Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 29
For the peasants in these villages, if you tell them politely about expulsion of the Tartars and restoration of China, these old farmers may not understand, nor may they be interested in listening, but you have to tell them that you will not drive out the Tartars, and your children and grandchildren Sun Du had to be oppressed by the Jiannu court and the Manchurians, and these old peasants could understand.

What Zhu Jinsong said was very straightforward, so these old farmers became interested.

The smoker's hometown knocked on the cigarette pot and asked, "Zhu Langjun, what is the peasant association you are talking about? It is to let the mud-legged people in our village become officials?"

Zhu Jinsong grunted and said, "You keep saying that, which is both right and wrong. This peasant association, one is to fully mobilize our common people, and everyone fights against rent, debt, tax, and grain together. The opinions of our common people, do things for our common people, do good things, do practical things."

"Those evil gentry try to find ways to occupy our land, and they want us to pay rent to them, and the rent is [-] to [-] percent. In a bad year, we will be forced to owe the interest of donkey rolling, ye Say, isn't this bullying?"

"There is also the government, if it decides for our people and collects taxes and rations in a regular manner, then we have nothing to say. After all, the imperial court maintains soldiers, and there are rivers and bridges that need to be built. the past, but how did the Tartar government do it?"

"Our hometown is Ningyang County. In Qianlong's 49th year, the tax of Qianlong's 94th year was collected. I heard that some places have received it for more than 100 years. Tell me, how do we pay this tax?"

"The Emperor Qian Deaf was exempted all the way to the south, but he exempted him. Those who were accepted by the government were at most changed names. Let me tell you, there are governors and censors. How dare those officials accept them? Then Where did the money go?"

"Also, you should have heard of the incident in Henan a few years ago. The people who were hit by the disaster stopped the money to sue the imperial court. In the end, he handed over the plaintiff to the defendant for interrogation, and said that the people are like children, and officials are like parents. , there are no wrong parents in this world, you must never let your children sue their parents, tell me, isn't this just nonsense!"

"That's why we wanted to set up this farmers' association. We want the common people to make decisions for ourselves. Let's unite to drive out the Tartars, so that we will no longer be oppressed by others."

While Zhu Jinsong was talking, those old men smiled and nodded in response, but after Zhu Jinsong finished speaking, the smoking old man asked abruptly: "Then, do you, Mr. Zhu, collect food? Do you collect taxes? "

Zhu Jinsong laughed loudly, and said seriously: "Accept! But, not now, nor indiscriminately in the future."

"Back then Li Zicheng said that he didn't work as a errand and didn't pay his salary. Everyone had a good time, but you should have heard about what he did and how he died later."

"So, if we say like Li Zicheng that we don't collect grain or tax, it's all bullshit. The old people are all old. They should understand that this country needs to raise soldiers, build roads, build bridges, and Building a school is inseparable from money everywhere, no money is not collected, no tax, where does the money come from?"

"But, we won't collect taxes and grains now, and we won't collect them indiscriminately in the future."

"We haven't driven out the Tartars yet, and the Tartar government is still collecting taxes and grains. If we collect them again, won't it make it harder for the big guys to live? Then what's the point of running this peasant association?"

"When the Tartars are driven away in the future, we don't plan to collect as much tax or food from the common people."

"To put it bluntly, how poor are these common people? Even if you cut the meat from the legs of a heron, and cut the fat from the belly of a mosquito, how much money can you charge?"

"Let's not accept so many wealthy businessmen and rich people, but we will harm the common people. Are we not afraid that the common people will unite and drive us away?"

"Let's put the words here for you today - if one day, Zhu Jinsong does not speak for the common people and turns around to harm the common people, then we will unite and drive us away!"

"Besides, this peasant association is formed by our common people. If the peasant association is unwilling, can we take away the money?"

These old men just listened to what Zhu Jinsong said earlier.

As the old saying goes, there is nothing real in storytelling and singing, and what he says is not as good as singing. Now Zhu Jinsong's various promises can be listened to as opera.

In the eyes of these old men, no matter how nice your words are, it’s useless—if you drive away the Tartars, will you, Zhu Jinsong, collect taxes?Do you want to collect food?If not, what do you eat and drink?If you accept it, what is the difference between you and the government?What is the difference between having you and not having you?
Only the last sentence, the peasant association can't take the money if it doesn't want to, but it really makes these old men a little tempted.

An old man asked: "Listen to Mr. Lang, this peasant association will continue to run? After the tartars are driven out, will it continue? Won't the government send people?"

Zhu Jinsong nodded earnestly, and said: "The peasant association must be held continuously, and the members of the peasant association must be selected from various villages by big guys. The government only supervises the selection process, but they cannot directly send people. "

"Let's put it this way, if we want to establish a peasant association in Xuzhuang, the people of Xuzhuang have to choose for themselves. Whoever is supported by the people of Xuzhuang can be elected, and whoever is not supported by the people of Xuzhuang can't be elected. , let's not interfere."

"After the Tartars are driven away, the rules of the farmers' association will have to be elected every three years, and they will have to be replaced after working for six consecutive years at most. No one can continue to work in this position forever."

Another old man asked: "Then you have money and food for joining this peasant association?"

Zhu Jinsong nodded, and said: "Yes, this peasant association itself is doing things for the big guys, maybe it will delay their own affairs, so there is a little money and food to supplement, but this money and food will not be much, not much now, There won’t be many in the future, so don’t expect this to get rich.”

The old man who smoked looked at each other with the other old men, took a deep puff from the cigarette pot, knocked the pot clean, and said in a deep voice, "Then I'll do it! My three boys, I will let the second and third children go with you!"

"When Lord Yongzheng was still in power, what kind of stalls were used to pay for the mothers. At that time, the people's life was easier for a few days, and then it gradually became difficult. When Lord Qianlong became the emperor, the life of the people became even more difficult. "

"My Xu family has five brothers, three of whom are bachelors! Extinct!"

"As long as life is not so sad, my three brothers will not be unable to get a daughter-in-law."

"I have passed this hard life, and my son has passed it too. I can't let my grandson live it again!"

Zhu Jinsong hummed, grabbed the old man's hand and said, "It will pass. This hard time will definitely pass. At that time, our family will have land to grow, food to eat, and new clothes to wear during the New Year."

Mr. Lu Xun said that everything is difficult at the beginning, which means that apart from driving, other things may be difficult at the first time, and you may get used to the difficult things later, and you will not feel difficult.

It's the same with the peasant associations now.

As long as you can make a good start here in Xuzhuang, it will be much easier for those Zhuangzi next to Xuzhuang, and it will be easier as you go further. Repeat these words again.

This is something that can’t be helped, mainly because of the literacy rate. After all, I, Da Qing, wish that all the people in the world are illiterate and illiterate, so Zhu Jinsong has no way to print a large number of articles and newspapers. Repeat it over and over again.

Zhu Jinsong never worried that the peasant association/movement would accidentally hurt some gentry who did not oppress the common people.

In the Qing Dynasty, there were only two kinds—the difference between human beings and slaves.

The masters of the Eight Banners in Mizhou are human beings, and the rest are slaves, but some of these slaves became officials and made a fortune by pleasing the Manchu, some had their own land, and some even owned their own land. No, so it is divided into gentry slaves, small owner slaves and sharecropper slaves.

Obviously, except for the gentry slaves who will try their best to maintain the rule of their masters, the remaining small self-cultivating slaves and tenant farmer slaves will never support the rule of Lord Mite.

Among them, tenant farmers and slaves will definitely support traitors like Zhu Jinsong because they already have nothing. Uncle Mite drove out.

But like those small self-cultivating slaves, they will hesitate, because they have their own land, they will hesitate, and they will worry. them.

It is precisely because of this that the peasant association is even more important.

We must unite with those small farmers and sharecroppers, and fight against Mr. Mite and those gentry slaves who support Mr. Mite.

……

Xu Shitou always feels that he is living in a dream these days.

For the first time in this life, I left home, for the first time in this life, I ate a full meal, and for the first time in this life, I put on my own new clothes.

Yes, ever since he could remember, Xu Shitou had never worn new clothes. When he was a child, he always wore third-hand clothes he picked up—the clothes his elder brother couldn’t fit would be given to his second brother, and he would give them to himself when his second brother couldn’t fit.

After finally growing up, my family didn’t have the money to make clothes for myself, so I could only continue to wear the old clothes of my father and brothers.

I heard that those old clothes were worn by my grandfather...

Thinking of his grandfather, Xu Shitou thought of his grandfather kneeling on the ridge of the field crying bitterly.

No, it wasn't grandpa who was crying on the ridge alone, but the whole family was crying. Mother was crying while holding daddy's arm, elder brother was crying while looking at the ridge, and second brother was crying while holding himself.

Because my family finally has the land that belongs to my own family, and there is no need to pay rent to the landlord.

If you have land, you can grow food, and if you have food, you don’t have to go hungry. If you have a lot of food, you may be able to exchange it for some money. I'm old enough to talk about marriage, but because my family has no money, I'm still a bachelor.

I don't know how the big brother is doing now?Are you also thinking about these things?

Xu Shitou was thinking about these messy things in his mind, with his hands behind his back, maintaining a straddling posture, even though his nose was red from the cold, his nose was clear and he was about to cross the river, Xu Shitou still kept motionless. In a straddle pose.

Xu Shitou didn't know what was the use of standing, lining up, and folding the quilt repeatedly these days, but Xu Shitou remembered very clearly that when he left home, his grandfather personally told him to be obedient.

To be obedient means to do what the little boss who is in charge of you above says, and you can do what you want without haggling.

Oh, by the way, it’s not a good idea to be called a small boss now, but a squad leader. I heard that there is a platoon leader above the squad leader, and a company commander above the platoon leader.
Forget it, I still don't want to address the matter, after all, you have to be obedient, and obedient means obeying the orders of the monitor honestly, and the monitor in front of you is really strict, especially when he scolds others, it can make you People scold and cry.

Xu Shitou felt that it was enough for him to cry once, and he couldn't cry a second time, because he couldn't afford to lose that person.

Since the squad leader taught the big guy this way, the big guy must do what he should do according to the squad leader's instructions.

Be obedient.

(End of this chapter)