Eating poor Zhu Cihong or something, it's just a joke made up by Liu Zongmin's brain, Li Zicheng wouldn't really think so.

The reason why he didn't kill these gentry and profiteers was mainly because he was more "kind-hearted" and didn't want to kill too many people. It is estimated that Zhang Xianzhong will not be so polite!

At the same time of "kindness", Li Zicheng made a final decision after struggling for a long time on the issue of whether to "overthrow and restart" - he wanted to overthrow the entire Ming society, start over, and establish a simple and efficient "Shun system". Instead of using the method of "Shun Cheng Ming system", he will be his Dashun Emperor after tinkering.

And if he wants to overthrow and restart, he must completely sweep away the vested interest groups of the "Ming system"!

This vested interest group included not only the Ming dynasty, the lords, and some civil officials, but also the gentry and landlords all over the world, as well as the industrialists and merchants who flourished on the southeast coast - especially the maritime merchants who were stimulated by the development of industry and commerce in the Ming Dynasty and the Age of Discovery! This gang of ambitious, energetic, and armed merchants was not at all tolerated by a new feudal ruling group.

As for the co-optation of the gentry, the integration of industry and commerce, the forcible development of capitalism or something...... In fact, it is to receive the legacy of the Ming Dynasty to the greatest extent, and if you want to do so, you can't completely tear it down and restart.

And for Li Zicheng now, he can't do it at all.

Because the Ming Dynasty has been revived by Zhu Cihong, the Ming Dynasty is not dead, and Li Zicheng still inherits a fart! If you want to inherit it, it is also Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cihong's descendants to inherit, and Li Zicheng and Dolgon have no chance.

Therefore, their route must be significantly adjusted!

Moreover, "inheritance" also means "dividends", there is a saying in history that "Qing Cheng Ming system", and the Qing Dynasty did take out a little benefit to share with the scholars left over from the Ming Dynasty.

However, the Qing Dynasty still could not tolerate the maritime groups of the Ming Dynasty. Because they are more energetic, more threatening, and more difficult to control than scholars, they will also have an impact on the feudal hierarchy established by the Qing Dynasty - in fact, all merchants will have an impact on the feudal hierarchy, because they can buy a certain amount of power and nobility with money, and the armed maritime merchant group is of course even more terrifying!

Therefore, in history, the Qing Dynasty must resolutely eradicate the maritime merchant groups of the Ming Dynasty, even if it is a war for 40 years, even if it hurts itself with the policy of moving the border and forbidding the sea......

For the current Li Zicheng, on the one hand, he could not become the successor of the Ming Dynasty, and on the other hand, there was no more benefits to be distributed to scholars and profiteers.

Instead of currying favor with the gentry and profiteers, it would be better to sweep them away and take away the limited profits and distribute them to his "new aristocracy" and the poor peasants below, which would also be more conducive to his rule!

Of course, the impact of this reopening on social productivity will certainly be negative. After the reopening, the society became hierarchical, the gap between the various classes was deepened, and the activities of private industry and commerce were severely suppressed.

But for a society that has had a drastic decline in population, relatively rich land, and relatively easy food and clothing for the people to meet after the Great Turmoil, this reopening is necessary and beneficial. During this period, the most effective way to develop the productive forces was actually to "produce the population". When there are more people, you can produce!

And the productive population does not need a developed industry and commerce, nor does it need a large city (the higher the level of urbanization, the lower the fertility rate), and the best way is to calculate the land of the mouth.

At the beginning of the establishment of many feudal dynasties in history, they would implement the national policy of valuing agriculture and suppressing commerce, and this is also the reason.

For a society with a large population, acute social contradictions (in fact, the contradiction between man and land is the biggest contradiction in a feudal society with underdeveloped productive forces), and a society with developed industry and commerce, unless there are social management and industrialization means in the 20th century, it will be pushed anew...... It's Thanos mode!

For the end of the Ming Dynasty, which had a population of 100 million, the premise of starting over was to eliminate 100 million people!

And after paying the loss of 100 million people, it is still just a feudal country with strict hierarchies, heavy agriculture and suppressed business...... Because the military aristocracy that gained power in the process of regaining power would not easily give up their hard-won power and interests.

Fewer people and more land and the withering of cities will also seriously inhibit the development of industry and commerce.

If there is only a total population of 40 or 50 million in China, and the population of the cities is only 3 or 4 million, how many people will be left after deducting bureaucrats, aristocrats, soldiers, officials, private slaves, and maids? Developing Maoist capitalism? Do a Mao colony? There is no one in the country, how can they colonize abroad?

On November 11, the 18th year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Cihong, the prince of the Ming Fujun who led his troops to Wuchang Fucheng, which was crowded with refugees, already knew that the road to the evil capitalism in front of him was very difficult to walk, and at the same time it was the only way to survive - otherwise what else could he do?

At this time, on the Yangtze River, Ye Jiaxin, who could not find death, was riding a wooden boat full of people with his mother-in-law and two children to the other side of suffering.

All the people on board were in tears, because they were all left with nothing!

The wooden boat, which was seriously overloaded, staggered to the Hanyangmen Wharf in Wuchang Fucheng.

On the pier of Hanyangmen, it was already heavily guarded at this time, and the soldiers of the new army armed with spears and firearms were deployed in all directions. Seeing the approaching ships, the musketeers immediately aimed at them with bayonet-mounted birds.

At the same time, there were also officials from the Wuchang Mansion and Jiangxia County who greeted him, tore his throat and shouted: "You wait for the refugees to listen, His Royal Highness the Prince of Fujun has arrived in Wuchang, and you have to live!" ”

Really got to live?

Ye Jiaxin couldn't help but sigh, why did he get to this point?

His mother-in-law pulled him at this time and whispered: "Xianggong, the boat is docked, let's ......"

"Let's ...... Let's live! Ye Jiaxin looked at his woman and two and a half children, and tried to squeeze out a little smile, "I heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is the Ming Lord, maybe we will be able to recover Jingshan soon, and if we recover Jingshan, we will have a good life." ”

"Well, Xianggong, the days will definitely be better in the future......"

Ye Jiaxin nodded, and when he got off the boat with his wife and children to the dock, he suddenly heard someone calling him.

"Old Ye, is it Lao Ye in Jingshan County?"

This voice was familiar, Ye Jiaxin hurriedly followed the sound, and saw a fat man wearing a scholar's robe, waving to him. Isn't this fat man the boss of the rice merchant Yao Daqiao?

"Lao Ye, you can figure it out, your brother and sister are also here! Oh, and the two kids are ...... too Okay, money and things outside the body, it's nothing to lose, as long as the family is neat! ”

Yao Fatzi really doesn't have a backache when he stands and talks!

His family was a big businessman, and his industry spread all over the Yangtze River, and the trading in Hankou was only a part of it, and there were industries in Jingzhou, Wuchang, Jiujiang, Anqing, Taiping, and Nanjing.

The fat man saw that Ye Jiaxin was sullen, and smiled even more cheerfully: "Don't worry, don't worry...... My brother has the capital, the way, and you have the ability...... Who doesn't know your farming skills? In the future, follow the elder brother, and the custody can support the family business again. ”

Ye Jiaxin sighed: "How easy is it? ”

"Easy, easy ......" Boss Yao pulled Ye Jiaxin and walked in the direction of Hanyang Gate, "If the prince doesn't come, there is no chance, but now that he is here, he will have a lot of opportunities!" ”

"What's the chance?" Ye Jiaxin frowned, "Don't they all say that he ......"

He stopped halfway through his words, because it would be disrespectful to say it all - Zhu Cihong didn't have a good reputation in Huguang.

"Let me tell you," Boss Yao said with a smile, "he can clear out a lot of Guantian Juntun in the southeast...... Let's Huguang here, there are more military tun official fields! There are tens of millions of acres at random, this is an opportunity! ”

"Opportunity? What chances? Ye Jiaxin Ye Da Farmer still didn't understand, just looked at Boss Yao in a daze.

"Rent land!" Boss Yao said with a smile, "One mu of paddy field can pay a maximum of seven buckets of white rice rent, what do you think?" Can this be done? ”