New Shun 1730

Now things have become a little bit bigger.

The real people can only watch the excitement at most, while the gangsters in various prefectures of Jiangsu Province have already been busy.

The Daxing, which emerged in the previous dynasty, can be regarded as a byproduct of economic development.

At the beginning, there was a bit of chivalry, but it was almost inevitable, just like the Qinglian Sect, the White Lotus Sect, the Wenxiang Sect, etc., that it became a mess as it developed.

The Daxing originated in Suzhou Prefecture, and originated from Suzhou Prefecture's recruitment of soldiers to guard against Japanese pirates, but after the Japanese invasion ended, these people were dismissed.

A group of martial artists entered the city and were dismissed. They had no livelihood, so it was obvious what they would do.

The then Yingtian Governor came to deal with these problems, but as soon as he arrived, he was given a warning by this group of people. He rushed in and slapped him in the face, telling the Yingtian Governor not to look for trouble, otherwise you would die without knowing how you died.

In the end, it came to the point of launching an uprising to capture Suzhou Prefecture and killing the Yingtian Governor by force.

Obviously, the feudal iron fist taught these people that there is a huge difference between gangsters and the army.

This also led to a consequence, that is, these people scattered all over the country. In the Jiajing period, they were in Suzhou Prefecture, and in the Wanli period, they had spread to Songjiang Prefecture.

In recent years, the Dashun abolished the Grand Canal, and a large number of canal workers also injected a lot of fresh blood into this industry in Jiangnan, producing a wonderful chemical reaction.

At the latest by the middle of the Wanli period, the beating industry had already been "preliminarily professionalized".

The lowest level is the thugs and thugs who dare to risk their lives.

The upper level is mainly composed of scholars.

The large number of scholars involved in gangster organizations is a feature that emerged during the Wanli period.

When people sue officials, no matter whether they are justified or not, they will be beaten first.

Scholars have privileges and do not need it. Therefore, high-end organizations such as the scholar beating industry were quickly born. After all, formal underworld organizations also need lawyers, accountants, etc. from famous universities, which are not much different.

As a special group of scholars, scholars have certain immunity, and local officials generally do not dare to kill them.

Feudal dynasties were never glorious.

But in the late Ming Dynasty, Jiangnan often saw scenes of yamen runners and soldiers being beaten by the people and running away. Those who don't know would think that these blood-drinking yamen runners are the people's soldiers and it is impossible for them to attack the people.

In fact, the leaders of these people are professional scholars in the fighting industry.

With the scholars leading the way and the students leading the way, no one dares to really do it.

The people, hundreds of thousands of people die every year, and nothing happens. But if a student or a scholar is beaten to death, it would be a big deal.

With the abandonment of the canal by Dashun, and even earlier from the beginning of sea operations, the fighting industry in Jiangsu Province of Dashun also quickly split.

As the first place where sea transportation started, Songjiang Prefecture attracted a large number of outsiders, canal workers, and sailors from Dengzhou Prefecture in Shandong and other places, and conflicts quickly arose between the new gangs and the old fighting industry.

The emerging capital and the development of industry and commerce in Songjiang Prefecture also continued to establish their own "professional teams". The two sides fought for several years, and finally, with the decisive blow of the abolition of the Grand Canal by Dashun, the old fighting industry was completely defeated.

Many of the scholars in Songjiang Prefecture also transformed themselves into vassals of the emerging class and industrial and commercial capital.

In Yangzhou Prefecture, these people in the old fighting industry still depended on salt merchants for their livelihood, including a large number of scholars, both civil and military.

There are pens and special guns.

As for the people, before they were organized, the people were actually not very powerful.

Now the contradictions caused by the salt policy reform are three-dimensional struggles.

There are court struggles in the upper class.

There are officials wrangling in the middle class.

The lower class... The lower class is actually the salt merchants' stormtroopers and the emerging capitalists' stormtroopers, fighting on both sides.

Of course, this is a bit insulting to the Dena Stormtroopers. In terms of organizational ability, they are indeed far behind, but in some aspects, they are similar.

For different purposes, both sides put the focus of the struggle among the lower classes on this salt abolition and reclamation.

As for the hundreds of thousands of salt households who were truly interested in this matter... they were just being used, and they themselves had no way to speak out. The powerful organization that could really organize these hundreds of thousands of salt households and workers in Songjiang Prefecture would beat these people like a game, but now they have not yet entered the historical stage.

The two major assault teams on both sides, which were attached to the old salt merchant capital and the emerging industrial and commercial capital, quickly mobilized under the order of capital.

On the old salt merchant system, professional fighting was quickly found, and a large number of scholars began to write articles, criticizing the reclamation company for seizing people's property, making people jobless, forcing people to death, not giving ordinary people a way to live, and a large number of articles that were clearly seen as snow in June, began to spread in various prefectures and counties controlled by the old salt merchants.

The martial arts guild, which was responsible for making trouble by relying on the status of scholars, not bowing to officials, and local officials and yamen runners not daring to beat them to death, also organized more than 30 scholars with merits, and brought a large number of middle and lower-level ruffians to the county where the incident occurred.

The new industrial and commercial system also quickly found new gangs that had won a great victory in the gray struggle in Songjiang Prefecture. These incense temples that combined the fierceness of the canal workers or escaped from the court's pursuit also quickly organized manpower.

The scholars and students in Songjiang Prefecture and other places who had begun to rely on emerging capital also led the money and began to write articles describing the hardships of the salt households, a life worse than that of pigs and dogs, praising the benefits of salt policy reform, and criticizing those salt borers as the root cause of the people's taste buds and the reason why the court's salt tax was low and the salt was difficult to sell.

The scholars and students who were responsible for such things as attacking yamen runners and beating officials in "righteous indignation" were also ready.

In feudal society, the underworld also depends on the status level.

The person who can beat the scholar on the other side can only be a scholar, and he cannot make trouble beyond his status and rank.

As the saying goes, the capital has its own rules, and Jiangnan has its own rules.

Some things, in Jiangnan, must be done in Jiangnan ways.

Zhu Guozhen, the former cabinet chief, in "The Chronicle of Imperial Ming Events", has regarded the Jiangnan mutiny as an event of equal importance to the Ganzhou mutiny, the Datong mutiny, the Liaodong mutiny, etc.

It should be said that the chief minister has some vision.

Although he could not understand that this was the inevitable result of the development of the commodity economy, the loss of control of the grassroots of the Ming Dynasty, and the development of industry and commerce, he also realized that this was a "new" event that could be ranked alongside the Ganzhou mutiny and the Liaodong mutiny.

In the feudal dynasty, the chief minister of the current dynasty regarded it as an event of equal importance to the mutiny, which also shows its seriousness.

It should be said that Zhu Guozhen's foresight was correct.

From the end of the Jiajing period to the end of the Ming Dynasty, these people who beat the mutiny participated in a series of bizarre official-civilian struggles, tax resistance, party struggles, etc. in Jiangnan.

Unorganized masses cannot accomplish anything.

Even if the daxing was just the interest of feudal gangs, professional thugs, and the nature of lumpen proletarians, and the organization was loose, it was still organized after all.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain the many strange records, how could the people have such a high political awareness.

Even in the year of Jiashen, when Chongzhen hanged himself and Jiangnan cried, these daxing "gangsters" also showed up.

The eunuch party wanted to worship in groups, but Fushe opposed it and wrote a manifesto to humiliate them.

The eunuch party hired a group of local gangsters to go to the streets to beat up Fushe people.

Fushe also knew that the weapon of criticism could not replace the criticism of weapons.

So Xu Wujing and Zhang Zitui of Fushe immediately hired a large number of thugs from Dongyang, Yiwu and other places.

During the period when Chongzhen hanged himself and Jiangnan cried, the eunuch party's stormtroopers and Fushe's gangster stormtroopers started fighting on the streets.

In the end, there were more people on the Fushe side, and the eunuchs were beaten into fleeing in fear. The Fushe completely controlled the situation in the market, leaving the eunuchs speechless in the market. The Fushe quickly controlled the public opinion in the market.

Gu Yanwu pointed out this problem in his "On Students".

The imperial court held imperial examinations every year.

There were so many scholars and students in the imperial examinations.

And there were not so many official vacancies.

Everyone studied to become an official, and you didn't have so many official vacancies, and you had to show your emphasis on Confucianism and give students many preferential treatments. What could these students do?

Obviously, they quickly became gangsters.

Using the privileges granted by the court, they became the leaders of the underworld.

I beat those who the lower-level gangsters didn't dare to beat; I scolded those who the lower-level gangsters didn't dare to scold; I did things that the lower-level gangsters didn't dare to do.

The upper class formed parties and associations.

The grassroots scholars became the upper-level thugs.

The lowest level was the professional thugs organized by the lumpen proletariat.

Of course, although Gu Yanwu discovered the problem, his idea of ​​solving the problem was rather ridiculous. He thought that the way to change this situation was to restore the "Cao Ju system" and that each county could solve these problems by recommending four or five people... It was quite an idea...

In short, as the saying goes, hooligans are not scary, but what is scary is that they are educated.

Not only are they educated, but they also have many privileges related to their status granted by the state, which is even more scary.

This is also the standard routine for making trouble after the development of industry and commerce, in cities with relatively developed industry and commerce, and when the central power of the court has basically collapsed and has no control over the grassroots.

The pen holders write articles, control public opinion, occupy the moral high ground, and incite emotions.

The grassroots thugs go out to search for the thugs on the opposite side, and beat them so that they dare not show up, so their public opinion cannot be spread in the market.

The court intervenes, and the student thugs take the lead, using a group of organized professional thugs to attack the yamen runners, etc., to drive the people in the city who do not know the truth, resulting in the effect of not punishing the masses by law.

This trick has always been effective in the Ming Dynasty.

And what is the most feared of such a trick?

Afraid of the army that really dares to arrest people.

The reason why they can't do anything is their limitations.

Those students who fight in the industry benefit from the stability of the court, because their privileges are originally granted by the court, so their reliance is their own privileges.

So they are afraid and absolutely dare not mobilize the real power of the people, because they know that once the power of the people breaks out, like the Jiangnan slave rebellion and the earlier Jiangnan loan and sale incident, they will be worthless.

They are doing things with the embryonic routines of urban street barricade struggles under the development of industry and commerce, but they absolutely dare not oppose feudalism, because they themselves are the beneficiaries of the privileges of the feudal dynasty, which also dooms them to be a group of scum, sprouting until death.

Compared with the unorganized people, the gangsters of the fighting industry are powerful.

But they are the weakest among all organized groups. Even if the opponent's organization is religious, they can't beat them.

This time, the salt merchants believed that Liu Yu didn't dare to really kill people in the city, so they still adopted this routine.

And the emerging class on the Songjiang Prefecture side can only adopt this routine to confront.

Moreover, relatively speaking, Songjiang Prefecture is more professional.

Because, after some incidents that happened before, Liu Yu dealt with them, making the gangsters in Songjiang Prefecture...professional.