Dragon Sea Empire

As "sea pirates", when the Chinese army invaded the Yangtze River Basin, it was of course under the banner of resisting the imperial court's sea ban, and openly demanded to be equal to the imperial court as a maritime merchant, which completely subverted the ancient tradition of "scholars, farmers, businessmen and commerce". After the impact on tradition fermented in Jiangnan and surrounding areas, it caused large-scale turmoil.

The "slave rebellion" spread explosively after the Chinese army swept the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Then, the new army rebelled in Zhejiang, which was rich in the Ming Dynasty. Zhejiang and other places.

In fact, the civil uprisings caused by the actions of the Chinese Army have already appeared very early. More than ten years ago, Yin Feng led the Chinese company's escort warships to sweep across the coast of Fujian, which caused many riots in the counties along the coast of Fujian. "People's Revolution", fishermen and tenants took the opportunity to fight against taxes and donations. Five or six years ago, after the Chinese army captured Quanzhang and other places in southern Fujian, so-called "slave changes", "tenant changes", and "slave changes" occurred all over Fujian. "The scope of "is not large. After all, there are very few families in Fujian that are able to raise a large number of servants, but the "tenant change" spreads all over Fujian, that is, tenants resist the landlord and demand rent and interest reduction.

After Yin Feng heard about the so-called tenant change, he curiously sent someone to find out, and found that the rebel tenants had become a peasant organization, so he was surprised to recall the "Great Revolution Period" in modern history in another time and space. ", does this era already have such organizations as "peasant associations".

He asked Zeng Rui to investigate it himself, and found that the "tenancy change" was completely a trouble that the landlords in Fujian asked for. The barrel is [-] liters, and the big barrel goes in and the small barrel comes out. It has been used for more than a hundred years, and between entering and exiting, the landlord increased the land rent by a quarter, and the farmers were forced to pay winter animals, beans, etc. The old practice of sending rent to warehouses was practiced. There are many mountains in Fujian and there are few lands. The landlords all showed their talents and wanted to collect as much rent as possible. Huang Tong, a county citizen, raised his flag to rebel. Ji Ye, the township's Ding Zhuang, listen to his instructions", they called themselves "Tian Bing", once captured the county seat, and sent people to contact Yin Feng's troops on their own initiative.

Among the "Tian Bing", there were a small number of people who had read books for a few days to participate, so they issued a lot of half-literal announcements. Zeng Rui once showed some of them to Yin Feng.

After Yin Feng read these announcements, he felt a bit chaotic in time and space.

The text in these notices is easy to understand, and if they are described in the political language of a certain era, the general meaning is:

The "field soldiers" spontaneously set off a struggle to reduce rent and interest rates and fight for permanent tenancy rights. The peasant leader Huang Tong proposed to abolish the rent per cent.

The so-called "bucket noodles" that increased consumption by one bucket of grain, abolished the exploitation policy of "big bucket in, small bucket out". In response, they want to recapture the fruits of their labor, so they will burn all the rent-collecting vats, and determine the upper limit of land rent and the rent-collecting scale according to the standards set by the farmers themselves.

Under the influence of tenant farmers' riots in Ninghua and other places, tenant farmers in nearby counties also organized Tian soldiers. Township Average Tenancy".

All kinds of popular demands that were previously suppressed by the state apparatus of the Ming Dynasty were suddenly exposed in front of the window opened by the Chinese Army, but the Chinese Army was busy expanding overseas, and Yin Feng was not a "revolutionary" and did not want to This era changes the fundamental land system. In the era before industrialization, it is impossible to carry out such a revolution. Therefore, the Chinese Army has not been able to communicate with these spontaneously rising bottom forces. It is only when the other party cannot rule in Ming Dynasty. The district foothold is to accept them, and then pass them on as migrants to be shipped to sea.

After the beginning of the Jiangnan Campaign, Yin Feng felt that it was necessary to add obstruction to the interior of the Ming Dynasty, so that the Ming Dynasty would not always think about targeting "sea bandits". Therefore, he announced that the tenants' permanent tenancy rights would be recognized in southern Fujian, Hainan, Jiangnan and other places, and forced The tenant-to-rent ratio was stipulated, and itinerant judges were sent to supervise the rent collection. This touched too many vested interests, but the tenant changes that spread all over the place made the landlords afraid to move. Otherwise, as long as the Chinese army Encourage everyone to copy their homes and divide the fields, and those mud-legged people who have long been looking forward to the change of sky will immediately pounce on them with hoes and eat them, including their belts and bones.

Xu Hongji was worried that this would cause chaos in Fujian, but Yin Feng told him: The Chinese Army has declared that it will protect its collaborators everywhere. There is a choice between extermination of the genocide and reduction of rent and interest to keep the family property. Anyone with a clear mind will choose the latter.

Of course, there are not a few people who are blinded by profit, but the original backbone of the Chinese army is maritime merchants, landless refugees, fishermen, Danhu, etc. Except for the Zeng family and the Han family, they have nothing to do with the local landlords in Fujian. Without the protection of the state apparatus of the Ming Dynasty, some large families of Fujian gentry who did not cooperate were ransacked, and many big landlords were ruined because of this.

Recently, the "slave rebellion" in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River has been raging. Just when the Chinese army was withdrawing, "slave rebellion" broke out one after another in many places under the state of anarchy where the Chinese army withdrew and the Ming army had not yet taken over. .

Yin Feng has a lot of posts and announcements collected by the Internal Affairs Bureau and the Military Intelligence Bureau from Zhenjiang, Jiangyin, Guazhou and other places. Zeng Shan, who is in charge of investigating the local situation, sent a report saying:

"At the beginning of the Jiangnan War, the cunning local slaves advocated the theory of Sochi. How could the slavery be the same as before? With a thousand responses, each went to the master's gate, and made a contract of coercion. The master held the paper and waited for a while. In the later period, the house is set on fire, and there are those who bind the master, although they are the most sympathetic and most gracious, at this time, they all change their faces into tigers and wolves, and their old fists and vicious voices add up. Fire is raised, from the city, the town, and the villages, the gongs are played and the crowd gathers. Every day, thousands of people clamor and march. The slaves come to their homes, the masters are down, they kill, loot and burn, and they turn their hands against each other... The leader in the city is Yu Boxiang, a former slave of the Wang family, responded with a call, claiming that his meritorious deeds will last for thousands of years, and wanted to punish his deeds with stones,...the rebel slaves took advantage of the quarrel and demanded coupons to be burned. The sky was covered with fireworks, and everyone was too busy to save their lives."

There are also slaves in Jintan and other places who took the master's family to Guandi Temple, beat them with sticks, and forced them to hand over the contract of sale.

Zeng Shan advocated that the Chinese army send troops to suppress the slave rebellion. The Zeng family originally participated in the pirates because of the rebellion of their own servant, Jiashengzi, which harmed the master's family. , the members of the Zeng family held serious opposition to the "slave change".

Yin Feng ignored the opinions of the Zeng family, but he did not take the initiative to support the slave change.

At this time, Yin Feng decided to release the lowly status in the area under his rule, including the "slave status" of servants and family-born children. In fact, this policy of liberating lowly status has long been implemented in the area under Yin Feng's rule: When Yin Feng started his family, the first batch of direct descendants were Danhu, the lowest-ranking family members of the Ming Dynasty. Within the control of the Chinese Army, the Dan people were equal to all other people. Even among naval officers, the original Dan people also accounted for a considerable part.

This policy of lifting the "lower status" was proposed in response to the latest terms of the peace talks of the Imperial Mission of the Ming Dynasty. The memorial hall is not only humiliating scholasticism, it is simply slapping the gentry in the face directly. Those who propose this policy have sinister intentions and a degree of shamelessness that cannot be expressed in human language. .

At the peace conference resumed three days later, Xie Xuecheng shouted: "The sky does not change and the way does not change. The slaves say that slaves should not rest with the heaven and the earth. It is really a foolish language. Husbands have heaven and earth, so there are monarchs and ministers, fathers and sons, and masters and servants." "Heaven and earth do not change, so do rulers and ministers, fathers and sons, and masters and servants. The righteousness of masters and servants is the same as heaven and earth. If the nose does not reside under the eyes, but suddenly resides on the forehead, then it is still a human being!"

Although Zeng Yue, Xu Hongji and others on the opposite side could understand this guy's polite words, they were really impatient with this guy's sour remarks on this occasion.

Although Zeng Yue also took part in the imperial examinations, when he was young, he encountered great changes in his family, and he took on the burden of revitalizing the family business early on. Later, he went to sea with Yin Feng, which greatly broadened his horizons. Yin Feng's logical thinking problem, he was very disgusted with this ignorant literati in front of him, he immediately stood up and said: "Your Excellency said that if the world does not change, so will the monarch and ministers, father and son, master and servant. I would like to ask: Huai You Commoner Be it a minister, a king, or a slave,"

Xie Xuecheng's face turned red on the spot, he hesitated to speak, and was speechless for a long time.

All the people present, whether they were civil servants or military officials of the Ming Dynasty or negotiators of the Chinese Army, most of them knew who "Huaiyou Commoner" was. Zhu Yuanzhang claimed to be Huaiyou Commoner back then. And he became the founding monarch of the Ming Dynasty in the future, which directly punctured the argument that "the world will not change, so will the monarch and ministers, father and son, and master and servant".

Xie Xuecheng wanted to argue a few words, but the matter involved the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. As a civil servant who was born in the imperial examination, how could he comment on Zhu Yuanzhang at will? He might lose his job or lose his head, so he has nothing to say,