【127】Shandong Commune (8)

Li Lu's agitation on the threshing floor aroused the admiration of many villagers who were holding bowls to eat pig-killing vegetables, and many poor children had already been said to be hot in their hearts, they looked at their tattered clothes, and looked at the corn husks wrapped around their feet, and then looked at the neat attire of Yao Fan's soldiers, and immediately some people were eager to try, planning to run over, and they quietly asked Yao Fan's soldiers how to join the team.

Yao Fan felt that this was not unusual at all.

Some historians speculate that the average life expectancy of the Qing Dynasty was 33 years old, while the Manchu imperial family had a chronology to be examined, and the life expectancy statistics were only 32 years old. Yao Fan felt that those who hung the title of expert and president of the Manxue or Qing Dynasty Research Society were simply nonsense.

Their conclusions probably do not include the poor as human beings, especially the peasants at the bottom of society.

Since the average person in this dynasty is about to die in his early thirties, it is natural that the peasant uprising has never stopped from the beginning to the end.

Rebellion, starvation, sickness, torture, anyway, are all death, it is better to die a happy death. As a result, there were all kinds of uprisings and rebellions, ranging in scale from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Twist Army that swept through several provinces, to the bandits and thieves of a village or even a dozen people, and it is no exaggeration to describe them as blooming all over the land.

But no matter how you die, the Manchu rulers must not want the people to die for rebellion, so they always try to break the knife or use other torture to kill the rebels after they are caught, they hope to punish the rebels with the torture of **, and more importantly, they hope to cause psychological terror to intimidate and threaten the living.

Among the Manchu repressive methods, the highest trick was to kill more people.

In short, the better the off-road brutality killed, and the larger the scale of the killing, the better. In the past, many emperors of the Han people did not dare to use the method of slaughtering the city, but the Manchu Qing Dynasty used it with great skill.

Even by the end of the Qing Dynasty, the dynasty maintained a brutal style.

Five days after the Hunan army broke through Nanjing, the city was still clogged with corpses and smelly, and all those who could not carry the burden or dig cellars were killed, in short, all those who could not be used as slaves and coolies to help the military were killed, and those who were under the age of two or three were also killed. The Qing army killed people when they saw them, burned them when they saw them, and all the women were divided into the barracks for the soldiers to commit adultery to death. Li Chen, the commander of the Hunan army, pawned the beautiful women who were raped and robbed by the crazy day and night, and he did not stop when his body could not support it, and finally died because of the oil run out of lamps after the city was broken for more than ten days.

Human beings are a kind of animals with psychological adaptability, when they are accustomed to seeing beheading and scraping alive, accustomed to all kinds of cruelty, and then comparing their miserable living conditions, now in fact, the pain of the two is really not much different, naturally they become no longer very afraid of death, even if the punishment is brutal, the Qing Dynasty peasant uprising is still like a weed, cutting stubble and growing stubble. When the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded China, many people volunteered to lead the way, claiming that "the country does not know that there are people, and the people do not know that there is a country." ”

The villagers of Niwanzi Village saw Yao Fan's generosity and benevolence in their eyes, saw that the soldiers under Yao Fan were wearing all the new clothes, saw the healthy and ruddy faces of the soldiers being raised, saw the soldiers full of spirit like calves, and saw these foreign guns and bayonets and sophisticated weapons......

The poor peasants are tempted!

The dream of "the prince will have a kind of Xiangning" hidden in their hearts suddenly burst out like tender bamboo shoots awakened by the spring rain.

Moreover, they have long heard that Yao Fan treats his soldiers like brothers and sisters, eats and sleeps together, the soldiers' monthly salary is as high as ten taels of silver and never deducts, the soldiers are well-fed, warmly dressed, and have status, these rumors have been confirmed in person today, and they are indeed true! That Yao Dongjia is kind to his subordinates, and he doesn't have the slightest frame of being an official, so I really don't know how he commanded the army. The villagers think about it, and the soldiers have come to the village many times to visit the poor and ask about the poor, help the villagers repair the courtyard walls and fences, and carry water and rice......

"Yao Dongjia, I want to defect to your rebel army! I want to make a revolution with you! Kill the local tyrants and inferior gentry! The dog who was working part-time at the Yaojiazhuang dock site in the village came to Yao Fan, knelt down and kowtowed.

"The owner, you give me a gun, or give me a knife, I am willing to saddle the horse and follow the owner to kill the local tyrants, kill the officers and soldiers!" If the owner wants me to kill whomever I want, I will kill whomever I want! Gou Yuxin has decided to join in a hurry, and his public statement is to vote, because once he is sued by the villagers who are watching, he will inevitably die in the future.

Yao Fan stepped forward with a smile to help him up, held his hand and said, "Everyone in our revolutionary team is equal, don't bow down!" Dog, you get up quickly. ”

At the moment when he clasped his hands with Yao Fan, Gou Yu felt that a hot current was pouring out of his body, and he actually trembled with excitement.

Yao Fan let go of the dog's remaining hand, patted him on the shoulder and motioned for him to sit down, turned around and preached to the villagers: "Folks, this country has never regarded the working people who work as human beings, there is unequal exploitation and oppression everywhere, and the hard life of the poor will come to an end.

Folks, we can't sit back and wait for a good life to fall on our heads, and don't expect unreliable reincarnation, if you want to live a good life, you can only rely on yourself! Let's pick up the gun and fight our own good life. Without the protection of a gun, our good days are just a rabbit's tail, which can't grow!

Today I have distributed money and food to everyone, and tomorrow I will divide the fields to everyone, but when the Qing army arrives in the future, can these things be kept? I don't think I can even save my life. The imperial court will not reason with our working peasants, the imperial court will only speak to the landlords and old wealth, and help these local tyrants and inferior gentry to take revenge on our toiling masses. ”

Villager Tie Dan was holding a pig stick bone in his hand, and was fighting stubbornly with it with his teeth, when he heard this, he raised his head and shouted: "Yao Dongjia, then what do you say our village will do in the future?" If you leave in the future, won't our village suffer? ”

Yao Fan said: "Easy to do! As long as the big guys unite and finish all the local tyrants and inferior gentry in China, distribute all the floating wealth of the fields to the poor, and pinch the whole world in the hands of our poor people, what demons and monsters are you afraid of? What are you afraid of! ”

"Yao Dongjia, can you really win the official army?" In the darkness far away from the threshing floor, a villager asked from afar.

"Folks, in the past, the Qing army could eat the common people, not because they had many people, but because they were well-armed, but now every country in the world can build big ships, weapons can be bought from foreign countries, and the good days of the Qing army are gone forever!"

Next, Yao Fan patiently preached the land policy and taxation of the new government, promising that in the future, all miscellaneous taxes would be exempted, only 10% of the public grain would be collected, and all farmers who leased their land could only collect up to 30% of the land output as rent. For all borrowing behaviors, the annual interest should not exceed 20%, and usury with rolling interest is not allowed to exploit the people.

To put it bluntly, these are rent reductions and interest reductions, and Yao Fan is not able to eliminate private ownership of land in one fell swoop at this stage.

The next day, Yao Fan took the soldiers to get up early in the morning, all the soldiers went to the Zhai family's field under the leadership of the villagers, took out the tape measure and began to measure the land of the Zhai family, and distributed the field to all the landless tenants and long-term workers in the village, according to each household 5 acres of land to divide, and finally there was more than 1o acres left, Yao Fan called the public field, announced that the public land was collectively owned by the whole village, and the village was responsible for hiring people to rent seeds, and the output was equally divided by the whole village.

On the one hand, they were terrified and did not know what would happen in the future, and on the other hand, they were extremely excited to help Yao Fan come up with ideas, and they rushed to the fields to help the soldiers measure the land, and played the wooden signs on the fields.

The Zhai family's livestock, houses, bedding, clothes, cages, and furniture were all distributed by Yao Fan to the landless tenants and poor villagers in the village.

Li Lu was appointed by Yao Fan as the acting head of Niwanzi Village, and formed a villagers' committee with four other tenants in the village who had been assigned land to handle the affairs of the village. Yao Fan left the three steel knives that the Zhai family searched for to guard the home to Li Lu, and also left the daughters of the Zhai family to Li Lu to take care of.

Before leaving, Yao Fan instructed Li Lu: "Discuss everything with the elders in the village, and the village committee should unite everyone in the village and do things fairly." In addition, don't abuse the female dependents of the Zhai family, the house and clothes left for them can't be taken away by anyone, and they must be left to live. It is necessary to organize villagers to help them learn how to farm, so that they can support themselves and work in the fields to support themselves. ”

Li Lu was a little dumbfounded when he heard Yao Fan's words, he really couldn't think of how to manage the remaining female dependents of the Zhai family.

"Chairman, you won't kill them?"

"We are a revolutionary team, we want to win the world, we must have a mind and strength, and we cannot indiscriminately kill people who do not have blood debts on our hands. We need to reform their thinking, let them know that the world has changed, and it is the people who are the masters of the country.

In terms of ideological transformation, if one day does not work, it will take a month, if it does not work in one month, it will take a year, and if it does not work in a year, it will take three years. ”

"Chairman, you are really benevolent!" Li Lu said with emotion.

He had made up his mind before that he would kill the rest of the Zhai family as soon as Yao Fan left. "The chairman's heart is too soft, the grass is not removed, the spring breeze blows and grows, I have to help the chairman get rid of the trouble!"

But Yao Fan's words made him embarrassed, he didn't dare not listen to Yao Fan's instructions, he could only think aggrievedly in his heart, "Go back and call a few women who work in the village, and take care of these ladies of the Zhai family with sticks, if you run away, it will be bad." ”

Where did Yao Fan know what Li Lu was thinking, and he still taught earnestly: "Li Lu, you need to remember that as the village head, you have to show the scale of the village committee, absorb the villagers who really support our Shandong Commune into the village committee, and take the village committee to help everyone engage in production." In addition, you have to come to Qingdao every month to participate in cadre training, take ideological and political classes, and then go back to the village to give propaganda to the common people. ”

This was not until about three o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, when Yao Fan left with his troops, accompanied by seven young people from the village, who had made up their minds to go to Qingdao to join the Shandong Commune and follow Yao Fan in rebellion.

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