Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 363 I Have Plenty of Local Arrangements for Farmers Who Lost Their Land

"Your Majesty, do you really want to divide North Korea equally?"

Luo Fangbo, Duke of Lan Guo, who had already retired from officialdom and devoted himself to being his business promotion committee, was wearing a northeast mink fur coat bestowed by the emperor, and followed Emperor Zhu, step by step on the edge of Sun Moon Lake in the Jiangbei Palace.

He has no official status now, and he rarely talks to Emperor Zhu about the court affairs.

But today, for the first time, he talked about North Korea's affairs - it stands to reason that even the ministers of the Ming Dynasty should not get involved in this matter, because it is about North Korea's affairs.

With regard to the affairs of the feudal state, officials other than the Li Fanyuan should intervene, which is considered to be a bit of ultra vires.

Therefore, Luo Fangbo, who has no official status, was probably persuaded by a group of important officials in the Ming Dynasty to come to Emperor Zhu to find out.

It's autumn now.

The weather is starting to cool down.

On Riyue Lake, there are already women in cool kimono picking the last crop of lotus seeds in small boats. It looks like a Jiangnan water town.

For kings.

The tribute of laughing at the vassals is also part of politics.

These women are good-looking, and they are also different from Han women, with a weak face, but a very plump figure.

Quite exotic.

Emperor Zhu's life became more and more corrupt.

However, Duke Lan watched his nose, nose, and mouth, looking like an upright gentleman and a virtuous minister.

Emperor Zhu waved his hand, and several young female officials and female guards around him stepped back from him respectfully.

Only then did Emperor Zhu turn his head and look at Luo Fangbo, the number one hero in the restoration of the Ming Dynasty.

If it hadn't been for Luo Fangbo to bow down immediately, it would have been much more difficult to get the first piece of land just to calm down Lanfang.

If on ability.

Emperor Zhu's group of "28 Heroes of Fuguo" is probably only a little bit higher than Emperor Guangwu's "28 Yuntai Generals".

"Uncle, you didn't come here for the North Korean second class, did you?"

Luo Fangbo nodded and said, "Your Majesty, North Korea is a small country, so the Emperor can make whatever he wants."

Emperor Zhu smiled: "So there are some people who are worried that I will also divide the land equally in Daming?"

"this."

Emperor Zhu laughed, interrupted Luo Fangbo with a wave of his hand, and said, "Uncle, there are no monarchs and ministers today, only in-laws. You are the uncle of the fat boy (Zhu Yichi), so I can worry about you. You can rest assured and be bold." Let’s talk about whether this method of dividing the land equally is good or not.”

Luo Fangbo was silent for a while, and then nodded: "Okay, but."

"Whether it is good or not depends on the national conditions. It is good to divide the land equally in North Korea, because North Korea is a small country and the people are weak. I will make decisions for the small people of North Korea, and Ming will be the father of North Korea, so dividing up the land in North Korea will not cause trouble." What a big mess!" Emperor Zhu waved his hand and said, "But it won't work in Daming, Daming is too big, and there is no country like North Korea that can hold it back. If there is chaos in Daming, no one can hold it back. live!!"

Luo Fangbo nodded.

Emperor Zhu's meaning is obvious.

Dividing the land equally is a good thing if it is done well, but if it is not done well, the world will be in chaos!
Emperor Zhu was not afraid of chaos in North Korea, because North Korea was a small country, and he could easily suppress the chaos.

In any case, North Korea has Daming to give him the bottom line-although from the current point of view, North Korea is obviously a bit "losing power and humiliating the country", handing over powers such as diplomacy and customs to Daming, and even the succession of the king of the country must be subject to Daming control.

It can almost be regarded as an autonomous region of Ming Dynasty.

But the same.

North Korea is also protected by Ming, and even has a backer to cover when problems arise.

However, there is no country in this world that can give Daming the whole story.

Daming is too big.

If this was done in Daming, and there was chaos in Daming, Emperor Zhu would not be sure that he would be able to suppress the chaos.

So North Korea is North Korea, and Ming is Ming.

Not to be confused.

"I understand." Luo Fangbo was obviously relieved.

Emperor Zhu walked a few steps with his hands behind his back.

"Recently, many officials in Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi and other provinces have written letters, please suppress mergers. Do you think it is good or bad to suppress mergers?"

"Okay!" Luo Fangbo said immediately.

The hot topic in the newspapers during this period is actually not the chaos in North Korea—although the chaos in North Korea is so confusing, the people of Ming Dynasty don’t care much about this filial son of North Korea. It was discussed in the newspapers during this period It is the issue of land annexation and tenancy withdrawal that began to appear intensively in the south in the Ming Dynasty and is likely to spread to the north.

Luo Fangbo's views naturally also represent the views of a considerable part of the scholar-bureaucrat class.

Emperor Zhu shook his head again and again when he heard the words, and said, "I don't think it's good! Restraining mergers depends on when and what is the situation."

He walked under the gazebo, looked at the shimmering surface of Sun Moon Lake, turned his head to look at Luo Fangbo and said: "If it is Han, Tang, or even the former Ming Dynasty, I will not hesitate to attack and annex! Because according to time, Local tycoons annexed not only the land, but also the population!!"

"They control the land and population, and become the actual rulers of the local area. These people were called gentry in the past, and later they were called gentry. They ruled the people in the local area, collected taxes, and the court had to cooperate with them to achieve long-term stability. It is not a landlord, but a lord, the so-called king and scholar-officials share the world, what they are talking about is sharing the world with these actual lords!"

Emperor Zhu looked dignified.

Chinese literati are actually similar to Japanese samurai and European knights.

They were not just owners of the land, but rulers of the people.

Tenant farmers Tenants are fixed to the land.

If the privileges of the gentry class are restored now, the industrialization process of the Ming Dynasty will definitely be greatly curbed-population, or cheap labor that can circulate freely, is one of the fuels in the process of industrialization!

Emperor Zhu knew very well that driving people from the land into the factory might not bring much benefit to the bottom, and there would be a lot of friction and conflicts in the process.

But the same.

If he doesn't.

After that 100 years.

The wealth of the whole of China will be plundered.

This is the wealth accumulated by the Ming and Qing Dynasties for hundreds of years!

Without these wealth.

Waiting for future generations of China to develop industrialization.

There is only one way to make the rural areas suffer more.

The accumulation of primitive capital has always been bloody.

But now, the people of China have enough wealth and capital—so, this bloody road can be gentler and less bloody now.

The pain suffered by people today is far less than a hundred times, a thousand times less than the pain of future generations who have gone through a century of national humiliation, war, hunger, etc.!
therefore.

Emperor Zhu would never allow the restoration of the gentry class, let them regain control of a large population, and interrupt the process of industrialization.

Luo Fangbo was taken aback when he heard the words. He subconsciously looked at the female officials who were far away and could not hear their conversation at all, and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty, this scholar-bureaucrat has been the cornerstone of the country since ancient times."

"I didn't say there's anything wrong with scholar-bureaucrats doing this." Zhu Daohua said with a smile, "If it was still in the Han and Tang Dynasties, I'm afraid I would still be happy to share the world with the scholar-bureaucrats, but not now, the times are different!"

"The era of scholar-bureaucrats is over. If they are allowed to come back, then Daming will become poor and weak, and eventually become a hunting ground for the western powers! There used to be a knight class similar to the scholar-bureaucrats in Europe, but now Europe has long since disappeared. A world of lost knights"

Luo Fangbo was astonished.

Zhu Daohua even compared the scholar-bureaucrats with the European knight class.

But then again.

It seems that scholar-bureaucrats and knights are indeed somewhat similar.

It's just that the Europeans clearly stipulated the rights and obligations of the knights-obtaining land and serfs from the great lords, and undertaking military service.In China, however, it is very vague how much rights the scholar-bureaucrats have and what obligations they have to undertake.

"Uncle, when I first came back from Europe, I didn't know these things, and I didn't know what it meant to share the world with the king and the scholar-officials. Now it seems that I was able to win the world when I didn't know anything about the domestic situation. Said it was fate."

What is the destiny? You are obviously pretending. Before fighting against the Manchus, you needed the support of the scholar-bureaucrats. Now that the overall situation has been settled, you have started to target the scholar-bureaucrats.

Luo Fangbo muttered in his heart.

But how did he know.

Emperor Zhu spoke the truth.

He really didn't know how "the king and the scholar-officials share the world" was going on.

He even confused feudal land ownership with private land ownership.

There are menstrual problems in later generations: If the last feudal dynasty in China is not the Qing Empire under the rule of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, but a country ruled by the Han people similar to the Ming Dynasty, or simply the Ming Dynasty continued for more than 200 years, then there will be Is there a century of national humiliation?

Similar issues have generated a lot of controversy.

But now, after Emperor Zhu became emperor, he made his own judgment from a higher dimension.

For China in that era.

The deeper contradiction under the cover of ethnic contradictions is the feudal land ownership system-this time it is really a system problem.

on the surface.

Neither the Ming and Qing dynasties looked like a typical feudal empire.

Because they don't have feudal lords like warriors and knights.

most of the time.

It was a centralized imperial state.

The emperor's decree can be conveyed smoothly from top to bottom.

Under the imperial examination system.

The scholar-bureaucrat class is also completely a branch of the country, cooperating with the emperor to rule the country.

They seem to be a group of literati who are harmless to humans and animals.

Their identities are not hereditary based on blood, but mainly from the imperial examination.

And the imperial examination.

It is another selection mode that is more fair than selecting officials by blood hereditary.

but.

In the eyes of Zhu Daohua now.

The scholar-bureaucrat class.

In fact, it is the feudal lord class.

In fact, they ruled the place, and they obtained power and status from the "big lord (emperor)" through the imperial examination, and the gentry with the status of scholar-officials could participate in the management of the grassroots political power.

They have a certain judicial power - most of the civil disputes are for them to judge.

They own the land and control the bottom population in the form of clans.

Of course.

Scholar-bureaucrats still have certain advantages over Japanese samurai and European knights.

For example, their status is not hereditary, their class is not solidified, and the people at the bottom also have the opportunity to pass the imperial examination to obtain the status of scholar-bureaucrat-so there are channels for advancement.

therefore.

If you compare the scholar-bureaucrats with the Japanese samurai lords, I am afraid that the scholar-bureaucrats who are replenished with fresh blood all the time are better.

in history.

Legend has it that famous generals came out in large numbers in the troubled times of the Warring States Period in Japan, and the most powerful Japanese warriors in history were killed in the troubled times.

Wasn't it just defeated by the Ming army, which was much smaller than them, on the Korean peninsula?

But when the Sino-Japanese War came.

Japan is no longer a country of samurai lordship. After the Meiji Restoration, Japan has become a modern capitalist country.

At that time, although the Qing Dynasty also had the Westernization Movement.

But the literati and the Eight Banners were not touched at all.

It is of course normal for a group of feudal lords to fight against the modernized national army.

After being an emperor for several years.

Emperor Zhu thought.

What really hindered the industrialization of Ming Dynasty was not Confucianism, nor land concentration, nor private ownership of land.

It's a disguised feudal lordship of scholar-bureaucrats under the imperial examination system!
So these years.

Emperor Zhu's reforms were aimed at these two points.

The imperial examinations will be changed.

The power of scholar-bureaucrats will be weakened.

Emperor Zhu could allow private ownership of land and land mergers.

But it cannot tolerate the control of the population by feudal lords.

In the past, Emperor Zhu also scoffed at the division of the so-called "China in the feudal era".

It is believed that since the first emperor ruled the world, there has been no feudal system in China-on the surface, it is a centralized monarchy.

Where is feudalism?

Now he knows.

feudal.

Just in the scholar-officials!
To get rid of feudalism.

It is necessary to attack the scholar-bureaucrats and reform the imperial examination system!

to now.

The feudal land ownership system of the scholar-bureaucrats in Ming Dynasty has reached the verge of collapse!
China's feudal era.

at last.

It's over!

Emperor Zhu took a deep breath, looked at Luo Fangbo and said with a smile: "Uncle, I will tell you the truth. In the past few years, I have been thinking about how to make China get rid of feudalism. , feudalism is over, but the facts tell me that defeating the Manchu Qing is only the first step! The real thing to do is to shake the rule of the scholar-bureaucrats over the countryside! Now it seems that this is the right way, am I right? It will stop, the current land annexation and withdrawal of tenants is caused by the collapse of the rule of the scholar-bureaucrat class!"

"So, I will not suppress mergers, and I will not oppose the withdrawal of tenants! My Ming Dynasty covers all over the world, including the Northeast, Nanyang, Northwest, and New World. I have plenty of local arrangements for farmers who have lost their land. In recent years, Guangdong and Liangjiang The factories have also developed, and if you don’t want to farm, you can work as a worker in the city to make ends meet!”

His voice became colder.

"If someone wants to take the opportunity to make trouble! Then... just give it a try!"

(End of this chapter)