Chapter 301: The Origin of the Cheka
From the next day, Hiroshima began to bleed.
The heinous hoarding merchants, the former feudal officials who were hiding, were dragged out of the HOS one by one.
The Cheka adults of the Suppression Committee, using something called a loudspeaker, read aloud their sins.
These people were supporters, sympathizers, potential supporters, and potential sympathizers of the shogunate.
In the process of execution, many people tried to rely on the Gaomen compound and organized a group of ronins to resist.
But under a gas canister from a foreigner, everything is reduced to nothingness.
In fact, the modification of Assad bombs with gas canisters was widely welcomed by the troops.
This bomb is inexpensive, easy to use, full of power, and has no significant drawbacks other than a short range and limited accuracy.
And compared with the ammonium nitrate explosives produced by Daming today, this kind of big guy that looks very dangerous is safe and reliable to transport.
As for cooking with this gas canister......
The lads of the third division are not yet so extravagant.
Although the gas in Fengdu is not worth much money at all, it is thousands of miles away, and they would rather spend some money to buy firewood from the Japanese people.
In short, under absolute force, any resistance becomes futile.
After the last dead soldier who tried to set fire to the Ming army's arsenal was denounced by an informant and shot dead in the alley, gunfire began to ring out frequently in the streets of Hiroshima Castle.
Every day, people disappear without explanation.
All of a sudden, the Anti-Rebellion Committee became a name for stopping children's night crying.
This kind of anti-rebellion work will, of course, be expanded and killed.
There is no way to avoid this.
When Zhu Fugui set the policy of pacifying, he did not intend to avoid it.
However, the general direction should still be strictly controlled.
restless samurai, large landowners, they were the lackeys of the shogunate;
The priests of the shrine, some of the monks in the temple, they are the lackeys of the emperor;
The sea merchants who hoard goods are the lackeys of foreigners.
These people must all disappear.
The reasons for their arrest and secret execution were certainly somewhat unwarranted, but they were necessary to annex Wajima.
The samurai class and large landowners controlled vast amounts of land.
Whether it is an agrarian war, an agrarian revolution, or the killing of Indians to obtain land for free, or the campaign of sheep cannibalism, or the half-deception and half-robbery of land like Syngman Rhee and Chang Kaishen, nationalization or collectivization of land is a necessary condition for a region to carry out modernization and development.
And to achieve this condition, there is no need for bloodshed.
To take a negative example, India, a world power in the future, should not have collapsed in this way in good conscience.
As long as you have really been exposed to international trade, anyone who has done cross-border business should know that Indians are actually very good at doing business.
They are far smarter than blacks, Latins, and even rednecks in the United States.
At the same time, he is extremely thick-skinned, very cunning, and patient, and sometimes even Chinese businessmen who have always been fighting against dimensionality reduction around the world are a little ashamed.
And India is not lazy, although it is not as industrious as the East Asian peoples, but at least it is more industrious than most peoples.
Indians have always been the best workers, or cattle, in the tycoons of West Asia.
In the construction of the stadiums for the 2022 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates alone, more than 6,000 South Asian laborers were exhausted to death.
International investors encounter all kinds of problems in India, which lead to the loss of all their money, which is a problem of the system, a problem of Indians who do not keep their promises and are extremely cunning, but it is really not a problem of laziness.
It's not the same as in Africa.
A nation that is not stupid, not lazy, and has a very large population base and land area, how did it become a third brother who can be milked by everyone?
At the end of the day, it's because the way they're built is fundamentally different from ours.
Having not experienced an agrarian revolution or being able to force land reform through political strongmen like Frog Island and South Korea, India still retains the idyllic beauty of its dwarf and tight mouths.
Fragmented land ownership, unplanned infrastructure, inefficient homesteaders protection, these "idyllic songs", which the West-revered sage Gandhi single-mindedly defended, are India's dead ends.
Such congenital deficiencies have led to the fact that this nation can never get out of the quagmire, and can only linger in the vortex of the near-modern and pre-industrial era.
For today's Ming Dynasty, the dirty work in North America, that is, the slaughter of the aborigines and the repossession of land, has been done by the white colonists.
The trouble is the populous Far East.
Historically, after the Meiji Restoration, the Meiji government referred to the Prussian system and achieved a certain degree of land reform by abolishing feudal domains and disposing of prefectures, buying land ownership from landlords in the old shogunate era to the central government through forced purchase, carrying out unified planning, and then re-auctioning it to new landlords who were engaged in actual production.
In conjunction with a series of bills, including the Land Tax Reform Ordinance, the Meiji government's land reform provided the initial funds for Japan's modern industrialization.
Theoretically, the Ming could also learn from the Meiji method and follow this old path.
However, Zhu Fugui still decided to follow the imperialist principle with Ming characteristics.
Because Japan's industrial industrialization is not a matter of indifference to the Ming Dynasty.
If Japan is really scrapped and turned into a rice planting base, it is actually not a big deal.
Daming is rich all over the world, not inferior to the area of Yunnan Province.
The real reason why Zhu Fugui wants to engage in this Cheka strategy in Japan is actually to regard Japan as a testing field.
Obviously, the Ming Dynasty did not have the ability to transform like the Republic, and it was difficult for Zhu Fugui, as the emperor, to find a position for land reform.
Therefore, Zhu Fugui does not intend to and does not have the ability to transform those "village sages", nor is it possible to purge on a large scale like in Japan and kill people's heads.
Zhu Fugui thought about it, and combined with the current surrounding situation, he could think of a way to shoot a small number of extremely heinous landlords and bullies, and send the righteous "village sage" gift out of the country.
Siberia, the South Asian subcontinent, the Turan Heights, the homeland of Persia, the South Seas and South America...... There is always a piece of land where these Chinese compatriots can be at ease and happily be their own local tyrants and inferior gentry.
This method will not work, Zhu Fugui has to try it in Japan first.
As a result, after about 10 days, the gunfire in and around Hiroshima Castle slowly became quieter.
The squires who had confiscated a large amount of money from the Ming Empire's Wadao Protectorate were sent out of the country by the soldiers with bayonets.
The squires, frightened by the high-intensity gunfire, took some of the gold and silver with them, and ran as fast as they could, as if they were dying.
Along the way, they spread the word about the atrocities of the Ming army, and soon, the gentry of the entire Kansai region, in addition to the sincere welcome of Wang Shi, even a small number of people who did not care if they accepted the fair ransom of the land, began to think about moving their families to Kyoto or even Edo.