New Shun 1730

Below these rogue scholars are professional thugs who are responsible for doing dirty work.

In the long-term struggle in Songjiang Prefecture, these professional thugs who are lackeys of capitalists have also become more mature in the struggle.

Many past experiences have been discarded and the essence has been taken.

In the repeated suppression of hired workers' strikes, they summed up two experiences.

First: When there are too many people, the severity of the attack will be unpredictable.

Therefore, professional work such as beating people and beating them to death temporarily without being sued must be guaranteed to be done by professionals.

Second: Professionals must also have a professional team to stop those who are incited.

Then, this requires a team of about ten people.

Three people are professional thugs.

Take 50% of all murder fees.

The remaining seven people are responsible for forming a circle to ensure that those who are incited outside cannot squeeze in and will not beat people to death on the spot because of punches and kicks.

These seven people take the remaining 50% of the murder fee.

According to the skills.

There are rules for this.

For example, the sponsor requires that the other party die in three or six months. As long as the other party is guaranteed not to die within the specified time, the sponsor will cover the rest of the expenses.

In the future, lawsuits, extortion of money, etc., will have nothing to do with them.

These people are mainly from Ningbo, and they are called "Ningbo Dalang". These people gathered in Songjiang Prefecture and have a great relationship with Japan.

In the previous dynasty, Ningbo was the front line of the anti-Japanese war, and a large number of martial artists joined and passed down their martial arts.

After the Japanese rebellion was quelled, the Ningbo Gang, which traded with Japan, rose and needed to compete with the Zhangzhou Gang and Fuzhou Gang for trade with Japan. The martial arts inheritance of the anti-Japanese war became a special fight. The goal was to kill people but not die temporarily, avoiding the key points of battlefield killing techniques.

Later, the Dashun navigation technique improved, and it took the direct route from Songjiang to Nagasaki instead of Ryukyu. The Toyo Trading Company monopolized trade, and the joint-stock system disintegrated the Ningbo Gang, Fuzhou Gang, and Zhangzhou Gang. Many Ningbo thugs came to Songjiang Prefecture to make a living.

Their professionalism was quickly recognized, and they quickly won over the old names in Jiading, Chongming and other places. For example, the Dihuang Society and Tuanyuan Society were established during the Chongzhen period, and they all withdrew from the ranks of professional thugs and switched to trapping people.

These Ningbo thugs. They came here today to kill people.

And below them, there are more than 80 professional thugs who have mixed into the salt household team.

These thugs are mainly from Shandong, especially from Dengzhou Prefecture.

Basically, they are retired sailors.

After all, they have received professional military training and have a certain degree of organization. In addition, the battle of jumping aboard is a melee, and it is even more necessary to emphasize the cooperation between teams.

Relying on their own organizational ability, they quickly won over the thugs in Dongyang, Yiwu and other places who were very famous in the previous dynasty and became famous in the Kulin incident.

These Dongyang and Yiwu thugs, in the street fights of the eunuch party and Fushe at the end of the previous dynasty, defeated the Qingyi of Songsu and Nanjing, and made a great show. But in the end, they still couldn't beat the professionally trained and well-organized retired sailors.

The main purpose of these Dengzhou thugs is to quickly disperse the thugs on the opposite side once a melee breaks out, so that the organized thugs on the opposite side will be defeated.

At the same time, under the leadership of the scholar thugs, in the name of "righteous indignation", they arrested the thugs on the opposite side, quickly controlled the market, and ensured that the opposite side could not make any sound.

It should be said that capital has an excellent resource allocation advantage over the old era. Through the allocation ability of capital, it has exerted its various advantages and attracted a large number of "talents".

From the long-standing trend of "the scholar kneels down to lick the big salt merchant and asks if your family knows that you were not at home when I visited you yesterday", which was exclaimed by the orthodox scholars as a reversal of the world, capital provides money, scholars provide writing, and "top talents in the gangster world" from Ningbo to Shandong Jingji contribute.

After years of struggle experience, they continue to grow in the struggle.

What this reflects is that the organization of the hired workers in southern Jiangsu is also constantly improving.

Otherwise, as a gangster organization that was born to fight against the hired workers' strike, how can it have the motivation to grow and improve?

Under such a professional gangster organization, the Songjiang Prefecture's kicking craftsmen association still successfully went on strike, which shows that it is also constantly improving.

Today, these "hundred-battle divisions" in the gangster world are naturally full of confidence to fight against the old fighting industry that has not made any major progress in the past hundred years since the Dashun Dynasty was established and stabilized.

As for the salt households who are really at stake this time, it is difficult to say that they are the protagonists of this struggle.

In fact, whether it is these individual salt households that hope to reclaim wasteland and waste salt, or those salt households that do not want to reclaim wasteland and waste salt, or those who are cheated by Liu Yu and may not get a penny of compensation.

Their existence is the same as the "people" in many fantastic and highly conscious citizen resistance stories in the previous Jiangnan Dynasty.

The real powerful "slave rebellion" was not the people, but "bandits" and "thieves" in the records of scholars.

These salt households who supported the reclamation of wasteland were very easy to organize and go to the county town to seek justice.

Because the reclamation company only needed to make a binding to incite these people.

Abolish salt and reclaim wasteland.

Enclose land and grow cotton.

These are two things.

Abolish salt and reclaim wasteland is the basis for enclosing land and growing cotton.

However, does abolishing salt and reclaiming wasteland necessarily require enclosing land and growing cotton?

Salt households had no way of knowing the court's policies through normal channels.

Therefore, the reclamation company only needs to forcefully bind "reclamation of waste salt" with "enclosure and cotton planting", and these salt households will naturally be excited.

Theoretically, if the court issued a policy of reclaiming waste salt, then this major policy should govern the minor policies.

The court was ambiguous about the ownership and use rights here. The right of interpretation was in Liu Yu's hands.

If it was just reclaiming waste salt, then the first question to be solved was "Can I reclaim wasteland myself?"

Why must I sell the grass pond to the reclamation company? To become a tenant farmer under the reclamation company, or a secondary land contractor.

Obviously, the court did not make this issue clear.

It also did not clearly state that the order to reclaim waste salt meant that the ownership of the grass pond was given to the salt households by the court.

In fact, the court was so ambiguous, or Liu Yu deliberately did not explain the policy, in order to reduce the cost of the reclamation company.

Once the policy explanation is issued, and it is clear that the ownership of the grass marshes belongs to the salt households, then a large number of cover-ups will choose to refuse to sell the grass marshes and reclaim the wasteland themselves.

Liu Yu did not explain the policy, but he did not issue a policy saying that the grass marshes must not be given to the salt households.

This gave the reclamation company an opportunity to exploit loopholes.

They sent people to tell the salt households that had already negotiated: After the deed and the tax tickets are completed, they will be returned to you; the compensation promised to you will also be invalidated; we will not enclose this land, you can continue to make salt.

Because someone does not allow us to reclaim wasteland.

Here, enclosure and reclamation are cleverly tied together, as if only enclosure can be used to reclaim wasteland. This kind of binding narrative is very effective.

The cruelest thing in the world is not to fall into darkness forever from birth.

It is to give people hope and then let the hope be shattered.

It's like a blind person. Someone brought medicine to cure the blind person's eyes. The blind person saw the light for a moment and saw the colorful world, but the person who delivered the medicine said: Some people say that you should stay blind. Sorry.

Then the person who delivered the medicine blinded the person's eyes again.

From the beginning to the end, the decision-makers and professional managers of the reclamation company were very clear about their strategy.

It was also clear that their goal was to bankrupt these salt households who had turned into small farmers and take away their land in the future.

Because this was not the late Qing Dynasty, investors and hosts did not have the traditional sentiment of "saving the country through industry, developing agriculture and commerce, and carrying out education" that was the top scholar in the imperial examination.

This was the middle period of the Dashun period, when it was at its peak and the fire was boiling, and investors only had the sentiment of "profit".

But these salt households did not know the trap here, they only knew that they had to get rid of the fate of boiling salt.

Salt households were not afraid of hard work, but hard work could not bring money, and labor could not make them rich at all. They were really poor.

In theory, they could also cut the grass and reeds on the "unowned" land, boil private salt, and improve their lives.

But when the grassroots basically collapsed and the imperial power did not go down to the county, was there any "unowned" land?

Ownerless in law does not mean ownerless in reality.

When a poor person went to the mountain to chop wood and mow grass, he was beaten up and told that the mountain belonged to his family. This was difficult for later generations to understand and seemed to be false.

Because later generations could really implement that the mountain belonged to the country and the collective, not to individuals.

A new view that has been popularized for decades in later generations, but the people in the mountainous areas still cannot understand why it is wrong to reclaim wasteland and cut trees in the mountains at will?

Behind this is the unspoken rule consciousness of private property rights that has been hidden for more than a thousand years before - there is no public land, no public forests, no group property rights or state-owned property rights, only mine and others'.

In this old era, it is nonsense to only look at the law to reverse the logic of the bottom life.

The law says that grass marshes that do not pay for the grass marshes and do not have official seals cannot be moved.

But the result is that private salt is rampant in Huainan. Huainan has neither coal mines nor salt drying methods. How do these salts heat and crystallize?

These individual small salt households dare to go to the "unowned" land to mow grass and can be beaten half to death.

Even if they cook private salt themselves, there are still salt tyrants to oppress them.

Even though the salt tyrants here are all good people who don't bully locals, and are chivalrous, they still have to borrow money to survive after the famine.

The court, and even the emperor's treasury, have lent money to support the salt industry.

However, they will definitely choose to lend to merchants.

Because merchants can pay back the money. But small salt households and small farmers cannot pay back the money.

In the Song Dynasty, Qingmiao loans can theoretically rely on debt collection such as pulling cattle and selling land.

But what about small salt households? The grass marshes are not theirs, the stoves and ash pits are not theirs, but the court's. They have nothing, so how can they repay the money?

The reality is that the salt households controlled and recruited by the court often recruit 1,000, and after a few years, they run away and leave the registration, leaving only half of them struggling to support themselves.

The salt households that have come to the county now are salt households, and the salt households that came to the county a few days ago, but they are very different.

Now these salt households have the right to use the grass marshes and have completed their own lessons.

In other words, they can get compensation from the reclamation company and the promised land.

The reclamation company gave them a seemingly good hope, but in just a few days, it turned this hope into despair.

These salt households were naturally easily incited and organized to come to the county town to seek justice.

Before, they could not win the argument because they could only rely on themselves to fight against the salt tyrants and market merchants.

Now, standing behind them is a new capital group. This new group has money and gangsters at the bottom.

There is also a noble who supports them in the court, and a series of officials who support the reform.

They have no choice but to come to the county town to seek justice.

In a beautiful and colorful painting, the most useless thing seems to be the white paper that carries the color of the brushstrokes.

But without this most ordinary white paper, no matter how beautiful the lines are, there is no place to write.

These salt households are this white paper.

Those who oppose the salt reform and reclamation do not care about the survival of these salt households. Because these salt households are not suffering today, they have been suffering for hundreds of years, and there has never been a compassionate person who really tries to change the living conditions of the salt households.

Those who support the salt reform are even prepared to let these salt households go bankrupt in a few years and take over the land as hired workers. Because they are not reclaiming wasteland to improve the lives of salt households at all, but investing in reclamation for the sentence "the overseas market is in urgent need of cotton cloth, and the price of cotton will rise sharply this year."

Both sides just use these salt households to achieve their own goals.

The blank paper is already in place, it just depends on who wins in the end and who takes the pen to paint and transform it according to their needs.