Wanli 1592

Chapter 822 Big Government

After hearing this, Xie He frowned first, and then stretched his brows.

"Is this to divide and disintegrate them?"

Xie He began to enter the room: "Make them mistrust each other, go further and further apart, become less and less able to unite, hollow out their foundations, and when the time comes, they will be finished."

A look of excitement appeared on Xie He's face.

Xiao Ruxun nodded and said: "That's right, we must divide and disintegrate them, hollow out their foundations, win over those who are more supportive and understanding to us, completely eliminate those who are most opposed and hostile to us, and force those who hold the largest number of people to express their views.

At the same time, we must do our best to publicize the peasant associations, just like we are now publicizing the dirty deeds of the Shen bandits, publicizing the oppression they have suffered, letting them know how much they have suffered and how much they have suffered, and trying to let everyone Owner farmers and sharecroppers join farmers associations.

With the local ruffians and idlers as the vanguard, they provoke conflicts and create troubles, and then use the peasant association as the main force to take away the land of the rich and powerful families, arrest them, parade them in the streets, beat and reprimand them, behead them, and finally distribute the land. The emperor ordered to go to the countryside. "

Xie He became even more excited.

"If they gather their own private soldiers to rebel, they will arm the peasants and manipulate the peasant associations to destroy them. We hide behind them and guide and command secretly. While suppressing the landlords and gentry, we can also prevent the peasant association from reconciling with the gentry. possible, making it inseparable from our army."

Xiao Ruxun nodded.

Xie He is really a talent for this kind of activities. If you cultivate it well, you may be able to pull up a team to take charge of this matter in the future. After all, land reform is not something that can be solved by three times, five times and two divisions. It is a big problem. heroes.

It is necessary to take back all the things that Confucianism has stolen from the hands of the emperor since the Qin and Han Dynasties.

The more internal conditions, the more external challenges, the larger the land area, the larger the population, and the clearer the country's goals, the more it needs a powerful big government. The small government degenerates into a small government in the Ming and later periods, including the people. The government has amply demonstrated the failure of small governments in the face of world trends and big changes.

By the same token, the fortunes of the modern great powers are accompanied by a very powerful big government in their own country. Without exception, the democracy they preached is not the cause, but one of the products of the result.

However, in the current Ming Dynasty, facing the status quo of a thoroughly small government, if we want to change it, we must carry out all-round restructuring of land ownership, and at the same time, carry out all-round suppression and rebuilding of the gentry class.

They are too strong. The power of the gentry since the two Jin Dynasties has not been stronger than that of the southeast gentry in the late Ming Dynasty. After defeating the Jin family, the southeast gentry has basically grasped the lifeline of the Ming Dynasty. It is impossible to use stronger methods than them. Take back what is not theirs.

If the power of gentry and powerful landlords who have been entrenched in places since the Song and Ming Dynasties has been eradicated, the emperor's order to go to the countryside is a joke. Death is inevitable, and chaos for a period of time is also inevitable. This is a prerequisite for breaking the periodic spell.

But after that, in order to break the curse and embark on a new road to realize industrialization, there is no need for collectivization and this and that.

In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, agricultural collectivization was based on the foundation of the world's enemies. The country was too far behind the world, with too many enemies and almost no friends. There was no other way to achieve rapid industrialization, but to harm the interests of farmers. Forcibly develop industry.

Western European countries and the rest of the modern powers can promote industrialization through great voyages and colonies, sucking blood from all over the world to develop themselves, while Japan relies on China's war reparations to develop its industry, but domestic farmers are also poor and sell their children to survive.

At that time, China, like the Soviet Union in the early days, lost its opportunity and had no other choice.

But in the current Ming Dynasty, in this era, if the power of the Confucian gentry and the powerful landlords can be eliminated, and the country is in the hands of the country, they can directly go abroad to colonize and seize primitive resources and funds for industrialization. Harm the interests of farmers to accumulate capital for industrialization.

And it just so happened that the biggest obstacle to China's foreign colonial expansion was precisely these Confucian gentry who were based on pathological morality.

If you want to colonize foreign countries and engage in commercialization and industrialization, you must start from the southeast, and you will inevitably have conflicts with these southeastern gentry who have local manpower and material resources. Whether it is moral standpoint or practical interests, the conflict will inevitably intensify, even if there is no war now. , and will inevitably go to war in the future.

Now there are sufficient reasons, at least from my own point of view, to act now. Any gentry regiment who resists the Zhennan Army can be labeled as "the national traitor Shen Yiguan's party" and punished as treason. In line with the rules".

When the gentry find out that this trick is digging their roots, can they still stir up trouble?
If Jiangnan, especially the southeast coast, subdued the gentry class in the southeast coast, the entire Ming gentry class would become lambs waiting to be slaughtered. Xiao Ruxun was absolutely sure of this.

Right now is a golden opportunity.

One Xie He is not enough, then send a few more Xie He, if a few people are not enough, Xiao Ruxun plans to send the disabled veterans in the army.

Those disabled veterans finally had a greater use.

Xiao Ruxun originally arranged all the disabled veterans of the Zhennan Army in previous wars in the logistics force. As long as they were able to work, they were responsible for managing storage and transportation, or responsible for the training of recruits. In short, the Zhennan Army did not abandon any soldier. It was his promise to the soldiers.

Some of them lost a few fingers, some lost half of an arm, some lost a leg, and some were blind in one eye. They couldn't go to the battlefield, but they didn't lose their ability to work. Xiao Ruxun arranged for them to study together. A period of logistics management and word recognition allowed them to devote themselves to logistics work.

What they have learned is very useful. It is very meaningful for Xiao Ruxun to spend a lot of money to make the [-] Zhennan soldiers literate.

They can read and do things, and as veterans, they are trustworthy in their observance of discipline and loyalty to Xiao Ruxun. It is a good thing for Xiao Ruxun to turn them into clerks, even though they can no longer fight.

Right now, among these disabled veterans, those with minor injuries can also be handed over to Xie He to take them to Ningbo. They are more loyal to Xiao Ruxun, perform tasks more thoroughly, and are literate, meeting the basic conditions for going out to work.

So Xiao Ruxun selected three people who were in the same situation as Xie He from more than a hundred poor talents, and arranged for suitable veterans in the army to be sent to him. People formed the first land reform working group of the Zhennan Army.

The working group has 36 people. After emergency training, on September 36, with Xie He as the team leader, the [-]-member working group set off from Shaoyang, entered the sea via Guangxi and Guangdong, and then went to Ningbo to start work by sea boat.

Xiao Ruxun made up his mind to let the gentry in Ningbo become his experimental subjects, to see if this big move against gentry would still work and be sharp in the Ming Dynasty.

While Xiao Ruxun was intensively preparing for the next attack plan, Shen Yitong's capital court finally waited for the moment to counterattack.

Li Hualong arrived in the capital.

On August 27th, Shen Yiguan learned that all his family members had been captured and their property was divided up. He vomited blood and fell into a coma for two days. Xiao Daheng and Liu Huangshang rushed to work, and Jin Yiwei completely blocked the news.

Liu Huangshang and Xiao Daheng barely managed to maintain the operation of the government for two days, and they managed to hold on, until Shen Guanyi woke up two days later.

After Shen Yiguan woke up, he was still full of resentment, shouting that he wanted to kill Xiao Ruxun and his nine clans. He was very emotional until Li Hualong arrived in the capital on September [-]rd.

Li Hualong is more than 20 years younger than Shen Yiguan. He is 44 years old this year, and he is in the prime of life.

This person is not simple. After he was admitted to Jinshi at the age of 20, he was released as a magistrate like many others. The fledgling Jinshi magistrate is the best to be deceived. The local bureaucrats like this kind of Jinshi magistrate with no background. So try to prevaricate and deceive him.

Li Hualong was a bachelor, and spent a period of time dormant, investigating the adulterous affairs of those officials secretly, looking for an opportunity to suddenly attack, and taking down all the officials who deceived him, killing the grass and rooting out the roots, and the county was ruled.

At that time, he was only 20 years old. Even now, he has not yet graduated from university, but he already has such calmness and skill. It can be said that he is not a rare star in the increasingly rigid imperial examination system.

This man is smart, bold, and has a strong desire for power. He is a stubborn stubble, so he can subdue those rebellious Liaodong generals in Liaodong. Naturally, this man is also quite arrogant and rarely looks down on others.

He does have talent.

When Li Hualong arrived in Beijing, he said that Li Hualong was willing to lead an expedition to the south of the Yangtze River. This is a good thing, so Shen Yiguan also had to pack up his bad mood and take Li Hualong seriously.

"Yu Tian! Yu Tian! The old man is finally waiting for you!"

Shen Yiguan held Li Hualong's hand, looked at him, his eyes were red, and he looked very excited.

Li Hualong was relatively calm, facing Shen's usual enthusiasm, he was more normal.

"The next official pays homage to the chief assistant."

Li Hualong's official business made Shen Yiguan a little embarrassed.

(End of this chapter)