Vow to die at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 39

Stimulated by food and money, and encouraged by the atmosphere of the scene, everyone went crazy.They discovered that it was so simple to get food and money, all they had to do was use their mouths.This made them suffer for eight lifetimes, how could they withstand such temptations?As for the past friendship, let it go to hell!
After spending half an hour, Chen Chen finally classified the villagers of this small town into three categories: landlords, self-cultivators, and tenants.Every household with more than [-] mu will be resettled in the name of the landlord.

Because it is close to the county seat, the landlords have connections with the government.Therefore, Chen Chen did not investigate whether he was a traitor, and took down all the landlords.According to statistics, there were eighteen landlords, and three of them had thousands of acres of land.In fact, this was also the troubled times at the end of Ming Dynasty, when the population dropped sharply, many families abandoned their fields and fled famine with their whole families.As a result, some small landlords slowly annexed those abandoned barren fields and gradually became big landlords.Now, when Chen Chen set up a leverage of more than [-] acres to count as landlords, he killed these people unjustly.

The first step is to find out the landlords among the villagers, then the second step is to launch a mass movement to fight against the landlords.

When he started Fighting the Landlords, Chen Chen originally imagined that many bitter lords had tears in their eyes, weeping and cursing the landlords' black consciences being eaten by dogs.However, the reality is that many people gleefully spit at the kneeling landlord on the stage, and those who couldn't get enough of it even slapped and kicked them twice.

"Hey, Ma Laocai, you have today! It's amazing to have hundreds of acres of land at home! Let me tell you, what are you doing all day, you don't want to eat, you don't want to wear, you are so focused on land, what happened? The adults of the security team Come on, your land is ours! Hey, I want to thank you! You have saved us a lot of land! In addition, I don’t want your dilapidated house, just be a pigsty !"

"Hahaha, Mr. Chang, don't you feel comfortable kneeling on the ground all the time? The third wife you married last month is really beautiful! It makes me greedy. Hehe, if you keep going like this, the third wife will become a widow My grandson Er has always been kind-hearted, and I will take care of your third wife. You can rest assured!"

"Zheng Laocai, why do you live in a big house and I live in a thatched cottage? I will also live in your house in the future and eat your white noodles..."

Seeing that these villagers have no national awareness at all, and they cannot see the ugly behavior of these landlords paying food and taxes to the Tartars so that the Tartars can accumulate strength to attack more righteous men who resisted the Tartars. middle.It's just that Chen Chen needs to gain a foothold in Gwangju right now, as long as the people here support him, he doesn't care about anything else.

After the villagers unleashed all their passion, Chen Chen ordered people to suppress these unfortunate landlords.The next step is to clean up the property of these landlords.According to the previous agreement, the Gold and Silver Grain Security Team raided all the land, and distributed the remaining fields to the villagers here.Because the eighteen landlords only own more than 6000 mu of land, and there are more than 300 villagers here, so in the end each person can only be allocated [-] mu of land.However, it also made them very happy.However, some families who originally had close to [-] mu of land dare not take this land, because once they get [-] mu of land, the amount will exceed [-] mu and become a new landlord.Therefore, the [-] acres of land benefited the poor relatives and friends around them.

On the first day Chen Chen came to the small town, he mobilized the masses to fight against the landlords, and he temporarily settled down.The psychological and physical damage to the militiamen caused by the long march was gradually alleviated.The warm meals, the steaming water for washing feet, and the airtight house of the ransacked landlord's house, all of these made the militiamen of the first brigade who lived in the open for many days completely relaxed.Except for the militiamen who were assigned to watch the night, everyone else had a good night's sleep.As for Guangshan County not far away, in such a cold day, even if the Tartars wanted to send troops, they did not do so quickly.It's better to get a good night's sleep to recover your strength.

On the second day, the energetic Chen Chen came to the threshing ground again.At this time, the escort of the militia was no longer needed, and the townspeople gathered together one after another.Last night, although a few people escaped secretly, Chen Chen was not worried. He never thought that he could seal everyone up and keep the news of the security team occupying this place from leaking out.So the Tazi's counterattack is sooner or later, it's just a matter of time.

Similarly, after a night of tension and excitement, many villagers came to their senses.There is no such thing as a free lunch in the world, and if you take something from the security team, you have to pay for it.Moreover, wantonly encroaching on the landlord's land by oneself is almost the same as rebellion.If the Tartars come, I'm afraid there will be no good fruit to eat.Right now, it depends on what the security team will do.Some honest villagers trembled at the thought of this.They thought of the bloody fate of those who disobeyed when their heads were shaved.

After meeting everyone, Chen Chen announced several policies.

First of all, spring plowing is approaching, and production comes first. A farmers' association should be established so that everyone can pool their efforts to cultivate the farmland.Second, in the spare time of production, the team has to be trained, and the work of the reserve team has to be seized.The elite members of the peasant association have to be trained to become part of the peasant association's subordinate force, the peasant association guard.In addition to strong laborers, the old, weak, sick and disabled also had to join the club.The elderly have to join the old people's association, responsible for farming, laying hands, cleaning and so on.Women also have to join the women's association, and are responsible for making clothes and shoe soles.As for the underage children, they also had to join the juvenile club and the children's club, and even their daily games had to be walking in line and stabbing spears.Now, it can be said that the whole people are soldiers.Finally, the militia also carried out literacy campaigns. As long as individuals are willing and have time, they can go to night schools to attend lectures and learn to read and write.

In this way, this unknown town became Chen Chen's first stronghold in Gwangju.The power of the first squadron of the first brigade slowly spread here.

(End of this chapter)