In a blink of an eye, it has arrived in December of the year of Jiazi of the Ming Dynasty, and the New Year is approaching. The Ming army's attack on Jiangnan was still carried out weakly, and it was far less smooth than the Ming army's attack on Fujian and Guangnan East Road.

At the end of November, the Quanzhou Prefecture and the Xinghua Army in Fujian were all occupied by the Ming army, and a Ming army even invaded Zhangzhou, which was close to Quanzhou. In the middle of December, a huge fleet of 145 gunboats and transport ships of various types drove into the Lingding Ocean, and then drove all the way to the outside of Panyu County and Nanhai County (the two counties are in the same city, that is, Guangzhou City). First there was an artillery bombardment, and then the landing of large soldiers, and it was effortless to take the city of Guangzhou, where the most important part of Guangnan East Road was located......

At the same time, the war between the two Zhejiang roads seemed to have really encountered some fierce resistance. Towards the end of the year, it stopped completely. At this time, the territory occupied by the Ming army was only Linhai County, Huangyan County, and Ninghai County in Taizhou, Xiangshan County in Qingyuan Prefecture, Huating County and Haiyan County in Jiaxing Prefecture, and six small counties.

In addition to the slow progress, from time to time there are also some news of "massacres and exterminations", which seems to confirm from the other side that the Ming army has encountered fierce resistance in Jiangnan.

The river is gentle and flows slowly. Although it is the season of bitter water in winter, the Linhai River in eastern Zhejiang is still full of water, rolling and tumbling towards the sea.

On the east bank of the river, a young man wearing a red official uniform and a black veil was walking slowly by the river with a group of sesame petty officials in green robes. Behind is a large group of military household soldiers. It is close to Linhai County, and it is no longer the port area of Taizhou. On both sides of the Linhai River are large rice fields, and it is not yet sowing season. These rice paddies are abandoned there. However, on top of each rice field, there are a few blackened and skinny peasants. There are men and women, old and young. Apparently the family has come out. These people didn't dare to take a breath. Seeing Xu Ziyuan passing by with several officials, soldiers, and soldiers, they all lay down in the mud of the rice fields -- the "Chen Li" stipulates that civilians should bow when they see officials (shijue), and gentry should treat them as equals when they see officials. However, the peasants here in Taizhou have not read "Chen Li", so they all kowtow to the officials according to the original rules.

Xu Ziyuan stopped in front of one of the farmer's uncles, snorted, and asked, "Whose land is this?" ”

"Returning to the official," replied a white-haired old farmer who seemed to be the head of the family. "The land here is all from the seaside Fang's family."

Here in Taizhou, the surname Fang is also a big surname, and there are also cattle like Fang Guozhen and Fang Xiaoru in history. However, most of the families have fled and the land has been confiscated and redivided.

"This official is asking who the current owner of this land is!" Xu Ziyuan spoke very slowly, his official language spoke very well, the standard Central Plains Yayin, but it was difficult for the peasants here in Linhai to understand his words. Of course, Xu Ziyuan can only listen to the Taizhou dialect of the peasants.

"Oh. Oh, the little one is wrong...... old farmer patted his forehead, "The little old one is confused, the little one is not a customer of the Fang family now." It's a customer of Master Li Sanfa! ”

"Li Sanfa?" Xu Ziyuan turned his head and swept over a group of soldiers, "Who is Li Sanfa?" ”

"The little one is Li Sanfa!" A man with a fair skin for a soldier. The young soldier, who looked a little slippery no matter how he looked, rushed over and knelt down on one knee in front of Xu Ziyuan. "The small one is Li Sanfa, a soldier from Linhai County."

He is a splash Li, a scoundrel in the past. Now he is already the landlord of a hundred acres of military field. According to Kong Jin's method, he, a scoundrel of Duqiao, was assigned the field of Fangzhen, and the original owner of the land was Linhai Yimen.

"Is he the owner of the land?"

"Yes, yes." The old farmer looked at the ploppy plum, and his heart was one hundred and twenty unhappy. Where is the splash of Li compared to the righteous side?

The Yimen Fang family has a Jinshi master, who is an official in Hongdu, which is enough to keep the tenants below - the tenants in the Southern Song Dynasty are all serfs who buy and sell with the fields, and the landlords must of course find a way to protect them. Therefore, in the Southern Song Dynasty, it was very bitter to be a tenant of a large family, but he could definitely survive. As for the son of Yimen molesting the tenant's daughter or something, that is a good thing that I can't think of......

And now, for the farmers and uncles here near the sea, it is as if the sky has fallen. The righteous gate of doing good deeds and accumulating virtue for generations has collapsed like this! Instead, there were military landlords with small families - although the tenants had personal freedom, and all debts owed to the righteous families were forgiven, but everyone's hearts were empty.

Does freedom also include the freedom to starve to death and the freedom to freeze to death?

Moreover, without the protection of Yimen, how should I pass next year's autumn tax and exemption money? In case of a famine year and you want to borrow some rice bran to survive, is the new Master Li willing to borrow it? If you are willing, what about the profit?

In addition, his eldest son has reached the age when he should marry a daughter-in-law, and he originally said that he would borrow money from the Fang family to marry his daughter-in-law, but now, he ......

Thinking of the hard days ahead, the weather-beaten old face of this free poor middle peasant was full of misery.

Xu Ziyuan doesn't care about this, the life or death of the tenant has nothing to do with him! What he is now concerned with is the "land reform" in Linhai County, where there are more than 650,000 mu of land on the books, which belong to the eight "righteous families" and more than 400 other families with slightly inferior families. At present, as much as 500,000 mu of land has been confiscated, of which 350,000 mu will be distributed to 3,500 military households. The rest is Guantian for the time being, and it will be given to the meritorious nobles of the Ming Dynasty later.

What Xu Ziyuan has to do now is to make sure that all 3,500 military households have obtained land with quality and quantity, and they have all arranged for their families to live near the land they deserve. Now that the division has been completed, Xu Ziyuan is personally leading people to check.

These 3,500 landlord families who are already "middle-class landlords" in Jiangnan, plus the nobles and nobles who will settle in Taizhou in the future, as well as the businessmen and gentry in Taizhou, will become the basis of the Ming Empire's rule in Taizhou!

This was the land reform of the Ming Dynasty -- to overthrow the Yimen landlords, to support a number of small and medium-sized landlords, and at the same time to loosen the landlords' control over the peasants.

Of course, a considerable number of these 3,500 new landlords in Taizhou were yeoman rich peasants. Because many of the soldiers who were given land had fathers and brothers in their families, the land could be cultivated by themselves.

"Little Lai Bao, this is Xiao Lai Fu and Lai Cai, now Xiao Lao'er's family is ploughing the field of Xiao Lao'er's eldest son Lai Gui, he is now a saint's soldier......"

Another old farmer was talking to Xu Ziyuan, but his face was full of joy. He's the toad's father. Lai Toad got 100 acres of water to irrigate the land, and he and his second son Lai Fu and third son Lai Cai cultivated it together. That's 100 acres of watered land! You can harvest at least 300 stone of white rice in a year! The field endowment of the Ming Dynasty was very light, and an acre of paddy field was 400 yuan, and there was no miscellaneous pie, no and buy. This year's land planting has at least a few hundred yuan of income, which is enough for the three sons to say that they are daughters-in-law. No, there is already a matchmaker who has come to the door to say goodbye to Lai Gui.

However, Lai Gui, that is, Lai Toad, was very unhappy at this time. Because Du Thirteen Sister is gone, he doesn't necessarily have to marry Du Thirteen, but such a good girl is killed like this, how can this Chen Sage be so ruthless!

……

There was a crunch sound. It was Sister Du Thirteen who was beaten! However, it was not the ruthless Chen Dexing who did it, and Sister Du Thirteen was not qualified...... It was the father of the thirteenth sister who beat people, Du Wendu Lao Xiucai. The place where people were beaten was the legendary Peach Blossom Island.

There is no Huang Yaoshi here, let alone Huang Rong, only rows of thatched huts, the most humble one. Now it has become a temporary foothold for Yimen Du in Taizhou, and there are some other Yimen members caught from Taizhou, Jiaxing, Xiangshan and other places. In the New Year of the first year of the Great Tomorrow Dao, they were going to spend their time in such a humble place. Of course, there is basically no joy.

They have no land, no property, no high ranks, and no qualifications to take the imperial examinations - although many of them will in the future become the great Brahmins of India, and live in magnificent mansions, covered with all kinds of gold and silver jewels, like jewels, and served by a large number of servants. But now, no one knows what the future holds. So most people are in tears, and only a few are facing their dramatic fate with a positive attitude.

Sister Du Thirteen is one of them.

She is preparing for the entrance exam for the Heavenly Dao Academy!

It turns out that there are also Taoists from the Heavenly Daoist Sect on Peach Blossom Island, and they were arranged by Mo Yingniang for the purpose of preaching and recruiting new Taoists - Shadow Niang has had enough of those low-quality gods who can't recognize a basket of words, and these guys' understanding of Tiandao is to jump the great god! Some guys are still too one-minded to possess their bodies, foaming at the mouth, talking nonsense, and finally being caught and hung up. If it weren't for the fact that the Heavenly Daoist Sect had no right to judge in the land of the Ming Dynasty, Mo Ying Niang would have the urge to burn people.

Therefore, the Taoists of the Heavenly Taoism came to Peach Blossom Island, where cultural people gathered, and also brought many Heavenly Taoist Three Classics and entry-level mathematics, physics and chemistry textbooks.

And Du Thirteen Sister asked these Taoists for the Three Classics of Heavenly Taoism and mathematics, physics and chemistry textbooks to study on their own. Prepare to apply for exile to Liaodong Province - not everyone is going to India, Nanfan, or the New World, they can also apply to go to the Northlands, although there are limited places in each province - and then go to the Heavenly Dao Academy of Kaomingdu.

Unexpectedly, her idea was discovered by her father Du Wen. (To be continued......)