Brother Song Taizu

Chapter 165 The killing and bloodshed under the New Deal

Here, Zhao Guangmei and Zhao Guangyi were talking. On the other side, they saw that a group of students in the Langting were getting more and more noisy. Gradually, some of the students who couldn't control their temper started to fight each other and started to push each other. Woke up.

Zhao Guangyi frowned instinctively when he saw this and said: "If you talk about things, just talk about things. When discussing politics, discuss politics. What kind of action should you take? Our dynasty has never been punished for words. Since ancient times, those who have loose politics have never been able to match this dynasty. This way What will it look like if you do it?"

Zhao Guangmei looked at it, then smiled and said: "Are you taking action? Isn't this just pushing and shoving? Let me see when the fight really breaks out. Lu Mengzheng's followers, big and small, really dare to take action. Only this new policy can be truly successful."

"Huh?" Zhao Guangyi looked confused.

"Any reform that touches the interests of the ruling class will be difficult or impossible to succeed through gradual reforms. If you want the ruling class to spit out the meat in its mouth, you can only rely on revolution."

"Revolution? Does this...do you mean rebellion? Third brother, according to you, our Zhao family is the real ruling class."

Zhao Guangmei shook his head and said: "To be precise, we are just rulers. Even rulers must rely on and rely on the ruling class. The ultimate goal of the New Deal is to replace the ruling class, and the specific methods can only shed blood. revolution."

Zhao Guangyi continued to be confused.

He didn't understand it, but he was shocked.

To put it bluntly, humans are still creatures who think on their butts after all. It is almost impossible for different classes to understand each other, and it is impossible for the ruling class to allow any reform behavior to shake its fundamental interests.

For example, if it is the same case of vandalism, smashing, and looting, what happened in Paris is a riot, and what happened in Chile is a revolution. How many people can tell the difference?
In other words, there is no difference between revolution and riot. Let’s talk about a fact that many people don’t know: around the world, throughout the ages, no revolution has a fixed leader and action program from the beginning. Yes, there is no doubt that it is definitely supported by foreign hostile forces.

There is no counterexample!

Revolutions all over the world begin with smashing, smashing, and looting. Whether the smashing, smashing, and looting is a riot or a revolution depends entirely on the class stance of the audience. It has nothing to do with their IQ, knowledge, or experience. Even if future generations have knowledge of revolution, On the romantic worship Chinese Internet, it is impossible for the vast majority of people to admit that zero-yuan shopping is a revolution, right?This is a pure class position.

What Zhao Guangmei hopes to see most now is really a spontaneous organization by the citizens to carry out a large-scale smashing, smashing and looting of the so-called official homes.

The traditional landlord class and the official family have occupied too many upper-class resources. It is useless to rely solely on soldiers and military households. The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms have overthrown many rulers. Although the citizen class has emerged, it is still far from being discussed. Instead of rising, under the tax system and official administration of the Two Taxes Law, it was still suppressed by the bureaucratic landlord class.

If they don't wake up, it will be useless for anyone to hold their heads down. Naturally, Zhao Guangmei will not be able to regard them as the ruling class that the Zhao family can truly rely on.

As for the purely Western rhetoric that the citizen class naturally rejects centralization and conflicts with monarchy, it can only be said that whoever believes it is short-sighted. The countries that are truly developing rapidly in this world are all things that happened during the period of centralization and decentralization. After that it was all over.

Let me tell you something that shouldn't be said, well...it's better not to say anything that shouldn't be said.

In short, the group of students and citizens below did not fight after all. They were still quarreling. They seemed to be arguing about the first article of the New Deal, whether it was good or not to open household registration and allow rural people from the west of Beijing to live in Kaifeng. Still a bad problem.

At present, Zhao Guangmei's seven reforms are the easiest to implement, relatively speaking, the mildest, and the easiest to accept. In fact, they have already been tested in Yangzhou before.

Of course, the positive view is that this is wrong. The influx of a large number of villagers into Kaifeng City will cause serious public security problems in Kaifeng, destroy the rules in the city, and even undermine the collection of taxes. Basic problems such as filth and disorder are even more serious. Needless to say, here is the most basic question: If people flock to Kaifeng, where will they stay?
By the way, I would like to add another big hat: As the saying goes, if the king, the minister, the father, the son, and the villagers move into the city, farming will no longer flourish. This is a common incest.

Confucianism, its real core idea lies in the word order. To put it bluntly, people must do what they should do. Any attempt to change one's role is considered by Confucianism to be against the rules. This is also a Confucian society. Emphasizing the reason for stability, Zhao Guangmei is indeed directly challenging the bottom line of Confucianism.

In fact, academics and other things are just superficial. In essence, they are digging into the roots of the landlords and tyrants, because once the people can freely enter the city, will the local tyrants and evil gentry everywhere be able to squeeze the people at will?

If the landlord class wants to exploit the villagers, it must exchange power through land, that is: if you don't obey me, I won't let you farm my land. Anyway, there is so much land, and if you don't farm, it will be human race.

So generally speaking, the larger the population in rural areas, the more ruthless and even unscrupulous the landlords will be in their exploitation.

And as soon as the New Deal was implemented like this, it became: The worst damn thing is that I will stop farming here. I will go to Kaifeng to start a career. Even if I die in poverty, it is better than being bullied to death by you.

Even if the land still belongs to the landlord, if the people are freed from the restrictions of household registration, the implicit power possessed by the landlord will definitely be greatly reduced.

In fact, the reason why people in the Song Dynasty lived relatively well in history was largely because although the Song Dynasty did not suppress land annexation, it also had minimal restrictions on urban circulation. Landowners with large amounts of land did not dare to deal with landless people. Farmers are being bullied too much.

Later generations always use land annexation to talk about things. In fact, it is the limitation of later generations. Everyone has land, but it is just an accidental period in history. It is too easy for future generations to regard accidents as inevitable. The quality of farmers' lives is actually related to whether they own land. It doesn't matter, because most people don't have it most of the time.

The way of heaven is to give more than enough damage but still have more to offer. Manpower cannot defeat heaven.

The Neo-Confucian school headed by Lu Mengzheng naturally holds completely opposite views to the former. Although they still bear the name of Confucianism, they are actually close to Mohist thought, which is universal love and non-aggression.

Because all the people around Lu Mengzheng are children of merchants or citizens, this class naturally advocates universal love and opposes strict hierarchies. For example, the Hongmen and Qinggang are well-organized, but there is no strict and clear hierarchy within them. , nominally Hong family brothers, big and small.

These people naturally think that the population explosion in Kaifeng will be a good thing.

Population represents demand. Urban life is different from rural life. All clothing, food, housing and transportation require consumption. With consumption, there will naturally be profit margins. For tailors, this means more people will buy clothes. For the feet on the dock, it means With more cargo throughput, more jobs, and more money.

Even after these refugees come in, industry and commerce will inevitably become more prosperous, because the price of these labors will definitely come down. By then, if you don't do it, there will be people who can do it.

Then the cost of producing the same product in Kaifeng will be lower than elsewhere, and they will naturally make more money.

And in this way, the scale of the factory can be further expanded, the production process can be further subdivided, and the production efficiency will be further increased. This is a truth that the King of Qin has repeatedly practiced: the larger the production scale, the lower the unit production cost. .

Is its core essence: The poor people in Guizhou are the most precious resources in society, why can they only be exploited by your landlord class?

With free circulation between urban and rural areas, let the people choose who will be exploited.

Therefore, in Zhao Guangmei's opinion, this kind of debate is really boring. How can class conflicts be used to distinguish right from wrong through debate?In a life-and-death fight, can one still convince each other with just one mouth?
He would still be somewhat interested in starting a fight. "However, this Lu Mengzheng is indeed a bit interesting."

With that said, Zhao Guangmei ordered his tooth soldiers to take his sign to Lu Mengzheng and invite him to come to Fanlou for dinner later tonight.

Seeing that they were still quarreling with each other and had no intention of fighting, Zhao Guangmei lost all interest and waved Zhao Guangyi away.

Zhao Guangyi was still confused and couldn't understand Zhao Guangmei's thoughts. He could only sigh in his heart: "The third brother is always so enigmatic and difficult to understand."

Then that night, when Zhao Guangyi was correcting documents at the Kaifeng government office, he was suddenly furious with a piece of news.

"The magistrate of Xu County actually ordered the execution of more than thirty refugees who wanted to come to Kaifeng to seek a living? This... this is simply unreasonable. Don't they take the laws of the imperial court into consideration?"

You must know that with the implementation of the New Deal this time, even if Zhao Kuangyin disagrees with the other six items, at least the first one that is being implemented will be beneficial to him without any harm. of.

By allowing the surrounding people to enter the city, Kaifeng's official administration will inevitably be strengthened, and his authority as the governor of Kaifeng will naturally increase. Only a lunatic would oppose this.

"Prepare your horses, I want to go to Xu County myself."

"This... Your Highness, do you want to tell His Highness King Qin and invite him to go with you?"

Zhao Guangyi thought for a moment, then shook his head and said: "Xu County, just around Kaifeng, is under the jurisdiction of my Kaifeng Prefecture. Do I, the prefect of Kaifeng, even want to save my third brother when I can't even control the counties under my jurisdiction?" ? If something like this happened down there, wouldn’t it be a slap in my face?”

After that, Zhao Guangyi ignored them, ordered more than a hundred people from the government office, and rode out of the city, heading straight for Xu County.

However, before he could reach Xu County, someone gave him a warning on the side of the road.

"Is that... a person?"

Looking from a distance, in an area not too far from the official road, there were three bodies of a family of three hanging on the big tree beside the road.

The reason why the question is uncertain is because these three corpses no longer look like people. The whole body was first bled and then stuffed with grass. The people looked like swollen balloons, and their internal organs, It fell to the ground together with their drained blood, and was being chewed wantonly by several wolf dogs.

"Damn!"

When Zhao Guangyi saw this, he couldn't help but became furious. He took off the bow and arrow in his hand and shot it himself. With one arrow, he hit one of the wild dogs that was feasting on the meal, so frightened that the other wild dog ran away.

"Quickly, put this person down. Is this Xu County? Damn it, the magistrate of Xu County is Li Xufu, right? I will kill this person!"

On the side, Yang Shou, who is Zhao Guangyi's secretary, said: "Your Highness, this... should be the boundary of Zheng County."

"Zheng...Zheng County?"

For a moment, Zhao Guangyi was confused.

"Could it be that the report was written incorrectly? Or... what, what's going on?"

Saying that, Zhao Guangyi quickly ordered: "Go and ask, what is going on? Why did this family of three die, who killed them, and why are they hanging beside this road?"

Just as he was talking, he saw many people suddenly appearing not far away, each holding a weapon in their hands, and they formed a faint formation to fight against them.

Seeing this, Zhao Guangyi held a bow in one hand, nocked an arrow, pointed it at them, and shouted angrily: "Are you the thieves who blocked the road and robbed you? Outside Kaifeng City, under the emperor's feet, is there no royal law?!"

The gang of thieves saw this but did not panic. They sneered and said: "Wang's law? Haha, gentlemen, the family of three in front of you are the unscrupulous people who do not obey the king's law and are not engaged in production, but want to move their families to Kaifeng. Mr. Huang has ordered that these three people be dried for ten days again, and no one is allowed to collect their bodies. Anyone who violates this will be deemed to have rebelled."

Zhao Guangyi was so angry that he was happy.

This is around Kaifeng, at the feet of the emperor!
Where did Mr. Huang dare to be so arrogant?
The group opposite also felt that something was wrong, and couldn't help but pull the leader's sleeve and said: "Brother, should we... be more polite? This group of people is not simple."

Unexpectedly, instead of being afraid, the leader stepped forward more and more arrogantly and said: "Why are you panicking? Mr. Huang and Mr. Sun County have already reached an agreement on this matter. If a huge problem is revealed, Sun County will naturally be involved." Please support us."

Zhao Guangyi sneered: "Zheng County Magistrate Sun Xingzu? Is he your backer?"

Unexpectedly, the man said: "Ha, little thief, listen up. We are Mr. Huang's people. Mr. Huang and Mr. Sun are close friends. Behind Mr. Sun is the current King of Qi." , little thief, we are His Highness King Qi’s people, do you dare to fight with us?”

Zhao Guangyi was stunned for a moment, his eyes widened. From angry to confused, his state of mind changed at this moment, ups and downs. It was really exciting. His tense movements naturally stopped, and a bow that had been drawn was unexpectedly opened again. Relaxed and went back.

The accompanying Ban Zhi were also stunned and couldn't help but instinctively look at Zhao Guangyi.

This is, the flood has washed away the Dragon King Temple, and my family no longer recognizes my family?
On the opposite side, seeing the crossbow in Zhao Guangyi's hand retracted, the leader couldn't help but become even more arrogant: "Why, are you scared? Let me tell you, I don't care who you are or who is behind you, anyway. , No one is as great as His Highness the King of Qi. Since ancient times, Prince Yin Jing, as the crown prince, His Highness the King of Qi is..."

With a whoosh of an arrow, the man lowered his head in confusion, and saw that an arrow had penetrated his chest, but Zhao Guangyi's hand holding the bow was still trembling faintly.

"Kill, kill them all for me."

(End of this chapter)