"I've heard a few things about Shandong, but I just don't know, why did the emperor divide the fields of the gentry and landlords? Wasn't the emperor and the gentry landlords in the same group? The red lady wondered.

can't blame the red lady for having such an idea, not only her, but most of the people in the world, I'm afraid they will see the gentry officials and the court as one. After all, the gentry and lords are all meritorious people, and they are inextricably linked with the officialdom, and the officials and lords are sent by the emperor to govern the place!

If the emperor ordered to deal with the corrupt officials who harmed the people, the red lady would still believe it, but the emperor wanted to eradicate the entire gentry and take away the gentry's land and distribute it to the poor people free of charge, how could the red lady believe it? This is also incredible!

"I understand your thoughts, in fact I didn't believe it at first." Zhang Shize sighed.

"Huh? You don't believe me, but you want to fool me? The red lady stared at the apricot eyes and said angrily.

"Don't worry, listen to me." Zhang Shize said, "I all know that I, Zhang Shize, am a close confidant of His Majesty, and I am the hereditary successor of the British Duke, and I am the first duke of the Ming Dynasty." But when I learned that His Majesty had decided to do something to the gentry of the world, I was also incredible.

You must know that the entire officialdom is controlled by the gentry class, the imperial court, all provinces, provinces and counties, are all civil officials who serve as gentry, serve as officials in the court, and return to the countryside as gentry, it can be said that the entire Ming Dynasty is governed by the gentry class. His Majesty wants to take action against the gentry class, to deprive them of their land and distribute it to the landless people, which is almost an enemy of the entire court and the entire officialdom! It will inevitably cause a shock in the officialdom, and it will inevitably be attacked by the gentry and officials of the world!

In our opinion, this is not necessary at all. After all, in the eyes of many people, the officials are all appointed by His Majesty, the gentry are all high-class people who have gained fame through the imperial examination, and the entire gentry class is the emperor's own people, how can there be any reason to do it to their own people? It doesn't make sense! ”

"yes, that's exactly what happened!" The red lady nodded again and again.

"Wrong! We were all wrong! Zhang Shize shook his head and said.

"What's wrong?" The red lady asked.

"Your Majesty is the emperor, the Son of Heaven, and the entire Ming Dynasty belongs to Your Majesty, right?" Zhang Shize asked.

The red lady nodded: "Of course." ”

"Since the entire Ming Dynasty belongs to His Majesty, then all people in the world are His Majesty's people, including the gentry, including you and me. So fundamentally, you and I are all the same, and you are no different from the gentry. The gentry are just famous because they read well, but you ordinary people also farm and work and pay the imperial grain and national tax, which is essentially different from the gentry. You are all Your Majesty's people! Zhang Shize said.

"How could it be different?" The red lady was stunned. The gentry are all masters, and she and her soldiers are lowly people, how can both sides be the same?

"It's all the same in Your Majesty's heart. Nothing fundamentally different. However, the gentry honored the fame and power, and the gentry colluded to annex a large amount of land, but never paid taxes. The officials colluded with the officials to protect each other, deceived His Majesty, and preyed on the people, so that the people were not able to make a living.

The officialdom was controlled by the civil officials, and the countryside was entrenched by the gentry, who colluded with each other to deceive His Majesty, so that His Majesty did not know much about the affairs of the people.

And it is precisely because of the greed of the gentry and the tyranny of the officials that the situation in the Ming Dynasty is getting worse and worse, and the people are not happy. Zhang Shize sighed.

"Could it be that these are all the faults of the officials and gentry, and the emperor is not at fault at all?" The red lady pouted.

"I'm afraid you don't believe it, the emperor from the moment he became the emperor, he almost couldn't leave the palace, he stayed in the deep palace all day, he only saw those ministers, and only heard what the ministers wanted him to hear, how could he know about the affairs of the people?

Of course, I am not speaking for His Majesty, because His Majesty himself has never shirked his responsibilities. His Majesty said that Daming fell into the current situation, he was wrong, and the biggest mistake was to trust and reuse the gentry class. That's why we have to change, we have to change, we have to change the lives of those gentry!

Only by carrying out changes and realizing that the cultivators have their own fields can the people of the world live a good life, and so many people will not starve to death in every natural disaster. Only by carrying out changes will the Ming Dynasty be strong, and will it have enough strength to resist the invasion of foreign enemies, and there will be no such thing as grassland barbarians entering the customs to burn and loot!

However, the gentry are vested interests, they have annexed and occupied seventy percent of the world's land, they control the local officialdom of the imperial court, how easy is it to change? Zhang Shize sighed.

"It's not easy." Unknowingly, the red lady was moved by Zhang Shize's words and accepted the emperor's idea of change.

"It's not easy! The resistance is simply greater than that of the sky, because from the imperial court to the local to the people, everywhere is controlled by the gentry, many of Your Majesty's measures are opposed by the gentry officials, and the common people do not understand Your Majesty, and the evil deeds of the gentry are counted on Your Majesty's head, and the people rebel one after another! Zhang Shize sighed.

The red lady's face was slightly red, and then she said confidently: "The people can't survive, so they naturally want to kill the officials and rebel, isn't it justified?" ”

"Of course, if you can't survive, you will naturally rebel, and you have not done anything wrong." Zhang Shize hurriedly said.

"Then the emperor still sent you to lead troops to fight us?" The red lady questioned.

"It's not to beat you, it's not to allow you to kill officials and rebel like this purposelessly, which will cause even greater suffering to the people of the world." Zhang Shize explained.

"Think about it, if the people of all provinces kill officials and rebel like you, what will be the final result?" Zhang Shize asked. Through the conversation, he has already discovered that the marshal of the Red Turban Army in front of him seems to be an innocent person, and he should be able to fool him.

"What else can appear, of course, to kill all the gentry and landlords, and to divide the fields among the poor." The red lady said as a matter of course.

"The idea is good. But will the gentry and landlords let you kill them? They will inevitably rebel and gather people to suppress you, so that war will break out, and I don't know how many people will die because of the war. If you fight all day long, no one farms, and there is no food in the fields, you have won, and what will you do to feed the hundreds of thousands of men who follow you? Zhang Shize asked.

"Of course, he robbed the granary of the landlord to feed his subordinates." The Red Lady said.

Zhang Shize shook his head: "Although the landlords and gentry have a lot of food, it is not infinite, and they can't feed so many people at all." For example, in Henan, if the war continues, within three or two years, at least half of the tens of millions of people in Henan will die! I ask you, if such a thing happens, will you save the people or harm the people? ”

The red lady was stunned and didn't know how to answer. In fact, she had never thought about it, never thought about it so much.

"Change is necessary, only thorough change, the people of the world can live a good life, but only from the top down to change, otherwise the world will be in chaos, countless people will die because of the war. Therefore, you should follow Your Majesty and support Your Majesty's change, so that it will be beneficial to everyone. Zhang Shize said earnestly.

"Who knows if what you're saying is true or not? You officials are the best at deceiving people! The red lady shook her head.

"If you don't believe it, you can inquire and see if Shandong has completed Juntian? Your Majesty is in Jiangnan Juntian now, and you can also follow me to Jiangnan to see for yourself. Zhang Shize said.

"Look, I'm sure I'll send someone to see it! If what you say is true, I will consider leading the people to surrender, as long as the emperor can treat my subordinates and the people well, I will kill and let the emperor fall! The red lady said angrily.

She is actually a very simple person, a chivalrous Jianghu person, the reason why she made such a rebellion is that she was forced to be helpless, and then she couldn't bear to see the people unable to live.

However, from the beginning of the rebellion to the present, in a few months, it has grown to 200,000 subordinates, occupying the territory of dozens of counties, and she does not have any pride, but feels very frightened. Because she suddenly found that she didn't know how to lead the troops, and she didn't know how to make her subordinates live a good life. I can only take my subordinates to kill and rob! But if you fight a war, you will kill people, and many people will die in battle, and many innocent people will be implicated. At first, the red lady rebelled with the intention of saving people, and then she found that more people died because of her rebellion. This left her feeling extremely confused.

In the past, she was only the leader of the Selling Liberation Group, and she only had to worry about the stomachs of the dozen or so brothers and sisters of the Selling Liberation Group. And now, hundreds of thousands of lives are in her hands, and she has to worry about the food and clothing of hundreds of thousands of people. And this is beyond her ability and often leaves her at a loss of what to do.

asked his senior brother Li Quan to guard Chenzhou, and he led most of his subordinates east to attack Fengyang Mansion, but he was really helpless. Because the food in Runing Mansion has been robbed, it is simply not enough for 200,000 subordinates and their families to eat. If she doesn't kill them, in a few months, before the official army comes to attack, her men will starve to death.

But what if you go to Fengyang Mansion? robbed the grain of Fengyang Mansion, what should the people of Fengyang Mansion do? There will be a lot of starvation too! This left her confused and at a loss.

But the dead have no choice but to take one step at a time. But before she could set off with the army, the news of Chenzhou's defeat came, and then her senior brother Li Quan and more than 20,000 prisoners were released.

The army of 80,000 was defeated by the army of 8,000 officials in half a day, which shocked the red lady, the army sent by the emperor was really too strong! There are still more than 100,000 troops around him, and I am afraid that he is no match for this official army. And it is said that there are more than 100,000 emperors with such an army! This made the red lady despair about the future.

If you continue to fight, and wait for the official army to attack, I am afraid that there is only one way to defeat you and your subordinates.

Death, the red lady is not afraid, she is afraid that more people will die because of herself.

And with the return of the captured soldiers, the measures of the emperor about this Praetorian Guard began to circulate in the army. The emperor wanted to release slaves from the land, seize the land of the gentry and distribute it to the poor people free of charge, reduce the land rent, and open schools in the towns and villages so that all children could study and have the opportunity to become officials. Some of this series of initiatives are what the red lady is doing, some are what she wants to do but can't do, and some are things she has never thought of. The red lady knows that if these measures can really be done, the poor people can really live a good life.

Is this true, or is it that those officers and soldiers are talking nonsense so that they can release the prisoners and shake the morale of their own troops? The red lady can't say for sure. But in the face of such a situation, she had no choice but to watch these "rumors" spread throughout the army.

The red lady knows in her heart that now the military heart is no longer available, I am afraid that not many people are willing to follow her to continue to rebel now, once the official army is killed, I am afraid that there will be countless subordinates who surrender to the official army.

After all, the reason why these people rebelled with her was to fill their stomachs and survive, and they didn't really support her as a woman! Since the emperor also wants Juntian, what reason do they have to follow her to continue the rebellion?

The situation in front of her made the red lady feel desperate, she knew that if she was allowed to continue, the army would collapse, and she and her brothers and sisters would not end well!

So although Li Quan objected, she still decided to contact the generals of the official army to see if it was true. If it was true, she would lead everyone to surrender. As long as she can find a way out for her brothers and sisters and 200,000 subordinates, she is willing to die!

"You don't have time to take your time to look and inquire, you have to make a decision now, whether to surrender or not!" Zhang Shize was aggressive.

"Huh?" The red lady suddenly pricked up her eyes, she is a person with a strong personality, the reason why she is willing to surrender is just because she doesn't want to implicate too many people, but if the person in front of her dares to wantonly persecute and humiliate, she doesn't mind breaking the net!

"It's not that I'm forcing you, it's that the situation in front of you can't take your time." Zhang Shize explained.

"Your Majesty in Jiangnan Juntian released slaves to anger a lot of gentry, Jiangxi gentry rebelled, supported the prince of Fu Zhu Yousong as the prison country, now Jiangxi rebels 200,000 are besieging Nanjing City, once Nanjing City is broken, the rebels will inevitably attack the east to hit Jiangdong, where Your Majesty is located, and the situation will be out of control. Your Majesty has given me an order to quickly lead the army south to support. Zhang Shize explained truthfully.

"You actually tell the truth about such a big thing, aren't you afraid that after I know it, you will be unwilling to surrender again?" The red lady was surprised, "Anyway, you have to lead the troops south, just give me a chance to conquer the city, maybe I can lead the army to conquer the entire Henan, or even the entire Central Plains!" ”

"Since I'm telling the truth, I'm not afraid that you will regret it!" Zhang Shize shook his head and said, "You also saw the combat effectiveness of the Praetorian Guard in the previous war, even if you defeat the entire Henan, what can you do?" When I help Your Majesty defeat the Jiangxi rebels, I will inevitably lead a large army back to attack Henan, and the Central Plains will inevitably be controlled by the imperial court!

Now it's just that the Jiangnan army is empty, and Your Majesty has to order me to be transferred south, it's not that Your Majesty's strength is poor! In Xuanda, Liaodong, Your Majesty still has 100,000 Janissaries, all of whom are elites who fight against Jiannu and Mengtar, and their combat effectiveness is stronger than that of my subordinates, if the situation is critical, Your Majesty will definitely transfer 100,000 troops to the south, and then they will be able to destroy all resistance! ”

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