Chapter Ninety-Eight: A Great Opportunity
"It's easy." Qin Yu said, "The so-called suppression is to resolutely annihilate those who refuse to change their teachings and are heinous. ”
"Hmm!" After Zhu Yuanzhang listened, he nodded.
"As for Fu, there are some small doorways in it." Qin Yu said, "If you want to caress you, you must know what those bandits on the mountain want most." ”
"What do they want most?" Queen Ma asked, "Silver?" Power? ”
"They are farmers, and what they want most is land." Qin Yu said, "So it's useless to give money, it's unrealistic to give power, you have to give them land!" ”
"Land is the lifeblood of farmers. They run out of money in a few clicks, and the land grows up with a steady stream of energy. ”
"The Chinese people have a deep affection for the land."
"Only by giving land can we really make them happy. Willingly, he laid down his weapon and picked up the hoe again. Why were they forced to become bandits before, and not because they had no land to cultivate? ”
"If they have land, they will defend it even if they die, and they will never go up the mountain to become thieves and bandits. With land, they have hope. If there is hope, you will not be willing to live the kind of thing that will lose your head anytime and anywhere. ”
"What Mr. Qin said is so right!" Zhu Yuanzhang became excited, "land, land......" He was also a farmer before, and he knew what land meant to farmers, it meant everything!
Mu Ying's previous way of appeasing was to give silver, but it didn't have any effect. It turned out that what he gave was wrong!
Wealth moves people's hearts, and land moves people's hearts.
"Mr. Qin, there was a bandit general who gave him silver. As a result, after receiving the silver, the bandits ostensibly promised to serve the people. When the officials and soldiers left, they went to another place to continue to cheat the court of money. ”
"It's normal." Qin Yu said, "Everyone has greed. ”
"For any person, you can't just label him with a personality. For example, when you see a peasant, you can't say that he only has a simple side, and when you see a bandit, you can't say that he only has a fierce side. A peasant who carries a knife up the mountain can become a bandit, and a bandit can put down his weapon and pick up a hoe, or he can become a simple peasant. People are complex. ”
"Mr. Qin's understanding of human nature is really thorough." Queen Ma sighed.
"Is this a thorough understanding of human nature? There's still 108,000 miles to go. Qin Yu didn't dare to take their high hats, "I've only studied basic psychology for a few days." If you want to study human nature thoroughly, you also need to study developmental psychology, personality psychology, behavioral psychology, historical psychology, social psychology, criminal psychology, sexual psychology and dozens of other kinds! ”
There is so much to learn from studying the psychology of others alone!? Queen Ma and Zhu Yuanzhang were stunned when they heard this: If they learn all this, wouldn't they be able to play with people casually?
Mr. Qin's knowledge is really unfathomable! There are so many kinds of studying human psychology alone.
His knowledge is like an ocean, like a vast star, and mortals can only see the tip of its iceberg.
Therefore, in ancient times, the specific methods for completely eliminating bandits were: first, to resolutely annihilate those who refused to change their ways. 2. Post government notices in various prefectures and counties, and those who go down to the mountains for the people can get land. Qin Yu finally made a concluding speech.
"Wonderful!" Zhu Yuanzhang stood up excitedly.
"What's the wonder, isn't that a common idea?" Qin Yu was surprised, "Anyone who has experienced nine years of compulsory education will be." ”
Gaffe, gaffe!
Zhu Yuanzhang said secretly in his heart and sat down again.
At the end, he sighed: "The bandits in the southwest are really a huge scourge to the new imperial court!" I don't know how much manpower and material resources it will cost to exterminate and pacify. The southwest is barren, and after the imperial court spends a lot of energy to solve it, it will not get much benefit. At least three years of local taxes must be exempted before production can resume in the southwest. To put it simply, it is a thankless task to solve the problem of bandits in the southwest. ”
"Not really." At this time, Qin Yu said something that shocked everyone, "The rampant bandits in the southwest are not only not a burden to the new dynasty, but a great opportunity for the new dynasty!" ”
"A great opportunity ???"
When Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma heard this, their eyes widened suddenly, wondering if they had heard it wrong.
Opportunity? How is this possible!
How could a remote, barren and bandit-infested place be an opportunity for a new dynasty?
That poor place can bring a lot of tax revenue to the new dynasty? She herself needs the imperial court tax exemption.
The southwest region is a miasma and is sparsely populated. Coupled with the rampant banditry, people's livelihood has become even more desolate. In such a place, are there the conditions for the new dynasty to become strong?
"What kind of opportunity was it!?" The two couldn't figure it out after thinking about it for a long time, and finally Queen Ma couldn't help but ask.
"Isn't this the lice on the top of the bald man's head, obvious?" Qin Yu said.
The lice on the top of the bald man's head are visible? Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma listened and felt speechless for a while. If it's so obvious, why don't we see it? Are we all blind?
Suddenly, I felt like I was being hit by dimensionality reduction.
"Please give me advice!" Finally, Zhu Yuanzhang bowed his hand to him and asked respectfully.
"In ancient times, the southwest was a barren land, the power of the feudal aristocracy was not strong, and the power of the landlord class was very weak." Qin Yu said, "The power of the landlord class is not strong in the first place, and it can't be dominant. If you add to this the rampant bandits, it greatly weakens their power - those bandits dare to resist one by one. ”
"In other words, the landlord class and the feudal aristocracy in the southwest region are very easy to deal with."
"So what's that?" Zhu Yuanzhang still doesn't understand.
"Since they are very easy to deal with, then it just gives the imperial court a chance to completely eradicate them and give the imperial court a chance to innovate."
"If the imperial court takes the opportunity to implement a new policy in the southwest at this time, the resistance it will encounter will be very small. It would be extremely easy for the imperial court and the naturalized peasants to unite and deal with the landlord class and the feudal aristocracy together. ”
"How is it a revolutionary law? What new policies will be implemented? Queen Ma asked. She and Zhu Yuanzhang both understood at this moment, indeed, the southwestern provinces at this time were the most suitable places for reform.
"Spread the land into the mu, and the gentry will pay the grain as a whole." Qin Yu said, "Back then, Emperor Yongzheng implemented these two new policies, and set up a stall in Jiangsu, and the gentry paid grain as one errand and one body, but encountered huge resistance. The fundamental reason is that the place chosen is not right, the rich land of Jiangsu, the power of the feudal aristocracy is very strong, and the power of confrontation with the feudal aristocracy is weak, and the resistance to the new policy is of course great. ”
"If he takes the new policy, he chooses to try it out in the remote southwestern provinces...... Absolutely, it will be another case. ”