When Wei Lezi knocked on the door of the Boling County Temple, Hu Pu, the county magistrate, was in the county office looking at the newspaper of "Several Problems in the Division of Fields in Various Counties" summarized by the political affairs hall.

The papermaking technology of the Taishan Army was very developed, and in addition to becoming an important export commodity, it had a very significant impact on the expression and efficiency of administrative duties.

After paper replaced bamboo slips, it became easier to express words. Therefore, it is only natural that in order to fully express the government affairs of the government hall to the following counties, a new style of official document writing began to appear.

This style is also often referred to as "Zhengwen".

And now Hu Pu is holding a copy of this political document, with more than 50,000 words. In the past, this word count was a book, but now it is only used to summarize some experiences in dividing fields.

The above changes are just a small microcosm of Hebei today, with the Taishan Army vigorously developing productive forces, Hebei will become more and more unfamiliar, but it will also become more and more vibrant.

Hu Pu is now studying this newspaper attentively, because it represents the latest attitude and spirit of the political affairs hall towards the division of fields.

Don't look at Hu Pu is only eighteen, but he is already an old official, he knows that it is one thing to get things done, and it is another thing to be satisfied.

After Hu Pu received this report, he turned down today's official business and dedicated it to studying behind closed doors.

And when I looked at this newspaper, Hu Pu really gained a lot, and he also understood the lessons of dividing other areas in the field this time.

First of all, the government affairs hall directly criticized the prefectural order of Shiyi in Changshan Province and reprimanded it for delaying the implementation of the policy of dividing the land.

Hu Pu also understands this matter.

This Shiyi Commander was a subordinate official who had previously served as an official in the Hanoi area. When he was ordered to escort the military rations to the Han army on the front line, he was captured by the Taishan army.

His person, who later performed well in politics, was sent to Shiyi in the new district as the chief official.

After learning about the local situation in Shiyi, this Shiyi Ling wrote back to Zhang Nan, the minister of Changshan, and expressed a meaning:

"The situation in my Shiyi is relatively special, there is no strong and powerful in the county, so there is no land to divide."

What's going on?

Originally, most of the counties in Shiyi were in the Taihang Mountain, and there would be some mountain people who came out to sell some mountain goods in good years, but with the chaos in the world, the entire Taihang Mountain became a paradise for thieves and homeless people.

In this context of chaos and decay, most of the local tyrants in Shiyi could not survive. Either he was plundered and destitute, or he moved elsewhere with his clan.

After that, the Yellow Turban Rebellion, in order to supply the northern army of the court, Changshan increased taxes and labor. In this case, those small people outside the mountains also began to make ends meet, and fled to the mountains in groups.

The report of the Shiyi Commander was:

"The difficulty of Shiyi is not in the local tyrants, but in the people. The people are uneasy, even if there is soil. ”

In fact, the situation in Shiyi is not an isolated case, which can be regarded as the general situation in Hebei to a considerable extent.

The counties of Youji have been harassed by the Hu people all the year round, and they need to bear the weighing taxes of the northern frontier defense, so life is generally difficult.

After that, the Hebei Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out for nearly three years, and the oppression of local county guards became even more ferocious.

In this environment, only the Boling Cui clan, the king surnamed Zhu Liu, and other right clans who have achieved more than 2,000 stones can stay out of the matter, and even achieve greater development in the war.

The bankrupt tyrants, the land, the population, and the dock walls were all taken over by these wealthy families.

So now Shiyi is encountering such a situation.

The above has to divide Haoqiangtian, but when you look up, let alone Haoqiang, you can't see much, and they all run into the mountains.

And the rest of those who are still left to farm outside the mountain, to put it bluntly, people still support your Taishan Army and believe that your Taishan Army can resume production.

If you go to divide other people's fields at this time, these people will also run out.

Therefore, this Shiyi order gave Zhang Nan, who was Chang Shanxiang at the time, the special situation of "the poor are solid and the rich are not rich" in Shiyi.

Finally, he also hoped that Zhang Nan would change the policy of dividing the land and devote his main energy to mobilizing the mountain people to go down the mountain.

There is no doubt that Hu Pu, who is also a local official, believes that Shiyiling's judgment is more in line with the current situation. But what Hu Pu understands more clearly is that dividing up the field is not a matter of seeking truth from facts, it is a matter of attitude.

Sure enough, after this Shiyi order was given to Zhang Nan, the minister of Changshan, he was reprimanded by Zhang Nan, and his wording was also very harsh.

Zhang Nan was born in the old Taishan Army, came from hardship, and fought with Zhang Chong for several years. In addition, he came out of the army to be a local magistrate temporarily, so after seeing the letter of Shiyi's order, he reacted very much.

In his opinion, the Shiyi Order was a deliberate attempt to obstruct the policy of dividing the land. He Zhang Nan wanted to prohibit him, not to tell him anything special.

If you are special, then other counties are also special, so can this field be divided?

Zhang Nan can't forget that Dong Wan in the Heji base area was because of his compassion in this area, which led to the Heji riots that followed.

Otherwise, his current ranking will be lower than the ban?

Therefore, no matter from the inner situation or his own future, Zhang Nan could not tolerate Shiyi Ling's behavior.

So he handed over his proposal to Yecheng together with the document of the Shiyi Order, and handed it over to the political hall for collegiality.

At that time, Du Man, who was dealing with political affairs, made this reply after accepting the above form:

"The letter of the Shiyi Decree does reflect the real situation to a certain extent. But in this case, should the land not be divided? From now on, this is not a place worth discussing. This is not an economic issue, but a political one. ”

Later, Du Man referred to Zhang Chong's previous expositions on the purpose of dividing fields, and combined with his own understanding of this elaboration, he wrote a heroic essay "On the Separation of Fields".

The full text of this "Treatise on the Division of Fields" was attached to the Di Bao, and Hu Pu hurriedly studied it word by word.

The whole article first expounds the policy of dividing the land of the Taishan Army in different periods.

As early as in the Taishan area, the division of land in this period was the most resolute, that is, to confiscate all the land, and resolutely eliminate the strong and the land in the body.

During this period, the land allocated to the head of the Qianshou and the subordinates only had the right to use, but not the ownership, and at the same time, the private sale of land was prohibited. Maintain a ratio of thirty taxes to one in taxes.

However, this strategy is okay in the area around Tarzan, but once it is extended to the outside, it will be the enemy of the whole people.

Because quite simply, no group will be a beneficiary under this policy. Needless to say, even those disciples don't support it.

Because under the rule of the Taishan army, although they had little tax, they still had no land.

As a result, after Zhang Chong led the Taishan army to start fighting in the mountains, in order to cope with a more complex external environment and unite allies such as the Hu Mu family, the Taishan army's land division policy changed.

From dividing all the land to only dividing the powerful land, and then distributing it to the landless Qiantou and the disciples. At first, these lands were still in the hands of the Taishan Army, but later as the Taishan Army began to operate the Laiwu area, all these lands were assigned to the farmers.

Since that time, the Taishan army has maintained this policy.

Until last year, in order to quickly annex Youji, the Taishan Army issued a confiscation of half of Haoqiang's fields and retained its lacquer orchards, fruit groves, mulberry orchards, bamboo forests and other operational land.

This policy lasted for about half a year, and now all of Haoqiang's land has been confiscated and distributed equally to everyone, including Haoqiang.

After briefly talking about the inheritance of the policy of dividing fields, Du Man summed up a essence. And this is also the most realistic basis for Taishan Jun to criticize the moderate division of fields.

Duman says:

"Dividing the field is not dividing the field for the sake of dividing the field, it is the Taishan Army to help thousands of Qianshou stand up to the sky, and it is the means for the Taishan Army to be deeply rooted in the vast countryside. It is the process of developing and strengthening the Taishan army and cleaning up the remnants of the Han Dynasty. ”

Most of the above words were said by Zhang Chong during his conversations over the years, and this time he systematically summarized them.

From here, Du Man very clearly expressed the attitude of dividing the field, that is, don't be afraid of trouble, don't be afraid of violence.

Of course, it is the first priority to divide the land for the Qiantou, because it is the moral pursuit and legal basis of the Taishan Army to keep the thousands of Qianshou warm. But in this process, it is equally important to stimulate the enthusiasm of the Qiantou leaders, stimulate their sense of resistance to the strong, and support the Taishan Army.

Because only in this way can the Taishan army keep the fruits of these victories, and these leaders can really turn over.

Therefore, the focus of dividing the field is to divide.

It is not only about the land, but also about the redistribution of power and status at the grassroots level. In the past, it was Haoqiang who held power in the township, but now it is the Taishan Army.

The Taishan army wants to replace the small favors of the grassroots heroes in the past with a kind of kindness that divides the fields.

To sum up, the Taishan Army wanted to eliminate the economic foundation and social status of Haoqiang by dividing the land, and firmly unite the leaders of Qian.

Therefore, Du Man specially gave the following chief officers three tasks for this purpose.

One is to be able to establish the township office and field protection team of the Taishan Army. One is to be able to promote production. One is to destroy the local powerful land.

The chief officials do these three things, and Yecheng also looks at these three things. Whichever one is done well, there is merit. If you can't do it well, then go down.

After reading this report, Hu Pu directly had a feeling of empowerment.

It was only at this time that he had a top-level perspective on the policy of dividing the fields, and only then did he know why the above must insist on eliminating Haoqiang and then dividing the fields.

At this time, Hu Pu was a little lucky.

Fortunately, the situation in Boling, where he is located, is not as complicated as Shiyi, he really has Haoqiang here, and now he has caught a lot of illegal evidence of this Haoqiang through the process of continuous trial.

Just wait for the right time, you can eradicate Cui's family.

Thinking of this, he felt a little sympathetic to that Shiyi Ling. He suddenly couldn't remember his name a little, so he hurriedly turned to the place of his name, and unconsciously read a sentence:

"Chang Lin? That's a good name. ”

I only hope that after this Chang Lin is re-applied, he can change it in time, otherwise it will be difficult for him to want to be a minister in the same hall again.

Just when Hu Pu was about to continue studying, his staff whispered outside the hall:

"County gentleman, there is a person outside who said that there is a grievance."

At this time, Hu Pu was looking at the excitement, and when he opened his mouth, he was about to let people send him away first, but when the words came to his mouth, he stopped again.

He looked at the paperweight that his teacher Tao Di gave him when he graduated, and thought of what his teacher taught him. Hu Pu replied in the end:

"Okay, let's open the trial."

Then on the way to the front hall, Hu Pu listened to the case from the staff. After he listened, Hu Pu laughed:

"Say it's time, and the time will come."

Then he explained to his staff:

"You don't have to go to the front temple with me for a while, go directly to the outside of the city to call General Geng Zhen. said that the county was going to use swords. ”

The staff knew that the stakes were high, so they nodded and left the temple with a county pawn.

Not long after, the Boling County Temple opened the middle gate, and dozens of county soldiers opened out of the middle gate with Hu Pu on horseback, and in the crowd, Wei Lezi was impressively in the ranks.

Hu Purong dressed up and led the county guards through the city, which naturally aroused the suspicion of many people.

They have seen a lot of the appearance of the county monarch Yan Ran sitting in the hall, and it is the first time they have seen this martial artist. I just don't know who is going to suffer from this.

After Hu Pu left the city, he soon joined Geng Hao, the town general who was already waiting on the official road, who brought all the town soldiers with 500 soldiers, which can be described as a dumping camp.

After the convergence, Hu Pu first took a look at the armament and morale of the town soldiers, and nodded secretly in his heart. He smiled and said to Geng Hao:

"I have long heard that Geng Zhen will be from the Marshal Department of the Right Army, and he is really a well-trained soldier."

Geng Hao is not humble, and their martial artists are not interested in this. If you can't do it, you can do it, and if you can't do it, you will lose your life when you are allowed to go up.

So, Geng Hao said bluntly:

"Boling is a big county, and at the end of that year, I will leave the town of Boling, and the marshal specially allowed me to bring a team down. The last general relied on the seeds of fifty people of our right army, with the field guards as the backbone, and absorbed the Han army to surrender troops. It takes three days of practice to have this result. With the many years of experience in the territory of the last general, although our Boling battalion cannot defeat the main force of the Han army in the past, it is easy to deal with the powerful troops with one enemy and two. ”

Hu Pu nodded, with this word, his heart was stable.

So, without further ado, the Boling camp with Geng Hao went straight to Dunbenbi in the west of the county, which is where the Cui family's main hall is located.

Along the way, for the sake of concealment, all the woodcutters and tenants they encountered were all collected under the army and marched with the army.

After only about an hour, Hu Pu drove outside the Dunben Wall under the guidance of Wei Lezi.

At this time, the Cui clan on the wall had already seen the smoke and dust from a distance, and kept ringing the alarm bell on the watchtower.

There was a lot of chaos on the entire dock wall.

Below, Geng Hao stepped forward and shouted at the wall:

"The county gentleman is handling the case, and he hasn't opened the wall quickly."

But whoever looks at the soldiers below, who dares to believe this sentence. Whoever handles the case, bring a soldier and horse.

But Geng Hao didn't let the doorman think at all, and then scolded:

"If you don't open the wall, the whole wall will be a thief."

At this moment, Cui's subordinates panicked. They hurried to find the patriarch Cui Si, hoping that he would think of a way.

What can Cui Si do at this time?

There are no 500 people up and down the entire Dunben wall, there are 500 soldiers outside, and there are 50,000 or 60,000 elite soldiers of the Taishan army behind it.

How can he?

Finally, after taking a look at the ancestral temple, Cui Si was in tears:

"Repentance and disobedience have caused this great misfortune to my clan."

After a while, Cui's wall opened. The Boling camp outside the wall penetrated and quickly controlled the entire wall.

Then, the Boling county guards went out everywhere and found all the apprentices and tenants who could be found nearby. They told these people to have a meeting with the Cui family's ancestral wall.

Here's one:

"Everyone must be fed, and the tiller shall have his field. Today, the Taishan army is in charge, and revenge is today. ”