Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1061 Who is suing me under the hall ([-])

Now things have gotten a little bigger.

The real common people would just watch the fun at most, but the hooligans from various prefectures in Jiangsu Province are already busy.

Daxing, which originated in the previous dynasty, can also be regarded as a by-product of economic development.

It was a bit chivalrous at the beginning, but it was almost inevitable, just like Qinglian Sect, White Lotus Sect, Wenxiang Sect, etc., the development would be messy.

Daxing originated in Suzhou Prefecture, where soldiers were recruited to guard against Japanese pirates, but after the Japanese invasion ended, these people were dismissed.

A group of martial arts practitioners entered the city and were dismissed without a livelihood, so it was obvious what they would do.

At that time, Governor Yingtian was in charge of dealing with these problems. When he first arrived, he was slapped by this group of people. They rushed in and gave him a slap in the face, telling Governor Yingtian not to look for trouble to die, otherwise you will not know how you died.

In the end, it got to the point where they wanted to take the Suzhou mansion and kill Governor Yingtian by force.

Obviously, the feudal iron fist has taught these people that there is a huge difference between hooligans and the army.

This also led to a consequence, that is, these people were scattered all over the place. They were in Suzhou during the Jiajing period, and had spread to Songjiang during the Wanli period.

And in these years, Dashun abandoned the canal, and a large number of water workers also injected a lot of fresh blood into the Jiangnan industry, which produced a wonderful chemical reaction.

By the mid-Wanli period at the latest, Daxing had already become "preliminary professionalized".

The lowest level is the horse boys and thugs who dare to risk their lives.

The upper class is dominated by scholars.

Scholars participated in a large number of rogue organizations, which was a characteristic of the rise from the Wanli period.

The people sue the officials, regardless of whether they are justified or not, they will be beaten first.

Talents are privileged, not required.That's why high-end organizations such as the Xiucai Bank were quickly born. After all, the formal underworld also needs lawyers and accountants from prestigious universities, and it's almost the same.

Scholars, as a special group of scholars, have certain immunity, and in general, local officials dare not kill them.

Feudal dynasties are never glamorous.

But looking at Jiangnan in the late Ming Dynasty, there were often scenes of people beating government servants and soldiers fleeing with their heads in their arms.Those who don't know think that these government servants who drink blood are soldiers of the people, and it is impossible to attack the people.

In fact, these ordinary people took the lead, and they were professional strikers.

Scholars lead, students take the lead, and no one dares to do anything casually.

The people, the people die hundreds of thousands a year, and nothing happens.But if a student or a scholar is killed, it will be a big deal.

Along with the abandoned canal in Dashun, and even earlier from the beginning of sea computing, Dashun Jiangsu's line of business has also rapidly divided.

Songjiang Mansion was the first place where shipping started to emerge. A large number of foreigners, water workers, and sailors from Dengzhou Prefecture, Shandong, etc. poured in, and conflicts quickly appeared between new gangs and old gangs.

As for the development of emerging capital and industry and commerce in Songjiang Prefecture, they also continued to build their own "professional teams". The two sides fought for several years, and finally with the decisive blow of Dashun's abolition of the canal, the old business was completely defeated.

Many of the scholars in Songjiang Mansion have also transformed themselves into vassals of the emerging class and industrial and commercial capital.

But in Yangzhou Prefecture, the old Daxing people still depend on the salt merchants for a living, including a large number of scholars, both civil and military.

There are pen holders and special gun holders.

As for the common people, before they are organized, the common people do not have much power.

Now the contradictions arising from the reform of the salt administration are three-dimensional struggles.

There is a court battle on the upper floor.

There are officials in the middle level who are arguing.

The lower level... The lower level is actually the stormtroopers of the salt merchants and the stormtroopers of the emerging capitalists, fighting on both sides.

Of course, this is a bit of an insult to the Dana Stormtroopers. They are far worse in terms of organization, but they are similar in some respects.

For different purposes, the two sides focused the struggle at the lower level on this waste salt reclamation.

As for the hundreds of thousands of salt households who are really interested in this matter... they are just being used, and they have no channel to speak out.The powerful organization that can really organize these hundreds of thousands of workers in Yanhu and Songjiang Prefectures is like playing with these people, but they have not yet entered the stage of history.

Under the command of the capital, the two major stormtroopers relying on the old salt merchant capital and the emerging industrial and commercial capital quickly mobilized.

In the old salt merchant system, a professional dealer was quickly found, and a large number of scholars began to write articles, criticizing the land reclamation companies for seizing the people's property, making the people unemployed, forcing the people to death, and not giving the small people a way to live. A large number of articles by the old salt merchants began to spread in various prefectures and counties controlled by the old salt merchants.

And the martial arts industry, which is responsible for making troubles by relying on the status of scholars, not worshiping officials, local officials dare not beat to death, and government servants dare not be ruthless, has also organized more than 30 famous scholars, with a large number of middle- and lower-level ruffians, Concentrate on the county where the incident occurred.

On the side of the new industrial and commercial system, new gangs that had won a great victory in the gray struggle in Songjiang Prefecture were quickly found. These Xiangjiaokou, which combined the efforts of water transport and water workers, or escaped the pursuit of the court, also quickly organized manpower.

And Songjiang Prefecture and other places have begun to rely on the talents and students of emerging capital, and they have also led Qian. They have begun to write articles describing the suffering of the salt households, the life that is not as good as pigs and dogs, praising the benefits of the reform of the salt government, and criticizing those salt beetles. It is the bane of common people's lack of public opinion, and the root cause of the court's salt tax and the lack of official salt.

And the scholar students who are responsible for such things as assaulting government servants and beating officials in "righteous indignation" are also ready.

In a feudal society, the underworld also depends on the status level.

Those who can beat the scholar on the other side can only be a scholar, and they cannot go beyond their status and level to make trouble.

As the saying goes, the capital has the rules of the capital, and the south of the Yangtze River has the rules of the south of the Yangtze River.

For some things, in Jiangnan, you have to use Jiangnan's method.

Zhu Guozhen, the chief assistant of the former cabinet, has already regarded the Jiangnan campaign as the same major event as the Ganzhou mutiny, Datong mutiny, and Liaodong mutiny in the "Emperor Ming Events".

It should be said that someone who can be the chief assistant still has this vision.

Although he couldn't understand that this was the inevitable result of the development of the commodity economy, the loss of control of the grassroots in the Ming Dynasty, and the development of industry and commerce, he also realized that this was a "new" event that could be compared with the Ganzhou Mutiny and the Liaodong Mutiny.

In the feudal dynasty, the chief assistant of the current dynasty regarded it as an event as important as the mutiny, which also shows its severity.

It should be said that Zhu Guozhen's prediction was correct.

From the end of Jiajing to the fall of Ming Dynasty, a series of grotesque struggles between officials and people in Jiangnan, tax resistance, party struggles, etc., these people involved in the whole process.

Unorganized people can't do anything.

Even if the fighting is just the feudal gang's interest, professional thugs, the nature of the rogue proletarians, and the organization is loose, it is organized after all.

Otherwise, it is impossible to explain the many strange records, how the common people have such a high political consciousness.

Even in the Jiashen year, when Chongzhen hanged himself and Jiangnan cried, these "rogue stormtroopers" showed their faces.

The eunuch party wants to worship in class, but Fushe opposes it and writes a letter of humiliation.

The eunuch party hired a group of local hooligans to take to the streets to fight back the people in the society.

Fushe also knows that the weapon of criticism cannot replace the weapon of criticism.

So Xu Wujing and Zhang Zitui of the Fushe immediately hired a large number of thugs from Dongyang, Yiwu and other places.

When Chongzhen hanged Jiangnan and cried, the stormtroopers of the eunuch party and the hooligan stormtroopers of Fushe were on the street.

In the end, there were more people on Fushe's side, and the eunuchs who beat them ran away with their heads in their hands, completely controlling the situation in the market, making the eunuchs unable to say a word in the market, and Fushe quickly controlled the direction of public opinion in the market.

Gu Yanwu pointed out this problem in his "Sheng Yuan Lun".

The imperial court conducts imperial examinations every year.

There are so many scholars in the imperial examination.

Then there are not so many official vacancies.

Everyone studies to become an official, and you don’t have so many official vacancies, and then you have to show that you value Confucianism and give students a lot of preferential treatment. What can these students do?

Obviously, quickly rogue.

Take advantage of the privileges granted by the imperial court to be the leader of the underworld.

I will beat those who are not dared to be beaten; I will scold those who are not dared to be scolded; I will do what the rascals dare not do.

The upper echelons form parties and associations.

Grassroots talents become top thugs.

At the bottom are the professional thugs organized by the lumpenproletarians.

Of course, although Gu Yanwu discovered the problem, his idea of ​​solving the problem was rather nonsense. He believed that the way to change this situation was to restore the "examination system", and believed that each county could solve these problems by recommending four or five people... It's quite an idea...

In short, as the saying goes, hooligans are not to be feared, but they are afraid of being educated.

Not only has culture, but also many privileges related to identity granted by the state, it is even more terrifying.

This can also be regarded as the standard routine for riots after the development of industry and commerce, in cities with relatively developed industry and commerce, and when the centralization of the imperial court has basically collapsed and has no control over the grassroots.

Write articles with a pen, control public opinion, occupy the moral high ground, and incite emotions.

The thugs at the bottom are dispatched to hunt down the thugs on the opposite side, and they are beaten until they dare not show their faces, so their public opinion cannot be spread in the market.

The imperial court intervened, and the raw thugs took the lead, attacking government servants with an organized group of professional thugs, mobilizing the people in the city who did not know the truth, resulting in the effect that the law does not blame the public.

This trick has always been effective in the Ming Dynasty.

And such tricks, what are you most afraid of?

Afraid of the army that dares to arrest people.

The reason they fail is their limitations.

Those students in the line benefited from the stability of the imperial court, because their privileges were originally granted by the imperial court, so their reliance was their own privileges.

So they are afraid, and absolutely dare not mobilize the real power of the people, because they know that once the power of the people breaks out, just like the Jiangnan slave change and the earlier Jiangnan borrowing incident, they will be worthless.

They are doing things with the rudimentary routine of urban barricade struggle under the development of industry and commerce, but they absolutely dare not oppose feudalism, because they themselves are the beneficiaries of the privileges of the feudal dynasty, which is also destined to be a group of war scum, sprouting to the top. Dead is still cute.

And gangsters are stronger than unorganized people.

But they are the weakest of all organized groups. Even if the organization on the other side is religion, they can't beat them.

This time, the salt merchant decided that Liu Yu would not really dare to kill people in the city, so he still adopted this routine.

And the emerging class in Songjiang Mansion can only adopt such a routine to fight.

Moreover, relatively speaking, the Songjiang Mansion is more professional.

Because, some things happened before, and after Liu Yu's handling, the hooligans in Songjiang mansion... became professionalized.

(End of this chapter)