Xinshun 1730

Chapter 346
But Liu Yu is also very clear-headed. Small merchants and merchants are not usable. They can only be used to lay mines, and cannot be used as the people's power to capture Kochi City.

These small businessmen are cunning and philistine, and the petty bourgeois are fanatical but short-lived, and I am not trying to set up barricades, so I can't really mobilize them.

It still depends on the peasants outside the city who are watching the excitement and waiting for Liu Yu to burn the land deeds.

Everything he did in the city was not to buy people's hearts, but to plant mines for the shogunate and daimyo.The premise of buying people's hearts is to stay here permanently, otherwise buying people's hearts is a loss-making business.

Buying people's hearts depends on the benefits that are visible to the naked eye.

To lay mines, you only need to create an untouchable "heaven".

Since it is a minefield, it doesn't matter whether this "paradise" can be realized.

Catholicism can start the Shimabara Rebellion, and he can also start the Tosa Rebellion with the Confucian set of benevolence and righteousness.

Who will lend money when the shogunate and daimyo do not have special loans from the financial department?Where can agricultural social funds be used except for lending and hoarding land without investment?Liu Yu didn't care about these practical and realistic problems.

Anyway, most people are ignorant at this time. What they care about is intuitive feeling. Few people will think rationally whether these policies can be implemented or whether they are just empty talk.

In order to make mine scary enough, some systematic theories are needed.

Liu Yu doesn't understand Confucianism.

However, Wang Anshi in the Song Dynasty knew it. He was thoughtful and prepared. He immediately took out Wang Anshi's "Zhou Li Xinyi" and extracted a complete set of systematic theories. Dashun originally had a complete set of published books. , most of the Japanese who can read can read Chinese characters, just distribute them directly.

"Diguan Situ Quanfu" said that the city's collection is in the palm.If the market is not sold, if the goods are stagnant for civilian use, they will buy them for their goods, and write them down when they are ready, so as to wait for those who buy them from time to time.The buyers all look down on their owners, and the countrymen and suburban people look down on their own divisions, and then give them to them.For those on credit, there is no more than ten days for sacrifices, and no more than three months for funerals.All the people's loans are given by the judges, and the interests of the country are served.Where the wealth of state affairs is used.At the end of the year, they will come in and out and accept the rest.

This is the benevolent government that the country is responsible for loans, parity, and low-interest loans to support small businessmen and small handicraftsmen.

It is said in "Diguan Situ Lushi" that the palm gathers the hoe millet, house millet, and interstitial millet in the wild, and uses them.Use quality agents to reach the people, award their prosperity and accumulation equally, give their benefits, spread their benefits, and evenly distribute their government orders.Where millet is used, it will be rewarded in spring and collected in autumn, and all the governance of new gangsters will be listened to, so that there will be no conscripts, and the evil of the earth will be regarded as evil.

This is the benevolent government that restrains wealthy merchants, lends seed money to farmers, and equalizes prices.

In addition, Mencius's people-oriented thought, killing Jie and Zhou is killing tyrants, and the theory of equality of the four peoples of some schools of Dashun, etc., all disseminated and published books everywhere.

He wanted the shogunate to "take the dross and discard the essence" in the future, use all the essence of the Confucian system to rebel, and keep the shogunate only to strictly prohibit religion and heresy, and maybe even the "essence" of Zhu Zi's Neo-Confucianism. The shogunate will also be completely removed.

If the shogunate can use the control power to ban religion, strictly control the spread of Confucianism that is not Zhu Zixue, and then completely transform Zhu Zixue into feudal etiquette, Liu Yu feels that the books he bought for thousands of taels of silver are not in vain.

Liu Yu thought to himself, you only think that Catholicism can be used to rebel and cause the Shimabara Rebellion, but you don't know that Confucianism can also find reasonable content for rebellion.Discipline you to run all the way on the road of "taking the dross and discarding the essence".

He talked about righteousness and theory with businessmen, literate class, and handicraftsmen.

And farmers who are basically illiterate, there is no need to talk about righteousness and theory.

A fire that burns the mortgage deed documents is more useful than anything else; a delicious meal of white rice is more tempting than any righteousness.

Outside the castle town, more and more farmers came to watch the excitement, and their courage became more and more bold.

Liu Yu knew what they were looking forward to. When they captured the castle town, the "hey hey hoot" that the farmers cheered for him in unison has proved that the people's hearts are available, and the rest is to stimulate these people's hearts.

After spending a sum of money, I bought some rice from a rice shop at a reasonable price, hired some people, and buried pots to make rice in the open space east of the castle town. I invited these farmers who grew their own rice but had no chance to eat rice to eat white rice.

It is said that there was such a story that two daimyos fought, the city was besieged, and the besiegers cut off the water.In the city, white rice was used to bathe the horses, but many soldiers outside had never seen so much rice in their lives, and they regarded the white rice as water, thinking that there must be water in the city to wash the horses, so there must be wells, so they withdrew the siege .

Maybe it's a bit exaggerated, Liu Yu didn't believe it at first.

But when he saw a Japanese farmer who was less than 1.5 meters tall, after the rice was steamed, he could eat a pound of uncooked rice without even pickles, and he thought it might be true.

Rice is only one or two taels of silver and one stone, and you can buy four or five hundred stones every day, which is one to two thousand catties, which doesn't cost much.

If Kochi City can be captured, regardless of the political significance and strategic influence behind it, if there are so many wealthy merchants on it, they can guarantee their return if they only look at gold and silver.

From the day the castle town was captured, some farmers had already eaten here, and now they have eaten here for three days. With the spread of friends and companions, more and more people came to eat.

A small number of land deed documents obtained from the usury merchants in the castle town, after the farmers were full, read their names one by one, and burned these land deeds to clean.

Amidst the thunderous cheers, more farmers were looking forward to it, because their land deeds had not yet been obtained.Those people hid in Kochi City.

Seeing other people's land deeds being burned, thinking that the person holding their own pledge documents is still in Kochi City, many farmers look at the distant Kochi City, thinking that this is what it feels like to be full of white rice.

If you can get back the pledged documents, if you can implement the benevolent government of [-]% tax, can't you also eat white rice every day?
The choking green mustard was smeared around the corners of the eyes, and Liu Yu directed at these farmers who had eaten white rice for three days with tears, and made the final agitation with a choked voice.

"People, the Celestial Dynasty is a state of etiquette. This time, it is only for benevolence and righteousness and benevolent government. It does not take an inch of land."

"We are going to leave after all. Even if the land deed and pledge documents are burned today, even if the thirty-one tax is said today, what if the warriors and lords go back on their word in the future?"

Those who had already received the paperwork suddenly felt cold.

Yes, the Tang people are teachers of benevolence and righteousness, and they don’t take an inch of land. What should we do after the Tang people are gone?

Those wealthy merchants have a close relationship with the feudal lords, will the samurai gentlemen allow them to pay only one-thirtieth of the tribute?

Even if you get the pledge document, can you ask for it back in the future?
Thousands of people knelt on the ground and petitioned loudly: "Please stay, my lord! Please stay, my lord!"

"How could the lord be benevolent?"

"My lord, please don't leave. If your lord leaves, what should we ordinary people do?"

Liu Yu "shed tears" and said: "I have my benevolence and righteousness. If I stay, don't I come here to fetch soil? As a human being, how can I be untrustworthy?"

"If this is not the case, wait until I capture Kochi City and capture your feudal lord's retainers and those wealthy merchants. I will come as a guarantee that they will not violate the benevolent government and never take back your land, how about it?"

"You don't need to rush to capture Gaozhi City. I will get back everything you deserve. But even though you don't need to rush to kill, you need to pick up your farm tools and help me, okay?"

People who were already heartbroken, at this time, hope was ignited again.

Since the Tang people can guarantee it, perhaps the benevolent government these Tang people talk about can really be realized.

The lord in front of him is such a good man, so honest, so trustworthy, and he also has an army that can beat the crap out of the mighty samurai master. With such a person as a guarantee, what else is there to worry about?

The taste of white rice is really good.

If the benevolent government spoken of by the people of the Tang Dynasty can really be implemented, we will be able to eat white rice every day in the future.

As long as these Tang people can capture Kochi City, capture the lord's samurai servants, capture those wealthy merchants, and sign a contract with them not to exploit them, presumably the lord and the samurai masters will abide by it, right?

Warriors also have their glory, and isn't honesty one of them?
As long as these Tang people act as guarantors, not only can the benevolent government be implemented, but also the lords and samurai masters can never pursue this matter again, which would be great.

Recalling the feeling of eating a full meal of white rice again, thousands of farmers said one after another: "Please be the master! We are willing to do it."

Seeing that the hearts of the people are available, Liu Yu said seriously: "Okay, those who are interested in each household can come tomorrow with farm tools. Those who have women in the family can weave bamboo baskets and wooden baskets at night. Every price will be delivered immediately."

"Everyone, go back to your village, your hometown, and spread what I said today."

"It's June now, and the rice is about to ripen. If it can be made, you can eat white rice every meal this year!"

With an order, thousands of farmers rushed towards their homes.

Or ask women to weave bamboo baskets and straw baskets overnight; or invite friends and friends to publicize what they have experienced in the past few days;

After these Japanese villagers left, the officers became excited.In their eyes, as long as a few thousand people arrive tomorrow, the ditches and swamps can be filled in one day.

And that is almost the only obstacle to capture Kochi City.

Only a few kind-hearted military officers sighed and shook their heads: "Why do you lie to them? Even if you force those people to sign the contract, is it really possible to let the past go? Can you really pay [-]% of the tax?"

"I have also studied the Japanese system in the past few days. Don't talk about one in thirty taxes, it is two in ten. I am afraid that the Japanese will not be able to support so many warriors."

"I also know the lessons of the previous dynasty. Soldiers are recruited, and they must spend enough money. If the soldiers are not stable, the ancestral temple will die. The Japanese are not stupid, and the samurai are not military serfs. How could they not understand this truth? ?Under the separation of peasants and soldiers, if you treat the peasants benevolently, you will not be benevolent to the samurai. If the samurai is unstable, the country will be in chaos. The Japanese will never allow it, and they cannot agree."

"My lord, why don't you share the millet from Juqiao and the wealth from Lutai according to what the Japanese master said? Our army is powerful, and the Japanese people are also aware of it. As long as you raise your arms and shout, you will definitely follow."

Liu Yu laughed and shook his head and said: "The peasants are very cunning. Unless they can't survive, who will rebel? Don't you know that they have always been against traitors and not against faint emperors? You don't read "Water Margin"? Zhao Wangjun is good, Gao Qiu is bad."

"The common people of the Celestial Dynasty have rich experience in rebellion. Both Henkel and the Ming ancestors made great achievements. There are also books such as "Water Margin" and "Journey to the West". , with a fluke fantasy in mind.”

"The Celestial Dynasty has its own national conditions here, and the Wa country also has its own national conditions there. How can it be flexible?"

"If you have fantasies, then follow them. They will dare to come if you only say to guarantee a contract. If you say to punish a tyrannical king, they will come to eat, but they may not dare to come to do things."

(End of this chapter)