Chapter 467 The North and South are divided, and war emerges
Wen Tiren and other important ministers naturally did not dissuade the emperor from doing so.
Because they have no reason to dissuade, nor do they want to dissuade.
After all, they are now the ruling ministers of the DPRK and China, and the benefits brought to them by government-run industries are far greater than their rents.
And the complete exemption from corvee labor can indeed further release the labor force controlled by the landlords.
But now the government-run industry needs manpower most in order to expand its scale.
In fact, the emperor did this because he is no longer the largest landlord in the empire, but the largest capital oligarch in the empire, so he will generously exempt the world from corvee.
The imperial edict to be exempted from corvee forever was promulgated not long after.
Although the emperor and the ruling ministers of the central court did not object to it, and even supported it, the local officials and landlords were unwilling to see the permanent removal of corvee from all over the world.
First of all, for local officials, they have one less chance to exploit local civilians.
After all, even in today’s Daming, there are still people who would rather go to the military service than pay corvee money because of the large labor force at home.
In the eyes of ordinary people, one's own strength is worthless, and you will get it again as much as you spend.
However, corvee silver is a bottomless pit. Ruthless and daring officials will try every means to make corvee silver several times higher than the standard tax stipulated by the court, and even collect it twenty or even three years before the apocalypse. The ten-year situation.
Therefore, for many ordinary people, they would rather serve in the military than pay corvee silver.
There are also ordinary people who would rather go to the landlord's house to do long-term and short-term labor to avoid corvee than pay corvee silver.
After all, the payment of corvee will be exploited by the officials, but if you work for the landlord, the landlord will use his power to prevent the officials from exploiting the employees under his name, and will also give some benefits to the employees under his name.
But under the current circumstances, the imperial court directly abolished the title of corvee, which has been exploiting the people for thousands of years, which undoubtedly caused a great loss to the local officials.
Secondly, for the landlords, they can no longer gain an advantage in exploiting the people.
In the past, ordinary people would rather choose to be exploited by landlords in order to avoid excessive exploitation by the government. After all, landlords are not low-level officials. As many foreign officials as the Chief Officer can get, they will basically get as much money as they can, especially when they are about to leave office, they will get a lot of money, so they don't care about public opinion. After all, the public opinion of ordinary people does not pose a threat to their future. .
But now, once the corvee is really abolished forever, the government will no longer exploit the people in the name of corvee, and the people no longer need to worry about being exploited excessively, and they will no longer be willing to be exploited by the landlord.
So, at the beginning of the new emperor's ascension to the throne, the new policy of eternal freedom from corvee labor can be regarded as a bottom line for local officials and landlords and gentry all over the world!
Except for the common people and a few oligarchic ministers around him, and some scholars who have read corrupt books, who think this is the ultimate frivolity and thin Fu, chasing after the same virtue as Yao and Shun, no one supports such a policy, and even most of them Confucian scholars looked sideways or kept silent about this.
However, for the imperial court, the beneficial effects brought by this are obvious.
A small number of local officials still implemented the new imperial edict according to the edict, no longer urging corvee, and no longer collecting corvee silver. Therefore, a large number of surplus labor among the Han people no longer chose to work in the landlord's house, but chose to leave their hometown They come to the north to work and earn money, because the north has a high level of industrialization, and the demand for labor is greater, so the wages are higher.
However, even if the effect is there, it is not very obvious.
Because most of the local officials and landlords in the country chose to ignore the edict of the imperial court, but continued to control the labor force in their jurisdiction in the name of corvee service only for themselves.
In the face of interests, the emperor's edicts are often useless.
But the emperor is not blind, not to mention the lack of workers in the major government-run industries of the imperial court. Therefore, according to the reports of some loyal inspectors or governors, some officials who resisted and did not comply will be severely punished.
Just in this way, the contradiction was further intensified.
Cheng Kegong, who was transferred to the magistrate of Yingtian, was impeached by Yang Tinglin, the inspector of Nanzhili. He still conscripted civilians to serve and defied the imperial edict, which angered the new emperor Longyan, and immediately ordered Dongchang to arrest him. Cheng Kegong.
The result may be that there are also landlords in Dongchang who have the eyeliner, causing the news to leak.
Soon, Yang Tinglin was surrounded by a group of scholars and people when he was inspecting the school in Zhenjiang Mansion. At the same time, the Dongchang Official School who went south to arrest Cheng Kegong was also stopped outside Yingtian Mansion.
Cheng Kegong himself was not afraid of this, but lamented that the matter had finally developed to this point, and said to Feng Xuexian, Shangshu of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, "this method should not have been done in the first place, but I just can't figure it out. We must do this! Now it seems that we can only force everyone in the world to fight against the king!"
"This is due to the emperor's refusal to give benefits to the people! He insisted that the railways be run by the government, and even the mines should be run by the government, so that the imperial court would compete with those who have land in the world for the population of the world. Contribute to the imperial court!"
Feng Xuexian said: "Unless the imperial court can make the world's industry benefit the people, otherwise this matter of swordsmanship is inevitable."
Cheng Kegong nodded: "What we need is a benevolent Lord who can benefit the people, not a selfish independent husband!"
"The 200,000 Jiangfang soldiers in the official school are all the children of our southern clans. Although the generals and generals in several important places in the north are only students from military training schools who are not from the southern clans, there are still several northern clans. The commander-in-chief of the army has long secretly harbored dissatisfaction with the Han people’s supremacy in governing the country and the court’s disrespect for Confucianism and reason, and they have already promised that as long as we raise troops in the south, they will respond.”
Feng Xuexian followed up with a few words, and said: "So now we can cheer for the restoration of the etiquette system!"
Cheng Kegong nodded after hearing this, and then asked with a sneer: "It seems that these Dongchang official schools outside the city should be butchers!"
Feng Xuexian also replied with a smile: "That's right! Use the heads of these people to prove my determination to the south to the court!"
Speaking, Feng Xuexian ordered: "Notify Zongbing Fang and order him to kill all the official schools in Dongchang outside the city!"
Not long after Feng Xuexian said that, a large number of Nanjing Caojiang officers and soldiers who surrounded the Dongchang Official School outside the city opened fire on these Dongchang Official Schools.
Suddenly, all the Dongchang official schools were beaten into sieves and died on the riverside outside the city.
At the same time, Yang Tinglin, the inspector censor, was also forced to jump into the river and flee to the north by boat by the people organized by the local landlord.
Not long after, the governors of the five provinces of Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Huguang, and Sichuan officially published in the newspaper saying that they would form an alliance to protect themselves and resist chaos and harm to the people.
As a result, almost the entire South fell into chaos at once.
Many local officials in the south also formally restricted the southerners and people from going north, set up barricades in various main roads, and stretched barbed wire around rivers and mountains.
(end of this chapter)