Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 261 Chen Youliang was pacified, and the powerful gentry were forced to take the initiative to liberate their slaves.

Zhu Yuanzhang took the surrender form and looked at Zhou Wenxian: "It's rare for you to be so enlightened. Please take us into the city!"

Zhou Wen first raised his hand and said yes.

Zhu Yuanzhang actually did not believe that scholar-bureaucrats like Zhou Wenxian who were officials in the Chen and Han regime had such a high level of consciousness.

After all, now he has a clearer understanding of these scholar-officials under the influence of the sacred book given by Zhang Cheng.

But because these people did not choose to stand on the opposite side of Datong Society, Zhu Yuanzhang did not reveal the real reason why these people surrendered, but only pretended to believe Zhou Wenxian's reason for surrender.

After Zhu Yuanzhang entered the city, he asked Zhou Wenxian: "Where is Chen Youliang?"

"The unscrupulous king Chen Youliang is still indulging in lust in the palace. Although we are his ministers, we have not been summoned by him for nearly a month."

Zhou Wenxian then bowed and answered Zhu Yuanzhang.

After Zhu Yuanzhang heard what Zhou Wen said first, he just nodded and ordered Chen Youliang to be brought.

Luo Chaoyong took out a bottle of poison and handed it to Chen Youliang: "Your Majesty, please go on your way with dignity."

Therefore, Chen Youliang took the poison.

Chen Youliang knew that Luo Chao would not let him live with these people.

When Zhou Wenxian led all the officials to surrender.

Chen Youliang sighed: "The day has finally come."

When Luo Chaoyong came in, he looked at Chen Youliang who was already naked and ordered: "Put some clothes on him!"

What's more, Chen Youliang is indeed unwilling to accept the public trial of Datong Society.

Chen Youliang was willing to commit suicide at this time.

Because he knew that Datong Society dealt with criminals who abused the people very harshly.

Luo Chao said yes with cupped hands.

Simultaneously.

Next, once Chen Youding dies, other parts of Chen Han's regime will naturally follow suit.

Luo Chaoyong nodded.

Chen Youliang didn't know what was going on outside. Even when Luo Chao led troops to deal with him, he still only had banquets with the concubines in the palace. Start the journey of Wushan Yunyu.

But Chen Youliang did not drink it directly, but looked at Luo Chaoyong: "You remember to tell Zhou Wenxian that I am waiting for him under Jiuquan. I believe that he will come to see me soon, unless he can really accept the world. The decline of Confucianism!”

Zhu Yuanzhang took a deep look at Chen Youliang's corpse and ordered: "Crack his body open and avenge his crime for the people!"

After Chen Youliang said this, he raised his head and drank the poison.

Because they didn't want Chen Youliang to tell the outside world about bureaucrats like him and Zhou Wenxian.

Chen Youliang looked at Luo Chaoyong and asked, "Did the Datong Society invade Wuchang City?"

When Zhu Yuanzhang saw Chen Youliang, Chen Youliang had turned into a corpse.

They also believed that Zhu Yuanzhang did not want Chen Youliang to live.

At this point, Datong Society basically occupied Jiangnan, Jiangxi, Fujian, Huguang, and Jiangbei.

This made Zhang Cheng very happy. He had to admit that the backward agricultural regime of the landlords had no fighting power in the face of the industrial regime of Datong Society with its powerful ships and cannons.

And Zhang Cheng knew that this would undoubtedly lead to the unification of China earlier than in history. Naturally, he, the chief minister of the cabinet from later generations, will also grow faster in wealth.

During Zhu Yuanzhang's personal campaign against Chen Youliang, Datongshe's railway had been built to the Huai'an area.

Commercial goods from Jiangnan can be transported directly to Huai'an for sale by steam locomotives around the clock.

Although there is developed water transportation from Jiqing to Huai'an, because railway transportation can be transported around the clock, there is no need to worry about the impact of strong winds and rains on commercial goods, and there is no need to worry about congestion caused by too many cargo ships.

Therefore, many merchants are willing to choose to use railways to transport their goods.

But because Zhang Shicheng mortgaged the railway operating rights from Jiqing to Huai'an to Datong Society.

Therefore, the current operators of this railway are the corresponding officials and businessmen of Datong Society.

Zhang Shicheng's Zhou regime could not interfere.

The powerful gentry in places like Huaiyang could only watch as Datongshe used their commercial goods continuously, and then dumped a large amount of cheap cloth and equipment produced after the emergence of the steam industry here, while they themselves Weaving workshops, ironwork workshops, etc. on the border can only go bankrupt in large numbers.

Many powerful gentry in the Huaiyang area had to complain and streamline their industries and eliminate redundant personnel.

The main way they streamlined their industries and eliminated redundant employees was to close stores and release servants from their homes.

Because the handicraft industry in this era, like agriculture, was basically controlled by the powerful bureaucrats, and the producers involved in the handicraft industry, the so-called craftsmen, were just like the agricultural producers, basically dependent on the powerful in the form of domestic slaves. Bureaucracy, not employment.

This is not only related to the high quality of slavery in the Yuan Dynasty, which made many craftsmen slaves of powerful bureaucrats from the beginning, but also to the intensification of the conflict between man and land, which resulted in a large number of landless people having to rely on powerful bureaucrats as slaves in order to obtain wealth. related to the phenomenon of survival chances.

Therefore, when the powerful gentry could not compete with Datong Society in industry, they mainly sent a large number of servants out of the house.

Although this is a kind of civilizational progress for the entire Huaiyang society.

After all, a large number of maids and slaves have become free and can have more career choices. Many men from ordinary people can also get more opportunities to marry, thus promoting population growth.

But this is a very tragic thing for the maidservants themselves.

Because they can no longer rely on the powerful gentry to dominate and prosper, nor can they easily obtain income by relying on these gentlemen.

Therefore, many maids and slaves cried when they were let out of the house, and even begged their masters not to let them out.

Some extreme maids and slaves even chose to commit suicide, or they broke up with their masters, exposed their sins, or even killed their own masters.

The powerful gentry suffered particularly.

They had to bear the huge impact on the handicraft market they monopolized after the railway was completed, and at the same time they had to bear the pressure caused by the massive layoff of maidservants.

But they dare not, let alone explicitly prevent the Datong Society from carrying out industrial attacks on the Huaiyang area, because they have no reason to say that slavery should continue to exist, and they should encourage the powerful and wealthy gentry to keep slaves.

Therefore, they could only incite the maids and slaves to find a way out from the Datong Society, so as to achieve the purpose of letting the Datong Society solve the problems they caused.

They even took the initiative to bring their maids and slaves to the people of Datong Society, and asked the people of Datong Society to arrange for the maids and servants in his family who were about to lose their jobs due to the bankruptcy of the workshop.

"I've heard for a long time that the Datong Society's purpose is to enrich the people, but now we can't give them food, so we ask the Datong Society to give them food."

On this day, in Huai'an City, many merchants gathered around Cheng An of Datong Society and started talking.

"Please ask Datong Society to reward us with food!"

"Please ask Datong Society to reward us with food!"

……

Many maids and slaves of the former powerful and gentry families who had just been released from their homes and became free citizens followed the merchants, knelt on the ground, kowtowed and shouted.

(End of this chapter)