Whether it was a health soldier as a female soldier, or Zhang Mingwei, who was a prince of the imperial court, entering a military camp with a plague, these things were definitely very shocking things for that era.

Therefore, even Li Zicheng's nephew Li Guo was very shocked after hearing what Li Laiheng said.

Seriously, if it weren't for Li Laiheng who he watched grow up and knew Li Laiheng very well, he would have blurted out that it was a lie.

When Li Laiheng finished speaking, he stared at Li Guo's eyes and asked very sincerely, "Father-in-law, what are we fighting for?" The previous court is no longer the current court. Do you know, when I heard the hundreds of thousands of court officials and soldiers shouting in unison, fighting for the peace of the world, I ...... I really feel like I'm feeling self-conscious. It's us who are causing chaos in the world! If we don't rebel, will there be chaos in the world? This village, you see, will it still be ruined? ”

Li Guo opened his mouth when he heard this, obviously wanting to speak, but he didn't say anything.

"Father-in-law, are we fighting for the general's ambitions, just because he wants to be the emperor and cause chaos in the world? So many people are going to die......"

This time, before Li Laiheng finished speaking, he was interrupted by Li Guo: "Don't talk nonsense, the emperor is mediocre and incompetent, the traitors in the court and the central government are in charge, and the people are regarded as pigs and dogs, and the general has risen up and is bound to overthrow ......"

"Father-in-law, are you still talking about this?" Li Laiheng seemed to be a little angry, interrupted Li Guo's words, and said loudly, "You are deceiving yourself!" ”

"Slap", I saw Li Guo slap Li Laiheng. Then, both of them were a little stunned and looked at each other in surprise.

For a moment, neither of them spoke. The surrounding guards all looked at the two of them in shock, and neither of them spoke.

Suddenly, Li Laiheng turned his head and left.

"Where are you going?" Li Guo looked at his back and asked loudly.

Li Laiheng ignored him and still strode away.

When Li Guo saw it, he immediately shouted: "You stop me!" ”

This time, Li Laiheng stood still, but he didn't turn around, just turned his back to Li Guo: "Father-in-law, it turns out that your previous words were all lied to me!" ”

When Li Guo heard this, he suddenly sighed, approached Li Laiheng, came to him, and then said to him: "Can you guarantee that the imperial court will really get better all the time, and not because the imperial court has nothing to do, so it came to coax you?" ”

Li Laiheng was stunned for a moment and did not answer at the first time.

"It's because of our existence that the imperial court will become better?" When Li Guo saw it, he said to him again.

Hearing this, Li Laiheng came back to his senses, and immediately shook his head and said: "I don't care so much, I just want to know, what can I do now, what should I do, and what is worth doing?" ”

Speaking of which, Li Laiheng's previous beliefs have been shaken, and now he is a little confused.

Regarding his words, Li Guo opened his mouth, and said after a long while: "Let's take another look, and wait until you really see it clearly, okay?" ”

Seeing his sincere face, Li Laiheng finally nodded and replied, "Hmm! ”

That was the answer, and then he turned around and walked back into the house.

However, Li Guo did not follow, but stood there and thought for a while, and when he saw Li Laiheng turn around and look at him with a little doubt, Li Guo finally said to him: "You look here, I'll take a look, don't be fooled!" ”

It seems that he still wants to prove from another angle that the imperial court is still the imperial court.

When Li Laiheng heard this, he naturally understood what he meant, and immediately nodded, but did not speak. He knew in his heart that what he saw would not be a lie.

………………

Zhang Mingwei on the other side of Kaifeng City, of course, didn't know that the thieves had changed, and at this time, he was angry about the case: "Look at it, how many local squires have attached their fields to the name of King Zhou to avoid paying taxes, but now they still have the face to intercede?" ”

No one thought that the imperial court would take back King Zhou's field, which had never happened before. Then Zhang Mingwei froze all the land account books of the government office for the first time, so no one had time to do anything.

In this way, those fields under the name of King Zhou really became the fields of King Zhou, which suddenly made the local squires lose blood.

This amount is indeed shocking. Not only Zhang Mingwei was angry, but even Princess Kunxing on the side was also full of anger.

Not only that, but I saw that Zhang Mingwei was also patting another file on the case, and shouted angrily: "There are so many hidden households, sheltered in the name of the local squire, to evade the taxes of the imperial court!" ”

Together with the fields under the name of King Zhou, it was found that there were many tenants, all of whom were hidden households and did not appear in the court files.

"Guogong Mingjian, these are all things from the past, and the lower officials really don't know!" The prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture and other magistrates all knelt there and replied with a sad face.

They may not be unaware of these things, but none of them wants to offend the local squire. Anyway, this matter is actually commonplace in the Ming Dynasty, and it does not harm their interests, so they naturally turn a blind eye.

Now that something has happened, the local squires have all entrusted them to intercede, and they have given them a lot of greeting gifts. Then they didn't expect Xingguo Gong to be furious about this, obviously wanting to completely uncover this unspoken rule.

With the power of Xingguo Gong now, he has just won a big battle, and he is still very famous, and it is definitely useless to threaten, only begging for mercy and shirking responsibility.

They were right, Zhang Mingwei actually knew that there was such a situation in the local area for a long time, so he asked Wang Erbiao to detain those files as soon as possible, and began to rectify the prelude to the local rectification in the matter of King Zhou's separation.

At this time, he had troops in his hands anyway, so after reprimanding the local officials, he asked them to make meritorious contributions and assist him in dealing with the next things.

When Li Guo came to listen to the news in disguise, he saw groups of officials and soldiers of the imperial court dispatching, arresting local squires and measuring the land.

After inquiring, he was speechless for a long time after knowing the reason.

On the surface, the chaos in the world was caused by thieves rebelling everywhere, but at the root, it was actually a serious result of land annexation.

Specifically, those who should pay taxes do not pay, and those who can't pay taxes pay more, and in the end, the imperial court can't collect taxes at all, and the peasants who keep to themselves are forced to flee.

If the question of why he fought shocked Li Laiheng, then now that the imperial court is liquidating those local squires, it also shocked Li Guo.

The imperial court has really made up its mind to change the Ming Dynasty from the root!

Subsequently, he also saw what Li Laiheng said.

In the past few days, there have been significantly fewer people in quarantine. Li Guo saw with his own eyes that the large battalion he was originally in was getting smaller, and a group of people drove out to accept the reorganization of the imperial court officials and soldiers. In the middle of this, from time to time, you can see female soldiers, that is, sanitary soldiers with circles on their arms, coming in and out.

He tried to inquire, and said that the person who had entered the barracks at the beginning could be a pretending to be a national prince? As a result, it was thanks to seeing that he was strong and the people around him were in good shape, so he was not beaten. It's just that kind of contemptuous look that he can't forget for a long time.

In addition, the main force of the imperial court officers and troops was still stationed outside Kaifeng City, but they were all training, and they did not go south to pursue the general.

Li Guo can see that there are grain shipments from all over the country to Kaifeng. The fields of the king of Zhou, of course, including those of the local squires, were all transformed into military tuns, which were planted by the people who were originally organized from the rebel army.

I heard that some people have set up some kind of engineering corps, which seems to be the kind of soldiers who specialize in building water conservancy and paving roads and bridges. Many people are saying that this is the imperial court's pre-school Song Dynasty's box soldier system, which was fabricated in the register and placed thieves.

"What about the original tenants? How do they arrange it? Li Guo still didn't understand, so he asked others.

These things were not secrets, and some warm-hearted people replied to him: "Those hermits have all been incorporated into the army, and they have become cantonment soldiers like thieves." Those who have no military pay are only responsible for food. As for the other tenants, they still have land to plant, and it does not affect it. ”

As soon as he heard this, Li Guo was a little puzzled: "Impossible, so many tenants, can they still have fields?" ”

"How many tenants can there be in this year?" The person in the know said with emotion, "Either you were killed by the thieves, or you joined the thieves." Only those who took refuge in the local squires would escape the catastrophe and continue to work for the local squires. ”

Speaking of this, many people sighed: "In these years, every year there are wars, ten rooms and nine empty, how many tenants can there be to keep to themselves?" ”

"Actually, don't talk about farming, you can take a look, don't talk about other places, just our Central Plains, in addition to some big cities, can you still see villages living and working in peace and contentment, Zhuangzi?"

"Yes, the thieves who killed a thousand knives, as well as the former court officials and soldiers...... But now it's all right, with the rejuvenation of the country, the thieves are destroyed, and the world will be peaceful by then! ”

“……”

When Li Guo heard this, he said a little unconvinced: "What about the officials and soldiers of the imperial court, aren't they also corrupt in military discipline, you have seen that many villages are actually their scourge, right?" ”

Hearing this, everyone else laughed. An old man said to Li Guo with a smile: "Xingguo Gong has made up a tune, called the three disciplines and eight points of attention, so that every court official and soldier is singing, whoever dares to violate military discipline will be severely punished." ”

"That's right, the officers and soldiers of the court under the Duke of Xingguo, even those who were born as thieves, are now kind!"

“……”

Li Guo listened to what they said and was silent for a while.