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Zhao Han was stationed in Hangzhou and did not set off immediately, but sent three troops.

Five hundred soldiers took the city of Shaoxing, and then united with the local rebel army to take the entire Shaoxing.

One thousand farmers and soldiers took Yuhang and Lin'an.

One thousand regular soldiers and one thousand peasant soldiers, as pioneers, went straight to Chongde.

Around Zhao Han, there were only a thousand relatives and a thousand civilian husbands, and the Eastern Expeditionary Force had been divided into countless groups.

This kind of tactics of scattered and divided troops simply does not regard Zhejiang officers and soldiers as human beings.

Let's take Shaoxing as an example. Five hundred soldiers killed them, and the defenders in the city were frightened.Kong Zhenyun came forward to persuade him to surrender again, and the magistrate and county magistrate immediately gave up resistance.The descendants of Confucius have all surrendered, and it is not shameful for us to follow suit.

"I heard that Mr. Punishment is very popular among the common people," Zhao Han asked, "Which other bullies and bullies in Hangzhou Mansion need to be severely punished?"

Shi Wancheng said: "There are many tyrants in the Hangzhou government, but the one who caused the people's grievances to boil is the Haining Wu family. I only killed Wu Zhongyan, but this brother and son are still doing evil."

"Who is the backer behind him?" Zhao Han asked.

Shi Wancheng replied: "The backer of the Wu family in Haining is the Cai family in Deqing. The backer of the Cai family in Deqing used to be the chief assistant Wen Tiren, but now it is the chief assistant Xue Guoguan. Cai Yichen of the Deqing Cai family is currently the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Ming Dynasty."

Zhao Han smiled and said, "Sure enough, the backing is strong."

"The reason why Wu Zhongyan's case became so big is that it actually involved the dispute between Wen Tiren and Fushe," Shi Wancheng said with a sigh, "I forcibly killed Wu Zhongyan under the pressure of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and it happened that Wen Tiren was dismissed from office. Otherwise, , I will be retaliated by the Wen party, and I will not be an official for a long time. But because of this, I was regarded by the emperor as the Donglin party."

Zhao Han was a little speechless, attacking local tycoons could actually involve factional struggles in the court.

Zhao Han has already investigated, Shi Wancheng is indeed clean and capable, even the magistrate's routine money is not collected, and all the money is handed over to the central court.

There are many kinds of routine silver, the most common one is when taxes are collected, a few thousand taels are accidentally collected.Now that they have all been conscripted, it is embarrassing to return them. Officials at all levels will share some, and the rest will be filial to the chief official.

This kind of official has the merit of dedicating the city, Zhao Han thinks that he can be promoted.

Zhao Han asked with a smile: "Sir, do you want to severely punish Hangzhou Haoqiang?"

"I've suffered a lot from them, so I naturally want to clean it up!" Shi Wancheng didn't hide it.

"That's good," Zhao Han said, "Since you are familiar with Hangzhou, sir, you should stay here and serve as a co-magistrate of the Hangzhou government for a few years. I will leave it to you to punish the powerful. .”

Shi Wancheng quickly stood up: "I will live up to my trust!"

Zhao Han said with a smile: "Don't be soft-hearted. If you need to raid the house, you should ransack the house. There are many mines in my territory. Don't take ethics into account. The women whose houses were ransacked will force them to remarry. In Jiangxi, Jiangnan, Guangdong and other provinces, for nearly a hundred years Drowning female infants is common practice, rich people take more concubines, and many ordinary men are unable to marry women."

Shi Wancheng hesitated to speak, he felt that it was inappropriate to force the woman to remarry.But when you think about Ming Dynasty's policy, it's nothing, because if it were placed in Daming, these women would have to work as prostitutes in the Jiaofang Division.

One is to be a prostitute, and the other is just to remarry, which is naturally much more humane.

Moreover, it is true that infant drowning is serious in Zhejiang, and bachelors can be seen everywhere.

Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi are the three places where infant drowning is the most serious, especially the number of drowned female infants is the largest!

Over the past hundred years, many officials have tried to reverse the situation and made many efforts.

Zhao Han didn't deliberately try to change the situation, and tried to make the life of the common people better, and the women in the countryside could also share the land.After a few years, the infant drowning phenomenon will disappear automatically. As long as life is passable, which parent is willing to drown their child?

Especially in Jiangxi, there has been a baby boom.

In the past three or four years, a large number of newborns have been born.It is estimated that after ten years, the population of Jiangxi will explode, and large-scale emigration will be necessary at that time, otherwise the conflict between people and land will intensify, which will inevitably cause many social problems.

Zhao Han got up and walked to the window, looked at the red Nan tree in the yard, and said to himself: "The roots are deep and the leaves are luxuriant, and the branches need to be pruned, otherwise it will block too much sunlight."

Suddenly, Zhao Han turned his head and asked: "If the same surname exceeds [-]% in a certain village, we will forcibly exchange and migrate with the neighboring village. Is it feasible?"

"This... this will cause a lot of trouble." Shi Wancheng said in shock.

"The farmers and tenants are willing to relocate while they are sharing the land. Anyway, they just move to the next village," Zhao Han said with a smile.

The clan power in Jiangnan is even more terrifying than Jiangxi. Zhao Han can't rest assured that the division of land can't make people with the same surname mix up.

In the early Ming Dynasty, as much as the landlords in the south of the Yangtze River hated Zhu Yuanzhang, they would hate Zhao Han a hundred times in the future.

Even Song Lian, the first civil servant in the founding of the Ming Dynasty, secretly reminisced about the Yuan Dynasty in the article.After this person retired from his old age and returned to his hometown, he used the year name of the Yuan Dynasty many times in his articles, replacing the first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty with the 28th year of Dayuan Zhizheng.

Among them, the "Konggong Shinto Monument" is the worst: "(Zhizheng) 28 years, the emperor (Zhu Yuanzhang) issued an edict to Qugong to enter the pilgrimage..."

What does it mean?

After the reign title of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang was written immediately. Is Zhu Yuanzhang a courtier of the Yuan Dynasty or the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty?

This is an article written by the first civil servant of the founding of the Ming Dynasty after his retirement!

Song Lian was an extremely human minister, why did he still think about the good of the Yuan Dynasty after retiring?

Because the Yuan Dynasty was in the north of the Yangtze River, all kinds of burning, killing, looting, and forcible annexation of land caused many uprisings.So when attacking Jiangnan, they adopted a moderate strategy, giving various preferential treatment to Jiangnan landlords, and the taxes were even much lighter than those in the Song Dynasty, and the officials protected the illegal privileges of Jiangnan landlords.

Landlords in the south of the Yangtze River during the Yuan Dynasty lived in paradise.

Zhu Yuanzhang abolished their privileges and raised the tax per acre. Who do you think the landlords in the south of the Yangtze River will turn to?

Zhao Han suddenly understood why after Zhu Yuanzhang occupied Jiangnan, he wanted to label a large number of Jiangnan landlords as cheap.Why a large number of confiscated land in the south of the Yangtze River was confiscated, and the deformed official land system was implemented, which eventually led to the reform in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

Huang Zongxi went back to his hometown and persuaded his people to surrender and share the land, so Zhao Han called Wu Yingji alone.

In the whole Fushe, Wu Yingji belongs to the third leader, and his influence is only under Zhang Pu and Zhang Cai.

"Relocation with the same surname, this method is feasible," Wu Yingji nodded and said, "There will definitely be a lot of trouble, but the chaos can save a lot of trouble in the future."

Zhao Han said: "The scholars who participated in the service need to be appeased by the master."

Wu Yingji cupped his hands and said, "I am willing to serve the general town!"

When Wu Yingji left, Zhao Han recruited military officials and demanded that more efforts should be made to crack down on the powerful gentry.

How to increase the intensity?

Copy a few more!

Surely there is no mistake in copying, those powerful gentry can always find out all kinds of crimes.

As long as the knives are sharp and we intensify the attack on the powerful, not only will the landlords not be forced to rebel, but the landlords in the unoccupied areas will be more enthusiastic to seek refuge.

Because Zhao Han killed all the way, and took the initiative to seek refuge with meritorious scholars along the way, Zhao Han would give preferential treatment-only the land would be allocated, and the house would not be ransacked, and they would be directly converted into officials.

With these people as examples and a group of them being severely punished, other landlords should know how to choose.

Chapter 306 [Qian Muzhai]

Deqing County.

Cai Yichen, who was returning home from Ding You, heard that the Zhao bandits had sent troops to Zhejiang on the way, so he immediately hurried back to his hometown.

Land and so on can be distributed casually, and tens of thousands of acres of land can be discarded.

Cai Yichen paid a lot of money to hire a ship and recruited many coolies. He loaded four ships with goods and planned to flee Zhejiang with his family.

He was not afraid of Zhao Han, but the Donglin Party and Fushe!

Because Cai Yichen has been involved too deeply with Wen Tiren, and now he is Xue Guoguan's confidant, he has long been in an endless situation with Fushe.

In the Central Zhejiang Uprising, a large number of fushe scholars took refuge in Zhao Han, and Cai Yichen was afraid of being retaliated by these people.

"Don't let him run away!"

A group of Fushe scholars, led by peasant soldiers and members of the peasant association, surrounded Cai Yichen's family who were about to board the ship.

Cai Yichen's thoughts are all hopeless, these bastards who have rehabilitated the society really refuse to let him go.

Cai Yiqi complained in his heart that his elder brother had offended Fushe. He said to the members of the peasant association: "The Cai family is willing to donate 3 taels to Zhao Tianwang as military funds. Our Cai family has a grievance, and we request to meet Zhao Tianwang face to face. Brothers, don't be deceived by Fushe!" "

A Fushe scholar shouted: "Don't listen to the Cai family's nonsense. The Cai family is a traitor in the court. In the wild fish and meat village, they will all be arrested for public trial and ransacked their homes!"

The leader of the peasant association felt that there was something wrong, but he didn't dare to make a decision, so he ran back to ask the mission officer for instructions.

The mission officer was not sure, so he simply seized the property of the Cai family and escorted the Cai brothers to meet Zhao Han.

Zhao Han still stayed in Hangzhou, and only sent troops to continue to occupy the city. At this moment, Jiaxing and Huzhou have been occupied.

After repeated discussions, the policy of "same surname, different relocation" was finally decided to be slightly changed.That is, this decree will only be implemented if more than [-]% of the villagers have the same surname, and only [-]% of the villagers will move out with the same surname.

"Bring people in."

Zhao Han was reading the military newspaper, which was sent by Fei Ruhe.

Fei Ruhe's Eastern Academy soldiers fought smoothly all the way, but they got stuck when they reached Wuhu.

The city there is high and the pool is deep, and there is a hoard of heavy troops. It will not be able to take down for a while, so they simply divide their troops to capture the surrounding counties and prepare to turn Wuhu into an isolated city.

Putting down the military newspaper, the Cai brothers were brought in.

Zhao Han asked, "Who is Cai Yichen?"

"Reporting to Mr. Zhao, this is Cai Yichen." Cai Yichen stepped forward and bowed.

"Aren't you serving as the left servant in the imperial court?" Zhao Han asked.

Cai Yichen replied: "It coincides with Ding You's return home."

Zhao Han asked again: "What grievances do you have?"

Cai Yichen said: "Reporting to the main town, there are indeed stubborn people in the Cai clan, but they are not as bad as the rumors outside. They are all those who have returned to society, spreading rumors everywhere, calling the Cai clan a heinous family."

Zhao Han asked: "You accepted Wu Zhongyan's bribes, helped Wu Zhongyan escape from the crime, and then transferred the money to bribe Xue Guoguan. Are these true?"

"It's true," Cai Yichen argued, "but the bribery and bribery are all in Daming, not under the rule of the Zongzhen. Is the Zongzhen still helping Emperor Chongzhen to punish corrupt officials of Ming Dynasty?"

"Haha," Zhao Han was amused, "You're right, I really don't care about that."

Cai Yichen also said: "The Wu family in Haining did arouse public anger. But the reason why it aroused public indignation was that Fushe scholars publicized their bad deeds everywhere. Fushe did it to destroy me!"

Zhao Han asked: "Could it be that Wu Zhongyan was wronged, and the Wu family didn't do anything to harm the people?"

"It's been done, but it's not as exaggerated as the Fushe scholars advertised." Cai Yichen said.

Zhao Han said with a smile: "Since the disabled people are harming the people, they should be severely punished!"

Cai Yichen said: "Are the Fushe scholars innocent? What they have done is not much better than Haining Wu's."

"That's fine, just report a few companies, and I'll deal with all the Fushe scholars." Zhao Han said happily.

Cai Yichen said: "Please give me the pen and ink."

Zhao Han asked the guards to take the pen and paper, and Cai Yichen wrote down more than ten families, and listed many very detailed crimes.

Zhao Han called the secretaries and ordered: "Separate the families who volunteered first, and all the rest will be searched and searched. Drag these two surnamed Cai out. Since there is no grievance, they will be dealt with together!"

Cai Yichen was stunned, and then laughed sadly.

Before he died, he was able to drag several enemies to his back, so it was worth the trip to see Zhao Han.

The case of Cai Yichen and Wu Zhongyan in history, from Wen Tiren's era, has been running through to the small court of Nanming, which directly caused the disintegration of the small court of Nanming.

What Zhao Han encountered at this time was only the prelude to the case.

If Zhao Han didn't exist, he would be revealed next year, leading to the death of the chief assistant Xue Guoguan, and Cai Yichen would also be dismissed from office.

So far, the matter is still unfinished.

With the establishment of the small imperial court in the Southern Ming Dynasty, Qian Qianyi suddenly distanced himself from Fushe, forcibly separated the Donglin Party from Fushe, and recommended Cai Yichen to return to office.Cai Yichen spent money everywhere to buy officials at that time, and Qian Qianyi probably took bribes—it was also Qian Qianyi who planned to kill Cai Yichen in the first place.

After Cai Yichen came to power, he immediately conspired to make troubles and retaliated wildly against the enemies of Fushe, which made the Hongguang regime completely fall into the quagmire of party struggle.

A dog-eat-dog show!

In that good show, Qian Qianyi looked like a clown.For the sake of profit, he betrayed Fushe; for the sake of high position, he bribed the villain;

A few more days.

Mao Qiling, the barbarian, begged to see him, but was brought in by Zhao Han's personal guards.

The face of this guy is very ugly, and he said when they met: "The general town wants to be an enemy of all the gentlemen in the south of the Yangtze River?"

Zhao Han said with a smile: "Scholars who volunteered, I didn't touch those families, they just divided the fields normally."

Mao Qiling said: "In the past few days, the homes of four big families in Hangzhou have been confiscated. They are all family members of poetry and etiquette and friendly neighbors. How can this not make all the gentry feel cold?"

Zhao Han called Li Yu over and said with a smile, "You tell him."

After Li Yu understood the situation, he cupped his hands and said, "You say that the poems and rites are handed down to the family, and the neighbors are friendly, do you have evidence?"

Mao Qiling said: "What more evidence do you need? It's something that is well-known!"

Li Yu sneered: "There is evidence in the general town to arrest people and ransack their homes. Flying and treacherous, seizing people's fields, harming public wealth and private interests, exploiting the common people, torturing and killing domestic slaves, occupying public canals... a lot of crimes. All the actions are clearly investigated. in vain!"

"How do you know that you haven't been tortured?" Mao Qiling asked back.

Li Yu said contemptuously: "I'm afraid you don't know what is a public trial meeting and what is a complaining meeting!"