Ningxia Town.

A long-planned mutiny has just begun.

The rebels only rushed into the governor's office, frightened the governor Wang Ji and fled over the wall. They attacked the governor's office and made the governor run out of the city.

Before they could recruit more guards to join the mutiny, they were quickly suppressed by a large number of guest troops entrenched near the town with thunderous force.

The incident only lasted for two days. The guest troops killed rivers of blood in the streets of the town. Hundreds of mutilated soldiers were turned into headless corpses thrown outside the city. Hong Chengchou returned to his governor's office again.

Except for some officers running away, Ningxia acted as if nothing had happened.

But more things that seemed to have far-reaching consequences were completed secretly by Hong Chengchou without any sound.

Zuo Liangyu was busy hunting down generals suspected of inciting rebellion, while Cao Wenzhao was busy searching the homes of those who had escaped.

Cao Bianjiao, as a humanoid weapon with a long sword, guarded Hong Chengchou, making the guards who stayed in the town tremble with fear.

Zhang Yingchang went from house to house to count the land. If the people were not around, he would directly take it back to the capital. If the people were still around, he would threaten them and then take it back to the capital.

The plains were irrigated by canals of the Qin, Han, and Tang Dynasties, and the grain production was the most abundant. The best people who were not afraid of severe droughts had more than 800,000 acres of fertile farmland, and they were officially registered in the Governor's Mansion.

The governor's office immediately distributed the official document throughout the territory.

First of all, military households are exempted from corvee service such as entering the guard squad, and military generals are prohibited from private missions and other orders.

Secondly, in the future, the taxation method will be adopted based on land and divided into acres, and the fields will be divided into five classes. One mu of first-class land will be counted as three acres, and three acres of fifth-class land will be counted as one mu.

On this basis, regardless of whether it is military or civilian land, one dou or two liters of grain, three catties of horse grass, and six cents of silver per mu will be collected.

Although this caused a huge shock to the upper echelons of Ningxia, the turmoil caused by the change of land holders did not have any significant impact on the family members of the remaining soldiers and the tenants who actually farmed the land.

Mu in the Ming Dynasty was a complex unit of measurement just like stone.

Sometimes it can be simplified, and in some places it can be very complicated.

For example, local policies such as land conversion per mu have long existed in vast areas.

Dividing acres according to land is a local policy and land planning method that has existed in some areas since the Ming Dynasty.

In some places, such a policy was implemented to increase the number of conquests. For example, during the Zhengde period, the eunuch Liu Jin carried out the reform and sent Zhou Dong, the young minister of Dali Temple, and others to Ningxia to clear the land. In order to please Liu Jin, these idiots simply and roughly destroyed Ningxia's land.

One acre of land is counted as two acres.

In some places, such a policy is implemented for the sake of fairness. For example, in the field measurement in Qingzhou, Shandong Province in the early Ming Dynasty, one acre of fertile land was converted into three acres of servitude land, then one mu was converted into two acres, and then one mu was converted into one and a half acres. According to the land conversion rate,

According to the principle of levying grain according to the mu, it is important to consider the importance and so on.

In some places, such policies are implemented to reduce tax collection.

Just like in Yuzhou, Henan during the Jiajing period, one fertile field is equivalent to one; two flat rocks and hill fields are equivalent to one; three hills and rocks are equivalent to one; five hills and rocks are equivalent to one; and ten are equivalent to ten hills and steep slopes.

Be one.

Even for a piece of land in one place, in different years, with different fertility conditions and different officials, its calculation of acres will be different.

Comparatively speaking, Hong Chengchou's expropriation of acres from land was not surprising. In fact, the amount of grain collected was relatively small because of the extra money collected for horses and grass.

The most important thing is that his orders are confusing.

Since you are planning to introduce such a policy, but you still have to go to great lengths to take over the land, what are you going to do by forcing people to mutiny?

This is because if Hong Chengchou doesn't get fertile land in his hands, he will encounter great resistance if he counts three acres of first-class land.

Instead, he mobilized troops first and collected most of the first-class and second-class land. The land in the hands of Ningxia soldiers and civilians was counted as one acre, or even two acres of land, so it did not appear that he had expropriated it.

The amount is too high.

With this, Hong Chengchou immediately began to reorganize the army and established three towns and thirteen battalions. Even three civilian officials were incorporated into the army as generals.

Cao Wenzhao is the chief military officer of Zhongzhen, and has jurisdiction over the four battalions of Hexi soldiers in Ningxia: Ding Qirui, Cao Bianjiao, Bai Guangen, and Feng Ju.

Zhang Yingchang is the chief military officer of Youzhen, in charge of the four battalions of Ningxia Patrol Commander Yi Jingjing, Liu Shaozong, Xiang Xiyin and Zheng Jiadong.

Zuo Liangyu is the chief military officer of Zuozhen, in charge of the four battalions of Ningxia Hedong soldiers: Ge Rulin, Xu Yong, Wang Yuncheng and Zhou Shifeng.

In addition to the governor-general Biaoying Ding Zizhen, a total of three towns and thirteen battalions were formed.

This large corps with a strength of 33,000 men and 13 battalions is not fully equipped.

However, this was not a problem for Hong Chengchou. He asked the generals to recruit troops from the banner troops of the Ningxia guards to fill up the camp.

These decrees were issued one after another in two days, making it difficult not to doubt whether Hong Chengchou had planned it for a long time.

All twelve battalions were recruiting troops in a turbulent manner. Only Xu Yong failed to catch up with Liu Fangming and ran to the south to compete with Yang Yanchang across the border wall.

When Hong Chengchou received the news, he was furious in the Governor's Mansion.

The hell I asked you to chase the traitorous general. If you didn’t catch up, wouldn’t you have leaked the news?

Just leaking the news, why are you going to mess with Liu Chengzong's people?

Liu Chengzong is a dog. Even if you don't mess with him, he will fall out with you as soon as he says it, and you still go to hit his side wall!

However, Hong Chengchou did not dare to scold Zuo Liangyu.

There are very few people in the world who dare to take care of Zuo Liangyu.

This lawless guy went to Liaodong to serve as a soldier when he was young. If he went to Shaanxi to serve as a soldier, he would definitely be more Zhang Xianzhong than Zhang Xianzhong.

Because Zuo Liangyu's brain problem is that he doesn't bother to communicate.

In the year of the Ningyuan mutiny, Zuo Liangyu was also in Liaodong.

Normally, when a guest army owes pay, the first thing to do is to report the problem to the superior. After the reaction, some people will stop fighting. Others, who are more temperamental, will choose to go beyond the level and ask for an explanation.

That is to say, go to the governor.

These impatient soldiers will get together and the governor has no money. If anyone dares to attack, they will beat the governor.

At that time, things can be big or small. At the very least, if you injure the governor, it is considered a mutiny; if you accidentally beat the governor to death, it is considered a rebellion.

This is a normal process, and it is also the way normal people solve problems when they have demands and grievances in their hearts.

There is a gradual escalation process from accumulated grievances to communication and venting, until it turns into violence.

But Zuo Liangyu has poor communication skills and very strong mobility. He has his own way of looking at and solving problems, and often thinks of his own solutions.

When others were making trouble with the governor, Zuo Liangyu thought for a while and then took Qiu Lei to rob military supplies vehicles.

Hong Chengchou did not dare to scold this kind of person who obviously had a good brain but could only use it to think about how to solve problems with his hands.

No one knows what will happen if he holds a grudge against him.

In Hong Chengchou's mind, the best general in Ningxia right now is Cao Wenzhao, who is super capable of fighting and super obedient, and easy to command.

The next best general is Zhang Yingchang. Although he is not as good at fighting and not as obedient, he comes from the third generation of generals and is easy to communicate with.

The last general is Zuo Liangyu, who is completely superficial.

On the surface he is very good at fighting, and in fact he is very good at fighting, but he doesn't fight and just leaves when he encounters someone he can't beat.

He appears to be very obedient, and is actually very obedient, but he always has his own thoughts in his heart, and he doesn't speak out.

It's very difficult to do.

Hong Chengchou didn't dare to scold him, so he was so angry that he threw bottles and cans on the floor.

Only then did he regain his composure, and while having people pick up the debris on the ground, he wrote a letter of apology to Liu Chengzong and expressed his hope for a ceasefire and for the two families to negotiate peace.

Regarding this matter, Liu Shizi was right in his judgment, and it was indeed Hong Chengchou's temptation.

However, the main purpose of the temptation is not him.

But Zuo Liangyu, Zhang Yingchang, Cao Wenzhao and others.

Although Hong Chengchou's defeated soldiers who had retreated from Shaanxi and Gansu could be said to be the Ming Dynasty's super die-hard elements in the northwest.

But how hard it is, Hong Chengchou doesn't know.

Because Liu Chengzong never killed all the Ming generals and Ming armies, many people were let go in Hong Chengchou's eyes.

Zuo Liangyu could run away, and he did run back by himself. Hong Chengchou knew that he was trustworthy, but this idiot was out of control.

Cao Wenzhao was defeated. His brother and nephew were all dead, which is also believable, but there were not many soldiers left.

Zhang Yingchang is not trustworthy. He looks like a transport captain.

He led five battalions to fight, but he didn't fight a single battle. He picked it up quite cleanly, and no one of the battalions was lost. However, of the remaining four battalions, only Cao Bianjiao was left as the commander-in-chief.

There are also Liu Shaozong, Xiang Xiyin and others who came from Gansu, and they were completely released by Liu Chengzong.

Hong Chengchou looked at the people who were the most angry, and Liu Chengzong didn't want them. I don't want them either!

The result of the test is hard to say.

Zhang Yingchang looked like Liu Chengzong's plate. He was not interested in testing Liu Chengzong's position. Instead, he smiled at the negotiation, supported him with both hands, and even wanted to lift his feet.

Cao Wenzhao was not bad, so he breathed a sigh of relief and said that if he could stop his troops for the time being, he would have a chance to reorganize his troops.

Zuo Liangyu was not so good. When Hong Chengchou asked what he meant, this guy shook his head and said nothing, but his meaningful eyes always made Hong Chengchou feel a chill on his neck.

As for Bai Guangen...he is a scientist.

There is no interest in negotiating peace or not, in testing or testing.
To be continued...