During this wave of Jiaozi craze, many of the people who suffered serious losses or even went bankrupt were well-educated social elites.
They read, learn calligraphy, understand principles, and even plan to take part in the upcoming imperial examination.
But now... no more.
It was no longer necessary in every sense. Even if they did not intend to resist the Chengdu court, they had lost the capital to continue studying. The imperial examination in the Song Dynasty was a game for the rich, a tool for the Song court to win over the powerful landlords, not the poor. able to participate.
These well-educated and intelligent people were filled with grief and anger. Seeing everything they had lost, the sense of disparity in their hearts almost drove them crazy. They were extremely uncomfortable.
They had no choice and formally broke with the Chengdu court.
Some directly rose up and caused trouble in Chengdu Prefecture.
Some went to join the peasant uprising army that was resisting the Chengdu court, intending to rely on the ready-made resistance forces to teach the Chengdu court a profound lesson.
Originally they were property owners and would still have scruples about resisting, but now that they have become proletarians, what else do they have to worry about?
The revolutionary nature came up all of a sudden.
Even though they have no idea what revolution is.
Chengdu Prefecture was the first area to be affected by the collapse of Jiaozi, so the people here were also the angriest and the first to rebel. Many bankrupt landlords and businessmen rose up and attracted a large number of rich peasants, middle peasants, and handicraftsmen who had suffered miserably to rebel. .
They stormed the county town, killed officials, and opened warehouses to regain what they had lost. Their actions were very powerful and the intensity of their actions was very high, as if they had a destructive momentum.
However, this kind of resistance has a very fatal problem.
Now, the Chengdu court is rich again.
Although the Chengdu court was in danger, the money was real and filled with warehouses. The treasury was filled with plundered iron coins. Compared with Jiaozi, it was like a treasure in everyone's eyes.
The wealthy court was no longer timid in doing things. Facing the surging rebels, Zhao Buji gave an order and sprinkled large amounts of iron money on the regular troops stationed in Chengdu. Everyone was rewarded, and the rewards were huge.
The more than 10,000 regular soldiers trained by Wu Lin received iron money as rewards, and the regular army soldiers themselves and their families had the possibility of survival.
Wu Lin also announced that extra rewards could be obtained for killing rebel thieves, which further stimulated the fighting will of the Song soldiers.
So the Chengdu garrison obeyed the imperial court's orders and launched a bloody massacre against the rebels.
Zhao Buji was like the protagonist of a stinking krypton gold game that had successfully recharged. With a wave of his hand, the army was dispatched and began to attack the rebels in Chengdu Prefecture.
The rebels had just started their uprising. They had a small team and almost zero military capabilities. They were no match for the regular army. Faced with the crushing force of the regular army, a large number of bankrupt rebels were massacred.
Although they were brave enough and angry enough, the timing was wrong and the enemy they faced was wrong.
Wu Lin personally commanded the army to attack and suppress these people, so within the scope of Chengdu Prefecture, it would be difficult for this group of uprisings to be carried out by the original property owners as the main force.
In Zhao Buxi's view, they were all victims of this wave of behavior by the Chengdu court. They had conflicts with the court, but if they died, everything would be over.
I can't solve the problem, but I can solve the person who asked the problem.
It takes a lot of time to spread any information these days, and there is no faster means of dissemination, so it will also take some time for the collapse of Jiaozi to spread from Chengdu to other places.
So when bankrupts in the surrounding areas rose up against the Chengdu court and expressed their intention to use armed debt collection, the Chengdu court's army basically killed all the armed debt collectors in the Chengdu area and began to sharpen their swords in the surrounding areas.
Zhao Buji opened the treasury and used the tactic of spreading money to bribe the Chengdu garrison, so that the big soldiers could get enough iron money. He also adopted Wu Lin's suggestion and distributed [salt packets] to the army soldiers and directly rewarded them with salt, thereby gaining Military morale, stabilize the army.
If the army supports the Chengdu court, then civilian protests will be very dangerous.
At least as the situation of Jiaozi's collapse spread, the Song army's suppressive actions were launched simultaneously, and they continued to win. The spontaneous armed debt collectors suffered heavy casualties and were completely defeated.
But things are not that simple.
Not to mention that the spontaneous armed debt collectors were only a part of the bankrupts, and a considerable number chose to join forces with the previous peasant rebels. Let's talk about the court's local bureaucrats, and a considerable number of them suffered heavy losses because they were kept in the dark.
Some of these local officials bought Jiaozi in their personal capacity, some bought Jiaozi with the help of their family members, and some used private financial institutions they set up behind the scenes to make money from Jiaozi. Of course, they all suffered the same losses.
Jiaozi collapsed like lightning, and they also lost money like lightning and didn't even recognize their mother.
Although they have the status of officials and a rich family background, they will not lose everything. However, due to various reasons, they did not stop in time and lost a lot of cash flow. This situation also makes them very angry.
After the news that Zhao Buji was leading the Jiaozi conspiracy was leaked, the situation in the DPRK and China became turbulent. A large number of officials were extremely annoyed and their anger surged. They angrily accused Zhao Buji of not being a king and actually attacking and deceiving courtiers.
Is there such an emperor in the world? !
They really wanted to point the finger directly at Zhao Buxi. They asked Zhao Buxi why he did this. They even decided to protest collectively. They would not hesitate to force the emperor to have a baby for this and would never back down.
Seeing that the officials were about to rebel collectively, Ma Yongkang, the leader of the local faction officials who knew what was going on, stepped forward.
As a big culprit in the eyes of everyone who lost half of his net worth in the Jiaozi collapse, what Ma Yongkang, who is covered in green, still has a certain weight, even local faction officials think so.
Therefore, Ma Yongkang stood up as Zhao Buxi's back-up card at this critical moment and explained to the civil and military officials the Ming Dynasty's [revolutionary] theory, [land reform] policy, and [liquidation] policy, as well as [War criminal punishment] policy specifically targeted at enemy countries.
He had read Su Yonglin's Hongwu Controversy and was shocked. He also realized what kind of attitude Su Yonglin and his government had towards a series of forces in Jiangnan.
And many people originally thought that Su Yonglin was just a loud-mouthed king who could shout loudly and would never do this. However, the incident of hundreds of powerful landowner survivors from the Ming Dynasty crossing the mountains and heading south to the Southern Song Dynasty greatly stimulated everyone. People with illusions, let them realize that the Ming Dynasty does not play with illusions.
Su Yonglin really made them pay the price.
Since then, many people who originally thought about waiting for the Ming Dynasty to move south and change the King's Banner directly at the city gate also changed their minds and instead stood firmly with the Jiangnan court. They sacrificed a lot to resist the "invasion" of the Ming army. .
It's just that the Ming army is too strong and they can't defeat it, so they are forced to accept the reality. Whenever there is a slight chance, they are unwilling to accept that fact.
The same is true now in Sichuan and Shu.
Ma Yongkang made his words very clear.
"According to the class theory of the Ming Dynasty, one by one, we all belong to the landlord class, and have great wealth and many tenants. They are typical sinful upper-class people who live by the so-called [oppression] and [exploitation]. We must To be eradicated.
We will be hanged, and our family members who have committed crimes will also be hanged. Those who have not committed crimes will be exiled to remote places to do hard labor. We don’t know how many generations of service we will have to serve before we can be free. And those tenants, those who have committed crimes, will be hanged. Farmers, will have access to our land and property.
They will thrive on our land, have children, and live a peaceful and stable life, but what about us and our descendants? Basically, we will never be able to stand up again, we will die, and our descendants will suffer all the hardships in the world before they die.
Everyone, I know that most of you have some ideas, but these ideas are very ridiculous and ignorant in the eyes of Ming Dynasty. If you want to get close to Ming Dynasty, Ming Dynasty will not accept you at all. You think Ming Dynasty only wants to rule. Power, but what the Ming Dynasty wants is the lives of all of us. This is the revolution of the Ming Dynasty. "
