On the first day of March, their two highnesses held another swearing-in meeting outside Zhangjiang Gate.
All the officials, scribes, and servants who were preparing to go to the countryside, as well as more than a thousand accountants, economists, and Feng Shui masters temporarily loaned by the King of Chu from eastern Zhejiang, a total of 2,000 people, all gathered in front of the city gate with their baggage on their backs.
, I respectfully listen to the lectures of your two highnesses.
Behind them, a full 30,000-strong army lined up and set off together. The army also had a heavy job. It not only had to protect the Qingtian work team, but also was responsible for suppressing the local area, maintaining law and order, and taking advantage of the situation to defeat the disobedient local tyrants and evil gentry.
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At that time, the thousands of households in the various guards will also cooperate with each other. In these years, the guards' troops are still very capable of fighting, and they are not like those in later generations who only add chaos.
Although it is such a huge formation, Jiangxi has a total of thirteen prefectures and seventy-eight counties. Once so many people are dispersed, the manpower is still stretched thin.
The Fourth and Sixth Lao were also furious. The former shouted on the stage: "I and the King of Chu have made up their minds. We would rather go slower and celebrate the New Year in Jiangxi, but we must also implement the New Deal in place. We must not be perfunctory!"
"Whoever dares to deal with the errand will not be forgiven by this king!" When Zhu Di said this, the Gan River in front of him was still filled with a strong smell of blood; behind him, on the city wall behind him, were three skinned dolls.
Swaying in the wind...
This makes His Highness King Yan's words appear extremely convincing.
"I will obey His Majesty's will!" everyone shouted in a hurry.
"Lao Liu, do you have anything to add?" Zhu Di glanced at Zhu Zhen.
"You must pay attention to discipline." Lao Liu nodded and added: "Clearing the land, collecting yellow records, and implementing Lijia are all good things that benefit the country and the people. It is no exaggeration to say that these things were accomplished, and the Ming Dynasty
Only by establishing a solid foundation can we achieve long-term peace and stability. Therefore, this is the overriding priority!"
"But it is impossible to clear the land without disturbing the people, and it will definitely cause friction with the local people. At this time, it is particularly important to abide by the laws and regulations. It can not only reduce friction, but also allow you to stay in control." The King of Chu said loudly:
"If you don't abide by the law and harass the people like soldiers and gangsters, how can you make the people believe that it's for their own good? If you let those dissatisfied big households instigate you, there will be trouble!"
"I'm the one who said the ugly things first. If there is trouble in any county, if it is found out in the end, the responsibility will be on you," Zhu Di pointed to the city wall behind him and said coldly: "Just go up and follow those three to the top of the city.
Look at the scenery!”
"Yes..." Everyone looked at the three lifelike dolls and shuddered.
A general couldn't help but raise his hand. Zhu Di nodded and asked him to speak. Then the officer asked: "May I ask, Your Highness, what if it is not our responsibility?"
"Then skin and remove the grass of their leaders, and then immigrate the whole county to Huguang!" Zhu Di said solemnly: "Stop these words as soon as you go. If there are still people with strong heads, then it will be hard to persuade the damn ghosts with good words!
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"Yes!" Seeing that they were not being asked to endure unilaterally, the soldiers' voices became much louder now.
"Let's go!" When the sixth man finished speaking, Zhu Di waved his hand, and everyone in the audience bid farewell to the two highnesses and turned around to go to various prefectures in Jiangxi.
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The first task of the work team is to complete the yellow book... In fact, Liu Lian has completed half of the work, but the rest is basically a tough nut to crack.
Fortunately, the two brothers were here to gnaw on a hard nut, and they ordered the work team to adopt a strategy of concentrating their forces and defeating them one by one.
For example, the work team sent to Jiujiang Prefecture did not disperse to various counties again. Instead, the team was first concentrated in Dehua County. After concentrating on one county, it went to the next county.
More than 150 work team members, 2,300 officers and soldiers, plus 5,000 guards troops from the local guard post, nearly 8,000 people, formed a large army and marched into Dehua County in a mighty manner.
At this time, the news that King Yan executed 5,000 people in Nanchang had spread to Jiujiang, and was exaggerated by false rumors to say that King Yan had killed tens of thousands of people.
The gentry and clan elders in the county were naturally frightened and wanted to hide out to avoid the limelight. But at such a critical time, they had to sit at home and move around anxiously, like ants on a hot pot.
As soon as the work team over there settled down, they immediately called a meeting with the local gentry and elders.
After receiving the order, the squire clan elders became more and more confused and ran to the house of their leader, Xia Dan, a Jinshi of the Yuan Dynasty, to discuss countermeasures.
"Dong Gong, the government is making a comeback this time. I heard that tens of thousands of people have come." An old man wearing a net scarf to cover his bald head said worriedly: "It's coming in a menacing way."
"Those who come are not good, and those who are good will not come." Xia Dan is nearly seventy years old, but he is well-kept and his face is rosy. He twirled his beard and said slowly: "I heard that the two highnesses are personally in charge of Nanchang. It seems that this is
I vow not to give up until I achieve my goal.”
"I heard that Zhu Laosi killed tens of thousands of people in one breath last month. It was so cruel!" The bald old man sighed, and everyone sighed.
"Yes, the murderer king is nothing more than that."
"They say the Mongols are cruel, but I think the old Zhu family is ten times more cruel than the Mongols!" A fat-headed squire said angrily: "At least when the Mongols were here, as long as we served them well, they wouldn't
Woe to us!"
"That's right, it's incomparable." A group of squires and elders knew that Xia Dan missed the scenery of the previous dynasty, so they spoke unscrupulously in front of him.
"In the Yuan Dynasty, as long as you paid the government the agreed upon amount and took care of everything, they didn't care about anything. Who was responsible for taxes and grain, and which field did it come from?" Everyone has also been divided recently.
Missing the Yuan Dynasty.
"Yes, they are clearing the fields now and they are just here to kill us. They want to slaughter the fat sheep!"
"What's hateful is that they also use despicable methods to fool the villagers!" the pig-headed squire said angrily:
"Recently, there are beggars wandering around everywhere, not asking for food. When they catch someone, they sing, 'Whose fields have more fields, pay taxes, and whose fields have less fields, pay taxes', 'Clear the acres of fields, create yellow records, just for this fairness'!"
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"Yes, yes, I can hear this stuff everywhere these days," others agreed:
"Moreover, the children all followed suit. Even my son opened his mouth and said, 'First there were three queens in heaven, and the barbarians turned that world upside down. Fortunately, a saint named Zhu was born, who drove away the Tatars and reshaped the heaven.
'Let me slap these two big mouths hard!"
"What's the point of just beating your son? Why don't you just let those beggars talk nonsense?" asked the bald squire.
"Hey, I also asked someone to bring the beggar in front of me and wanted to give him a warning. Who would have thought that the beggar was not afraid at all and even threatened me instead!" The pig-headed squire said depressedly:
"He said that what he was doing was the prince's job. If I dared to touch him, I would wait for the prince to skin me, cut off the grass, and hang me on the top of Nanchang City."
"It's so outrageous that a mere stinky beggar dares to threaten us?!" When everyone heard this, they were furious: "Kill him into a dung lotus. Who knew he was here?!"
