On the first day of the seventh month of the first year of Longwu, Xie He, who was overseeing the land reform in Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi, received a message from Xiao Ruxun.
The problems in the court had been cleaned up, and the central government was no longer an obstacle to the full implementation of the land reform. Xiao Ruxun asked Xie He to increase the intensity and speed of the land reform. He wanted to complete the land reform in the Jiangnan area as soon as possible, and then move to Jiangbei. At the same time, he wanted to push forward the land reform in the foreign tribes.
Speaking of which, Xie He did not understand why Xiao Ruxun was so determined to carry out the land reform in the foreign tribes. In his opinion, how could the foreign tribes believe the Han people? If the Han people said they would help them with the land reform, they would definitely not believe them. They would definitely be suspicious and would definitely rebel with their leaders.
Although this kind of thing achieved extremely shocking results in the Han Dynasty, helping the imperial court to extend its power to every village and realizing the most straightforward and thorough rule since the Qin Dynasty, there were still things that even the powerful Qin Dynasty could not do. Lingnan and the Xiongnu were also a great threat to the Qin Dynasty.
Xie He did not believe that this kind of policy would succeed in the foreign tribes. Moreover, the Daqin was so powerful that the foreign tribes did not dare to act rashly. Wouldn't it be better to just follow the previous dynasty's policy? These places were high and far, and the foreign tribes were even more cunning. It was very difficult to deal with them. Even if they controlled them, they would not gain much, right?
They had loved and killed each other for thousands of years. Could they become friends overnight?
Xie He was doubtful about the Emperor's confidence, but he still carried out the Emperor's orders meticulously.
Merchants were selected from various places to become the dogs of the land reform team. They entered these areas to do business with the foreign tribes and gain their trust. Or they could use their previous trust to further communicate with them. At the same time, they would speed up the learning of the foreign languages.
After the land reform, the local officials, the gentry, and the tyrants, who used to run amok in his memory, were as fragile as a quail.
The people who were stirred up became very aggressive for their land and continued survival. They easily overturned the once unbreakable government of the gentry.
The gentry were wailing, and the farmers were celebrating wildly.
The weakness of the local governments was obvious. These places that were still unwilling to accept the orders of the Daqin were flattened by Xie He's army without hesitation.
At this time, surrendering was no longer accepted. Those who did not surrender before were now rebelling. Those who rebelled had to die, and their entire families would be executed.
Xie He became more and more proficient in using this strategy. She discovered that this strategy was applicable everywhere. As long as she could gather the people and win them over to her side, her side would be invincible. What city, what iron wall, everything was like a piece of paper.
The land reform officials under his command had also become very skilled. Each of them had their own way of doing things. They set off a storm of attacking the local gentry and tyrants, tearing them into pieces with extremely fierce attacks, so that the power of the Daqin government could reach the lowest level and take root in the ground, making it unbreakable.
Now, the enemy they faced was not just the gentry. In fact, in some places, there were no gentry at all.
There weren't as many scholars in the Great Ming Dynasty as one would imagine, but there were quite a few landlords. Illiterate village tyrants and illiterate landlords could be found everywhere. Once the land reform team arrived, they were all finished.
It was not that no one dared to resist, but once there was a relatively strong resistance army, they were immediately declared as rebels. Under the command of Xie He, the army of the Black Tortoise Camp could easily flatten those mobs and completely suppress them, so resistance was useless.
The loose places could not resist the strong power of the central government of the Daqin.
Local power was constantly being taken back, and the places were constantly being controlled. The power of the central government of the Daqin had reached deep into these remote places like never before, telling them that the era of paradise was gone forever and that they should be prepared to accept the iron fist of the central government.
At the same time, in the Liaodong area, the Liaodong provincial government under the command of Liang Menglong also carried out the government structure of the Liaodong area with unprecedented strength.
Batch after batch of experienced land reform officials, who were transferred back from the Jiangnan area by Xiao Ruxun, entered the Liaodong provincial government and carried out the work they were most familiar with in various places. If there were gentry and powerful landlords, they would be eliminated. If there were no landlords, they would organize people to live there, reclaim wasteland, build houses, and so on.
After dividing the scope of the village, the scope of the township government, the scope of the county government, and then the construction of the state capital.
Then, the land was divided, land was given to each household, a fish scale atlas was made, and the management of land and household registration was strengthened. Then, these people served as the local village head, and those with more seniority and more credit were appointed as the county magistrate, leading the people to begin the construction of their homes and the restoration of the war.
The chaotic situation in Liaodong during the period of the Liaodong military control was slowly improved and stabilized.
At the same time, Liao Zhong led the entire White Tiger Battalion into Liaodong, replacing the position of the Liaodong military, and carried out the defense arrangement in Liaodong, shouldering the task of defending against the Northern Barbarians and the Jurchens in Liaodong. At the same time, it was also a deterrent to North Korea in a sense.
With the army in charge, Liang Menglong was more confident. He carried out several decrees in a row to clear the land and verify the household registration.
Then, according to the requirements of Xiao Ruxun, the policy of "changing the guard to the prefecture" was implemented. The guard management system of the former Ming Dynasty in Liaodong was abolished, and the guard was reorganized into a state capital for administrative management.
The former Ming Dynasty basically had no formal administrative organization in Liaodong. It still followed the guard management system of the Hongwu and Yongle period, and ruled Liaodong with military control.
Xiao Ruxun reformed the military service system, abolished the military household and the guard system, and changed the local guards into state capitals. Liaodong was the first to bear the brunt.
Tieling Prefecture, Shenyang Prefecture, Dongning Prefecture, Dingliao Prefecture, Gaizhou Prefecture, and other formal administrative organizations were set up. Officials went to various places to carry out government operations. According to the requirements of Liang Menglong, the local land was cleared, the local household registration was verified, the landlords and village tyrants were eliminated, and the township government was set up. Government officials went deep into every village.
Xiao Ruxun introduced the potato planting technology to the Liaodong area and promoted the planting of potatoes. At the same time, he also encouraged farmers to plant soybeans, hoping to fully use the fertile black land of Liaodong to become the main potato and soybean production area.
The planting of potatoes could at least ensure that Liaodong would not run out of food during the Little Ice Age. During this period, the value of Liaodong might not be too prominent, but as long as they survived this period, the value of Liaodong would be reflected. Therefore, Xiao Ruxun's determination to develop Liaodong was unshakable.
However, the main problem to face in developing Liaodong was not the powerful gentry. These scattered gentry and powerful gentry had no deterrence at all. They were wiped out quickly and not a single one was left. However, the external deterrence had not been solved.
At this moment, the occupied area of Liaodong left by the former Ming government was equivalent to about half of the northeast area. The other half was in the hands of the Northern Barbarians and the Jurchens. The task that Xiao Ruxun gave Liang Menglong and Liao Zhong was to expand the territory and was ready to use military and political means to expel the Northern Barbarians and the Jurchens in this area.
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