A little bit about the "killing of landlords".
(88106 .) Recently, some book friends in the book friend group proposed to "kill all the landlords", and there was a heated debate.
I didn't want to say more about this topic, but I saw that the group was about to be swiped, so I will briefly talk about my views today. It is hoped that the debate on this matter can be put on hold.
First of all, it is the argument of a certain book friend: the male protagonist in the book is too merciful to the landlord, these people are useless, and they should all be killed immediately!
In this regard, it is absolutely not advisable to kill all the landlords, at least at the present stage, this will not work at all.
We might as well assume that the male protagonist is now hot-headed and has decided to kill all the landlords of the Ming Dynasty. So what is he going to do now?
First, he had to determine who should be killed.
So how do you identify who is the landlord? Sending a large number of officials to various parts of the country for screening? Don't forget, these officials themselves are members of the landlord class, and if they all enforce the law impartially, they must first tick their own names.
So it doesn't work. So the male protagonist draws a line by himself, for example, those who own more than 50 acres of land are considered landlords? It is foreseeable that more than a million yeoman farmers will die tragically.
Per capita, you say? Fifty acres per capita is considered a landlord? The real landlord's family is prosperous, and there are more than 100 people, and in the end, the most likely to die are homesteaders.
Second, the scope of culling was determined, how did the male protagonist slaughter these people?
The dragon guard who sent the male protagonist? Let me not mention that the officers of the Dragon Guard Army are also landlords, and many of the soldiers are related to the landlords. Let the Ming army kill the people who did not break the law and abide by their duties (the landlords are also the people), and they can still be expected to fight in the future?
You say that the peasants were mobilized to kill the landlords? Okay, this is completely because you are afraid that the country will not be in chaos, are you sure that these red-eyed peasants will not become Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong?
Third, at present, the vast majority of the social wealth of the Ming Dynasty is in the hands of the landlords.
If you force them to death, then the riches will immediately flee with them to the captives. It is impossible for you to kill dozens or millions of landlords in an instant, let alone seal off thousands of kilometers of borders, so this is simply an act of the enemy.
Fourth, how did the male boss suppress the resistance of the landlords?
These people are rich, powerful and influential, and rebellion is an inevitable choice if there is no way to live.
Take 10,000 steps back, you sent a large army to extinguish the landlord's rebellion, and the Manchurians will be happy, hurry up and take advantage of the civil strife in Nanming, let's occupy more land. Wherever you kill the landlord, I will send troops to ensure that a bunch of people come to open the door and surrender. Therefore, this is still a capital enemy.
Finally, and most importantly, if you kill a group of landlords under the condition that the social structure and productive forces remain unchanged, the original peasants will immediately become new landlords, how can you kill them all?
To sum up, don't be in a hurry to kill the landlords, the land reform is not a day or two can be done, everything is not done quickly, please be patient and read the book, the life of the people of the Ming Dynasty will be better, but we must not rely on simple and crude killing. 88106 .