Qiming 1158

Chapter 1174 Ming's liquidation action

However, although there are such a group of soft eggs in Quanzhou who see through the current situation and choose to lie down, there are even more businessmen who are unwilling to give up their hard-earned property no matter what.

In any case, they cannot convince themselves to give up their interests and choose to live on.

The Ming army is indeed strong, and the Ming kingdom is indeed tough, but can we really just lie down and accept this outcome?
No, never!

People who are unwilling to accept this situation get together in twos and threes, determine their intentions from the people around them, find friends who are willing to rebel, and then find more friends to form an alliance, and strive to wrestle with the Ministry of Finance of the Ming Dynasty.

If you want land, look for those old and wealthy landlords in the countryside, don't come to us!

What commercial land, agricultural land, etc., do not want us to accept it!
Cutting off people's fortunes is like killing one's parents. Killing one's parents is a mortal hatred, and a mortal hatred is imposed on me. Do you still want me to compromise?

At the same time that the businessmen secretly carried out a series of connections, Su Yonglin ordered the administrative and judicial officials selected by the Ministry of Officials of the Imperial Court and the Central Organization Department of the Renaissance Association to arrive in Quanzhou and Guangzhou one after another and began to set up government departments to officially take over the power of the original Quanzhou government in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Quanzhou prefecture, county and county governments have been put in place one after another, and the establishment of the rural government led by the Renaissance Association has also been carried out simultaneously.

Compared with the calmness of the Quanzhou prefectural government and the county governments, the establishment of the rural government appears to be quite "passionate".

Quanzhou is not only a port, but also has several counties and a large number of old and wealthy landlords. Some of them are involved in maritime trade, while others are not, but the common point is that they have a lot of land and a lot of land. tenant.

They are not just landlords.

Except for some people who have been able to join the maritime trade industry because of their extensive hands and eyes, most of the landowners have low status and cannot get a share of the pie.

However, it is not their character to watch others make money. After thinking about it, the low-status landowners and old wealthy found another way to make money from Quanzhou's huge commercial population by supplying living materials and operating the catering and accommodation industry.

In normal times, the old wealthy landlords obtained a huge amount of rice, meat, vegetables and fruits by oppressing and exploiting the tenants.

Then, make money by providing these materials to the huge commercial population in Quanzhou - no matter how much money you have, you must have a meal, right?
Because Quanzhou has developed commerce and a lot of hot money inflows, the price is not cheaper than Lin'an. The old wealthy landlords make money by selling daily necessities to provide logistics, but they also drink a few sips of thick broth behind the business geniuses, which is quite comfortable.

At the same time, they also operate the accommodation industry. They also make a lot of money by building high-quality merchant hotels for merchants to live in and providing high-value-added services.

Of course, not everyone can build a high-quality hotel for a high-quality business population. Only a big landlord with a certain network of contacts can do it.

Small and medium-sized landowners lack personal connections, but they also have a lot of money, and do not want to miss the opportunity to make money. What should I do?

Then, the relatively low-priced plots are acquired in and outside the urban area of ​​the non-core area of ​​the port city, and then a rental house of average quality or even a grass house of lower quality is built, and then leased to a larger number of ordinary commercial population and even the port. coolies to earn relatively cheap rent.

When people eat meat, they also have to drink soup and smack their mouths.
No matter how small mosquito legs are, they are also meat and protein. Some of them are good to eat. Why do you need a bicycle?
The foreign business population creates a lot of wealth in Quanzhou and eats big meat.

The local big landowners are responsible for providing high-quality logistics and eating small meat.

Local small and medium-sized landowners are responsible for providing general logistics and drinking broth.

They all have great and bright futures.

Then the Ming Dynasty entered Quanzhou.

The revival members took the army and scattered into the vast villages, eradicated the old and wealthy landlords through violent means, occupied the villages widely, and then announced that the tenants were liberated, and they could get the land they dreamed of and become the users of the land. No more harsh exploitation and oppression.

They were liberated.

The landowners and wealthy people in Quanzhou do have relatively powerful forces, and they will never give up their own interests easily, but in front of the Ming army, everything is in vain.

The victorious Ming kingdom no longer needs the cooperation of these old and rich landlords.

The newly arrived Quanzhou officials waited for a while after promulgating the land reform and redemption policy, and found that few old landlords actively cooperated with the government, but there were a large number of old landlords who were armed.

Officials issue an ultimatum to them, and all that awaits is hostile arrows.

There is nothing to say, their attitude is very clear.

What are you waiting for?Liquidate directly!
When the officials went south, there were also a group of musketeers who went south, in order to strengthen the military force of the Ming Kingdom to deter local areas and show the strength of the Ming Kingdom.

Zhou Mancheng was very interested in these musketeers, so he sent them to fight the old landlords who were violently resisting the land reform.

The musketeers advanced step by step, the muskets in their hands spit fire tongues and smoke, and smashed lead bullets into the body of the rebels, showing no mercy to the rebels.

In the face of the more fortified farm walls, artillery came into play.

The sound of rumbling has been ringing, and the pace of the Ming army is steadily advancing.

In the face of the power of the new era, the insects of the old era have no way to escape, and they cannot stop the progress of the new era at all.

Quanzhou's deep-rooted local landlords and old wealth collapsed under the resolute attack of the Ming army.

After that, the revival members raised their voices to call on the angry, yellow-faced and skinny peasants to rise up to resist, tearing apart the remaining forces of the landlords and wealthy people.

In the fields where there were only peasant corpses in the past, gallows were erected one after another, and the corpses of old landlords were hung on the gallows and fluttered in the wind.

"Who says we can only starve and freeze? Who says we are born lowly? All men are created equal, who dares to stand tall? Now that the struggle has begun, there are only two paths before us, victory or defeat! We have to Tell these high-ranking men with practical actions, tell them! Failure does not belong to us!"

The passionate and experienced revival members raised their arms, aroused the emotions of all the onlookers, and guided this fiery emotion to burn out the entire old order.

Everything they do next is familiar to them. When the Organization Department of the Renaissance Society selects talents for the south, they select veteran Renaissance members with at least three years of grass-roots work experience.

One is counted as one, and they are all experts in grass-roots work.

A brand-new ruling order was established in Quanzhou. Village peasant associations and township peasant associations were established one after another, reaching out to the county and state officials in place, and immediately began to restore the supply of urban living materials.

It's just that this time the main suppliers are no longer the landlords and the wealthy, but the village and township peasant associations managed by farmers.

As a result, the bottom peasants finally for the first time truly enjoyed the era dividends and policy dividends that they could have eaten.

They really got the money.

The thunderous actions of the Ming army shocked more than one person. The local and foreign businessmen in Quanzhou City watched as the Ming army and officials of the Ming Dynasty pacified Quanzhou with unpredictable speed.

The merchants didn't know everything completely, but they basically knew that the Ming army had gone to the countryside and killed all the real landlords and old wealthy who dared to resist.

The clearing action of the Ming Kingdom was clearly displayed in front of them, without concealing it at all, and it appeared to be open and aboveboard.

Originally, the businessmen also tried to cooperate with their familiar landlords and veterans to fight against the invasion of the Ming Kingdom, but they never imagined that such a plot would unfold.

What else do they want to do?

Do they dare to do anything?

Lin Jingchun didn't care what they thought, Lin Jingchun went directly to Lin'an, found Shen Gai, and asked him to sign a contract.

The treaty on the need to pay customs duties when merchants from Jiangnan countries normally enter Quanzhou and Guangzhou to do foreign trade business.

The treaty stipulates the amount of tariffs of different grades that different commodities need to pay when merchants from Jiangnan countries enter Quanzhou, Guangzhou and other places to do foreign trade business.

Every Jiangnan merchant must abide by this rule, otherwise, Daming has the right to bypass the Jiangnan government and directly deal with Jiangnan merchants who do not pay tariffs.

(End of this chapter)