I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 293
Chapter 292

"Uncle, shall we do it now?"

"What hand are you moving?"

Song Xiance gave Jiang Wubing a blank look and said: "Do it, do it, you know how to do it, and you never use your brain when doing things!"

Jiang Wubing looked at the miners around him, but found that these miners didn't care about the change of master.

In their eyes, no matter who is the owner of the mine, it is not their turn to be the mine owner, and no matter who the mine belongs to, they are still working hard and absenteeism.A miner with his head pinned to his belt every day.

After these miners saw the arrival of Yang Tianci, the steward of the Lu Palace, they immediately lined up to welcome the new steward Yang Tianci. As for Song Xiance and others, they didn't even bother to take a look.

As the saying goes, the era of Song Xiance has passed.

"You ungrateful..."

Before Jiang Wubing could yell loudly, Song Xiance covered Jiang Wubing's mouth: "Stop talking, let's go!"

Lin Xuzong, Song Xiance, Jiang Wubing and the others left Huanggang Coal Mine like bereaved dogs and walked to the path outside the coal mine. Jiang Wubing pointed to the coal mine behind him and said, "Uncle, let's forget about it?"

"if not?"

"I can't figure it out, we've planned for so long and suffered so much..."

"How can it be so easy to rebel!"

Song Xiance smiled wryly and said: "The people in this world all have a fluke mentality. Even if there is a one in ten thousand chance, they will not rebel and will obey!"

"Our food is fed to dogs, dogs without conscience!"

"This is human nature!"

Song Xiance had already expected the reaction of these miners, and the reaction of the miners was also in his calculations. Isn't he actually taking advantage of human nature?
No matter how kind he is to these miners, these absenteeism who are willing to be obedient citizens will not rebel against him. Those who are really willing to rebel with their heads on their belts are poor people who cannot survive.

Jiang Wubing was so aggrieved that he was about to go crazy. Ever since he arrived in Liaodong, he had tasted what it was like to be a real human being.Even Cheng Shijie, who has the highest status in Liaodong, does not need to bow or kneel when seeing Cheng Shijie. You can say hello to him if you are happy, and even if you ignore him, there is no problem.

It is not that there are no poor people in Liaodong, even if they are poor, no one can take away half of the pancake in his hand, and whoever robs will violate the law and will be punished.

Working for others in Liaodong, you will get wages, and you can earn money to eat with your own hands. However, in Shandong, you don’t have to think about earning money. It’s good to be able to stutter.In Shandong, even though Song Xiance was already a rich man, they didn't have the ability to keep their wealth. If they were robbed, they would be robbed.

Jiang Wubing said in a muffled voice: "Shandong is a good place. If the commander-in-chief manages Shandong, or entrusts the entire Shandong and Liaodong to him, the common people will definitely live well! I have seen it all. The products in the area are very rich, but those bastards have a way to make people miserable!"

"The imperial court will not agree..."

Song Xiance chuckled: "However, we don't need them to agree! They refuse to hand over Shandong to the Commander, so let us take this fertile land for the Commander!"

The officers and men of Ning Haijun beside Song Xiance fell silent instantly. They had not been away from Ning Haijun for a short time, but what they saw and heard was enough to completely destroy their last trace of goodwill towards this court. This court is not worthy to rule this country anymore!
They don't have the ability to overthrow the entire Ming Dynasty's rule, but they can still overthrow the Ming Dynasty's rule in Shandong, and then dedicate this fertile land to the commander-in-chief!
You are already rotten. If you are unable to govern the country well internally to ensure that the people have enough food and clothing, and externally you cannot resist foreign enemies and expand the territory. Please step aside and let people with this ability come!

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Soon, the Huanggang miners started working, and they became the miners of the Lu Palace. The Lu Palace did not promise them wages, nor did they promise them treatment.

When Yang Tianze gave lectures to the miners, he simply told the miners that you are now members of Lu Wangfu. Lu Wang is kind, and I will give you a bite of food. Only silver can be worthy of King Lu's gift.

The property income of Prince Lu's Mansion is frighteningly high. The mouth of the Prince's Mansion alone is as high as 6000 or more than 62 acres, and one slope is 80 acres. There are as many as [-] acres of land in total, and tens of thousands of shi of grain can be harvested every year. In addition to salt imports, mining taxes, a large number of shops, shipping, etc., the total annual income is no less than [-] taels of silver.

If Emperor Chongzhen knew that a prince of their old Zhu family could reap more than 80 taels of silver for a year without counting the salary of the court, how would he feel?

The salary given to them by the imperial court, the salary that the prince should get every year is [-] shi for grain and rice, [-] guan for banknotes, and a lot of silk, cloth, horses, and so on.

The annual salary of the county king is six thousand shi; below the county king are the princess, the general of Zhenguo, the general of Fuguo, the general of Fengguo, the lieutenant of Zhenguo, the lieutenant of Fuguo, and the lieutenant of Fengguo... Each of them can get a large sum of Lumi .

The king of Lu has passed down ten generations, and the people in the palace of King Lu are quite prosperous. There are dozens of generals in Guangzhenguo. It is really a star-studded gathering!It is not difficult to imagine how heavy a burden so many royal relatives are to the country and the locality!

Although in the 28th year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered that the vassal's Lumi be cut by four-fifths, but the vassal's ability to give birth could not be supported. A vassal king gave birth to dozens or hundreds of sons, and he also made up for the loss.

With so many people, the income of Prince Lu's Mansion is not enough, because they have to distribute a lot of brocades, cloth and other items to the large number of generals who rule the country and generals who support the country and generals Fengguo every year. Big expense.

The most deceitful thing is that even King Lu doesn't know how many children and grandchildren those county kings have, so you can only send as many as they report!
Song Xiance could distribute two-thirds of the income to the miners as wages and benefits, but it was absolutely impossible for Lu Wangfu. When it was noon, according to the past, the cafeteria on the mine should be open for dinner, but Yang Tianci did not have the slightest idea. The posture of stopping work and eating.

The movement was a little slow, and Yang Tianci's leather whip came over.

"Clap clap..."

Several miners were so pumped that they shivered and screamed.

"Work hard, if you don't work hard, this is the end!"

"How do you beat people?"

"What's wrong with beating you, you bastard!"

"I don't do it anymore!"

A young miner threw the shovel in his hand to the ground and shouted at Yang Tianci: "Master, I quit!"

"Ha ha!"

Yang Tianci walked towards the young miner with a whip, raised the whip and lashed at the young miner.

"Clap clap clap..."

While smoking, Yang Tianci cursed: "You bastard, how dare you call me your father in front of me, or call me your lord in my face?"

Yang Tianci, the steward of Lu Wangfu, decided to show his prestige by rectifying the bad style of the mine. The young miner who hit the muzzle of the gun was soon beaten to death.

Seeing the young miner being pumped unconscious, Yang Tianci shouted: "Stand up, show it to the public!"

So, a wooden frame was erected in the warehouse where the coal was stored in Huanggang Coal Mine, and a young miner who had been beaten to pieces was placed on it. Soon flies filled his body, and gradually the young miner died.

Yang Tianci also pointed to the corpse of the young miner and said, "If you don't work hard, this is the end!"

As the saying goes, where there is oppression, there is resistance.

Now the grievances in Huanggang Coal Mine are starting to grow. If these miners have not had enough food, earn money, or enjoy the benefits of Liaodong style, they will definitely endure it. At least they work as miners, have something to eat, and can live Go down, and once you become a refugee, there is only one dead end.

In just half a month, more than 100 miners in Huanggang died, some of them were beaten to death by the stewards of the Lu Palace, some were exhausted to death, and some died of illness.

Yang Tianci was in a good mood. He sold the first batch of coal to Liaodong, a total of more than 30 ships, and made a profit of more than 1 taels of silver, which was more than the usual monthly income of Huanggang Coal Mine. A reward from the steward He Qiushan.

Yang Tianci's childhood was very comfortable, and he selected a dozen good-looking women from among the miners' wives to take care of him.

A [-]-year-old girl pinched his feet, a [-]-year-old girl rubbed his shoulders, and another woman opened a can, took out the lychees inside, and fed him into Yang Tianci's mouth. .

As for those miners, they are now living in dire straits, and they eat worse than pigs every day. Not to mention the meals they used to eat casually, now there are two pancakes with whole grains and a small piece of pickled vegetables for each meal.The body that had recovered with great difficulty had been quickly hollowed out.

On the excavation operation surface of the coal mine, a tall miner was too tired to work. He leaned on the ground with the handle of his shovel and took a short rest.

However, it attracted a beating from the steward.

"Clap clap..."

The whip hit the tall miner, but the tall miner didn't scream, but stared at the whip in charge and snatched it away.This tall miner is called Qiao Zhuang. As his name suggests, he is very strong. He is more than 1.8 meters tall. Song Xiance only reached his belly button.

Qiao Zhuang was originally the captain of the miners during Song Xiance's time, and he was very prestigious.

Seeing this scene, these miners collectively fell silent. At the time when King Lu's Mansion robbed Song Xiance's coal mine, they didn't make a sound, but the coal mine was not theirs either, so they didn't care. The problem is, now they regret it.

When they followed Song Xiance, they had enough to eat and warm clothes, their children could go to school, their wives could also sew and mend, and earned some pocket money. Their food was good, not only full of food, but also meat occasionally.

But the problem is, now there is nothing.

As the saying goes, it is easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but difficult to go from extravagant to frugal.

Qiao Zhuang snatched the steward's whip, and the steward was furious. He pointed to the armed servants beside him and said, "If you want to rebel, take this bastard for me!"

Several followers immediately drew their swords and surrounded Qiao Zhuang.

Qiao Zhuang whipped the whip indiscriminately, and several subordinates were still unable to get close.

The steward roared angrily: "Okay, if you dare to rebel, you will be shot to death!"

Qiao Zhuang danced the whip so loudly, his hair was disheveled, he rushed left and right, looking crazy.He roared loudly, like a beast trapped in a cage, terrified, desperate and crazy: "Brothers, haven't you had enough of this kind of life that is not as good as pigs and dogs?"

All the miners looked at Qiao Zhuang in the encirclement indifferently. The whip could not kill anyone. Several subordinates took the whip desperately, leaving a bloody gash on Qiao Zhuang's body. As time went by, the knife marks on Qiao Zhuang's body became more and more serious. more.

Qiao Zhuang looked at a miner and said, "Liu Quan, you fucking want to be a bastard, the man surnamed Yang slept with your wife, so you just put up with it..."

The miner named Liu Quan bowed his head, covered his face with his hands, and began to cry.

"Third Shi, Ye father was beaten to death by Yang Tianci, you dare not even fart, are you still human?"

The miner named Shi Laosan's eyes instantly turned red.

"Even if I die, I won't let your Prince Lu's mansion be humiliated!"

Qiao Zhuang knew that he couldn't help but move his hands, not to mention that Yang Tianci would torture him to death, he might as well be dead, Qiao Zhuang didn't retreat but advanced, and directly ran into the long knife in the hand of a subordinate.

However, at this moment, Shi Laosan moved, and the shovel in his hand hit the head of the servant holding the knife, and the servant fell directly to the ground.

The other miners also screamed and rushed towards the steward and subordinates. After all, there were a lot of miners, and they still had shovels, chisels, big hammers, and other tools in their hands.

Soon these subordinates and stewards were beaten to a pulp by these miners.

Looking at these bloody corpses, the miners began to fear again.

"Brother Joe, what shall we do now?"

Qiao Zhuang was stunned by this question. Looking at the bloody corpses under his feet, everyone was silent, feeling aggrieved, hesitant, and fearful.

They were originally homeless refugees. Because Song Xiance discovered the coal mine, he gathered them together to mine and earn money in exchange for food to survive.However, King Lu's Mansion robbed Song Xiance's coal mines and squeezed them as slaves. They were so angry that they killed the people in King Lu's Mansion.

Now they are meat on the chopping board, and their life and death depend on the wishes of the officials. If they are defined as rebels, they... In fact, no matter what the situation is, they will already die.

Qiao Zhuang thought for a while and said, "We are ashamed of our boss. Otherwise, if we don't do anything, we will kill Yang Tianci and the others, and then send someone to find our boss!"

"What can my boss do when he comes back? Does he dare to come back?"

"Whether you dare or not, the result is the same. If you can't run away from us, can the owner still run away?"

Qiao Zhuang is in a mess, and he doesn't know what to do now.

However, Qiao Zhuang's words were also correct, they had no way to turn back, they could only go one way to the dark.

In the most luxurious room in Huanggang Village, Yang Tianci was happily counting the silver. Liaodong did not lower the price because of the replacement of Huanggang Coal Mine. .This allowed Yang Tian to open up the situation smoothly.

Of course, Yang Tianci is not a good bird. Although he is the steward of Lu Wangfu, he is only a third-level steward, and there are second-level stewards, senior stewards, and chief stewards. Among them, Tianci is the person in charge of the following subsidiaries.

Except for big transactions, he didn't dare to do anything. He did a lot of tricks on miners' meals and small transactions. In just half a month, he embezzled more than 600 taels of silver. Tens of thousands of taels of silver can be found.

The sad thing is that when Yang Tianci was intoxicated in the dream of rolling in wealth, his subordinates rushed in with a panicked expression, shouting: "Guard Yang, it's a disaster, it's a disaster!"

Yang Tianci quickly hid the money, frowned and said, "You're in a panic, what do you look like!"

"Those mud-legged...those mud-legged rebels!"

"What? What did you say!?"

"Those mud legs rebelled! They ambushed the overseer and guards in the mine, and they really rebelled!"

Yang Tianci wasn't nervous about the miners' rebellion. In his opinion, the mudlegs were as cowardly as a mouse. He only needed to kill the leader, and the people below would work obediently.What's more, he has more than 200 guards, and the equipment of these guards is much better than that of the guards.

Even if thousands of miners rebel, they can easily be appeased.

When Yang Tianci entered the mine with more than 200 guards, he found a sudden darkness behind him. It was Qiao Zhuang appearing behind Yang Tianci.

The mine was not too big, and Qiao Zhuang and others blocked the way back. Yang Tianci realized that he had fallen for the trick, and hurriedly turned around and pointed at Qiao Zhuang, saying, "Kill them all!"

It's just a pity that Qiao Zhuang didn't give them a chance. They used four-wheeled vehicles to block the mine, stood behind the four-wheeled vehicle and fought with Yang Tianci and other guards. After more than half an hour of fighting, Yang Tianci and others He was hacked to death by random knives.

When Song Xiance was brought back by Qiao Zhuang's men, the whole Huanggangzhai was filled with the smell of blood, and Yang Tianci could hardly be seen as a human being, which shows how much the miners hated him.

"Boss, please save us!"

All the miners knelt in front of Song Xiance and said in unison: "Master, please save us!"

Jiang Wubing looked at Song Xiance's back with a shocked face, because the reactions of these miners were all within Song Xiance's calculations.

Song Xiance directed the miners to sit down, looked at Qiao Zhuang and said, "I remember, you are from Taiyuan, right?"

"Yes!"

Qiao Zhuang smiled honestly and said, "It's Taiyuan, Shanxi!"

"Taiyuan is a good place, why did you come to Shandong!"

Qiao Zhuang's eyes were slightly red: "The weather was too dry, the crops failed, and I couldn't pay the taxes, so I had to flee from famine... Two sisters and one younger sister were sold, and my father died of illness on the way, and I was the only one left. It's..."

Song Xiance looked at the crowd and said, "That's how you came here, too?"

All the miners began to chatter about their experiences.

One of the thin young men said: "I am from Henan, from Suiyang, Guide Prefecture. My family used to have a big family. I have three sisters and two brothers. There are more than 30 mu of land in the family. My mother was ill the year before last. My father borrowed some money from the rich man Hou to treat my mother. Later, when my mother died, the rich man Hou took my eldest sister and my second sister away. I was taken away by them, and now I can't see people alive, and I can't see corpses when I die..."

Speaking of this, the boy burst into tears: "A big family, now I'm the only one left..."

"When I was 16 years old, my parents took me away from my hometown, and they escaped here after a lot of hardships! We were a big family when we escaped from our hometown, and now it's just me and my mother. !"

Looking at the choking sound of the audience, Song Xiance used Ning Haijun's ideological education and training method. Cheng Shijie called this event a complaint meeting. Speak out the suffering.

This trick seems simple, but if you delve into the inner principles, it will be very powerful, and it will easily arouse collective empathy.

In fact, only a dozen or so people opened their mouths, and the five or six thousand miners present burst into tears. The miners in Huanggang mainly come from three sources. Since natural disasters have reduced grain production, all the grain has been handed over, which is not enough to pay taxes.

In desperation, they had no choice but to flee and abandoned the fields.

There are also some tenants who cultivate land for various landlords. Such tenants are basically struggling to starve to death. Because their family members are sick, they have borrowed debts and have no money to repay, so they can only flee.

The last part is from a well-off family. Because they have no power and power, their property is plundered by landlords and big families, and they have nowhere to ask, so they can only flee.

The miners chattered about their experiences, their eyes turned red as they talked, their voices choked up, and they couldn't continue.

At this moment, Song Xiance stood up and said, "Stop it, stop it. It's not easy for you. You have struggled to survive in this chaotic world that eats people and doesn't spit out your bones...Have you ever thought about why this happened?"

Qiao Zhuang was the first to respond: "Because the tax is too heavy and the weather is dry, we can't pay the tax..."

Someone also replied: "It's the dog's day that the rich man has no conscience. If he borrows them a tael of silver, he can get out more than a dozen taels a year, and he can't afford it at all!"

"My sister is beautiful, and rich man Liu has taken a fancy to him, so he insists on robbing my sister to be his stupid son's wife..."

"Master Zhang has usurped my grandson's property, and even colluded with the government to ruin our family!"

Song Xiance looked at the crowd and said: "Let's do the math. The reason for the ruin of our family is simply those local tyrants and evil gentry! It is because those local tyrants and evil gentry invaded our fields that made our family ruined and homeless! If They took the land, and then paid taxes, but they obviously took our land, but did not pay taxes. The land tax still has to be paid by those of us who don’t have an inch of land. We are still alive. Do you have to go down?"

"We can't survive..."

The sound of sobs rang out, making people feel sad and cry when they heard it.

"Apart from leaving our hometown, do we have any other choice? They have thousands of hectares of fertile land, rich clothes and good food, extravagant desires, and they don't have to do anything. Naturally, many people will send a lot of wealth to them and ask them to accept it. What about us? We live in a low and dilapidated house, with our faces facing the loess and our backs facing the sky, farming the barren land year after year, without taking a breath all year round. If you fail to pay the taxes, you will be forced to ruin your family by the tax collectors!"

Song Xiance yelled loudly, his voice was like a thunderbolt, "But the imperial court let it go, and even raised taxes again and again, wishing to suck our blood dry, is it reasonable!?"

Everyone is not a fool. Although they are uneducated, they still understand the basic principles. This world has long since lost the principles of nature. The Lu Palace took a fancy to their coal mines and snatched them away by force, tossing them to death. Do not leave them.

Why can't they even have a full meal despite their hard work?
Why do people who own tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land don’t have to pay any taxes, don’t have to do anything, and can eat and wait to die?
Why do they clearly have billions of dollars in wealth, but they still think about how to take away the pitiful property in their hands?

Why is it that the government, which is clearly upholding justice, deliberately favors landlords, rich people and gentry?To bully these poor people?

Why did the government pour cold water on them as soon as they saw a little hope?
Why did the imperial court not ask questions, let corrupt officials corrupt officials, collude with officials and businessmen, and protect each other?
Why don't they let them go when their families are already broken?
This god has long been blind.

"What do you say, what should we do now? Do we resign ourselves to fate and be bullied to death by them, or fight for it!"

Song Xiance said: "If you want to be bullied to death by them, then I have nothing to say, everyone has his own ambition!"

"I don't want to die, I want to live!"

Qiao Zhuang stood up and said, "Boss, tell me, how can we survive?"

"We have only one way, use our hands, take up weapons, and kill those local tyrants and evil gentry who eat people and don't spit out their bones!"

"This is rebellion!"

"Get rid of those local tyrants and evil gentry who eat people and don't spit out their bones!"

Song Xiance and the officers and men of the Ning navy around him raised their arms and shouted: "It's reversed!"

"This is a rebellion... Those who want to destroy the Nine Clans, what if they lose?"

It's a pity that this voice of reason has been infected by emotion.

Song Xiance waved his hand, and carts appeared on the coal yard. On the carts were bundles of long guns that looked like sugarcane. Needless to say, these were the standard equipment of the Ning Navy, and some people called them rifles.

It is about one foot and eight feet long, and the blade is three feet long. It can be cut, stabbed, and picked. Unless it is three-layer armor, a shot is a hole. There are also sharp straight-edged and horizontal knives, which are also the standard equipment of the Ning Navy. .

In addition to horizontal knives, long guns, crossbows, and even grenades, there are many of these equipments, enough to arm tens of thousands of people. Smart people have actually discovered that Song Xiance actually planned it in advance.

It's a pity that even if they knew that Song Xiance had planned it long ago, they still pretended to be deaf and dumb.

This shitty world, this court that has no distinction between good and evil, right and wrong, did it.

As more and more miners got their hands on the weapons, sentiment ran high.

Jiang Wubing said worriedly: "Uncle, they haven't been trained yet!"

"There is no need for training. The commander-in-chief also said that the best training is actual combat!"

(End of this chapter)