Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 691 Disintegration
Emperor Chongzhen did not expect that he would have such an important day. It was already seven or eight o'clock in the middle of the night when he was invited from the Buddhist hall in the palace. He walked into the congress hall, it seemed that the time of monopoly was back.

At this time, Chongzhen is indeed monopolizing power. He has five votes by law, just enough to break the balance. No matter which side he votes for, it will affect the release of this decree!
"Your Majesty, the dignity and etiquette of the world all depend on the hope of His Majesty!"

"Your Majesty, all the people in the world depend on you!"

Before coming here, there were already some people, and Chongzhen had explained it. Qian Qianyi, the leader of the Conservative Party, and Zhou Yanru, the deputy minister of the cabinet, saluted Emperor Chongzhen on both sides. However, Qian Qianyi was still a little proud in comparison But Zhou Yanru looked extremely nervous.

As we all know, the emperor did not like the Democratic Party who impeached him and took away the emperor's power!
Holding the red five characters, looking at the ballot boxes on both sides, looking at the two people who were full of concern, for a while, Emperor Chongzhen also hesitated.

To be honest, he didn't like Song Qingshu. In fact, Emperor Chongzhen also didn't like the hypocritical Conservative Party and those Jiangnan celebrities. Song Qingshu won the present through the game in an open and aboveboard way. If possible, Emperor Chongzhen wanted to tear up the votes, and then ordered the entire Congress to be dragged out and chopped off, destroying the nine races!

It's a pity that now is not the time for him to deal with ministers at will. What's more, he has to consider the interests of the royal family. A vote swings back and forth between the two boxes of approval and opposition, and Zhu Youjian is also hesitant.

Under the gazes of people on both sides sweating, for a few minutes, finally, Emperor Chongzhen walked towards the ballot box supporting the abolition of the "Declaration of Human Rights". That old fox face began to show a strong smile.

"and many more!"

At the critical moment, there was a sudden and clear cry, which almost caused the people present to have a heart attack. On the sidelines of the Congress, the thirteenth princess Zhu Yuhui, who was in charge of writing the report, dropped the manuscript and ran up. Qian Qianyi immediately saw it With a tight heart, he said hastily.

"This is a strategy for parliamentary elections. Princess Changping is not a member of parliament. Don't make trouble, otherwise, according to the constitution, even the princess will be taken down!"

Here, Qian Qianyi didn't want to lose the dignity of the royal family, and even raised the constitution to threaten him. Unfortunately, Aimee Zhu didn't accept this at all, and turned around and hugged Zhou Yanru.

"As a daughter, I have two words to say to my father, please approve the deputy prime minister!"

"Before the vote, both parties need to debate to prove the truth. Princess Changping's request is naturally no problem!"

This was an opportunity, of course Zhou Yanru had no reason to refuse at all, in the midst of Qian Qianyi's desperation, Zhu Yuhui lay next to Chongzhen's ear, said a few words hastily, and immediately turned over to the stage again.

"Your Majesty, Ming Dynasty is a country of etiquette! Nobility and etiquette are irreplaceable!" Sweat dripped from his forehead, and Qian Qianyi clasped his fists anxiously to persuade him once again. Who knew that this time, Emperor Chongzhen seemed to have figured it out. With the sound of everyone's heart beating, Xinshou put the ballot in the ballot box against the repeal bill.

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On February 20th, the [-]th year of Chongzhen, the chief minister of the cabinet, Song Qingshu, proposed that everyone is equal, and the bill of human rights that abolished all slavery came into effect. The feudal etiquette that has been in China for thousands of years began to be disintegrated by means of formal legislation. As soon as the news came out , immediately caused those literati to scold, but only one day later, their voices were drowned in the spitting stars of thousands of ordinary people.

The one who benefited the most this time is actually the royal family!Emperor Chongzhen lost his capital, and Emperor Hongguang acted perversely and caused anger and resentment in the south of the Yangtze River. At this time, the royal family's majesty had been swept away, but the next day's Yingtian Daily, the headline published by Zhu Yuhui with thick ink and heavy pen, once again drew the attention of the royal family. Came back with incomparable popular support.

"free!His Majesty the Emperor publicly supports the abolition of slavery, and the Declaration of Rights is passed! "

All of a sudden, Song Qingshu's reputation as the proposer was overshadowed a lot, and many people who were released to the good people actually erected the longevity memorial archway for Zhu Youjian.

Fortunately, what Song Qingshu pays attention to is not fame, but results!This bill of rights is the stepping stone for him to reshuffle the next wave of Ming society.

The conversation with those two little soldiers made Song Qingshu suddenly think clearly about the fact that he was indeed too weak and compromised. Most of the landlord class in Nanzhili were either destroyed by the slaves or executed in the liquidation. A period of time was so smooth that he forgot how stubborn and terrifying the landlord class was. They colluded with each other. On the one hand, these parasites occupied a large number of farmers' labor and became rich. On the other hand, these people colluded with the government through their wealth. , oppressing tenants and serfs, covering the sky with one hand, if these tumors are not dealt with cleanly, even if Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian are brought back, the situation may not be reversed.

The common people still fear the landlords more than the laws of the country. Where does democracy come from?
In order to get rid of the source of power of the landlord class, an unprecedented reshuffle of the social class must be carried out, and the focus is on Zhejiang!

In fact, Song Qingshu's side had already started to take action before the Congress finally dealt with it.

The Supreme Court of the Criminal Ministry has formed more than 20 mobile courts, and more than 80 divisions that do not need to go out to fight have also begun to move with the courts. The armed forces of each state and county have implemented policies, burned slave contracts, and by the way beat rabbits. Lao Cai, the landlord who made trouble behind the Ming army, was found out one by one, and sentenced to death for treason.

It is indeed much crueler. In the vast Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, almost every county has people breaking up their homes and holding funerals. There may be tens of thousands of prisoners executed. These people did not die in the war against the Jiannu invasion, but died in their own hands However, Song Qingshu did not regret it at all.

This is the inevitable way to the modern and modern society of later generations. There is no bloodless revolution, just like Stalin. I don’t know how many people in history criticized his policies for being too cruel. He launched a big cleansing movement. It is said that 2000 million people died In this regard, even in World War II, when the German army invaded, the two Marshals Zhukov and Chuikov, but it has to be said that in the Lenin era, the Soviet Union was still a backward agricultural country, but Stalin quickly turned it into a country that could compete with the United States. industrial powerhouse.

Moreover, the previous constitution was too compromised, protecting private property, allowing the landowners in those places to take it as an umbrella, even if they resisted the government of Yingtian, anyway, they couldn’t surrender, mine was still mine, Song Qingshu just wanted them to know This point sends a signal to those areas that have not yet been occupied.

Some things will never be forgotten!If you want to support the king of Lu to supervise the country or surrender and become a slave, you have to weigh the consequences.

Of course, the most important point is that Song Qingshu wants the laws of the new empire to surpass the authority of those landlord families, so that there is no place for impunity!

However, such a large-scale purge and execution also aroused a fierce backlash from the Conservative Party.

In March, Jiangnan.

It was the beginning of spring plowing, but in previous years, the scenes of being busy with the spring rain, which was as expensive as oil, were much rarer, replaced by countless cries.

"I beg you, master, you can increase the rent if you want! Don't take back our tenant land!"

In the bleak wind and rain, Zhao Dou led the whole family to kneel at the door of the big advocate in the village, kowtowing their heads in a low voice, as if the sky was about to fall. Their Zhao family has been tenant farmers for the Zhang family for several generations. Well, early this morning, Zhang Dahu actually wanted to take back their family’s farmland and stop renting it to them. This simply killed the whole family!
However, no matter how much Zhao Dou prayed, Dadi insisted that Mancang still looked like he was not getting in, holding his arms arrogantly.

"What tenant? Didn't you read the latest newspaper? Mr. Song, the chief minister of the cabinet, ordered that you are no longer allowed to accept tenant slaves like you. Now, you are all free, and don't hang around the door of my house anymore. If you don't leave, I will Call the sheriff!"

"My lord, please!"

"Go away!"

More than a dozen dog-legs in the nursing home were gesticulating with big wooden sticks. In the end, Zhao Dou was kicked out. Not only him, but also a dozen tenants in the village lost their fields and were kicked out. In the words of later generations, they It is the real proletariat. Once they leave the land, they will have nothing immediately, and they will not even have food for tomorrow.

"What kind of bullshit is this? You won't even allow people to plow the fields. Let's go and make trouble in the county! Don't the officials give the people a way to survive?"

After moaning and sighing with the villagers for a long time, he was driven to a dead end. Zhao Dou, who had been honest all his life, suddenly became furious, holding up a useless hoe and shouting angrily. The dozens of tenants who gave out the land immediately raised their hands together.

"Yes, you won't be given a chance to survive, you motherfucker!"

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Nanzhili is not bad. After all, after a war, Song Qingshu still has a lot of unowned land in his hands. He sells it to the common people with meritorious land and low prices, which greatly increases the number of self-cultivating farmers. The number of tenants is no longer enough. However, Zhejiang is different. This is the pinnacle of the farm economy in the south of the Yangtze River. The landlords who rebounded invoked the private property protection law and kicked out the tenants and serfs who had escaped slavery from the farm at will, but there is another army here. While guarding, the serfs did not dare to make trouble, but a huge wave of refugees formed in a short while.

"Marshal, it's not good! Ningbo reported that more than 6000 mu was abandoned, Taizhou abandoned [-] mu, and Jiaxing, Hangzhou, and Yanzhou..."

Ruan Dacheng, who was in charge of the household department, was almost dumbfounded by the shock. With the statistics from all over the place and his panda eyes, he rushed into Song Qingshu's big office, but after listening to his incoherent report for a long time, Song Qingshu was just lazy. Yang Yang raised his head from the pile of recently cleaned documents, and even yawned.

"What are you panicking about? The sky hasn't fallen, so what about abandoning the wasteland? The ten boats of Haidayu have a steady flow of food every month. Even if they don't farm the land, we will still starve to death?"

It’s true that all dynasties have worried about food, but Song Qingshu is not worried. Large-scale maritime trade has now reached India. Every year, the rice imported from the Ganges Plain has already caught up with more than half of the output of Jiangnan, and many places in Southeast Asia have also become empires. The granary, not to mention the large-scale ocean-going fishing industry, with food, I don't panic.

He woke up all of a sudden, but immediately Ruan Dacheng regained his sad expression of crying for his father and mother.

"But Marshal, the number of refugees in Jiangsu and Zhejiang has exceeded 300 million, or even more. If we don't deal with it, things will change sooner or later!"

"Only two or three million?"

Song Qingshu's surprised voice almost made Ruan Dacheng vomit blood, two to three million refugees are not too many!What a big social problem?

Ruan Dacheng has never seen the spectacular scene of working during the spring festival. Song Qingshu knows that the newly developed commercial cities in the south of the Yangtze River and overseas colonies are extremely short of manpower. Before these serfs were firmly tied to the land of the landlords, Song Qingshu wanted to develop the colonies , had to go to Henan and other places to steal people, and now these landlords have rebounded, it is simply that the salted fish took the initiative to send it under the nose of the old cat.

With a sinister smile, Song Qingshu patted Ruan Dacheng's shoulder in a sinister way.

"Old Ruan, think of a way, can we get more of these refugees, when the time comes, I want to let those Jiangzuo aristocratic families see what capitalism is!"

(End of this chapter)