Qiming 1158

Chapter 966 Ultimatum
The merchants of the Southern Song Dynasty successfully entered the Song Dynasty with the authentic "Hongwu Zheng Lun", and then went all the way south to enter the place and began to make a fortune.

Local officials are not clear about this.

Many local officials and local officials are well aware of the situation on the black market, and even they themselves are manipulating the black market or making money by themselves.

They didn't want to make any changes. The fact that "Hong Wu Zheng Lun" could fetch more than [-] times the price on the black market was their secret push, and being able to sell these genuine products to make a fortune was what they cared about the most.

It is impossible for them to watch the merchants make money. They cannot tolerate the merchants earning more than themselves, so they will use their official connections to arrange for their white-glove merchants to manage the business in person.

Or let their own printing industry exert their efforts to vigorously publish fake "Hongwu Zheng Lun", so that it flows into the black market and earns high profits.

Whose money is not earning anyway?

Under such circumstances, "Hongwu Zhenglun" spread further in the Southern Song Dynasty, from tens of thousands of copies in early May to 10,000+ copies at the end of August, and spread widely in the Jinghu area, and even to the Sichuan and Sichuan areas set off.

The large-scale book-burning campaign organized by the Southern Song Dynasty court was equivalent to burning a loneliness, and the more it burned, the more it was.

Of course, this matter was partially known to Zhao Tan in September.

Because someone actually read the "Hongwu Political Theory" publicly in a tavern in Lin'an City, saying that "Hongwu Political Theory" was written very well and made sense. Those landlords and gentry are all cannibals and should be eradicated.

The court also had problems. The court never thought about making profits for the people, but only exploited and oppressed, constantly oppressing the people, and constantly benefiting themselves. They were complete bastards.

He also claimed that his family is also a bastard family. One of the old guys in the family is a bastard. Obviously, there is a lot of food in the family. .

The tenants were starving to death, kneeling in front of the main house and begging for a bite to eat, but the old guys still refused to give it, instead they let the villains go out and beat people with sticks, making people's heads bleed.

So he declared that what Su Yonglin said was true, this system is too sinful, the landlords and gentry are too sinful, they are eating people completely, and he called on everyone to stand up against this sinful system and liquidate them all.

This incident caused a great uproar, Zhao Tan was furious when he found out, and immediately ordered the arrest, but the person who was caught was actually the son of a fifth-rank court official.

The official's son publicly read "Hongwu Political Theory", and publicly praised Su Yonglin's thoughts, exposing the sins of his family, completely disregarding the emperor's ban order, and angry Zhao Tan directly ordered him to be killed and his head Hang it at the gate of the city.

The official was also attacked and retaliated by Zhao Tan for this incident, and his home was searched and exiled.

The explanation given in the results of the later trial was that the official's son had failed the imperial examinations many times, and his name fell to Sunshan. Because of his failure in the imperial examinations, he harbored resentment against the Song Dynasty court and had always been dissatisfied.

Then I suddenly saw the reflection and collapse of the current imperial examination system in the squadron of "Hongwu Political Theory". I felt like I had found a bright light in life, and I suddenly became a fan of Su Yonglin, thinking that the crimes of the Southern Song Dynasty were monstrous.

So he did this.

According to his own account, he also wanted to call on many fallen scholars like him to study the "Hongwu Political Theory" together, find ways to rejuvenate their lives, and do something.

When he learned that he was going to be killed, he was not afraid at all, laughed, pointed to the officer in charge of interrogating him and said that he would go ahead and wait for the officer to come and accompany him below.

After he was killed, Zhao Tan took the book "Hong Wu Zheng Lun" in his hand.

Zhao Tan was surprised to find that this was not the genuine Ming Dynasty version he had seen before, but a pirated version produced locally in the Southern Song Dynasty.

As a result, through some inquiries, Zhao Tan learned that a large-scale pirate publishing gang of "Hongwu Political Theory" had appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty, and was spreading the "Hongwu Political Theory" to the entire Southern Song Dynasty on a large scale.

Because genuine products are expensive, they pirated copies, and they even dared to do it in Lin'an City, under the eyes of the emperor, to maximize the awareness of darkness under the lights. If it wasn't for the official's son being too arrogant, when would this matter be dealt with by him? It's not easy to know.

Zhao Tan's teeth were itching with anger, and he summoned Ye Yiwen and Shen Kai to scold them, angrily scolding them for their ineffectiveness, frightened them to death, and demanded that all officials take action to make "Hongwu Political Theory" extinct in the Southern Song Dynasty.

When Zhao Tan had a headache because of the dissemination of "Hongwu Zheng Lun" among the people of the Southern Song Dynasty, some problems also appeared in Daming in the north.

In places such as Hedong and Guanzhong where traditional forces were relatively strong and the purges were not involved too much, vigorous peasant movements were generated due to the birth of "Hongwu Zheng Lun" and the People's Literature, which severely impacted the local traditional landlords and gentry.

They originally had a little fantasy in their hearts, and felt that the court was just talking to satisfy the fantasy of the bottom mud-legged people, but they never thought that the court was really on the side of the mud-legged people and really decided to put what they said into practice.

Before the revolutionary action was launched, the local government and the Renaissance Society branch issued an ultimatum to the local traditional gentry forces in the spirit of humanitarianism and civilization.

Either accept the [redemption] policy proposed by the imperial court, hand over excess land and housing and other industries, and actively cooperate with the government to carry out land reform and accept the transformation.

Or wait to meet the anger of the peasants, reincarnate and start life again.

The traditional forces were shocked and angry at this, and three voices emerged from within.

One voice is the hardline.

They resolutely refused to accept any request from the imperial court. They believed that there was no difference between redeeming a little money and robbing them for nothing. Only they robbed others for nothing, and no one else robbed them for nothing. Therefore, they did not accept such conditions at all, and immediately began to arm their tenants and prepare to resist stubbornly. in the end.

One voice is the Compromiser.

Frightened, they felt that they could not fight against the imperial court no matter what, and intimidated by the mighty might and mighty force of the Ming army, they decided to compromise, and decided to accept the imperial court's redemption policy. Young and old, you can.

Another voice is the runaways.

They are eager to find hard-liners and sell them the real estate they can't take away. If they can't find it, they simply abandon the real estate. Finally, they plunder the tenants, collect as much wealth as possible, and then pack up the soft money. Ye Nan went to escape, thinking of escaping to the Southern Song Dynasty to seek political asylum.

The three voices represent three groups. Among them, the hardliners and the compromisers are not the most numerous, and the fleeing factions are the most numerous. They neither dare to fight against the Ming army, nor do they want to accept the so-called transformation of the Ming country, and the mud-legged people. For Wu.

Despite the long road ahead, they finally chose to emigrate to the south and defected to the Southern Song Dynasty. After trying to reach the Southern Song Dynasty, they would start a new life as a sage in the Southern Song Dynasty.

After the fourth year of Hongwu and June, with the official start of the revolutionary action, these three situations generally appeared in Guanzhong and Hedong.

Therefore, a considerable part of Su Yonglin's energy was devoted to this matter.

He heard of the firm resistance of the hardliners, the scorn of the Compromisers, and the thousands of miles away from the Runaways.

For the Compromisers, there is nothing to say. Since they are lying down and ridiculed, there is no need to kill them all.

Give them some money, use the way they exploited the peasants, [buy] land and property from them at a very small price, leave them the land stipulated by law, and the rest will go to the public.

These people have to go to the village peasant association regularly to receive re-education from the peasant association. The whole family is incorporated into the action system of the peasant association. .

They don't have any privileges anymore.

Of course, those who honestly accept the transformation can be forgiven, but if they are cheating and cheating, they will definitely be punished by the law once they are discovered.

All of them are listed on the list. This list is in the hands of the local revival organization, and they are regularly inspected and assessed, and their transformation and monitoring will never be slack.

It is also easy to deal with the fleeing faction, and it is dealt with in the way of treasonous criminals.

(End of this chapter)