Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 252 Who doesn’t know how to flip the table? The only ones who will suffer are you, the landlords!

Confucian scholar Xu Youwen now also has a gloomy look on his face because of Datong Society's military intervention.

After all, the Yuan soldiers led by Zhang Shide could not slaughter all the Han people in Huai'an, and his plan to take advantage of the opportunity to annex would also fail.

But Xu Youwen didn't have a good way to deal with Datong Society.

In any case, Datong Society is indeed a strong ship and a powerful gun.

The cannon shells on the steam battleships can destroy Yuan soldiers for dozens of miles, even though the popularity of firearms is not high.

However, in the Huai'an Prefecture area, because the Yellow River diverts the Huai River into the river, and the water system is particularly developed, small steamships can directly enter Qingjiangpu, Huai'an, and then sail into Hongze Lake.

Therefore, Xu Youwen could only suggest Zhang Shide to further ask for instructions from Huainan Zuochengtai Feiyin.

Zhang Shide could only do as he was told.

Because these landlord armies really have no way to deal with the modern army.

Therefore, the main force of the Datong Army led by Zhu Wenzheng soon arrived near Gaoyou.

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Even if they kill Zhang Cheng or Zhu Yuanzhang, transformation is inevitable.

What's more, Zhang Cheng is now frantically using his knowledge in later generations to accelerate the industrialization of Jiangnan.

The landlords and bureaucrats who, like Zhang Shicheng, just wanted to live a stable life, were naturally worried about whether Zhang Shide's elite Yuan soldiers going south would seriously affect the peace and tranquility of the Huaiyang area.

Mei Sizu was now secretly happy because Zhang Shide led the Yuan soldiers to the south. He even began to instruct some reactionary and stubborn landlords to cooperate with the Yuan soldiers led by Zhang Shide to retaliate against the Datong Society and those who accepted the Datong concept.

This also makes Datongshe's military logistics system particularly secure. From generals to soldiers, everyone only needs to be responsible for combat.

Zhang Mingjian, the former Yuan Ting Qing Army marshal who had surrendered to Zhang Shicheng, now stood in front of thousands of captured refugees and ordered:
"Except for the Mongolian and Semu people, all the Han gangsters were buried! This leaves the Datong thieves without the capital to drive out the Tartars and restore China!"

After the pit was dug, many Han refugees were driven into the pit.

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There were even landlord militias who directly massacred ordinary Han people who were not even railway migrant workers. They said that since the Datong thieves wanted all common people to be rich, they would not give the Datong thieves a chance to make the common people rich and directly massacred the landless refugees.

However, due to limited knowledge, many landlords and bureaucrats under Zhang Shicheng have not yet fully realized how fast the Chinese army is advancing. Therefore, many landlords and bureaucrats in the Great Zhou Dynasty are still leading the Yuan soldiers south for Zhang Shide. worried and happy about things.

The landlords and bureaucrats, who were disgusted with the idea of ​​Datong and saw the Datong Society gradually controlling the Huaiyang region's economy and harming their interests, naturally rejoiced at the fact that Zhang Shide led the Yuan soldiers southward, thinking that this was an opportunity to eliminate the Datong Society. .

In ancient times, there were always many refugees, especially near canals.

After Zhang Cheng industrialized Jiangnan, the more knowledgeable or enlightened landowners and scholar-bureaucrats understood that transformation was inevitable.

However, the landowners and gentry did not call landless refugees refugees, but hooligans.

Before Zhang Shide and others captured Huai'an, armed landlords began to retaliate against the Datong Society officials responsible for building the railway and the local migrant workers who organized the Datong Society officials to build the railway.

Even migrant workers were thought to be accomplices of Datong thieves and were killed indiscriminately, and many of their family members were raped and executed.

The newly built railways began to be demolished and destroyed in large numbers.

The emergence of steam looms, steam cotton gins, steam screw machines, sewing machines, steam water pumps and other machines allowed a lot of manpower to be concentrated on the military. Many newly recruited immigrants were basically concentrated on the front lines to transport food. and auxiliary soldiers.

They have always made a living by doing part-time jobs.

Their living conditions are very poor.

A serious flood or snowstorm can kill many of them.

But many times they are not that fragile. Even in the worst troubled times, they can still be seen by the canal, as if they can regenerate.

People in the landlord class naturally don't care about them. They often regard them as ants. When they threaten their peace, they often choose to kill them directly instead of giving up their own interests to settle them.

Now, after the Datong Society has improved the status of common people, the landlord class has the idea that eliminating more refugees will eliminate the foundation for the development and growth of the Datong Society.

Therefore, Zhang Mingjian ordered the refugees to be buried alive at this time.

"I can't deal with the Datong thieves in Jiangnan, so why can't I deal with you gangsters who the Datong thieves regard as their parents?!"

Zhang Mingjian looked at these, and the refugees with painful faces laughed proudly as they were thrown into the pit like potatoes. Zhang Mingjian and other landlord armed forces chose to attack the common people, especially the elimination of a large number of Han common people, which indeed threatened the interests of Datong Society and destroyed the industrialization foundation of Datong Society.

Because after industrialization, it is not that Datong Society does not need the population, but it needs the population even more.

After all, as productivity improves, more people can be fed, and more people are needed to consume the large number of goods that will increase as productivity improves.

After Zhang Cheng learned about the behavior of Zhang Mingjian and other landlords through the Guards Department, his heart was burning with anger, and his whole face turned black instantly.

A story about the cruelty of the stubborn and reactionary landlord class made him angry.

Second, the stubborn reactionary landlord deliberately treated his compatriots more cruelly and actively treated foreigners and compatriots Han Chinese differently, which made him even more angry.

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He knew that this kind of landlord mentality of being more kind to outsiders and crueler to the lower class of his own race, and treating outsiders differently from the lower class of his own race, is still widespread even in the 21st century, and seems to be engraved in Deep in my bones.

But Zhang Cheng was still furious because of this!

Third, he is now one of the partners of the entire Datong Society's bureaucratic capital. The large reduction of Han people will seriously affect his interests, which undoubtedly makes him angry.

Therefore, Zhang Cheng looked very unhappy.

In the entire cabinet room, civil servants such as Li Shanchang and Wang Guangyang also noticed that Zhang Cheng's expression was wrong and remained silent.

“Do the Han people hate the Han people so much?”

"Especially do the Han people who have land and property hate the Han people who have no land and property so much?"

Zhang Cheng also specifically asked Li Shanchang and others about this.

Although he actually has almost understood the reasons for this phenomenon through study.

But he still couldn't help but ask about people like Li Shanchang.

Wang Guangyang looked at Zhang Cheng's slightly trembling face at this time and couldn't help but sigh to himself. Mr. Zhang was very kind to the people after all, but he would still be so angry about something like this that should be commonplace in troubled times, so he first He took the initiative and said:
"Mr. Zhang, calm down."

"In fact, Zhang Mingjian's actions of harming the common people cannot be accepted even by many scholar-bureaucrats who have not accepted the concept of Datong."

"After all, meat eaters who have land and property, although they often sit back and talk about things, ignore the sufferings of the people, or treat the people with contempt, they do not really want to hate the people of Li, and they have to slaughter them and then quickly."

"The reason why this situation occurs now is not only because people like Zhang Mingjian are too cruel, but also because our Datong Society has really touched the fundamentals of the landlords."

"If Datong Society wants to restore China, it is destined to be bloody."

After Wang Guangyang said that, Liu Bowen, who was a doctor in the National Defense Department of the Cabinet, also took the initiative to come out and said:

"From the perspective of my subordinates, this is also related to Hu Yuan's success in taking over China for nearly a hundred years!"

"In the past hundred years, the Hu Feng has been scorching and the Han Feng has gradually disappeared. The father died and the mother returned to his son as his wife, and the brother died and his sister-in-law returned to his brother as his wife. Bad human relations began to occur. The hands and feet of superiors and subordinates were chopped off, and even massacres were committed. It has become a common thing that even the Hu Yuan court itself has repeatedly issued decrees to massacre certain Han people and massacre the Han people in the south to eliminate the thieves, which makes even the Han people become more cruel and ignorant of benevolence and righteousness."

Liu Bowen knew that since he had joined Datong Society, he no longer had to miss Yuan Ting and take care of Yuan Ting's feelings, so he directly told Zhang Cheng about Hu Yuan's role in this matter.

After hearing what they said, Zhang Cheng nodded, and first told Liu Bowen: "I remember that Bowen wrote an article and published it in the "China News" to point out to the world Zhang Mingjian's sins and the fact that the Hu people successfully took over our country. relation."

Liu Bowen raised his hand and said yes.

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Zhang Cheng then said to Wang Guangyang: "You are right, people like Zhang Mingjian are too reactionary. Since we, the Datong Society, want to establish a political system where all Chinese people are the masters of the world, we should shoulder the responsibility of eradicating these reactionary landlords. Send someone to contact Zhang Shicheng and ask him to agree that we will send a Datong Society inspection team to inspect areas where massacres, looting of people, and destruction of railway bridges have occurred to ensure the interests of Datong Society and the peace of all people in the area! "

"At the same time, it is announced that once the inspection team of Datong Society arrives in these areas, they will conduct a thorough sweep of the areas to achieve the goal of completely eliminating the reactionaries!"

"All the land in the area, whether official or private, will be confiscated and divided among the people; the landowner's property will also be confiscated; and all landowners will be subject to public trial!"

"In short, our Datong Society must let the landlords and bureaucrats in the Huaiyang area understand that if they dare to destroy the railway and kill people, then we will directly confiscate all local property!"

"So, if they want to keep their property and avoid public trial and liquidation, they should help maintain local peace honestly, otherwise they will have to bear the consequences!"

When Zhang Cheng said this, he looked at Li Shanchang and others, and sneered: "Who can't lift the table? If we really lift it, it's not necessarily our Datong Club that will suffer!"

"While contacting Zhang Shicheng, I immediately reported it to the superior and asked him to approve this decision!"

(End of this chapter)