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Zhang Tieniu took the lead, and two thousand vanguard troops surrounded Longyou County.

When Zhao Han arrived with his army, Zhang Tieniu moved forward again, heading towards Jinhua to join the rebel army led by Xu Du.

Zhang Tieniu's two thousand elite troops, plus the local rebel army, were enough to take over the entire central Zhejiang region.

Zhao Han collected large and small ships along the way and led the main army down the Dongyang River (Lanjiang River). He wanted to fight all the way to Hangzhou along the river.

As for the Longyou landowner who was killing the rebels like crazy, did Zhao Han need to deal with it himself?

Longyou County.

The landowners were uneasy. They did not dare to surrender because too many people had been killed. But it seems that if you don't surrender and you have no choice, can you still resist the army with a ragtag group of people?

Just as they were discussing how to surrender, Zhao Han collected all the ships outside the city and left in a swaggering boat, heading towards Yanzhou Mansion further downstream.

gone?

King Zhao’s army is leaving now?

Why don't you stay and attack us?

Of course, the army remained, with a thousand peasant soldiers, as well as a large number of officials, missionaries and peasant association backbones.

In the entire Quzhou Prefecture, Longyou County has the most flat and fertile land, and Longyou County also has the most large landowners. Naturally, they must seize the time to divide the land.

"Just leave a thousand soldiers to attack the city. He won't kill them all, right?"

"There are only a thousand soldiers outside the city, why not kill them!"

"Idiot, those are Jiangxi soldiers. One thousand can defeat ten thousand. Can you beat them?"

"Damn it, who said King Zhao Tian wouldn't attack Zhejiang? I believed him!"

"What are you doing outside the city?"

"The land is being measured to divide our fields!"

"..."

A thousand soldiers stood guard by the river and began to clear the land in front of the landowners who were guarding the city.

Immediately afterwards, they sent people in small boats to shout outside the city: "The division of the fields has begun, the division of the fields has begun." The garrison in the city listened, and the fields can be divided as soon as they leave the city. If any family has a field and does not come out, it will be divided. Give it to someone else!"

After shouting for about ten minutes, Jonuchi Goyong began to lose control.

Countless people dropped their weapons one after another, left the city wall they were guarding, and ran towards various city gates.

In just one stick of incense, the city wall became empty, and all the city gates in the north were wide open.

"Long live King Zhao!"

"There is a field over there that belongs to my family. Don't give it out randomly!"

"Master Jun, go to our village to allocate the fields first. It's very close to the county seat."

"..."

An officer came ashore with a smile and shouted: "Don't make any noise, everyone can be divided into fields. Even if the fields in Longyou County are not enough, we can send you to other places to divide the fields, and you will be given seeds when you arrive in the new place. Now listen Mine, I want to choose two thousand young men!"

Seeing the Datong officers selecting young men outside the city, all the landowners and gentry in the city were dumbfounded.

The war hasn't started yet, but all the country warriors they recruited have fled.

The gentry and merchants who participated in the suppression of the rebel army were so frightened that they ran away. Some people are hiding in the city, and some people are returning to the countryside. They think about it, but they want to pack up their belongings and run away.

Some of them have business overseas and can hide in Nanyang to survive.

"Catch people with me!"

A thousand peasants and soldiers were quickly dispersed into groups of ten, each with twenty local young men, and began to go to various places to arrest the leaders who suppressed the rebels.

This time there will be no forgiveness because too many rebels were killed. Thirty-two rebel soldiers alone were killed, and several of them were killed after being caught.

Search all homes!

As for Quzhou Prefecture, the deceased was compensated one thousand taels of silver. That was not a pension, but life money from the reactionary landlord. Four were killed and seventeen were injured, and a total compensation of 9,100 taels of silver was given, just to give an explanation to the local rebels.

The rebel army is not the Datong Army, and the two sides are allies.

Those who were killed or injured in the rebel army had no military merit to speak of, and their children did not enjoy preferential treatment policies. After the war, they had to be disbanded on the spot.

This money was paid directly by the landlords to the dead and injured, and had nothing to do with the Datong Army itself, let alone unclear rewards and punishments.

…

Lanxi County.

Li Yu was inspecting the city wall when he suddenly heard his servant shouting: "Here comes King Zhao, King Zhao is here!"

Hearing the shout, Li Yu quickly lay down on the female wall and looked out. Sure enough, we saw a large fleet with many Datong military flags flying towards the county seat.

Li Yu clapped his hands and praised: "Sure enough, the army is so majestic, Mr. Zhao will definitely conquer the world!"

Tang Yuqi, the leader of the Lanxi rebel army, led his scholars and merchants out of the city and stood at the dock waiting to greet Zhao Han.

The fleet gradually came and finally docked on the shore.

"Meet Zhao Zongzhen (Zhao Tianwang)!"

Li Yu knelt on the ground, extremely excited and couldn't wait to see his idol.

He comes from a family of doctors and has a very low status. Even if he is admitted as a scholar and is proficient in the Five Classics, and is praised as a "Five Classics boy", he still cannot get the respect of the upper class scholars.

His family is indeed engaged in business, but it is his uncle's property, and the business is not big, so his economic situation cannot be compared with that of big merchants.

Just like this, Li Yu was extremely conceited. How would he feel if he was despised by the upper-class scholars?

What Li Yu dislikes the most is Mao Bijiang. The two were born in the same city in the same year, and they are both scholars and have many friends in common. Li Yu took the initiative to make friends. When Mao Bijiang learned that he was from a medical family, he didn't even look at him seriously, which made Li Yu so angry that he never talked to this person again.

Li Yu admired "The Theory of Gesture" very much, and also liked all Jiangxi's policies.

A scholar who is called a weird Confucian along with Li Zhi and Chen Jiru, do you expect him to follow the rules? If Zhao Han acted more aggressively, Li Yu would applaud him.

"I'm coming!"

A pair of personal guards disembarked first, and then Zhao Han and the army secretary appeared.

Zhao Han took a few steps forward, helped Tang Yuqi up, and said to the others: "Everyone, please get up quickly. Unless it is an important occasion, you cannot kneel down. Those who kneel should not be human beings, but the parents of heaven and earth."

Tang Yuqi first introduced himself, and then introduced the scholars and merchants, all of whom contributed to the uprising.

Li Yu was ranked twelfth to be introduced. Tang Yuqi said: "Headquarters, this is the famous Five Classics boy in our county. He is proficient in the Five Classics at a young age. Li Xianlu, nicknamed Banfan, and named Heavenly Disciple."

"I've seen the main town!" Li Yu quickly handed over.

"Haha, what a good name, I'll remember it as soon as I hear it." Zhao Han returned the greeting with a smile.

Having a famous name is really different. Tang Yuqi introduced more than ten people one after another, and Li Yu left the deepest impression on Zhao Han.

Is your father a cultivator? To give you such a name.

After the introduction, Tang Yuqi invited Zhao Han to enter the city.

Zhao Han waved his hand and said: "No need, the army should march quickly. The army will rest here for half a day and will continue on its way tomorrow morning. Mr. Tang, the first priority is to take over the city, and then determine the household register and divide the fields. Brothers insurrection, can you help to clear the list and divide the fields? Tian, ​​these things require your support.”

Tang Yuqi said: "Don't worry, headquarter, we will definitely get things done!"

Li Yu suddenly said: "General Town, can I go out with the army?"

"Okay, your name is auspicious." Zhao Han said with a smile.

Smiling and laughing, Zhao Han suddenly realized that this was the author of "Rou X Group". The teacher spent two classes talking about it in class!

Of course, we are definitely not talking about "Meat X Group".

Li Yu was first a playwright and then a novelist. He could live a prosperous life relying on royalties.

He hit it off with Pu Songling, who was a friend of Grandpa Cao Xueqin. Among Li Yu's friends, there are more than 800 written records. From the prime minister to the traffickers, they spread over more than 200 states and counties across the country.

This is a platinum-prolific best-selling author with friends all over the world in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

In fact, he is a doctor and a scholar.

After the Manchus entered the customs, they refused to serve as officials. He built bridges, paved roads and engaged in water conservancy projects in his hometown. The weirs and dams he built were still used for irrigation hundreds of years later. It was only because he encountered powerful obstacles during the construction of the canal and lost the lawsuit that he became disheartened, so he turned to writing novels.

The army stayed in Lanxi County for half a day and continued on its way early the next morning. The newly dispatched three thousand forwards were already approaching Yanzhou Mansion.

After entering the mountainous area, Zhao Han frowned at the scenery on both sides of the river.

Eighty percent of the farmhouses scattered on the hillside are dilapidated, and the eaves are overgrown with weeds and no one has cleaned them.

Zhao Han called Li Yu over: "Even if it's dry land on a hillside but adjacent to a river, it shouldn't be like this. I see that at least half of these farmhouses are unkempt. Are all the people in the family dead?"

Li Yu replied: "After years of severe drought and heavy tax from the imperial court, it is difficult to survive. This is not the case here, it is like this all over Zhejiang. Elsewhere, the whole family dies, and the neighbors occupy their houses. But here is a remote village. After the farmhouse was abandoned, not many people cared about it.”

"Just tell me how many people died in the last drought in the village where your home is located?" Zhao Han asked.

Li Yu said: "Not many people died in the year of the drought, but in the second year of the drought there was widespread famine. Just because of the government's pressure and the landlords' exploitation, the people's only food rations were also taken away. They either fled to Hangzhou, Shaoxing, or fled to Jiangxi. Along the way Countless people died of starvation. One person fell and there was no body the next day. In the village where Wan Sheng was located, I only know that there were three people who had eaten human flesh."

"Alas." Zhao Han sighed.

Li Yu continued: "It's a good thing this year, there is no drought in Zhejiang. But the government taxes have become heavier, and many poor scholars can no longer take the blame at home. Therefore, Xu Zikou (Xu Du), the leader of the charity society, stood up and cheered, Zhejiang Three Scholars from more than ten counties in the government responded to the call."

In this uprising in central Zhejiang, many of them were scholars who did not have enough to eat.

Yishe is a branch of Fushe. Its purpose is to drive out traitors and traitors in the court and select talents to revitalize the Ming Dynasty.

As a result, this group of scholars was forced to rebel collectively.

Zhao Han blames himself a little. Maybe he should have come last year. If he conquered Zhejiang earlier, many people would have been saved from starving to death.

The farmhouses on the shore were empty, and Zhao Han felt empty in his heart.

A dilapidated farmhouse means the death of the whole family. Zhao Han hates this happening.

Halfway through the journey, a small boat came, but it was the leading troops returning with information.

Zhao Han opened the letter and saw that it was a large army recruited by the governor of Zhejiang. It was already garrisoned in the capital of Yanzhou, blocking the main road and preventing the Datong army from going straight to Hangzhou.

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