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I don't know when the Huang family's ancestor's house was built, but most of it was expanded in the Zhengde Dynasty.

Huang's ancestral hall was also built in Zhengde Dynasty.

The reason is very simple. During the years of Hongzhi and Zhengde, the Huang clan became a high-ranking official!

The buildings are lavishly built, but in terms of details, they are far inferior to those in affluent areas. One is that the Huang family has limited financial resources, and the other is that the level of designers and craftsmen is insufficient.

Now, Zhao Han ordered the garden to be bulldozed, and a section of the wall was also taken down, connecting it with the flat ground outside the wall, and used it as a training ground for soldiers. This will completely destroy the layout of the house, making it look more and more nondescript, which will inevitably lose the face of our Master Zhao.

More than 500 soldiers have all returned home, ready to meet the busy farming season.

Zhao Han sat on the steps under the porch, looking at the empty training ground, feeling even more confused than Fei Ruhe at the moment.

From the perspective of others, Zhao Han is going smoothly, but in fact he encounters setbacks everywhere.

It is a compromise between ideal and reality, and a difference between theory and practice. To put it nicely, adapt measures to current and local conditions. To put it harshly, Zhao Han backed down everywhere, and he couldn't implement many things.

Let Xiaohong be the head of the women and children's department, just to manage the women and children in the town.

This position is only to stop extreme domestic violence, and it is impossible to manage ordinary domestic violence. There is also a policy of "prohibition of drowning infants", ordering all widows in the town not to die for their husbands, and providing some limited help to the widows in the town.

There is almost no control over men, but they are still being talked about, all relying on Zhao Han's prestige to enforce it.

Zhao Han wants to unite the owner farmers, but he also makes people inside and out.

First of all, the owner-peasants hated Zhao Han.

They have a close blood relationship with Huang Zundao, and they are hardly oppressed and exploited by Master Huang. On the contrary, they sometimes get relief from Master Huang. And they have land, facing countless tenant farmers, they are full of superiority.

Now, Master Huang's relief is gone, and their sense of superiority is gone, and the tenants they look down on are actually allocated land!

They don't think about it at all, as long as one or two generations pass, the blood relationship will become estranged, and once the descendants encounter natural disasters, the land will be taken away by the big landlords, and they will also be reduced to tenants at that time.

They only know that Mr. Zhao is a big villain!

Secondly, in terms of their attitude towards self-cultivating farmers and small landlords, the tenants also slandered Zhao Han endlessly.

The tenants feel that those who have land should all kill off the land. Mr. Zhao is too kind-hearted, he still keeps those bastards, maybe one day he will collude with outsiders for revenge.

The contradiction between the two sides is difficult to ease.

The owner-peasants are still a little better, and the tenants have already taken action on the small land. They didn't dare to disobey Zhao Han's order, and they didn't dare to directly kill the small landlord to divide the land, but they went to trouble every day, and the small landlord was made very afraid to go out.

The same is true in private schools, where children from tenant households band together to bully the children of small landlords and self-employed farmers.

This is just a remote and small place. In the future, when operating in a large place, the contradiction may continue to magnify.

The problem of the army is not obvious yet.

But if they go to fight in other places, they don't say how far away from home, but just go to the next village and town, will they kill, rob, or blackmail?

There must be unity of thought!

Li Zicheng's "Chuangwang will not be paid when he comes", no matter whether it can be done or not, it can be regarded as an idea, and it is also a propaganda slogan.

The peasant uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty was also based on ideology, which was taught by Maitreya.

Whether it is a slogan or a so-called idea, nothing more than forming a consensus. Even if it can't be done, even if no one takes it seriously, it must exist!

The red set can't be copied, Zhao Han can only find it from the "Book of Rites", and get the idea of ​​​​"the world is in harmony".

But, does Zhao Han believe it?

If he doesn't even believe it, why do he still want his subordinates to believe it?

In addition, there are future policy changes, which is also a headache.

In the early stage of development, violence is necessary, and the landlords must be eliminated, so that the base can be consolidated. But after it develops, it is impossible to completely push the landlords to the opposite side, otherwise Zhao Han will definitely struggle!

However, even if Zhao Han made a compromise, he still had to cut off the landlord's flesh. How could the landlord be willing?

It is impossible to overthrow all the big landlords, mainly because of the problem of execution.

If the entire province of Jiangxi is occupied, how can there be so many loyal grassroots officials who can completely follow Zhao Han's thinking? They will definitely deceive the upper and lower, use the guise of Zhao Han to mess around, kill the old landlord, and become the new landlord themselves.

Preoccupation, team building, mind building.

"My lord, it's time to eat." Xiaocui walked over at some point.

Zhao Han smiled and stood up: "Okay, let's eat."

Xiao Cui changed her name to Huang Fei, which sounds very similar to Xiao Hong's Huang Fei. But the two have very different personalities. Xiaohong dares to go to the town office to be the chief of women and children, but Xiaocui dare not show her face, and just wants to stay by Zhao Han's side as a maid.

Zhao Han said as he walked, "I made up a play, and Mao Sheng said that there are not enough actors... so you can play a female role."

"My lord, I don't know how to sing opera." Xiao Cui politely refused. Although she was born as a maid, she felt that opera singers were lowly.

Zhao Han explained: "In this kind of opera, you don't sing very much, you just talk. Also, there are no domestic slaves now, and they are all called servants. From now on, opera actors will not be cheap, so don't look down on opera actors."

Afraid of making Zhao Han angry, Xiaocui quickly explained, "My lord, I don't look down on opera singers."

"Then you can act." Zhao Han said with a smile.

Xiaocui was full of reluctance, but she agreed anyway, just following orders.

Until, when Chen Maosheng read the script to her, Xiaocui burst into tears several times...

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In June, the Sichuan army was ordered to suppress the bandits and shot Zijin Liang, the leader of the rebel army. But they won first and then lost, and the generals died in ambush. The rebels used their flags to trap and kill other officers and soldiers, and the Sichuan army was defeated in succession.

In the whole of Sichuan, there is no main force of officers and soldiers. As long as the peasant army recovers, they can enter Sichuan in a large scale to coerce them.

In July, the Tartars captured Lushun.

Huang Long, the commander-in-chief stationed in Lushun, sent a navy to assist the Yalu River, but Kong Youde and other traitors took advantage of it. Due to insufficient troops, Huanglong was defeated in several battles, exhausted all bullets, committed suicide and died for the country. Li Weiluan, the guerrilla general, first burned his whole family to death, and then led the remnant soldiers into battle, fighting hard and dying.

On the Jiangxi side, the Ruijin Peasant Army still exists. As long as they don't attack the county seat, no officers and soldiers will go out of the city to wipe it out.

Xie Xuelong, the governor of Jiangxi, is still busy repairing the Tengwang Pavilion.

Tengwang Pavilion is almost completed, not only that, he is also building a pavilion next to it, as a gathering place for scholars and celebrities.

The literati were busy flattering, praising Governor Xie for revitalizing the cultural context, and praising his selfless act of donating his salary-the Governor donated his entire annual salary in order to rebuild the Tengwang Pavilion.

The laborers conscripted to build the Tengwang Pavilion had no wages and had to bring their own food tools, and the officials withheld food, which almost led to a riot!

Cai Maode, the school inspector in Jiangxi Province, quoted "Gewei Theory" to explain "Baben Saiyuan Theory", and was regarded by many scholars as a great Confucianist with the study of mind, and his reputation even spread to Jiangzuo prefectures.

Therefore, the "Gate Theory" was recognized by the gentry, deliberately ignoring the equality of the lower, only emphasizing the equality of the upper, and the merchants even spontaneously spent money to promote it.

The magistrates of Ji'an and Luling County were busy sending scholars to the township examinations, completely forgetting the civil unrest in Wuxing Town...

Wuxing Town is another scene. Although there was a drought in May, the drought was not serious.

Moreover, Zhao Han opened the canals for farmers to use freely. The fields far away from the canals also let farmers help each other to carry water, so they were not greatly affected by the drought.

Looking around, a harvest scene!

When the new rice was finished drying, Zhao Han didn't send anyone to remind him to pay the tax. He only asked the four village chiefs to take the lead and take the initiative to pick up their own grain to the town hall.

The peasants secretly observed and found that there was really no levy of fire consumption, nor of miscellaneous factions and Liao pay. Moreover, grain was collected according to the standards of the Wanli period, and special big buckets were not used to harm the people.

Gradually, some farmers took the initiative to send land taxes, and the treatment was the same as that of the four village chiefs.

The whole town is buzzing!

Chen Maosheng and Fei Chun were so tired that their backs ached, and they sent someone to complain: "Mayor, there are too many people sending food, can you send some more people?"

There is no way but to recruit people.

The two tutors in the private school, the self-cultivating farmers and the scholars of the small landlords, were temporarily recruited to work, and they were promised to pay them every day.

Huang Shunde's family is a self-cultivator, and in terms of blood relationship, he belongs to Master Huang's cousin.

This guy has never been admitted to the scholar, and he has no money to go to the county to continue his studies, so he can only stay at home and study hard.

Huang Shunde hated Zhao Han to the core, but he didn't dare to leave the town, fearing that his land would be confiscated.

But while hating Zhao Han, at the same time, he took the initiative to register and make a register, acknowledging Zhao Han's dominance in disguise - just to receive the old grain distributed by Master Zhao.

Huang Shunde was also very contradictory when he was called to the town office as a temporary worker.

He didn't want to work for the rebels, and he was thinking about the wages given by the rebels, so he could only bite the bullet and go.

After a long distance, Huang Shunde was dumbfounded.

I saw that outside the gate of the town hall, there were all people queuing up to collect food. They came with the newly harvested rice, and instead of paying taxes on their faces, they were all happy. During the waiting period, they talked and laughed, and some even sang pornographic ditties.

Huang Shunde walked to the food requisition point in a daze, and immediately someone shouted: "Brother Zhaoyi, come quickly and help!"

Huang Shunde recognized this person, he was just a schoolboy, and he didn't even pass the exam. Just because he obeyed the rebels, he became the head of the Criminal Section of Wuxing Town.

"Come on." Huang Shunde replied, and walked over arrogantly.

There are only two scholars in Wuxing Town, one is the youngest son of Master Huang, who is now hiding in the county and dare not come back. One is the grandson of Huang Erye, who has been killed by the mob.

Huang Shunde is automatically promoted to the highest educated person, he is a child student, and he is the most arrogant in the town!

This guy didn't start working right away, but flipped through the food requisition booklet, and quickly exclaimed: "My family's requisition amount is so much higher!"

The section chief who was born as a schoolboy smiled and said: "The mayor said that if the young men are not released to practice group bravery, the whole family will be taxed according to the old rules."

Huang Shunde's heart was dripping with blood, and he asked: "If there is a strong man now, is it still too late?"

"I don't know, you have to ask the mayor." The head of the school boy said with a smile, gloating in his words.

Huang Shunde immediately ran into the office and was successfully summoned. He didn't dare to be negligent, and bowed politely: "Mayor Zhao, my family is now producing strong men practicing bravery, can this year's summer grain be treated equally?"

"Okay, as long as there are strong men training soldiers, then we are all on our own." Zhao Han said with a smile.

After Huang Shunde resigned, he frantically ran home and asked his brother to join the army as soon as possible.

I can't care less about being a thief.

Anyway, he was only a child, and the imperial court did not give him preferential treatment, and he had no hope of getting a name in the exam. It would be better to pay less food and get benefits now.

In the past years, the government has been collecting collections, and the summer grain that has not been collected for several months can now be settled in two days.

Moreover, it was the farmers who took the initiative to pay for the grain and took the initiative to pick the grain to the town hall!

The eldest brother joins the army and works as a temporary worker in the public office. The family pays less land tax than before. Huang Shunde quickly reversed his concept.

Anyway, if you have already followed the thief, it is better to follow it thoroughly.

"You want to be an official?" Zhao Han asked with a smile.

Huang Shunde said in a righteous speech: "Wan Sheng is not greedy for high-ranking officials and rich salary, but because he admires the majesty of the mayor. Nowadays, corrupt officials are rampant and corrupt officials are everywhere, but the mayor is honest and loves the people. The matter of paying food makes Wan Sheng amazed, and he is willing to drive for the mayor effective!"

"Haha, then I'll appoint you as the head of the Wuxing Town Tuanyong Camp." Zhao Han accepted it on the spot.

Huang Shunde's complexion changed, and he hurriedly bowed to cover up: "The mayor thinks highly of him, and Wansheng will definitely do his best to repay his great kindness!"

Huang Shunde wanted to be a civilian, so that it would be convenient for officers and soldiers to surrender in the future.

However, Zhao Han was given a Chinese military post, and it was a very important post, so he might be included in the list of major rebels by the government.

Moreover, this guy is from a self-cultivated farmer and is not recognized by the tenants. If he is corrupt, it is easy to be exposed, but it is more useful than the one from the tenant.

Zhao Han said: "Since you are in the army, you should be called by your military title. I am the captain of the regiment brave battalion, you can call me the captain, you can call me the chief, don't call me the mayor and the master."

"Thank you, Chief!" Huang Shunde quickly changed his words.