However, although there are a group of cowards in Quanzhou who see through the current situation and choose to lie down, the larger number are businessmen who are unwilling to give up the property they have earned with so much hard work no matter what.
In any case, they cannot convince themselves to give up their interests and choose to settle down.
The Ming army is indeed powerful and the Ming country is indeed tough, but can we really just lie down and accept this outcome?
No, never!
People who were unwilling to accept this situation gathered together in twos and threes, starting from the people around them to determine their intentions, looking for friends who were willing to launch resistance, and then looking for more friends to launch an alliance and strive to compete with the Ministry of Finance of the Ming Dynasty.
If you want land, go to those landlords and wealthy people in the countryside. Don't come and try to take advantage of us!
Don’t let us accept anything like commercial land or agricultural land!
Destroying someone's wealth is like killing one's parents. Killing one's parents is an act of sworn hatred. The sworn hatred has been imposed on me. Do you still want me to compromise?
While the businessmen were secretly carrying out large-scale connections, Su Yonglin ordered the administrative and judicial officials selected by the imperial staff and the Central Organization Department of the Renaissance Society to arrive in Quanzhou and Guangzhou one after another to start setting up government departments and formally take over the power of the original Quanzhou government in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Quanzhou's state capital and county governments were put in place one after another, and the establishment of rural political power led by the Fuxing Association was also carried out simultaneously.
Compared with the calmness of the Quanzhou prefecture and county governments, the establishment of rural political power seems to be quite "passionate".
Quanzhou is not only a port, but also has many counties. It also has a large number of landlords and wealthy people. Some of them are involved in maritime trade, and some are not. But the common point is that they all have a lot of land and a lot of money. tenant.
They are not just landlords and wealthy people.
Except for some people who were able to join the maritime trade industry and get a share of the pie because of their good hands, eyes, and wide connections, most of the landowners and wealthy people had low status and could not get a share of the pie.
However, it is not their character to just watch others make money. After much thought, the low-status landlords and wealthy people found another way to earn money from Quanzhou's huge business population by supplying daily necessities and operating the catering and accommodation industry.
In normal times, landlords and wealthy people obtained huge amounts of rice, meat, fruits and vegetables by oppressing and exploiting tenants.
Then, make money by providing these materials to Quanzhou's huge commercial population - no matter how rich you are, you still need to have enough food, right?
Because Quanzhou has developed commerce and has a lot of hot money flowing in, prices are no cheaper than Lin'an. The landlords and wealthy landlords make money by selling daily necessities and providing logistics, but they also follow the business geniuses and drink a few sips of thick broth, which is quite comfortable.
They also operate the accommodation industry, building high-quality merchant hotels for merchants to live in, and providing high-value-added services, making a lot of money.
Of course, not just anyone can build a high-quality hotel targeting the high-quality business population. Only large landowners with certain connections can do it.
Small and medium-sized landowners lack personal connections, but they also have a lot of money and don’t want to miss the opportunity to make money. What should they do?
Then acquire relatively low-priced plots of land in and outside the non-core area of the port city, and then build average-quality rental houses or even lower-quality thatched houses, and lease them to a larger number of ordinary business people and even the port. coolies to earn relatively cheap house rent.
When people eat meat, they also have to drink soup and smack their lips to be considered proud. Otherwise, how can they swallow this breath?
No matter how small the mosquito legs are, they are still meat and protein. It is good to eat some of them, so why do you need a bicycle?
The immigrant business population creates a lot of wealth in Quanzhou and eats a lot of meat.
Large local landowners are responsible for providing high-quality logistics and eating small meat.
Local small and medium-sized landowners are responsible for providing general logistics and drinking broth.
They all have a wonderful and bright future.
Then the Ming Dynasty took control of Quanzhou.
The revival members led the army into the vast countryside, used violent means to eradicate the landlords and rich people, occupied the countryside extensively, and then announced that the tenant farmers were liberated and they could get the land they dreamed of and become users of the land. No more harsh exploitation and oppression.
They were liberated.
The landlords and wealthy people in Quanzhou do have relatively strong power and will never give up their own interests easily, but in front of the Ming army, everything is in vain.
The victorious Ming Dynasty no longer needed the cooperation of these landlords and wealthy people. Gu Jing
After the newly arrived Quanzhou officials promulgated the land reform and redemption policy, they waited for a while and found that few landlords and wealthy landlords took the initiative to cooperate with the government, but there were a large number of landlords and wealthy landlords who took up arms.
Officials issued an ultimatum to them, only to receive hostile arrows.
There is nothing more to say, their attitude has been very clear.
What are you waiting for? Liquidate it directly!
When the officials went south, a group of musketeers followed them south, in order to strengthen the Ming Dynasty's power to intimidate the local areas and show the strength of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhou Mancheng was very interested in these musketeers and sent them to attack the landlords and wealthy landlords who violently resisted the land reform.
The musketeers advanced step by step, spitting fire and thick smoke from their muskets, and drove lead bullets into the rebels' bodies, showing no mercy to the rebels.
Facing the more solidly defended farm walls, artillery made a brilliant appearance.
The rumbling sound kept ringing, and the Ming army advanced steadily.
Facing the power of the new era, the insects of the old era have no way to escape, and they cannot stop the progress of the new era.
Quanzhou's deep-rooted local landlords and wealthy forces collapsed under the determined attack of the Ming army.
After that, the revival members shouted at the top of their lungs and called on the angry farmers, who were sallow and skinny, to rise up and resist, tearing the remaining power of the landlords and wealthy people to pieces.
In the fields where there used to be only the corpses of farmers, gallows were erected one after another, and the corpses of wealthy landowners were hung on the gallows and fluttered in the wind.
"Who said we can only starve and freeze? Who said we are born humble? Everyone is born equal, who dares to be superior? Now that the struggle has begun, there are only two roads in front of us, victory or failure! We want Use practical actions to tell these superior men and tell them! Failure does not belong to us!"
The passionate and experienced revival members raised their arms and aroused the emotions of all the farmers who were watching, and guided this fiery emotion to burn the entire old order.
Everything they did next was familiar to them. When the Fuxing Association Organization Department selected talents to go south, they selected proven old Fuxing members with at least three years of grassroots work experience.
One by one, they are all experts in grassroots work.
A brand-new ruling order was established in Quanzhou. Village and township peasant associations were established one after another. They reached contact with the county and state officials in place, and immediately began to restore the supply of daily necessities to the cities and towns.
Only this time, the main body of supply is no longer the landlords and wealthy people, but the village and township peasant association organizations organized by farmers and managed by farmers.
As a result, for the first time, the farmers at the bottom have finally reaped the dividends of the times and policy dividends that they could have enjoyed.
They actually got the money.
The thunderous actions of the Ming army shocked more than one person. The local and foreign businessmen in Quanzhou City watched helplessly as the Ming army and Ming officials pacified Quanzhou with unpredictable speed.
The businessmen did not know everything comprehensively, but they probably basically knew that the Ming army went to the countryside and killed all the real landlords and wealthy people who dared to resist.
The liquidation actions of the Ming Dynasty were clearly displayed in front of them, without any cover-up, and appeared to be just and aboveboard.
Originally, the businessmen tried to unite with the landlords and wealthy people they were familiar with to launch a cooperation to fight against the Ming invasion, but they never expected that the plot would unfold like this.
Is there anything else they want to do?
Do they dare to do anything else?
Lin Jingchun didn't care what they thought. Lin Jingchun went directly to Lin'an, found Shen Gai, and asked him to sign a treaty.
A treaty on the need for merchants from Jiangnan to pay customs duties when entering Quanzhou and Guangzhou to do foreign trade business.
The treaty stipulates the amount of different levels of tariffs that merchants from the Jiangnan Kingdom need to pay for different commodities when they enter Quanzhou, Guangzhou and other places to do foreign trade business.
Every Jiangnan merchant must abide by this rule. Otherwise, Ming Dynasty has the power to bypass the Jiangnan government and directly deal with Jiangnan merchants who do not pay customs duties.
