Cheng Zhidun, the magistrate of Pingxiang, picked up the letter that fell on the ground, picked it up and looked at it, only to see that the letter read:

The student Mo asked the prefect of Jishou Tian:

The prefect of the government, who is in charge of the decree of the government, and the commander-in-chief of the four counties of Yuanzhou, should have been aware of the people's feelings, diligent and loving the people.

It is the duty of adults to govern the people, to adjudicate lawsuits, to inspect traitors, and to evaluate subordinate officials.

However, Zheng Qiuping, the commander of Yichun County, Wang Yingbao, the county Cheng Zhu Yihao, and Liu Shizhong, the commander of Wei, ran rampant in the township in the name of suppressing bandits, killing seven people, injuring dozens of people, looting the township, and raping ** women.

Today, I raise the banner of righteousness to punish and kill corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and eliminate harm for the people, as well as for the adults.

Now the three lords of the palace have moved to Wentang, and the mansion can send people to bring five thousand stones of grain and three thousand taels of silver in exchange for three people.

I have a limit of seven days, and within seven days, the safety of the three people is not worried.

Seven days later, the students greeted the grand victory!

After reading the content of the letter, Cheng Zhidun was about to explode.

"This guy is actually a scholar, such a thief, reading the books of sages in vain!"

Tian Younian sighed: "Urging Ke (Cheng Zhidun), and now what can I do?" ”

Cheng Zhidun got up and said: "Fuzun, we have six hundred soldiers and horses with us, it is better to go straight to Wentang, wipe out this group of anti-thieves, and rescue the three adults." ”

When Tian Younian heard this, he hurriedly waved his hand and said: "No, there are more than 1,500 people around the Mo thief, and we are only 600 people, of which 500 are temporarily recruited village warriors, and their combat power is even inferior to the anti-thief."

Six hundred against one thousand and five against the enemy is tantamount to striking a stone with an egg.

Besides, our little men and horses are enough to even defend the city, where can we take the initiative to attack! ”

Cheng Zhidun was dumbfounded for a while.

They received the news in the morning, and in the morning a retired official wanted to go into the city on an errand, but found that there was a group of peasants guarding the gate with weapons at the gate of the city.

Feeling bad, he immediately borrowed a mule and rushed to Pingxiang County, one hundred and forty miles away.

Cheng Zhidun, who got the news, immediately organized 500 Xiangyong with Tian Younian and Tongzhi Shi Yansheng in Pingxiang, plus 100 officers and soldiers from Pingxiang who dared to come to reinforcements.

It's a pity that Pingxiang County is not a short distance from Yuanzhou Mansion, and they are a group of infantry.

They set off from the county seat and rushed to Luxi Town first, and then changed boats to take the Yuan River waterway, which was already the fastest and most labor-saving journey.

Even so, Tian Younian didn't rush to Fucheng until the evening.

Now the city has been recovered, but the administrative teams of the government and the county government have been swept away by the thieves.

The officials in the county government were almost wiped out, and the government office did not kill a few officials, but several important officials were also taken away by the thieves.

The thieves not only kidnapped the court officials, but also dared to leave a letter asking for ransom, which is simply a great shame.

Tian Younian immediately picked up a pen and paper and quickly wrote three letters.

The other two envelopes were written to Cao Guoqi of Yizhi County and Shi Guozhu of Wanzaizhi County in their jurisdiction.

Tian Younian used a very stern tone to order Cao Guoqi to lead 2,000 troops, and Shi Guozhu to lead 1,000 troops to come and assist him in encirclement and suppression.

And also gave a time limit, which must be arrived within seven days.

The third letter was addressed to Mo Qian, who demanded that Mo Qian must release the three court officials within seven days, and come to the city to surrender himself, otherwise when the court army arrived, he would be told that Mo Qian would die without a place to be buried.

After writing the letter, Tian Younian called three officials and sent the letters to various places.

The first two officials were nothing, and the last officer who received the letter wept bitterly on the spot when he heard that it was a letter to the thief.

"Lord Fuzun, the small ones are old and young, please ask Lord Fuzun to spare my life!"

Tian Younian saw the appearance of this servant, and suddenly became angry.

He slapped the table and said angrily: "It's your group of wine bags and rice bags, you will only be powerful in front of the people on weekdays, but as soon as the thieves come in, they will kneel and surrender, and the official tells you, you have to go today, and if you don't go, you have to go, if you don't go, I will behead your whole family for the crime of gangsters!" ”

When the official heard this, he didn't dare to say anything more, so he could only cry and go out of the south gate.

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As soon as Mo Qian returned to Wentang Town, he immediately called Lu Zhao and Peng Jinhong to him.

He said: "The rice in the field is almost ripe, and you immediately organize the people to harvest it at dawn tomorrow, and tell the people that as long as they grow the crops in the field this time, all the grain they get belongs to them, and I will not take any of it." ”

Lu looked at Mo Qian's abnormal expression, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "King, the millet will be completely ripe in three days, let's not wait for three days?" ”

Mo Qian shook his head and said, "I can't wait, in a few days, I estimate that the reinforcements of the officers and soldiers will arrive, and we won't be able to receive a grain of grain by then, so hurry up and organize people to prepare."

In addition, you can select a few clever people for me to infiltrate into the city and closely observe the movements of the government.

If there is any disturbance in the city, send someone to report it immediately.

Then select fifty clever strong men as sentinels, and let them send me the cordon to the gate of Yuanzhou Mansion! “

As soon as Lu Zhao heard it, he understood Mo Qian's intentions, they robbed the city, and it would not be long before the government would definitely attract crazy revenge from the government.

Mo Qian's order was quickly carried out, and the morale of the people was unprecedentedly high at this moment because of the capture of Fucheng and the great victory.

When the truckloads of grain were carried back, the people of the whole town cheered.

In addition, this time Mo Qian also ordered to kill all the officers and soldiers who ransacked the town yesterday, and Mo Qian's prestige in the hearts of the people reached its peak for a while.

Whenever the people in the town saw Mo Qian, they would salute Mo Qian and shout the king in their mouths.

Mo Qian originally wanted to stop the people from calling him the king, but after he persuaded him a few times, he found that it was useless, so he stopped persuading.

Anyway, this time he led the people to rebel, and he has made a good start.

However, the real vicious battle will start next, capturing the city by himself, killing the county commander, and annihilating all the officers and soldiers of the city guard.

Even if the imperial court doesn't have time to manage this small county in the south of the Yangtze River, the prefect Tian Younian will definitely not give up.

Early the next morning, Lu Zhao organized all the active people in the town to go to the fields to harvest rice.

In just two days, all the fertile fields in Wentang Town and its surrounding villages were harvested, and a total of more than 5,000 stones of rice were obtained.

Mo Qian didn't ask for a single grain of more than 5,000 stones, and all of this grain belonged to the farmer.

Since the landlord Yan Zhenchuan had been killed by Mo Qian, the tenants of the Yan Mansion did not have to pay rent this time, and all the rice produced in the field belonged to them, not to mention how happy they were.

In the past, every time it was time to pay rent, one mu of land could have produced more than three stones of rice, but the landlord had to take away two and a half stones, and the remaining ration of less than one stone was the family's ration for more than half a year, of which there were still a few catties to be used as seeds for the next year.

This has to be avoided in a disaster year, which is even worse in a disaster year.

But this year is different, this year the unscrupulous landlord died, and the grain in the field was all his own.

Almost every tenant rented three to five acres of paddy fields from the landlord, and after harvesting the grain, it was enough to start with ten stones, and even if there were five people in the family, there would be enough grain to eat.

The day after the grain was harvested, Mo Qian held another collective meeting, and he called all the people in and around the town to the town.

Not only called the people, but Mo Qian also brought Wang Bingzhong and the three of them to participate in the conference, and he wanted to let the three of them see how he was 'demagoguery'.

There is only one content of this meeting, and that is to divide the fields.

Mo Qian stood on the haystack in the threshing floor and shouted to the people who were surrounded by black pressure below: "Fellow villagers, I have called you here today because I have a major matter to tell you. ”

"King, what's the matter? Are you going to attack the city again? One of the militants asked aloud.

"Hahaha~~~"

Mo Qian smiled slightly and said, "No, I invite everyone to come today, it's not a war, it's something more important than a war!" ”

"What the hell is going on?"

"Okay, I won't sell the guanzi anymore, I called everyone here today, and I am here to divide the land for everyone!"

"Divide the field?"

At this time, the people suddenly fried the pot and divided the fields, which is simply something that everyone dreams of.

"Everyone's quiet, everyone's quiet!" Mo Qian pressed down with both hands.

"That's right, it's the division of fields, before dividing the fields, I will first read to you the population of our Wentang Town and the number of acres.

Our Wentang Town plus the surrounding four villages have a total population of 1,021 people, but our paddy fields are only 2,500 acres, of which more than 500 acres are terraced fields, and the remaining 2,000 acres are all in the mountains. ”

"Folks, we have a lot of people and a lot of land!" Mo Qian sighed and said.

It's not that there are many people and little land, and the per capita land is only more than four acres.

This is ancient times, and the yield per mu is far less than that of modern times, and it is already God's face to be able to produce 400 catties of grain per acre.

"Folks, what am I rebelling for, just to let everyone live a good life, to live a life without landlords to exploit us. But if we want to live a good life, we must have land.

Now, I'm going to announce the details of the division! ”

Mo Qian took out the manuscript paper he had prepared last night and read the content to the people underground.

In order to make the people understand, Mo Qian used all the vernacular.

In fact, the content is very simple, that is, 2,500 acres of paddy fields and 2,000 acres of mountainous land will be distributed to the people according to the capitation.

Among them, each person is divided into one acre of paddy field, and one acre and five points of mountainous land, and if they are allocated terraced fields, they can get double the number of acres, that is, two acres.

Whether to choose one acre of paddy field or two acres of terraced fields, let the people choose for themselves.

One of the most important things is that all the food produced in the fields of the people is not subject to taxes.

However, there is also a requirement, that is, the people must plant public fields for the government free of charge.

After the division of the land, the remaining fields belonged to the public fields, and the output of the fields was mainly used for military rations during the war and the expenses of government officials.

If a newborn child is born in a farmer's family, or if a daughter-in-law is married, the land can also be divided from the public land.

Some people asked: "King Mo, do we still want to help the Ming government farm?" ”

Mo Qian smiled: "Of course not, we don't have to deal with him in the official government of the Ming Dynasty." ”

"Then where did the government come from?"

"We are the government, if you want to be an official, you can come to me to sign up, you can read and write, be a civil official, be a horse and archery, be a military attaché, and the government will make money!"