Chongzhen's open life

Chapter 377 Calm
The last thing did not meet Zhu Youjian's expectations. After Qian Qianyi and a group of troubled students hung their heads on the gate of the city, the original chaotic images and discussions in various places suddenly disappeared strangely.

But these are just the silence before the storm. Just when the common people thought that those scholars were frightened, a storm came quietly.

Starting from Quzao in Shandong, a large number of tenants were forced by their own masters to take sticks and start rebelling!

Their scale is neither big nor small, but it is not a situation that the local county government can handle. The county government from all over the country has urgently asked for help from their superiors. For a while, the whole Ming Dynasty seems to be full of smoke. The empire will be overthrown by the rioting people.

For this situation, Zhu Youjian knew exactly what was behind it. This was provoked by the forces behind those scholars, and the purpose was to show him force and force him to compromise.

It was just to let him know that the literati and landlords had the final say on whether Daming was in chaos or not!

In contrast, Zhu Youjian just smiled coldly, waved his hand, and gave an order. In less than a week, the guards in various places who were considered deserted and under their control in the eyes of the literati and landlord forces in various places mobilized and took enough money to eat. The soldiers who were full fucked the guys they were eating, and rushed towards the rioters who were besieging the city with a murderous look.

The next scene is like a scene where a red-hot steel knife cuts into tofu. A group of tenants is easily disintegrated and defeated under the attack of a professional army like frightened sheep being hunted and killed by wolves. , Take prisoners.

After the leaders of these mobs were eliminated in public, the leaders sent by various lord forces, the mobs became completely honest.

And these troops rushed towards the behind-the-scenes masters who provoked the mob according to the established strategy.

After some unnecessary resistance, the behind-the-scenes masterminds who originally planned to sit back and reap the benefits were divided into prisoners.

Under the command of the special envoys who had been arranged in various places long ago, the tenants who had been forced to rebel rebelled happily, and began to divide the land by beating the local tyrants.

Seeing the land that belonged to them, those behind-the-scenes masters all turned into mud-legged people just because of a single mistake of their own, and immediately regretted it, wishing to return to the old self before the big ears were scratched, so that they would not do stupid things.

Unfortunately, all this is just a delusion.

In this way, in less than a month, the originally massive wave of rebellion in various places was completely crushed and eliminated under Zhu Youjian's advance preparation.

By the way, the redistribution of part of the land was also completed, which greatly eased the bad situation of gradual land annexation in the country due to the development of more than 200 years.

Sometimes Zhu Youjian couldn't help wondering whether the other side had his own secret work, and he was still thinking about what excuses to carry out land reform. Unexpectedly, these guys would give excuses to the door.

Although it is only a part, it can be regarded as laying a solid foundation for the subsequent land reform. Those people who were allocated land in this incident have tasted the sweetness one after another, making other people who have not been allocated land envious.

Instead, they looked at their master who had not participated in the previous incident because of cowardice, and their eyes were full of disappointment.

If my master hadn't persuaded me at the beginning, then now I can...

When they thought this way, those landlords who had escaped by chance also noticed the strange eyes of their tenants looking at them, and suddenly became more timid, looking at those tenants who wanted to divide their land vigilantly, secretly thinking :

"They're all gangsters! If you want to divide my land, don't even think about it! Who the hell don't want me to rebel against His Majesty! Master must be His Majesty's most loyal lackeys. You gangsters want to divide your land!" Go to your daydreams!"

The situation in the country has become extremely stable all of a sudden. Those who made troubles were eradicated, those who wanted to make troubles but were not brave enough were persuaded, the literati were dumbfounded, and the peasants looked at their masters drooling and hoped that the masters would be strong. a handful.

It would be absolutely unbearable to let them take the lead by themselves. Were all the leaders killed before?
It is better for the master to take the lead in this kind of thing. When the time comes, they will kill the head and we will divide the land. Everyone will be happy!
Who says farmers are stupid?
They have more little thoughts than anyone else.

The thankless thing is that they won't do it.

Landlords who are missed: "God tm, everyone is happy..."

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As soon as things came to an end, it was already February.

On the third day of February, the waking of insects.

It was the busiest season of spring plowing, and the people of the entire Ming Dynasty were caught up in the busyness.

As the so-called spring plowing, summer cultivation, autumn harvesting, and winter storage, these four seasons are the four most important seasons for farming people.

It is also said that spring plowing is one inch deep, and it can be topped with dung.

Chun Geng refuses to be busy, and his face turns yellow after autumn.

These proverbs all illustrate the importance of spring plowing, even the emperor Zhu Youjian had to pick an auspicious day to go to the Xiannongtan in the south of the city to do some plowing at the beginning of spring.

Officials from all over the country even have to burn incense to pay homage to the thick soil of the emperor's heaven and earth before spring plowing. Fuli, after following the spring ox, demonstrates plowing the field with an ox to show the beginning of spring plowing.

Don't underestimate these pre-spring plowing ceremonies. These are all included in the performance evaluation of officials in various places. If any local chief official does not pay attention to this, instead of persuading farmers and mulberry, he misses the spring plowing, let alone promotion in the coming year. Taking off your black hat is considered light!

It can be seen that the ancient feudal dynasties attached great importance to the season of spring plowing, and Jingzhe is the busiest season in spring plowing. As the saying goes, when it comes to Jingzhe Festival, the hoes don't stop.

It can be said that people everywhere have entered a state of madness where people will not go back to their houses until the sun sets all day long, in order to complete spring plowing as soon as possible before the season.

And the busyness of spring farming brought the entire Ming Dynasty into a rare period of peace. The ministries were so busy that they did not touch the ground, and all forces had no intention of making trouble. Even the Houjin of Liaodong had to farm and hunt. of.

But looking at this busy scene, Zhu Youjian felt heavy in his heart.

Only he knows what kind of year the first year of Chongzhen was for the world, especially for Daming.

Take a look at the history books found on the system. Although they were compiled by the Qing Dynasty, most of them are not credible to the Ming Dynasty, but people cannot be fooled about natural disasters.

The records of the natural disasters that occurred in the first year of Chongzhen in the history of Ming Dynasty are as follows:
In July of the first year of Chongzhen, there was a tsunami in Hangzhou, Jia, and Shaofu. Tens of thousands of houses were destroyed, and tens of thousands of people were drowned, especially in Haining and Xiaoshan. .

What does this mean?
It means that in July of the first year of Chongzhen, a tsunami occurred in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, tens of thousands of houses were flooded by sea water, and tens of thousands of people were drowned.

In summer, the entire Ming Dynasty was almost in drought, and Shaanxi was the most severe, which could be called a thousand miles away.

And in September, another earthquake occurred in and around the capital!
It can be said that throughout the first year of Chongzhen, Daming has been experiencing various natural disasters, and it has not been easy.

In the next 17 years, due to the harsh climate of the Little Ice Age, the disasters in Ming Dynasty seemed to spring up one after another, and it lasted until the early Qing Dynasty.

This also means that Zhu Youjian must prepare for a protracted war starting this year.

It can be said that for the next 17 years, every year will be a challenge, and it will become more difficult every year.

If one fails, the Ming Dynasty is doomed to repeat the same mistakes.

Therefore, before the natural disaster comes, Zhu Youjian must completely eliminate all external hidden dangers, give Daming a stable and safe external environment, and do his best to deal with the bad situation that will last for decades.

Otherwise, it would be another natural disaster and he would have to deal with external threats. He really didn't know if he could hold on!
After all, he is only one person, even with the assistance of the system, there will always be times when he is negligent. In Da Ming's situation, he cannot tolerate the slightest negligence, otherwise he will be doomed.

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Time passed day by day, and spring plowing went away quietly in the busyness.

By the beginning of May, the spring plowing in all parts of the country, including Liaodong, had come to an end, and the preparations for the imperial court had also come to an end.

The military reform has also been completed one after another. It was originally scheduled to be completed before the spring plowing, but after all, various things were complicated. The military reform was not completely completed in various places until early April. The local guards also took the opportunity to integrate. Under the coordinated supervision of Zhu Youjian, Zhu Youjian had an intuitive data on all the troops in the entire Ming Dynasty.

Up to now, the entire Ming Dynasty still has about 150 million troops.

Among them, Liaodong claimed one million before, but the actual number was about 50 after verification of the military reform.

The capital is said to be 30, and after verification of the military reform, it is about 15 including the Yongwei Battalion.

The towns on the nine borders accounted for 20 troops in total, and the coastal areas also had about 20 troops due to the pressure of coastal defense and the navy.

The remaining inland provinces add up to a total of 50 actual remaining troops.

According to the information provided by the three major factory guards and dark guards in various places, if the old, weak, sick and disabled are excluded from these 150 million people, half of the actual soldiers who can fight will be burnt, and most of them are mixed food. Waiting to die.

Looking at these data, Zhu Youjian sighed deeply. For 150 million people, Daming used to pay almost 300 million copies of military pay every year, but the actual number of soldiers capable of fighting is less than one-third. The financial drag of the Ming Dynasty, coupled with the tax reduction of Daming year by year, it would be a ghost to be able to hold on!
With the exact number and confidence in his mind, Zhu Youjian ordered all the cabinet members and the Minister of the Ministry of War and Industry to meet him in Dongnuange.

Wang Chengen quickly conveyed the will to the cabinet ministers and the two ministers. Everyone also had a guess in their hearts. They took a deep breath, arranged their clothes, and followed the eunuchs to the East Nuan Pavilion in the palace with big strides. forward.

And Wang Chengen also notified Zhu Youjian of the arrival of the ministers.

Immediately, the cabinet ministers and two ministers who had been waiting outside for a while heard Wang Chengen's high-pitched voice: "Xuan! The cabinet ministers Huang Liji, Sun Chengzong, Xu Guangqi, Shi Fenglai, Li Guopu, Zhang Ruitu, Minister of the Ministry of War Cui Chengxiu, Gong Minister Xue Fengxiang came in to have an audience!!!"

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(End of this chapter)