86_86695“…… Bandits are completely different from ...... bandits. …… The thieves make good use of the method of coercion, and the Hubei bandits make good use of the method of kidnapping....... When the minister returned to his hometown to study when he was the emperor, he heard that the children of the people of Jingzhou had been kidnapped by Hubei bandits. …… The people of Jingzhou ......, and they were all accused of ...... bandits. ”

- 1640 A.D., Yang Sichang, "The Bandits Are More Harmful than the Thieves"

At the end of July, the long-stemmed carnata (high-yielding corn brought by Wang Shuhui) outside the house was basically ripe and could be harvested in a few days. Looking carefully at the wheat on the periphery of the field, and seeing that each plant grew as strong as a small tree, Hu Dacheng felt a special sense of satisfaction in his heart.

Hujiawa was originally a place where rice was mainly cultivated. Moreover, when he planted rice, his family only had two acres of land, and Hu Dacheng, who was mainly planted on tenant land, would not actually care about the crops as much as he does now.

This was only after a group of strong young men broke into Hujiawa the year before last, and Hu Dacheng was given 33 acres of land according to the number of seven members of his family, making up the total number of 35 acres of land because of the large population of his family.

has no relatives and no reason, and it is a group of young descendants from other towns, who are killing people when they enter the village, and then they make a public trial meeting like a temple fair, and they make a big family here in Hujiawan. As a 52-year-old "old man", Hu Dacheng's first reaction was to be afraid.

Even later, the young descendants of the working group gave him land, and he was terrified to death. If someone gives something for no reason, anyone will feel abnormal in their hearts, let alone give land, one or dozens of acres.

Land is a good thing, as a farming expert, Hu Dacheng dreams of becoming a "big landlord" with dozens of acres of land. However, this land giving for no reason is completely unbelievable and unreasonable. Hu Dacheng, who was assigned to the ground, did not have a sense of joy in his heart.

Hu Dacheng, who has always been cautious, has been conscientiously planting the more than 30 acres of land for free for a year, and at the same time, he has been thinking all day and night that this land may not fall into his hands in the end.

However, in the end, except for the output reported by Hu Dacheng at the end of the year, the working group really only collected three layers of grain, and the grain he had grown in more than 30 acres of land in the past year really belonged to him.

determined that the descendants of the working group were Hu Dacheng, who really had no bad intentions, and his first reaction was not to be happy, but to pat his thigh with regret.

Because he knew that there were a few families in the same village who had become militiamen, and they planted long-stemmed wheat issued by the working group. For those who grow long-stemmed catrace, last year's harvest exceeded 1,000 catties per mu (the city catties stipulated by the revival association). But Hu Dacheng is still planting rice as before. The harvest of two crops of rice is not as high as the harvest of one season of long-stemmed wheat.

All the grain in the village was collected by the place called the supply and marketing cooperative. The price given by the supply and marketing cooperatives is very good, and the careful Hu Dacheng has inquired, and it is more than 20 yuan more than the price given by the grain merchants in the county. The price of the wheat harvested by the supply and marketing cooperatives is the same as the price of rice. In this way, the annual income of his family is more than half of that of those who grow long-stemmed caram.

Seeing that next to his house, Hu Laowu's family, who planted two seasons of long-stemmed caravan last year, bought a few catties of meat for the New Year. The red-eyed Hu Dacheng scolded in his heart for half a night. When he saw that at the beginning of the year, when Hu Laowu's family began to build a new house and a big house, Hu Dacheng cursed in his heart and swore that this year he would kneel and kowtow, and he would also buy the long-pole wheat of the working group to plant.

Hu Dacheng didn't need to kneel and kowtow, in the spring of 1621, not only his family bought the seeds of long-stemmed caram, but all the families in the village could buy long-stem caravan seeds. On the contrary, the family of the militia who planted long-stemmed carrot last year did not plant long-stemmed carrot this year, but took their own good field and planted sweet potatoes for nothing.

Hu Dacheng didn't have the heart to wonder if there was anything new in this. Now he is fully concerned that the working group will be able to do the talk, and that the price of grain this year will be as high as last year.

In fact, Hu Dacheng's family income last year was the highest in his more than 50 years of life. In 1920, Hu Dacheng's 35 acres of land were planted with rice, and the combined yield of the two seasons in the morning and evening reached a little more than four stones per mu (nearly 600 catties now). The supply and marketing cooperatives purchased rice 20 yuan higher than the market price, reaching a price of 650 wen yuan per stone. In addition to the public grain handed over to the working group for the third layer of grain, Hu Dacheng sold all his grain to the supply and marketing cooperatives.

The supply and marketing cooperatives paid for the fine silver dollars made by the Renaissance Society. Hu Dacheng's rice was sold for a total of 63 silver dollars, making it the highest-paid family in Hujiawa Village last year, except for militia families.

Therefore, in fact, Hu Dacheng has no need to envy and blush other people's families at all.

Although Hu Dacheng is a relatively calculating, very small-minded old man. But he had a mirror in his heart. He also knew that he was able to earn a full sixty-three "taels" of silver last year, which was all thanks to the blessings of the Revival Society. On the one hand, it is because the revival of the people will give him land, and the tax is surprisingly low, as long as three layers of grain; On the other hand, it is because the purchase price of the supply and marketing cooperatives of the Renren Revival Association is high, which is a full 20 yuan higher than the market price.

If it were calculated according to the tenant rent and national tax of previous years, it would be good if his sixty-three taels of silver could really fall into one-tenth of his hand. That is without counting the interest owed to the Lord's family every year on usury, and the expenses of renting cattle and borrowing money from the Lord's family to buy seeds. If you count these, it means that your own tenants have really planted 35 acres of land, and it would be good to be able to eat a full stomach. In the end, not only will there be no income, but I am afraid it will become an arrears.

The 63 silver dollars that Hu Dacheng's family earned last year, if you look at the silver content of each silver dollar, each silver dollar is actually not as much as one or two silver dollars at all. However, in terms of purchasing power, one silver dollar of the Revival Society is something that can be bought at a market price of one tael of silver in the supply and marketing cooperatives of the Renaissance Society, and can be spent as one tael of silver.

To give a simple example, in the middle and late Wanli period, the market price of rice was one tael of silver and one stone. If you want to buy a stone of rice in the market with a silver dollar from the Revival Society, you will definitely not be able to buy it. However, if you take this silver dollar and buy it at the grain store in the county seat of the Fuxing Society or the supply and marketing cooperatives in the base villages of the Fuxing Society, you will definitely be able to buy a stone of rice.

In fact, the issuance of money by the Revival Society is the simplest process of obtaining seigniorage. It's just that this truth is currently only known to Wang Shuhui and a few relatively intelligent cadres of the Fuxing Society's Trade Office.

Anyway, for Hu Dacheng, a silver dollar of the Revival Society is one or two silver. At the beginning of this year, he used silver dollars to buy a lot of things in the supply and marketing cooperative. In addition to some daily necessities such as firewood, rice, oil and salt, he also bought a lot of shiny white iron farming tools used by militia families, which he has always coveted.

These things, whether they are daily necessities such as salt and cloth, or all kinds of sturdy and sharp agricultural tools, all the goods sold by the supply and marketing cooperatives are much cheaper than the market price. Moreover, the quality of these goods is obviously better than similar products on the market. At least, just for the farm tools, Hu Dacheng has never seen anything better than this in his life.

It is precisely for this reason that Hu Dacheng, who does not have any economic knowledge, feels that the money of the Revival Society is very resistant to flowers.

Just as Hu Dacheng was sitting at the door of his house, carefully fiddling with those farm tools. Suddenly, his wife, Sister Tuesday, hurriedly ran back.

Because his family was poor, Hu Dacheng married his daughter-in-law at the age of 26. His daughter-in-law, Sister Zhou, is a famous ugly girl in the next village, and she can't get married in her twenties. Hu Dacheng's family is poor, but he is a good job at farm work. It is for this reason that the second sister, whose family background is okay, was called by Old Man Zhou and married Hu Dacheng, who only has two acres of land in the family.

To be honest, Hu Dacheng doesn't like his wife very much. Of course, he didn't dislike Tuesday's sister because of her looks. "Ugly wife is close to the treasure of the family", Hu Dacheng understands this truth very well. He doesn't like his wife, that's because Sister Tuesday belongs to that kind of long-tongued woman. When this woman has nothing to do, she likes to get together with the women of the village to discuss some minor matters in the family.

People like Hu Dacheng who work inherently believe that all the energy and time should be put into work. In the past, his own two acres of paddy fields were the best fields that were taken care of in the entire Hujiawa village. Whenever he had time, he would run to the fields to wait for the crops, and would never gossip like everyone else.

Hu Dacheng is not the kind of person who likes to beat his wife. But it's really on fire, how can a man in ancient society not beat his wife. However, Tuesday's belly was particularly competitive. In the past ten years, she has given birth to nine children to Hu Dacheng like a piglet, five of which have stood on the ground. Based on this alone, no matter how much he doesn't like his wife Ermei's long-tongued woman's character, Hu Dacheng has to endure his anger.

Last year's good harvest seems to have brought a lot of confidence to Tuesday Mei. In this year's slack period after the planting of long-pole catacus, Tuesday Mei was away from home almost every day during the day, and talked with the women of the village everywhere about her wife's tongue.

Hu Dacheng found that it may be because his family has land, money in his purse, and the grain hoard is full of grain. My temper has gotten a lot better this year. If his wife had been so unscrupulous and arrogant in the village in previous years, he would have beaten that mother-in-law with a heavy hand.

Looking at his wife unhappily, Hu Dacheng frowned and asked, "Whose house did you go to again?" This ghost looks, have you seen a ghost outside! ”

"Isn't it a hell of a housekeeper? The nephew of the old man Hu's family who was hanged the year before last, the wife of Zhao Baiyan who lived in the east of the village, said that the eldest man named Wang Shizun in Zhijiang City had made a will. It is said that the children of every village, as long as they are under the age of fifteen and over the age of five, must be sent to the palace to study. The children from the next village have been picked up. Except for the eldest in our family, the others are all under the age of fifteen and over the age of five. What should I do? ”

After Hu Dacheng heard the news, his first reaction was to be stunned, and then he immediately said, "What are you doing with those useful and useless wives' tongues." Say something that doesn't make sense. Hurry up and cook for me. The eldest sister (the name of Hu Dacheng's eldest daughter) had already washed the potatoes and hurriedly stewed them. ”

The psychology of smallholder farmers is characterized by the fact that farmers attach great importance to the money in their hands. Don't look at how much rice Hu Dacheng's family planted last year. However, he didn't keep any rice in his hands, and all of it was exchanged for money. After that, he chose the cheapest potatoes in the supply and marketing cooperatives as his family's rations.

The reason why Hu Dacheng brought the topic to cooking was that he subconsciously wanted to be able to maintain the image of the head of his family as "not surprised". In fact, Hu Dacheng was a little flustered on the one hand, and a little down-to-earth on the other.

In the eyes of Hu Dacheng, an honest and responsible farmer, there should be no such thing as pie in the sky. Even the truly good people have never done good deeds for no reason. The purpose of building bridges and repairing roads is to accumulate virtue for themselves.

Ordinary small wealthy people are like that. What's more, the one mentioned every day in the mouths of the descendants of the working group is as rich and honorable as a god, and the emperor Lao Tzu is still close to the king master and the eldest master. People are not your own father, why should they give you the land for nothing, and only charge three layers of imperial grain and national taxes.

According to Hu Dacheng's life experience over the past decades, everything in the world is related to cause and effect. The word cause and effect, although he had heard it from a wandering monk. But Hu Dacheng felt very reasonable. A cause and effect will exhaust the truth of the world.

In his mind, Master Wang must have some purpose for being so good to everyone. Or like fattening pigs, ready to fatten everyone and then slaughter, or some other purpose. Although his own family is poor, and even his own bad life is not a valuable thing, he definitely doesn't want to take advantage of the noble lord in vain.

Originally, last year, seeing that the working group was talking about it, the imperial grain was only collected in three layers. Even when the whole village was out of the village to do the work of repairing the canals, the working group also took out real grain and copper money to pay for labor (a new word that Hu Dacheng learned from the working group). Hu Dacheng also secretly had some luck mentality.

Now I hear the news that the revival will take the children away. On the one hand, Hu Dacheng felt a little heartache, and on the other hand, he felt that this was a normal truth. People give you land, collect your grain at a high price, and pay you wages, all these benefits are "causes". If you want to take away your children under the age of fifteen and over the age of five, this is the "fruit". There is no truth in the world that can escape "cause and effect".

Three days later, except for some "masters" like Hu Dacheng, who could understand the so-called "cause and effect" and honestly accept their fate, and most of the people who had always been afraid of the guns of the working group, they all allowed their children to be pulled away by the four-wheeled carriage sent by the Revival Society. A few families, especially some families who are wealthy and have been scholars, have made a fuss.

At this time, the presidents of the peasant associations in the base villages, not knowing what was going on, seemed to have found the focus of their work at once. They all remembered the working methods of the village chiefs and grain chiefs who used to be in charge of collecting imperial grain in the countryside, and took out things like mallets and leather whips to beat up the troublemakers.

The presidents of the peasant associations in the villages, such a tossing and turning that did not conform to the principles of the revival associations really had the effect of not doing anything, and helped the working group to pull away a lot of hatred.

Fortunately, the families who dare to make trouble in various villages belong to the kind of rich families who like to eat more and occupy more, and people are annoyed. Therefore, this kind of violent method that Wang Shuhui has always opposed, because there is no backlash, has not been noticed by Wang Shuhui.

In this way, more than 3,000 children over the age of five and under fifteen in more than 40 base villages (with the increasing number of "bandits" of the Fuxing Army) were gathered in Wangfu Town by the Fuxing Association.

Unconsciously, some scholars in Zhijiang County began to create rumors that the Zhijiang Palace, using children as hostages, and kidnapping people to do hard labor.

Speaking of which, this thing really has a nose and an eye.

Outsiders saw that Wang Shuhui was opening a mine again; It's another way to build a factory. is also a breadwinner (the Renaissance Army); It is also the opening of new fields (revival society state farms). It is also raising chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep (Fuxing Association farm); It's the opening of the shop again. and to build a house; It's alchemy again (Fuxing Society Chemical Factory). I also do the thankless task of building roads and planting trees everywhere. In addition, a railway road (a railway of the nature of the Fuxing Society) was built.

They feel that according to Wang Shuhui's tossing method, they have tens of thousands of family fortunes and occupy countless fields. I can't help but toss him like this.

The ancients of the Ming Dynasty, especially the scholars in the feudal ruling class, actually did not see any revolutionary intentions of Wang Shuhui at all.

In their eyes, Wang Shuhui is the kind of feudal royal clan who is rich and powerful, and does things domineeringly. After all, Wang Shuhui was engaged in the agrarian revolution, and that was also done on his own land after he used the illegal means of "bullying and persecution" to make other people's land his own.

Not to mention Wang Shuhui, a vassal royal clan. It's just an ordinary lifter, you ask the people around them, who dares to sell land casually. There are only two ways for the surrounding people to go, either they will sell the land at a low price to those who raise people and jinshi, or they will bite the bullet and endure the constant insults and bullying of the people and jinshi, and farm the land by themselves.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, which person was not a large landlord with tens of thousands of acres of fertile land. (Yan Song is known for being greedy, while Xu Jie is known for being incorruptible.) As an "incorruptible official", Xu Jie, however, has more than 400,000 acres of land. Hai Rui, who was the governor of Yingtian at the time, was also amazed and said to the Xu family: "The number of industries is amazing. In fact, their land was also obtained by all kinds of illegal means.

A qiē means can be used in land grabbing. In fact, this is the norm in the last days of the feudal dynasty, and it is an "unspoken rule" that the ruling class knows and even secretly supports.

Although Wang Shuhui's methods are a little violent, he is still following this "unspoken rule".

Other people, those who have the vested interests of the feudal ruling class who have not taken advantage, can only pinch their noses, blush, and create some rumors such as "the Zhijiang Wangfu uses the children of the people as hostages, and the people are controlled by Wang Shuhui, and engage in some deviant ways, labor and money."

In fact, in their hearts is a kind of "envy, jealousy, and hatred" that they can't wait to replace themselves