New Shun 1730

"Don't you want benevolence and righteousness? Do you want to control the people's livelihood? Or do you want to compete with the people for profits? Do you want to maintain the traditional salt law?"

"Okay, I am more benevolent, more ancient, more protective of the people, more stable for the people, and a tighter chain than you."

"Master Lin needs to understand that these salt merchants who are opposed now have no intention at all to truly control the people's property, prohibit deregistration, and strictly control it."

"What they object to is the encirclement of terra nullius."

"But Mr. Lin can carry the banner of benevolence and righteousness. He must recruit Zao Ding to all the terra nullius lands and dispose of them all. No private occupation is allowed."

"All Zao residents are registered. If you want to deregister, the Caodang will be taken back; all merchants will follow the Salt Law and are not allowed to occupy the Caodang, and will be ordered to return or confiscate; the imperial court will take over the salt industry and restore the system of the founding of the Ming Dynasty. , strengthen personal control; check the grass ponds, increase the court number, recruit ordinary people to fill the positions, and do not allow others to cut the grass..."

"Do you think, at this point, these salt households will directly kill those who spoke for them before? Will they burn down their houses and beat to death those who shouted benevolence and justice?"

"Originally, who was in conflict with whom? At this point, it became a conflict between who and whom? Originally, it was Shioto's Confucian scholar's cry to avenge his injustice, and the two joined forces, but now what?"

After saying that, Liu Yu laughed and said: "I am responsible for being unkind and unjust, and Mr. Lin is responsible for being benevolent and righteous. You have to know that conservatives hate both progressives and reactionaries. Reaction is also reform, and it also wants to change the status quo. They It doesn’t matter if you go forward or backward, if you move, they will object.”

"It's just that they are obviously conservatives, but they are holding high the banner of reaction. In that case, why doesn't Mr. Lin carry the banner of reaction?"

Lin Min pondered these words for a while and asked curiously: "Then, who are the real reactionaries?"

Liu Yu said with a smile: "Those who are really prepared to restore the minefields, reaffirm their status, and establish themselves as craftsmen, those are the real reactionaries. They are really prepared to do this, but those who talk about Confucian benevolence and righteousness to suppress others, But they are just reactionaries in words and conservatives in practice.”

"So, if necessary, I can write a letter to Cheng Tingzuo and ask him to summon the radical disciples of the Yan-Li School. There is a strong trend of 'taking advantage of all the wells, and equalizing all the wells' in Jiangsu. This is called the real system. The people have constant wealth, benevolence, justice and etiquette.”

Lin Min thought about it for a while and felt that this idea was really too vicious.

After thinking about it for a while, he suddenly said: "According to the classification of reactionary, conservative and progressive by the Duke, I am actually a conservative?"

Liu Yu laughed and said: "What do you think? Your salt policy reform did not increase salt production and did not adjust the relationship between salt production and traders."

"Didn't I tell you earlier that you changed your plan into a vote? It means equalizing land, annexing and then equalizing land. You are just tinkering with this plan, just changing the group of people to make the money. If you change it like this, The ticket sellers of ten years will be the hoarders of yesterday. This shows that you are not a progressive.”

"So, do you support a comprehensive reaction, restoring the well fields, restoring the distinction between scholars and merchants, and restoring the Zhou rites? Obviously, you don't support it either."

"So obviously you are a conservative."

At this time, these words have no special meaning, and conservative is a very good word.

Because progressives have no conscience; reactionaries have no brains.

This is almost a generally accepted evaluation within the imperial court.

Although there is no specific vocabulary, the court must understand the difference between Liu Yu and Furu.

Only by being realistic and conservative can we judge which one is counter-movement and which one is moving forward. The positioning of reaction and progress also changes with the reality of the times.

Lin Min was very satisfied with Liu Yu's label of being a conservative. She thought to herself that if you classified me as a so-called progressive like you, I wouldn't be happy. I can't afford to embarrass that person, and I can't afford to offend my own conscience. .

However, based on the reasoning of the reverse training method mentioned by Liu Yu, Lin Min also believed that doing so seemed to be able to minimize the disturbance and turn it into a situation that did not kill people but only hurt people's hearts in the end.

The two discussed the specific details for a while, and after coming up with a general charter, they jointly wrote a secret memorial to the emperor.

It can be said that Liu Yu asked Lin Min to sign and pledge, so as not to cause a rebound in the middle.

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A few days later, a group of strange people appeared in the local county.

They are all old people, and they are the kind of old people who look like they have worked hard all their lives. They are only in their fifties, but they have been tortured as if they were seventy-eight years old in a pampered home.

These old men, over forty years old, were all wearing the most decent and clean clothes they would have worn when preparing to die and be buried.

That is, while they are still alive, they first put on the shrouds they prepared.

As soon as he entered the county town, he started crying and shouting that he was wronged.

There were four or five scholars following in the crowd, and the leading elders held the papers and headed towards the county government office.

The people in the city, if they were not busy, would all follow to see the excitement and follow behind, heading towards the county government office.

These more than 40 old people walked, cried, and told their grievances in local dialects.

Only then did the people in the county know the grievances of these people, and every one of them was filled with anger. When they thought about the oppression and exploitation they suffered in daily life, they suddenly felt that the world was coming to an end.

In the world of Lang Lang, there was such a thing that was threatening people to death, so they all started making noises.

A young man with a good reputation among the old men gritted his teeth and spoke loudly about the injustices suffered by these old men and the Zao households they represented.

"The reclamation company took those deeds and said that the only grass marsh that these stove owners could have is no longer theirs."

"They want to fill up all the stove pits and occupy the land without paying a penny!"

"They also said that they must move out within two months. Not only do they have to move their people and houses, but they also have to move their ancestral graves!"

Other things are fine, but when they heard that they were forced to move their ancestral graves, all the people who followed were furious, and their anger soared to the sky.

The lethality of this sentence is too great.

The first mutiny of the Dashun Navy was caused by whether to bury the dead in the sand of the cabin or throw them directly into the sea.

And this sentence about forcing people to move their ancestral graves immediately ignited everyone's emotions.

As for whether this is true or false...

The naval regulations formulated by Liu Yu require sea burials. That is because in ocean-going operations, some dead bodies are put in the cabin. That is because they are afraid that the current mortality rate of nearly 10% of long-distance voyages is low, and they are preparing to raise it back to 50%.

The people of the reclamation company are not good people, but at least they are still Dashun people.

The people of the reclamation company are not ignorant of the sin and hatred of moving people's ancestral graves.

This is not a revelation of conscience, but the reclamation company is profitable by farming. If they really want to force people to move their ancestral graves, they will set fire when the cotton is ripe, and the planned large-scale farmland is thousands of acres. When the time comes, I don’t know where to cry.

The contradiction is big enough, and now there is nothing to do to add some fuel to themselves?

However, things like truth and falsehood are not very meaningful.

What is important is extreme lies, which are most likely to ignite people’s emotions.

The people in the county town look at these old stoves who have worked hard all their lives but have such poor burial clothes. These vendors and citizens in the county town are all moved.

These old stoves also directly spread the word.

If the county magistrate does not handle it impartially and does not give them justice, they will crash into the county government. Anyway, the burial clothes have been put on.

Anyway, if he didn't die in front of the county government office, he would starve to death after his land was seized. He would die sooner or later, so it's better to die in a shocking way.

In fact, many scholars have prepared to write articles in advance to praise the death of these people. Many people were inspired and felt that when the article came out, it would surely be famous in Yangzhou.

In the county government office, the local county magistrate did not panic at all after hearing the news.

Because he knew that something would happen sooner or later, and he had already made sufficient psychological preparations.

In general, he could not be found for the affairs of the salt households, and there were special salt administrations to take care of them.

But since the reclamation of wasteland began here, the county magistrate understood that this matter would definitely come to his side.

Besides, something had happened before, and Liu Yu had already informed him before.

Although Liu Yu did not say hello this time, the Jiedushi did. He knew what to do.

Things would happen sooner or later, and if they did, it would be good, saving a lot of worries.

He calmly went to court, calmly took the complaint, and then calmly slammed the gavel.

"In the bright and clear world, how can there be such a shocking thing?"

"Since I know it, how can I ignore it? Don't worry, if this is true, I will give you justice!"

"Come on, go to the reclamation company and bring the people from the reclamation company."

"Three days later, in the city, I will judge this case! No matter who is behind this reclamation company, I only know the law and the court!"

After saying this, there was thunderous cheers.

"The great magistrate!"

"The great magistrate!"

Amid the cheers, the county magistrate immediately sent out the yamen runners and went to the reclamation company to arrest the people involved in the case, claiming that he would give these stove owners some explanation.

The people knew who was behind this reclamation company.

Originally, I thought the local county magistrate was just an ordinary person, who was corrupt and took bribes and imposed extra charges, but I didn't expect him to be a man of iron will.

It is true that strong winds reveal strong grass, and turbulent times reveal loyal ministers!

Everyone thought that if the reclamation company that committed heinous crimes and wanted to dig up people's ancestral graves was really punished, then the county magistrate would also deserve the title of the Qingtian Dajun. Who is not greedy when being an official? Although he may not be very honest on weekdays, when it comes to things, he really dares to stand up and speak for the people, and greed is nothing. It's the same for others.

The few calls of Qingtian Dajun were sincere. More people were full of expectations for the trial three days later.

However, they didn't know.

The reason why this county magistrate dared to be the Qingtian Dajun was because the Jiedushi told him that he could be the Qingtian Dajun; Liu Yu also said hello that he could be the Qingtian Dajun.

As for how to be the Qingtian Dajun, the county magistrate was not worried.

Since he has been told that he can be the Qingtian Dajun, then he should be the Qingtian Dajun normally. They will prepare means to make him both the Qingtian Dajun and get things done.

As for what is called a Qingtian Daren, there is actually a set of simple procedures, and there is no need for the Jiedushi to specifically tell you what to do.

Most of the time, the reason for not being a Qingtian Daren is either not wanting to be one or not daring to be one, but there is no one who can't be one.

There is a very simple way to be a Qingtian Daren, which is to grasp that "when the people and the students are in a lawsuit, they must side with the people; when the students and the gentry are in a lawsuit, they must side with the students; when the gentry and the ministers are in a lawsuit, they must side with the gentry", which is a short-cut.

In this era, the Qingtian Daren must never uphold the law and cannot act in accordance with the law. Because this is an old society of cannibalism, and acting in accordance with the law is equivalent to helping cannibalism most of the time.

However, the latter has a lower priority than the former.

Since the Jiedushi and Liu Yu have both said hello, the county magistrate feels that he has made a big profit.

He has gained a reputation for being a man who dares to confront the powerful, and the people will surely give him the umbrella in the future.