Chapter 53: The End of Ma Xiancheng 5

86_86695 Putting aside one qiē other ideologies and unilaterally considering the simplest and most basic ideology, Wang Shuhui is a materialist. The ideology of materialism, to put it more simply and bluntly, is to adhere to the attitude of seeking truth from facts in terms of methodology.

However, it is important to know that materialism transcends classes.

The bourgeoisie, the capitalists, they may preach idealistic ideas. However, in concrete practices, they are the most materialistic. They can make others drink chicken soup for the soul and numb their own actual or future competitors. However, in the face of profits, they do not pay attention to the warmth and sunshine of the soul at all.

The proletariat, the workers and peasants, ostensibly believe in idealistic religious beliefs. However, in concrete practices, they are also the most materialistic. Because they are always in a situation of exploitation and oppression. The primary problem of whether you can survive with a full stomach cannot be solved by praying to God and worshiping Buddha.

Even, the feudalists, the bureaucratic landlords of the feudal class. They may preach that their own ideology is idealistic, moral Confucianism. However, in concrete practical life, their means of dealing with problems are also completely materialistic. Because, they preach Confucianism in order to stand on the moral high ground. However, without the practical means of materialism to solve the problem, no problem will solve itself by itself.

Wang Shuhui himself may consider himself a believer in a certain idea, or feel that he is a firm believer in a certain idea. However, in reality, only the label of pure materialist can be the truest and most appropriate description of Wang Shuhui. He's just a man who gets things to do.

As a realistic person, Wang Shuhui does not think that it will be a simple job to fight feudalism in a feudal society. This is because the feudal land ownership system, which is the production relationship of feudal society, was quite complicated in the specific situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Before society fully entered the industrialization and entered the capitalist stage. None of the social forms of production relations are as simple and antagonistic as they are in capitalist society.

Judging from the specific actual situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the problem of field bones and field skin alone made Wang Shuhui feel anxious. Judging from his actual investigation of land ownership in the Zhijiang area. The issue of land property rights of large landlords is relatively simple and clear. However, many small landlords and yeoman farmers own land and at the same time rent other people's land.

They may rent land from landlords or homesteaders like them. If we unilaterally say that they own land, which is the means of production, they can be said to be the realizers of feudal land ownership and an integral part of the feudal feudal system. However, judging from the actual investigation, they are even more hated than the outright tenant farmers, who can use their official status to exempt themselves from taxes, and can collude with the government to pass on the bureaucratic landlords.

As a materialist, Wang Shuhui will only use one means in the face of complex situations. That is, to simplify complex problems. Since the poor wage peasants, who make up the vast majority of society, and the small landowners, who account for a part of society, are in a different position in the possession of the means of production. However, as long as they had common contradictions with the big landowners and bureaucratic landlords, Wang Shuhui felt that they could fight for and unite.

Wang Shuhui believes that under the current level of actual productivity at the end of the Ming Dynasty, one person occupying five acres of land can almost support the normal survival of one. Then, after more than half a year of realizing the crossing, Wang Shuhui further clarified his actual enemy. All families, groups, and organizations that occupy more than five acres of land per capita are the targets of Wang Shuhui's struggle.

This is also the screening criterion that Wang Shuhui clearly set in the struggle against Ma Songhua's reactionary clique.

In other words, in Wang Shuhui's upcoming crackdown operation, all people and organizations related to Ma Songhua's reactionary clique, whether they are Ma Songhua's family members, supporters, collaborators, or in-laws, as long as their per capita land occupation exceeds five acres, they can only accept the end of physical destruction.

Just when Ma Songhua went to work in Yamen. The entire Ma family's compound, where the Ma family lived, was surrounded by about 300 heavily armed men.

The Ma family compound is the most common architectural model in the countryside in feudal China for nearly 2,000 years, when the landlords were powerful and the royal family was the most common building model, that is, the fortress model adopted by the large landowner family since the Han Dynasty. In other words, it is the kind of compound of the landlord's house that is said in the mouth of modern revolutionary soldiers.

The landlord's compound is a semi-military architectural model. Because the big landowners were well aware that they were extremely insecure to live among the poor wage peasants, who were brutally oppressed and exploited by them.

Historically, throughout the nearly 2,000-year-old feudal period, the poor peasants staged revolts of various scales. The big landowners, who followed a materialist attitude, drew lessons from history. From the middle and late Han Dynasty onwards, the landlords and the powerful, except for their residences in the cities, their residences in the countryside were all fortress buildings with military defensive significance.

Of course, like the Ma Songhua family, the largest household and the largest landowner in Zhijiang County, this fortress-like family cluster is quite majestic and even indestructible in the eyes of ordinary people in the late Ming Dynasty. But for Wang Shuhui, who was born in the post-industrial era, it is very simple and ridiculous.

With the help of fertilizer explosives, the Ma family's compound, which was defended by only forty or fifty people, was breached in less than ten minutes after half an hour of preparation for the Jiading camp. In the loud explosion, the defenses of the Ma family's compound completely collapsed.

Although it is unlikely to cause greater obstacles to the offensive operations of the large battalion, the Ma family could have defended more tightly. However, because the members of the Ma family had a common understanding before, they sent all the guards who were able to fight the courage of the subordinates of the compound to participate in the attack on Wangfu Town. Therefore, in the current Ma family compound, qualified armed personnel are in a state of shortage. This made this already easy operation.

Like a qiē feudal family. There are dozens of core members of the Ma family, a feudal family with a total of three or four hundred members, and there are only a few brave people who dare to fight. After they were all wiped out in the defense, the rest of the family members all chose to flee back to their homes for safety.

The problem of feudalism is here. The feudal system is actually a distribution system with family interests as the core. However, in the division of interests within the family, as in feudal relations throughout the country, there is an irrational and unbalanced situation. This may be the reason why when the Chinese surrendered as traitors and lackeys and rose up to resist in the face of foreign and foreign invasions from the end of the Ming Dynasty to the establishment of New China, the majority of the people were the silent majority.

Because unlike the barbarian nation and the modern nation-state, the Chinese in the feudal society, because most of them are in a position of being discriminated against and damaged in the distribution of interests. Therefore, the vast majority of Chinese actually lack the overall concept of national interests and national interests.

They generally believed that no matter who ruled China, there would be a limit to the changes in their living environment, and that they would have to pay taxes to the rulers as they were. Therefore, they lack the concept and understanding of defending the state and the nation. And as long as the ruler continues the imperial examination system, the majority of Chinese can change the real or false path of their social status. The Chinese can be an honest obedient people under any ruler.

This is the reason why the Yuanmeng rulers and the Manchu rulers, who also paid attention to the overall interests of the nation because of the backwardness of civilization, would have two completely different ends. The Yuan and Mongolian rulers lacked a long-term ruling strategy and did not improve and maintain the feudal imperial examination system. The Manchu rulers can be said to have fully inherited the imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty.

The members of the Zhijiang Ma family, like most Chinese facing foreign invasions, were facing Wang Shuhui's men, who also focused on the interests of the whole and had a higher-level civilization system. Their resistance is weak. In the case of the members of the battalion who broke through the siege and went on a large scale, most of them hid in their homes.

Soon, thanks to the efforts of the powerful and well-organized members of the battalion, 43 of the main core personnel of Ma Songhua's reactionary group were arrested.

After that, with the help of the family members, the propaganda team of the training camp gathered more than 500 indentured slaves and long-term hired laborers who farmed and worked for the Ma family in the vicinity of the Ma family compound in the drying field of the Ma family compound. The propagandist who spoke the local dialect announced the reason for the event and the treatment of the Ma Songhua family.

When everyone heard that the Ma family "instigated the ruffians and bandits to attack the mansion of the vassal king, and the crime was the same as rebellion", four or five hundred people took a breath of cold air together.

It's not that they feel that the charge is wrong, imposed, or unreasonable. In their eyes, the lord of the vassal king, that is the relative of the emperor Laozi. Offending the prince is a capital crime, let alone an armed attack on the prince's home.

The reason why they inhaled was that they didn't expect that their own master Ma actually had the rebellious heart to assassinate the king. As soon as they took in the cold air, they began to worry about whether they would also be involved as carrying the life for the rebels' family.

Fortunately, after the propagandists, let them rest easy, because the Ma family's land and property will be "confiscated" by the palace, but "the Ma family's hired workers will all be retained." "After listening to the explanations of the propagandists, everyone was relieved to know that not only would they not be held accountable, but they would also not lose their jobs.

Relaxed their mood, they began to appreciate with relish the ugliness of the old men who were kneeling on the ground on the big stage and were high up in the past