At the ongoing venue of the "King Shi Liberation of the Jinhua Mansion Aftermath" in Jinhua Mansion City, Chen Wen and Sun Yu and other Jinhua Mansion officials sat on the rostrum, facing north and south. Contrary, the gentry and people present were divided into two parts, left and right, facing north.

Although the gentry and people below have seats, it is actually very different. In short, the wealthy gentry and wealthy gentry and family sat in the two rows before the exam, each with a Grand Master chair, while ordinary people sat in the back rows, and several people shared a bench.

Mr. Feng expressed his satisfaction with this arrangement. It is a great honor for a wealthy family like him to sit in the same row with the gentry whom he usually looks up to. Although it means that the gentry who has made great achievements and who has made great achievements were arranged to the left, since the gentry with great achievements was few after all, he followed the seat on the left, and he felt that he was even more superior.

However, the favorable feeling that he had just developed was not enough for less than that moment. When Chen Wen began to calculate the number of Qing troops in Zhejiang, Mr. Feng immediately understood the intention of the Ming army.

Isn't it just that he intends to take advantage of the reason for returning the money to levy, Master Feng will not be fooled easily. But then he thought, the words of the Confucian scholar outside the court were still in his ears. Did the Ming army commander and the officials and staff around him really not think of this problem?

With suspicion, Mr. Feng continued to listen, but when Chen Wen added the number of Qing troops in Zhejiang, the number he obtained really scared him.

The Qing army with more than 50,000. Although the wisdom and bravery of this Ming army commander are indeed extremely rare, and the several wars since his debut have almost beaten the elites of Zhejiang's green camp, the problem is that many ants still bite the elephant to death. The words that would inevitably be unable to defend this place may not be fake. Especially among these Qing army, there are 4,000 Eight Banners in Hangzhou, which are the Eight Banners soldiers. Even if this Ming army really has strong support from local gentry and people, it may not be the opponent of the Eight Banners soldiers.

Although he didn't know much about the differences between the Eight Banners soldiers, when he thought of this, Mr. Feng still began to regret coming to attend this "aftermath meeting". Even if the family property that was forcibly taken back, if the Ming army could not defend it, it would inevitably spit it out again. Even if he had a son-in-law who had fame and fortune from the Qing Dynasty, it might not be able to do anything.

Looking around, there seemed to be a large number of gentry and common people with similar thoughts. Only by taking the reputation of the Ming army commander, the butt was forced to fix it on his seat, showing his concern and teaching expression on his face. But he just waited for the end early in his heart.

But at this moment, the Confucian scholar who had won the applause of everyone outside the court stood up, saluted respectfully, and said, "Mr. Chen is a famous general who has recently risen in the country. Since he has led a large army to restore our Bawu land, I believe that the Tartars' troops in Zhejiang have already been calculated, and there must be a complete plan. Moreover, Jinhua is located in western Zhejiang, and Marshal Chen is also counting Hu Jiahang and Ningbo, and Wenzhou's Tartars. Isn't it a pity?"

The Confucian scholar's words gave the gentry and the people present a reassurance, but put Chen Wen in an awkward situation. If he did not explain clearly, not only would this big-scale operation not only fail to achieve the established purpose, but he would also inevitably fall into a bad reputation of bullying the public. This kind of losing his wife and his army was not what Chen Wen wanted.

Looking at the generous speech of the Confucian scholar, Chen Wen secretly sighed in his heart at the cleverness of the scholars and officials in the late Ming Dynasty. The Confucian scholar in front of him had already given him face in terms of words, at least he did not point at his nose and curse like his predecessors in history.

Fortunately, as a "scholar" mass-produced under the examination-oriented education system, Chen Wen still knows the basic skills of placing questions, and not only he can do it, he also conducted a special investigation for this conference, and asked his staff to help him placing questions together. If he couldn't even answer this question, wouldn't he give his staff a monthly payment in vain?

Chen Wen laughed before he could speak, then stood up and bowed, and asked the Confucian scholar: "How can you call him sir?"

Hearing Chen Wen's question, the Confucian scholar did not hesitate at all. After bowing, he replied loudly: "I dare not take the word "sir" as a student, Ding Shenyan, a student at Yongkang County."

"It turned out to be Mr. Ding." As he said that, Chen Wen nodded and then began to answer Ding Shenyan's question.

"Mr. Ding is right. Those five prefectures are indeed not directly bordering our Jinhua. Huzhou and Jiaxing are also far away from Jinhua. But I thought about it. The King's Army was alone in Jinhua and threatened the Tartars' Governor's headquarters. The Tartars in Zhejiang would not sit at home and wait for the King's Army to defeat them one by one. But if the Tartars came to encircle and suppress them, they would inevitably mobilize more troops from each prefecture and county to overwhelm the King's Army in terms of number. Is Mr. Ding and all the people here satisfied with this answer?"

What Chen Wen said is the fact that the Qing army was definitely not the kind of strategic war chess he played in his early years, or the computer side of the real-time strategy game. Even the computer would not tolerate players being too strong and siege them to increase the difficulty of the game, let alone the Qing army in Zhejiang, which had just suffered a defeat.

This answer made the Confucian scholar stunned, but also reopened the hearts of other gentry and people. The Qing army in Zhejiang that had been agreed was not enough to threaten the Ming army's existence in Jinhua, and it could threaten again at once. What was the plan to make a fuss?

Too lazy to pay attention to the eyes of attention around him, the Confucian scholar frowned and thought for a moment, gritted his teeth and continued to ask: "Marantor Chen's words are justified, and the students are abrupt. But since that's the case, Marshal Chen will always have a way to defend this land for the state. Otherwise, once the Tatars occupy Jinhua Palace again, they will inevitably massacre the previous Fubiao Camp in Yiwu County. At that time, I am afraid that the Marshal will not kill the people of Jinhua, but the people of Jinhua will die because of the Marshal. What if it does?"

Although he was unhappy with this man putting him on the stove, Chen Wen still affirmed the possibility that the Confucian scholar said. He had seen the massacre of Yiwu by the Fubiao Camp, and he also knew clearly that until today, there were still half of the ruins inside the Jinhua City that had not been cleared out for reconstruction. The Qing Beast Army had amazing destructive capabilities, and the massacre of the city was common. If the Ming army could not defend here, massacre was inevitable, and this was also the fundamental reason why he was always committed to defending the land.

Since the Confucian scholar's words had been spoken, Chen Wen, under the eyes of hundreds of puns and concerns around him, said his plan bluntly without any fear of being passed on to the Qing army's ears.

"The Tartars have a lot of troops. I have issued a military order with the former governor of Zhejiang since the expedition. If I cannot defend this place, I will be willing to be military law." As he said that, Chen Wen took out a letter from his arms and raised it directly over his head. "Since I have led the army to restore the lost territory, I am determined to die. This is my general's suicide note. I can hand it over to the prefect Sun today to testify."

He took out his suicide note directly during the conference. Such desperationists were probably comparable to those loyal and upright people who carried the coffin to show their ambitions. The moment Chen Wen took out his suicide note, the gentry and people present stood up to salute, expressing their respect for the Ming army commander who was determined to defend his territory, and even the Confucian scholar who stood up to ask questions was no exception.

But after all, this can only show Chen Wen's determination, but it has no big connection with how to do it. The Confucian scholar waited for a while after ceremonial salute, and saw that most of the salutes were finished, he was about to ask the next sentence. However, Chen Wen told the answer he wanted to ask in advance.

"At present, the Zhoushan King's Army is forced to go south, and many of the king's troops in Tiantai, Siming and other places are scattered. The royal troops under our command are already the only remaining fruit in Zhejiang. Around the powerful enemy, there are no reinforcements outside, and even the governor Wang was unfortunately captured by the Tartars. The king's army is in a desperate situation. Therefore, the general decided to rebuild the garrison and raise the strong men with land. For all those who join the army, whether it is war soldiers or prepare for replenishment, parents, wife and children are all military households, and the land allocated by the garrison can be cultivated. In this way, the king's army can have more combat soldiers and it is possible to defend the land without losing it."

"However, for the defence, the general decided that the soldiers retired and returned to their family and would not be military households for generations, and they would have fled too much..."

Everyone present knew about the reconstruction of the garrison, because it involved the occupation of local wasteland. Originally, the local people and even the soldiers under Chen Wen had a strong resistance to the reconstruction of the garrison. However, when Chen Wen, the improved garrison system, was proposed, although the popularity was not changed at once, there was some expectation for the new garrison system.

For the ancient people, taxes and corvee were two small hills on their backs, while those gentry and tribes used loopholes to transfer taxes and corvee, as well as the government's tax increase and exploitation, piled up these two small hills into the Himalayas little by little. When the people could not bear the pressure, the phenomenon of refugees would appear, and what followed was peasant uprisings and dynasties.

Chen Wen and Sun Yu have not yet reached the courage to get to the households, but Chen Wen, the commander of the military households, has the final say. The new version of the garrison system can be exempted from corvee labor because the soldiers serve in the military. The soldiers and the families of the military martyrs, and the disabled soldiers not only do not have to pay taxes, but also receive subsidies on a monthly basis. Compared with taxes, corvee labor is not only good, but also has to bear the transfer of civilians.

Next, Chen Wen gave a speech on this topic and gave a new version of the garrison system in front of the gentry and the people present, and made it clear that once it was effective, he would write to the court to report to the emperor.

No matter what era, publicity is an extremely important matter. Although Chen Wen ordered the garrisons and governments in various places to preach, it was far from being convinced by the people themselves, and then spread it to each other quickly.

As Chen Wen preached the new garrison system, the people in the venue began to whisper and discuss. Chen Wen also answered the questions that followed one by one, never tired of it, and it could even be said that he was willing to accept it.

Seeing that the return of the industry was taken away by a new topic, the rich gentry in the front row began to feel anxious. In addition to returning the industry, most of them planned to seek some benefits in the issue of expropriating wasteland. As for the garrison system that is currently being discussed, the gentry sitting in the front two rows did not even have any interest. If they were interested, they were afraid that the establishment of the garrison would lead to the withdrawal of tenants and the escape of domestic slaves, and that's all.

The heated discussions of the people in the last few rows contrasted the anxiety of the gentry in the first two rows. At this moment, the Confucian scholar named Ding stood up again in a gap where no one asked a question, and then asked Chen Wen: "Master Chen, the Wei Institute is the system of the Emperor Ming Dynasty. How can it be tampered with without the Emperor and the Cabinet?"

"Mr. Ding, the governor is missing now, and I am ordered to be fully responsible for local military affairs. As for the new version of the ward system, if the new version of the ward system is effective, the court will naturally follow the good, and there is no need to worry too much."

With one sentence of full responsibility and one sentence of good deeds, Chen Wen blocked the Confucian scholar's words without hesitation, but he had no idea about returning the industry, and the Confucian scholar was not willing to leave. He had to change his strategy and no longer mention the matter of the garrison, and directly asked Chen Wen about returning the industry.

As soon as this statement came out, the audience stopped talking. Whether it was the rich gentry or ordinary people, their purpose here was nothing more than to return the industry. As for the new version of the garrison system, it was only news at most, so of course it should be done more importantly.

With the focus back on those industries, Chen Wen had to give up the idea of ​​further promoting the new sanitation system and instead answering the new questions of Confucian scholars.
Chapter completed!