I barely slept that night.

Hu Sanqi kept thinking of Qin Guoxing's appearance, thinking of his expectation that the elders would spread the power of rule to his hometown as soon as possible, and he felt that it was not a taste in his heart.

The long-held idea that as a landlord, of course, has the power to take what he wants, this is the core motivation for him to join the army and intend to kill the elders to take revenge.

He didn't know much about economics, he only understood that his family's property was saved by people who got up early and greedy for several lifetimes, and it was the peasants who took the initiative to give their wives and daughters to the landlord in exchange for the power to share the land.

Of course, fighting, fighting for water, killing people and destroying households are definitely the main theme of the main theme.

He was not convinced of this.

But he had to admit that the policy of the Presbyterian Church had become a life-saving bodhisattva for almost all poor people, and in many villages in Shandong, those who spoke a similar dialect to him took the initiative to join the imperial capital, claiming to be the leading party.

The longer Hu Sanqi stayed in the imperial capital, the more he admired the elders, and the more he hoped that the elders would one day become protective of the interests of the landlords.

Even one day, he suddenly dreamed that a nurse suddenly became a man, holding a pistol, and called himself Chang Kaishen, the holy gun nurse in the rivers and lakes, this Chang Kaishen claimed to have the courage of ten thousand people, Wen Neng wrote a diary, Wu Neng played a black gun behind his back, and was especially good at gambling and swearing, if he did not marry a certain woman, he would be kicked out of the country, but it was to tell him how to stabilize the country.

As for the rest of the dream, I don't know what it is, anyway, there is nothing but killing, as if this means that Chang Kaishen told him that the landlord is like this, and only the miserable life of others can show their happiness, so where there is a landlord, there can be no happiness.

After this dream, Hu Sanqi broke out in a cold sweat, but he didn't know what was going on.

The city was very cold in the morning, and Hu Sanqi suddenly heard a lot of local sounds, yes, the local sounds, the shouts of Shandong dialect, and he suddenly remembered that the intelligence brief said that there are about 3 million people in North Korea at present, and more than half of them are immigrants from Shandong and Hebei, and these people are important helpers in stabilizing the frontier, and they are also ......

After putting on his clothes and arranging a change of guard, he arrived nearby, and it was a man who sold pancakes.

Shandong pancakes are different from the luxurious configuration of one pancake and two eggs popular in the imperial capital, it is a bitter thing, and North Korea has not yet engaged in vegetable baskets and large-scale chicken farm projects, so eggs are rare.

Sure enough, it is still an authentic Shandong version of pancakes, after putting on clothes, Hu Sanqi ran to buy pancakes, although there are no green onions, but the dipping sauce and strong gluten are already very delicious.

He chatted with the man who sold pancakes, and inadvertently said a little Shandong, and the two were very enthusiastic at that time.

"Little Master Jun, how do you eat the food there, can you let my son follow you."

"This ...... Uncle, don't say that, we're working hard here. ”

"No matter how bitter it is, we can have Shandong suffering."

The uncle smiled and said: "Just ten years ago, in that place in Shandong, for a few hundred yuan, you could buy a big girl, go to the mass grave to see, there are eaten human bones everywhere, who can live depends on creation, compared to, the place of the elder is really heaven, at least it is easy to live, what are you afraid of, where are you from, boy." ”

Hu Sanqi didn't want to talk too much, but he interrupted: "Uncle, is your hometown okay now, you are out again......"

"It's different, it's different, life is very good, a few boys in my family are in the production team, working every day to get money, and the family doesn't farm the land, but I'm not thinking about it, it's not a matter here, but here is recruiting people to give land, as long as I'm here, planted for three years, a hundred acres of land is mine, and the bride price of a few boys marrying daughters-in-law is here."

Speaking of this, it is a bitter tear, even if the elders do everything they can, it is only to improve the awareness of marriage and love in the imperial capital and the surrounding small places, simplicity and simplicity are fundamental.

But elsewhere, the after-effects of the war of the past few years are beginning to show.

The greatest harm at the end of the Ming Dynasty was not the rebellion of the peasant army.

There was only one time in Chinese history when the peasant army was asked to officially write Li Zicheng's suppression of soldiers and the people, even if this article was not written by Li Zicheng himself, the content of his vernacular text was probably checked by Li Zicheng himself.

“…… The Japanese army ran out, plundered people's property, raped people's wives and daughters, sucked the marrow and stripped the skin. The camp is good at farming for the 10th century. Eager to prosper the teacher of benevolence and righteousness, save the people...... There were those who killed good people in each battalion, and the whole team was beheaded. ”

For the first time, the government army was scolded by the rebels for robbing the people's money and property, raping ** women, and boasting that they had been farmers for ten lifetimes, and they really felt that the people who were officials were very dirty.

And the fact that he is good at killing good people and killing the whole team has already shown the difference in this team.

And the catastrophe is still more than tax, the Confucian who fills his own pockets is a heavy blow to the people's livelihood, Chongzhen himself said in the edict: the levy of the additional faction is a last resort.

In other words, he himself knows that it is wrong to raise taxes, but what really causes the problem is that the tax collection department knocks on the bones, and they take ten dollars to enrich their pockets with one dollar.

Any attempt to reform politics would be suppressed by the Confucian class under the pretext of the ancestral system, and the Confucian class, with the Donglin Party as the core, resisted any attempt to increase taxes and reduce their income, whether it was a tea tax or a salt tax, which could only be calculated in single digits.

The harm caused by this to the Ming Dynasty is that all the people up and down understand it, and they all know that it will be doomed if it goes on like this.

But for the individual, it's still corruption, nothing else.

The first thing about the war was the scarcity of the population, fleeing, starving to death, and there are countless notes and records in the late Ming Dynasty, all of which prove the cruelty of these deaths.

Of course, for the indignant questioning of later generations, if there is no Zhang Li and others, there is no internal trouble, Emperor Chongzhen can fight against the Manchu Tatars wholeheartedly, and the Ming Dynasty will last for at least two hundred years.

In later generations, China became a state controlled by the descendants of the landlords, so social consciousness had begun to move towards an era of criticism of the peasant uprising and the propagation of He An'an as a starvation, and vicious rhetoric against the peasants and haters of the country became the mainstream of society.

At that moment, consumption was curtailed, flight became mainstream, and even land-owned farmers began to reduce their fertility in order to save their lives.

Eating human flesh has become commonplace, and abandoning children directly after giving birth has also become a mainstream behavior.

This led to the mismatch between supply and demand between men and women more than ten years later, and the old man who sold pancakes also chatted a lot about Hu Sanqi.

Hu Sanqi was embarrassed, in any official document, it is absolutely impossible to give women to veterans, this is not just that this kind of thing is too low, but it is in the consideration of practical interests.

Any pair of men and women, due to the inevitable difference in thinking and consciousness, quarrels and bumps are inevitable, and it is normal to make a big fuss, but if it is free love, the pair often have nowhere to regret it, and can only blame themselves.

On the contrary, it is an arranged marriage, or a blind marriage and a dumb marriage, and if you like to see it, you can also blame your parents or fate, how good.

This is also one of the reasons, in principle, it is impossible for the Presbyterian army to give you a woman when you retire.

However, I am afraid of but.

The governing principle of the Presbyterian Church is to grasp the big and let go of the small, grasp the main contradictions, and naturally be invincible, and confine the real power to various committees, while in terms of social management, delegate power to carry out limited self-management, of course, it cannot be laissez-faire.

The Soldiers' Council manages the welfare and benefits of serving soldiers, and the Veterans Council is responsible for veterans, and although there are no hard and fast rules, the Veterans Council can indeed interface with many departments, arrange for veterans to go to good positions, or give priority to bidding for certain women of unknown origin.

It is a terrible disaster to directly manage 10,000 people, but it is easy to leave this task to a few people, and as for these people taking the opportunity to make trouble and collect benefits, please, a semi-official organization, it is re-elected every three years, and it is not allowed to be re-elected more than three times, and it is easy to solve it.

Hu Sanqi also knows that although as a brand-new army, there are not many real veterans of the elder army, as long as these old people who have been displaced for half their lives are not forced to retire, they are reluctant to leave the place where the living treatment is far beyond that of ordinary landlords, only when they are too old, the veterans will be persuaded to retire, especially the first batch, the peasant army that fought with Li Zicheng, most of these people fought to the death in history, in fact, most of them were formed after 1640, not to mention the elite of a hundred battles, and basically all of them were retired.

But the money is real.

Most of these people did not return to their hometowns, but bought land nearby to live in the imperial capital, and it was naturally very smooth to marry a daughter-in-law, which is also the starting point of the legend that a soldier can send a woman, and those veterans who are disabled for various reasons, in order to appease their hearts, or not to give up on themselves because of this, the preferential treatment given to them is also unprecedented.

So the question is awkward.

However, this Shandong fellow is still full of energy, according to what he said, the 100 acres of land he was allocated, due to the lack of manpower, planted a kind of grass, although it is strange to plant grass, but what is even more strange is that the elders really buy these weeds, as long as it is spring, hire people to cut off the weeds by hand, dry them, and someone will come to the port to transport them, an acre of land can collect about 10,000 catties of hay a year, sell it for ten taels of silver, cut off the capital, and there are four taels of surplus, and the four hundred taels of silver earned every year is simple.

And his next step is to find all his sons to North Korea, and then find a way to ask for more land.

Hu Sanqi suddenly figured out something.

In politics class, the elder instructors rarely talk about topics that are too profound, but what they say is very simple and easy to understand.

"If you plant grass on one acre of land, you can raise 20 sheep, enough for 300 people to eat for 2 days, that is to say, if you take a piece of land, how many acres of arable land there are, the people of the motherland will have as many more sheep to eat, or the fattest goat meat."

"So foreign conquest is the greatest justice, for our lamb skewers!"

It was noon, and I invited the barbecue restaurant outside to give a speech after a barbecue.

"Behind you are the fathers and villagers, and it is a good life for everyone."

Hu Sanqi knows that Shandong has a lot of people and little land, and there has always been a tradition of fleeing from famine, and under the multiplication of the population, the pressure of involution is huge, which is why the Hu family has turned into an inferior gentry and skillfully robbed people and seized property, otherwise how to feed so many families?

In other words, ensuring the peace of North Korea means ensuring the hope of the old man's family in front of them, who want to survive in North Korea, farm for profit, and exempt from agricultural taxes, the core motivation of the elders' army has changed from being a soldier to eating food to defending the fruits of victory.

Do not carry out land reform, still continue the late Ming Dynasty, ten farmers, only one barely cultivates their own little land, barely alive, the remaining nine are precarious tenants, the most exaggerated is Sichuan, seventy percent of the land belongs to the king of Shu, two percent is owned by the gentry, and one percent is owned by some lucky farmers.

This extreme situation in Sichuan is of course a minority, but Xu Jie, who owns hundreds of thousands of acres of land, is naturally a big joke as a Qing official who died well.

This is also why, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, it was Li Dingguo who fought for the Ming Dynasty to the last moment, because Li Dingguo did not have an acre of land in the Ming Dynasty.

And for the landlords, as long as their wealth is guaranteed, they can support you.

This is also why, the Donglin genius who did nothing in the south of the Yangtze River, once he arrived in the arms of my Daqing, kept the pig's tail, and after returning to his hometown, he immediately became a bloodthirsty butcher, helping me to strangle the mud legs in the Qing Dynasty, and kill hundreds of thousands of people is also complacent.

Basically abandoning the landlords who originally belonged to the Ming Dynasty, the Council of Elders certainly did not really stab them, but engaged in economic warfare.

Economic warfare tends to be the least economical, but it is also the most efficient.

Their core thinking is that after subsidizing freight with cheap grain in the northeast, with the continuous increase in production, they will frantically attack the landlord class in Guannai, and these landlords will certainly not sit idly by, and I don't know how many incidents have occurred in which landlords have gathered people to kill foreign grain merchants.

It's a good start.

The reason for not carrying out land reform is not because of cleanliness, but because of efficiency, but once the need arises, those who try to block the wheel of history by force will basically be crushed very miserably.

Hu Sanqi's comrades-in-arms, I don't know how many of them contributed to these battles, and sometimes, half of the landlords in the county were wiped out, and then those lands were turned into intensive farms for order-based production activities.

No landlord could get a real order from the elders, even if it cost to transport hay from Korea by sea.

(End of chapter)