Qiming 1158

Chapter 871 Don't Think The Emperor Can Save You

In a sense, the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty really didn't understand what was going on in the Ming Kingdom as well as a young man in a village in the Ming Kingdom.

When the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty were indulging in the fantasy of [the people in the Central Plains eat pot pulp to welcome the master], a violent movement was taking place in the Northern Kingdom of Daming.

In Yanzhou, Shandong, where sports are the most intense, in a farm in the northeast of Ningyang County, five or six young people with short guns are pushing a fat middle-aged man in silk and satin, trying to bring him to the On the big square at the east end of the village.

This fat middle-aged man named Xu He is the largest landowner in the village, owning 70.00% of the arable land in the village and almost monopolizing the grain production of the entire village.

The remaining 30.00% of the arable land belongs to three small landlords, all of whom are related to the Xu family and belong to the Xu family's satellite family.

Together, the four families control the survival rights of more than 1000 people in the entire village.

In this village, they have power comparable to that of an emperor.

But they are only village bullies after all, and they do not have a higher status. Going up, more powerful landlords and tyrants look down on them, exclude them from the circle of profit sharing, and do not take them to play.

Low also has the advantage of being low, so they actually escaped Su Yonglin's first wave of cleaning and the second wave of cleaning.

Su Yonglin's cleaning of corrupt officials and other figures on the stage was not their turn, and they were still safe.

But they are still bullies, cruelly controlling everything in the village, signing contracts with tenants who rent their land to share the account, and greedily exploiting everything in the village.

Earlier, they were still open four or six, but with the war of Ming and Jin going on, a large number of refugees appeared in Shandong. These refugees were desperate and needed food. In desperation, they took refuge in the landlords who owned a lot of land.

A considerable part of them took refuge in the Xu family and the other three families.

There are more refugees, and more mouths need to eat, and the labor force is overflowing relative to the land.

However, these refugees did not have the consciousness and courage to fight against the landlords, and lacked the culture and leadership organization.

The four family members smelled a good opportunity to gain profits, so they began to seek to re-sign the contract, changing the original agreement signed with their tenants to [-]%.

Of course the first tenants were reluctant.

The forty-six division has already made life tight, and the hunger and satiety are barely enough to survive. If this is changed to three-seven division, how will the life be lived?
So they protested, and nominated a prestigious person from the tenant to lead them in the protest.

As a result, the four families backhanded and bought their leader and some loud tenants with a contract of seventy-three.

A lot of food and farm tools are also included.

So most of the "leaders" accepted it, died down, didn't say anything, and lived a good life.

There is only one person who is unwilling to accept it. He must seek justice for the tenants, insist on fighting, and must maintain the situation of four or six open.

As a result, his body was found by the river the next day, with bruises all over his body, blood all over his face, none of his ten fingers were intact, and all his teeth were missing.

Later, he was declared to be [drowning by slipping].

His family was extremely grief-stricken and wanted to seek justice from the master. They also said that they would go to the county to find the magistrate to preside over justice. As a result, the woman and the child were beaten and died within a few days after barely returning home.

The resistance of the tenants was disintegrated.

The following sporadic resistance was useless, and was easily solved by the main family using the thugs, or killed, or crippled, and thrown out of the village.

Their land was taken over by foreign households, who signed a contract of three or seven cents.

Afterwards, the disintegrated tenants lost their backbone and bowed their heads to admit their cowardice. The whole village changed their contracts to three or seven points. Some people who dared not resist but could not accept it secretly left the village and became new refugees.

Of course, the main family Xu He is not worried about this.

"Let them go! The three-legged toad can't be found, and the two-legged poor ghosts are running around! As long as the land is mine, I'm afraid no one will farm for me?"

Of course what Xu He said was right.

The three-legged toad is really hard to find, but the two-legged poor ghosts are everywhere.

Not to mention the three-seven, he is willing to sign the twenty-eight slave contract for the hungry poor, as long as there is a mouthful of food to eat.

So this village has completely become a Sanqikai village, and the life of the tenants has become miserable haha.

For them, the first ray of light came from the promulgation of the "Ming Law", which stipulated that the landlord cannot ask for more than [-]% of the rent from the tenants, otherwise they will be prosecuted.

When the news came, Xu He was really frightened for a while, and then sent people to go door-to-door to threaten the tenants. When someone came to ask, they said that they would take [-]% and the host would take [-]%. If they dare to tell the truth, be careful of their lives.

The strong dragon does not suppress the local snakes, don't think that the emperor can save you.

In the end, my surname Xu has the final say!
The tenants did not dare to say anything.

After waiting for a while, Xu He didn't hear any wind, so he knew that this was another action with thunder and rain, so he calmed down and continued to live by himself. "hard" days.

In his opinion, the emperor's efforts to save face and make some decrees that benefit others at no cost are to deceive people and stick gold on his face, which will not be implemented.

How much would it cost to put it into practice?How many people will be mobilized?How many people are to be offended?

Would the emperor do such a thing?

So just continue to live your own little life, why worry so much?

With so much surplus value waiting for him to exploit, and so many poor ghosts waiting for him to serve, is he not worried enough?
But he never imagined that the unprecedented change in the past and present was just around the corner.

Since April of the third year of Hongwu, more and more rumors have been heard, saying that the emperor has launched a massacre in Shandong, the emperor killed many officials, and implicated many big landlords and powerful families.

From the beginning, Xu He didn't care, but then became more and more nervous. More and more people heard that someone had died, someone had their homes raided, and someone had been executed by three clans.

He began to feel that the wind was not right, and felt that the situation was a bit terrifying. Nothing like this happened before except for wars.

What is the emperor going to do?
Is it just plain anti-corruption?

If so, why are so many people punished?
He was thinking about something wrong, but he didn't know what to do. He kept sending people to inquire about news, but the bad news that came from inquiries always made him tremble.

For example, he heard that the Kong family was raised, which frightened him.

The thousand-year-old Confucius family has been raised, what else can this emperor do?
It's just that before the frightened Xu He can do anything, justice from heaven came to him.

The members of the Village Self-Defense Forces who arrived in Ningyang County from Dayou Township and Liangzao Township under the jurisdiction of Fengfu County, Tai'an Prefecture followed the presidents of their respective township peasant associations to Ningyang County to swept the farms around Ningyang County.

The farms around Ningyang County were torn down and destroyed one by one by members of the Villagers Self-Defense Forces, and the landowners who held actual power were strictly interrogated and dealt with.

After Xu He learned of the incident in the next village, he was so frightened that he immediately decided to take the whole family and Xianluan out to avoid the limelight. As a result, before he left the village, he was forced back to the village by the members of the villagers' self-defense force who rushed in quickly. .

The members chanted [Down with the Landlord] [Catch Xu He Alive] and swept the entire village. Xu He's team of thugs who looked strong and terrifying in the past was quickly defeated.

(End of this chapter)