The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

As expected, Jack Ma was clear-headed and analyzed in detail. From the complicated situation of Ming Dynasty, he let the merchants know who was the ally and who was the enemy, who to support and who to oppose.

The merchants were all human beings, and they immediately understood and shouted loudly.

"President! I understand what you mean! As long as the scholars oppose it, we must support it!"

"Aha, so that's how it is. Now it's fighting the landlords, four families fighting against one landlord!"

"Oh, clever, really clever! Then we understand the matter of Suzhou, we should fully support the students and farmers in Suzhou, and resist the local tyrants, evil gentry and corrupt officials!"

"That's right, let the students and peasants charge forward for us, shed blood and sacrifice, but the ones who get the most benefit are actually our merchant class, hehehe..."

Seeing that these people understood, Jack Ma said proudly: "You are right. But it is not enough!"

He pretended to be infinite and said righteously: "We must do our best to support the oppressed students, farmers, and citizens of Suzhou, and to fight against local tyrants, evil gentry, and corrupt officials! This is our highest interest. ! It is the best time for us businessmen to seize the right to speak politically!"

He calmed down and said: "I have been thinking about how to launch this social reform first in the southeast where the economy is developed and the people's wisdom is open. But people in the southeast have a problem, that is, a little wealth means peace, and life is like gold. The more paralyzed the more The richer you are, the less you dare to risk yourself!"

"I've been messing around for a long time, and those university students and factory workers actually just shouted loudly and didn't take any action at all! Unexpectedly, the people in the place in the northwest where the birds don't shit, on the contrary, the people are tough, and they do what they say! Give me the best chance!"

As the richest businessman in private enterprises in Ming Dynasty (not counting the top ten businessmen selected by Yan Song), Jack Ma read Yan Song's "National Wealth Theory" and "Sea Power Theory", and he was full of longing for the capitalism described by Yan Song.

He felt that his business ability, in a capitalist society, would be a scarce resource that would replace today's ability to study, get ahead, and make a fortune. It would allow him to leap from a businessman to the top of the country!

Under Daming's current pyramid social structure of "scholars, farmers, businessmen", he, a businessman, would never have a chance.

To be successful, you must take risks!

make changes!

But now, the demonstrations erupted by the people of Suzhou because of the unbearable oppression, happened to be an excellent opportunity for him to take advantage of the situation.

".々First of all, we have to spend a huge amount of money to support the demonstrations of the people in Suzhou, and give them sufficient financial support!" Jack Ma said in a low voice:

"Secondly, we must use our business forces in the northwest to encourage more people to participate in demonstrations against local tyrants and evil gentry, and expand our momentum! Also, if our chamber of commerce alone is not enough, we should unite porcelain, tea Chambers of commerce, cement, steel, military industry, etc., everyone! This time, we must show the strength and demands of our merchant class!"

"Okay!" These businessmen are also wealthy and idle. With this kind of thing, they don't need to shed blood and sweat. As long as they spend money and strength to secretly support farmers and students, they can expect to reap changes. Why not? for? (Amazing Zhao)

money?

Are they missing?

Ha ha.

Jack Ma did what he said, and immediately ran around.

Business efficiency is high.

In just three days, the entire southeast business community has reached a high degree of consensus on the situation in the northwest.

Business circles are all elites with high political acumen.

Taking advantage of the opening of the sea and the plundering of land and other resources, they have basically completed the primitive accumulation of capitalism, and they have already become richer than the enemy.

Upper decision decided by the economic background.

Now that everyone has money in their hands, of course they are not satisfied with being at the bottom of the society. They want to change the status quo and improve their political power.

What should I do to improve my status?

Of course it depends on reform.

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Chapter 2049 Trench Inhumane Jack Horse [6]

The merchants saw the tremendous energy erupting from the Northwest Minzong, and they were all too excited.

With the help of this east wind, a big fire was lit, and those high-ranking officials and landlords and scholars, that is, the scholar class, were devastated!

The entire southeast business community, as well as those in Tianjin, Shandong, and Shanxi, have achieved unprecedented unanimity this time!

Regardless of which industry, chamber of commerce, or region, everyone has basically the same appeal!

That is to support the freedom and liberation movement in the Northwest, to protest against the landlords, local tyrants and evil gentry, to take advantage of the loopholes in national policies, to evade taxes, to cover the sky with one hand, and to exploit the villagers!

They put pressure on the government with great fanfare and protested through official channels, asking the court to investigate and punish the Northwest local government, the collusion between the government and the gentry, and the brutal suppression of the student and peasant freedom movement. On the other hand, they made full use of the propaganda channels they had mastered , using newspapers, magazines, newspaper offices and other media, with full firepower, to carry out a large-scale public opinion offensive.

The Clarion News, which is controlled by the radical reformists, published the headlines on the front page for ten consecutive days, covering Ma Chao Ma in the Northwest and the demands of punishing local tyrants and evil gentry who evaded 353 taxes. the truth.

The Shanghai Daily was also full of firepower, and published a heavy headline editorial in blood-red characters: "Northwest, the first shot has been fired against the local tyrants and evil gentry!"

The editorial said: "For a long time, the local tyrants and evil gentry and other bureaucratic landlord classes have relied on the control of state power, and the officials and gentry have colluded to cover up the sky with one hand. Their children often occupy high official positions in the imperial court through the imperial examination system and have the right to speak. , colluded with local officials, traded power for money, traded power for power, evaded taxes, annexed land, and seized a lot of wealth and resources."

"After such a continuous exchange of power and wealth, giant local tyrants and overlords were born. Dong Wei and his godson Wang Hu are typical representatives of this lawless and unreasonable tyranny of scholars! In the past dynasties, the so-called annexation of the land and the subjugation of the country all stem from this!"

This editorial uses an extremely sharp pen to expose how the bureaucratic landlord class transforms reading + wealth into power, and how to use power to transform into more wealth and power. The bloody facts of people being brutally oppressed and exploited.

Another newspaper full of fighting spirit [Ming Pao] analyzed the Dong Wei and Wang Hu incident from another angle and its significance to Daming.

"According to Mr. Yan Ge's [National Wealth Theory], only when a country is rich can it strengthen its army, and where does the country's wealth come from? Taxation! The current annual government expenditure of Ming Dynasty has reached an astonishing 2 million taels of silver."

"And where do these taxes come from? The answer is... merchants, workers, farmers, and even women from Le nationality, who are the fourth-class untouchables!"

"However, the high-ranking royal family and scholars don't pay taxes or food at all. Instead, they suck the people's fat and fat from the lower-class untouchables. They are greedy and fat. A royal family needs to receive tens of thousands of taels of silver every year, and a scholar can exempt 300 hectares of land every year. , and the wealth they embezzled is more than ten times more than this figure!"

After these shocking figures were exposed, Ming Pao changed its style and began to speak for bourgeois businessmen, workers and peasants:

"Poor merchants, workers, and farmers, with extremely meager wealth, have to pay the country's imperial grain and national taxes, and have to bear the expenses of the entire Ming society, but they have no political status and voice, and they will be detained as troublemakers at every turn. Big hat."

"Woo (bdfc) Alas, how unfortunate is life? The greater sorrow is that the four great untouchable classes are still unable to take the imperial examinations, and cannot change their own destiny through hard work! My Ming Dynasty is known as a civilized country. Is it like this? example?"