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After the performance, Pan Saisai was removing her make-up when she suddenly heard someone behind her say, "Xiao Pan, I will go to the countryside of Nanchang County to perform in a few days, and you will star in "The White Haired Girl."

"Nanchang County is not our territory, right?" Pan Saisai was quite surprised.

The head of the performance troupe said: "Nanchang County is setting up a peasant association, we are the closest to there, and I just received the order."

Nanchang Fucheng and Nanchang County are not the same city, they are about ten miles apart.

Since he failed to capture Nanchang Mansion in the first place, Zhao Han would not spend his troops to attack.Instead, farmers' associations were formed in the counties of Nanchang Prefecture, and the rural areas were occupied first. The Datong Army had just won a big victory, and the officers, soldiers and landlords would definitely not dare to attack members of the farmers' associations.

The peasant association not only recruited tenants, but also small landlords and self-cultivating farmers. It mainly did the following tasks: unite tenants to reduce rent and interest, and abolish unfair phenomena such as barrel noodles and winter livestock.Small landlords and self-cultivating farmers do not pay exorbitant taxes to the government.Landlords were forced to release domestic slaves, and all were changed to short-term employment contracts.

The peasant association movement was not violent, and remained within the tolerance of the government and the gentry—this tolerance was backed by the force of the Datong Army.

It only takes two or three months, and the small landlords, self-cultivating farmers, tenants, and domestic slaves will no longer be willing to fight for the government after they have tasted the sweetness.At that time, Zhu Xieyuan, not to mention conscripting troops in Nanchang Mansion, may not even be able to collect a few stones of food.

As for the expansion of the territory, it is mainly in southern Jiangxi.

Now Zhao Han, Pang Chunlai, Li Banghua and others have explored a development routine.

That is to say, experienced assistant officials (county magistrates, chief bookkeepers, etc.) were transferred and appointed as magistrates of the newly occupied land.Then transfer experienced officials to serve as assistant officials in the newly occupied territory.The original site will be promoted according to political performance and seniority, so as to make up for the vacancy after being transferred.

There is no shortage of officials, and the more they are trained, the more officials are lacking now!

After the victory in the Ganzhou War, Ganzhou City must be taken, mainly to alleviate the salt shortage and reduce the price of salt.

Shen Youlong has been unable to stop Guangyan from going north, and Ganzhou has been stuck.After the occupation of Ganzhou, the cheap and high-quality Guangzhou Salt was continuously imported, which immediately eased Zhao Han's financial difficulties.

At the same time, Yudu County next to Ganzhou had to be occupied.

In this way, the saltpeter mine in Ningdu County can be transported down the river from Yudu to Ganzhou, and then from Ganzhou to Ji'an.In this way, the cost of buying saltpeter ore is greatly reduced, and more gunpowder can be produced in the future.

Ganzhou City has not yet been won at this time.

After the defeat of Fujian General Chen Tingdui, the [-] Fujian soldiers responsible for guarding the city had to release Governor Zou Weilian and asked Zou Weilian to take them to defend Ganzhou.

Chapter 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 mirrors at the head of the city can observe the rivers in all directions.Yugutai on the mountain can observe the whole Ganzhou city.

Liu Anfeng took a few officials with him to the stage and said, "I've seen Zhao Bingyuan!"

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

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

Liu Anfeng was the county magistrate of Luling 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 servant named Xiao Gui who had already been promoted to the county magistrate of Longquan.

Fei Ruhe asked: "Which territory 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 dramatically. Are there so many officials?"

"Yes," Liu Anfeng explained, "The yamen of each prefecture, county, and town will send 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 they 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, and 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 17 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.

Moreover, 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 wall.

The officers and soldiers who guarded the city immediately hung him into the city.

In fact, these Fujian soldiers also wanted to surrender, but the terms had not yet been negotiated.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 did not dedicate the city immediately, simply because 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, "Being a thief and betraying the emperor, 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."

Liu Huan, the magistrate of Ganzhou, said with a smile: "Brother Dehui, the tiger father has no dogs. It's rare that your son has such insight."

Zou Weilian finally showed surprise, and asked: "You learned all this statement from the rebels?"

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

Zou Weilian had heard of this book, and merchant ships from the north would be forced to buy a copy as long as they passed through Ji'an Mansion.But he had never read it himself, and he did not allow others to read it, so the book was searched and destroyed immediately.

To this day, Zou Weilian finally opened "The Collection of Datong" seriously, and after reading it, he didn't know what to say.

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

"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 [-] 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 asked amusedly.

Zou Liangyi explained: "In battles and fights, each is his own master, so we can't be too demanding. Being stained with 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 3000 Fujian soldiers guarding the city only plundered people in western Fujian. After entering Jiangxi, they have been restrained by me. Some time ago, they had nothing to do with going out of the city to plunder. All [-] people were left to guard the city. If the talks fail, 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 fought down to ensure the military security of Ganzhou Prefecture.

Lieutenant General Zhou Dezhen set off with [-] 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!"

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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.

Hundreds of Tian Bing remnants who fled into the mountains held the banner of "Walk for 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.

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Yudu County.

Chen Tingdui, the general soldier of Fujian who had retreated here, looked at the terrified faces of Tian Bing outside the city, and he quickly ordered: "Quickly shout out, just say that I am from Fujian, and the Fujian people will not fight the Fujian people. If they want to occupy the county seat, I can Get 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.

Tianbing 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 had a miserable life and they liked to rebel.When the news of the defeat of the officers and soldiers came out, they immediately acted.

To what extent?

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.

Wei Jiaju, the head of Ningdu County, went straight to the outside of Ganzhou City by boat, and asked Fei Ruhe to send him to Ji'an Mansion.

After this person saw Zhao Han, he went straight to the point and said, "Mr. Zhao wants to acquire Southern Jiangxi, 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 rich tenants," Wei Jiaju said, "The banditry in southern Jiangxi has been suppressed repeatedly, and the small tenant tenants are hard to sustain. If they are not responsible for the landlord, these rich tenants are even more abominable!"

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

Wei Jiaju said: "Taking the distance from Ningdu County, six out of ten people in the county are Fujianese."

"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 15.

During the Wanli period, the population of Ningdu County was less than [-].

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

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

What was the situation?

The landlord mainly pays heavy taxes to the government, and the tenant only pays 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 farming for two or three generations, some tenants who have made a fortune no longer want to work the fields themselves.

As a result, they recruited more fellow villagers from Fujian, sublet the land, and turned themselves into wealthy 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 area 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 land 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!"

This narration opened Zhao Han's horizons, and he decided to send Chen Maosheng to take charge of the work himself.

Chapter 205 [Specific analysis of specific issues]

The Wei family belonged to a large family in Ningdu. Their ancestral home was in Sichuan, and they moved to Fujian in the Southern Song Dynasty.Now it is divided into two branches, one living in southern Jiangxi and the other living in western Fujian.

Judging from his ancestral home, Wei Jiaju can be from Sichuan or Fujian.But the Wei family moved to Ningdu very early, and they can be counted as natives of Jiangxi.

During the Jiajing period, there was a catastrophe in Ningdu, and the Wei family donated grain and ten thousand stones at one time to help the county magistrate to relieve the victims, which shows his strong financial resources.Jiajing issued an imperial decree to set up a memorial archway and give a crown belt. The Wei family took the opportunity to build the imperial decree gate, so it is also called "the imperial decree gate Wei".

The Wei family insisted on passing on poems and etiquette to the family, but it was very embarrassing. In 200 years, there was not even a juren...

Zhao Han called all the top management to a meeting and asked Wei Jiaju to tell the situation in Nangan.

Wei Jiaju bowed his hands to the crowd, repeated what he had said before, and added: "Gentlemen, there are differences in different places in southern Jiangxi. Gan County is actually quite normal. There are very few luxury tenants around the capital city of Ganzhou. The further west , The further south you go, the more Hakka people come from Fujian and Guangdong.”

"So that's the case," Chen Maosheng nodded. "It's no wonder that the establishment of a farmers' association outside Ganzhou City did not encounter much resistance."