After Ming Dynasty

Chapter 63 Pig's Tactics
"Mr. Xu, you would like to start from your own home, can you talk about your thoughts?" Zhu Yiyuan smiled and said: "I think only like-minded people can join forces. Let's come together and do one thing together. The first thing is To know each other, what does Mr. Xu think?"

Xu Zhen looked at Zhu Yiyuan in surprise, frowned and said, "Does Zhu Qian feel that he can be intimate with the common people?"

Zhu Yiyuan laughed loudly, "Why not? You know, I was sent to the county town by the folks in Laiwu."

Xu Zhen thought about it, Zhu Yiyuan came over, asked about the land equalization, and answered the common people's confusion. difference.

Xu Zhen said thoughtfully: "What you do is more like Mr. Zhuo Wu's idea."

"Is it Li Zhi?"

Xu Zhen nodded, "That's right, Mr. Zhuowu said that the heaven establishes a ruler, and he thinks of the people. I think this is better than Mencius."

Li Zhi is a student of Xinxue, a well-known crazy student, after passing the examination, he did not take part in the general examination, but gave lectures everywhere. Everywhere he went, there were many people who responded, and there were even many women among them.

Although Xu Zhen did not personally appreciate Li Zhi's demeanor, he read a lot of Li Zhi's books and articles in his early years. It is not surprising that the rich room is enriched for military use.

It's just that after more than twenty years, he still hasn't changed his original intention, which makes Zhu Yiyuan look at him with admiration.

"Da Ming indulged the gentry and disregarded the power of the people, so that the country was ruined and the family was destroyed. We are all people who have lost their country. We can't even keep our hair, skin and clothes. We want to be human, but we can't. Isn't this lesson painful!" Zhu Yiyuan said slowly: "Any court that despises the common people will not end well."

When Xu Zhen heard this, his eyes lit up. After so many years, he finally met a like-minded person who was willing to support him.

"Zhu Qian's matter, since I have said this, I am willing to be a pawn in front of the horse."

That's what Xu Zhen said, and he did the same thing. He was the first to kill his uncle's house.

The Xu family is in Laiwu, and they can be considered a moderately rich family, and they have produced several well-known scholars, and they have accumulated a lot of wealth over the years.

According to Zhu Yiyuan's land distribution plan, if the big family is obedient, as long as they hand over the land, the family's floating wealth can be kept, and the land can also be kept according to the upper limit of [-] mu.

Rich households not only have land, they also have grain, money, cattle and livestock, seeds and agricultural tools... Zhu Yiyuan didn't want these, and he didn't stop them from lending.

In fact, there is room for it.

But helplessly, some people were just dissatisfied, and what they couldn't bear the most was Zhu Yiyuan's request to release the servants, and let the servants be granted land like ordinary people.

They also take acres of land and limit the number of large households.

This is dying.

Uncle Xu Zhen's four concubines were all taken away, and the family's servants, long-term and part-time workers, also ran away.

There are also chopping firewood, doing laundry, and plowing the fields... How can I live this day?

This man sighed all day long, hearing that Qian Qianyi had arrived in Jinan, treated the gentry kindly, and pardoned his sins.This is really a life-saving Bodhisattva. He patted his ass, and even ignored his wife and children, so he went to Jinan to join Qian Qianyi.

Xu Zhen is not polite anymore, when the family members leave, your family will not go unpunished..."Take away all their food and money, and eight cattle, three horses, and two donkeys, all of them Take them away and distribute them to folks who don’t have livestock.”

The militiamen went directly to the gate of Xu's house as ordered.

Xu Zhen's aunt wailed and stopped her, but the militiamen would not care about her and pushed her away.

The aunt then rushed to Xu Zhen again, out of breath.

"You, you bastard! How can you harm your own family? You are sorry for the ancestors of the Xu family. You should be cut to pieces!"

Facing the cursing, Xu Zhen remained calm, "Auntie, you also come from a farmer's family. You have been married to my uncle for 20 years, and you can't even do farm work? I'll take these away, and your family still has land left. You can grow and eat by yourself. If you can live a safe and stable life, don't learn from my uncle. He is obsessed with ghosts and thinks that Qian Qianyi is a good person! He is called a scholar, and his integrity is not as good as that of a brothel girl. Before long, my uncle will regret it. I won't investigate you now , when the time comes, it will be the death of the whole family!"

The aunt was still not convinced, she gritted her teeth and said, "It's because they are too cruel and don't allow people to survive. Besides, your uncle is gone, why don't you help hide it?"

"Shut up!" Xu Zhen was furious, "There are so many people in the Xu family, why should it be unlucky to follow you? If you dare to entangle, I will take back the house and distribute it to the villagers!"

The aunt stared wide-eyed, looked at Xu Zhen viciously, then wailed, turned her head and ran into the house, crying loudly.

Sure enough, Xu Zhen didn't care so much, he rushed to the next house.

The aunt stayed at home day after day, and on the third day she went out.

There is no way, there is still some rations left at home, but there is no firewood.

She put away her original satin clothes and embroidered shoes, changed into rags, and went to carry straw, and she carried two bundles at a time, no different from ordinary peasant women.

The landlady also came out to work.

This is a big new thing.

The common people only feel happy when they see it.

It should be like this, no one can be superior, no one can get something for nothing!

After Xu Zhen dealt with it, all those who escaped from Zhu Yiyuan's rule after listening to Qian Qianyi's words, had their homes ransacked one after another, and their food, gold and silver were handed over to Zhu Yiyuan for military use.

The livestock were distributed to the common people, and the big guys got benefits, and they all had a bright future.

However, this wave of fleeing was not without incident. For example, a large family in Laiwu ran away with thousands of people, both family members and soldiers.

This family is the Qi family.

Their family's prosperity depends entirely on one person... Qi Shijiao, who was born as a speech official, was a disciple of Fang Congzhe, the chief assistant. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, when the party disputes were raging, he was the leader of the Qi Party. Over the governor of Henan.

Qi Shijiao was an upright official outside, but his family quickly became rich, annexed tens of thousands of acres of land, and raised hundreds of thugs. Half of the land in Laiwu belonged to the Kong family, and the remaining half belonged to the Qi family.

When Zhu Yiyuan announced the equalization of the land, the Qi family did not object on the surface, but hibernated silently. After all, Zhu Yiyuan promised that the land would be equalized after the autumn harvest.

And during this time, the common people in Laiwu supported Zhu Yiyuan one after another, and defeated Ma Degong and Liu Zhigan one after another.Zhu Yiyuan's military strength amounted to several thousand people, and even thousands of militiamen.

Those arrogant and domineering Qi family stewards and servants in the past are all honest, and they can only behave with their tails between their legs, trembling with fear.

The Qi family has already seen that with the actual implementation of Juntian and the division of the big clan, the fate of the Qi family will definitely not be good.

So they gathered their relatives and servants, and quietly left Laiwu.

They were very smart. Instead of going to Jinan Mansion from Changcheng Ridge, they went south from Culai Mountain to Sishui County in Yanzhou. This place is not far from Qufu, and it is definitely safer than Jinan Mansion under the protection of Lord Yansheng.

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"Zhu Qian's matter is not only about the Qi family, but there are also more than a dozen wealthy gentry families in Xintai, including some scholars from poor families. They were bewitched by Qian Qianyi and fled one after another. Many of them went to Sishui County."

Song Lian also reported the situation to Zhu Yiyuan.

It's not that the gentry don't oppose Zhu Yiyuan's policy, but that the big guys are all family members, and they can't just run away... Moreover, it will take time for Zhu Yiyuan's policy to be implemented. unwilling to run.

And even if you run, where are you going?
What if someone is killed as a thief?
So this time Qian Qianyi came very well. If he didn't come, the big guys didn't dare to run away. Only when he came, a large number of gentry fled under Zhu Yiyuan's rule.

"It's going to rain, and my mother is going to get married. There are people like Xu Juren who understand things and don't need to worry." On the contrary, Zhu Yiyuan's fighting spirit became high, and Song Lian couldn't help being inspired.

"It would be better without such two-sided things. We also want to thank Qian Qianyi for helping us dig for gold in the sand, hahaha!"

Zhu Yiyuan didn't think much of it, but there were two to 3000 more people in Sishui County all of a sudden, and they were all gentry lords who only eat and don't work. On the first day they came, the meat in Sishui County tripled, and on the second day , simply can not buy.

Then the price of food also skyrocketed. Those scholars from poor backgrounds fled to Sishui County, and soon found that they had no place to live, the inns were full, there was no food, and a bucket of rice was more than five times more expensive than before.

It's just killing me!
Where have all the merchants gone?
Why not transport grain to Surabaya?
Just when they were puzzled, a large number of soldiers wrapped in red scarves appeared outside Sishui County...

(End of this chapter)