After Tian Younian was defeated, he fled back to the capital city of Yuanzhou, and after collecting hundreds of defeated troops, Tian Younian couldn't take care of the team behind him, and directly ordered the city gate to be closed.

Tian Younian, who fled back to the city, had become a frightened bird at this time, and as long as he heard the sound of killing outside the city, he was so frightened that he immediately asked the people in the city to prepare horses, and he was ready to run away at any time.

However, after staying in the city for three days, no sign of the peasant army was found in the vicinity of the city.

However, the three thousand people who were in charge of transporting grain before were released by Mo Qian.

However, Tian Younian didn't dare to let them into the city, the ghost knows if there are any thieves hiding in these 3,000 people, once they are released into the city, in case there are hundreds of thieves, then Yuanzhou Mansion will not be taken down in an instant.

Tian Younian not only did not let people in, but also forced the men in the city to go to the city wall to defend the city, and if anyone dared to disobey, he was immediately imprisoned for the crime of gangsters, and was punished with punishment and beheading.

For a while, the people of Yuanzhou Mansion were panicked, and the people were rumoring that the prefect had lost the battle, and 5,000 people and horses were beaten by 1,000 thieves.

Tian Younian knew that he had made a big mistake and knew that the matter could not be hidden, and at this time he couldn't care about the black gauze hat on his head, so he immediately wrote a letter to the provincial capital Nanchang and handed it over to the governor Xie Xuelong.

Xie Xuelong was furious after receiving the letter, and threw away his breakfast in anger.

He asked the messenger who had come to deliver the letter, "How many thieves are there?" ”

It was the first time that the post man had seen the governor, and when he saw the governor angry, his legs suddenly swayed in fright.

Xie Xuelong glanced at the post guard and shouted, "I asked you, did you hear it?" ”

The post guard was so frightened that he hurriedly kowtowed and replied: "Back to the adult's words, anti-thief.. Anti-thief.. There are more than 1,000 anti-thieves in the army! ”

"What? There are only more than 1,000 people, and 5,000 officers and soldiers have been beaten to the ground? ”

The post man didn't dare to hide it, so he could only kneel on the ground and kowtow wildly.

Xie Xuelong slapped the table angrily and scolded: "Tian Younian misled the country, such a wine bag and rice bag, how can he be the respect of a mansion, this governor wants to go to the court and impeach this dereliction of duty!" ”

Angry, things have happened, and we have to find a way to solve it immediately.

Early in the morning, Xie Xuelong summoned all the officials above the fifth rank in the city to come to the governor's yamen to discuss the matter of the thief.

When everyone heard that Tian Younian was defeated and lost more than 2,000 soldiers, they were all shocked.

Yuanzhou Mansion has a population of nearly 600,000 people in one prefecture and four counties, and the government was beaten by a group of anti-thieves without any backhand.

Xie Xuelong looked at the people below, and said leisurely: "Colleagues, Tian Younian defeated Mingyue Mountain, lost thousands of teachers, he is really a mediocre talent, such a waste, how can he be the master of any mansion, I want to play the court and remove this prefect, what are your different opinions?" ”

Where did the officials of the provincial government dare to have opinions at this time, and the officials who usually had the best relationship with Tian Younian also kept their mouths shut at this time, not daring to help Tian Younian.

Xie Xuelong saw that since everyone had no objections, he said: "Since there is no doubt about the discussion, then the governor will write an excerpt and play it to the court!" ”

Xie Xuelong picked up the brush and quickly wrote an excerpt pleading.

He first pleaded guilty to Emperor Chongzhen in the excerpt, saying that his imperial majesty was not strict, which led to the defeat of scum like Tian Younian when dealing with a group of peasants organized by the rogue, which led to a great loss of vitality of the officials and soldiers.

In addition, he degraded Tian Younian as useless, saying that since this person took office, he had no way to govern but disturbed the people, and the entire Yuanzhou Mansion was a miasma.

Anyway, it is to deduct all the basins on Tian Younian's body, and try to clear his own responsibilities.

This is also a common method used by officials, as long as things don't happen to their heads, they can push as clean as they can, and if they can't push it off, they will find someone to put a basin on his head.

After the excerpt was written, Xie Xuelong sealed it with seal clay, and then handed it over to the post guard, and sent it to the capital by horse.

After writing the excerpt, the next step is to discuss how to please the thief.

Xie Xuelong asked the officials present: "Ladies and gentlemen, although Tian Younian was defeated, we can't sit idly by and watch the anti-thieves run rampant. ”

When the officials heard this, they couldn't help but look at me, I look at you, and no one wanted to take this errand.

Now almost half of the Ming Dynasty is making trouble, and everyone is no stranger to this kind of thing.

In the first year of Chongzhen, a group of rogues knocked down the county seat of Anyuan and arrested the county order.

What's even more outrageous is that the thieves actually asked the rich in the city for ransom, and in the end, the squires scraped together a sum of money to redeem the county order.

As for Yuanzhou's anti-thief named Mo Wen to defeat the official army, this is nothing, Li Zicheng, Gao Yingshen and other thieves in the north have almost caused trouble in the Central Plains, and the imperial court has not solved it yet.

The anti-thieves who are only in the middle of the house don't need to be so nervous.

Xie Xuelong saw that none of the people present squeaked, and he couldn't help but feel a little unhappy in his heart.

Seeing that no one spoke, he, who was the governor, had no choice but to stand up and say: "Since no one is willing to take on this heavy responsibility, this governor will personally lead the troops to exterminate this thief!" ”

At this time, the officials present all spoke one after another.

Jiangxi Shoudao Guo Bichang stood up and said: "The governor is on an expedition, and it is naturally not a problem to exterminate the traitors, but now that the treasury is empty, and the Nanchang guard station is in short supply, where should this army come from?" ”

Xie Xuelong glanced at Guo Bichang, got up and said, "The money and food needed by the army can be solved by the squires from all over Nanchang Mansion. ”

When Guo Bichang heard this, he hurriedly retorted: "No, last year, the squires from all over Nanchang Mansion have already paid money once, and this time the bandits have called them out, I'm afraid the squires will have opinions!" ”

"What can they say? Everyone is responsible for defending Sangzi, what is this money to protect the bandits, not the land property of the squires and landlords, if they don't pay the money, this anti-thief will let the governor go alone? Or are they willing to pay until the thieves grow stronger and hit the provincial capital? ”

Xie Xuelong's tone was a little displeased, and Guo Bichang saw that he was in a wrong mood, so he didn't dare to persuade him anymore.

At this time, the patrol king Meiting stood up again and asked: "The Nanchang guard has long been eroded, and the existing troops are less than 1,000 people. ”

"This is easy to do, immediately issue the order of the governor, Nanchang, Nankang, Jiujiang, Ji'an, Raozhou, Fuzhou, Guangxin seven prefectures, each of which sent a thousand men and horses to Nanchang to report, give them a one-month deadline, within a month of the soldiers and horses have not arrived, the governor will report to the emperor and remove them!"

After speaking, Xie Xuelong left the venue in a huff.

That night, Xie Xuelong held a dinner party and invited a total of more than 30 squires around Nanchang Mansion.

At the dinner, Xie Xuelong first said a set of polite words, and after toasting three glasses of wine, he said his purpose for inviting everyone to come.

When the squires heard that they were going to donate money and food again, they were immediately unhappy.

A few years ago, when Xie Xuelong first took office, he pulled them and said that he wanted to rebuild the Tengwang Pavilion, which caused the squires to donate a lot of money and a lot of blood.

Teng Wang's Pavilion was only completed last year, but I didn't expect that An Shengzi hadn't passed a year, and now he had to pay to suppress the bandits, and the squires scolded Xie Xuelong 10,000 times in their hearts.

scolded and scolded, but no one dared to say it, and in the end, under the pressure of Xie Xuelong, each family could only donate money and food again with tears.

Xie Xuelong only spent one meal to gather another 10,000 stone of grain and 30,000 taels of silver.

With money and food in his hands, the plan to suppress bandits in Xie Xuelong's heart gradually improved.

Now I am waiting for the soldiers of the Seven Mansions, and as soon as the army arrives, I will directly open the Yuanzhou Mansion and exterminate the Mo Thief in one fell swoop.

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Xie Xuelong was preparing for the suppression of thieves, and Mo Qian was not idle here.

He sent troops around the villages around Yuanzhou Mansion and raided the homes of local landlords in each village.

In addition to the 20 acres of self-cultivated land that can be retained in the landlord's family, all the remaining fields will be handed over to the public, and anyone who dares not to comply will be directly arrested and imprisoned, and the family's property and land will be confiscated.

The landlords had no choice but to cry and hand over the land in their hands.

If you hand over the land, you can still survive, and you can keep your family's property, but if you don't pay it, then there will really be nothing.

Mo Qian's move was too ruthless, in just ten days, all the landlords and gentry in Xicun Town, Binjiang Town, Baimu Township, Xinfang Township, and Fenyi County around Yuanzhou Mansion were looted.

After the soldiers on the front foot entered the village to collect the fields, the chief secretary of the rebel army immediately led people to the villages to measure the land, count the population, and divide the fields.

After the Battle of Mingyue Mountain, Mo Qian renamed the peasant army he led as the Righteous Army, and the more than 30 children he taught were all named the main book of the Righteous Army after examination, and were responsible for the implementation of the land policy.

In order to make it easy for the people to accept his policies, Mo Qian also wrote a book himself, called Juntian Ce.

The content of the book is very simple, and the core concept is only one - dividing the field!

As long as there are people in the family, the land can be divided according to the head, and it is divided equally.

However, before the age of six, the villagers can apply to the local village collective for food protection, and after the age of six, the children must go to school, and the meals are provided by the school.

This child-preserving grain is very simple, it is set up by the government in order to reduce the weight of the people, so that the villagers can rest assured that they will have babies and do not have to worry about the problem of not having enough food to support their children.

And because the mother can't work after pregnancy, Mo Qian can receive this baby food directly from the third month of pregnancy.

In order to completely let the people rest assured that they would have a baby, Mo Qian even set up a special grain for pregnant women, and each pregnant woman can receive three buckets of rice per month from three months of pregnancy to before the child is two years old.

With this double guarantee, there is no fear that the common people will not have babies.

Sure enough, as soon as Mo Qian's policy was released, it immediately caused a huge response among the people.

Some people even went to Wentang Town more than a hundred miles away to thank Mo Qian, and an old man in his seventies even said: "Old man, I have lived three times out of seventy, and I have never seen such a benevolent and righteous lord, Mo Gong is really a saint!" ”

All of a sudden, Mo Qian's local prestige in Yuanzhou Mansion reached its peak, and as long as the common people looked at the righteous army under the banner of Mo, they all ate pot pulp.

Within a month, Mo Qian completed the integration of the rural areas of eight counties, towns and townships around Yuanzhou Prefecture.

Such efficiency is simply superb, of course, this is inseparable from the policies implemented by Mo Qian in the local area.

In the past month, Mo Qian went out every day, doing everything himself, big or small, and he would bring with him the group of officials who were captured by him.

After a month of getting along, several officials made a 180-degree turn towards Mo Qian's image, and Cheng Zhidun, the magistrate of Pingxiang, even said frankly that he wanted to serve under Mo Qian.