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Xiong Fenwei, the governor of Zhejiang, did not dare to return troops toward Hangzhou because of the difficulty of walking on the mountain road and fear of being ambushed halfway.

So, this military talker led his troops to hunt down the partial division that Zhao Han had separated.

He has fifteen thousand soldiers, and if he cooperates with the Chun'an garrison, he will definitely be able to defeat the three thousand Datong army's partial divisions!

When leaving Yanzhou City, Xiong Fenwei forcibly recruited another two thousand civilians.

Less than ten miles away, the whole army was already complaining. These soldiers were actually rural warriors, recruited from Hangzhou, Huzhou, and Shaoxing. Now that Zhao Han was leading troops to kill their hometowns, how could many rural warriors not be anxious?

The two thousand Yanzhou residents, most of whom were urban vagrants, were also strongly dissatisfied with Xiong Fenwei.

The entire army does not want to go to Chun'an County!

Xiong Fenwei had no idea about this and seemed to have forgotten the word "military spirit". He felt that all the soldiers should be happy to avoid Zhao Han's army, so that they would not have to fight a tough battle.

"Fushuai, the student has diarrhea and unbearable stomachache." A close aide said.

Xiong Fenwei was still riding in a sedan during the march. He asked his slaves to get off the sedan and said: "We have marched nearly ten miles. The whole army has a drink of water and a rest. You go and come back quickly."

The confidant was a Shaoxing master. He acted like he had diarrhea and hurriedly ran to squat in the grass. Then, he grabbed the baggage and ran away. He didn't want to follow the mentally retarded governor to his death. Those generals were obviously ready to make a move.

Xiong Fenwei was sitting on a sedan chair. While he was drinking water, several generals came over.

"Fujun, I have a military report." Gan Qinwei said as he walked.

Xiong Fenwei didn't think much and just said: "If you have any military information, tell me quickly."

Gan Qinwei said: "The morale of the army is not stable, so we must find ways to stabilize it."

Xiong Fenwei asked: "Tell me, how to stabilize the morale of the army?"

"Only one thing is needed to stabilize the military's morale." Gan Qinwei walked closer and closer.

"What is it?" Xiong Fenwei still didn't realize the danger.

"Fujun's head!"

Gan Qinwei suddenly drew his sword, and several other generals also drew their swords and struck.

The dignified governor of Zhejiang was hacked to death without even having time to scream.

All the soldiers were eager to return to their hometown as quickly as possible. Take a look at what's going on at home, maybe Zhao Tianwang is already dividing the fields.

The main force of Zhejiang officers and soldiers killed the governor and surrendered.

As for those generals, because they took the initiative and restrained the army, they did not plunder on their way back home. Therefore, everyone can avoid death. After dividing the fields, half of the family property will be confiscated, and they can be released after mining for half a year.

When Zhao Han received the news, he couldn't laugh or cry again.

Xiong Fenwei, the governor of Zhejiang, is the funniest local official he has ever seen since he started the army.

To be able to kill Zhejiang so quickly, Governor Xiong Fenwei should be considered the first contributor!

Zhao Han, who was based in Hangzhou, did not set out immediately, but sent three troops.

Five hundred regular soldiers captured Shaoxing Prefecture, then unified the local rebel army to capture the entire Shaoxing Prefecture.

A thousand peasant soldiers took Yuhang and Lin'an.

One thousand regular soldiers and one thousand peasant soldiers served as pioneers to attack Chongde.

There are only a thousand pro-army troops and a thousand civilians left around Zhao Han, and the Eastern Expedition troops have been divided into countless groups.

This method of scattered troops simply does not treat Zhejiang officers and soldiers as human beings.

Take Shaoxing for example. Five hundred soldiers killed them, which already frightened the defenders in the city. Kong Zhenyun came forward to persuade him to surrender again, and the prefect and county magistrate immediately gave up resistance. The descendants of Confucius have all surrendered, and we will not be miserable if we follow suit.

"I heard that Mr. punishes powerful people and is well supported by the people," Zhao Han asked, "are there any other powerful bullies in Hangzhou Prefecture who need to be severely punished?"

Shi Wancheng said: "There are many powerful people in Hangzhou Prefecture, but the one who caused the public resentment is undoubtedly the Wu family in Haining. I only killed Wu Zhongyan, but his brother and son are still doing evil."

"Who is the backer behind him?" Zhao Han asked.

Shi Wancheng replied: "The backer of the Wu family in Haining is the Cai family in Deqing. The backer of the Cai family in Deqing was formerly Wen Tiren, the first assistant, and now is Xue Guoguan, the first assistant. Cai Yichen, the current official position of the Cai family in Deqing, is Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Ming Dynasty."

Zhao Han smiled and said: "Sure enough, the backer is tough."

"The reason why Wu Zhongyan's case was so big was because it actually involved the dispute between Wen Tiren and Fushe," Shi Wancheng sighed. "I resisted the pressure of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and forcibly executed Wu Zhongyan, just in time for Wen Tiren to be dismissed from office. Otherwise, , I will be retaliated by the Wen Party, and I will no longer be an official. However, because of this matter, I was regarded by the emperor as a Donglin Party."

Zhao Han was a little speechless. Attacking local powerful people could actually lead to party strife in the court.

Zhao Han has already investigated and found that Shi Wancheng was indeed clean and capable. He even refused to accept the regular money from the prefect and handed over all the money to the central court.

There are many kinds of common silver. The most common one is when taxes are collected and thousands of taels are accidentally collected. Now that they have all been collected, it is too embarrassing to go back. Officials at all levels will share some, and the rest will be given to the chief officer as a filial piety.

This kind of official has contributed to the city, so Zhao Han believes that he can be promoted.

Zhao Han smiled and asked: "Sir, do you want to severely punish the powerful people in Hangzhou?"

"I have suffered a lot from their cowardice, so naturally I want to clean it up!" Shi Wancheng made no secret of it.

"Well," Zhao Han said, "since you are familiar with Hangzhou, sir, you can stay here and serve as magistrate of Hangzhou Prefecture for a few years. I will leave it to you to punish powerful people. You must govern the powerful people obediently." .”

Shi Wancheng stood up quickly: "I will live up to my trust!"

Zhao Han said with a smile: "Don't be soft-hearted. If you need to confiscate your house, just do it. There are many mines in my territory. Don't take into account ethics. Women whose homes are confiscated are forced to remarry. In Jiangxi, Jiangnan, Guangdong and other provinces, in the past hundred years, It was common practice to drown female infants, and wealthy people often kept concubines, so many common men were unable to marry women."

Shi Wancheng hesitated to speak. He felt that it was inappropriate to force the woman to remarry. But if you think about the policies of the Ming Dynasty, it doesn't matter, because if it were in the Ming Dynasty, these women would have to work as prostitutes in the Jiaofang Division.

One is a prostitute and the other is just remarrying, which is naturally much more humane.

Moreover, the phenomenon of infanticide is indeed serious in Zhejiang, and singles can be seen everywhere.

South Zhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi are the three places where infant drowning is the most serious, with the largest number of female infants being drowned in particular!

Over the past hundred years, many officials have tried to reverse the trend and made many efforts.

Zhao Han did not deliberately change the trend and tried his best to make the people's lives better and rural women to be able to share the land. In a few years, the phenomenon of infant drowning will automatically disappear. As long as life is getting better, which parent is willing to drown their children?

Especially in Jiangxi, there has been a baby boom.

In the past three or four years, a large number of newborns have been born. It is estimated that Jiangxi's population will explode in ten years, and large-scale immigration will be necessary. Otherwise, the contradiction between man and land will intensify, which will inevitably cause many social problems.

Zhao Han stood up and walked to the window, looked at the red phoebe tree in the yard, and said to himself: "It has deep roots and lush leaves. It needs to be pruned, otherwise it will block too much sunlight."

Suddenly, Zhao Han turned around and asked: "If the number of people with the same surname exceeds 30% in a certain village, they will be forcibly exchanged with neighboring villages. Is that possible?"

"This... this is going to cause a lot of trouble." Shi Wancheng said in shock.

"Farmers and tenants are willing to relocate while the land is being divided. Anyway, they are just moving to the next village," Zhao Han said with a smile. "If we don't do things while the land is being divided, it will be even harder to do it in the future."

The clan power in Jiangnan was even more terrifying than that in Jiangxi. Zhao Han could not rest assured even if the land was divided, people with the same surname had to be mixed up.

In the early Ming Dynasty, as much as the Jiangnan landowners hated Zhu Yuanzhang, they would hate Zhao Han a hundred times in the future.

Even Song Lian, the first civil servant who founded the Ming Dynasty, secretly recalled the Yuan Dynasty in his articles. After this person retired from old age and returned to his hometown, he repeatedly used the Yuan Dynasty era name in his articles, replacing the first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty with the twenty-eighth year of the Great Yuan Dynasty.

Among them, "Kong Gong's Divine Monument" is the most egregious: "In the 28th year of the Zhizheng Period, the Emperor (Zhu Yuanzhang) issued an edict to Duke Qu to come to the throne..."

What does it mean?

After the reign name of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang is written immediately. Is Zhu Yuanzhang a minister of the Yuan Dynasty or the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty?

This is an article written by the first civil servant who founded the Ming Dynasty after his retirement!

Song Lian was a highly respected minister, so why did he still think about the good things of the Yuan Dynasty after he retired?

Because the Yuan Dynasty burned, killed, looted, and forcibly annexed land north of the Yangtze River, it triggered many uprisings. Therefore, when attacking Jiangnan, they adopted a moderate strategy and gave various preferential treatment to Jiangnan landlords. The taxes were even much lighter than those in the Song Dynasty, and the illegal privileges of Jiangnan landlords were officially protected.

The landowners in Jiangnan during the Yuan Dynasty lived in paradise.

Zhu Yuanzhang canceled their privileges and raised the land tax. Who do you think the Jiangnan landlords will turn to?

Zhao Han suddenly understood why Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to debase a large number of Jiangnan landowners after occupying Jiangnan. Why was it that a large amount of land in Jiangnan was confiscated and a deformed official land system was implemented, which ultimately led to the reforms in the mid-Ming Dynasty?

Huang Zongxi returned to his hometown and persuaded his people to surrender and cooperate in dividing their fields. Zhao Han then called Wu Yingji alone.

In the entire Fushe, Wu Yingji was the third leader, and his influence was only lower than that of Zhang Pu and Zhang Cai.

"It's feasible to move people with the same surname to different places," Wu Yingji nodded and said, "It will definitely cause a lot of trouble, but it can save a lot of trouble in the future."

Zhao Han said: "The scholars who participated in the service need to be comforted by your husband."

Wu Yingji cupped his hands and said, "I am willing to serve the general town!"

After Wu Yingji left, Zhao Han summoned his military officers and demanded greater efforts to crack down on the powerful gentry.

How to increase efforts?

Copy a few more!

There is no mistake in copying it. Those powerful gentry can always find all kinds of crimes.

As long as the knife is sharp and the attack on the powerful is intensified, not only will it not force the landlords to rebel, but it will make the landlords in the unoccupied areas more enthusiastic about defecting to them.

Because Zhao Han fought all the way and took the initiative to seek refuge with the scholars who had made meritorious deeds along the way, Zhao Han would give preferential treatment - just dividing the fields, not confiscating their homes, and directly turning them into officials.

With these people as examples and a group of people severely punished, other landowners should know how to choose.

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