Chapter 92: Violent Land Reform
Open the county Yan Mansion.
"Master, although Su Zemin said that he was just a poor sour literati who couldn't even pass the county test before, but now he is the county magistrate appointed by the thieves after all, so it's not good for us to kill him like this."
Yan Hui's wife, Qi, was a little worried, and said to Yan Hui, a strict prison student who was lying on the couch and smoking hookah.
Yan Jiansheng snorted lightly, knocked the cigarette holder on the wooden floor, and snorted disappetically into the spittoon brought by a maid: "What are you afraid of, does that kid from the Su family think that if he becomes a thief, he can take away the thirty acres of paddy fields from the old man from the old man, and he doesn't want to think about who has the final say in this county!" Don't be afraid, the old man has already greeted the Luo Dong master of Tuhuang Village, just a few days, these thieves will come to attack the county seat, since the Su family kid can be a county commander under the Han family thief, is it possible that Lao Tzu can't be a serious supervisor and a parent official? ”
Here, as the strict prison student was talking, he saw his family's servant running in in a panic: "Master, the county government is here again." ”
"What's the panic, just fight out, don't be afraid of someone's life, the old man doesn't believe that the Han family thieves dare to act recklessly in my Kaixian County?"
Yan Jiansheng is very confident, but it is no wonder that his grandfather is a jinshi during the Apocalypse, and he is also the first Jinshi in Kaixian County since the Tang and Song dynasties, so the Yan family also followed the chicken dog to ascend to heaven, and gradually became a first-class family in Kaixian County by virtue of the prestige and prestige of this Jinshi master, plus over the years, the Yan family has used the family power to arbitrarily occupy fertile land and dominate the market, and has almost become the emperor of the soil in Kaixian County, and even the government can't suppress it, so Yan Jiansheng, who has always been arrogant, didn't know how to write the word "afraid" since he was a child.
Just as Yan Jiansheng was waiting for the thieves of Tuhuangzhai to occupy the county seat and appoint him as the county commander, there was a loud and lively crowd shouting outside.
"Folks, the Yan Mansion that has been waiting for decades is just around the corner, we can't let a bully gentry like him oppress us again, now we will respond to Yang Gongzi's call to break in, catch the vampire Yan Jiansheng, judge him, execute him, and take back the land he has embezzled! Do you think it's good? ”
"Good!"
Xiao Xiancheng, like other officials of the Han Army, has received basic training and knows how to publicize and mobilize the masses, otherwise there would not be so many people following now, and as soon as he arrived at the gate of the Yan Mansion, he told and shouted again: "Folks, the bully Yan Jiansheng is inside, it is he who killed the Su County Commander who wants to divide the land for us, and now we will follow the soldiers of the Han Army to break in and capture Yan Jiansheng alive!" ”
"Capture the prisoner alive!"
Except for all the soldiers of the Third Standard and First Division of the New Fifth Battalion of the Han Army, who were responsible for assisting, they remained silent, and the people who came with them all shouted and cheered loudly, and at this time, the servants of the Yan Mansion also rushed out, and directly brandished their spears and poked at Xiao County, without the slightest fear because he was the county lord.
Seeing this, Xu Yong, the first secretary of the capital, immediately ordered: "Protect Xiao County and the people!" The first team immediately wiped out the enemy in front of them, the second and third teams immediately outflanked the backyard, and the fourth team prepared! ”
The Han family ordnance institute has produced more than 5,000 Han guns so far, except for the fourth battalion, the rest of the battalions are equipped with a standard, and Xu Yong's third standard happens to be the new fifth battalion equipped with the ace of the Han gun, so the first team immediately pulled the trigger after Xu Yong gave the order to shoot at the Yan family slaves who rushed over, and after a series of bangs, the Yan family slaves fell directly dozens of people.
Seeing the fierce Yan family slaves rushing over, the people were still a little afraid, but they were beaten by the Han family army like this, and the people were courageous, and after Xu Yong shouted "rush in", these people went crazy and followed the Han family army to break in, and the stunned Yan family slaves were washed to the ground by the surging people like a flood before they could react, and then they were directly pressed to the ground and beaten violently, some Yan family slaves still wanted to fight back, and the Han family army directly shot the head. As a result, it didn't take long for Yanfu to be captured by the Han army and thousands of people.
"After investigation, the prisoner Yan Hui was stubborn, flouted government regulations, not only did not abide by the good policy of land redemption, but also beat the county order to death, it is really a great crime, so the Han military government decreed that all the land and property of the Yan Mansion were confiscated, and the land and property were immediately distributed to the tenants and the local people, and the people of the Yan Mansion were required to serve ten years of hard labor, and Yan Hui was the main offender to be tried by the people of Kaixian County and sentenced to death!"
Xu Yong walked towards the inner courtyard of the Yan Mansion, while loudly announcing the edict issued by Yang Ming himself, and at this time, when the Yan prisoner heard that the soldiers and civilians of the Han family had broken in, he was already very frightened, and he was busy packing up his belongings and running from the back door, but as soon as he arrived at the back door, he saw dozens of Han guns facing him, and Yan Jiansheng hurriedly stopped: "You, who are you?" ”
"Master Yan, where are you going to escape?"
Xiao Xiancheng guessed that Yan Hui would be in a hurry to escape from the back door, so he rushed to the back door first, stood in front of a team of Han family soldiers, clasped his hands and smiled.
"The second child of the Xiao family?" Yan Jiansheng still didn't have the consciousness that Xiao Chentian was already a county lord, and he still called Xiao Chentian's previous title, but then he changed it again and shouted in a low voice: "Lord Xiao." ”
"Master Yan only knows now that he calls his own official, but it's a pity that it's late, take it!" Xiao Chentian waved his hand, and several officials walked up with shackles and shackles in their hands, and several family members behind Yan Jiansheng still wanted to resist, but they were directly shot to the ground by the Han family army next to him, and Yan Jiansheng fell directly to the ground in fright, and the officials didn't care about this, and directly lifted Yan Jiansheng up.
"Immediately call on the people of the whole county to go to the county government compound, especially those gentry must be invited, if they don't come, they must also be escorted to me!" Xiao Chentian walked up to Xu Yong as he spoke: "I'm afraid I'll have to worry about the brothers of the Han family army next." ”
"Well said! If there are still gentry who dare to ignore the county officials, don't be long-sighted with their guns! ”
Under the coercion of Xu Yong and other Han soldiers, the other gentry did not dare to be powerful anymore, and they all came to the county government honestly.
However, Xiao Chentian now has the support of the Han army, so he doesn't need to be kind to these gentry, and when all the gentry and people gathered in the county government compound, he immediately announced the sin of Yan Jian Sheng loudly on the platform that was built. Then, the Han army directly shot Yan Jiansheng and several slaves in his palace who participated in the killing of the county order and the county government officials in front of these gentry and ordinary people.
After the shooting of Yan Jiansheng, most of the people naturally applauded, while the gentry lowered their heads and even felt a little frightened, after all, most of them had more or less prevented the county government officials from coming to check their fields, and they were not willing to accept the county government's land ransom.
"Yang Gongzi said that from the moment of its creation, the Han army was not to achieve any imperial hegemony, but to save millions of Li people in the world from fire and water, so even if we occupied Kaixian, we did not burn and loot, but restored law and order, gave relief to the people, and encouraged farmers and merchants, but some of you despised the county government set up by our Han army, looked down on the officials appointed by our Han army, and even did not obey the edict of our Han army, and now you have also seen it. The fate of not obeying the edict of my Han army and even killing the relevant officials of my Han army! ”
After Xu Yong said loudly, he said: "Xiao Xiancheng, Yang Gongzi has ordered to temporarily act as the county commander, and now you will bring someone to bring me the government that obstructed the implementation of the new policy in the days ahead, Yang Gongzi has an order, for this kind of person, shoot it directly!" ”
As soon as Xu Yong's words came out, some of the gentry below fainted directly, and some of the gentry secretly rejoiced that they were fortunate to have bought the land.
"Lord Xiao, spare your life! I want you to redeem it, and I don't want you to redeem it at an equal price, I only need half price, half price will work! ”
"It's late!"
"You bandits and robbers, why should I sell the land I earned from my own house to you, if you can't sell it, you actually want to rob it openly, you will all be punished sooner or later!"
"Retribution! It's not our Han army that took away your land, it's the thousands of people in Kaixian County, who will blame the toiling masses? ”
As in Kaixian, due to Yang Ming's anger, except for a small number of gentry with smaller assets and some gentry who were willing to redeem land in time, the gentry class in the prefectures and counties in Kuizhou suffered a devastating blow. Of course, it is precisely because of this that in a short period of time, most of the cultivated land in the entire Kuizhou territory was directly distributed to the poor middle peasants, and the consequences of hundreds of years of land annexation were resolved, and the Han army also took advantage of this to obtain countless property, so that the Han army's growing military needs were fully guaranteed.
"Childe, now the only big households with more than 10,000 acres of fertile land in Kuizhou are the Tang family in Dongxiang County, and the Gui Prefect family, and there are hundreds of families with more than 1,000 acres, most of these families have people who have served in our Han military government or have helped the Han family army or are known to be virtuous in the local area and are specially protected by Gongzi, but they are now asking the official family to redeem their acres, and the Gui Prefect even voluntarily donated half of the acres", Yang Ming's recent brutal methods have shocked and frightened Shang Daoxing, Therefore, when he presented the report to Yang Ming, he was also trembling, and he was afraid that he would be executed by Yang Ming as a local tyrant and inferior gentry.
"Tell the prefect that his family's land does not have to be sacrificed, and so are several other families, if it weren't for the urgency of time and the eagerness to collect the full amount of taxes, and these gentry did not cooperate, I Yang Ming would not be so ruthless, and now if even these remaining gentry are uprooted, wouldn't others say that my Han army is too ruthless, and it is better to keep them, it can be regarded as not completely offending the gentry class", Yang Ming said and said: "In the days ahead, because of the mobilization of the people, this fire burned too fiercely, and many innocent people were arrested, If you pass on the order, if there is nothing wrong, let it go, if you can, there will be a war soon, and it should be stable internally for a while. ”