Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 201 Chapter 190 Eight Let the master be more than just a name

Zhou Shangwen received Wang Daoqiu's promise. He was so grateful that he repeatedly told Wang Daoqiu that he would make good use of his connections in the Northwest Army to help Wang Daoqiu complete the reform of the Northwest Army.

Having eliminated the largest reactionary force in the Three Qin lands, the King of Qin's family now had strong military support behind them.Next is the Guanzhong Plain, where there is a vigorous campaign to divide the land among local tyrants.

In order to make the storm more violent, Wang Daoqiu also used the ultimate move of reporting meritorious service.Who reports the profiteers, local tyrants and evil gentry who do evil things in daily life, bully men and women, and kill people?Once the crime is verified, the reporter will receive [-]% of the property of the person being reported.

As soon as this move came out, brave men and street guys who wanted to make a fortune first started to report all kinds of things.And when ordinary people see these pioneers, they really get rewards, become rich, and achieve financial freedom.At this time, the imagination of the entire Sanqin land was opened, and people flocked to government offices at all levels to report those rich people.

The people in Guanzhong are so enthusiastic. Now all the government offices at all levels are like attending temple fairs every day, with huge crowds of people. The county officials are trying cases and are so busy that they don't even have time to eat.The guards and soldiers in charge of ransacking the house ran around as if they had been beaten with chicken blood every day.

As for those local tyrants and evil gentry and profiteers, because Emperor Jiajing gave Wang Daoqiu "acting cheaply", they didn't need to go through the review of the Ministry of Punishment and the emperor's collusion, and they were directly sent to line up and beheaded in batches.

This campaign was so vigorous, the whistleblowers got rich overnight, the ordinary people all vented their anger, and the government officials worked overtime every night to distribute their money.At this time, in the land of Sanqin, except for those local tyrants who were beaten up, everyone else was happy, buying wine and meat to celebrate every day.

After pulling the hearts of the people in Guanzhong to his side, Wang Daoqiu began to attack the army guards.

In the Ming Dynasty, compared with the tenant farmers who rented land and were exploited by landlords, the military households in the guards were even more miserable.

Nominally speaking, the land used by the Daming Guards for military settlements belonged to the state and was used to support all officers and soldiers in the guards.This means that the land of each guard post in the Ming Dynasty is owned by the state, but the right to use and profit belongs to all officers and soldiers of each guard post, similar to a collective farm under a certain system.

But it is also like the collective farms under a certain system. The system itself is very good, but when it is implemented, it is inhumane and another form of slavery.

Because this system itself firmly controls military households within a guardhouse, leaving is a capital offense.The system of the guard station is also a military system, and the right to speak is in the hands of the commanders, thousands households, and hundreds of households. Their words are military orders, and the military households below must obey them absolutely.

As a result, the status of ordinary military households as "owners" of military fields was gradually "represented" by those officers, and they themselves became slaves worse than tenants.

After all, tenant farmers have the right to choose which landlord to rent their land to, just like future generations, we have the right to choose which boss to work for.Military households are actually slaves, and slaves have no right to choose their slave owners.

This is why, in collective farms under that kind of system, no matter how hard the slaves work, it is impossible for them to have enough to eat and clothing to wear.Because no matter how hard the slave tries, he cannot compete with the greed of the slave owner.

It is precisely because of the fact that ordinary military households in the Ming Dynasty were actually slaves of guards officers, so in the Ming Dynasty, being sent to the army was a punishment second only to beheading.

The military households in the Daming Guard are too miserable, and the officers of the Guard are so happy!Therefore, in the entire Ming Dynasty, there is no ordinary military household who does not want to change his home into a civilian household.At the same time, there are no guards with thousands of households or hundreds of households. They shouted that collectivism is good and firmly opposed bourgeois liberalism.

collectivism!How many dehumanizing and unscrupulous things can be done openly in the human world under this cloak, which Wang Daoqiu hates deeply.Therefore, Wang Daoqiu was determined to sweep these so-called military guards into the garbage heap of history.Therefore, after completing the fight against local tyrants to allocate land to civilian households, Wang Daoqiu attacked the military garrison in Shaanxi.It's still a tough routine, don't issue any documents, let's learn from each other, and formalize it together. When the news passes, everything will be business as usual.

Wang Daoqiu's plan to deal with the guards was to eliminate the roots and kill all the military "servants" who could "represent" collective interests.

Therefore, Wang Daoqiu's strategy of cleaning up the military guardhouses was to lure the lower-level whistleblowers with heavy rewards, letting ordinary military households know that as long as those thousands or hundreds of households are killed, [-]% of the property of those thousands or hundreds of households will be yours.The land in the guard will also be sold to them at a low price, allowing them to change from slave-like military households to free households.

Wang Daoqiu's move was too cruel. Owning his own land and removing his military status could be said to be the obsession of every military household in the Ming Dynasty.As soon as Wang Daoqiu implemented this policy, ordinary military households in the land of Sanqin all immediately sided with Wang Daoqiu.

As for the officers of the guard station, as soon as they received the news cleverly, before ordinary military households knew about this policy, they quickly packed up their belongings and ran away with their wives and children.As for those who thought they were stubborn, or who were reluctant to give up their "representative" rights and wanted to continue to be "servants", they later lost their heads one by one.

Wang Daoqiu caused so much trouble in the land of Sanqin, sweeping away the filth like typhoons and rainstorms passing by, and almost wiped out all the rich and powerful people in Shaanxi.

This situation is so frightening that the local officials in Shaanxi and the Princes of Qing and Su all firmly believe that after Wang Daoqiu has finished cleaning up, the local tyrants and evil gentry among the people and the military leaders will be the next step to borrow money and heads from them. .

So the Shaanxi officials who were deeply frightened by Wang Daoqiu, King He Qing and King Su, formed small gangs one after another before Wang Daoqiu attacked them, and all kinds of impeachment memorials flew to Beijing.These impeachment accusations against Wang Daoqiu included everything. They even said that Wang Daoqiu occupied the ladies of the official and gentry families who had their heads chopped off and made himself the groom every night.

Local officials in Shaanxi all complained to Wang Daoqiu. The Shaanxi officials in the capital also brought their parents and relatives who had fled from Shaanxi. They cried at the gate of Xiwan every day, begging Emperor Jiajing to kill Wang Daoqiu quickly. Come on, send it to Caishikou!

The public was furious. First, officials in Shaanxi, and later officials from all thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, were afraid that Wang Daoqiu would complete the raids on local tyrants to allocate land to farmers in Shaanxi, and complete the transformation of military households into civilian households.Then Emperor Jiajing issued an edict to implement these policies throughout the country.

So officials who didn't want to give up their own welfare followed the Shaanxi officials and wrote to Emperor Jiajing to punish Wang Daoqiu.Even the representatives of the military hinted that if Emperor Jiajing continued to let Wang Daoqiu do so in Shaanxi, they would be "on the side of the Qing emperor".

History novices may think that the emperor kept his word and was very awesome.But they don't know that if the emperor cannot represent the interests of most powerful people, then his "righteousness" is nothing.Otherwise, there would not have been so many puppet emperors and so many subjugated kings in history.

To put it bluntly, the emperor's butt has to sit with the majority, and he has to represent the consensus of the group, so that he can have authority.

Therefore, when officials, the memorials to impeach Wang Daoqiu flew to the Secretary of General Affairs like snowflakes, the Secretary of General Administration had to pack them in big wooden boxes.Emperor Jiajing couldn't sit still, or he was a little scared.

In addition to Shaanxi, besides Wang Daoqiu, the two vassal kings, King Qing and King Su, who had not yet had time to take action, and those local civil servants in Shaanxi.Almost all other rich people were ruined by Wang Daoqiu, and their families were ruined. In Shaanxi, there is not much money left.

Moreover, Emperor Jiajing himself also missed the "bad" Wang Daoqiu who was by his side and gave him "bad" ideas.So Emperor Jiajing complied with "public opinion" and ordered Wang Daoqiu to return to Beijing.

(End of this chapter)