103【Do you think I can only repair Tengwang Pavilion?】
The maids and wives in Zhao Han's family are either homeless or want to stay and work to make money.
Now there are only four left, all of whom have been replaced by short-term servant contracts. One is responsible for chopping firewood and cooking, one is responsible for washing and sweeping, and the other two serve tea and water for Zhao Han and Pang Chunlai.
Originally there were more, but they were sent to almshouses, mainly mothers-in-law.
Zhu Yuanzhang was setting up almshouses across the country. If Zhao Han wanted to realize world unity, how could he not build almshouses?
At present, there are still very few widows and widowers living alone in almshouses, because the elderly often choose to commit suicide, but there will gradually become more in the future.
They did not just live idle, they had to do whatever they could, such as sewing cotton shoes and military uniforms for the soldiers, that is, winter clothes. Zhao Han bought a batch of cotton cloth and cotton, which he ordered from merchants.
Corn and sweet potatoes are also on the horizon. A merchant traveling on the "Ganzhong-Huguang" route promised to bring corn and sweet potato seeds next time.
Noon, dinner table.
Pang Chunlai threw a pamphlet, then picked up a bowl to eat: "This is what Maosheng changed. Some of your rhetoric is not effective in front of the villagers."
Zhao Han took it and took a look and immediately laughed: "It was indeed my negligence."
After the busy farming season, Zhao Han did not choose to expand, but asked members to promote the idea of Datong to let villagers and soldiers understand what they wanted to do.
After some practice, Chen Maosheng changed the propaganda content a lot, eliminating some high-minded things and changing them all to colloquialisms and slang: Datong is to let the people have enough to eat, Datong is to let the people not be bullied... and so on.
Pang Chunlai suggested: "Maosheng can be transferred to the position of chief of the Etiquette Department to specialize in promoting Datong Thought. Instead of demoting him, he is really not suitable to be the deputy mayor. Huang Shunfu is very solid in his work and can be promoted to deputy mayor. What do you think?
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"Okay." Zhao Han nodded in agreement.
Suddenly, a maid came in and reported: "Sir, Mr. Huang asked for an audience, and he also brought someone from Shangfang Village."
Xiaocui no longer worked as a maid, and was transferred to the Women's and Children's Department of the town hall to work with Xiaohong to promote the idea of Datong. That is to say, she would go to the house every day, chat with the women, and carry out propaganda among women and children.
"Invite him in." Zhao Han said.
After a while, Huang Shunde walked into the dining room, followed by a scholar.
Seeing that Zhao Han was eating, Huang Shunde hesitated and said: "Commander, would you like me to go to the living room and wait first?"
"No need," Zhao Han said with a smile, "It's noon, haven't you eaten yet? Come sit down and eat together. Xiaozhu, bring me two more sets of bowls and chopsticks."
Huang Shunde quickly introduced him: "Chief, this is Yang Gui, a boy from Shangfang Village, whose nickname is Guanju."
Yang Gui bowed his head and said: "I would like to pay my respects to Mr. Zhao."
"That's easy to say. Come sit down and eat." Zhao Han pulled the two of them to sit down.
Yang Guigang sat down and then stood up, cupped his hands and said: "Please Mr. Zhao to make the decision and put an end to the chaos in Shangfang Village."
"Shangfang Village is in chaos again?" Zhao Han asked in surprise.
Shangfang Village is located due north and west of Wuxing Town. There are mountainous areas in the village and the people are very poor.
After the four villages in Wuxing Town had a good harvest, some women returned to their parents' homes and brought new rice to support their parents' families. They had to brag, saying that every family in Wuxing Town had enough to eat, which made the villagers in Shangfang Village envious.
So there was a spontaneous riot.
Landlords, big and small, were either killed or fled, and the farmers in Shangfang Village began to divide their fields.
Zhao Han was busy doing ideological propaganda work and had no time to care about the affairs of neighboring villages. Of course, the main reason was that he was afraid that taking unauthorized actions would arouse the resentment of the villagers in Shangfang Village and regard them as coming to seize land.
Although Yang Gui was born as a child, he was a self-cultivated farmer and his family did not have a few acres of land, so he escaped a disaster this time.
"Mr. Zhao," Yang Gui lamented, "after the farmers in Shangfang Village killed the landlords, they started fighting among themselves when dividing their fields."
"What's going on?" Zhao Han asked.
Yang Gui explained: "There are not many good fields in Shangfang Village to begin with, and more than half of them are mountainous. When it comes to dividing the fields, there is no agreement at all on who gets the good fields and who gets the bad fields.
The tenant who took the lead in the rebellion was dissatisfied and had selfish motives. He distributed all the good land to relatives and friends. He also occupied a lot of land himself, almost all of the land."
"That's it." Zhao Han understood immediately.
This means that the old landlords have been overthrown, and the leader has transformed into a new landlord. It would be strange if there is no chaos!
Yang Gui continued: "This morning, the unconvinced villagers came to ask for an explanation, but were beaten. The news spread, and another riot broke out in the village, killing and injuring more than 20 people. Now the leaders are all dead, and the group is leaderless.
, no one believes anyone."
Huang Shunde added next to him: "The villagers of Shangfang Village have publicly recommended Brother Guanju (Yang Gui) as the village chief, and asked the chief to personally go over and preside over the land distribution."
Zhao Han smiled and said: "The farmers in Shangfang Village don't even believe in my own village, so they believe in me?"
Yang Gui cupped his hands and said, "Mr. Zhao loves the people like a son and does things fairly. Who in the surrounding villages doesn't know this?"
"Okay, then I'll go there." Zhao Han said.
After lunch, Zhao Han took a group of people there and found that Shangfang Village was really poor.
There were less than 500 people in the whole village. After two consecutive riots, only 420 people died. If the land was equally divided, the per capita cultivated land area would be more than nine acres, far more than that in Wuxing Town, but more than half
They are all barren mountainous areas.
Why is Mr. Huang so powerful in numbers?
It is because Wuxing Town is located in a river bend area, with flat, fertile land and no shortage of water, that agricultural production conditions overwhelm surrounding villages.
Arriving at the entrance of the village, Yang Gui said to a villager: "Mr. Zhao is here."
"Mr. Zhao is here!" the villagers shouted in surprise, and then ran towards the village.
Not long after, the villagers from Shangfang Village dragged their wives and children, including those injured in the fight. They knelt on the ground and looked at Zhao Han expectantly. None of these farmers believed it. Now they only believe in Zhao Han.
This stranger from out of town.
In the next half month, I will be in charge of the field allocation work in Shangfang Village.
They were no longer divided according to the number of households, but were divided equally according to the head of the family, with those who got the land allocated more as appropriate. At the same time, cadres from the etiquette department and the gynecology and infants department were dispatched to Shangfang Village to promote the idea of Datong.
Yang Gui was appointed as the head of Shangfang Village, and the village was placed under the jurisdiction of Wuxing Town.
Shangfang Village allocates land equally per capita, so the other four villages will inevitably feel unbalanced.
Therefore, Zhao Han once again took charge of the land distribution and re-adjusted the donated 10,000 acres according to the population, and all of a sudden another 6,000 acres were allocated, leaving only 4,000 acres of land in the town as public property.
Before the second farm division was over, Qianshang Village in the north and east was also bombed.
It was really like an infection, and the tenants of Ganshang Village launched a riot. Moreover, based on the lessons learned from Shangfang Village, they immediately sent someone over and asked Zhao Han to personally go to Ganshang Village to preside over the work of allocating the fields.
The situation in Qianshang Village is not much better than that in Shangfang Village. It also has countless barren mountainous areas. Coupled with exploitation by landlords, the people's lives are miserable.
In the blink of an eye, Zhao Han no longer used force, but now owned six villages, with a total population of 4,936 (excluding children under 12 years old).
He invited the gentry to a party, raised a sum of money while eating and drinking, and suddenly decided to go south to suppress the bandits.
This guy originally looked harmless, but he suddenly showed his fangs.
He ordered the Nanchang Guard to send out 300 troops, the Ruizhou Qianhu Guard to send out 50 troops, the Fuzhou Thousand Household Guard to send out 50 troops, and the Linjiang Thousand Household Guard to send out 50 troops... All the way south by boat, we got more than 800 guardsmen and recruited them.
Five hundred village warriors.
They were all beggar soldiers, temporarily snatched from the fields by the officers of various military commanders to make up their numbers. In terms of combat effectiveness, they were not as good as Ruijin's field soldiers.
However, Xie Xuelong put these more than 1,300 soldiers into brand-new official and military uniforms, and called on the civilians to make more flags. At first glance, he could really scare the peasants.
Although you could take a boat all the way, Xie Xuelong still recruited 1,500 civilian laborers to transport food.
There are less than 3,000 people, but they are known to the outside world as an army of 30,000.
After marching to Ganzhou Prefecture, Xie Xuelong immediately stopped and sent people to Ruijin County to do propaganda.
The peasant army in Ruijin was shocked. The leaders of the three field soldiers immediately held a meeting, but there were differences of opinion.
Shen Shichang was born as a child and thought he could take the opportunity to ask for recruitment; He Zhiyuan was born as a tenant farmer and thought he should avoid the spotlight temporarily and hide in the mountains to wait for the officers and soldiers to retreat; Zhang Sheng was a private salt dealer who had been in prison and did not take the officers and soldiers seriously.
He thought it would be possible to set up an ambush and kill the general's army.
The three of them couldn't agree on what they were doing, and the quarrel was very unpleasant.
In fact, in the first two years, they cooperated very well. But as time passed and the external pressure temporarily disappeared, their conflicts increased day by day.
Governor Jie Xuelong is particularly good at getting stuck in time.
After this guy frightened the peasant army by spreading news about the 30,000-strong army, he sent someone to contact Shen Shichang privately and promised to recommend Shen Shichang as the canon historian of Ruijin County.
Without waiting for Shen Shichang's consent, "30,000 troops" rushed to Ruijin County. Many merchant ships were forcibly recruited and densely packed with flags.
The peasant army secretly inquired and could not figure out how many officers and soldiers there were.
Jie Xuelong also imitated Dong Zhuo's story, sending a thousand people into the county town with banners during the day, sneaking out again at night, and continuing to enter the city with great fanfare the next day.
For several days, the peasant army was frightened, and they really thought he had an army of 30,000.
Shen Shichang ran into the county in person and asked the governor to recruit him.
The next day, Jie Xuelong sent troops to attack Zhang Sheng. Before the two sides formally fought, Shen Shichang suddenly attacked Zhang Sheng's lair.
When Zhang Sheng learned that his lair had been captured, his military morale instantly collapsed and he was killed to pieces.
Seeing that the situation was not good, He Zhiyuan hid in the mountains with his confidants.
Jie Xuelong appointed Shen Shichang as the canon historian of Ruijin County, led the army into the mountains to pursue, and asked Shen Shichang to be the pioneer.
Shen Shichang wandered into the mountains for several days, but was ambushed and killed by He Zhiyuan. Only dozens of people around him escaped.
Jie Xuelong immediately withdrew his troops and beheaded Shen Shichang, who had just been recruited, on the grounds that he had fled before the battle.
In the past ten months, one of the three leaders of the field soldiers in Ruijin County died in battle, one was asked to be executed, and one hid in the mountains and did not dare to come out.
Jie Xuelong, who had been practicing in Tengwang Pavilion for a year, was so famous that it shocked the entire southern Jiangxi region, and even the eunuchs gave him three cents of respect.
The landlords in Ruijin had trouble saying that they would rather the governor didn't come.
The "30,000-strong army" fought so fiercely that even Jie Xuelong could not suppress it. Half of Ruijin was robbed, and most of the landlord's surplus grain was removed.
Just when Master Jie Xuelong returned to Nanchang, news suddenly came from Luling County.
In half of Luling County, riots broke out one after another, and they all followed the example of Wuxing Town and killed landlords to divide their fields!
