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For example, Liu Xiu, the son of the plane, first married Yin Lihua, a wealthy daughter, and after only one year, he married Guo Shengtong, the niece of King Zhending.

Li Banghua was really thinking about Zhao Han. After the gentry got married like this, they would definitely be more loyal to Zhao Han.

Zhao Han didn't appreciate it, and said, "Are they loyal to me? No, they are loyal to the family's future. I don't want to create a situation that is only three counties, and the officials under the rule are already intertwined! They want power, Just do things honestly, I will promote them instead of corrupting my subordinates! Mr. Li, do you want to create a Jishui party in Ji'an? You have suffered from party struggles in Beijing, and you still want me to rule Can the ministers and officials eat it again?"

This is a heartbreaking statement, Li Banghua said angrily: "I have no intention of forming a clique, and I never want to be the leader of the Jishui Party!"

"If you don't do it, they will force you to do it!" Zhao Han fixed his eyes on Li Banghua.

Li Banghua was thinking a lot, and suddenly sighed, not knowing what to say.

"Total town!"

Liu Zhu hurriedly came to report: "Outside the general's mansion, hundreds of scholars gathered, clamoring to come in to intercede with the Zou family."

Zhao Han sneered and said, "The Zou family really has face. I arrested people yesterday, but today they can gather so many people."

Li Banghua sat on the spot, feeling that he was not a human being inside and out. He was sandwiched between Zhao Han and the gentry, and it seemed that it was wrong to speak for either side.

Zhao Han went out and came outside the general's mansion. Hundreds of scholars saw him coming, and collectively bowed and shouted: "Please forgive me, the general!"

"Hahahahaha!"

Zhao Han changed his face and became extremely fast, how could he be angry?He said with joy on his face: "I like you very much that you can come today."

A scholar said happily: "The general town is willing to release the Zou family?"

Zhao Han walked among these scholars and said with a smile: "You guys can come to petition today, it can be seen that you have recognized me, Mr. Zhao, from the bottom of your heart. Otherwise, it is not a petition together, but a secret conspiracy. If you can win the hearts of the gentlemen, How can I be unhappy if it is enough to rule the world? It's just..."

Suddenly the topic changed, and Zhao Han sighed: "The Zou family took the lead in undermining the land administration. As the head of the three counties, I can't bend the law for personal gain, right? Don't worry, everyone, if you act according to the law, you will definitely not wrong the Zou family, and of course you will not." condone crime."

Juren Liu Tongsheng stood up suddenly: "Dare to ask the general town, is there a contract in advance that the land cannot be transferred before the land is divided? If there is no contract in advance, it will be punished for not teaching."

"Is that a gift from the Zou family?" Zhao Han sneered and ordered, "Bring the monk from Qingyuan Temple!"

Not long after, soldiers escorted more than a dozen monks, all of whom were senior officials of Qingyuan Temple.

Zhao Han said to Zen Master Benji, the abbot of Qingyuan Temple, "Does the food in the prison meet the Zen Master's wishes?"

Zen Master Ben Ji, who was over 70 years old, put his palms together and said: "The five grains in the world are nothing but something that satisfies the stomach, and there is no difference between whether they are good or bad."

"Very good, Zen master is really profound in Buddhism," Zhao Han ordered, "Order the prison guards, all the monks of Qingyuan Temple, from now on, only eat rice bran and wheat bran."

Zen Master Benji looked at Zhao Han with a helpless expression, and the other monks also had no temper, all of them withered like eggplants with frost.

Finally, Zen Master Benji couldn't help but said: "Zongzhen, if you only eat rice bran and wheat bran, people will starve to death."

Zen master benji left his name in later generations because he did two things.

One is that Wang Yangming gave lectures in Qingyuan Temple. Since then, Qingyuan Temple has integrated Zen and Confucianism, and the academy in the temple has existed for more than a hundred years.Zou Yuanbiao and Guo Zizhang, the two inheritors of mind theory, welcomed Zen master Benji as the abbot. The original intention was to coexist the temple and the academy.After Zen Master Benji gained a firm foothold, he moved the academy out.

The second is that Xu Xiake came to Jishui for tourism, and Zen Master Benji entertained Xu Xiake, so it was written in "Xu Xiake's Travel Notes".

Zhao Han was surprised and said: "Will people starve to death if they eat rice bran and wheat bran? I have seen that many people in the world eat bran. Are they not human beings? Can't every Buddha be reincarnated?"

Another monk said: "General Town, if the people only eat bran, they will starve to death."

"You also know that people will starve to death?"

Zhao Han suddenly said angrily: "Qingyuan Temple occupies nearly [-] mu of land, and now it has thousands of mu of land donated by the Zou family. Can you monks eat it all? Why don't you share it with the poor people at the bottom of the mountain? There is a saying in Buddhism, saving lives Mingsheng built a seven-level pagoda, how many lives did you save? The monastery gave usury to the peasants, forcing the peasants to sell their sons and daughters, what kind of Buddhism do you practice!"

Zen Master Benji put his palms together hastily: "Amitabha, the poor monk doesn't know about this, so he must strictly restrain him from now on."

"No need," Zhao Han said, "All the monks in Qingyuan Temple who don't have a certificate from the court will return to the common people. For the monks who have a certificate, each of you will leave three acres of land for you. If you want to eat in the future, you can cultivate it yourself!"

All the monks were speechless for a moment as if struck by lightning.

In the temples and Taoist temples in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, at most one out of ten monks and priests was a legal monk, and the rest were all illegal monks and Taoists without certificates.

Zhao Han ordered those fake monks to return to vulgarity. He didn't have the suspicion of slandering the Buddha.

Zhao Han then said to the hundreds of scholars: "This Zen master Benji was welcomed by Mr. Nangao (Zou Yuanbiao) and Mr. Qingluo (Guo Zizhang) to be the abbot. This monk is double-faced and three-handed. After gaining a firm foothold, he immediately crossed the river and demolished the bridge. Blatantly disobeying the entrustment of Mr. Nangao and Qingluo, he drove the academy away from Qingyuan Temple. He also forcibly occupied countless mathematics fields as temple fields. Donated to the academy!"

Zhao Han began to sow dissension: "Occupy the school land as temple land, and take the school food as monk food, you scholars turn a blind eye!"

Most readers don't know this.

Because monk Ben Ji chose the right timing, he took advantage of the reconstruction of Bailuzhou Academy to merge the academy in Qingyuan Temple with Bailuzhou Academy.At that time, the teachers and students were very happy, and the monk even pretended to donate money, which won the praise of countless scholars.

But now, it was exposed by Zhao Han on the spot - a monk confessed last night, otherwise Zhao Han would not know.

Hundreds of scholars have been distracted and glared at the monk one after another.

That is a field of study that has been accumulated for more than 100 years. If you think about it with your knees, you know that the area is very large, and it is actually occupied by these monks!

Zhao Han stared at Zen Master Benji: "The Zou family didn't want to give all of the property to the farmers. They risked offending me and secretly donated thousands of acres to Qingyuan Temple. Are they fools? Or is it true?" Believe in the Buddha?"

"The poor monk doesn't know about this." Zen Master Benji was still pretending to be stupid.

Zhao Han asked with a smile, "Who wants to say that?"

During the overnight interrogation last night, a group of middle-level monks were tortured to extract confessions, and these high-level monks were allowed to listen to the screams all the time.

I was not afraid that it would be a lie, and immediately a monk knelt down and said: "General Town, the Zou family donated an acre of land, and the land rent from the Zou family will be divided into half and half with Qingyuan Temple."

This news was tortured last night.

Zhao Han smiled and asked Liu Tongsheng: "Liu Juren, the land rent is split in half. Is this a donation to the monastery, or is it maliciously concealing the land?"

"This..." Liu Tongsheng was speechless.

Zhao Han said to the rest of the scholars: "All the land of your family has been divided up. The Zou family has kept thousands of acres of land, and rented it to the monks. You who don't have a few acres of land, instead run away Come to intercede for the Zou family who have hidden thousands of acres. What is this for? Forgive me for being stupid, I really can't figure it out."

Hundreds of scholars looked at each other, feeling cheated.

Don't worry about scarcity but inequality, everyone has divided the fields, why does your Zou family hide thousands of acres?

Immediately some scholars turned and left, Zou Yuanbiao did leave a blessing, worthy of the admiration of the local scholars, but it was not to the point where the scholars took advantage of the Zou family.

Li Banghua stood at the door, watching all this silently, he knew that the Zou family was completely ruined.

Zhao Han not only ransacked Zou's home, but also ruined Zou's reputation.

Punish the heart!

Chapter 152 [Gentlemen Escape]

Jishui, Wu Jiatang.

Although the Liu family has been divided into two households, it is only reflected in the household registration book, and they still live together in the ancestral mansion.

Many helpers in the family were sent home during the day.

At midnight, Liu Tongsheng went out in the dark, followed by 26 people, including children!

Regardless of men and women, they all leave softly.

Liu Tongsheng is 49 years old, but his body is still relatively strong.

In history, he won the first prize in the examination. Chongzhen asked his age and replied 51.Chongzhen praised: "You look like a young man!"

Liu Tongsheng himself carried more than 30 catties of silver, and his brothers and nephews also carried silver.

A family of more than 20 people came to the small river in the dark, and Liu Tongsheng fell on the way.

Boats were already prepared by the river, but for fear of falling into the water, they could only light the lanterns when boarding the boat.Driving from the small river to the Tongjiang River, and from the Tongjiang River to the Ganjiang River, at dawn, it has already left the boundary of Jishui County.

After dividing the fields, their family still has more than 400 mu of land, and now they don't want it!

Their family still has more than 2000 shi of grain, and they don't want it anymore!

Even, there is still some money at home, and I really can't move it, so I don't want it!

They gave up everything and fled Jishui with their whole family because they couldn't see hope and felt aggrieved living in Zhao Han's territory.

Liu Tongsheng in history, just after the Manchu Qing invaded Jiangxi, was still far away from Jishui County.He abandoned the land, moved his family to Fujian, and then donated his property to recruit soldiers to fight against the Qing Dynasty.

It can also be regarded as an anti-Qing patriot.

Zhao Han forcibly divided the land, and Liu Tong was promoted to the Bao family. He could choose to endure for the time being, but there were some things he couldn't bear.

First, slavery is not allowed.Even if you can have servants, is it as convenient as before?And child labor is not allowed, and there are no servants under the age of 12.

Second, concubines are not allowed.This decree is not enforced, and the government will only stop it when the concubine reports to the government.

Although he strictly complied with the "Law of the Ming Dynasty", Liu Tongsheng was very upset.If everything is done in accordance with the "Law of the Ming Dynasty", then the life of the gentry will not be able to live.

The "Law of the Ming Dynasty" not only forbids common people to keep slaves, but also forbids landlords to use tenants to carry sedan chairs.

If the first two items can be tolerated, then what Liu Tongsheng cannot tolerate is Zhao Han's extreme disrespect for talents!

Not only is Liu Tongsheng good at stereotypes, but he is also proficient in all kinds of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. He has even studied military art and art.

But after defecting to Zhao Han, Liu Tongsheng was only given two choices.

One is to do ordinary civilian work in the General Military Mansion, and the other is to go to the countryside to assist the peasant association in dividing the land.

Liu Tongsheng first chose to work as a civil servant, and became impatient after working for a few days, because it was the work of civil servants.He is a dignified man, but he was thrown to be a swordsman, and he was the most ordinary swordsman.

Then, Liu Tongsheng applied to go to the countryside to divide the land, but this time he only persisted for one day.

He thought he was going to direct the division of the field, but when he got to the field, he actually had to go down to the field to measure it himself.This is no longer the work of civil servants, but soap officials.

What is soap official?

It is a lowly labor, which is like a lowly nationality, and children and grandchildren cannot participate in the imperial examination!

Liu Tongsheng felt a great humiliation in the two jobs before and after.

One of his Juren friends, in order to cling to the rebels, took an active part in dividing the land, and was promoted to the mayor of the town because of this.

But what the hell is the mayor?

There are eight towns in Luling County and seven towns in Jishui County.The mayor of Najishui County is equivalent to one-seventh of a county magistrate?

This kind of rural official position is not suitable for Liu Tongsheng!

What's even more exasperating is that that Juren friend was arrested and awaiting trial just because he slept with a prostitute.

Liu Tongsheng's younger brother married a concubine's daughter to an official of the General Military Mansion, hoping to get the care of the General Military Mansion.

However, the officials of the General Military Mansion who were married to the great clan were all demoted and transferred by Zhao Han, leaving no room for the gentry at all.

Liu Tongsheng hated all kinds of perverse actions like this.

He would rather not have land, no food, and run away with only money, and he would never live under Zhao Han's rule.

Standing at the bow of the boat, Liu Tongsheng looked at the beautiful scenery of spring on both sides of the river, feeling so happy, like a free bird out of the cage.

As for the fields, the ragged and hard-working farmers have automatically become an embellishment in the beautiful scenery.

……

General military mansion.

Xiao Huan came in and reported: "In Zongzhen, more than a dozen gentry families have escaped with their families. It is impossible for us to send people to watch all day long."

"Why surveillance?"

Zhao Han said with a smile: "Let them go, and the land, houses, money and food left behind will be confiscated. How many gentry do I still need?"

Li Banghua was silent, and the gentry really lost his morals, and many of his efforts were in vain.

Zhao Han was very relaxed, and said with a smile: "Mr. Li, they shouldn't have escaped because of the Zou family, right?"

"No," Li Banghua said, "It was the married officials of the General Military Mansion who were demoted and let the scholars start as low-level officials. That's why they left in despair."

Zhao Han sighed: "Where have I ever treated someone who is really willing to do things badly? For example, the Juren Wang Yuanlu, who worked a little hard on dividing the land, was promoted to be the mayor, which was countless times faster than ordinary scholars. I even Think it over, once Taihe County is captured, promote this person to Taihe County magistrate, which can be regarded as setting an example for the gentry's children. Who knows that this person's mud can't support the wall, and he even raped a female missionary when he was drunk!"

Li Banghua shook his head and said, "You think the mayor is an official, but they think the mayor is an official."

"I don't even want to manage a town, how dare I let them manage a county?" Zhao Han said with a smile, "Anyway, there are countless scholars at the bottom, and I have no shortage of scholars. Gentlemen can run away if they want."

Li Banghua didn't want to discuss this topic, just like what Zhao Han said, there are countless low-level scholars in Jiangxi, and there is really no shortage of scholars!

If one gentry boy runs away, ten poor scholars will stand up. How many poor scholars are waiting to be officials.

Juren and scholar from a wealthy family look down on the position of mayor?

But let the poor scholar be the mayor, not to mention how happy he is, the enthusiasm for work will be different.

Suddenly, Li Banghua completely figured it out.

The low-level peasants are the foundation, and the poor scholars are the backbone. It seems that there are really no gentry.

"When will you send troops to Anfu County?" Li Banghua asked.