People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 516: Sanfuqi's Acknowledgement from the Jianghu People
The small vendor was completely impressed by Xia Yuanji's temperament.

Although these small vendors were just small figures, they often roamed around the market, so they were well-informed. When they heard that Xia Yuanji was the legendary commander-in-chief, they were extremely excited.

"I never thought that I would see the Grand Commander of the Ming Dynasty on the street!" The small vendor was excited but not afraid at all.

Lan Yu jokingly said, "According to the rules, you should kowtow on the ground now."

Hearing Lan Yu's words, the small vendor was about to kneel on the ground, but Xia Yuanji quickly helped him up: "Don't be so polite. This governor is also on a tour incognito, mainly to see what kind of life the people in Sanfuqi are living."

Xia Yuanji looked at the vendor and said, "But you are a little different. Aren't you afraid at all?"

Unexpectedly, the vendor said nonchalantly, "Hey! You said those wealthy people are afraid because they are guilty. But for a nobody like me, I am all alone and my family has starved to death. What do I have to be afraid of? Dying early means I can reunite with my wife and children earlier. I have thought it through."

These words are particularly sad.

Xia Yuanji, Lan Yu and others were moved after hearing this. They never expected that this small vendor had such a past.

No wonder he no longer had any emotional fluctuations. In his eyes, being able to survive one more day was a blessing.

As for the so-called fear and other emotions, they have long since become a thing of the past.

"Your life is miserable enough." Xia Yuanji said.

"It doesn't matter! I believe that the person who caused my family to be destroyed will not have a good ending." said the peddler.

Xia Yuanji was very interested in this man's free and easy attitude, so he found a small stool and sat down, and started chatting with him as if he was chatting with an old farmer, leaving the thief next to him aside.

"Fellow villagers, how do you think you would feel if we, the Ming Dynasty, came to inform you?" Xia Yuanji asked.

The vendor replied, "I have said it before. We ordinary people don't care about these things. There have been so many kings in Srivijaya, but who told us that who cares about how we ordinary people live? They only know to increase taxes when they have no money to spend. In their eyes, we ordinary people are just cattle and sheep.

What does it matter whether it is your Ming Dynasty that rules or the King of Srivijaya that rules?
But since you said in the court that you want to reform and reduce taxes for the people, we agree with this. If you can really do it, we will definitely worship you. "

The hawker spoke very directly without any beating around the bush.

If Chen Han were here, he would definitely know that the people at that time actually had no concept of the so-called homeland, country and the world.

The concept of nation is even more nonsense.

They pay more attention to blood relationship.

They don't care who rules them.

They don't care at all about things like another country invading.

They are happy to obey as long as it makes their lives better.

Hearing the small vendor say this, Xia Yuanji and the others felt even more relieved.

It seems that these people really believe what they say: as long as they can live a good life, they don’t care who you are.

The thief felt very uncomfortable hearing this.

These small vendors may really have no national integrity, but these gangsters do.

Why do they have it?
Just a little.

These people traveled far and wide, and even crossed the ocean to other places. It was only in other countries that they finally understood the truth that people are valued when they leave their homeland.

Therefore, they understand better that if there is a powerful country behind them, no one will dare to bully you even if you go to another country.

On the contrary, others will bully you to death.

But now he heard with his own ears what the ordinary people said, and the ordinary people are the best representatives of the people.

In other words, ordinary people now actually very much hope that the Ming Dynasty can rule them.

They have now lost hope in these rulers of Srivijaya.

I urgently hope that the Ming Dynasty will change all this.

"We have bought all your things. You can go back now. We still have something to talk to him about." Xia Yuanji said with a smile.

The peddler packed up his things and left without saying anything, looking quite cool.

Everyone felt emotional as they watched the small vendor leave in such a carefree manner.

Although this small vendor is not a big shot, and his family's experience is even more sad, he seems to be very open-minded and not pessimistic at all, which is very rare.

If many people really encountered such a thing, they would give up on themselves.

Many people should even go crazy.

But this person does not do that. Instead, he lives very strongly. Although he must have many complaints and dissatisfactions about his current life, at least he can still live so strongly.

In this respect, I am already better than many people.

Looking at the vendors leaving, Xia Yuanji said to the thieves, "I have heard from the commander that you seem to be interested in cooperating with us, the Ming Dynasty, and you can even persuade your colleagues to cooperate with us."

Hearing this, the thief immediately said: "I still don't know how to cooperate with you, and I don't know if we can really get a reasonable arrangement if we really cooperate.

We are all miserable people, just like the small vendor just now. If it weren't for this, who would want to wander around the world?"

This sentence actually expresses the pain of these people in the underworld.

In fact, do all these people in the underworld really want to live such a life?
They actually once had families and children, but now everything has become a bubble, and now they are alone.

Even though this thief was considered young, his family had left him early.

It was precisely because of some complaints that he was so disappointed with the officialdom in Sanfozi.

I feel like every one of these people deserves to die.

However, he was a little hesitant about cooperating with the Ming Dynasty. Although he had discussed it with the commander-in-chief, this kind of thing would result in people scolding his ancestors, so he was still a little hesitant.

Everyone can understand this.

Not everyone can take this step.

In name it sounds very good, saying it is for the sake of national justice, but in fact it is more or less for one's own ideas.

Of course, the most important thing is that these people still have a grand ideal, which is to hope that the people in Sanfuqi can live a better life.

The life that people are living now is really hard.

Not only did they have to bear high taxes, but they were also ruthlessly exploited by the rulers of Srivijaya.

Even when Srivijaya was at war with Majapahit, there were no soldiers left and the common people had to rush forward to resist Majapahit's attack with their bodies. Such a country is really despairing.

He felt that way because he was hopeless about many things in this country.

He wants to use a completely new approach to revive the country.

Even if it can make people's lives a little better, it would be good.

But now he heard Xia Yuanji's conditions, he was still a little hesitant. Xia Yuanji heard his hesitation and knew that he was a loyal and honest person.

If other people had heard such generous conditions, they would have agreed long ago, but this person still stood from the country's perspective, thinking that he would only agree as long as he could do something for the country. He is a man of affection and righteousness.

Even if such a person cannot do anything great, he will never do anything bad.

"What exactly do you want us to do?" asked the thief.

Xia Yuanji replied: "We need to do some big things." Then Xia Yuanji explained to him sincerely: "We need to use your troops all over Sanfuqi to help our Ming Dynasty publicize the reforms we need to do now.

We must first reduce the taxes on the people, probably by 50 percent."

Even though the thieves were prepared, they were shocked when they heard this number, because the tax was reduced by half in one go.

Can the Ming Dynasty really do this?
The thief turned around and looked at Xia Yuanji with disbelief.

Although he was a thief, he was quite knowledgeable. He knew very well that this one thing alone was enough to make many people grateful to the Ming Dynasty for the rest of their lives.

Such conditions are really generous.

How much is the general tax?

A lot.

Because the entry taxes are so heavy, so heavy that many people simply cannot afford it.

Many people may spend their entire lives struggling with this tax, and many people may even be forced to death by this tax.

Although the Ming Dynasty cannot reduce all taxes at once, being able to reduce them by half would be a great achievement.

His family was ruined by this clothes back then.

According to his thinking, now that the Ming Dynasty has finally occupied this place, according to the general public's thinking, slaves will plunder the things here, and it would be best if all valuables are taken away, and then the people here will be exploited and squeezed dry, doing things even more excessively than the previous King Srivijaya and Queen Mother.

Even more excessive than these officials.

Even if the Ming Dynasty did this, the people here would be powerless to resist.

You don’t even have a country and you can’t even defeat the army of this country. Does the Ming Dynasty’s navy have to rely on a group of unarmed civilians to resist?
This is obviously an unrealistic question.

So what she thought at the beginning was that the Ming Dynasty might let her and others threaten the local people, forcing them to hand over all their belongings and find all the beautiful women at the same time.

After all, this is what an enemy that has occupied a place would do.

To be fair, if they occupied the entire Ming Dynasty, they would probably do something like this.

But what was unexpected was that not only did they not do so, but they directly proposed to reduce the tax by half.

Such a good thing would be hard to find even with a lantern.

The thief couldn't believe his ears when he thought of this.

"You didn't lie?" the thief asked.

I have heard too many lies before, so I can't believe my ears when I hear the truth.

Seeing how shocked he was, Xia Yuanji smiled and said, "Of course it's not fake."

"I think the commander has already told you very clearly before. After we come to this place and occupy it, we will not give it up easily. We want to make long-term plans. Whether you like it or not, you are now the citizens of the Ming Dynasty. We treat the citizens of the Ming Dynasty equally. We will not exploit you. Instead, we hope that you can live a better life.

Only in this way can you produce more food and it will be valuable.

Why should we exploit the people here?

At this point Xia Yuanji smiled slightly.

Seeing the smile on Xia Yuanji's face, the thief was finally willing to believe it all.

It turns out that the initial slogan was not deceiving at all. People really wanted to make every plant and tree here grow better.

They hope that everyone here can live and work in peace and contentment. Only in this way can the Ming Dynasty have peace of mind.

Only in this way can other small countries understand that throwing themselves into the arms of the Ming Dynasty is their best choice.

The thief felt like crying now.

I really want to cry.

Why was the Ming Dynasty able to do this, but these officials such as the Srivijaya and those from the Queen Mother's family, and even the King, were unwilling to do so.

The new king wanted to reform and wanted the people to not pay taxes, but he was soon killed.

This is what happened to those who wanted to reform in Sanfuqi.

Perhaps if they had dared to bring it up, they would have been sentenced to death by those vested interests. After the Ming Dynasty came, it not only swept away these ugly families, but also directly told all the people of Sanfuzi that the Ming Dynasty's ruling method here would be different in the future.

The thief's lips began to tremble.

"If you really think so, I am willing to cooperate with you, and I am willing to let our people in the underworld help you promote your products.

We, the people of Srivijaya, need this kind of news very much.”

As he spoke, he began to cry.

It's not for anything else, it's just because of the grievances I've suffered over the years that I shed tears for.

Why didn't the kings of Srivijaya know to raise this point.

Why didn't the Queen Mother's family raise this point?

Why don't those hypocritical families bring it up?

We wish that it was you, the rulers of Srivijaya, who came up with these things, but no.

The last proposal was made by the Ming Dynasty, which had occupied our Srivijaya land.

It's really embarrassing to tell such things to others.

It turns out that the people who truly regard us as human beings are people who have nothing to do with us.

It is precisely you people in high positions who do not treat us ordinary people as human beings.

Damn you guys by comparison.

After hearing this, the thief couldn't help but kneel down in front of Xia Yuanji.

"Grand Commander, I was blinded by your words before and didn't believe you. Now after hearing what you said, I understand what the vendor said just now. No matter who rules us, as long as it is good for the people, we are willing to cooperate.

I will go and gather the righteous men right now, and we will help Ming spread the word."

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(End of this chapter)