It is unknown when the Huang family's ancestral residence was built, but most of it was expanded during the Zhengde Dynasty.
The Huang Clan Ancestral Hall was also built in the Zhengde Dynasty.
The reason is very simple. During the Hongzhi and Zhengde years, the Huang clan had a high-ranking official!
The buildings are lavishly built, but in terms of details, they are far inferior to those in wealthy areas. First, the Huang family has limited financial resources, and second, the level of designers and craftsmen is insufficient.
Now, Zhao Han ordered the garden to be razed, and a section of the wall was torn down and connected to the flat ground outside the wall to be used as a training ground for soldiers. This completely destroyed the layout of the house and made it look even more nondescript. It was inevitable that we, Zhao, would lose our place.
The dignity of the master.
More than 500 soldiers have all returned home to prepare for the busy farming season.
Zhao Han was sitting on the steps of the corridor, looking at the empty training ground. At this moment, his heart was even more chaotic than Fei Ruhe's.
From the perspective of others, Zhao Han seems to have everything going smoothly, but in fact, he encounters setbacks at every turn.
It's a compromise between ideals and reality, and the difference between theory and practice. To put it nicely, it means adapting measures to the times and local conditions. To put it harshly, Zhao Han gave in everywhere, and he couldn't implement many things.
Let Xiaohong serve as the chief of the gynecology and infants department, just to manage the women and children in the town.
This position is only to stop extreme domestic violence, and it is impossible to deal with ordinary domestic violence. It is also to promote the policy of "no infant drowning", order the widows in the town not to sacrifice their husbands, and provide some limited help to the orphans and widows in the town.
He has almost no control over men, but he is still criticized, all relying on Zhao Han's prestige to enforce it.
Zhao Han wanted to unite the peasants, but he also made them look like strangers inside and outside.
First of all, the peasants hated Zhao Han.
They have a close blood relationship with Huang Zundao, and are hardly oppressed and exploited by Mr. Huang. On the contrary, they sometimes receive relief from Mr. Huang. Moreover, they own land, and they have a sense of superiority in front of countless tenant farmers.
Now, Mr. Huang's relief is gone, and so is their sense of superiority. The tenants they looked down on are actually being allocated land!
They never think about the fact that as long as one or two generations pass and the blood relationship becomes estranged, their descendants will be deprived of their land by the big landlords and become tenants in the event of natural disasters.
They only know that Mr. Zhao is a great evil man!
Secondly, the tenants also slandered Zhao Han in terms of their attitude towards homesteaders and small landowners.
The tenants felt that all those who owned land should be killed to allocate their fields. Mr. Zhao was too kind-hearted, and he still kept those brats around, and he might one day collude with outsiders to take revenge.
The conflict between the two parties is difficult to ease.
The farmers are still a little better, but the tenants have already taken action against the small landowners. They don't dare to disobey Zhao Han's orders, and they don't dare to directly kill the small landowners to divide the land, but they look for trouble every two days. The small landowners are very afraid to go out.
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The same is true in private schools. Children from tenant farmers' families gang up to bully children from small landowners and farmers.
This is just a small, remote place. If we operate in a large place in the future, the conflicts will probably continue to amplify.
The problem with the military is not obvious yet.
But if they go to fight in other places, not to mention how far away from home, but only to the next village or town, will they kill, rob, or extort?
We must unify our thoughts!
Li Zicheng's "Nothing will be paid when the king comes", regardless of whether it can be done or not, it can be regarded as an idea and a propaganda slogan.
The peasant uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty also had ideological support, such as the Maitreya religion.
Whether it is a slogan or a so-called thought, it is nothing more than the formation of a consensus. Even if it cannot be done, even if no one takes it seriously, it must exist!
The red set cannot be copied, so Zhao Han can only find it from the "Book of Rites" to get the idea of "university under heaven".
But, does Zhao Han believe it himself?
If he doesn't believe it, why would he want his subordinates to believe it?
In addition, future policy changes are also a headache.
In the early stage of development, violence is necessary and the landlords must be eliminated in order to consolidate the base area. But after development, it is impossible to completely push the landlords to the opposite side, otherwise Zhao Han will definitely find it difficult!
However, even if Zhao Han made a compromise, he still had to cut off the landowner's flesh. How could the landowner be willing?
It is impossible to overthrow all the big landowners. The main problem is execution.
If the whole province of Jiangxi is taken over, how can there be so many loyal grassroots officials who can completely follow Zhao Han's ideas? They will definitely deceive the superiors and deceive the subordinates, use Zhao Han's guise to do whatever they want, kill the old landlords, and become themselves.
Become a new landlord.
The top priority is team building and ideological building.
"Sir, it's time to eat." Xiaocui came over at some unknown time.
Zhao Han stood up with a smile: "Okay, let's eat."
Xiao Cui changed her name to Huang Fei, which sounds very similar to Xiao Hong's Huang Fei. However, the two have very different personalities. Xiao Hong dared to go to the town government to be the head of the women's and children's section, but Xiao Cui did not dare to show her face and only wanted to stay with Zhao Han as a maid.
Zhao Han said as he walked: "I made up a play, and Maosheng said... there are not enough actors. You can play a female role."
"Sir, I don't know how to sing." Xiao Cui declined politely. Although she was born as a maid, she felt that being an actor was despicable.
Zhao Han explained: "In this kind of play, there is not much singing, but talking. Also, now that there are no domestic slaves, they will all be called servants. From now on, the actors will not be humble. Don't look down on the actors."
Xiaohong was afraid of making Zhao Han angry, so she quickly explained: "Sir, I don't look down on actors."
"Then you go act." Zhao Han said with a smile.
Xiaohong was full of reluctance, but she still agreed and was just following the order.
Until Chen Maosheng read the script to her, Xiaohong cried sadly several times...
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In June, the Sichuan Army was ordered to suppress the bandits and shot Zijin Liang, the leader of the rebel army. However, they won first and then were defeated. The general died in ambush. The rebel army used his flag to trap and kill other officers and soldiers. The Sichuan Army was defeated continuously.
In the entire Sichuan, there is no main force of officers and soldiers. As long as the peasant army calms down, they can enter Sichuan in large numbers to carry out coercion.
In July, the Tatars captured Port Arthur.
Huang Long, the commander-in-chief stationed in Lushun, sent the navy to assist the Yalu River, but traitors such as Kong Youde took advantage of it. Huang Long was defeated in several battles due to insufficient troops. He ran out of ammunition and arrows and committed suicide. Guerrilla general Li Weiluan first burned his entire family to death.
, and went out to fight with the remaining soldiers, and died in a fierce battle.
On the Jiangxi side, the Ruijin Peasant Army still exists. As long as they don't attack the county town, there will be no officers and soldiers to go out of the city to clear it up.
Jiangxi governor Xie Xuelong is still busy building the Tengwang Pavilion.
The Tengwang Pavilion was almost completed. Not only that, he also built a pavilion next to it as a gathering place for scholars and celebrities.
The literati were busy flattering, praising Governor Jie for revitalizing the cultural heritage, and praising his selfless act of donating his salary—the governor donated his entire salary throughout the year to rebuild Prince Teng’s Pavilion.
The laborers who were recruited to build Prince Teng's Pavilion had no wages to pay and had to bring their own food and tools. Their food was withheld by the officials, which almost led to a riot!
Cai Maode, the governor of Jiangxi Province, cited the "Gate Theory" to explain "The Theory of Unplugging the Source" and was regarded by many scholars as a great Confucian of Xinxue. His reputation even spread to all the prefectures in Jiangzuo.
Therefore, the "position theory" was recognized by the gentry, which deliberately ignored the equality of subordinates and only emphasized the equality of superiors. Merchants even voluntarily spent money to promote it.
The magistrates of Ji'an and Luling County were busy sending scholars to the provincial examinations and completely forgot about the civil unrest in Wuxing Town...
Wuxing Town is a different story. Although there was a drought in May, the drought was not serious.
Moreover, Zhao Han opened the canals for farmers to use as they pleased. Farmers who were far away from the canals also allowed farmers to help each other carry water, so they were not greatly affected by the drought.
Looking around, there is a scene of harvest!
After the new rice was dried, Zhao Han did not send anyone to urge the farmers to pay the taxes. He only asked the four village chiefs to take the lead and take the initiative to pick up their own grain and bring it to the town hall.
The farmers secretly observed and found that there was really no levy of fire consumption, and no levy of Zapai and Liao pay. Moreover, the grain levy was in accordance with the standards of the Wanli period, and no special big fights were used to harm the people.
Gradually, some farmers took the initiative to send their land tax, and the treatment was the same as that of the four village chiefs.
The whole town was shocked!
Chen Maosheng and Fei Chun were so tired that they had backache and sent someone to complain: "Mayor, there are too many people delivering food, can you allocate some more people?"
There is no other choice but to recruit people.
The two teachers in the private school, a farmer and a scholar from a small landowner's family, were temporarily recruited to work, and they were promised to pay them daily wages.
Huang Shunde's family is a self-cultivated farmer. In terms of blood relationship, he is Mr. Huang's cousin.
This guy has never been able to pass the examination as a scholar, and he has no money to go to the county town to further his studies, so he can only stay at home and study hard.
Huang Shunde hated Zhao Han to his core, but he did not dare to flee the town for fear that his land would be taken away.
But while hating Zhao Han, he also took the initiative to register and recognize Zhao Han's dominance in disguise - just to receive the old grain distributed by Mr. Zhao.
Huang Shunde was also very conflicted when he was called to work as a temporary worker at the town hall.
He didn't want to work for the rebels, and he was worried about the wages the rebels would give him, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet.
From a distance, Huang Shunde was stunned.
Outside the town hall gate, I saw people queuing up to wait for grain collection. They came carrying the newly harvested rice, and there was no sadness on their faces about paying taxes. Instead, they were all in high spirits. While waiting, they were talking and laughing, and some even sang.
A pornographic ditty started playing.
Huang Shunde walked to the food collection point in a daze, and someone immediately shouted: "Brother Zhaoyi, come here and help!"
Huang Shunde recognized this man. He was just a schoolboy. He didn't even pass the entrance examination. Just because he obeyed the rebels, he actually became the chief of the criminal section of Wuxing Town.
"Just come." Huang Shunde responded and stepped over haughtily.
There are only two scholars in Wuxing Town. One is the youngest son of Mr. Huang, who is now hiding in the county and dare not come back. The other is the grandson of Mr. Huang and has been killed by the mob.
Huang Shunde was automatically promoted to the person with the highest academic qualifications. He was a child and looked down upon the whole town!
This guy didn't start working immediately, but flipped through the food collection booklet, and soon exclaimed: "How come my family's food quota is so much higher!"
The section chief who was born as a schoolboy laughed and said: "The mayor said that if there are no strong men to train in the regiment, the whole family will be taxed according to the old rules."
Huang Shunde's heart was bleeding and he asked: "If a young man is born now, is it still too late?"
"I don't know, you have to ask the mayor." The schoolchildren's section chief smiled, with a hint of gloating in his words.
Huang Shunde immediately ran into the office and was successfully summoned. He did not dare to neglect and bowed politely: "Mayor Zhao... Mayor, my family is now training young men for bravery. Can the summer grain this year be treated equally?"
"Okay, as long as there are strong men training, then we are all our own." Zhao Han said with a smile.
After Huang Shunde resigned, he ran home madly and asked his brother to join the army as soon as possible.
I can no longer care about being a thief.
Anyway, he was just a child, and the court didn't give him any preferential treatment. He didn't even have the slightest hope in taking the exams for merit, so he might as well get benefits from paying less food now.
In previous years, the government continued to collect the summer grain that could not be collected for several months, but now it was all collected in a few days.
Moreover, it was the farmers who took the initiative to pay for the food and take it to the town hall!
The eldest brother joined the army and worked as a temporary worker in an office. The family paid less land tax than before, so Huang Shunde quickly changed his mind.
Anyway, you are already a thief, so why not become a thief more thoroughly?
"Do you want to be an official?" Zhao Han asked with a smile.
Huang Shunde spoke sternly: "Wansheng is not coveting high-ranking officials and generous salaries, but just admires the virtue and majesty of the mayor. Nowadays, corrupt officials are rampant and corrupt officials are everywhere, but the mayor is honest and loves the people. The matter of accepting food makes Wansheng amazed, and he is willing to work for the mayor.
Efficacy!”
"Haha, then I will appoint you as the chief secretary of Tuanyong Camp in Wuxing Town." Zhao Han accepted it on the spot.
Huang Shunde's expression changed, and he quickly bowed to cover up: "If you are respected by the mayor, I will definitely work hard to repay my great kindness!"
Huang Shunde wanted to serve as a civilian so that he could surrender officers and soldiers more easily in the future.
But Zhao Han was given a civilian position in the military, and it was a very important position. He might be included in the government's list of major rebels.
Moreover, this guy was born as a farmer and was not recognized by the tenants. If he was corrupt, it would be easy to be exposed. On the contrary, he was more useful than someone who was born as a tenant.
Zhao Han said: "Since you are in the army, you should use your military rank to match. I am the captain of the Tuanyong Battalion. You can call me captain or commander. Don't call me mayor or master."
"Thank you, Chief!" Huang Shunde quickly changed his words.