Chapter 172: The Fall of Zuo Liangyu
The slave trade was an inevitable choice. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Yang Feng's equalization system completely blocked the annexation of land, so the wealth of the people could only be transferred to industry and commerce.
It's actually already begun.
Because of the continuous expansion of the output of his iron and steel mills in the north, the demand for coal and ore is increasing day by day, a large number of small coal kilns and small mining farms have appeared in eastern Hebei, Beijing, and Xuanfu, and the military and political nouveau riche and businessmen who cannot rely on the annexation of land to increase their wealth have begun to pour into the mining industry, as well as mineral processing sintering and even coking attached to the mining industry, they are the guarantee of Yangfeng's increasing iron and steel production, but they are also facing an increasingly serious problem, that is, the shortage of workers.
The premise of the Industrial Revolution was to create countless bankrupt peasants by eating people through sheep, drive them to factories and mines, and use their humble lives to increase the wealth of the capitalists.
This is the only way.
But the equalization system prevented this from happening, so who would replace the miners in England who lived in the dark of the coal mines all their lives, who would replace the female workers who worked eighteen hours in the textile factories and were tired like skeletons, and who would replace the child laborers who were constantly tired to death in front of the machines? Sixty acres of land for a husband and wife is enough for them to live a worry-free life, and they will not go into those hellish factories and mines in order to survive, because they have no need for it.
But there must be enough bones to build on the foundation of the Industrial Revolution.
You must know that the British won the supremacy of the textile industry because their factories were more cruel than others.
In that case, let's change slaves.
It is inevitable that either their own people will go to sweatshops to work as industrial slaves for eighteen hours a day, or they will pass on this miserable fate and let the real slaves of the alien race take their place.
Before discussing the moral level of His Majesty the Emperor, it is necessary to understand a little bit......
In 1840 the average life expectancy of the families of British industrial workers was fifteen years, and only forty-three percent of their children lived past the age of five, and the mothers who had to work hard in order to make a living had to feed their children a lot of alcoholic solvents, because only then could she have the opportunity to feed herself, and then she kept feeding until she fed her children to death, and when we saw the heavenly grace of the handsome men and women in Pride and Prejudice in the movies, it was very simple to see what hell was like. Just move the camera to the contemporaneous East End.
Yang Feng certainly wouldn't trade slaves himself, but he would push the slave trade behind the scenes.
At this time, the mine owners in the north had already begun.
Because the Han people, that is, the countrymen determined by the Ming Dynasty's subordinate nationality, were forbidden to be slaves, even the original slave nationality was canceled, and all slaves and maids were changed to civil nationality again, and the relationship with the master and slave was changed to an employment relationship, so the source of slaves was also restricted to foreign races. At present, due to geographical restrictions, they can only buy Koreans through those former Korean generals of the Dongjiang Water Division, who also have slaves and a large number of untouchables, Lin Qingye is very willing to do this kind of thing, and the Mongolian princes outside the country, as for where they got the slaves, no one cares.
This trend will continue to expand in the future.
Because the real industrial revolution has begun to appear, the new type of textile machine, the new type of mainland cotton seeds, plus the steam engine that has become more and more perfect, the horn of cotton spinning industrialization has been sounded, and even the first set of mule machines and looms driven by steam have begun to operate in the imperial palace in Beijing, Yang Feng will be like the United Kingdom, using cotton cloth to devour the whole world, and then in the future, countless workers will be needed in the coal mines, iron ore textile factories and even cotton plantations all over the Ming Dynasty. And the bulk of these workers will also be slaves.
As for the yeoman farmers of the Ming Dynasty......
Conquest and plunder!
A wave of 10 million Red Shirts will also engulf the whole world.
Of course, this is a matter of the future, and even after Yang Feng dies, he has nothing more than seventeen years, this time can solve the surrounding problems, he will not stay in this time and space, although theoretically he just doesn't leave, and it is okay to live until he dies naturally and then go back, but after going back, his body has already rotted. At that time, unless he can find a similar soul as soon as possible, he will always exist in a soul state, if he can't find the next one before the soul energy is exhausted, then he can only completely dissipate, it is indeed cool to be an emperor for thirty more years, but if the price is to lose the body, and there is a high probability that the soul will be scattered, it will not be worth it.
As for a very cool life......
After returning to his body, his body will be the same as he is now, with powerful abilities, it is estimated that even if he puts the Marvel world, he will have to be a monster, so why not have the same cool life?
And just when Yang Feng was planning a crusade against the Wa Kingdom, the land and water alliance of Zheng Zhilong and his son also broke through the mouth of the lake and quickly captured Jiujiang, at the same time, the two towns of the forbidden army on the north road broke through Nanyang and Xiangyang, and began to go down the Han River to Wuchang, and the combined army of He Tengjiao and the two kings of Yigui on the south road defeated the left naval army on Dongting Lake and quickly surrounded Yueyang. So far, the three-way army has completely completed the siege of Wuchang, and the desperate situation has also destroyed Zuo Liangyu's sick body, which can be said to be the most important warlord in history that led to the fall of Hongguang, on the same day that the news of the Ming army's breakthrough of Jiujiang reached Wuchang, he was angry and vomited blood and died.
Then the remnants of Zuo Liangyu supported his son Zuo Mengeng as the master, but then at Zuo Liangyu's funeral, his friend Huang Shu, who was also the main assistant, mutinied, and led people to cut off Zuo Menggeng's head and lead the left to surrender to the Ming army.
Wu Changping.
"This is Zuo Liangyu?"
In front of the Fengtian Hall of the Nanjing Imperial Palace, Yang Feng looked at a dead corpse in front of him with interest.
"Back to Your Majesty, it's the left reverse!"
A guy in a prison uniform beside him knelt on the ground and said humbly.
"What's the blood on his face?"
Yang Feng said.
"Back to Your Majesty, it was splashed when the son of the left rebel was ambushed."
The man said.
"Huh?"
Yang Feng was speechless for a moment, and then continued to look down at Zuo Liangyu.
At this time, it was almost early winter, the weather turned cold, and the corpse was easy to preserve, and from Wuchang to Nanjing, it was only more than a thousand miles downstream, and two days and nights were enough, so Zuo Liangyu at this time had not decayed, but he could still see something, speaking of which this guy in history was also very complicated, if you really want to say that he has no integrity, this must be wrong, he did not descend, and he did not have the intention of lowering the clearance, if it wasn't for his ambition too heavy, plus he was fooled and lame by the Donglin Party, he might still be like Huang Degong.
Of course, he couldn't save Hongguang.
Even if he is willing to fight for the Ming Dynasty, the generals and officials under him still don't do it! Looking at the cheerfulness of those guys under him when Zuo Mengeng descended to the Qing Dynasty, he knew that they were actually ready for a long time.
"Forget it, everyone is dead, so don't be embarrassed for him anymore, find a place to bury him!"
Yang Feng said.
"Your Majesty is benevolent, Ze and dry bones, Yao Shun is beyond reach!"
The prisoner said.
"Haha, you're very good at talking, okay, since you're the blade Zuo Mengeng and then lead the left anyway, then don't continue to wear this, hurry up and take off your love and go where to go, by the way, what's your name?"
Yang Feng said with a smile.
"The criminal minister Huang Shu, Chongzhen ten years of Jinshi, by the grace of the saint to the imperial history patrol according to Huguang, was detained in the army by the left reverse, had to be false and wronged, always thinking about the thief, the heavenly soldiers went west to the left and died in fear, the anti-party pushed his son as the leader, the criminal minister and a cadre of loyal people rose up, relying on the authority of His Majesty to finally sword Zuo Menggeng, but the criminal minister finally lost himself to the thief, so the prisoner came to ambush His Majesty to surrender."
The man lay there and said.
"Ah, your name is Huang Shu, since you ask me to surrender my guilt, then I will satisfy you!"
Yang Feng said with a smile.
Huang Shu raised his head and looked at him expectantly.
"Drag it out and beat it to death!"
Yang Feng said.
"Uh??!"
Huang Shu was petrified in an instant.
Immediately afterwards, Jin Yiwei stepped forward and grabbed him.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty spares your life, the minister has merit, and the minister killed Zuo Mengeng......
Huang Shu struggled and screamed, and was dragged by two brocade guards, dragged like a dog to Chengtianmen, and beat to death with sticks.
"Madamn, I accidentally ate a fly!"
In the midst of his screams, Yang Feng muttered to himself with a disgusted face.
Huang Shu is not an ordinary person, this is a famous mad dog of the Donglin Party, originally in history, Zuo Liangyu Qingjun was the mastermind, this guy scolded Ma Shiying in Nanjing as a royal historian, accusing Ma Shiying of ten crimes, not killing is not enough to thank the world, and even copied the guy to beat Ma Shiying. After a clan accused him of bribery, of course Ma Shiying immediately took the opportunity to arrest him, but he ran to Zuo Liangyu and hid in Zuo Mengeng's military camp. As a result, Zuo Liangyu died of illness Zuo Mengeng was defeated by Huang Degong, this loyal and patriotic fighter who scolded Ma Shiying, pulled Zuo Mengeng to Azig at the fastest speed, the speed of the turn is also amazing, and what is even more amazing is that he led the Qing army south to his hometown in southern Anhui as the leading party.
His hometown is Huizhou.
His brother Huang Geng, the last martial champion of the Ming Dynasty, was fighting guerrilla warfare with the Qing army, and the Qing army failed to attack many times, so Huang Yushi led his troops to fight side by side with his brother, and then stabbed his brother in the back, giving the new master to solve this guy who resisted the national ronghe.
And that's not all.
Huang Shu learned that the masters were attacking unfavorably, and he immediately changed into the official uniform of the Ming Dynasty, with a wig and an army to support his fellow countrymen, poor Jin Sheng let him stab him in the back again, and the inside and outside should jointly attack Jixi, Huizhou fell, Jin Sheng refused to surrender and was killed by the Qing army after being captured.
"This is the Donglin Party!"
Listening to the faint screams in the distance, Yang Feng said speechlessly.