Chapter seven hundred and seventieth lobbying
These days, Zhang Xianzhong killed people like a lot. The court was corrupt and incompetent to exploit the people, and it was not better to go there. It was understandable that the natives refused to surrender.
"Just because I am from the government," said Wangcai.
The natives immediately became panicked. The ones they robbed were actually from the government. The natives who were escorting Wangcai showed a look of horror on their faces.
Some people began to look around, afraid that Wangcai was a bait thrown by the government. In order to follow up quietly. They were extremely secretly walking along the way, and they did not find anyone following. Even so, panic began to appear in the crowd.
Several young and middle-aged men in the clan immediately surrounded Wangcai. Once the officials appeared around him, they immediately cut Wangcai to death.
After all, the old patriarch was knowledgeable and had experienced half a lifetime of vicissitudes. He had already achieved peace of mind: "Official government, who are you from the government government?"
"I am the personal eunuch of His Highness the current crown prince. His highness's army has already begun to kill the bandits. Now the court has issued a notice of imperial edicts. As long as you walk out of the mountains and go back with us, the court will resettle you people and will distribute land to you."
When the land was distributed, the indigenous people immediately became moved. For five thousand years of historical civilization, land, and only land is the root of the people.
The government actually wanted to give land. Wangcai's words were like throwing a bombshell among the crowd.
Seeing everyone's hearts moved, Wangcai then said: "The court distributed land for free, and exempted taxes for three years. The patriarch, three years of taxes for three years. In addition, the seeds of spring plowing can be provided to you for free."
Zhu Cilang has always been unable to understand that land is not valuable, and seeds are not valuable. Why, every time the ruler causes a large number of farmers to lose land and have no harvest of crops, which in turn arouses civil unrest.
Later he found out, because of two words - exploitation!
To put it bluntly, the feudal ruling class is a social class composed of large landlords. What do the people do, the people use to exploit them.
However, the wealth of each dynasty was redistributed. At this time, the people had their own land than those who could plough.
With the development of social economy, the landlords began to use different ways to embezzle the people's land, making these people become tenants, and even more so, making these tenants become their own slaves for generations.
The peasants who lost their land could only be lambs to be slaughtered. The desires of the great landlords continued to expand, and their descendants continued to spread. In the end, there were not many people available for them to exploit. So they began to become more and more powerful.
In the disaster year, these farmers even owed usury. In the end, these people had to rebel.
Like Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others, Zhu Cilang actually sympathized with them. If he had not been born in the royal family, he would have rebelled with them and overthrew this corrupt and corrupt Ming court.
However, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong also have their own personality flaws. One is short-sighted and the other is cruel and bloodthirsty. It can be said that neither of them can become great.
Originally, in the late Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng could have won the whole world by tying up the country. However, he played a good deck of cards so badly. Before he could firmly sit down, he thought about being arrogant and extravagant.
Now, at the suggestion of Zhu Cilang, Emperor Chongzhen issued seven imperial edicts in succession, and even erected inscriptions in the ancestral temple.
Any land distributed to the people in the Ming Dynasty is strictly prohibited from trading and trading. The land can be rented and transferred, and it is strictly prohibited to use land as collateral for people who owe debts.
To the greatest extent, ensure the uniformity of the land, so that the people have their own arable land for generations, and only when the lives of the people are guaranteed by the minimum guarantee can the country be stable.
This is a very simple truth, and emperors of all dynasties do not understand it. However, it is quite difficult to implement this policy. Because you have touched the interests of the landlord class, even if you are an emperor, it will not work.
It is too early to promote it nationwide, but at least the court's policies have been put into use. For places like Henan, Shanxi, Huguang, and Sichuan, the landlord class has been almost killed by bandits. The policies in these places are much easier to implement.
As for the capital of Jiangnan, it is very difficult to promote it.
Prevent land annexation, prevent people from losing land, and ultimately cause social unrest.
What Sun Wangcai said was very tempting, and most of the natives were moved. If it were not forcibly, who would have thought of going to the Wild Man Mountain to live such a life without being a human or a ghost?
The natives did not want to live such a life that was almost semi-primitive. The problem is that they could not believe in the so-called court in front of them.
The patriarch naturally didn't believe it. He looked up and down at Wangcai: "You are the personal eunuch next to the crown prince, how can you prove it?"
This is simple. Wangcai untied the rope of his pants and let out a whistle. The crowd around him exclaimed, "This is indeed a eunuch."
The natives did not have any shy expressions about this. Except for a few young girls who closed their eyes, everyone looked at Wangcai curiously.
Even a little curious guy approached and watched carefully. Yes, this is a eunuch, a castrated eunuch.
Wangcai lifted his pants: "Is there any problem?"
Without it, this is enough to prove that no normal person can castrate himself by wielding his sword.
The natives believed it. No matter what, it was certain that this person was a eunuch. As for whether he was the personal eunuch beside the crown prince, it is unknown.
Even the patriarch could not help but nodded: "Okay, we are right and believe in you. But you said that the court will distribute land to us and give us food to farm. We must see this as the truth."
Wangcai also nodded: "This is simple. Tomorrow, you can send a few people and I will take them down the mountain to the city to see if what I said is true."
"How do we know if you want to run away?" asked an indigenous person.
Wangcai snorted: "If I want to escape, I won't come here with you. Believe it or not, you can do it yourself."
The clan leader did not express his opinion, and he himself was not sure whether Wangcai said true or false, so he asked his clan members: "What do you think about this matter?"
The tribe members lost their ideas for a moment. Some of them were moved, while others were afraid that the government had caused some conspiracy.
Finally, a few brave men stood up: "Class leader, let's go down the mountain to take a look. If what this person said was false, we will kill him!"
The patriarch seemed to be waiting for this sentence, and he said "hmm": "It's great."
Chapter completed!