Traveling through the Ming Dynasty, as soon as you open your eyes, you will die

Chapter 215: The method of attacking the mind
With the introduction of this new policy that was almost aimed at Yanding in Yanchi City, a huge propaganda offensive was launched in front of Yanchi City.

Countless soldiers with loud voices stood in front of the Yanchi city wall, salting the city day and night, publicizing the release of the Ming Dynasty's new salt policy.

After this, the salt merchants could no longer sit still, and the salt merchants could no longer sit still.

The reason why the salt merchants couldn't sit still was, of course, that once the New Deal was implemented, it would be equivalent to the imperial court cutting off their financial resources.

Cutting off people's wealth is equivalent to killing their parents. This rises to the point of killing their parents' hatred, so why not resist resolutely?

But the saltmen couldn't sit still anymore. The current Ming Dynasty was no longer the original Ming Dynasty.

Today's Ming Dynasty has abolished the abominable household registration system that originally restricted one's children and grandchildren. From then on, one's descendants no longer need to take the Yanding imperial examination, but can also become officials and stand out and honor their ancestors.

My descendants, including myself, can get out of the miserable situation of being a salt farmer for generations, go to contract the land outside the city, and leave an eternal family property for my descendants.

Even if you continue to make salt dices, you can still earn two cents per kilogram of salt. According to the normal daily salt fishing, you can earn four to five hundred cash in a day, which is almost a month's income for you now.

From then on, you can get rid of poverty and move towards prosperity.

As the saying goes, people die for money and birds die for food. Is there anything in the world that is more desirable than a family living a prosperous life?

The Ming Dynasty cut off the wealth of salt merchants, why don't you salt merchants also cut off the wealth of our salt merchants? Could it be that he is also killing my parents and even the future of my children and grandchildren?
This hatred is inseparable.

The salt guards guarding the city began to whisper to each other and began to discuss.

A group of salt soldiers stood on the city and asked the Ming army below: "Master, do you mean what you say?"

The soldiers below the city loudly replied: "Now that the Holy Emperor is in charge of the country, when will the world not immediately implement it without compromise as soon as he speaks out his words?"

When everyone thinks about it, yes. Today, if you are told to raise taxes, you will raise taxes, and you will not have to wait until tomorrow; if you are told to chop off your head, I will chop off your head, and I will never give you a reason to defend or plead.

Execution ability and credibility are leveraged. When will there be any discount deviation?

In the past, we always believed in the Holy Emperor’s golden words.

When the salt merchants saw this, they could no longer sit still. They sent out evil slaves with whips and sticks to beat and disperse the salt merchants who were talking to each other. Once they found those who were spreading rumors, they would immediately torture them and even kill them on the spot. Be a warning to others.

But can rumors be stopped from spreading? The Ming army outside the city is broadcasting propaganda day and night. Can you stop the salt men from listening to it?
The salt merchants began to give out a reward of one tael of silver to the saltmen who defended the city every day, and the vegetable leaf porridge for two meals a day became steamed buns.

But the king's master below the city saw it and shouted loudly to the salt merchants on the city: "Brothers, accept their reward. For the sake of your fortune, we will not attack the city. We will besiege the city for a year and see how many salt merchants there are." We will provide you with gold and silver. Don’t worry, the white steamed buns will make them hungry. We are patient. Now, Li Chuang cannot come back. The whole of Shanxi already belongs to the Ming Dynasty, and the entire northwest will soon belong to the Ming Dynasty. We have enough time for you to eat well. Let’s work together to kill the salt merchants.”

The salt merchant was dumbfounded. It was true that wealth could rival the country, but who could withstand such endless consumption? Just the consumption of 20,000 to 30,000 taels a day is tens of millions a year.

And they are right, the whole of Shanxi now belongs to the Ming Dynasty, and people can afford it. Such rewards and treatment are rash.

Reluctantly, in order to delay time, Li Shoushan ordered that the daily reward of one tael of silver be turned into a hundred coins. Return the steamed buns to two meals of porridge again.

As a result, more serious problems emerged, and the story of love and enmity began to unfold.

Holding hundreds of coins and drinking porridge, countless saltmen began to complain and angrily scolded their boss for being stingy. It's not worth sacrificing your own life and the future of your children and grandchildren for this hundred cents.

Seeing that this move did not work, Li Shoushan began to promise Yan Ding: "As long as you defend Yanchi City, in the future, we will give you the same wages and benefits as those in the Ming Dynasty." But when Yan Ding heard this, he expressed outrageous Scoff.

The Ming Dynasty is the official imperial court, and you are just a group of people who will be deprived of salt income in the future. If you say this now, who would believe it?

If we don't help you, what strength will you use to ensure your commitment to the future?
At this time, Lu Mou, who was just below the city, could see fights between salt men and salt merchants' lackeys taking place in the city from time to time.

"It seems that our psychological warfare is working. But the effect is not big yet. We still need to add more firepower."

Xu Jie thought it was right: "Since the prince has announced Yan Ding's future income, let's give him a little more punishment."

Lu Mou nodded and immediately ordered: "Send an order to the three armies and announce to the city that we in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty cannot live without salt. For this reason, the salt quarry will not resume work in half a month. We will hire workers from other places to harvest and dry the salt."

As soon as this order came out, it was like dropping countless giant bombs in the middle of the salt pod at the top of the city.

Salt workers have been living on salt for generations. If you take away their jobs, they won’t know any other job. Isn’t this life-threatening? People are more panicked and their emotions are more agitated.

Faced with this situation, Li Shoushan and others are like ants on a hot pot.

Now, the Ming army has forced everyone into a dead end.

Li Shoushan called his companions for a meeting and said solemnly: "Now, that brat has forced us into a corner. Our only way is to use all our strength to rush out of the city, repel the Ming army, and then fight with the outside world." Our connections, relying on the gold and silver we have, can really lead to rebellion.”

This is the reason why throughout the dynasties, agriculture was emphasized and business was suppressed.

It is not a high-sounding agriculture-based business, and it does not compete with the people for profit. Rather, all dynasties and generations fear the energy of merchants.

When businessmen gathered a lot of wealth, they had the capital to rebel. Businessmen have extensive connections and have the human resources for rebellion.

The most frightening thing is the original story. Lu Buwei, a dignified businessman, used his huge financial resources to control the entire Qin Dynasty. He also bought one of the Seven Heroes and raised a son to rule the world.

Faced with such huge capital, which emperor of any dynasty would be able to safely allow them to grow without limit?

The court in the Central Plains should be ruled by the elite class of literati and must not be controlled by a group of conglomerates.

That's why in ancient times, businessmen were not reused, and even their descendants were not allowed to touch politics.

This idea has continued to future generations.

No matter how successful you are in business and how elite you are, you are not even qualified to be a small official. It’s not that you can’t take the responsibility, it’s that you are not allowed to take it.

Once you become interested in politics, sorry, everything about you is over.

This is the fundamental reason why China has always been unified. Unlike Western countries, their geopolitics are fragmented because a group of businessmen control the center. Their short-sightedness and competition for interests mean that they will never be able to form a unified ideology and will eventually fall apart.

Faced with the extremely naive idea of ​​being the leader of a businessman gang and wanting to rebel, everyone fell silent.

(End of this chapter)