After the execution of the gentry and generals who participated in the rebellion, after the recovery of Jinhua Mansion, the aftermath of the big loans, and the Ling Chi Ma Jinbao, Chen Wen's reputation in Jinhua Mansion rose and fell, and at this moment, with those gentry and wealthy families who formed regiments without authorization, caused misfortune or even refused to disband, they were severely punished, and finally fell down again in a mournful cry of rabbits and dead foxes.

Whether it is the idea of the king and the scholars sharing the world with the people, or the tradition of the Ming Dynasty giving preferential treatment to scholars, these have made the Confucian scholars and doctors of the Song and Ming dynasties have a general contempt for the common people.

Chen Wen's punishment of the gentry seemed to them to be a cruelty to the gentry, because the formation of regimental training and the permission to requisition wasteland to raise troops were the military orders of Cao Conglong, the governor of Zhejiang, and they did not think that the act of forcibly seizing the property of ordinary people should be punished. Of course, the reckless acts of Ding Shenyan and others who forcibly seized military land were also criticized by local scholars, and many gentlemen believed that if there had not been such an incident of crossing the line, Chen Wen, who was protecting the calf, would not have been punished so harshly.

Most of the executed civilian and military generals came from the former Dalanshan Ming army, and the time when they came to Jinhua was still short, and the land and family business had not yet been accumulated. However, the property confiscated from the homes of the rebellious gentry and wealthy families was made up for the large number of Jinhua Ming troops who were burned down by the Qing army in Yushan Town and the army spent an astonishing amount of money on the expedition. If Ma Jinbao's eunuch bag and autumn tax are included, this year's military spending and system reform should be able to support it. However, next year will begin to enter the repayment period of the loan, and if he cannot take Quzhou, which is far richer than Jinhua in the second half of this year, this army of soldiers who are about to break 10,000 will still completely crush him.

Since he has made up for it this time, Chen Wen, who firmly believes that "those who have constant production and permanent industry have perseverance", decided to strike while the iron was hot, and thoroughly implemented the policy and system of raising strong men with land and awarding military merits.

According to the established order of land division, the first batch of soldiers were the families of the martyrs of the fallen soldiers and the soldiers who had to retire due to disability.

In addition to these non-active officers and soldiers, the order of land division is sorted according to the time of enlistment, the first is the old Nantang battalion that experienced the battle after the Siming Mountain Palace in the Dalanshan era. After that, it was divided into the Tiantai Mountain period, the soldiers who enlisted before and after the recovery of the capital city, and the last reserve soldiers.

This work is very urgent, because the summer harvest has just been completed, and the summer planting is about to begin, although Chen Wen will not collect taxes for the first harvest, but it will be completed as soon as possible in order to collect the military food reserves from those military leased fields next year to support the continuation of the war.

As the most priority group in the order of land division, Shi Daniu, who was still recuperating in the wounded camp in Longyou County, also received the allocated land from the old camp after the first batch of rotational personnel returned to Fucheng.

Shi Daniu, who was wounded in the arm, rushed to the 100 households in Tangya Town and handed over the paperwork for the division of land that he had brought from the old camp, and it was not long before it was decided that the officers and officials of the guard post would come to assist in the division of land early this morning.

There are a lot of things involved in the division of land, so there are often delays, but the Shi family has already divided a piece of land in that village, and the hundred households of the hundred households know that the Shi family was the army that the two brothers voted together on Dalan Mountain, so they did their work in advance and waited for Shi Da Niu to come back. Because only when you get the documents stamped with the big seal of the old camp can you pay the receipt to the thousand households, so as to complete this important work of the peak.

Early in the morning, Shi Daniu got up and rushed to the entrance of the village to wait without worrying about having a hot breakfast. Although he is the commander of the Nantang battalion on active duty, Shi Daniu does not plan to expand the territory of the guard, not only because the rank of the hundred households in the army is far higher than him, but after all, it is someone who comes to assist his family in dividing the land, and besides, the county officials in this world are not as good as the current management, and if they offend the officer who is in charge of them for no reason, they will be put on small shoes, so it is better to wait at the entrance of the village early at this moment.

The habit of being cultivated in the army for a long time made Shi Daniu have no intention of leaning on or squatting on the ground even if his arm is injured, and he stands straight at the entrance of the village facing the sun, motionless, as if he is still standing guard in the army.

Occasionally, the villagers passed by the entrance of the village, and when they saw his standing posture, they couldn't help but praise his might, and some of the big girls and little daughters-in-law who went to the stream outside the village to wash clothes privately communicated with the newly moved family in the village, not only got a large piece of land, but also did not have to pay taxes, just like a small landlord. At this moment, seeing Shi Daniu, who is an honest and responsible person, some women in the girl's house clothes can't help but blush slightly, and they don't know what they are thinking.

"Big brother."

Hearing the hurried footsteps in the village, Shi Da Niu turned around and greeted his young brother. The Shi family Ding is prosperous, his father's generation is still in Shaoxing and not mentioned, his parents are there, he is the eldest son, in addition to the second brother who has been killed in battle, there are two younger sisters in the family and this younger brother who is not yet twelve years old. If he hadn't been fortunate enough to join the army, he was afraid that he would have to sell his sons and daughters without waiting for the Qing army to encircle and suppress them, otherwise he and his second brother would have sold their labor alone, and the family would have starved to death if it didn't get it right.

Because of the double blow of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's excesses of taxes and the increase in rents of the gentry, the ancestral land was lost, and the Shi family was once on the verge of family ruin.

Fortunately, those days of hunger and cold have long gone, since he became Chen Dashuai, the current Linhai Earl Chen's soldiers, even in the days of Tiantai Mountain, plus work for relief, the family can always eat and drink enough, and now they have been allocated land that does not have to pay taxes. It's a pity that his second brother died in the arsenal of Fucheng a month ago, otherwise this family should be so happy.

His younger brother carried a bamboo basket with breakfast and jugs that Shi Da Niu had not had time to eat and drink. I touched my stomach, I have been eating on time in the army for a long time, and I am indeed hungry at the moment. Shi Da Niu picked up the cake and ate it with the pickled side dishes, but his mind remembered the big pot of rice in the army, especially the meat dishes that could be shared during training and combat.

The mother's cooking is better than that of the men in the army, but unfortunately it is rarely eaten at home. Now that the land is divided, it shouldn't be like before, and you can't see a few pieces of meat in a meat dish alone.

After eating, Shi Daniu, who still only has one arm to use, lifted the jug, raised his head and drank a few large mouthfuls of water, burped, and only felt refreshed.

When he just remembered something, he wanted to talk to his younger brother, but he saw a large cart with the banner of the hundred households of Tangya Town standing on it in the distance, and they were rushing towards the entrance of the village. Shi Daniu knew that this was the guard who came to assist in dividing the land, so he hurriedly greeted him, while his younger brother hurriedly ran home with a bamboo basket.

When Shi Daniu got closer, he realized that there were not only hundreds of households and small officials in the guard, but also a team of reserve soldiers wearing Ming army uniforms, which was supposed to be used to suppress possible opponents. There were also oxen and farm implements on the cart, one had been given before, and this one was his.

After meeting the 100 households, Shi Daniu said that he would go to the house to have some breakfast before dividing the land. Seeing this, the hundred households knew that it was strictly forbidden to eat and take cards when assisting in the division of land, and hurriedly said that it was better to divide the land first, so this group of people, together with Shi Daniu's parents who came over, went to the fields outside the village together.

A few days ago, he was beheaded along with the cunning people who were raised and the uncles and brothers who were extremely evil, and the family property was confiscated, and only some of the family members survived. It's just that the family immediately became destitute without land, and could only go to the town to do some bookkeeping, teaching and other livelihoods, and the team of backup soldiers brought by the hundred households was to prevent the family from coming out to make trouble.

When he came to the field outside the village next to the creek, the little official took the reserve soldiers to demarcate and mark the border. The newly allocated land is adjacent to the land that the Shi family had just allocated two days ago, but the little official still asked the reserve soldiers to erect the stone monument of the demarcation step by step. Because although the land is all from the Shi family, one is the martyr Shi Erniu's pension field, and the other is the military field and military merit field of Wu Changshi Daniu, so naturally it cannot be confused.

During the period of friendship between Baihu and Shi Daniu in the army, the small officials and reserve soldiers quickly completed the work. Shi Erniu's pension field is full of 40 acres, and the quartermaster department he served in before his death not only burned the silver, but also issued a special bonus to reward Shi Erniu's dedication. In contrast, the land that Shi Da Niu had just divided, there were ten acres of military land that he used as an active soldier, and twenty acres of military merit land that was counted together with the decapitation of the team, which was less than his brother's, but when he thought that the land was exchanged for his brother's life, Shi Da Niu couldn't help but sigh.

After confirming that the land was divided, the ploughing cattle and farm tools were also handed over to the Shi family, and after confirming that they were correct, Shi Daniu, who participated in the literacy eradication in the army and learned to write his own name, wrote his name crookedly on the receipt, and pressed his handprint on it, before handing it over to the hundred households headed by him.

The hundred households are veterans who have been wounded and retired from the old Nantang battalion, although the rear of the Siming Mountain Palace was a Xin post on the flank battlefield during the war, and Shi Daniu on the main battlefield did not know each other, but the friendship of going to the battlefield together has not decreased. Since the work has been completed, Shi Daniu invited the hundred households to eat and drink at home, and privately said that there would be a statement, hoping that the hundred households would be able to take care of his family in the future.

This is what it should mean, but the scene in the Qianhu House before the division of the land is still fresh in his memory, so he has to say that he still has work in the afternoon, and it is not good to eat and drink here, and he and the Shi family brothers are comrades, and it is appropriate to take care of them. Then he left with everyone, and the Shi family simply loaded a large number of cakes and pickles from home, and brought a jar of village brew to 100 households.

These things are not worth much, they are all used for home. When the hundred households saw that there was no silver, they divided it with peace of mind.

The Shi family's land distribution was completed, and he did have work to do in the afternoon. It's still a matter of dividing the land, and it's going to be busy for a long time. Because in addition to these martyrs and soldiers, the reserve soldiers who came with him had to be allocated military leased land, so these people were even more motivated to work than him.

Seeing the crowd leave, Shi Daniu followed his parents to meet the group of tenants waiting in the courtyard of the house, and these tenants had rented the two fields that the Shi family had been allotted. The Shi family now does not have enough heavy labor to cultivate, except for a few acres of vegetable fields planted by Shi's father, the rest of the land can only attract tenants to collect rent. In this case, they found those tenants who used to rent from the Shengyuan's house, all of whom were villagers in this village, and they could be regarded as making a living from others.

According to his mother's request, Shi Daniu showed his identity as an active officer of the Nantang Battalion in front of everyone, and in the eyes of everyone, he was considered to have completed his prestige, and then his father announced the proportion of rent.

It's just that after hearing this, the tenants who were still a little worried showed a look of surprise, because the rent of the Shi family was nearly ten percent lower than that of the Shengyuan's family, and those who had no cattle and farm tools benefited from this, and the hostility towards the strangers who moved from this family was also reduced a lot.

The work of dividing the land was widely carried out in the areas occupied by the Ming army, not only the military households that were allocated land by the people, but even the soldiers who had to face a large number of Qing troops in the northern and southern armies at any time were also jubilant, and their morale was far better than before, and even the Ming army's several great victories failed to have a higher morale at this moment.

Because land is the most important property of the ancient Chinese, it is the foundation of their life. Having land means having the possibility of thriving and thriving.

At the same time as the division of land was carried out, Chen Wen also received a report from the Department of Military Industry. One is about the wheel-type bolt, while the other is about granulated black powder. One of these two military technological innovations came from Chen Wen's memory, and the other had already begun to be used in the Ming Dynasty, but the popularization did not cover the Ming army in Dalanshan.

However, as the interrogation unfolded, Chen Wen also learned from the report of the criminal officer that the reason why these two military technological innovations did not succeed was because of the obstruction of the civilian officials of the Ordnance Department, who tried to use this to continue to hold the authority of the Ordnance Department in their hands and prevent Chen Wen from infiltrating and elevating in the name of offering a reward.

After getting that report, Chen Wen at that time could not be said to cry and laugh, he did have the intention of eroding the rights of civilian officials under the banner of Jinhua Town, but he never intended to empty those professional civilian officials who were in charge of weapons manufacturing when Wang Yi was alive, and not even planned to empty them, but also planned to further expand the Ordnance Division, and at the same time promote the level of the department and the official position of civilian officials.

I would have turned my heart to the bright moon, but the bright moon shone on the ditch. Since they had to die on a crucial weapon revolution, it was better for their whole family to die together.

It's just that Chen Wen didn't expect that those civilian officials would be executed on the front foot, and these two military scientific and technological innovations would make progress so quickly, and he really didn't know what to say for a while.

The so-called wheel-type bolt is a kind of flintlock bolt, Chen Wen drew it according to his memory, and checked it several times before sending a reward, but he didn't expect to be calculated. The report just obtained indicated that some parts needed to be adjusted before they could be used, and Chen Wen certainly did not disagree with this, so he immediately went to the Military Industry Department, and after verification, he personally handed over the reward to the bird craftsman who was originally under Yu Guowang's account, in exchange for the craftsman's thousand thanks.

However, the production speed of the wheel-type bolt machine is still not up, and it still needs a long time of technical accumulation to equip the troops in large quantities.

There is no doubt about this, and Chen Wen also knows that the popularization of flintlock pistols is full of ups and downs. Fortunately, the technical difficulty of granulated gunpowder is very low, and it can be put into mass production immediately together with the fixed medicine package, only raw materials may affect the production speed, and how to improve the acquisition of raw materials Chen Wen feels that some means are still needed. Firearms are the trend of weapons, and Chen Wen must try to ensure the availability of raw materials, but there are some things that can be developed in advance.

In addition, since the material has begun to be strong, of course, the spirit must also be strong, because the key to victory or defeat on the battlefield is the will to fight, and faith and propaganda must act immediately. (To be continued.) )