Sun Chuanting, known as the Living King of Hell, is already Sun Qingtian in the hearts of countless people in South Zhili!
Following frequent public trials, countless seized lands were distributed to the propertyless people of the Ming Dynasty.
The people who obtained the land loved Sun Chuanting and the New Army from the bottom of their hearts.
There are dozens of times more people who support Sun Chuanting than hate him!
The gentry group that thought they controlled the world suffered a disaster.
You arm your mind with knowledge!
I'll break your head with a hoe!
No matter how eloquent you are, I only use a kitchen knife.
Do you want to try with me to see who is better?
I'm not afraid of you!
You can't fight with words, but you can't defeat them with numbers.
What do you do?
As more and more gentry were deprived of their own interests, they fell into rage and fear.
They fear that the property they have accumulated over hundreds of years will be redistributed.
Since the public trial of Duke Yansheng, there seems to be an endless supply of literati who criticize current affairs.
It's a pity that the New Army never cares about the size of the crowd of gentry. Anyone who dares to make trouble or gather a crowd will be arrested!
It doesn't matter even if all the literati in a certain county are arrested.
In short, we must catch it thoroughly!
The gentry suffered losses, and officials also protested.
They went on strike and tried to unite to resist the new army.
But how could the weak officials and literati withstand the brutal onslaught of the new army and the people?
Some literati went on strike and were immediately arrested and imprisoned by the wolf-like Jin Yiwei.
The whole family is ready, but you dare not go to work, keep your entire household registration book, and be sent to the New World to play mahjong.
Officials, gentry and literati were immediately frightened when they saw the court's resolute attitude and the ruthlessness of the new army in charge.
"Anyway, we are just checking the gentry and civil servants who have broken the law and committed crimes. As long as we do not break the law and commit crimes, the court will not accuse us!"
Then, a magical scene occurred. A large number of gentry distributed the fields to their tenants, and then implemented the same policy as Sun Chuanting.
They almost lost all their wealth and finally kept themselves safe.
These gentry are scared!
The gentry was afraid, but the Ming Dynasty's sword continued to wave.
The Ming Dynasty Weekly was also shining brightly when the New Army was raiding places in one county after another and conducting public trials of illegal gentry.
Weekly newspapers have become daily newspapers.
As the most important position of public opinion, newspapers have been laying out the world as early as the first year of Chongzhen.
The employees of Ming Dynasty newspapers are all literate Ming grassroots.
They consist of a theater troupe, a storyteller, a down-and-out accountant, and a promiscuous woman. Newspapers have been published frequently recently, and they are protected by the new army. Anyone who dares to rush into the newspaper office will be shot directly!
The newspaper was reprinted into Daming Daily, exposing the crimes of the gentry every day. Gentlemen were punished every day!
After the gentry group suffered such a blow, Emperor Chongzhen issued another decree.
Starting from July this year, anyone who dares to gather a crowd to complain to Yan Shenggong will be forced to undergo labor reform and hard labor!
Scholars and civil servants who dare to discuss the current government affairs will never use it.
Moreover, such intellectuals will be punished by one more level of punishment and undergo at least five years of reform through labor.
Later, the people of the Ming Dynasty were mobilized to report anyone who dared to bring injustice to Duke Yan Sheng, who dared to say that the emperor was fatuous, and who dared to say that the Ming Dynasty would be destroyed. As long as the people reported and verified, they would be rewarded with land!
Land!
The lifeblood of the common people.
Then, the vigorous arrest work broke out again...
Among them, except for a few good gentry who managed to survive, most of the gentry were undergoing liquidation.
The gentry and literati of the Ming Dynasty were panicked.
They also realized it.
This Chongzhen was crazy. They dared to attack all the gentry and literati.
We are just expressing our dissatisfaction, we have not rebelled yet, how dare you force us to rebel?
The officials are forcing the people to rebel!
Zhu Youjian, you idiot, you are looking for death.
We want Chongzhen to see who belongs to the world.
The powder keg exploded.
Many ill-tempered literati and gentry directly rebelled.
Half a month after the imperial edict was issued, seven forces that sided with the Qing Dynasty suddenly appeared in the world.
Under the banner of the Qing Dynasty, they dispersed their wealth. In less than a month, the seven forces rapidly expanded in southern Zhili, and their influence spread throughout the two provinces.
Subsequently, seven anti-thief forces united and sent 200,000 troops to Jinling.
They tried to capture Nandu and rule across the river.
But the army gathered by the seven forces is a ragtag group of people with silver spears and wax pole heads!
Before they arrived at Jinling, Sun Chuanting, who had a huge disparity in military strength, took the initiative to attack. It only took 5,000 new troops and half a day to beat the rebels into a sieve.
The seven forces were defeated in one battle.
Afterwards, the New Army spent most of their time capturing the rebels.
October of the second year of Chongzhen was very lively, and the seven groups of rebels were finally wiped out within two months.
After these seven forces were wiped out, Chongzhen once again issued a cruel imperial edict.
The evil leader of the rebellion killed nine tribes!
The main participant in the rebellion was Zhu San Clan, Ling Chi.
All forces participating in the rebellion were directly forced to immigrate to the New World and become low-level prisoners.
They want to make meritorious service to the feudal king in the New World.
In addition, all the land and wealth of the rebels were confiscated, distributed to the grassroots people of the Ming Dynasty who had no land, and soldiers were recruited locally.
Just when the literati thought the punishment was over, even more shocking news came.
Directly three imperial edicts!
Beginning in the third year of Chongzhen's reign, the gentry was required to pay taxes as a whole: the gentry no longer enjoyed tax exemptions and had to pay taxes!
Starting from the third year of Chongzhen's reign, land taxes have been superimposed: the larger the private land area, the higher the tax that needs to be paid. Tax restrictions have been imposed on large landowners, and the land rent must not exceed 5%!
People in the Ming Dynasty can actively participate in reporting. Any landowner whose rent exceeds 5% will be punished, ranging from having his land taken back to having his home confiscated.
Another imperial edict is military and political reform!
The military adheres to three major disciplines and eight points of attention.
First, only by following the command and working in unison can victory be achieved.
Second, I don’t take anything from the people, and the people support and like me.
third,……
Eight things to note:…
The reform regulations and policies of the Ming Dynasty's army are simple, you can understand them as soon as you hear them, and you can understand them as soon as you see them!
In addition, the New Army emphasizes that the New Army is the new army of the people of Ming Dynasty, and the New Army and the people of Ming Dynasty will always stand together.
Moreover, a new army was formulated for disaster relief and earthquake resistance...
Next is the recruitment of new troops and their welfare benefits.
Any soldier of the Ming Dynasty's new army can enjoy a half tax reduction.
In addition, there are various high-standard treatments for new army soldiers!
As long as the new army of the Ming Dynasty abides by the regulations and makes no mistakes, they can become civil servants when they are old and weak!
Can you become an official without reading books from sages?
When Jiubian warriors heard so many strategies, they felt incredible at first, and then enthusiastically supported them!
There is hope for their future.
The soldiers took care of it, but the Ming Dynasty almost came to a halt. The forces behind Chongzhen made it clear that they were at odds with the civil officials.
Any officials or literati who hinder innovation will become a mantis with a mantis behind the wheel!
The civil servants who were so angry that they wanted to burn the Ming Dynasty had to take leave, resign, or take a rest due to illness.
Jingcheng, Xishan Conference Room.
Everyone is still sitting in the same position!
Li Miao reported on recent events in the industrial zone: "In the past few months, we have killed more than 40 assassins who tried to assassinate Chongzhen. We executed twelve workers for stealing military technology!"
"The government affairs of the Ming Dynasty have been suspended for less than half of the time. If Wei Zhongxian hadn't used their relatives to pressure them, the government affairs of the Ming Dynasty might not have been able to be handled at all!"
Chen Mu sighed: "Those officials can only be sent to the New World."
"How's the army?"
"The morale of the officers and men of the Ming Dynasty's New Army is stable and their morale is high! Now everyone wants to make meritorious deeds. It's just that the New Army has a way of fighting, and the management of local areas is all military style. We lack enough grassroots cadres!"
"As long as the morale of the army can be used, it's time to print books and mobilize more people and people who truly love the Ming Dynasty."
There are too many people in the world who want to be officials, and there is no shortage of these smelly and hard stones.
Since they chose to get rid of the traditional group of scholar-bureaucrats, they naturally had to uproot them.
"It's just a pity that these people don't know the so-called scholars. I still want to win over more scholars!"
"It would be good to go to America to shine and shine. It would be better to harm the Indians than harm the people here."
The conference room was suddenly filled with laughter.
It is easy to resolve border troubles and eliminate foreign enemies.
But it is difficult to change people's hearts and modify their stubborn worldview!
If Ming Dynasty wanted to complete changes from the inside out, it had to sacrifice the interests of an entire group.
The nobility, generals, and businessmen have all been changed, and the most difficult thing to attack is the Confucianism of the gentry.
After taking care of the gentry and civil servants, that's pretty much it.
Ruo Zhu Youjian still doesn't understand.
I can only work hard and send him for a walk up the crooked neck tree.
As the order from the conference room was issued, Daming Xishan Industrial Zone became busy again.
The printing factory works around the clock.
Countless books were printed.
Subsequently, batch after batch of carriages pulled newly published books and transported them around the Ming Dynasty...
This chapter has been completed!