Early the next morning, the edict messenger set off in a hurry. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 However, according to the report of the escort sent by Chen Wen, not long after the group left Nanchang Mansion City, one of them left the team and headed west. The purpose of this is self-explanatory.

The edict envoy left Nanchang and went everywhere to announce the decree. After yesterday's banquet, today, the civil and military generals of Nanchang Xingyuan, the prince of Huiji County, and the governor of Jiangxi and his subordinate yamen, who had just changed their signboards, also began to be busy with tension.

At present, the control area of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is divided into three parts: the civil affairs of the eight prefectures in eastern Zhejiang are in charge of Sun Yu, the governor of Zhejiang, and the military is in accordance with the established practice, each prefecture and county has garrisons, and the key defense areas have war barracks to assist in the defense, and the defense is completely complete; The situation was similar in the ten prefectures in the north-central part of Jiangxi, except that the administrative system had just been laid, and the control was far inferior to that of Zhejiang. The last piece is the Southern Jiangxi region, including Nan'an, Ganzhou, Nanxiong, and Tingzhou, which belong to the military management, and the military commander in charge is Hou Guoyuan, the commander of the Nantang Battalion who is about to be named Yongkangbo. As for Shao Wu, he was temporarily assigned to Jiangxi to be responsible, but it would take about half a month before the handover was completed.

Of the three regions, Zhejiang has the longest recovery time, and its rule is relatively stable, and even the scholars have been tossed back and forth a few times, at least except for Ning Shao, there is no one left who dares to come out and show no signs. In the two mansions of Ningshao, Chen Wen also has the government, the criminal department, the guard, the garrison, the war barracks and collaborators such as Huang Zongxi and Lu Yuding.

As for the two newly recovered areas, Nanjiang is a military management area, and the system of civilian officials and officers in the health post will be gradually unfolded, but there is still some time before the end of military management. In contrast, what really needs to be fully operated now is the core area of Jiangxi Province, the central and northern parts of Poyang Lake.

"Jiangxi Province fell to the first year of Hongguang ......"

The first year of Hongguang was 1645 A.D., the second year of Jiashen. The fall of Jiangxi, first of all, Zuo Liangyu's general Jin Shengheng and the Wang Tizhong of the Dashun army successively surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and conquered Jiangxi for the Manchu Qing Dynasty. In just two or three months, all the provinces in Jiangxi fell into the hands of the Qing army, except for Nanjiang, and this was completed during this period when an internal strife broke out within the Qing army.

As a result of the internal strife, the important general of the Dashun Army, Bai Wang, was eliminated by internal strife, and Wang Deren was killed under the trap of Jin Shengheng and Wang Ti in the middle of the body, and Jiangxi's military affairs changed from the duality of Jin Shengheng and Wang Tiren to a situation in which Jin Shengheng was the main and Wang Deren was supplemented.

"In the second year of Yongli, Jin Shengheng and Wang Deren announced that they would ...... anyway"

On the one hand, Jin Shengheng thought that he had taken Jiangxi Province without spending a single soldier in Manchuria, and wanted to obtain the right to control civil and military affairs and act cheaply, and became the emperor of Jiangxi, but was rejected by the Manchu court; On the other hand, in the process of collecting Jiangxi, he and Wang Deren became nouveau riche by extorting a batch of gold and silver treasures, and the newly appointed governor of Jiangxi by the Qing court, Zhang Yutian, and Dong Xuecheng, the governor of Jiangxi, were red-eyed, alarmist, and coerced them to offer money, such as Wang Deren was forced by Zhang Yutian to pay 300,000 taels of silver on the way to attack Jianchang Mansion!

Since the tongue can't solve the problem, the only way to do it is to use force. However, in any case, Jin Shengheng first failed to besiege Ganzhou, and then was besieged by the Qing army responsible for suppression in Nanchang until he died, and Jiangxi Province also suffered another catastrophe.

According to the investigation, when the Tartars suppressed Jin Shengheng, the army plundered and drove 100,000 people to dig trenches, and the people only had one meal of porridge a day, and the dead were not counted. And the women who were given were taken from each flag, and they were fornicated day and night. After the trench was excavated, men and women were sold together, and the fields, mountains, houses, and Qiu tombs of dozens of miles to the left of Nanchang Mansion were all destroyed by the Tartars. ”

This is only the siege of Nanchang in history, the next Nanchang massacre, 200,000 martyrs, hundreds of years later during the War of Resistance against Japan, the Japanese massacre in Nanchang is only one-third of this number. And the goods they plundered are even more innumerable, as Tan Tai and He Luo will report to pacify Jiangxi Jieyin: "Nanchang, Jiujiang, Nankang, Ruizhou, Linjiang, Yuanzhou and other prefectures and places are all peaceful, and the gold and silver, mules and horses, boats, beads, pearls, pearls, corals, jade silk, mink fur and other things are not counted. ”

Speaking of which, on murder, on obscenity and humiliation of women and children, and on robbery, I in the Qing Dynasty did not follow the three-light policy and the world had three lights, and little Japan could only bow to the upper hand!

After the Tatars captured Nanchang, the struggle in Jiangxi Province did not end there. Hundreds of thousands of righteous troops, including the late Jiangxi Governor Jiegong Chongxi, Dingnan Marquis Cao Gong Da Ho, Ninghong Bohong Principality Yu, Yan Luo General Battalion, Jiulong Battalion and other departments, as well as Pingjiang Bo Zhang Shuai in the division of our Jiangsu and Zhejiang kings, fought bloody battles with the Tartars for many years. It was not until the fifth year of Yongli that Yang Minggao, the governor of Fujian, and Wang Zhigang, the chief soldier of the left road, led their troops to suppress them, and they began to fall into a trough step by step. ”

According to Pingjiangbo, in the sixth year of Yongli, his Dajueyan in Jianchang Mansion had been besieged by the Tartars, and if it wasn't for Wang Zhigang's sudden withdrawal, I am afraid that he would have been martyred. The reason why Wang Zhigang's thieves evacuated was precisely because our army defeated the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian in Longyou County, and then besieged Quzhou. ”

"Good!"

"Back then, the king rose up to invite the capture division, which led to the rescue of the Pingjiang Bo Division, and the Pingjiang Bo Department was merged into my Jiangsu and Zhejiang Wang Division, and now it seems that it is the will of God."

For the Ming army, no one thought of this at that time, even Chen Wen. But now it sounds like the participants are inexplicably happy. Chen Wen thought about it carefully, it seemed that this was really the case, but if he thought about it carefully, if the chain reaction of all this led to a future opponent, rather than a member of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies being rescued, probably they would not be like this, and nine times out of ten they would still spit out some kind of ingratitude and the like.

The following discussion soon ceased, and the official who spoke continued to read out the results of the investigation: "However, the Tartars have slaughtered the people in the midst of many soldiers in these years. According to the summary of the local situation sent by various prefectures and counties, the loss of population and private wealth in Jiangxi Province is likely to be even greater than that of Zhejiang! ”

Jiangxi in the Ming Dynasty is not like the later generations, but it is not inferior to the population of Zhejiang, and it is extremely rich, otherwise it is difficult to support the grand occasion of the imperial examination of "Hanlin Duoji Water, and the courtiers are half of Jiangxi".

However, after several years of war, especially the slaughter of the Qing army, many places have become uninhabited. Zhang Dai, a contemporary of the time, recorded with his own experience: "In August, Yu Shang Sanqu, entered Guangxin, passed through the state and county, in a city, but there were several thatched huts, and the rest were basil thorns, and I fell into tears when I saw it. After interrogating the elder, Gu Yan Bingxie repeated it. ”

In history, Cai Shiying's successor Lang Tingzuo also mentioned in the recital: "However, my country is dying of the land of southern service, the end of the Ming Dynasty is desolate, floods and droughts are frequent, withering has not risen, and it has not risen for five years, the gold is chaotic, killing people and frolicking, the land of the river is the land of Yingcheng and the wilderness, the people of the river are the people of the bones and bones, and the giant rebellion is the head, stupid and the mountain is infested impermanently, the ants gather and Zhang, where they are informed, the people are sown and moved to the soldiers, and the people who are turned in the ravines for another three years, and the age of He Renchen is dead, the drought is raging, and the first is the death of five out of ten soldiers, and then the death of the year (drought) Five out of ten, all one or two widows are the remnants of the military revolution and apprentices. ”

Lang Tingzuo and his cousins have three governors of Jiangxi, and they know Jiangxi very well. However, he himself is a banner man, and he has been a veteran traitor under Nurhachi since his father, and his recital inevitably exonerates the crimes of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but the tragic situation in Jiangxi Province has many circumstantial evidence.

"Gentlemen, this is the Jiangxi we have just recovered. And we want to restore the people's livelihood in Jiangxi Province, just like in Zhejiang. ”

In the past few years in Zhejiang, Chen Wen has done a lot of "outrageous" things in terms of people's livelihood, such as tax exemption in areas that have suffered from military disasters, strict governance, return of fire consumption to the public, and separation of justice and administration. In particular, Jinhua Mansion is now a chaotic paradise with rows of shops in the city, endless riverside workshops, and boundless farmland in the countryside.

Even among the gentry who were dissatisfied with the Ming military group, even if they paid lip service to this and that, if they were allowed to live in the Manchu Qing Dynasty or other Ming occupied areas, many people would not want to go back to the days when they were being subjected to the school by Manchu officials every day.

"What the king said is very true, we can copy the governance and system in Zhejiang, but Jiangxi also has its own problems, especially to try to restore people's livelihood at a faster speed, which is the current priority. If you have any ideas, you can speak freely. ”

In terms of civil affairs, the main person in charge of Jiangxi is Wang Jiang, and it is inevitable that Chen Wen will attend the meeting, but more often than not, Wang Jiang will personally preside over it.

Hearing the governor's question here, after a very short period of exchange of words among the civil officials present, one of the civil officials took the lead in standing up and replied: "The lower officials think that all industries are based on agriculture, and only with grain can other industries develop. ”

Confucianism values agriculture, and what civil officials say is not out of this category, but what Wang Jiang wants to hear is more detailed advice, rather than such a general direction of governance.

"What is your strategy?"

"Back to the words of the governor of the king, the lower officials thought that they should be headed by tuntian and reclamation."

As soon as these words came out, whether they were civil officials or military generals, all the participants frowned.

The Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming armies practiced the system of awarding land for military merits, and paid far more attention to the land as a means of production than any other; this civilian official spoke in the hall to reclaim the land, and it was impossible for him to speak for the military households, but if a large amount of land was distributed to the civilian households, the army's recruitment work would not go well at all, and the pot would definitely be thrown over, and Chen Wen would inevitably go to the army's side. All in all, it was a purely thankless effort, and no one could be surprised by his boldness.

However, the civil official didn't see the surprise around him, and continued to say to himself: "According to the investigation of the lower officials these days, the Tartars began to issue orders for reclamation very early......

In the early years of Shunzhi, the Manchu court issued an edict, ordering the government in all parts of the world to recruit displaced people and cultivate the wasteland. However, as soon as this man opened his mouth, the brows of the congregation, including him, were even deeper.

"However, the lower officials found that, like Zhejiang, Jiangxi's reclamation due to the examination of the captive court, there is often a phenomenon of forcibly taxing the barren land as mature land, but it is putting the cart before the horse, increasing the burden on the people."

Since the entry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the people's livelihood has withered, and the land has been abandoned in a large area. In this situation, reclamation was an active policy to restore production, but in order to meet the huge military expenditures and the huge material needs of the Eight Banners, the Manchus were very eager to achieve quick results in this matter.

In the sixth year of Shunzhi, "the officials above the county level of the state were selected to persuade reclamation, and the number of persuasions was the advantage and disadvantage, and the Taoist government was the most industrious and lazy to supervise and urge." ”

In this way, in the face of the huge pressure of passing the examination, the local government has played the trick of "digitizing" the ripe fields. That is, falsely claiming that the barren land is ripe land, and after reporting the figures for completing the examination, and then apportioning the taxes that need to be paid for those ripe fields on paper to the ordinary people, which directly leads to the people having to give up the land and become displaced people before the huge tax pressure.

"Therefore, the lower officials think that the reclamation should be based on stability, and it is necessary to avoid rushing for quick success and quick profit, so as to prevent similar incidents from happening."

Not only did he not ask for more efforts to reclaim land for households, but he demanded stability first, and this civil official obviously had already figured out this matter. As soon as this remark came out, the civilian side avoided the pressure of passing the examination, and the military side did not have to worry about the contradiction between land reclamation and land division, and got extra points in both aspects.

Chen Wen and Wang Jiang glanced at each other, and then Wang Jiang said to the civil official: "Senator Xu is reasonable, this matter is indeed not to be handled. ”

Xu Meiwen, the same acquaintance in charge of Tuntian in Nanchang Prefecture, came from Pinghu County, Jiaxing Prefecture, and had been working in the prefect's yamen in Jinhua. He was in charge of the tuntian for a long time, so that he knew the shortcomings of the Manchu tuntian and the contradiction between the reclamation and the division of land, so he got this first point.

Seeing that Xu Meiwen's opinion was adopted, other civil officials were also eager to try, and next, Wang Jiang ordered a civil official who was responsible for tax collection in the yamen of the political envoy.

"Senator Rong, what do you have to say?"

"Returning to the king, returning to the governor of the king, and the lower officials checked the records, and the court in a province of Jiangxi was given 1,726,970 taels of silver, and 900,753 stones of rice, which was levied according to the old practice in the Wanli period."

Many people know about this matter, this political envoy named Rong Qian was famous for his ability to calculate numbers when he was in the civil service training class, and if it was just a tax figure, it was not worth his export, and there would be a future to think about it.

Sure enough, taking a breath, Rong Qian continued: "In addition, like Zhejiang, the Tatars have not completely suspended the levy on Jiangxi's Liaoyu......"