"Your Majesty, the people of Sichuan have been looking eastward for twenty years to welcome Master Wang. They have been looking forward to Master Wang's arrival for twenty years. There must be some benefit, right? If they get nothing, how can the people of Sichuan eat pots of pulp to welcome Master Wang? ?”
The person who speaks for the working people of Sichuan is Ma Shiying, old man Ma. Old man Ma is also old now. He is 76 years old and has not retired. He continues to serve the court and the people. He is now the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment.
Before he joined the cabinet as minister, he twice served as governor of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, responsible for suppressing and blocking rogue bandits from the south. The mission of suppressing the enemy was not completed, but the rogue bandits were still blocked. In fact, the rogue bandits had already turned into sitting bandits, so it was naturally easy to block them. However, Ma Shiying can be regarded as meritorious. Now that he has been granted the title of Duke of Kenan, it is also a great honor. Of course, such feudal aristocrats and feudal bureaucrats will not really sympathize with the working people of Sichuan. Now they are proposing to give the Sichuan people a little sweetness. They are just trying to drive a wedge between the lower-class Sichuan working people in Dashun and the middle- and upper-class Shaanxi soldiers. emotion.
Wu Sanfu, who did not know how many times he had served as Minister of War, snorted: "When the rogue bandits invaded Sichuan, these Sichuan people were very happy. They sang the song "Welcome the Bandits" to welcome these rebels. After entering Sichuan...now you still want to benefit from the imperial court?"
What Wu Sanfu said was the truth. The people of Sichuan were very troubled when they saw Zhang Xianzhong killing people indiscriminately, but they still welcomed the highly disciplined Dashun Tianbing. Especially in the first ten years of Dashun's rule of Sichuan, because the second generation of Fu soldiers did not grow up and had no demand for land, most Sichuan people still retained the land they received during the first land equalization. At that time, everyone was really happy. Only a small group of former landlord class intellectuals who dreamed of getting ahead were unhappy - because Dashun was based on government soldiers. Without this status, they could only farm and work honestly. Opportunities to rise.
However, there are only a very small number of people who are unwilling to settle down as farmers or craftsmen and still dream of climbing up the ladder. Therefore, for more than ten years, the Dashun Dynasty was still very popular in Sichuan.
Ma Shiying glanced at Wu Sanfu, who was so fat that he almost turned into a ball, and said with a smile: "The Sichuan people were happy too early. Since the Shaanxi War began, their lives have been getting worse year by year, becoming more and more bleak. Moreover, they were also A bunch of Shaanxi soldiers are pressing down hard, no matter how great your abilities are, you still can't get ahead!"
Wu Sanfu shook his head and said with a smile: "It's hard for ordinary people here to get ahead... It's not easy to study and go to college, it's not easy to do business and make money, it's not easy to serve as a soldier and make meritorious service, even farming the land is a loss. Damn it! Even when they go to America and California to hunt for minks and gold, not many of them are really prosperous."
He said this out of emotion. The old Wu family and the nephew of the ancestor's family could not go to college and could only reluctantly enter the martial arts hall. You are bound to lose money when doing business, so you can only collect rent on a dozen streets in Shanghai, Tianjin, and Tianhe. The owner built many farms in his hometown in Liaodong, but in the end they all failed to survive. But it’s not bad enough to go to America to dig for gold. The children of the Wu family and the ancestral family are all stupid and clumsy. They can go to Army Primary School, Army Middle School, and Army Martial Arts Hall, and they can always become cavalry officers who charge into battle. ...
Zhu Cixiang glanced at "Fat Wu" and knew that this fat man was losing money in everything he invested. There were also a group of dandy boys at home who only knew how to ride horses, shoot, hunt and play polo, so they had a headache!
However, Emperor Zhu was helpless. What he promoted was "capitalism based on losses". Because of the lack of far-sighted plans, losses were everywhere. Behind every glamorous and successful person, there were several losers that no one could find. Losers...and Emperor Zhu did not provide any minimum guarantee at all, so losers who could not survive in the Ming Dynasty often had only one way out, which was to go to the United States of New Zealand or the Kingdom of Luzon, the Twelve Principalities of Malacca, or Working as a contract worker in Temasek Free Market.
Just working as a coolie to pay the ship fare is almost a last resort. Although there are some who have recovered, there are many who have lost everything and even their lives.
But having said that, if there is not a "loss-making capitalism" that continues to create unwilling losers, who is willing to risk their lives to explore the New World and Southeast Asia?
After excelling in the examination, he later inexplicably became the "lucky man" of a great military strategist. Shi Kefa, the Minister of Rites, shook his head, obviously disapproving of Wu Sanfu's words.
"It's not easy to get ahead anywhere, but here we all rely on our ability and luck. Among the bandits, ordinary people are not allowed to get ahead. The only way up is the soldiers of the Shaanxi Prefecture." Shi Kefa smiled, "Everyone depends on their ability and luck. If you fight hard, you can't get ahead and you can't blame others... But if you don't let others get ahead, that's different! If you don't fight, who knows you can't do it? How can you be willing to accept others saying you can't do it?"
After hearing this, Wu Sanfu couldn't help but sigh, and then glanced at his brother-in-law, Emperor Zhu.
Emperor Zhu Da has long said that people from the old Wu family cannot be engaged in the business - not to mention careless, and they are loyal enough to be friends, but full of feudal ideas... But who listens! Except for Wu Sanmei who was under the control of Zhu Cixiang, who among the Wu family had never lost money?
Zhu Cixiang spoke with a smile at this time, "We have to give the Sichuan people something, and we don't expect them to welcome the king's master, as long as they don't help the bandits... Tell me what are the benefits of changing the agreement. "
Ma Shiying said: "Nowadays, Sichuan people have five major hardships: heavy rent, numerous corvee labor, many household transfers, fierce government soldiers, and no hope.
When the bandits first entered Sichuan, they carried out land equalization for a while and confiscated the landowners' land. Most of it was given to farmers, and the other half was given to soldiers and then rented by farmers. At that time, the rent that was burdened on the Sichuan people was not heavy, whether it was the rent paid to the rogue pirates or the government soldiers. However, since the Shaanxi War began seven years ago, the rent burdened by the Sichuan people has become heavier. It's getting heavier!
First, the rogue bandits and puppet dynasty continued to seize Sichuan people's land by re-equalizing the land in order to raise merit and settle the children of the soldiers. Later, in order to make up for the loss of land rent after the reduction of public land, the rogue pirates and puppet dynasties continued to increase rents, and the military households in the government also continued to raise land rents due to heavy military service and huge expenses. This year, the rogue pirates and puppet dynasty also enacted the "Two Rent Law". For a piece of land, two rents must be paid, one for the puppet dynasty and one for the government soldiers! "
Ma Shiying paused and then said: "Because the rogue pirates and puppet dynasty moved south and north and developed Yunnan and Burma, the corvee sent by the rogue pirates and puppet dynasty became more and more heavy... In addition to farming, Sichuan farmers did not There is no idle time for transshipment and transportation. Moreover, household adjustment, which means expropriating cloth and so on, has been increased a lot now, and it has been decoupled from the land and instead linked to the household registration. Even if you rent the land of a military household in Zhongfu, you will not be idle at all. You have to pay the full amount of household cloth!
Needless to say, the military households in the government were fierce... On the one hand, the Shaanxi people oppressed the Sichuan people, and on the other hand, the military households oppressed the civilian households. There was no love at all. What makes Sichuan people feel most depressed is that they have no hope. In the early years, people from Sichuan still had the opportunity to join the government, but now the children of the soldiers have grown up, and there are still many veterans who have not retired. Their own families can't arrange it, so where are the people from Sichuan? Moreover, once they were suppressed by Fu Binghu, they had no chance to try their luck, so they didn't know whether they could do it or not. But no one will feel that they are not good enough. They will feel that they cannot get ahead because they are pressured by the soldiers and households in the government. In addition, the rent is heavy, the corvee is complicated, the households are transferred a lot, and the soldiers in the government are fierce. Over time, the people of Sichuan have become more and more hostile to Shaanxi. The resentment among the soldiers is getting deeper and deeper. If the imperial court can set a fire, haha, it will simply encounter a fierce fire, and maybe it will start a prairie fire! "
Ma Shiying thought about it and said: "The old minister's idea is that the court should take action against the shortcomings of the rogues and puppet dynasty, and announce the exemption of rent, exemption of mediocrity, exemption from military service, exemption from scientific examination... to welcome the Ming Dynasty!"
"Okay!" Zhu Cixi slapped the table and laughed, "Ma Xingbu is my humerus, free of rent, free of mediocrity, free of military service, and scientific examination to welcome the Ming Dynasty... It's really wonderful, no need to take out Sichuan The land is divided, and the Sichuan people can be incited. It seems that the unification of the world will only be a matter of ten years."
