Win the Ding 1617

() What Chen Tianhua didn't expect was that less than half a month after his apology was handed in, the courier from Hue, passing through Guangzhou and then arriving on Hong Kong Island delivered Shouhan's reply to him.

"If you lose a battle, you plan to ask for a crime and it's over? If you were defeated by someone, you can get your face back there!"

On his plea document, Shou Han wrote a few lines with cinnabar teeth and claws. The bright red cinnabar was dripping like blood.

"What does my lord mean?"

He looked at Li Peiting, who was accompanying the messenger, and tried to find the answer from him.

"My lord said it about Xin'an, so I can't blame you entirely. The main responsibility lies with him. He didn't take into account that the clan power in the interior is so strong and stubborn. During the discussion, someone said that you would be replaced, and the lord was a little shaken. But A word from the eldest lady changed the mind of the lord."

So it was Xiao Huamei's credit? !

"I don't know what the eldest lady said?"

Li Peiting, who accompanied the messenger, had a smug smile on his lips.

One of Shouhan's recent habits is that he likes to take Xiao Huamei with him when discussing matters, and set up a seat for her, asking her to listen on the sidelines, which can be regarded as a kind of experience and education for her.During the breaks of the meeting, Shou Han would sometimes come to test the school's precious daughter on some of the things discussed in the meeting to see what her opinion was.

When the council was discussing how to deal with the setbacks in Xin'an County, someone suggested that Chen Tianhua was not good at leading the troops. He suggested that he should be replaced as the commander of the North Route Army, and that he should be transferred back to take charge of the affairs of the battalion office, and that someone else should go to Guangdong to handle affairs. .

And Wang Bao, who came back from other places, also expressed to Shou Han before the meeting that he was willing to go to Guangdong to help Chen Tianhua open the situation.

"If you change people, you have to re-acquaint yourself with the local situation. Wouldn't it be more of a delay? If you come and go, you can't make any big moves for at least two months, and it will be detrimental to the morale of the Hong Kong Island army."

Hua Mei, who was sitting behind a small table, said this out of the blue, which stunned the people who were discussing enthusiastically.Can't help but look at this hanging girl differently.

"Thus, the lord changed his mind and stopped mentioning the replacement of the former enemy's general. He wrote a letter to you and me specially. He asked us to work together to get things done in Guangdong!"

It turned out to be the merit of the young lady!

Chen Tianhua was at a loss.

"Don't think about anything else, remember this incident in your heart, and in the future, when the eldest lady needs you for something, just remember to do your best to repay it!" Pei Ting said so, and couldn't help laughing in his heart.

Now Yanmei'er has also given birth to a son, who is the son of the first son. Whether the eldest son will succeed or the first son will succeed in the future is a matter of debate.However, strength has always been the final decision.If there is a group of generals standing on the side of the son-in-law, then Li Muhua can only cry in secret!

What kind of cooperation, Chen Tianhua was a little dull.

The courier took out a document from the picture pouch that he carried with him, asked Li Peiting and Chen Tianhua to check the wax seal on it, and then took out the receipt and asked them to sign for it.

"This is a letter from my lord. It is for me to reorganize the branches, joint numbers, and trading stores with business contacts of the Hanyuan firm in my hand in various places in Guangdong. All of them will be used to deal with the Xin'an County. A group of local tyrants! In addition, from the day the letter arrived, I have ordered that I no longer have any dealings with merchants related to this group of local tyrants in Xin'an County, and hurry up to collect the money."

This is to complete the encirclement and suppression of the families in Xin'an County economically!Chen Tianhua chewed on the meaning of Li Peiting's words.

Opening the letter that was a bit too thick, Chen Tianhua laughed at himself and laughed with the courier, "Others are making great progress, but here I am dejected. Sigh! It's a matter of character!"

When the messenger heard this, he smiled slightly and put his hands together, "Amitabha, my lord is indeed right!"

"When I set off to board the ship, my lord specially invited me to go to his signing room to teach me the opportunity. He said, if Mr. Chen didn't say something frustrating, you don't need to tell him the following words. If you hear that someone else won the battle, say If you have said some frustrating words, you must convey these words truthfully."

"Tianhua listens to the lord's teaching!"

"Tianhua, don't you think Zhang Xiaohu and Xu Huanshan will be fine if they win the battle? To be honest, the enemies they face are far less vicious and cunning than the enemies you face. They are good at demagoguery and deceitful is the characteristic of the enemies you face. Compared with local tyrants in Xin'an, they have no organization and no support for people. Besides, our South China Army has been working in Luzon for many years, and Zhang Xiaohu has a bad reputation there. Therefore, it was captured in one go."

"The same situation applies to the Mo family. After recovering the Honghe area, the Mo family expropriated excessive taxes, and there were plagues of locusts and other disasters. The internal ministers were greedy for fame and wealth, or planned to protect themselves. Let me ask, how do you face the above situation? Are there local tyrants in Xin'an?"

After learning of Xin'an's setback, Shou Han racked his brains to figure out where the problem came from.For this reason, it actually reached the point of restless sleep and food, tossing and turning.Seeing this situation, Yan Meier couldn't help but feel distressed, "So many kings and sultans have been wiped out by you, how can a few noble gentry make you so embarrassed?"

After hearing this, Shou Han couldn't help but reply, "What do you know?!"

"If we don't clean them up, how will I deal with those people in Guangdong, Guangxi and the mainland?!"

Seeing that Xianggong is so entangled, Yanmeier can't say anything else, so she can only comfort him gently and let Shouhan go to bed to rest.

After tossing and turning for a while, Shou Han fell into a deep sleep.In my sleep, I vaguely heard someone whispering a few words or words in my ear.It seems to be the key to solve these problems, but I can't hear it clearly in a hurry.

"Who is our friend and who is our enemy?"

"Landlords, small and medium landlords, and self-cultivating farmers."

"Ancestral halls are also dead landlords."

"[-]% rent reduction, [-]% interest rate reduction."

"Divide and disintegrate the enemy."

"The problem of Chinese society is the problem of farmers, and the problem of farmers is ultimately a problem of land!"

"what!"

After finally hearing a few words clearly, Shou Han stepped on the air again and fell directly from the cloud.

Sitting up from the bed, he ordered the Tianzhu Huji Asin to light up the lamp, and took a sip of the warm tea on the bedside shelf. temple.

"King! Did you have a nightmare?"

This orchid is not very clear about Shou Han's title and official position, but only knows that her man has several king's seals in his hands.Since you destroy other people's kingdoms, you will be kings!

"It's okay, I dreamed about something."

Sitting at the table trying to recall the words he heard in his dream, Shou Han suddenly woke up.

Be it the peasant uprisings that have broken out in Chinese society, or the vagrants' unrest, it is ultimately a land issue.Since you local tyrants and evil gentry can use land and clan blood ties to organize manpower and arm against me, then I can also use land issues to deal with you!

In this thick letter, Shou Han explained to Chen Tianhua his views and solutions to the Xin'an problem in detail.

"My lord ordered the military department to dispatch 2000 people to Hong Kong Island to wait for dispatch. In addition, 150 people were dispatched from the graduates of Zhengshitang and various villages to come here to wait for orders."

"I also selected dozens of guys from the Hanyuan firm who are familiar with the situation in Xin'an County, and ordered them to come here to wait for orders."

Messenger and Pei Ting explained to him their respective manpower support to Chen Tianhua.

"My lord said, this Xin'an is just an experimental field. We need to figure out the situation here and do it well, so that we won't fall into bigger troubles in the future!"

Half a month later, the 150 reinforcements from Dangzheng, the [-] village chiefs with experience in working and learning in villages and towns, and dozens of people familiar with the situation in Xin'an County that Li Peiting dispatched from the Guangzhou Hanyuan Company system arrived on Hong Kong Island. At that time, the place had completely freed itself from the decadent atmosphere of April's frustration.

Overlooking Hong Kong Island from Lei Yue Mun Pier, the slightly flat land on the island has become a training ground for young men.Those strong men who haven't had time to replace the full set of uniforms and armor of the South China Army, wearing fat jackets temporarily adjusted from the warehouse, wielding mourning guns and Juehu knives in their hands, under the leadership of the armor chiefs, struggling to fight every move Practice, shouts one after another.

"It can be said that the morale is like a rainbow!"

"Yes, people's hearts are available."

Two students who had just graduated from Zhengshitang commented on the bow.

These students who are still exuding green breath, the village chiefs who have experience in rural work, and the shop assistants who are familiar with the situation in Xin'an County, together with soldiers and officers selected by the troops on the island, were organized into a branch. A small team of ten people, like tiny steel needles, was inserted into the fortress in Xin'an County, which seemed to be impenetrable by needles and impenetrable by water.

Seeing the small boats paddling silently towards the opposite side of the sea in the afterglow of the setting sun, Chen Tianhua, who was seeing off on the pier, couldn't help but sneered for a while. On that day, he led troops to attack Jiqingwei, but was unexpectedly surrounded by villages. The villagers kept harassing and harassing the villages. The leaders of the besieged villages also knew that the Nanzhong Army's field battles were fierce, and they were extremely invincible, so they relied on their own siege villages to arrange the crowds within a stone's throw of the besieged villages. The troops of the South Central Army were restrained, and when they encountered soldiers who were alone or left behind, they rushed towards them like hungry wolves and bit them fiercely.

Among the losses caused by the attack on Jiqingwei, nearly two-thirds of the casualties were caused by these people.

Among the plots described in Chen Tianhua's pleading document, this scene was properly and vividly explained. "During the march, the two scouts got on their horses and went out first. They were only a hundred steps away from the vanguard team. They turned around a banyan tree. From the grass beside the road, more than a dozen villagers jumped out. He fell to the ground and was stoned to death. When the brigade arrived, the dozen or so people had already dispersed.”

"Now, I will fight with you for the hearts of the people!"

Chen Tianhua looked in the direction of Ji Qingwei, muttering to himself.

In June of the seventh year of Chongzhen.

Jiqingwei.

People from the five major families gathered in Deng Yuanxun's mansion again. This time, the atmosphere was much duller than the last time Mrs. Deng invited everyone to eat Poon Choi.

"Although the pirates have retreated to the island, there are still bandits scattered across the countryside. Some outlaws, even unscrupulous children of the same clan, are mixed with them. Fan the flames and say some outrageous words!"

Mrs. Deng called everyone here mainly for this reason.

For more than a month, those task forces equipped with armed guards, led by the guys of the Hanyuan firm who are familiar with the situation, shuttled between the villages like small fish.It is their principle not to enter the walled village, but there are also a large number of villagers and villages outside the walled village.The mission Chen Tianhua entrusted to them was to win over the hearts of the villagers outside the encircled village, at least to make them not help each other in the future.

Although the progress of the work was very difficult, Chen Tianhua almost started the plan that was later dubbed "Land Reform by the Barrel of a Gun" by Shou Han.In this so-called land reform plan, Chen Tianhua planned to mobilize all his mobile forces to go straight to Kowloon, go northward along the peninsula, and use force as a backing in the areas of the five major families to raid the landlord's home and distribute the landlord's floating wealth and food to farmer.This is simple, effective and direct.

But, thinking about it, it was still rejected by Chen Tianhua himself.The reason is very simple, if you send food, clothes, and money to the peasants, would they dare to accept it?The peasants did not dare to accept it at all, and even if they managed to accept it, they would have to secretly send it back to the landlord at night.It is necessary to add a few words of apology.

After the continuous efforts of nearly a thousand people day and night, a wave of public opinion, which the patriarchs of the five major families called "unhealthy tendencies" and "rebellious words", spread from various villages.

"Farmers have three knives on their heads, the rent is heavy, the interest is high, and the incense in the ancestral hall is indispensable!"

"Should we publish the accounts of the incense money in the ancestral hall? There is no problem with respecting the ancestors, it should be paid, but there should also be a brother who will settle the accounts clearly?!"

"Back then, when we fought with others for water, fields, houses, and cemeteries, people who went to fight enemies would have money for soup and medicine. When we went to fight pirates, why didn't we see a penny?"

For a while, all kinds of discussions fell into the ears of the elders of various families.

What is more lethal is yet to come.

"There is a rule in the clan. If you sell land, you must first buy it from the clan. So, now our land rent and interest are all borrowed from the clan brothers in the clan. Shouldn't it be lowered? Woolen cloth?!"

These rumors spread to the surrounding village through various channels without exception, and the people in the surrounding village also felt that there was some truth.

It can’t be said that when I sell the land, the richness and water will not flow to outsiders’ fields. When I pay the rent and interest, shouldn’t I also talk about the friendship of the same clan?

The discussions in the streets and alleys were naturally reported to the patriarchs, and the patriarchs were all panicked at this moment.

From those small landowners who have some fields in their homes, employ a few long-term workers, or rent out part of the land to their tribesmen for farming, to self-cultivated farmers who grow their own food, and those tenants who rent other people's land, all have their eyes on the patriarchs. Actions.

"The incense money for the ancestral hall should be announced in the accounts. We collect so much incense money every year, but we haven't seen anything good for the ancestors in the ancestral hall! Even the curtains were changed when Emperor Tianqi first ascended the throne. ! How many years has it been!?" This is what everyone said.

"The rent and the interest should be lowered! Just like what the twelfth brother who came back from the provincial capital said that day, the rent should be [-]%, and the interest should not exceed one and a half cents, and no donkey Roll!" This is what the tenants say.

"There is a exchange of money between brothers of the same clan, and the interest should be lowered. It cannot be said that when we sell land, we should let brothers of the same clan buy it first, and brothers of the same clan collect interest without thinking about the face of the ancestors!" The voice of those small landowners and yeoman farmers.

"What's more, they actually said that if they don't give them a clear statement, they will go to the ancestral hall to cry and worship their ancestors, and then go south to the sea to make a living!"

The patriarch of the Hou family was a little helpless.

"Your words are quite good. My Peng family, I am not afraid of my dear friends' jokes. Some people have already invited those pirates to their homes and treated them like honored guests! They don't even listen to me, the patriarch! I hate those pirates. He will put on airs, help these unscrupulous people to work in the fields every day, tell them how to harvest more food, harvest more fish and shrimp, if they are in Nanzhong, how their land is, and so on. I am ashamed to say it, for fear of dirtying everyone's ears!"

In fact, the matter of the Peng family also happened in the other four families, but those few families did not directly expose their family scandal like him. This time, it can be regarded as stabbing a hornet's nest.

"There is such a rebellious son in your clan, why don't you open an ancestral hall to deal with him? Let them use everything from invading pig cages and sinking ponds. If you deal with a few unworthy descendants, they will be honest!"

Hearing this, the fat face of the patriarch of the Peng family trembled twice, and he turned his round eyes to look at everyone, "Our five families have always been in the same breath, I don't believe it, there is no such thing in your family. People, no one said such a thing?! Also, as far as I know, the Au family and Yu family in Sheung Shui, the Su family and Li family in Sha Tau Kok, the Cheng family and Wen family in Sai Kung are all in Kowloon and the surrounding outlying islands The Lin family in Kowloon is colluding in private, asking the patriarch to disclose the accounts and expenses, and asking for the so-called reduction of rent and interest within the clan. The Lin family in Kowloon can't bear it anymore. I heard yesterday that the Lin family opened an ancestral hall and invited people To do notarization, the land rent and interest in the clan were reduced to [-]% and [-]%. Moreover, the patriarch Lin Asi also announced the public expenses of the ancestral hall over the years in front of the ancestors of the ancestral hall."

After hearing the latest situation brought by Patriarch Peng, all the patriarchs were terrified. Once this hole is opened, things will be even more difficult in the future.Rent and interest, whether to reduce or not to reduce, this is a dilemma.

If it is lowered, it will inevitably offend the wealthy households in the clan and affect its own interests.If you don't surrender, you will be antagonizing the young and old who are the majority of your own clan.In today's precarious and eventful autumn, offending the whole family, old and young, is not fun.

Not to mention the ancestral temple incense money that has always been a mess!The patriarchs all knew how much money they paid for their fields! (To be continued.)