my days with tyrants

In Xichuan County.

"Look, look at them!"

On the Drum Tower, Liu Zhizhou pointed to the bound Li Yi and several captured horse bandits.

They were all knelt there, with signs like death row prisoners on their bodies. As for the heads of Harding and those horse bandits who had been planed off, they were hung around the Drum Tower, like a circle of eye-catching decorations.

"Do you think that if you distribute the fields to you, you can really live a good life?
This is not enough.

You still have to be able to keep your fields.

Look at them, they will come back to rob, they will even collude with bandits, local tyrants and evil gentry, and corrupt officials, and then cooperate to take back the fields in your hands. You have to work together to keep your fields.Look at the heads of these bandits, they were all dug down by the common people with hoes. They dug off the heads of those who dared to rob their fields, and they kept their own fields.

So do you.

A good life is never given by others. What others give you is not yours, but what you grab with your hands is yours.

What you protect with your hoes is yours.

Someday someone wants to rob your field again, you have to pick up a hoe and go to dig off his head. "

Liu Zhizhou shouted immediately.

Then the people roared excitedly.

So bandits like Li Yi are very useful, they can just be used to inspire the fighting spirit of the people.

After all, for the people who had just divided the gentry's land, what they feared most was that the latter's descendants would come back to rob them. Originally, they were just worried, but Li Yi just told them that this would indeed happen.

Moreover, the descendants of these gentry will bring the bandits back directly in the cruelest way. Those young and strong who died in battle can be said to make the common people feel the same hatred in an instant. Enmity, to face these gentry children with the same indignation.

And what Liu Wen needs is to use this emotion to start his next plan.

Of course, he didn't just want to divide the land of the gentry. In fact, they have established a consistent world view, a common ideal, and a consistent plan for the future through Yang Feng's long-term education. Ideal political bloc.

Six years.

From the age of twelve or thirteen, they have been learning the textbooks compiled by Yang Feng and sister Liu under the new-style education, growing up in the world jointly created by these two.

Six years is enough to grow into what Yang Feng wants.

Now is the time to act.

Dividing the land is only the first step. The most important thing is to establish a military system based on the equal-field system and a comprehensive reserve military system. The gentry who cultivated and studied in the family are kicked out, and the agricultural conscript army that cultivates and fights to establish the country has to be established.The Ming Dynasty in Ambassador Yang's design is to quickly create tens of millions of reserve corps based on the land equalization system, and make all young and middle-aged people militarized.Then it gradually spread outward. After all, the land equalization system is always the best to use in the early stage, but as the population multiplies, problems will soon arise, that is, there will not be enough fertile land for the newly grown young adults.

You can open up wasteland in the early stage, but soon there won't be enough wasteland around.

Daming has a population of 6000 million. This population base, under the current concept of having more children and more blessings, once it starts to turn into a peaceful and prosperous age, the growth rate will be very fast.

A big country a year is not a problem.

At that time, unless the amount of farmland per person is reduced on the original basis and a new round of distribution is carried out, there will inevitably be surplus labor lacking good land.

Industry and commerce can accommodate a part.

But in this era, industry and commerce accommodate a limited population.

Industrialization is indeed necessary.

but……

Industrialization is a long process!
Even if Yang Feng can quickly start industrialization through technological innovation, he still has to face market problems.

Is there such a big market to digest it?
In the early days of British industrialization, there were only hundreds of thousands of textile workers. Because the cloth produced was not enough for the market to digest, the fleet had to go out and bombard the gates of each country with artillery, and then destroy the original handicraft industries of these countries to accommodate Britain. Machine-produced cloth.

What now?
Is there a market for digestion industrialization?

If we cross over to the age of steam, the current population of the world will only be able to maintain the consumption capacity of millions of workers at most.Even if we don't enter into industrialization and just popularize the mechanization of water conservancy, the population of this world can maintain an industrial population of less than 500 million.At the end of the Ming Dynasty, only relying on handicrafts and a small amount of hydraulic machinery in the south of the Yangtze River, the natives of Luzon had forgotten how to weave cloth. A large amount of cloth completely destroyed the handicrafts of the natives of Luzon, and even sold the cloth to the Indians.

A Shengze dare to say that the sun rises ten thousand horses, and the clothes are covered all over the world.

Because the scale of the textile industry in Jiangnan is too large, the traditional textile area of ​​Luxi has basically lost its textile industry, and it has been purely used to transport cotton to Jiangnan. The textile industry is only beginning to recover.

Therefore, the number of people that industry and commerce can absorb in this era is really not worth mentioning in front of the explosive growth of population after the land equalization system.

It also depends on the land.

Keep developing.

Because the land equalization system makes the newly grown population have no place to live, at this time various methods are used to encourage them to go far away.

Therefore, farmers with military capabilities will leave their hometowns from generation to generation, embark on the road of pioneering, take root in all the land that can be reclaimed, and become the masters of these lands, and then they will also become new consumers, supporting the larger scale in the rear. Industrialization, and because of the land equalization system in the mainland, there has never been land mergers, and it has also avoided the collapse caused by land mergers in the past.

This is a systematic theory supported by all the new graduates from Mount Wutai.

"Today, the officials are in charge, and all those who have been divided into fields are organized into volunteers based on the village.

A village is a team.

Young and strong people who can hold a knife and gun are counted.

It is true that the common people cannot use firearms, but bows and crossbows are approved by Emperor Taizu Gao, and bow and arrow clubs in various places are also approved by Emperor Taizu Gao, so this official decides to give you a crossbow for every three young and strong, and those who can use bows and arrows will give it to you. You bow and arrow.However, these bows and crossbows belong to the government, and they cannot be given to you for free. You can use the prey you shoot to pay back the price. How to set the price is determined by the official. Part of the repayment is made every year, and it can be divided into five or ten years. If the prey is not enough, you have to use it. When you have enough food, it will be yours.

The same is true for arrows, and you are also allowed to receive this kind of installment repayment.

There are mountains here, and there is no shortage of wild beasts in the mountains. As long as you are proficient in using them, even a tiger can be shot to death with a crossbow. "

Liu Wen said.

This will force them to practice.

If you don't practice, you have to pay food every year. As long as it is more cost-effective to pay prey than food, they must practice.

As for these prey, of course they can be used for canning, such as canned tiger meat and canned bear meat. These should not be difficult to sell at high prices in cities far from mountainous areas.

And the arrows used in practice also need to be mortgaged...

Well, that's the mortgage.

This was developed by Liu Wen's good friend, a Jinshi in mathematics, and he just borrowed it. Unless they were lucky enough to hunt big beasts like tigers for him, they would have to practice every year and then go hunting in the mountains. Use these prey to pay off the crossbow price.As for the endless hunting of wild beasts in the mountains, the vast Qinling Mountains is to the west, and this strategy will not last long. Using bows and crossbows is an emergency, and they will be allowed to use firearms in the future.

And firearms are also mortgaged.

The government gave it away for free, and first used it for the common people, and then repaid part of the value every year.

The people in front of him have no objection, because these are all divided land, Li Yi's home return group can be said to be causing them panic, this time is relying on Liu Zhizhou's command, and he personally led Jin Yiwei to kill the enemy .But in the following Qingzhang, he couldn't participate in every place in person. If those gentry who had been divided of the land came back with bandits like Li Yi, how would the unarmed peasants resist them?Now Zhizhou is willing to provide bows and crossbows for free to save their lives. As for collecting something, of course it is necessary. These bows and crossbows belong to the government and not his own.

"Set up a battalion above the team, set up a battalion in each township, and appoint the battalion commander.

In the future, no matter which village encounters bandits, they can use the beacon as a banner, and the battalion commander will lead other teams to rescue them bravely. Just like this time, there are only more than a hundred bandits. It's just shooting, not only those who have divided the fields, but other villages can also join. "

Liu Wen said.

"Liu Zhizhou, who gave you this kind of power, you are just a civil servant, how dare you gather troops without authorization, are you not afraid of being suspected of treason?"

At this moment, he shouted angrily.

Liu Wen looked up at several officials who were approaching on horseback, and the leader was a red-robed civil servant.

"Who is this superior?"

He said.

"Ouyang Yigong, the old Henan chief envoy and the left counselor."

said the latter.

"Mr. Ouyang is from Jishui, right? As far as I know, Jishui has already become a traitor. Ouyang Gong's hometown is a traitor, and his clan is a traitor. I don't worry about being suspected of being a traitor. I just teach the villagers how to deal with bandits. How can the law of self-preservation be worried about the suspicion of treason? Emperor Taizu Gao has already made it clear to the world that bows and crossbows are allowed to be kept in case of thieves, so how can lower officials gather troops without authorization.

If you think the title of righteous bravery is inappropriate, then you can change it to a bow and arrow club. One bow and arrow club for each village is not too much, right? "

Liu Wen said.

He doesn't care about the legal issues of valor.

The key is that Zhu Yuanzhang has established the law long ago, and all cold weapons cannot be restrained. As long as these volunteers do not wear armor, there will be no prohibition, but the thicker cotton clothes they wear are definitely not armor.

They pressed the cotton tighter, and it must have been just for warmth.

Ouyang Yigong was stunned for a moment.

"Ah, it seems that Mr. Ouyang still doesn't know about the news of Jishui being reversed."

Liu Wen said with a smile.

Not only Jishui, but most of Ganzhou Prefecture and Ji'an Prefecture have already switched to Jianwen. The main reason is that Yang Feng didn't care about such a faraway place during this time, and after Tiexuan's public land law was written, he had already made it clear that he would do this. Then the Ji'an Prefecture The gentry is not ready yet?They themselves must be powerless to resist. Instead of waiting for Yang Feng to complete the layout, it is better to quickly introduce Jianwen and let the latter send troops to protect themselves. Anyway, when Yang Feng goes south to attack, they cannot sit still.Take refuge in Jianwen early, let Jianwen send troops to Ganzhou and Ji'an, and then build a defense system on the Ganjiang River, so that they don't have to pay for it themselves. After all, in order to prevent Yang Feng from going south, the gentry in Guangdong have to pay at least a large part.

Instead of relying on Jianwen, Yang Feng went south to divide the land, and the gentry in Ji'an and Ganzhou had to resist, but they had to pay for the preparations before that.

It is the business of the Jianwen court to take refuge in Jianwen.

Why should the two governments pay for it.

Everyone is a whole, one imperial court, of course the imperial court pays, or in other words, Guangdong, Guangxi and Annan, which are currently controlled by the Jianwen court, pay together.

It is said that the gentry from the two prefectures of Ganzhou have watched the gentry in Guangzhou make a fortune from overseas trade during this time, and they are indeed a little jealous.

As for the queen's court, there is no real defense in these two places.

Just relying on a few guards, but the latter, of course, did not need to resist the bribe of the Jianwen court.

In fact, the key point is that Yang Feng's empress is a bit disgraceful. Whether it is the generals of the guard who oppose his public land law in terms of interests, or the ones who are really loyal to the Zhu family emotionally, they are all very dissatisfied with it. The real purpose of being an empress is to control the imperial court, and then one day steal the country. The generals of the guards like Nangan are not familiar with him. No matter what Zhu Yunqi says, he is the direct descendant of the Zhu family after all.

At least he won't let the Zhu family be usurped by outsiders!

The final result was that the Ganzhou and Ji'an governments collectively defected and fell into the arms of the Jianwen Dynasty.

And this is just the beginning, because of the stimulation of the Public Land Law, especially Yang Feng's blatant encouragement of his minions to copy the gentry and divide the land, the gentry in prefectures and counties that bordered the Jianwen Dynasty have begun to turn to Jianwen. The imperial court, just because Jianwen's future is not very bright, and the two sides have not fought at this time, can wait and see.In other words, they still have some fantasies about the imperial court, but now they still have fantasies about the fart. They have started to play rogues, and it is clear that they want to destroy the land gentry, so there is no need for the latter to sit on the fence.

Hurry up and go to their lord Mingjun!

In the Jianwen Dynasty, the examination of stereotyped essays and Confucian classics, using Confucian scholars, respecting the power of the gentry, opening up maritime trade, and being lenient to the generals of the guards, and oppressing military households as they please, this kind of holy master and Mingjun will not go to him, will he continue to follow Yang Feng? evildoer?

It is said that at this time, the eldest princess Lian Hanshan was possessed by a fox demon, Yang Feng and the queen mother had an affair, and even the queen was his seed, these rumors came out.

The land gentry of Daming is completely abandoning Yang Feng.

Liu Wen knew the news because the bank in Xiangyang got it through the banking system, but the chief envoy of Henan had to go through the capital to find out.

At least three days later.

"Xu Zhizhou don't talk nonsense, this matter can't be nonsense."

A green-robed official beside Ouyang Yigong shouted.

"I'm a small prefect, do I dare to make such a joke with the chief envoy? Mr. Ouyang, I don't know why your Excellency is facing such a thing as the envoy of Sangzi?"

Liu Wen said with a smile.