This Qing is wrong

Chapter 27 We Can't Learn From Li Zicheng's Failure Experience

Li Changqing looked at Yan Dingjun who was stunned and his three views were broken, and he also felt that what he just said about "a billion points" was false, so he decided to say it again in a "simple" way.

"Yan Dingjun, although most of the small people in Shengdou are short-sighted and can only see immediate benefits, but when the concept of 'small people' is expanded to the whole world, the seriousness of the problem is different.

If I followed what you said and shouted the slogan of Great Harmony and established the Taiping Army, it would be easy to win the hearts of the small people by equalizing land and exempting taxes, and it would not even be a problem to win the hearts of the small people.

However, have you considered that if we fail to keep our promises in the future, or if we go back on our promises after fulfilling our promises, have you thought about the backlash from all the people?

It costs money to fight a war, and it is not a small amount of money, not to mention the establishment of a country and our own court in the future, where money will be spent everywhere.

It is easy to give benefits to the people, but it is not easy to get the benefits back.

Moreover, Li Zicheng before us is a very good negative example.

Li Zicheng's rise was so rapid, aside from his military talents, he relied on the trick of equalizing land and exempting taxes in politics. He also made up songs that could be easily sung by illiterate people, and the propaganda was very good. in place.

That's right, Li Zicheng finally entered BJ City, and people followed him wherever he went, but has he converted this political capital into his own power?
The exemption of taxation from equal land means that Li Zicheng exempted a large amount of tax revenue himself. Wherever he went, he slaughtered the gentry and merchants, robbing money and food to supplement military resources.

This made it almost impossible for the land controlled by Li Zicheng to obtain much taxation from other places except for the harvest grown on the land.

And the land was distributed by Li Zicheng to the children of the poor in large quantities, exempted from taxes. After the goods, money and food that Li Zicheng robbed were exhausted, how would his country and his army be maintained?

Perhaps, at that time, Li Zicheng was planning to rule the world, and after eliminating all opponents, he would turn his back on his words and take back his orders.

At that time, Li Zicheng's family will be dominant, even if the people are dissatisfied, they will be sure to suppress all opposition voices.

However, the premise of doing this is that Li Zicheng can keep winning!

The wealth in his hands is rootless water after all, without a source, and it will be gone when it is used up. As long as he fails once, it will be difficult to restore the wealth he has saved with great difficulty.

The reason is simple, Li Zicheng has no money!
Therefore, after Li Zicheng was defeated by the Manchus who entered the customs, he had a huge country, but he didn't have enough income to regroup!
So what if those little people support Li Zicheng?

Human nature is selfish. It is fine for you to ask those small people to provide some food to supply the army, but if you ask them to give most of their wealth to Li Zicheng, it will kill them!

As a result, Li Zicheng's territory was peaceful and peaceful, and everyone lived and worked in peace and contentment, but he couldn't give Li Zicheng much food, which caused Li Zicheng to be thrown into hell by a failure.

When the Qing army entered Li Zicheng's territory, how many of those ordinary people who had been favored by Li Zicheng rose up to resist under the Qing army's butcher knife?
Didn't most people have no choice but to accept the reality of the Qing army's rule?
Even the hair ornaments of the Han family handed down from the ancestors were cut off!
In addition, Li Zicheng has been robbing big gentry families since the rebellion, and completely pushed scholars to the opposite of himself.

In the face of the general trend of the world, the strength and knowledge of scholars are much more useful than the grain dug out of the land by ordinary people.

Because anyone can grab the food, if the scholars are scared away, there will be no one to help govern the country!
The rapid disintegration of Li Zicheng's territory has a lot to do with the complete mess of local governance. Blindly destroying will only bring about death.

So, your path will not work, Yan Dingjun. "

Yan Dingjun was taken aback by what Li Changqing said, and he understood everything he said, but when the whole passage was connected, he felt vague and unclear.

I think what Li Changqing said is right, but I always feel that there is something uncoordinated, but I can't tell...

After thinking for a while, Yan Dingjun finally grasped the 'loophole' in Li Changqing's words.

"What adults are worried about is that after the army is raised, the land will be exempted from taxation, there will be no stable source of taxation, and it will not be able to withstand the waves.

Then we can completely remove the exemption from taxation, and just equalize the land, wouldn't it be enough? "

Li Changqing looked at Yan Dingjun, who was born in a feudal society, and nodded with satisfaction. To have this kind of awareness shows that the other party's political talent is worth cultivating.

"Yes, land equalization can not only encourage farmers' enthusiasm for production, but also win the hearts of the people, killing two birds with one stone.

But who said that I didn't plan to equalize the fields when I cut the Qing?

I don't know much about other places, but at least in this area of ​​Guangdong Province, there have long been fewer and more people who are still happy, and some abandoned fields can be equalized, and if they are not evenly distributed, they will be abandoned there.

Freeing the young and strong labor force from the servants and tenants of each household, and then sharing the land with them, this is what I must do.

It is also a key step in clearing.

After all, which of the big landlords who are now able to roam freely is not a traitor who has defected to the Qing court?

At that time, their fields will all be taken back, and it is impossible for us to plant them ourselves, we can only equalize the fields!
Therefore, equalizing the land is just the basic step of cutting the Qing.

It's too early to think about this now, let's consider the matter of equalizing the land when we have a whole house.

Moreover, we cannot learn from Li Zicheng's failure experience and push all the gentry and other scholars to the opposite side. In the future, we will need people with flexible brains and knowledge to be officials and govern the sites we have won. Otherwise, the sites won will be destroyed. Not a gain but a burden!

This time I gave Chairman Zhao and the others a white stripe, which is a certificate of voting.

When we defeat the first wave of the Qing army, I believe that there will be smart people who will "take refuge" and come over to fight against the Qing. "

Li Changqing smiled meaningfully.

From the beginning to the end, he had no intention of paying the IOUs he sent out. He took the initiative to seek refuge, exempted the debts on the IOUs, and sent a sum of money and food to Li Changqing for military expenses.

Those who do not take the initiative to cancel their debts are naturally traitors who need to fight the landlord!
Pulling a group to fight a group, this simple political method has long been played out in the society before Li Changqing traveled.

Li Changqing needs money and food, and Li Changqing will not let go of talents!
In this era when imperial examinations are kings, talents can only come out of the traditional scholar class. Even those big businessmen with successful careers generally have the label of scholars on them, and they are the top landlords in their hometowns!
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