Chapter 321: Chaos and Calm 2
Beginning at the end of August 1627, the Donglin Party, from the central to the local authorities, began to impeach and attack Wei Zhongxian's eunuch clique in an organized manner. Although Wei Zhongxian was no longer able to effectively influence the new emperor, the eunuch officials he installed in the local area also had the power to relieve the imperial court. At the behest of Wei Zhongxian, they also launched a desperate counterattack against the Donglin Party.
For a time, from the central to the local, the entire Ming Dynasty was impeached in a chaotic manner. However, in the midst of this chaos, the entire Huguang area was silent as if there was no awareness or reaction.
Normally, the Huguang area is regarded as an important force of the eunuch clique. After all, Yao Zongwen, the governor of Huguang, is a relatively famous figure among the eunuchs. At the beginning of his tenure, Yao Zongwen made a comprehensive adjustment to officials in various parts of Huguang. Almost all the principal officials of the prefectures, prefectures, and counties in Huguang Province are Yao Zongwen's party.
However, because the Baath Party has carried out a comprehensive takeover of the Hubei region. Except for some state officials in Hunan who responded to the call of the eunuch party and carried out some painless impeachments against the Donglin party members in the entire Ming Dynasty, the Hubei region, which was already under the full control of the Baath Party, especially Wuchang, the capital of Huguang Province, was quiet.
In fact, as early as more than a year ago, the rule of the Ming Dynasty in Hubei had completely become a written form.
Around the beginning of 1626, the Ming officials and their families at the prefecture, prefecture, and county levels in Hubei committed suicide or were killed, and the yamen of the prefecture, prefecture, and county, from officials to petty officials, were arrested by the Fuxing Army and sent to concentration camps for labor reform.
By the end of 1626, all the officials and officials in the Wuchang Prefecture, where the main authorities in the Huguang region were located, from the governor of Huguang in the Ming Dynasty to the ordinary government soldiers, were arrested by the Baath Party and thrown into concentration camps.
By 1627, almost all the regular officials in Hubei, who numbered nearly 1,000, were naturally consumed in the onerous labor reform.
In fact, Yao Zongwen, the governor of Huguang, hanged himself on the first day of labor after entering the concentration camp. The official officials, who held their status very seriously, regarded the RTL as a great humiliation. In less than a week, this kind of person is almost dead.
Because of the comprehensive implementation of the Ba'ath Party's land reform and land redemption policy, in less than a year, the Ba'ath Party's party committees and governments in various counties in Hubei Province quickly gained the full support of the local masses.
Because of the Baath Party's total control over the military, economic and political aspects of the Hubei region. In particular, the Ba'ath Party's comprehensive suppression of the landlords and gentry in various regions made the news in Hubei completely blocked.
Under the operation of the Counsellors' Committee chaired by Gu Junen, Niu Jinxing, and Song Xiance, Beijing's understanding of the Huguang region was limited to the documents that were still in normal exchange. The reports from the Huguang area received by Nanjing Jinyiwei were also concocted by the Counselors' Committee.
Therefore, in the chaos of the political arena of the Ming Dynasty, the calm of the Huguang region is eye-catching.
Wei Zhongxian was very angry at the betrayal of Huguang officialdom against him. But at this time, Wei Zhongxian was thinking about how to protect himself, while Zhu Youzhen was secretly satisfied with the current affairs of Huguang officialdom.
In September 1627, as the largest sales area of the Ba'ath Party, some very rare specialties of the Huguang area began to appear in the markets of the Jiangnan area. The first canned Yingshan peaches, silver silk noodles, dried whitebait, dried lettuce, dried white mushrooms, canned local chicken, dried cauliflower and bacon meat were sold in the Jiangnan market.
The Baath Party spent a year in the grassroots governments in various regions of Hubei, and with the help of the troops stationed in various localities, carried out land reform and farm construction, and completely eliminated the landlords and gentry in various localities. At the same time, local governments have carried out exterminating strikes against all kinds of mountain bandits, river bandits, and other reactionary forces in their own regions.
After the local governments have won the trust of the local people in an all-round way and thoroughly restored and developed agricultural production, in accordance with the instructions of the Central Committee of the Baath Party, the local governments have begun to carry out economic construction work in accordance with the characteristics of each locality.
The county party committee and county government of Yingshan County, which was the first to complete the basic agricultural construction work in the region, took the lead. On the basis of thorough research in the corresponding mountain area, we began to develop a specialty economy. Using the abundant native resources in Yingshan area, three large-scale native product processing enterprises have been established.
A canning factory specializing in the production of canned peaches, canned chicken, dried whitebait and cured dog meat, a dried vegetable processing plant specializing in the production of dried Ulva cabbage, dried white spirit mushrooms and dried cauliflower, and a dried noodle factory specializing in the production of various kinds of dried noodles including silver silk noodles, the products of these three processing plants established in Yingshan County have been a great success when they are put on the market for the first time.
At Wang Shuhui's request, Fuxing Ribao specially dispatched staff members to conduct a comprehensive and in-depth interview with the party committee and government of the corresponding county and carried a full-page report in the newspaper.
On the front page of Fuxing Ribao on the same day, Wang Shuhui published a signed commentary article entitled "Learning from Yingshan's Experience in Developing the Local Economy," urging the whole party to study the specific problems of the Yingshan County Party Committee and the county government's work experience in developing the local economy in accordance with local conditions.
At the same time, Wang Shuhui ordered the headquarters of the Baath Party's Railway Production and Construction Corps and Highway Production and Construction Corps to begin to set up a railway production and construction corps and a highway production and construction corps specifically for the northern region of Hubei. Prepare for the large-scale construction of railways and roads in the northern part of Hubei.
The reason why Wang Shuhui prepared to build railways and highways in northern Hubei was mainly because of the history of the last years of the Ming Dynasty and the existence of the Baath Party.
The Shaanxi peasant uprising, which was supposed to start in the first year of Chongzhen (1628) and develop in full swing in about four years after Chongzhen, began to appear between 1624 and 1625 before the emergence of the Baath Party, and entered the development stage in 1627.
Beginning in early 1627, the Yunxi County Party Committee and the local garrison of the Baath Party, located on the border between Hubei and Shaanxi, had reported local anomalies to the Central Committee of the Baath Party. Since the Ba'ath Party took over the area, at least 1,000 refugees from Shaanxi Province have entered the area every month.
In order to solve the refugee problem in Yunxi County, the Baath Party has set up refugee camps to accept and train refugees in the area, and has transferred refugees who have been trained by production and construction troops to various parts of Hubei to set up new farms. By the middle of 1627, however, not only was the number of refugees in Shaanxi increasing, but also in the entire northern counties of Hubei, where a large number of refugees from Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Henan had begun to appear.
In order to effectively rescue the refugees and convert them into industrial population, Wang Shuhui decided to organize and train the refugees to become railway and highway soldiers on the spot, and to build railways and highways in the northern part of Hubei.
The establishment of railways and highways in northern Hubei can, on the one hand, solve the refugee problem and turn refugee assistance from a purely economic expenditure into personnel training, and in this way, it can also speed up the economic development of northern Hubei through the construction of railways and highways.
In October 1627, the Baath Party's Northern Railway Production and Construction Corps and the Baath Party's Northern Highway Production and Construction Corps were formally established in Yunxi County. In the same month of the same year, the 10th Iron and Steel Plant of the Fuxing Party, designed with an annual output of 100,000 tons, was established in Yunyang County, 120 miles southeast of Yunxi County.
The establishment of two production and construction corps and a steel plant consumed nearly 20,000 refugees from the north at one time