After the battle of Fotou Village in Beishan, the pioneer army divided into groups and attacked. For a time, gangsters of all sizes fled, killed and surrendered. The banditry in Zengcheng area was quickly eliminated, and General Cao's name became famous.

It is well known by the locals at night.

Regarding the suppression of bandits, the landowners who sent personnel to observe the scene at the time and collected first-hand information were particularly shocked. In their memory, it has been a long time since the grassroots level of the Ming Dynasty had seen such kind of military expenditures, high morale, and courage to fight.

The army became strong.

And the most troublesome thing is that such an army that consumes money and food is not used at the border fortress to defend against foreign enemies, but instead goes to the countryside to engage in the loss-making business of suppressing bandits.

Yes, anyone can see that this bandit suppression business is a real loss-making business. The little profit from the bandits' den, even if the dead and alive are included, is not enough to cover expenses.

So, the commander-in-chief named Cao probably had a deeper meaning when he sent his own private soldiers to suppress the bandits... Could it be that the magistrate of Gu County loves the people like his own children? Who do you think he is?

?Can you invite such strong soldiers to support you?

After making rational judgments, some knowledgeable and discerning figures among the local gentry could not help but have some subtle feelings about the sudden appearance of the bandit suppression.

Soon, smart people's hunch confirmed that within a month after Fotou Village, several landowners who had colluded with bandits were uprooted.

Some of these powerful gangs have always been in collusion with bandits, and some are simply the underworld backstage of bandits. They usually do evil and sell stolen goods, and none of them are good people.

In fact, these bullies have long been notorious in the local area, but it's just that the government has always been weak and the powerful have been strong, so no one of this generation can rule them.

Then this time, Kangxi... General Cao came.

After the captured bandits confessed, these families of bullies were immediately blacklisted. As soon as the pioneering army had their hands free, they immediately sent troops to surround Zhuangzi, breaking down the doors and arresting people.

The servants and villains raised by the local tyrants and bullies have the same fighting ability as the bandits, so they are naturally no match for the pioneering army. As for the bankers, after seeing the government's flag and the large number of official officials on the opposite side, they can't resist.

Interested: Honest people naturally have ledgers in their minds.

After the village was broken down, everyone inside was charged with "collaborating with bandits." The main characters were arrested and sent to the county jail for trial. The servants were taken to Huangpu by thugs to board the immigration ship. The tenants were not allowed to let go, dragging their families with them and serving them all in one pot.

, I will send them to Tainan to farm for two years.

Since Cao Gui has now climbed to the top of the Ming Empire, Guangdong's bureaucracy has no restrictions on him. In this matter, the few gentry allies who bullied the local tyrants initially wanted to use traditional relationship networks and political

The shield, however, was found to be inoperable. All light and dark actions were completely ineffective once the commander-in-chief was involved.

With a powerful force behind the scenes to "suppress luck", the judicial process of the Ming Dynasty was running at an unprecedented high speed.

Magistrate Gu, who has always been mediocre, was very busy in the following days. During this period, Mr. Gu changed from his normal state and became fair, strict, vigorous and resolute. He hated evil as much as hatred and was not afraid of the powerful. In the court, three trees and sticks flew together.

The board and fingers were shared, and the screams were endless. Several families of bullies and rich people were interrogated and their confessions were collected like ordinary people, with no ability to resist at all.

After that, official documents from the prefecture and county levels were transferred. Along with the numerous crimes collected, the official documents of Qiu Hou Wenzhan were soon submitted to the Ministry of Punishment in the capital for review.

To a certain extent, the deep shock caused by the removal of these families of bullies, at least in the Zengcheng area, was greater than the suppression of bandits.

In this matter, the local gentry suddenly discovered a huge power. The scary thing is that this power seems to belong to the Ming Dynasty, but it is completely beyond their control and can break the gentry to pieces at any time. This makes some people

Worried.

In fact, the concerns of the gentlemen are correct.

For this earth-shaking social transformation initiated by the Chuangchuan people, the suppression of bandits can only be regarded as a warm-up. After the first stage of suppression of bandits, by the way, we can knock on the mountain to shake the tiger, clean up the gentry, and let the other party know the benefits and disadvantages. This is all

The intended meaning of the question.

After all potential opposition forces have been attacked or deterred, the next step is the highlight of social transformation: population migration.

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Throughout history, people will always see a word at certain times: ten rooms and nine empty rooms.

Yes, every time there is a natural disaster or a change of dynasties occurs on the land of China, the word "ten rooms and nine empty rooms" will always appear in the foreplay.

In fact, this is not a natural disaster, it is a natural law, because the real population carrying capacity of the Central Plains is only one-tenth of that at the end of the dynasty.

Before the modern three-dimensional reinforced concrete cities, the entire human society had been flat for thousands of years. People lived in flat-story houses, and only emperors and lords could live in palaces and castles.

The land carrying capacity of the entire ancient society was very low. In urban areas, a population of one million is considered a super city. Even so, population-eradicating weapons like plague and dysentery still occurred frequently, which objectively hindered the ancients.

Expand the size of the city.

The same is true in rural areas. Thanks to low productivity, the carrying capacity of land in ancient times was very low. In rural areas, if the cultivated land area of ​​a family of three is less than 10 acres, it has actually begun to suffer from malnutrition and is considered a poor household.

Already.

In the late dynasty, the population exploded, and a tenant household of five or six people often did not even have three acres of land, which was considered abject poverty. The living conditions of these people were extremely poor. They could only be said to be alive, and they might rebel or rebel at any time.

die.

Then, conflicts caused by insufficient resources broke out, and society began to reshuffle. Whether it was Li Zicheng, the Tartars, fighting each other, or invasion by foreign enemies... In short, the population of the entire land

Unless it is reduced to one-tenth of its previous level, social conflicts will not be resolved.

So what happens after it drops to one-tenth? Nine out of ten houses are empty, a new dynasty is established, "people's minds are settled", a wise king is born, and everyone starts the cycle happily again.

This is actually the essence of changing dynasties: in ancient times, the population of the entire Central Plains dynasty could not exceed 2,000,000 people. Once it did, resources were insufficient, such as when the population exceeded 100 million in the late Ming Dynasty, they would definitely kill each other until

The contradiction will disappear only when the population falls below 2,000,000 again.

When this doomsday situation is condensed into the land of Zengcheng County, it is reflected in bandits all over the place, the decline of all industries, and the people's livelihood.

Therefore, people in time know one thing very well: without resolving the fundamental contradictions in society, the so-called suppression of bandits is useless, because there will continue to be destitute and landless farmers who turn into bandits. And there is no end to killing such people, everyone wants them.

If you starve to death, will you still care about bullets?
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