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  Chapter 206 204 [special circumstances]

  Ganzhou, Yugutai.

  Fei Ruhe moved a chair and sat there, and used binoculars to observe the city when he had nothing to do. He liked this newly captured little thing very much.

  The eight-mirror platform at the head of the city can observe the four rivers. Yugutai on the mountain can observe the whole Ganzhou city.

   Liu Anfeng brought several officials to the stage to meet him and said, "I have seen Zhao Bingyuan!"

   "Hey, Lao Liu is here," Fei Ruhe put down the binoculars and warmly greeted him, "The general town actually asked you to be the prefect of Ganzhou?"

  Liu Anfeng cupped his hands and said, "It all depends on the cultivation in the town."

  Liu Anfeng was the magistrate of Luling County before, and his position in Zhao Han's territory is somewhat similar to that of Jing Zhaoyin. The promotion of this position is either sent out to serve as the magistrate, or directly promoted to the General Military Mansion.

  Liu Anfeng can barely be considered a veteran, a poor scholar, who served in Yongyang Town.

  When it comes to the position of county magistrate, scholars must be used. It is not necessary to be a scholar with fame and fame, but to be proficient in writing, calligraphy and arithmetic. It is also acceptable for house slaves and actors to have read books.

   There was a house slave named Xiao Gui who had already been promoted to the county magistrate of Longquan.

  Fei Ruhe asked: "Which territories are you going to fight this time?"

"In addition to Ganzhou City, the four counties of Nankang, Shangyou, Yudu, and Xingguo must be captured," Liu Anfeng conveyed the order of the General Army Mansion, "Nankang is the southern gate of Ganzhou Prefecture, and Shangyu is the gate of Ganzhou Prefecture. The west gate, Yudu is the east gate of Ganzhou Prefecture, and only by occupying these three counties can we hold the throat. As for Xingguo, after taking this county, we can connect several counties in the south into one."

  Fei Ruhe said: "In addition to Gan County in Ganzhou City, the land of five counties has increased sharply. Are there so many officials?"

   "Yes," Liu Anfeng explained, "The yamen of each prefecture, county, and town will transfer some assistant officials and officials to come here, and the vacant positions will be filled by officials."

   "That's okay," Fei Ruhe asked again, "How many of Zou Weilian's family members have brought?"

  Liu Anfeng said: "His mother is old and inconvenient to travel far, so she only brought her eldest son, Zou Liangyi. Zou Liangyi has already joined us. This time he came to Ganzhou, he can be a civil servant in Gan County."

  Fei Ruhe said with a headache: "Then let him go to persuade him to surrender, this Ganzhou city is really hard to fight."

  Zou Liangyi was only seventeen years old. Before he was taken away, he was studying hard to test his talents. He was thrown to Bailuzhou Academy, where he studied for more than half a year, and he already recognized the idea of ​​Datong in his heart, but he was a little reluctant to part with his own land.

   But no matter how reluctant he is, now he can only give up. His whole family has been captured by the rebels.

  Besides, when she left home, her grandmother gave away her property. Zou Liangyi has now been reduced to a "landless class".

   Anyway, there is no land at home, why don't you work with Mr. Zhao?

   "I am the son of Governor Zou, let me go up!" Zou Liangyi shouted standing under the city.

  The guards and soldiers immediately hang him into the city.

  Actually, these Fujian soldiers also want to surrender, but they haven't negotiated the conditions yet. In order to surrender smoothly, they didn't even plunder the city, they just wanted to make a good impression on Zhao Han.

  At this moment, Zou Weilian was playing chess with Liu Huan, the prefect of Ganzhou.

  They all knew that Ganzhou would be lost, so they didn't dedicate the city immediately. It was simply that all the city gates were in the hands of Fujian soldiers.

   Zou Weilian and Liu Huan were in charge of negotiating with the enemy, and they surrendered if they reached an agreement. If they can't reach an agreement, those Fujian soldiers will wantonly harm the people of Fucheng before they die.

   "Father, the baby is here!" Zou Liangyi cupped his hands.

  Zou Weilian stared at the chessboard, put down a piece for a long time, and asked, "Are you a thief?"

"Yes," Zou Liangyi said, "Mr. Zhao sent troops to take away the young and old. When we left, my grandmother had donated all the land to the clan relatives, slaves, and tenants. Father, our family has no land, and we have to divide the land." Not under our name."

  Zou Weilian finally raised his head, stared at his son and said, "Is this a matter of dividing the land?"

Zou Liangyi said: "Father, my son has already grasped Mr. Zhao's knowledge. The world's society is really a matter of dividing the land. Now the gentry and the powerful have annexed the land, so that the tillers have no land, and it is difficult for the court to collect taxes. The poor get poorer, and the rich The richer you get, the treasury will be empty. If the poor cannot live, they will fight for their lives. The treasury will be empty and cannot be suppressed, and sooner or later the great Ming will be overthrown."

  Ganzhou Governor Liu Huan smiled and said: "Brother Dehui, the tiger father has no dogs, it is rare for your son to have such insight."

  Zou Weilian finally showed surprise on his face, and asked, "Did you learn this set of sayings from the rebels?"

   "Father, let's read this book." Zou Liangyi handed over a copy of "The Collection of Great Harmony".

  Zou Weilian had read this book a long time ago, and Fei Yinghuan brought it from Ji'an Mansion.

  To this day, Zou Weilian opened "Da Tong Ji" again, and after reading it, he didn't know what to say.

  Zou Liangyi said: "Father, please dedicate the city and surrender."

"Father can't be the master of city defense," Zou Weilian said to his son. "Go out of the city and ask if you can let these Fujian soldiers go back to their hometown. They have been away from home for more than two years. They don't want to stay in Jiangxi. They just want to go back to their hometown and be with them." Family reunion. If you agree, retreat 30 li to the north, and these Fujian soldiers will abandon the city and leave."

  Zou Liangyi said: "Those whose hands are not stained with the blood of the people can leave."

   "How can a soldier not be stained with blood?" Zou Weilian laughed.

  Zou Liangyi explained: "In battles and battles, everyone is their own master, so we can't be demanding. The blood of the people means that we haven't done any looting."

Zou Weilian sighed: "Then you go back and spread the word, saying that the 3,000 Fujian soldiers guarding the city only looted the people in the west of Fujian. After entering Jiangxi, they have been restrained by me. Some time ago, the looting out of the city had nothing to do with them. All 3,000 people were left to guard the city. If there is no agreement, the whole city must be destroyed."

   Zou Liangyi couldn't decide on this matter, and neither could Fei Ruhe, so they could only send the boat back to ask Zhao Han for instructions.

   Taking advantage of this time, Fei Ruhe divided his troops to attack Nankang County.

  It already belongs to the territory of Nan'an Prefecture, but it must be taken down to ensure the military security of Ganzhou Prefecture.

  Deputy General Zhou Dezhen set off with 3,000 soldiers. Before he arrived at Nankang County, he heard that Nankang County was captured by local field soldiers. The leader of Tian Bing led dozens of subordinates out of the city several miles to greet him, knelt down and kowtowed: "Please, general, be the master for us!"

  …

  Ningdu County.

Thousands of tenants elected tenant chiefs and organized them into three thousand field soldiers. They shouted in Hakka: "General Zhao (Fei Ruhe) of Luling has defeated the officers and soldiers in Ganzhou. Now is a good time for us to rise up." I'm going to take down the county seat!"

  …

  Huichang County.

  The remnants of Tian Bing who fled into the mountains, hundreds of people held the banner of "Walk for the Heaven".

  After coming out of the mountains, countless tenants joined along the way, and when they reached the county town, they had grown to thousands of people.

  …

  雩 all (in capital) county.

Chen Tingdui, the Fujian general who had retreated here, looked at the terrified faces of Tian Bing outside the city, and he quickly ordered: "Hurry up and say that I am from Fujian, and the Fujianese will not fight the Fujianese. If they want to occupy the county, I can Come out, leave a way for me to leave!"

  Yes, most of the tenants who rebelled in Southern Jiangxi were originally from Fujian.

  …

  Shicheng County.

  Xingguo County.

  Ruijin County.

  Tian Bing uprisings broke out one after another.

  These news came one after another, Fei Ruhe was completely dumbfounded, he murmured to himself: "Could it be that I have gained a great reputation, and only won a big victory in Ganzhou City, which caused the seven counties to rebel at the same time?"

  Of course not!

  The real reason is that the tenants in Nangan are suffering too much, and they like to rebel. When the news of the defeat of the officers and soldiers came out, they immediately acted.

   How miserable is it?

   During the small imperial court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Zhou Zhifan, the commander-in-chief of Tingzhou, and Liu Yili, the magistrate of Ruijin County, secretly supported the tenants to rebel against the landlords. These officials couldn't stand it anymore!

   Moreover, the rebellion here is extremely complicated, involving the interests of the government, landlords, tenants, and tenants.

  Ningdu County Chief Secretary Wei Jiaju went straight to Ganzhou by boat and asked Fei Ruhe to send troops to Ji'an Mansion.

  After seeing Zhao Han, this person cut straight to the point and said: "Mr. Zhao wants to get Nanjiang, he should know the real situation here, and don't think that the tenants are hard-working people."

  Zhao Han asked with a smile: "Could there be rich people among the tenants?"

   "There are indeed wealthy tenants," Wei Jiaju said, "The banditry in southern Jiangxi has been suppressed repeatedly, and the small tenants are hard to sustain. It is not only the responsibility of the landlords, but these wealthy tenants are even more abominable!"

  Zhao Han asked strangely: "How did the rich tenant become so rich?"

  Wei Jiaju said: "Take Ningdu County as an example. Six out of ten people in the county are from Fujian."

   "How can six or seven of the prefectures and counties in Jiangxi become Fujianese?" Zhao Han felt even more strange.

Wei Jiaju explained in detail: "At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, many Fujianese were tenants in Ningdu. During the years of Hongzhi, Zhengde, and Jiajing, there were constant bandits in Ningdu County. After the suppression of bandits in the three dynasties, the local people either died or fled. Second, Fujianese (mostly Hakka people) called for friends and took the opportunity to come over to farm the land. They are extremely united, and the landlord relies on them for farming, so they turn the client into the master, and the tenant can suppress the landlord.”

   During the Hongwu period, the population of Ningdu County exceeded 150,000.

  During the Wanli period, the population of Ningdu County was less than 20,000.

  This is not real data, but many local populations, which are hidden by landlords. As for 60 to 70% of Fujianese, their household registration is still in Fujian, and they have not registered locally at all.

  The first few batches of Fujian tenants quickly became rich by farming because they banded together to deal with the landlords.

  What was the situation?

  The land mainly pays heavy taxes to the government, and the tenants only pay the normal rent to the landlord. The output of one mu of land and the income of the tenants are three or four times that of the landlords!

  After two or three generations of farming, some tenants who have made a fortune began to no longer want to work the fields by themselves.

  So, they recruited more fellow villagers from Fujian, sublet the land, and became rich tenants and tenants who reaped profits.

  Thus, a three-level relationship is formed: landlord-rich tenant-tenant.

   Even after making money, many wealthy tenants returned to Fujian to buy houses and land, while still working as tenants in Jiangxi.

  The low-level tenants in the southern Jiangxi region are double oppressed by landlords and wealthy tenants!

   In order to protect their own interests, the wealthy tenants often provoke conflicts between tenants and landlords. They let the landlords and tenants fight, and they reap the benefits themselves. Many Tianbing uprisings were also planned by the landlords.

Wei Jiaju said: "Mr. Zhao, I have read "The Collection of Datong". If we divide the fields in the southern Jiangxi region, we will not only attack the landlords, but also suppress those wealthy tenants. Moreover, the wealthy tenants and tenants are all Fujianese, mostly Hakkas. Beware of wealthy tenants instigating tenants, not to mention fighting against the government, they fight for water with thousands of people at every turn!"

  The narration opened Zhao Han's eyes, and he decided to send Chen Maosheng to preside over the work himself.

   (It’s gone today, I’ll update it tomorrow.)

  (end of this chapter)