After Wang Qiming saw the leading boss of Guanghantang leave, he felt a little unhappy, the meaning of the secret service was equivalent to completely cutting off Wang Qiming's intention to use the power of local towns and towns, and he could only rely on the cities that were defeated and plundered the materials from the government to fill the logistics!

In fact, if there was no obstruction from the secret service, Wang Qiming planned to let the soldiers clean up the gentry class in the township, in the eyes of Wang Qiming, who has the concept of military supremacy, no matter how deep-rooted the local forces are, they are vulnerable in the face of rifles and cannons.

It's a pity that this time the secret service was ordered by Zhao Dutian, the emperor, and Wang Qiming had to restrain the army to temporarily let those gentry go!

Wang Qiming naturally understood what his emperor meant, which was nothing more than wanting to preserve a complete grassroots social system, so that the Han population could be preserved as much as possible. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, Wang Qiming did not understand how much power the gentry class had, so he was naturally a little unhappy with the behavior of the secret service, fortunately, the Han Empire was at its peak, and the campaign to attack Beijing of the Manchu Empire did not need to plunder the local area!

In fact, the reason why Zhao Dutian did this was just to reduce the obstacles to overthrow the Manchu Empire.

It is true that the gentry class has a weak force value, but once it is completely placed on the opposite side, it is likely to trigger a domino-like chain reaction!

The emperors who were able to succeed in China in the past generations would win over and divide the class of scholars, not because the scholars fought fiercely, but because the scholars represented the gentry and sects at the grassroots level of the people!

After the collapse of the monopoly social system of the great families in ancient China, the rise of the imperial examination system created a gentry class that was more conducive to centralized rule!

The gentry class no longer formed a community of interests with a huge amount of individuals like the previous world-lord families, but became a relationship between the common people and the court with the imperial examination as a way to climb!

Ordinary people developed through the imperial examination, and became the lord of the people and even the Jinshi in their hometown, forming a local clan dominated by blood relatives, and the poor people around them began to rely on these gentry and became their tenants willingly in order to avoid the heavy taxes of the imperial court!

Yes, the tenants were not inferior to the serfs as advertised in later generations, and compared to the heavy taxes imposed on the small people by the imperial court, the tenants of the gentry clans who became the privileged and tax-exempt class could at least survive!

It is true that some landlords are very bad for tenants, but this is just some counter-examples, the real scholarly family, the gentry in the family who have the status of a person, and will not deliberately exploit the tenants' money and grain!

On the contrary, many gentry families paid great attention to their reputation in the eyes of the local people!

Pay more attention than the government!

The reason is very simple, the government is just a government agency that oppresses and enslaves the people for the imperial court, but the gentry deal with their hometown fathers!

In ancient times, the feelings of fellow villagers were quite exquisite, if a person became a big official after becoming developed, and did not take care of his hometown, he would be poked in the back!

Once this kind of reputation of not caring for fellow villagers spreads to the ears of Shangguan and even the king, it will be a big black spot for the official career!

Heaven and Earth Jun among the teachers, the Heaven and Earth Monarch is tall, but it is too far away for the people, and the only ones who really see it are the affinity teachers, one is the relatives and family members, and the other is the teacher of the industry, which is the spiritual sustenance of the people who were deeply poisoned by Confucianism in ancient China!

Relatives and family members rely on blood ties and can't control it, but the teacher can!

The so-called great sage who is full of peach and plum all over the world, even the emperor Lao'er does not dare to attack it, it is precisely because there are too many disciples and grandchildren of this great sage, and most of them are promising, once the emperor sanctions this great sage for no reason, he will be resented by all the disciples and grandchildren, even if the utilitarian person is in a society ruled by Confucianism, he must also make an attitude of contributing to the teacher!

This is the foundation of being a person in the society at that time!

It is equivalent to in the future life, no matter what ability this person relies on, as long as he is rich, he will be respected, a truth, an era, and a universal value!

The relationship between the gentry class and the court relies on this kind of teacher-student relationship, which seems to be very thin, but it is deeply popular!

If you want to say that the 'division' is the connection between the gentry and the court, then the connection between the gentry and the people at the bottom will have many benefits!

To put it simply, it is the entanglement of interests between the clan and the tenants!

In order to avoid the high taxes of the imperial court, ordinary families put their land property in the name of the local landlord, who can be exempted from field tax, and then the tenant only needs to pay a relatively small amount of harvest to the lord on a regular basis!

The local lords, for the sake of their fellow villagers and their own reputation, often do not be as unsympathetic as the imperial court, and in the year of disaster and famine, they will appropriately reduce the harvest provided by the tenants to ensure that the tenants can have enough to eat, therefore, except for a few evil and ordinary landlords, most of the common tenants are grateful to the local gentry in their hearts!

This is also human nature, even in China in the 21st century, after people born in rural areas are rich and prosperous, they still spend a lot of money to build their hometowns and rural areas, and even simply issue banknotes to every household in their hometowns and rural areas!

Even in the 21st century, when money is paramount, the Chinese pay attention to the feelings of their fellow countrymen, and do not forget their roots after development, not to mention the ancient feudal era with strict etiquette and religion?

There is an old Chinese saying that a person ascends to heaven when he attains the Tao, although it is a bit exaggerated, but it also shows the bond of interests in ancient Chinese society!

For example, if someone in the army becomes an officer, as long as there are conditions, he will inevitably pull out a few young villagers from his hometown to act as his personal guard, and supplement the benefits of his fellow villagers with the benefits of personal guards, it can be said that the possibility of betrayal of this personal guard is very small!

If there is really that kind of active knife of the six relatives who do not recognize the relatives and the guards to promote their fellow villagers, then this person will basically have no serious way to climb in the future, and the people of the township will dare to betray, who will dare to use him?

Of course, this is only in ancient China, and China in the 21st century must never look at it that way, and there are many examples of brothers cheating each other......

Because of this, the people may be very numb to the high-ranking court, but they attach great importance to the gentry and lords who are related to their own interests!

As long as the gentry are not too stupid, they can easily incite a civil unrest through the accumulated prestige!

Even the local county magistrate was very secretive about the gentry in the countryside, and rarely interfered in the affairs of the countryside without sufficient evidence!

If the rural people have any disputes, they would rather go to the respected gentry to judge them than to go to the yamen!