Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 262 The Ming Army beat up the third brother
Can people like Xingping Village and Xing'an Village be called clan forces?

Obviously, no.

A real clan power must first have the power to influence the government, and to influence the government, either someone from the clan is an official in the government, or someone from the clan was an official in the government in the past and the status is not low, and the disciples are all over the world. .

Like Xingping Village and Xing'an Village, most of them have the same surname, and there is a clan leader or several clan leaders. No matter how united and powerful they are, they are not qualified to be called clan forces. They can be regarded as fat sheep, the imperial court will not worry about these people at all, and these people will not make any big disturbances.

Only those great families who have intertwined relationships with the court and local government can be called clans. These people have the capital and courage to fight against the court and the government. Pick up leftovers after them.

To put it bluntly, the birth of clan power is usually due to some heroes who have fought the world with the emperor but are not enough to become nobles, or some ministers who have gradually risen to high positions after ten years of cold windows. These people have status in the court and contacts, after returning to their hometown, they naturally occupied a certain right to speak, and the clan power slowly formed over time.

In the thousands of years of history of Tangkou in the Central Plains, every process of founding and subjugating a country is a process of shuffling some clan forces. behind the scenes.

Daming is the same.

For example, Zeng Cheng, the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty, also has clansmen. Although it is impossible for him to let his clansmen directly become officials or own something directly, will the local government take care of Zeng Cheng's face?
Even if a little care is given without violating the laws of the Ming Dynasty, it can save ordinary people tens or even decades of struggle.

In the final analysis, the root cause of the clan problem is the existence of the officialdom, and the biggest beneficiaries are not the rich landowners but the officials and lords in the officialdom. Once the imperial power is sent down to the countryside, isn't this just asking for trouble for myself!

This also corresponds to the nonsense on the Internet - "Why should the efforts of others for several generations lose to you in ten years of hard work?"

Fortunately, there are multiple cross-supervisions such as the Peasant Association, Jinyiwei, Dongchang, Inspection Censor and Supervision Censor, and the "Daming Daily" can be regarded as half of the supervision, although it cannot completely solve the problem of clan power. But more or less can contain one or two.

Therefore, although Zhu Jinsong wanted to solve the problem of clan power, he would not solve it with the help of local officials, especially the officials of the frontier.

More importantly, the problem Zhu Jinsong thought of was actually far more important than the clan problem—there was a lot of land around Xingping Village and Xing'an Village, but what was planted on these lands was not grain, but mulberry!

Especially after carefully recalling the farmlands he had seen on the road, Zhu Jinsong was surprised to find that out of the ten acres of farmland, seven or even eight acres were planted with mulberry and hemp, and not many people planted rice or wheat at all. food!

This is very abnormal—it is really good to write the poem about wine talking about sangma, but a large number of farmlands are not planted with food but instead planted with sangma, which may not be so beautiful behind it.

Daming is still far from the level of industrialization, and there is no high-yield hybrid rice or high-yield wheat in food, but ordinary wheat, corn, and rice.

There are a lot of people, the grain output is not too high, and the land for growing grain has been greatly reduced, so where should the grain come from?
Thinking of the matter of changing rice into mulberry in the next year, Zhu Jinsong's face darkened first, and after calling Ke Zhiming over, he ordered: "Send someone to get the file, and look at the officials among the chief envoys in the south of the Yangtze River. , how many common people have changed rice to mulberry, and what kind of role did those officials and gentlemen play in it?"

It is really no wonder that Zhu Jinsong is not worried.

The land in Shandong, Shaanxi and Shanxi, after thousands of years of development and cultivation, has already inevitably degraded. The food cultivated can only meet the needs of the people, and cannot even supply the capital.

The food in the capital relies more on external input, such as Liaodong, Jiangnan, Jiaozhi and other areas with high grain production.

Now more than half of the land in the south of the Yangtze River is planted with mulberry, which means that the grain production in the south of the Yangtze River will definitely decline. If there is not enough food to eat, it will be a matter of hundreds of millions of people in the south of the Yangtze River!
But after Zhu Jinsong traveled all the way from Ruijin to Quanzhou and got the information collected by Jinyiwei, Zhu Jinsong was a little confused.

The problem actually lies with me?
The matter of changing rice to mulberry was first implemented by the Chief Political Officer of Zhejiang Province after seeking the opinions of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

The reason for the chief envoy of Zhejiang is very simple - there are more places to grow grain in Daming, especially the chief envoys of Jiaozhi and Xianglin, who can grow three rice crops a year, and one less Zhejiang It’s not a big deal, but it’s different from Zhejiang’s implementation of changing rice to mulberry. At least it can try to make the people rich first, isn’t it?
Afterwards, the Ministry of Household Affairs and the cabinet decided that this was not a bad thing. At worst, we chose a place to try it out.

Then, the household department and the cabinet reported the matter to Zhu Jinsong, and Zhu Jinsong nodded in agreement.

After getting the permission of Zhu Jinsong and the imperial court, the Zhejiang chief envoy picked a place to start the trial, and took part of the money and grain from the local finance to persuade the people to change rice to mulberry.

But it never occurred to me that the people in other places saw that the people in the pilot project became richer, and they couldn't sit still one by one!

Why can they change, but we can't?
change!
After harvesting last year's grain, a large number of people chose not to grow rice, wheat, corn and other grains, but chose to grow mulberry.

What's more, this matter was picked by the peasant associations in various places. By the time the chief ministers of Jiangsu and Guangdong knew about it, the mulberry saplings had grown quite tall. Could it be possible for the people to destroy all the mulberry seedlings? Instead of growing food?

This made the chief ministers of Jiangsu and Guangdong very worried, and the first reaction was how to solve the problem first—a large number of people have replanted mulberry trees. It is hard to say whether it will affect the price of silk in the coming year. , but the food gap is right in front of us.

If there is any trouble caused by lack of food...

In order to solve the problem, the chief envoys of Jiangsu and Guangdong immediately thought of Jiaozhi, Myanmar, Xianglin and other places. People buy it with money.

This situation is a bit of a mess—the people of these chief envoys can make money by planting mulberry, and the money they earn is more than enough to buy food, and the people of several chief envoys in Hainan can also make money by selling The food has made money, and the pockets have become richer.

No one loses money inside or outside, and the court can even receive more taxes.

If this is purely from a political point of view, not only is there no problem with changing rice to mulberry, but it can be regarded as a good thing——

Daming now has more than 30 chief ministers, and several chief ministers gave up growing grain and devoted all their efforts to silk weaving. In essence, it was similar to the situation of several chief ministers on the grassland who only grazed and did not cultivate.

The cattle and sheep in the grassland are worthless, and the silk of these chief envoys is also worthless, and the grain in Jiaozhi is also worthless, but the cattle and sheep in the grassland can be exchanged for silk when transported to Jiangnan provinces, and can be exchanged for grain when transported to Jiaozhi. This is tantamount to forming a cycle, and in the end, no one can do without anyone.

However, this matter is not without problems.

As the saying goes, there are cars in the front and ruts in the back. When people in other places see that the people of these four chief ministers make money by planting mulberry, what will the people in other places think?
If people in more places start to change rice to mulberry, will the grain of Cochin still be able to supply it?Even if it can, will the price of food rise all the way?

In short, behind the transformation of rice into mulberry, there are definitely a lot of messy problems.

Thinking of these messy questions, Zhu Jinsong was no longer in the mood to waver.

And what made Zhu Jinsong even more moody was still to come.

The Dudu Mansion of the Five Armies and the Honglu Temple urgently reported that the troops of the Du Du Fu of the Great Ming Right Army went from Gurkha to attack Ottomans, but when they passed through the territory of the third brother, the third brother who was still colonized by England had the guts to grow hair, and even took the lead Launched an attack on the Ming army because the Ming army invaded the territory of the third brother's house?

How could Daming's army suffer such a disadvantage? They immediately beat up the third brother with the artillery scrubbing tactics they are best at.

And what is so damning is that some of the third brothers who were beaten up were English officers, and these English officers didn't understand the difference between the Ming army and the Qing army—these English officers It should be right for the officers to help Da Ming beat Da Qing together, right?
Then it was so messed up.

England's army has artillery, and Ming's army also has no shortage of artillery. England's army dared to play the tactic of queuing and shooting, and the Ming's army used magic arrows and hand grenades to teach them how to behave.

This knocked England's army into a bewilderment.

Didn't you say that the army of the Qing Dynasty was quite useless?How can you fight so well?

It wasn't until England's army was beaten up and their noses were bruised and they sent people to find Ming's army to ask for peace talks, that the English army found out that they were beaten by Ming's army, and the Ming's army also found out that it was England's army that they beat up.

And at this time, it happened to be the annual Little Pot Conference, and it was almost time for George III to arrive in Daming.

So, the question now is what to do about it?
According to what Honglu Temple said, of course, the third brother should be blamed. After all, the third brother launched the attack first, and the Ming army was forced to fight back. No matter how you look at it, it is not the responsibility of the Ming army.

Of course, after the beating is over, this matter should be over, after all, I still have to beat Osman, so I shouldn't be distracted—in short, this matter will be discussed later, so don't worry.

But the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies doesn't think so.

Thinking about it in the Dudu Mansion of the Five Armies, as the saying goes, one sheep is herded, and two sheep are also released. It seems that it would be nice to have an appetizer before beating Osman?
Hustle the grass and beat the rabbit, it won't delay anything if you beat another third brother and England, but you Honglu Temple have to work harder, try to make the dead alive, and push all the responsibility to the third brother and England son will do.

Then the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion quarreled with Honglu Temple. Honglu Temple accused the Five Armies Commander's Mansion of only knowing about fighting and killing. If the third brother was smashed to death, Daming would have to clean it up later. Mess?Can Mr. Liu from the household department be willing to spend money?
The Commander-in-Chief of the Five Armies also accused Honglu Temple of being too cowardly. It was obviously just a matter of smashing a few more rounds of shells, and it could easily take back the homeland of the Tang Dynasty-Wang Xuance killed India, which is equivalent to the Tang Dynasty killing India. Of course this is the old place of the Tang Dynasty, shouldn't it be taken back?
Now, the lawsuit has come to Zhu Jinsong.

(End of this chapter)