Chapter 783 The Fire of Revenge

Beizheng is in a very bad situation now. The seemingly good "national fiscal revenue" is completely based on the deprivation of normal commercial activities and the oppression of the people.

The price of salt alone is 2.5 times that of Guangzhou, and the price is as high as 4 cents [Chinese currency] per catty, while the price of salt in China has been maintained at 1.2 to 1.5 cents per catty for a long time.

Moreover, this process is quite short, and a lot of government monopolies have been created in a very short period of time.

This era is not the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty playing with salt and iron monopolies two thousand years ago. How long have the people of Annan not known about government monopolies? The sudden implementation of this system, of course, the people are dissatisfied.

This is like China in the 21st century. The night before, it was still free trade, and the country started to play with "tickets" shopping. Do you think the people will give you a national boiling?

It's just that the people of Beizheng have no way to resist. Since they are powerless to resist, they can only endure it silently.

Then, the grain, salt, sugar, iron, cloth, medicinal materials, tobacco, fish, meat, etc. in the Beizheng market began to rise in price silently. Of course, the officials and businessmen in Beizheng who colluded with each other were the cheapest, and the only unlucky ones were the common people.

But the first place Chen Ming decided to swallow was not Beizheng, but the three heroes of the Canqing Dynasty, the neighbor of Beizheng Beitou.

They were playing a bigger game, the Confucian "Great Harmony World". Before the reform, the economic lifeline of their territory, such as grain, cloth, salt, iron, sugar, gunpowder, etc., was in the hands of Chinese businessmen, and they became a puppet being pulled by a string.

The three heroes of the Canqing Dynasty no longer expected to be able to ****, and they even felt that they had no "future". The gap in strength between the two sides was so big that China only needed to extend a little finger to easily kill Chen Jie, Yang Zhengjie, and Wu Xiongguang.

It was like the difference between a small insect and an adult, which had made people lose the motivation to resist.

Judging from the fact that Chen Han asked them to play the "Confucian Great Harmony", it is obvious that Chen Ming did not take them seriously at all, and just thought they were just a test product.

Even so, since this is the case, the three heroes are also happy to "do whatever they want".

"Confucian Great Harmony" is really a good magic weapon to deal with Confucian disciples. Anyone who is deeply influenced by Confucianism cannot resist it.

And the most important thing is that the Qing Dynasty has proved a fact with its tragic experience that the ancient agricultural social model of China in the past needs to be improved. Because Chen Han used his own establishment to prove the mistake of the former.

So how can it be improved? How can it give new vitality to the new changes now?

As Confucian disciples, the three heroes also hope that they can explore a way out in the dark.

In this world, no matter whether it is a feudal dynasty, a tribal alliance, or a republic, any political system, any academic thought, and political concept, the ultimate goal is to make the country to which they belong - peace and happiness.

Then a country that cannot resist external attacks, cannot stand firm militarily, and cannot preserve a country's independence and stable political ideas militarily is unqualified.

Chen Han has been established for twelve years. Counting the previous few years, their series of political colleges have been around for a long time. And these political colleges have been established for so many years, it is impossible not to study the changes of dynasties and the rise and fall of dynasties in history. What's more, China now has such a thing as papers and newspapers.

Many people have aimed their pens at the Northern Song Dynasty of "prosperity of culture" and the late Ming Dynasty of "many righteousness".

In addition, when the new Confucianism and the old Confucianism debated, the party struggles in the Northern Song Dynasty and the late Ming Dynasty were also a major basis for the former to attack the latter. Although Chen Jie, Yang Zhengjie, and Wu Xiongguang were firm in their beliefs, they were not stupid, ignorant, and stubborn.

They also absorbed knowledge from the outside world and were very clear about the defects of the past model. Confucianism has an inherent discrimination against engineering. This has become a shortcoming of Confucianism that has been criticized since the Qing Dynasty was destroyed by Chen Han's guns.

In fact, the three heroes of the remnant Qing Dynasty who carried out reforms according to the version of "Confucian Great Harmony" were really imaginative.

Chen Ming's "technical guidance" for the "three heroes of the remnant Qing Dynasty" was completely an 18th-century adjustment of the Red Dynasty + Soviet Communist Party's ideas. In general, there are three points: people's communes/collective farms, planned economy, and first heavy and then light.

Chen Jie and the other two only slightly changed the plan and copied it completely.

There is no way.

First, they have not formed a complete political concept, so their economic development ideas are naturally unsystematic; second, some of the suggestions given by Chen Ming are still attractive after removing the background of the times.

The local Communist Party's initial division of land does not really conform to the Confucian Great Harmony idea. The well-field system highly praised by Confucius is a land state-owned system in ancient Chinese society, not private ownership. But the three heroes also have to learn lessons from history, such as Wang Mang's reform lessons. Therefore, the people's commune based on public ownership of land, or collective farms, is vaguely consistent with Confucianism. The planned economy is also recognized by the Three Heroes, because it allows their "power" to evolve and develop more in accordance with their ideas, and the final heavy first and light later is also in line with reality.

Without the development of steel, weapons and heavy industries first, the small power of the Three Heroes would have no basis for existence.

These points are too consistent with the psychology of the "Three Heroes".

What surprised Chen Ming was that the people of Annan, who had not experienced the baptism of the times, were too slick.

Hanoi is not like North Zheng. Although the land of Hanoi is absolutely a land of fish and rice, most of the controlled areas are continuous mountains. Because of the trauma of war, Hanoi's grain production cannot meet its own needs.

The reason why Chen Ming's troops started in North Zheng is that although North Zheng's oppression of the people is very severe, the land of North Zheng is more suitable for agricultural planting, and the land can at least guarantee the food needs. However, the Hanoi Governor's Office needs to import food from abroad every year.

But because of the big pot meal, just like the series of things that Rabbit encountered at the beginning, the waste of food, the grinding of work, the shortage of food and the low production efficiency caused by reasons such as working without work, are all things that the three heroes want to solve after discovering the problems in time but cannot solve.

It is not obvious in the short term. When the time is extended to three or four years, the pressure of hundreds of thousands of mouths makes Hanoi like a mountain on its shoulders.

Because while the demand for food is increasing, the food production in the area controlled by Hanoi is shrinking. And after the initial explosive growth of mining, metallurgy and logging, the production soon fell into a bottleneck and fell month by month.

The most important thing is that although the mining, smelting and logging industries that Hanoi focuses on developing have absorbed a lot of manpower, many people are people who fled to Lang Son with the three heroes, and the local people in Annan have not benefited much.

The former is engaged in labor, and in metallurgy and military industry, Hanoi needs a lot of resources from Nanjing, and the latter is not a pie in the sky, but requires money. And if there is no money, use food, metals and wood to exchange.

Originally, the situation in Hanoi in the first two years was very good. Whether it is agriculture, industry, fisheries, or forestry, there has been great progress, but in the ninth year of Chengtian, the monthly decline of various indicators has made Chen Jie and the three of them very worried.

Hanoi did not feel that there was something wrong with the route, because the joy of the rapid financial growth in the first two years was unforgettable to the three heroes, and it still popped up in their minds from time to time.

In just two years, they had steel mills, metallurgical plants, gun factories, artillery factories and gunpowder factories, and even built a medium-sized shipyard. The three heroes still remembered the pleasure of this rapid growth in strength.

Moreover, in the eyes of the three heroes, the reversal of the situation now was entirely due to the moral standards of the Annan people, not the "route" being wrong.

If those Annan people, and of course the Chinese who followed them into the mountains from the north, could maintain the style of hard work and not being arrogant and impatient at the beginning, Hanoi's strength and situation would definitely not be the broken one now.

Instead, it would continue to grow by leaps and bounds like in the first two years.

Think about Hanoi's soft and hard power. If it had risen step by step every year as it did at the beginning, how powerful would their power have developed in the past few years.

But Nanjing would not give them time anymore.

For Chen Ming, the problems exposed by Hanoi's reforms in recent years can be summarized into a thick pile of research materials.

The "Confucian Great Harmony" route is obviously problematic, and it is difficult to solve it alone.

Hanoi's punishment measures for a series of situations are not too strict, but they are useless.

As for the low "moral standards" of the people of Annan, it can be explained by a Confucian theory: when the granaries are full, people know etiquette, and when they have enough food and clothing, they know honor and disgrace.

Why do the people of Annan generally show low morality? That's because their granaries are not full, and their food and clothing are not satisfied. And how can they have enough granaries and clothing?

Looking at the current international situation and world environment, the old Confucianism alone is obviously not enough.

Without the rise of Chen Han and the expulsion of the West, I don't know when the foreigners would have hit China. Then can Annan, Siam, Japan, and Korea still maintain their independence and national rights?

Don't forget that the Spaniards in the late Ming Dynasty came up with a plan to conquer China. Although this is ridiculous and ignorant, this plan, combined with a series of naval battles that took place on the southeast coast at the end of the Ming Dynasty, revealed the Europeans' ambitions.

The Battle of Humen between Ming and England, the Battle of Xicaowan between Ming and Portugal, the Battle of Tuen Mun between Ming and Portugal, the Battle of Liaoluowan between Ming and Holland...

It's really hard to know until you check it out, and you'll be shocked when you check it out.

The largest-scale Battle of Liaoluowan took place in the sixth year of Chongzhen. When the Ming Dynasty was about to perish, Zheng Zhilong had more than 150 warships, and fought against 11 main warships of the Dutch Navy, as well as the flagship Middeburg and a Chinese junk ship Dagou, in addition to 50 pirate ships brought by the pirate Liu Xiang. In the end, Zheng Zhilong won a decisive victory, which made the prosperous Sea Coachman give up the idea of ​​further invading China, and the influence of the Chinese maritime merchant group completely enveloped the entire Eastern Sea.

From the perspective of later generations, the greatest significance of this war is not that Zheng Zhilong's group gained hegemony over the entire East Asian sea area, making it "exclusively possessing the benefits of the South China Sea", "sea ships cannot travel without Zheng's flag. Each ship earns 3,000 gold coins, and the annual income is tens of millions. Zhilong enriched the enemy country with this." The greatest significance is that it made the Dutch give up the idea of ​​invading China and preserved China's interests.

Think about the impact if Zheng's family lost the Liaoluo Bay Battle, what impact would the Ming Dynasty, which was in the process of destruction, have?

Didn't the British also intervene in India when the Indian princes were fighting in a mess?

So in Chen Han's current history textbook, the Liaoluo Bay naval battle was given a very high status by the Ministry of Culture and Education, which was no weaker than Zheng Chenggong's recovery of Taiwan.

The situation in Hanoi was deteriorating. There were sporadic riots in the second half of last year, and many Annan natives fled to Guangxi. Some labor export companies openly sold "Annan wives". It only took a few hundred yuan to buy a decent-looking woman.

This was obviously not attractive to Chinese families with good economic conditions.

But there are poor people everywhere. Even if China has been emigrating for a long time, there are still a large number of poor people in the country. For example, the miners in Hongji City, 100 yuan, less than a month's salary, don't have to marry her to buy a woman, as long as they can take care of the housework for them at home, wash clothes and cook, so that the tired miners can have a hot meal and hot soup after work, that's enough.

And this situation is not limited to Hongji City, there is a huge market in China. Where there is a market, there is supply and demand. Over the years, no one knows how many native Annan women have been bought by labor export companies across the country.

In the spring of this year, Guangxi once again seized a number of native Annan people who had secretly crossed the border.

The tense situation in Hanoi has developed to a point where it needs to change.

Because the Military Intelligence Bureau has been very active here in private, it has added fuel to the already tense situation in Hanoi and given Nanjing an excuse to overturn the table.

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"Burn! Burn!"

In the night, a middle-aged native in his thirties or forties with dark skin stood in front of the burning wood storage warehouse and muttered to himself.

He was hunched over, with a bent back, as if he had a huge pressure on his shoulders. The raging fire illuminated his face, and his usually honest face showed a hideousness that was completely inconsistent with his appearance.

The middle-aged man's right hand was missing two fingers. The wound had healed, but he was obviously not doing well. The yellow shirt on his body had been stained by various stains and the original color could not be seen. One of the shoes on his feet also showed three toes.

Why do you say one shoe?

That's because he only had one leg left, and the other leg was a round wooden pillar.

The middle-aged man was a lumberjack, but a sudden accident not only made him lose two fingers, but also a leg.

If it was in China, if it was a Chinese, if such a serious accident happened, the capital party must pay a sum of money. But the middle-aged man was a native of Annan. The main employers of the newly developed Annan logging industry were Chinese, but the capital party was the local dignitaries + merchants of various forces.

After the middle-aged man was so seriously injured, let alone the pension, he didn't even get a penny of extra salary. After finally recovering from the injury, he was penniless and spent all his money.

Of course, the middle-aged man hated the logging yard where he worked before.

Then, under the control of an unknown force and driven by money, the middle-aged man did not hesitate to get his eggs with the logging yard. Of course, the result was tragic. After several incidents, the middle-aged man was beaten by the thugs of the logging yard and could not take care of himself. If there was no money to be made secretly, at least this money was enough to buy his life. The middle-aged man would not dare to continue to make things difficult for the logging yard.

They would crush him to death just like stepping on an ant.

As the news spread, it was obvious that there was an unknown force behind the scenes, and the "opportunity" was finally ripe.

After the last three hundred yuan was received, the middle-aged man's family left the local area the day before yesterday. Then the middle-aged man, who had a good day of eating and drinking at home, set a fire that would burn the whole of Hanoi tonight...