"Your Majesty, the people of Sichuan have been looking eastward for twenty years for Master Wang. They have finally expected Master Wang to arrive. There must be some benefit, right? If they get nothing, how can the people of Sichuan eat pots of pulp to welcome Master Wang?

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The person who speaks for the working people of Sichuan is Ma Shiying, old man Ma. Old man Ma is also old now. He is 76 years old and has not retired yet. He continues to serve the court and the people. He is now the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment.

Before he became the minister, he twice served as the governor of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, responsible for suppressing and blocking the rogue bandits from the South Road. The task of suppressing the rogue bandits was not completed, but he still blocked the rogue bandits - in fact, the rogue bandits had long since become sitting bandits.

, it is naturally easy to block it. However, Ma Shiying can be considered as meritorious, and now he has been granted the title of Duke of Kenan, which is also a great honor. Such feudal aristocrats and feudal bureaucrats will certainly not really sympathize with the working people of Sichuan. Now he proposes

To give the Sichuan people a little sweetness is nothing more than to sow discord between the lower-class Sichuan working people in Dashun and the middle- and upper-class Shaanxi soldiers.

Wu Sanfu, who had been serving as Minister of War for an unknown number of times, snorted: "When the bandits invaded Sichuan, these Sichuan people were very happy. They sang the song "Welcome the Bandits" to welcome the rebels.

After entering Sichuan...now you still want to benefit from the imperial court?"

What Wu Sanfu said was the truth. The people of Sichuan were very troubled when they saw Zhang Xianzhong who killed people indiscriminately, but they still welcomed the highly disciplined Dashun soldiers. Especially in the first ten years of Dashun's rule of Sichuan, because the second generation of soldiers did not

When they grew up, there was no need for land, so most Sichuan people still retained the land they got during the first equalization of land. At that time, everyone was really happy, and there were only a handful of former landlord class intellectuals who dreamed of getting ahead.

Unhappy - because Dashun is based on government soldiers. Without this status, he can only farm and work honestly, without any chance of promotion.

However, there are only a very small number of people who are unwilling to settle down as farmers or craftsmen and still dream of climbing up the ladder. Therefore, for more than ten years, the Dashun Dynasty was still very popular in Sichuan.

Ma Shiying glanced at Wu Sanfu, who was so fat that he almost turned into a ball, and said with a smile: "The Sichuan people are happy too early. Since the Shaanxi War began, their life has become worse year by year, and it has become more and more bleak. Moreover, they have been

A bunch of Shaanxi soldiers are pressing down hard, no matter how great your abilities are, you still can't get ahead!"

Wu Sanfu shook his head and said with a smile: "It's hard for ordinary people here to get ahead... It's not easy to study and go to college, it's not easy to do business and make money, it's not easy to serve as a soldier and make meritorious service, even farming the land is a loss.

That's right! Even if you go to America and California to hunt for minks and gold, not many of them can actually become prosperous."

He said this out of emotion. The old Wu family and the nephew of the ancestor's family could not go to college, so they could only reluctantly enter a martial arts hall. They were bound to lose money in business, so they could only hold on.

The owner collected rents on more than a dozen streets in Shanghai, Tianjin, and Tianhe. He built many farms in his hometown in Liaodong, but in the end they were all miserable. But he was not miserable enough to go to America to dig gold. The children of the Wu family and the ancestral family were all stupid.

If you are a big, clumsy person, you can go through Army Elementary School, Army Middle School, and Army Martial Arts Hall, and you can still become a cavalry officer who charges into battle...

Zhu Cixiang glanced at "Fat Wu" and knew that this fat man was losing money in everything he invested. There were also a group of dandy boys at home who only knew how to ride horses, shoot, hunt and play polo. He was having a headache!

However, Emperor Zhu was helpless. What he promoted was "capitalism based on losses." Because of the lack of far-sighted plans, losses were everywhere. Behind every glamorous and successful person, there were several losers that no one could find.

Losers...and Emperor Zhu did not provide any minimum guarantee at all, so losers who could not survive in the Ming Dynasty often had only one way out, which was to go to the United States of New Zealand or the Kingdom of Luzon or the Twelve Principalities of Malacca.

Working as a contract worker in Temasek Free Market.

Just working as a coolie to pay the ship fare is almost a last ditch effort. Although there are some who make a comeback, there are also many who lose everything and even their lives.

But having said that, if there is not a "loss-making capitalism" that continues to create unwilling losers, who is willing to risk their lives to explore the New World and Southeast Asia?

After excelling in the examination, he later inexplicably became the "lucky man" of a great military strategist. Shi Kefa, the Minister of Rites, shook his head, obviously disapproving of Wu Sanfu's words.

"It's not easy to get ahead anywhere, but here we all rely on our ability and luck. Among the bandits, ordinary people are not allowed to stand out. The way up is owned by the Shaanxi soldiers." Shi Kefa smiled, "Everyone relies on their ability and luck.

If you fight hard, you can't get ahead and you can't blame others... But if you don't let others get ahead, that's different! If you don't fight, who knows you can't do it? How can you be willing to accept others saying you can't do it?"

After hearing this, Wu Sanfu couldn't help but sigh, and then glanced at his brother-in-law, Emperor Zhu.

Emperor Zhu Da has long said that people from the old Wu family cannot be in the business - not to mention careless, but also loyal enough to be friends, with a head full of feudal ideas... But who listens! Except Wu Sanmei who was killed by Zhu Cihong

Look, who among the Wu family has never lost money?

Zhu Cixi spoke with a smile at this time, "We have to give the Sichuan people something, and we don't expect them to welcome the king's army, as long as they don't help the bandits... Tell me what are the benefits of changing the agreement.

"

Ma Shiying said: "Nowadays, Sichuan people have five major hardships: heavy rent, numerous corvee labor, many household transfers, fierce government soldiers, and no hope.

When the bandits first entered Sichuan, they carried out land equalization for a while and confiscated the landowners' land. Most of the land was given to farmers, and the other half was given to the soldiers and rented by the farmers. At that time, the rent that was pressed on the Sichuan people was not paid.

The rent paid to the rogues and puppet dynasty was not heavy, nor was the rent paid to the soldiers. However, since the Shaanxi War started seven years ago, the rent the Sichuan people have been carrying has become heavier and heavier!

First, the rogue pirates and puppet dynasty continued to use the method of re-equalizing the land to seize Sichuan people's land in order to raise merit and settle the children of the soldiers. Later, in order to make up for the loss of land rent after the reduction of public land, the rogue bandits and puppet dynasty continued to increase rents, and the soldiers and soldiers were

Military service is heavy and expenditures are huge, and land rents are constantly being raised. This year, the rogue bandits and puppet dynasty also enacted the "Two Rent Law". For a piece of land, two rents must be paid, one for the puppet dynasty and one for the soldiers in the government!

"

Ma Shiying paused and then said: "Because the rogue pirates and puppet dynasties moved south and north and developed Yunnan and Burma, the corvee sent by the rogue pirates and puppet dynasty became more and more heavy... In addition to farming, Sichuan farmers did not

There is no idle time for transshipment and transportation. Moreover, household adjustment, which means expropriating cloth and so on, has been increased a lot now. Moreover, it has been decoupled from the land and instead linked to the household registration. Even if you rent the land of a military household in Zhongfu, you will not be idle at all.

You have to pay enough household cloth!

It goes without saying that the military households in the government are fierce... On the one hand, the Shaanxi people are oppressing the Sichuan people, and on the other hand, the military households are oppressing the civilian households. There is no love at all. And what makes the Sichuan people feel most depressed is that

There is no hope. In the early years, people from Sichuan still had the opportunity to join the government, but now the children of the soldiers have grown up, and there are still many veterans who have not retired. Their own families cannot arrange it, so where are the people from Sichuan? And they

After being suppressed by Fu Binghu, he didn't have a chance to try his luck, so he didn't know if he could do it. But no one would think that he was not good. They would all feel that they couldn't get ahead because they were suppressed by Fu Binghu.

In addition, the rent was heavy, the corvee was numerous, there were many household transfers, and the government soldiers were fierce. As time went by, the Sichuan people's resentment towards the Shaanxi soldiers became more and more intense. If the imperial court could set a fire, haha, then it would simply be a fire.

, maybe it’s going to be a prairie fire of chaos!”

Ma Shiying thought about it and said: "The old minister's idea is that the court should take action against the shortcomings of the rogues and puppet dynasty, and announce the exemption of rent, exemption of mediocrity, exemption from military service, exemption from scientific examination... to welcome the Ming Dynasty!"

"Okay!" Zhu Cixi slapped the table and laughed, "Ma Xingbu is my humerus, free of rent, free of mediocrity, free of labor, scientific examination to welcome the Ming Dynasty... It's really wonderful, no need to take out Sichuan
Chapter completed!