In the blink of an eye, at the end of April, Jimo Yingcheng changed owners, but it did not stir up too many waves. The life of the people in the city is still as usual, working every day, the only difference is that the soldiers of the Ming army stationed in the city are no longer the old soldiers before, but the soldiers of the new army with strict military appearance and strict military discipline.

In the general's mansion, Wang Yunhe, who was picked up, held his son Liu Sheng to watch the koi in the pond, Shang Shan, Ruoshui stood by the pond, and threw fish food into the water from time to time, attracting several koi to scramble in the water, Liu Sheng, who was ten months old, saw the koi that splashed from time to time, giggled happily, and stretched out his little hand as if he wanted to go down to catch a handful.

"This kid."

Wang Yunhe looked at the son in his arms dotingly, and then said to Shang Shan and Ruoshui: "I have to take care of the child in the next few days, and the husband will hand it over to you, understand." ”

Shang Shan and Ruoshui's cheeks flushed, and they nodded shyly.

At this moment, a flag commander of the pro-guard battalion came over, clenched his fists and said: "Mrs. Qiyu, my lord has sent someone to pass the word, I will go to Anton Wei to inspect in the next few days, and I will not return home." ”

Wang Yunhe said that he knew, and then sent the flag chief, Shang Shan and Ruoshui over there were disappointed in their hearts when they heard this, Wang Yunhe said in a reproachful tone: "The husband is really, the general has just been sent down, so he did it like this, just a few days after returning from Da Songwei, he went to Andong Wei again." ”

Shang Shan said: "My husband is a big hero, so naturally I can't be tied by my family, and my sister doesn't have to blame." ”

Ruoshui said: "Anyway, my husband is so busy, is something wrong again?" Stop fighting and killing, it makes people scared. ”

Wang Yunhe saw that the sun was a little high, so he beckoned Shang Shan and Ruoshui to go back to the house together, and said as he walked: "The husband took over the Jimo camp, and the top and bottom have to be reorganized, naturally there are many things." Like Anton Wei and Da Songwei, they were originally under the jurisdiction of Mao Xingyi, Wang Ye, and Dong Bihui, and they were in a miasma of smoke and misery, and now the husband took it over and said that he wanted to rectify it comprehensively. Look at it, it is estimated that it will be difficult for the husband to come back for a while. ”

Shang Shan and Ruoshui sighed, Wang Yunhe also missed in his heart, and the three women sat in the room, looking at each other speechlessly.

At the same time, Liu Yan, accompanied by Miao Shao's troops, came to the Andong Acropolis.

Since Liu Yan was promoted to the general of the Jimo Battalion, Zhang Yi was appointed as the integrity officer of the Anton Guard, and Wang Bo was appointed as the integrity officer of the Da Song Guard, and the left and right battalions were transferred to these two towns. And Liu Yan's comprehensive rectification of Anton Wei and Da Songwei was also officially launched with the stationing of the left and right battalions.

"My lord, at present, Anton Wei only has one Shijiu Thousand Households, and the other three Thousand Households have all been abandoned in the Wanli period, and part of the military farmland of the three abandoned places has been merged into the Shijiu Thousand Households, most of which are missing, and most of them have been occupied by the surrounding gentry and Haoqiang."

Liu Yan stood on the wall of the Andong Acropolis, looked at the dry land in the distance, and said, "Can you still find the information of the previous military tun?" ”

"It's all gone."

Zhang Yi said: "The subordinates came here a few days before the adults, and almost turned over the files of the Andong Acropolis, but found nothing, it should be that when Mao Xingyi was in charge of here, he destroyed most of the files for the convenience of greedy ink. ”

Liu Yan's face was a little ugly, and without the original file as evidence, he would not be able to recover the encroached military farmland.

"Has Zhang Qianhu been here?"

"Zhang Qianhu has been here, and he has counted the cultivated land of the military tun in various parts of Andongwei, as well as the situation of the military households, the situation is not very good, the average amount of cultivated land per household is only three acres, and there are many people in the heavenless households, all of whom are hired as tenants by the gentry and Haoqiang everywhere, which is very miserable."

Liu Yan pondered for a long time and said: "Immediately issue an order as an Anton Wei integrity officer, let the gentry and Haoqiang everywhere in Anton Wei take the initiative to return the encroached cultivated land, within a period of ten days!" ”

Zhang Yi said in surprise: "My lord, those gentry and heroes will not pay attention to it, we have no evidence." ”

Liu Yan said coldly: "There is no evidence, you know, I know, but do those gentry and Haoqiang know?" ”

"What do you mean?"

Liu Yan said coldly: "Da Songwei's side has already started to move, and Anton Wei must also act as soon as possible." You remember one thing: when dealing with these gentry and heroes, you must not be soft or restrained! ”

Zhang Yi looked at Liu Yan's cold expression, and a chill suddenly rose in his heart.

On the same day, notices were posted everywhere in Anton Wei, and the integrity officer Zhang Yi ordered the gentry, haoqiang, and merchants in Anton Wei's territory to take the initiative to return all those who encroached on the cultivated land of military households, otherwise they would bear the consequences!

Two days passed, and everything in Anton Wei was as calm as water, and those gentry, heroes, and businessmen all ignored it, and the notice posted out seemed to be a joke, and no one took it seriously at all.

But on the third day, the integrity officer Zhang Yi suddenly sent troops, first raided the four gentry families of the Andong Acropolis, and all the more than 200 people of the four families were tried in public, and the four heads of the families and the main men of the clan, a total of 38 people, were beheaded on the spot outside the north gate of the Andong Acropolis, and the remaining more than 100 people, regardless of men, women and children, were all sent to Tiepu Mountain to mine.

This news immediately made all the gentry and Haoqiang of Anton Wei indignant, and dozens of gentry and Haoqiang who had heads and faces in Anton Wei gathered in the mansion of the ethics and demanded that the ethics officer Zhang Yi give an explanation.

In the main hall, a large stack of files was placed on the table in front of Zhang Yi, and I saw Zhang Yi pick up a file in front of everyone, and said to everyone: "Before, this official posted a notice asking you to immediately return the occupied military farmland, but you ignored it. Okay, the official will come to collect debts one by one! ”

"Do you know what this is?"

Zhang Yi slammed the file in his hand to the ground and shouted: "Evidence! This is the original title deed of your family's cultivated land, how much cultivated land each of you has encroached upon, there is an account here in this official, this official will calculate with you one by one, the four families in the Andong Acropolis are the beginning, the official wants to see, is the king of the dynasty hard, is the official is hard with a knife, or your mouth is hard! ”

The gentry and Haoqiang who came to ask for the crime just now all closed their mouths at this time, and everyone looked at Zhang Yi who was angry, and they were very puzzled in their hearts: Didn't the former ethics officer say that he had destroyed all the files, why are they still here?

"What are you thinking?"

Zhang Yi looked at the people who looked at each other, and said with a sneer: "The former ethics officer is Mao Xingyi's person, he is the same as Mao Xingyi, he is greedy for money, you dare to believe his words, I really don't know what to do!" ”

"Now there are only two ways in front of you, first: honestly return the encroached farmland within the specified time limit, and second: wait at home for the official to come to collect the debt!"

After speaking, Zhang Yi waved his hand and said goodbye, and the soldiers of the New Army outside the door rushed in and drove out dozens of gentry and Haoqiang Lian Ladai.

"Your Excellency."

At this time, Liu Yan walked out from behind the screen and said to Zhang Yi with a smile: "Well done, you kid is very official." ”

Zhang Yi smiled embarrassedly and said, "My lord, is it really okay to do this?" ”

Liu Yan picked up a file casually, opened it and looked at it, only to see that there were blank pages on it, not a single big word, it was completely blind, and then said to Zhang Yi with a smile: "As the saying goes: be a thief with a weak heart." Especially under the premise that some people are already unlucky, those gentry and heroes must be afraid to death now, and they are beginning to weigh the pros and cons. If you add more fire to it now, they will definitely return all the acres of arable land they have encroached upon. ”

"Please teach me, sir."

Liu Yan said: "It's very simple, from today onwards, you have to send someone to copy the house every day, copy one today, copy two tomorrow, and so on." I don't expect that on the third day, all the gentry and heroes will be explained. ”

Zhang Yi said puzzledly: "There is a sentence that my subordinates may not like: why don't we just copy all the gentry and Haoqiang, anyway, these people are not good, if you want to punish their crimes, you can check them casually and there will be evidence, why is it so troublesome?" ”

Liu Yan smiled bitterly, why didn't he want to do this, but once he started to raid his house in a comprehensive way, the situation was beyond his control. The current Ming Dynasty is still the landlord class, that is, those gentry are controlling the grassroots political power, even the government at the county level, even if Liu Yan has a strong army, he does not want to confront this huge force head-on.

Therefore, it is very appropriate to use the matter of recovering and occupying the cultivated land of the military camp to attack the gentry forces, and Lu Xiangsheng's side will also support him, so as to avoid resistance and the counterattack of the gentry group to the greatest extent.

Of course, these words naturally won't be said to Zhang Yi, Liu Yan said: "You can't act arbitrarily in everything, you must pay attention to strategy, this matter is done like this, Da Songwei's side already has eyebrows, and Anton Wei's side must also speed up the progress." ”

"Yes!"

Sure enough, on the second day, when the soldiers of the new army under Zhang Yi began to raid their homes and take people in Shijiu Qianhu City, hundreds of people had gathered outside the gate of the Anton Acropolis Mansion, all of them were gentry, heroes, and merchants from all over Anton Wei, and everyone returned the encroached farmland to Zhang Yi with the title deed.

In the next two days, people also came to return, Zhang Yi mobilized soldiers and horses, according to the collected land deeds to investigate on the spot, and in a few days recovered 280,000 acres of military tun cultivated land, such a number made Zhang Yi dumbfounded.

Liu Yan looked at the land deeds full of a large table, his face was not very good-looking, and said: "Immediately send someone to contact Zhang Lei, the official in charge of the tun, and ask Zhang Qianhu to come over as soon as possible, and organize people to start redistributing farmland for military households." ”

"Yes."

"In addition, the dun army in various parts of Andongwei should also start to be dismantled as soon as possible, and the defenders of the fire road pier in various places will be re-selected from the military households to fill the position, and the officers and men of the new army in the left battalion will be fully stationed in Andongwei everywhere to deploy defenses."

"Yes!"

"Immediately examine the small flag officials, chief flag officials, and 100 households in various parts of Antonwei, and all those who encroach on cultivated land, eat empty salaries, and exploit military households will be removed from their posts on the spot, and the stolen money will be recovered. If the circumstances are serious, you can deal with it on the spot, and I will recognize it. ”

"Yes."

"My lord, Anton Wei's side is estimated to be in a mess, those hundred household officials, chief flag officials and small flag officials are all local snakes, and they will not give up, their subordinates are thinking, if they really can't do it, they will kill a hundred people, I don't know ......"

Liu Yan said with a smile: "You are still too timid, if it were me, who would dare to disobey the order, pull them all to one place, kill dozens of people, and the rest will be honest!" ”

Zhang Yi was shocked in his heart.

In the following month, Liu Yan continued to inspect Andongwei and Dasongwei, and comprehensively eliminated the maladministration of the two guards, and the military households of the two guards were basically allocated arable land, ploughing cattle, and farm tools, and the people's morale was greatly boosted.

At the same time, Wang Jing also entered Andongwei and Da Songwei with the Chamber of Commerce, supported the businessmen of the two guards, and also won some people's hearts for Liu Yan.

However, for the officials and gentry of Anton Wei and Da Songwei, this month was turbulent, and the generals and officials from all over the country were desperate, and they began to gather their families and loafers to openly resist, and there were also some officials who were timid and afraid of Liu Yanwei's fame, and fled directly with their families and dependents.

When Liu Yan received the news, he was furious, and immediately ordered Zhang Yi, the integrity officer of Anton Guard, and Wang Bo, the integrity officer of Da Songwei, to send troops to suppress it.

Some people died, but not completely......