Chapter 337: Your Highness, the spectacle is ruining the country!(2/2)
I'm afraid nine out of ten people, that is to say, at most one out of a thousand people will try to resist. With this ratio, what can they do? As for the landlords, the same is true. The land equalization system hits the landlords, but the problem is that Zhu Yuanzhang laid down an excellent
On the basis of the Ming Dynasty, there are currently few truly super large landowners. Those who can survive Zhu Yuanzhang's butcher's knife are nothing more than small and medium-sized landowners with hundreds of acres or thousands of acres. They have no ability to truly resist.
They are not like those super landowners in the late Ming Dynasty who had countless child servants.
During the Jiajing period, Wuxi Zouwang had five thousand servants.
And he can only be said to be one of the landowners in Jiangnan. Among the landlords in Wuxi alone, there are An Guo and Hua Cha. They can mobilize huge financial resources. Any one of the three can spend more than one million taels.
This financial resource can play a huge role. From officials to bandits, from civilians to the military, and even pirates and Japanese pirates, they can all get it.
It is not a problem for any family to raise hundreds of dead soldiers.
Very simple.
I will take care of your family, give them the best land, send your son to the school I run, and marry your daughter to my clan. From now on, they will not be hungry until our family is destroyed. If we succeed, I will give you one thousand
Two taels of silver is already a lot. One hundred taels is enough to make many people work hard. After all, a pretty little girl is only worth more than a dozen taels of silver.
Death warriors are really not worth mentioning for a family of this level.
Isn’t Wang Wenyan a dead soldier?
A rural eunuch in the south of the Yangtze River hired him as a prisoner and asked him to keep an eye on the court's movements in the capital. Then he endured all kinds of torture in the prison and was beaten until he was no longer human.
Can his descendants be protected by these wealthy families?
But where is this happening now?
Anyone with this kind of ability would have been killed by Zhu Yuanzhang long ago.
The gentry from Dengzhou could not defeat Liu Wen alone, but the gentry from Xiangyang Prefecture were beaten by Li Xin.
Why?
They do not have the ability to resist, they are just forced to resist.
They have no dead soldiers, and at most they collude with a few bandits, and the only thing they can rely on is the clan, but the clan will not sacrifice their lives for them. Li Xin broke up with just a few words. This is the foundation laid by Zhu Yuanzhang, and he has destroyed it long ago.
The landowners' ability to resist is just that of Yang Feng. These are the ones who need to resist. There are not many people nor the ability. The vast majority of people are adapting to this new era. Businessmen feel more free.
The burden on farmers was greatly reduced, soldiers began to receive military pay, craftsmen felt proud, and even the vast majority of students who originally studied Confucianism began to pick up new books.
In the final analysis, Confucianism is just a stepping stone. Now that this stepping stone is useless and a new one needs to be used, of course the smart people will quickly pick up the new one.
Who would fight for a stepping stone?
In the end, those who are really resisting are the so-called Confucian families who have inherited their families, because they throw away this stepping stone and start on the same starting line as others. All their advantages in the past were based on their ancestral Confucianism. They have no regard for the new learning.
They know nothing about it, and are no different from a mud-legged kid who has just become literate in primary school. What they hate is not that Yang Feng abandoned Confucianism, but that Yang Feng put them on the same starting line as the mud-legged kids. Originally, they could almost stand on the finish line with their advantage, watching
The mud-legged people behind me were running desperately but could never catch up with them. Then they took a graceful step, put on their official hats, and said to the crying mud-legged people...
You have to work hard!
If you work harder, you can be like me.
However, Yang Feng ruined everything and forced them to stand on the same starting line as the latter.
Damn it!
Chapter completed!