Chapter 377: When will you attack those verbal people?

Liang Pengfei also told Villa that if he could successfully promote the deal, Liang Pengfei could give him the same amount of gold as his hard work.

In this way, Villa stood on the boat and waved frequently to Liang Pengfei, who was standing on the dock to send him off. "Don't worry, respectful, generous head of state, my most beloved friend, I swear in the name of my mother that I will definitely present the good news to you in person."

"The journey is good, and I'm looking forward to our goodbye." Liang Pengfei also waved his arms emotionally and said loudly. When he walked to the ship and left the port, Liang Pengfei turned around and walked slowly away.

"Sir, that's about 10,000 taels of gold. In addition to those antiques and treasures, the value is even greater than that of gold." Sun Shijie said with a little distressed heart by Liang Pengfei's side. Yes, anyone who saw such a large amount of gold was probably given away by someone who was a little more fragile, and might roll up his sleeves and wanted to steal it.

"I care more about those colonies than those gold." Liang Pengfei smiled.

"If we can really buy that vast land from the Spanish, it is really nothing to pay some money, but the problem is that we can't even occupy Nanyang now and have to occupy a territory thousands of miles away. Is it a bit unrealistic to me?" Ni Ming curled his lips, and acted like he regarded money as dirt, and also raised his own intentions. Although he had mentioned it before, Liang Pengfei did not give a clear answer, which made him very depressed.

"My brother may not know, but it will be as fast as two or three months, and as slow as half a year. This continent will be about to set off a bloody storm. I don't know how many people will be displaced and left their hometowns. But the adults are afraid that they just want to take this opportunity to travel across the ocean."

Hearing Sun Shijie's words, Ni Ming couldn't help but take a breath, turned his face and looked at Sun Shijie. "Can it be..."

"The White Lotus Sect raised the flag in the Xiangyang area." Liang Pengfei said lightly to Ni Ming, who had just rushed back to Hong Kong Island from Taiwan: "Five days ago, the people in Zhuxi, Hubei were dissatisfied with the government's additional taxes and fought with the servants, resulting in the death of seven people. Zhuxi people carried coffins into the county town, hoping for justice.

As a result, the army in the court did not care about right and wrong, and slaughtered one-third of the tens of thousands of people gathered outside Zhuxi County on the charge of gathering people to rebel. As a result, the White Lotus Sect revolted at the sight and sent dead soldiers to sneak into the military camp at night and set fire to the food and grass. Qi Lin led hundreds of dead soldiers to break into the military camp and rescued many people who were held in the camp. He took the chaos in the camp and killed the main general, Hubei Fubiao Right Governor Qi Tai... This expected major incident had already happened in advance."

"It's not the evil committed by those corrupt officials, but the evil committed by the court." Ni Ming slapped his high-high, his eyes piping fire.

Sun Shijie nodded: "Yes, Chaoting, haha, if the British hadn't attacked the Yangtze River, this uprising might have come later. Now it seems that it's time."

You should know that since the early Qing Dynasty, what can be called crazy land annexation has begun. At that time, the landlord class represented by the emperor was skillfully plundered and seized large areas of land through various means such as occupation, forced purchase and usury. Many places have formed a serious situation where "the rich are connected to the fields, while the poor are not standing in the cone". The "official fields" controlled by the feudal states and the royal family alone have reached more than 80 million mu, accounting for more than one-seventh of the total arable land area in the country.

As for the number of land annexed land by ordinary landlords, it was also amazing. After the 50th year of Qianlong, 50 to 60% of the land in Huguang area had been divided up by landlords.

Guangxi is already "most of the land belongs to the rich households, while most of the people are farmed". The vast majority of farmers have lost their land and become tenants and servants. Farmers in Henan are already "most of the people who have tented to farm other people's fields". "They are working hard all year round, and there are few remaining grains left except for paying the landlord's rent interest... Although they have achieved a good harvest, they are only enough to pay the debt." "Although the tenants are afraid that the landlord will take the land and rent it out, they often search for chickens, pigs, cloth and silk, and even sell men and daughters to pay the rent. This trend is probably the same." The vast majority of poor farmers near Sichuan, Shaanxi and Beijing must also hand over half of the harvest to more than 60% and 70% of the harvest to the landlords.

In many places south of the Yangtze River, poor farmers even "do all their rents to enrich the people, but they still cannot be enough." Poor farmers worked hard for a year, but in the end they had only earned several buckets. Some even finished renting today, begging and borrowing tomorrow. Under this cruel exploitation, many poor farmers lost the ability to reproduction; everywhere, "the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer."

The process of land annexation is not only a process of farmers going bankrupt and becoming tenants or employed workers, but also a process of bankruptcy and exile of the vast majority of poor people.

In sharp contrast to this, the ruling group was extravagant, corrupt, and extremely extravagant. Qianlong, the supreme ruler, was a typical example of excessive squandering. He built numerous palaces and palaces in many parts of the country, and spent a lot of money on people's wealth.

The famous Old Summer Palace and other scenic spots in Beijing, many magnificent gardens and palaces, Chengde Summer Resort and Waiba Temples, etc. were mostly completed during the Qianlong period. He also made six "southern tours". Whenever he arrived at a place, the gentry and merchants competed for cleverness, and they were almost useless to waste their money.

In addition, whenever Emperor Qianlong and his mother Empress Dowager Xiaosheng celebrated their birthday, they ordered ministers and wealthy merchants to go from the Xihuamen in Beijing to the Xizhimen to the gate of the Summer Palace for dozens of miles, and built archways with colorful silk and bouquets along the way. A stage and a scripture hall were often built at any distance, and shops along the street were forced to renovate the storefronts, and for this, they had to squander more than one million taels of silver every time.

In order to celebrate the emperor's birthday, civil and military officials from the central government to the local government rushed to give gifts to win the favor of Emperor Qianlong. The Golden Buddha alone offered tens of thousands of large and small pieces from all over the country. In the 42nd year of Qianlong's reign, Qianlong built a "Cangfa Pagoda" for his mother and used more than 3,000 taels of gold.

Civil officials are corrupt and military officials are constantly robbing their wages. There are many local officials and governors alone, such as Guotai, Wang Danwang, Fusong, Wulana, Pu Lin and others, and their assets are confiscated for more than hundreds of thousands of taels each time. Political corruption in Huguang, Sichuan and other provinces are more than corruption-making, and corruption is more famous throughout the country.

Since last winter, the British invaded the Yangtze River. Fukang'an raised troops to fight against the British and recruited countless fishing boatmen. When the British fought, they used fishing boats as the front drive and lost thousands of fishing boats, resulting in tens of thousands of fishermen who made their living on the Yangtze River on both sides of the Taiwan Straits.

In addition, the battle lasted for half a year. In order to ensure the supply of food and grass for the army, our Governor Fuda asked the imperial edict that officials from the provinces near the two rivers and lakes worked hard to transport grain and materials for General Fuda. Now, various taxes are added on this ground. You must know that there are millions of shantytowns in the two lakes, that is, those who cannot survive in various places and fled to the two lakes to make a living. This caused a stir.

The governor of Huguang, Bi Yuan, was the best among them. As soon as he took over as the governor of Huguang, he compared himself with senior officials such as Hubei Governor Funing and the governor of the governor of Hubei, Chen Wangzhi, and others, and scrambled people's wealth and ointment. Therefore, folk rumors say, "Bi doesn't care, he will die of good fortune, and he will lose his fortune." "Bi is like a bat, his body is not shaken, but he can only suck the insects and ants he has passed. He is like a wolf and tiger, even if he cannot avoid it, Chen is like a rat, and he drills into a hole and erodes, and people don't know it."

As for the local officials at all levels under their command, the ups and downs have become more effective. Chang Dankui, the co-minister of Wuchang Prefecture, Hubei, "has always been able to abuse the people and have fun things. In the 60th year of Qianlong, the commission of the Yidu County was inquired and defrauded the rich. The poor took the name of the name, received money, and received little money, and were sentenced to tragic punishment. Even with iron nails and nails on the walls or hammers, many people were hit by the provincial capital. Each ship carried one or two hundred people, and they were killed by hunger and cold, and the corpse was floating in the river. Those who died in prison also had no coffin."

Dai Ruhuang, the magistrate of Dazhou, Sichuan, was similar to Chang Dankui. He also used the name of Investigation and cults to blackmail the wealthy family, making the stolen and private people frustrated, and everyone knew that it had been known. In addition, there were 5,000 yamen runners, and everyone was forced to set up 5,000 yamen runners. All those who practice teaching were cheated.

The Zhuxi incident happened to be the first Mars to ignite this completely dry firewood pile.

"First there was the disaster of the British and then the White Lotus Rebellion, and there was no peace in the world. Unfortunately, the poor and poor people were suffering." Ni Ming never expected that such a big event had already happened in just a few days after he left.

"It's a mess, it's a mess. Anyway, nowadays, I can't get along with this fun. I don't like the Qing Dynasty. The White Lotus Sect is not a good thing. The only ones who pity are those ordinary people." Liang Pengfei sighed and strode away without looking back.

"Brother, how about this trip to Taiwan?" Seeing Liang Pengfei's departure, Sun Shijie, who knew that Liang Pengfei was in a bad mood, asked Ni Ming.

"Wu Liang did a good job there. In addition, with the cover of his identity, a large number of transport ships can directly circle Taiwan Island to Yunaguo Island, and after obtaining supplies and repairs there, then go to Southeast Asia."

"Also, news has been heard from General Fan that he has gained a foothold in Hokkaido, and with Okujiri Island as their fleet base, refugees from Jiaodong began to migrate to Okujiri Island. Relying on our precious silk and tea in China and those Fushou Paste, the lord of the Matsumae, Matsumae Kyoshi, in order to get along with the lord of the Matsumae Paste, Matsumae Kyoshi, for the sake of alliance, through this Matsumae Paste, our business has penetrated into the Honshu Island, which is imported from the lord of the Matsumae Paste. At present, the business of Fushou Paste is quite good, and the lord of the Matsumae Paste is already very happy."
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