Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 154
Bai Mingxiu planned to return to Guangdong as soon as possible, start to rectify the army, and march towards the south of the Yangtze River.There are no decent Qing army enemies in the southwest. Basically, Li Dingguo's generals occupy a place as soon as they go.

However, to Bai Mingxiu's displeasure, even though the Kuidong Thirteen Family had listened to Li Dingguo's call and assisted the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army to contain Li Guoying's soldiers and horses, after the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army entered Chengdu, Bai Mingxiu used the crown prince to supervise him. In the name of the country, the thirteen generals of the Kuidong family were ordered to come to Chengdu to be transferred, and the troops accepted the adaptation of Jin Wang Li Dingguo, but the generals of the peasant army headed by Hao Yaoqi and Liu Tichun chose to say no to our crown prince.

Speaking of which, in fact, Hao Yaoqi had an intersection with Bai Mingxiu's cheap father Yongli Emperor back then. When the Yongli court was first established, he had Hao Yaoqi's support. He was still holding Emperor Yongli in Guangxi for a while. Later, under the influence of factional disputes within the Nanming Dynasty, Hao Yaoqi led his troops to leave the Nanming court and came to the land of eastern Sichuan and western Hubei to join other tribes of the Peasant Army. Together with the Ming army led by Wang Guangxing and some landlord armed forces, Eventually formed the current Kuidong Thirteen Family.

Basically, the peasant army retained a certain degree of independence after uniting with the Ming Dynasty to fight against the Qing Dynasty due to the situation, and there was no way to fully trust Nanming.After all, Chongzhen hanged himself on Meishan Mountain, which was forced by the Dashun Army.At that time, the Qu Shixu faction in the Nanming court was the "remnant party of gentlemen in Donglin". The remaining party seriously opposed the alliance with the peasant army, and even eliminated them quickly.

The Kuidong Thirteen Families naturally have no sense of trust in the Nanming forces. It doesn't matter whether Qu Shixu is in charge or the current Bai Mingxiu is in charge.

What's more, the prince Jianguo didn't say anything euphemistically at all. He directly conveyed the meaning that he wanted the generals of the peasant army to come to Chengdu for transfer, and he didn't even say polite words like being appointed. I want to take over the tens of thousands of horses and accept the adaptation on the spot.

How could the Peasant Army accept this, so they naturally chose to refuse.

Although they all resisted the Qing Dynasty, at least the Kuidong Shisan family in Maolu Mountain can still be regarded as the king of the mountain, barely getting by.But who knows that after going to Chengdu, this murderous Crown Prince will kill all the remnants of Li Zicheng in order to pay homage to the late emperor Chongzhen?No one can guarantee it.

Bai Mingxiu was too lazy to talk to these people, he had to do one day's work in Chengdu.He was not just showing off, so he set up a stall on the streets of Chengdu openly and aboveboard, telling the people all over Chengdu that the Prince of Ming Dynasty is here, and he wants to listen to the sufferings of the people. Everyone can talk to the Prince about any problems and difficulties. The Prince and everyone Discuss how to solve it.

Anyway, the forces of the Qing army have been completely wiped out by him, and Bai Mingxiu is really not afraid of assassinations (he has a thick skin), so he dares to do this.

At first, the people in Chengdu were not sure what the trick was. Knowing that a family was about to die of starvation, they begged the crown prince to give them a bowl of rice. The crown prince even gave the family a bag of rice and distributed it among them. the fields.

The prince shouted loudly on the street: "Fathers and fellow villagers, I know that everyone's life is difficult now. There are abandoned lands everywhere outside the city, but everyone can't even get enough rations. They need to sell their sons and daughters. There is no rations. It can't be farmed either. It can be seen that Li Guoying, the bullshit governor of the Tartars, is extremely unqualified to govern Sichuan! Here, I, Zhu Cixuan, propose a solution to everyone. Now the Ming Dynasty has started to promote "agricultural production cooperatives" throughout the country. It is led by the government and spontaneously organized by the people. Management, the government allocated fields to everyone, and everyone joined together, and the prestigious old people in the cooperative coordinated with them to distribute food rations and arrange farming work in a unified way, so that everyone could help each other and produce together. The government gave cooperatives Distribute grain seeds and fertilizers, and reduce or exempt agricultural taxes for cooperatives, so that everyone can accumulate a little more grain. Later, the grain company under the government will buy the prolific grain at market price and exchange it for everyone. In short, Daming can’t See any of the people starve to death or freeze to death."

Bai Mingxiu said this with sincerity. He has a good image, but his figure is still low. In addition, there was a previous act of donating food, which immediately won the trust of many refugees.

Many people knelt down and kowtowed to Bai Mingxiu, crying: "Prince benevolent, Bodhisattva is reincarnated!"

Bai Mingxiu called out again: "Dear fellow villagers, if you don't have property or land, please bring your family to register. There will be civil servants here to allocate land to you and arrange entry into the cooperative. After you register, you can go there to live and farm immediately." Tian, ​​we will distribute rations to those who don’t have them, and we will solve them for those who have difficulties.”

Sure enough, someone came out and started counting people, registering them, and arranging for the distribution of food. Every time, a group of dozens of families filled up the quota of a cooperative, and began to take their families to resettle their families under the escort of the soldiers. Village.

At the beginning, many people were hesitant and worried, but gradually everyone believed in the prince.Many people received rations, formed cooperatives, and were taken to villages that had been emptied of houses, and each family received new fields.

They were told that the cooperative should hold regular general meetings, and everyone discusses various important events.The secretary of the cooperative is generally an old and capable middle-aged person who can report their situation to the government and receive regular distribution of materials and so on.There are also many cooperatives that help one family. In addition to the grain fields cultivated by each family, the members of the cooperative also allocate part of their labor to plant the cooperative's cash crops, or cultivate the communal fields if they have spare capacity.The communal land is distributed according to work first, and a certain proportion is divided equally.

It can be said that in the situation of restoring production and helping vulnerable small-scale farmers to fight against famine and natural disasters, the agricultural cooperatives supported by the authorities are completely a revolutionary and vigorous production relationship system.Bai Mingxiu can simply take advantage of the cooperativeization of the Sichuan population, and inject official power into the reform of agricultural technology, so as to rejuvenate the productivity of this land of abundance.

Even more powerful, Bai Mingxiu arranged for a group of intern cadres trained by the Guangdong Cadre School to gradually come to Sichuan to work at the grassroots level.Although there are only more than 200 people in this batch of cadres, they are already very valuable.

After the system gave Bai Mingxiu a discount, Bai Mingxiu also recruited a large number of E-level ordinary government affairs talents, and directly threw them in Sichuan for use.After all, Li Dingguo is a military talent, and he is not good at managing politics. As the commander of the Southwest Military Region, King Jin has actually been separated from government affairs.Li Dingguo has no problem with this, after all, he recognizes the prince's ability to make troubles.

When he was in Myanmar, Wu Min, the official of the crown prince, squeezed out the local power to the limit. Now Myanmar has not only provided Nanming with 20 soldiers, but also provided 100 shi of grain, and up to [-] million taels of food in the past year. trade income.Even so, Burmese people generally believe that their life is much better than during the reign of the Toungoo Dynasty, and U Min enjoys a high reputation locally.

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