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Chapter 700 Petition is also a struggle

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Taking on people is a trivial matter.

The refugees gathered on the Qiantang River now do not want to rebel, but to survive... and they are unwilling to be military households, because they will die every day when they go to the northeast and northwest. And they are not very willing to be tenants in the north, because they are not familiar with the land and these tenants cannot afford to pay for the road. What they want is actually a poor and stable way to live.

Therefore, as long as Chen Dexing can give such a way out, these refugees will not cause trouble, and any pleading or permanent tenancy will become a shadowless thing.

At that time, the scholars who incite the poor to cause trouble will have no cover, and dozens of Lin'an Prefecture's constables will be able to take them down. There is no need for the Eighth Brigade soldiers, and the army is mobilized just to prevent it.

The way for poor households in Jiangnan has been prepared. A joint business of the imperial merchants called "Caoyun Public Transportation" has been listed in Jiangdu. The Caoyun Public Transportation, as the name suggests, is a company that does the canal business. It is not a boat on the canal, but is directly responsible for operating and building the canal! It is similar to the toll highways in later generations, one is to road construction and the other is to river construction.

The difference is that the business of Caoyun has larger transactions and wider business. In addition to operating the Grand Canal, it also has two major areas: construction and real estate.

The construction industry includes digging canals, repairing river channels, and building cities and houses. Not only canals are traded for the canal. Even many projects in Jiangdu City and several major cities along the canal will be included for the canal.

The real estate transactions in Caohua naturally revolve around the canal. The focus of investment is the land around important wharfs along the canal. Near important canal wharfs, it will naturally develop into commercial ports, just like the canals along the south of the Yangtze River.

In fact, when the Northern Song Dynasty was peaceful, the big cities along the Central Plains Canal were more prosperous than those in Jiangnan today. If they return to peace again today, the Central Plains along the canal will also be very likely to reappear in the next few decades. Investment in canal operations can also make a lot of profits.

Chen Dexing's proposal to restore the Grand Canal as soon as possible is to accelerate the recovery of the Central Plains economy. Although his eyes have turned to the world, it does not mean that the Central Plains, the fundamental place where the Chinese nation started.

So Chen Dexing had planned this Cao Operator for a long time and began to plan before pacifying Jiangnan. However, such an unprecedented imperial and merchant joint venture would have more than tens of millions of guan alone, and of course it would not be possible to open it just by slapping the head.

We must plan carefully, make repeated preparations, and formulate corresponding charters. Not only the charter of the public, but also the contract between the court and the public, and a lot of things, plus the public recruitment of commercial stocks, it is impossible to do it in less than a year or two.

Therefore, until now, the Cao Transportation Public Transportation has only hung up a sign and has not officially started operation. Moreover, the restoration project of the Grand Canal has not begun. If the four major projects, including the canal, Huanghuai and Beijing, have been fully launched, then this "vindication campaign" may not have appeared.

...

On the south bank of Qiantang River, near the pier, there was already a crowd of people. It was dark and endless. It was all covered with refugees in tattered clothes, helping the elderly and young. Everyone stretched their necks and looked at the direction of Qiantang River, as if they were waiting for someone. Everyone had a little nervous and looked at the faces of them.

Just one hour ago, dozens of guard officers and soldiers wearing steel armor came from the other side of the Qiantang River and announced that Emperor Chen of the Ming Dynasty would come to listen to everyone's appeal!

The emperor came forward to accept everyone's complaints in person, which seemed unprecedented! The Zhao official family in the previous dynasty was already relatively friendly to the people, but they only had to dominate the world with scholars and officials. The Tai students often wrote letters, but it seemed that ordinary people had never petitioned the emperor for complaints.

As for the emperors of all generations before, I have never heard of anyone who would accept the appeal of ordinary people. The way of this Saint Chen is indeed a bit unexpected.

The voices of discussion rang everywhere in the crowd.

"Will the saint really come to meet us miserable peasants?"

"It should be? Didn't the iron soldiers just now say that the saints want to come over by boat, and listen to our complaints on the boat."

"Now, there should be a way out?"

"There must be a way out! The saints will never tell us to die, right?"

"Yes, that's a saint, not a corrupt official below! If the saint knows how the officials below harm the people, they will definitely not forgive them!"

It seems that the Chinese people's thinking of loyalty to the emperor has been consistent for thousands of years. Most of the so-called officials are corrupt, most of the emperors are good, and corrupt officials are always deceived by the emperor. As long as the emperor knows the sufferings of the people, he will definitely come out to uphold justice.

For the common people, the biggest difficulty is that they cannot let the emperor know the truth. So it is really touching that the emperor, who suddenly had a strange way, was willing to leave the deep palace to listen to the poor people.

For a moment, positive energy filled the entire south bank of Qiantang River. All the poor people forgot who created the military households, nor did they remember who formulated and promulgated the laws that allowed the landlord to withdraw the tenant and expel the tenant...

At this time, an official ship with a golden sun and moon flag appeared in everyone's sight. The "iron man soldiers" who maintained order on the dock and the river bank suddenly shouted in unison: "The saint is here! The saint is here!"

"Long live! Long live!"

The people also burst into earth-shaking cheers, as if the grievances they had suffered in the past year had nothing to do with the emperor who sat on the official ship. Moreover, the emperor was unaware of it. As long as he knew the truth, the suffering of the people would end immediately.

The calls from the poor reached the ears of scholars who were already ready to die on the dock.

"Hmph, I'll shout long live now! Maybe I can't even cry later!"

A scholar who was born in Dinghai Yimenma said coldly. His words seemed to ignite the righteous indignation in the hearts of the scholars, and everyone's words opened.

"Let's see what he does! This is a petition of more than 100,000 people! If you want to kill them all... the blood can dye Qiantang River red!"

"He dared not kill, kill more than 100,000 people at once. Not everyone in Jiangnan is indignant. Will his Ming Dynasty last forever?"

"If he doesn't kill the people here, he will kill the military households who drive away the tenants and harm the people! He will also kill them in public for the people to see!"

"Yes! Kill in public..."

As one of the initiators of this movement, Fang Kesi and Fang Si scholars, now he just looked at the river with his hands behind his back, and did not participate in the scholars' discussions. However, the smile of the winner appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Because in his opinion, this "warning movement" has been won. More than 100,000 poor people can petition the emperor and see the emperor. This matter itself is a victory!

This shows that the people have the right to complain to the emperor as long as there are enough people, the emperor will receive him.

Moreover, Chen Dexing would definitely not let the iron soldiers come to kill people after seeing the common people. The emperor was not so obsessed, and if he wanted to kill people, he would not let others come to An. Since Emperor Chen asked everyone to come, he would definitely give some benefits.

In other words, the people will get some benefits when they seek grievances and complaints! Then, there will be a second and third complaints in the future...

Petitioning is actually a way to cause trouble!

To make trouble does not necessarily require rebellion and murder. In the pre-Song Dynasty, Taishen students and Wu students made trouble a lot. Either attack the court officials, impeach the powerful or discuss the government affairs, they are carried out in the form of the above books, and they will also launch a debate in the Shilin Qingliu in Lin'an.

A group of "unofficial censors" can still make the prime minister lose his official position, and can still make the emperor afraid.

Nowadays, scholars and officials are not popular and have nowhere to speak. However, Chen Dexing sets a precedent for petitioning the poor.

This is victory! Even if you lose your head for it, it's worth it!

Thinking of this, Fang Si's scholar Fang Kesi suddenly laughed three times: "All scholars and fellow scholars, today is the time when we are famous in history! You might as well sing a song to bring out your ambitions in your heart!"

"Okay! Just listen to Enke!"

"Enke, what song do we sing?"

"How about singing the song of Datong?"

"good!"

...

"The great way is the way, and the world is the public. Choose wise and capable, and be faithful and harmonious. Therefore, friends do not only have relatives, but also have children, so that the elderly can have a place to live, and have a place to use them, and have few people. The widows, widows, widows, orphans, orphans, and sick people can all be raised..."

The melodious tunes and high-pitched singing came from afar and entered Chen Dexing's ears.

"Someone is singing?" Chen Dexing was stunned.

What's going on? How could anyone sing? There is no provision in "Chen Li" to see the emperor, right? And it was not sung the "Praise of the King of Ming Dynasty" that has not been promulgated yet.

"Sage, someone is singing "The Song of Datong"." Yang Po'er, who was serving Chen Dexing, had already heard the general meaning of the lyrics.

""Datong Song"? This is..."

"It is the lyrics from "The Book of Rites. Liyun", and Nunu can also sing them." Yang Po'er explained softly, "I don't know who composed the song, so I named it "Datong Song". Some scholars like to listen to it, so they can sing them at the top of the brothels."

"Singing the Song of Datong..." Chen Dexing certainly knew "The Book of Rites. Liyun", but in fact he was also a scholar-official! He could recite Confucian classics, otherwise he would not have trouble with the "restoring Zhou rituals", and later "made Chen rituals". Those things he made were actually inherited from the Western Zhou Dynasty, and they were probably closer to the teachings of Confucius and Mencius than Confucianism in the Song Dynasty.

"What does it mean for them to sing "Datong Song"?" Chen Dexing had already keenly noticed something wrong. "Datong Song" describes an ideal society that is very close to ** paradise. Now someone is singing "Datong Song" to welcome him, or at a petition meeting for the poor... (To be continued. (lwxs520.))>
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