Wanli 1592

Chapter 872 The Heart

As early as October [-]th, Jiang Dahai, who had received Xiao Ruxun's secret order, and Chai Guozhu, who had just surrendered, gave Xiao Ruxun's order.

It is necessary for Chai Guozhu to send [-] soldiers from Jizhen to go south to Zhejiang and join forces with General Zheng Ying of the Zhennan Army to sweep Nanzhili and Zhejiang together, and cooperate with the land reform led by Xie He to prepare to turn the two provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian, which are the most powerful tyrants, into The Zhennan Army is the most reliable base except for Myanmar.

The greater the power of the enemy, the purer the land, as long as you kill all the enemies, this land will become your most reliable base.

Xiao Ruxun made up his mind to win the two provinces with the richest economy, the densest population and the largest number of gentry in Ming Dynasty, and make them his new base.

And this requires the joining of Chai Guozhu's army.

Just joining the Zhennan Army, whether Chai Guozhu is willing to hand over the army is still unknown. This is also Xiao Ruxun's test for Chai Guozhu, and it is also a test for Chai Guozhu by the Zhennan Army's rebel camp.

It turned out that Chai Guozhu was a qualified rebel fighter, and he handed over the military power to Jiang Dahai without saying a word, and even said that he could not even have the guards, to show his sincerity in resolutely joining the Zhennan Army's rebel camp.

Jiang Dahai was very satisfied, encouraged Chai Guozhu, told him that Xiao Ruxun would reuse him when he came, and then he was not polite, and selected [-] Ji Zhen soldiers to go south to Zhejiang, and then mixed in many veteran officers of the Zhen Nan Army.

After all, it is not the old background of our Zhennan Army, and we still can't fully believe it. We need to send the old bottom of the Zhennan Army as grassroots officers, master this army from the bottom up, and gradually assimilate them into qualified Zhennan Army fighters.

This is Xiao Ruxun's basic idea. Fortunately, Chai Guozhu knows what he should do most right now.

Thirty thousand troops set out from Nanjing and entered Zhejiang via Yingtian Mansion and Guangde Mansion. At the same time, Zheng Ying, with the help of Xie He's land reform working group, no longer had to worry about the future, and sent troops to take Jinhua Mansion and Taizhou Mansion in Shaoxing Mansion. Next, the land reform working group moved in immediately, and it turned the world upside down.

For a while, Zheng Ying even felt that the speed of his attacking the city could not keep up with the speed of these crazy land reform working groups, so he had to speed up the attacking the city. At the same time, the number of farmers who wanted to join the Zhennan Army also increased. , Zheng Ying expanded his army to 2 people.

Food and grass are sufficient and soldiers are ready, and it is only a matter of time before the whole of Zhejiang is taken down.

Then, five or six members of the land reform working group arrived in Zhejiang to assist Xie He in carrying out the land reform. Xie He was not polite, and immediately arranged for them to station in the place, village by village to overthrow the rule of those wealthy gentry, and at the same time arrange the army to prevent peasant riots Excessively damage the safety of the town.

Xie He has already become very proficient at this skill. He is now the general person in charge of the land reform work in this area. He not only arranges the land reform work members sent by Xiao Ruxun to carry out land reform everywhere, but also pays attention to finding those who have been oppressed by big households in the local area. young scholars, and encourage them to join the land reform working group.

We are also scholars, and they are also scholars. Why should we be squeezed by them so that we can’t even afford to eat?At the same time, is there any distinction among scholars?In this case, what is the difference between us and those farmers?Has all the knowledge of saints been learned in the dog's stomach?

Join Marshal Xiao, except Marshal Xiao, no one will make the decision for you, they will only oppress you, oppress me, let us be their vassals forever, and not turn over to be the master, so, join us, subvert them, ourselves How good would it be to stand up and call the shots?

Xie He has successfully encouraged more than a dozen poor scholars to join the land reform working group, and let them experience the thrill of power in the action of leading the peasant riots, so they were addicted to it and couldn't extricate themselves. They were tied to this high-speed chariot, The situation in Zhejiang is irreversible.

At the beginning of November, Zheng Ying led his troops to capture Yanzhou Prefecture and Quzhou Prefecture, and under the support of Li Wenyuan, he also captured Chuzhou Prefecture and Wenzhou Prefecture. Most of Zhejiang was included in his pocket, successfully opening the road between Zhejiang and Fujian occupied areas , and then began a more violent land reform movement.

When the land reform movement in southern Zhejiang was in full swing, the land reform in central China had come to an end, and the social order had gradually stabilized. The peasant association carried out autumn harvest work in accordance with the instructions of the land reform working group. After the autumn harvest work was completed, Xie He began to arrange land distribution. .

According to Xiao Ruxun's arrangement, Xie He first destroyed all the old land deeds, and then allocated the land according to the newly divided areas and the contribution of the farmers, and then issued new land deeds. have.

Then optimize the functions of the peasant association, turn the peasant households into the guidance organization and self-defense organization of agricultural production, let the peasants organize their own self-defense forces to protect themselves and their land, train when the farm is slack, and cultivate the land when the farm is busy. The peasant association becomes a substitute Landlords and gentry manage village institutions.

Of course, getting together a group of farmers who can’t read a single word can’t accomplish anything, so the leadership of the farmers’ association is in the hands of the land reform working group. Every county has a member of the land reform working group who is responsible for guiding and managing the farmers’ associations. What to do and what not to do, and land distribution is the initial test of this model.

Although this is only a temporary model, the temporary model must be regulated, otherwise there will be chaos.

Naturally, friction and quarrels are inevitable when land is distributed. Everyone wants the best and not the worst. But at the very beginning, everyone made an agreement to distribute the land according to certain rules. You fight for the great cause of Zhennan Army The more you pay, the better and more land you can get, and vice versa.

So for a period of time, the tide of joining the army was triggered by this. The military families were taken care of by the peasant association and allocated better land, while the farmers who did not contribute much were naturally marginalized. Without good land, there is nothing The right to speak, the guts are green with regret.

While the land distribution work was carried out in an orderly manner, Xie He set his sights on Hangzhou, Huzhou and Jiaxing in the north. As the saying goes, Suzhou and Hangzhou are familiar with the world. Although this is an exaggeration, it is not that exaggerated. The fertile land and suitable climate in Hangzhou are also one of the reasons for the extremely high grain production.

Of course, how can such a good land and such a good climate not be valued by the gentry and powerful?
This is where the most powerful gentry of Ming Dynasty lived, such as Songjiang Mansion, which was the back garden of the former Chief Assistant Xu Jie's family.

The private ownership of more than 20 mu of land has made Xu Jie's family extremely wealthy. When Xu Jie's family had troubles, it was Zhang Juzheng who looked at the past to settle the face, and for this reason, Xu Jie's late festival was not guaranteed.

The land here is like the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The major families divided up and occupied the land here. There are almost no independent farmers. Even if there are, they are small and medium-sized vassals, not independent.

Compared with the great sea merchants in Fujian, the area at the junction of Zhejiang and Nanzhili is the place with the most prosperous economy and the largest population density in the south of the Yangtze River. It is precisely because of this that the southeast merchant faction finally defeated the Shanxi merchant faction and thus Dominate the Ming Dynasty Central Committee.

This area is the heartland of the southeast gentry's roots.

(End of this chapter)