The businessmen of the Southern Song Dynasty successfully entered the Song Dynasty with the authentic "Hongwu Political Treatise", and then went all the way south, entered the place and began to make a fortune.
Local officials are not aware of this.
Many local officials and local officials are fully aware of the situation on the black market, and they even manipulate the black market themselves, or make money themselves.
They don't want to make any changes. They secretly pushed "Hongwu Political Commentary" to sell for more than a hundred times the price on the black market. Being able to sell these authentic products and make a fortune is what they care about most.
They can't just watch businessmen make money. They can't tolerate businessmen making more than themselves, so they will use their official connections to arrange for their own white-glove businessmen to personally handle the business.
Or let their own printing industry work hard to publish fake "Hongwu Political Treatise" so that it can flow into the black market and earn high profits.
Anyway, whose money is not earned?
Under such circumstances, "Hongwu Political Treatise" spread further in the Southern Song Dynasty. It jumped from tens of thousands of copies in early May to hundreds of thousands of copies in late August. It spread widely in the Jinghu area and even to Sichuan and Sichuan. The region has advanced.
The large-scale book burning campaign organized by the Southern Song Dynasty court was equivalent to burning a lonely book. The more it burned, the more it burned. .
Of course, Zhao Hao knew part of this matter in September.
Because someone actually publicly read out the "Hongwu Political Treatise" in a tavern in Lin'an City, saying that the "Hongwu Political Treatise" was very well written and very reasonable. All those landlords and tycoons were cannibals and should be eradicated.
The imperial court also had problems. The imperial court never thought about benefiting the people, but only exploited and oppressed them. They constantly oppressed the people and benefited themselves. They were complete bastards.
He also claimed that his family is also a family of bastards, and every one of the old guys in the family is a bastard. There is obviously a lot of food in the family and they can't eat it all, but when there is a famine, they still don't get any cents and don't give any to their tenants. .
The tenants were so hungry that they knelt at the door of their master's house and begged for a bite of food. The old guys still refused to give it. Instead, they sent the evil slaves out to beat them with sticks, causing their heads to bleed.
So he claimed that what Su Yonglin said was true. This system was too evil, and the landlords and gentry were too evil. They were just cannibalizing people. He called on everyone to stand up against this evil system and liquidate them all.
This incident caused an uproar. When Zhao Xun learned about it, he was furious and immediately ordered someone to be arrested. As a result, the person arrested turned out to be the son of a fifth-grade court official.
The official's son publicly read the "Hongwu Political Treatise", also publicly praised Su Yonglin's thoughts, exposed the sins of his family, and completely ignored the emperor's banning order. Zhao Kan was so angry that he directly ordered him to be killed and had his head removed. Hang it at the city gate for public display.
That official was retaliated against by Zhao Yu because of this incident, and his home was confiscated and he was exiled.
The explanation given by the later trial results was that the official's son failed the imperial examination many times and lost his reputation. Because of his failure in the imperial examination, he harbored resentment towards the Song Dynasty court and had always been dissatisfied.
Then I suddenly saw the reflection and disillusionment of the current imperial examination system in "Hongwu Political Commentary". I felt like I had found a bright light in life. I immediately became a supporter of Su Yonglin and believed that the Southern Song Dynasty was guilty of heinous crimes.
So he did such a thing.
According to his own explanation, he also wanted to call on many fallen scholars like him to study "Hongwu Political Treatise" together, find ways to rejuvenate their lives, and do something.
When he learned that he was going to be killed, he was not afraid at all, laughed loudly, pointed at the official who was interrogating him and said that he should go first and wait below for the official to keep him company.
After he was killed, the book "Hongwu Political Treatise" he was holding was taken by Zhao Xun.
Zhao Min was surprised to find that this was not the original Ming Dynasty version he had seen before, but a pirated version produced locally in the Southern Song Dynasty.
From this, after some inquiries, Zhao Xi found out that a large-scale pirate publishing gang of "Hongwu Political Treatise" had appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty, and was spreading "Hongwu Political Treatise" on a large scale throughout the Southern Song Dynasty.
Because authentic products were expensive, they engaged in piracy. They were even so bold as to do it in Lin'an City, under the eyes of the emperor, and took their awareness of darkness under the lamp to the extreme. If the official's son hadn't been too arrogant, when would this matter have been brought to his attention? It’s hard to say even if you know.
Zhao Xun was so angry that he called Ye Yiwen and Shen Gai to scold them, angrily scolded them for their inability to do things well, frightened them to death, and ordered all officials to take action to make "Hongwu Political Commentary" disappear in the Southern Song Dynasty.
When Zhao Xi had a headache due to the spread of "Hongwu Political Treatise" among the people in the Southern Song Dynasty, some problems also occurred within the Ming Dynasty in the north.
In places such as Hedong and Guanzhong where traditional forces were relatively strong and the Great Purge was not heavily involved, the vigorous peasant movement that arose due to the birth of "Hongwu Political Treatise" and People's Literature severely impacted the local traditional landlords and gentry.
They originally had some illusions, thinking that the imperial court was just talking to satisfy the fantasy of the mud-legged people at the bottom, but they never thought that the imperial court was really on the side of the mud-legged people and really decided to put what they said into practice.
Before the revolutionary action was launched, the local government and the Renaissance branch issued an ultimatum to the local traditional gentry forces in the spirit of humanitarianism and civilization.
Either accept the [redemption] policy proposed by the court, hand over excess land, houses and other properties, actively cooperate with the government in land reform, and accept transformation.
Or wait to face the wrath of the peasants, be reincarnated, and start a new life.
The traditional forces were shocked and angry about this. In shock and anger, three voices emerged within them.
One voice is that of the hardliners.
They resolutely refused to accept any request from the court. They believed that there was no difference between redeeming the small amount of money and robbing for nothing. They had always robbed others for nothing, and no one else robbed them for free. Therefore, they did not accept this condition at all and immediately began to arm their tenants and prepare to resist. in the end.
One voice is that of compromise.
They were frightened and felt that it was impossible for them to go against the imperial court in any case. Intimidated by the majesty and powerful force of the Ming army, they decided to compromise and accept the imperial court's redemption policy. They would do whatever the imperial court wanted, as long as they could save their family. Young and old alike.
There is also a voice from the escape faction.
They eagerly found the hard-liners and sold them the real estate they couldn't take away at a low price. If they couldn't find it, they simply abandoned the real estate. Finally, they plundered the tenants, collected as much wealth as possible, and then packed up the soft money and let their families take advantage of it in batches. Ye fled south, thinking of fleeing to the Southern Song Dynasty to seek political asylum.
The three voices represent three groups. Among them, the hardliners and compromisers are not the largest in number. The largest number is the escape group. They neither dare to go against the Ming army, nor do they want to accept the so-called transformation of the Ming Dynasty. Be company.
Although there was a long road ahead, they finally chose to immigrate south and defect to the Southern Song Dynasty, trying to start a new life of masters and masters in the Southern Song Dynasty after arriving in the Southern Song Dynasty.
After June of the fourth year of Hongwu, with the official start of revolutionary actions, these three situations generally appeared in Guanzhong and Hedong.
So Su Yonglin devoted a considerable part of his energy to this matter.
He heard about the resolute resistance of the hard-liners, the resignation of the compromisers, and the thousand-mile flight of the escapees.
There is nothing to say about the compromisers. Since they can be ridiculed, there is no need to kill them all.
Give them some money, use the way they exploit farmers, [purchase] land and property from them at a very small price, leave them the land specified by law, and return all the rest to the public.
These people also have to go to the village farmers' association regularly to receive re-education from the farmers' association. The whole family is incorporated into the action system of the farmers' association. From now on, they will work with everyone, work together, and contribute to the construction of a beautiful home. .
They don't have any privileges anymore.
Those who accept reform honestly can of course be forgiven, but if someone is cheating and has evil intentions, once they are discovered, they will definitely be punished by the law.
All of them are being included in the list. This list is in the hands of the local revival organization. It is inspected and assessed regularly. Their transformation and monitoring will never be relaxed.
It is also easy to deal with the escapees, just like treasonous criminals.
