Chapter 278 Land Issue
He Tengjiao was rescued, and the governor of Huguang was re-controlled. The next thing was very simple. Five thousand soldiers of the governor of Zhu Youlang and Zhu Changqing attacked the pseudo-governor of Zhu Youlang and Zhu Changqing. The guard of the royal palace, which was only one thousand people, was He Tengjiao's opponent of the Pseudo-governornorn? Soon after, the pseudo-governornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornornor
"Zhongyong wait for your life! Zhongyong wait for your life! We are descendants of the Zhu family of the Ming Dynasty. You can't kill us!" Zhu Youlang and Zhu Changqing knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, just like these two people in time and space, they were as greedy as they were in life and fear of death.
These two guys are all things that are greedy for life and fear death in the original historical time and space.
Zhu Youlang was the Emperor Yongli in the original time and space. No matter how Li Dingguo helped him, he could not help him up. Later, at the critical moment of anti-Qing, this guy left the Daxi Army and Zhongzhen Camp that was trying to protect the Ming Dynasty. He fled to Myanmar in Nanshou, but was cursed and sent all the water to the pot. This led to the two pillars of the Ming Dynasty, Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong, who died of illness in despair, and the Southern Ming Dynasty came to an end, causing China to fall into a dark period of nearly three hundred years.
Zhu Changqing was also a man with no moral integrity. After the destruction of the Hongguang Dynasty, the Qing army arrived at the city of Hangzhou. Zhu Changqing surrendered without fighting despite the opposition of the crowd. He opened the city gate and sacrificed his life to the Qing army. However, the surrender did not save his life. He was finally taken to Yanjing by the Qing army and beheaded together with Zhu Yousong, King De and others.
Zhao Peng sneered repeatedly: "What's the use of keeping the wastes? King Lu and King Tang can still raise an army in Shandong to stop Jiannu. But you only know internal strife and dare not face the Jiannu army! Keeping such wastes is a waste of food!"
When Zhu Youlang and Zhu Changqing heard this, their hearts suddenly tightened, and they collapsed on the ground, and their pants were wet.
But he heard Zhao Peng say, "But what you said is right. You are descendants of the Zhu family and I have no right to deal with it. You still need to take it back to Nanjing and hand it over to the clan's office for disposal!"
I heard that I could survive for the time being, these two guys got up from the ground and kowtowed to thank me repeatedly: "Thank you for not killing me for not killing me! Thank you for not killing me for not killing me!"
"Prepare it and put it in prison!" Zhao Peng turned his head and shouted.
Then Zhao Peng sent a call to He Tengjiao: "He Governor He, the Huguang Governor's Office should have been in Wuchang, but you are in Nanning. I wonder when the Supervisor will return to Wuchang to take charge of the overall military and political situation?"
"The loyal and brave man has quelled the rebellion of Zuo Menggeng and put down the rebellion of the two kings. The subordinates will return to Wuchang today." He Tengjiao hurriedly saluted.
Next, we have to prepare to escort Zhu Youlang and Zhu Changqing back to Nanjing. The fastest means of transportation in this era is the ship. Zhao Peng ordered the collection of ships near Nanning and prepared to take the boat down the Yong River first, enter the Xijiang River, and arrive in Guangzhou. At the same time, we sent someone to contact Zheng Zhilong from Fujian and asked them to send a fleet to Guangzhou to pick him up, and then return to Nanjing by sea.
Inland river boats have shallow drift and poor resistance to wolfs. The ships sailing on the Xijiang River cannot enter the sea, so they need to change their boats in Guangzhou.
Zhao Peng called Ma Jinzhong and Wang Yuncheng again: "Two generals, the rebellion of the two kings has been quelled. The two generals were originally stationed in Huguang. I hope the two generals can set off and lead the army back to Wuchang. You will be stationed in Wuchang, Jiujiang and Nanchang in the future."
The suppression of the two kings does not mean that the situation in the southern Ming Dynasty controlled the area has stabilized. Guangxi, Panyuan (now Hunan), Guizhou and Yunnan have actually implemented the chieftain system. According to Zhao Peng's plan, the chieftain system must be abolished, and in the end it is necessary to change the land and return to the current. On the one hand, the central government's control over the southwest ethnic minority areas is strengthened, and on the other hand, it is also to promote ethnic integration in the southwest region and liberate those ethnic slaves who were bullied by chieftains.
In the future, the serfs who were liberated can be said to be turning over and singing. However, changing the land and returning to the current will not happen overnight. This kind of full planning requires a long time. Zhao Peng must first develop his military strength, defeat the Qing Dynasty first, and then pacify Dashun and Daxi. Only after unifying the world can he make the next consideration.
Zuo Menggeng's treason incident and the two kings' rebellion gave Zhao Peng a great opportunity, and there were many articles to do. There must be many people involved in such a big rebellion incident.
Zhao Peng called Wang Quan and others to tell them: "According to the investigation of our Jinyiwei, many local gentry and civil servants in Huguang secretly supported Zuo Menggeng's treason, and many civil servants secretly supported the rebellion of the two kings. We must seize the opportunity to deal with this matter and rectify the traitors involved! Huguang is a place where food is produced, and Huguang is well-versed in the world. We can take this opportunity to confiscate the land of the gentry involved and turn these fields into imperial villages!"
After these words, the gentry and civil servants in Huguang and other places became very bad. From then on, their land was confiscated and turned into imperial villages. They were also put in prison. The ill-gotten wealth that the ancestors plundered by the court's policy loopholes for generations was gone. They and their descendants were all reduced to prisoners and sent to various mines as coolies.
Human society is about to enter the era of industrialization, and the landlord system, as an old system that lags behind the times, will sooner or later disappear. As for the gentry groups in Jiangnan, they have seen the dividends of industry and commerce. They are actively changing from the landlord class to the bourgeoisie. Zhao Peng will naturally encourage this spontaneous change.
However, the landlords in Huguang and other places held their land tightly and refused to let go, so let the court help them let go! Just as Zuo Menggeng and the two kings had given the Jinyiwei this opportunity, they would take action!
If it were the small landlords, rich peasants and others who rely on the hard work of generations to earn their industries, Zhao Peng would naturally not do the same as them. After all, labor is glorious to get rich. What Zhao Peng wants to crack down on the civil servants and gentry groups that became rich by relying on loopholes in the court's previous policies. What people with fame and fortune do not pay taxes? Such poor are the country.
People with fame and fortune do not pay taxes, which strengthens class solidification. No matter how hard ordinary people work, they cannot change their destiny. This is very unfair. Although Zhao Peng does not require the world to be completely fair, it is impossible. His ancestors have been lazy for generations, and eating, drinking, gambling for tickets has led to poverty for generations, and those poor deserve it.
However, some people cannot live a good life no matter how hard they work; while some people are born with a golden key in their hearts, and they can eat, drink, and bet on their own. They can live a luxurious life for the rest of their lives. This is too unfair. Therefore, these unfair phenomena must be broken.
Before, because Huguang was under Zuo Liangyu's control, the imperial decrees could not reach Huguang or Guangdong and Guangxi. Now with the destruction of the Zuo family army and the rebellion of the two kings, the Han areas of Huguang and Guangdong and Guangxi have basically been under the control of the imperial court.
According to Zhao Peng's idea, he would encourage the small landlords and rich peasants who got rich in labor in Huguang and other places to teach them the new farm farm farming methods in Jiangnan, and then improve farm tools and improve production efficiency. He gradually turned these small landlords and rich peasants into farmers, while their tenants became agricultural workers and gradually operated on a farm in advance.
At present, Guangdong is actually a southern barbarian land that is difficult to convey in the imperial court's orders. Many of the local officials are local emperors.
In Guangdong, the biggest bully known to Zhao Peng is the Yuan family. With the convenience of someone from the Yuan family serving as a supervisor in Liaodong in the early years, the Yuan family plundered a lot of wealth. However, when Yuan Dudu was made into a piece of skin duck by Chongzhen, his property was transferred by the Yuan family, and Chongzhen did not get any benefits at all.
This time when passing by Guangdong, Zhao Peng planned to uproot the Yuan family's power.
In fact, Guangdong does not have much land income. After all, Guangdong has few land and many people, so it is difficult to make money by relying on land. Guangdong's main income is still industry and commerce.
Chapter completed!