To forcibly conscripted to join the army, went north to Qinwang, went to Jinan but gave the threat to surrender to the east, Yangxin returned to the chaos after the war, moved to Jinhai to resettle, joined the Tianjin Navy to defend the city and made meritorious contributions, and withdrew to Huaidong to seal the military attaché, during which he also became literate, married a wife and gave birth to a pair of children - what happened to Hu Jinxiong in the past few years made the people of Wenqiao Township listen to the smacking and wondering.

When the war was in chaos, they were recruited to join the township soldiers, and they were all poor men looking for food on the knife edge. Rich and noble people are greedy for life and afraid of death, for them, the world is a rich and noble town, and the enjoyment is not exhausted, where are they willing to die? But for the poor man, he has to endure hunger and hunger all day long, he can't marry a daughter-in-law, he suffers from life, and he dares to risk his life to fight when he sees hope.

The power of example is endless, Hu Jinxiong and others showed their own words, his experience, so that the people around him listened to their eyes shining and their mouths were dry, and Tang Xitai and others pushed the door into the yard, and they didn't realize it.

Tang Xitai and other Chongzhou boys followed Lin Jian for the longest time, and were taught by rumors for the longest time, and they also knew the power of this mobilization method, and when they walked in, they saw that the people in the courtyard were immersed in the narration of Hu Jinxiong and others, so they stood by the porch and did not alarm them.

After a while, someone saw Tang Xitai and others walking in, and they were disturbed, Hu Jinxiong stood up and introduced Tang Xitai: "This is Tang Xitai and Lord Tang, who came to be the official of Wenling's parents on behalf of Huaidong; In the future, if you have any grievances, you can ask Lord Tang to make decisions for everyone......"

Huaidong only has the right to directly appoint inspectors, and officials at the county level need to be appointed through the imperial court.

Lin Jian was not in a hurry to let the southern Zhejiang army recover the entire territory of Wenling, but let Tang Xitai come over to mobilize the rural forces in the Wenqiao area. In the future, if the entire territory of Wenling is captured, unless there are other transfers, it is logical for Tang Xitai to assume the post of county magistrate. Hu Jinxiong directly introduced Tang Xitai as Wenling's parent official, and it was not inappropriate.

Tang Xitai stepped forward and bowed to the villagers gathered in the courtyard, and then said: "Everyone was bewitched and coerced by traitors before, and they were not willing to be thieves, everyone was a victim. This point, the Huaidong Military Division can be well understood. The day before yesterday, you were able to stand up against the traitors, open the gate of the village in time, and receive the Huaidong army to come in and recover Wenqiao, which is a great achievement. Keeping everyone here is not to ask for guilt, but to give everyone a meritorious ......"

"......," Tang Xitai said, "everyone was oppressed by traitors in the past, and life was very hard, but if the traitors are not completely eliminated and driven away, can everyone live a good life?" Can you eat enough and marry a daughter-in-law? It's not early today, I won't say much, I am willing to join the Huaidong Army, I welcome on behalf of the military department, everyone to Captain Hu to sign up. Salaries and rations are treated equally, and family members enjoy the treatment of military dependents. What is a military family, Captain Hu also explained it to you clearly just now, so I won't say anything more today. If you have doubts in your heart, I won't force you to stay, and each person will receive 10,000 yuan to go as a reward for the day before yesterday, and if you are injured, you will receive more money for injury medicine depending on the severity of your injury......"

In the eyes of the villagers, Tang Xitai is an official, always separated by life, Tang Xitai announced the recruitment of pawns, and some people below are eager to try, but they are always a little confused and don't know how to decide. Tang Xitai handed over the matter to Hu Jinxiong, and he returned to the public hall with Hu Renjie and other local squires to discuss the matter of taking over the place.

Just now, everyone only heard Hu Jinxiong's experience, but some details were confused and didn't understand much. As soon as Tang Xitai and the others left, the big temple was boiling, and they asked what was going on, and Hu Jinxiong and other military attachés patiently explained clearly.

Most people couldn't make up their minds for a while, after all, they had just passed through the life and death barrier, and they wanted to go home and settle down for a while, but there were more than 60 people who signed up to join the Huaidong Army at that time.

Then someone came in with Huaidong copper dollars to distribute pension money and injury medicine money.

Hu Jinxiong was busy for a while before he dismissed more than 300 villagers. The more than 60 people who signed up to join the army also went home first, so that they could report to the public hall tomorrow. After being busy, Hu Jinxiong didn't have time to go home, and after eating indiscriminately in the big temple, he went to the public hall to find Tang Xitai.

Tang Xitai, Hu Renjie and other local squires were talking about the New Deal, and when they saw Hu Jinxiong coming in, they saw that the black young man behind him was a little similar to Hu Jinxiong, and asked with a smile: "This is the third baby, how old is this year, and what is the big name?" ”

"When I left Wenqiao, the third baby was only thirteen, looking big, only seventeen years old this year, and I haven't even talked about a daughter-in-law. How can a country man be famous or not? Hu Jinxiong said, "My name was given by Lord Sun Shangwang. ”

"General Hu's family is a general's tiger, how can the countrymen compare? The third baby is also a champion in the township," Hu Renjie hurriedly stood up and gave up his seat, and sneered at Tang Xitai and Hu Jinxiong, "Please give me a name......

"Fart general, fart general? There are thousands of famous generals in the Huaidong Army, I'm a fart! Hu Jinxiong had no appreciation for Hu Renjie's flattery.

Tang Xitai smiled and invited Hu Jinxiong to sit down beside him, and said: "Lord Sun helped Captain Hu name Jinxiong, and the three children will borrow the word Hu Gong in the future and call Jinjie good......

"Three babies, don't kowtow to Lord Tang yet......" Hu Jinxiong instructed his timid younger brother.

The three babies were tiger-headed, and they were about to kneel down and kowtow when they walked to the front of the hall, but Tang Xitai stopped and said: "Huaidong does not prosper this rule......" and asked Hu Jinxiong again, "What are the plans of the three babies in the future?" ”

"In addition to his strength, either picking up dung or eating military rations, what else can he plan, he is also willing to join the army, I am afraid that Lord Tang will say that I am following selfishness, so I specially brought him over to say." Hu Jinxiong said.

"Fighting tiger brothers, going into battle as father and son soldiers, what kind of selfish thing is this?" Tang Xitai smiled, "It's better to be like this, there is a shortage of people around me who are familiar with the place, why don't you let the three babies follow me?" "Tang Xitai quite understands the mind of the adult, if you want to occupy southern Zhejiang, you must vigorously promote the generals and officials of southern Zhejiang in Huaidong, Hu Jinxiong was promoted to deputy sentinel because of his military merits, but he was selected to assist him in organizing local military preparations, not just martial arts.

Grass-roots military attachés who are brave and willing to fight wars are the easiest to be promoted in Huaidong.

"That couldn't be better!" Hu Jinxiong didn't know when he would be transferred to the front line to lead the troops to fight, and he was not afraid of his head on his waist, but he hoped in his heart that his brother could have a good way out, which is also human nature.

Sitting down here, Tang Xitai then discussed with Hu Renjie about taking over the place.

The local township soldiers were either disbanded or taken over by the Inspection Department and incorporated into the Huaidong Army, and all the soldiers and armor were also taken over by Huaidong, which is an undoubted premise.

Abolish the custom of governing the township, and set up a patrol inspection department under the county to govern the township.

The local forces also benefited from the reduction and exemption of taxes, errand labor, and various capitation assessments, and the local gentry such as Hu Renjie naturally would not object.

The local government needs to fully accept the copper dollars minted by Huaidong, and must not boycott them, and they need to accept Huaidong to redeem the materials from the local government with copper dollars; However, the local government can use the Huaidong copper yuan to pay rent and taxes, and use the Huaidong copper yuan to purchase the salt, iron, tea cloth and other materials needed by the local government from the material station set up in Wenqiao in Huaidong.

The most taboo of coinage issuance can not be receiving. If the military department blindly indiscriminately mints copper dollars and there is no channel to recover them, the copper dollars are very likely to depreciate sharply, so the local government will vigorously resist them. However, Huaidong agreed that the local government would use the copper dollars issued by Huaidong to pay taxes and purchase materials from Huaidong, which ensured the stability of the currency value.

As long as Huaidong can ensure the stability of the currency value, the written provisions of the copper dollar are equivalent to "ten coins" and "100 coins", and there is no special difference. Even if there are still some worries in the local area, there is no excuse to refuse.

In addition, it is to check the acres of land, Ding households, mines, etc. are officially owned, and the entry and exit of materials need to be paid, and the city tax is also levied by the government; As well as Huaidong's recruitment from Wen Qiao, his family is listed as a military dependent, and the rent of farming land shall not exceed 30%, and the landlord shall not take back the land rented by military dependents at will.

Compared with the worries of the plunder, the conditions proposed by Huaidong were much more lenient than those feared by Hu Renjie and other local squires. Besides, they are not willing to participate too much in local affairs and military preparations, in case the luxury family counterattacks in the future, and they will be liquidated again.

The local affairs were discussed quite pleasantly, and Hu Renjie and other local squires were apprehensive, so they insisted on donating two thousand taels of silver before leaving; Tang Xitai said that he wanted to ask the court for credit for them, but he refused to ask for it.

In the next few days, the main force of the Taizhou Army, which belonged to the Governor's Office of Southern Zhejiang, held on to the two cities of Wenling and Huipu, and Chen Yan led his troops to recover the defense villages and towns on the periphery of the Taizhou Plain one by one; Tang Xitai, Hu Jinxiong and others cleaned up local affairs and incorporated local township soldiers.

The rent reduction did not infringe heavily on the gentry and wealthy households, and the most important thing was that it did not infringe on land rights, so it did not cause any backlash in the local area, but the benefits of landless tenants were extremely obvious.

The Taizhou Plain is a rare land of fish and rice in southern Zhejiang, so the land annexation of Taizhou by the surrounding gentry is particularly serious. There are more than 40,000 households in Huipu and Wenling counties, and 80% of them are landless tenants.

In order to maintain the huge military expenditure, the luxury family levied a particularly heavy tax on the areas under their existing control. In addition, the luxury family ruled Zhejiang and Fujian, relying on the local gentry and wealthy forces, even if the local forces were suppressed, it would only facilitate the infiltration of the forces related to the Fujian clan to control the place.

Burdensome taxes were levied on a capitation basis, and the tenants were extremely exploited, but they were powerless to resist.

Reduction or exemption of Ding tax, capitation apportionment, and the tax will be spread to the acres of land. Most tenants do not even have to pay direct taxes in addition to land rent. When Huaidong's tax reduction policy came out of Wenqiao, the local people in Taizhou were eager for Huaidong to completely defeat the two cities of Wenling and Huipu as soon as possible, and expel the luxury family from Taizhou.

Even if the tax is reduced or exempted and the capitation is apportioned, the tenants in Taizhou still have to bear a very heavy land rent, because the Taizhou Plain has a rare patch of high-yield paddy fields in the south of Zhejiang, and the land rent is usually more than 60%.

As long as he joined the Huaidong Army, the land rent borne by his family suddenly dropped to less than 30%, and even if the war in Taizhou was still in a stalemate period, the local tenants who took the risk to join the Huaidong Army were also enthusiastic.

By the time Chen Yan led his troops to attack Tongyu Village on the south bank of the Jiaojiang River in early March, the number of local villagers recruited to participate in coordinated operations reached the scale of four battalions; Previously, the establishment of the New Zhejiang Southern Army was only fifteen battalions.