Zhang Huangyan sat behind the copywriter and looked at the stack of documents in front of him.

This was submitted by Yang Sichang, about the implementation of the division of land in the south of the Yangtze River.

The land reform was tried in Jiangnan very early, but it was strongly opposed by scholars and doctors. In some places, there was even a tragedy of blocking doors and windows in the middle of the night, setting fire to the peasants' thatched houses, and burning the peasants' families alive inside.

The decree does not go to the countryside, which is a tradition for thousands of years before the Ming Dynasty.

The court sent officials, and the lowest level was the seven-rank county order, and the remaining eight- and nine-rank officials were usually called servants. These officials can usually only control the order of the county. As for the ten miles and eight townships outside the county seat, they are completely managed by the gentry elders in a local area.

These clan elders have quite a lot of power, and once something bad happens in the village. Often, they will not sue the officials, as long as the clan elders determine that the facts are true. Dogs and men who are immoral will be put into pig cages and sunk in the pond.

Such a major judicial power is in their hands, not to mention other things.

Even if the imperial court wants to pay taxes, it has to be the county magistrate who summons these clan elders and distributes the tasks village by village. It can be said that Daming is in addition to the city. The vast countryside is ruled by such a group of people! In the village they have absolute authority and can decide anything. It's like the Emperor of the Earth!

Of course, there are advantages to this, at least it can effectively reduce the number of officials, and it can also reduce the financial burden.

For thousands of years before the Ming Dynasty, the Chinese dynasties were like this.

Now that Yang Sichang has decided to change, since there is already an example of Shandong and Hebei, it is not a big deal to implement it in Jiangnan. If you don't hand over the land, you will have your life.

Zhang Huangyan looked at these documents, and he knew that once they were implemented, the consequences would be a sea of blood. Shandong implemented land rations and distributed the landlords' land to the peasants. Who wants to watch their own land being divided, and secretly retaliating is not uncommon to happen. As in Jiangnan, there are peasants who are burned alive at home.

Later, Li Xiao simply sent troops and led people to fight the landlords from village to village. It is necessary not only to eliminate the landlords in terms of flesh, but also to defeat those landlords spiritually. It doesn't matter what you've done, what matters is that your family is a landlord.

As long as you are a landlord in your family, you will have to suffer the test of blood and fire.

Man! Woman! Old man! Even the doll in his arms could not escape death.

All this was done by the agitated peasants!

The peasants had this motivation because the officials gave them land. No matter who the previous owner of this land was, the official said that this land is yours, and it will be yours from now on. There was no longer a need to pay tenant rent, just a tax to the imperial court.

The difference between the imperial court and the landlord is that in the year of disaster, the imperial court will reduce taxes and distribute money and grain. In a good year, I will not try my best to raise the tenant rent.

In fact, this method is to eliminate thousands of small landlords, and the whole country is merged into one big landlord. All you have to do is pay taxes to this big landlord!

Shandong and Hebei have carried out land reclassification, and the results have been very good. The power of the local gentry was swept away, but the cost was also enormous. The rural moral system that had been built up over thousands of years was also swept away by the cruel land remodeling.

Without the control of those squires, the court could only use someone who could control the ground as the village head. And most of these people are the original ruffians and hooligans. Because they can fight, because they have gangs, they can effectively manage the place. It's not clean, but it's quiet.

As a result, there are many village bandits and bullies in the village. In Shandong, Hebei, and other places, nine out of ten people complain that they are high.

Zhang Huangyan is very clear about the pros and cons of this, but at present, Jiangnan must implement land reform. First smash the things left over from thousands of years, and then slowly strengthen the management. These squires can't be allowed to make any more trouble!

I took the top piece of paper and picked up the pen and wrote a big word. Then he stamped his seal and handed it to the pen post waiting on the side, and asked him to give it to Yang Sichang, who was waiting outside.

It's not that Zhang Huangyan is big, but he doesn't want to see Yang Sichang's excited eyes.

Zhang Huangyan knew that Yang Sichang had been bullied by these people in the past few years, and now let him let go of his hands and feet, not knowing how many unjust souls there are in this land south of the Yangtze River.

Sure enough, the document fell into Yang Sichang's hands. Seeing that word, Yang Sichang's eyes lit up with excitement.

The team was ready for a long time, with Jinling as the center, to start land reform.

The so-called land change means sending troops to the countryside to forcibly confiscate the landlords' land. Then the land was measured and distributed among the peasants. In order to completely defeat the prestige of the squires and landlords, under the coercion of the black hole and the muzzle, the peasants would stand up and fight the landlords.

Some of them are pre-determined activists, and they will take the lead in torturing the landlord until they torture him to death. That's what Shandong and Hebei did, and Yang Sichang observed it with the team at that time. He decided it would work.

As for how many people will die in this way, and whether it will corrupt the country's legal system, it is not within Yang Sichang's consideration. The main purpose now is to control Jiangnan and pacify Jiangnan, so that Jiangnan can become the source of the empire's finances and taxes, rather than an unstable area that consumes the empire's defense forces.

One hundred and ten land reform teams were immediately released, and these people followed the plan. Starting from the periphery of Jinling, village by village was swept away. Behind each team, there were dozens of soldiers.

Everywhere he went, the landlords and squires were arrested first. Then, according to the criteria given by Yang Sichang, the composition of each person in the village was evaluated.

Eight lifetimes of poor peasants, without a trace of land, must be poor peasants. Those who have a little bit of land will be rated as middle peasants. Those who have a lot of land and a good life are rich peasants. There is a lot of land, and the people who still employ long-term workers at home, that is, the landlords, need to be hit by that wave of people.

The madness begins!

The landlords were arrested with large hats on their heads. There are also some bad people who made a deck of wooden cards that weighed more than ten pounds and hung them around the necks of the landlords. However, he also hung a thin wire around his neck, and the thin wire was strangled into the meat, and the neck turned from a bloody mark to a large mouth.

The people who paraded through the street with signs involuntarily leaned forward.

The people behind them were holding their shoulders and punching and kicking them all the way.

Then someone came out to complain, and when he was excited, he picked up a wooden stick and hit him twice, but no one cared. The people next to him felt indignant, and no one cared about helping to beat a few sticks. The big stick with the thick arm of the child beckoned to his body fiercely.

I don't know which guy misses, and the stick will fall on the human heavenly spirit cover. Round and smashed with the wind, and immediately thousands of peach blossoms bloomed.

Adults are criticized, and children can't escape. The activists carried the child's calf and threw it round and fell on the tree. The child didn't understand on the spot, and the blood kept gushing out of his nose, ears, eyes, and mouth.

Three days, just three days. In more than a hundred villages around Jinling, all the squires and landlords were swept away. Each village has elected a village head, and in the future, under the leadership of the village head, he will farm the land well, and he will no longer have to worry about the affairs of the landlord.

The peasants, who had been landless for eight lifetimes, suddenly had land, and large animals confiscated from the landlord's house were used in rotation. I was so excited that I couldn't sleep at night, for fear that it would be a dream, and when I woke up, the dream would be shattered.

The gentry who heard the news from all over the country packed up their belongings and fled. There is no way, no matter how hard the shell of the praying mantis is, it can't stop the carriage.

Land reform is being carried out vigorously and resolutely in the south of the Yangtze River, and as long as there are people who obstruct it, it is the landlord who is in the same party. They would be arrested and paraded through the streets by the fanatical peasants who had been instigated, and then the big ones would be maimed and the bad ones would be killed. Including their wives and children at home, they were also killed. Many people were even beaten to death by the whole family.

As for the crime of beating people to death, officials at all levels selectively ignored them. The reason is that there are too many people involved, and the law does not hold the public accountable!