"This is a meeting of unity, a meeting of victory, and a meeting of carrying forward the past and forging ahead into the future. The gentry who attended the meeting expressed their indignation at the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the lackeys and villains under their command, and generously purchased the loans of the government to increase military resources, greatly assisted the construction of the new guard station and the subsequent military operations of sending troops to recover the lost territory, and showed the great patriotic enthusiasm of the disciples of the Holy Religion in the counties of Jinhua Prefecture. ”

At least in some of the later history books of private seals, it is not within the scope of the consideration of those conscientious historical inventors as to what the parties think.

The aftermath meeting of Wang Shiguang's recovery of Jinhua Mansion ended at nightfall of the same day, and the nearly 100 gentry and wealthy families present pinched their noses and bought a large loan of less than 8,000 taels for the captivity, and then politely declined Chen Wen's fundraising dinner, and each left in a hurry, and this is counting the 1,000 taels of silver that had been contracted for ten years before.

As for the old man who subscribed for 1,000 taels, it was Sun Yu's father-in-law, Lao Taishan, who was specially recruited by Chen Wen, and was commonly known as "nursery".

Because Sun Yu participated in Yin Can's anti-Qing rebel army, the Yi family was repeatedly blackmailed by Manchu officials in Jinhua Mansion, and later after Ma Jinbao moved to Jinhua Mansion, he almost dragged this old Mr. Yi to pour vinegar, if he didn't show enough humility and did not hesitate to dedicate all the properties in the city and counties and even other prefectures to Ma Jinbao, I am afraid that even his life may not be saved.

In this way, the big families in Jinhua Mansion plummeted, and a large family hid in a dilapidated house in the area of Liudong Mountain and starved for several years, cultivating the only few acres of thin fields left in the mountains. It wasn't until more than a month after the Ming army recovered Jinhua Mansion that Sun Yu's father-in-law's family learned that the Jinhua prefect who came back with the Ming army was his son-in-law, so they rushed back to the city to meet Sun Yu's family before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

For these gentry and wealthy families who helped the Ming army, Chen Wen said that he would definitely write down their merits. And it will be recorded together with the righteous people who donated money and goods to the Ming army and passed on the information, and when they recover Nanjing Yingluan, they will show their loyalty to the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven will definitely reward them.

As a result, after discovering that Chen Wen had such a good habit of keeping accounts, those "anti-Qing people" who were afraid that after the defeat of the Ming army, they would lock up according to Chen Wen's account books, so they had to pinch their noses and subscribe to part of the large loans for caption. It's just that most of the purchase amount chose the lowest face value, but the old master who once pointed at Chen Wen's nose and denounced his "reputation problem" subscribed for 800 taels in private, which is the largest loan except for "childcare".

Less than eight thousand taels of silver, and subtracting the one thousand taels, these silver are nothing at all for this army that is in urgent need of funds to improve its strength, but for Chen Wen, it is already a surprise.

From the aftermath of the big loans, to the installment payments, to the expropriation of the big loans. In addition to obtaining start-up funds to survive the most difficult months before the start of the summer tax, Chen Wen's aim was more important to tie the local gentry and common people to the Ming army in order to gain more support. As for whether these people were willing, Chen Wen didn't care at all.

At least in his opinion, as long as the army in his hands is enough to resist the Qing army, hold this land and recover more lost territory, these people will not make any trouble at all, but will increase their support for the Ming army after the Ming army gains the initiative. In order to maintain his position after the rise of the Ming Dynasty and go further, and he has also given these people a vested benefit from today. and the opportunity to get a name again.

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Half a month later, Jinhuawei, which had just been established, began to distribute the first batch of acres. At this moment, outside a small village adjacent to Phoenix Mountain in the southwest of Yongkang County, the thousands of households guarding the Thousand Households of Yongkang County and the civil officials of the Guard Office are directing the Guard Station and the county officials to demarcate the boundaries of the fields.

Much of the land in this village had been seized by the Qing army stationed in Yongkang County, and because it was not far from the county seat, it was close to Yongkang Creek for irrigation. Most of the families who were seized from the land were persecuted to the point of extinction, and several families of the martyrs and disabled soldiers of the first batch of land division of the Ming army were divided here, including the family of Ding Keji, a soldier who died in the battle behind the palace of Siming Mountain.

After a busy morning under the vigilant gaze of the surviving people, the officials of the Thousand Households finally drew the line and left the place with the gratitude of the widows of the Ding family and the families of other martyrs and disabled soldiers. Continue to supervise the work elsewhere.

After Ding Keji was killed, the Ding family was given forty acres of land, which could not be distributed because the Ming army under Chen Wen lived in Tiantai Mountain, and it was not until now that it was finally settled. These 40 acres of land are Yongye land, and there is no need to pay any taxes for 20 years, and the mother and son of the Ding family do not have to bear the burden of forced labor, and it has been assigned to the name of Ding Keji, and he can change the owner of the land when his son grows up.

The reason for this is mainly to consider the possible problem of remarriage, so the land of the fallen soldiers is temporarily attributed to his name, and the name change is also guaranteed when the orphans of the people grow up.

In the same village, there were disabled soldiers and military martyrs like widows of the Ding family, not to mention, one of the fallen soldiers not only had no heirs, but the other family members were also no longer alive, and he joined the army alone in Dalan Mountain, and was killed in the battle behind the palace of Siming Mountain. According to the plan, Chen Wen selected an orphan who was not very old, let him recognize the fallen soldier as his father-in-law, and changed his surname, so as to repay the land for the pension.

It's just that this land is still in the name of the soldier for the time being, and the land is also cultivated by someone from a thousand households, and his righteous son is arranged to be raised and educated in a subsidiary institution of Jinhuawei, and the land and harvest will not be owned by him until he becomes an adult.

Compared to this fallen soldier, Ding Keji was lucky, at least he had a son of his own, and a wife who was willing to guard for him......

After the officials of the guard station left, Liu Cheng, the captain of Ding Keji when he was alive, and most of the surviving comrades of the Fourth Mandarin Duck Array Killer Team of the former Nantang Camp A Outpost also rushed over to assist the Ding family's mother and son in setting up a tomb for Ding Keji in a place where the feng shui was not bad, so as to facilitate worship.

With a hoe and a shovel, An Youfu and Shi Da Niu dug the tomb used to place the clothes little by little, and when the mother and son of the Ding family put the clothes left by Ding Keji into it, they began to seal the grave. While An Youfu and Shi Daniu were busy, Liu Cheng and his two other colleagues found the stonemason they had found before. After paying the money, the tombstone custom-made by Ding Keji was loaded into the ox cart assigned by the Ding family and pulled it over.

After setting up the tombstone, the mother and son of the Ding family, Liu Cheng, An Youfu, Shi Daniu and others lit incense and candles, offered tribute, and began to worship.

"Husband, the bereavement land promised by Chen Dashuai has been distributed. In the future, the concubine and Jie'er will live here, always guarding you, guarding this land that you have exchanged for your life, and will always raise the child to adulthood, so as to pass on the ...... of the Ding family."

In the smoke and dust of burning paper money, during the whimpering female voice of the widow of the Ding family, Liu Cheng and other Ding Keji's comrades all showed sentimental feelings, and An Youfu and Shi Daniu, who were closest to Ding Keji, were even more tearful, and crossed their cheeks one by one. Remembering the help and friendship that the big brother who has been dead for more than a year gave them in the first place.

After the mother and son of the Ding family bowed and kowtowed, it was Liu Cheng's turn, but Liu Cheng was Ding Keji's boss before his death, so it was naturally not good to kowtow and worship, so he bowed a few times, while An Youfu, Shi Daniu and others bowed directly in front of the grave.

Telling the anecdotes of the army in the past year or so, as well as the previous battles of the Ming army after setting out from Tiantai Mountain, Ding Keji's comrades-in-arms are reminiscing about the past while also feeling sad about their comrades who have passed away one step ahead of them. Until a long time later. Everyone left Ding's house and went to a tavern in Yongkang County. Even An Youfu, who has already confirmed that the garrison is here, is no exception.

Late at night, the owner of the tavern had already fallen asleep, but Liu Cheng, An Youfu, Shi Daniu and others were still drinking, but the young man was still dozing off on the curved ruler-shaped counter.

It's just that on the table at the moment, except for Liu Cheng. Only one soldier who used to be under his command was still chatting with him, a former direct superior, and the most talked about was the granting of acres of land and the granting of fields for military merits. Listening to Liu Cheng, an old official who had already stepped into the door of a senior officer with half a foot, telling the inside story that only had a chance to be known in their class, I could only hear that the former soldier was excited, and he toasted Chen Wen who was far away in Jinhua Mansion City and the old Shangguan Liu Cheng in front of him. As if that was a way to express his gratitude. As for the others, they all fell drunk on the table, yawning one after another, as an accompaniment.

Today is the day to set up a well-dressed grave for Ding Keji, recalling that when he first entered the barracks, he always offended people with his open mouth, and even collided with the military judge, but every time Ding Keji comforted him, helped him gain a foothold in the team, and sheltered him from the wind and rain on the battlefield. The former brother has long since passed away, and An Youfu, who was in pain in his heart, was the first to get drunk on the table without accident, and Shi Daniu, who had always been honest and honest to the point of being a little stupid, quickly became drunk after An Youfu got drunk.

In front of everyone, Shi Daniu, whose face was full of tears, drank wine and cried about the details of Ding Keji's death, and later began to slap his own mouth fiercely, so hard that everyone was really startled, and even blood was faintly flowing from the corners of his mouth. However, Liu Cheng, who was an old official, stopped the attempts of others to dissuade him, and just silently watched Shi Daniu vent the self-blame that had accumulated in his heart for a long time. Until the moment when he was exhausted and could no longer support it and was drunk, Shi Daniu's self-blame of "If I could react faster, maybe Third Brother Ding would not have died" always echoed in his ears.

The wine was drunk all night, only Liu Cheng, who has always had a lot of alcohol, was drinking slowly, while the others were drunk and fell asleep, woke up and continued to drink, only Shi Daniu never got up after being drunk and crazy, and was not awakened by the people who were about to return to the station until the next day.

In addition to Liu Cheng and An Youfu, Shi Daniu and others remained in the barracks after this reorganization, among which Shi Daniu, who was a senior veteran, was promoted to the captain of the team they used to be, and worked under the new captain Luo Yongzhong.

Unlike these lowest-level officers, Liu Cheng had been appointed by Chen Wen as a guerrilla general by virtue of his outstanding performance in the defense of Yiwu City, responsible for the defense of the entire Dongyang County, and became the first of the middle-level officers of the Nantang battalion to become a general. Of course, it is still not comparable to Lou Jiye, who already has the rank of assistant deputy chief soldier in charge of the General Staff, but compared with the first batch of captains of the other Nantang battalions, he is already the fastest promoted.

Everyone embarked on the boat, they all wanted to go down the Yongkang River and arrive at Jinhuafu City, among which Liu Cheng was going to go up the river to the military camp in Dongyang County after entering the Dongyang River, and only An Youfu was still on the shore to see them off.

"Brother An, don't you think about it again? Brother, I can still say a few words from Wu Dashuai, it shouldn't be a problem to transfer you back to the barracks, Yongkang County is not a place where you can seize military merits, why spend your time here in vain. ”

Hearing this, An Youfu shook his head, and then said to Liu Cheng: "Team Leader Liu, when Third Brother Ding was martyred, I promised him to take care of his orphans, and now it is a good thing to be able to stay in Yongkang County nearby to be the commander of the garrison Qian, please forgive me." ”

"Hey."

An Youfu's answer made Liu Cheng sigh, although this old subordinate has a lot of problems and has been punished a lot, but his military merits are also not a few, and the number of killings of the Qing army alone and with the assistance of others during his time as a soldier is still at the top of the list. During this reorganization, there was an opportunity for the sentry commander of the Nantang Battalion and the training officer of the Military Training Department to choose, but he chose to come to Yongkang County, which had nothing to do with military merits, to serve as the commander of the garrison garrison.

Angry at the unwisdom of this old subordinate, but this righteousness and the spirit of keeping his promise still made Liu Cheng admire, so he had to jump on the boat after saying a word, and began to set off for the Dongyang County garrison camp where he was about to preside over military affairs.

At the same time, dozens of miles south of Liu Cheng's destination, in a forest outside Hengdian Town, a man in a Ming army uniform was burning paper money, telling a grave in front of him that did not even have a tombstone.

"Father, mother, the child is now a soldier in Chen Dashuai's army, and he also has military exploits in the first battle of Xiaoshun Town, and he is no longer the house slave under the fence he once was, but an upright warrior in the army. In the future, if you have military merits, you can also marry a daughter-in-law and leave a ...... for our family."

“…… Not long ago, Chen Dashuai ordered the distribution of land, and when the child got the land, he used the previous military merit reward to move the graves of his grandparents and your second elder to our own land, not to be angry in front of the Feng family, and the descendants will no longer be the slaves of the Feng family! (To be continued.) )

PS: Today's second update, make up for the previous chapter owed, and I will try to write as much as I can when I take time out in the future. However, the author is not full-time, if there is an occasional break, please forgive the readers, and I will try my best to make up for it.