Vow to die at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 258 Distant Friendship and Close Attack ([-])

Huang Zongxi walked on the pedestrian street in Jinling City, pacing with his hands behind his back, full of thoughts.At this time, because several new pedestrian streets were opened, the original one was named the First Pedestrian Street.Because this place is close to the headquarters of the security regiment, Huang Zongxi would come here every day to see if he could get acquainted with some middle-level cadres of the security regiment.

Now King Lu's situation is not very good, only limited to the three prefectures in eastern Zhejiang.And after the security team took Suzhou, they got closer to King Lu's forces.Therefore, it is even more important to have a good relationship with the security team, so Huang Zongxi's activity funds will definitely not be small.

It's just that the cadres of the security group are not so easy to corrupt. Although they also accept gifts and meals, they will prevaricate if they ask that King Lu wants to form an alliance with the security group.In fact, what Huang Zongxi didn't know was that these people would report to the Internal Affairs Office after receiving the gift and eating a meal. Once half the value of the gift was handed in, the bribery incident would be cancelled.However, if the report is concealed or underreported, it will be dealt with severely. The internal staff who have already densely covered the security team are not vegetarians.So for peace of mind, many people will reluctantly hand in half of the gifts.Of course, this is only in foreign affairs activities. If it is also like this in my own work, then I dare not.Because every year, thousands of graduates from the University of Political Science and Law are waiting for them to move their seats!
Because of such a situation, Huang Zongxi's road to win over the security team was destined to be difficult.Even if Huang Zongxi wrote to the King of Lu to change the original plan to bring the security team under King Lu's command into an alliance between the two parties, the goal was not achieved.

Now the envoys in Jinling can be divided into three parties according to the policy towards the security group, one is Yongli and King Lu.They are the successors of the former Ming Dynasty. If they can bring the security team under their command, they can return their capital to Nanjing, and then they will have the capital to command the world.So they are more enthusiastic about recruiting security groups.

The second party is Zhu Chenggong and Wu Sangui. They are still under the banner of Canming, and they dare not act too much, but only express their good intentions.Of course, as essentially independent forces, they still secretly intend to form an alliance.

The third party is the remnants of the Peasant Army, the Daxi Army and the Xinshun regime.Their attitude towards the security group is the most straightforward, that is, they want to form an alliance with the security group to conquer the world.

Now that the security group's momentum has risen sharply, whether it is directly included under its banner or allied with it, it can strengthen its own momentum, which is a matter of great benefit and no harm.However, the security team was still very ambiguous in this regard, they just didn't express their attitude directly, it was as if they wanted to welcome and refused, which made people scratch their heads and anxiously, and finally had to increase their investment in diplomacy.

Now Huang Zongxi fell into confusion in this aspect. He has been in Jinling for more than a year, but he has not achieved any results.However, Huang Zongxi was not without gains. During the time in Jinling City, he felt like a child who had never seen the world, greedily looking at new things.

Jinling City developed rapidly, and the security team invested heavily in business.In order to support industry and commerce, the security group usually builds a factory first, then multiplies the investment cost by two to three times, and calculates the value of the factory based on the two or three times the investment cost, and then divides the factory capital into one [-] shares, issued to the public.Generally speaking, a share of a factory’s stock varies from counting money to counting two, and after buying the stock, at the end of the year, dividends will be distributed in proportion to the factory’s profit for the year.Therefore, many wealthy people like to buy a little. Of course, the big buyers of stocks are those landlords whose land was forcibly confiscated by the security forces.Calculated in this way, the security group only built one factory and made one to two times the profit, and then used the profit to continue to build the next factory, and then sold it and built it again, and the cycle repeated.As for the sales, they have gone to various provinces in the south, which is one of the reasons why the security group has remained ambiguous with them.

After taking over Jinling, because it became a political power and had enough capital accumulation, the security group gradually eased the fierce land policy, and began to try to exchange land by redemption.Of course, there is no security group with such a huge amount of money, and Qiu Tianxing wants to release the wealth from the land.That's why I came up with the idea of ​​exchanging stocks for land.And because many landlords and gentry had no experience in setting up workshops, the policy of directly building factories for them and even selling them was very popular.Of course, even if the stock is worthless and the factory has no output, it would be great to just let them escape the fate of reform through labor.However, there were also many landlords and gentry who couldn't turn their heads and chose the road of resistance and escape.

Because there are a large number of landlords holding shares, and the factory has indeed begun to make profits gradually, this also drives small families to actively buy stocks.Of course, Qiu Tian acted to avoid the economic harm caused by stock price fluctuations, so both buying and selling stocks must be handled by government departments, and private transactions with each other are not allowed, which also avoids malicious selling by major shareholders.

This policy of exchanging stocks for land made Huang Zongxi exclaimed.At this moment, Huang Zongxi is not the Huang Zongxi who wrote "Mingyi Waiting for Interview" ten years later.At this moment, Huang Zongxi’s thoughts about the land system, the original monarch, the original ministers, and the original law in Mingyi Daiwailu have not yet formed, so now Huang Zongxi is still a courtier who is loyal to the King of Lu.Of course, although these ideas have not yet formed, they have some shadows.People of later generations also summarized Huang Zongxi's law among the nine laws of Chinese history from the field system in Huang Zongxi's "Mingyi Waiting for Visits". Due to the limitations of the social and political environment at that time, the burden on farmers rose to a higher level than before the reform after a period of decline.So Huang Zongxi is still an economist.

What shocked Huang Zongxi now was that the security team could actually do this for land replacement.The land is taken back from the landlords with a butcher's knife and stocks, all the land is state-owned, and the land use rights are distributed to the peasants. Even the heroes who have been rewarded with the land get only the land use rights. It is firmly in the hands of the security regiment government.Of course, this kind of policy has only been implemented in the last two years, and the division of land by the security team before only divided the land.It was only later that it was discovered that this effect was not good. Farmers competed fiercely for fertile fields, thin fields, mountain fields, and paddy fields simply based on the number of acres.Moreover, after all the land is divided, the land rent will be determined by the land owner, and a new class of landlords will be cultivated in this way.Moreover, the land in the south of the Yangtze River has a lot of people and less land, which is not enough.So in the end Qiu Tianxing still implemented the practice of state-owned land and rewards for land use rights.Nowadays, the real land is no longer used to reward heroes, but the income rewards generated by the land, which is the common food rent. Of course, stocks are more often rewarded.

Huang Zongxi was deeply shocked by the actions of the security group. He believed that this would be the final plan for agricultural tax reform.It's just that with his narrow vision, it is hard for him to imagine that the agricultural tax may be canceled in the future, and there will even be such bizarre things as financial subsidies for farming.Of course, Huang Zongxi couldn't see this day, neither could Qiu Tianxing.

In addition, the theory of equality for everyone promoted by the security group, at least the equality of personality, also made Huang Zongxi feel a confidant towards the security group.As he learned more about the security group, the more he admired the security group in his heart.It's just that now he is still deeply immersed in the thought of loyalty to the emperor, so he still has to do his best for King Lu.

Hence, there was Huang Zongxi wandering around the pedestrian street with a sad face.

(End of this chapter)