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Even though Zhao Han said that, the moment he passed the guards, he couldn't help reaching out and pressing the handle of the knife.

Those peasants knelt for a long time, seeing that Zhao Han was still refusing to go over, so they got up, ran a certain distance and knelt down again.

"Zhao Tianwang, you are wronged!"

"Please ask Zhao Tianwang to be the master of Xiaomin!"

"..."

Being able to wait on the road to cry for grievances, and to gather hundreds of people, at least two problems are explained: first, the postmen at the Southwest Water Post secretly reported to these peasants; .

Zhao Han arrived at the Southwest Water Station yesterday afternoon, and spent half an afternoon and one night organizing hundreds of farmers to stop him.These peasants were a force in the first place, Zhao Han couldn't possibly listen to what they said!

However, Zhao Han had a pleasant face and said with a smile: "If you have any grievances, push a leader over to talk."

A man about 30 years old stood up and took a few steps, then knelt down in front of Zhao Han: "Zhao Tianwang, Caomin is Chen Fushun, a villager from Shitang Village..."

Zhao Han could guess a few words in Cantonese, but he was completely blinded by a long sentence.

The accompanying interpreter came to Zhao Han and scolded, "Say it sentence by sentence!"

This person stated for a long time, and finally explained the cause and effect clearly, but it was an old case that happened last year.

For the convenience of understanding, the two villages are called Shanghe Village and Xiahe Village.

Last year, due to the severe drought, Shanghe Village cut off the river to irrigate the paddy fields.Xiahe Village was not angry, and went to fight for water, and more than [-] people were injured.

When it was brought to the government, the county magistrate refused to file the case.

Because according to Zhu Yuanzhang's "Jiaomin Bangwen", such disputes in the countryside cannot be reported to the officials at will, but must be handed over to the villagers for judgment.If you go around the old man and sue the officials, you will be punished with a staff of sixty, and it will be returned to the old man for judgment.

As a result, Xiahe villagers who were robbed of their water source and injured more than [-] people ate a meal at the county magistrate.The elders in Shanghe Village are more powerful, and Xiahe Village lost its water source, was injured by others, and finally had to chip in to pay for the soup and medicine.

It's not over!

During the autumn harvest season, the rice production in Xiahe Village was reduced by more than [-]%, but Shanghe Village was not affected much.As a result, the villagers of Xiahe Village mobilized collectively and went directly to the threshing ground to grab grain.

This move caught Kawamura by surprise.

A few days later, Shanghe Village summoned people to retaliate, and Xiahe Village suffered a big loss, so Xiahe Village called up people again.For several consecutive rounds, more and more people participated in the fighting. In the end, a battle broke out between the two sides with more than 3000 people, involving a total of four villages.

More than 50 people died!

The county magistrate finally made a move, regardless of injustice, both sides of the fighting arrested ten people, and executed them after autumn.

Dissatisfied with both parties, they went to the Xunyan Yushi to redress their grievances, and the Xunyan Yushi took the case to Dali Temple.However, the inspector censor was also on the sidelines, and when more than 50 people died in the fighting, only six people were reported dead, and he also helped Shanghe Village to speak.

It's just because in Shanghe Village, someone is a high official in the imperial court.

In the end, Dali Temple asked the county magistrate to retrial.In Shanghe Village, only one person was beheaded, and the remaining nine people were acquitted, while in Xiahe Village, ten people were executed.

"Zhao Tianwang, please judge," Chen Fushun said, "Our village was first robbed of water and then injured. Even if the robbing of food was wrong, we were forced to be extremely hungry. I also recognized it. Why did they only kill one, and our village killed ten! The Ming court is so corrupt, from now on, our village will only recognize Zhao Tianwang, and ask Zhao Tianwang to be the master!"

"I beg Zhao Tianwang to be the master!" Hundreds of farmers knelt down and shouted.

Zhao Han said expressionlessly: "Whoever taught you what you said just now, let him call for grievances, these gentry don't want to hide behind. I'll go back to the Southwest Water Station and wait, let the old gentry do it themselves .”

Chen Fushun was stunned for a moment, then kowtowed and shouted: "I beseech King Zhao to be the master!"

Zhao Han didn't bother to pay attention, turned around and left, and returned to the post station in a carriage.

After waiting for half a day at the post station, several villagers came one after another.They wanted to talk, but they were ordered to shut up, and they continued to wait at the station together.

By the next day, more than a dozen gentry had arrived in the villages on both sides of the fighting.

"Interrogate separately!" Zhao Han ordered.

Due to the lack of officials, missionaries, and backbones of the peasant association, Sanshui County only had an acting county magistrate appointed by Fei Ruhe.This is a wartime appointment, mainly to take over documents and warehouses.

As for the distribution of land, it is estimated that it will take one or two months before it can be distributed to the surrounding villages in Sanshui County.

More than a dozen gentry were interrogated separately for a full day.

If the confessions were not correct, the interrogation continued until midnight of the next day.During this period, he could only drink water, but could not eat or sleep.

Chen Maosheng held the final interrogation results and said with a wry smile: "Hundred years of grievances, I can't tell. Whoever is the official university will bully others. This time you suffer, and that time I suffer. Generally speaking, the downstream villages suffer. some more."

"Are those who kneel down and cry for grievances, farmers or tenants?" Zhao Han asked.

"Most of them are tenants," Chen Maosheng said, "There are a few tenants with extremely complicated identities, and I have never met them in Jiangxi Fentian."

Zhao Han became interested and asked, "How complicated?"

Chen Maosheng explained: "The clans here are extremely powerful, and each clan has a public land. Some clansmen with close blood can rent the public land of the clan, and the land rent is relatively low. Because there is no need to pay land taxes, no need to obey Corvée, their life is even comparable to small landlords in Jiangxi. If they encounter a disaster year, they can get relief from the clan. They can even go to the ancestral hall to borrow money if they want to do business.”

Zhao Han said: "The clan uses the public land to control the clansmen who are closer in blood, thus forming the cohesion of the big clan. They also use the private land to control other tenants. Therefore, every time there is a fight, you can call thousands of people to fight?"

"That's it!" Chen Maosheng nodded.

A clan can be compared to a school of cultivating immortals. The population within the clan is the core disciples, those with closer blood ties are the inner disciples, and those with more distant blood ties are the outer disciples.

There is family property and family land, and this is used as a means of control.They also opened private schools, built bridges and paved roads, gathered people's hearts and controlled everything.Ordinary tenants were exploited and had to be grateful to the landlord.Class conflicts are transferred directly to the outside, and when people's hearts are uncertain, they fight with the neighboring village.The conflicts were all transferred to the next-door village, thus forming a feud between the two villages.

There is no way to do a public trial or something here.

No matter how miserable the tenants were exploited, they did not hate the landlord, but the villagers in the next village.It seems that their troubled life is caused by the neighboring village.

"It's a bit difficult to advance." Chen Maosheng sighed.

Zhao Han said: "It's not good to be soft, but to be tough. Half of the main sect members of each family will be killed directly, and the other half will be arrested for mining."

Chen Maosheng smiled bitterly: "These gentry have good reputations. They have been doing good things like building bridges and paving roads, helping neighbors, and spreading enlightenment."

"Doing good deeds can make you guilty? The crime is ready-made, inciting the people to fight, causing dozens of deaths and injuries," Zhao Han planned to be ruthless this time. And share them all. Also, if we continue to fight with weapons in the future, we will not only punish the culprits, but none of the participants will be able to run away. One acre of land from each of them will be confiscated once in the fight with weapons!"

To solve the main sect is to disintegrate the leader.

The division of land and production will inevitably lead to psychological imbalances among the three types of people who are descendants of the clan, those who are closer by blood, and those who are farther by blood, and internal conflicts will arise.Ordinary tenants are completely taken care of.In the future, if the clan wants to get together to make trouble, it is estimated that there will be an internal fight, and there is no way to think about unifying the outside world.

Sanshui County is not far from Guangzhou. Zhao Han directly mobilized the army and began to "handle" disputes in troublesome villages.

Chen Fushun, who took the lead in kneeling and calling for injustice, was a tenant with a closer blood relationship.

He watched helplessly as his grandfather's family was captured by Zhao Tianwang's leading soldiers.Originally, I was resentful, thinking that Zhao Tianwang would also help the neighboring village, but someone came to promote the division of land and production that day.

Give yourself the land of the grandfather's house?

Chen Fushun was stunned for a long time, and suddenly felt that it was a good thing that the grandfather was arrested, and it was best for the whole family not to be released in this lifetime.

During the division of fields, Chen Fushun was very angry again.

Why do ordinary tenants have the same number of acres as he gets?Obviously this is his clan field, and his blood relationship is much closer.

Soon, Chen Fushun's anger died down again.Because he discovered that the property allocated to the clan's children was actually the same as his own.Isn't this psychologically balanced?

Not only psychologically balanced, but also secretly delighted.

Soon he became jealous again, because the disciples of the sect could be assigned to the store.The number of shops in the town is very small, so it is definitely not enough, but the children of the clan who have not been allocated can also be allocated a part of the floating wealth.

The whole process of dividing the fields seemed extremely strange.

Except for the non-clan tenants who are only happy, everyone else is both happy and dissatisfied.Because they all got benefits, they didn't hate Zhao Han, but hated each other.

These two villages were purely at gunpoint, and Liwei was killed by Zhao Han.

It is impossible to kill and divide the land like this in Guangdong. Zhao Han plans to forcefully emigrate to Huguang for the remaining big families.Some of the rich families in Huguang will also break up and move to other states and counties. Anyway, some states and counties in Huguang are extremely short of population.

Zhao Han handed over the work of dividing the fields in the two "demonstration villages" to Chen Maosheng, while he himself went to Guangzhou to communicate with merchants.

Chapter 261 [Macao can be recovered without food]

In the Ming Dynasty, the city of Guangzhou was expanded three times, basically comparable to the old city of Guangzhou in later generations.

However, the Pearl River in the late Ming Dynasty was very wide, and its banks were in the Taipingsha area.The river in the south of Guangzhou is as wide as 700 meters, but only 150 meters (the old city) remains after hundreds of years, which is the result of continuous accumulation of sediment.

Zhao Han changed ships halfway and arrived in Guangzhou. Countless merchants were already waiting at the pier.

These merchants all want to know what Zhao Han thinks of Haimao!

It doesn't matter whether you open the sea or not.Because they are the ones who oppose the opening of the sea, and they are also the ones who oppose the ban on the sea. This statement seems to be contradictory.

Opposition to opening up the sea is for fear of losing the monopoly on trade.

To oppose the sea ban is to oppose the sea ban being too strict, which makes it difficult for them to smuggle.

While implementing the sea ban, while condoning smuggling, this is the situation that merchants most hope to see.

"Meet Mr. Zhao!"

Hundreds of merchants, big and small, knelt down in unison to welcome Zhao Han off the boat at the pier.

The business travelers and common people who came and went looked around curiously.

The people looked at Zhao Han with no resentment at all. Of course, Fei Ruhe did something.

Zhao Han smiled all over his face: "Haha, everyone, please rise up. You have made great contributions to the city, and you should be rewarded greatly!"

"Don't dare, don't dare."

The merchants stood up one after another and declined one after another, feeling uneasy.

Zhao Han was amiable and seemed to be easy to talk to.But these merchants are old and cunning guys, how could they believe that Zhao Han is easy to talk?

Countless landlords in Jiangxi had their homes ransacked!

All the landlords in Jiangxi were divided into fields!

Is this easy to talk about?

The incident in Jiangxi had spread to Guangzhou long ago, and at the same time there was also news that Zhao Han seemed to be very friendly to merchants.

Guan Jialun took the lead and said: "The land administration of the general town is well known to the people of Guangzhou. This is a great thing to benefit the people. We have reached a consensus with the merchants in Guangzhou and are willing to fully cooperate with the general town to divide the land!"

"Everyone understands righteousness, this country is fortunate, and the people are also fortunate!" Zhao Han hastily bowed and saluted.

It seems that the atmosphere is harmonious, but in fact it is all nonsense.

You must cooperate with the division of fields, and you must cooperate if you do not cooperate.The focus of both parties' attention is the specific trade policy, but Zhao Han didn't mention it at all.

"Meet the general town!"

Fei Ruhe led the soldiers with one arm clenched and his chest crossed, he did not kneel down.Compared with the kneeling of merchants, it seems too disrespectful.

Zhao Han walked a few steps forward and saw many people tied up at the pier, he asked, "What are these?"

Fei Ruhe replied: "They are all traitors and criminals, they deserve to be killed for their crimes, please give me your instructions."

"If it's time to kill, then kill him. What are you waiting for me to do? Execute on the spot!" Zhao Han said.

These are gangsters, and if they were replaced by other rebels, they would definitely be rewarded, because they participated in the seizure of the city.

But here at Zhao Han, taking advantage of the chaos to burn and kill the looters, all beheaded without discussion.

Fei Ruhe had already killed a group of heinous criminals, and kept them for Zhao Han's prestige.Immediately shouted: "Execution!"

On the pier, in front of merchants and common people, more than 40 people lined up to be beheaded.

"it is good!"

The people of Guangzhou cheered loudly, they were victimized before, and it was the evil done by these gangsters in front of them.

There must be fish that slipped through the net.

For example, the crutches had already dispersed to the countryside, and Fei Ruhe didn't have the energy to investigate and arrest them.

For example, the guards of house slaves hid in rich merchants, Fei Ruhe didn't dare to do it lightly for the time being.

The faces of all the merchants changed drastically. These gangsters were all hired by them to seize the city.Now in front of them, all of them are killed at once. What does this mean?

Zhao Han explained to the merchants with a smile: "Don't worry, I, Mr. Zhao, have always been rewarded for meritorious deeds and punished for demerits. They were beheaded because they burned, killed and looted wantonly in the city after they captured the city. Be safe, everyone." Obeying the law is of course meritorious.”

"The chief town is wise."

Guan Jialun quickly agreed, the hairs all over his body stood on end, and he felt more and more that Zhao Han was difficult to speak.

Zhao Han entered the city with a smile. Accompanied by merchants, he came to the former residence of the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.

There were only two people left in the house.

Zhao Han asked, "How is Guangzhou?"

Fei Ruhe said: "The crutches are rampant, and people are often abducted. They are either sold to Nanyang or Hongyi."

"What are you talking about about these minutiae, forgetting what I taught you to sort out the primary and secondary contradictions?" Zhao Han said angrily.

Fei Ruhe thought for a while: "The main conflict is that we want to open the sea to collect customs duties, and merchants want to continue smuggling."