Father can be an enemy country

Chapter 104

In the third year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang decreed to move 14 households of the rich people in the south of the Yangtze River to Fengyang, and strictly prohibited them from returning without permission.

In doing so, he imitated Liu Bang and moved the world's richest people to Guanzhong, so as to expand the population of Fengyang and promote the prosperity and development of Zhongdu.

In addition, there is another layer of insignificant thoughts in it. The wealthy people in the south of the Yangtze River are basically Zhang Shicheng's supporters. Zhu Yuanzhang wants to take a drastic step to relocate the literati and landlord class in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Although Shen Wansan has passed away, the Shen family is still the richest household in the south of the Yangtze River. Whoever can escape, they cannot escape, so they were moved to Fengyang, which was also called Linhao at that time.

"Our family also knows that the emperor hates us for supporting King Cheng, so he accepts it and plans to buy a house and land in Fengyang to live on his duty." Shen Liuniang said in grief and indignation:

"But who would have imagined that we rich households who left Jiangnan would become bereaved dogs, and everyone would want to knock us down! We would become fat in the eyes of Huaixi people, and everyone would want to take a bite out of us!"

"The government also blindly shields the locals. People say that in Fengyang, Xungui's family is the upper class, the local family is the middle class, and our migrant family is the lower class. We deserve to be bullied!"

"The locals are bullying, and it's the same everywhere." Zhu Di remembered that his brother was also targeted by the villagers of Jinqiaokan in the beginning?

"This little brother, it's not as simple as being bullied by the locals." Shen Liuniang blushed and said, "It's a fourth-class person like the Yuan Dynasty!"

"It's nonsense, they are all Han Chinese, where do they come from the fourth class." The third brother shook his head after hearing this.

"The four classes of people in the Yuan Dynasty were divided into Han people and Southern people!" Shen Liuniang confronted each other: "We were Southerners in the previous dynasty, and we came from the territory of King Cheng. And the local households were Han Chinese in the previous dynasty, and they became fellows of the emperor. Don’t do hard labor and don’t pay food! Most of them are related to those founding heroes, and the government will only coax them and help them smash us together!”

"Are you really going to accept it?" Zhu Di asked again.

"Of course not. At first we just wanted to be alone. My father tried every means to get to the nobleman's house. He thought he was finally protected. I didn't expect that they just wanted to accept him as a dog." Shen Liuniang said bitterly.

"Your name, tell me clearly." Zhu Zhen, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke.

"Yes, try to state the time, place and name clearly, without being vague." Third Brother nodded.

"I'm afraid that if I say it, I will scare you." Shen Liuniang looked at the young brothers, the oldest must be over 30?The youngest is in his early ten years.How can I help you?

In fact, the second brother is just twenty, it's just that he looks more anxious...

"Hahaha, unless the person you're talking about is the current emperor, I'm afraid no one will be able to scare us!" Zhu Di laughed out loud with pride.

Shen Liuniang only thought he was bragging, and decided to make a fool of him by speaking out.

"It's Korean..."

"Hiss..." Zhu Di's smile was a little stiff. If it was Uncle Li, it would be a little troublesome.

"My nephew Ding Bin." Unexpectedly, Shen Liuniang gasped again.

"Woo!" Zhu Di was almost dodged, if the other party was not a sick and weak woman, he would have to throw her out of the window.

"He's a fart." The brothers also laughed. Although Han Hangong is not easy to deal with, his nephew is actually not a fart.

"You guys, don't underestimate Ding Bin. Mr. Han is very kind to his relatives and treats him like his own. Moreover, the Li family needs to take care of them and cherish their feathers. So those dirty hands in the Mr. Han's house are all Ding Bin and his father Ding Degui are doing it."

When mentioning the father and son, Shen Liuniang couldn't help showing fear, but more hatred.

"Relying on the protection of the Korean father and son, their father and son are lawless and do all kinds of bad things. But the Korean father does not allow them to bully the old folks, so they scourge us outsiders and force us to be slaves!"

"Surrender as a slave, what do you mean?" Zhu Zhen asked curiously. He always heard people say that surrender became popular in the late Ming Dynasty, and he thought that ordinary people were willing to surrender.

"It is to voluntarily donate the family property and put the whole family into a big family as slaves, so that they can get asylum without paying taxes and labor." The knowledgeable third brother explained.

"Aren't Fengyang and Linhuai counties exempt from tax and labor?" Zhu Di asked.

"Tax exemption and labor exemption are only for the local households who lived here before the first year of Hongwu." Shen Liuniang said: "We migrant households can only enjoy certain tax exemptions, but we are not exempted from labor!"

After a pause, she said quietly: "And the most terrifying thing in this capital city is hard labor..."

This time I don't need her, the brothers also understand.To build the capital city, it is said that a million civilians were recruited...

"As long as we dare not agree to contribute, within a few days, the government will conscript the men of the family to build the capital city. The conditions there are extremely harsh, and the supervisors only care about the progress and don't care about the lives of the people. Once they enter, they will die if they don't die." Only half life left."

"Is it so exaggerated?" The faces of the Zhu family brothers turned serious. It was just a local misdemeanor that the big family embezzled the people's land.But in the end, the account of Zhongducheng has to be settled on the head of the father.

"Don't talk nonsense, the Duke of Korea is Xiao He of the Great Ming Dynasty. With him in charge of the Ministry of Industry and Construction, the people below will definitely not be so cruel!" Zhu Ye said sternly.

The so-called "Ministry of Industry" is a temporary organization specially set up by Zhu Yuanzhang for the construction of the Central Capital, and not only is there a special minister of the Ministry of Industry in charge.There is also Li Shanchang, the Duke of South Korea, with Tang He, Marquis of Zhongshan, Wu Liang, Marquis of Jiangyin, and one master and two marquises to supervise the repair. The specifications are high, which shows that Boss Zhu just wants to build Zhongdu into the new capital of Ming Dynasty.

"The performance of South Korea's public supervision and construction of Zhongdu is not Xiaohe at all. Instead, it looks like a cruel official eager for quick success. He wants to shorten the construction period, save money, and want to build well to show his ability. So in addition to frantically oppressing the people, We can only force donations from wealthy households in the south of the Yangtze River like us."

"Ding Bin asked my father to take the lead and promised to pay half of the cost of the city wall. But in the huge city of Zhongdu, half of the city wall is a full 2 miles long. The requirements for construction are extremely strict, and one mile of the city wall costs [-] taels. There are too many."

"And once our family takes the lead, all wealthy households from outside will be forced to donate. So we discussed and discussed, and decided not to make this money."

"As a result, they found someone to falsely accuse us of helping Zhang Shicheng defend Pingjiang... which is now Suzhou. The government then arrested our parents and forced us to spit out our money."

"We couldn't swallow this breath, so the men from several families decided to go to Beijing to sue. Unexpectedly, the boat was intercepted and killed by the so-called 'Japanese pirates' on the river as soon as it left Fengyang." Shen Liuniang said with tears: "There is no result. survived..."

"Afterwards, all the families involved in Beijing Control were convicted of banditry. The men were sent to repair the city of Zhongdu. All property was deprived of officials. The women were assigned to the Jiaofang Division of Zhongdu. In fact, they were divided up by those noble families. .”

The brothers were all silent. They could feel that behind Shen Liuniang's plain statement, there were many ruined families and human tragedies hidden behind Shen Liuniang's plain statement...

ps. The first update, I haven't checked it later, so I will update it slowly, don't worry.

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