After sending a reply letter to Ye Mengxiong, Xiao Ruxun did not stop his pace to head north, but accelerated his speed and led his army to gallop towards Wuchang Prefecture.

His next strategic goal was to take over the three towns of Wuhan, then follow the Yangtze River to Nanjing, meet with the Jiang Dahai tribe that already occupied Nanjing, and then go north all the way north, advance by water and land, pushing all the way to the capital, and sinking Yiguan.

After taking over the Shenyi Zheng, the world can be declared, which is very easy, just like Zhu Di's Jingnan Battle.

Wuchang Prefecture is an important town in Huguang and a town that guards the throat of the Yangtze River. Taking down Wuchang Prefecture opens the way to march north to the Central Plains. If Xiao Ruxun faces an extremely powerful northern enemy, then the existence of Wuchang Prefecture is a very important Northern Expedition base.

But this is not the case now. From Wuchang to Datong, the journey is extremely weak and has no enemies. For Xiao Ruxun, the symbolic significance of winning Wuchang is more important than the actual significance.

When the army marched to Xianning, Xiao Ruxun received a letter from Xie He, saying that he had won the first battle in Yin County, Ningbo. He successfully abolished the most fiercely rebelled by the local large households in the southern army, and took a village in his hands and obtained their support.

The first farmers' association was established, the first farmers were organized, and the first batch of farmers with no way out appeared.

As the progress unfolds, this place with the strongest strength of landlords and powerful gentry in previous years will also become the most determined settlement of supporters of Zhennan Army, and can even become the second base no less than Myanmar.

Xiao Ruxun also believes that the more intense the resistance is, the more stable it will be after it is pacified, and the higher the support rate will be, because all the resistances pop up and are destroyed, and there is no more, only those who support are left. Then, then naturally stable, the support level will naturally be high, and it can naturally become the basic plate.

On the contrary, those areas where resistance is not severe are not very useful because they need to be dealt with through gentle means.

But Xiao Ruxun is different this time. This time, it is a real land reform, and it needs to be taken from the root. Whether it is violent robbery or money redeem, it needs to be taken from the root. The foundation on which the gentry and powerful forces rely on to resist the authority of the central government no longer exists, so they can no longer move.

They even need to rely on the protection of the central government to survive.

The more she reached this point, Xiao Ruxun felt more and more how visionary and positive the magistrate system in the Han Dynasty was.

Therefore, before Xie He asked more working group members to go to Ningbo to assist in the work, Xiao Ruxun took the initiative to send two batches of working groups there, and hoped that Fujian would send two batches of working groups to carry out land reform in Fujian.

He has his own purpose in doing this.

Doing so not only completely forced the farmers to the opposition of powerful gentry, but also forced the members of the working group who presided over the land reform to the opposition of traditional gentry. This was one of Xiao Ruxun's goals.

These people are also scholars and scholars of Confucian scholars who read the Four Books and Five Classics. However, because they did not pass the imperial examination, they were unable to become a group of powerful and powerful gentry. They could only wander on the edge of society and were in a very embarrassing situation.

He was looked down upon by the juren and Jinshi, and felt that he had no future. He was ridiculed by the farmers as a nerd who was not diligent in four bodies and was ridiculed by them. He laughed at them. His grandfather did not love his grandmother and did not love him, and the entire marginal group.

If this group of people makes good use of it, their lethality is much greater than that of farmers.

What's more convenient is that a considerable number of the 300,000 scholars are these people. They can be fought over and included in their team by Xiao Ruxun, and then gain power through land reform. At the same time, they become traitors and traitors in the eyes of traditional gentry, so they have to rely on Xiao Ruxun's force.

After the experience of land reform, they deepen their understanding of the people and the local governments, so they are qualified to become a grassroots official. A few outstanding ones can further enter higher positions and even enter the central government.

The difference between these people and the Jinshi is the level of fame and honor. For officials, they are actually the same. No one is born to be an official. After passing the Jinshi exam, he still has to be a Jinshi to practice internship. When he goes to the local area, he is fooled by minor officials.

Not to mention those who pass the exam and don’t go up to the exam, they have no political experience. The difference between them and poor scholars is that they are rich and the other is poor.

Xiao Ruxun asked the poor scholars to operate land reform, just to observe politics and internships, and it was a more direct and thorough internship, and to change their appearance or even brain-changing internships. After the internship was successful, they were also skilled grassroots bureaucrats.

Xiao Ruxun didn't know if any of them had seen his intentions. At least for now, Xie He, the first person among them, had not seen that he had paid the confession to Xiao Ruxun.

They should still be immersed in the intoxication of the initial possession of power, and use this power more and more strongly to attack the gentry and powerful people, forming an increasingly fierce confrontation situation. In this way, they will be firmly tied to the chariot and will never be able to get off the car again.

Xiao Ruxun wants to use this land reform action to cultivate a civil servant team that can be trusted in the future, which is different from the traditional gentry's civil servant team.

Naturally, traditional gentry will not be killed, and a considerable number will survive. After there is no land, those who have mastered their knowledge will inevitably be accepted, and some wise people will even be included in the ruling group.

These people are bound to have a relationship with Xie He and others who started their business through land reform. In the future, this can also cause division and confrontation within civil servants, form a struggle between new and old civil servants, help suppress the power of civil servants, and even help disintegrate the situation where Confucianism is dominant.

Xiao Ruxun never believed in the integrity of literati. He would never repeat the mistakes he had suffered in the Song and Ming dynasties. This time, he would uproot the status quo in any case.

While all this was developing in full swing, on October 10, Xiao Ruxun led a large army to Zhifang Town, only half a day away from Wuchang Prefecture.

It was probably Ye Mengxiong's arrangement. Since receiving the letter, Xiao Ruxun had not encountered any resistance. He honestly opened the city gates. Xiao Ruxun also restricted military discipline and did not allow the army to go around. He sent people to the city to appease the people, issued a manifesto of the Northern Expedition, and then continued to go north.

After arriving in Zhifang Town, Xiao Ruxun ordered the army to stop advancing, search for ships on the spot, then log and build ships, and prepare to go down the river to Nanjing.

When you get to this place, you should no longer need to fight. Since Ye Mengxiong has made a gesture, he must have something to talk about. If the issue of belonging to the three towns in Wuchang can be solved through negotiation, it is naturally better than to mobilize troops to fight.

So Xiao Ruxun sent someone to Wuchang Prefecture to convey the message to Ye Mengxiong.

Soon, Ye Mengxiong sent back the news.

Tomorrow, Ye Mengxiong will arrive in Zhifang Town and meet Xiao Ruxun in person, so that Xiao Ruxun can find a quiet place. He wants to have a good chat with Xiao Ruxun without anyone disturbing him.

Xiao Ruxun shared the news with the generals and staff, and everyone responded differently.

"Master, can this Ye Mengxiong really believe it? Will he have other plans?"

Zhao Hu had a little understanding of Xiao Ruxun’s past, but he was not clear about Ye Mengxiong.

Xiao Ruxun spoke, "Mr. Ye is my respected scholar. In the past few years, he has given me a lot of help and is my friend. Even if others don't believe it, I can't help but believe Mr. Ye."

Yuan Huang nodded while stroking his beard.

"Ye Mengxiong is trustworthy, and I won't say anything else, but if he is the Minister of War in Nanjing, if he stands on our side, we will be more stable in our moral stance. At that time, we will be better at fighting back against the moral condemnation that Shang Chen may have on us."

Zhao Hu curled his lips disdainfully.

"These civil servants knew that they were shooting guns and guns. Just as they were about to start fighting with real swords and guns, they were all shrunk turtles. They asked me to say, no matter what moral condemnation he was, they would just shoot him over and the world would be quiet!"

Xiao Ruxun shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"You, are you full of guns and cannons who win too much? There are always some things that cannot be solved by guns and cannons!"
Chapter completed!