Early morning.

Several mercenaries were clearing the snow, and Liu Zhu, the deputy captain of the personal guard, hurriedly came.

"In the town, some people came to send winter animals, and they all said they didn't want to, but they still didn't leave." Liu Zhu had a sad face when he spoke, but there was pride and smugness in his tone.

Winter livestock is a means for landlords to exploit tenants, taking advantage of the winter solstice festival, forcing tenants to give gifts, and they must be poultry and livestock.

Now, the military households near Fucheng completely turned over after dividing the fields, and took the initiative to bring gifts to Zhao Han to celebrate the winter solstice.

Zhao Han said: "Go and explain to the people that you are not allowed to give gifts to officials." If they insist on giving it, let them send it to the almshouse, and if they leave after putting down their winter animals, they will also send them to the almshouse. ”

"Yes!" Liu Zhu trotted away.

There are almshouses in every town, and they are not large in size and functioning well. They had work all year round, such as making cloth shoes for soldiers, sewing some military cotton clothes, etc., and many urban homeless people also made shoes and sold them to the general military office.

Fei Rulan held a big piece in her hand, chased it out and shouted: "Put this on, it's very cold today, don't catch a cold!" ”

Zhao Han turned around with a smile, Fei Rulan had already walked to him, and quickly helped Zhao Han put on the big hat.

This is a cardigan, and Fei Rulan sewed a goose feather coat with her own hands. After Zhao Han put it on, it felt warm and light, quite like a down jacket.

Walking to the yamen in the front yard, Li Banghua had returned from Jishui and was waiting for a meeting.

As we said before, the largest number of people in the county examination in the Ming Dynasty was that tens of thousands of people participated in the first exam in Linchuan County, Jiangxi, and all of them were schoolchildren and children who were not admitted to Xiucai.

The quality of scholars in Jishui County is higher, but due to the area of cultivated land, there are not as many scholars as in Linchuan County. However, in Jishui, which has a total of 120,000 people (excluding the county seat), there are also four or five thousand scholars who have read the Four Books and Five Classics, and the literate ones can directly break 10,000 if they count a few hundred literates, and even some tenant children can recognize a few words.

By the way, the land annexation at the end of the Ming Dynasty was serious, which led to a decrease in the number of scholars in Jiangxi, and the number of jinshi was much smaller than before.

In the early middle and early Ming Dynasty, a large number of poor children in Jiangxi were admitted to the Jinshi. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, Jiangxi's Hanmen Jinshi were already very rare.

After Li Banghua came forward to call for help, countless low-level scholars took refuge, and there were so many "talents" that they exploded.

In order to prevent cheating in the division of fields, the scholars of Jishui County were transferred to Anfu County to assist in the division of fields. The scholars of Anfu County were transferred to Jishui to assist in the division of fields.

It is often a missionary who takes a few new refuge in the village and divides the land in various villages. In this case, the division of land between the two counties was quickly completed, and then the peasant associations of the two counties were formed.

"The town!"

The crowd stood up.

Zhao Han raised his hand and said, "Let's all sit down and talk about the situation." ”

Chen Maosheng took the lead in speaking: "Now we have no shortage of scholars, especially children and schoolchildren, who have studied the Four Books and the Five Classics, so many that there is no position to arrange at all. But many of them don't believe in the unity of the world, and they often don't follow the rules. In my opinion, Bailuzhou Academy should be renamed Datong Academy, which is dedicated to teaching students who abide by the rules, and then assign duties after graduation! ”

Li Banghua immediately said: "I agree to run the school and teach Datong thought, but Bailuzhou Academy cannot be renamed, otherwise it will definitely arouse the resistance of scholars." ”

"There is no need to change the name of the academy." Pang Chunlai also said.

"Then I won't change it." Zhao Han said with a smile.

But all serious scholars have feelings for Bailuzhou Academy, which is a place where Wen Tianxiang and many other sages have been born.

Chen Maosheng could only sit back, he was born in drama and his thinking was particularly radical.

Zhao Han thought for a while: "I came to be the head of the academy, but I only occasionally went to give lectures. Mr. Li is the deputy head of the college, and he also has time to go over and have a look. Chan Mo-sang is the Director of Academic Affairs and is in charge of the specific affairs of the College. By the way, that Wang Zhixian went around the countryside and returned to Fucheng a little awkwardly, so let him go to the academy to be a professor. ”

"Hahahaha!"

There was a burst of laughter.

The former Luling magistrate Wang Tiaoding, willing to be a thief, but unwilling to be a thief, twisted and pinched is very unpleasant.

However, Wang Tiaoding and Ouyang Steam jointly wrote a theoretical article - "The Theory of Datong Division".

The angle of the discussion is very tricky, from the sentence of "Lao Tzu": The way of heaven is to make up for the deficiency when there is more than is lost; The way of man is to lose more than enough. Who can have more than enough to serve the world? There is only one who is the Taoist.

What does it mean?

The continuous annexation of land by landlords belongs to the way of man and is the inevitability of human nature. Zhao Han presided over the division of fields, which belonged to the way of heaven and was doing the right thing for heaven. can serve the world with more than enough, and can be called "the Taoist", and Zhao Han and the officials under his command are the Taoist.

This article is written very mysteriously, and ordinary people can't understand it at all, but it is very convincing for readers.

Those low-level scholars who have benefited from it are even more highly respected by the "Datong Theory of Dividing Fields". With this article, they completely let go of their psychological burden and happily ran to divide the fields, because the division of fields is done in accordance with the way of heaven.

The vulgar slogans shouted by Chen Maosheng were specifically aimed at ordinary people.

The articles of Wang Tiaoding and Ouyang Steaming are specifically aimed at the world's scholars.

It's a pity that the two of them didn't dare to sign their real names when they wrote the article. One is under the pseudonym Wang Fan, and the other is under the pseudonym Ou Zhen, sneaking around like a thief.

Wang Tiaoding and Ouyang Steam are both prodigies, the former is eleven years old, and the latter is thirteen years old. Sure enough, there was knowledge in his stomach, Zhao Han was very satisfied with the article, and personally recommended them as a recommender, and absorbed both of them into the Datong Association.

And that "Treatise on the Division of Fields in Datong" is a must-read for all members of the Datong Society, and it is best to be able to recite it in its entirety.

made such a big move, Ouyang Steam happily went to be the magistrate, but Wang Tiaoding was unwilling to take up the actual position. Then he will be thrown to the academy as a professor, so that he can teach the students the idea of Datong, and in the future, he can specialize in theoretical research.

After talking about the academy, Li Banghua said: "There are too many scholars waiting to be officials and do things, I think we can take down the entire Ji'an Mansion!" At least, we must take Taihe County and half of Wan'an County, so that we can not only arrange Toucheng Shizi to be officials, but also allow our territory to use mountains and rivers as cities! ”

Zhao Han didn't want to expand too quickly, but he had already received a secret report from Xu Ying that Taihe County and Wan'an County must be included in the territory.

Only by taking the two counties in the south can he completely occupy the Ganzhong Basin, so that the surrounding area of his own territory is full of mountains.

Sometimes, we have to consider military issues not only from the perspective of internal affairs, but also from the perspective of the overall war situation.

"Have the rebels from Longquan County been contacted?" Zhao Han asked.

Siu Huan is not only in charge of integrity affairs, but also temporarily in charge of intelligence work in the territory. He immediately stood up and said, "I was about to report this matter, and I have already contacted the Longquan Righteous Army. The leader of the Longquan Righteous Army is called Fang Shengchang, and his great-ancestor used to be the deputy hundred households of Longquan, and his generation has fallen into the middle of the family. This person had studied for a few years and dropped out of school because of his family's poverty. Although he captured Longquan County, he was afraid of the encirclement and suppression of the government, so he was willing to take refuge in us. ”

Zhao Han smiled and said: "Very good, when we take Taihe and Wan'an counties, we will immediately send someone to take over Longquan County and connect the southern jurisdiction." ”

Chen Maosheng couldn't help but say: "Zongzhen, are we expanding too fast?" Many scholars are not obedient at all, and if they are assigned to various counties to become officials, they must be a large number of corrupt officials and corrupt officials. ”

Zhao Han sighed and said: "The tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, I also want to develop slowly, but the court does not give me a chance." Emperor Lao'er, he already knows about Jiangxi, and the officers and soldiers of Guangdong and Fujian provinces are likely to send troops across the border next year! ”

Everyone was shocked, including Fei Ruhe, who had just returned from Anfu County, and couldn't help but feel a little weak.

The three provinces are encircled and suppressed, and the troops may be tens of thousands, or even 100,000, can we really withstand it?

Only Li Banghua and Pang Chunlai, the two of them were still relaxed, sitting there and laughing.

Li Banghua said: "There are many righteous troops in western Fujian, southern Jiangxi, and the mountains, and the officers and soldiers of Fujian and Guangdong provinces will dare to come north to fight us only after they have cleared out the righteous troops there." ”

Pang Chunlai said: "With the temperament of the Ming official army, if you want to unite the two provinces to send troops, it will take at least half a year. If they encounter a person who is constrained, it will take more than a year to transfer troops, and the amount of grain and grass is enough for them to have a headache. This is the way to die, I am afraid that if the Southern Jiangxi Righteous Army has not been wiped out, Fujian and Guangdong will be full of smoke. ”

"Mr. Pang is right." Li Banghua echoed.

In Fujian and Guangdong provinces, first of all, there are very few regular troops, and the naval divisions are barely decent. If you want to come to Jiangxi to suppress bandits, you have to re-recruit and train, and the province has to raise its own food and grass.

Now there is still a war in the north, and the imperial court is urging grain and taxes tightly.

The officials of the three divisions in Guangdong and Fujian had to deal with the tax errands of the imperial court, and also provided money and grain to recruit troops to go to war, where did they get so much silver and grain? When the time comes, it will certainly intensify the exploitation of the common people, which will inevitably provoke countless peasants to rebel.

Listening to Pang Chunlai and Li Banghua's explanations, everyone was relieved and was no longer so afraid of the encirclement and suppression of officers and soldiers.

Fei Ruhe suddenly said: "When I was in Anfu County, there were volunteers who fled from Pingxiang to join the army, and they also brought some important military information. When the prefect of Yuanzhou conquered the Pingxiang rebels, there were thousands of archers under his command. ”

"Really?" Zhao Han was very surprised.

Fei Ruhe said: "I sent someone to Yuanzhou to inquire about the news, but it was Tian Younian, the prefect of Yuanzhou, who heard that the Tartars were besieging Beijing, so he began to recruit craftsmen to make bows. He recruited more than a dozen craftsmen from the armory of Nanchang Wei, and ordered local craftsmen in Yuanzhou to learn. In the autumn of the fourth year of Chongzhen, he had made 500 pairs of bows and arrows, all of which were sent to the capital to be dedicated to the emperor. ”

"It's a talent." Zhao Han sighed.

Fei Ruhe continued: "Yuan Zhouwei himself has an arsenal, and he recruited some craftsmen from Nanchang, and now there are hundreds of bow craftsmen in Yuanzhou. Every year, hundreds of bows and tens of thousands of arrows can be made, some of which are transported to the capital and some are kept for their own use. This man had more than 3,000 soldiers under his command, 1,000 of whom were archers. ”

Pang Chunlai suddenly sighed: "It seems that our fierce rivals are not Li Maofang and Wang Siren, who are thieves in Duchang, but Tian Younian, the prefect of Yuanzhou." This person has been training for at least a year, and he is not a temporary beggar soldier, no wonder the rebels in Pingxiang were easily wiped out by him. ”

"If the rebel army in Duchang is exterminated," Li Banghua said, "Tian Younian is likely to take the elite under his command and follow the governor south to fight us." ”

Yuanzhou is just north of Anfu County, and at first glance it looks like a very close neighbor, but it is blocked by mountains in the middle, and only a few main roads need to be defended.

If Tian Younian was smart, he would not have come over the mountains, so he would probably be defeated in an ambush, and most of them would have to go by water with Governor Li Maofang.

Pang Chun said: "We can't wait for others to fight, we don't have a pair of armor, and we will suffer a lot when we encounter thousands of archers." ”

"Then take the initiative!"

Zhao Han got up and said: "Fight Yuanzhou first, don't occupy the city, and don't divide the fields, it's purely to destroy Tian Younian's elite." It would be even better if you could 'invite' the bow maker back! ”