By the time the news of Li Zicheng's defeat reached Huai'an Mansion, it was already more than ten days later.

At this time, Feng Yuan was personally sitting in Shanyang Mansion City.

He asked Tan Youdao and Liu Fang to recruit a lot of scholars who were born in poor families and could write and calculate. He also recruited all the officials of the city and began to clear the land of Huai'an according to the yellow book of fish scales.

Huai'an Mansion and Yangzhou Mansion are also known as Huaiyang, which is the essence of Jiangbei.

The more prosperous the place, the stronger the power of the gentry and the greater the power of the gentry, and correspondingly, the more serious the land annexation.

Feng Yuan Qingzhang land did not want to seize the fields of these gentry and big families by force, but to find out their hidden fields and start to implement the tax collection strategy of apportioning the land into the mu.

As early as the time of Pizhou, Feng Yuan cleaned up the military tun, although he offended some scholars and gentry, but after all, there were only a small number of people who encroached on the land of the military tun.

Even if these people are dissatisfied with Feng Yuan, they can't make any waves.

And now, Feng Yuan wants to implement the apportionment into the mu, which offends all the landlords, scholars and officials in Huai'an Mansion. even offended the entire Jiangnan people.

As soon as the news spread, Huai'an Mansion was in an uproar, and the situation was a little unstable, and even those big businessmen and big landlords in Yangzhou Mansion and Jinling were also excited, and they hated Feng Yuan so much.

Many people wrote books one after another, as well as those officials who drove their servants to do business and buy land, and began to give a continuous lecture to Emperor Chongzhen, who had just come to Jinling, impeaching King Zhou for changing the family law of his ancestors without permission, which was a great rebellion.

For a time, up to the court in Jinling and down to the landlords, they all criticized Feng Yuankou. I can't wait to promote him as a traitor who does no evil, is absurd and shameless.

There are people from the Golden Dragon Gang who report the news, and Feng Yuan knows the situation of those people very well.

But all those who played impeachment and advocated violating the ancestral family law and asked the emperor to order the punishment of themselves were all from big families in Jiangnan.

However, Emperor Chongzhen, after the lesson that the capital was breached and his own country was almost martyred, expressed deep doubts about the discipline of these scholars and civil officials.

No matter how domineering the King of Zhou is, he has some loyalty to the Ming Dynasty and the imperial court, and he has not traveled thousands of miles to bring people to the capital to escort King Qin.

And these righteous and awe-inspiring moral gentlemen only care about fighting for power and profit, accumulating family wealth, and have no contribution to the imperial court.

In view of this, Emperor Chongzhen directly left all the impeachment recitals of these people unpublished, as if he had never received these recitals.

Anyway, before coming to Jinling, he had reached some tacit understanding with Feng Yuan.

Huai'an Mansion and Yangzhou Mansion are the rewards for the protection of King Feng Yuanqin.

As long as Feng Yuan guards the north of the river and does not extend his tentacles to the south of the Yangtze River. No matter how big a disturbance he made in Huai'an, Chongzhen just didn't see it.

The emperor didn't speak, and those ministers and the landlords in Jiangnan didn't have much to do for a while.

At the same time that Feng Yuan was in the hidden fields of Qingzhang Land, he was still constantly recruiting troops and horses, and the young and strong people who were displaced between the two Huai were all incorporated into the army, and there were also local good families, and a small part was also recruited.

When these people became soldiers, each of them was given a settling-in allowance of two taels of silver, and when the news came out, when the soldiers were recruited, the applicants gathered.

Soon, the Huaibei Army, which originally had only more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, had a strength of 60,000, and the number was still climbing upwards until the recruitment of 100,000 soldiers and horses was over.

These newly recruited soldiers did not have much combat effectiveness before they practiced. But the original more than 10,000 soldiers and horses under Feng Yuan's command were enough to sweep Jiangbei.

In troubled times, having soldiers in hand is the last word.

Those scholars and landlords in Jiangnan only deeply understood this point after they found that they had no way to take Fengyuan.

There were still some Huaibei people and scholars who did not understand the situation, and after discovering that the impeachment in the book was useless, they began to gather together according to the previous method, and hired some helpers with silver to prepare to storm the government.

This approach has not been advantageous before.

The Ming Dynasty was based on the gentry, and the attack of the scholars on the government was a major event in the eyes of the imperial court.

When the Emperor of the Apocalypse was in power, the eunuchs and Jinyi guards who were sent to Jiangnan to collect mining taxes were all beaten to death by the scholars in Jiangnan.

The eunuchs and brocade guards represent the imperial power. In this case, it is simply Chi Guoguo's violation of the emperor's majesty.

If Emperor Hongwu and Emperor Yongle were in power, this matter would not be over if tens of thousands of people died. Even if the heads of the people killed in Jiangnan are rolling and the blood is flowing like a river, they will not frown.

It's just that Emperor Wanli has not been in court for decades, and most of the rights of the court have been seized by civil officials. In the end, this matter was fooled by those civil officials.

These scholars repeated their old tricks, preparing to use the impact on the government to make Feng Yuan ruthlessly plant a big heel.

As a result, when they rushed to the front of the government, they were greeted by a thousand elite soldiers......

When these scholars and helpers were beaten by a thousand elite soldiers with wooden sticks, and all of them were thrown into prison, Huai'an Mansion suddenly became much more stable.

Feng Yuan also sent people to arrest all the squires who were clamoring behind their backs. According to the previous charge of gathering a crowd to attack the government and attempting to rebel, the land was confiscated and the family property was returned to the public.

As for the poor soldiers who were used, they were imprisoned for a period of time, and they were released after teaching them a lesson.

Feng Yuan firmly remembered the words of a great man in his previous life, to find out who is the enemy and who is the friend!

According to his tax-collecting strategy, the large landowners with vast fields were doomed to be enemies. You must not be merciful to your enemies. As for those poor scholars, they belong to the objects that can be wooed.

After the middle and lower class scholars and small landlords were brought over, those big landlords and wealthy gentry had no foundation, and they could be solved with an order.

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"Your Highness, my subordinates have received news that Liu Zeqing, the chief soldier of Shandong, led his troops and horses to the south, and is now stationed in Pei County...... This is a military report sent by Jiang Qianhu!"

In the city of Shanyang Mansion, Zhao Heng found Feng Yuan with a military report.

Now there is Jiang Yingjie in Xuzhou, and the government affairs of Huai'an Mansion are shared by Tan Youdao, Liu Fang and others.

Except for some major things that must be decided by himself, Feng Yuan divides most of the trivial matters. In the government office, the internal organs continue to be tempered.

When he went north to the capital, he was able to temper his lungs. However, the lungs are far from reaching the limit of tempering.

Only by accumulating every day, until the level of "breath like a dragon" can it be considered complete. He is not far from this level.

"Liu Zeqing?"

Feng Yuan took the military report, swept his gaze, and a sneer appeared on his face.

Now, the Manchu army has entered the capital, and then the army is divided into three routes, the West Route Army pursues Li Zicheng, the Middle Route Army goes south to the Central Plains, and the goal of the East Route Army is Shandong.

Liu Zeqing, the long-distance running general, saw that the Manchu army was about to attack, and made an old mistake, so he was ready to take the lead in a "strategic retreat" without waiting for the enemy to arrive!

Historically, when the capital was breached, Liu Zeqing was worried about the Shun army attacking, but he ran to Huai'an in one go. However, Huai'an was occupied by Fengyuan, causing Liu Zeqing to stay in Shandong.

Now that the Tartars are more fierce and ruthless than the Shun army, Liu Zeqing can't care about anything else, and goes south directly!