After taking Huai'an, Huaining County, Shuyang County, Shanyang County and other places within the jurisdiction of Huai'an Prefecture surrendered one after another and sacrificed their cities.

The officials stationed in the Chinese military force in the city thought that they would be forgiven, and even if they were not promoted and appeased, they would keep their official positions.

No, the current Emperor Chongzhen did not play his cards according to common sense, and took down all the officials and generals as soon as possible, together with their families and cronies, and distributed them to Liaodong.

Seeing that the commanders had been taken down, the soldiers and officials were so frightened that they knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.

I just thought that a catastrophe was coming.

didn't want Chongzhen to criticize them, but loudly announced that he would clarify the local land within half a month and start dividing the land.

What surprised them even more was that Emperor Chongzhen promised to confiscate all the land in the territory and distribute it to ordinary people, low-level officials and soldiers.

In particular, everyone didn't expect that Chongzhen not only stabbed officials, local tyrants and inferior gentry, but even used a knife on himself.

He didn't even leave a trace of Huangzhuang Tian, and took it all out and divided it.

You know, Huangzhuang is Chongzhen's private wealth!

Actually, Chongzhen didn't care about Huangzhuang at all.

At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the 50 million acres of imperial villages on the Jianghuai side were directly leased by the imperial court to the people for farming, and only collected a rent of one mu and five liters, not even thirty taxes!

It is a tax rate that benefits the people.

But after arriving in the Jiajing Dynasty, the gentry began to encroach on the imperial village.

Hai Rui once cleared the private land encroached upon by the first assistant Xu Jie's family, which was not private land at all, because there were only 60 million mu of cultivated land in the entire Nanzhi, which was used as an imperial village by Zhu Yuanzhang, how could there be any private land to occupy?

The gentry in Jiangnan occupied the imperial palaces of the imperial court.

Of course, the Jiangnan gentry will also openly take Nanzhi as their own, but they will transfer the imperial village to tenant farmers for cultivation without authorization, and the land rent that should be handed over to the state treasury has always been wrong.

They continue to pump rent from it!

According to historical estimates, 47 million taels of tenant rent fell into the pockets of the gentry every year!

In the long run, the gentry gradually regarded the Huangzhuang as their private property and never wanted to spit it out.

Later, when Jianyu came, the gentry started to have crooked thoughts and surrendered to the foreign tribes one by one, in a vain attempt to take the occupied Huangzhuang as their own.

Because, the Ming Dynasty did not die, they could only share the profits of the Huangzhuang, and once they died, they could directly carve up the Huangzhuang itself.

It's just that the Jiangnan gentry thought too naïve and beautiful.

When the Jianyu army went south, the Ming Dynasty really perished, and the gentry found out that the Jiannu directly occupied all the land, and the people were killed!

Because of knowing these histories, Chongzhen did not have any good impression of the Jiangnan gentry.

He will not cherish his feathers like the real Chongzhen, he will not be afraid of infamy, and he will not be afraid of the rebellion of the gentry.

He was taught from an early age that it was for the people! Rely on the people!

Therefore, after taking Huai'an Mansion, he immediately ordered to clear the land and divide it all.

The officials of the four northern provinces have considerable work experience in the work of dividing and dividing land, and now they have gone south to Huai'an and immediately plunged into the great work of land reform.

It didn't take half a month, and only 5 days later, the land in Huai'an was sorted out into a book and began to be distributed.

Each of the people got 3 acres of land, although it was not much, but it was enough to excite these red people, and it was enough for the low-level officials and soldiers to support Chongzhen.

At the same time, an even more exciting and desirable news came out.

"For the people who voluntarily go to settle in Liaodong, the imperial court will distribute 30 acres of land and corresponding farmhouses, farm tools, and livestock!"

Faced with such temptations, the vast majority of the people chose to ignore them.

After all, Liaodong is too far away, it is a wild place in the hearts of the people, and now that they have land in their hands, who will go to the far north to settle?

Even so, a significant number of people have begun to sign up for immigration.

After all, that's 30 acres of land.

A family of 10 goes north, that's 300 acres of land!

It's exciting to think about.

Chongzhen didn't have time to pay attention to the great cause of land division in full swing in the rear.

In these five days, he continued to go south with his army, and used his Huang Luo umbrella to recover the five cities of Baoying, Hengyang, Gaoyou, Taizhou, and Xinghua.

On the seventh day, he arrived at the city of Yangzhou.

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By this time, the Hongguang Imperial Court in Nanjing finally got a definite battle report under the circumstance that Chongzhen deliberately ***:

Huai'an is lost!

Yangzhou is besieged!

The court was in a mess.

"Mr. Ma, quickly recall Huang Degong and the other soldiers and horses of the three towns back to King Qin!" Hongguang is in a hurry.

Ma Shiying didn't expect the Northern Court to march south so quickly, and in his imagination, the north would have to prepare for a year or two in order to stabilize Liaodong and recover its vitality.

Who would have thought that 4 months after withdrawing from Liaodong, he would go south!

"The emperor doesn't have to worry, the minister has already sent someone to recall the soldiers and horses of the three towns! I believe that they will be able to reach Ying Tianfu within five days."

"At the same time, the minister has ordered Gao Jie to go east and attack the northern army in Yangzhou, relieving Shi Du of pressure and slowing down the pace of the northern army!"

"Good! The sooner King Qin's army comes, the better! The harder Gao Jie's men attack, the better!" Hongguang was still anxious, "Edict! Calling on the world to be diligent!"

Ma Shiying bowed, "The minister has already prepared the edict, and the jade seal can be covered to make the world clear!"

"Now! Use the seal now!" Hiromitsu roared like a madman.

……

Just when Hongguang frantically called for reinforcements, Chongzhen rode his horse in front and quietly looked at Yangzhou City.

He guessed that at this time, Shi Kefa must be determining his authenticity, and the battle of Yangzhou must not be fought.

This is indeed the case.

Shi Kefa looked at the towering army, looked at the eye-catching Huang Luo umbrella, had already put on the official uniform of his military department, tidied up his coat and hat, and walked towards the city gate with official steps.

Behind him were dozens of officials, following him step by step.

The gates slowly opened.

Shi Kefa led a group of officials out of Yangzhou City and walked towards the position of Chongzhen's army.

"Sinner, Shi Kefa, knock on my emperor, long live long live long live!"

Looking at the old high Yangzhou Wenwu with a pouting butt, Chongzhen didn't feel excited at all.

These hypocrites, who only opened the door and surrendered at this time, should be killed. He imagined that in history, a large part of them had knelt before Dodor and begged.

"I sent my troops south, and I didn't wait for 50 miles of the city to meet you, and I waited for my soldiers to come to the city before opening the door and surrendering, which is undoubtedly a capital crime!"

Those who came to him were terrified and trembling.

Shi Kefa said loudly: "The ministers are not sure of the emperor's authenticity, so they dare not go out of the city to meet him. Just watched from a distance at the head of the city, I was sure that the emperor had arrived, and quickly opened the city to welcome him!"

Chongzhen sneered, "What are you guys calling Yingjia? This is surrender! Sure enough!"

Hearing Chongzhen say another capital crime, everyone was frightened, for fear that Chongzhen would kill them on the spot.

Shi Kefa slammed his head and kowtowed, "The death penalty is unforgivable, but it should be killed."

With that, he stood up and flew towards a pillar in the corner of the tent.

Bang.

Shi Kefa was covered in blood and lay flat on the ground, silent.