260 [Clan Power]

The most beautiful Sha waist sister of Bapai Yao is still in the election.

This thing is very lively, first in the "dragon" election, and then compete for the winners of each "rush" and "row", and finally eight rows of twenty-four punches for a big competition.

It was impossible for Zhao Han to wait slowly, and he took a boat all the way to continue south.

After Qingyuan, the fleet docked at the southwest water post in Sanshui County. The name is Southwest Water Station, and the town is called Southwest Town.

Rest for the night and depart the next day by land.

Zhao Han sat in the carriage and only walked two miles, when the coachman suddenly stepped on the brakes: "Yu! Writing brush! Writing brush! ”

"What's wrong?" Zhao Han lifted the curtain and asked.

"There's someone up ahead!"

"Protect the town!"

"Array! Array! ”

The pro-soldiers moved quickly and surrounded Zhao Han's carriage.

Zhao Han walked out of the carriage and stood beside the coachman to look, but saw hundreds of peasants kneeling in front of him.

"Don't panic, get out of the way."

Although Zhao Han said this, the moment he crossed the guard, he couldn't help but reach out and hold the hilt of the knife.

The peasants knelt down for a long time, and when they saw that Zhao Han was reluctant to pass, they got up, ran a distance and knelt down again.

"Zhao Tianwang, wronged!"

"Please ask King Zhao to be the master of the small people!"

“……”

Being able to wait on the road to shout grievances and gather hundreds of people shows at least two problems: first, the post guards of the Southwest Water Post secretly reported to these peasants; Second, these peasants stopped and shouted grievances, and there must be clan forces behind them.

Zhao Han arrived at the Southwest Water Station yesterday afternoon, and organized hundreds of peasants to come and stop him in half an afternoon and overnight. These peasants are already a force, and it is impossible for Zhao Han to listen to their words!

However, Zhao Han was kind and pleasant, and said with a smile: "If there is any grievance, push a leader to come over and talk." ”

A man about thirty years old stood up and ran a few steps, kneeling down in front of Zhao Han: "Zhao Tianwang, the grass people are Chen Fushun, a villager from Shitang Village......"

A few words of Cantonese, Zhao Han can guess it, and a large paragraph of words is completely blind.

The accompanying interpreter came to Zhao Han's side and scolded: "You say it sentence by sentence!" ”

This person made a long statement, and finally explained the cause and effect clearly, but it was an old case that happened last year.

The two villages, for the sake of easy understanding, are called Shanghe Village and Xiahe Village.

Last year, the drought was severe, and the river was cut off in Shanghe Village to irrigate paddy fields. Xiahe Village was not angry, and went to fight for water, and more than 20 people were injured.

When it came to the government, the magistrate did not file a case.

Because according to Zhu Yuanzhang's "Religious People's List Text", this kind of dispute in the countryside cannot be reported to the official at will, and must be handed over to the village elders for judgment. If the village elder bypasses and sues the official, the cane will be punished for 60 years and returned to the village elder for judgment.

So, the villagers of Xiahe, who were robbed of their water source and injured more than 20 people, ate a meal at the magistrate's place. The village elders in Shanghe Village are stronger, and Xiahe Village loses its water source and is injured by Europe, and finally has to pool money to pay for the soup and medicine.

It's not over!

During the autumn harvest, the rice yield in Xiahe Village was reduced by more than 70%, but Shanghe Village was not greatly affected. So, the villagers of Xiahe Village went out collectively and went directly to the threshing floor to grab grain.

This move was unexpected, and it caught Kawamura off guard.

A few days later, Shanghe Village summoned people to retaliate, and Xiahe Village suffered a big loss, so Xiahe Village gathered people again. After several rounds in a row, more and more people participated in the fighting, and finally a battle broke out between the two sides with more than 3,000 people, involving a total of four villages.

More than fifty people died!

The magistrate finally made a move, regardless of the indiscriminate, each side of the fight arrested ten people, and executed them after the autumn.

Both sides were not satisfied, and went to the patrol to avenge the imperial history, and the patrol according to the imperial history stabbed the case to Dali Temple. However, the patrol according to the imperial history is also on the sidelines, and the weapon fight that killed more than 50 people only said that six people died when it was reported, and he also helped Shanghe Village to speak.

It's just because of Shanghe Village that someone is a big official in the imperial court.

In the end, Dali Temple let the magistrate retrial. Only one person was beheaded in Shanghe Village, the remaining nine were acquitted, and 10 people were executed in Xiahe Village.

"Zhao Tianwang, you give a commentary," Chen Fushun said, "Our village was first robbed of water, and then injured. Even if it is wrong to grab food, it is forced by hunger. Even if we play fifty boards each, we admit it. Why did they kill only one, but our village killed ten! The Ming court is rotten, and in the future, our village will only recognize Zhao Tianwang and ask Zhao Tianwang to be the master! ”

"Ask King Zhao to call the shots!" Hundreds of peasants fell to their knees and shouted.

Zhao Han said expressionlessly: "Who taught you what you said just now, let him shout grievances himself, these gentry don't want to hide behind their backs." I'll go back to the Southwest Water Post and wait, and let the old gentry come by themselves. ”

Chen Fushun was stunned, and then kowtowed and shouted: "Ask King Zhao to call the shots!" ”

Zhao Han didn't bother to pay attention to it, turned around and left, and took the carriage back to the post station.

After waiting at the post station for half a day, a few villagers came one after another. They tried to speak, but they were ordered to shut up and continue to wait together at the inn.

By the next day, more than a dozen gentry had arrived in the villages on both sides of the fight.

"Interrogation separately!" Zhao Han ordered.

Due to the lack of officials, missionaries and backbone of the peasant association, there is only one acting magistrate appointed by Fei Ruhe in Sanshui County. This was a wartime appointment, mainly for the purpose of taking over documents and treasury.

As for the distribution of fields, it is estimated that it will take another month or two before they can be distributed to the surrounding villages in Sanshui County.

More than a dozen gentry were interrogated separately for a day.

If their confessions did not match, they continued the interrogation again until the middle of the night of the next day. During this period, you can only drink water, eat and sleep.

Chen Maosheng took the final interrogation result and said with a wry smile: "A hundred years of grudges, I can't say clearly." Whichever side is a big official, which side will bully others. This time you suffered, I suffered that time, and in general, the downstream villages suffered more losses. ”

"Are those who kneel on the ground and cry out for grievances homesteaders or tenants?" Zhao Han asked.

"Most of them are tenants," Chen Maosheng said, "and there are a few tenants with extremely complicated identities that they have never encountered in Jiangxi Province." ”

Zhao Han became interested and asked, "How complicated?" ”

Chen Maosheng explained: "The clan power here is extremely strong, and each clan has a public land. Some people who are close to each other can cultivate the public land in the clan, and the land rent is relatively low. Because they don't have to pay land taxes or serve forced labor, their lives are even comparable to those of small landlords in Jiangxi. In the event of a disaster year, they can receive intra-clan relief. Even if you want to do business, you can go to the ancestral hall to borrow money. ”

Zhao Han said: "The clan uses the public land to control the clansmen who are close to the blood, so as to form the cohesion of the big clan. and each of them used his own land to control other tenants. Therefore, every time there is a fight, you can call for a hundred calls and gather thousands of people to fight? ”

"That's it!" Chen Maosheng nodded and said.

The clan can be compared to the sect of cultivating immortals, the population in the sect is the core disciples, the inner disciples who are closer in blood, and the outer disciples who are far away.

There is a clan property, there is a clan field, and this is used as a means of control. He also opened private schools, built bridges and paved roads, gathered people's hearts and controlled everything. Ordinary tenants were exploited, and they had to be grateful to the landlords. Class contradictions are directly transferred outward, and when people's hearts are uncertain, they fight with the next village. The contradictions were transferred to the next village, so that the feud between the two villages was formed.

The public trial conference or something, you can't do it here.

Because the tenants were exploited badly, they did not hate the landlords, but the villagers of the next village. It seems that their life is not going on, and it is all caused by the village next door.

"It's a bit hard to push." Chen Maosheng sighed.

Zhao Han said: "If the soft one is not good, the hard one will come." Half of the members of the main sect of each family were killed directly, and half were caught for mining. ”

Chen Maosheng smiled bitterly: "These gentry have a good name. They have been building bridges and paving roads, helping their neighbors, and spreading education. ”

"Do good deeds to atone for sin? The crime is ready-made, inciting the people to fight, causing dozens of deaths and injuries," Zhao Han plans to be ruthless this time, "After solving the main sect, immediately divide the land to the people, and take out all the real estate and shops of the main sect." In addition, if we continue to fight with weapons in the future, not only will we punish the evildoers, but none of the people involved will be able to escape. Once they fight, they will confiscate an acre of land for each of them! ”

To solve the main sect is to disintegrate the head.

The division of land and production will inevitably lead to a psychological imbalance between the children of the sect, those who are closer in blood, and those who are far away in blood, and internal contradictions will arise. Ordinary tenants, on the other hand, were completely taken care of. In the future, if the clan wants to get together and make trouble, it is estimated that there will be a fight internally, and there is no need to unite with the outside world.

Sanshui County is not far from Guangzhou, and Zhao Han directly mobilized troops and began to "deal with" disputes in troublesome villages.

Chen Fushun, who took the lead in kneeling and shouting grievances, was a tenant who was close to each other.

He watched his grandfather's family being captured by Zhao Tianwang's big soldiers. Originally, I was resentful in my heart, and I felt that Zhao Tianwang was also partial to the next village, but who knew that someone would come to publicize the division of fields and production that day.

Give your grandfather's land to yourself?

Chen Fushun was stunned for a long time, and suddenly felt that it was a good thing that his grandfather was arrested, and it was best for the whole family not to let it go back for the rest of their lives.

During the division of the field, Chen Fushun was very angry.

Why should an ordinary tenant have the same number of acres as he allotted? Obviously, this is his own clan field, and his blood relationship is much closer.

Soon, Chen Fushun's anger was extinguished again. Because he found that the land and property allocated by the children of the sect were actually the same as his own. Isn't that mentally balanced?

Not only mentally balanced, but also secretly happy.

Soon he was red again, because the children of the sect could actually be assigned to the store. The number of shops in the town is very small, and it is definitely not enough, but the children of the sect who have not been allocated can also get a part of the floating wealth.

The whole process of dividing the field is extremely strange.

Except for the tenants outside the clan, who only rejoiced, everyone else was happy and resentful. Because they all got benefits, they didn't hate Zhao Han, but resented each other.

These two villages, purely on the muzzle of the gun, were killed by Zhao Han Liwei.

It is impossible to kill people and divide the fields like this in Guangdong, and the rest of the big clans, Zhao Han plans to forcibly immigrate to Huguang. Some of the big clans in Huguang will also be dispersed and moved to other states and counties, anyway, some states and counties in Huguang are extremely short of population.

Zhao Han handed over the work of dividing the fields of the two "demonstration villages" to Chen Maosheng, and he himself went to Guangzhou to communicate with the businessmen.