Chapter 55: The End of Ma Xiancheng 7
86_86695No matter how scientific and correct the theoretical ideas are, they are not as impressive as the interests of reality.
Wang Shuhui knew that it was very unrealistic and even absurd to propagate and promote modern ideas in the era when the feudal system was at its peak nearly 400 years ago.
Therefore, he fully realized that he wanted to transform the feudal society and promote the development of China in a more progressive direction. Then, the policies he formulated and the ideas he propagated must be truly integrated with the vital interests of ordinary people.
The basis for the existence of groups, political parties, and organizations is that they must first have a common program that unites their members within them.
However, merely representing the common interests of the members of the group itself can only guarantee the survival of the organization. For this organization to grow, it must represent the practical interests of a section of society.
Of course, this organization can represent the interests of the overwhelming majority of society. For their interests, to represent their interests, to fight for their interests. It can also represent the interests of a small group of people. For their interests, to represent their interests, to fight for their interests.
Before the world entered the age of industrialization, before the development of productive forces to the age of steam. Although the distribution of interests in the whole society is clear on the whole, it is a complicated situation in the details of the specific distribution of interests.
For example, in the attitude towards the existing Ming Dynasty. Because the realization of state taxation is realistic, to the detriment of the interests of all taxpayers. Therefore, whether it is the landlords, bureaucrats, and scholars who are themselves in the superstructure of feudal society, or ordinary people, poor peasants and hired peasants, they all have the same interest tendency. That is, to oppose the taxes and levies of the imperial court.
However, in the face of the same difficulties, the measures taken by the two are very different.
The vested interests of the feudal landlords and bureaucrats could rely on their social position in the feudal dynasty to pass on their own taxes and levies to the common people and poor peasants. In this way, in the attitude towards the feudal dynasty, the whole Chinese society was divided. The conflict between the bureaucracy and the big landowners on the one hand, and the common people, on the other, was a long-term one.
All the common people and the poor peasants want to have no tax at all, or that they can pay less. The landlords and bureaucrats, who were themselves part of the ruling class of the feudal dynasty, thought that it was enough to pass on the damage and ensure their own interests.
So, in the final analysis, even those good squires who have a good reputation are, in fact, exploiters and oppressors in the skin of kindness. While plundering and oppressing the poor hired peasants, they made the move of building bridges and paving roads, and indeed seemed to be good gentry and good people. However, they themselves are not engaged in actual productive activities, they themselves do not create the real value of a penny, and their wealth is realized by exploitation. They built bridges and paved roads, still using the wealth they had exploited from the poor hired peasants.
Wang Shuhui knew the essence and truth of feudal society, and all he had to do was to win the support of the oppressed and exploited toiling masses in the majority of society. He wants to focus on and fight for their interests and unite them in and around his group.
Proceeding from the Chinese people's nature of seeking truth from facts, only Wang Shuhui can realize their practical interests and gain their support. After that, when they realized that Wang Shuhui was indeed the person who represented their interests, they were able to trust Wang Shuhui, approve of Wang Shuhui, and support Wang Shuhui.
Only if they believe in Wang Shuhui can Wang Shuhui educate them and tell them the truth about this feudal system. Only then can we lead them to build a more advanced and progressive industrialized New China.
The difficulty of realizing this undertaking in the Chinese Ming Dynasty, when there was no concept of industrialization at all and a pressure well was amazed when it saw a pressure well, was unimaginably great.
Even though Wang Shuhui has the magical power to travel through time and space, it is still a difficult task for the ancients to know and understand modern scientific knowledge. All he can do at present is to slowly cultivate those young people who have not yet been blocked by feudal thoughts. After all, their curiosity to accept new things has not yet subsided.
Judging from the results so far, Wang Shuhui's primary education of these more than 70 students is still very successful.
Ma Songhua's family property was quickly sorted out in the scientific torture of the police department and the systematic registration of the audit office. Under the name of the Ma family, the land occupied by each house and branch has a total of nearly 100,000 mu with clear official title deeds. And the Ma family's private land is nearly 100,000 acres.
Seeing the number on the paper, the instructors and the family members couldn't help but be dumbfounded. In their concept, the landlord can occupy dozens or hundreds of acres of land, which is already very amazing. They could not imagine such a situation in which a family occupies hundreds of thousands of acres of land.
After Wang Shuhui looked at the statistics, he felt that it was no wonder that Ma Songhua's strength in Zhijiang was monstrous, and he was also regarded as a local tyrant villager. He knew that Xu Jie, the first assistant of the cabinet of the Jiajing Dynasty, had more than 4 million mu of land under his name, and all of them were tax-exempt. These hundreds of thousands of acres of land were not even ranked inferior to the bureaucratic landlord group in the late Ming Dynasty.
You must know that even the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty, although they often claim to have tens of thousands of hectares and millions of acres of land. However, those lands are controlled by the local government. The specific operation and cultivation were all controlled by the local bureaucratic landlords. Take the example of King Lu, the younger brother of the Wanli Emperor. He claimed to have 40,000 hectares of land as a vassal king. However, he himself could not see a single piece of land. The magistrate completely controlled these farms, and gave him a maximum of 60,000 taels of silver every year as the income of the king's fields.
And the king of a distant branch like Zhu Youzi, the imperial court did not allocate him an acre of land. There is only 1,000 stone of grain a year, which is equivalent to only 500 taels of silver. Far less than the actual income of an ordinary bureaucratic landowner.
The former Wang Tian of the Zhijiang Wangfu was actually accumulated by several generations of Zhijiang kings in the competition with the local landlords. They used this to support the high expenditure of the royal government.
The work of dividing the land for thousands of tenant farmers is a massive amount of work involving nearly 10,000 people in more than a dozen surrounding villages and towns. With just a few dozen instructors, that would take a long time. Wang Shuhui has already drawn up a specific schedule, and it will not begin until the arrest and execution of Ma Songhua is completed.
After allocating a part of the manpower, transporting a large amount of Ma Songhua's family's property back to the camp, and arranging manpower, stationed in the Ma family's compound. Wang Shuhui led a hundred heavily armed men and drove directly into Zhijiang County.
The soldiers in charge of guarding Zhijiang County were shot to death by Wang Shuhui's crossbow before they could send out a warning signal. Before the people of Zhijiang County could react, the entire Zhijiang County Ya was tightly surrounded. A few officials who did not distinguish their demeanor were stabbed to death by a shot just after shouting a few times.
In Zhijiang County, Tang Wenguang, when he hadn't figured out what was going on. Two teams of first-class soldiers rushed in and disarmed more than 30 armed personnel of the entire county government. As a team of family members drove into the county office, they controlled various key positions. At this time, Tang Wenguang figured out the situation, and he knew that his county government had been captured by unknown armed forces.
Just when Tang Wenguang, who had cold hands and feet, thought that the general trend was gone, with the help of his master, he hung a trouser belt on the beam of the back office, and was about to be loyal to the country. Only then did a servant come in and report it. It turned out that this earth-shattering momentum was actually a visit from Wang Shuhui, the county lord of Zhijiang Palace.
Tang Wenguang couldn't even move his legs because of the fright just now. With the support of his master, he rushed to the front office in a hurry. As soon as he entered the front office, Tang Wenguang's anger dropped by half, and the coolness in his heart rushed up again. I saw that in the lobby, a tall young man wearing a black gauze hat, a light blue robe, and no accessories around him was looking at the facilities in the county hall with great interest. Beside him was a group of sturdy young soldiers who were wearing uniform blue uniforms and holding crossbows to the kneeling officials and officials on the ground.
In front of the tall young man, Zhijiang County, Ma Songhua, who was arrogant in the Jiangbei area, was tied up with five flowers, his mouth was firmly blocked, and he knelt at the young man's feet. Two men with steel guns, one on the left and one on the right, pointed the tip of the gun against the back of Ma Songhua's head.
Seeing such a scene, Tang Wenguang couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, he swallowed a few mouthfuls of spit, and shouted with a trilled bluff, "Bold fanatic!" Who are you to dare to storm the county government and insult the court officials! ”
Wang Shuhui heard the movement and turned his head to look at Tang Wenguang. After that, he raised his hand and pointed to the kneeling officer next to him, the official who had just gone to report the news. Immediately, a family member raised his hand with a crossbow and shot the official to death on the spot.
The crossbow bolt was shot directly at the officer's neck. It should have been shot in the artery, and the blood that came out of the officer's neck splashed on Tang Wenguang's official uniform. Such a scene frightened Tang Wenguang so much that he almost urinated on the spot.
Looking at Tang Wenguang, who was checking everywhere to see if he had wounds on his body, Wang Shuhui said, "I just sent this person to report to Tang Zhi County. However, Tang Zhixian doesn't know who I am now. It can be seen that this thief is also a henchman of the anti-thief Ma Songhua. For this kind of heinous anti-thief, boy, I'll clean it up for Tang Zhixian. ”
When Tang Wenguang heard this, he immediately understood. This Wang Shuhui didn't want to rebel, but came to ask Ma Songhua for his guilt.
Knowing what was going on, Tang Wenguang, whose soul had returned to his place, couldn't help but be angry, and he said loudly to Wang Shuhui, "Wang Shuhui, although you are a guest of honor in the palace, the court has its own dignity and humility!" How dare you trespass into the county office, kidnap officials, and kill the magistrate! What you are doing is what you regard as the law of the imperial court! ”
When Wang Shuhui heard this, he couldn't help laughing, and he said to Tang Wenguang, "Did the county magistrate only think of the imperial court law at this time?" Ma Songhua, as your subordinate, actually colluded with bandits and sent outlaws to attack the county clan three times. Such a sensational conspiracy and evil, how can I not see Tang County's order to follow the laws of the imperial court. ”
After saying this, Wang Shuhui put away his smile and said to Tang Wenguang in a cold voice, "Lord Zhixian can ignore the safety of the clan, although I am a son-in-law, I still have to follow the law." I came to the county government this time to sue the county magistrate, Ma Songhua was mad, this morning, he gathered bandits, and wanted to assassinate my father-in-law for the fourth time. ”
When Tang Wenguang heard this, his face turned green. He thought about it, is Ma Songhua crazy? In a few days, the officials of the two capitals will arrive in the county. How dare he do it again at this time.
Wang Shuhui waited until Tang Wenguang digested this information, and then continued, "However, his evil plot was discovered by me in advance. The government organized manpower in advance and dispersed the bandits who came to assassinate the clansmen. However, the group of scattered thieves turned against the Ma family. They have killed all 43 members of the Ma family. I sent someone to warn me, but it was too late. When I came to the county office, I reported the case to the county magistrate. ”。