On 10 November, a month had passed since Chen Lan and Li Wenyuan, the commander of the Xuanwu battalion, had captured the whole of Fujian.

Their soldiers and horses have also expanded from 20,000 to nearly 50,000, and all the official forces in Fujian have been wiped out, and the Burmese officials who came with the Zhennan army and the land reform officials are gradually establishing a more stable rule here.

However, just over a month ago, Fujian was not like this, and Chen Lan and Li Wenyuan, who had captured the entire territory of Fujian, were dizzy and dizzy because of the large household rebellions that occurred one after another, and they were either counterinsurgency or counterinsurgency, and they were powerless to ask for help from Zheng Ying's troops in the north, and they were exhausted.

Although they successfully dismantled the ruling power of the Ming government in Fujian, they then found that it was not the small governments of the Ming Dynasty that were really difficult to deal with, but the real local rulers, the big gentry who were directly in charge of manpower, material and financial resources.

They controlled almost all the land, population and wealth, and the three big families that Chen Lan and Li Wenyuan had exterminated when they first arrived became the reason for them to break with the Zhennan Army.

Although they were far inferior to the Zhennan Army in terms of combat effectiveness, they were victorious in numbers, and often in some small county towns, their troops could not defeat the regimental training of those big gentry, and the cities they occupied were recaptured, and the situation in Fujian was precarious, and the two of them were at a loss.

Chen Ling and Li Wenyuan were caught in the vast sea of the people's war, but it was not the revolutionaries who started the war, but the revolutionaries.

It's kind of ironic.

This situation was maintained until the arrival of the land reform team sent by Xiao Ruxun.

There were two of the first batch of land reform working groups, a total of 100 people, and the two leaders were named Chen Xiu and Wang Yong, both of whom were born in poor Xiucai, and Chen Xiu was still Chen Luan's hometown.

They had Xiao Ruxun's order in their hands, telling Chen Lan and Li Wenyuan to send troops to assist them no matter what, so Li Wenyuan handed over the most elite 1,000 people under his command to them, and they relied on the 100-person land reform working group and the 1,000-strong elite troops to turn Zhangzhou Mansion upside down.

Seven or eight big families in Zhangzhou Mansion were wiped out because of this, they were uprooted, and a few people tried to escape to the sea, Chen Xiu did not give up, and he was stunned to take people out to sea to chase, and he was stunned to arrest the more than 100 people who escaped, and brought them back to Zhangzhou to behead the public.

The tenants, poor peasants, and hooligans in Zhangzhou became restless, and the military equipment of the big gentry easily collapsed, and they were even attacked by the rebellion, but in just over ten days, the Zhangzhou Mansion was completely mastered by them.

The peasant association was established, and more than ninety percent of the peasant households joined it, and they enthusiastically sent food and drink to the Zhennan army, and also took the initiative to pay this year's agricultural tax, which made Chen Lan and Li Wenyuan stunned.

It just so happened that at this time, the 150 members of the second batch of land reform working groups arrived, and Chen Xiu and Wang Yong, who had made meritorious contributions, became the leaders of the group, and arranged for their subordinates to rush to various state capitals, Quanzhou Mansion, Tingzhou Mansion, Xinghua Mansion, Fuzhou Mansion, Yanping Mansion, Shaowu Mansion, and Funing Mansion......

After Chen Ling and Li Wenyuan personally went to the countryside to observe the land reform work, they said that they had been strongly impacted, and after seeing the terrible scenes of those parade in the streets, criticizing and beheading in public, the two agreed that this was a war.

This is a battlefield in another sense, and it may be said that this is the real battlefield that can really solve the troubles of the big gentry.

They are just making a small fuss, and they will go to quell the rebellion wherever they get up, but the land reform working group is not, and the land reform working group is making trouble wherever it goes, and the big gentry have not made trouble or have no intention of making trouble at all, so they have been uprooted by the land reform working group.

It's not even allowed to beg for mercy.

Because Xiao Ruxun ordered, the situation in Fujian is particularly bad, and it is necessary to treat them differently, and those who can be killed by these wealthy gentry will never be allowed to live.

After all, when there was a rebellion against the Japanese invaders, in order to crack down on the Jin merchant faction that was in power in the central government, the maritime merchants in Zhejiang and Fujian did not "contribute".

These guys are deep-rooted, each of them is not a good stubble to be messed with, if they are not uprooted, anything the government wants to do in the future will be stopped by them, and the Ming government is not fighting with them for the right to rule, but the more important ownership of population and land resources.

What Xiao Ruxun wants is a big government, and these people only allow a small government to exist above them that serves them, so the contradiction between the two is irreconcilable, and it will never die.

So I can only ask them to die!

"Be ruthless! Do not have the kindness of a woman! These people don't die, it's you who will die in the future, it's me, it's all of us! It's a life-and-death affair, not child's play! Put away your conscience, here, there is no need for conscience! ”

After Chen Xiu and Wang Yong gradually got better, they refuted and severely reprimanded the suggestions occasionally made by the later land reform workers, pointed to the essence of the problem, forced the people of the land reform working group to unify their thinking and front, and commanded the mighty peasants to completely tear apart the big gentry.

Chen Xiu and Wang Yong were almost aware of what they were doing, and this was not just a simple matter of tying the peasants to the chariot and preventing them from going down, in fact, they were changing the law.

Compared with them, Xie He, who commanded the land reform earlier, realized more problems.

This is not just a simple administrative change by Zhang Ju, but a more terrifying change that goes to the core of the problem.

Change the Confucianism of the Qin and Han dynasties.

However, this reform did not start with an ideological debate, but under the cover of the shell of the war of rebellion, it went directly to the innermost part of the core of the problem, and began a revolutionary revolution from the root, and the goal was not to convince people with reason, but to uproot and destroy the soil suitable for the survival of Confucianism.

So that they don't even have time to react and fight back.

This reform is not the same as the famous Wang Anshi reform, Fan Zhongyan's reform, and Zhang Juzheng's reform in this dynasty, this is not a compromise reform in the system led by civil officials, but the most thorough change from the social roots, and the intensity of the change is far inferior to the Shang Yang reform.

Although Xiao Ruxun explained them in terms of Shang Martingale Reform, they also found in practice that the Shang Martingale Reform was much milder than the land reform they carried out.

Shang Ying's reform did not kill people without saying a word, and Shang Ying's reform did not kill people and seize land, and similarly, the enemies faced by Shang Ying were far less powerful and organized than the enemies that Xiao Ruxun faced today.

The purpose of the Shang Dynasty reform was to cultivate a new military interest group for war, and to use the unified war as the driving force to create a powerful military interest group, which made the aristocratic forces weak and powerless, and took the lead in withdrawing from the historical stage.