Five acres of paddy field!
What a big piece!
And the land is irrigated with water twice a year!
That was truly unimaginable wealth. With these five acres of paddy fields, he would not have to worry about not being able to marry a wife...
When Zhang Ada took over the land deed, his hands were shaking.
He is a clan brother of little Zhang Bao, and he is also a poor man who has nothing and is on the verge of starving to death.
For as long as he can remember, not a single bit of land in his family has been lost. He has relied on renting land from Mr. Huang's family and borrowing usury from Mr. Huang's family to survive.
Like most of the tenants around Etang Town, Zhang A and everyone are trapped in a cycle of renting land even if they can't pay the rent, and borrowing debt from the King of Hell even if they can't pay the interest. However, his family's situation is better than that of Wang Yan and Wang Xi'er. The family is better off and has not been completely squeezed out. By borrowing money from Mr. Huang, we can still barely carry out agricultural production - farming also requires investment!
Buy seeds, farm tools, and if you have a lot of money, you can buy a cow, some farmyard manure, and even improve water conservancy. If you can plant a few mulberry trees in the field, it will be even more beautiful. When the harvest is good, Mulberry leaves can be used to raise silkworms and sheep, and can also be eaten by people in times of famine.
Those farmers who were struggling to starve to death did not have any extra funds to invest in agricultural production, so they had to ask landlords like Huang Papi to borrow loan sharks... The capital borrowed from the rented land, this leverage can be If you increase it to the maximum, you will be completely bankrupt if you are not careful.
In order to struggle for a while longer on the edge of starvation, when Luo Yaoguo led people into Etang to drive away Mr. Huang, he was guest-starring as a beggar on the Di Street of Etang Town - begging for food temporarily!
Begging for food at short notice was common in China in the 19th century, and even in the 20th century until the 1980s.
No way, too poor!
One more bite is enough!
According to the original plan, he and several fellow villagers from Zhangwang Village (including Zhang Bao) were supposed to go to Lingling to beg for food during the slack period. Unexpectedly, when the Taiping Army attacked Lingling, they were blocked in Etang. .
Then I witnessed the collapse of Mr. Huang’s rule in Etang!
However, he was not as rebellious as Zhang Bao. He did not ask for a job at the first opportunity. Instead, he returned to Zhangwang Village to eat old rice as a failed beggar. Until two days ago, Wang Yan and Zhang Bao brought " When the "Work Team for Dividing Farms and Dividing Lands" arrived at Zhangwang Village, he encountered his second and probably last chance to change his life against the odds.
But this time, he caught it decisively.
Luo Yaoguo deliberately raised his voice and said to him with a smile: "Brother, this is just the beginning! I will give you some of the money stolen from Huang Papi's house later... Then you can follow us outside. Jiangshan, your parents can eat and drink at home without any worries.
When the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom conquers the country, what will these five acres of paddy fields mean? At that time, you will still have an official status and a beautiful woman as beautiful as a flower! This good life will last forever!"
These words are not meant for Zhang Ada alone, but for the working people gathered in the Zhang Family Ancestral Hall today!
Lecturer Wang Yan knew that his fellow villagers in Yongzhou could not understand Luo Yaoguo's Mandarin, so he took over his words and loudly mobilized in the dialect of Yongzhou: "Countrymen... don't join the Taiping Army, Heavenly Father Emperor
God will give you eight acres of paddy field or two acres of dry land! If you join the Taiping Army, your Heavenly Father will give you five acres of paddy field... a full five acres! And you will be given double the amount of free money!
You have worked hard all your life, can you save enough money to buy five acres of paddy field? Join the Taiping Army now and you will be given it immediately! When we conquer the world in the future, we will be the children of the Eight Banners of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom... This is our chance to make a comeback!
Don’t think that the Qing Yao from Xian Yao Tou is so powerful. They can’t defeat our Taiping Army! Those two-gun soldiers don’t need to be beaten when they are addicted to smoking. They lie down on their own. How can they be our Taiping Army’s opponent? The day before yesterday.
How did Mr. Zhang escape? How did Huang Papi escape? They can’t even defeat our sisters from the Taiping Army. When the brothers from the Taiping Army arrive, Daozhou City will all be ours!”
"Professor Wang, I want to worship God!"
"Professor Wang, I want to divide five acres of paddy fields, and I want to be a Taiping Army!"
"I also want to be a Taiping soldier..."
Not to mention, as soon as Wang Yan encouraged him, dozens of poor guys rolled up their sleeves and ran to the "braid-cutting place" to queue up - the so-called braid-cutting place is a place where braids are cut!
Luo Yaoguo planned to turn Etang Town into a part of the Hunan-Guangdong-Jiangxi border base area, so he could not use the method of burning down the house to cut off the "new brothers"'s escape. He could only divide the land and divide the land to divide the wealth and cut the braids.
Recruit to let the new brothers who join the Taiping Army understand that they have no way out!
They have already divided Mr. Huang's land and property...can they give it back? Are they willing to give it back? If not, then they have to protect the fruits of the land division!
Moreover, their braids have also been cut off, so they can no longer be regarded as obedient people!
On the first day Luo Yaoguo arrived in Etang Town, he received more than 200 new brothers and dozens of new sisters. In the next two days, another three to four hundred people from Etang Town joined the Taiping Army!
Luo Yaoguo also issued land deeds to them one by one, said a few words to each of them, and watched them cut their own braids, which lasted two full days.
Now, Luo Yaoguo went to Zhangwang Village again and personally lectured and issued land deeds to more than a hundred new brothers who had been mobilized in this area.
By the evening of the same day, Luo Yaoguo led more than a hundred new brothers who had their pigtails cut and divided their land and wealth. They could no longer pretend to be obedient citizens of the Qing Dynasty and returned to Etang Town.
As soon as he entered the south gate of Di Street, he saw Su Sanniang walking over in a hurry, leaned into his ear, and whispered: "Your Highness, the Qing Demon Army is here, with a total of two thousand riders...
..It’s less than thirty miles away from here, and we’re setting up camp now. We’ll probably arrive at Goose Pond tomorrow!”
"Hahaha..." Luo Yaoguo laughed three times, "You came just in time!"
He looked back at the more than a hundred new brothers who had followed him to Etang Town, "Sacred soldiers of the Kingdom of Heaven, Qing Yao Yu Wanqing and two thousand miscellaneous soldiers came to help Huang Papi snatch your land! You said,
What should we do?”
"Fight!" It was the young general Wang Yanwang who was the first to raise his arms and shout.
Then Zhang Bao also shouted: "We have already taken over Huang Bapi's house, divided up Huang Bapi's fields... and cut off his pigtails. There is no way out!"
"There is no way to survive, we have to fight!"
"Fight with Yu Yaotou and Huang Bapi!"
"Damn it, if you don't work hard, you will starve to death sooner or later!"
The more than one hundred new brothers below immediately "exploded"!
The land they just acquired is their hope to survive, marry a wife, and live a good life... Who is willing to hand it over?
Luo Yaoguo nodded with satisfaction and thought to himself: The effect of dividing the land and wealth is really amazing! The four years in the history department have really been spent in vain, and I have learned real skills...
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"Sanniang, how are you going to fight?"
When Luo Yaoguo raised this question, he had already returned to the Huang family mansion with Su Sanniang.
This is the residence of Luo Yaoguo's temporary Angel Mansion and the Lecturers of the God Worshiping Society, as well as the residence of the First Army Military Division of the Women's Battalion led by Su Sanniang.
In addition, a "God Worship Association Etang Town Branch" composed of several literate female soldiers was also established in this mansion.
Now the administration of Etang Town, as well as the Taiping Army's property, including foreign cigarettes, collected from Mr. Huang's house and several other masters, and from the opium dens in the town, are temporarily kept by this "branch". There is no Luo Yaoguo Without the approval, no one can take property from the "branch hall"'s treasury, not even Hong Xiuquan's good brother Hong Renfa's order can be used!
"Your Highness," Su Sanniang leaned close to Luo Yaoguo and whispered, "I am going to use money, women, muskets, hundred-rifle ammunition and an ambush to deal with Yu Yaotou's Green Camp soldiers and bring them into Etang Town to fight... ..”
"Then, can the newly recruited eight or nine hundred new brothers go to the battlefield and see some blood?" Luo Yaoguo said again, "Only when they see blood and kill the demon will they truly be of one mind with us!"
"Of course!" Su Sanniang nodded, "But we can't let them take the lead, let them ambush in the town, let my people use up the demons first, wait for their smoke to wear off, and then introduce Goetang, let them When those new brothers come out, they will definitely see miraculous results!"
Chapter completed!