Following the battle of Beishan Fotou Village, the pioneer army attacked in separate units, and for a time the large and small bandits fled, killed, and surrendered, and the bandits in the Zengcheng area were quickly cleared out, and the name of Cao Zongbing was known to the locals overnight.

As for the suppression of bandits, the landlords who sent people to observe the scene at that time and collected first-hand information were particularly shocked. In their memory, it has been a long time since there has been such a strong army with sufficient military spending, high morale, and the courage to fight at the grassroots level of the Ming Dynasty.

And the most troublesome thing is that such a costly army is not used to defend against foreign enemies, but to bow down and go to the countryside to do the loss-making business of suppressing bandits.

Yes, anyone can see that this bandit is a real loss-making business. As far as the income of the bandits' nest is concerned, even if the dead and the living are counted, it is not enough to spend.

Then, the chief soldier surnamed Cao sent his own private soldiers to suppress the bandits, which probably has another meaning...... Isn't it because Gu County makes the people love like a son? How old is he like this? Can you invite such a strong soldier to post upside down?

After making a rational judgment, some knowledgeable and far-sighted figures among the local gentry could not help but have some subtle feelings about the sudden appearance of the bandits.

Soon, the hunch of the smart man verified that within a month of Fotou Village, several landlords who had colluded with the bandits were uprooted.

Some of these powerful bands have always colluded with bandits, and some are simply the bandits' black backstage.

In fact, these bullies have long been notorious in the local area, but the government has always been weak and powerful, resulting in no one in this generation.

Then this time, Kangxi ...... Mr. Cao is here.

After the captured bandits confessed, these bullies were immediately blacklisted, and when the pioneer army freed up, they immediately sent troops to surround Zhuangzi and break down and arrest people.

The villains raised by the local tyrants and bullies are just as strong as the bandits, so they are naturally not the opponents of the pioneer army. As for the villagers, after seeing the banner of the government and the large number of officials on the opposite side, they have no interest in resisting: honest people naturally have account books in their hearts.

After the village was broken, all the people in it were charged with "bandits". Among them, the main characters were arrested and sent to the county jail for trial, and the family thugs were arrested and taken to Huangpu to take an immigration boat.

Since Cao Neigui has now climbed to the top of the Ming Empire, the bureaucracy in Guangdong has no restrictive power on him. In this matter, the gentry allies of the bullies and tyrants initially wanted to use the traditional network of connections and political shields, but found that they could not use all the light and dark actions Once they involved the chief soldier, they were completely ineffective.

There is a powerful force behind the "suppression of luck", and the judicial process of the Ming Dynasty is running at an unprecedented high speed this time.

The always mediocre Gu County Order, in the following days, the court was busy with trials. During this period, Master Gu changed his normal state, became fair, strict, resolute, jealous and hateful, not afraid of the powerful, and the court was also Miki and the stick flew together, the board and the fingers were shared, and the screams were endless. Several bully tyrants were interrogated like grass people to collect confessions, and they were completely incapable of resisting.

After that, the official documents at the prefectural and county levels were forwarded, and with the accumulated crimes collected, the official documents of the Autumn Queen were submitted to the Beijing Criminal Department for review.

To a certain extent, the deep-seated shock caused by the elimination of these bullies, at least in the Zengcheng area, is more than the suppression of bandits.

The local gentry suddenly found a great force in this matter. The terrible thing is that this power seems to belong to the Great Ming, but it is completely out of their control, and it can break the old man to pieces at any time, which makes some people worried.

In fact, the old man's worries are right.

For this earth-shaking social transformation launched by the traversals, the suppression of bandits can only be regarded as a warm-up. After the first stage of suppressing bandits, knocking on the mountains and shaking the tigers, cleaning up the gentry, and letting the other party know the benefits and harms, this is the proper meaning of the question.

When all potential opposition has been dealt with or intimidated, the next step is the main task of social transformation: migration.

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Throughout history, there has always been one phrase that people have seen at certain times: ten rooms and nine emptiness.

Yes, every time there is a natural disaster**, and there is a change of dynasty on the land of China, the words "ten rooms and nine emptiness" will always appear in the foreplay.

In fact, this is not a natural disaster**, this is a natural law, because the real population carrying capacity of the Central Plains is only one-tenth of that at the end of the dynasty.

Before the three-dimensional reinforced concrete city in modern times, the entire human society was flat for thousands of years. People lived in flat-story houses, and only emperors and lords lived in palaces and castles.

The carrying capacity of the land throughout ancient societies was very low. In urban areas, the population of one million is already considered a megacity. Even so, the mass killing of people at the level of plague and dysentery still occurs frequently, which objectively hinders the ancient people from expanding the scale of the city.

The same is true in rural areas. Due to the low productivity, the carrying capacity of the land in ancient times was very low. In rural areas, if a family of three has less than 10 acres of cultivated land, it is actually malnourished and belongs to poor households.

In the later period of the dynasty, the population exploded, and a tenant of five or six people often did not even have three acres of land, which was already abject poverty, and the living conditions of these people were extremely bad, and they could only be said to be alive, and they could rebel or die at any time.

Then, the contradictions brought about by the lack of resources always erupted, and society began to shuffle. Whether it is Li Zicheng, the Tartars, cannibalism, or foreign invasion...... In short, the population of the entire land will not be reduced to one-tenth of what it used to be, and the social contradictions will not be resolved.

And what about after it gets down to one tenth? Ten rooms and nine are empty, a new dynasty has been established, "people's minds have been settled", Mingjun was born, and everyone began to cycle happily again.

This is actually the essence of the change of dynasty: in ancient times, the population of the entire Central Plains Dynasty could not exceed 20 million people, once exceeded, the resources were insufficient, such as the population of more than 100 million people at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it would definitely kill each other, until the population fell below 20 million again, and the contradiction would disappear.

This kind of apocalyptic situation, when condensed into the land of Zengcheng County, is reflected in the bandits everywhere, as well as the withering of all industries, and the people are not able to make a living.

Therefore, one thing is very clear to the public: without resolving the fundamental contradictions in society, it is useless to rely on the so-called suppression of bandits, because there will constantly be abject poor landless peasants who will turn into bandits. And this kind of person can't be killed, everyone is going to starve to death, will they care about bullets?

Therefore, after the first round of shock, Ding Liqiu, the governor of the Guangzhou Special Economic Zone, made a special trip to Zengcheng County at the end of 1630 to preside over and promote a far-reaching social experiment under the Ming Dynasty: conscription.