Lin Renshu's artillery battalion also entered the city for temporary rest on the same day, but because he was worried about the lack of troops in the squires in Wuqiao County, Chen Zhenhui transferred Lin Renshu's large number of artillery out to sweep up.

In short, in these few days, the gentry class in the entire Wuqiao County was completely eradicated, and a large number of people hidden by the gentry class were released and became the new yeoman farmers of the Ming Dynasty.

It can be said that the Northern Expedition itself ceased to be a simple war from the beginning.

He was a north-south revolution carried out within the Ming Dynasty, and the capitalists in the south used the means of war to release the hidden population of the northern gentry class and turn it into labor resources for their own factories.

Although this will result in a large number of gentry being executed by physical extermination, which will reduce the actual total population of the Ming Dynasty, it is actually not too much, and the gentry landlords who really exploit the peasants in the entire empire account for only a small part, but the manor tenant farmers they control account for the majority of the entire Ming agricultural population.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has rescued these tenant farmers, it is equivalent to making the 60 million people registered by the Ming household department become 100 million or even 200 million in an instant, and the price is only one million less gentry.

It's a good deal.

Originally, the Manchu Dynasty in history solved the contradiction between man and land through the slaughter of a large number of civilians, creating a prosperous era of chaff.

Now, Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen further solved the contradiction between man and land by slaughtering a large number of northern gentry, and promoted the human resources and land resources of the empire to better transfer from a small peasant economy and society to a commodity economy and society.

It can be said that the same path is the same, but the former will re-consolidate the economic order of the small peasants, while the latter will allow the imperial court to control more population and land, so as to achieve state capitalism.

The gentry used to unite the common people in the form of clans to form forts and stand on their own, so as to resist the army in troubled times.

This is also the case when the officers and soldiers of the Guards appear in a village, where the local squires unite with their own clansmen to resist the Guards.

However, the Guards directly sounded the gong and loudly announced that only the scholars with meritorious names would be executed, and the rest of the common people would not only be punished but would also redistribute the fields, and at first one or two villages did not believe it, but when the Guards brought artillery to capture the execution method of the villages, the entire countryside of Wuqiao County collapsed.

The common people in the clan were no longer willing to be coerced by the squire patriarch, and even took the initiative to dismiss the patriarch to come to the guards to ask for rewards, and some of the common people of the clan rebelled within the clan first.

"Oh my God! What's wrong with this world, you voluntarily donated your land, and now you are about to fly away when the catastrophe comes, and the old man should not have taken your land in the first place! ”

"Seventh master, don't say these sour words, what your family has eaten, clothed and lived in over the years is not the hard-earned money of our croppers, not our money, can you take sixteen little wives? Now the officers and soldiers in the south want to deal with you unloyal scholars, and don't bother us if you yourself were disloyal at the beginning and now you have been punished! ”

"God has eyes, Zeng Mazi, you took away my family's twenty acres of paddy fields and caused my sister to commit suicide by jumping into the lake, and now these revenge have finally been avenged!"

"The world is about to change! Sure enough, it's still the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, we finally don't have to be slaves anymore! You can still have your own land, and I heard that you don't have to serve in conscription, and you are still the emperor of the Han family! ”

There are all kinds of voices in the entire Wuqiao County, some praise the guards for loving the people and discipline, and some scold the guards for not respecting scholars and killing innocents, but at least no one said that the guards had committed adultery and fornication.

It is natural that there are different views on the Guards, and it is natural that people of different classes have different opinions.

Soon, the gentry class in Wuqiao County was basically completely resolved, but some were retained, such as some of the descendants of the gentry who once observed festivals for the Ming Dynasty were unwilling to be clear.

Because the starting point of the Guards to eradicate the northern gentry was that these scholars were disloyal and unfilial, and things were smooth in the Manchu Dynasty, and it was easy to shave their hair.

Of course, these special groups have been filed with Jinyiwei.

It is a pity that there are no gentry in Wuqiao County, so there are no gentry in Wuqiao County who deserve to be forgiven.

On this day, the main force of the Second Corps of the First Army of the Guards Army arrived in Wuqiao County, and the governor of the Corps began to take over the affairs of Wuqiao County.

The Ming Guards implemented a system of division of labor between the military and the government, with the chief officer in charge of military command and the governor in charge of political work in corps-level units, while the deputy chief soldier in charge of military command and the governor in charge of political work in corps-level units.

Because the Ming Dynasty is now a theater system, many times the governor will also manage local government affairs when managing the internal political affairs of the army.

However, in some places, because there were no guards, the governor and the governor were just local administrative officials like the previous governors and governors of the Ming Dynasty.

Nowadays, in the course of the Northern Expedition, the occupation of the new northern region can only be temporarily controlled by military officials.

Therefore, political cadres within the military are responsible for the appointment of grassroots officials and the restoration of economic order.

The position of the head of the military command of the Guards and the person in charge of the work of the political organization is equal to the power, and there is no attribute, and it is a cooperative system, so there is no such thing as a noble and a military person.

Moreover, the governor and governor will often choose from the generals who are good at governing the people and not good at governing the army, and the distinction between civil and military will disappear from within the Ming Guard.

Within the Ming Guards, there were only two different divisions of labor: military command cadres and political work cadres.

For example, the current governor of the Second Corps of the First Army of the Ming Guards is Zhang Mengxi, the commander of the cavalry battalion of the Third Army of the former Guards.

This person was originally a member of the anti-Qing festival in the original history, and now in this life, he first threw a pen from Rong to become a military attaché, but because of improper command, he was arranged into the political work system and was elected to the Ming National School of Administration to study, and now he has become the governor of the second corps of the first army of the Ming Guards and the governor of Denglai, responsible for the military, political and civil affairs within the jurisdiction of the first army and the second corps of the Guards.

Due to the Northern Expedition of the Guards, the post of governor of Denglai was naturally abolished, and basically Zhang Mengxi had to immediately restore the political and economic order of the first place wherever the Second Corps was occupied.

But Zhang Mengxi is a high-ranking official at the governor level, and he is the person who is directly responsible to the governor Li Mingrui, and he does not need to personally control the small Wuqiao County, but appoints Bao Shuo, a newly elected political cadre who has not been in the Guards for a long time, as the magistrate of Wuqiao County, responsible for managing Wuqiao County.

Bao Shuo is a new science and technology sergeant, and he is also an officer student who graduated from the Shandong Army Military Academy last year under the direct responsibility of Li Mingrui, the governor of the First Army of the Guards, and belongs to the students who are good at political work.

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