The gentry riots in Ningbo Mansion sounded the alarm for Xiao Ruxun.

This is not a simple small thing, but a big move hidden behind the small things.

He realized that if he ignored this phenomenon and only took the only goal of conquering Jingshi and killing Shen Cheng to help restore the emperor to the throne, his own army would be meaningless, just overthrowing a regime, but the object on which this regime relied could not be liquidated.

Now his own force is strong enough to deter this object, but there will always be a day when his own force weakens, when the force can not maintain deterrence, everything will change back to the original state, and Daming will not change anything.

All dynasties have proved that what they have done is only the outbreak of the tipping point and the redistribution of interests, and then start the next reincarnation.

Since the Northern Expedition has already paid such a great price and painstaking efforts, we cannot fool these problems as if they did not happen, otherwise, all this is just the beginning of the next cycle of reincarnation.

It is time to break the curse of cyclical reincarnation in China.

But how do you break this spell?

Xiao Ruxun couldn't help but think of Li Zicheng.

The leader of the rebel army, who carried out his revolutionary slogans most thoroughly, divided the land equally among the landless peasants, and resolutely refused to collect taxes, and then relied on the money of the house as a source of income.

This was the most resolute and thorough leader in the whole of ancient Chinese history, the leader of the peasant rebel army who carried out the land reform most thoroughly, and he did not fail because he was not corrupted, but because he was not corrupted, he still remembered to defend the interests of the peasants.

He did not hesitate to leave the main force of his army in his hometown in Shaanxi to carry out land reform when he went north to destroy the Ming government, forcing many local gentry to death, and the vast number of peasants got the land.

However, it was useless, after the defeat of a stone, Li Zicheng's department was exhausted, the combat effectiveness was sharply reduced, all the way back to his hometown, all the way to the attack of countless gentry and powerful organization of the regimental exercises, and was closely pursued by the Qing army, the gentry and the Manchu Qing colluded to defeat Li Zicheng, and his main force was basically destroyed.

Who were the people who attacked him?

In addition to the private soldiers of the gentry and powerful families who were not killed, there were obviously many landless peasants who had been favored by Li Zicheng to join it, otherwise the number would not have been on the scale.

The peasants who received the favor of his land reform did not rise up to help King Chuang, who had reached the point of life and death in their hearts, but joined the landlord's armed regiment training and cooperated with the Qing army to kill Li Zicheng.

When Li Zicheng's defeat in Guanzhong was determined and he tried to make a comeback, he was killed by an armed attack by the militia.

The militia was armed not by the Qing army, not by the Ming army, but by the militia armed forces, armed militias organized by the instigation of the landlords and gentry.

This is very ironic, the revolutionary slogan of equalizing the rich and the poor and dividing the land has been shouted since the Tang and Song dynasties, and has been shouted until the end of the Ming Dynasty, but the people who really work hard to do it have died in the hands of these people who hope to be equal to the rich and the poor, why is this?

Li Zicheng does not have his own basic plate, and Li Zicheng's team building and development cannot keep up, these are all reasons.

But more importantly, Li Zicheng's team did not change to a traditional dynasty in time to compromise with the gentry and powerful landlords who still held the real power in the local area, and did not actively accept the landlords, gentry and powerful landlords into their leadership, resulting in a large number of gentry who had already submitted to Li Zicheng to great disappointment.

In addition, the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs at that time, adopted the advice of Fan Wencheng and others, and treated the gentry as always, and the gentry felt that they saw hope, so they abandoned Li Zicheng and took refuge in the Manchu Qing.

They instigated a large number of regimental training and armaments, so that Li Zicheng could not gain a foothold in Guanzhong while his strength was declining, and the Manchu fishermen benefited.

The gentry still existed, the gentry remained strong, and the gentry still ruled the countryside.

Li Zicheng's team is confused, swaying, and has not yet adapted to the sudden change of identity, if there is no sudden entry of the Manchu Qing, Li Zicheng may still have a chance, but the Manchu Qing is in this stall.

Li Zicheng hasn't appeared yet, and maybe won't appear again, but the truth, Xiao Ruxun needs to tell Xie He as it is.

"At the beginning of the former Song Dynasty, also in Sichuan, Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun started an incident, they said, 'I am sick and the rich and the poor are uneven, and now you are equal', and even earlier, Confucius said that Qiu also heard that those who have a country and a family do not suffer from widowhood but suffer from inequality, and do not suffer from poverty but suffer from anxiety."

Xie He understood: "Yes, I have seen too many people when my subordinates are poor, they have not thought about how to make a fortune, they just hate those who are slightly richer and more powerful than them, and they don't dare to think about the real big people at all." ”

Xiao Ruxun nodded.

"So, that's where we come in! Qingquan, you asked me how to start with this matter, and my answer is this, start with the equal wealth and poverty, and rely on those who hate the rich and hate the rich and have not thought of making a fortune through their own efforts! ”

Xie He was stunned.

"What the marshal is talking about, are those ruffians and hooligans idle in the market?"

Xiao Ruxun nodded again.

"That's right, these are the people who have land to cultivate at home or who have rented the land of the gentry to cultivate, they have their own property, although it is small, but there is still a little, their lives are rushed, there are concerns, if you go there and tell them to go together to rob the rich and help the poor, they will not pay attention to you.

But if we change to those ruffians and hooligans who have no property, no serious work, and rely on cheating, abduction, and robbery to make a living, these people are the easiest to be agitated, the easiest to buy, and the easiest to control, they are really afraid of power and not virtuous!

If you have a knife or a gun, they will listen to you, treat you as a thug, treat you as a dog, you treat them fiercely, they will be extremely deferential, they will be very easy to use, they are worthless, but they are a rare starting point.

Spend money to buy them, encourage them, be their backing, take them to the rural settlements, investigate the background of the big landlords in the villages, and choose the one with the most serious evils, go to his house to pick quarrels and provoke troubles, and cause contradictions.

Then, you hide the elite soldiers and horses in your hands, once those ruffians see the blood, you don't hesitate, immediately take action, grab their whole family, and then you come forward and take them through the streets! ”

"Parade through the streets?"

"That's right! Parade through the streets, let everyone in that village know about it, and then, in front of everyone, on behalf of our army, declare his crimes, publicize the sins he has committed, and then let those ruffians and idlers go up and punch him, shout and rage at him, and finally, behead him in public! ”

Xie He swallowed.

"This is the first step, the purpose is to destroy the image of these landlords and gentry who really rule the place, and after this step is completed, it will be able to intimidate the locals and establish the absolute prestige of our army.

Then in the second step, you have to choose the most active ruffians after tasting the sweetness, as well as the local yeoman farmers with few assets, and tenants who do not have their own land, and merge these three people to form a peasant association.

Then, you don't come forward in your own name, you have to retreat into the background, secretly hold the command, secretly instruct them to make a move against the next gentry, quickly, and tell them that they will rob their land, and what they have grabbed is their own. ”

After hearing this, Xie He was extremely shocked.

"But Dashuai, those ruffians and hooligans have no morality, they may do a lot of things that hurt nature and reason, if they are not controlled but want to promote, it may have a great impact, and we will be very passive in public opinion, which is even more terrifying."

Xiao Ruxun shook his head.

"Qingquan, that's why I asked you to establish a peasant association, and then hide yourself behind it, and use the name of the peasant association to deal with those gentry and powerful families, not in the name of you, in the name of our Zhennan army, understand?"

"This ......"

Xie He suddenly realized: "This is ...... So that farmers have no way out? ”

"Yes, let them have no way out, the ruffians and hooligans do bad things, it doesn't matter, when dealing with those big households, organize them, pull out the female dependents of those big families, and let them do what they want to do in public.

In the name of the peasant association, let the peasant association do it, not you, so that those peasant households will understand that if they do not do their best to support our army, once our army is defeated and destroyed, they will suffer the same thing. ”

It's ruthless......

This is really going to make a deep feud in the sea of blood and never die......

What do you really want?

The more Xie He listened, the more frightened he became.

"What if those gentry and heroes form a group to resist?"

Xie He asked.