Although Chen Zisheng was reluctant, he still did a good job, because his elder brother told him when he came. Now the emperor is the top priority in Jiangxi wars. Never be ignorant of getting angry and not working, which makes the emperor angry, even if the elder brother can't save him.

Therefore, after Chen Zisheng took office, he worked very hard to resettle refugees, resume production, build water conservancy, provide food and grass for Zhang Jiayu in Ganzhou, etc. Zhang Jiayu also praised Chen Zisheng in his statement to the emperor many times. He heard that the emperor intended to promote Chen Zisheng to the position of the Tongzhi of Nanxiong Prefecture.

Today, Chen Zisheng was busy and beaten the back of his head. In less than a month, there will be levying summer grain. There are 10,000 soldiers, 5,000 civilians, 70,000 to 80,000 prisoners and tens of thousands of refugees in Ganzhou. Most of the food must be allocated from Nanxiong. Therefore, Chen Zisheng has been in the county government office these days to ensure the normal operation of the Ganzhou front line.

Dian Shi found Chen Zisheng, who was working in the second hall and said, "Sir, the inspection department has sent a suspicious person, so please ask the adult to see it!"

Chen Zisheng frowned and said, "Didn't you see that I'm busy with summer grain? Just do this kind of trivial matter. Releasing it without any trouble. It's really a spy from the Qing Dynasty to the Jinyiwei!"

"Sir, this is their entry certificate, which says it is Jiang Yueguang, a Jinshi in the 47th year of Wanli!"

Chen Zisheng was stunned. Jiang Yueguang knew that he was in the same year as his brother Chen Zizhuang. In the 47th year of Wanli, many great men appeared. The grand senators in the late Southern Ming Dynasty were basically from this period, such as Ding Kuichu, Huang Daozhou, Ma Shiying, Ruan Dacheng, etc.

Chen Zisheng also recognized Jiang Yueguang. When his elder brother was demoted, he took him to study in Nanzhili. He met Jiang Yueguang, who was in charge of military affairs in Nanzhili at that time, and was also considered an old acquaintance.

"It's really Mr. Jiang? Come and invite me!" Chen Zizhuang said that, he quickly stood up and came to the forcing room of Dian Shi and others to welcome Jiang Yueguang.

This is not Chen Zisheng's flattery. Putting aside the relationship between Jiang Yueguang and Chen Zizhuang, even if Jiang Yueguang is a senior of Shilin, he, a juren, would go out to greet him.

When Chen Zisheng entered the room, he saw that Jiang Yueguang was sitting there, and quickly bowed and said, "I don't know that Mr. Yan Ji is here. Chen is here to welcome him. It's a death sentence!"

Jiang Yueguang was now full of anger, but his identity was left here and he could not be with the inspector. Dian Shi got angry, and then he lost his identity. At this time, he saw a seventh-rank official coming in outside, who should be the local county magistrate. He was still an old acquaintance, and it was Chen Zizhuang's younger brother Chen Zisheng.

"Hmph! Brother Qiao Sheng, I didn't expect that you are the magistrate of Baochang County. Is your inspection department very good?"

Seeing that Old Man Jiang was angry, Chen Zisheng smiled bitterly and said, "Mr. Yan Ji, the inspection department is not under the jurisdiction of the lower officials. The county only has the authority to guide them, but has no jurisdiction!"

Jiang Yueguang was stunned. Although the Inspection Department was nominally under the jurisdiction of the Censorate Office, the prefectures and counties had great power in the late Ming Dynasty. The Inspection Department had long become the prefectures and the county magistrates, or the county magistrates and the Dianshi were under the jurisdiction of Guangdong. Why has this completely changed in Guangdong?

This is not a place to talk about the imperial system, and Chen Zisheng didn't explain it in detail.

"Mr. Yan Ji, please go to the backyard and ask me to talk to you well!"

Seeing something in Chen Zizhuang's words, Jiang Yueguang nodded, got up and came to the backyard with Chen Zisheng, which is the second hall of the county government.

The two came to the small study of the county magistrate Ertang, and the servant came up to tea. Jiang Yueguang asked, "Qiao Sheng, aren't you in Guangdong? Why did you become an official in Nanxiong?"

Chen Zisheng sighed and told Jiang Yueguang in detail what happened in Guangzhou a few months ago, until he was unlucky and was sent to Baochang County to be the magistrate.

After hearing this, Jiang Yueguang asked, "No, right? I heard that the new army in Guangdong is very powerful. In Ganzhou, 10,000 people eliminated Jin Shenghuan's 100,000 people. How could Li Chengdong still allow him to enter Guangzhou?"

"Hey! It's not that the Emperor is eager for quick success and instant benefits. In order to seize the territory, he transferred all three new regiments in Guangzhou to other places, so that Li Chengdong can take advantage of the opportunity."

Jiang Yueguang nodded, but he didn't want to know any secret history of Zhu Hongsan's palace. As a good official for the country and the people, he really wanted to know how Zhu Hongsan took back the landlord's land and had not caused any major trouble. At present, Nanxiong Mansion is still very peaceful.

"Qiao Sheng, when I enter Nanxiong, I will take a look. Many tenants share the land. Why is this? Where does the land come from? Are all the landlords willing to hand over it?"

Chen Zisheng's family is one of the best landlords in Guangzhou. When Jiang Yueguang asked, he was naturally full of complaints.

"Mr. Yan Ji, you don't know that our emperor is a cruel and ruthless master. This time, he took advantage of Li Chengdong's affairs and could not help but dismiss officials from various prefectures. At the same time, the little landlords who had no fame in Chaozhou, Huizhou, Nanxiong, Shaozhou, Zhaoqing, Guangzhou and other prefectures were mostly charged with bandits by His Majesty and sent to Luzon. Their land was also given to the public and sent to tenants who had no land."

"What should I do if I have fame and fortune?"

"The emperor's move is to kill the chicken to warn the monkeys. Now the big rooster has killed us, and we also give us some benefits. We can use the shares of the Dongguan factory to replace the land at the market price, and each household can only leave half of the land. At the beginning, several companies disagreed, but within a few days, the bandits came in in the middle of the night in the house, and the whole family was killed!"

"Oh? What about the inspection department? Aren't they very powerful?"

"Hehe, Inspection Department? This is what they did. Anyway, these Qiu Ba were all bandits in the army before, so they were not familiar with doing such things!"

"Is it because the emperor is so chaotic and no one cares about it?"

Chen Zisheng shook his head and said, "If it was okay before, my brother would have some influence in front of the emperor. However, with the victory of the new army in Ganzhou, the emperor's prestige became increasingly high, and the emperor could not listen to his brother's words. In addition, the emperor's ruthless methods would be destroyed at the least. What would the gentry in Guangdong dare to say, and he obediently exchanged land for shares."

"What about the other ministers in the court? Ma Mingyuan and Qian Qianyi? Do they just care about it?"

Chen Zisheng sneered and said, "They? They wish they were unlucky to see the Guangdong people be unlucky. It was too late to clap their hands, so that they could still make the emperor's bad luck!"

Jiang Yueguang stood up and walked around the room, saying, "If the emperor did this in the peaceful era, I, Jiang Yueguang, also supported it, but now the Iron Cavalry of the Qing Dynasty is outside the gate and still has such a big move. Isn't this the hearts of the scholars in Guangdong? No, I want to go to Guangzhou and meet the emperor, and I must stop him from doing this!"

Jiang Yueguang thought so not entirely for selfishness. At this critical moment, it is really not a good idea to make trouble for the gentry who is the foundation of ruling.

But Jiang Yueguang belonged to this era, and Zhu Hongsan did come to the future. Zhu Hongsan knew that the final demise of the Ming Dynasty was land annexation.

Like other feudal dynasties, Zhu Chongba relied on his own group of heroes to establish the Ming Dynasty. Naturally, after occupying the whole country, he had to reward merits. Therefore, the land annexation of the Ming Dynasty began in the era of Zhu Yuanzhang. However, it was developed and strengthened after the middle of the Ming Dynasty. The emperor took the lead in plundering real estate and set up a large number of imperial houses, which was a prominent feature of land annexation during this period. The imperial houses began in the Yongle period. When Emperor Zhu Jianshen ascended the throne, the land of eunuch Cao Jixiang in Shunyi County was confiscated as the land in the palace. Since then, the number of imperial houses increased day by day. Zhu Houzhao, Wuzong, established seven imperial houses within the first month of his succession, and then expanded to more than thirty. The number of imperial houses in the Ming Dynasty exceeded that of any previous dynasty.

After Hong Xi and Xuande, the prince's lands gradually increased. They occupied most of the lands through imperial gifts, complaints, offer, buy, and direct robbery. All the kings were all major landlords in the Ming Dynasty. For example, Sichuan Shu Palace, which was rich in vassal in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. The lands of the lands from Guan County to Pengshan County, occupied seven-tenths of the fertile land in the Chengdu Plain. The lands of the King of Chu Palace were not only covered with Huguang, but also far to Guyuan Prefecture, Pingliang Prefecture, Shaanxi. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, King Jing Daizhen "crossed the border and seized the lands of the lands" to cover tens of thousands of hectares. In addition, relatives such as Wang Quan, the governor of Jingtai, had more than 16,300 hectares of lands. Eunuchs also seized the lands of the lands of the lands, such as Gu Dayong of Zhengde, forcing the lands of the lands of the lands of the lands of thousands of hectares.

The Ming court stipulated that the royal palace and the family of meritorious officials granted land and soil, and the mu of the minuscule was collected three cents of silver. However, the actual collection often exceeded this regulation. For example, the land in Baiyunhu Village, Dewangfu, Shandong Province, was requisitioned by the Neiguan Banner School, which was entrusted by the rent, was arbitrarily changed to 5 cents of silver per mu.

Bureaucrats and gentry also merged a large amount of land through various means. For example, Zhao Mu, the landlord of Yangzhou, once seized more than 3,000 acres of land for his own business. In particular, the township officials, Xu Jie, the chief minister, occupied 240,000 acres of land in Susong and owned tenants. Yan Song, the minister, "widely built fertile land in several counties in Jiangxi", and "largely built fertile land in Nanjing and Yangzhou, and did not worry about dozens of houses". In the north, "the fertile land in the eight prefectures in the capital were half of the powerful families". As a result, serious consequences of high concentration of land emerged.

With the vicious development of land annexation, the military farming in the garrison gradually destroyed. The kings, dukes, eunuchs in the military supervisors, generals in command, officers and landlords and powerful men competed to embezzle the military farming and serve the military commanders. During the Hongzhi period, the bureaucrat Ma Wensheng pointed out that the military farming in the world was "the military farming in the garrison was occupied by the military bushmans and the civilians in the garrison. Five of them were sold out."

Eunuchs and officers not only occupied military farms, but also sent military personnel to farm for them. Military households could not bear exploitation and abuse and were forced to flee. In the three years of Zhengtong, the number of fleeing troops reached more than 1.2 million. Military garrisons played an active role in agricultural production in the early Ming Dynasty, and military garrisons originally relied on military garrisons for supply. With the destruction of the military garrison system, by the time of Zhengde, military garrisons could only be paid by the state treasury. The destruction of the military garrison system not only affected the income of the Ming Dynasty's treasury, but also weakened the border defense force of the Ming Dynasty.

A large number of landless farmers turned into refugees, and these refugees were the backbone of the Li Chuang peasant uprising in the future.
Chapter completed!