In fact, She Chongming underestimated Shuixi Anjia. She Chongming was the Xuanfu envoy of Yongning, Sichuan, and the Anjia was the Xuanfu envoy of Guizhou. He was the largest chieftain in the southwest region, and his status and strength far exceeded that of Yongning.
The Shuixi'an family has been in charge of Shuixi for more than 1,400 years from the late Han Dynasty to the present. It can be said that it has deep roots and a long history.
In the past, the Ming Dynasty actually relied on the Shuixi An family to quell rebellions in the southwest. It was the An family that helped put down the Yang Yinglong rebellion in Bozhou.
In order to raise troops to march eastward, She Chongming took the initiative to go to the imperial court and request for 30,000 troops to rush to aid Liaodong.
Before the imperial edict was issued, She Chongming sent his son-in-law Fan Long and general Zhang Tong to approach Chongqing with 20,000 infantry and cavalry.
Historically, the She'an Rebellion lasted for seventeen years, affecting almost the entire province of Guizhou and Sichuan, holding back more than 100,000 Ming troops and spending three to four million taels of silver every year.
Huge military expenditures undoubtedly made matters worse for the Ming Empire, which was already struggling to cope with the war in the north and peasant uprisings in various places.
Now that Wang Hongyu has appeared, he has led the Hunhe Army to prepare for war in Yunyang. He must not let the tragedy of history happen again. He will face a head-on blow to She Chongming.
I remember that the end of September was the time for She Chongming to launch a rebellion. Wang Hongyu had a friend in his previous life who was good at this, so the timing of major historical events was basically under his control.
But to be honest, dealing with the chaos in She'an is just a piece of cake.
What Wang Hongyu was serious about at this time was the development and transformation of society in the late Ming Dynasty.
He wrote quickly.
Now that I am proficient in writing, I can write the secret letter to Tianqi by myself without having anyone else do it for me.
"The vast majority of society's investment is still invested in land, and investment in land is land annexation!"
Land division, land cultivation, land investment, land dependence, land annexation, conflicts between man and land... all industries revolve around land, that is, feudal society.
The literal translation of the word "feudal" is too rigid...
Of course, this kind of key content should not be translated literally, but should be translated freely.
Wang Hongyu certainly wants to develop productivity and reverse the situation in which food and land have always been the most important products and means of production in society.
In fact, objectively speaking, Jiangnan already has considerable social resources, which have spontaneously flowed into cash crops and industries such as cotton, silk, clothing and handicrafts.
This kind of spontaneous investment, as well as the fact that a considerable part of the people in the area were no longer attached to the land, was later called the sprout of capitalism.
The sprouting of capitalism, to put it simply, is a breakthrough that revolves around land and food.
The method used in ancient and modern times at home and abroad is nothing more than relying on spontaneous commodity trade, with other regions bearing the burden of food, and other industries in the region rise. Or local food productivity is enough to support other industries to spontaneously become more important economic components.
What is spontaneous is the sprout, and what is later investment-based transcends the sprout and becomes the reproduction of capital.
But when there are more and more other commodities and industries in society, land is no longer the core of the means of production, but almost all industries.
Mineral excavation, investment in minerals; textile development, investment in textiles; forging development, investment in forging; handicraft development, investment in handicrafts... They are investing in everything. As long as they make money, if there is a difference, someone will increase the investment...
Capital pursues profit-seeking investment, and land is just one type and no longer plays the core role. This is capitalism.
Then it manifests itself as the contradiction between human capital and capital, generally manifested as the contradiction between human beings and the representatives of capital interests.
Wang Hongyu wrote these down.
This is "On Production". It is necessary to teach Emperor Tianqi to firmly believe that there is a future in manufacturing equipment, to enlighten the enlightened scholar-officials and wake them up in time, so that the Chinese people can read this book and truly understand who creates wealth.
There are some words in it that should be as easy to understand as possible.
After all, it was written to Zhu Youxiao first, and it will be published later so that the general public can read it.
"The world's producers.
One is a farmer, producing food.
The second is hundreds of industries, producing hundreds of things.
Create wealth, agriculture and industry
There is no separation of families; all industries prosper, and agriculture and industry are integrated into one."
The previous propaganda is about the mutual assistance and unity of workers and peasants, and the latter is about the development of productivity to a certain extent, and farmers are also one type of workers.
For example, this period has already seen preliminary manifestations.
Farmers in Jiangnan not only produce food and food, but also produce cash crops. Population mobility has become the norm, and it is relatively common for farmers to work as hired labor in the area.
The agricultural and industrial part is the core of "On Production".
There are also separate discussions on scholar-bureaucrats, traders and even businessmen.
Scholar-bureaucrats, who originally relied on their family land and left their jobs to study, became a group that controlled cultural, academic, discourse and political rights in a land-owning society.
As land ownership is impacted by industry development, a choice has to be made.
Farming, studying and inheriting family traditions, focusing on agriculture and suppressing business, ostracizing dissidents, monopolizing knowledge and officialdom...
"The emperor and the scholar-bureaucrats share the same world", "You can't punish the officials", "Studying is to become a master"...
There are a lot of civil servants who believe in this, and they are a clear resistance to China's further development.
Of course, other civil servants have changed and participated in commerce, handicrafts, astronomy and geography, and technical research...
This is indeed helpful for the development of Baigong. They are not just corrupt people, but it is not simply that these people are good.
Because the butt determines the head, they are more active in earning profits than anything else, and more active in defending their own interests than anything else. The degree of development is too fragmented, and without overall planning and scheduling, it will become the driver of chaos.
The same is true for traders and even businessmen. They are promotion but not fundamental, because only the transfer of goods can encourage one place to use food from other places, and the handicrafts developed locally are also circulated to other places through commerce.
Business is a channel, not a process of output.
It can be supplemented or replaced by other methods, but only one hundred industries and one hundred things are irreplaceable and are the foundation of society.
Finally, let’s write about the emperor, that is, the monarch.
As an emperor, the stability of his foundation is actually to balance all parties in society, so as not to become unbalanced, collapse or even be destroyed by foreign enemies.
The so-called civil and military skills actually refer to which groups we rely on, which groups we unite with, and what kind of achievements we achieve.
If they understand who to rely on, who to unite with, and for whom to solve problems, the emperor will take actions that help in a certain direction.
If you make a mistake in who you rely on, who you unite with, and who you work for, you will either be a confused emperor or a monarch, or you will fall into division.
This entire part serves as the preface to "On Production" and ranks first in the publication sequence.
Before publication, a letter was sent to Wei Zhongxian to inform him and Emperor Tianqi.
This industrial development, from a land-based society to a society where capital is invested in all industries, is something Wang Hongyu must accomplish.
If you can’t realize it, why bother traveling through time?
If you just want to kill the Manchus, why bother running around to Yunyang? Just keep fighting.
When Wang Hongyu came to the late Ming Dynasty, his clearest goal was to control the situation in China, and the elimination of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was only one of many goals.
Wang Hongyu began to write, preparing to write a memorial to Tianqi...