Qiming 1158

Chapter 738 The second wave of peasant uprising broke out (plus one more)
Even if the emperor's mountains and rivers are exhausted, the landlord's family will not have no surplus food.

All revival members know this.

So they are very angry and very aware of this lie.

"The main family has a maximum of dozens of people, including the servants and nursing homes, there are more than [-] people. They have received so much food from you, but they can't eat enough? Do you believe this?"

Xu Tong said angrily: "Is there a word that you can trust in the mouths of the landlords and gentry? Not a word! All they ask for is more rent, and they want to squeeze us to death! Let us not be full or starve to death, In this way, they will obediently be their bulls and horses, and spend their whole lives working hard for them to spend their days and drinks!"

Xu Tong listed the taxes that farmers in the Southern Song Dynasty had to pay on the surface and the taxes they actually paid, and told the villagers how much taxes they paid, where these taxes went, and who had embezzled them.

The villagers looked at each other in dismay. It was the first time they heard about such a thing. They felt at a loss and puzzled, and felt that everything in the past had suddenly become very unfamiliar.

After talking about the agricultural tax, Xu Tong said about the salt tax.

"Is it difficult for you to eat salt? Do you think salt is expensive?"

"Of course!"

When it comes to this, the villagers seem to have more complaints than grain, saying that salt is too expensive, too bitter, of poor quality, and difficult to buy.

Others said that they had bought cheaper private salt and the quality was better, so they did not want to buy official salt since then.

But sometimes the government is very strict, and they even have to go to the house to check the salt used. When they see the white salt, they say it is private salt, and they should be punished. Only the salt that is bitter and yellow with a bit of moisture is official salt.

The official salt and the private salt were unexpectedly separated in this way!
After hearing this, Xu Tong nodded and said, "Then do you know that in the Ming Kingdom, the same pound of salt can be sold for [-] cents in the place where the salt price is the highest, and the salt near the salt-producing area is sold for [-] cents. The price is often only five or six cents?"

"How many?"

When the villagers heard this, they were all stunned. One or two seemed to have heard something very unbelievable, and their faces were full of disbelief.

"Isn't it unbelievable? But this is true. The price of salt in Ming is so cheap. Do you know why you buy salt so expensive?"

Xu Tong said with a smile: "[-]% of the price of a pound of salt is tax, even more than [-]%, it's all tax, because everyone has to eat salt, and thanks to the salt tax, the high-ranking people in the imperial court got it. Extremely rich money, spend time and drink, do whatever you want!

On the other hand, in the Ming Dynasty, the farmers of Ming Dynasty would not worry about eating salt at all. Buying salt is a common thing. It is not only cheap, but also of good quality. It doesn't taste like salt, and in Ming Dynasty, there is no such situation, I even think the taste of Ming people is too heavy. "

The villagers listened to these things beyond their imagination, they were dazed, they were puzzled, and they could not help but imagine.

Xu Tong will explain that His Majesty the Emperor sent his subordinates to go to various places to establish peasant associations, not only to distribute land to farmers, but also to provide farmers with houses and farm tools, and to allocate livestock for production as much as possible, so that farmers can quickly resume production. .

Not counting the resumption of production, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty also let the instructors of the peasant association teach everyone to read for free. Many farmers followed the instructors to learn to read during the production gap, from illiterate to semi-literate, and then from semi-literate to literacy.

Ming officials never dared to beat and scold their subordinates and people, because it was strictly forbidden. If such a thing happened, the local judicial officials would teach him to be a man, and he would lose his position, power, and even his freedom.

His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty would also send specialized purchasers to purchase grain and other crops from farmers in the countryside, all of them were given innocent copper coins. After the purchase was completed, the tax collectors came, and the farmers would pay taxes with copper coins instead of food. , and do not have to pay damage fees.

People in many places in Ming Dynasty can eat two meals a day. They are dry meals. They can eat their stomachs, but they will not be hungry. Dry rice is absolutely edible.

His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty also sent people to build water conservancy projects in various places. Many water conservancy projects have been renovated or built from scratch. It has become much easier for ordinary people to irrigate the land. to irrigate the fields.

There are too many to mention.

What Xu Tong chose were the benefits that ordinary people could really enjoy after the change in the imperial policy, and how many times easier their lives were after they were liberated.

They are no longer bent over by the burdens of life, with smiles on their faces and longing for the future in their eyes.

With Xu Tong's remarks, the villagers who lived in the big net compiled by the Southern Song Dynasty seemed to have different ideas.

Xu Tong described the Ming Kingdom as a shining beacon, letting everyone know that the Ming Kingdom is there, and everything that should be there is there. life.

This is bound to bring some changes to the stagnant situation of these farmers.

When Zhao Yucheng and his [-] comrades tried their best to develop the strength of the peasant army in Luoxiao Mountains, the Southern Song Dynasty was not unresponsive.

Because the peasant army launched an uprising in Jizhou, destroyed the defenses of four county towns in a row, killed hundreds of officials, and even killed the Jizhou Zhijun, and Jizhou was in chaos. This change caused a large-scale chain reaction.

Zhao Yucheng decisively led the peasant army to the south and west, and entered the Luoxiao Mountain area for business operations, but Jizhou, which had destroyed the ruling order by them, did not calm down because of this.

The peasants who did not catch the first wave of rebellion did not stop there.

It was not too late for Longxing House to know that there was a rebellion, and it was known at the end of April.

They immediately sent people to investigate and learned that there was a rebellion on Jiangnan West Road, which swept across four counties, but the rebel peasant army quickly left the rebel area, and it is said that it went all the way south, but the exact direction is unknown.

Is this still available?

A rebel army killed so many officials, destroyed four counties, and then disappeared. What is this?
Gotta find out what happened!
Longxing officials continued to send people to track them, and then went to inspect the four damaged counties. They found a place of chicken feathers. They were very annoyed. Then they learned that the rebel army seemed to have escaped into the mountains and disappeared without a trace.

Luoxiao Mountain is a vast area, and the terrain is very complex and fragmented. It is really difficult to find out what happened inside and where the rebels are.

Since they have no further military action, there is no need to call in a large army for the time being. What is in front of them is a piece of chicken feathers, and they urgently need someone to deal with it and wipe their buttocks, so the Longxing House only dispatched some small troops and small troops. Officials and small officials were responsible for wiping their butts, stationed in four counties swept away by the peasant army.

Apart from sending people into Luoxiao Mountain to inquire about the news, they did not take any further action.

Someone asked the officials of Jiangnan West Road if they wanted to tell Lin'an the news, but this suggestion was also rejected.

Because the news of the Ming army going south to threaten Lin'an spread to these places, the Ming army was victorious, and the Song army was defeated like a mountain. Preparations for the emperor's death.

At that time, they all felt that Lin'an could not be saved, how could they have the time to deal with the local [small-scale] rebellion?
Their main energy is also on the Ming-Song War, so they will not send news to Lin'an for the time being, and they will digest the rebellion internally, maintain local stability, and do not continue to cause chaos.

What to do next will have to wait until the situation of the Ming-Song War becomes clear.

If the imperial court is still there, I will pass the news to Lin'an, and then let's say whether to send troops to suppress the bandits or to appease them. Anyway, the imperial court will definitely pay another sum of money, and everyone still has something to make.

If the imperial court is gone, and the Ming army did the same thing as the Jin army back then, why would there be a rebellion?

This group of officials had such an idea, and they did not respond more to the rebellion, but dragged it on until mid-May.

The second wave of peasant uprisings after the Renaissance uprising broke out.

This peasant uprising was not led by the Renaissance Society, but was initiated by local peasants, and the cause was the disorder of local governance.

(End of this chapter)