The Ming Dynasty has just been exiled and the Luzon system has awakened.

If you carefully study the reasons for the demise of Chinese dynasties, you will find that the demise of previous dynasties is almost all related to land annexation.

Chen Sheng and Wu Guang Uprising in Qin Dynasty, Yellow Turban Uprising in Han Dynasty, Sun En Uprising in Eastern Jin Dynasty, Peasant Uprising in late Sui Dynasty, Huang Chao Uprising in late Tang Dynasty, etc...

The end of every dynasty is accompanied by a large number of peasant uprisings, and the cause of this situation is nothing more than...

Land annexation, class exploitation, the wealth gap is getting wider and wider, and the people can no longer survive!

The people of China are the most gentle. As long as there is still a chance of survival, they will not put their heads in their belts to oppose the imperial court, but even so they are always forced to a dead end.

Among them, land annexation is an important part.

Look at a certain superpower in South Asia in later generations!

This superpower known as the third Blue Star has always maintained the traditional private ownership of land, and then they built the super metropolis Mumbai with a population of 1400 million! (Although the beautiful country is privately owned, the land tax and inheritance tax are terrifyingly high, and there are too many people and too little land.)

It’s just that this megacity, which is said to be 50 years ahead of Shanghai, has the largest slum in the world, accounting for 55% of Mumbai’s population.

Where do so many poor people come from?

These are farmers who cannot survive in the countryside and have flocked to the cities.

For a flower grower, if a person can't survive in the countryside, it will definitely attract countless people's jokes, but in India this is a fact.

With the help of the British Empire, 80% of India's land was occupied by large landowners with less than 1% of the population, and the remaining 9 million farmers competed for the remaining 20%.

With such disparity in data, more than half of the farmers do not own any land.

These landless peasants can only serve as tenants to the big landlords. In times of disaster, if they cannot pay the rent, they can only sell their children and flock to the cities.

It seems that the situation in later generations of India almost coincides with that of the late Ming Dynasty.

Of course, there are still differences. For example, India does not need to pay taxes on agricultural income, which avoids farmers from being forced to rebel if they fail to pay taxes.

Emperor Zhu did not want his Ming Dynasty to become a "superpower" like India in later generations, so land reform was urgent.

After the comprehensive recovery of the south of the Yangtze River, Zhuheyu also immediately started the land reform movement throughout the territory, taking advantage of the "extermination of land and return to flow" movement in the southwest.

Compared with the land revolutions of later generations, Zhu Heyi believed that the land reforms he implemented were much milder.

At least he did not forcibly expropriate the land from the landlords but chose to spend money to redeem it, although the price was a little lower.

But even so, the squire's resistance came as expected.

In the previous land reform carried out in Taiwan, because most of the land was snatched from Shi Lang and his group of military attachés, there was almost no resistance to Taiwan's land reform.

But it's different in mainland China.

In addition to the large tracts of land left by Tatar officials whose homes were confiscated and the Tatars who fled, local gentry and landlords still hold a large amount of land in their hands. Land reform will naturally affect the interests of these people.

When the land reform order was first issued, some local squires just smiled when they heard the news, and some even secretly cursed the little emperor for being so naive and ridiculous.

But when the land surveying team began to work in the countryside, the faces of these people changed!

Is this coming true?

Shocked to realize that the imperial court was really coming, the squires and landlords immediately took their gold and silver and planned to try to find connections to see if they could provide accommodation to their families.

In the past, local gentry and local officials actually represented the gentry class. When the new policies implemented by the court were against their interests, they would work together to defy the government orders.

But now, the officials of the Qing Dynasty who originally belonged to the same class as the squires have long been lumped together, and the newly arrived officials are all selected through the new imperial examination. To say which class they represent, if you insist on dividing them, you can only give They were assigned to the Zhu Ming class.

After all, His Majesty the Emperor has given them everything they have now. If they want to secure their official position, they can only take the interests of the royal family and the interests of the Ming Dynasty as the criterion.

It's obvious that the new officials don't accept this.

The yamen was so frustrated that the gentry began to arrange manpower to stop the work team from measuring the land, and at the same time they colluded to cause trouble in front of the yamen.

In mid-September, nearly a thousand surrounding gentry and landowners gathered with their servants in front of Yingtianfu Imperial City to protest.

However, they did not dare to get too close to Chengtianmen. They just blocked the intersection of Yujie Street and shouted, begging the emperor to take back his orders.

When Emperor Zhu Da learned about this, his expression was even a little stunned.

Protest?When the Ming Dynasty is one of those Omi underworld countries?These landlords and wealthy people really know how to keep pace with the times!

But if protesting is useful, why do we need Jin Yiwei?

Zhu Heyi gave an order, and Jinyiwei North Town Fusi dispatched thousands of Jinyiwei to suppress these troublemaking gentry and landlords.

When densely packed Jinyiwei soldiers wearing flying fish uniforms and simple gas masks appeared in front of the troubled gentry, everyone panicked.

Looking at the imperial guards with terrifying masks in front of them, although these gentry who wanted money rather than their lives were panicked, many of them were still encouraging their companions around them, shouting not to panic, they and others were not guilty. Jin Yiwei didn't dare do anything to them!

But these people seem to have forgotten that gathering privately has been a serious crime in all dynasties!

What's more, Jin Yiwei never asks why when doing things!Just ask when, where and who!

The next moment, pillars were thrown into the crowd of protesters, and thick white smoke spewed out along with a crackling sound.

"Cough cough...cough cough...smoke is poisonous!"

"Ahem... He's going to kill us with poisonous smoke..."

"Zhu Heyuan'er... a tyrant! Tyrant... ahem..."

The first use of tear gas made the protesting gentry and landowners choke with tears and runny noses. The panicked crowd was filled with coughs and curses.

The commander of Beizhen Fusi, Xi Chengan, looked horribly cold. How dare these unscrupulous people in front of him slander His Majesty!

"Catch them all! Throw them all into prison!"

Xi Chengan gave an order, and the wolf-like Jin Yiwei immediately rushed into the protesting crowd.

Soon, the previous coughs and curses turned into screams and wails caused by blunt objects hitting flesh.

As the emperor's personal soldiers, all members of the Jinyiwei came from the system and were absolutely loyal to Emperor Zhu Da. When dealing with these unruly people who dared to slander His Majesty, the wooden short sticks in the hands of the Jinyiwei soldiers whirred.

"Sir, forgive me!"

"Sir, I don't dare anymore!"

"It's unfair, sir! I was hired by them..."

Under the education of sticks, these people soon only begged for mercy.

The farce at Yujiejiekou was quickly quelled by the Jin Yiwei, and most of the protesting gentry and landlords were arrested on the spot.

Don't worry about those who ran away. With so many witnesses in their hands, where could they run away?

Moreover, those who ran away were basically servants or people hired to make up the number of people. When the Jinyi guards arrested people, they did not arrest them randomly.

After all, the clothes of the gentry and the servants are still very different. The rest can run away. If they are all taken back, there will be no room for so many people in prison.

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