The world of counterfeit magistrates competes in the world

Chapter 490
As Fan Qi analyzed, the Hengshan Army's tens of thousands of people were restrained in the territory of Huazhou, and they could not return north in a short time.Now that there is hostility between the three major forces, Huazhou is on the front line and has to be guarded with heavy troops.

During this period, the fighting between Hengshan and the gentry became more and more fierce.As a pacifier, Pei Yan is fully responsible for the peace of the people in Huazhou.But because of his gentry status, the Hengshan officials ignored him at all.

Pei Yan had no choice but to keep recruiting the sons of the gentry to join the mansion, as his adjutants, and began to carry out the government of Anmin in Huazhou.With the assistance of the gentry, Pei Yan Anmin's progress was extremely smooth, and his efficiency was higher than that of Hengshan officials.Under the appeasement of the gentry, all parts of Huazhou quickly stabilized.

Ye Hongyu was both happy and shocked by this. The influence of this noble family in Huazhou is too high, right?If Hengshan continues to implement the Hengshan system, sooner or later it will touch the bottom line of the gentry.At that time, if the gentry rebelled, wouldn't Huazhou be in chaos?

Ye Hongyu immediately summoned the chief officials of the eight ministries to discuss the matter, and revealed his worries to everyone.

"Gentlemen, tell me, should I suspend the implementation of the Hengshan system in Huazhou?" After speaking, Ye Hongyu looked at the crowd hesitantly and asked in a deep voice.

"No!" A shout immediately sounded, and Guo Huaili stood up with a gloomy face and said, "Master Ye, everyone, the Hengshan system must be fully implemented in Huazhou, and you must not compromise with the gentry. Once they compromise, they will make progress and disintegrate step by step Our layout in Washington State."

"But as Master Ye said, if you are too tough, Huazhou will fall into chaos again." Wang Fugui frowned and said, "My lord once said that Huazhou must be completely controlled by our Hengshan within a year. Once Huazhou becomes chaotic, it will drag down Hengshan's future strategy."

"Our [-]-strong army is here, and there will be no chaos in Huazhou." Guo Huaili said confidently, "Even if there are real nobles who dare to make trouble, once the army arrives, it will be wiped out."

Ye Hongyu chuckled, "Master Guo's so-called method of using violence to control violence is indeed good. Naturally, our Hengshan Army can kill invincible opponents in all directions. But the methods that the gentry can use are far more than that. If they are not open, they can come secretly." .I wait in the open, they are in the dark, it is hard to guard against."

Guo Huaili was slightly taken aback, and finally showed annoyance on his face, "This will not work, and that will not work, everyone, is there no way for us to suppress these gentry?"

"Master Guo, everyone, don't you still not understand the purpose of your lord to let our eight departments move to Huazhou?" Ye Hongyu looked at the crowd and smiled slightly.

"Master Ye, isn't your lord just moving the center to Huazhou?" Wang Fugui asked suspiciously.

"This is just one of them." Ye Hongyu said lightly, "My lord actually hopes that our eight parts can fight against the gentry, and constantly sharpen our abilities in the battle with the gentry. Ladies and gentlemen, we have always been under the guardianship of your lord. Now, in the atmosphere of Hengshan, there is no intrigue, no political scheming. This is due to the fact that there is no old system, old bureaucracy, and old gentry under our rule. Hengshan is like a blank sheet of paper, which can be swayed by us. But Huazhou is different. The power of the gentry here is very strong, covering every inch of land in Huazhou like a giant net. My lord hopes that we can use Huazhou as a battlefield to drive the gentry out of this land. But this battlefield uses swords Instead, we use our abilities and means to pull the hearts of the people to our side little by little. Let the gentry become water without a source and a tree without roots, and they will perish."

"Master Ye, you, you mean Zhidou?" Guo Huaili looked at Ye Hongyu in shock.

"That's right, that's what your lord means, otherwise, with our strength, we would have slaughtered these gentry long ago." Ye Hongyu smiled slightly, "But the gentry in Huazhou are just a gentry in a corner of the world, and the entire Central Plains is still alive." There are countless gentry entrenched in the place, sucking the flesh and blood of the people. Let me ask, even if we use force to wipe out the gentry in Huazhou, what about the entire Central Plains? Can we continue to kill all the way?"

"This." Guo Huaili was speechless for a moment. No matter how much he hated the gentry, he never thought of killing the gentry in the world.If he did so, then Hengshan would be the enemy of the whole world.

"Lord Ye, the gentry are locals, and there are a lot of talents in the clan. Can I, Hengshan, really defeat them?" Xue Cheng asked worriedly.

"That's it, so everyone, you should act more carefully in the future. You must not let the gentry get caught and mislead the people so that my Hengshan system cannot be implemented." Ye Hongyu said solemnly.

"Master Ye, among the current policies implemented in Huazhou, the household registration system and field registration are the most difficult to promote." Wang Fugui spit out with a bitter face, "The gentry have had the desire to hide their population and land since ancient times. The slaves, servants, and private soldiers in the family are not in the household registration at all, and they are all private property of the family. The fields are even concealed by various means. With today's discussion, can you teach me how to do it?"

Everyone's face sank when they heard the words. Under the Hengshan system, each family's field is only [-] mu at most. Even senior officials like them cannot go beyond this line.However, the gentry in Huazhou have less than a hundred acres of fertile land, and more have tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land. Sometimes, the land of a big gentry can occupy more than half of the land in a county. The local people have no land and have to rent his fields. become their sharecroppers.

As for the population, Hengshan implements the system of registering households and all the people. Individuals with accurate population statistics, even newborn babies, must report to the government within a few days.However, the slaves bought by the gentry and the private soldiers recruited did not appear in the official archives. After several generations of management, sometimes the number of a member of the gentry was only recorded as dozens of people, but the real number of people in the clan However, the number reached several hundred, most of them were slaves who had been operating for many years, and their family had children.Because they do not have the status of free people, these people have been slaves of these gentry for generations, and they will never be able to stand up.

Wang Fugui is determined to carry out the Hengshan system, clarify the land, and check the population.But these are the taboos of the gentry, and once touched, they will inevitably be strongly rebounded by the gentry.He is not afraid of the rebellion of the gentry, and if they rebel, he will take the opportunity to wipe them out, which will reduce the obstacles a little.But once the gentry used insidious tricks to undermine the Hengshan policy, that good policy would not only fail to benefit the people, but would become an evil policy that would harm the people.

Everyone pondered for a long time, and finally Guo Huaili spoke, "My lord, since we can't use the hard ones, we should use the negative ones. Your lord once said that if a good person wants to punish a bad person, he must be worse than a bad person. To this day, I I finally understand the meaning of this sentence."

"Worse than the bad guys?" Everyone was stunned. What's the reason?
Ye Hongyu nodded thoughtfully, "This statement is quite reasonable. As the saying goes, treat others with their own ways. If the nobles use secret tricks for their own self-interest, then we don't have to worry about it. .”

"Haha, what Master Ye said is very much in line with my wishes." Guo Huaili laughed loudly, and the slight displeasure towards Ye Hongyu in his heart dissipated accordingly.

(End of this chapter)