No matter how reluctant he was to leave, Li Xiao still left Changxing Island.

After all, they have taken over the capital, and the place where they hold meetings now is of much higher quality.

Yingtai! On this island in the lake, Sun Chengzong, Li Xiao, Zhang Huangyan, and old Chen Fu gathered together again. Sun Chuanting, as a young fox, was a foil. Li Xiao was surprised to find that Li Hao was following Sun Chuanting. This kid

If you weren't on Li Xiu's boat, why did you end up here?

"After Li Xiu's recommendation, your Li Hao officially became a disciple of Boya. Brother Xiao, Brother Hao is still young. Do you think it's appropriate to let him witness the tragedies of human relations all day long? If the young man is too violent, he will

Fortunately, he is still young and can be put to good use if Boya trains him for a few years." Sun Chengzong seemed to be able to see through Li Xiao's mind, and I have to say that this old fox's cultivation has improved again.

"I feel relieved to have Mr. Boya to teach you. Mr. Boya!" Becoming a disciple is a big deal, so Li Xiu did it without notifying Li Xiao, probably because he was afraid that Li Xiao would not agree.

Li Xiao raised his hands and agreed with Li Hao to accept Sun Chuanting as his teacher. When Li Hao grows up, Sun Chuanting will be the new generation of old foxes. The old fox taught him, so he should be a little fox after all.

Sun Chuanting stood and accepted Li Xiao's gift. This was the treatment he should enjoy during the apprenticeship ceremony. The Li family's parents died early, and now Li Xiao is the head of the Li family. He is qualified to replace his parents and give gifts to his younger brother's teacher.

"Congratulations! Congratulations! Last month Long Live just became a disciple, and this month I have accepted a good disciple. What a joy!" Zhang Huangyan smiled and bowed his hand to Sun Chuanting, who quickly returned the gift.

"Not much to say, Guanzhong has been occupied by Shi Kefa. No one can contain Nanming's power anymore. It is estimated that the next place they will use their troops will be us. What do you two gentlemen think we should do?" None of the people here are interested.

To outsiders, Li Xiao directly raised the issue.

"Officials and gentry are both paying for food and serving as errands. There is great resistance in Shandong. Lu Xiangsheng has killed people one after another, and has killed three magistrates and five magistrates in a row. I am not afraid of killing people. The scary thing is that we don't have so many suitable officials to replace them. After all, the local government

You still need someone to handle the government affairs. Even if you find a few suitable ones, they all have a mentor relationship with Nanming.

Donglin has controlled the government for so many years, and almost all the scholars in the world are involved with them. What we are lacking now are officials, qualified and reliable officials. In my opinion, should we treat the officials and gentry as one and pay the grain and one as the difference, so that we can first put Shandong

Stabilized.

Otherwise, once a war breaks out, I'm afraid that the local officials will rebel." Zhang Huangyan had just returned from Shandong, and he knew the situation in Shandong best.

"We must not stop working as one of them and paying for food together! In the final analysis, the war is fought on the front by the bravery of the soldiers. What is fought on the rear is money and food! Without the support of money and food, no matter how brave the soldiers on the front are, they can only last for a while." Sun Chengzong refuted Zhang Huangyan's words leisurely.

Opinion.

Li Xiao nodded. Sun Chengzong was right. One person is on duty and the other is paying for food. It is related to the finances of the Liao army and must not be abandoned halfway.

"There are many half-hearted officials, and most of them are in private contact with Nanbian'er. After all, they are all disciples and grandsons of the Donglin Party. As long as Nanming calls, most officials in Shandong will probably switch sides immediately. Although Hebei is better, it is not much better.

Now I am more at ease, that is, Liaodong." Old Chen Fu's words are very authoritative, relying on his old foundation in Shandong. Old Chen Fu's intelligence network is now very developed, and it is now accurate enough that the county magistrate has a report on which wife he sleeps with at night. This is better than before.

The Dongchang Jinyiwei is even more powerful when combined!

"There is nothing we can do about it. They were originally from Donglin, so how could they not turn to the Donglin Party. To put it bluntly, there are many people who seek official positions for themselves. Few of them really seek the welfare of the people of the Ming Dynasty!" Sun Chengzong was also quite interested.

Because of helplessness.

"On your lips, you shout about loyalty, filial piety, etiquette, justice and shame, but in your belly you are full of male thieves and female prostitutes. Those who are able to bury their bodies and eat without food are considered good people! The officials in this world are all rotten. How difficult it is to revive the imperial court!" Sun Chuanting was helpless.

He shook his head. After more than ten years of ups and downs in the officialdom, he had heard too much and seen too much.

"The corrupt officials in the world actually have their root cause on the emperor." Zhang Huangyan looked like he was not saying anything surprising. When everyone looked at him in surprise, the old man explained: "Corrupt officials

Because you are embezzling, you have an excuse. If the emperor wants to touch you, then the excuse is the crime of losing your head. If the ministers work hard to please the emperor, then the emperor will turn a blind eye if you are embezzling.

When the emperor of the new dynasty ascends the throne, he will kill the corrupt officials. Tell me, whose pocket this money got into? If you don't understand, you can think about Yan Song during the Jiajing period. The money that was confiscated from Yan Song's house was one of the things that happened.

Most of it came from internal funds. Now you understand? Why did Emperor Mao like to use corrupt officials, because the money corrupted by corrupt officials was actually used to save the emperor's family fortune.

In the end, if we kill the corrupt officials, we will be able to create a new emperor with a reputation for fighting against corruption. Why not!"

It was also the first time that Li Xiao heard such a theory. Although it was a bit sensational at first. But if you think about it carefully, is it really the case? There was a famous saying in the Qing Dynasty, Heshen fell, Jiaqing fell.

At that time, Heshen's family fortune of hundreds of millions of taels greatly enriched the Qing treasury.

"What Mr. Zhang means is that you want to remove all the existing officials? Change the dynasty?" This was beyond the scope of the meeting. Everyone held their breath to see how Zhang Huangyan would respond.

"Scraping the bones can cure the poison, but if you really want to remove the existing officials, you will have to shave off all the bones. No one likes abscesses, but digging too many at one time will kill people."

Everyone is silent, and officials are necessary to maintain rule. But the current officials are all disciples of the Donglin Party, and they are not following one another. If Nanming really comes over, I don’t know how many prefects and counties will turn against them.

If you want to fight Nanming, you must eliminate all those who are unstable internally. The old fox Sun Chengzong also cannot figure out how to deal with the situation at hand.

"I have an idea!" As soon as Li Xiao spoke, everyone's eyes focused on Li Xiao's face.

"My idea is land reform!"

"Land reform?" No one understands what this new term means.

"Scholars, farmers, industry and merchants! Since we have offended the scholars, we must unite the three groups behind us. Who is the most numerous people in the world? Peasants!

And what do farmers want most? Land!

Land reform is to distribute the land of large households and landlords to farmers for free. Even the cattle, sheep, livestock, real estate and real estate of landlords can be distributed to farmers. When farmers receive benefits, they will support us. As long as the majority of the population is

If the farmers win over us, we will be almost in an invincible position."

"If you force distribution like this, the master will not do it. If chaos breaks out...!" Sun Chuanting asked worriedly.

"If the owner is not willing, then just one word: kill! And we must mobilize the farmers to fight against the landlord, and let the long-term workers of the family complain to everyone. Tell all the dirty things in the landlord's family! Mr. Sun, the landlord in a village

How many are there? How many tenant farmers are there?

As long as we allocate the land to the farmers and win their support, we can then tell the farmers. When the Donglin Party's court comes, they will confiscate your land and take away the livestock allocated to you.

When this person has nothing, he will never be greedy. Even if he does, it is only a matter of a few buckets of rice. But once this person has property, if you tell him that another person will come and take it away, can he still follow?

Are you desperate?"

Everyone took a breath of cold air. Who would be unhappy if the land and livestock that the farmers coveted were given to the farmers for free? If this method is used, farmers all over the world, let alone Shandong, will support the Longwu court. But this is not good for the landlords.

, it is too cruel. The land that has been praised by ancestors for generations is now given to the farmers with an order from Li Xiao. If he refuses to hand it over to his death, the consequences will be that his head will be chopped off, or he will be beaten to death by the farmers.

"This idea of ​​yours will kill many people, but it can indeed win the support of farmers." Sun Chengzong's voice was a little hoarse, this strategy was too vicious.

"As long as the majority of farmers support us, we will be invincible. As for official governance, our place in the Ming Dynasty is divided into two types of people. That is officials and officials!

Officials! They are the two-ranked Jinshi, those people the Donglin Party has worked hard to win over. These guys have broken their bones and connected their tendons with the Donglin Party, and they must never be used unless they are special people.

In addition to officials, there are also officials in local government offices!

Many of these petty officials have been working in the yamen all their lives. No matter how capable they are, they cannot become the county magistrate. Because the position of county magistrate belongs to scholars. Many of these petty officials have not become magistrates.

Question. When we remove officials, we can give the official positions to those officials. With the support of those small officials, at least our court will not collapse at the grassroots level."

"Hiss!" Everyone looked at Li Xiao as if they were a monster. Once this idea is implemented, it is estimated that there will be no Donglin Party left in Shandong Province's prefectures and counties. Those petty officials have been suppressed by scholars all their lives, and they have been promoted and made rich.

They could only stay for a sip of broth, and occasionally a piece of meat bone, which was definitely a sign of Shangguan's kindness. It needs to be remembered from generation to generation!

"Shi Kefa is still chasing the remnants of Dorgon. We only need to ask Geritu for help. We can contain Shi Kefa at Yulin and Shenmu. Since the main force of the Nanjing Forbidden Army is in Guanzhong, we have enough time to implement this plan.

It will take us half a year to a year to ensure the success of land reform. As long as the land is distributed to farmers, we will receive huge support. By then, the supply of soldiers will no longer be a problem. Everyone is thinking about their own families.

The land will no longer be confiscated and returned to the owner's family, and those who actively serve as soldiers will cross the threshold of the conscription office."

"Let's do it! If we do this, farmers all over the world will support us." Old Chen Fu was so excited that his eyes gleamed.

The land reform not only bribed farmers all over the world, but also gave away nothing in real money. The land belongs to the landlords, and the livestock also belongs to the landlords. To divide the land from the local tyrants, this is a problem for farmers who have been fighting for a piece of land for generations.

What a great temptation it is.

"Although it will cause some chaos, it can indeed make farmers support us. With the support of farmers, we will have inexhaustible manpower in our hands."

"Okay! In that case, let's do this. Let Lu Xiangsheng start working in Shandong and transfer Ao Canghai to Shandong. After resting in Liaodong for so long, we should rest and recuperate. There are two infantry divisions and one cavalry division to suppress the Shandong nobles.

If you try to do something, you will be immediately blown away by the army."

"Taking advantage of our small territory now, Shandong and Hebei will work together. From now on, farmers will have land, and they will only need to pay a certain amount of public grain every year."

Li Xiao seemed to have opened a Pandora's box, and everyone was actively participating in the discussion. A top priority for the court was determined at the meeting. As for the details, Li Xiao contributed everything about land reform that could be seen from the books.

memory.

The power of the traditional landlords is too strong. The only way to defeat them is to knead a pile of scattered peasants and turn them into a huge stone. This huge stone will smash the power of the landlords to pieces.

When walking out of Yingtai, everyone looked grim. Major changes unprecedented in thousands of years are about to occur in Shandong and Hebei. No one can predict the consequences. Anyway, everyone knows that many people will die.

Very many people.

Anyway, Li Xiao knew how bloody the land reform would be in later generations.

The meeting was held in the palace, but Li Xiao really didn't want to sleep in the palace. Over the past two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, too many strange things had happened in this palace. In later generations, there were still legends of hauntings in the Forbidden City. Although Li Xiao

I'm not afraid of ghosts, but I don't want to live in a palace either.

Back at her mansion in the capital, Tokugawa Chiki personally fetched water and washed Li Xiao's face with great care. It was obvious that after Mrs. Zhang gave birth to a fat boy, Tokugawa Chiki was under great pressure.

After patting Tokugawa Chiki's head lovingly, Li Xiao took the cloth towel, found a lounge chair and covered his face.

Today's meeting was so tiring that Li Xiao felt soreness in his waist.

As long as he wanted to find Tokugawa Chiki to give him a beating, Shunzi suddenly ran in. He saluted Li Xiao and said, "Commander! Mr. Chen and Li Beile are here to visit. They are waiting outside."

You can tell at a glance that old Chen Fu pays great attention to details.

The meeting just ended, why did you come home again, and did you bring Li Beile with you? Could it be that any of those ungrateful officials broke a shocking case?

"Please!" No need to think clearly, just call the two people in.

"I have met the Lord!" After the two people came in, they saluted Li Xiao.

"We don't need to play this false ceremony between us! What's the matter?"

"I have a big matter to discuss with you. If we succeed, we will definitely allow Shi Kefa to surrender to us."
Chapter completed!