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Five people, three of them agreed to join King Gui, and the two agreed to join Li Xin. According to the practice of modern society, the vote was passed by three to two, and everyone joined King Gui. Unfortunately, this was the late Ming Dynasty, and strength was respected.

Huang Degong had the strictest military discipline and the strongest strength.

Therefore, in fact, Bai Guangen and Huang's achievements are enough to match Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo and Gao Jie, and even stronger. After all, Bai Guangen once fought against the Qing army on the Great Wall when the Qing army invaded the sixth time. Although he was defeated, he also killed hundreds of Qing troops. With this record alone, he was enough to look down on Liu Liangzuo and others.

Liu Liangzuo only fought with Zhang Xianzhong.

When Gao Jie was under He Renlong, as the Ming Dynasty declined, He Renlong gradually had the idea of ​​preserving his strength and rarely fought tough battles. In the first battle of Tongguan, it was because He Renlong blocked Li Zicheng and the elites of the Old Eighth Team were allowed to enter Shangluo Mountain. Later, Li Zicheng came back and grew stronger again. He Renlong followed Fu Zonglong to fight with Li Zicheng, and He Renlong fled without fighting, resulting in Fu Zonglong being killed.

By the second battle of Tongguan, Gao Jie had replaced He Renlong as general, but he still abandoned Li Xianfeng and fled, causing Tongguan to fall. It is no exaggeration to say that Gao Jie has never fought a strong battle.

Liu Zeqing was even more unbearable. He was bribed by Zhou Yanru to the throne. Gao Jie had even fought with Li Zicheng for a while, but Liu Zeqing had never even fought a small-scale battle.

Currently, Huang Degong's troops have 13,000 troops, Bai Guangen's troops have nearly 8,000 troops, Gao Jie, Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing have more than 40,000 troops.

The five people remained silent. Gradually, the atmosphere in the hall became subtle and there was a sense of caution between them. The guards brought by the five people couldn't help but hold the hilt of the knife.

"Forget it, forgot!"

Huang Degong suddenly waved his hand and said, "Since everyone has their own ambitions, then go their separate ways. Today, we are still ministers of the Ming Dynasty. When we meet in the future, we will fight again on the battlefield!"

"good!"

Liu Zeqing shouted: "It's still a good thing for Hushan (Huang Degong Biao) brother. We are happy. We gather together in the city. It's a fate. Today, we have different opinions. We shouldn't act rashly, so let's go our separate ways!"

The tense atmosphere relaxed in an instant. After all, no one wanted to have a melee inexplicable situation. I will talk about what happened in the future later.

Gao Jie also said: "We will prepare early and go south to Guangzhou within three days!"

"Goodbye!"

Liu Liangzuo walked directly, bowed his hand, and left with great strides.

Gao Jie and Liu Liu Zeqing also left immediately.

Three days later, Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo and Gao Jie each led their troops and led their troops south to go from Hunan to Guangdong and defect to King Gui.

However, Huang Degong and Bai Guangen left their troops in Luzhou and only brought dozens of followers to Hangzhou.

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As King Gui surrendered without fighting, Suzhou Prefecture, Songjiang Prefecture, Changzhou Prefecture, Zhenjiang Prefecture, Taiping Prefecture (now Ma'anshan and Wuhu area of ​​Anhui) surrendered. Li Xin sent personnel and troops to take over, and he personally led 30,000 troops to Hangzhou.

When we arrived in Hangzhou, Hangzhou was almost completely searched. The streets were full of wandering people, without covering their bodies and without food. Many former wealthy families squatted on the street with their heads in their arms and cried bitterly.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was strictly forbidden for private armed forces, so when the official army was sweeping, not to mention ordinary people, even the landlords and merchants, they had no power to fight back. This was unimaginable before the Song Dynasty.

In fact, in all dynasties, the prosperity of the war was not caused by the late Ming Dynasty. Other dynasties still had private armed forces such as landlords and forts to defend property and civilians. However, the imperial power of the Ming Dynasty had reached a historic peak and no private armed forces were allowed. In the face of an organized army, ordinary people were lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

Many people say that the imperial power of the dynasty does not go to the countryside, which is wrong.

Although county officials in the Ming Dynasty did not go to the countryside, yamen runners could go to the countryside. Local landlords saw yamen runners as if they were tigers. The government controlled local gentry through the tax-bearing system, and the gentry then managed tenant farmers. They were clearly hierarchical and were typical large governments and small societies.

But the problem of the Ming Dynasty was that the country's financial resources were single, and it was entirely sucked by the blood of farmers. It not only took over but also did not have enough financial resources to provide necessary benefits. This led to the survival of farmers and poor households at the bottom of the city in the Ming Dynasty. Local gentry was often exploited by yamen runners or seduced them, and even more cruelly exploited farmers.

Why did Li Xin destroy the landlord farm?

First of all, we must be sure that landlords are not all bad. There are also landlords who do good and accumulate virtue. If you attack landlords, you will definitely hurt innocent people by mistake. However, landlords have original sins. They occupy too much land and population, but their productivity is extremely low, which seriously drags down the progress of productivity.

Historically, developed Western countries such as Britain and France, no matter who develops industry and commerce, will eliminate the landlord class as a whole. Landlords live by collecting rent, representing backward productivity, and are not suitable for the needs of industrialized joint large-scale production.

Therefore, at different times in history, countries around the world successively eliminated landlords who relied on land rent and lived in different places. The process was brutal and bloody. Even Japan, which is known for its redemption policy, was unbearable to look at it.

The redemption price of Japan's land reform after the war was based on the land price in 1940. It was because of the defeat of the war. In 1947, the redemption price per mu of land was only equivalent to one kilo of rice, which was a pure plunder.

Li Xin planned to crack down on landlords from the beginning. The reason for the exploitation and oppressed tenant farmers to uphold justice is only one aspect. The fundamental reason is to eliminate the land rent and food class and mobilize the population to participate in industrial production as much as possible.

Of course, Li Xin's methods are relatively hidden. As a modern person, he has never used various methods of wool picking. There is no need to use bloody methods to attract people's hatred.

Nearly a hundred major industrial and commercial owners and landlords in Hangzhou knelt in the hall of the Hangzhou Administrator's Office, accusing Li Xin of the brutality of Zheng Zhilong and Sun Chuanting.

Among the officials and gentry, Li Xin has a very good reputation. He does not force rob people of property, and does not collect taxes for the juren and above, and has not violated the interests of the officials and gentry class. Therefore, the bitterness of the officials and gentry is willing to fall in love with Li Xin.

"Everyone is quiet, quiet!"

Li Xin pressed his hands together, and the crying in the hall gradually stopped.

Nearly a hundred pairs of red eyes looked at Li Xin with anticipation.

Li Xin said: "I know that everyone present, who is not coming from the wind or going from the rain, has gradually accumulated family business. Now all the time is full of death, and even relatives and friends are killed and their wives and daughters are humiliated. I sympathize with you very much, and I am very angry at the atrocities of King Gui's pseudo-dynasty, and I blame myself for not coming to Hangzhou as soon as possible to prevent the atrocities.

However, our bandit army has not been established for a long time, and its foundation is unstable, especially the naval power is even weak. It is impossible to attack Guangzhou in a short period of time. The matter of seeking justice for you can only be postponed. Fortunately, your farm industry is here, and as long as you can raise funds, you can resume production and operation. I plan to build a bank in the near future and provide loans to you at low interest rates to help you solve your difficulties."

"Oh? Bank?"

Everyone looked at each other, their eyes full of confusion.

But there are also some people from Ningbo money houses who show a sense of clarity.

Li Xin pointed to one of them and said, "What do you call this sir?"

The man hurriedly stood up and bowed, "I dare not be the regent, I am Zheng Miao, the shopkeeper of Ningbo Hengli Money House, pay homage to the regent."

Money houses were born in the Northern Song Dynasty and for a long time became tools for courts to issue paper money and collect wealth. They really developed during the Wanli period. With the prosperity of foreign trade and industry and commerce, private money houses flourished in the southeast coastal areas.

Speaking of which, Wanli was a magical era. The Ming Dynasty planted the root of defeat due to the Wanli party struggles. However, during the Wanli period, the thoughts were unprecedentedly liberated. Many imprisonments in the Ming Dynasty naturally disappeared during the Wanli period, and industry, commerce and private finance rose overnight.

In the final analysis, it is related to party struggles. The court parties are fighting each other, flirting with internal means, and unable to suppress the people anymore. This is a phenomenon that has never happened in previous dynasties. In the past, the power struggles at the upper level would more or less affect the middle and lower levels. However, the party struggles in the late Ming Dynasty promoted the development of the middle and lower levels. This can only show that an emerging force is emerging from the bottom up, not under the court, and in turn tries to get involved in the power center, such as Donglin, Fushe, Qi Party, Zhejiang Party, Chu Party and other forces.

This truly shows that the germination of capitalism was truly born in the late Ming Dynasty.

The financial industry represented by private money shops is a budding type. After the Guiwang Xiaochao Court swept over, Ningbo money shops in Hangzhou suffered heavy losses because a lot of their money was borrowed and now they have been robbed, but the debts are still on them!

Their situation is more difficult than that of industrial and commercial owners and landlords. More than ten shopkeepers of money shops all looked at Li Xin.
Chapter completed!