Xiong Fenwei, the governor of Zhejiang, did not dare to return his troops toward Hangzhou because the mountain road was difficult to walk and he was afraid of being ambushed halfway.
So, this military talker led his troops to chase and kill the partial division that Zhao Han had separated.
With 15,000 soldiers of his own, and together with the Chun'an garrison, he will definitely be able to defeat the 3,000 Datong army's partial divisions!
When leaving Yanzhou City, Xiong Fenwei forcibly recruited another two thousand civilians.
Less than ten miles away, the whole army was already complaining. These soldiers were actually local warriors, recruited from Hangzhou, Huzhou, and Shaoxing. Now Zhao Han led troops to kill their hometowns. How could so many rural warriors not be anxious?
The two thousand Yanzhou residents, most of whom were urban vagrants, were also strongly dissatisfied with Xiong Fenwei.
The entire army does not want to go to Chun'an County!
Xiong Fenwei had no idea about this and seemed to have forgotten the term "military spirit". He felt that all the soldiers should be happy to avoid Zhao Han's army, so that they would not have to fight a tough battle.
"Fushuai, the student has diarrhea and unbearable stomachache." said a close aide.
Xiong Fenwei was still riding in a sedan during the march. He asked his slaves to get off the sedan and get off the ground, saying: "We have marched nearly ten miles. The whole army has a drink of water and a rest. You go and come back quickly."
The confidant was a Shaoxing master. He pretended to have diarrhea and hurriedly ran to squat in the grass. Then he ran away with his baggage. He didn't want to follow the mentally retarded governor to his death. Those generals were obviously ready to make a move.
Xiong Fenwei was sitting on a sedan chair. While he was drinking water, several military generals came over.
"Fujun, I have a military report." Gan Qinwei said as he walked.
Xiong Fenwei didn't think much and just said: "If you have any military information, tell me quickly."
Gan Qinwei said: "The morale of the army is not stable, so we must find ways to stabilize it."
Xiong Fenwei asked: "Tell me, how to stabilize the morale of the army?"
"Only one thing is needed to stabilize the military's morale." Gan Qinwei walked closer and closer.
"What is it?" Xiong Fenwei still didn't realize the danger.
"Fujun's head!"
Gan Qinwei suddenly drew his sword, and several other generals also drew their swords and struck.
The dignified governor of Zhejiang was hacked to death without even having time to scream.
All the soldiers were eager to return home and wanted to return to their hometown as soon as possible. Take a look at what is going on at home. Maybe King Zhao Tian is already dividing the fields.
The main force of Zhejiang officers and soldiers killed the governor and surrendered.
As for those generals, because they took the initiative and restrained the army, they did not plunder on the way back to their hometowns. Therefore, they were all spared from death. After dividing the fields, half of the family property was confiscated and they were released after mining for half a year.
When Zhao Han received the news, he couldn't laugh or cry again.
Xiong Fenwei, the governor of Zhejiang Province, is the funniest local official he has ever seen since he started the army.
To be able to kill Zhejiang so quickly, Governor Xiong Fenwei should be considered the first contributor!
Zhao Han, who was based in Hangzhou, did not set out immediately, but sent three troops.
Five hundred regular soldiers captured the city of Shaoxing Prefecture, then unified the local rebel army to capture the entire Shaoxing Prefecture.
A thousand peasant soldiers took Yuhang and Lin'an.
One thousand regular soldiers and one thousand peasant soldiers served as the vanguard to attack Chongde.
There are only a thousand pro-army troops and a thousand civilians left around Zhao Han, and the Eastern Expedition troops have been divided into countless groups.
This method of scattered troops simply does not treat Zhejiang officers and soldiers as human beings.
Take Shaoxing, for example. Five hundred soldiers killed them, and the defenders in the city were frightened. Kong Zhenyun came forward to persuade them to surrender, and the prefect and county magistrate immediately gave up their resistance. The descendants of Confucius have surrendered, so it will be a shame for us to surrender.
"I heard that Mr. punishes powerful people and is well supported by the people," Zhao Han asked, "are there any other powerful bullies in Hangzhou Prefecture who need to be severely punished?"
Shi Wancheng said: "There are many powerful people in Hangzhou Prefecture, but the one who caused the public resentment is undoubtedly the Wu family in Haining. I only killed Wu Zhongyan, but his brother and son are still doing evil."
"Who is the backer behind him?" Zhao Han asked.
Shi Wancheng replied: "The backer of the Wu family in Haining is the Cai family in Deqing. The backer of the Cai family in Deqing was formerly the first assistant, Wen Tiren, and now is the first assistant, Xue Guoguan. Cai Yichen, the current official position of the Cai family in Deqing, is Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Ming Dynasty."
Zhao Han smiled and said: "Sure enough, the backer is tough."
"The reason why Wu Zhongyan's case was so big was that it actually involved the dispute between Wen Tiren and Fushe," Shi Wancheng sighed. "I resisted the pressure of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and forcibly killed Wu Zhongyan, just when Wen Tiren was dismissed from office. Otherwise,
, I will be retaliated by the Wen Party, and I will no longer be an official. However, because of this matter, I was regarded by the emperor as a Donglin Party."
Zhao Han was a little speechless. Attacking local powerful people could actually lead to party strife in the court.
Zhao Han has already investigated and found that Shi Wancheng was indeed clean and capable. He even refused to accept the regular money from the prefect and handed over all the money to the central court.
There are many kinds of silver in common practice. The most common one is when a few thousand taels are accidentally levied when collecting taxes. Since it has been levied, it is too embarrassing to return it. Officials at all levels share some and the rest are filial piety.
To the chief officer.
This kind of official, who also contributed to the city, Zhao Han believed that he could be promoted.
Zhao Han smiled and asked: "Sir, do you want to severely punish the powerful people in Hangzhou?"
"I've suffered a lot from their cowardice, so naturally I want to clean things up!" Shi Wancheng made no secret of it.
"Well," Zhao Han said, "since you are familiar with Hangzhou, sir, you can stay here and serve as magistrate of Hangzhou Prefecture for a few years. I will leave it to you to punish powerful people. You must govern the powerful people obediently."
.”
Shi Wancheng stood up quickly: "I will live up to my trust!"
Zhao Han said with a smile: "Don't be soft-hearted. If you need to confiscate your home, just do it. There are many mines in my territory. Don't care about ethics. Women whose homes are confiscated are forced to remarry. In Jiangxi, Jiangnan, Guangdong and other provinces, in the past hundred years,
Drowning of female infants was a common practice, wealthy people often kept concubines, and many common men were unable to marry women."
Shi Wancheng hesitated to speak. He felt that it was inappropriate to force women to remarry. But considering the policies of the Ming Dynasty, it was nothing, because in the Ming Dynasty, these women would have to work as prostitutes in the Jiaofangsi.
One is a prostitute and the other is just remarrying, which is naturally much more humane.
Moreover, the phenomenon of infanticide is indeed serious in Zhejiang, and singles can be seen everywhere.
South Zhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi are the three places where infant drowning is the most serious, with the largest number of female infants being drowned in particular!
Over the past hundred years, many officials have tried to change the trend and made many efforts.
Zhao Han did not deliberately change the trend and tried his best to make the people's lives better and rural women to be able to share the land. In a few years, the phenomenon of infant drowning will automatically disappear. As long as life is good, which parent is willing to drown their children?
Especially in Jiangxi, there has been a baby boom.
In the past three or four years, a large number of newborns have been born. It is estimated that in ten years, Jiangxi's population will explode, and large-scale immigration will be necessary. Otherwise, the contradiction between man and land will intensify, which will inevitably cause many social problems.
Zhao Han got up and walked to the window, looked at the red phoebe tree in the yard, and said to himself: "It has deep roots and lush leaves. It needs to be pruned, otherwise it will block too much sunlight."
Suddenly, Zhao Han turned around and asked: "If the number of people with the same surname exceeds 30% in a certain village, they will be forcibly exchanged with neighboring villages. Is it possible?"
"This... this is going to cause a lot of trouble." Shi Wancheng was shocked.
"They are willing to move while the land is being allocated to farmers and tenants. Anyway, they are just moving to the next village," Zhao Han said with a smile. "If we don't do things while the land is being allocated, it will be even more difficult to do in the future."
The clan power in Jiangnan was even more terrifying than in Jiangxi. Even dividing the land could not reassure Zhao Han. People with the same surname had to be mixed up.
In the early Ming Dynasty, as much as the Jiangnan landowners hated Zhu Yuanzhang, they would hate Zhao Han a hundred times in the future.
Even Song Lian, the first civil servant who founded the Ming Dynasty, secretly recalled the Yuan Dynasty in his article. After he retired and returned to his hometown, he repeatedly used the Yuan Dynasty era name in his articles, replacing it with the twenty-eighth year of the Yuan Dynasty.
The first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty.
Among them, "Kong Gong's Divine Monument" is the most egregious: "In the 28th year of the Zhizheng Period, the Emperor (Zhu Yuanzhang) issued an edict to Duke Qu to visit him..."
What does it mean?
After the reign name of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang is written immediately. Is Zhu Yuanzhang a minister of the Yuan Dynasty or the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty?
This is an article written by the first civil servant who founded the Ming Dynasty after his retirement!
Song Lian was a very popular minister, so why did he still think about the good things of the Yuan Dynasty after he retired?
Because the Yuan Dynasty carried out various types of burning, killing, looting and forcibly annexing land north of the Yangtze River, which triggered many uprisings. Therefore, when attacking Jiangnan, they adopted a moderate strategy and gave various preferential treatment to the landowners in Jiangnan. The taxes were even much lighter than those in the Song Dynasty.
And the government officially protected the illegal privileges of Jiangnan landlords.
The landowners in Jiangnan during the Yuan Dynasty lived in paradise.
Zhu Yuanzhang canceled their privileges and raised the land tax. Who do you think the Jiangnan landlords will turn to?
Zhao Han suddenly understood why Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to debase a large number of Jiangnan landowners after occupying Jiangnan. Why he confiscated a large number of Jiangnan land and implemented a deformed official land system, which ultimately led to the reforms in the mid-Ming Dynasty.
Huang Zongxi returned to his hometown and persuaded his people to surrender and cooperate in dividing their fields. Zhao Han then called Wu Yingji alone.
In the entire Fushe, Wu Yingji was the third leader, and his influence was only lower than that of Zhang Pu and Zhang Cai.
"It's feasible to move people with the same surname to different places," Wu Yingji nodded and said, "It will definitely cause a lot of trouble, but it can save a lot of trouble in the future."
Zhao Han said: "The scholars who participated in the service need to be comforted by your husband."
Wu Yingji cupped his hands and said: "I am willing to serve the general town!"
After Wu Yingji left, Zhao Han summoned his military officers and demanded greater efforts to crack down on the powerful gentry.
How to increase efforts?
Copy a few more!
There is no mistake in copying. Those powerful gentry can always find various crimes.
As long as the knife is sharp and the powerful are attacked more vigorously, not only will it not force the landlords to rebel, but it will actually make the landlords in the unoccupied areas more enthusiastic about defecting to them.
Because Zhao Han fought all the way and took the initiative to seek refuge with the scholars who had made meritorious deeds along the way, Zhao Han would give preferential treatment only to divide their fields, but not to confiscate their homes, and to directly turn them into civil servants.
With these people as examples and a group of people severely punished, other landowners should know how to choose.
(Thanks to 88857, so cute that I can hug you, pal3, Xu Jueyang, one person fishing for the whole river, Yan Han’s unintentional leader’s war, thanks to Penguin Boss for his silver alliance. Thanks to all book friends for subscribing, rewarding and voting.)
(Please give me a monthly ticket, I’m lagging behind.)