Although the sharing of grain through sharecropping is not as crude and powerful as direct equalization of land, the gentry and those with rich real estate are not fools. Although the army often promotes this as a so-called "transitional policy", they always talk about the temporary use of land to cultivate land without one's own people.
But if you think about it carefully, you will know that after the land is occupied by tenant farmers for a long time, how can the big farmers get it back?
Since Bai Wang started to carry out the reform of sharecropping and grain sharing, some village owners and gentry households started to rebel from time to time in the four villages of Suizhou. It was only because when Li Laiheng first occupied Suizhou, he removed the local gentry and officials.
They used public trials and torture to pay, using both soft and hard tactics, either killing or arresting them. Out of ten stops, they had already eliminated seven or eight of them.
After the tenant slaves implement the grain payment system, although in the long run they may have conflicts with the invaders due to the grain payment issue, in the short term they are all beneficiaries of the newly obtained land. As long as they are not completely stupid, they will never be affected.
With the instigation of the gentry, he followed the big households and rebelled against the invading army.
Under this situation, even if a small number of desperate gentry rise up and attempt to destroy the Suizhou regime, they will only be quickly extinguished by Bai Wang. What's more, it is the autumn harvest season, and Li Laiheng attaches great importance to the fields and food, and sends many troops to Bai Wang.
, and asked Hao Yaoqi, who had studied under Liu Zongmin and was proficient in torture and robbery, to help him. He really did not believe that those gentlemen could come up with any tricks that threatened him.
However, during the critical period of grain distribution, there was always a small group of reactionary squires who were causing trouble, which took away a lot of Bai Wang's energy and slowed down the overall process of the grain distribution reform.
If it finally affects the amount of food collected by the Chuang Army, then these people will be damned!
Considering the autumn harvest, Li Laiheng planned to hold a large-scale victory ceremony in Suizhou to celebrate Guo Junzhen's triumphant return, and also to use the remaining power of the victory to suppress the petty thoughts of some people.
Under the control of Fang Yiren, the secretary in charge of the commander's office, and Bai Jiuhe, the branch's envoy, the Chuang army had prepared gongs, drums and firecrackers. The scale was much larger than that of Liu Tichun's very unprofessional team of drummers.
On the festival day before the camp, there is music and drums, and the husband plays a triumphal song.
From the main streets in Suizhou City to the village markets several miles outside the city, people were coming and going along the way. Several stages were set up to welcome the soldiers and horses of Guojun Town back to the city. There were also many tables and chairs specially placed under the stage.
, tea, and some traveling buskers took the opportunity to gather here, performing illusions or selling plasters, making it very lively.
The band arranged by Fang Yiren was also very large. Although almost none of the musicians were professionals, but they were all rural drummers specializing in weddings and weddings. But they were better than having more people. Fang Yiren this time from the four
Libaxiang invited more than a hundred people to act as a band. This number was quite impressive in the eyes of Suizhou people who had never seen any big scenes.
In addition, all the people who were considered by the red team to be in the gentry or wealthy class were all invited by the intruders to participate in the triumphal ceremony outside the city gate.
Of course, Li Laiheng wanted to let them take a look at the closest distance and see the power of the Chuang army.
"Alas! It's hard for students to make a fool of themselves without rice. This battle is far worse than the ceremony where Guan Ning's army reported victory in the past. Even when Jinling came back victorious from a previous campaign to suppress water bandits, the scale was even greater than what we had here.
grand."
After all, Fang Yiren came from the famous Fang family in Tongcheng. He also studied in Jinling and interacted with Fushe and several members of the society. He was well-informed and felt that the victory ceremony he organized was still a bit unsatisfactory.
But Li Laiheng was very satisfied. He saw that several stages outside the city attracted many common people. He was quite satisfied with this and praised: "Originally, I wanted to directly order the people in the city to send one person from each household to welcome you.
Zhen came back victorious. But even if this method is successful, I'm afraid it will make the people dissatisfied. Instead, you only need to spend a little money to turn the victory celebration into a temple fair and a festival."
"The students have made their own decisions, so don't blame the palace master." Fang Yiren shook his folding fan lightly and said with a smile, "I'm afraid that the palace master thinks that so many stages and people watching the theater will dilute the solemn feeling of the army returning from victory.
The anger affects the overall situation of frightening the rebellious party."
As the nephew of Fang Kong, the former governor of Huguang, Fang Yiren was now able to skillfully call the gentry in Suizhou who intended to rebel by calling them "rebels", and he was considered to be very "integrated" into the rebel group.
After he was captured in the Battle of Yiling, he had always maintained his behavior as a son of the aristocratic family. However, because Fang Kong was forced to death by Yang Sichang, and he himself was designated as a righteous man by Chongzhen, it was impossible to return to the court, so he remained
Stay inside the camp.
Despite this, Fang Yiren still thought about leaving Chuangjun and escaping back to his hometown in Tongcheng for a long time. His plan at that time was to make a sum of money first using Chuangjun and Li Laiheng, and then...
Taking the money and trying to escape back to Tongcheng, Fang Yiren thought that the Fang family was a big family after all. Even though he himself had no future in the officialdom because he was designated a martyr by Chongzhen, he could still become a rich man with the help of his family.
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I just didn't expect that after the invaders entered Henan, for a short period of time, they were just like a dragon throwing itself into the sea or a tiger rushing into the mountains. Its power was developing with each passing day and advancing by leaps and bounds. It was even more devastating against the official army and was invincible to those who stood in its way. Several times
After the war, the Chuang army became so powerful that even Chongzhen had to resort to such insidious means as digging up ancestral graves to deal with them. They were no longer the bandits they were in Yiling.
If that were the case, Fang Yiren might not be willing to "willingly become a thief".
After all, after the break-in army entered Henan and its power began to develop rapidly, although there were people like Niu Jinxing who joined him, Niu Jinxing himself was a framed person who was imprisoned and was a class degenerate among the upper class of society. The real upper class of society, joined
There are very few people who break into the army, only Ren Guangrong can barely reach the upper class of society.
Ren Guangrong's younger brother Ren Jirong was a participant in the mutiny that opened the city gates in Luoyang to welcome King Chuang. He was a former general in the Luoyang army. Ren Guangrong's official career was much smoother than that of his younger brother. After being persuaded by his younger brother to join the Chuang army, Ren Guangrong
Before that, he had been part of the Nanyang military garrison and could be considered a mid- to high-level officer.
Although Fang Yiren did not have any high-level official position, he was the nephew of the governor and had done a lot of work in Fang Kong Mu. He had a high self-esteem. Even though the power of the rebel army was not what it used to be, he would not petition to become a thief.
It's just that he discovered a lot of unique things from Li Laiheng.
Fang Yiren read a lot of history books, and he concluded that the leaders of the rebel armies since ancient times, such as Red Eyebrow, Green Forest, Yellow Turban, and Wagang, were all the pioneers of kings. Most of the people who truly determined the world and established the foundation were related to these rebel armies.
, but different characters.
Obviously Fang Yiren regarded Li Zicheng as a pioneer of kingship, and regarded Li Laiheng, who was like him, as the real master of Dingding. Especially the more he understood Li Laiheng's various intentions and arrangements, the more he felt that this man was a rare commodity, and he would have been there early.
In business, will his future achievements be lower than those of South Korea’s Mr. Li Shanchang and Uncle Liu Bowen?
He did not expect Hu Weiyong who crossed the river with Ming Taizu.
Li Laiheng and Fang Yiren indeed have similar temperaments, high talents, and extraordinary knowledge, but their inflated self-positioning and self-awareness make them really a good pair of masters and slaves who get along well with each other.
"Master, it seems that General Guo's troops have arrived."
Li Laiheng looked in the direction pointed by Fang Yiren. A large amount of dust was raised from the east of Suizhou, and the military flag with the pattern of the five elements of mythical beasts fluttered in the wind. Guo Junzhen's troops were in order, and the soldiers were under the power of victory.
, even more majestic and majestic, with everyone holding their heads high, showing an aura of not taking the enemy seriously.
The bands arranged by Fang Yiren on both sides of the road played music together at this time. They usually played some festive and boring folk songs in the countryside, but Fang Yiren specially taught them a military song called "Triumph Song" used by the army.
This military music was written by Qi Jiguang and Qi Shaobao. The original song was very long, and Fang Yiren only retained the simplest section of the melody. In addition to the music, "Triumph Song" also had lyrics. Fang Yiren spent a small amount of money to hire a group of citizens.
The two simplest lines were repeatedly sung on both sides of the road, one was "As one united, the mountains can be shaken" and the other was "Only loyalty and righteousness, fighting in anger".
Guo Junzhen was riding on a war horse, listening to the cheers on both sides of the road. He really felt like "thousands of people greeted him when he returned, and flowers were thrown in front of the horse." He was originally a conceited person with his eyes above his head.
Even if he breaks into the army, he can only admire two and a half people. At this time, he has a feeling of who is better than me.
Surrounded by citizens and soldiers, Li Lai Henry stood in the middle of the road, smiled at Guo Junzhen and said: "Return in victory, return in victory! Kill the officers and soldiers, break Zaoyang, you must be in Junzhen!"