One of the most important factors in the effect of the spread of rumors is that the people are willing to believe, just like whenever the dynasty changes, the people will feel that it is too difficult to live, and most people will not have enough to eat, at this time they are more willing to accept the spread of rumors, hoping to change the dynasty, and there is a Ming monarch who stands up and allows them to live a good life.

If the rebels who are in turmoil in the peaceful and prosperous times may not have thought of creating momentum through rumors, but the common people feel that this day is very prosperous, and no one wants to make any trouble, and most people are unwilling to spread this kind of rumors in their hearts, which leads to the fact that rumors cannot be spread at all.

Soon the saying that the Ming Dynasty was not a pseudo-Ming spread in the market, because now seeing that the Ming Dynasty is about to break the Zhou Dynasty, if you still think about the benefits of the Zhou Dynasty, isn't it against the Ming Dynasty, a good life, but why can't you get along with the court?

At this time, Feng Ge appropriately released the news that the taxes of the Ming Dynasty were much lower in the Zhou Dynasty, and no taxes were collected in the first year.

At this time, the people who originally felt that the Zhou Dynasty was too heavily taxed immediately stood up, what the fortune of the world is fake, only the silver in their own hands is real, why the scholars in this era look down on these merchants is this reason, they have no benevolence and morality in their hearts, only whether they can make money. But it can't be said that people are wrong, people work hard to get up early and be greedy for darkness, if you don't take advantage of something? Do you have to lose money and make money? Everyone has a family to support, isn't it all for the sake of living?

And because of the needs of the imperial dynasty, it is necessary to suppress these merchants and make the status of those scholars higher, so that the initiative will be in the hands of the imperial court. After all, in this era, if everyone is equal and everyone goes back to do business, then it will be possible to buy officials with silver, and what prestige does the imperial court have in the eyes of these people.

Shinong industry and commerce is the status of the imperial court, only those scholars who read the sage book have a high status, everyone will be in awe of the court, the court can maintain the rule, if every emperor is a Ming Jun is naturally fine, if the emperor is mediocre, but also rely on these accumulated prestige to suppress those people, as long as there is something to eat, there will be no rebellion.

The most common means is to subsidize the scholars in their hometowns, and when these scholars successfully enter the court, their status can also be improved, which is the highest pursuit of businessmen in their lives.

And at this time, the first to fluctuate were also those merchants, the Zhou Dynasty beat Jiangnan with a knife and a shot, where can the richest merchants in Jiangnan escape their butcher's knife, they also have a benefit, those ministers are rarely Jiangnan people, no one speaks for those merchants, this knife is not how to cut how you want.

Later, many Jiangnan people had to enter the court as officials, which is also one of the reasons, after all, no matter how thick the family foundation is, it can't help but be cut like this, and no matter how big the family is, it can't confront the court. If you are soft, you can live well, in this troubled world, face is not worth silver, and living well is worth silver.

There are also people who come to the door and ask these people how they can do such a thing, and these people often sneer: "How does it compare to the water being too cold and the scalp is itchy?" ”

These two allusions are about Qian Qianyi, the leader of the Donglin Party, it is rumored that when the Manchu Qing Dynasty broke through the Southern Ming Dynasty, Qian Qianyi and his wife Liu Ru made an appointment to commit suicide and martyrdom, but when the boat arrived in the river, Qian Qianyi stretched out his hand to test the water temperature, and said: "The water is too cold to go down." Later, the Manchu Qing Dynasty issued a shaving order, and everyone in Jiangnan did not obey, Qian Qianyi told his family at home one day that his scalp was itchy, and he returned from going out soon after, and he had shaved his Manchu braids.

The people of the time wrote poems to ridicule him: "Qian Gong has a good background, and Shandou is famous all over the world." The country is broken from the new dynasty to the north, and the official high is still the old Donglin. ”

Qian Qianyi is a veteran of the Donglin Party, and he is a confidant and friend with Huang Zongxi. After Wei Zhongxian, the Donglin Party was dominant, but almost all the people who read were Donglin Party members, and people said so, these people could not attack their predecessors, they could only come out in the dark.

The situation in Jiangsu and Zhejiang began to undercurrent, Feng Ge began to admire Yang Youcai's vision, when the emperor just ordered the demolition of the Confucian Mansion, Jiangnan was scolded, Feng Ge wanted to go upstream, but was blocked, sure enough, not many days later, these people changed their minds.

Only then did they understand that it was never the people who controlled public opinion, but some big clans, and there were people in these big clans and people in their families doing business, and they were naturally talking about opinions that were beneficial to themselves. And they are the main channel for market sources, and it is easy to change public opinion.

Of course, this move is very dangerous, generally speaking, the court will never tolerate them, but now it is different, the court is surrounded by the army of the Ming Dynasty, they don't say whatever they want to say, those officials are probably making preparations with both hands, where do they have the time to pay attention to what the people in the market say.

Just like this, inadvertently, people's hearts began to change, as the saying goes, people's minds change, this is the truth, the people are united with great strength, but their forgetfulness is also great, to persevere to do something absolutely no effort, everyone has their own life to live, to maintain fairness and morality This kind of thing has the ability to do it, anyway, the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, and I forgot how to scold the Ming Dynasty with the pseudo-Ming Dynasty.

These people in the court of the Zhou Dynasty did not expect things to become like this, they just withdrew the army of Shandong, who knew that it was rumored to be a defeat in Shandong, before they could react, the market began to rumor that the Ming Dynasty was the orthodoxy of Emperor Taizu, and the affairs of Confucius were people's family affairs, and now the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty is the descendant of Confucius, relatively speaking, the Zhou Dynasty is not very popular with the people, the taxes are high, and the soldiers have no rules, and they deserve to be destroyed by the Ming Dynasty.

Wu Shifan was so angry that he didn't stop the court, and scolded in the court: "What kind of bad idea did you come up with, we are obviously uniting with the Qing Dynasty to attack, and now you have made it so passive, seeing that I am about to become the king of the country, what should you do!" ”

Hu Guozhu coughed: "The minister said at the beginning that this matter can't be done, but Lord Xia had to give General Gao a word, and it turned out to be this situation, but I don't know what Lord Xia thought at the beginning." ”

He is very smart, if he involves all the courtiers, I am afraid that this matter will be over, only attacking Xia Guoxiang, it is easy to succeed, as long as the emperor's favor for him slowly decreases, then he has hope to replace him.

Xia Guoxiang was not to be outdone when he heard this: "Now that we have a complete army, if we really let Gao Dajie lose troops in Shandong, I am afraid that the rumors in the market will become true." ”

I wish you all book friends in the north a happy new year, thank you for your support!

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