Even if the emperor is exhausted, the landlord's family will not be without food.
All revival members know this.
So they are very angry and very aware of this kind of lie.
"The master's family has at most a few dozen people. Counting the servants and guardians, over a hundred people are considered too many. I have received so much food from you, but I still can't get enough to eat? Do you believe this?"
Xu Tong said angrily: "Is there anything you can trust from the landowners and gentry? Not a word! All they want is more rent, and they want to squeeze us to death! Let us not be full or starve to death, In this way, you will obediently be their oxen and work hard all your life to support them in their debauchery!"
Xu Tong listed the taxes that farmers in the Southern Song Dynasty apparently needed to pay and the taxes they actually paid, telling the villagers how much tax they paid, where the taxes went, and who misappropriated them.
The villagers looked at each other. It was the first time they heard about such a thing. They felt confused and confused. They felt that everything in the past suddenly became very strange.
After talking about the agricultural tax, Xu Tong talked about the salt tax.
"Is it difficult for you to eat salt? Do you think salt is expensive?"
"Of course!"
When it comes to this, the villagers seem to complain more than food. They all say that salt is too expensive, too bitter, of poor quality, and difficult to buy.
Some people said that they had bought cheaper private salt with better quality, and they no longer wanted to buy official salt.
However, sometimes the government inspections are strict, and they even go to the house to check the salt. If they see white salt, they will say it is illegal salt and they will be punished. Only the salt that is bitter, yellow and a little moist is official salt.
Official salt and private salt are unexpectedly distinguished in this way!
After hearing this, Xu Tong nodded and said: "Then do you know that in the Ming Dynasty, the same pound of salt was sold for twelve cents in places with the highest salt price? Salt in places close to salt-producing areas The price is often only five or six cents?"
"How many?"
When the villagers heard this, they were all stunned. One or two of them seemed to have heard something incredible, their faces full of disbelief.
"It's unbelievable, isn't it? But it's true. The price of salt in the Ming Dynasty is so cheap. Do you know why it is so expensive for you to buy salt?"
Xu Tong smiled and said: "Ninety percent of the price of a pound of salt is tax, or even more than 90%, all of it is tax, because everyone has to eat salt, and with the salt tax, the upper class people in the court have obtained Extremely rich money, spending a lot of money, doing whatever you want!
On the other hand, in the Ming Dynasty, farmers in the Ming Dynasty did not worry about eating salt at all. Buying salt was a common thing. It was not only cheap but also of good quality. When I stayed and ate in many places in the Song Dynasty, I felt that the taste was too bland. It doesn't taste salty, but in the Ming Dynasty, there was no such situation. I even think the Ming Dynasty people have too strong taste. "
When the villagers heard these things that were beyond their imagination, they were at a loss, they were confused, and they couldn't help but imagine.
Xu Tong will explain that His Majesty the Emperor sent his subordinates to establish farmers' associations in various places. Not only will they distribute land to farmers, they will also be equipped with houses and farm tools, and livestock for production will be allocated as much as possible so that farmers can quickly resume production. .
Not only resuming production, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty also asked the instructors of the farmers' association to teach everyone how to read for free. Many farmers learned to read from the instructors during production breaks, and went from being illiterate to semi-illiterate, and then out of semi-illiteracy.
Officials of the Ming Dynasty never dared to beat or scold their subordinates or people, because this was strictly prohibited. If such a thing happened, local judicial officials would teach him how to behave, and he would lose his position, power, and even his freedom.
His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty would also send special purchasers to the countryside to purchase grain and other crops from farmers, and all they would give were pure copper coins. After the purchase was completed, when the tax collectors came, the farmers would pay taxes with copper coins instead of grain. , and there is no need to pay for loss and damage.
In the Ming Dynasty, people in many places can now eat two meals a day, and they are all dry rice. They can fill their stomachs without starving. Although it is difficult to eat delicious side dishes or oil and water, but two meals You can definitely eat dry rice.
His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty also sent people to build water conservancy projects in various places. Many water conservancy projects were renovated or built from scratch. It became much easier for the people to irrigate the land. They did not have to go far or five or six miles to carry water. To irrigate the fields.
There are so many of these.
What Xu Tong picked were the benefits that ordinary people could actually enjoy after the changes in court policies, and their lives after liberation were many times easier than before.
They are no longer weighed down by the burden of life, smiles can be seen on their faces, and their eyes are full of desire for the future.
As Xu Tong narrated, these villagers living in the large network compiled by the Southern Song Dynasty court seemed to have different ideas.
Xu Tong described the Ming Dynasty as a shining lighthouse, letting everyone know that the Ming Dynasty was there, and everything that should be there was there. Across the Yangtze River, there were people who were living a much happier and more promising life than they were. life.
This will inevitably bring some changes to the stagnant situation of these farmers.
When Zhao Yucheng and his 108 comrades tried their best to develop the peasant army in Luoxiao Mountain area, the Southern Song Dynasty was not without reaction.
Because the peasant army launched an uprising in Jizhou, destroying the defenses of four counties in a row, killing hundreds of officials, and even the Jizhou magistrates, Jizhou was in chaos. This change caused a large-scale chain reaction.
Zhao Yucheng decisively led the peasant army south and west and entered the Luoxiao Mountain Business Base Area, but Jizhou, which had destroyed its ruling order, did not calm down.
The peasants who had not caught up with the first wave of rebellion did not give up.
Longxing Mansion first learned of the rebellion not too late. It was known at the end of April.
They immediately sent people to investigate and learned that there was a rebellion on Jiangnan West Road, sweeping four counties. However, the rebellious peasant army quickly left the rebellion area, and it was said that they were heading south all the way. The specific direction was unknown.
Is this okay?
What does it mean that a rebel army killed so many officials, destroyed four counties, and then disappeared?
We have to find out what happened!
Longxing Prefecture officials continued to send people to follow up, and then went to inspect the four damaged counties. They found chicken feathers all over the ground and were very annoyed. Then they learned that the rebel army seemed to have escaped into the mountains and disappeared without a trace.
Luoxiao Mountain is a vast area with very complex and fragmented terrain. It is extremely difficult to figure out what is going on inside and where the rebels are.
Since they have no further military operations, there is no need to call in a large army for the time being. What is in front of them is a pile of chicken feathers, and they urgently need someone to deal with it and wipe their butts, so Longxing Mansion only dispatched some small troops and small troops. The petty officials were responsible for wiping the butt and were stationed in the four counties swept by the peasant army.
Next, apart from sending people into Luoxiao Mountain to inquire about the news, they did not take any further action.
Someone asked officials on Jiangnan West Road whether they should tell Lin'an the news, but this suggestion was also rejected.
Because at that time, the news that the Ming army was marching south to threaten Lin'an reached these places. The Ming army won a great victory and the Song army was defeated. The local officials of the Song Dynasty were also very pessimistic about the war. Some people even made preparations in case Lin'an was breached. Preparations for the emperor's death.
At that time, they all felt that Lin'an could not be defended by themselves, so how could they have the time to deal with local [small-scale] rebellions?
Their main energy was also focused on the Ming and Song Dynasty wars, so they did not send news to Lin'an for the time being. They digested the rebellion internally, maintained local stability, and did not continue to cause trouble.
What to do next will have to wait until the situation of the Ming and Song wars becomes clear.
If the imperial court is still there, and the news is passed to Lin'an, it won't matter whether they send troops to suppress the bandits or appease them. Anyway, the imperial court will definitely provide another sum of money, and everyone will still be able to make some money.
If the imperial court is gone and the Ming army does the same thing as the Jin army, then why should they care about the rebellion?
This group of officials had this idea. They actually did not make a greater response to the rebellion, but kept delaying it until mid-May.
The second wave of peasant uprisings broke out after the Renaissance uprising.
This peasant uprising was not led by the Renaissance, but initiated independently by local farmers. The cause was the disorder of local governance.
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