In November of the twenty-sixth year of Wanli, it was winter, and the weather was cold.

The battlefields in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, from east to west and from south to north, were not stable.

To the west, the battle of Hanzhong was raging.

To the east, Xiao Ruxun's Northern Expedition was in full swing.

To the south, Zheng Ying led the army and Xie He led the land reform working group to fight fiercely in the four prefectures of Songjiang, Jiaxing, Huzhou, Hangzhou.

To the north, Shen has always hollowed out his mind to ensure his power.

At this stall, in Fuzhou Mansion, Fujian, Chen Lan and Li Wenyuan were temporarily idle because of the problem of military rest, waiting for Xiao Ruxun's further arrangements.

As soon as they are idle, they naturally go out for a stroll, but at the moment there is nothing to see in the whole of Fujian, because the sights of people from the land reform working group calling on poor peasants and landless displaced people to frantically criticize the big landlords and gentry.

They inspected the entire countryside and towns around Fuzhou Prefecture, but they did not find that a single village or town was safe and stable, and one round of criticism was not enough, and two or three rounds were needed.

Starting from the super-large rich households covering an area of hundreds of thousands of acres, to the medium-rich households covering an area of tens of thousands of acres, and then to the small rich households covering an area of more than 10,000 mu or even less than 10,000 mu, it seems that there is an increasingly fierce trend.

Those gentry who were targeted by the land reform working group were completely unable to resist under the attack of the overwhelming superiority of the people, and basically did not end well.

Even those who give up resistance and beg for mercy will not end well, those who are willing to give up their land to survive will not be forgiven, and they will not get the way they want to live even if they hand over all their belongings, as if they will all die as long as they have money and land.

Li Wenyuan, who witnessed all this, was deeply shocked by this, and he even went to Liu Xu, the person in charge of land reform in Fujian, and asked him if he could restrain the staff under him, and couldn't he let go of the rich families who had handed over their land just to keep their families alive?

Will even the elderly, the weak, the women and the children be killed?

Liu Yu rejected him very seriously.

The reason is to eradicate all evil.

"Let them go now, it's hard to guarantee that they won't seek revenge in the future, these people don't know how much family wealth they still have hidden, and it's easy to start a family when the rumors pass in the future, and it's also very easy to retaliate when the time comes, and it's always a scourge to keep them, so you have to kill them all."

Liu Yu's eyes were red when he said these words, his face was full of anger, and he was not in a state of reason at all, but he was actually a talented man with a meritorious reputation.

Chen and Li Wenyuan did not have the power to intervene in the local government.

At the beginning of the army, Xiao Ruxun stipulated that the army was not allowed to interfere in local administration, and after the city was taken and the order was stable, it was necessary to leave the city and hand over the local power to civilian officials, and after the land reform began, they also received orders, and the land reform work was fully responsible for the work of the working group, and the army was not allowed to intervene.

Li Wenyuan had the heart to stop Liu Xuan's atrocity move, but he had no way to do it.

Seeing those things that can be called tragedies in the world, Li Wenyuan was really difficult to convince himself, so Li Wenyuan simply wrote a letter to Xiao Ruxun.

The letter recounted the tragic things done by the land reform working group and those farmers in Fujian, hoping that Xiao Ruxun could restrain those who were already a little out of control, and not let more innocent people die for this.

"If you say this so bluntly, the big handsome may be unhappy."

Chen Lan is an old fritter, and he is a demoted general, his identity is more sensitive, and he is not as close as Li Wenyuan's military background, so he can't say what Li Wenyuan can say, but he knows the priorities, and he is also clear about the proportions of his words.

Li Wenyuan shook his head resolutely.

"Dashuai said that the purpose of land reform is to let the landless peasants get back their land, not to do these terrible things, those people do not even let go of women and children, it is simply ...... There is simply no conscience! ”

Chen Lan put down the letter in his hand and sighed.

"But when those gentry and rich people oppressed the people and plundered their land, they were just as miserable, just because you didn't see it, so you sympathized with them? Where are the innocent among these? ”

Li Wenyuan was stunned for a moment, and then shook his head: "I am also a homeless person, wandering from Huguang to Burma, the marshal gave me a bite to eat, let me read and write, let me read, change my name for me, and give me everything today, although I am now a general, but I will not forget the time when I almost starved to death." ”

"So, these people are the main culprits who caused you to starve to death, how can you sympathize with them? Is it because after a few years of good life, with clothes, food, meat, and money, I forgot my original hatred? The old man didn't believe it, when you almost starved to death, you didn't hate those rich sons with fine clothes and food. ”

Li Wenyuan looked at Chen Lan, whose beard was white, and his eyes flickered.

Chen Lan smiled, and then sighed.

"People who are about to starve to death see people with fine clothes and fine food, it is normal to be resentful, but it is abnormal not to hate, otherwise there would not be so many people shouting that they are rich and poor and rebelling, and they will not be incited because of a few slogans from those who are engaged in land reform, this is what they have always wanted to do, but they didn't dare before, but now someone supports them, so they dare."

Li Wenyuan lowered his head and said silently: "I hated, but I never thought of killing their whole family." ”

Chen Lan glanced at Li Wenyuan, picked up the tea bowl and took a sip.

"The old man has lived for so many years, he can be regarded as seeing through, since ancient times, there is no person who does not love money, because he loves money and has no money, so he will rebel, but there is so much money, it is impossible for everyone to be rich, and it is impossible for everyone to be equally rich, there will always be rich and poor, when the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, there will be more and more people who hate the rich.

People who hate the rich are not the same, some people see the rich and envy, and feel that they can become the same person one day, such as Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, when he saw the frame of Qin Shi Huang, he said that the husband should be like this, and Xiang Yu was too, saying, he could replace him, and they all did it later.

It's just that there are few people like this, and more people don't have the ability to climb up, and maybe they don't have that opportunity, when they feel that they can't be as rich as those rich people anyway, they will be dizzy, and they will think, why am I so poor and eat the last meal and you have fine clothes and food, you all deserve to die! ”

Listening to what Chen Lan said, Li Wenyuan looked at Chen Lan very curiously.

"People love money, some people are willing and able to fight for wealth, such as you, and some people can't do it, no guts, no skills, no chances, they can only hate, they are suppressed in peacetime and can't release their hatred, once the world is in chaos, they will become extremely manic, just like now.

It is true that if it weren't for the fact that most of these rich families were unkind to the rich, desperately squeezed them, and did all kinds of bad things, this kind of hatred would become more and more difficult to control, but at the moment it is obviously too much, killing people for the sake of killing, arson for the sake of arson, the displaced people and poor peasants do not understand, but those who are engaged in land reform themselves have also fallen into it. ”

Chen Lan shook his head helplessly: "Because I love money, I hate the rich, the poor hate the rich, the small rich hate the rich, the big rich hate the super-rich, everyone hates the rich, everyone wants to be rich, so in this world, there will never be peace......"

After that, Chen Lan looked at Li Wenyuan and raised the letter in his hand: "The purpose of the marshal is to sweep away the local gentry so that they can control it in the future, so do you still want to send this letter?" ”