this county is out of my house. The city defense of Songzi City is in our hands. Wang Shuhui has great power, and he dares to break through the city wall! ”

Seeing a group of shrunken gentry, he calmed down. Wu Chaozong continued: "You don't know that you don't often go to Jingzhou Mansion. Zhang Tongzhi, who is close to my family in Jingzhou Mansion, has already told me that this Wang Shuhui is a guy with a dog's head and horns and a backbone in his brain. This fang is the best at encouraging untouchables to do things. As long as we don't go out of the county, we will firmly grasp the money and food in our hands. Wang Shuhui just collected the tens of thousands of disaster victims in his hands, what can he do to feed them and ensure that there will be no chaos? ”

After listening to Wu Chaozong's words, the Songzi gentry, who were still a little panicked, were completely relieved. Yes, in the entire Songzi County, whether it is money or food, it is in the hands of the eight people here. Even the successive county magistrates of the county have to act according to everyone's faces. As long as everyone sits firmly in the county seat, they don't need to take action by themselves, and tens of thousands of people's food consumption can eat Wang Shuhui down. When the time comes, in order to stabilize people's hearts, Wang Shuhui will not have to ask for them.

Wu Chaozong was a little happy when he saw the gentry regain their fat bellies.

While he was happy, he told everyone his plan: "Hehe, everyone's peace of mind now." In fact, Wang Shuhui's ramming is still too tender. Each county has a fixed amount of grain. Even if he stabilized the fields in Zhijiang County, it would only be able to support in Zhijiang County. The people of Zhijiang will never go hungry and give food to the untouchables in the county to eat. ”

"Everyone, just sit firmly on the Diaoyutai and wait until Wang Shuhui tosses the little grain in his hand and asks for us."

"Still, you'll have to hold on. In such a year of great calamity, if we don't make a fortune, wouldn't we be ashamed of our hard work. Hahahaha! ”

"Hahahaha." In response, the other seven gentry let out a smug laugh.

Under normal circumstances, it cannot be said that what Wu Chaozong said was wrong. In an era when industry could not feed back agriculture, even in a normal year, the food produced in each region could only meet local demand. This is a characteristic of agricultural production in ancient times. Especially at the end of a feudal dynasty where the population developed to the limit. The carrying capacity of land for the population has reached a bottleneck stage.

Under normal circumstances, when the carrying capacity of land reaches the upper limit of population development, the inherent contradictions of feudal land ownership itself will lead to the outbreak of peasant uprisings. This was exactly the case in the last years of the Ming Dynasty.

In a sense, not only the gentry of Songzi County, but also the feudal landlord class of the entire Ming Dynasty were very unlucky. Because, they met Wang Shuhui, who does not belong to this time and space, but has mastered scientific and social theories, and has a humanoid Doraemon with any door.

Not to mention that Wang Shuhui can return to modern society at any time through the gate of time and space, and use the huge amount of money he earned from selling antiques, ores, gold and silver to buy all kinds of food and commodities at will. In Zhijiang County, which they thought could only support local consumption, the Fuxing Society had mastered a huge amount of locally produced grain because of the high-yield crops promoted by Wang Shuhui in the base villages and the high-priced grain collection policy adopted by the Fuxing Society.

The gentry of Songzi County did not know that before Wang Shuhui arrived in Songzi County, the countdown to their demise had already begun. Those small landlords and yeoman farmers who only have a dozen acres of land at home still have a way to live, but these eight top gentry who control more than 10,000 acres of fertile land have long been blacklisted in Wang Shuhui's heart.

Before arriving in Songzi County, Wang Shuhui was also a little shaken by his plan to destroy the landlords who refused to be transformed into capitalist industrialists and businessmen because of the view pointed out by the think tank of modern society that "the land contradictions in the Ming Dynasty did not necessarily have to be resolved by the methods of the agrarian revolution".

However, when he heard the staff officer report to him about the cause of the riots outside Songzi County, Wang Shuhui reaffirmed his determination to eliminate the landlords.

"Why are reactionaries reactionary? Have you thought about this question? During the dinner commentary, Wang Shuhui said to the cadres of the ninth and tenth battalions.

Seeing that there was no reaction from his family, Wang Shuhui sighed in his heart, this revolutionary enlightenment thing is really not very easy to do.

In fact, Wang Shuhui also knows that it is easy for people to join the revolutionary party, but it is difficult for people to become revolutionaries.

"After an investigation by the intelligence department, it was the conspiracy of the local landlords in Songzi County to suddenly attack our soldiers, sabotage our army's disaster relief work, and lead more than 400 poor brothers and sisters to die in the accident.

Hearing this, the soldiers who were sitting upright at the simple dining table began to get excited.

Seeing everyone's feelings, Wang Shuhui continued: "Comrades, the reason why reactionaries are reactionaries is that they completely disregard the interests of the people and are bent on plotting for their own interests. They have no regard for the lives and deaths of the common people! It is for this reason that reactionaries are reactionaries. We, the Revival Society, want to eliminate reactionary revolutionaries like Yiqiē! ”。