The four townships occupied by Zhao Han were soon abolished, and "township" was just a geographical concept anyway.

All sites, changed to eight towns.

Each town has a central village and four natural villages, and Zhao Han rules a total of fifty villages.

These villages have also been redefined and enlarged. Among the big surnames, many small surnames are mixed in, so that a certain surname does not have an absolute advantage in a certain village.

Try to break the clan influence!

Although the landlords were either killed, or forcibly divided. But the same surname has dominated the village for a long time, and over time a new clan force will definitely be formed, Zhao Han can't avoid this kind of thing from happening, but he can try to delay its appearance!

The number of grassroots officials is insufficient, and they are busy clearing and dividing the fields, and they are also busy with administrative divisions, and the whole winter is chaotic.

The lifter provided by Xiao Shi was unwilling to be a thief, and he was suffering from high-intensity work, so he directly picked a son and quit. He felt that he was overkill, a dignified person, dealing with mud legs all day long, and even dealing with women, which was simply an insult to him.

Li Banghua and Ouyang Steam walked around the villages and towns every day, followed by a few soldiers.

"Stop, there's something to say!"

Several missionaries ran quickly, passing Li Banghua and Ouyang Steam, because there was a fight in the field ahead.

During the division of the fields, there will be a fight every three or five days.

Sometimes, it is suspected that there is a problem with the division of fields, and the villagers beat up the public servants.

Sometimes, because of disputes over the fields, villagers work with each other.

Ouyang Steam gloated and sneered: "The Zhao thief is just messing around, and many villages and towns have been messed up these days. ”

Li Banghua has been only watching and not talking, and finally can't help it at this moment: "Xianwen, you are a prodigy, do you really think that Zhao Thief is implementing chaos?" ”

Ouyang Steam was gloomy, buried his head speechless for a long time, and sighed: "Alas, I can only think like this in my later life, do you still have to clap and cheer?" ”

The two continued on their way, and soon came to the place where there was trouble.

However, the villagers suspected that there was a problem with the division of fields, and the missionaries took the villagers to re-open the fields, and sure enough, they found out that it was the people who were messing around.

The two who are in charge of Zhangtian, one is from the Xiao family and the other is from the Liu family. The two cheated together, giving more points to their respective clansmen and less points to other villagers, and bullying the villagers for not knowing how to count.

"Take it away!"

The missionaries directly arrested the people and handed them over to the officers of the criminal department for processing.

"Well caught!"

"Catch it and cut off your head!"

The villagers clapped their hands and applauded, and they stopped watching the division of the fields, and escorted people back to review together.

The missionaries couldn't stop them at all, and after only a few dozen steps, some villagers started beating people. When they returned to the town office, the two cheaters had already been beaten and their noses were swollen.

Li Banghua was tired of walking, and sat down cross-legged on the ridge: "Xianwen, will you be a thief?" ”

"I'd rather die than obey." Ouyang Steam said.

Li Banghua smiled bitterly: "After watching politics for many days, I want to be a thief." ”

Ouyang Steam was shocked: "Sir, you can't think like this, how can you help the abuse?" ”

Li Banghua looked at the boundless fields, and his tone was a little resentful: "The affairs here are fair and selfless, vigorous, and people can't help but want to devote themselves to it." If you have been an official in the imperial court, if you have been constrained in politics, you know how wonderful it feels to do things. ”

Ouyang Steam suddenly had tears in his eyes: "What's wrong with this Da Ming, Gong Gong Zhugong, isn't it even as good as a thief?" ”

"Alas!"

Li Banghua sighed: "It is difficult to return, and the building will collapse." The old house is going to fall, and none of the people who live in the house are innocent. Including me, I have been demolishing houses. ”

"Mr. is upright for the country, and even dismissed because of this, how can he feel so sorry for himself?" Ouyang Steam was really afraid of Li Banghua's thief.

Li Banghua pulled out a dead grass on the ridge of the field, pinched it in his hand and played: "Before I was admitted to the Jinshi, my family sold land year after year, and only six acres of land were left. My grandmother died, and there was no coffin, so she was secretly buried wrapped in straw. Now, my family has thousands of acres of fertile land, how did you get all this? I dismissed my official and returned to my hometown, and took the initiative to hand over the field endowment, frightened to learn that the county personally sent the grain back to my home. ”

Ouyang Steam couldn't help but smile, and put away his smile again: "Even if Mr. is dismissed, he is also a first-class official, how dare the county accept the grain of Mr.'s family." ”

"In the past few days, I have inquired," Li Banghua said, "that Zhao thief donated tens of thousands of acres of land to the Wuxing Town Office, but left a hundred acres. Is he reluctant to give up the 100 acres of land? Definitely. He wanted to keep a hundred acres of land and pay the land tax to the town office on time, so that other thieves would not dare to evade taxes. ”

Ouyang Steam lamented: "Wansheng has been scolding that Zhao thief, but he still admires it in his heart. ”

Li Banghua said: "Gyeonggi Huangtian, when Emperor Chengzu was the emperor, he also had to pay the field tax every year. Chengzu set an example, the emperor also had to pay grain, and officials in the world naturally had to pay grain. But after Chengzu died, Huangtian never paid grain again. Up and down, nobles and civil and military, who is willing to pay for food? ”

"So the law should be changed, Daming needs a Zhang Taiyue (Zhang Juzheng)." Ouyang Steam said.

"You don't understand, Zhang Taiyue's change of law back then was mainly aimed at Jiangnan, and the people died in government," Li Banghua shook his head and said, "The people of the northwest, the small people in Jiangnan, are now suffering from a whip law." If there is no whip law, maybe the northwest thieves will not be able to make such a big mess. As for Jiangxi, there are too many gentry. If I don't pay food at home, other families will pay food? If the gentry don't pay for food, how can the treasury not be empty? ”

Ouyang Steam said: "So I still have to change the law, and completely change it." ”

"From the top down, it can't be changed," Li Banghua pointed to the acres of land that had been cleared, "It must be from the bottom up, so as to reverse the decline." If Zhao Thief can hold out for two or three years, half of Jiangxi will be his, and then it will become a big trend! ”

Ouyang Steam said: "Zhao thieves kill the landlord indiscriminately, and they will not succeed." ”

Li Banghua said with a smile: "The landlord who is willing to sacrifice his land, he did not kill indiscriminately. If he really kills indiscriminately, I don't have to worry about it. ”

Li Zicheng has never been able to recruit scholars, just because as a thief, he has never had a base to speak of. Everywhere they go, they will inevitably torture them, kill the landlords and steal grain, and coerce the people to slip away.

How does this make readers take refuge?

Leave your own industry and run away with Li Zicheng?

Zhao Han is different, he has a base, and he will not leave.

The landlord's property is all on Zhao Han's territory, but anyone who doesn't want to die can only bite the bullet and follow the thief.

Ouyang Steam looked back at the soldiers behind him and asked in a low voice, "Why didn't the imperial court send a large army to recruit the Zhao thief?" ”

Li Banghua said: "No money, no soldiers. The food and salaries of the soldiers of the imperial court were either used against the thieves or against the tartars. Jiangxi thieves can only rely on local officials to recruit and suppress, which local official do you think can suppress Zhao thieves? ”

Ouyang Steaming had a flash of inspiration: "You can make the gentry run a group exercise!" ”

"That's also a method," Li Banghua immediately shook his head, "First, the imperial court will not allow the gentry to hold group exercises; Second, if local group training is allowed, the Ming Dynasty will exist in name only. ”

Ouyang steamed silently.

Li Banghua didn't know what to say, the more he looked at the anti-thief policy, the more he had the urge to join the thief. But he can't be a thief, he is the former secretary of the military department, his father and brother, and they are still under the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

The two walked in the countryside and returned to Yongyang Town together.

Zhao Han's ruling center has moved out of Wuxing Town, and Yongyang Town is now the core base.

Above the Eight Towns Office, there is Zhao Han's general military office, which grasps military and political affairs, somewhat similar to Zhu Yuanzhang in the Yingtian period.

Pang Chunlai was the chief minister, Fei Ruhe was the chief general, Xiao Huan was in charge of military logistics, Zuo Xiaoliang was in charge of civil affairs, Fei Chun was in charge of money and grain affairs, Chen Maosheng was in charge of missionary education, and Huang Shunfu was transferred to the mayor of Yongyang Town.

The above seven people are the core team.

The talents contributed by the Xiao family are still in the probationary period. The only lifter couldn't bear the heavy work, and he didn't want to deal with mud legs, so he resigned and went home to study.

Only the children of the big clan who have passed this difficult stage and performed well can truly gain Zhao Han's recognition.

Raise people, show talents and thieves, and you can be reused immediately?

Think beautifully!

When passing by the town public school, he heard the sound of reading aloud in the school, and Li Banghua couldn't help but stop and listen for a while.

Ouyang Steam said: "This Zhao thief is really indescribable, he actually knows about the big school. ”

Not only is it a big school, Li Banghua doesn't know how to describe it.

Although Zhao Han robbed a lot of money and grain, he had to settle the thieves who had returned to his hometown one after another, and he also had to settle the homeless people who had joined the army in Fucheng, and he bought a lot of corn and sweet potato seeds.

The money and grain are gradually insufficient, and at most they will last until next year's summer grain harvest.

Even so, Zhao Han still squeezed out money and food to build official schools in each town, which is equivalent to two public schools in one township in Daming.

In addition to free tuition, all school-age children are provided with a free lunch.

Parents who don't send their children to school will be fined if they are found out!

Zhao Han even recruited a group of old-fashioned schoolchildren, that is, scholars who could not even pass the student examination, and personally taught these people "Taixi arithmetic". It is estimated that in a few months, these old-style schoolchildren will be proficient in the four arithmetic and will be assigned to be math teachers in public schools in various towns.

When I returned to my lodgings, it was already noon, and the soldiers brought food.

It's all coarse tea and light rice, Li Banghua can still accept it, after all, he couldn't even eat enough when he was young.

Ouyang Steaming is tired of eating crookedly, he is a child of a big family, he has come from a small brocade and jade food, and he has been returning sour water these days and nights.

Sometimes, Ouyang Steam even thought that if Zhao Thief treated him with respect, he would probably be willing to surrender to the thief.

"Can't eat?" Li Banghua said with a smile.

"I'm getting used to it." Ouyang Steam could only say, and then ate hard.

Li Banghua chewed the multigrain bran cake, swallowed the vegetable soup with difficulty, and said with emotion: "I heard that even Zhao Han himself eats this kind of thing every day. In the morning, I didn't even eat bread, but only gruel and pickles. Money and food are scarce now, and before the summer grain harvest, all officials have to tighten their belts to get by. ”

Ouyang Steam smiled: "It's just a trick to coax the little people. ”

"I do believe it," said Li Banghua, "that this thief has great ambitions, and is not a man who is greedy for pleasure." There is only one maid in his house...... Well, he said it was a maid, and a maid with a bad look. In addition, there is a mother-in-law who washes and cooks rice. It's been almost a year since the rebellion, and I'm still not close to women, so what's so unusual about coarse tea and light rice every day? ”

Ouyang Steam put away his smile and took a bite of the bran cake: "This thief's ambition is strategic, if he can be an official in the court, he will be a minister of the country." ”

Li Banghua shook his head and said, "Now that Wen Shoufu is also very honest. I don't live in a mansion, I don't love women, I have few domestic slaves, and I eat and dress simply. In terms of personal morality, Wen Tiren can be called a great sage. ”

"This is a blessing for the court." Ouyang Steam said.

Li Banghua said: "Wen Tiren is not only noble in personal morality, but also unforgettable. No matter how tedious the official business is, he can easily handle it properly. He can remember the name and place of origin of the petty official who has only met once. In terms of personal morality, I am not as good as Wen Tiren; In terms of ability, I am not as good as Wen Tiren. If Wen Tiren was born in the early years of the dynasty, he would be a generation of virtuous ministers! However, since the new monarch succeeded to the throne, Wen Tiren has not done anything serious. ”

Ouyang Steam was dumbfounded and said in disbelief: "How can this be? ”

"If you do the right thing, you will definitely make mistakes," Li Banghua said, "I was dismissed and returned to my hometown because of my work." ”

Ouyang Steam just looked down on the magistrate before, but when he heard Li Banghua say this, he completely felt that Da Ming was hopeless.

After eating the cake seriously, he went to the villages and towns in the afternoon, and Ouyang Steam couldn't sleep at night.

In the early morning of the next day, Ouyang Steam ran to find Li Banghua: "Sir, I want to be a thief." ”

Li Banghua said: "Whatever you want." ”

Ouyang Steam was afraid that Li Banghua would be angry, and explained: "The eldest husband is alive, and he has to do something. Listening to Mr. talk about the court situation, I really can't see the future in my later life. Even if the title of the late-born gold list is only to make wood in the imperial court, it is better to follow the Zhao thief. ”

"Go, go." Li Banghua did not stop it.

Ouyang Steam arched his hand and said, "Sir, farewell!" ”

Anti-thieves have to give themselves a fake name, Zhao Han changed his name to Zhao Yan, and Ouyang Steam directly changed his name to Ou Zhen.

After the thief, this goods was not reused, but was thrown to Yongfu Town to assist in the division of fields.

Ouyang Steam did not feel lost, because he had watched politics for many days and knew that as long as he did a good job, he would definitely be promoted quickly.

Seeing that the Chinese New Year is coming, Li Banghua can't help it.

He was so idle, he couldn't find a good book to read here, and he had nothing to do all day. And the neighboring towns are in full swing, and Li Banghua wants to devote himself to it.

Because, Zhao Han is doing the right thing, which is the right thing that Li Banghua has always wanted to do, but it is impossible to do.

On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, Li Banghua went to meet Zhao Han and wanted to have a debate with his heart and lungs.