Section 7 The Ideological Work of the Elder Xiang (1)
Xiang Tianying said: "It is said that there is heaven above and Suzhou and Hangzhou below, but even in this paradise on earth, there are inevitable obstacles. There are many people from Zhejiang here in Kaohsiung, all coming from Hangzhou. No matter how much food and fish are available, they are still there.
The officials collected it, but we, the common people, couldn't eat it. Not to mention that the taxes in Suzhou were the heaviest in the world. As soon as my grandfather could walk, he followed his great grandfather to fish in Yangcheng Lake. After a year of hard work,
Instead, we were heavily in debt, and all the fish were taken away by the fishing tyrants. Our family could only eat crabs to satisfy our hunger. Later, my great-grandfather died, and my grandfather really couldn’t live in his hometown. I heard that there was a lot of land in Liaodong and few people had a way to survive.
He just went begging for food and arrived in Liaodong. It was very difficult for the people in the south of the Yangtze River to come to the bitter cold land. But he was very happy. After all, there is a lot of land in Liaodong. As long as you are willing to work hard, you can still eat a bowl of food. My father was born and raised in Liaodong.
Big ones. But, there are corrupt officials and bullies everywhere, and there is no way for dutiful people to survive anywhere. I owed a debt to the King of Hell of a big family, bankrupted my family, borrowed money here and there, and finally paid back the money. I thought I would never rent him again.
The family's land was lost, but who knew that Mr. Wang turned his back and refused to admit the debt, and produced another debt note from nowhere, insisting that my family had not paid back the money. In anger, my father injured two thugs who were trying to collect debts. This good citizen
I couldn't do it anymore, so I left my hometown and fled. This time I fled to Australia, married my mother and gave birth to me. The ancestors of each of us Australians have more or less such things, and they all escaped from death and lived in exile overseas.
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Chen Qi thought to himself, it turns out that he is not a descendant of the "Old Song Dynasty" in Yashan, but a "New Song Dynasty" who later defected to the past. No wonder he is also a veteran, but his personality is much lower profile. After all, he has insufficient foundation, so he can't help but sympathize with Xiang Tianying.
Huang Qu saw that he was remembering the bitter and the sweet. Although he didn't understand what it meant, he quickly said: "All of the tens of thousands of people in Kaohsiung have lost their livelihood in their hometown. If the Senate hadn't taken them in, I'm afraid most of them would have died.
There are bones beside the road."
Xiang Tianying said: "In those days, we, the Senate, returned to our homeland with great joy on the holy ship. We bought land in Lingao to open up wasteland, farmed and did business in an orderly manner. Firstly, we did not harm the people, and secondly, we did not kill officials for rebellion, and the royal grain and national taxes were paid.
That's a lot of money. But the emperor's father-in-law took a fancy to our property in Guangzhou, bribed a bunch of corrupt officials, and tricked Wang Zunde, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, into attacking Lingao. He sent the domestic slave Tian Da to Guangzhou.
, and wanted to snatch Miss Pei as a concubine. If they had come to snatch her directly, they would be considered upright heroes, but they sent those officers and soldiers to be cannon fodder. In the battle of Chengmai, 114 Ming officers died in the battle, and ordinary soldiers died in the battle.
I killed 6,157 people, and it’s not worth it for them. The officers and soldiers of the imperial court came to die for the slaves of the emperor’s relatives. Among the generals of the army, Lei Lian and Zhao Qiansi were the first to die in battle.
Killed by snipers. Fubiao guerrilla Wang Daoji, Zhibiao guerrilla Li Guang, and training guerrilla Wang Xi. The three of them took the lead and rushed to the edge of the trench. They rushed up with the firepower of the typewriter. Almost all the soldiers were killed. Wang Dao
Ji and Wang Xi died in the battle, Li Guang was injured, and was snatched back by his subordinates. Huizhou General Yan Zungao died in the battle on Shishan. At that time, some soldiers wanted to take his head, but Zhu Mingxia stopped him, saying that General Yan died for the country.
Yes, they must be well decorated and buried with military honors. These generals who died in the battle are all heroes. It would be fine if they died in the hands of the Jin soldiers like Man Gui, Zhao Lijiao, He Shixian, and You Shigong. Bao Bao
It is the duty of a soldier to defend his family and his country, and his death on the battlefield will be remembered forever. But what is going on with General Yan and General Zhao? More than 20,000 brothers from the Ming army came to Hainan to die. Could it be that they were working for Tian Guozhang's domestic slaves?
?Are these the soldiers of the imperial court or the soldiers of his Tian family?"
Chen Qi sighed and said: "As you know, I used to be a Chaozhou Shuiyong. In the first year of Tianqi, I was held accountable for participating in a pay riot, so I became a bandit. As you said, this soldier deserves it.
It’s really boring, the soldiers work as slaves for the officials, and the generals work as lackeys for the eunuchs.”
Xiang Tianying said: "I remember that it was Lao Huang who led his brothers to resist the donation and was wanted to be executed by the government after the fall. Your seventh brother was loyal and led his brothers to break into prison and then surrendered to Liu Xiang."
Chen Qi looked smug, but said modestly: "That's all in the past. To be honest, it was out of necessity! Please find a way to survive."
Chen Qi and Huang Qu grew up playing together. Both families were fishermen. Chen Qi's family was poor, so he later joined the army and served as a soldier in the Navy; Huang Qu's father was an old boy who failed to pass the test many times, and Huang Qu also
yes.
In the autumn of the first year of Tianqi, the grain collector in Jieyang County called for autumn grain as usual. In this year, Jieyang County built the Jinxian Gate, one of the later "Eight Scenic Spots in Jieyang". The wealthy gentry "donated" a lot for this, so they collected taxes.
During the autumn grain season, the big households colluded with the grain merchants to make up for the shortfall from the autumn grain. The big households paid less or even not at all, and the small households were oppressed and had to be exacted and their families were ruined. Countless people did not do well in Jieyang that year.
Two generations of Huang Qu's family are scholars, and the several acres of thin farmland in the family are rented out to collect a few rents. Due to severe disasters and heavy taxes this year, the tenants abandoned the land and fled after harvesting the grain. The Huang family did not even have a grain of rice.
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Seeing that he was being driven to death by grain cadres, Huang Qu gathered a group of brothers and organized them to resist the donation, injuring several grain cadres one after another. Naturally, the government could not let it go, so they sent Ma Bu quickly to the countryside to capture Huang Qu.
, he was first detained in the home of a grain deliveryman, and prepared to be escorted back to the county town the next day.
Huang Qu's brother had no choice but to appeal to Chen Qi. Chen Qi was also in arrears with pay for several months. He had repeatedly made troubles with his pay, and did not receive much military pay. Instead, he became a thorn in the side of the superior. He couldn't stay any longer when he saw it. This time I heard that
When his brother was taken away, he simply broke the pot and found a dozen brothers who he could talk to on weekdays. He sneaked into the stockade overnight and killed the Yamen who escorted Huangqu and the entire grain cadre, thus becoming bandits.
After the grass fell, the two discussed that occupying the mountain and becoming the king was not a long-term solution. They only had a few dozen people in total. They might not be able to gnaw down the big ones. They robbed the poor and had no money or water. It was better to go to the sea and join the sea master. Only then did they join in.
Liu Xiang's big gang.
After Chen Qi became a pirate, he did a lot of bad things. When he was dreaming late at night, he also dreamed of innocent souls asking for their lives. For this reason, the family offered sacrifices to all the gods they could. But the first vote in the family was extremely important.
Things like loyalty and killing a whole family were not something that a Green Forest figure at that time thought was wrong. He often felt proud of himself. Although in order to avoid appearing to be boasting, he usually did not tell others about it, but he said it from other people's mouths.
When he came out, he was still happy.
Xiang Tianying said: "We Australians originally only wanted to do business and had no thoughts of rebellion, but the officials of the Ming Dynasty did not allow it. This is called the government forcing the people to rebel, and the people have no choice but to rebel. So we not only want to capture Qiongzhou, but also Guangzhou
, Zhaoqing, and will also enter Beijing in the future."
Huang Qu said: "With the wise leadership of the Senate, the city of Beijing is within easy reach."
Xiang Tianying said: "Then what happens after Beijing is captured?"
Huang Qu said: "Recover Shenyang and destroy the Jianlu."
Xiang Tianying said: "What happens next?"
The parents are a little confused. In their opinion, if they have unified the world, of course they should be made kings, marquises, wives and children. What else can they do?
Xiang Tianying sighed: "It is easy to conquer the world, but it is difficult to rule the world. Brother Qi, you have been a soldier in the Ming Dynasty, you know what it is like to be in debt."
Chen Qidao: "That's natural. It's common for the Ming Dynasty's army to be in arrears with pay. Unlike our Fubo Army, we never owe pay."
Xiang Tianying said: "Do you know why the Ming army owes pay?"
Chen Qi said: "It's just that the imperial court is short of money and the superior officials are embezzling money."
Xiang Tianying said: "Then do you know why the imperial court does not pay military pay?"
Chen Qi said: "I am also really puzzled. This hypocritical emperor wants the soldiers to work for him and does not pay the soldiers. Isn't he crazy?"
Xiang Tianying said: "It's not that the emperor doesn't want to be paid, but that he has no money - he really has no money."
One parent said: "With so much national tax on imperial grain every year, how could the emperor have no money?"
Xiang Tianying said: "This is the key. None of those corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty were fattened by the flesh and blood of the people. The emperor asked the people to pay one stone of grain, and they would have to plunder three stones and four stones. The emperor asked for one tael of silver.
They dare to be greedy. When the money enters the national treasury and is used as military pay, the officers still have to deduct it. They strip it off layer by layer. Even if there is some left, they still use it to support their family members and soldiers.
, where is the money and food for the soldiers?"
He took a breath and then said: "At the beginning, Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, stipulated that all the descendants of his Zhu family should have a salary. The princes who were granted the title of various places went out to rob the women of the people during the day, and went home at night to play with their lives and give birth to sons.
There are dozens of them. Some princes have thousands of idle clan members in their fiefdoms, and the local taxes combined are not enough to cover their salaries. For example, Emperor Chongzhen’s uncle Prince Fu spent 300,000 taels on his wife.
It cost 280,000 taels to build the house. Do you think the court still has money to pay the army? These royal relatives occupy thousands of hectares of fertile land, but they don’t pay a penny of the national tax on the imperial grain. The big gentry and big families also have tax reductions and exemptions one by one, so this grain tax is
All the burden was placed on the common people. The only option the small households could bear was to sell their houses and land, abandon their families and flee. However, their land was annexed by the big households, but the grain and tax had to be shared among other small households, so other small households
One after another they went bankrupt and fled, and eventually the land fell into the hands of big families, and the poor people became refugees. What do you think the people should do?"