"Mr. Xu, would you like to start at home and talk about your thoughts?" Zhu Yiyuan smiled and said: "I believe that only if we have like-minded people can we achieve unity. Let's come together and do one thing together. The first one is
We need to know each other well, what does Mr. Xu think?"
Xu Zhen looked at Zhu Yiyuan in surprise, frowned and said, "Does Zhu Qianshi think he can be intimate with the common people?"
Zhu Yiyuan laughed loudly, "Why not? You know, I was sent to the county seat by the folks from Laiwu."
Xu Zhen looked thoughtful, Zhu Yiyuan came over, asked about land equalization, and answered the people's confusion. If it works, it works, if it doesn't, it doesn't work... The folks in the farm commune could also talk to him. Zhu Yiyuan lived and ate with the soldiers again, and there was no need for them.
difference.
Xu Zhen said thoughtfully: "What he did seems to be Mr. Zhuo Wu's idea."
"Is it Li Zhi?"
Xu Zhen nodded, "That's right, Mr. Zhuo Wu said that Heaven establishes a monarch for the people. I think this is better than Mencius."
Li Zhi was a famous mad student under the Xinxue sect. After passing the examination, he did not take part in the examination. Instead, he lectured everywhere. Everywhere he went, there were many candidates, including many women.
Although Xu Zhen did not personally appreciate Li Zhi's style, he read a lot of Li Zhi's books and articles in his early years. Naturally, he was disgusted with empty talk about Neo-Confucianism and detracting from the country. He also adhered to Li Zhi's people-centered ideas. He was so enthusiastic that he wrote a letter demanding that the Confucius family be copied.
It is not surprising that the huge house can be used for military purposes.
However, after more than twenty years, he still did not change his original intention, which made Zhu Yiyuan look at him with admiration.
"The Ming Dynasty indulged the gentry and showed no regard for the people, which led to the destruction of the country and the destruction of the family. We are all people who have perished. We can't even keep our hair, skin, clothes, and hats. We want to be human but can't. Isn't this a painful lesson?" Zhu Yiyuan said slowly:
"Any court that despises the people will not end well."
When Xu Zhen heard this, his eyes gleamed. After so many years, he finally met someone who had the same goals and was willing to support him.
"Zhu Qianshi, since he said this, I am willing to be a pawn in front of the horse."
This is what Xu Zhen said and what he did. He was the first to kill his uncle's house.
The Xu family in Laiwu is considered a moderately wealthy family, and has produced several famous scholars, and has accumulated a lot of wealth over the years.
According to Zhu Yiyuan's land distribution plan, if a large household is obedient and hands over its land, the family's wealth can be retained, and the land can also be retained according to the upper limit of twenty acres.
Wealthy households not only have land, they also have stored grain, money, cattle and livestock, seeds and agricultural tools...Zhu Yiyuan did not ask for these, nor did he stop them from lending.
In fact, there is some room left.
But unfortunately, some people were just not satisfied. What they couldn't stand the most was Zhu Yiyuan's request to release the slaves and let them farm the land like ordinary people.
They also took acres of land and limited the number of large households.
This is fatal.
Uncle Xu Zhen's four concubines were all taken away, and the family's servants, long-term and short-term workers, also abandoned their jobs and ran away. Master Xu even had to carry water and light the fire himself.
There are also chopping firewood, doing laundry, and plowing the fields... How else can we live our lives like this?
This man, who had been sighing all day long, heard that Qian Qianyi had arrived in Jinan and treated the gentry with kindness and pardoned their sins. This was truly a life-saving Bodhisattva. He patted his butt and went to Jinan to seek refuge with Qian Qianyi, even without caring about his wife, children and children.
Xu Zhen is no longer polite. When your family leaves, your family cannot be punished at all... "Take away all their food and money, as well as eight cattle, three horses, and two donkeys."
Take it away and distribute it to the folks who don’t have livestock.”
The militiamen followed the instructions and entered the Xu family's gate directly.
Xu Zhen's aunt cried and tried to stop her. The militiamen ignored her and pushed her away.
The aunt then rushed to Xu Zhen again, furious.
"You, you bastard! How can you harm your own family? You have failed the ancestors of the Xu family. You should be cut into pieces!"
In the face of the curse, Xu Zhen remained calm and composed, "Auntie, you also come from a farmer's family. You have been married to my uncle for twenty years and you can't even do farm work? If I take these away, your family will still have farmland left to grow and eat.
, can live a stable life, don't follow my uncle's example, he is obsessed with thinking that Qian Qianyi is a good person! He is called a scholar, and his integrity is not as good as that of a brothel girl. It won't be long before my uncle will regret it. I won't investigate now.
You guys, when the time comes, your whole family will die!"
The aunt was still unconvinced and said through gritted teeth: "It's because they are too cruel and don't allow people to live. Besides, your uncle is gone, why don't you help hide it?"
"Shut up!" Xu Zhen was furious, "There are so many people in the Xu family, why should we have bad luck with you? If you dare to entangle us again, I will take back the house and distribute it to the villagers!"
The aunt's eyes widened and she looked at Xu Zhen fiercely, then she wailed, turned around and ran into the house, sobbing loudly.
As expected, Xu Zhen didn't care so much and ran to the next house.
The aunt stayed at home day after day, and on the third day, she went out.
There is no other way, there is still some food rations left at home, but there is no firewood.
She put away her original satin clothes and embroidered shoes, changed into rags, and went to carry wheat straw. She also carried two large bundles at once, no different from ordinary peasant women.
The landlady also came out to work.
This is a huge new thing.
The people saw it and felt happy.
This is how it should be, no one can be superior, no one can get something for nothing!
After Xu Zhen's treatment, everyone who listened to Qian Qianyi's words and escaped from Zhu Yiyuan's rule had their homes confiscated, and their grain, gold and silver were stored and handed over to Zhu Yiyuan to enrich the military.
The livestock were distributed to the people, and everyone benefited and had a bright future.
However, this wave of escapes was not without complications. For example, a large family in Laiwu fled with thousands of people, including family members and soldiers.
This family is the Qi family.
The prosperity of their family is all due to one person... Qi Shijiao, who was born as a Yanguan, was a disciple of Fang Congzhe, the first assistant. When the party struggle broke out in the late Ming Dynasty, he was the leader of the Qi party. He once served as the censor of Youdu and also served as the censor of Youdu.
Governor of Henan Province.
Qi Shijiao was an upright official outside the country, but his family quickly became rich, annexing tens of thousands of acres of land and raising hundreds of thugs. Half of the land in Laiwu belonged to the Kong family, and the remaining half almost belonged to the Qi family.
When Zhu Yiyuan announced the equalization of fields, the Qi family did not object on the surface, but remained silent. After all, Zhu Yiyuan promised that the fields would be equalized after the autumn harvest.
During this period, the people in Laiwu supported Zhu Yiyuan one after another, and defeated Ma Degong and Liu Zhiqian one after another. Zhu Yiyuan's troops numbered thousands, and there were thousands of militiamen.
The arrogant and domineering stewards and servants of the Qi family in the past have all become honest and can only behave with their tails between their legs and be cautious.
The Qi family has already seen that with the implementation of land equalization and the split of the big families, the Qi family will definitely not end well.
So they gathered their relatives and servants to leave Laiwu.
They were very smart and did not go to Jinan Prefecture via Changcheng Ridge. Instead, they went south from Culai Mountain to Sishui County in Yanzhou. This place is not far from Qufu and is protected by Yan Shenggong. It is definitely safer than Jinan Prefecture.
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"Zhu Qianshi, not only the Qi family, but also more than a dozen wealthy gentry families in Xintai, including some poor scholars, were bewitched by Qian Qianyi and fled one after another. Many of them went to Sishui County."
Song Lian also reported the situation to Zhu Yiyuan.
It's not that the gentry didn't oppose Zhu Yiyuan's policies, but that they all had families and couldn't just run away... Moreover, it would take time to implement Zhu Yiyuan's policies, and without harming interests, this group of people was
Not willing to run.
And even if you run, where will you run?
What if someone is treated as a thief and killed?
So Qian Qianyi's arrival this time was so good. If he hadn't come, the big guys wouldn't have dared to run away. When he came, a large number of gentry fled under Zhu Yiyuan's rule.
"It's going to rain, and my mother is going to get married. There are people like Xu Juren who understand things, so there's no need to worry." Zhu Yiyuan's fighting spirit became high, and Song Lian couldn't help but feel inspired.
"Without such a two-pronged thing, it will indeed be better. We would also like to thank Qian Qianyi for helping us dig for gold in the sand, hahaha!"
Zhu Yiyuan didn't think much of it, but there were two to three thousand more people in Sishui County all of a sudden, and they were all gentry people who only ate and did not work. On the first day they came, the meat in Sishui County tripled, and by the second
God, I simply can’t buy it anymore.
Then food prices also skyrocketed. Those scholars who came from poor backgrounds fled to Sishui County, and soon found that they had no place to live, the inns were full, and there was nothing to eat. A bucket of rice was more than five times more expensive than before.
It’s just killing me!
Where have all the businessmen gone?
Why not transport grain to Surabaya?
Just when they were confused, a large number of soldiers wrapped in red scarves appeared outside Sishui County... This chapter has been completed!