Along the Qinhuai River, Wuyi Lane, Taishi Mansion.
This is the residence given to Huang Zongxi by Kangxi, and now has a plaque bearing the title of Taishi Mansion. At the entrance of the alley, there is an additional stone tablet that reads, "Civil and military officials, soldiers and civilians are waiting here to stop in sedan chairs and dismount their horses."
This stone monument is the legendary Dismounting Monument. It can only be erected at the entrance of the alley outside the homes of high-ranking officials.
At this time, all kinds of carriages and sedan chairs were parked outside Wuyi Lane, which could stretch for several miles along the Qinhuai River.
The owners of these carriages and sedan chairs were all sitting respectfully in the lobby of the Taishi Mansion, and they were accompanied by Huang Zongxi's son Huang Baijia and his disciple Wan Sida.
These people were not officials, but league leaders from Jiangnan, Zhejiang and other places, and some were profiteers who donated money to Zhu Heji.
They all came from all over the country one after another after Zhu Heji broke through the Zijin Mountain Jiangnan Camp.
What are you here for? Of course I am here to participate in the Ming Dynasty version of the Jiangnan Consultative Conference!
Although Zhu Heji never said that he would convene the Jiangnan Council, Huang Zongxi and his disciples were still very proactive in handling this matter for Zhu Heji, and brought together the league training leaders and major officials in the two provinces of Jiangnan and Zhejiang. The profiteers were all called to Jinling City.
Of course, they are so proactive for the sake of the country and the people!
The situation here in Jiangdong is different from that in Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi and other places. Guangdong is Zhu Heji's basic base. Before being "liberated" by Zhu Heji, Guangdong people, especially the two major ethnic groups of Chaozhou and Guangfu, had suffered enough from the Qing Dynasty. Moreover, after Zhu Heji came to power, he sincerely He has done many good things for the Cantonese people. Even before he left Guangzhou and went to the south of the Yangtze River, he left three major specialties to the Cantonese people: "dolomite blast furnace", "graphite crucible steel", and "milky white porcelain" (bone china)!
Earlier, Guangdong's sugar industry was also "super upgraded", turning sugar from a condiment into a powerful weapon related to the rise and fall of the country!
In addition, during the two or three years when Zhu Heji ruled Guangdong, he also held a meeting of all ethnic groups similar to a consultative meeting, completed the equalization of land, taxes, and services, and established Haizhu University College, Guangzhou Public Medical College, and Huangpu Military Academy. , Guangfu No. 123 Academy and a series of new schools. A Guangzhou Public Hospital was also established to prevent and treat infectious diseases and use allicin to save lives...
It can be said that Zhu Heji spared no effort to benefit his hometown in Guangdong!
Therefore, the people of Guangdong are extremely supportive of him. He can do anything in Guangdong with ease, so Guangdong's social reform has been completed relatively thoroughly.
Fujian Province was handed over to the governance of Yanping King Zhengjing. The Yanping Palace had a deep foundation in Fujian and had a large number of supporters both in southern Fujian and in Fuzhou Shiyi. Moreover, the grassroots society in Fujian at this time was similar to that in Guangdong, and the clan power was also quite large. Therefore, the resistance to the implementation of land equalization based on communal ownership of land by clans was quite limited.
In addition, due to the coastal relocation implemented by the Manchu Qing Dynasty in Fujian, the best land in Fujian was actually abandoned!
Moreover, the population of Fujian also suffered heavy losses due to the Ming and Qing wars and coastal relocation. The contradiction between man and land is quite unprominent...Compared with the hometown of eight mountains, one water and one farmland, the Hokkien and Fuzhou people in Fujian I still hope to go out to sea and work hard.
Therefore, Zhu Heji's overseas policy was actually very in line with the needs of the Fujian people.
Under this circumstance, Fujian's reforms of equalization of land, equalization of taxes, and equalization of labor were also progressing smoothly.
The situation in Jiangxi is quite different from that of Guangdong and Fujian.
Jiangxi is a mountainous inland province, and the clan power at the grassroots level is not as strong as that of Guangdong and Fujian. It has no desire for the ocean, and there is no such thing as coastal relocation. Since the sharp population decline caused by the wars between the Ming and Qing dynasties alleviated the contradiction between man and land to a certain extent, Jiangxi was considered a relatively peaceful province before it was captured by Zhu Heji... The local people were gentry, although they were also dissatisfied with the Ming Dynasty. Expressed welcome, but far less enthusiastic than Guangdong and Fujian in hoping for the arrival of the Ming Dynasty.
For the time being, Zhu Heji has not brought the "equalization of land, equalization of taxes, and equalization of labor" that was successfully implemented in Guangdong and Fujian to Jiangxi. After all, it was Prime Minister Zhuge's rear who resisted Wu and Zhou in the west and resisted the Qing demon in the north. It had to be as stable as possible, so Zhu Heji gave Jiangxi to Zhuge Sanhe with full power to govern.
Zhuge Sanhe was busy with the military and did not have much energy to deal with internal affairs, so he hired a large number of Ming Dynasty officials from Jiangxi and let them maintain it first.
So now the situation in Jiangxi Province is the "most enlightened"...the imperial power does not go to the countryside, and grassroots governance is extremely loose. Even the tax collection standards are based on the Jiangxi tax and grain quotas established under the leadership of Zhang Juzheng during the Wanli Period. Come, the annual tax and grain quota is 2.61 million thousand dan of white rice.
However, since the scholar-bureaucrats in Jiangxi had not participated in any consultative councils and had not obtained the right to conduct group training, they did not have the strength to challenge the Ming Dynasty. If Zhu Heji wanted to forcefully promote the "three equals reform" in Jiangxi, it would not be a big deal. difficulty.
The situation in Jiangnan and Zhejiang provinces is complicated!
This is the hometown of the Donglin Party, rich in gossip!
Moreover, before Kangxi ran away, in order to make more money from Jiangnan and Zhejiang, he opened a consultative meeting and sold all the league training rights in Jiangnan and Zhejiang counties.
This is a big deal, the talkers have armed forces!
This armed mouth cannon is much more powerful than the unarmed one.
When Zhu Heji marched into Zhejiang and Jiangnan, he only occupied a few important cities due to insufficient troops. Most of the county towns were decided by propaganda... To whom should the propaganda be sent? Of course, it is passed on to those who donate to the training team.
Although they didn't have many regiment members, all the Qing officials in various counties had their seals and fled. This group of donated classes and team training naturally filled the power vacuum and became the rulers of most counties in Jiangnan and Zhejiang.
As soon as Zhu Heji's message arrived, they became "rebel leaders" and their rule gained a certain legitimacy.
In order to strengthen their own legitimacy, they provided a large number of civilians, ships and supplies for Zhu Heji's Northern Expeditionary Army... Now they were all heroes in the fight against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty!
Zhu Dajianguo has only taken over one-third of the world now. Even if he wants to kill the heroes, it won't be now, right?
These heroes who fought against the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty, the profiteers who donated money to Zhu Heji, and scholar-bureaucrats such as Huang Zongxi and Wan Sida were actually all in the same group.
So Huang Zongxi waved to them, and they came to Nanjing... to participate in the Jiangnan Consultative Conference to raise funds for the imperial court!
"Although the Saint of the Supervisor of the State took Jiangdong smoothly this time, it was very expensive... The military discipline of the Ming army was actually fed with money! The Saint of the Supervisor of the State gave rewards to the Guangdong and Fujian soldiers below. But it’s big, this money is given by the pound!
According to the information that the master learned, the officers and soldiers of the second town that attacked Zijinshan probably received two million taels, and the four towns that attacked Anqing and the seventh town that raided the territory outside Nanjing all received one million taels. Coupled with the navy's income, the reward alone is eight million taels! "
"Eight million! Such style, such financial resources... If Emperor Wei Zong can give out rewards like this, it is really not certain that the five years of Ping Liao will last! But my father feels that this expenditure is still too large. After all, the imperial court Last year’s annual income was less than 5 million! So if the imperial court wants to make up for this shortfall, I’m afraid it will have to rely on everyone here to raise funds! Are you willing to help the imperial court raise money?”
The ones who were talking were Huang Zongxi's favorite disciple Wan Sida and his precious son Huang Baijia, and the questions they raised...if the Emperor Chongzhen who hanged himself on Meishan listened to them, he would probably be moved to tears.
They actually took the initiative to discuss with their subordinates how to get several million for the court to make up for the shortfall, even when Zhu and Ji didn't ask for money.
If the Jiangnan scholar-bureaucrats back then had this consciousness, Li Zicheng would not have rebelled, and Huang Taiji would have been beaten to death long ago...
