The formulation of the policy only required Zhang Chong and six or seven ministers to discuss it in the front hall, but the actual implementation was not the same thing.
The latter is more difficult than the former and relies more on local understanding of policies, testing the wisdom and courage of these local officials.
Obviously, not all officials in all places have this ability.
The feathers from Yecheng were passed to the prefects of various counties along with Chi Daofei. They were all old men of the Taishan Army. They were on the side of the Taishan Army in terms of emotions and interests, so they resolutely implemented Yecheng's land distribution policy.
However, the difficulty varies from county to county.
This time the Northern Expedition roughly occupied five counties in Jizhou and five counties in Youzhou. The conditions in these places were different. For example, Jizhou was more densely populated than Youzhou, and the western part of Jizhou was more densely populated than the central and eastern parts.
The conditions of the people and the land are different, and the agricultural production situation is different.
For example, in Changshan Country and Qinghe Country, due to the developed economy, there are a large number of homesteaders. These people have enough external environment security to allow them to farm alone as a family unit.
But this is not the case in Zhongshan, Hejian, Bohai and other counties in Youzhou and Jizhou. Because these areas are often harassed by the Rong and Di, they are unable to support the production of their own farmers.
Mainly, the land is quite concentrated.
In such different specific situations, the difficulty of policy implementation will naturally be different.
For areas where land is highly concentrated, the county magistrates only need to focus on attacking the big powerful. As long as their land is confiscated and redistributed, the work is over.
But if you are facing a small or medium-sized powerhouse, it will be much more difficult to confiscate it.
For example, those little tycoons generally don't have any blood debts, and some of them are good people in Enhui Township. If you confiscate their land at this time, the actual executioners will not be able to bear it.
All of the above are the complexities of Hebei. But no matter what, a vigorous land distribution movement involving the lives and destinies of millions of people has officially begun in Hebei.
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Zhongshan Kingdom, Boling.
After the feathers from Yecheng were delivered to the Boling County Temple, Boling's order Hu Pu had already started discussing the specific affairs of dividing the fields with the town general Geng Hao.
In fact, this does not need to be difficult, because everyone knows who the largest wealthy family in Boling is. It is the Boling Cui family. As long as they are eradicated, there will be enough land to distribute to the poor in the county.
As the first Boling Order, Hu Pu was not lacking in loyalty, ability and courage.
First of all, he was born as a descendant of Mount Tai. He attended the Military Academy at the beginning. From enlightenment to education, his entire values were under the influence of Mount Tai's army. He was a true member of his own family.
Secondly, he is only 20 years old, and he only controls a county. His abilities are certainly numerous. He graduated with special grades, and has participated in and presided over the land distribution affairs of several places in Zhongnan, Heji, and Wei counties. There is no shortage of general affairs.
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In addition, at an age where he is full of enthusiasm, he dares to do things and is able to do things.
But even so, Hu Pu was still a little hesitant at this time, because the Bolingcui family he wanted to eradicate was not simple.
It was only when he came to Boling that he realized how difficult it was for the Cui family to solve.
The genealogy of the Cui family in Boling can be traced back to the period of Taigong Wang. Wang's grandson took the fief as Cui Yi, so he took the surname Cui because of the fiefdom.
Regardless of these legends, it can be seen from the county records that the Cui family moved to Anping during the reign of Emperor Gaozu of the former Han Dynasty, and never moved anywhere else after that.
Anping is the former name of today's Boling. Emperor Huan's father was buried here and was called "Boling". Then Anping County was renamed Boling.
In the North, this family is naturally inferior to the Lu family in Zhuojun, but it is still a first-class noble family.
What is a duke family? It means a family that has had three dukes in the family, and they have been married for generations.
The Cui family started to flourish around the end of the Han Dynasty. They served as eunuchs for three generations, one of whom held the position of county governor for four terms and was known as the "Book of Changes" passed down to the family.
Later, in this dynasty, the Cui family served as eunuchs for seven consecutive generations, and Cui Lie finally rose to the position of the Third Duke, making the family a public clan.
Unlike those families where local tycoons emerged and became eunuchs, the Cui family was known for its pure name and enjoyed a very high reputation among scholars.
Hu Pu, who has presided over the division of land for many years, knows very well that clean-blooded tyrants like this are the most difficult to deal with.
Because these people are either really poor or very hidden, and have a very good reputation among the villages.
Hu Pu also confirmed this from some local county officials.
A county official once told a story about a member of the Cui family.
It is said that the leading figure of the Cui family in the previous generation was named Cui Shi. In order to support his family, this person did not care about the ridicule of the times and ran a business of selling wine and wine. But Cui Shi sold wine not to make money and get rich.
They took enough for their needs and gave the rest to the countryside. So after Cui Shi's death, his family was really left with no money left.
If this is just a personal reputation, then the following things are the virtues Cui brought to the place.
The first virtue is that Cui established a school.
As clean-blooded powerful men who passed down their Confucian classics to their families, the reason why they have been able to serve as officials from generation to generation relies on the inheritance of Confucian classics.
According to the Cui family, their ancestors moved to Anping and were engaged in farming. At the beginning, they had no access to food and clothing. They worked hard in farming and lived thriftily until they had enough food and clothing. They oversaw their children to study. Only when they succeeded in learning did they have this inheritance.
For this reason, the Cui family set up a special school to teach not only the descendants of the clan, but also the scholars in the village.
Therefore, Cui's Jingshe, like Fu's Jingshe who was studying in the year, is an existence with important cultural significance in the local area.
Who in the village doesn’t want their children to be able to read scriptures and become masters? So they all have the Cui family.
Cui's second virtue is to cultivate acres of land and build water conservancy projects.
Unlike those Qingliu nobles who were separated from the fields, the Cui family was very knowledgeable about farming. For generations, their family organized villagers to cultivate acres of land, taught them agricultural techniques, and told them when to plant what crops.
In addition, the Cui family also lent a large amount of land to the villagers for farming, and also lent excellent farming tools to the villagers. More importantly, the largest water canal in Boling was also organized and built by the Cui family.
The largest river in Boling is Rushui.
However, as the wet water passes through the west of Boling, it is difficult to use agricultural water in the east of Boling. Therefore, Cui built a canal to divert water to the east.
And in order to prevent competition for water between villages, the Cui family was responsible for this canal.
When Hu Pu heard this, he shuddered.
Because others only saw Cui's virtues, he saw Cui's deep control over the local area. He had a lot of land and thousands of servants. These people directly depended on Cui for their livelihood, so how could they dare to disobey Cui?
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In addition, Mr. Cui has mastered the most advanced technology here, and the villagers who have been guided do not dare to offend these agricultural masters, for fear that they will not be able to grow anything in the fields behind.
What's even more frightening is that the Cui family also controls Boling's water canals, directly controlling all the agricultural water in the east of the county. Who dares to offend the Cui family?
In today's terms, the Cui family not only provides a huge number of jobs, but also has the most advanced production technology and monopolizes the core resources for economic development.
Are you afraid? No wonder Cui is virtuous.
Cui's third virtue is that there are many talented people in the family.
Hu Pu still understood this. The large number of talented people meant that generations of senior officials in Cui's family could protect the villagers very well.
The logic is not complicated.
Because if there is no such powerful family in the local area to protect the villagers, they will definitely be preyed upon by the county magistrate. Therefore, the stronger the Cui family, the less dare the county magistrate dare to exploit and govern.
With a comprehensive understanding of the Cui family, Hu Pu secretly felt that this matter was difficult.
The Cui family is indeed the kind of clean-blooded tycoon who talks about moderation and pure Confucianism, which is completely different from the turbulent local tycoons. The latter don't care about the reputation of their neighbors at all, and do whatever it takes to grab wealth, which is completely unpopular.
It would be effortless to kill such a powerful person.
Can the same be done to the Cui family? As soon as the soldiers opened fire, they directly wiped out the Cui family. Isn’t that easy?
It's possible, but doing so will have endless consequences.
Given the reputation of the Cui family in the local area, exterminating the clan for no reason would inevitably lose the support of the local people, and would also allow the enemy to seize the public opinion.
Regarding this, the Taishan Army learned a lesson in its early years.
In the previous great turmoil in the Heji area, the reason why the local tyrants who rebelled were able to mobilize so many people to rebel was because they launched public opinion attacks from this point.
Because in the early years, the field division team in the Heji area was relatively rough in work, so all those who had followers at home, no matter whether they were good or bad, were killed.
But killing is simple, but it is easy for others to talk about. People with ulterior motives often slander and spread rumors that the Taishan Army is a first-class bandit, burning, killing and looting. Didn't you see that the great good man was killed by their Taishan Army?
Can someone who kills good people be a good person? Can he be a master king?
The moral judgment of ordinary Guizhou people is that simple.
Moreover, powerful people with a good reputation often easily win the sympathy of conscientious field officials. Most of these field officials are members of Confucian ideals and attach great importance to moral concepts, so they often treat good people.
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It can be seen from this that it would be very troublesome if we only regard the land distribution movement as a kind of violence without trying to snatch moral justice.
Of course, these troubles only stay in the present. Zhang Chong, who came from later generations, thought further.
He knew that as his generation died one after another, no one could tell the truth about this great movement.
At that time, once those powerful descendants have some grasp of public opinion, will they "rehabilitate" their ancestors?
Don't think about it, this is inevitable.
As those literati who mastered writing used sensitive and sensational writing to describe the injustice and suffering that their powerful ancestors encountered in this catastrophe, they tried to overturn the verdict of their ancestors.
These "great good people" were doing good to others at home, helping the poor, and living a peaceful and peaceful life. But suddenly one day, these people were robbed by bandits! Is this justice? Is this appropriate?
Of course they would not talk about the tragic suffering of millions of Guizhou people at that time. In their writings, the experiences of a few literati were enough to replace the fate of those who could not speak.
They would praise everything about the Han Dynasty and the demeanor of the Han Dynasty scholar-bureaucrats. But those ignorant and shallow people would naturally be moved by such sensational stories, so they would also forget the sufferings of their ancestors.
Maybe you really thought that the end of the Han Dynasty was a good time? You idiots like you are just a group of careerists if you don't rebel during the good times!
Zhang Chong, who has come from later generations, will naturally not let this happen again.
Therefore, he specially issued a manual to all the land-dividing officials, instructing the grass-roots land-dividing officials on how to deal with this clear-flow type of tyrants and obtain the justice of the land allotment.
The method is just one sentence:
"No one is perfect. Even if there are, what about others?"
And now Hu Pu plans to start from this point to find evidence of Cui's illegality.
Hu Pu is also an experienced official. He has not dealt with such powerful people with "good reputations" before, and he knows the patterns of these people.
Generally speaking, promising members of this kind of family must maintain a good reputation. Therefore, there is no need to check these people, and it will be useless if they do.
But such a large Cui family, with more than 300 members of the Guang clan, nearly a thousand guests and subordinates, and occupying a quarter of Boling's land, how could they not do something bad?
Otherwise, could it be that so much soil fell from the sky?
Therefore, the clear name only belongs to a few core tribesmen, and most people still have to wear black gloves and do dirty things.
And this investigation actually found something.
Indeed, Cui Shi was a moral gentleman. But he had an elder brother named Cui Lie, who had a great career and spent five million yuan to become a Taiwei.
This man had a son named Cui Jun, who is said to have died.
But the Cui clan members kept a secret about Cui Jun's death.
Later, Geng Hao, who was still the general of Boling, felt that the name sounded familiar, so he wrote a letter to his colleagues in the army and learned how this person died.
It turned out that this man was an important general of Lu Zhi's Youzhou Cavalry, who was beheaded in the battle of Jize. This man had massacred He Yi's three thousand Runan Yellow Turbans at the foot of Xingyang City.
Now, the first sin has been committed, and there is a blood debt with the Taishan Army!
But it was not enough. To use this crime to eradicate the Cui family, Boling's people were dissatisfied.
But a few days later, the military officials under Hu Pu discovered something else through visits.
This matter was kept secret by the villagers at first, but eventually someone leaked it and told it.
Cui Shi, who died ten years ago, left behind a son named Cui You, who was notoriously naughty.
A few years ago, he committed an evil deed in the countryside, which was to kill someone with a knife.
Because Cui You was brave and fierce in fighting, he usually liked famous swords and treasures. One day, a swordsman sold Cui You a precious sword, saying that this sword would kill people without spilling blood.
Cui You didn't believe it. At that time, he happened to see a disciple of a family carrying water on the roadside. Without saying a word, he went up and stabbed the poor disciple to death.
But at that time, the sword was really not stained with a drop of blood. Cui You was overjoyed and rewarded the swordsman generously.
As for the disciple, he was rewarded with a straw mat and was buried in a field beside the road.
After learning the news, Hu Pu was overjoyed:
"Great things are accomplished."
But Geng Hao, the general of the town, was at a loss for what he meant and said doubtfully:
"Even if this matter is true, it was only done by Cui You alone. How could he take down the Cui family?"
Hearing this, Hu Pu burst out laughing and told Geng Hao the key points of the matter in detail.
Geng Hao was overjoyed and shouted three times:
"Xiao Hu, Gao!"
Hu Pu didn't dare and hurriedly replied:
"Old Geng, Gao!"
The two looked at each other and laughed.
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