Begging in late Ming Dynasty

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It was really a bit cold for a moment. Now is not the time when the Donglin Party is running rampant. The emerging bourgeoisie has gained the right to speak. Besides, Song Qingshu has just carried out a wave of cleansing in Zhejiang. Now the Bamin gentry are trembling. Seeing Watching Gao Hongtu pointing at Song Qingshu's nose and cursing with full beard and hair, even the literati who came to see him off couldn't help leaning back with a guilty conscience.

"Old bastard, do you fucking want to die, talking to the handsome..."

They are not the only ones who are nervous. The Ming soldiers who were "converted" from the Fujian soldiers in custody almost lost their legs. Don't look at the democracy now, but later generations of high-ranking provincial officials inspected it, and they were so frightened that there was something wrong. , not to mention that Song Qingshu is a cadre of a high-ranking official.

But before the scolding was finished, Song Qingshu stretched out his hand with a smile, stopped the guards from shouting, walked out slowly from the see-off line, stood in front of Gao Hongtu leisurely, and sized up the old man twice Face flushed with anger, he shook his head helplessly.

The guard was right. The old man really wanted to die. This was the last move of the Donglin Party. Like the Six Gentlemen of Donglin, they were arrested and imprisoned for impeaching and scolding Wei Zhongxian. , but Yang Lian Zuo Guangdou Wei Dazhong Gu Dazhang and others are famous all over the world and passed down through the ages.

Now Gao Hongtu is an uncle Pengci, what he wants to do is to anger Song Qingshu and kill him, then he can also win a reputation of loyalty, but how can Song Qingshu take advantage of him?
"Why, Mr. Gao refused to accept the trial of the military court?"

"Huh, why is there a trial! It's not that you and other traitors want to commit crimes! You pretend to be His Majesty, assert power, seize the country, and conquer the superior. Sooner or later, there will be rebels from all over the world to kill you and other nine clans. Take off this pair of eyes, hang them on the top of the city, and see your defeat with your own eyes!"

Oh, the old guy has also learned from Wu Zixu.Hearing Gao Hongtu's growling roar, Song Qingshu's smile became more and more intense. He didn't argue with him, but suddenly slapped behind him. A moment later, several strong men carried a stone tablet covered with a red cloth. It was Hey Hey who came over.

The ancients had the habit of recording merits and demerits on the stele. After the king of Lu was overthrown, the Ming regime was considered unified. It was going to be unveiled again, but the old guy Gao Hongtu jumped out, so he had to take it out in advance.

The heavy stone tablet was erected on the shore, and the red cloth was lifted casually. Song Qingshu put his hand on it elegantly, turned to look at Gao Hongtu and asked.

"Since the law of the Ming Dynasty is regarded as a crime by Mr. Gao, then I have nothing to say, let's start from the righteousness of you Neo Confucianists, and see if I have done it or not, and you have done it!"

"The capital has fallen, and you haven't organized a single soldier to rescue it, and you haven't fulfilled the righteousness of a minister. It's disloyal, right?"

"It's unrighteous to abandon Yingtian and not be the same as the king, and there must be some!"

"There are still people who are stingy and poor, and the poor and displaced people still increase taxes and taxes, but refuse to take an extra tael of silver from their own fields. This is inhumane, right?"

Looking at the stele, Gao Hongtu's face turned pale in an instant. The inscription on the stele, which is said to be a continuation cup, records in detail a series of major events that have happened since the fall of the capital, including Song Qingshu's abandonment. The process of using the sky to lead troops to the south, the impeachment of the emperor, and the deprivation of the world's rights are also the same, the Donglin Party conspired to raise taxes, mutiny, and finally surrendered to Jiannu, in an attempt to use Jiannu soldiers to suppress the people of Jiangnan. A series of major historical events are naturally also recorded, which is tantamount to a final conclusion.

Donglin Party is really a princess disease, don't want to do what they do, always complaining to others, trembling for a moment, the muscles on the old face trembled, Gao Hongtu pointed at Song Qingshu's nose angrily again and shouted.

"Well, you ambitious and rebellious person, you are simply more poisonous than Wei Zhongxian!"

"But the fact is that I took back Jinling, I expelled the Jiannu, and kept the hair accessories and clothes of the Han people. When I saved the Ming Empire in the way I thought was right, you actually bowed your knees to the Jiannu and tried to lure them back. Re-enslave the last piece of pure land left in China!"

"If you think there is something wrong with the inscription, you can bring it up, and I will order it to be changed! If there is no one, please shut up!"

Shutting up the Donglin Party, which is not successful enough to fail, is really Song Qingshu's long-cherished wish and even a demon obstacle. When these words came out of his mouth, Song Qingshu felt a different kind of joy in his heart, and the old antique should be buried. In the pile of old papers, stop pointing fingers!

Gao Hongtu, who refuted it once again, was stunned. After a while, he yelled angrily just now: "The old man escaped from Yingtian City just to plot a comeback and help the country. villain!"

Finally, he lost his mind to argue with Gao Hongtu again, and covered the stele with a red cloth again. Song Qingshu clapped his hands with emotion, and turned his head to look at the towering Mayflower.

"Right and wrong are all in the long history. Mr. Gao, you should leave these arguments to future generations to judge! Please!"

As if he had found a new battle target, Gao Hongtu became like an excited fighting chicken again, angrily snorting at Song Qingshu, and also uttered a harsh word.

"Song thief, don't you want to tarnish history and fool future generations, I will never let you succeed!"

As he said that, holding the rattling shackles, Gao Hongtu jumped back into the group of prisoners in a fit of anger, pushed the two of them away, and walked towards the boat on his own.

To be honest, Song Qingshu didn't have good intentions when he lit up this stele. He wanted to give Zhuge Liang to these Donglin Party members to scold Wang Lang to death. Song Qingshu never expected the ability to open his eyes and tell nonsense. When he really arrived in the New World, these guys who were eager to reverse the case for themselves also carved an unknown number of articles and inscriptions. Thanks to these guys, the two sides of the strait have fought countless battles for the truth.

Fortunately, these guys are no longer influential in today's turbulent Ming Dynasty. After such an accident, the journey and farewell ceremony were back on track. More than 5000 first batch of immigrants who were sentenced to exile All boarded the ship, and Song Qingshu smashed a bottle of wine from the Western Regions, a symbol of luck, on the ridge of the ship amidst applause.

With a loud howl, accompanied by the frigate, the heavy double-row sails of the huge Haidayu type Mayflower were turned around together. Amidst the creaking of the cables, the fleet headed north all the way. The expedition fleet will conduct its last replenishment in Osaka, Japan, and immediately plunge into the boundless Pacific Ocean.

Compared with Columbus and da Gama's expedition fleet, the Mayflower fleet is undoubtedly much more advanced. Not to mention the compass, compass and star fixer, these navigation tools are all available, and penicillin is also equipped on the ship, and even fertilizer is used in the cabin. Vegetable gardens, cucumbers, bean sprouts and other vegetables sown on it, it can be said that the sea diseases that plagued Western navigators will minimize the impact on this fleet.

However, Song Qingshu didn't know whether he could succeed in the end. After all, the sea was vast. Maybe this trip would mean that he personally sent the fleet of more than 6000 people to hell.

But at least, Song Qingshu didn't regret it. Opportunities were always won. He watched the Western powers carve up the world but did nothing. Thousands of years later, this was what Huaxia regretted.

It seems that Gao Hongtu, Lu Daqi and other stubborn old men can still be seen faintly standing at the stern of the boat, looking forward to Fuzhou. Once again, a smile appeared on his face, and Song Qingshu waved his hand lightly to the flying seagulls .

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The most hypocritical are the scholar-bureaucrats in China. Before, what was said to be a farming family, what business was a cheap industry, and a gentleman did not take it, all of them were false. In the final analysis, it was the word of profit, relying on oppressing the bottom-level farmers and tenants , Literati and bureaucrats can spend their days and nights without leaving home, so they naturally despise businessmen who are running around in pursuit of that meager profit.

But now, the profit of cultivated land has plummeted, so it is another matter. Taking advantage of the fact that more than 40 troops gathered in Fujian, Song Qingshu took advantage of the opportunity to issue the "Housing Land Law", which formally classified agricultural taxation according to the personal income tax of later generations. According to statistics, the tax paid by large landlords who own more than 30.00 mu of land has reached [-]% of the harvest, while the tax paid by those who own less than [-] mu of land has dropped to less than one-fiftieth.

After all, the country needs tax support, and the greatest natural responsibility for enjoying the country's benefits is also the greatest. Song Qingshu felt that the Ming Empire would not allow the Ming Empire to repeat the same mistakes. After doing it, the wealth accumulated for a hundred years will be cheaper for outsiders, so it is better to let them start contributing now.

The second fatal blow to these landlord families came from the "Declaration of Human Rights" issued by Song Qingshu, which no longer recognized the personal attachment relationship between slaves and masters, and the traditional serf manor economy began to go bankrupt.

You know, the landlords and gentry in Zhejiang made a fuss before, which liberated millions of laborers under their command. Now the land of the landlords in Zhejiang is barren and even has good water conservancy facilities, but there is really no one to cultivate them. The price of hired farmers has risen countless times at once. The Zhejiang landlord who had just recovered from Fujian and was almost insane turned his attention to this place again. Before the landlord family in Fujian woke up, the landless tenants under their hands were killed A lot of colleagues in Zhejiang have been poached, coupled with the revitalization of coastal commerce, workshops have once again excavated a lot of human resources as workers, this is the first time that the landlords of Bamin, a populous country in the Tang and Tang Dynasties, have tasted what labor is. shortage.

This brought about a gratifying trend for Song Qingshu, going into the sea like crazy!
There are not so many rules in the overseas colonies of Southeast Asia. As long as you buy the farm tools and pay a registration fee to the Colonial Governor's Office almost symbolically, hundreds of acres of plantations will be yours, and there will be no land tax, only the sale of plantation products At the time, one-tenth of the transaction tax has to be paid. Compared with the compact land policy in China, it is simply another paradise.

What's more, before the Mayflower left, it described a paradise for everyone. The barren land in the traditional impression of the Chinese scholar-bureaucrats has now transformed into a tropical beach with a hot climate and rich products. Starting from June, you can buy a boat ticket The trend of investing in Southeast Asia suddenly picked up. The Fuzhou Port was so busy every day that it became a beehive. As a last resort, Zhang Huangyan even cut twelve ships from the construction sequence of the naval fleet, and rowed the seven Yingtian battleships that had just launched into the water. After returning to civilian use, it was barely supplied.

Song Qingshu also moved his temporary trip from the city of Fuzhou to the edge of this port. He opened the window every day, accompanied by a pleasant smell of the sea, and all he saw were ships...

(End of this chapter)