Chapter 260: Dignity
However, Wen Han will not give up easily, because he has already decided to use his life, even the heirs of his descendants and future generations, to restore these people's dignity.
Only when people have the minimum dignity can they have their own thoughts, and the blending of these thoughts is the Tao that Wen Han wants to realize, and drive the world with public opinion.
"Dignity?"
"Tianxingjian, a gentleman strives for self-improvement?"
"As long as you put in the labor and sweat, you deserve to be paid?"
Wen Han's voice, like a huge **, exploded in the minds of these homeless people.
Some of the homeless began to mumble in a low voice, thoughtful, and as some of them slowly stood up, so did those who were still kneeling.
In these troubled times, it is difficult for these displaced people to live, for them, dignity is simply something out of reach, because dignity cannot heal their stomachs, and cannot keep their bodies from the suffering of winter cold.
As for self-improvement? They have a problem even living, how can they improve themselves?
And they can't even think of the idea that they can get the reward they deserve for their work. Because this is an era of exploitation, what they give is simply not proportional to what they receive.
In the past, when they still had land to cultivate, the terrible land endowment deprived them of almost all the fruits of their labor. They worked hard for a spring, summer, autumn and winter, and in the end they couldn't even take care of their wives and children, and finally had to sell their wives and children in order to survive.
This kind of situation, year after year, year after year, has long ground their hearts into a pile of slag. Even let them, forget that they are individuals.
This is the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a cruel and realistic era.
"I hope you will remember what I said today. I know it's impossible to get you to change right away. But as long as I am still a one-day Hedong Taishou, and you are still in Hedong, then I will do my best to make you live with dignity and live like a person! ”
Wen Han knew that the words had come to this, and the fire was already burning strong enough, so after he finished speaking, he took a step forward and left with Zhou Long, Guan Yu, Xi Long and other government personnel under the eyes of a group of displaced people.
After they left, there was an absolute dead silence behind them.
Some of the displaced people did not know when, but their faces were already full of tears. Some of the men clenched their fists, and their eyes began to change with a different brilliance than before.
"Don't cry, didn't you hear what Taishou-sama said? We need to be self-reliant! ”
"That's right! Be self-reliant!! We want to live with dignity!! ”
"Yes, don't stop, guys, hurry up. Taishou said that as long as we work, we will be paid as we deserve. We do things for ourselves! ”
Or, perhaps, there are some ideas and beliefs that were different from those in the past, and they have sprouted in the hearts of these displaced people. After the silence, these homeless people burst out with energy that they had not had before, they grabbed the stakes, their eyes were firm, and they began to pay their own labor and sweat for their houses.
"What kind of character is this?"
Xi Long walked behind Wen Han and looked at Wen Han's smile because he heard the words of the homeless people behind him. Xi Long has a lot of sense for a while.
People who have always had ambitions and ambitions to subvert the world and achieve great things. Almost all of them treat the people as pawns to be used, and even if they don't use them, they are put in a very low position.
Although, Wen Han once told Xi Long without reservation that if he could go that far and realize his Dao, he would seek the world.
It is simply unprecedented for a person who wants to seek the world to put the position of the people so high.
Xi Long began to wonder, is he a selfish person or a selfless person? Or will he eventually change? The human heart is unpredictable, and the sea is immeasurable, and Xi Long sighed silently.
However, Xi Long knew it very well in his heart. The current Wen Bufan is the person he wants to assist.
When the displaced people in other prefectures and counties heard rumors that the displaced people in Hedong had been given a real share of the land, and the government had allocated the materials for building houses to help these displaced people live in peace, and they also gave them grain first, so that they could deduct the grain they received after the harvest.
Such a good policy simply made the displaced people in other states and counties crazy, and the states and counties adjacent to Hedong poured into Hedong like ant colonies. The population of Hedong rose dramatically, and in less than six days, all the wasteland in Hedong had been allocated.
And the immigration frenzy is still not abating at all, and there are constantly displaced people from other places. This made Wen Han have to issue orders again and again, telling these displaced people who have come thousands of miles away that the land east of the river has been divided.
Some homeless people who were unwilling to return empty-handed made trouble in the counties of Hedong, played hooligans, and threatened Wenhan that they would not leave because they could not get their land. It will not be easy for this tuntian to be implemented.
Of course, there is a lot of turmoil in this, which is manipulated behind the scenes by some wealthy people in Hedong who do not want to see Tuntian carry it out.
However, Wen Han was a ruthless person who would never be soft, and while he sent troops and horses from Anyi to help, he ordered the officials of each county to send troops to forcibly relocate these displaced people who refused to leave and intended to cause trouble. It has also led to several large-scale conflicts.
And the displaced people who were driven out of Hedong by Wen Han wantonly declared that Wen Han was a person who had lost his name, and he was not a good official who loved the people and was close to the people at all!
This rumor was immediately refuted by the displaced people in Hedong and those who came from other prefectures and counties to get a share of the land.
And Wen Han just smiled faintly at this rumor. He knows that no matter what kind of person he is, there will always be people who say he is good and some people who say he is bad.
If he only cares about these ethereal reputations, he will not be able to achieve great things.
After the wasteland was allocated, and the construction of houses in various places was completed one after another, in order to allow these displaced people to live in peace, Wen Han took the lead and helped together with a group of officials and soldiers. At the same time, the Wei family also sent a lot of people to help.
When Wenhan's policy of tuntian was officially implemented, all the people in Hedong had already understood that the Wei family and Wenhan had not turned their faces at all, and the acquisition war of the wasteland was simply a good show run by the two of them.
Those wealthy people in Hedong who suddenly realized that they were being played with were so angry that they jumped straight away. At the same time, he denounced the Wei family, saying that the Wei family betrayed them, and threatened the Wei family that if they did not give them an explanation, then they would cut off contact with the Wei family in the future, as well as commercial cooperation.
Wei Zhongdao was disdainful of this denunciation and threat, and vigorously rejected the opposition of the people in the clan. Wei Zhongdao assisted Wen Han so without hesitation, as long as there was a little wisdom, everyone knew that the relationship between the two was extraordinary. And the Wei family is very important to Wen Han, in the past two months, with the help of the resourceful Xi Long, Wei Zhongdao quickly grasped the Wei family's military power firmly in his hands.
Wei Zhongdao now has a status in the Wei family, and as for his two uncles, Wei Zhongdao and Wen Han have secretly visited them and promised them enough benefits to make them tempted. With Wei Zhongdao's two uncles on his side to assist, the other people of the Wei family can only let Wei Zhongdao's vein cover the sky single-handedly.
There is no doubt that the policy of Tuntian is a huge blow to the wealthy people in Hedong. Because, in this way, the value of the grain in their hands will plummet, and God knows how much grain these wealthy people will accumulate for generations, and some even tens of generations.
Moreover, the people live on food, and if they have food, they can control and manipulate the private soldiers under them, and constantly recruit the displaced people for their livelihood. And now in troubled times, it is even possible that they can seek a place.
Of course, this is all under the premise that only these people have an absolute amount of food, while the rest of the people at the bottom have no food to eat, and are forced to die for it.
But once the tuntian was successful, the people had enough food to survive. Then they will not be able to co-opt these people so easily, and the private soldiers under them will be ready to move, and they will no longer work as hard as before.
At that time, as long as the government with a huge stock of grain shouts for conscription, the private soldiers in their government may flock to the government.
And for these wealthy people, everyone will be more or less ambitious and want to have great power. The value of food, soldiers and horses, this is their ambition to implement, must have.
Tuntian implemented, this measure can be said to force the wealthy people in Hedong to stand opposite Wenhan. The two parties immediately arrived at a position where they were like fire and water.
And the Hedong giants were the first to counterattack, and they soon came. They joined forces and put pressure on Wen Han to make Wen Han treat everyone equally and divide their land. The reason is why only the displaced people can share the land and receive this benefit. Even the outcasts from other places can get it.
As a wealthy family in Hedong, they should also get a share, and this one must be big enough.
In this regard, Wen Han only gave one reply. Want to divide the land? OK! If you wealthy people are also so poor that they have no food to go to the pot and have no clothes to cover their bodies, he will divide them immediately without saying a word.
Wen Han's reply is simply a hooligan in the eyes of these Hedong wealthy people. What kind of people are they, and it is absolutely impossible for them to pretend to be poor and pretend to be grandchildren.
If you can't write it, then you will come to martial arts.
The wealthy people in Hedong agreed with each other that in their counties, they would send private soldiers in the prefecture to pretend to be hooligans to smash the houses where the displaced people lived in the wasteland outside the county seats.
And Wen Han seems to have expected that they will have this bad move, and he has long made the county officials secretly pay attention to their every move, and once they make a move, they will immediately send troops to suppress it. In addition, Wen Han also distributed a lot of weapons to the displaced people living in the wasteland outside the county towns, so that they could have weapons to defend their homes.
And for these homeless people who have finally had a peaceful home, who dares to destroy their hard-won homeland, even if the emperor Lao Tzu comes, they dare to fight with him.
Wen Han's words that day, human dignity, self-improvement, and labor will be deserved, soon spread throughout Hedong. More or less changed these displaced people, they are no longer weak, they dare not fight back because they are bullied by others, and they have Wen Han behind them.
These homeless people took up arms, and in the face of the private soldiers of the wealthy families who pretended to be hooligans, they were fearless, and they could even be said to be crazy, and there were individual counties that did not need the government to take action at all, and they beat away the private soldiers of the wealthy families who pretended to be hooligans by relying solely on the resistance team formed by the homeless.
At the same time, the wealthy people in Hedong gradually discovered that the clansmen they arranged in the government were not as easy to use as before, and they had great powers. Moreover, it is a news infarction. From the beginning of Wenhan's wasteland acquisition war to the implementation of Tuntian, these clansmen in the government have never heard the news of early warning.
It is impossible for these clansmen to surrender to Wenhan's side. In the wealthy family, without exception, every clan member cultivates the idea of taking the interests of the family as the core from an early age.
Then why did these clansmen not take action when they saw that the interests of the family were damaged, and they didn't even send back a message to warn.