219 [Nan Gan Chu Ding] (For the ubiquitous chubby leader of the alliance
Huichang County.
"Brother, please surrender."
"Yes, surrender. If you don't surrender, you won't be able to defeat us."
"What kind of person is Zhao Tianwang? I have long said that he should surrender. What's the use of occupying more fields? When others attack, all the fields will be divided up for you."
"Brother, please say something!"
"..."
Lin Jinshan was upset by what he said and yelled: "Shut up!"
After venting his anger, Lin Jinshan softened his tone and said: "Even if we have to surrender, we still have to bargain and explain the future affairs clearly. First, send a few people to ask General Zhao Er if he can leave with the money if he surrenders. We are starting from If you come from Fujian and bring money back to Fujian to build a house and buy land, your hard work will not be in vain."
"Yes, yes, yes, give him the county seat and the land, and let's go back to Fujian with the money!" Everyone supported this idea and looked forward to returning home in rich clothes.
Immediately, they hoisted out an envoy in a basket and ran to discuss surrender with Fei Ruhe.
Fei Ruhe sneered and told the envoy: "You go back and follow my original words. If you want to surrender, surrender as soon as possible. How to deal with it is my business. They have no right to negotiate terms!"
If he hadn't selected 500 soldiers to train with muskets, sent 500 soldiers to garrison Meiguan, and sent troops into the mountains to exterminate the bandits, the entire southern Jiangxi region would have been defeated by Fei Ruhe.
He didn't take these field soldiers seriously at all, they were a bunch of rabble.
There are so many bandits in southern Jiangxi, and many of them are Hakkas.
Liu Mianzuo, the magistrate of Yongfeng County, was the one who asked officials to join the bandits before his death. He had been suppressing bandits in the mountains for several years. The local chronicles said that "Fujian bandits" were suppressed, but Yongfeng County is right next to Jishui, half of Jiangxi Province from Fujian. Are the Fujian bandits coming here to be suppressed by him?
The so-called Fujian bandits are actually Hakkas from Fujian. They couldn't survive in southern Jiangxi, so they simply went into the mountains to become bandits, and even fled to the prosperous central Jiangxi area.
This is not a Hakka problem, but a problem unique to southern Jiangxi.
Before the Hakka people immigrated in large numbers, most of the people Wang Yangming suppressed in southern Jiangxi were Jiangxi natives. These Jiangxi farmers could not survive, so they farmed in the mountains and worked part-time as bandits. As a result, some people in every village became bandits, and the relationship between neighbors They help each other hide each other.
Therefore, in the early days of Wang Yangming's suppression of bandits, all the bandits in the mountains knew about it just a few miles away. Not only did the farmers along the way inform them, but even Wang Yangming's guides had relatives of the bandits.
Wang Yangming's solution is very crude and practical. He is guaranteed to be in jail and will be exempted from prosecution!
One word, kill!
Fei Ruhe also killed a lot of people when he suppressed bandits, and there were inevitably innocent people among them, but in troubled times, Chongdian couldn't care about so many people.
Let's say that when the messenger returned to report, the leaders of the field soldiers looked sad, and then they had disagreements and quarreled.
Some say surrender immediately, but the longer you delay, the worse the outcome will be.
Some said they had to wait and the terms of surrender must be clearly negotiated first.
They had been quarreling like this for half a month. Every day when the leaders of the field soldiers climbed up to the city tower, they could see that land was being divided outside the city. That was their own land, and a lot of it was given to ordinary field soldiers. It was as before right before their eyes. The bottom was divided.
The leaders of the field soldiers were anxious, and the ordinary soldiers were equally anxious.
These small soldiers are all tenant farmers. They rebelled with the leaders because they just wanted land. They finally got the land, but now it is all gone, so why are they rebelling?
It is better not to rebel, but to remain as tenant farmers, and King Zhao Tian will allocate land to them.
Twenty days after Fei Ruhe besieged the city, low-level officers began to secretly communicate with each other.
A young leader named Li Tianbao said: "Why do we rebel and fight? It's not just to divide a few acres of land. I heard that King Zhao Tian also wants to divide the land, so why do we need to work for Lin Jinshan? Even if we drive away King Zhao's soldiers,
We still only have those few acres of land. If we lose, let alone protect the land, we won’t even be able to protect our lives.”
"Yes, there will be no benefit if we don't surrender, and there will be no harm if we surrender!" Another little leader named Wang Yongsi concluded.
"How about setting fire to the city tonight?"
"Just tonight!"
"..."
If a fire is set at night, there will inevitably be chaos, because many soldiers' families live in the city.
When a fire broke out in the city that night, countless soldiers rushed down from the tower and extinguished the fire spontaneously with the people in the city. The soldiers who surrendered in tandem took the opportunity to shout "King Zhao Tian has entered the city", which quickly caused greater chaos. Some soldiers simply opened the city gate.
Run outside.
Lin Jinshan was also running. The moment the fire broke out in the city, he knew it was definitely over.
"kill!"
Fei Ruhe decisively led troops to attack the city, but the chaos was subsided at dawn, and one-fifth of the entire county was burned by fire.
Leader level, behead everyone you catch!
If the other Tian soldiers are not liquidated, this troubled time cannot be settled at all.
It took another month for Fei Ruhe to completely control the situation and lead troops to mow down the remaining field soldiers in the territory. After the local peasant association was established, Fei Ruhe immediately led troops to attack Ruijin County, repeating the same routine.
Basically, if you capture a county town in two and a half months, the casualties of your soldiers will be negligible.
Attacking the city according to this method will not be fast even if we want to. The main thing is to form a farmers' association and measure and divide the land (for now, only around the county town). It will be slow, and we must continue to attract local people who can speak Hakka.
However, after capturing three county towns in a row, the speed suddenly became faster!
Because the other Tianbing leaders were frightened and learned that they had become Fei Ruhe's target, they immediately left southern Gansu and entered the borders of Fujian and Guangdong with gold, silver and a few confidants.
They can return to their hometown in Fujian and Guangdong to become rich men, or they can return to Fujian and Guangdong to continue their rebellion. No matter which option they choose, it is better than facing Fei Ruhe.
The entire southern Gansu province finally became Zhao Han's territory by the end of the year.
…
Ganzhou City.
More than forty Hakka leaders and Jiangxi gentry were invited to gather in the lobby of the government office. They were all representatives of nearby counties.
Among them, there are many enemies who will quarrel when they meet.
The moment Zhao Han appeared, the lobby became silent for an instant, and everyone turned their attention to King Zhao.
Young, majestic, handsome and tall!
"Greetings to Mr. Zhao!" Everyone quickly stood up and saluted.
Even the leaders of the Hakka people can speak Jiangxi dialect. After all, they have settled in Jiangxi for nearly a hundred years, so they will inevitably have to deal with the local indigenous people.
Zhao Han cupped his fists in return and said with a smile: "Everyone, please take a seat. I came to Southern Gansu this time because I heard that you are constantly having disputes. I hope I can persuade you to put aside your hatred and work together to fight drought and provide disaster relief."
“I understand the town’s kindness now, but there is no way to reconcile this matter,” a Jiangxi gentry representative stood up and shouted angrily, “These Hakkas, who came from Fujian and Guangdong provinces, not only occupied our land in Jiangxi, but also
You want to rob the water source of our people in Jiangxi!"
"fart!"
A Hakka leader also stood up and said tit for tat: "You locals are used to bullying Hakkas. Before Mr. Zhao came here, when did you not collude with the government to do evil?"
"That's because you are being unreasonable first!"
"It was you who bullied people first!"
"..."
The conflict between the natives and the foreigners cannot be explained clearly in one or two sentences. It is even difficult to understand who bullied whom first. The hatred has been forged by generations over the past hundred years.
Your village killed my grandfather, and our village beat your uncle to death. When will we be able to retaliate?
These are major conflicts, and there are also conflicts among the Hakkas and among the Jiangxi gentry.
"boom!"
Zhao Han slapped the gavel tree fiercely, scaring everyone into shutting up immediately.
Zhao Han looked gloomy and said, "Can I say a few words first?"
"Mr. Zhao, please speak." These people became well-behaved again. After all, Zhao Han had a knife handle in his hand.
Zhao Han said: "It is difficult for an upright official to resolve family affairs. Many of you are feuding people, and I don't have the ability to judge right from wrong. I don't care about the past grudges. From next month, those who violate the law and commit crimes will be dealt with according to the Ming Law."
If you don’t understand the Laws of the Ming Dynasty, you should understand the principle of killing people to pay for their lives, right?”
After saying that, Zhao Han glanced at the crowd again and sneered: "Don't think that the law does not punish the crowd. If a crowd fights, all the blame will be placed on the leader. Don't think that there will be no punishment if no one is killed. As long as
Anyone who commits a fight will be severely punished!"
A representative of the gentry asked: "Headquarters, what is the solution to the dispute over water?"
"Leave it to the farmers' association for the time being," Zhao Han said. "In the face of natural disasters, we should work together in the same boat instead of fighting each other."
The Hakka representative quit, and someone said: "Zhongzhen, you are only helping them. There are farmers' associations in the local villages, but there are no farmers' associations in our Hakka villages, so the farmers' association naturally has to help them speak."
"Then why don't you build a peasant association? Are you afraid that if a peasant association is established, you will lose your prestige in the countryside?" Zhao Han asked in return.
No one could answer because Zhao Han was right. Of course, there was also the factor of Hakka people not believing in Zhao Han.
Zhao Han suddenly said in Mandarin: "I am not from Jiangxi, I am actually from the north."
As soon as this statement came out, everyone was a little surprised.
Zhao Han continued: "To me, there is no difference between Jiangxi people and Hakka people. They are all Chinese people. I don't favor anyone, and I don't discriminate against anyone. If you do things according to my rules, you are my own people."
If you don't do things according to my rules, then you are not one of our own. My tolerance for your Hakka villages and towns has its limits if you first do not cooperate with the settlement and then with the peasant association."
The Jiangxi gentry gloated about the misfortune, while the Hakka leaders felt uneasy.
"Ordinary Hakka brothers will definitely not boycott the peasant association. It's all you, the leader, who are obstructing it." Zhao Han's tone became more serious. "As punishment, I will forcibly divide the fields instead of allowing you to divide the fields as before."
A person can reserve up to one hundred acres of land! Now, the people in the mountains can reserve up to fifty acres each!"
The Hakka leaders were both angry and afraid, and each of them hid their anger.
Zhao Han continued: "Whoever is dissatisfied can raise an army to rebel. I don't mind killing a few to establish authority. Once the Hakka people cause trouble, regardless of whether they participate or not, the land that other Hakka people in the town can retain will be reduced to ten acres. Unless
Only by reporting in advance will you not be punished."
The Jiangxi gentry were even happier because they liked to see their enemies suffer.
Zhao Han suddenly turned to the representatives of the gentry: "You'd better be honest. Some people are dissatisfied with my division of land and are colluding in private to cause trouble. I have been reported on this matter a long time ago. Don't force me to engage in the robbery of the family and the extermination of the clan."
The gentry suddenly became solemn, and their smiles immediately disappeared.
Zhao Han announced again: "The latest Tian Zheng has been slightly changed. You can check it out."
This year, the Tianzheng has made some fine adjustments, and the cultivated land is divided into four levels: upper field, middle field, lower field, and lower lower field.
The upper fields are mostly paddy fields, the middle fields are mostly dry fields, the lower fields are mostly mountainous, and the lower fields are very barren.
When dividing the land, each person can get four acres of upper land. If the upper land is not enough, other agents will be used. One acre of upper land is equal to two acres of middle land, four acres of lower land, and five acres of lower land.
If only the middle field is needed, each person can get eight acres!
If they only need to work in the fields, each person can get twenty acres!
This is formulated by the Farmers Association after several years of observation and statistics, based on the actual output of the land. In the future, the land tax will be collected according to this standard.
Those who have reached the age of twelve in the past three years will also be allocated land this time.
Those who were not allocated enough before will be replenished.
Not afraid of insufficient land, Taihe County, Yichun County, Pingxiang County, Yongxin County, and Yongning County have all been severely ravaged by rebels. After the population drops sharply, the remaining counties can move there.
The same is true in the southern Jiangxi area. After a series of wars, there must be enough farmland.
"Are you Hakka people willing to form a farmers' association?" Zhao Han asked.
These Hakka leaders exchanged opinions with each other with their eyes, and then they all knelt down and said: "We all obey the order of Mr. Zhao!"
Zhao Han has already said that in the future, all disputes over water will be mediated by the farmers' association.
If the Hakka people do not establish a peasant association, why not let the Jiangxi natives bully them?
Zhao Han finally breathed a sigh of relief. As long as he did not conflict with the peasant association, the conflict between natives and foreigners would definitely be difficult to eliminate, but it could be resolved slowly in the future.