The household registration management of the Ming Dynasty is still relatively perfect, as long as the government is willing to assist, the clan relationship of these troublemakers can be easily found out. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

With the cooperation of the government, the general's office stepped forward and carried out a major purge within the entire Kaifeng Prefecture.

In addition to Xuanwuwei in Kaifeng Prefecture, Chenzhou also has a Chenzhou Wei, as well as a thousand households, stationed in Yuzhou. In addition, there are some officers and soldiers of the inspection department distributed in various states and counties, and they do not have much combat strength.

The 10,000 officers and men of the Shenji Battalion were all dispatched, the defense of the prefectures and counties was like a fictitious situation, and the officers and men of the Inspection Department and the Guard Station all retreated without a fight, and in just a few days, Li Xiuwen had already controlled the entire Kaifeng Mansion.

There are still a lot of civilian officials in various states and counties who resist, and Li Xiuwen is not polite to these people at all, and those who refuse to surrender are all killed, and they are all gone.

Killed all and no one manages?

Never mind!

Zhizhou died and changed to Tongzhi, Tongzhi resisted and killed again, changed the judge, and so on. If the county doesn't do it, he will change the county, and if the county doesn't do it, he will be promoted to the main book, and the master will resist, so find someone to raise the top in the local area, and there are more people who want to be officials.

As for the professors, scholars, teachings, and instructors of the prefecture, state, and county schools, they all pointed at Li Xiuwen's nose and scolded them one by one.

Li Xiuwen didn't be polite to them, he arrested and killed most of the resistants, and razed their clans, to see which one dared to jump out and be arrogant again?

Although he killed a lot of readers who made trouble this time, not all of them came out to make trouble, and Li Xiuwen may have purged less than half of the readers.

Previously, the generals of the guard had invaded many tuntians, and after Li Xiuwen cleaned a large number of gentry, he really vacated a lot of fields.

Li Xiuwen asked people to count as soon as possible, and first distribute these fields to the officers and men of the whole army.

In the Ming Dynasty, the phenomenon of land annexation is very serious, and the fields under the name of the clan alone exceed half of the country's cultivated land, plus the fields under the names of the gentry, and the homesteaders are only 10% of the land left. And it is these people who bear the taxes of the whole country, how can the treasury of the Ming Dynasty not be empty?

These landlords used various means to annex the land of yeoman peasants, either by force, or by begging, or by asking yeoman peasants to voluntarily contribute.

In the name of "dedication", the common people can avoid taxes by attaching their fields to the clan or the names of meritorious people.

Although he did not have his own land, he could only work as a tenant for the owner, and lived by renting the owner's land. But in this way, they could avoid the onerous taxes of the imperial court and only need to pay rent to the landlord.

In fact, the rent of this field is not low, but due to the corruption of the system, coupled with the fact that local officials have increased their taxes privately, they cannot eat enough to cultivate their own land, and the life they live is not as good as renting the land of the landlord's family.

The above is not too bad, and what is more, the landlords randomly designate a piece of fertile land for the common people, collude with the government to identify it as "wasteland", and then the land becomes cultivated by the landlords themselves.

The tenants' lives were not much better, and they had to pay almost half or more of the harvest to their owners. In a year of famine and the harvest fails, it is easy to run out of food.

There are not many good-hearted landlords, no matter whether you are in a disaster or not, the rent will definitely not be reduced. If the famine is too severe, these tenants will be uprooted from their homes, and they will become homeless.

In feudal times, if there were too many displaced people, there would be rebellions from time to time. Once someone takes the lead, it is normal for these displaced people to rebel against the imperial court in order to have enough to eat.

The land annexation situation in the south of He1 is particularly serious, and the Zhou Wangfu alone occupies a lot of land under its name, although it is not as much as the Fu King of Luoyang and the Lu King of Weihui Mansion, but it is not much less.

No matter what, Zhou Wangfu is now his master, and it is impossible for Li Xiuwen to snatch the land directly from Zhu Lunkun.

However, many officials in the court, clan relatives in their hometowns, have a lot of fields attached to the name of the Zhou Palace. Juren and jinshi can also be exempt from tax, but there will be a certain amount, but the fields in the name of the vassal kings can be completely exempt from tax.

In the Wanli Dynasty, Zhang Juzheng once implemented the "One Whip Law", which would improve the situation. But this decree touched the vested interests of many people, and it did not last long before it was completely destroyed by the gentry.

Now that Li Xiuwen has turned against the imperial court, he doesn't have to take care of these people anymore. He went to the palace and discussed with Zhu Lunkun, and then cleared out the land occupied by the officials in the court and distributed it to the soldiers.

Due to the large number of people in the two armies, the looted land was actually not distributed to everyone, and it was probably only a few acres of land. But it doesn't matter, these are just divided now. Li Xiuwen told them that in the future, they would continue to be distributed according to military merits, and the benefits of everyone were indispensable.

The three guards and horses in the palace all have their own tuntian, and they were all separated from Zhu Shaoye from his palace before, so naturally Li Xiuwen doesn't need to worry about it.

This is completely fighting local tyrants and dividing the land.

After the news spread, everyone in the entire Kaifeng Mansion knew that it was beneficial to follow General Li, and it was better to be a soldier than anything. Many ordinary people poured into the city one after another, crowded at the gate of the general's mansion to sign up as soldiers, and the scene was not lively.

Li Xiuwen couldn't support so many people, and finally after layers of screening, he recruited 2,000 people again and assigned them to Xuanwuwei. Since then, Li Xiuwen's two armies have expanded to 20,000 people.

Unlike the peasant army, which only plundered, the territory occupied by Li Xiuwen was intended to be defended and well governed.

With the assistance of Ma Mingda and Zhao Xiong, it is not a big problem for the prefectures and counties to maintain their operations, and the affairs of Kaifeng Prefecture will be handled well, and when the taxes are collected in the future, one side can be completely separated.

The soldiers of the Shenji Battalion and Xuanwuwei don't have time to farm now, but most of these fields are already cultivated by tenants, so it's good to continue to use them, as long as there is no catastrophe, the grain harvest can fully support these tenants. If you don't have enough manpower, you can also recruit some homeless people to farm, as long as you can eat enough, who wants to continue to be a homeless person?

And the owners of these fields, the soldiers under their own command, while fighting wars, can also hire tenants to farm for them, and the welfare is much better than before.

Li Xiuwen was full of enthusiasm and marched to Guide Mansion.

Guide Mansion was originally under the jurisdiction of the He1 Nanbu Political Envoy Division, located in the southeast direction of Kaifeng, is a separate government, and can completely expand the territory by collecting it into its own hands, and it will not be collected in vain!

Guide Mansion is a small house, and there is only one guard officer and soldier, Suiyang Guard. There are now less than 3,000 officers and soldiers in this guard station, and in the face of Li Xiuwen's 10,000 elites, they didn't even have the courage to resist, so they obediently disarmed and surrendered.

After Li Xiuwen found out clearly, he directly dragged people out and cut them down, along with more than 20 of his subordinates!

Li Xiuwen personally interrogated and found that one of the officers and soldiers of this guard post was a commander who was not bad and was a usable person. After careful interrogation, he unexpectedly learned that this person had planned to join Zhu Shaoye before, so he took him under his command.

Many officials of the government office, as well as many gentry in various prefectures and counties, once again gathered to resist Li Xiuwen's violent regime, and they were killed on a large scale, until the heads were rolling and blood was all over the ground.

Guide Mansion cleared out some fields again, Li Xiuwen thought about it, after all, this place is far away from the closed city, so it is better to leave an army to garrison.

With some of the fields seized from the rebellious gentry, plus the encroachment of the former capital of Suiyang Wei, it was enough to feed thousands of soldiers.

Li Xiuwen killed several generals of Suiyang Guard, as well as some veterans who were disobedient and oppressed the people on weekdays, and then helped the commander Lu Ping to take the position and serve as the capital of Suiyang Guard.

Li Xiuwen added a deputy commander to Sun Mingwen to take this position and be responsible for recruiting soldiers. Today's Suiyang Guard only has more than 2,000 soldiers, and after Sun Mingwen recruits half of the men, it is impossible for this team to get out of his control.

Since then, Li Xiuwen has completed the great cause of secession, and he can be regarded as a small overlord.

It's not difficult to expand again, but now that the troops on hand are not enough, many soldiers have not started training yet, so let's temporarily stabilize the situation in Kaifeng Prefecture.

Moreover, after tossing in Kaifeng Mansion for more than half a month, Li Xiuwen had just received news from the capital, and learned that Zhu Youzhen had ordered Sun Chuanting to rush to Kaifeng to crusade against him. (To be continued.) )