Chapter 140 138【Occupy Three Counties】

   "Zhao thief, you will die!"

   "Mr. Zhao, please spare me!"

  The second day Zhao Han entered the city, several gentry were dragged out.

  They were all paralyzed by Zhao Han. Corporal Lixian's good performance does not mean that the murderer is let go.

   When receiving the soldiers, I asked them by the way.

  Clan members generally do not report, and basically all of them have read books. There are many schoolchildren in ordinary township braves, and from a certain point of view, they are one.

  The house slaves have no psychological burden. Those who are slightly nostalgic expose other masters, and those who are not nostalgic directly confess their own masters. They heard that Zhao Han was also born as a domestic slave, and they were going to distribute fields to them, and they immediately felt that Zhao Han was their own.

   "General Town..." Yang Zhong hesitated to speak, and stayed by Zhao Han's side for the time being.

  Zhao Han smiled and said, "Let's talk."

  Yang Zhong bit the bullet and advised: "Brother Zhang Chang (Zhou Ruixu) didn't kill anyone himself, he was a Jinshi, why not spare his life to serve the general town?"

  Zhao Han looked at Xiao Huan: "You explain to him."

Xiao Huan rolled up his sleeves and smiled: "Brother Da Lu, Zongzhen has always followed his word. If he says he wants to kill the culprit, he will definitely kill the culprit. Although Zhou Ruixu didn't kill anyone himself, he led troops across the river to attack at night. He is the chief evil among the chief evils! Could it be that you want Zong Zhen to break his promise?"

"Ugh…"

  Yang Zhong has nothing to say, he is just sad because he is a scholar after all.

  Suddenly conquering so many gentry, eight of them are Juren, which of course makes Zhao Han happy. However, these gentry have ulterior motives, and Zhao Han prefers those brave men.

  Xiangyong is mostly a son of a good family, with a literacy rate of over 50%!

  The small landlords and self-cultivating farmers in Jiangxi, not to mention that every family reads books, more than half of them must read books. Although there are people who have only been educated for two or three years because of their poor families, they can at least recognize a few hundred characters.

  Backing Xie Xuelong last year, Zhao Han captured hundreds of Xiangyong, and he has already enjoyed a wave of bonuses.

  Those village braves, after receiving real benefits, many of them have been transformed into grassroots cadres, and have become an important basis for Zhao Han's rule.

   "General Town, Mr. Li sent it." Secretary Liu Fang sent a report.

   After Zhao Han read it carefully, he handed it to Xiao Huan.

  Xiao Huan looked at it, and said with a smile: "If you can act according to this strategy, the general town will definitely win the hearts of the people!"

   Zhao Han's initial site was relatively barren and relatively remote. Therefore, the literacy rate and land occupation rate of Liangjiazi are far lower than those in the eastern part of Luling County and Jishui County.

  Li Banghua did not participate in the division of land in Luling County, but after getting the fish scale book, he already had concerns in his heart. Now, Li Banghua presided over the subfield in Jishui again, and soon handed Zhao Han a big data report.

  Owner farmers and small landlords, who can send their children to study, occupy more than three acres of land per capita.

  Based on the previous standard of land distribution, although the reduction of taxes and taxes can benefit good families, it is far less intuitive than more land distribution. Li Banghua suggested that the per capita land distribution can be increased to four mu, so that good families will completely fall to Zhao Han, because most of them can also pick up land for nothing.

  Of course, there is not so much arable land to divide at this stage, but we can make big pies for tenants, self-cultivating farmers, and small landlords, and make up for them when the land expands in the future.

   In addition, Luling and Jishui counties have many mountains and little land, so they can call on the people to reclaim the mountainous land for planting sweet potatoes and other crops. In this way, it can not only strengthen the organization of the peasant association, but also increase the area of ​​cultivated land under the control. The people allocated to the mountainous land will be given more fields, and the newly opened mountainous land can be exempted from tax for five years.

  Zhao Han appreciated Li Banghua's suggestion very much. If four acres of land were allocated per capita, the loyalty of self-cultivating farmers and small landlords would be reaped, and Zhao Han would have countless more literate people. It's a pity that the area of ​​cultivated land in Jiangxi is too small. Take Jishui County as an example, only one tenth of the land can be cultivated, and the rest is either mountains or water!

  After careful consideration, Zhao Han made two decisions:

  First, for all the people in the jurisdiction, the per capita land allocation has increased to three mu. The inherent land of small and large landlords is capped at 20 mu per capita, and those that do not exceed 20 mu are not allowed to be confiscated. This is tantamount to dividing up the land basically, and the land occupied by the government can be ignored.

  Second, let the peasant associations organize the people to reclaim wasteland, firstly to train the peasant associations, and secondly to increase the cultivated land. As for the soil erosion in the mountains, let's not talk about that for now.

  Zhao Han's decision was quickly passed on, and the people in the area under his jurisdiction rejoiced.

   Not to mention the former tenants and self-cultivating farmers, even some small landlords, they are all loyal to Zhao Han. Regardless of those small landlords, their families have dozens of mu of land, but they also have a lot of people. Some of them occupy less than three mu of land per capita. Already considered a small landlord.

  Li Banghua used to be considered a small landlord. After the separation of the family, there was only more than ten acres of land left, and the father and son had to go to school. So he kept selling the land, so that the grandmother could not afford to buy a coffin for the burial.

  Zhao Han wrote another letter and asked the secretary to transcribe multiple copies and take it to Li Banghua, Pang Chunlai, Huang Shunfu, Ouyang Zheng, Fei Chun and others.

  The content is about urban vagrants, let them all think about whether they should be allowed to return to their hometowns to divide their land, and if not, how should they be treated.

  Actually, there is no land to divide.

  …

  Anfu County.

  Fei Ruhe led his troops disguised as a merchant ship and headed straight for the county seat.

  Last year, the bandits in Luling County came once, and then the rebels came again to borrow food. Now this is the third time that Anfu County has encountered bandits.

  Guo Qiao, the magistrate of Anfu County, also recruited hundreds of soldiers, pretending to want to guard the city.

   There is no way to recruit more soldiers, and the gentry in every village and town are raising their walls to protect themselves. Without private donations to recruit soldiers, Guo Zhixian had to pay for it himself, recruiting more than a hundred soldiers, and the money and food he spent was enough for him to feel distressed.

  So, the Sao operation came.

  Guo Qiao ordered the soldiers to guard the gates of the city, in the name of preventing spies, and carefully inspected the people entering the city. Even woodcutters who go to the city to sell firewood have to pay a few cents in city entry tax, anyway, they have to earn back the money they recruited!

  At night, Fei Ruhe took more than 20 soldiers, disembarked early and walked to the county seat.

   Some pushed small carts, some carried firewood, and some carried loads of goods, detoured into the city from various directions.

   "What are you doing?" asked the Shoukamen soldier.

  Fei Ruhe was dressed as a scholar, and with a few servants behind him, he waved a folding fan and said, "Liu He, a Confucian scholar in Jishui, is here to visit a classmate. Why, you dare to search me?"

  The gate guard immediately flattered him and said: "Your Excellency, the county has an order to strictly investigate spies."

   "Don't you just want money?" Fei Ruhe sneered, "Give him a few, and treat him as a beggar."

  Huang Shun threw a piece of broken silver, deliberately throwing it sideways, but the doorman didn't catch it, so he bent down to pick it up.

  Fei Ruhe laughed loudly: "Like a dog. Let's go, enter the city!"

   This guy swaggered into the city, but the guards didn't dare to stop him, instead they clamored to divide the money.

   Arriving in the city, Fei Ruhe gathered his troops secretly, only twenty or thirty of them, all waiting near the north gate of the city.

   Waited until evening, when the city gates were about to be closed.

  On the merchant ship at the northern pier of the city, Li Zheng suddenly landed with five hundred soldiers.

   "The rebels are coming!"

  The gate guards were shocked, and they all retreated into the city in fright.

"kill!"

  Fei Ruhe didn't use a knife this time, but a scribe sword that he wore with him. The soldiers around them mostly used sticks, because they couldn't bring in weapons because they wanted to avoid searches.

  Fei Ruhe took the lead, and without waiting for the officers and soldiers to assemble, he hacked and killed two people in succession, scaring the officers and soldiers in the door to flee.

  There is no urn city in Anfu County, so it is easy to win the door.

  When the county's Dianshi led troops to rescue, Fei Ruhe had already formed his formation. He carried a scribe's sword himself, and the people around him were all sticks, but the tight formation frightened the officers and soldiers to dare to attack by force.

   In a blink of an eye, Li Zheng brought 500 soldiers to kill, followed by Zuo Xiaoliang, civil servants and missionaries.

  Dian Shi was stunned, and suddenly knelt down and shouted: "Welcome the general into the city!"

   "Welcome the general into the city!"

  The officers and soldiers knelt down and shouted, as long as the rebels don't kill indiscriminately, they are not willing to work hard.

   Zuo Xiaoliang asked, "What is your job now?"

  Dianshi replied: "Peng Zhengqiu, Anfu County Dianshi, came from Fengtian Peng."

   That is the descendant of Peng Shi, the number one scholar in the orthodox dynasty.

  Zuo Xiaoliang said: "You lead people to maintain order in the city, but if there is a fire anywhere, if there is any riot, you are the only one to ask! Good work and rewards."

  Peng Zhengqiu was a little confused. Shouldn't the officers and soldiers who just joined the bandits confiscate their weapons and put them in custody? How can you rest assured that he will lead the army?

   "The humble job obeys!"

  Peng Zhengqiu suddenly became energetic, and ordered his subordinates to say: "Don't take the opportunity to loot, follow me to maintain law and order in the city!"

  As for the soldiers brought by Fei Ruhe, they were divided into several teams to occupy the city gate, and the rest all went to the county government.

  When they rushed to the county government, the officials surrendered one after another, and some officials even took the initiative to tie up Guo Qiao, the county magistrate, in order to claim credit.

  Chengnan County School, a group of scholars held weapons, shouting to kill thieves and serve the country, rushing to the county government.

   After running for two streets, there were only a dozen or so scholars left who continued to charge.

   When they rushed to the county government office, there were only a few people left.

   Facing the wolf-like rebels, several scholars looked at each other, and suddenly someone knelt down and shouted: "I'm here to congratulate the general for winning the city!"

  Fei Ruhe didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and sarcastically said: "You are quite quick-witted, so come and help me."

   "I am willing to serve the general." The scholars were all flattered.

  Two or three steps away from Fei Ruhe, a scholar suddenly drew his sword: "The villain will die!"

   Even Fei Ruhe didn't need to make a move, the soldiers around him had already fired their guns, and three long spears pierced the man's body.

  Fei Ruhe sneered: "Who else? Come together."

   "Don't dare, dare not!" The scholars knelt down in horror.

   In this regard, Zhao Han took Anfu County and completely occupied the three counties of Luling, Jishui, and Anfu.

  Huang Shunfu was appointed magistrate of Luling County, Ouyang Zheng was appointed magistrate of Jishui County, and Zuo Xiaoliang was appointed magistrate of Anfu County.

  There is no magistrate for the time being, and the three counties are all under the control of the General Military Mansion. Pang Chunlai, Li Banghua, Fei Chun and others are all civilian officials of the General Military Mansion.

  In the north, Li Maofang, the governor, and Wang Siren, the military preparation officer, are still working hard to suppress the bandits, and have surrounded Duchang County for half a month.

  (end of this chapter)