In addition to Song Ji, there are also Liu Xingchun and Li Fangying, the former is responsible for stabilizing Jiangnan and is in charge of Jiangnan's military and political affairs, and the latter is promoting people's hearts and minds in Jiangnan as a cloth cloth and has a better understanding of the people's feelings.

"Last year, the government hall set the strategy of the Jiangnan government to go to the countryside, with capable officials in the country in charge of the general supervision, Jiangnan retained officials to communicate up and down, and local officials to handle the practice, which was very thoughtful. More than 800 officials had already given lectures in batches early, and after chasing the footsteps of the Han Governor's army, they went to various places and took up the posts of acting prefects, prefects, and governors. With the support of the Jiangnan Volunteer Army and the government officials who had been transferred to the Bureau of Finance earlier, local pacification affairs are being put in place step by step. ”

Liu Xingchun first talked about the stall in his hand, in his opinion, although the chaos has nothing to do with the overall situation, it is also worrying.

"Although there are many officials in the south of the Yangtze River, only the three provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui have 32 prefectures and 207 counties. Eight hundred people scattered, but they could only outline and maintain the big picture. ”

The focus of the strategy was to retain local officials in Jiangnan, but because Li Fu broke the jar and broke it before, erasing the authority of the Manchu county yamen, the officials of the old dynasty had no master, and most of them were dispersed. Therefore, it was necessary to hastily pull up a large number of officials, and these people were mixed with mud and sand, and it was difficult to identify. Without local officials to connect up and down, it is difficult for new officials to grasp the details of governance and specific public sentiments. ”

The officials also knew about this matter, and they also transferred stable and reliable officers from the army to give urgent lectures and training, and supplemented the officials of the legal department, so that the Jiangnan government could first complete the step of dividing criminal and political affairs. The chief officer focuses on the peace and livelihood of the people, and only then can the Jiangnan camp stabilize the overall situation in Jiangnan. ”

"The Jiangnan Rebellion was not only revived locally, but also in the north. Nian Qianyao and others retreated north, and people from Henan, Shandong and other places entered the south of the Yangtze River, which was also mixed with all kinds of bandits and thieves. These chaos are not military affairs, and must be handled by pro-people officials. At this time, the government hall still had to go step by step and vigorously promote the government to the countryside, and the minister felt that it was a little too hasty. ”

Liu Xingchun turned in a big circle, and he was actually criticizing the political affairs hall for drawing a scoop on the gourd, and wanted to push down the mature system of the government going to the countryside in Yinghua and China. Regardless of the recovery of Jiangnan, the most important task is stability.

The process of the government going to the countryside is mixed with a large number of problems, one is the establishment of the financial system, the other is the rule of officials, and the other is the reform of the officials' governance philosophy and affairs, and this in turn involves the re-understanding of the Chinese Taoist system and the recognition of the Yinghua Heavenly Dao.

Yinghua also spent several years in Liangguang, Hunan, Fujian and other provinces to solve these problems, and the experience may not be used in Jiangnan, and now it is in Jiangnan in a hurry, Liu Xingchun feels that the root of the Jiangnan rebellion lies in the matter of the government going to the countryside.

Song Ji shook his head and said: "It's not that the government went to the countryside to make Jiangnan chaotic, but when Jiangnan was newly restored and still in chaos, the implementation of the government to the countryside at this moment has the least resistance and the least criticism, and the cause and effect of the two cannot be reversed." ”

As the one with the deepest political and economic attainments in the three sages of the west, most of the Jiangnan reform decrees issued by the political affairs hall were written by Song Ji. Liu Xingchun sued the royal court in person, and he naturally had to explain the reason thoroughly.

"Our Anglo-Chinese national system is very different from that of previous dynasties, and it has not changed for 3,000 years. It is not feudal, not a county, but a large integration of agriculture, industry and commerce, capital and the people's covenant and constitution. The government goes to the countryside, not only to reassure the people, levy taxes, and enforce the law, but also to promote the reorganization of capital in the world and benefit the people, and at the same time, it is also necessary to clamp down on capital, control industry and commerce, help the weak and compassionate the poor, and prevent harm to the people and the country. ”

"In the past few years, my Yinghua Capital has come out of Longmen and has been involved in the marrow of Jiangnan. At this time, if you don't quickly enter the skin from the skin and control the roots, the capital will be a disaster in Jiangnan, and the situation will be even more out of control. In the early years, the price of land was turbulent, and the story of the turmoil on Yutou Street was afraid that it would be ten times more intense in the south of the Yangtze River. ”

The signs of this have already been revealed in another great event, which will be discussed in detail later. Let's just say that this government goes to the countryside, although because the people who act are not very useful, and the shelves set up, ordinary people only see that there are several times more officials, and the harm to the people is also several times, but just like curing diseases, these pains are inevitable. Before the system, first establish the system, and then clear the situation...... As long as the hearts of the people of Jiangnan can be brought together under the Huaxia Taoist system, there are more and more scholars who understand the way of Yinghua and heaven, step by step to remove the rotten meat on the shelf, and make it smooth, and Jiangnan will integrate into my Yinghua, and it will be just around the corner. ”…,

Song Ji's words came from the perspective of an autonomous politician, and the utilitarian atmosphere was too heavy, and Li Fangying was dissatisfied.

"My Yinghua Heavenly Dao is contrary to the official Confucianism and Taoism, and it is not an overnight thing to win the hearts of the people in Jiangnan. In the meantime, the joints are tortuous, and some things should be understood by the hearts of the people in Jiangnan and postponed. The government goes to the countryside or secondly, the Jiangnan scholars who studied in Longmen are most dissatisfied with my Yinghua Jiangnan administration? Clan field household! ”

Li Fangying's words were both helpless and indignant: "The clan field is indeed not allowed to be in my Yinghua national system, but in Guangdong, it has been dissolved for more than ten years, and it has not yet been fully completed." Jiangnan is different from Liangguang and Fujian, with large clans and many clan fields. In the entire Songjiang Prefecture, more than 10% of the land is clan land, which maintains the rich gentry of the entire Songjiang Prefecture. ”

"I Yinghua carried out a new policy in Jiangnan, and copied the policy of dividing the clan and the land into households in this field and mu, which is not only a desperate evil government for the gentry and wealthy households in Jiangnan, but also leads people to compete for profit, turn relatives into enemies, and lose morality."

"Originally, the clan land was shared by one clan, and all the households in the clan shared their benefits. Now the government pushes the private land to pass the official deed, and after the official deed, there is official insurance for the sale, but it does not recognize the item of clan land, which must be determined under the name of a specific household. People's hearts are profit-seeking, and the government pushes it like this, and everyone wants to divide the clan field, but how to divide the clan field, there is no way to fairly convince people. Bullying the weak with the strong, bullying the foolish with cunning, piles of ugly things have risen in the south of the Yangtze River, and the people's morality has been corrupted, which has not been seen for decades! ”

Li Fangying said with emotion: "The grass people run schools in Longmen, advocate the way of heaven, and take the unity of heaven and man, righteousness and benefit as the banner, which has gradually won the hearts of the people. But this matter was noisy, and the students questioned them face to face, saying that I Yinghua led people to fight for profit, so that flesh and blood killed each other, where is the righteousness? And it is a big mistake for everyone to benefit themselves and not harm each other, you see, it is difficult for even relatives to benefit each other without harming each other, let alone people who have no relatives? The grass people are shallow in their knowledge and have no shame to answer......"

Liu Xingchun also sighed and said: "Officials from all prefectures and counties are complaining about this, let's just say that Suzhou Prefecture, in the past month or so, there have been thousands of cases of civil disputes over clan fields, and dozens of lives have been lost. ”

Li Fangying was very anxious: "If you don't stop this strategy quickly, I'm afraid it will become the thread of the chaos in the south of the Yangtze River!" I look at the princes of the political hall, they have been sitting in the temple for too long, and they don't know how important they are! ”

Song didn't speak, so he peeked at Li Shi out of the corner of his eye, this matter was obviously the political hall carrying the black pot for someone.

Li Shi's face did not change, and Wang Gu said to him, "Song Ji, you tell me about the things that you haven't talked about in detail just now." ”

Song Ji hurriedly said: "The chief manager is talking about the government going to the countryside, and Brother Qiuchi is talking about the division of the clan field, according to the minister's view, these two cases are indeed chaotic, but they are not as important as the one that the minister wants to say." ”

He stopped, sorted out his thoughts slightly, and then said two words in a deep voice: "Cao Fu!" ”

In the north of Jiading City, in Huangjia Village, Luodian Town, more than a dozen men and women who fled from Shandong temporarily rested in the village mill. After washing her face and changing into clean clothes, the eldest girl was like a fairy, and the whole village was brightened a lot. She pulled the women in the village to do homework, and the old men and men were rubbing on the side, and they felt that they secretly saw a side face, and they were already full of comfort.

When the eldest girl talked to the women about the birth time, the men finally had a chance to talk.

"Do you still want to collect the endowment? We were ruined by Cao Fu, and then encountered a military disaster, so we fled south. ”

The eldest girl claimed that her surname was Mi, called Mi Wu Niang, and when she talked about Cao Fu, she hated it, and the villagers suddenly felt that this Mi Wu Niang was her own family, and she was extremely kind.

Xu San, who had previously beckoned the villagers to collect miscellaneous food for these refugees, shook his head and said: "How can you not accept the endowment for hundreds of years?" There is no such good thing in the world. ”

Mi Wuniang blinked her eyes wide, as if she was unwilling to have her dreams shattered, and continued: "Even if you still collect the endowment, I heard that the Holy Dao Emperor is benevolent and has reduced six or seven Chengtian to Ding Yin, so life should be better." ”

Xu San smiled bitterly: "Didn't Cao Fu change its color?" The grain merchants here in Jiangnan are much more ruthless than those in Shandong, and our grain cannot be sold at all. ”…,

Mi Wuniang said sadly: "I thought that Jiangnan would be able to have a good life if he changed the emperor." ”

Xu San said calmly with a face of resignation: "The emperor is a good emperor, maybe the people below have not changed, our luck is not good, and the Qing officials like Zhang Zhitai will never meet again." ”

Mi Wuniang seemed to say unintentionally: "The Qingguan master can't even point to it, I really hope that the Bodhisattva who saves the suffering can go down to earth......"

Xu San nodded and said: "Yes, I hope that the Bodhisattva will go down to earth, so that our grain can be sold at a good price, and we can deal with Cao Fu." ”

There was a cry in the house, Xu San's mother-in-law came out of the house to greet Xu San, saying whether her son was sick, Xu San no longer listened to Mi Wuniang's crisp voice, peeked at her white face, and hurried into the house.

Looking at his back, the corners of Mi Wuniang's mouth hung with an arc that I didn't know whether it was pity or disdain.

In the main hall of the Longmen Jiangnan camp, when Song Ji said the word "Cao Fu", everyone looked different, Li Fangying was unbearable, Liu Xingchun was unwilling, but Li Xian was frowning.

"This matter has been discussed in Suzhou, has there been any change now?"

Li Xi didn't ignore this matter, strictly speaking, when he signed the "Hushu Peace Treaty" with Yongzheng five years ago, he was careless in this matter. In today's situation, although he did not take the initiative to promote, at least he stood by and watched, clearly watching things evolve step by step.

Grain, consumption, and food, together, are the endowment.

The Qing Dynasty inherited the Ming system, regarded Cao Yun as "Tian Yu is supplying", and collected Cao grain in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Henan and Shandong provinces, and transported it to the north through the canal. The total amount is four million stones, and counting the additional consumption, the actual amount of grain requisitioned is close to six million stones. Not only grain, but also silver. For grain households, one stone is a burden, which means two stones or more. 【1】

Collecting the endowment is like collecting the field endowment, which naturally inevitably adds miscellaneous items, which has become a bad rule. In the history of Li Xian's previous life, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had three major additions to the Cao Fu, all of which turned the miscellaneous faction into a positive endowment, and then gave birth to a miscellaneous faction, and continued to turn the old routine of positive endowment.

As early as five years ago, when Yinghua was plotting against Jiangnan, countless people offered advice that if the water division cut off the transportation, Jiangnan would go down without a fight, and the Manchu Qing would also lose their lifeline and die.

These opinions have been suppressed by Li Xi and the court in a cold way, in the past few years, the north and the south have clashed, and there has been no Cao Yun on the face, which is really strange in the eyes of ordinary people, and some people even judge Li Xi for being unscrupulous, and his knowledge is not as good as that of a three-year-old child.

The face did not move, but under the face was a large and deep article. How could there be no water in Li Xi's eyes? He not only has water in his eyes, but also water in his heart, and he is buried very deeply. In the history of his previous life, during the Opium War, why did Daoguang bow his head and admit defeat so neatly? Just because the British army captured Zhenjiang and blocked Caoyun.

However, Li Xi is more aware of the impact of the changes in Cao Yun on Chinese history, Yinghua is not Britain, only seeking to trade and sell opium, and seeking to rebuild China, and how to deal with Cao Yun is a very difficult action, which needs to be considered holistically.

In Li Shi's view, the changes in Caoyun are a microcosm of the confrontation and integration between the "government-run economy" of agricultural society and the market economy of modern society.

Contrary to what people understand, Caoyun is not a simple tax, and its purpose is not only to supply grain and rice in the capital.

Manchu officials had a vague study of the cost of transportation, counting both the government and the people and all the manpower and material consumption, the cost of transporting one stone of rice from the south of the Yangtze River to the capital was as low as 20 taels and as high as 40 taels. If it is only to meet the grain needs of the capital, the private grain market in the Qing Dynasty has become a scale, only Shandong Linqing customs, the annual transaction of grain is as high as more than 20 million stones, directly levy silver to buy grain, the cost is far lower than Caoyun.

Regardless of how the Manchu government viewed the Cao Yun, the actual role of the Cao Yun was to pull up a simple and fragile economic chain with the super-large-scale grain flow controlled by the government.

The Manchu government was at the top of this economic chain, with millions of stone of grain at its disposal. Food is a strategic material, and the so-called food in your hands is not panicked. These grains were used to supply the bannermen and bureaucrats in the capital, to cooperate with Changping to stabilize grain prices, to provide disaster relief, and to supply the needs of the war. In the history of Li Shi's previous life, the Manchu Qing Dynasty flexibly used this strategic material in the way of "intercepting Cao", and the Guozuo was able to extend to the 20th century, which also contributed to Caoyun. …,

The middle link of the economic chain of Caoyun is related to the livelihood of millions of people. These people have no land, and work as shippers, porters, river workers, and wharf loaders. They are unstable, and the world is not at peace. In Li Xian's previous life, after the Manchu Cao Yun was transported from the river to the sea, these people came ashore, broke away from the control of the Manchu government, spread to the towns, and became the soil of the gang party.

In addition to the population is capital, according to the calculations of Manchu officials, the annual "GDP" along the Grand Canal is as high as 80 million to 200 million taels of silver, creating a Grand Canal Economic Belt. After the change of water transportation and the change of river to sea, the Grand Canal Economic Belt declined, but the sea transportation line of Ningbo, Shanghai and Tianjin flourished.

Also because of the existence of the sea shipping line, the steamship China Merchants Bureau in the late Qing Dynasty became the backbone of national capital, and it could also rely on this "government order" to reduce operating costs, compete with foreign shipping industries, and leave many historical stories. When the Manchu dynasty fell, the north and the south were divided, and at the same time, technological change and the rise of railways, this fragile economic chain collapsed.

The economic chain of Caoyun is not only fragile, but also lies in the ignorant and conservative ruling class at the top and the miserable grass people at the bottom, which are linked together by forced taxation and can only be maintained by political violence. As soon as the situation, nature, and technology change, no matter how the means are changed and how the methods are changed, just as the Grand Canal was quickly abandoned, the transportation economy also quietly dissipated.

The changes in the Caoyun economy have gone through hundreds of years in the history of Li Xian's previous life, and in this plane, Yinghua is rapidly advancing towards a modern country, and the industrial and commercial forces are pouring all over Asia like newborn calves. The roar of the steam engine has sounded in the sea interview, and the railway has not dared to think about it, but the trend of sea transportation crushing the water transportation economy has been clearly visible.

This trend is also a trend that Li Xi is happy to see, but just as he cannot sit idly by and watch the diversion of the Yellow River in 1855, the silting up of the canal in Shandong, and the transformation of Cao Yun from the river to the sea, he cannot sit idly by and watch the intermediate link of this economic chain collapse by itself.

If Yinghua wants to move the Cao Yun, it has to find a way out for the survival of the millions of people, and the canal along the canal, at least along the south of the Yangtze River, is prosperous because of the Cao Yun, and it cannot be allowed to be abandoned because of the Cao Yun. When Yinghua replaces the previous single and fragile economic chain of Caoyun with a new economic network, the population and capital that were previously dependent on the Caoyun economy must also be absorbed into the new economic network. If so many people and capital are allowed to wander outside the Anglo-Chinese system, this is the failure of Yinghua Dejiangnan.

This project is too complicated and involves too many areas, so since five years ago, Li Shi, Xue Xue, Chen Wance, Song Ji, and others have already set a basic policy, and for the time being, they cannot make a big move, make more observations, conduct more research, and solve the problem in stages and steps.

Setting this policy, the steps of the Anglo-North Advance, the strategy of gaining Jiangnan, and even the means of forcing the Manchus to make peace, it is difficult for ordinary people to understand. It is also difficult for them to understand that the process of the Manchu Qing Dynasty changing the Cao Fu from grain to silver in Jiangnan was actually promoted by Yinghua.

Ordinary people, including grain households in Jiangnan, Hubei, Jiangxi, and other provinces, understand one thing: not only has their burden not been lightened, but has increased by changing grain to silver. Although the new dynasty greatly reduced the tax on the acres of land, this account was always unclear, and the officials who ate the imperial grain suddenly pressed into the countryside.

Song Jidao: "From the current situation in Jiangnan, it can be seen that there is a deviation in the proportion of Caofu's policy, and the minister thinks that some measures to be discussed should be carried out first." ”

What is the most difficult part of governance? It's just in the ......

Li Xi also sighed slightly, this is a delicate job, and he suddenly missed his little tent very much.

[1: Fan Wenlan's "Modern Chinese History", Chapter 3, Section 1: "Jiangsu and Zhejiang are endowed with one stone, and two stones and five or six buckets must be nanometers."] 】

[It's a change today, tailoring the information, summarizing the point of view, it's a brainless, these words are really hard work~]

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