In the first month of the year, officials and soldiers from counties occupied by the Ming army in Zhejiang Province entered a state of vacation. Even if they still need to take turns, they can also enjoy overtime rewards issued by Duke Xiuguo's Mansion and the Zhejiang Governor's Yamen in the yamen, military camps and posts.

However, compared to them, Chen Wen only spent the New Year's Eve with Zhou Yueying and went to the Zhou family on the second day of the lunar month, that's all. Similar to him are Sun Yu and some related officials. During this holiday of the first lunar month, they made necessary refinement and adjustments to another system to facilitate better implementation.

On the 16th day of the first lunar month, after a month of closed training, the Xiuguo Duke's Mansion and the Zhejiang Governor's Yamen jointly issued a government order to re-measure the number of land acres in the six prefectures of Jinquyan and Taiwen based on the yellow list, and the land bones and field peels were recorded on the case. The Xiuguo Duke's Mansion and the Zhejiang Governor's Yamen organized a working team to cooperate with the local prefectures and county governments to implement it. It also stated that in the future, all land bones and field peel transactions must also be registered in the county government. At the same time, all taxes and corvee must also be responsible for the burden of all taxes and labor, and the government will divide the objects of collection according to the contract.

The so-called field bones and field spider are the division of land ownership and use rights that began in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. The field bones refer to the ownership of land, while field spider refers to the right to use rights.

The first difference between bone and skin appeared in Fujian and Jiangxi, and soon spread in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Zhili, Huguang, Sichuan and Shaanxi. It also appeared to varying degrees in provinces such as Zhili in North, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, etc., but the name is slightly different. Among them, the field spider in Zhejiang is called the field spider, and the one who buys the field spider is also called the top spider.

The land bones and land spiders are mostly civil contracts. There is no red contract from the government, and the government does not have such a system. Moreover, with the emergence of separation of bones and skins, taxes and corvee labor have gradually become complicated. Sun Yu's government decree recognizes the existence of land bones and land spiders in the name of the government, and collects taxes and corvee labor in the form of contracts. This actually prevents the landlord from being enfeoffed by tenants over the years and caused by the long-term and turmoil.

This government order itself uses the prestige and power of the government to protect the interests of both holders of ownership and use rights, but re-measurement of land is obviously a prelude to the large gentry who are used to evading taxes and eliminate illegal acts such as tax evasion and tax occupation. Therefore, the government order was opposed by a large number of gentry once it was issued.

Scholars were able to influence the administration of the court and local administration because they controlled a large amount of land resources and human resources, operated handicrafts, planted economic crops, and participated in maritime trade, which greatly increased the accumulation of their wealth. And these money was often buried by them in the cellar, or used to bribe high-ranking officials to further influence the administration and bribe the sly ones to intimidate the people. The cloak of the disciples of the saints would make them control the local discourse power and form a political monopoly from top to bottom.

However, in these six prefectures, the Ming army in Zhejiang was strong. Chen Wen had twice attacked the local gentry class on the grounds that Cao Conglong's rebellion and attacked the gentry participating in the Qing Dynasty's imperial examination. The Zhejiang Governor's Office always wore a pair of pants with Chen Wen. The Ming army in Zhejiang recovered Taiwen and gave civil servants greater rights in the process of cleaning up the old garrisons. In addition, the effective separation of administration and judicial affairs and the issuance of the Zhejiang Dibao made those opponents dare not take the lead in instigating the people to disobey the orders by force, and it was difficult for the prefecture and county government offices to resist the implementation of government orders.

What made these gentry even more disgusting was that Chen Wen measured the land this time. Although the work teams assigned to him required the cooperation of the local prefectures and county officials, each team had a large number of preparatory civil servants. They participated in the survey and supervised the local prefectures and county officials. As long as they found fraud, they would be dismissed from their posts and civil servants would take over.

It is not appropriate to lose the official position for some money. Without the cooperation of officials, there are still a large number of war camps in various prefectures and counties, garrisons and guards under the guards to replenish troops. Even ordinary people understand that being unable to resist at this time is a dead end, which greatly reduces the intensity of the government orders.

Of course, this has a certain relationship with the area Chen Wen now occupying.

The most powerful gentry in Zhejiang are the five prefectures in Hangzhou, Jia, Hu, Ningshao. These five prefectures have a large number of plains and have the tradition of farming and reading and passing on family traditions. The power of scholars is very strong. In contrast, most of the four prefectures in Yanchu, Tai and Wenzhou are mountainous areas. The two prefectures in Jin and Qu, one of which has a military force divided the gentry due to the officer group that has been out of the Qi family army, and the other is a business group like the Longyou Business Gang. The business atmosphere is strong and the geographical location is superior, which gives the gentry another way out.

In this way, the six prefectures in the occupied areas were not the most powerful areas in the Southeast gentry. In addition to Chen Wen's repeated attacks in recent years and the cooperation of the army and the government, the resistance of the local gentry was greatly reduced.

In fact, due to Hong Chengchou's blockade and the second order of the relocation of the territory, the news about the Ming army in Zhejiang was difficult to spread to the nearby prefectures and counties. Huang Zongxi came here, but in fact, he heard that Chen Wen ordered the punishment of the gentry who participated in the Qing Dynasty imperial examinations and wanted to come and persuade him. Who knew that the next day after entering Jinhua Prefecture, he encountered a work team measuring the land and bought a copy of the Zhejiang Palace. After understanding what happened, he rushed to the Duke Xiu's Mansion angrily.

To call him by his name is a very rude behavior in this era, almost equivalent to pointing at the nose and cursing people. This situation was originally impossible for Huang Zongxi to have, but this time he was extremely angry. His years of studying and nourishing his energy was thrown behind his head, and he returned to his hot temper when he was young.

Huang Zongxi was furious as soon as he met, and Chen Wen was quite unhappy. However, Mr. Lizhou was not only Wang Yi's friend and relative, but also helped him a lot over the years, but also a matchmaker for him and Zhou Yueying. He had to patiently turn others away and then lead him to the office room for details.

"Duke Xiu Guo knows that this re-measurement of land will offend the entire Southeast gentry. If you leave the territory of these six prefectures in your hands, the other prefectures in Zhejiang and the southern Zhili, how much financial and material resources do the gentry have? It is not comparable to that of these six prefectures. If you offend them all, how can you recover the lost land? Who will help you?!"

During the period when he was a mediator, he gradually became familiar with the title, and changed from official title to pronunciation. However, until today, he first called his name directly, and then he still used the official title after he calmed down. This shows how angry Huang Zongxi was this time.

How could Chen Wen not hear this? But Huang Zongxi has a temper, and he also has a temper. Over the years, he has struggled to maintain finances and has been able to support it with various means. However, it would be fine if those gentry didn’t work hard. After all, everyone has their own ambitions and is hard to force, but while enjoying preferential policies, they are still using illegal means to continue to play the inherent measurement of tax evasion. That is really unreasonable.

Chen Wen had long hated the gentry class in the late Ming Dynasty. Before, he was not strong enough, and he was not stupid enough to overestimate his ability. However, now he has a considerable strength and he needs to do as much as he can. After all, the internal strife of the Three Kings in history is getting closer and closer. If the fuse is not unexpected, it will break out next month, improve its strength as much as possible, and recover Nanjing one day earlier and fight against the Central Plains, the smaller the possibility of the Qing Dynasty taking this turn.

Although Huang Zongxi's persuasion was still full of anger, there were also two words of concern about the cause of regaining lost land. However, the hind legs that were pulled by the gentry class over the years have long been engraved in Chen Wen's heart. Now he has a certain strength in his hand, and the civil servants are almost as ally as an ally of the Ming army in Zhejiang, so he naturally has to correct these things.

"Mr. Lizhou, I just re-measure the land. This is the official job. Could it be that those gentry have any other problems?"

"you!"

Chen Wen's knowingly asked directly rekindled Huang Zongxi's anger. "Chen Wen, you need to know that gentry is the backbone of China. Without the support of gentry, do you think that the world can be won by just these tens of thousands of iron armor?"

"What can I do? Mr. Lizhou can watch it quietly. As for what gentry is the backbone of China, haha, according to your opinion, China deserves to be destroyed by the Tartars, huh?"

Huang Zongxi was not a corrupt scholar. How could he not know what Chen Wen pointed out that the Confucian scholar-official class was highly treated in the Ming Dynasty, but now that Chinese civilization has begun to be cut off by barbarian tribes like the Qing Dynasty, there are few people who fought back. In contrast, more scholars chose to serve in the Qing Dynasty, and the dirty things they did for the Tartars were completely discredited.

However, Huang Zongxi himself belonged to this class and was a member of the Donglin Party, the largest power in the southeast. Historically, as a representative of Southeast gentry, maritime merchants, factory owners, and mine owners, the Donglin Party would do its best to exempt industrial and commercial taxes every time they took power. By digging the corners of the Ming Empire, they would display their so-called political ambitions, obtain more money, grasp more local rights, and become the benevolent gentlemen in the words of the forces they represented.

Over the years, although he has more or less realized how harm some gentry classes have harmed the country and the people, he himself is a representative figure of this class, and even subconsciously he will protect the interests of gentry, just like instinct.

"Chen Wen, don't forget that Wang Wanxun is also a scholar. Many scholars have died in the fight against the Qing Dynasty in eastern Zhejiang over the years!"

Wang Yi was kind to Chen Wen. If it weren't for Wang Yi, Chen Wen would probably have died in Siming Mountain long ago. How could he have today's situation? Huang Zongxi brought Wang Yi out in order to refute Chen Wen. Who knew that after hearing Wang Yi's name, Chen Wen smiled coldly.

"Mr. Lizhou, I ask you, how many people are like Wang Jinglei over the years, how many people are like Hong Chengchou, Chen Mingxia, and Feng Quan. I am now educating these young people who are not aware of motivation for Wang Jinglei to clarify the style of scholars and let them know what they should do as disciples of the Holy Church at this time of danger!"

Huang Zongxi really couldn't answer Chen Wen's question, not because he couldn't give an example, but it had been eleven years since the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, and there were quite a few scholars who served in the Qing Dynasty. If he could name a scholar who resisted the Qing Dynasty, Chen Wen could find ten records from the records of the Intelligence Department on participating in the Qing Dynasty imperial examination and officials from various places in the Qing Dynasty. This is an irrefutable thing, especially those who would rather die than surrender like Wang Yi. On the contrary, the scum who served in the Qing Dynasty and helped the Tartars harm the Chinese people could not count.

"Okay, okay, okay. I, Huang Zongxi, underestimated you. A martial artist, you still need to clarify the style of the scholar, it's great."

Chen Wen's words were like needles, which made Huang Zongxi feel a little incoherent, especially the latter sentence clarified the Shifeng, which made him so angry.

He stared at Chen Wen for a moment, as if he wanted to see this person completely clearly. The anger in his heart accumulated for a moment before he heard him say, "You look down on the gentry so much, but I, Huang Zongxi, want you to see how many scholars are willing to sacrifice their lives for the Ming Dynasty and the Chinese. Is it your turn to clarify the scholarly wind!"

After saying that, Huang Zongxi left. Even Sun Yu, who is now the governor of Zhejiang, was unable to persuade him. He quickly left Duke Xiu's Mansion, and even left the city overnight and left Jinhua Mansion City.

"Fu Ren, too aggressive to him?"

"You don't have to worry about him. The world is getting worse and the hearts of people are not as good as ever. I want to see how this filial son of Yao Jiang and Huang can do it!"

He blocked Sun Yu's words of persuasion and confirmed that Sun Yu was just coming to persuade him to fight. Chen Wen persuaded him to go back to continue working. After he came back, he ordered another thing to Zhou Jingting.

The missionary office in charge of Zhou Jingting was originally the mouthpiece of Duke Xiuguo's Mansion. What Chen Wen ordered was naturally in this regard. After understanding what Chen Wen wanted and the effects these things needed, he returned to the office and sent someone to call the editor-in-chief of Zhejiang Dibao and Chen Chen, who was expanding the art troupe, to assign work tasks.

After Zhou Jingting left, Chen Wen re-entered the work of reviewing the report. Until nightfall, he was ready to go back to rest, but saw Xu Yi rushing over happily.

"Duke, the weapon you explained has been developed successfully."

"Turdog-footed gun?"

"No, it was the one that issued the task last year."

Several R&D tasks were issued last year, but seeing Xu Yi being quite happy, Chen Wen quickly understood what he was talking about.

"Go and go and have a look."

"Is this too late?" Now Chen Wen is not a single man. Xu Yi doesn't want to offend the wife of the Duke of Xiuguo for nothing because of the successful development of a weapon. After all, the power of this pillow style is still terrifying.

However, the decision on this matter was not in his hands. Chen Wen had already decided that, and even asked the guards to report the letter to the inner house. Xu Yi had to follow Chen Wen to the test site outside the city.

On the brightly lit test field, the killing effect of the weapon quickly appeared in front of Chen Wen. Although it was not as good as the daytime, the lethality was still visible.

"Can this thing be produced on a large scale?"

"I'm afraid it's not possible for the time being." Many components of this weapon require handmade by craftsmen to comply with the standards, and they cannot be repeatedly knocked with a hydraulic hammer like a knife and a gun.
Chapter completed!