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The maids in Zhao Han's family are either homeless or want to stay and work to make money.

Now there are only four left, and all of them have been replaced with short-term helper contracts. One was in charge of chopping firewood and cooking, the other was in charge of washing and sweeping, and the other two served tea and water for Zhao Han and Pang Chunlai.

Originally, there were more, but they were sent to nursing homes, mainly women.

Zhu Yuanzhang is setting up nursing homes all over the country. If Zhao Han wants to achieve great harmony in the world, how can he not set up nursing homes.

There are very few widows and lonely people in nursing homes now, because the elderly often choose to commit suicide, and the number will gradually increase in the future.

They were not idlers, they had to do some things within their ability, such as sewing cotton shoes and military uniforms for the soldiers—that is, winter clothes. Zhao Han bought a batch of cotton cloth and cotton, all of which were ordered from merchants.

Corn and sweet potatoes are also on the horizon. A merchant running the "Jianzhong-Huguang" route promised to bring corn and sweet potato seeds next time.

At noon, the dinner table.

Pang Chunlai threw a pamphlet, and then picked up the bowl to eat: "This was changed by Maosheng. Some of your rhetoric is useless in front of the villagers."

Zhao Han took it over and looked at it, and immediately laughed: "It was indeed my negligence."

After the busy season, Zhao Han did not choose to expand, but asked members to promote Datong ideas, so that villagers and soldiers knew what they were going to do.

After some practice, Chen Maosheng changed the content of the propaganda a lot, eliminated some high-end things, and changed them all into slang and slang: Datong means to let the common people eat well, Datong means to keep the common people from being bullied... and so on.

Pang Chunlai suggested: "Maosheng can be transferred to be the head of the Ritual Department, and he will specialize in promoting Datong thought, not to demote him, he is really not suitable to be the deputy mayor. Huang Shunfu is very solid and can be promoted to the deputy mayor. What do you think?" "

"Yes." Zhao Han nodded in agreement.

Suddenly, a maid came in and reported: "Sir, Mr. Huang asked for an interview, and brought a person from Shangfang Village."

Xiao Cui stopped working as a maid, and was transferred to the Maternity and Children's Department of the Town Hall, where she and Xiao Hong promoted Datong ideas. That is to go to the door every day, chat with the women, and conduct propaganda among women and children.

"Please come in," Zhao Han said.

After a while, Huang Shunde walked into the dining room, followed by a scholar.

Seeing that Zhao Han was eating, Huang Shunde hesitated and said, "Chief, why don't you wait in the living room first?"

"No need," Zhao Han said with a smile, "it's noon, haven't you eaten yet? Sit down and eat together. Xiaozhu, add two more sets of bowls and chopsticks."

Huang Shunde quickly recommended: "Chief, this is a Tongsheng from Shangfang Village, Yang Gui, named Guanju."

Yang Gui made a bow and said, "Wan Sheng pays homage to Mr. Zhao."

"It's easy to say, sit down and eat." Zhao Han pulled the two of them to sit down.

Just as Yang Gui sat down and stood up again, he cupped his hands and said, "I beg Mr. Zhao to be the master and put an end to the chaos in Shangfang Village."

"Shangfang Village is in chaos again?" Zhao Han asked in surprise.

Shangfang Village is located in the north and west of Wuxing Town. The village is mountainous and the people are very poor.

After the harvest in the four villages of Wuxing Township, some women returned to their natal families and brought new rice to support their natal families. It is necessary to brag, saying that every family in Wuxing Town can eat enough, which makes the villagers of Shangfang Village envious.

So, spontaneous riots.

Landlords, big and small, were either killed or fled, and farmers in Shangfang Village began to divide their fields.

Zhao Han was busy doing ideological propaganda work, and had no time to take care of the affairs of neighboring villages. Of course, the main reason is that they are afraid of acting without authorization, which will arouse the resentment of the villagers in Shangfang Village, and regard them as someone who came to seize the land.

Although Yang Gui was born as a child, he was a self-cultivator, and his family didn't have a few acres of land. This time he escaped a catastrophe.

"Mr. Zhao," Yang Gui lamented, "the peasants in Shangfang Village, after killing the landlord, fought again when dividing the land."

"What's going on?" Zhao Han asked.

Yang Gui explained: "There are not many good fields in Shangfang Village, and more than half of them are mountainous lands. When the fields are divided, whoever divides the good fields and who divides the poor fields can't agree at all. He was dissatisfied. The tenant who took the lead in the uprising had selfish motives and distributed all the good land to his relatives and friends. He also occupied a lot of land himself, almost occupying all the upper fields.”

"I see." Zhao Han immediately understood.

This is to overthrow the old landlords and turn the leaders into new landlords. It's no wonder that there is no chaos!

Yang Gui continued: "This morning, unconvinced villagers came to ask for an explanation, but they were beaten up. The news spread, and the whole village rioted again, killing and injuring more than 20 people. Now all the leaders are dead, and the group has no leader. , no one believes anyone."

Huang Shunde added next to him: "The villagers of Shangfang Village have publicly elected Brother Guan Ju (Yang Gui) as the village head, and the head is asked to go over and take charge of the land distribution."

Zhao Han said with a smile: "The farmers in Shangfang Village don't even believe the people in this village, so they believe in me?"

Yang Gui cupped his hands and said, "Mr. Zhao loves the people like a son, and he does things fairly. Who in the surrounding villages doesn't know?"

"Okay, then I'll go there." Zhao Han said.

After lunch, Zhao Han took a group of people there and found that Shangfang Village was really poor.

There were less than 500 people in the whole village. There were two consecutive riots, and only 420 people died. If the land is evenly distributed, the per capita arable land area is more than nine mu, far exceeding that of Wuxing Town, but more than half of it is barren mountainous land.

Master Huang, why are there so many people?

It is because Wuxing Town is located in a river bend, the land is flat, fertile and not short of water, and the agricultural production conditions crush the surrounding villages.

When he arrived at the village entrance, Yang Gui said to a villager, "Mr. Zhao is here."

"Mr. Zhao is here!" The villagers shouted in surprise, and then ran towards the village.

Not long after, the villagers of Shangfang Village came with their wives and children, and even those who were injured in the battle came. They knelt down and looked at Zhao Han expectantly. None of these farmers believed in him. Now they only believed in Zhao Han, a stranger from other places.

In the next half a month, he will be in charge of the work of dividing the land in Shangfang Village.

Instead of dividing according to the number of households, it is divided equally according to the head, and those who get poor land can get more points according to their discretion. At the same time, cadres from the Rites and Maternity and Children's Departments were dispatched to Shangfang Village to promote Datong thought.

Yang Gui was appointed as the head of Shangfang Village, and the village was placed under the control of Wuxing Town.

In Shangfang Village, the land is divided equally according to the head, and the other four villages inevitably feel unbalanced.

So, Zhao Han presided over the division of land again, readjusting the donated 10,000 mu of land according to the population, and allocating another 6,000 mu of land at once, leaving only 4,000 mu of land in the town as public property.

Before the second division of the fields was over, Ganshang Village in the east of the north was also bombed.

It's really like an infection, and the tenants of Qianshang Village launched a riot. Moreover, with the lessons learned from Shangfang Village, they immediately sent someone over to ask Zhao Han to go to Shangfang Village to take charge of the field work in person.

The situation in Ganshang Village is not much better than that in Shangfang Village. There are also countless barren mountainous lands. Coupled with the exploitation of the landlords, the people's life is miserable.

In a blink of an eye, Zhao Han no longer used force, but he now has the territory of six villages with a total population of 4936 people (excluding children under 12 years old).

...

Xie Xuelong, the governor of Jiangxi, finally repaired the Tengwang Pavilion.

He invited the gentry to come to the party, raised a sum of money while eating and drinking, and suddenly decided to go south to suppress the bandits.

This guy looked harmless to humans and animals, but suddenly bared his fangs.

Order Nanchang Guards to send 300 troops, Ruizhou Qianhu Station to send 50 troops, Fuzhou Qianhu Station to send 50 troops, Linjiang Qianhu Station to send 50 troops... all the way to the south by boat, they got more than 800 soldiers from the Guards, and recruited Five hundred Xiangyong.

They are all beggar soldiers, who were temporarily captured from the fields by the officers of David's army, and their combat power is not as good as that of Ruijin's field soldiers.

However, Xie Xuelong changed the more than 1,300 soldiers into brand-new official uniforms, and called on the peasants to make more flags. At first glance, it seemed that they could really scare the peasants.

Although you can take a boat all the way, Xie Xuelong still recruited 1,500 grain transporters.

There are less than 3,000 mobs, and they are known as an army of 30,000.

Marching to Ganzhou Prefecture, Xie Xuelong stopped immediately and sent people to Ruijin County to do propaganda.

The Ruijin peasant army turned pale with fright, and the leaders of the three major field soldiers immediately held a meeting, but their opinions diverged.

Shen Shichang was born as a child, and thought he could take the opportunity to ask for security; He Zhiyuan, who was born as a tenant, thought that he should temporarily avoid the edge and hide in the mountains to wait for the officers and soldiers to retreat by themselves; It is believed that an ambush can be set up to kill the general army.

The three of them couldn't agree on what to do, and the trouble was very unpleasant.

In fact, in the first two years, they cooperated very well. But as time passed and the external pressure temporarily disappeared, their contradictions grew day by day.

Governor Xie Xuelong, the time card is particularly good.

After deterring the peasant army by spreading the news of the 30,000-strong army, this guy sent someone to contact Shen Shichang in private, promising to recommend Shen Shichang as the canon history of Ruijin County.

Without waiting for Shen Shichang to agree, the "30,000 troops" rushed to Ruijin County, and many merchant ships were forcibly conscripted, densely packed with flags.

The Peasant Army inquired secretly, not knowing how many officers and soldiers there were.

Xie Xuelong imitated Dong Zhuo's story again, sending a thousand people into the county with banners during the day, sneaking out at night, and continuing to enter the city with great fanfare the next day.

For several days in a row, the peasant army was terrified. I really thought he had an army of 30,000.

Shen Shichang ran into the county seat in person and asked the governor to call for safety.

The next day, Xie Xuelong sent troops to attack Zhang Sheng. Before the two sides officially fought, Shen Shichang suddenly attacked Zhang Sheng's lair.

When Zhang Sheng learned that his old nest was taken away, his military morale collapsed in an instant, and he was killed to death.

Seeing that the situation was not good, He Zhiyuan hid in the mountains with his confidants.

Xie Xuelong appointed Shen Shichang as the history of Ruijin County, led the army into the mountains to pursue, and asked Shen Shichang to be the pioneer.

Shen Shichang went into the mountains for several days, was ambushed and killed by He Zhiyuan, only dozens of people escaped around him.

Xie Xuelong immediately withdrew his troops, and chopped Shen Shichang, who had just been recruited, on the grounds of fleeing.

During the ten-month period, one of the three chief field soldiers in Ruijin County was killed in battle, the other was killed, and the other hid in the mountains and did not dare to come out.

Xie Xuelong, who has been repairing Tengwang Pavilion for a year, has a reputation that frightens the entire southern Jiangxi region, and even the eunuchs will give him three points of face.

Landlords in Ruijin have a hard time, and they would rather the governor not come.

The "30,000 army" fought so bravely that even Xie Xuelong couldn't hold back, and robbed half of Ruijin into white land, and removed most of the landlord's surplus food.

Just when Mr. Xie Xuelong returned to Nanchang, news came from Luling County.

Half of Luling County, riots broke out one after another, following the example of Wuxing Town, killing landlords and dividing land!