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Deqing County.

Cai Yichen, who was returning home from Ding You, heard on the way that the Zhao thieves were sending troops to Zhejiang, so he immediately sped up and rushed back to his hometown.

Land and other things can be divided as you like. Tens of thousands of acres of land can be dispensed with.

Cai Yichen spent a lot of money to hire ships, hired many coolies, loaded four ships with goods, and planned to flee Zhejiang with his family.

He is not afraid of Zhao Han, but afraid of the Donglin Party and Fushe!

Because Cai Yichen was too deeply involved with Wen Tiren, and now he was Xue Guoguan's confidant, he had already entered into a life-and-death situation with Fushe.

During this uprising in central Zhejiang, a large number of restored scholars took refuge in Zhao Han, and Cai Yichen was afraid of being retaliated by these people.

"Don't let him get away!"

A group of restoration scholars, led by peasant soldiers and members of the peasant association, surrounded Cai Yichen's family who were about to board the ship.

Cai Yichen was despairing. These bastards who had returned to the society really refused to let him go.

Cai Yiqi complained in his heart that his brother had offended Fushe. He said to the members of the farmers' association: "The Cai family is willing to donate 30,000 taels to provide military supplies to King Zhao Tian. We, the Cai family, have a grievance and request to see King Zhao in person. Brothers, please don't be deceived by Fushe!" "

A Fushe scholar shouted: "Don't listen to the Cai family's nonsense. The Cai family was a traitor in the court. In the wild fish and meat village, arrest them all and put them on trial and confiscate their homes!"

The leader of the peasant association felt that there was a problem, but he did not dare to make the decision, so he ran back to ask the missionary officer for instructions.

The missionary officer was not sure, so he simply seized the Cai family's belongings and escorted the Cai brothers to see Zhao Han.

Zhao Han still stayed in Hangzhou and only sent troops to continue to occupy the city. At this time, he had already occupied Jiaxing and Huzhou.

After repeated discussions, it was finally decided to make slight changes to the policy of "same surnames moving to different places". That is, this decree was implemented only when more than 40% of the villagers had the same surname, and only 30% of the villagers had the same surname after moving out.

"Bring people in."

Zhao Han was reading the military newspaper, which was sent by Fei Ruhe.

Fei Ruhe's Dongyuan soldiers fought smoothly all the way, but were stuck when they reached Wuhu.

The city there is high and the pond is deep, and the troops are heavily stocked there. It will be impossible to defeat them for a while, so they simply divide their troops and capture the surrounding counties, preparing to turn Wuhu into an isolated city.

After putting down the military report, the Cai brothers were brought in.

Zhao Han asked: "Who is Cai Yichen?"

"Reporting to Mr. Zhao, this is Cai Yichen." Cai Yichen stepped forward and bowed.

"Aren't you serving as Zuo Shilang in the imperial court?" Zhao Han asked.

Cai Yichen replied: "It coincides with Ding You's return home."

Zhao Han asked again: "What grievances do you have?"

Cai Yichen said: "Reporting to the main town, there are indeed some naughty people in the Cai family, but they are not as bad as the outside world reports. They are all the members of the restoration community who spread rumors everywhere and describe the Cai family as a heinous family."

Zhao Han asked: "You accepted bribes from Wu Zhongyan, helped Wu Zhongyan escape guilt, and then transferred the money to bribe Xue Guoguan. Are these all true?"

"It is indeed true," Cai Yichen argued, "but bribery and bribery are all done in the Ming Dynasty, not under the rule of the general town. Does the general town still want to help Emperor Chongzhen punish corrupt Ming officials who accepted bribes?"

"Haha," Zhao Han was amused, "You are right, I really can't control this."

Cai Yichen added: "The Wu family in Haining has indeed aroused public anger. But the reason for arousing public anger is that Fushe scholars publicized their bad deeds everywhere. Fushe did this to destroy me!"

Zhao Han asked: "Could it be that Wu Zhongyan was wrongly accused and the Wu family has never done anything to harm the people?"

"It's been done before, but it's not as exaggerated as the Fushe scholars publicized." Cai Yichen said.

Zhao Han smiled and said: "Since you are ruthlessly harming the people, you should be severely punished!"

Cai Yichen said: "Are the Fushe scholars innocent? What they did is not much better than the Wu family in Haining."

"Okay, just report a few of them, and I'll deal with the Fushe scholars as well." Zhao Han said happily.

Cai Yichen said: "Please give me pen and ink."

Zhao Han asked his guards to get pen and paper, and Cai Yichen wrote down more than a dozen families and listed many very detailed charges.

Zhao Han called the secretaries over and ordered: "Separate the families who volunteered first, and the rest will be publicly interrogated and searched. Drag out the two people named Cai. Since there is no injustice, let's deal with them together!"

Cai Yichen was stunned, and then laughed sadly.

Before he died, he was able to drag several enemies into his favor, so it was worth the trip to see Zhao Han.

The historical cases of Cai Yichen and Wu Zhongyan ran from the Wen Tiren era to the Southern Ming Dynasty, and directly caused the disintegration of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

What Zhao Han encountered at this time was just the prelude to the case.

If it were not for Zhao Han, he would be turned over next year, leading to the death of Xue Guoguan, the first assistant, by Chongzhen, and Cai Yichen would also be dismissed from office.

At this point, the matter is still not over.

When the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty was established, Qian Qianyi suddenly renounced his relationship with Fushe, forcibly separated the Donglin Party from Fushe, and recommended Cai Yichen to return to office. Cai Yichen spent money everywhere to buy officials at that time, and Qian Qianyi probably accepted bribes - it was Qian Qianyi who was planning to kill Cai Yichen in the first place.

After Cai Yichen took office, he immediately conspired to cause trouble and carried out crazy revenge on the enemies of Fushe, which completely plunged the Hongguang regime into a quagmire of party strife.

A dog-eat-dog show!

In that good show, Qian Qianyi looked like a clown. For the sake of profit, he betrayed Fushe; for the sake of high position, he bribed villains; for the sake of money, he recommended his mortal enemies.

A few more days passed.

Gang Jingmao Qiling made a fuss and asked for an audience, but was brought in by Zhao Han's personal guards.

This guy's face was very ugly. When we met, he said, "Does the general want to make enemies of all the Jiangnan gentry?"

Zhao Han smiled and said: "I have not touched those families of the scholars who took the initiative to serve. I am just dividing their fields normally."

Mao Qiling said: "In the past few days, four wealthy families in Hangzhou Prefecture have had their homes confiscated. They are all highly respected families who have inherited their poetry and etiquette and are friendly to their neighbors! How can such an approach not chill all the gentry?"

Zhao Han called Li Yu over and said with a smile, "Tell him."

After Li Yu understood the situation, he held up his hands and said, "You said that poetry and etiquette are passed down to the family and friendly to the neighbors. Do you have any evidence?"

Mao Qiling said: "What more evidence do you need? It is well-known!"

Li Yu sneered: "The main town arrests people and confiscates their homes, but there is evidence. Spreading deceitful mails, seizing people's fields, harming the public and enriching private interests, preying on the people, torturing and killing domestic slaves, occupying public canals... one by one, there are many crimes. All the actions are clearly found out. in vain!"

"How do you know you didn't give in?" Mao Qiling asked.

Li Yu said with disdain: "I'm afraid you don't know what a public trial meeting is and what a grievance meeting is!"

Mao Qiling said: "Tenants and domestic slaves are just grabbing and biting randomly."

"How did you know it was a random bite?" Li Yu asked.

"Tenants and domestic slaves can get a share of the land, but they are afraid of the landlord's retaliation, so they naturally want to put the landlord to death!" Mao Qiling said.

Li Yu was speechless. He turned to Zhao Han and said, "Zongzhen, I can't explain clearly to this person. No matter what he says, he won't believe it."

Zhao Han summoned two personal guards and ordered: "Take this person with you wherever there is a public trial meeting or a grievance meeting. Let him watch the whole process. Don't miss any of it!"

Mao Qiling wanted to continue to argue, but was dragged away by the guards.

After several public trials and complaints, the passionate scenes would scare the pervert to the point of peeing.

"Headquarters!"

Another personal guard sent news: "A domestic slave and a scholar reported that the Pinghu Shen family is plotting to cause rebellion!"

Zhao Han took the letter and read it, and was immediately amused.

However, Zhao Han ransacked the house too violently, and the Pinghu Shen family felt that they had done a lot of evil, so they gathered their clansmen, domestic slaves and tenants, planning to raise an army to kill the officials sent by Zhao Han, and then the whole family fled to Nanjing to avoid disaster.

They dispersed wealth and recruited soldiers in the morning, but were reported in the afternoon, and there were dozens of people reporting on them.

There were even several relatives of the Shen clan among the informants.

Even if Zhao Han ransacked homes everywhere, he wouldn't have ransacked the whole family together. That would have too many implications. Either the inspection is limited to the main sect or the notorious branch. As long as the handle of the knife is in hand, it is impossible for the various sects of the big family to work together.

Moreover, when large families wanted to recruit troops to resist, they could only summon their slaves, tribesmen, and tenants.

Domestic slaves and tenants are all waiting to be divided up, and members of other clans are also waiting to be divided up. Who is willing to commit suicide with you?

There was no fierce resistance during the entire land distribution process.

Even if these big families want to resist, they can't recruit anyone when recruiting troops!

Homecoming group?

As long as the regime that presides over the land distribution is overthrown, which returning group will dare to come back? Believe it or not, he was directly beaten to death by farmers!

Those majestic big families finally realized the horror of freeing slaves and dividing their fields. After the slave release order and the land distribution order, the domestic slaves and tenants all stood against them, and all the gentry and wealthy families were isolated.

Qian Qianyi, the leader of the Donglin Party, currently lives in Suzhou.

He could hear rumors and news coming in every day.

Qian Qianyi planned to wait in Suzhou. He had already figured out that Fei Yinghuan, his literary friend at the time, was the father-in-law of Mr. Zhao from Jiangxi Province.

With this relationship, he is also the leader of Jiangnan Shilin, so he is worried that he will not be reused?

Therefore, Qian Qianyi must be reserved and wait for Zhao Han to send people to recruit him, and finally there will be a good show of Crouching Dragon coming out of the mountain.

After waiting for a while, Zhao Han took over Jiaxing and Huzhou, but suddenly stopped moving!

Zhao Han could not move because his troops were too scattered. He had to wait for the officials to consolidate the territory and then take back the scattered troops.

Immediately afterwards, news came that many wealthy families had their homes confiscated, and Qian Qianyi finally couldn't sit still.

The homes of famous families were confiscated, but who was the leader of Jiangnan Shilin?

Qian Qianyi immediately set off with his entourage and took a boat from Suzhou to Jiaxing. Then he saw a horror movie.

More than 40 Shen clan members were tied up in a string with ropes. They planned to destroy the farmland, and were all captured and taken to the mountains for mining and transformation.

"Killing gentry is like killing chickens?" Qian Qianyi said to himself.

My whole body was cold and my forehead was sweating.

Qian Qianyi quickly took a boat to Hangzhou, where more homes were confiscated. He completely lost his arrogance and reserve. After seeing Zhao Han, he knelt down and shouted: "Qian Qianyi, Changshu, pays homage to Mr. Zhao, and congratulates him on pacifying Jiangnan!"

"It's not even yet, Zhejiang hasn't even been occupied yet." Zhao Han said with a smile.

Qian Qianyi said: "The army in the general town is strong, Tianzheng has won the hearts of the people, and winning Jiangnan is what the people want."

Zhao Han smiled and said nothing, and did not ask Qian Qianyi to stand up.

Qian Qianyi could only continue to kneel and said: "In the Jiangnan mansions, I still have a little reputation. Please accompany the army to persuade the officials from various places to surrender."

"Okay, come and persuade them to surrender." Zhao Han didn't want to fight. The level of resistance of the Jiangnan officers and soldiers was of no use in training troops. Attacking the city was just a waste of time.

As for Qian Qianyi, after taking Jiangnan, he will be given a leisurely civilian position. Anyway, he will not be allowed to take power.

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