In Chaozhou, and the manuscripts that have been sent from Guangdong over the years, Tao Qian believes that he has seen truly great things, and he does not really pay attention to the old concept of being like his father-in-law.

There was nothing to say all night, and early the next morning, Tao Qian left his father-in-law's house. He and his friends met up at an inn in the city, where they met every time they entered the city. By the time he arrived, the group had almost arrived, leaving only the last two to arrive before lunch.

After discussing the rhetoric, everyone handed over the post to the county office. Their mutual aid associations are very helpful to the operation of the government at the grassroots level, and these gentry are all famous, so the magistrate naturally did not dare to ignore them, and quickly invited them in.

The issues that Tao Qian and others wanted to discuss with the magistrate of the county were nothing more than taxes, forced labor, and the requisition of the people, and Huang Ting, the premise of the Ming army in Fujian, always maintained military pressure on the capital of Tingzhou, which made the Qing army have to continue to maintain a military presence in the capital of Tingzhou. And the long-term stationing of the army requires a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, which is no longer something that such a seven-rank official as Ruijin Zhixian can have the final say.

Tao Qian and others had already thought of countermeasures, and at the same time, in Jishui County, Ji'an Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, there was also a group of gentry who came to visit the local magistrate in the second hall of the county government. The things discussed were actually not much different from what Tao Qian and the others talked about when they went to Ruijin County, but there was a huge difference in severity.

"The county respects the boss, the traitor Liu Jing is stubborn, and then the green camp has been suppressed again and again, and he has returned again and again in vain. They just run for nothing, but every time they pass through the countryside, they have to spoil the good people, plunder the livestock, trample on the seedlings, and even kill the good and the good, which is really unreasonable! ”

Jishui County is located in the north of Ji'an Prefecture, downstream of the Gan River, and was not originally the main activity area of Liu Jing's anti-Qing rebel army in the Luoxiao Mountains in the western part of Ji'an Prefecture. However, since a few years ago, as the Qing army relaunched its attack on Liu Jing's troops, the gang was like a loach, slippery, and its scope of activity was no longer limited to the western part of Ji'an Province, but was wandering around in the mountainous area at the junction of Hunan and Jiangxi and the junction between Ji'an Province and neighboring prefectures and counties.

If that's all it takes, the problem is that every time Liu Jing wanders, when he is faced with the Qing army's attack, he will slip away before the arrival of the Qing army as if he is an unpredictable prophet. On several occasions, occupying favorable terrain, Liu Jing also set up ambushes for the advancing green battalion soldiers, making the local green battalion disgraced.

Recently, it was reported that Liu Jing's anti-Qing rebel army was active at the junction of Ji'an, Yuanzhou and Linjiang. Of course, the green camp masters have never been fuel-efficient lamps, and if they can't find Liu Jing, they will scourge the people along the way, and the words in the mouth of the gentry have no moisture at all.

"This matter, this matter, hey."

The gentry insisted on what they had decided, and the magistrate was also very clear when it came to it. If it was just bullying ordinary people, it was said that the people who were bullied these times were all members of the mutual aid association of Laoshizi organized by these gentry - it was an organization used to practice the township covenant in the name of mutual aid, which was obviously bullied to the heads of these gentry, so how could they bear it.

What the scholars and doctors in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties were like, the county was the most knowing. However, although he is a bureaucrat, he is also a member of the gentry class, so it is not good to work with the green battalion soldiers to oppress the gentry. But now that the resentment of the local gentry has reached his level, he is really in a dilemma if he does not want to provoke those green battalions.

"The county lord has been in this county for many years, and he has always been an upright official." Everyone vented, and Zou Nan, who was the leader, saw that the heat was almost over, so he stood up and bowed: "We also know that the current situation in Guangdong and Fujian is like this, and our officials here in Jiangxi should be able to use those Qiu Ba." This time, it is not to embarrass the county lord, and we are not inconsiderate of our parents. It's just that if it goes on like this, the people will be scattered, and the place will be rotten again. ”

Zou Nan said that he didn't talk about how the people's escape from the famine would enhance the strength of the anti-Qing rebel army, nor did he talk about the difficulty of collecting taxes, but how could he not understand the truth in the ears of Nazhi County.

In this county for many years, he knows very well that the first person to toss this mutual aid association is this Zou Nan in front of him. This is not a person who is easy to mess with, and the mutual aid associations in terms of population, tuntian, taxes, and forced labor have also given the government a great help at the grassroots level.

Moreover, this person not only has the fame of lifting people, but also has the identity of the Zou family of Jishui Xiaodongmen. Not to mention Zou Yuanbiao's influence in Shilin at the end of the Ming Dynasty, only to say that the Zou family just had a clansman not long ago, who joined the Changsha shogunate for Zou Yuanbiao's own grandson named Zou Zhuoming, and now Hong Chengchou is the top boss of the governor of Jiangxi.

Good words to appease are the least. After thinking about it, the magistrate simply approved another piece of land to give it to them, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone. However, this time it was not as good as before, when he heard the word Tuntian, the young gentleman who had shouted the loudest before immediately shook his head like a rattle, and refused to ask for any more land.

"County Lord, you know, it's not the same as it used to be. At the beginning, Tuntian was presided over by Cai Fujun, and the imperial court was interested in restoring the people's livelihood in Jiangxi. But now, Cai Fujun has been promoted to the governor of Caoyun, and the new Lang Fujun is to vigorously collect taxes to replenish the army. In these years, the acres of land planted in Tun are a burden, and it is said that there are people in Nanchang Mansion who have begun to flee the famine. ”

What the gentry said is the truth, the three governors of the Qing court, Xia Yihe was in charge of the Western Ming Army, Cai Shiying was to restore production in Jiangxi, and now Lang Tingzuo, due to the fall of Fujian and Guangdong provinces, Jiangxi has become the front line, not only those green battalions in Fujian that "take advantage of the victory" to eat in Jiangxi, the military pressure in Southern Jiangxi has doubled, and the Qing court has also dispatched a large number of troops to the south. Although there must be a tilt in finance, in the final analysis, it is still necessary to have a big head in Jiangxi, and Lang Tingzuo naturally plays the role of a "tax collector".

It is an eternal truth that you have to pay taxes if you plant land. Since they don't want land, then the compensation can only start from taxes and forced labor. These two are not as stressful as Ruijin County for Jishui County, and the two sides quickly reached a tacit understanding.

"A crying child has milk."

Returning to the compound of the mutual aid association in the countryside, Zou Nan couldn't help but shake his head and laugh. The situation in Jiangxi changed, and they specially sent people to make a detour to Huguang and Guangxi to Guangdong, and went to seek Chen Kai's opinion. After a thorough analysis, they decided to put pressure on the local government to better ensure the rights and interests of the members of the mutual aid association. With this contrast, the expansion of mutual aid associations is naturally easier.

"Brother Zou, what do you think the county lord will do next?"

"Probably to distribute all the money and food that has been reduced to our mutual aid associations to other people, don't they all do this?"

"Hahahaha......"

The words immediately attracted a burst of laughter. Zou Nan did not wronged them, and the rogues in the late Ming Dynasty rose up, in fact, the magistrates also played a certain role in fueling the troubles.

The simplest analogy is to assume that there are 10,000 taxpayers in the local area, and they should pay a tax of 10,000 taels of silver. Natural disasters and man-made disasters, 5,000 people had to flee the famine in order to survive, and as a result, most of the people who fled from the famine naturally became part of the rogues, and the 5,000 people who stayed in the local area had to bear the tax of 10,000 taels of silver, and the pressure doubled, and bankruptcy may be greatly increased. The reason why such a situation will be caused is because under the examination law, the official master can't take care of the life and death of those untouchables for the sake of his official position.

When ordinary people find that they have to bear heavier taxes and servitude than the members of the mutual aid society, then there are only three ways - swallow your anger, run away and escape, or simply join in the process.

As for any kind of drama such as gatherings, marches, petitions, and complaints, they generally would not have been made without the organizers behind them. And the class that is most likely to become the organizer at the grassroots level, the scholars, most of them have an inextricable relationship with Zou Nan and them in Jishui County, and it is unwise to offend the gentry of the same class for the sake of a few poor people, and even may become colleagues in the future.

The next situation can be expected, and Zou Nan and others also imagined the accelerated development of mutual aid associations in the future. It wasn't until a long time later that everyone gradually dispersed, leaving only Zou Nan and the two local gentry who were already official members of the Heaven and Earth Society, that he breathed a sigh of relief: "It seems that it really works to find Liu Shuai to make trouble with us." ”

It's not a sigh, it's completely a pair of wisdom beads in his hand, Zou Nan stroked his beard, the corners of his mouth rose, and this look also infected the two people beside him.

"The green camp still has to keep an eye on it, with Liu Shuai here, we will have more room to turn around."

As soon as these words came out, the three of them also laughed. Now in Ji'an Prefecture, there are members of the Heaven and Earth Society in every county, and whenever there is a disturbance among the local green battalion soldiers, the news will be sent directly to Liu Jing. Whether to go or stay, Liu Jing has his own place. And Liu Jing's existence has indeed increased the government's dependence on their local gentry.

"It's better to take advantage of the current opportunity to start the group training according to Mr.'s method."

The development momentum of Tiandihui in Ji'an Province is good, and the future expectations are also developing according to Chen Kai's foresight. At this time, Zou Nan proposed the next step of the plan, which was also a bit logical. However, the two people beside him all felt that it was a little too fast, and if they provoked the vigilance of the government and the green camp, then they would lift a stone and shoot themselves in the foot.

"The two of you are reasonable, and it is indeed necessary to be safe." Zou Nan is as imposing as a rainbow at the moment, but the two of them persuaded him, he thought about it carefully, and felt that there was indeed some truth: "It's better to do this, let's not call it a group practice first, just say that it is to recruit some nurses and put up the shelves." In the future, when you really practice in a group, you can get twice the result with half the effort with half the effort with these as a skeleton. ”

The result of the compromise was agreed by the other two, and soon, in the name of guarding against the traitor Liu Jing, the mutual aid association opened by Zou Nan of Jishui County, Ji'an Prefecture, began to recruit nursing homes to protect the members and property of the association. In terms of personnel, the members of the association are naturally given priority, in addition to the welfare of the members, the more important thing is the local people, the family industry is in the mutual aid association can reach, and the loyalty can be relatively guaranteed. The problem is that there are no suitable leaders among the members - after all, not everyone can do it.

"Recruit!"

Jishui County soon had an announcement that the countryside was recruiting the head of the nursing home, and the salary was very lucrative, which immediately attracted a group of good people to flock to the ring outside the city to join in the excitement.

Under the notice, the crowd swarmed away, carrying the Miao knife handed down by the master, Yu Youhan looked at the notice and hesitated slightly, and the immortals in the Five Organs Temple couldn't wait to remind him. Holding his rumbling stomach, Yu Youhan was a little embarrassed. Fortunately, most of the people around him had already gone out of the city to watch the excitement, and the rest were all people who focused on the signs.

He has been in Jiangxi for a long time, and in the end he is still a shy bag, but the most important thing is that he doesn't know where to go and what to do. A moment later, Yu Youhan had already appeared under the ring, there were already two men on it who were fighting with the guys, and a man with a whistle stick looked very disciplined at first glance, forcing the man with the knife to be in danger, and after a while, a dragon went out to sea and knocked the opponent directly out of the ring.

"Good!"

The applause erupted, and the man with the stick was also quite complacent. They saluted Zou Nan, and then invited everyone in the audience to fight. However, everyone saw the scene just now, this person's martial arts are indeed much higher than the man just now, and most of them don't feel that they are sure of victory, so they plan to take another look to see if others can defeat him when they come to power, or even just whether they can find out some of his flaws.

For a while, no one in the audience responded, and the man raised his eyebrows by three points, thinking that he had the chance to win. But at this moment, Yu Youhan looked at the other side of the ring, several organizers seemed to have begun to talk to each other, and he knew that if he waited any longer, maybe the result would be announced over there. So, as soon as his body twisted, Yu Youhan passed through between the two men with big shoulders and round waists in front of him, and then raised his hand to pat the floor of the ring, and the whole person rushed up directly as if there was wind under his feet.

"I'm going to ask for advice."

On the stage, Yu Youhan bowed. The man with the stick saw that his movements in the ring were so agile, and he knew that he would not be an easy character to deal with, so he immediately restrained his arrogance, held the whistle stick and hurriedly returned the salute.

However, after seeing the number of courtesies, the man walked with a stick in a starting hand, but he saw Yu Youhan still standing there, motionless. He had seen the guy Yu Youhan was carrying, although it was wrapped in an oilcloth and he couldn't see the whole picture, but he could vaguely identify it from the outline that it should be a two-handed Miao knife.

Such a weapon, but any inch longer requires much higher martial arts. Yu Youhan's Miao Dao didn't look short, the man had already fought with 100,000 points of spirit to fight against this strongest opponent in his life, but the opponent didn't show his blade, which made him angry.

"Your Excellency, please show your blade!"

"No need, your flaws are too obvious, empty hands are enough."

He said this lightly, as if he had nothing to do with himself. Yu Youhan was still standing there, which immediately caused the man to be furious. Immediately, there was a loud shout, and the whistle stick hit like a sea of mountains.

As if he had already been alerted, the man's stick was not as fancy as it had been when he had fought against the knife-wielding man before, and the stick swept in, which at first glance looked unremarkable, but it was secretly fierce. Although it is said that the competition is up to the point, but when it comes to the real battle, you don't have to do your best to say goodbye to victory. The man here did not leave the slightest leeway.

The stick was aimed at Yu Youhan's left arm,

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