Although Zhu Hongsan was like Zhu Yuanzhang, he was born in the market and used to be a hooligan, but he was different from what Zhu Yuanzhang faced. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang started from scratch. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, a large number of people died due to wars, plague and other disasters. Large areas of grain-producing areas such as Central Plains and Nanzhili were all homeless wasteland. At this time, just draw big cakes for his generals. Follow me, what will happen if you win? How much land you have, it’s not his. It’s okay to say it.

But Zhu Hongsan couldn't do this. He came to Guangdong. There was no big war here. At most, some refugees in the north made some bandits and bullies, and a large area of ​​cultivated land was firmly in the hands of Guangdong gentry. Zhu Hongsan did not come to Guangdong alone. A large number of Huguang gentry followed him to Guangdong. These people were the foundation of Zhu Hongsan. Zhu Hongsan also wanted to draw big cakes for them for himself.

This is also the main reason why local gentry did not support him when Zhu Hongsan first arrived in Guangdong. However, with Chen Zizhuang joining, Guangdong gentry began to slowly change his attitude towards Zhu Hongsan. Of course, this was inseparable from Zhu Hongsan's giving up a large number of factories and the operating rights of shops. However, after all, Guangdong gentry's attitude changed. However, with the Qing army entering Huguang, Jiangxi and Nanzhili in recent years, a large number of refugees from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River entered Guangdong. These people brought a large amount of labor to Zhu Hongsan, and also brought social turmoil. In recent years, the northern refugees have moved south for four to five million. You should know that in the past, the population of a province in Guangdong was less than ten million, so one-third of the population was foreign population.

These people have to eat and work when they come to Guangdong, but Guangdong is different from fish and rice towns such as Nanzhili and Huguang. Except for the Pearl River Estuary, other places in Guangdong are hilly, and there is very little land suitable for reclaiming, and most of the mature land is occupied by Guangdong gentry.

When Huguang sent few people in the past, Zhu Hongsan could suppress them, but with the increase of refugees from the south, a large number of gentry from Huguang, Jiangxi and Nanzhili went south one after another. These people were not landless farmers. They were all famous and had a much higher status than these local rich men in Guangdong. After they arrived in Guangdong, they needed political resources and land resources, but now there are large pieces of land in Guangdong for them. After these gentry from the south discovered that they were suppressed by these local rich men in Guangdong, they immediately united with foreign leaders led by Ma Mingyuan and Tong Yangjia, which led to a significant increase in the power of the Huguang faction, which was originally suppressed by Prime Minister Chen Zizhuang, and finally Zhu Hongsan also wanted to find a way to appease these gentry from the south.

Zhu Hongsan had no choice. Guangdong is so big and there is only so much land. Now there is a table of food but three tables of guests come. If Zhu Hongsan now has 300,000 new troops, there is no need to worry about these. Just go directly to the northern expedition. There is a large area of ​​wasteland in the north to satisfy the appetite of these gentry. However, Zhu Hongsan's new army used weapons that exceeded the productivity of this era, so the equipment cost could not be reduced. Although the production of weapons used steam engines, it was restricted by the technology, artillery, muskets and other weapons produced by this era was very high. Zhu Hongshen's new army used weapons that exceeded the productivity of this era.

San calculated that it would take fifty farmers to support a musketeer. Zhu Hongsan now has 100,000 new troops in his hands, which would require 5 million farmers to support them. Although Guangdong now has more than 13 million people, wouldn’t it cost money in other aspects? Commerce, industry, officials, and infrastructure projects all require a large population. If Zhu Hongsan had not brought a large amount of rice from Luzon and Annan in recent years, and with the large hilly land in Guangdong planted sweet potatoes and corn, Zhu Hongsan’s Guangdong regime would have been dragged down by the new army.

Five million refugees came to Guangdong, and each of them only paid 30% of the land rent, and five years later these lands would be their own. However, local tenants in Guangdong did not have such treatment. They rented land owners' land rent to 60%, and the highest was 70%. Seeing that refugees were more than half less than their own land rent, a large number of tenants fled one after another, and the relatively stable environment in Guangdong became unstable.

Zhu Hongsan was at the critical moment of confrontation with the Qing Dynasty in the north, which could make his base in Guangdong unstable, so he had long wanted to rectify these local gentry in Guangdong. The Guangzhou incident happened in February. Zhu Hongsan took this opportunity to use the Jinyiwei and Dongchang controlled by the Huguang faction to fabricate some false charges and bring some little landlords who had no fame to Luzon to mine. Their land became Zhu Hongsan's official property, and then distributed these land to local tenants in Guangdong.

This is possible for small landlords without roots and Wuping, but this is not possible for big landlords with fame. If they are killed without discrimination, these guys will go to Fujian and Jiangxi to introduce the Qing army to Guangdong the next day. In the face of their own interests, all the family and country are beautiful.

The method Zhu Hongsan adopted for these big landlords was to redeem them, use some factories he controlled to allow these landlords to invest in the land, and give them all unimportant industries to the landlords. However, they had to hand over two-thirds of the land of each company, and the remaining one-third would also reduce the land rent to 30%. The 20% of the land lost by the landlords were compensated by Zhu Hongsan with physical sugar, salt and other industrial products, but it was only three years, and it would be completely reduced to 30% in three years.

In this way, Zhu Hongsan had a large amount of land in his hands. After being distributed to some foreign gentry, he could also resettle millions of refugees. Zhu Hongsan lost a large number of factories. In order to appease Guangdong and foreign gentry, Zhu Hongsan even divided the sugar workshop and salt farm in Leizhou. There was no major change in Guangdong under this arrangement. However, Guangdong's gentry still suffered a little loss, but within the scope of tolerance, they naturally had some resentment in their hearts.

However, when Ganzhou defeated, the powerful combat power of the new army spread to Guangdong, and this resentment was gone. Because Zhu Hongsan let them see hope, Ganzhou had less than 10,000 new army, and he won 100,000 Qing army head-on. This was a victory that the Ming Dynasty had not had in the past 50 years, and it also allowed everyone to see hope for a successful Northern Expedition.

Zhu Hongsan also knew that these guys were angry, and even Chen Zizhuang, who was still honest, was a little dissatisfied. After all, his family took out two-thirds of the land this time, with tens of thousands of acres of land. But there was no way, and they could not talk to them in the face of such things. The emperor and the officials were naturally in opposition. In order to maintain their own rule, the emperor must ensure that the people of the world must have food to eat. However, the officials didn't care about these. They were just a group of workers. Their ate ditch was full of trenches and trenches, so they were responsible for your life and death. If the country was not good, they would say that the emperor was a fool, and we should choose good birds and trees to live in. The peace of the world was said that the emperor was a loser. Now the peace of the world was the credit of our literati.

Zhu Hongsan did admit that these stinky old men had a way to govern the country. The Ming Dynasty's great development of the civil economy, culture and population during the Jiajing and Wanli periods was related to the fact that the emperor did not attend court at that time and the government entrusted these stinky old men to the stinky old men to entrust them. However, at critical moments, these guys were going to hold back. For example, now, the Qing Dynasty was about to attack at home, and some people wanted to send troops to destroy Zhu Youlang from Guangxi first, gain absolute political authority, and then concentrate on the strength of Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou, and other places to fight with all their strength in the northern expedition.

Zhu Hongsan is now sitting on the dragon throne, looking at Huang Yingxiu below talking, whether he should say anything or not, these stinky old ninths are really good. If Zhu Hongsan hadn't known history, they would have been a little moved by them.

In history, these guys were also the ones who, after Guangzhou supported Emperor Shaowu ascended the throne, immediately fought with Zhu Youlang from Guangxi for whom the boss was the boss. As a result, Li Chengdong took advantage of the situation and occupied Guangzhou. The unlucky emperor Zhu Youlang fled to Yunnan. If it weren't for the Western Army such as Li Dingguo and others who defected to Zhu Youlang later, the Southern Ming Dynasty might have ended here.

Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan thought to himself, would he send someone to contact Li Dingguo? If he brought hundreds of thousands of Western Army to his side, Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan could get it without a single soldier, saving himself a lot of effort. Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan decided to arrange for Qian Fatty to send someone to contact Li Dingguo after the court meeting.

Zhu Hongsan was in the sky above, and Huang Yingxiu below was also talking about the benefits of quelling Zhu Youlang's rebellion first. In fact, what Huang Yingxiu said was also reasonable. Now the two emperors of the Ming Dynasty were in power, and there were no two kings, so that some of the Ming Dynasty controlled the two ends of the area. He Tengjiao from Huguang bets on both sides. He nominally surrendered to Zhu Youlang, but had contact with the Guangdong Shenwu regime in private. If Zhu Hongsan sent troops to destroy Zhu Youlang, he would force He Tengjiao to be unable to step on two ships, and the Shenwu regime could also obtain several manpower and material resources.

But Zhu Hongsan is not a slut who doesn't understand. Not to mention whether the first escape expert Zhu Youlang can honestly wait for him to catch him, as Huang Yingxiu said, Zhu Youlang was caught in Guilin, but now the provinces that Nanming can control are only a few prefectures in Guangdong, Guangxi and Huguang. Guangxi is now different from later generations. There are chieftains everywhere in this place, and the Han population is not as large as Guangzhou. What are the things to occupy it? In order to prevent the chieftain from rebelling, Zhu Hongsan also sent troops to suppress the chieftain. Now there is only one regiment in Wuzhou. If Guangxi is occupied, it will not be able to suppress it. Zhu Hongsan estimated that in order to prevent the chieftain from rebelling, he must also be on guard against the Qing army in Sichuan.
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