Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 300 Yuan Maogong

The power of the White Lotus Sect in the Ming and Qing dynasties was actually very weak. Except for a few relatively large-scale White Lotus Sect uprisings in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, it was controlled by the government at other times.It was the same in the early Qing Dynasty. It was not until the Jiaqing period that the Qing Dynasty's military equipment was abolished, and the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion was basically dead.

After all, during this period, only through the influence of the secret association of the White Lotus Sect, there was no program of struggle, no common interests, and no strong organization. , there is no way.

Jiang Guozhu didn't have any troops at all, but he could easily deal with the Bagua Sect.The power of the Bagua Sect itself is not great, with only a hundred thousand followers, and the so-called guardian army created by the disturbance is only a few hundred people, and the weapons are not equipped.

It's entirely because Liu Zuochen himself is too ambitious, even lost his mind, thinking that he can gain a foothold in the troubled times, and he doesn't know much about real war.I feel that the Qing army, which looked powerful in the past, was beaten to pieces, and I can do it myself.

Unexpectedly, the Han Army Banner and Green Battalion led by Jiang Guozhu didn't even have many firearms. They just rushed in formation and beat Liu Zuochen's "guardian army" of the gossip sect to the point of crying.

Jiang Guozhu cooperated with Li Dingguo very honestly, and the army led by Li Dingguo took over all parts of Shandong very smoothly.Today's Great Ming Fuguo Army has good conditions that it didn't have before. The strong force can not only be used on the battlefield, but also accept ideological education. The strong-willed, loyal and reliable Daming Fuguo Army is actually a He is helping Bai Mingxiu with political work and grassroots management.

Along with Li Dingguo, Yuan Maogong, the provincial governor appointed by the Lizhengyuan, entered Lu.Yuan Maogong was originally an official of the Qing Dynasty. He was the governor of Yunnan during the period of Wu Sangui.

Yuan Maogong refused to work for Nanming at the beginning. Later, Bai Mingxiu occupied Guangdong, and Yuan Maogong was also sent to Guangdong.This job opened Yuan Maogong's eyes to many new policies and new ideas of Nanming. Finally, Bai Mingxiu wrote him a personal letter. Yuan Maogong was "greatly moved" and wanted to repay his kindness. .

That's right, even if the prince wrote a letter, he would not be exempted from taking the exam. Yuan Maogong still studied hard in the Imperial College for three months, completed the final exam, and received an first-class evaluation before he officially became a prince. A Ming civil servant.

After Yuan Maogong served as the magistrate of Leizhou, he took office for one year. Not only was the livelihood of the people stable in his tenure, but also the water conservancy construction was successful. What was valued by the Lizhengyuan was that he actively contacted the technicians of Daming, opened a number of factories and mines in the territory, and Several factories were opened, and even actively developed ports, seeking funds from the province and the central government, expanding ports, and participating in maritime trade.

So Yuan Maogong also won a first-class evaluation during his tenure as the magistrate of Leizhou.After the preliminary assessment by the Lizhengyuan, he was recruited to come to Shanghai, and first hung up a post at the Lizhengyuan Economic Development Committee. After Yuan Maogong learned about the operation of the Lizhengyuan, the Lizhengyuan gave him a promotion. Became the governor of Shandong Province, the real official of the frontier.

From the governor of Yunnan to the governor of Shandong today, it took Yuan Maogong two years to climb back again, which shows that his ability is indeed powerful.

Yuan Maogong still has the temperament of a traditional old-school literati. In fact, he is not used to directly writing official documents in vernacular.He is dressed in formal attire, has short hair, and wears a pair of glasses. At first glance, he looks like an official in the Republic of China.

He said to Li Dingguo: "King Jin, according to the instructions of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Lizhengyuan, Shandong will initially rely on military management, and each government will station a regiment of troops, and actually participate in local public security and administrative management, especially at the grassroots level. The construction of our country cannot do without our comrades going to the countryside.”

At the beginning, Yuan Maogong was very uncomfortable with this set of procedures.But gradually Yuan Maogong, a smart man, was able to feel why Bai Mingxiu wanted to destroy the original rural structure and take the current agricultural cooperative as the ruling unit.

Although most regions are still exempt from taxes, data from the National Grain Corporation shows that after the agricultural integration, the grain output and income of almost every region have increased tremendously!Since the Rural Cooperative Medical System directly corresponds to the State Grain Corporation, one of the core agricultural policies of the Ming Dynasty is unified purchase and underwriting of sales. All grain transactions other than those of state-owned agricultural products companies are illegal.Therefore, the products of the rural cooperative medical system are directly handed over to the State Grain Corporation for purchase at a unified purchase price. This purchase also has certain compulsory requirements. Small farmers under the natural economy naturally have the need to store grain and resist disasters. In the old feudal economic system, Next, they could not hoard surplus food because it would be taken away by landlords and officials.Now that they have produced a large amount of surplus food, the first thing they do is to hoard it to deal with possible disasters or to prepare for future increases in population.

But this is obviously not in line with the national interests of Ming Dynasty at this stage. In fact, the same thing happened in the plane of Bai Mingxiu before he traveled, and he also experienced the same experience in the early days of liberation.Bai Mingxiu is familiar with the history books and knows everything clearly, so he came up with the big killer of unified purchase and marketing - after confirming that the farmers can keep enough food and seed grain for their own food and clothing, the agricultural cooperatives are forced to purchase the farmers' surplus grain and transform it for commodity grain.With commercial grain, it is possible to have the expansion of industrial population and the expansion of urbanization.

The farmers are reluctant, but at least they got the money themselves. Under favorable policies, they have great motivation to use the means of production of the rural cooperative medical system, such as collective land, allotment of grain seeds and technology, to produce more Lots of food.Because in the final analysis, they can still have a certain amount of food surplus.

Relying on a series of supporting measures such as agricultural cooperatives and unified purchase and marketing, Yuan Maogong saw a model that fed the peasants without squeezing the people's power, but accumulated huge national power.In the past, a prefecture was not even a major grain-producing prefecture, but it produced the grain of the previous five prefectures.

He is a person who is interested and willing to do things, so he naturally knows that on the boat of Daming, he can achieve more brilliant achievements.Many people are more realistic people like Yuan Maogong, and the choice between Ming and Qing is not simply a matter of distinguishing between Hua and Barbarians, but a matter of real interests.

Now that the Ming Dynasty is in full swing, Yuan Maogong only wants to do a good job and find a good historical position.

(End of this chapter)