Li Zicheng was in charge of Xuzhou, Li Xingzhi of the Beijing Division was busy reorganizing the army and horses and cleaning up the situation, the Donglin Party and Zheng Zhilong Group in the southern capital were also in full swing preparing for the affairs of King Lu's supervision, and the Jianzhou Jurchens in Liaodong also had to stop the plan to recover Shengjing and Shenyang because of the cold weather, and the ice and snow closed the city, and the entire Central Plains restored a short period of peace and tranquility at this moment, and the new governor of Beizhili, Song Guangkun, took the opportunity to put the reconstruction of Beizhili on the agenda.

According to the population of a total of 87 prefectures and counties belonging to Beizhili, including Shuntianfu, Baodingfu, Zhendingfu, Shundefu, Daimyofu, Yongpingfu, and Guangpingfu, as well as Liuwei under Xuanfu, the population has been sharply reduced from more than 10 million people in the early years of Chongzhen to about 7 million, which is the result of the influx of a large number of displaced people from Henan and Shaanxi.

The sharp decline in population led to a large amount of land being reduced to ownerless wasteland, and the gentry of various prefectures and counties took the opportunity to annex those lands that had lost their owners, and gathered a large number of displaced people to reclaim land for themselves, so that the imperial court's tax revenue in Beizhili fell to a freezing point.

Therefore, after the initial stabilization of Gyeonggi, the newly appointed cabinet assistant minister, the governor of Bukzhili, put the matter of re-measuring the land and taking stock of the population on the agenda.

However, Gyeonggi is different from Leiden, whose population was almost wiped out by Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng, and the various forces of the local gentry, bureaucratic relatives, and clans are intertwined and deceived from top to bottom, and the means of communication in this era are backward, and it is not a decree of Song Guangkun that can solve the problem of the local gentry and clans hiding the population and embezzling land.

To solve this problem, the prime minister's first task is to solve the local gentry and clan forces, and dealing with the local gentry groups and clan forces is not as simple as dealing with the officials of the imperial court, because those court officials are making trouble, they are all in Beijing, under the control of Li Xingzhi,

On the contrary, those gentry and clan forces in the township, especially the gentry and clans, who have won the name of the people, actually have more power to speak in the township than the local officials.

This is due to the tradition of the imperial power not going to the countryside in all dynasties, basically except for the special areas directly under Gyeonggi, the government has delegated the governance of the countryside to the local gentry, and in place of the gentry to manage the local area is the chief and the chief they select.

These people are basically the children of the side branches of these gentry and clan forces, that is to say, the gentry forces and clan forces are even above the imperial power to some extent.

If the Jingbei Army wants to gain a foothold in Gyeonggi and even control the world, it will inevitably clash with the local gentry and clan forces, and of course Li Xingzhi can also follow the example of previous dynasties, using official positions and rights and various preferential policies to encircle the actual controllers in these places.

After all, emperors as eloquent as Tang Taizong Li Shimin and Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang also relied on the Guan sergeant clan and the gentry class in Jiangnan to succeed, and the two Yang Guang and Wang Mang, who were bent on solving the gentry and clan forces, finally died under the counterattack of the gentry class.

But the crux of the matter was that Li Xingzhi was a two-life man, so he would not accept this kind of system that was inefficient and extremely harmful to the peasants, because this system benefited the gentry and the chief of the armor, but the infamy generated was the court he represented.

In this era when the West has already begun to plunder and colonize the world, if Li Xingzhi still blindly sticks to the old ways and adopts the feudal rule model that has not changed for 2,000 years, then the Chinese nation is destined to not escape the end of being bombarded by Western colonizers with strong ships and cannons.

Therefore, Li Xingzhi must break the local people, who are managed by clans and gentry, cultivate new vested interest groups, change the long-standing concept of the Chinese nation of eating from the soil, and strive to catch the last train of global plunder.

"Under the whole world, is it not the king's land, is it not the shore of the land, is it not the king's ministers, the laws of the court, how can the local clans and gentry be trampled on? Mr. Song, you have full authority to deal with this matter, let Feng Quan, the imperial historian of the right capital, help you, and then Ma Sande will transfer Jinyi Wei to supervise the place, and you will be limited to deal with the land inventory within six months, and although the prime minister is exempted from the agricultural tax of the northern Zhili, but the gentry and clans are not among them, if anyone resists the tax, they will be punished as the crime of slavery, and those who obey the decree of the prime minister, their children can not only enter the martial arts hall to study, but also get the gentry certificate issued by the prime minister, and enjoy the same preferential policies as the Gentry of Leiden in trade. ”

A court, an army, and a commander-in-chief, under the great changes unseen in a thousand years, the gentry and clan forces existing in the Jingbei Army's ruling areas such as Gyeonggi and Shandong have undoubtedly become a stumbling block for Li Xingzhi.

Of course, the best way is to eliminate them, but the consequences of doing so will make Li Xingzhi's reputation very bad, after all, it is these landlords, gentry and clans who have the right to speak in this era, so pulling a gang, fighting a gang, and adopting a combination of carrots and sticks is the best way to solve this matter at present.

Song Guangkun had the experience of building Leiden, and he also understood Li Xingzhi's intentions, so after receiving Li Xingzhi's decree, he issued a decree in Daxing County, Wanping County, Liangxiang County, Gu'an County, Yongqing County, Dong'an County, Xianghe County, and seven counties and five prefectures, including Tongzhou, Bazhou, Zhuozhou, Changping Prefecture, and Jizhou, under the jurisdiction of Shuntianfu, that is, the original Fang City was changed to a township.

The new dynasty and new atmosphere, since the Yongli Emperor ascended the throne, there was a powerful minister like Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao in the court, and the implementation of the new policy is naturally the meaning of the question.

After all, since ancient times, the local area has been based on the township and the li, and it was only changed in the fourteenth year of Hongwu. Since it used to be called Township and Lili, it doesn't matter if you change it back now, there is no need to make a big fuss and offend those two foxes, fake tigers, and dogs.

But immediately after Wei Eunuch Yu, now because of the new master, he was awarded the title of Feng Quan, the right capital of the imperial history, and issued a decree, that is, the patrol of the city and the imperial history of the Jinyi Wei cooperated with the Jinyi Guard to invite all the original chiefs and security chiefs of each township to the county government, and officially issued a notice to them, that is, they will no longer serve as local managers, and all township heads must be served by students who graduated from the Jingbei Military Lecture Hall, and all local administrative matters will be handled by the township head first, and the local government will not be able to solve it, and then send it to the county government office.

Of course, it is impossible to set up only one township chief in the local area, which will still be deceived by the local clans and gentry, so Feng Quan suggested to Song Guangkun that each township should be supplemented with managers ranging from ten to twenty according to the population and the size of the region.

Only then did Song Guangkun realize Li Xingzhi's far-sighted plan to establish a martial arts hall in Leiden, and let the students of the Jingbei Army's martial arts hall manage the township, first, it could stabilize the hearts of the officers and soldiers in the army, second, it could bypass these county officials and county officials appointed by the Chongzhen Dynasty to achieve the purpose of directly controlling the localities, and third, it broke the inherent pattern of the gentry and clan forces controlling the people.