In fact, even if Tian Jianxiu fully implements Li Yan's ideas, the areas where the military power can radiate can be truly implemented in the rural areas will be as good as five or six.

The rest of the rural gentry did not take the initiative to donate their property, but they had already fled with their families, and for the gentry who fled with their families, the army was powerless, after all, as soon as the army left, these gentry would come back.

In fact, on this issue, Li Zicheng and Li Yan have contradictions.

In Li Zicheng's thinking, none of the landlords and gentry are good people, if it is said that ten of them are all killed, they may be wronged, and if they kill one after another, there must be a slip through the net.

Out of class hatred, Li Zicheng believes that the landlords and gentry should be disposed of without subdivision, and it is not said that half of the family property is given, even if all the family property is given, it should be killed or killed.

Li Yan, on the other hand, resolutely opposed Li Zicheng's idea, and according to his words, it is necessary to distinguish between the nature, size, and wealth of the landlords, and then divide them, and win over the small and medium-sized landlords to attack the big landlords.

Of course, in Li Zicheng's view, this belongs to the category of "compromise with the landlord class", and Li Zicheng prefers "uniform land exemption", at least for him who has been oppressed, "uniform land exemption" is a universal value that he thinks about day and night.

Li Yan is not Li Zicheng, nor is he a simple peasant in this era, and it is difficult for him to explain to Li Zicheng the inevitability of the economic situation of land annexation based on private ownership, so he can only tell Li Zicheng: "This expedient method, for the sake of today's plan, should share the power of the imperial court, and accumulate the help of the righteous army, so as to achieve a great cause." ”

Expedient measures seemed to have become the greatest common divisor between Li Zicheng and Li Yan, so Li Zicheng pinched his nose and recognized the implementation of the "division of land protons", and also adopted a policy of wooing some landlords who surrendered half of their property.

In a harmonious atmosphere, only Gu Junen is insightful, Li Zicheng and Li Yan already seem to have a policy dispute, and he reminded Li Yan in private that Li Zicheng is a gentleman, they are ministers, and they should let it go in terms of policy, don't be so rigid.

But Li Yan can't let it!

He knew the outcome of the camp, 400 days, more than 10 years of hard work was taken away by the Manchus, if he did not want such a situation to happen again, he could not follow the old road in the history of the camp, the landlord class should be united, and the policy should be flexible.

He had rich military experience, but he was always in a naïve state when it came to policy, and dogma and inflexibility permeated the Dashun regime, which was why it suffered a crushing defeat in the subsequent competition with the Manchus.

Huang Taiji can lick his face to find Chongzhen to make peace, and then turn his hand to kill Korea and Mongolia, Dolgon can give Wu Sangui the king in exchange for entering the customs, and he can suspend the hair cutting order to confuse the Han landlords, but what about Li Zicheng? Throughout the course of the struggle, he always adhered to his ideals, and the three-year exemption from taxation caused a serious financial burden on the Dashun regime.

The Dashun regime, which lacked money and food, had to obtain military supplies through torture, but this undoubtedly offended the landlord class to death, until the entire Gyeonggi North China was lost, and Li Zicheng announced the suspension of torture in hindsight, but it was obviously too late at this time......

Li Yan has a deep understanding of these problems, he must try to change Li Zicheng's mind, otherwise it will still be a dead end along the way, but fortunately, it seems that Li Zicheng is still generally following his train of thought.

In several "clean" villages in Shangzhou, Li Yan persuaded Li Zicheng to make a bold attempt, that is, "election".

In fact, the election is also quite shocking, Gu Junen strongly opposed such a practice, according to him, since ancient times, official positions have been granted, and the Son of Heaven is also on behalf of the herdsmen, where have you ever heard of the statement that the head of the Qiantou is allowed to choose the pastoral officials by himself?

Gu Junen's view is also Li Zicheng's view, Li Zicheng believes that if you really want to build political power in the countryside, you have to be awarded official positions by those who break into the camp to select capable people, and let the local government select on its own.

Of course, Li Yan easily refuted Gu Junen and Li Zicheng's views.

Li Yan first quoted ancient records, saying that in ancient times, virtuous monarchs were elected by election, how can it be said that there is no precedent? He even changed his words, pointing out that Yao Shun and all the ancient sages were all elected by the emperor, and he still cherishes their good governance, on the other hand, those hereditary feudal emperors, but only the faint and the virtuous are few.

In fact, this is a change of concept, compared with the primitive tribal election method, feudal autocracy is obviously more superior, but Gu Junen can't refute it at all.

Because Li Yan stood on two commanding heights, Confucianism in the late Ming Dynasty was biased towards studying the pre-Qin princes, and neglected the Tang and Song dynasties, so he naturally respected the ancient sages and kings, and Gu Junen was no exception.

On the other hand, Chongzhen is the hereditary emperor, Li Zicheng is now a rebel, and the one who proposes to be pushed by the people is the one who is expected to be politically correct, otherwise Chongzhen is the herdsman of the sky, what qualifications do you Li Zicheng have to overthrow him?

And the idea of Li Zicheng is better refuted, who wants to stay as a village guard in the camp? Just kidding, as soon as the intruding army leaves, as soon as the Ming army arrives, there is no difference between staying and looking for death.

The township guard is not just a random assignment of one or two small soldiers, at least you have to read and write, don't know a word how you can guard the township? There are very few people who can read and write.

Li Yan skillfully argued against Gu Junen, Li Zicheng also felt that what Li Yan said was indeed reasonable, anyway, the army really couldn't stay here, rather than leaving people to lose in vain, it was better to let these villagers elect and support people to serve as township guards, so that if they couldn't keep it, it would also cause some trouble to the Ming army.

So he also nodded and agreed to Li Yan's "experiment".

In fact, there is not much significance in the rural election, because there are so many people to choose from, and it is absolutely impossible for you to choose a poor person to be the village guard, and the final election must also be a relatively well-off family, quite a prestigious figure, and once such a person ascends to the position of the village guard, he will still bend the law for personal gain, and gradually form a new gentry.

But these are not important, of course Li Yan can guess the development of things, but this is not something he cares about, he just wants to dig the foundation of the Ming Dynasty as much as possible now, so that this corrupt tree will collapse as soon as possible, he is really short of time.

Destroy the original interest organization and create a new interest structure, even if this interest structure cannot be controlled by the camp in the future, it will definitely not be compatible with the Ming court, so it is conceivable that resistance is inevitable.

If you say, whether Li Yan still has any selfish intentions, it is that he also wants to try to plant a seed of "representative system" in the feudal Ming Dynasty, even if this seed only germinates after 300 years, it is worth it, he can't change the general environment, but he still tries to do it when sowing seeds.

Li Yan attached great importance to this experiment, not only personally participated in the "election" of several villages, but even asked Tian Jianxiu to borrow two sentinels to maintain order.

In fact, it is an election, but it is also in vain, Li Yan sat at the head with the Taishi chair, and on both sides were the elite of the camp in armor, all vigilantly looking at the villagers who were lined up in a long line.

In order to prevent the first "social experiment" from being embarrassed by the riots, Li Yan specially issued an order to dare to disrupt the electors with twenty canes in public, regardless of age or age!

Under the pressure of power and the army, these peasants, who could not read a single word, became surprisingly orderly, lined up in a long line in an orderly manner, and went forward one by one to cast their votes in order.

The four families in the village who donated the most money and food were allowed to nominate an adult man as a candidate, and the villagers only had to choose their favorite village guards among the four people.

Since the local traditional clan family has been clear, the rest are either divided or other retail investors, even if they can become candidates, it is almost the same, and it is difficult to form a situation where one family dominates, which is also Li Yan's intention, and only by being evenly matched can relative fairness be achieved.

As Li Yan thought, never underestimate the creativity of human beings in the face of power and money, in order to seize the position of the township guard, these peasants who have been nesting in the township all their lives and know a few big characters have burst out with quite strong "subjective initiative".

Or lobbying around the village, telling about their policies, guaranteeing that the villagers will be given rich treatment, or simply bribing the villagers with money, no matter how bad it is, they will hold banquets for several days in a row, kill a few fat pigs, and call on the villagers from all over the world to agitate to vote for themselves.

There are also those who are more "skilled", who directly find Chuang Ying to bribe, hoping that Chuang Ying will simply appoint him as a village guard, and there are even those who are willing to pay their own land to bribe the villagers.

In the face of this kind of can't even stand some people in the camp, Wang Jinbao privately found Li Yan to complain, some villagers ran the train with their mouths full, promising that if they became village guards, each family would give two pigs and ten chickens, which was something that could not be done at all, and some were to stuff money for the camp generals, knowing that Li Yan was the person in charge of the election, Wang Jinbao was blocked by those villagers four or five times, and every time he was embarrassed.

Li Yan laughed out loud when he heard this, not only did he not allow Wang Jinbao to stop him, but he also encouraged him, why not fight, it is interesting to fight, let the countryside make its own decisions, so that the foundation of the imperial court in the countryside based on the clan will be shaken.

Li Yan ingeniously conducted an equal election, the first voter was the township guard, in charge of the affairs of a township, and at the same time allowed him to nominate a security chief, of course, it is a nomination, in fact, it is an assignment, and the assigned people are generally villagers who are close to the army, or disabled soldiers in the army, who are responsible for the training and command of the local militia.

In order to keep the power of the township chief not centralized, Li Yan specially threw away the financial power of the township to the second guard, so that it is difficult for the township chief to form a dominant trend.

The second is the township supervisor, who is mainly responsible for the township's discipline, hygiene, and supervising whether the township chief and other positions are fulfilling his duties.

The last one is to take up the post of Zhinong, who is responsible for inspecting the crops in the village, tracking the crops, and arranging the sowing date.

Whether or not to do a good job is not a problem that Li Yan is thinking about now, the problem he thinks about is to form a checks and balances in the countryside as much as possible, so that if the township guard wants to surrender in the future, other officials who contradict him must be unwilling, and vice versa.

The chief of the security will conduct militarized training for young people in the countryside, which is very intriguing, the Ming army called, you can kill these Baoding indiscriminately, don't talk about the traditional skills of killing good and risking merit, these Baoding are really talked about, but they are really considered to be a soldier of Chuang, after all, you received military training organized by Li Chuang, is there anything wrong with saying that you are a thief? The imperial court does not attach importance to the countryside, which means that the destruction and plundering of the countryside are more serious, and this is what Li Yan wants to see.