Jasper is made up to the height of a tree, with thousands of green silk ribbons hanging down. I don’t know who cut out the thin leaves. The spring breeze in February is like scissors. The spring breeze in February blows through the hills, bringing the news of spring to the broken and lifeless land of Hanzhong, the tender green

The grasses eagerly poked their heads out of the soil to observe this familiar world.

On the ridges and in the village fields, figures of Pei Jiajun shuttled through the fields. Look carefully, some of them have a broken foot, some are missing an arm, and some are limping, but no matter what, they all have one thing in common.

The characteristic is that they all have smiles on their faces.

In recent days, the military government has posted a notice saying that starting from today, the land on the boundary of Hanzhong will be distributed to the meritorious officers and soldiers of the Pei family army. The first to bear the brunt are these veterans who have made great contributions to the Pei family army.

According to the military government, everyone is first divided into different classes according to their respective positions, and then within each class, they are divided into 5 levels according to their respective merits. Each class corresponds to each minimum land allocation standard,

The merit of each level increases above this minimum standard.

"Ma Lao3, so according to the calculation of the military government, you can get more than 200 acres of land." On the ridge of the field, a lame man looked at a man who had lost an arm with envy and chattered.

The man with one missing arm ignored him. He just focused his eyes on the soldiers who were measuring the land, for fear that their rulers would not be able to see accurately and give him an inch less land.

The military officer felt uncomfortable looking at him, and finally couldn't bear it anymore, and said to Ma Lao 3: "I said Ma Lao 3, can you stop staring at me like this? I'm not a great beauty, I can't afford it.

Your eyes are so naked."

The military officer's words made everyone around him laugh. Even Ma Lao San laughed out of embarrassment and looked away, no longer staring intently at the military officer.

This harmonious scene happened to fall into the eyes of Pei Xiaoer, who was patrolling the fields. Pei Xiaoer looked at the lively scene there and said to Liu Xianchun beside him: "It seems that the division of land can really improve the soldiers' ability."

Morale.”

"It was natural then." Liu Xianchun smiled a little reluctantly. The Ming Dynasty actually attached great importance to the protection of private property, even comparable to that of future capitalist countries. In this era, even the emperor, except the founding emperor, had extremely strong military prestige and could do whatever he wanted.

Apart from everything else, other emperors were more or less restricted by civilian officials.

Pei Xiaoer's unauthorized distribution of owned land to his own soldiers directly challenged Liu Xianchun's inner beliefs as a former bureaucrat. How is this move different from banditry?

Pei Xiaoer glanced at him, naturally knowing what Liu Xianchun was thinking, but this matter had to be done. If he didn't do it, the Pei family would lose the opportunity. If he didn't do it, the Pei family would be trapped in this small Hanzhong.

Gradually sinking in internal friction.

However, Pei Xiaoer still comforted Liu Xianchun, after all, Liu Xianchun still needed to take charge of this matter.

"Zhongfang, you don't have to have such a burden." Pei Xiao'er paced forward with his hands behind his hands, "Since ancient times, in all dynasties until the end of the dynasty, the rich have been living together for a long time, and the poor have no place to stand. Why? Are these rich people?

Are people’s origins on the land clean?”

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Liu Xianchun was silent. Liu Xianchun knew the history of these people's fortunes better than anyone else. It was precisely because he knew so much that Liu Xianchun did not object when Pei Xiaoer snatched away these people's land.

"What's more, I didn't beat these people to death with a stick. As long as these people take their land deeds, I will naturally return their land to them."

Speaking of this, Liu Xianchun couldn't help but smile bitterly. None of the big players in the Ming Dynasty were economical. Although the court gave them exemptions and exemptions for people with merit and fame, how can people's greed be satisfied?

Although there is only a little bit of tax left, these wealthy households still refuse to pay, and one of their main ways to evade tax is to send money through false mail.

To put it simply, the evil gentry of large households took advantage of the bad years to hoard and raise food prices, forcing poor people to sell their land. Then these evil gentry bought these people's land at a low price, but the land deed still said that these poor people

name.

When the government came to collect taxes and collect corvees, because the poor man's name was still on the land deed, the taxes and corvees attached to the land would have to be borne by the person who had lost the land long ago, and those big households

The evil gentry only enjoys the produce of the land.

Pei Xiaoer's hand in handing out land deeds directly hit the 7 inches of the wealthy households, leaving them unable to speak out about their suffering.

The two chatted while walking, and soon returned to Nanzheng City. When approaching the government office, Pei Xiaoer noticed that there were many people surrounding the government office at the gate, arguing and wanting

I want an explanation.

Looking at their clothes, all of them are wearing gold and jade. I guess they are all big families who have lost their land. They can't get the land deeds, and everyone on the land deeds has died in the war, so all the land has been taken over by the military.

Take it back and distribute it to corresponding meritorious soldiers.

Pei Xiaoer snorted coldly, ignored it, turned around and entered the government office.

Qiao Chun had been waiting in the government office for some time with the list of meritorious soldiers that had been drawn up. The order of the Pei family army's land distribution this time was to first count the merits of the soldiers who were killed and injured, and then allocate the land.

, after all, there is almost no objection to the credit of these people.

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Then, there are the soldiers on active duty. Since these soldiers are still in the army, the evaluation of military merit must be fair, otherwise a good thing may turn into a bad thing. After it is announced in the military for 5 days and no one raises any objections

, and then came to Pei Xiaoer's side, waiting for Pei Xiaoer's final decision.

All of this has been drawn up a long time ago, and now it’s just a matter of final sealing. Pei Xiaoer stamped his seal on the list, handed it to Qiao Chun, and asked: "How is the morale of the Lieutenant General?"

"After the generals and officers heard that the general was going to divide the territory according to his merits, they were all very happy, but at the same time they felt a little guilty."

"Oh? Why do you blame yourself?" Pei Xiaoer was curious.

"Of course I blame myself for making too little contribution and getting too little land. Now all the generals in the army want to make more and greater achievements so that the general can reward them with more land.

Qiao Chun replied with a smile.

Hahaha, Pei Xiaoer laughed heartily and said: "Tell the soldiers not to lose heart, the opportunity to make meritorious deeds will come soon."

Sure enough, a few days later, with the vigorous development of land distribution activities, Pei Xiaoer's desk was almost filled with petition letters from army lieutenants. Pei Xiaoer opened a few of them at will, and what he saw were all naked words,

Please ask the general to attack Bashu immediately. He will be the general's pawn.

However, not everyone wants to take over Sichuan. Many people also want to fight back to Henan from Yunyang. Some people suggest fighting against Huguang. Indeed, some people still want to fight against Shaanxi.

But, no matter what, through these petitions for war, the soldiers were eager to fight. Pei Xiaoer had a premonition that the time had come to go to war.

On February 23rd, the 7th year of Chongzhen, Liu Changle, Feng Kebin, Song Meng, and Ren Mingdao, who were far away in Yunyang, rushed to Nanzheng. Pei Xiaoer ordered the formation of the Kuangguo Army, with Feng Kebin as the admiral, in charge of the entire Kuangguo military assets.

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The soldiers of the Kuangguo Army were mainly soldiers recovered from Feng Kebin, and 8,000 elite soldiers were drawn from Liu Changle's Dingguo Army to form the backbone of the Kuangguo Army. At the same time, 10,000 soldiers were recruited, making the entire Kuangguo Army a total of 20,000 people.

After the Kuangguo Army was formed, Feng Kebin announced that the camp would be closed for emergency training, and Feng Kebin never left the camp.

On the first day of March in the seventh year of Chongzhen, Pei Xiaoer ordered Liu Changle's Dingguo army to set off from Mian County and suddenly attacked Yang'an Pass in Ningqiang Prefecture. The general guarding the pass did not expect the sudden attack by Pei's army. He was caught off guard and the entire army was attacked.

Defeated, Yang'an Pass changed hands.

At the same time, Chen Tianming led his troops disguised as fleeing bandits and entered the Jianjiang Pass. Immediately afterwards, the soldiers who entered the pass suddenly broke out and attacked the pass. The officers and soldiers were defeated and the pass defense changed hands. Zhang Bangchu, who was stationed in Wen County, personally led 1,000 elite troops and used the entire army to attack the pass.

At the cost of nearly half of the casualties, they climbed over thousands of feet of mountains, circled Beixiong Pass, and appeared behind Beixiong Pass. Then they attacked from both sides, and Beixiong Pass fell.

After taking Beixiong Pass, Zhang Bangchu continued to advance and arrived at Long'an Mansion. On the front, Liu Changle and Chen Tianming's army continued southward, approaching Chaotian Pass.
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