New Shun 1730

But Liu Yu was also very clear-headed. Small vendors and small merchants could not be used. They could only be used to lay mines, and could not be used as the people's power to capture Kochi Castle.

These small merchants were cunning and mercenary, and the petty bourgeoisie were fanatical but not persistent. He did not want to build barricades, so he could not really mobilize them.

He still had to rely on the peasants outside the city who were watching the excitement and waiting for Liu Yu to burn the land deeds.

Everything he did in the city was not to win people's hearts, but to lay mines for the shogunate and daimyo. The premise of winning people's hearts is to stay here permanently, otherwise buying people's hearts is a losing business.

To win people's hearts, you rely on the benefits that can be seen with the naked eye.

To lay mines, you only need to create an untouchable "paradise".

Since it is to lay mines, whether this "paradise" can be realized is not important.

Catholicism can set off the Shimabara Rebellion, and he can also set off the Tosa Rebellion with the Confucianism of benevolence and righteousness.

Who will lend money when the shogunate and daimyo do not have a special loan department? Where can the funds of agricultural society be used when there is no investment except for lending and hoarding land? Liu Yu didn't care about these practical and realistic problems.

Anyway, most people at this time are ignorant. They care about intuitive feelings. Few people will use rationality to think whether these policies can be implemented or whether they are empty talk.

In order to bury the mines scary enough, some systematic theories are needed.

Liu Yu didn't know shit about Confucianism theory.

However, Wang Anshi of the Song Dynasty did. He was thoughtful and prepared. He immediately took out Wang Anshi's "New Interpretation of Zhou Li" and excerpted a whole set of systematic theories. Dashun already had a set of printed books. Most of the literate Japanese knew Chinese characters, so they could just distribute them directly.

"Diguan·Si Tu·Quanfu" said that it is in charge of collecting cloth from the market. Collect the unsold goods in the market and the goods that are stuck in the civilian use, buy them with their merchants, and write them down in the book to wait for those who buy them at an unexpected time. Buyers should follow their own prices, and those in the capital and the countryside should follow their masters. People in the suburbs should follow their officials before they are given. For those who buy on credit, sacrifices should not exceed ten days, and funerals should not exceed three months. For those who borrow money, they should discuss with their officials and grant them, and use the national service as interest. All the financial resources for state affairs should be collected there. At the end of the year, the income and expenditure should be collected and the rest should be paid.

This is the benevolent policy of the state to be responsible for loans, price balancing, and to support small merchants and small handicraftsmen with low-interest loans.

"The Land Official, the Minister of the Interior, and the Travel Master" says that the state is responsible for collecting the millet from the fields, the millet from the house, and the millet from the fields, and use them. It is used as collateral to attract the people, distribute them equally to build up their wealth, give them benefits, distribute their profits, and evenly distribute their policies. For all millet used, it is distributed in spring and collected in autumn. All the governance of the new people is allowed, so that there is no conscription, and it is done according to the beauty of the land.

This is the benevolent policy of suppressing wealthy merchants, lending money to farmers for seeds, and stabilizing prices.

In addition, Mencius's people-oriented thought, killing Jie and Zhou is killing tyrants, the theory of equality of the four classes of some schools of Dashun, etc., were all spread and distributed everywhere.

He wanted the shogunate to "take the dross and discard the essence" in the future, and use all the essence of the Confucian system for rebellion. The shogunate would only strictly ban religion and heresy, and even the "essence" of Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism might be removed by the shogunate.

If the shogunate could use the control power of banning religion, strictly control the spread of Confucianism other than Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism, and then completely feudalize Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism, Liu Yu felt that the books he bought for thousands of taels of silver would not be bought in vain.

Liu Yu thought to himself, you only think that Catholicism can be used to rebel and cause the Shimabara Rebellion, but you don't know that Confucianism can also find reasonable content to rebel. I will discipline you to run all the way on the road of "taking the dross and discarding the essence".

He talked about righteousness and theory with merchants, the literate class, and handicraftsmen.

There is no need to talk about righteousness and theory with illiterate farmers.

A big fire that burned the pledged land deed is more useful than anything else; a delicious white rice is more appealing than any righteousness.

Outside the castle town, more and more farmers came to watch the excitement, and their courage grew.

Liu Yu knew what they were looking forward to. When he captured the castle town, the farmers cheered for him in unison, which proved that the people's hearts could be used. The rest was just to stimulate these people's hearts.

He spent a lot of money to buy some rice from the rice shop at a fair price, hired some people, and buried pots in the vacant land east of the castle town to cook rice, inviting these farmers who grew their own rice but may not have had the opportunity to eat rice to eat white rice.

It is said that there was such a story that two daimyo fought, the city was besieged, and the besiegers were cut off from water. The horses in the city were bathed with white rice, but many soldiers outside had never seen so much rice in their lives, and they mistook the white rice for water. They thought that if the horses could be washed with water in the city, there must be a well, so they withdrew the siege.

Perhaps it was a bit exaggerated, and Liu Yu didn't believe it at first.

But when he saw a Japanese farmer who was less than 1.5 meters tall eat a pound of raw rice by himself after the rice was steamed, without even pickles, he felt that it might be true.

Rice is only one or two taels of silver per stone, and buying four or five hundred stones a day, ten or twenty thousand pounds, doesn't cost much.

If Kochi Castle can be captured, not counting the political significance and strategic impact behind it, I think there are so many wealthy merchants above, and if we only look at the gold and silver, we can guarantee a return on investment.

Since the day the castle town was captured, some farmers have been eating here, and now they have been eating for three days. With the spread of friends, more and more people come to eat.

After the farmers had eaten their fill, they read out the names of the small number of land deeds they had taken from the loan sharks in the castle town and burned them all.

Amid the thunderous cheers, there were still more farmers who were looking forward to it, because they had not received their land deeds yet. Those people were hiding in Kochi City.

Seeing that other people's land deeds were burned by fire, thinking that the people holding their pledge documents were still in Kochi City, many farmers looked at the distant Kochi City and thought that eating a full meal of white rice was like this.

If they could get back the pledged documents, if they could implement the benevolent policy of 30% tax, wouldn't they be able to eat white rice every day?

With the choking green mustard smeared on the corners of his eyes, Liu Yu made a final encouragement to these farmers who had eaten white rice for three days with tears in his eyes.

"People, the Celestial Empire is a country of etiquette. This time, we come only to show benevolence and justice and to implement benevolent policies. We will not take an inch of land."

"We have to leave after all. Even if we burn the land deeds and pledge documents today, even if we say 30% tax today, what if the samurai masters and lords regret it in the future?"

Those who have already received the documents suddenly felt cold in their hearts.

Yes, the Tang people are a benevolent and righteous army, and they will not take an inch of land. What should we do after the Tang people leave?

Those wealthy merchants have close relations with the feudal lords. Will the samurai masters allow them to pay only one-thirtieth of the tribute?

Even if they get the pledge documents, can't they still ask for them back in the future?

Thousands of people knelt on the ground and petitioned loudly: "Please stay, sir! Please stay, sir!"

"How can the lord be benevolent?"

"Please don't leave, sir. If you leave, what should we ordinary people do?"

Liu Yu "shed tears" and said: "I have my own benevolence. If I stay, wouldn't it be to take the land? How can I be untrustworthy?"

"How about this, wait for me to capture Kochi Castle and arrest your lord's retainers and those wealthy merchants. I will guarantee that they will not violate the benevolent rule and will not take back your land. How about it?"

"To capture Kochi Castle, you don't need to fight. I will get back everything you deserve for you. Although you don't need to fight, you need to pick up your farm tools and help me. Is that okay?"

The people who had already been disappointed rekindled their hope at this time.

Since the Tang people can guarantee, perhaps the benevolent rule that the Tang people talked about can really be realized.

The gentleman in front of me is such a good man, so honest, so trustworthy, and he also has an army that can beat the arrogant samurai masters into a pulp. With such a person as a guarantor, what else is there to worry about?

The taste of white rice is really great.

If the benevolent government mentioned by the Tang people can really be implemented, we can eat white rice every day in the future.

As long as these Tang people can capture Kochi Castle, capture the samurai close retainers of the feudal lord, and capture those wealthy merchants, and sign a contract with them, not allowing them to exploit, I believe the feudal lords and samurai masters will definitely abide by it, right?

Samurai, also have their glory, and isn’t integrity one of them?

As long as these Tang people guarantee, not only can the benevolent government be guaranteed, but the lords and samurai masters will not pursue the matter again, which is great.

Recalling the feeling of eating a full meal of white rice again, thousands of farmers said: "Please make the decision, sir! We are willing to do it."

Seeing that people's hearts were willing, Liu Yu said seriously: "Okay, those who are willing can bring farm tools tomorrow. If there are women in the family, they can weave bamboo baskets and wooden baskets at night. Each price will be paid immediately."

"Everyone go back to your village and hometown, and spread what I said today."

"It's June now, and the rice will be ripe soon. If it can be done, you can eat white rice every meal this year!"

At the command, thousands of farmers rushed home.

Or ask women to weave bamboo baskets and straw baskets overnight; or call friends to publicize what they have experienced in the past few days; or quietly take out the rice balls hidden in their arms and share them with women and children at home.

After these Japanese villagers left, the officers became excited. In their eyes, as long as a few thousand people come tomorrow, they can fill the trenches and swamps within a day.

And that was almost the only obstacle to capturing Kochi Castle.

Only a few kind-hearted officers sighed and shook their heads, saying, "Why did you lie to them, sir? Even if you force those people to sign the contract, can you really forgive them? Can you really tax 1 in 30?"

"We have also studied the Japanese system in the past few days. Let alone 1 in 30, even if it is 2 in 10, I am afraid that the Japanese cannot support so many samurai."

"Our dynasty also knows the lessons of the previous dynasty. Soldiers are recruited and must be paid enough. If the soldiers are not stable, the ancestral temple will be destroyed. The Japanese are not stupid, and the samurai are not military households and serfs. How could they not even understand this truth? Under the separation of farmers and soldiers, if you are kind to farmers, you will be unkind to samurai. If the samurai are unstable, the country will be in chaos. The Japanese will never allow it, nor will they. I can agree to it. "

"Why don't you just follow the Japanese master's advice and divide the grain from Juqiao and the wealth from Lutai? Our army is strong, and the Japanese people can see it. As long as we raise our arms, they will follow us. "

Liu Yu laughed and shook his head and said, "The peasants are very cunning. Unless they can't survive, who will rebel? Haven't you heard that people have always rebelled against treacherous officials but not against incompetent emperors? Don't you read "Water Margin"? King Zhao is good, and Gao Qiu is bad. "

"The people of the Celestial Empire have rich experience in rebellion. Han Gao and Ming Zu were both commoners and achieved great success. There are also books such as "Water Margin" circulating, and "Journey to the West" even bluntly said that they would dare to pull down the emperor at the cost of their lives. The Japanese have no such experience in rebellion, and they are lucky and fantasize. "

"The Celestial Empire has its own national conditions here, and Japan has its own national conditions there, so how can we not be flexible?"

"Since they have illusions, then we should go along with them. Just say that we will sign a contract as a guarantor, and they will dare to come. If we say that we will punish the tyrannical king, they will be willing to come for food, but they may not dare to come to do anything."