As early as October 20, Jiang Dahai, who had received Xiao Ruxun's secret order, explained Xiao Ruxun's order to Chai Guozhu, who had not long been in Chengcheng.

Chai Guozhu sent 30,000 Jizhen soldiers south to Zhejiang to join forces with Zheng Ying, the general of the Zhennan Army, to sweep Nanzhili and Zhejiang together, and cooperate with the land reform led by Xie He, preparing to turn the two provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian, which are the most powerful of the big gentry, into the most reliable basic plate of the Zhennan Army except for Burma.

The greater the enemy's power, the purer the land, as long as you kill all the enemies, this land will become your most reliable base.

Xiao Ruxun made up his mind to take down the two provinces with the richest economy, the most densely populated population, and the largest number of Ming gentry, and become his new basic plate.

And this requires the addition of Chai Guozhu's army.

Having just joined the Zhennan Army, it is still unknown whether Chai Guozhu is willing to hand over the army, this is also Xiao Ruxun's test of Chai Guozhu, and it is also a test of Chai Guozhu by the Zhennan Army's rebel camp.

The results proved that Chai Guozhu was a qualified rebel soldier, and he handed over the military power to Jiang Dahai without saying a word, and even said that he could not even do with the guards, in order to show his sincerity in resolutely joining the Zhennan Army's rebel battalion.

Jiang Dahai was very satisfied, encouraged Chai Guozhu, and told him that Xiao Ruxun would reuse him when he came, and then he was not polite, and selected 30,000 Ji Zhenzhen soldiers to go south to Zhejiang, and then mixed many old officers of the Zhennan Army into it.

In the end, it is not the old foundation of our Zhennan Army, and we can't fully believe it, we need to send the old foundation of the Zhennan Army as a grassroots officer, master this army from the root, and slowly assimilate it into a qualified Zhennan Army rebel fighter.

This is Xiao Ruxun's basic idea, fortunately, Chai Guozhu is very knowledgeable and knows what he should do most at the moment.

30,000 troops set out from Nanjing and entered Zhejiang via Yingtianfu and Guangdefu, and at the same time, Zheng Ying, who had received the help of Xie He's land reform working group, also had no worries and sent troops to take down Shaoxing Prefecture, Jinhua Mansion and Taizhou Mansion.

For a period of time, Zheng Ying even felt that his speed of conquering cities and territories could not keep up with the speed of these crazy land reform working groups to carry out land reform, so he had to speed up the speed of conquering cities and lands, and at the same time, the number of peasant households who wanted to join the Zhennan Army also increased, and in a short period of time, Zheng Ying expanded his army to 20,000 people.

The grain and grass are sufficient, and the troops and armor are complete, and it is only a matter of time before the whole of Zhejiang is taken.

Subsequently, the members of the five or six groups of land reform working groups arrived in Zhejiang to assist Xie He in carrying out land reform, and Xie He was not polite, and immediately arranged for them to be stationed in the localities, subverting the rule of the wealthy gentry and big families village by village, and at the same time arranging the army to prevent the peasant rebellion from harming the safety of the town.

Xie He is now the person in charge of the land reform work in this area, he not only arranged for the land reform members sent by Xiao Ruxun to carry out land reform everywhere, but also paid attention to the local discovery of those young scholars who were oppressed by the big families, and then encouraged them to join the land reform working group.

We are also readers, and they are also readers, why should they be squeezed by them and can't even afford to eat? At the same time, are there still high and low people who read? What's the difference between us and those farmers? Have all the sages learned in the dog's belly?

Join Xiao Dashuai, except for Xiao Dashuai, no one will call the shots for you, they will only oppress you, oppress me, let us always be their vassals, and we can't turn over and call the shots, so, join us, subvert them, and we will turn over and call the shots ourselves, how good?

Xie He had successfully instigated more than a dozen poor talents to join the land reform working group, and let them experience the thrill of power in leading the peasant uprising, so they became addicted to it and could not extricate themselves, and were tied to this high-speed chariot, and the general trend in Zhejiang was irreparable.

At the beginning of November, Zheng Ying led his army to take the Yanzhou Prefecture and Quzhou Prefecture, and also took the Chuzhou Prefecture and Wenzhou Prefecture under the guidance of Li Wenyuan, and most of Zhejiang was included in the bag, successfully opening up the roads between Zhejiang and Fujian occupied areas, and then began a more violent land reform movement.

When the land reform movement in southern Zhejiang was in full swing, the land reform in central Zhejiang had come to an end, and the social order gradually stabilized.

According to Xiao Ruxun's arrangement, Xie He first destroyed all the old land deeds, and then distributed the land according to his newly divided area and the contribution of the farmers, and then issued a new land lease, and stipulated that the land issued was not allowed to be bought and sold, but could only be owned by himself.

Then, the functions of the peasant associations were optimized, and the peasant households were turned into guiding institutions and self-defense institutions for agricultural production, so that the peasants could organize their own self-defense forces to protect themselves and their land, train in their spare time, and cultivate the land when they were busy, and the peasant associations would become an institution that managed the village in place of the landlords and gentry.

Of course, it is not possible to get a group of illiterate peasants together, so the leadership of the peasant associations is in the hands of the land reform working group, and each county has a member of the land reform working group in charge, responsible for guiding and managing what the peasant associations should and should not do, and land distribution is the initial test of this model.

Although this is only a temporary model, the temporary one must also be standardized, otherwise there will be chaos.

Friction and quarrels are naturally indispensable when land is distributed, everyone wants the best and not the worst, and at the very beginning, everyone made an agreement to distribute land according to certain rules, the greater your contribution to the great cause of the Zhennan Army, the better and more land you can get, and vice versa.

As a result, the tide of joining the army for a period of time was triggered by this, and the families of military families were taken care of by the peasant associations and allocated better land, while the peasant households who did not contribute much were naturally marginalized, and they did not have good land and had no right to speak, and their bowels were green with regret.

At the same time as the land distribution work was carried out in an orderly manner, Xie He also put the goal in Hangzhou, Huzhou and Jiaxing further north, as the saying goes, Suzhou and Hangzhou are familiar with the world, although this is an exaggeration, but it is not so exaggerated, the fertility of the land and the suitable climate of Suzhou and Hangzhou are also one of the reasons for the extremely high grain production.

Of course, how can such a good land and such good climatic conditions not be valued by the gentry and the powerful?

This is the settlement of the most powerful gentry and powerful people in the Ming Dynasty, such as Songjiang Mansion, which is the back garden of the former Shoufu Xu Jie's family.

The private ownership of more than 200,000 acres of land made the Xu Jie family extremely wealthy.

The land here is like the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the major families divided and occupied the land here, and there was almost no independent yeoman farmer, even if there was, it was the grade of small and medium-sized vassals, and it was not independent.

Compared with the maritime merchants of Fujian, the area on the border between Zhejiang and Nanzhili was the most economically prosperous and densely populated place in the south of the Yangtze River, and it was precisely because of this that the southeastern merchant faction finally defeated the Jin merchant faction and dominated the central Ming Dynasty.

This area is the heart of the southeastern gentry's roots.