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Since the end of October and autumn, Xuzhou has begun a vigorous 'land reform' action.

Qiu Guangming presided over it with all his might, but fortunately, a complete set of official teams in Xuzhou were still relatively intact, so that Xuzhou's 'land reform' could be carried out smoothly.

Except for a few officials who committed the most heinous crimes and were too corrupt and were imprisoned as typical raids, other officials were not implicated.

This is exactly what Li Zixiao wants to see, the bureaucratic system left by the Ming Dynasty is being temporarily used by Li Zixiao at this time.

Otherwise, if Li Zixiao is allowed to reorganize the government at this time, not to mention where to find talents, even if the formation is completed, it is estimated that half a year will have passed.

But at this time, for Li Zixiao, time is very precious.

He devoted all his energy to the growth of the White Dragon Army, and handed over all local government affairs to Qian Guangyuan and Qiu Guangming to preside.

Over time, land reform around Xuzhou was completed first, followed by county towns outside Xuzhou.

But even so, the process of 'land reform' still encountered many obstacles, and many local landlords still refused to give up the land in their hands.

For this kind of stubbornness, the White Dragon Army's art of war can arrive within half a day.

After exterminating four or five stubborn old antiques in various counties in a row, no one in Xuzhou dared to resist the 'land reform'.

At the end of December, after more than two months of busyness, the land reform in most areas of Xuzhou has basically been completed, and every household has been allocated a certain amount of land.

The remaining fields will be leased to those large households in the form of 'lease', and the contract will be renewed every five years.

At the same time, Li Zixiao asked Qiu Guangming to give an order to encourage the people of Xuzhou counties to open up wasteland, but all the wasteland opened by the people themselves belonged to the people themselves.

You must know that at this time, there were only hundreds of thousands of people in Xuzhou, and the fields were only 12,000 mu, but you must know that Xuzhou in later generations had more than 40,000 mu of arable land.

In the Xuzhou area of this era, the Yellow River had not been diverted, and a large area of land was irrigated through it, so it was said that there should be more fertile land.

That is to say, the land in Xuzhou has not reached the level of saturation at all, and a large area of wasteland has not yet been opened, so Li Zixiao wants to stimulate the enthusiasm of the people.

Originally, Li Zixiao's mother negotiated with the Lin family, hoping that the marriage of Li Zixiao and Lin Wan'er would be done before the Chinese New Year.

However, Li Zixiao vigorously promoted the 'land reform' in Xuzhou, but he killed many people, which was regarded as a great bad luck by Li's mother, so he had to postpone the marriage.

In this regard, Li Zixiao was also very helpless.

This time, however, Lin Yongnian learned in Yangzhou that Li Zixiao's 'land reform' policy in Xuzhou was highly appreciated, believing that it was a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people.

But he didn't agree with Li Zixiao's such a domineering method, thinking that Li Zixiao was too brutal, which was Confucianism's consistent urine.

full of benevolence and morality, but they forget that their enemies are a group of misers who are mercenary and refuse to give up the slightest benefit.

For such people, negotiation is just a waste of effort, and Li Zixiao really doesn't have time to play Tai Chi with them.

He must completely control Xuzhou in the fastest possible time, otherwise once he uses troops outside the year, he will have no chance to carry out land reform at all.

If he leads his troops to fight outside, and Xuzhou is still carrying out land reform, then his backyard may catch fire at any time.

The successful completion of the land reform not only allowed the people of Xuzhou to have a good year, but even Li Zixiao also had a good year.

The time spanned the twelfth year of Chongzhen (1639) and came to the thirteenth year of Chongzhen (164o).

After the New Year, Li Zixiao once again issued an order to form militia teams in various villages and towns in Xuzhou, responsible for maintaining daily order in villages and towns, and to conduct frequent drills.

The militia system was already implemented by Li Zixiao as early as Yongcheng County.

These militias are actually the reserves that Li Zixiao prepared for recruiting soldiers for the White Dragon Army.

These militiamen work in agriculture when they are busy, practice in their spare time, maintain order in villages and towns on weekdays, and assist the government in arresting thieves.

And Li Zixiao only paid a very small amount of money and food, once the White Dragon Army was about to expand, these innocent militiamen were the best source of soldiers.

Therefore, the formation of militia teams in various villages and towns in Xuzhou has also become Li Zixiao's first order after the New Year.

In Li Zixiao's plan, the team under his command in the future will be mainly divided into three lines.

The first line is, of course, the field army with the White Dragon Army as the main one for foreign wars.

The second line is the team formed after the officers and soldiers of the Daming Guard were rectified and re-recruited, and Li Zixiao called them the 'city defense army'.

The main responsibilities of the city defense army are to defend the city, maintain order in the city, exterminate bandits in the territory, and serve as the logistics support of the White Dragon Army.

As for the third line, it is the militia of the villages and towns.

Now the people of Xuzhou have absolute support for the Xuzhou Mansion after the land reform.

After the order to form the militia was issued, Li Yan only took one month to set up his own militia in hundreds of villages and towns in Xuzhou counties.

Li Zixiao stipulated that the militia could be equipped with simple swords, guns, shields and arrows, and would not be equipped with firearms for the time being.

Perhaps after Li Zixiao equips the flint gun with the White Dragon Army on a large scale, he will consider letting the militia also be equipped with a small number of bird guns, of course, it must be arquebuses.

After the Chinese New Year, Li Zixiao also relocated all Tie Pingliang's military workshops in Baihu Village to the new arsenal in the west of Xuzhou.

This arsenal was built on a larger scale and with more personnel, and Li Zixiao recruited blacksmiths and other talents in Xuzhou, Huai'an, and Yangzhou during this time.

After nearly half a year of overtime production, the flint guns produced by the military workshop have all been equipped with the bird guns of the White Dragon Army, so that the White Dragon Army has basically completed the redress.

On the one hand, the arquebuses eliminated by the White Dragon Army were handed over to the city defense army for use, and some of them were sold to the Ming army in other regions.

It can be said that after this winter, with the completion of land reform and the implementation of the militia system, Xuzhou at this time was completely controlled by Li Zixiao.

At this time, even if someone wanted to deal with Li Zixiao, the people of Xuzhou would not agree, because once Li Zixiao fell, the fields in their hands would not be saved.

Li Zixiao has completed the first step to build Xuzhou into his own solid base camp.

As for Huai'an and Yangzhou, Li Zixiao hasn't taken care of it for the time being.

However, after the news of Xuzhou's land reform reached the two state capitals, hundreds of people waited eagerly, hoping that Li Zixiao could bring the 'land reform' to them.

On the contrary, it was the big landlords in the two state capitals who were anxious one by one, and used all kinds of relationships to prevent Li Zixiao from carrying out 'land reform' in them.

Li Zixiao is not in a hurry, he is waiting for the opportunity, waiting for half a year and a year, and waiting for the people of Xuzhou to pass on their good life to Huai'an and Yangzhou.

At that time, it will be Li Zixiao's chance to really enter the two mansions, and he needs a fermented time.

After the New Year, Li Zixiao paid more attention to the news of the two chaotic armies of Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng in the west, because he had a hunch that the day when he would send troops would not be too far away.

Sure enough, Li Zixiao was at the end of February, waiting for the arrival of a person, it was Lu Xiangsheng, who had just been appointed by Chongzhen as the prime minister of the six provinces.

History has taken a big turn here, Lu Xiangsheng, who should have died in battle last year, is alive and well at this time, and he is even more valued by Chongzhen.

Last year, Zhang Xianzhong rebelled again, and Li Zicheng also came out of Shangluo Mountain, and the Central Plains, which had just calmed down, was on fire again.

As a result, Zhang Xianzhong had just rebelled again, and the imperial court sent troops to quell the rebellion, but he was ambushed by Zhang Xianzhong in Fang County and was defeated, with an extremely bad impact.

Chongzhen issued an order to remove Xiong Wencan, the prime minister of the six provinces against bandits, from his official position, and sent Jinyiwei to escort him into Beijing.

The governor of Huguang, Fang Kongzhi, was dismissed from his post and succeeded by Yuan Jixian, a senator of Hubei and a member of the Xiajiang Defense Road.

Dai Dongmin, the governor of Yunyuan, was dismissed and succeeded by Li Changgeng, the former secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and Li Xianfeng, the governor of Henan, was relieved of his post and succeeded by Li Shuchu, the former deputy envoy of Shanxi.

Zhang Xue, the chief soldier of Henan, was dismissed, and Chen Hongfan was transferred to the post of chief officer of Henan. After Xiong Wencan was dismissed and arrested, Lu Xiangsheng took over as the prime minister of the six provinces to suppress bandits.

Zuo Liangyu was demoted to three ranks, but he was still allowed to treat the crime and was awarded the general officer of Huguang.

Affected by the defeat of Fangxian, a large number of officials and generals were demoted and dismissed, and at the same time, a large number of officials were promoted or even restarted.

Moreover, Chongzhen even ordered Yang Sichang to go south to sit in Xiangyang, responsible for commanding the soldiers, and encircled and suppressed Zhang Xianzhong.

At this time, in Chongzhen's eyes, the threat of Zhang Xianzhong's chaotic army was far greater than that of Li Zicheng, who had just been killed from Shangluo Mountain at this time, and his name was not obvious.

The commotion was far less than Zhang Xianzhong's, so the imperial court focused on Zhang Xianzhong.

However, Lu Xiangsheng has long seen that there is a huge crisis in western Henan.

Henan is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains and has a large population, and the western part of Henan was 'patronized' by the rebel army the year before last, which made it a mess.

As the famine continued in the past two years, more and more displaced people poured into Henan from Shaanxi, and the atmosphere there was too suitable for the growth of the chaotic army.

Once Li Zicheng is allowed to enter Henan, the consequences are unimaginable.

Lu Xiangsheng is named the governor of the six provinces to suppress bandits, but in the south facing Zhang Xianzhong's encirclement and suppression, it is Yang Sichang who is in charge at this time, and Lu Xiangsheng knows that he is in the past now, but it will cause Yang Sichang's dissatisfaction.

Therefore, Lu Xiangsheng simply handed over Zhang Xianzhong's encirclement and suppression to Yang Sichang, and he stared at Li Zicheng's chaotic army.

It's a pity that Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army has not recovered after last year's battle, and the Tianxiong army needs to be placed in the north to be vigilant against the movement of the Tartars.

In the Central Plains, most of the available soldiers were transferred away by Yang Sichang at this time, and the only thing Lu Xiangsheng remembered was the men and horses in the hands of Li Zixiao in Xuzhou.

"Master Lu, I didn't expect you to come in person." Li Zixiao looked at Lu Xiang, who had come all the way, and asked politely.

"I was going to Kaifeng, so I just came to you to take a look, you have made a lot of trouble in Xuzhou in the past six months, you don't know the court, I think your affairs have been making trouble for several months."

Lu Xiangsheng said to Li Zixiao with a smile.

Of course, Li Zixiao knew what Lu Xiangsheng was referring to, and it was not his land reform in Xuzhou, and he didn't know how many times he had been impeached in the court.

"Hehe, it's the interests of some people that have moved them, so they can't sit still." Li Zixiao sneered.

"Haha, don't worry, the Holy One has already suppressed this matter, maybe the Holy One supports your approach, but unfortunately the Holy One is not easy now, hey!"

As he spoke, Lu Xiangsheng sighed.

Li Zixiao said in his heart: Of course Chongzhen is not easy, surrounded in the palace by a group of 'loyal ministers' who only care about their own interests and do not care about the survival of the country, he probably can't do anything he wants.

Li Zixiao welcomed Lu Xiangsheng in, and his own commander commanded the yamen, and said: "I have to congratulate you on taking office as the governor of the six provinces to suppress bandits." ”

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng was the commander of the military affairs of the six provinces of Nangi, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Huguang and Sichuan, which was enough to be described as a high and powerful position.

Lu Xiangsheng's face was very calm, "This is not a good errand, what is there to congratulate."

Looking at the governors and prime ministers of the imperial court in recent years, whether it is Chen Qiyu and Hong Chengchou, the governors of the five provinces, or Xiong Wencan, the prime ministers of the six provinces, basically nothing good ends. ”

Li Zixiao said in his heart: You are content, originally there is your share of these names you said, if it weren't for Lao Tzu, you wouldn't be fine.

"Ziqian, what advice do you have for suppressing bandits?" Lu Xiangsheng asked straight to the point.

Facing Lu Xiangsheng's inquiry, Li Zixiao already had the answer in his heart.

"My lord, the lower officials thought that the imperial court had suppressed the bandits for so many years, but it had never been able to completely quell the bandits.

It's not because of how strong the bandits are, but because the bandits are like sparks, they can't be put out at all, and they can resurrect at any time, and then become a prairie fire.

Therefore, the key is to use both soothing and appeasement. ”

"Suppress and appease."

Hearing Li Zixiao's answer, Lu Xiangsheng shook his head, as if he was a little disappointed with this answer.

It's really the four words 'suppressing and appeasing and using', which is too general, and I don't know how many ministers in the court have mentioned it like this.

Over the years, the important ministers in the court who are responsible for suppressing bandits, from Yang He to Xiong Wencan, have proposed to suppress too many people, and even Yang He and Xiong Wencan, who are strongly advocated for suppression, have not ended well.

"Of course, the combination of suppression and banditry, first have to suppress, and then care, both grace and power. Moreover, there must be means to care.

For example, every time a thief is exterminated, it is necessary to distinguish the thieves, and those thieves who have been in trouble for many years naturally cannot be spared.

Even if they want to be fussed, they must be divided and separated, otherwise when they recuperate and become strong, they will rebel casually.

At this time, Zhang Thief, this is the case, Governor Xiong was wrong from the beginning.

And it must be subdued first and then soothed, especially not to let the thieves lose their momentum and surrender immediately, the court really agreed, and it must be completely grasped before it can be soothed. ”

In fact, there have been many thieves and bandits who have been subdued by the imperial court over the years, many of whom surrendered after being subdued, and many of whom have since died for the imperial court.

Among them, many of them were once famous leaders among the bandits.

Later, even after the Qing army entered the customs, these people performed much stronger than those Ming officers and soldiers, and they have been fighting against the Qing soldiers.

(End of chapter)

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