Chapter 333 Dare to ask the sun and moon to change the sky
In Xichuan County.
"Look, look at them!"
On the Drum Tower, Liu Zhizhou pointed at the tied Li Yi and several captured horse bandits.
They were all held down and kneeling there, with signs like those of death row prisoners stuck on their bodies. As for Harding and the severed heads of the horse bandits, they were hung around the Drum Tower, like a circle of eye-catching embellishments.
“Do you think you can really live a good life if the fields are given to you?
This is not enough.
You still have to be able to keep your fields.
Look at them, they will come back to rob them. They will even collude with bandits, local tyrants and evil gentry, and corrupt officials, and then they will work together to take back your fields. You have to work together to keep your fields. Look at these bandits.
The heads were cut off by the common people with hoes. They cut off the heads of those who dared to rob their fields, and they kept their own fields.
So do you.
Good times are never given by others. What others give you is not yours, but what you grab with both hands is yours.
What you protect with your hoe is yours.
The day someone tries to rob your fields again, you have to pick up a hoe and dig off his head."
Liu Zhizhou shouted immediately.
Then the people roared excitedly.
Therefore, bandits like Li Yi are very useful and can be used to inspire the people's fighting spirit.
After all, for these common people who had just been divided into gentry lands, what they feared most was that the descendants of the latter who had escaped would come back and snatch them away. Originally, they were just worried, but Li Yi happened to tell them that this would indeed happen.
Moreover, these descendants of the gentry would use the most cruel method to bring the bandits back directly. Those young and strong people who died in battle could be said to have made the common people feel the same hatred for the enemy. At this moment, even if they had conflicts or grudges on weekdays, they immediately put them aside.
He faced these gentry sons with the same indignation.
What Liu Wen needs is to use this emotion to start his next plan.
Of course, he did not just want to divide the land of the gentry. In fact, these people have long established a consistent world view, a consistent ideal, and a consistent plan for the future through Yang Feng's long-term education. It can be said that they are a group with a common world view and
ideal political bloc.
Six years.
From the age of twelve or thirteen, they have been under the new education, studying the teaching materials jointly written by Yang Feng and Sister Liu, and growing up in the world created by these two people.
Six years is enough time to grow into what Yang Feng wants.
Now is the time to take action.
Dividing the land is only the first step. The most important thing is to establish a military system based on the equalization of land and a comprehensive reserve military system. After the gentry who farm and study and inherit the family are kicked off, the agricultural levy army must be established to farm and fight to build the country. Yang
The Ming Dynasty in the ambassador's design is to quickly create tens of millions of reserve corps based on the equalization of land system, so that all young and middle-aged people can be militarized. Then it will gradually spread outwards. After all, the equalization of land system is always best used in the early stage.
, but as the population reproduces, problems will soon arise, that is, there will not be enough fertile land for the newly growing young adults.
You can still open up wasteland in the early stage, but soon the surrounding wasteland will be insufficient.
The Ming Dynasty has a population of 60 million. This population base, under the current concept of having more children and more blessings, will grow very quickly once it begins to transition into a peaceful and prosperous era.
It is not a problem to build a big country in one year.
At that time, unless the amount of farmland per person is reduced on the original basis and a new round of distribution is carried out, there will inevitably be a surplus labor force lacking good farmland.
Industry and commerce can accommodate part of it.
But in this era, industry and commerce could only accommodate a limited population.
Industrialization is indeed necessary.
but……
Industrialization is a long process!
Even if Yang Feng can quickly start industrialization through technological innovation, he will still have to face market problems.
Is there such a big market to digest it?
In the early days of British industrialization, there were only a few hundred thousand workers in the textile industry. Because the cloth produced did not have enough market digestion, the fleet had to use artillery to blast open the doors of each country, and then destroy the original handicraft industries of these countries to accommodate the British.
Machine-produced cloth.
What now?
Is there a market to digest industrialization?
If we jump to the steam age, the world's current population will only have a consumption capacity of one million workers at most. Even if we don't enter industrialization and just popularize water conservancy mechanization, the world's population will be able to maintain an industry of less than five million.
Population. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Jiangnan relied only on handicrafts and a small amount of hydraulic machinery, and the Luzon natives had forgotten how to weave cloth. The large amount of cloth completely destroyed the Luzon native handicrafts, and even sold the cloth to the Indians.
A Shengze man dares to say that when the sun rises, thousands of horses will be clothed and quilted all over the world.
Because the scale of the textile industry in Jiangnan was so large, the traditional textile area of Luxi basically had no textile industry, and it was purely used to transport cotton to Jiangnan. It was not until the Qing Dynasty killed Jiangnan and killed Luxi.
The textile industry has just begun to recover.
Therefore, the number of people that industry and commerce can absorb in this era is really not worth mentioning in the face of the explosive growth of population after the equalization of land.
It also depends on the land.
Keep developing.
Because the land equalization system left the newly growing population with no place to live, they were encouraged in various ways to move them further away.
Therefore, farmers with military capabilities will leave their hometowns for generations, embark on pioneering roads, take root in all the land that can be reclaimed, and become the owners of these lands. Then they will also become new consumers, supporting larger-scale production in the rear.
Industrialization, but due to the land equalization system in the mainland, there has never been land annexation, and the collapse caused by land annexation in previous dynasties has been avoided.
This is a systematic theory that is unanimously supported by all new graduates from Mount Wutai.
"Today, I have made the decision. All those who have been allocated fields will be organized into volunteers as volunteers.
A village is a team.
All young and strong people who can pick up swords and guns are included.
It is true that the common people cannot use firearms, but bows and crossbows are approved by Emperor Taizu Gao, and bow and arrow clubs in various places are also approved by Emperor Taizu Gao. Therefore, I have decided to give you a crossbow for every three young men. Those who can use bows and arrows will be given.
Your bows and arrows. However, these bows and crossbows belong to the government and cannot be given to you for free. You can use the prey you shoot to repay the price. The price will be determined by the official. You must repay part of it every year. It can be divided into five or ten years. If there is not enough prey,
You have to use food. When you gather enough, it will be yours.
The same applies to arrows, and you are also allowed to repay them in installments.
This place is close to mountains, and there is no shortage of wild beasts in the mountains and forests. As long as you use it skillfully, even a tiger can be killed with a crossbow."
Liu Wen said.
This way you can force them to practice.
After receiving the crossbow, they must practice it. If they don't practice, they have to hand in food every year. So as long as it is more cost-effective to hand over prey than food, they must practice.
As for these prey, of course they can be canned, such as canned tiger meat and canned bear meat. It should not be difficult to sell these at high prices in cities far away from the mountains.
The arrows used for practice also require a mortgage...
Well, it's a mortgage.
This was developed by Liu Wen's good friend, a Jinshi in mathematics, and he just borrowed it. Unless they were lucky enough to hunt large beasts like tigers for him, they could only practice every year and then go into the mountains to hunt.
Use these prey to repay the price of the bow and crossbow. As for the endless hunting of wild beasts in the mountains, here is the vast Qinling Mountains to the west, and this strategy will not last long. The use of bows and crossbows is an emergency, and they will be allowed to use firearms in the future.
And firearms are also mortgaged.
The government gives it away for free and gives it to the people first, and then repays part of the value every year.
The people in front of him had no objections, because these were all divided into fields. It could be said that Li Yi's returning regiment was causing panic among them. This time, it was thanks to Liu Zhizhou's command and his personal leadership of the Jinyi Guards to kill the enemy.
. But in the next Qingzhang, he cannot personally participate in every place. If the gentry who have been assigned land come back with bandits like Li Yi, how can the peasants without weapons resist them? Now the magistrate is willing to provide them for free
The crossbows would save their lives. As for collecting some things, of course it was necessary. These crossbows belonged to the government and were not his own.
“A camp is set up above the team level, one battalion is set up in each township, and the officer appoints the battalion commander.
In the future, no matter which village encounters bandits, they can raise the beacon as a signal, and the battalion commander will lead other teams of volunteers to go to the rescue. Just like this time, there are only more than a hundred horse bandits. If there are thousands of volunteers in the same village, it will be nothing more than a random attack of arrows.
It's just a matter of shooting, not only those who have been allocated fields, but other villages can also join."
Liu Wen said.
"Liu Zhizhou, who gave you this power? You are just a civil servant. How dare you gather troops without authorization? Aren't you afraid of being suspected of treason?"
At this moment, there was an angry shout.
Liu Wen raised his head and looked at several officials riding towards him. The leader was a red-robed civil servant.
"Who is this superior officer?"
he said.
"The old and decrepit Henan Chief Minister Si Zuo Councilor Ouyang Yigong."
said the latter.
"Ouyang Gong is from Jishui, right? As far as the official knows, Jishui has become a rebel. Ouyang Gong's family has become a rebel, and the clan has become a rebel. He is not worried about being suspected of being a rebel. The official is just teaching the villagers how to deal with bandits.
How can we worry about being suspected of treason when we are self-protecting? Emperor Taizu Gao has already made it clear to the world that bows and crossbows are allowed to be kept to guard against thieves, so how can a lower-ranking official gather troops without authorization?
If you think the title "Yiyong" is inappropriate, then change it to the Bow and Arrow Club. Isn't it too much to have one bow and arrow club for each village?"
Liu Wen said.
He doesn't care about the legal issues surrounding volunteerism.
The key is that Zhu Yuanzhang has long made the law, and all cold weapons are prohibited. As long as these volunteers don't wear armor, there is no violation of the law, but the thick cotton coats they wear definitely don't count as armor.
They pressed the cotton to be stronger, it must be just to keep warm.
Ouyang Yigong was stunned for a moment.
"Ah, it seems that Mr. Ouyang still doesn't know about the news about Jishui's rebellion."
Liu Wen said with a smile.
Not only Jishui, but also Ganzhou Prefecture and most of Ji'an Prefecture have switched to Jianwen. The main reason is that Yang Feng didn't care about such distant places during this period, and after Tie Xuan's petition to the land law, it was already clear that he would do this. What about Ji'an Prefecture?
Haven't the gentry made preparations early? They are definitely unable to resist. Instead of waiting for Yang Feng to complete the layout, they might as well quickly introduce Jianwen and let the latter send troops to protect themselves. Anyway, when Yang Feng goes south to attack, they will not be able to sit still and wait for death. They should surrender early.
Jianwen, asked Jianwen to send troops to Ganzhou and Ji'an, and then build a defense system on the Ganjiang River, so that they did not have to spend their own money. After all, in order to prevent Yang Feng from going south, the Guangdong gentry had to pay at least a large part.
Instead of joining Jianwen, Yang Feng went south to divide the land. The gentry in Ji'an Prefecture and Ganzhou Prefecture wanted to resist, but they had to pay for the preparations before that.
To seek refuge with Jianwen is a matter for the Jianwen court.
Why should the two governments pay for it?
We are a whole, a court. Of course, the court pays for it, or in other words, Annan, Guangdong and Guangxi, which is currently controlled by the Jianwen court, pays for it together.
It is said that the gentry in Ganzhou and Guangzhou are indeed a little jealous when they see the gentry in Guangzhou making money from overseas trade.
As for the Queen's court, there is no real defense in these two places.
Even relying on a few guard posts, of course the latter had no need to resist when faced with the bribery of the Jianwen court.
In fact, the key point is that the empress created by Yang Feng is a bit ruinous. Whether it is the generals of the guards who oppose his public land law from an interest point of view, or those who are emotionally loyal to the Zhu family, they are all very dissatisfied with it. Everyone understands that he has created a queen.
The real purpose of becoming the empress was to control the imperial court and then one day steal the country. The generals of the guards like Nan Gan were not familiar with him. No matter how you put it, Zhu Yunwen was the direct descendant of the Zhu family.
At least he won't let the Zhu family be usurped by outsiders!
The final result was that Ganzhou and Ji'an collectively defected and fell into the arms of the Jianwen Dynasty.
And this is just the beginning, because the stimulation of the Public Land Law, especially Yang Feng’s blatant encouragement of his minions to copy the gentry’s land, has already caused those gentry in Fuzhou and counties that bordered the Jianwen Dynasty to start turning to Jianwen. After all, they were still following before.
The court, just because Jianwen's future is not very bright, and the two sides are not fighting at this time, they can just wait and see. Or maybe they still have some illusions about the court, but now they still have such nonsense, and they are starting to play bandits.
This has made it clear that the landed gentry is to be destroyed, so the latter no longer need to sit on the fence and wait and see.
Hurry and defect to their Holy Lord Mingjun!
The Jianwen Dynasty tested eight-legged essays and Confucian classics, employed Confucian scholars, respected the power of the gentry, opened up maritime trade, and was lenient to the generals of the guards, and allowed them to exploit military households as they pleased. How can such a holy master and wise king continue to follow Yang Feng if he does not surrender?
evildoer?
It is said that at this time, rumors came out that the eldest princess of Hanshan was possessed by a fox demon, that Yang Feng and the Queen Mother were living in discord, and that the Queen was even his offspring.
The land gentry of the Ming Dynasty were completely abandoning Yang Feng.
Liu Wen knew this news because the bank in Xiangyang learned about it through the banking system, and the Henan Chief Envoy wanted to know, so he had to go through the capital.
The time is at least three days late.
"Xu Zhizhou, don't talk nonsense. You can't talk nonsense about this matter."
A green-robed official beside Ouyang Yigong shouted.
"How dare I, a small provincial governor, make such a joke with the chief envoy and counselor? Mr. Ouyang, I wonder how you can face such a thing as Sang Zi's rebellion?"