Fei Chun was sitting on the fishing boat waiting, with a half-dried blood-stained cloth bag at his feet.
Fei Ruhe walked up the stone steps, scratched his head and stared at the wooden sign of "Wuxing Town" for a long time.
Wrong place again?
Fei Ruhe took the boat all the way and visited several wrong villages and towns.
"Old man," Fei Ruhe called to a farmer who was taking the blame, "Is Huangjia Town still further upstream?"
The farmer had just come to the town to mend the pot and said with a smile: "This is Huangjia Town. Mr. Zhao has changed the name."
Fei Ruhe suddenly became excited: "Is Mr. Zhao Zhao Yan, Zhao Zi said?"
The farmer said confusedly: "Master Zhao is Master Zhao."
"Thanks for the advice," Fei Ruhe clasped his fists and said, immediately turned around and shouted, "Come up quickly, we're here!"
Fei Chun carried the blood-stained sack, tied the small fishing boat on the shore, and quickly came to Fei Ruhe's side.
The master and servant went to the inn. Business was not very good, it was almost noon, and there were only a few people eating in the lobby.
There is also a notice posted at the door of the inn: This town is spending a lot of money to buy corn and sweet potatoes. The more the better, and they will be purchased at twice the market price. Anyone who is interested can contact the innkeeper Huang Daliang.
Fei Ruhe couldn't help but sigh: "Brother Han, I'm afraid he's not doing well, he's almost out of food."
Fei Chun said: "This innkeeper should be from Brother Han."
The original innkeeper was a close associate of Huang Zundao, and he was sent to the mountains to burn charcoal, which was considered a kind of labor reform.
Huang Daliang did not know much about literacy and could only write his own name. He could recognize the names of dishes but could not write them. After he was promoted to shopkeeper, he had to take time to attend private schools every day and practice calligraphy while working at the inn.
Mr. Zhao said that if you cannot learn addition, subtraction, multiplication and division within one year, and cannot learn more than 200 words, someone else will be the shopkeeper next year!
"You two are objective, do you want to be a top-notch person or stay in a hotel?" the store clerk came over and asked.
The shopkeeper is Xiaocui's younger brother. He used to collect firewood for the Huang family, but now he is thrown into the inn to work as a waiter.
Fei Ruhe said: "I am Mr. Zhao's clan brother, and my name is Zhao Yaonian."
This guy even competes with "Yao Nian" because he admires Fei Yaonian, the last famous official of the Fei family, his great uncle, who was both civil and military.
The store clerk was overjoyed and said to Huang Daliang: "Shopkeeper, Mr. Zhao's brothers are here!"
Huang Daliang almost teleported out of the counter, arranged the affairs of the inn in a few words, and then took them to the town office.
The Huang Family Ancestral Hall was changed into a private school in Wuxing Town.
The ancestral home of the Huang family was changed to the Wuxing Town Office. The front yard was used as an office space. Zhao Han himself lived in the backyard, and Pang Chunlai, Chen Maosheng, Zhang Tieniu and their wives and children also lived in the backyard.
Some maids and women, including those married to "officers", could stay and work, signing short-term contracts and receiving monthly wages.
While walking and chatting, we talked about some changes in Wuxing Town.
Fei Ruhe couldn't help but ask: "What is a mayor?"
Huang Daliang explained: "The chiefs are all gone, now there is only the mayor, and under the mayor are four village chiefs."
Fei Ruhe looked at Fei Chun, and both the master and the servant looked shocked.
This is no longer an ordinary rebellion, Zhao Han dares to directly reform!
Seeing that they were shocked, Huang Daliang immediately laughed and said: "What is this? Mr. Zhao also allows women to be officials."
"A woman becomes an official?" Fei Ruhe didn't understand.
Huang Daliang explained: "Xiaohong, the maid in Mr. Huang's family, is now named Huang Fei, a name given to her by Mr. Zhao himself. She is now the chief of the Women and Children's Department in Wuxing Town, and all women and children are under her charge. Mr. Zhao
I told you that you are not allowed to hit women and children casually, and anyone who disobeys will be punished by sweeping the streets."
Fei Chun asked doubtfully: "Are men willing to have women become officials?"
Huang Daliang smiled and said: "What can you do if you don't like it? Besides, when a woman is an official, she only takes care of women and children. You can't let men take care of them."
Suddenly, Huang Daliang whispered: "Master Zhao also said that he is not allowed to drown babies anymore. If he is found out, he will increase the rent and increase the salary. This matter will also be under the control of Section Chief Huang (Xiaohong)."
Fei Ruhe nodded and said, "You really shouldn't drown the baby."
Huang Daliang sighed and said: "If you can support your children, who would do that kind of thing? Actually, Mr. Zhao doesn't need to make rules. Everyone has divided the land now, and the rent has been lowered for the tenants. When life is better, no one will mess around. Come."
"All the land is divided?" Fei Ruhe asked.
Huang Daliang said: "There are still more than 20 households that have not been allocated."
Those who were not assigned land were all homesteaders and small landowners, and are now isolated by the villagers.
Wuxing Town Office.
Zhao Han said to several officials: "Come from household to household and ask them to release their slaves. If the slave wants to go home, the master is not allowed to stop it. If the slave wants to continue working, he can change it to a short-term contract. How much does it cost per month? The wages must be written down clearly. From now on, you are not allowed to call them slaves, servants, servants, or helpers. Also, you are not allowed to beat servants. Anyone who dares to beat a servant again will be sent to the mountains to burn charcoal!"
Chen Maosheng received the order and immediately set off with Xiaohong. Whichever village he went to for business, the village chief must provide full assistance.
Homeowners could not afford to keep slaves, so the targets of this attack were the few remaining small landowners.
If there are many servants in the house, keep seven or eight.
There are only one or two servants in the house.
Can't make any waves!
Moreover, Zhao Han did not forcefully eliminate servants. This was to prevent domestic slaves from losing their jobs and to reduce their resistance.
In just two days, all the remaining domestic slaves in Wuxing Town were released by Chen Maosheng, and a few were willing to continue to be servants.
Don't talk about the deed of sale of a domestic slave. In order to hide the population, almost all private people use white deeds. They don't even go to the government to report them. After tearing up the deed, they immediately become free people.
Next, small landowners are forced to separate their families. Those with more than ten people in a household must separate their families (children under 12 years old are not counted)!
In addition, small landowners and farmers did not provide young men to train regiments. Therefore, they could not receive preferential tax reductions and were subject to heavy taxes and heavy taxes until they provided young men to join the army.
…
Fei Ruhe was walking on a country road and found that the rice seedlings had been planted and men and women were organized to dig canals.
He was very energetic and burst into laughter from time to time.
Huang Daliang took the initiative to explain: “In the past, there were only two canals, one used water trucks to draw water from the river, and the other brought water from the mountain stream. Now that there is a slack season, Mr. Zhao organized the villagers to build and dig canals, and everyone can use the dug canals. Mr. Zhao means what he says. He said the canal is public property, so it must be public property."
"Do the farmers believe it?" Fei Ruhe asked doubtfully.
"Of course I believe it. What Master Zhao said has not been fulfilled? He dug out the interest and rent owed by the villagers two days ago and burned them all. Master Zhao is really good to us," Huang Daliang said with a smile, " On the first day of excavation, Mr. Zhao even rolled up his sleeves and personally led others to dig the canal. Have you ever seen a man like this? There was no need for the government to rush the work, the villagers came on their own, and even the girls and wives were helping."
Fei Ruhe couldn't help but scratch his head. He always felt that this place was weird, but he couldn't explain exactly why.
As a domestic slave, Fei Chun can understand better.
He can take on the identity of a villager. If there is such a person who presides over the division of land, tax reduction and rent reduction, and also promises to dig canals for everyone to use, he will also bring his own dry food and work hard to dig canals.
As he got closer and closer, Fei Ruhe suddenly woke up and finally noticed something strange.
The construction of this kind of infrastructure projects in Qianshan County is either organized by the government or hosted by a wealthy family. The common people who work are all sad and lazy, and they are lazy and deserted at the slightest opportunity.
But at the construction site in front of you, you can see countless smiling faces, sweating profusely but getting more and more energetic as they work.
There is no need to shout slogans or promote any ideas.
As long as farmers are given a little hope, they will burst out with enthusiasm for work.
If farmers are given 10,000 pieces of hope, they can change the world!
Zhao Han took the lead in killing the landlords, dividing the land, reducing taxes, reducing rents, distributing grain, freeing slaves, and burning the arrears of land rent and usury. This set of procedures has given farmers great hope.
Fei Chun secretly observed all the way. He felt that Zhao Han could succeed, but he did not dare to say it in front of Fei Ruhe.
"kill!"
"Ah!"
As they got closer and closer to the Wuxing Town Hall, the master and servant heard a cry of murder.
Fei Ruhe finally became excited: "Go and take a look, Brother Han is training!"
After running wildly, Fei Ruhe came to the gate of the office and shouted loudly: "Zhao Zi said, I'm here, I'm here to accompany you to do great things!"
Not long after, Zhao Han stood at the door and was a little surprised to see Fei Ruhe. Then he smiled and said, "Are you here to be a general? But I only have 500 soldiers in my hand."
"Don't say five hundred soldiers, fifty will do!" Fei Ruhe was excited.
"Brother." Fei Chun followed up and called softly.
Zhao Han nodded and smiled: "You're here too? That's good."
After the Huang family's ancestral residence was converted into a town hall, a section of the courtyard wall was knocked down, and the garden was cleared to flat ground, which was connected to the outside of the courtyard as a military training ground.
Fei Ruhe soon saw the team and said a little disappointed: "There are no serious weapons?"
"You're poor, just make do with what you have." Zhao Han was also helpless.
In order to quickly train the military formation and deal with the encirclement and suppression by officers and soldiers, Zhao Han did not conduct any military training for college students.
Get started with the simplified version of Yuanyang Formation!
Cut down the moso bamboo to make a wolf fork, and leave the front branches to protect the friendly troops from advancing. This is the wolf fork for soldiers.
They also use wooden pot lids as shields and hold sickles or kitchen knives to protect and resist enemies. This is the rattan player.
The body of the spear is made from hard-headed yellow bamboo, and the tip is made from bundled scissors. It is the core force for killing the enemy. This is the spearman.
Moso bamboo, yellow bamboo, pot lids, sickles, kitchen knives, scissors... This is the equipment of the peasant army in Wuxing Town. At first glance, it looks like a group of beggar soldiers.
Fei Ruhe wanted to be a general. In his imagination, the soldiers under his command should have sharp swords, well-equipped armor, and a mighty appearance.
Dreams and reality seem to be a little far apart.
Seeing Zhao Han coming, Zhang Tieniu immediately greeted him and whispered: "Young Master..."
"Captain Zhang, please give me a military title!" Zhao Han interrupted immediately.
"Chief!"
Zhang Tieniu quickly stood up straight, yelled at the top of his lungs, and then complained in a low voice: "Commander, I'd better be your personal guard, this is a boring mandarin duck formation."
Zhao Han now has two positions, one is the mayor of Wuxing Town, and the other is the captain of Tuanyong Camp.
If the captain below wears three stripes, then the captain Zhao Han can wear five stripes.
Facing Zhang Tieniu's complaint, Zhao Han scolded: "Other captains can practice, but you can't?"
Zhang Tieniu said with a painful look on his face: "This Lao Shizi army formation has to advance and retreat together, and what orders do we have to obey? The training has made my brain dizzy. What do you do with that? Just start the battle and rush forward."
Zhao Han was about to give up on Zhang Tieniu. This guy had been practicing for several days and his performance was worse than that of an ordinary tenant.
He is not a person who fights in a disciplined manner. The correct purpose is to let Zhang Tieniu lead a death squad to carry out special tactics such as night raids and guerrillas. Or, with a vote of first troops, he can climb the wall and attack the city without his life.
"well!"
Zhao Han sighed: "Okay, you will be my guard from now on, and the first brigade will be handed over to Fei..." He stopped here, and Zhao Han asked Fei Ruhe, "What is your name now?"
Fei Ruhe smiled and said, "My name is Zhao Yaonian."
"Leave the first brigade to Zhao Yaonian for training!" Zhao Han immediately made adjustments.
Fei Ruhe suddenly remembered something and asked for a cloth bag from Fei Chun. He opened the bag and said, "This is my certificate of surrender. I killed a eunuch in Jinggang Town."
"Why do I need this thing?" Zhao Han suddenly had a headache, Zhang Tieniu was not thinking right, and Fei Ruhe didn't seem to be much better.
Fei Ruhe was very proud and began to tell the story: "I used a clever trick this time to get the eunuch's head without any effort. At that time, I went to Jinggang Town to look for my fourth uncle..."
This guy talked happily, adding details to show his wit and bravery.
Then, Fei Ruhe looked at Zhao Han with an expression that said, "Praise me for being smart."
Zhao Han sighed in his heart and patted Fei Ruhe on the shoulder: "You are so smart, you already know how to use tricks."
"Haha, it's nothing, just adapt to the situation." Fei Ruhe said proudly.
Zhao Han suddenly asked: "Then why don't you just use the trick and stay with the eunuch as a confidant, and take the opportunity to develop your own subordinates? Wouldn't it be better to wait for the eunuch to collect money and then kill him, and then come to me with a lot of money and subordinates, wouldn't it be better?"
"Well……"
Fei Ruhe was stunned for a moment and slapped his head: "Yes, you missed the opportunity!"