This question left the workers, peasants and soldiers silent...

It is indeed the workers, peasants and soldiers.

Although the situation in Zhoushan is special and the number of farmers is relatively small, it actually accounts for one-quarter of the population, and agriculture here is actually quite prosperous.

After adding fishermen, they basically account for half of them.

In fact, the identities of farmers and fishermen here overlap. Many fishermen originally farmed, or it can be said that many farmers also fished.

There are also full-time fishermen.

But these are all under the control of fishermen, and they are more like slave labor.

Among the craftsmen, the main ones are shipbuilding, but most of them are landless farmers in Ningbo and Shaoxing who come here to make a living.

Because of the prosperity of maritime trade, a lot of coolies is needed here. In addition, ship repairs and port construction also require a lot of labor. Inland landless farmers come here at least with cheap sea fish, which can provide a richer source of food than other places, so a large number of young and middle-aged people come to make a living.

They are not strictly craftsmen.

But since there is no land and not a fisherman, all livelihoods are employed by others, and they sell labor for money to make a living, then they can be classified as the same type as the craftsmen.

Then there are soldiers.

The workers, peasants and soldiers combined are more than 90% of the population here.

At this moment, most of them looked at each other in a daze, and it was obvious that this problem was a bit stumping them.

Indeed, this emperor is not a good emperor now. In the past, the people had never felt his goodness. After he ran from Nanjing to Hangzhou, he was like a plague god, causing the lives of the people to take a sharp turn. So this emperor really cannot ask for it, but which emperor does not want this emperor? At present, there are only two emperors in the Ming Dynasty, one in Wanli and the other in Hongguang. Before, Zhejiang was under the Hongguang reign. Speaking of large-scale economic crops to eat people, forcing farmers to lose their land and go to the city to act as coolies. It was the time when Hongguang!

Although Zhejiang was also mulberry and cotton-mixed in the past, it was a long and slow process.

Overseas trade here was not actually prosperous in the past...

The Longqing switch only opens Yuegang, while Guangzhou and Fuzhou are Maritime Trade Divisions, which have vassal states that connect to each other. Guangzhou connects to Luzon and other places. However, the Spanish are named Luzon, and in addition to Portugal, Fuzhou connects to Ryukyu, so Ryukyu once became a powerful maritime trade power. Although Ningbo was also the Maritime Trade Division of the past, it connects to Japan, which specializes in taking over the tribute trade of Japan. The tribute and trade of Japan have long been banned, so before that, whether it is Susong, foreign trade was illegal.

All are smuggling.

Since it is smuggling, it is hard to say how large the export volume is.

But with the emergence of Yang Feng, the court actually collapsed and the local government entered autonomy, so Zhejiang rushed to the ocean with all its might.

The originally slow process of eating people like sheep suddenly began to accelerate madly.

All the gentry were desperately expanding the production capacity of cash crops. Even some of them couldn't wait, they simply sent people to secretly destroy the embankment and flood the wheat fields or rapeseed that their tenants had just survived the winter, and then forced them not to grow rice and switch to cotton or sugar cane to ensure the production of their own yarn mills or sugar mills. Compared with the profits brought by exporting cotton cloth and sugar, the losses of wheat and rapeseed in the first quarter were not worth mentioning, not to mention that these losses were not borne by the gentry.

Does it mean that after flooding the wheat fields, the tenants who have no property have to pay rent?

As for what the tenant eats...

They can sell cotton and sugarcane, and then go to the gentry's grain store to buy grain!

The purchase price is too low and the grain price is too high. The money they earn from growing cash crops is not enough to make the whole family have enough food?

You can go to the gentry's factory to work!

The elderly cannot work?

Go beg for food!

Child……

Well, you can enter the factory at the age of eight.

The poor children are early on becoming a family!

What to do before the age of eight?

Go with the old man to beg for food, believe in the gentry's charity, be poor and rich, and be rich and have a conscience. As long as you go to beg for food, there will definitely be a kind and generous charity who will give you porridge. In short, everything will be arranged clearly for you. You, such poor people, only need to work overtime honestly under the arrangement of the master.

The result of running into capitalism is to completely destroy everything old.

Old production relations.

Old social structure.

Even the old moral system.

The unrestrained free capitalism has forced those who are still accustomed to men's farming and women's weaving to be in a hellish world in chaos and helplessness.

In the past, Zhejiang and Susong were like a machine that was pulled by an old cow, running for thousands of years at a constant speed. Everyone continued their ancestors' lives at this rhythm. Now, this land is like changing an old cow into a steam engine. The whole society is roaring forward at full speed and driving into a brand new world. But the problem is that this thing burns coal, it is not the old cow that just eats grass, and the coal it burns is the lowest-level people. Society is progressing, and they are the ashes burned for progress.

And ashes...

Ashes cannot enjoy the new world.

Ashes can only disappear in the dust of history forever, and then a new batch of coal is born among them, continuing to burn for the beautiful new world of the great men.

"Or can I change the question, why do we have to have an emperor?"

Yang Feng looked at the ashes who had not been burned to ashes.

"But, but, there must be an emperor?"

Tang An said confusedly.

Everyone else who could hear them looked at Yang Feng with the same expression, and the problem was also spreading outward.

"Why must there be an emperor? What can the emperor bring us? Can the emperor let us live a good life? In fact, throughout the ages, no emperor has truly allowed the people to live a good life. At most, it is just how hard the people live, how many years can be eaten, and are corrupt officials unscrupulous?

The older experiences among you have been Shizong, Xiaozong, Hongguang, and Wanli.

Have you ever had a really good life?"

Yang Feng shouted.

"No!"

This time the answer can be said to be very neat.

"Then what is the use of the emperor? He has to pay taxes and support him, and he has to support him with all the royal relatives and build huge palaces for him, which we have no right to set foot on. So why should we raise a guy who is useless to us, but will continue to harm us, and we have to support us every year and trample on us everywhere? If he is useful, we can indeed support him, but he is useless. Moreover, there has been no emperor in the capital over the years. Those militia and the Beijing camp have any meetings and discussing things, and they will be very good in the end.

In other words, we can live a good life without an emperor.

Then why do we have to have an emperor?”

Yang Feng shouted.

"But don't want the emperor, are we still the Ming Dynasty?"

Chen Jin said.

"Is the Ming Dynasty very important? We live in this land, and have lived here for generations. It has been called the Qin Dynasty, the Han Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty. Now it is called the Ming Dynasty. But no matter what it is called, this land is this land. So is the Ming Dynasty very important?

Of course, if you like to call it Daming, you can continue to call it Daming."

Yang Feng said.

"But without an emperor, how should we manage the country?"

asked one person.

"It's very simple, it's still militia. Everything is based on the militia system of the Red Turban Army. Then the workers, peasants and soldiers will elect representatives in a similar way. All major events will be resolved at meetings. The conference will elect a prime minister who will be replaced every five years. This prime minister is responsible for managing the country. However, major events must be approved by the conference. As for the real master of the country, they are naturally all workers, peasants and soldiers.

If you still think there should be a better understanding of the lord of the country, then ask Yang Dashui to be the one, but he is not the emperor, and his Liaodong prince was appointed by the emperor. If we say he is the subject of the Liaodong king, he is also the subject of the emperor, but we just drove him away, so this is not suitable. In this way, we can give the lord of the lord of the lord of the country, a title that we recognize can replace the real lord of the country, that is, workers, peasants and soldiers, and give orders.

But he is not the emperor, he is just what we invited.

If we are unwilling to accept him again, we can also ask him to leave.

In this way…”

Yang Feng pondered for a moment.

There was a look of looking up around.

"How about asking him to protect the Duke of the Country?

The real master of the country is the workers, peasants and soldiers. The workers, peasants and soldiers invited Yang to protect the country, so he was given a respectful title of Duke of Protecting the Country. As long as we still accept him, he can be Duke of Protecting the Country for the rest of his life. The Prime Minister manages state affairs. The General Assembly of Workers, Peasants and Soldiers elects the Prime Minister, formulates laws and taxes, and the Army belongs to the General Assembly of Workers, Peasants and Soldiers, and the Duke of Protecting the Army to protect the people.

But the real master of the country must be workers, peasants and soldiers, and the Duke of Protecting the Country is not the Emperor."

Yang Feng said.

"Then why not let the Duke of the National Guard serve as the Prime Minister?"

Chen Jin shouted.

"If the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers Congress agrees, of course."

Yang Feng said with a smile.

The workers, peasants and soldiers immediately became excited...

This seems to be really good. Without the emperor, there is no need to support the emperor, let alone the royal family. This means that one of the heaviest burdens in the past is gone. But if there is no monarch, everyone will always feel that there is something short of it, and the Duke of the National Guard will do it. Then, the Duke of the National Guard will command the army and manage the country. The Workers, Peasants and Soldiers Conference has the right to replace people. Taxes and laws are also formulated by the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers Conference. In this way, you will not be afraid of corrupt officials. At worst, you will learn from the Ming Dynasty and restore corruption and skinning.

Very beautiful!

As for whether this is possible to manage the country...

This problem is not a problem at all. Isn’t this how the Beijing Left-behind Department, the current Deputy Marshal of Nanjing, and the Nanjing Commune managed?

People still manage it very well.

Therefore, an emperor is not essential at all, and a country without an emperor can be established.

"So now tell me, do you want the emperor?"

Yang Feng shouted.

"don't want!"

"Don't want the emperor!"

...

There was a burst of excitement around.
Chapter completed!