The next morning, the envoy of the Imperial Execution set off in a hurry. However, according to the feedback from the personnel sent by Chen Wen to escort, not long after the group left Nanchang Prefecture City, one of them left the team and headed west. What was the intention? It was self-evident.

The envoys of the Imperial Execution left Nanchang and went to various places to announce the imperial edicts. After yesterday's banquet, today, the head of the Nanchang headquarters of the Prince's Mansion of Kuaiji County, the governor of Jiangxi and his subordinate yamen, who had just changed their signatures, also began to be busy.

The control of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is divided into three major parts: the civil affairs of the eight prefectures in eastern Zhejiang is led by Zhejiang Governor Sun Yu, and the military is based on the previous example. Each prefecture has garrisons, and the key defense areas have combat troops, and the key defense areas have combat troops to assist in defense, and a complete defensive situation. The situation in the ten prefectures in central and northern Jiangxi is similar, but the administrative system has just been laid for a short time, and the control is far inferior to Zhejiang. After the Ji'an Prefecture was recovered, Chen Wen also included this prefecture in the Jiangxi Governor's system; and the last part is the Nangan area, including Nan'an, Ganzhou, Nanxiong and Tingzhou, which are under military control. The general is responsible for the military commander Hou Guoyuan, who will be named Yongkangbo. As for Shaowu, it was temporarily assigned to Jiangxi, but it will take about half a month before the handover is completed.

In the three areas, Zhejiang has the longest recovery time and its rule is relatively stable. Even the scholars and officials have been tossed back and forth several times. At least except Ning Shao, there are no signs of leaving. In the Ning Shao two prefectures, Chen Wen also has the government office, the Secretariat, the garrison, the military camp, and collaborators such as Huang Zongxi and Lu Yuding. It is difficult for other scholars and officials to make any mistakes.

The two newly recovered areas are the military control areas of Nangan, and the civil and military officers system will gradually unfold, but it is still some time before the military control is over. In contrast, what really needs to do its best now is the core area of ​​Jiangxi Province, surrounding the central and northern Poyang Lake.

"A province in Jiangxi first fell in the first year of Hongguang..."

The first year of Hongguang was 1645 AD, the second year of Jiashen. The fall of Jiangxi was first caused by the general Jin Shengheng of Zuo Liangyu and Wang Tizhong of the Dashun Army to surrender to the Qing Dynasty to attack Jiangxi for the Qing Dynasty. In just two or three months, Jiangxi Province, except for Nangan, all of them fell into the hands of the Qing army, and this was completed during this period when an internal strife broke out within the Qing army.

As a result of the internal strife, the important general of the Dashun Army, Bai Wang, who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, had previously eliminated the Wang Ti, who was an important general of the Dashun Army. He was defeated by Jin Shengheng and Wang Deren, the general in the middle of Wang Ti. The military affairs in Jiangxi changed from Jin Shengheng and Wang Tiren's duality to the situation where Jin Shengheng was the main one and Wang Deren was the auxiliary one.

"In the second year of Yongli, Jin Shengheng, Wang Deren announced that anyway..."

Jin Shengheng was the result of two interweaving. On the one hand, Jin Shengheng believed that he had taken all Jiangxi provinces without any effort. He wanted to gain the right to restrain civil and military affairs and act cheaply. He became the local emperor of Jiangxi, but was rejected by the Qing court. On the other hand, in the process of collecting Jiangxi, he and Wang Deren became nouveau riche by extorting a batch of gold, silver and treasures. Zhang Yutian, the newly appointed governor of Jiangxi, was jealous of the inspector Dong Xuecheng, and threatened them to offer money. For example, Wang Deren was forced to pay a huge sum of 300,000 taels of silver by Zhang Yutian on the way to attack Jianchang Mansion!

Since the tongue cannot solve the problem, it can only be put into force. However, to take a look at it, Jin Shengheng first failed to besiege Ganzhou, and then was besieged Nanchang by the Qing army responsible for suppression. Until he died, Jiangxi Province also suffered another catastrophe.

"According to the investigation, the Tatars suppressed Jin Shengheng, when the army plundered, driving 100,000 people to dig trenches. The civilians only had one meal a day, and the dead were counted. The women they got were taken by each flag and were humiliated day and night. After the dig was completed, men and women sold them together. The fields, mountains, houses, and tombs of Qiu that were nearly ten miles away from Nanchang Prefecture were destroyed by the Tatars."

This is just the siege of Nanchang in history. The following Nanchang Massacre was martyred by 200,000 people. During the Anti-Japanese War hundreds of years later, the Japanese massacres carried out by the Japanese in Nanchang were only one-third of this number. The wealth they plundered were even more innumerable, such as Tan Tai and He Luo who would report to pacify Jiangxi Jieyin General said: "Nanchang, Jiujiang, Nankang, Ruizhou, Linjiang, Yuanzhou and other prefectures were all pacified, and gold, silver, mules, horses, ships, pearls, corals, jade, silk, sable fur, etc. were all settled."

Speaking of which, when it comes to murder, insulting women and children, and looting, our Qing Dynasty did not implement the three lights policy, but the three lights in the world, and the Japanese could only accept the disadvantage!

"After the Tartars captured Nanchang, the protests in Jiangxi Province did not end because of this. Hundreds of thousands of rebels, including the former Governor of Jiangxi, Duke Jie Chongxi, Duke Cao Hao of Dingnan, Duke Yu of Ning Hong Bohong, General Yan Luo, and other troops, as well as the King of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Division, fought bloody battles with the Tartars for many years. It was not until the fifth year of Yongli that the Fujian Admiral Yang Minggao and the left general Wang Zhigang led his troops to fight, and they began to fall step by step into the trough."

"According to Pingjiangbo, in the sixth year of Yongli, his Dajueyan in Jianchang Prefecture was surrounded by the Tartars. If it weren't for Wang Zhigang's sudden evacuation, he would have died for his country. The reason why Wang Zhigang's robbery evacuated was because our army defeated Zhejiang and Fujian governors in Longyou County and then besieged Quzhou."

"good!"

"The king's army rose up to attack the enemy's army, which led to the rescue of Pingjiang Bo's troops. Pingjiang Bo's troops were incorporated into our Jiangsu and Zhejiang King's troops. Now it seems that it is God's will."

For the Ming army, no one expected this at that time, even Chen Wen. But now it sounded that the attendees were inexplicably happy. Chen Wen thought about it carefully, it seemed that this was true, but if all the chain reactions led to a future opponent, rather than a member of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, they would probably not be like this now, and most of them would still be cursing about ungrateful words.

The following discussion soon ceased, and the officials who spoke continued to read out the investigation results: "However, the Tartars have slaughtered the people in many military use over the years. According to the local situation sent by various prefectures and counties, the losses of the population and private wealth of Jiangxi Province are likely to be greater than those of Zhejiang!"

Jiangxi in the Ming Dynasty was not like later generations. It was a large population province that was no less than Zhejiang and was extremely rich. Otherwise, it would be difficult to provide for the grand imperial examination event of "Hanlin Duoji River, court scholars half of Jiangxi".

However, after several years of war, especially the massacre of the Qing army, many places were no longer deserted. Zhang Dai, a man at that time, recorded by his personal experience: "In August of Guisi, I went to Sanqu and entered Guangxin. I passed by the prefectures and counties, and I passed by a city, but there were several thatched huts, and I fell to tears when I saw it. After interrogating the old man, I repeated it again and again."

In history, Lang Tingzuo, the successor of Cai Shiying, also mentioned in his memorial: "However, our country has a land of southern fu, and the desolation in the late Ming Dynasty, and the waters and droughts remained frequently, and the withering was not yet on the rise. By the fifth year, the Jin Dynasty rebelled and the people killed and frolicked. The land of the river was filled with cities and wild lands, and the people in the river were divided into bones and wild people. When the people were granted the head, they were stupid and the mountain bandits appeared and appeared impermanent, and the ants gathered in the roving place. When they were in the place, the people moved to war and spread to the gullies for three years. When the year of Renchen, the drought was raging, and five out of ten died in the first place. Then five out of ten died in the year (drought). All one or two were left alone and the soldiers were reincarnated and the disciples were reincarnated for their lives."

Lang Tingzuo and his cousins ​​successively served as governors of Jiangxi and knew very well about the province of Jiangxi. However, he was a bannerman himself, and he was an old traitor under Nurhaci's command since his father. His memorials inevitably excused the crimes of the Qing Dynasty, but the tragic situation in Jiangxi Province has many circumstantial evidence.

"You guys, this is Jiangxi we just recovered. And we want to restore the people's livelihood in Jiangxi Province like we are in Zhejiang."

Chen Wen has done many "outrageous" things in people's livelihood in Zhejiang, exempting taxes from areas suffering from war disasters, strictly governing officials, and leaving the public, and separating the judiciary and administration, and all kinds of things. With Sun Yu's strong cooperation and implementation, the people's livelihood in eastern Zhejiang has been recovering rapidly. Especially in Jinhua Mansion, now there are many shops in the city, endless workshops on the riverside, and endless farmland in the countryside.

Even among the gentry who were dissatisfied with the Ming army group, even if they were said to be one, if they were allowed to live in the Qing Dynasty or other occupied areas of the Ming army, many people would not want to return to the days when they were exploited by Qing officials every day.

"What the king said is very important. We can copy the governance and systems in Zhejiang, but Jiangxi also has its own problems, especially to try to restore people's livelihood at a faster speed. This is the current priority. Do you have any ideas that you can speak freely."

In terms of civil affairs, the main person in charge of Jiangxi is Wang Jiang. Chen Wen is inevitable for attending the meeting, but more of it is Wang Jiang who is responsible for hosting it himself.

When the governor asked, after a very short time of whispering, a civil servant stood up first and bowed and replied: "The officials thought that all industries were based on agriculture, and that other industries could develop with food."

Confucianism values ​​agriculture, and what civil servants say does not leave this category, but what Wang Jiang wants to listen to is more detailed suggestions rather than such general governance directions.

"What strategy does your official have?"

"If the governor of the king returns to the king, the officials think that the military farmland should be the leader of land reclamation."

As soon as this statement was made, both civil officials and military generals, all the participants frowned.

The Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang implemented the system of military merits and taught the fields, and paid far more attention to land, a means of production than others. This civil servant wanted to cultivate land and reclaim land when speaking in the classroom. It was impossible to speak for the military households. But if the land was distributed to the civilian households in large quantities, the recruitment work of the army would be a little unsuccessful, and Chen Wen would definitely be on the side of the army. In short, it was purely thankless, and everyone was surprised by his boldness.

However, the civil servant pretended not to see the surprise around him, and continued to speak on his own: "According to the investigations of the Xiaguan these days, the Tartars began to issue orders to reclaim land very early..."

In the early years of Shunzhi, the Qing Dynasty issued an edict ordering governments around the world to recruit refugees and cultivate land and farm. Chen Wen knew about this policy. However, this person mentioned this matter as soon as he opened his mouth, and the eyebrows of the people who were in the congregation, including him, became even more locked.

"But the officials found that, like Zhejiang, Jiangxi's land reclamation was often subject to forced taxation due to the success of the imperial examinations of the imperial court. Instead, it put the cart before the horse and increased the burden on the people."

Since the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, people's livelihood has withered and large-scale abandonment of land has been abandoned. In this situation, land reclamation is an active policy to resume production, but in order to meet the huge military expenditure and the huge material demand of the Eight Banners, the Qing Dynasty was very eager for quick success in this matter.

In the sixth year of Shunzhi, "In the beginning of the sixth year of the prefectures and counties, officials above the prefectures and counties took the examination of persuasion of reclamation as the examination, the number of persuasion of reclamation as the advantages and disadvantages, and the government used the diligence and laziness as the hall."

In this way, facing the huge pressure of the examination, government officials in various places played the trick of "digitizing" mature fields. That is, they lied to say that the deserted fields were mature fields. After reporting the numbers for the examination, they then distributed the taxes that needed to be paid for the mature fields on paper to ordinary people, which directly led to the people having to give up the land before the huge tax pressure and becoming refugees. It should be the four words "putting the cart before the horse".

"So the officials think that stability should be the first to reclaim land, and do not be eager for quick success and instant benefits to prevent similar incidents."

Not only did it not require the increase in the efforts to reclaim land against the private households, but it required stability as the best. This civil servant obviously had already figured out the matter here. As soon as this statement was made, the civil servants avoided the pressure of taking the exam, and the army did not have to worry about the contradiction between reclaim land and the division of land, and they received extra points in both aspects.

Chen Wen and Wang Jiang looked at each other, and then Wang Jiang said to the civil servant: "Senator Xu's statement is reasonable, and this matter is indeed not to be irrelevant."

Xu Meiwen, the co-magistrate in charge of military farming in Nanchang Prefecture, came from Pinghu County, Jiaxing Prefecture. He had been working in the prefect's office in Jinhua. With the expansion of the land by the Ming army in Zhejiang, he has been promoted step by step to this day. He was responsible for military farming for a long time, which made him know very well about the shortcomings of military farming in the Qing Dynasty, as well as the contradictions between land reclamation and land division, and thus got this first point.

Seeing that Xu Meiwen's opinion was adopted, other civil servants were eager to try it out. Next, Wang Jiang called a civil servant who was responsible for tax collection in the yamen of the governor's office.

"Senator Rong, what do you have to say?"

"Report to the king, report to the governor of the king, and the subordinates checked the records. The land tax in Jiangxi Province was 1.726970 taels of silver, and 900,753 meters of rice, which was collected according to the old rules during the Wanli period."

Many people know about this matter. This governor named Rong Qian was famous for his proficient number calculations in the civil service training class. If the tax numbers were just not worthy of his words, they would have to be a story. I think there would be something to say.
Chapter completed!