Chapter 104 Taking the opportunity to make trouble (1)
Dai Cong didn't care about content such as scheming, non-attack, and the League of Nations.
Because the fate of Song State cannot be decided by the local nobles of Song State, this is a foregone conclusion.
What Dai Cong was more concerned about was how much money the Mo family was preparing to pay to help build the alliance platform. This was very important and important to him, and it was also the first major event that could win the hearts of the people since he took office in the Song Dynasty.
Many landless farmers stayed in Shangqiu, including many who lost their land by using various illegal or legal means to annex the land.
These people are unstable factors in Shangqiu. Dai Cong wants to solve them, at least in this way, he will be able to gain the support of some people.
But he has no money and is unable to organize the reclaiming of wasteland.
Dai Cong has read some books from the Guanzi School. The Guanzi School’s views on economy are government interference under the premise that economic Tao follows natural inaction. For example, in the wasteland, wealthy households should be encouraged to consume and carry out infrastructure.
The Guanzi School believes that the sum of social wealth is enough, and the important issue is distribution. If wealthy families can build large-scale buildings, build houses, and even carved firewood for cooking, this will promote the reverse circulation of wealth.
However, the wealthy families in Shangqiu did not have such great power to consume so much labor, and Dai Cong knew very well the consequences of the gathering of a large number of landless and unemployed people in the capital.
Who is the rich now? Dai Cong believes that Si Shang is a rich family.
Building a league platform requires money and people. People can use money to buy food and clothing, which can temporarily relieve the anger and keep the capital stable.
Although the money spent on building the League Taiwan was not much, and the population could use labor for relief was not much, at least... this was the first "thing that benefited the people" since Dai Cong became the Grand Tutor of the Senate Yuan, and it was a good start.
The subsequent recruitment of the standing army, the construction of canals, and the construction of commercial agriculture in the eastern part of the Song Dynasty, connecting the Sishang Water Transportation Network, were all discussed with him in advance, and they could quickly alleviate the conflicts.
For example, the recruitment of permanent troops was similar to the later Song Dynasty who organized disaster victims into the army. As long as they were properly trained, they could still have sufficient combat effectiveness. If half of the musketeers in Europa were scumbags and half were transported from various places, combat effectiveness was not a problem.
As for building canals and building roads in the eastern part of the Song Dynasty, the Mohists were also happy to pay for this money.
The Mohist ambition is the world, not to attack and establish a country, and sooner or later, and now, if you practice it, it will be a part of the world in the future.
The second is economic interests.
The third is that the Mohist family is not short of money now; the Song State is not short of food and cloth now; the intensification of contradictions stems from the injustice of distribution of wealth and the intensification of wealth caused by the private ownership of means of production, and the problem of reverse circulation.
By the way, the currency in Si Shang can be quickly made the legal currency of the Song State, collecting more precious metals such as gold and copper. Relying on grain, iron, precious metals and handicrafts as standard funds is enough to ensure the credibility of the currency.
It is said to be a league platform, but when it is built, it can actually be used as a defense fortress for the future.
Coupled with the subsequent immigration and the policy of attracting immigration to Hongze Lake District, the many contradictions arising from the overall liberal economic policy of inaction in the eastern part of the Song Dynasty can actually be alleviated and resolved with the vast buffer zone of the northern Jiangsu Plain.
However, Sishang must first focus on the demand for labor in Sishang's industry and commerce, and greatly alleviate the employment shortage of industry and commerce and the demand for industrial and commercial workshops to expand production capacity under the expansion of markets. Only after the stability can the remaining population be sent to be self-cultivated farmers.
Although the farming and war policy can quickly achieve the world, the consequences are also serious.
The farming and landing were progressive under the feudal system of aristocrats elsewhere, but the areas where the germination of industry and commerce in Sishang were already reactionary.
Si Shang did not have enough cadres and enough capable talents to build farms with land-based cooperatives without manor owners in northern Jiangsu, which could not be discussed in the same way.
Overall, the living standards of self-cultivated farmers at this time were still far higher than those of employees who worked as laborers in cities, so they could at least give them some food.
Having a way out is a great achievement for Dai Cong. Although the people also know that this is the operation of the Mohist family, at least he, the chief yin of the Zhengyuan, would not have retaken the fate of the riots of the capital.
Nowadays, the difference between the country and the country has been broken, but the meaning of the Chinese people was originally people living in the capital. When most of the population lived in cities and around cities, controlling cities was equivalent to controlling the foundation of a country. In the chaotic times when coups frequently occurred, controlling the capital was basically equivalent to half of the success of the coup.
Dai Cong still understood this principle, so he sincerely thanked the Mohist family for their policies. At least the Mohist family did not seem to have the intention to cook the rabbit and die. He, the Dayin of the Zhengyuan, could continue to do it for a while.
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The southwest of the Song Dynasty, the old land of Chen State, the prince who rebeled against Chu State and restored the country more than ten years ago established the capital. Now, Chen County of Chu State, Huaiyang of Zhoukou in later generations, Yingchen in Ying and Chen Sheng's capital after Daze Township rose up.
King Xiong of Chu suspected that he was lucky here. In addition to the elite new army of Che Guang who was absolutely loyal to the King of Chu, several nobles of Qu, Jing, Zhao and other clans who were powerful in the court also followed.
This tour was caused by the coup in Song State, and the King of Chu had to deal with some things personally. Chen Caidi, as the pillar of the Central Plains rule of Chu State, was also the best place for the King of Chu to guide this major event.
The prince's good husband went on a tour in Cangwu, Dongting, and the prince Zang was in Yingdu.
The crown prince worshipped the tomb and worshiped the country's wealth, and looked at the king's food day and night, so it was called the tomb. When the king was in action, he would guard him, and if he had a council, he would follow him. Following him was called the army, and guarding him was called the state of supervision. This was the ancient system.
In addition to the prince Zang who was left behind in Yingdu, there were several Shangzhu Kingdom who were promoted to the capital due to military merits. Some of the new troops who were assigned to the land in Chen and Cai were also near Yingdu. However, some nobles with huge family power accompanied them, and the King of Chu was not at ease to leave them in the capital.
The land of Chen was prosperous. Even though he had experienced war five years ago, the King of Chu implemented land reform in Chen, and it was not the land of the King of Chu that was loyal to the prince's decision. It was really a drastic move, which quickly restored the original prosperity of Chen and was even better.
Some people said that Chen was in the relationship between Chu and Xia and had fish and salt, and their people were mostly merchants. Because of the fact that Chu and Xia had won the title of the throne and claimed to be barbarians, the interactions between Chu and the Central Plains were mostly divided by Chu and Xia.
Several of the earliest developed regions in the Central Plains, such as Zheng and Song, were all near Chen land. Because of the gap, Chen land became an important channel in the Central Plains of Chu.
Coupled with the development of Si Shang, the progress of Chen Cai's land reform, and the prosperity of Chen land made the King of Chu very happy.
But this kind of happiness is long-term, and now the King of Chu is cursing the stupidity of some nobles in the palace.
News came from the south that a civil rebellion occurred in Anlu, which was called an uprising according to Si Shang.
Because of the nobles who resisted Anlu, the people chose to riot and seized a large number of weapons, so they captured the entire Anlu City. They claimed to establish "true equality" and divide the land of the nobles equally, and curb merchants who depended on the nobles.
Obviously, this uprising was influenced by the Mohist and peasant theories, but if it was said that the Mohist was the leader and manipulated, it was not, so some local people were spontaneously provoked after being propaganda.
This kind of thing is big or small, and there are often uprisings and riots, but this time the reason why the King of Chu scolded him for being stupid is different from the original one.
Anlu is located on the edge of Yunmengze. At this time, the huge Yunmengze has not yet been developed. When Jin State conquered Luhun, a large number of Luhun's nobles fled. There were many people who fled with the nobles. These people were placed here by Chu State and called Anlu.
Anlu is backed by the tributary of the Yangtze River and is located at Yunmengze. Its water transportation is developed, which also causes a large number of strange commodities to be transported continuously, including some muskets.
The local nobles and monarchs in Anlu formed a private soldier who used a clamping rope gun without a crossbow. This is normal, but the fault is that they can use a clamping rope gun by individuals, so that a large number of farmers on the fiefdom were no longer consumables but became projectile soldiers.
After this riot, the people shouted slogans in addition to true equality, but also anti-nobles and not against the king, asking the king to provide good policies and deal with doctors and nobles who harmed the people and imposed heavy taxes and caused the people to live in poverty.
Originally, the projectile troops of Chu were cultivated by "country shooting" under the village and community system. In addition to continuing the tradition of redistribution of land under the village and community system, the people also need to serve military service and labor, and survive without increasing exploitation.
Under the remnants of the clan communes of the old system, the land needs to be redistributed within the village community, but it is gradually disintegrating. However, under the low-intensity wars of the old system and chariot warfare era, the population participating in the "country shooting" can be guaranteed and sufficient projectile troops can be selected.
Township shooting is a folk custom and a kind of military system that selects projectiles, which is in line with the era of feudal and village-communist systems.
This is a circle.
If you can't afford to eat poor people, you will not have the opportunity to practice archery in the country, so most of the archer troops live a good life, at least they can't starve to death, which is better than those who are in the vassals. These people are not interested in "rebellion" and are often the pillar forces to suppress rebellion.
However, with the gradual collapse of the village clans and other systems, the dumping of handicraft leather and luxury goods on Si Shang, the smuggling and selling of weapons and arms, etc., the rural shooting system, which originally conformed to the village clan system and the aristocratic system, gradually collapsed.
With the collapse of the land system, the deep private ownership system and the increasing exploitation, how many people will have the spare time to "camp the countryside"?
Crossbows are different from bows. Even if bows can be cultivated in batches, the cost is much higher than crossbows, let alone muskets.
The nobles needed more troops to protect their strength against the central government, because the King of Chu had already trained a new army of firearms.
It all requires money.
The handicraft industry is not developed, so we can only start from the farmers on the fiefdom.
Grain has not been valuable in recent years, and the Mohists don’t want handicraft products. The nobles want more luxury goods and private soldiers. The more money they collect, the more conflicts will intensify.
When the contradictions intensify, more private soldiers need to maintain them, and more private soldiers spend more money.
The rural shooting system collapsed, and if a few farmers who were proficient in shooting skills could not be selected, they would need to rely on muskets, so that they could only be soldiers who could be defeated by a full-time squad, and became musket soldiers in the hands of private soldiers of the nobles.
A riot left the local nobles helpless and had to flee in a hurry.
Under the original patriarchal system, scholars were full of money as warriors, and one of them beat ten; some of the people who were full of food were selected as projectiles by their rural shooting, and killing disciples was like shooting targets. It was really difficult for farmers to resist.
Many of the previous Chinese riots and coups were initiated by locals in the capital, because they themselves are the most important military force of a country.
Anlu is not the capital, but after the emergence of gunpowder, it narrowed the gap between the nobles and the common people. After the people's riots, they seized the armed warehouse and drove away the nobles. They even had an "programme" that was unrealistic, fantasy, and limitations, but had never been before - sages and people farm together, and the market and merchants were not worth the price, and everyone had private land.
This is really an unprecedented situation.
Chapter completed!