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Xu Du burst out laughing immediately, and summoned many scholars and business leaders: "Master Zhao has already passed Jiangshan County, let's block the enemy army here, and watch how those thieves are wiped out by Mr Zhao!"

Chapter 294 [If you want to be an official, don't form a party]

In Jiangxi, many merchant ships were requisitioned to transport soldiers and food to the predetermined location.

Although these requisitioned merchant ships are not paid, they can receive a tax stamp.According to the cargo capacity of the ship, there are [-] tax discounts when passing through Jiujiang Chaoguan.

Moreover, you can use any ship to pass the customs, and the customs officials will only recognize the tax sticker.

The merchants are very satisfied with this, and they have always requisitioned civilian husbands and merchant ships in wars.Even if Zhao Han didn't give them anything, they didn't dare to say anything. The toll discount card is already pretty good.

That is a real discount, even if you don't use it yourself, you can resell it to other merchants.

This was done once last year.

Merchants from other places were amazed by this. After returning to their hometown, they even took the initiative to publicize, saying that Zhao Tianwang was very kind to the merchants.

summer.

The South Court Army in Guangdong——

Jiang Dashan led 1000 soldiers to the north, recruited [-] peasant soldiers and [-] civilian husbands in Jiangxi, a total of [-] people.Go out of Poyang Lake and go up along the Yangtze River.First hit Linxiang County as a base, and then go to attack Yuezhou Prefecture (Baling County).

Jiang Liang led two thousand soldiers and continued to garrison Guangdong.

The Northern Academy Army in Hunan——

Huang Yao led 9000 regular soldiers, [-] peasant soldiers, and [-] civilian husbands, a total of [-] people.Send troops from Changsha to attack Xiangyin.

Li Zheng led 8000 regular soldiers, [-] peasant soldiers, and [-] civilian husbands, totaling [-] people.Send troops from Changsha to attack Ningxiang and Yiyang.

Jiangxi's middle school army——

Zhao Han personally conquered and commanded a thousand soldiers.

Zhang Tieniu and Liu Zhu led 7000 regular soldiers, [-] peasant soldiers, and [-] peasants. A total of [-] people entered Zhejiang through Guangxin Mansion.

Jiangxi's Eastern Academy Army——

Fei Ruhe formed a new army of 6000, including [-] peasants and soldiers, and [-] peasants, a total of [-] people. They attacked Dongliu County (Dongliu Town, Dongzhi County, Anhui Province) on foot from Hukou.

Above, counting civilian husbands, a total of 62000 troops were dispatched.

Throughout the strategic plan, the Datong Army is like a crab, with two big claws stretched out.

A pair of crab claws can be used to cut the Dongting Lake Plain, and a pair of crab claws can be used to cut the entire Jiangnan.

Must fight fast!

At the end of May, Nanchang had become a traffic station. Except for the Huguang army, several other armies had to pass through here, and countless grains and grass had to be requisitioned by merchant ships to transport them.

Gu Gao, Wu Yingji and Huang Zongxi were directly thrown in Nanchang because the navy was going to fight.

The riverside is full of boats, and the river is full of boats, and there are countless coolies carrying supplies at the pier.

The three celebrities were walking on the pier, and the situation in front of them was somewhat beyond their expectations.

"Jiangxi soldiers will win this battle," Wu Yingji said with emotion. "In such a big war, no one panicked or complained. Hawkers took advantage of the opportunity to do business, coolies can also move goods to make money, and merchants are even more moved. The officials who go out to work in the city also have happy faces, and fighting means that they can be promoted."

"The war here doesn't seem to disturb the people," Gu Gao said, "I see that the civilian men who were recruited seem to be very happy."

Huang Zongxi said: "I asked someone for a few words just now. The military and civilian husbands of the Datong Army have changed their system since last year. There is no salary, only monthly rations, and there is no compulsory recruitment. They sign up voluntarily."

Gu Gao was quite puzzled: "It's just that there are still people who sign up for the meal?"

Huang Zongxi explained: "Children under the age of 12 cannot divide the land. In the land occupied by Zhao Zhuochen, some children have reached the age of 12, but because of this reason, they have no land. The hometown gets the field. Even if you are under 12 years old, you can reserve it first, and you are old enough to divide the field immediately."

"No wonder those peasants are so active in fighting with only rations." Wu Yingji sighed.

"Is there so much land in Jiangxi that can be divided?" Gu Gao asked.

Huang Zongxi explained: "Jiangxi has been immigrating abroad to enrich the population of war-torn areas. Every time a new land is occupied, after Jiangxi immigrates, some land can be vacated in the hometown, which happens to be distributed to the children of those peasant husbands. Also, some women After getting married, the land remains in her natal family, and there is no land under her name. As long as the husband becomes a civil husband, the woman who lost the land can regain the land."

Wu Yingji said with emotion: "This series of land administration is indeed very powerful. Farming wars, farming wars, the ancients are sincere and do not deceive me!"

Gu Gao muttered to himself: "In Ming Dynasty, everyone is afraid of war. On the other hand, under Zhao Zhuochen's command, officials, generals, soldiers, vagrants, merchants, and farmers are all looking forward to war."

Huang Zongxi laughed and said: "Only the big landlords suffer, and the land is divided into very few."

Suddenly, more than a dozen large ships came in mighty force.

"Mr. Zhao is here!"

A knowledgeable person suddenly pointed at the fleet and shouted.

The various departments of the Datong Army are not allowed to use the surname of the general as a banner, but can only display the Datong Army Banner and the unit designation banner.

But the fleet in front of him was flying the "Zhao" flag.

Due to the overcrowded waterway near Nanchang, Zhao Han's fleet sailed directly to the Xinjiang River from a tributary of the Ganjiang River without docking.

The three celebrities acted immediately, and they hired a small boat to catch up with the docked fleet in the evening.

Taking out the letter of recommendation from the navy, the three of them were quickly summoned.

"Wuxi Gu Gao (Guichi Wu Yingji, Yuyao Huang Zongxi), meet Mr. Zhao!"

"Haha, the three of you don't need to be formal."

Zhao Han invited the three celebrities to sit down, and couldn't help but look at Huang Zongxi a few more times.

Wu Yingji cupped his hands and said: "The students originally wanted to go to Jiangxi, and Mr. Zhao was asked to send troops to the south of the Yangtze River quickly. I didn't expect that the students didn't need to talk too much."

"Your Excellency is from Guichi?" Zhao Han asked.

Wu Yingji said, "Of course."

Zhao Han smiled and said, "Go to Hukou and help General Fei plan as a guide. After he conquers Dongliu County, his next target is your hometown."

Wu Yingji said: "A late-born talent is not a soldier."

As he said that, Wu Yingji took out several articles, all about how to maintain law and order in Jiangnan, stabilize prices in Jiangnan, and stabilize the market in Jiangnan.

After Zhao Han read it carefully, he found that this person was not an ordinary scholar, but a socioeconomic scholar.

"You are very familiar with the Jiangnan water bandits in this article about the suppression of the bandits." Zhao Han said with a smile.

Wu Yingji said embarrassingly: "When I was young and frivolous, I used to wield swords in the rivers and lakes, and I had a lot of contacts with the rangers in the south of the Yangtze River."

"very good!"

Zhao Han said: "When the army reaches Taihu Lake, I will give you an errand. Recruit those Taihu water bandits, let them hand over their boats, and obediently divide the land as good people. I don't want small fishing boats, and they can continue to fish. Past crimes , Don’t blame the past, but if you commit the crime again, the old and new scores will be settled together!”

"Relying on the prestige of Mister, I will definitely be able to recruit water bandits!" Wu Yingji was very happy, and he had the opportunity to make meritorious deeds when he first came to join him.

Zhao Han's attitude towards officers, soldiers and bandits has changed.Except for people who are extremely angry and notorious, the rest are allowed to be disarmed and returned to the field, and there is no longer a requirement to kill the leader.

The world is getting more and more chaotic. Take Zhejiang as an example, many people have the experience of cannibalism.

Not just eating corpses, but killing living people to eat!

How do you go after this?

Including the captives who were sent to mine in the early days, they are now being released one after another.For example, the Guangxin soldiers captured in Jishui County, as long as they did not die of exhaustion in the mines, they would all be released back to their hometowns, and the fields could be divided, and Fei Ruhe's clansmen were also released.

It is equivalent to labor reform.

For minor crimes, one year for mining will be released; for slightly more serious crimes, three years for mining; for serious crimes, at least five years for mining.

It is also good to set the deadline in this way, to give the reformers a thought, so as not to cause a riot of miners.

Zhao Han looked at Gu Gao again: "Mister is Gu Donglin's son?"

"Congzi." Gu Gao replied.

Zhao Han said with a smile: "Gu Donglin founded Donglin Academy. I like the couplet very much. It is actually the motto of scholars. The sound of wind and rain, the sound of reading, the sound of reading is in my ears; family affairs, state affairs, world affairs, and everything is concerned."

Gu Gao cupped his hands: "Mr. is too famous."

Zhao Han said again: "I still remember an article, which seems to have such a sentence: Puppet Lanxi, Siming; Baby Sanyin, Xinjian. Is it to curb Loujiang's ears?"

The expressions of the three celebrities changed drastically.

This is an article written by Gu Xiancheng, the leader of the Donglin Party. As a commoner who was dismissed from office and returned to his hometown, he regarded the current minister as a puppet and a baby.

Gu Gao quickly stood up and bowed: "This joke is not made at that time."

Indeed, it was not a work at that time, but a concluding article written by Gu Xiancheng a few years after that struggle, with the taste of "strategic contempt for the enemy", and it was not a sure-fire way to replace the chief assistant during political struggles.

But this kind of statement is enough to make any ruler afraid!

Some people say that the Donglin Party represents a certain class, the Jiangnan chaebol.But against the Donglin Party, there are also big landlords and big merchants in the south of the Yangtze River. This thing cannot be judged in black and white.

It's just partisanship!

Once involved in political struggles, no matter how pure a person is, they will be filthy, and the Donglin Party is no exception.

In the beginning, there was no such thing as the Qi, Chu, and Zhejiang parties and the Donglin party, and they fought each other.After deduction and deduction, I believed it, so I really went to form a party.Many officials who help to speak are also classified as a certain party. As long as they talk and do things, they will be classified as a certain party.

Then you don’t know right from wrong, no matter how bad someone in our party is, you have to keep it, and no matter how good someone from your party is, you have to kill him!

Only by completely controlling the court can one govern the country according to one's own ideas.

The first is the dispute between the cabinet and the ministries. Both the cabinet and the six ministries want to take power, and the power of the prime minister and the power of the ministries is the core of the party struggle.The second is the cabinet and the Ministry of Education. The power of Prime Minister and the power of supervision are mutually used, and at the same time they are in the same situation.

In the end, the Ministry of Officials and the Jingcha became a vortex of struggle for the power of prime minister, ministerial power, and supervisory power.

And the imperial power is high above, not so much being emptied, it is better to say that the imperial power has lost control of the authorities, because party struggles have messed up the central agencies.

Zhao Han asked, "Do you want to form a party in Jiangxi?"

"Don't dare." Gu Gao quickly denied.

"Don't dare, or don't want to?" Zhao Han asked.

Gu Gao explained: "It's not necessary."

Zhao Han asked with a smile, "Why isn't it necessary?"

Gu Gao replied: "Whether it is the Donglin Party or the Fushe, the purpose is to expel traitors, select talents and make use of them, and strive to govern. But Jiangxi is already under great rule, and the Donglin Party members and Fushe scholars have come to Jiangxi. What reason is there to form a party? The reason for forming a party no longer exists."

"If you want to be an official in Jiangxi, you must leave the Fushe!" Zhao Han directly expressed his attitude.

When Gu Gao boarded the ship in Nanjing, he only said that he came to Jiangxi to observe politics, but he did not admit that he wanted to be an official in Jiangxi.But at this moment, he made a promise on the spot: "Someone is willing to leave Fushe."

Zhao Han smiled and asked Huang Zongxi, "Where is your Excellency?"

Without saying a word, Huang Zongxi handed over the article called "Yuan Jun".

Chapter 295 [Monarch and Subjects]

Seeing Zhao Han started to read "Yuanjun", both Gu Gao and Wu Yingji felt uneasy.

This article is an explanation of monarchy, the country is like a big business, and the common people are all shareholders.The emperor is the big shopkeeper who was hired, and the officials are the second shopkeeper, the third shopkeeper and the semicolon shopkeeper who were hired.

It vaguely reveals the meaning of restricting the monarchy.

Although Huang Zongxi was going all out, he was still quite nervous and kept observing Zhao Han's expression.

Surprisingly, Zhao Han was actually laughing.

That kind of smile is neither contempt, nor joy, nor anger.It's like... like Mr. Murakami, grading schoolchildren's homework, the meaning is indescribable.

The article is short, read it quickly.

Didn't get angry?

This was beyond the expectations of Gu Gao and Wu Yingji. It both touched Zhao Han's heart and shocked Zhao Han's city.They believed that Zhao Han was able to tolerate dissent and at the same time control his emotions. He probably hated Huang Zongxi in his heart.

Zhao Han asked: "Do you want to limit the monarchy?"

Huang Zongxi replied: "It is natural that the sages of generations are the best, but it is inevitable that there will be foolish lords."

Zhao Han said with a smile: "You said that the common people are the shareholders, so may I ask, which are the major shareholders and which are the minority shareholders? Which shareholders only count when they say it?"

Huang Zongxi was stunned.

"Let's talk about it on a small scale," Zhao Han put down the article, "There are 1 shareholders in Tianxia, ​​ten of them are major shareholders, and they can elect the second shopkeeper, the third shopkeeper, and the semicolon shopkeeper. Except for the emperor Except for the big shopkeeper, the rest of the shopkeepers have to listen to the words of the ten major shareholders. The shopkeepers and the major shareholders have joined forces to fabricate false accounts, run a deficit on the firm, and embezzle privately. So, who owns this big firm? It belongs to the ten major shareholders, Or the 1 shareholders?"

Huang Zongxi fell into confusion.

Zhao Han continued: "In this firm of Ming Dynasty, the shopkeepers were losing money, and the big shareholders swallowed up the shares of the small shareholders, which caused the firm to continue to lose money, and the business was squeezed out by the Manchu firm. As the big shopkeeper, Chongzhen wanted to turn the tide , but no one can believe it. While teaching other shopkeepers, he forced the shareholders to invest money. The major shareholders were unwilling to invest money and asked the small shareholders to invest. The small shareholders had no money and starved to death. Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and I were both The small shareholders who are forced to do nothing can only withdraw their capital and build another firm."

Gu Gao and Wu Yingji stared wide-eyed, how can the general situation of the world be described in this way?