Hearing this, Xie He frowned at first, but then her brows relaxed.
"You want to divide and disintegrate them?"
Xie He began to understand. "Make them distrust each other. The further they go apart, the harder it will be for them to unite. Dig out their foundations, and when that time comes, they will be finished."
An excited expression appeared on Xie He's face.
Xiao Ruxun nodded. "That's right. We need to divide and disintegrate them, dig out their foundations, rope in those who are more supportive and understanding of us, completely destroy those who oppose and are hostile to us, and force the fence-sitters who hold the most people hostage to express their stance.
At the same time, we need to do our best to publicize the peasant associations, just like how we are publicizing the dirty deeds of the traitor Shen. We need to publicize the oppression they have suffered, let them know how much they have suffered, how much they have suffered, and try to get all the farmers and tenant farmers to join the peasant associations.
With the local ruffians and idlers as the vanguard, we will stir up conflict and create trouble. Then, with the peasant associations as the main force, we will take away the land of the rich and powerful families, capture them, parade them through the streets, beat them up, and then behead them. Finally, we will distribute the land and send the emperor to the countryside. "
Xie He became even more excited.
"If they gather their private soldiers to resist, we will arm the peasants and manipulate the peasant associations to destroy them. We will hide behind them and secretly instruct and direct them. While suppressing the landlords and gentry, we will make it impossible for the peasant associations and gentry to reconcile, making it impossible for them to separate from our army."
Xiao Ruxun nodded.
Xie He was really a talent in this area. With proper training, he might be able to form a team to be in charge of this matter in the future. After all, land reform was not something that could be solved easily. He would be a great hero.
He wanted to take back all the things that the Confucians had stolen from the Emperor since the Qin and Han Dynasties.
The more internal problems there were, the more external challenges there would be. The larger the territory, the larger the population, and the clearer the goal of the country, the more it needed a powerful and large government. The small government of the Ming Dynasty and the later Qing Dynasty, which had degenerated into a small government, including the national government, had amply proved the failure of a small government in the face of the world's trends and great changes.
In the same way, the rise of the great powers in modern times was accompanied by a powerful and large government. Without exception, the democracy they preached was not the cause, but one of the results.
In the current Daming, in order to change the current situation of a small government, they had to carry out a comprehensive reform of the land. At the same time, they had to suppress and rebuild the gentry in all aspects.
They were too strong. Since the beginning of the two Jin Dynasties, the aristocrats in the southeast were the most powerful than the aristocrats in the late Ming Dynasty. After defeating the Jin Dynasty, the aristocrats in the southeast basically controlled the lifeline of the Ming Dynasty. If they didn't use more forceful methods, they wouldn't be able to take back what didn't belong to them.
Since the Song and Ming Dynasties, the Emperor's order to go to the countryside would be a joke if they did not eradicate the gentry, tyrants, and landlords who relied on the imperial examinations to occupy the local areas. Death was inevitable, and so was a period of chaos. This was the prerequisite to breaking the spell of periodicity.
But after that, in order to break the spell, in order to achieve industrialization and embark on a new path, there was no need for collectivization or anything like that.
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic, the collectivization of agriculture was built on the basis that the whole world was their enemy. The country was too far behind the world, had too many enemies, and had almost no friends. If they wanted to quickly industrialize, there was no other way. They could only forcefully develop industry by harming the interests of the farmers.
The Western European countries and the other great powers in modern times could advance industrialization through great voyages and colonies, sucking the blood of the whole world to develop themselves. Japan, on the other hand, relied on China's war reparations to develop industry, but the farmers were so poor that they had to sell their children to survive.
At that time, China was the same as the early Soviet Union. They had lost the initiative and had no other choice.
But in the current Daming, in this era, if they could get rid of the power of the Confucian gentry and the landlords, and control the country, they could directly go out of the country to colonize and industrialize, seizing the original resources and funds. There was no need to harm the interests of the farmers to accumulate capital for industrialization.
And it just so happened that the biggest obstacle to China's colonial expansion was precisely these Confucian gentry who were based on morbid morality.
If they wanted to colonize and industrialize, then they would have to start from the southeast, and they would inevitably have conflicts with these gentry who controlled the manpower and resources of the southeast. Whether it was from a moral standpoint or practical interests, the conflict would inevitably intensify. Even if they didn't start a war now, they would inevitably start a war in the future.
Now, at least from their side, they had a good reason to act. Any gentry who resisted the Zhennan Army could be labeled as a traitor to Shen Yicheng and punished as a traitor. Therefore, all of this seemed to be in line with the rules for the time being.
When the gentry discovered that this move was digging up their roots, would they still be able to stir up trouble?
Jiangnan, especially the southeast coast, once the gentry class of the southeast coast was subdued, the entire Daming gentry class would become lambs waiting to be slaughtered. Xiao Ruxun was very sure of this.
Right now, it was a golden opportunity of a lifetime.
If one Xie He wasn't enough, then he would send a few more Xie He's. If a few people weren't enough, then Xiao Ruxun planned to send those disabled veterans from the army.
Those disabled veterans would finally have a greater use.
Xiao Ruxun originally arranged for the disabled veterans of the Zhennan Army from all the previous wars to be in the logistics unit. As long as they still had the ability to work, they would be responsible for managing storage and transportation, or responsible for the training of new recruits. In short, the Zhennan Army would not abandon any soldier. This was his promise to the soldiers.
Some of them had a few broken fingers, some had half an arm broken, some had a leg broken, and some were blind in one eye. They couldn't go to the battlefield, but they didn't lose their ability to work. Xiao Ruxun arranged for them to gather together to learn logistics management and literacy for a period of time, and then had them throw themselves into logistics work.
What they learned was very useful. Xiao Ruxun didn't hesitate to invest a lot in making all the 30,000 people in the Zhennan Army literate, which was very meaningful.
They could read and work. As veterans, their obedience to discipline and loyalty to Xiao Ruxun were trustworthy. It was a good thing for Xiao Ruxun to turn them into clerks, even though they couldn't fight anymore.
At present, among these disabled veterans, those who were slightly injured could also be handed over to Xie He, who would take them to Ningbo. They would be more loyal to Xiao Ruxun, and they could carry out tasks more thoroughly. Moreover, they could read, which met the basic requirements for going out to work.
Therefore, Xiao Ruxun chose three people from over a hundred poor Xiucai who were in the same situation as Xie He, and arranged for suitable veterans to be sent to him. Then, together with some spies from Black Water who were good at spying, these three people formed the first land reform working group of the Zhennan Army.
There were 36 people in the working group. After emergency training, on September 10th, with Xie He as the team leader, the 36 people set out from Shaoyang, went to the sea through Guangxi and Guangdong, and then took a ship to Ningbo to start work.
Xiao Ruxun made up his mind to make the gentry in Ningbo his experimental subjects, to see if this big trick to deal with the gentry was still effective and sharp in the Daming Dynasty.
While Xiao Ruxun was preparing for the next step of the attack, the time for the counterattack finally came for the imperial court in the capital of Shen Yicheng.
Li Hualong arrived in the capital.
On August 27th, after learning that all his clansmen had been arrested and their property had been divided up, Shen Yicheng vomited blood and fell into a coma for two days. Xiao Heng and Liu Huangchang hurriedly started work, and the Imperial Bodyguard completely blocked the news.
Liu Huangshang and Xiao Daheng managed to maintain the operation of the imperial court for two days. They managed to hold on until Shen Yicheng woke up two days later.
After Shen Yi woke up, he was still filled with resentment. He shouted that he wanted to kill Xiao Ruxun and execute his entire clan. He was extremely agitated, all the way until Li Hualong arrived at the capital on the third day of the ninth month.
Li Hualong was more than 20 years younger than Shen Yicheng. He was 44 years old, and he was in the prime of his life.
This person was not simple. After he passed the Jinshi examination at the age of 20, he was sent to be a county magistrate like many others. It was easy to deceive a novice Jinshi or a county magistrate. The local officials liked this kind of county magistrate who had no background the most, so they deceived him as much as they wanted.
Li Hualong was very straightforward. He spent a period of time lying low, openly and secretly investigating the adultery of those officials, looking for an opportunity to launch a sudden attack and arrest all those officials who deceived him. He cut the weeds and eliminated the roots, which was the great governance of the county.
That year, he was only 20 years old. Now, he had not graduated from college, but he already had such calmness and skill. It could be said that he was not a rare star in the increasingly rigid imperial examination system.
This person was smart, bold, and had a strong desire for power. He was a tough guy, so he could subdue those unruly Liaodong generals. Naturally, this person was also quite arrogant and rarely looked up to others.
He was indeed talented.
Li Hualong's arrival in the capital meant that he was willing to lead the army to attack Jiangnan. This was a good thing, so Shen Yicheng had to put away his bad mood and treat Li Hualong seriously.
"Yutian! Yutian! I've finally waited for you! "
Shen Yicheng held Li Hualong's hand and looked at him. His eyes were red, and he looked very excited.
Li Hualong was relatively calm. In the face of Shen Yicheng's enthusiasm, he was more normal.
"Greetings, Grand Secretary."
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