The formulation of the policy only required Zhang Chong and six or seven ministers to discuss it in the front hall, but the actual implementation was not the same thing.
The latter is more difficult than the former and relies more on local understanding of policies, testing the wisdom and courage of these local officials.
Obviously, not all officials in all places have this ability.
The feathers from Yecheng were passed to the prefects of various counties along with Chi Daofei. They were all old men of the Taishan Army. They were on the side of the Taishan Army in terms of emotions and interests, so they resolutely implemented Yecheng's land distribution policy.
However, the difficulty varies from county to county.
This time the Northern Expedition roughly occupied five counties in Jizhou and five counties in Youzhou. The conditions in these places are different. For example, Jizhou is more densely populated than Youzhou, and western Jizhou is more densely populated than central and eastern Jizhou.
The conditions of the people and the land are different, and the agricultural production situation is different.
For example, in Changshan and Qinghe countries, due to the developed economy, there are a large number of homesteaders. These people have enough external environment security to allow them to farm alone as a family unit.
But this is not the case in Zhongshan, Hejian, Bohai and other counties in Youzhou and Jizhou. Because these areas were often harassed by the Rong and Di, they were unable to support the production of farmers. Almost all of them gathered together to fight, mainly in docks and manors, and the land was quite concentrated.
In such different specific situations, the difficulty of policy implementation will naturally be different.
For areas where land is highly concentrated, the county magistrates only need to focus on attacking the big powerful. As long as their land is confiscated and redistributed, the work is over.
But if you are facing a small or medium-sized powerhouse, it will be much more difficult to confiscate it.
For example, those little tycoons usually don't have any blood debts, and some of them are good people in Enhui Township. If you confiscate their land at this time, the actual executioners will not be able to bear it.
All of the above are the complexities of Hebei. But no matter what, a vigorous land distribution movement involving the lives and destinies of millions of people officially started in Hebei.
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Zhongshan Kingdom, Boling.
After the feathers from Yecheng were delivered to the Boling County Temple, Boling's order Hu Pu had already started discussing the specific affairs of dividing the fields with the town general Geng Hao.
In fact, this does not need to be difficult, because everyone knows who the largest wealthy family in Boling is, and it is the Boling Cui family. As long as they are eradicated, there will be enough land to distribute to the poor in the county.
As the first Boling Order, Hu Pu was not lacking in loyalty, ability and courage.
First of all, he was born as a descendant of Mount Tai. He went to the military school at the beginning. From enlightenment to education, his entire values were under the influence of Mount Tai's army. He was a true member of his own family.
Secondly, he is only 20 years old, and he only cares about a county. His abilities are naturally numerous. He graduated with extraordinary results and participated in the management of land distribution affairs in several places in Zhongnan, Heji, and Wei counties. There is no shortage of general affairs. experience.
In addition, at an age where he is full of enthusiasm, he dares to do things and is able to do things.
But even so, Hu Pu was still a little hesitant at this time, because the Bolingcui family he wanted to eradicate was not simple.
It was only when he came to Boling that he realized how difficult it was for the Cui family to solve.
The genealogy of Cui family in Boling can be traced back to the period of Taigong Wang. Wang's grandson took the fief as Cui Yi, so he took the surname Cui because of the fiefdom.
Regardless of these legends, it can be seen from the county records that the Cui family moved to Anping during the period of Emperor Gaozu of the former Han Dynasty, and never moved elsewhere after that.
Anping is the former name of today's Boling. Emperor Huan's father was buried here and was called "Boling". Then Anping County was renamed Boling.
In the North, this family is naturally inferior to the Lu family in Zhuojun, but it is still a first-class noble family.
What is a public clan? It is the family of the three princes who have been born in the clan, and they have been married for generations.
The Cui family started to flourish around the end of the Han Dynasty. They served as eunuchs for three generations, one of whom held the post of county governor for four terms of two thousand shi, and was known as the "Book of Changes" passed down to his family.
Later, in this dynasty, the Cui family served as eunuchs for seven consecutive generations, and Cui Lie finally rose to the position of the Third Duke, making the family a public clan.
Unlike those families where rich people emerged and became eunuchs, the Cui family was known for its pure name and enjoyed a very high reputation among scholars.
Hu Pu, who has presided over the division of land for many years, knows very well that clean-flowing powerful people like this are the most difficult to deal with.
Because these people are either really poor or very hidden, and have a very good reputation among the villages.
Hu Pu also confirmed this from some local county officials.
A county official once told a story about a member of the Cui family.
It is said that the leading figure of the Cui family in the previous generation was named Cui Shi. In order to support his family, this person did not care about the ridicule of the times and ran a business of selling wine and wine. But Cui Shi did not sell wine to make money. Every time he took enough, and the rest was used to support the village. So after Cui Shi's death, his family was left with no money left.
If this is just a personal reputation, then the following things are the virtues Cui brought to the place.
The first virtue is that Cui established a school.
As clean-blooded powerful men who passed down their Confucian classics to their families, they were able to serve as officials from generation to generation because of the inheritance of Confucian classics.
According to Cui's own words. Since their ancestors moved to Anping, they have been engaged in farming for a long time. At the beginning, they had no access to food and clothing. They worked hard in farming and lived frugally. From the time they had enough food and clothing, they oversaw their children's studies. Only through successful learning can we have this inheritance.
For this reason, the Cui family set up a special school to teach not only the descendants of the clan, but also the Xiang scholars in the village.
Therefore, Cui's Jingshe, like Fu's Jingshe who was studying in the same year, is an existence of great cultural significance in the local area.
Who in the countryside doesn’t want their children to be able to read the Bible and become masters? Therefore, everyone is virtuous to the Cui family.
Cui's second virtue is to cultivate acres of land and build water conservancy projects.
Unlike those Qingliu nobles who were separated from the fields, the Cui family was very knowledgeable about farming. For several generations, his family organized villagers to cultivate acres of land, taught them agricultural techniques, and told them when to plant what crops.
In addition, Cui also lent a large amount of land to the villagers for farming, and also lent excellent farming tools to the villagers. More importantly, the largest water channel in Boling was also built by the Cui family.
The largest river in Boling is Rushui.
However, if the wet water passes through the west of Boling, it will be difficult to use agricultural water in the east of Boling. So Cui built a canal to divert water to the east.
And in order to prevent competition for water between villages, the Cui family was responsible for this canal.
When Hu Pu heard this, he shuddered.
Because others only saw Cui's virtues, he saw Cui's deep control over the local area. He has vast fields and thousands of servants. These people are directly dependent on the Cui family for their livelihood. How dare they disobey the Cui family?
In addition, Mr. Cui has mastered the most advanced technology here, and the villagers who have been guided do not dare to offend these agricultural masters, for fear that they will not be able to grow anything in the fields behind.
What's even more frightening is that the Cui family also controls Boling's water canals, directly controlling all agricultural water in the east of the county. Who dares to offend Mr. Cui?
In current terms, the Cui family not only provides a huge number of jobs, but also has the most advanced production technology and monopolizes the core resources for economic development.
Are you afraid? No wonder, Mr. Cui is virtuous.
Cui's third virtue is that there are many talented people in the family.
Hu Pu still understood this. The large number of talents means that the Cui family has been high-ranking officials from generation to generation, and can protect the villagers very well. The logic is not complicated.
Because if there is no such powerful family in the local area to protect the villagers, they will definitely be preyed upon by the official county magistrate. Therefore, the stronger the Cui family, the less the county magistrate dared to exploit his subordinates.
With a comprehensive understanding of Cui, Hu Pu secretly felt that this matter was difficult.
The Cui family is indeed the kind of clean-blooded tycoon who talks about moderation and pure Confucianism, which is completely different from those turbid local tycoons. The latter doesn't care about neighborhood reputation at all, and does whatever it takes to grab wealth, which is completely unpopular.
For such a powerful person, killing him is effortless.
Can the same be done to Cui? As soon as the soldiers opened up, they directly wiped out the Cui family. Isn't that easy?
It's possible, but there are endless consequences for doing so.
Given Cui's reputation in the local area, exterminating the clan for no reason would surely lose the support of the local people, and would also allow the enemy to seize the public opinion's tongue.
Regarding this, Taishan Army learned a lesson in its early years.
In the previous great turmoil in the Heji area, the reason why the local tyrants who rebelled were able to mobilize so many people to rebel was because of this point of public opinion attack.
Because in the early years, the field division team in the Heji area was relatively rough in work, and all those who had followers at home, no matter whether they were good or bad, were killed.
But killing is simple, but it has caught people's attention. People with ulterior motives often slander and spread rumors that the Taishan Army is a bandit, burning, killing, and looting. Didn't you see that the good man was killed by their Taishan Army?
Can someone who kills good people be a good person? Could it be Master Wang?
The moral judgment of ordinary people is that simple.
Moreover, powerful men with good reputations often easily win the sympathy of conscientious field officials. Most of these land-dividing officials have Confucian ideals and attach great importance to moral concepts, so they are often unable to attack good people.
It can be seen from this that it would be very troublesome if Dangchun only regards the land distribution movement as a kind of violence without robbing moral justice.
Of course, these troubles only stay in the present. Zhang Chong, who came from later generations, thought further.
He knew that as his generation died one after another, no one could tell the truth about this great movement.
At that time, once those powerful descendants have some grasp of public opinion, will they "rehabilitate" their ancestors?
Don't think about it, this is inevitable.
As those literati who mastered writing used sensitive and sensational writing to describe the injustice and suffering that their powerful ancestors encountered in this catastrophe, they tried to overturn the verdict of their ancestors.
These "great benevolent people" are kind to others at home, help the poor, and live a peaceful life without fighting against the world. But suddenly one day, these people were robbed by bandits! Is this justice? Is this appropriate?
Of course they will not talk about the tragic suffering of millions of Guizhou people at that time. In their writings, the experience of a few literati is enough to replace the fate of those who cannot speak.
They would praise everything about the Han Dynasty and the demeanor of the Han Dynasty scholar-bureaucrats. And those ignorant and shallow people will naturally be moved by such sensational stories, so they also forget the sufferings of their ancestors.
Maybe you really thought that the end of Han Dynasty was a good time? If you don't rebel even though you have good days, aren't you just a bunch of careerists?
Zhang Chong, who has come from later generations, will naturally not let this happen again.
Therefore, he specially issued a manual to all the land-dividing officials, instructing the grass-roots land-dividing officials on how to deal with this clear-flow type of tyrants and obtain the justice of the land allocation.
The method is just one sentence:
"No one is perfect, even if there are others, what about others?"
And now Hu Pu plans to start from this point to find evidence of Cui's illegality.
Hu Pu is also an experienced official. He has not dealt with such powerful people with "good reputations" before, and he knows the patterns of these people.
Generally speaking, a promising member of such a family must maintain a good reputation. So these people don’t need to check, and it will be useless if they do.
But such a large Cui family, with more than 300 members of the Guang clan, nearly a thousand guests and subordinates, and occupying a quarter of Boling's land, how could they not do something bad?
Otherwise, could it be that so much land fell from the sky?
Therefore, the clear name only belongs to a few core tribesmen, and most people still have to wear black gloves and do some dirty things.
And this investigation really found something.
Indeed, Cui Shi is a moral gentleman. But he had an elder brother named Cui Lie, who was very successful. He spent five million yuan to become a Taiwei.
This man had a son named Cui Jun, who is said to be dead.
But the Cui clan members kept secret about Cui Jun's death.
Later, Geng Hao, the town general of Boling, felt that the name sounded familiar, so he wrote a letter to his colleagues in the army and learned how this person died.
It turned out that this man turned out to be an important general of Lu Zhi's Youzhou Cavalry, and he was killed in the battle of Jize. This man massacred He Yi's three thousand Runan Yellow Turbans at the foot of Xingyang City.
Now, the first sin has been committed, and there is a blood debt with the Taishan Army!
But it's not enough. Boling was dissatisfied with the idea of eradicating the Cui family for this crime.
But a few days later, the military officials under Hu Pu discovered something else through visits.
This matter was kept secret by the villagers at first, but eventually someone leaked it and told it.
Cui Shi, who died ten years ago, left behind a son named Cui You, who was notoriously naughty.
A few years ago, he committed an evil deed in the countryside, which was to kill someone with a knife.
Because Cui You is brave and fierce, he usually likes famous swords and treasures. One day, a swordsman sold a precious sword to Cui You, saying that this sword could kill people without bleeding.
Cui You didn't believe it. At that time, he happened to see a disciple of a family carrying water on the roadside. Without saying a word, he went up and stabbed the poor disciple to death.
But at that time, the sword was really not stained with a drop of blood. Cui You was overjoyed and rewarded the swordsman generously.
As for the disciple, he was rewarded with a straw mat and was buried in a field beside the road.
After learning the news, Hu Pu was overjoyed:
"Great things come true."
But Geng Hao, the general of the town, was not satisfied and said in confusion:
"Even if this matter is true, it was only done by Cui You alone. How could he take down the Cui family?"
Hearing this, Hu Pu laughed loudly and explained the key points of the matter in Geng Hao's ear.
Geng Hao was overjoyed and shouted three times:
"Xiao Hu, high!"
Hu Pu didn't dare and quickly replied:
"Old Geng, high!"
The two looked at each other and laughed.
Gentlemen, support me with a monthly ticket. Whether Mr. Hu is tall or not depends on tomorrow.