The report on Qingzhangtianmu in Wuxi County was just like other places in the four prefectures of Susongchang Town, and was sent to the Qi Palace as fast as possible. The four prefectures sent all the operators trained over the years, and they were not those people who were easily attracted by gentry.

Now that the results are delivered, all the locals have targeted the gentry who are leading the way. The methods may be different, but basically achieved the expected results. The work of clearing the fields of Zhangzhangmu has begun to be carried out smoothly in the four prefectures of Susongchang Town. The resistance of the gentry among the people still exists. However, the gentry who are leading the family may not be able to gather many people in the countryside. If the leaders are defeated, the rest is a pile of loose sand. They can be crushed by relying on the strength of the work team, prefectures and counties and garrisons.

In Chen Wen's plan, this increase in efforts to clear the land of Zhangzhang was just an appearance. Chen Wen's purpose was to use this matter to crack down on the trust between the Donglin gentry who resisted the government orders and the people of the countryside. Only in this way can the next stage of the attack be carried out better.

"Wuxi Gu Family, the founder of Donglin Party, and Mr. Donglin Gu Xiancheng's family..."

Seeing this, Chen Wen shook his head. The Gu family started from Gu Xiancheng and Gu Yuncheng's two Jinshi. Then Gu Xiancheng and Gao Panlong rebuilt Donglin Academy and taught here. As more and more gentry gathered here, and as more and more scholars studying here were admitted, the Donglin Party took shape.

The Gu family rose in the Ming Dynasty. When the Ming Dynasty fell, Gu Gao, the only one named "Liudu Prevents the Ruyu", raised an army to fight against the Qing Dynasty, but failed to succeed. In the end, he was killed by the anti-Qing rebel army in Changzhou, along with Wang Ruyu, who was preparing to offer the city to the Qing army. Gu Junqi and the two of them were killed together.

Since then, the Gu family has become a survivor with peace of mind. By the third year of Kangxi, Gu Zhenguan had become a clerk in the Qing Dynasty's Secretariat and a famous minister in the early Qing Dynasty. Later, Gu Xiancheng's seventh-generation nephew Gu Gao was the top scholar in the first year of Jiaqing, and he was a high position as a bachelor of the cabinet and a minister of the Ministry of Rites.

Most of the remnants of the late Ming Dynasty were neither against the Qing Dynasty nor served in the Qing Dynasty, but basically no one did not encourage future generations to serve in the Qing Dynasty. After all, the Qing Dynasty changed the defense of the barbarians and the Xia Dynasty with the righteousness of the monarch and ministers, but more importantly, the policy of the scholars to be given greater role in it.

With the existence of the policy of preferential exemption, scholars have huge economic benefits. More importantly, the gentry uses the policy of preferential exemption and their influence among the people to turn priority exemption into unlimited tax exemption. With this, it is Ming, Qing, Hua, and Yi, and it is naturally unimportant to negotiate family interests. Of course, it is precisely because of this that Yongzheng was used to be distorted by the scholar class.

"For these organizations, if more families who resist government orders are connected to the gentry, they will lose their fighting spirit and greatly reduce their resistance. This is what it means to capture the thief and capture the king first."

Looking at the report, Chen Wen couldn't help feeling a little satisfied. Zhou Yueying watched Chen Xinruo write and then read the report, but she was not so optimistic about it.

"Husband, they dare not do too much. First, the government order has just been issued and the situation has not yet intensified to the point of defeat. Second, the husband admits the policy of exemption, but when he is in Zhejiang, he has exempted the fame of those gentry who resist too fiercely. They dare not do things too much. Even in recent years, they have relied on buying and instigating the people to use both soft and hard work to local governments. Now they are soft and hard, and the hard is useless, but they will never give up after their wealth."

In three years, Chen Wen did not vigorously promote the work of clearing the fields of Zhangzhang, but the soft knife was sharpened. Now he has begun to penetrate the place where the gentry is the strongest and the most powerful resistance is the most powerful. Zhou Yueying's family was originally a scholar's family. Although the gentry in Jinhua was not very powerful, he still had some understanding of the power of the gentry in Jiangnan, and worries were inevitable.

"From the 16th year of Chongzhen to the present, fifteen years, except for the Longwu Dynasty that conducted an imperial examination, the Ming Dynasty has never conducted an imperial examination again."

Zhou Yueying knew very well that Chen Wen would never admit the imperial examinations of the Qing Dynasty, and was still using morality to attack those gentry who participated in the scientific examinations of the Qing Dynasty. The defense of the barbarians and Xia promoted by the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was relied on the vigorous publicity of the dibao, and even the gentry who was attacked could not give a serious reason to refute.

Without the imperial examinations of the Qing Dynasty, scholars had a shortage of entry into the government through the imperial examinations. The civil servant training classes used in the occupied areas of the Ming Army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were trained, and targeted cards were set up in enrollment and distribution. In this way, if you want to borrow it to the government, it would have a decisive impact on the governance of the Ming Army Group in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which is far less simple than before.

"The channels for entering the officialdom are limited, and the power of scholars is continuously weakening. Their influence on the government and local government affairs is constantly declining. It is now in recent decades, and even in the last century, when the gentry's power is weakest. With this background, we will have the possibility of suppressing them. However, as a large number of gentry enter the civil service training class, the degree of decline is gradually decreasing."

"Governing the country and governing the government, at least one must use those who read and read, otherwise they will not be able to understand the government orders, let alone governing. The literacy rate of the army is constantly increasing, but the military system of the husband still needs more soldiers who read and read to develop stronger organizational strength and battle. However, even if you can't achieve popular education now, gentry will inevitably enter the ruling group."

"Now is the last time and the best time. Before the Northern Expedition, I tried to subdue the gentry in Jiangnan. At least I could use the limited-level tricks for my husband. Of course, I would never want to use such a method, because if I could subdue the gentry, I would get only a slave class, which was not the new era I wanted."

Chen Wen was as powerful as a rainbow and full of energy. The sunlight hit Chen Wen's body from the glass window made of small pieces of glass, and for a moment it turned out like a god.

Seeing her husband like this, Zhou Yueying's eyes could not help but show a little intoxication. She had been waiting in the boudoir for many years, rejected many talented people's proposals, and finally married a warrior. According to the traditional view of the scholarly family, if it weren't for Chen Wen who had a title at that time, he would have been laughed at.

But such a warrior is now the leader of the strongest force in the world and has the qualification to win the supreme position. More importantly, her husband did not intend to be limited to this, but instead wanted to open a new era, an era that was completely different from the past, which was even more exciting for her.

"Mother, how is the word Xinruo written?"

The intoxicating atmosphere was interrupted by the daughter's child voice. Zhou Yueying's face turned red. She peeked at her and quickly turned the color and came to her daughter.

After a while, Chen Wen had already returned to the desk to continue reviewing the report. When her daughter was taking a nap, she was taken away by the wet nurse and maid. She sat on the brocade stool that Chen Wen had prepared for her all year round, and looked at the report that Chen Wen had reviewed carefully.

"My husband is sure not to use it. Well, can that restricted move really subdue the gentry in Jiangnan?"

The gentry in Jiangnan was a representative of the gentry class of the Ming Dynasty. When Zhou Yueying was in the boudoir, she had heard about their deeds from her father and brother. How difficult these gentry were, she knew only a lot more than Chen Wen, and she naturally had to worry more.

Chen Wen didn't care about this, and took the Wuxi County report back with his backhand and said to Zhou Yueying: "Madam, look at this report first, especially if you look at the confrontation process carefully, you will find some interesting things."

"oh?"

Zhou Yueying read the result report word by word, and when he saw some of the paragraphs, he couldn't help but frown. After a while, after reading the report, Zhou Yueying laughed and pointed at the report with a green and tenderness.

"Why are your husband cheating, those scholars are not fools. Are you afraid of being a conspirator in future history books?"

"conspiracy?"

Zhou Yueying smiled, obviously not taking this seriously, and Chen Wen was the same. After taking the report from Zhou Yueying, Chen Wen snorted and told his thoughts in a casual manner.

"No matter where the gentry wants to resist government orders, they always use the people as a threat. Among them, spreading rumors and causing trouble is never missing. I just asked the Supervision Department to cooperate with the performance of the gentry and the work of the officials who cleared the land of the gang. The conspiracy is not considered a 7-inch snake."

The daughter was not in the study, Chen Wen took her gently and Zhou Yueying sat on his lap. The old couple had been together for many years, and Zhou Yueying had already lost the twist. She peeled an orange and fed it to Chen Wen's mouth, and quietly waited for Chen Wen's detailed explanation.

"Gentlemen gathered to cause trouble, especially in the countryside, often gathered forces that local governments could not fight against them. However, the officials of the government were also from gentry, and all local officials had close relationships with them. In those years, the gentry in Jiangnan had been able to succeed in resisting government orders, but this does not mean that their methods must be without flaws. It can even be said that their usual methods are so flawed that they cannot bear to look at them. However, no one had used them before, and no one would have used them to deal with them."

"The organizational strength is very important to gather people to cause trouble. Only by organizing the strength of the goal can we form a firm enough force to achieve our goal, from leaders, to the backbone, and then to the ordinary participants below.

"In the past, these gentry bullied those local officials and officials. As long as the gentry stood in front, the slaves and tenants could then create momentum to threaten officials. On the contrary, the ordinary people who accounted for the largest proportion in the back were no one to organize them. Moreover, the gentry was not a monolithic piece, and not everyone was willing to do anything to me for some hidden land. Otherwise, I would not have seen apart the team of thousands of people just by using a few intelligence personnel from the Supervision Division."

"What if those gentry continue to make trouble?"

"Then let them do it. Even if they don't want to make trouble, I will force them to continue making trouble. Otherwise, why do you have to prepare for such a long time? Now, the first stage is completed, and below, I will wait for them, teach them the rules once and for all."

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The work of clearing the fields of Zhangzhang with the different methods of attack on the gentry who took the lead, easily opened up the situation from the headed gentry. The four prefectures of Susongchang Town and the work team sent by the Qi Wangfu re-cleared the fields in the countryside according to the information collected by the fish scale book and the Supervision Department. The conclusive figures were constantly being sent to the Qi Wangfu and the provincial governor's office.

However, as the work of Qingzhang was carried out, the Qi Palace suddenly issued a new policy order. This new policy order was not aimed at the work of Qingzhangtianmu, but was aimed at the Maritime Bureau.

To be precise, it was the smuggling of the four coastal provinces in the southeast that attracted the attention of the Prince of Qi, and the reason for the attention was that the Military Information Department received a report from the "Northern Yimin" that there were smuggling fleets in the southeast that sold weapons, armor and a large amount of supplies, including food, to the Qing court. At the same time, a large number of gold, silver and jewelry looted from the Qing court from the Northern Expedition appeared on the market in Jiangnan, especially those antique calligraphy and paintings. Even the Qing court had evidence or physical evidence from which household they searched.

"The taxes and production of Jiangsu and Zhejiang are beyond the reach of the northern land. However, the barbarian court can support the destruction of the northern land for three years and have the spare time to train new troops. The huge consumption is not something that a North Korea or some Shanxi merchants can compensate."

"According to the report of the Northern Yimin, there are many unscrupulous maritime merchants in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong. They smuggled food, raw materials, and even weapons and armor from the barbarians and Xia. Now that the Northern Expedition is imminent, a weapon sold to the barbarians is not sold to the barbarians, it is likely that there will be one more casualty in the royal army. Such behavior is no different from Tonglu!"

"So, from now on, any smuggling will be treated as a Tonglu. The main culprit will be executed, the property of the family will be confiscated, and the accomplices will be beheaded and the whistleblowers will be beheaded. The whistleblowers will be divided into half of the property. From now on, civilian ships in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong are strictly prohibited from sailing north. If there is any violation, no matter what the ship carries, they will be sunk on the spot and will never be tolerated!"

The new policy of the Qi Prince's Mansion was full of killing words, and the smell of blood spreads through ink. Smuggling was no longer uncommon in the Ming Dynasty, and it can even be said to be a mainstream phenomenon, especially in Jiangnan. There were precedents of the Donglin Party banning the sea and exempting industrial and commercial taxes. The few paid taxes, and more were bribed local officials, and then blatantly smuggling.

It was not until Chen Wen recovered the two prefectures of Tai and Wenzhou and rebuilt the Maritime Bureau that this phenomenon was relieved, but the smuggling phenomenon could not be completely eliminated. However, when smuggling was linked to Tonglu, and the whistleblower could share up to half of the property, the restraining power would suddenly increase wherever righteousness and profits would be achieved.

The market was discussing the most severe smuggling order in history. The Qi Palace wanted to weaken the Qing court by cracking down on smuggling. But more importantly, the gentry in Jiangnan participated in a large number of maritime trade, and there were countless smugglings. The knife cut off and injured it was not as simple as the Qing court.

In Jingli, Wuxi, in the old house of Gu family, the leaders of the clan's house gathered here and discussed the matter of clearing the land of Zhangzhang. However, when Gu Zhenguan recited the decree he saw from the county town, the topic quickly moved to this matter.

"It is said that it is to crack down on smuggling, but it is not necessary to use a knife against our gentry in Jiangnan. The sea storms are often destroyed by ships and people are killed. The profits of sea trade are huge, but they are all fighting for their lives. Why should the court collect taxes? If you don't pay taxes, you won't let go to the sea, and you will sink them. What's the point of saying?"

The smuggling of sea trade, like other gentry in Jiangnan, inevitably had to get involved. The huge profits of sea trade are well known, but Chen Wen equated smuggling with Tonglu, so no one could say anything wrong. At least he would never dare to talk nonsense in front of outsiders.

None of the tribes present knew about it, nor did they have any resentment about it. However, this matter is more legitimate than the land of the Qing Dynasty. The defenses of the barbarians and the blood feud with the Qing Dynasty are here. This is the most correct truth.

"We can't get involved in this anymore. King Qi is a murderous character. If he is really tied to Tonglu, our Gu family's reputation will be completely destroyed."

Previously, the people in the Qingzhangjiu were disintegrated by the intelligence personnel of the Supervision Department, and the Gu family's Tongliu was everywhere. The prestige of the gentry among the people was greatly reduced. These days, the Gu family has been trying to eliminate the adverse effects, and even the Qingzhangjiu of the government could not take care of it. There was no way. Even if they wanted to make trouble, most of the people in the countryside were spreading jokes about the Gu family suspected of Tongliu, and they could no longer believe them. Relying on slaves and tenants alone was not enough to plug the garrison into the teeth.

"Didn't the King of Qi's government orders say for the sake of the Northern Expedition? Then when the Northern Expedition is over, the government orders will definitely be relaxed. Endure the situation for a while, and earn less money and make less money. The key is not to ruin the foundation of the family because of such a thing."

"What my uncle said is that it should be."

The smuggling matter was decided, and the matter of Qingzhang land and mu became the subject of discussion again. Chen Wen did not admit that the imperial examinations of the Qing Dynasty, and the Gu family had never participated in the imperial examinations of the Longwu Dynasty. It took fifteen years and had not held the imperial examinations for nearly sixteen years. Many of the famous tribesmen of the Gu family died in these years. Chen Wen recognized the policy of exemption, but the preferential treatments they could enjoy in their families were very small. What's more, the work team is still digging deep into the hidden land, which is even more important.

In this way, this year's autumn tax and the taxes that need to be paid will rise sharply. If you want to recover, you will first reopen the imperial examination and have to pass a single-plank bridge among the talents accumulated over the years. I am afraid that it will not be able to restore the old view for decades.

"Do you know? Now those working teams are not only clearing the land, but also implementing taxes to each household. In the future, they will not even be able to pay the tax. How much tax will our family have to pay? Is this a ancestral system that preferentially treats scholars?"

The taxes that need to be paid surged and the levy was too great. The Gu family's tribesmen all showed a look of pain, but at this moment, Gu Shu, who had previously been unfavorable to go to the army, stood up and told another bad news.

"I have inquired in the past two days. When the King of Qi was in Zhejiang, he forced the gentry to pay fines after clearing the land of Zhangzhang. If he didn't pay, he would get rid of his fame."

Speaking of this, Gu Shu was already gritting his teeth, and his next words resonated with everyone present.

"Chen Wen's son is named Wen, but he is clearly Huang Chao and Li Zicheng's demon king. Moreover, he is more harmful to scholars than Huang Chao and Li Zicheng, because he knows deep roots and solidarity, and knows how to use the land to buy the thieves and troops. Now that he has not yet been elected as emperor, he dares to attack us. If he has the power, he will kill all the scholars?"
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