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Chapter 88

Mi Zhu spent two days registering and organizing all the people in the Yingcheng City and arranging work for them.

The elderly, weak, sick and disabled are responsible for raising chickens and ducks, washing and cooking, etc. If those who are a little younger and stronger, they will go to wasteland outside Yingcheng to farm.

There are still many fertile fields outside the Yingcheng, but these fields now have a very complicated problem, that is, the property rights issue. These were all masters before, but because of a mutiny, they all died almost, so their rights must be reconfirmed.

Some families in the fields died, some were not dead, but no one cultivated them. More importantly, some places were taxed when you planted them, so many of them did not plant because they were unable to pay taxes. This made a large amount of fields outside the camp city lose their waste.

Liu Bu couldn't take care of so much. No matter who he had, the land was good, and now he would arrange for people to plant it first. As for the rights of the land, if the officers and soldiers had their relatives in the past, they would return them to them. The unowned ones would be taken back to the camp. As for the robbery, he would definitely take them back.

Liu Bu is the Qiang General of the Jimo Camp, and his backstage is strong enough, but he is not afraid of others reaching his hand.

The fields here were lost for so long, and Liu Bu also heard some news, that is, the fields outside the city were stolen by a rich man named Wang. The other party had power in the capital and assigned many unowned fields to his name, but he could not recruit anyone to farm for him, so he had to lose them.

No matter who Liu Bu was, as long as he used to be the land of the officers and soldiers, he still belonged to the officers and soldiers. And there is another point, that is, the fields near here belong to Jimo Yingcheng City and are cultivated by the officers and soldiers guarding the camp. When the officers and soldiers enter, they serve the people, and those who go out serve as soldiers, and they station troops here to protect one side, so the fields cannot be someone else's.

The Chinese attach great importance to the land left by their ancestors. If there is nothing special, it is impossible to sell the land. If the land left by their ancestors is sold, it is regarded as one of the greatest unfilial piety.

Moreover, there were rules of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the land here does not belong to the people here, but to the Yingcheng. As long as you guard the city here, you will have land. If you don’t guard the city, there will be no land for you to farm and there will be no food for you to eat. Therefore, there is no saying that the people sell the land.

If no one in the army inherits his military status, the right to use his land should be returned to the camp, rather than sold it himself.

Mi Zhu knew that these people could not be free, as they would cause trouble when they were free, so he bought the farm tools and seeds from his hometown, so the soldiers forced the people and the people to cultivate the land.

At first, these people were unhappy to farm on their own because they knew what the result would be after farming. But now they said they were farming for the Liu family. And every day they worked, they would record their relative work points. After the end of the month, they could come to collect rice and grain based on their own work points. To put it bluntly, they became tenants of the Liu family and worked for them. In this way, more people were willing to work for them and worked hard.

Because they knew that the Liu family was an official family and did not have to pay taxes. It was easy to enjoy the shade under the big tree, and everyone could also get protection under the big tree.

Mi Zhu sighed: "What kind of world is that if you don't have a free farmer, you will fight to be a slave."

The situation in various places in the Ming Dynasty is that if there are officials, people do not have to pay taxes, and local tax collectors and tax officials dare not ask them for taxes. Even if they ask for it, there will be no levy or additional charges. It is just the most basic little tax. Therefore, many people really have no choice but to attach their own fields to the names of these officials, which can reasonably avoid many taxes.

But in this way, the fat officials and family members paid less and less taxes to the court. As they collected less and less, they could only collect more and more and continue to increase their responsibilities, thus entering an extremely bad cycle.

The emperor of the Zhu family was desperate, and Mi Zhu had no choice but to help them. He could only manage his own affairs.

After working for a few days, Liu Bu saw that the entire camp was alive, the people in the Jimo camp were active, and the large number of deserted fields outside the city were also plowed, so he felt very good. He felt that if this continued, the people here would become rich. Even if they were not rich, they would at least have enough food.

In this era, if the people can have a full meal, most problems can be solved.

When Liu Bu was proud and thought it was quite good, he received a letter from his father, which was a letter scolding him, not a letter praising him. He was mainly because he named the army indiscriminately, called the Taiping Army. The other party suggested that he cancel it and not allow it to be called the Taiping Army, which made him very unhappy.

Nowadays, when talking about the Taiping Army, people are not thinking about the slogans of the Yellow Turban Army during the Three Kingdoms, or the four sentences of Mr. Hengqu. The former attracts taboos, while the latter deliberately conceits.

Liu Yuanshan is an authentic scholar and a student of the Imperial College. His political sensitivity is not comparable to Mizhu. He believes that their Liu family army can be called Liu family army, Qi army, Jimo army, Jiaozhou army, but it cannot be called Taiping army. This is too much hatred, so he asked Mi Zhu to change it immediately.

This made Mi Zhu very unhappy. He thought the name Taiping Army was quite good. He would cheer up after he shouted it up, which would make the people feel at ease. However, if it was someone else's objection, he would definitely argue with the other party and make a fuss. However, his father was giving the order that it was the order of the supreme leader of their Liu family, so he had no choice but to discuss what to do.

Moreover, Liu Bu had just received an order from his father, and before he could change his name, he received a reprimand from Governor Chen Yingyuan from Dengzhou.

As the highest administrative official of the Three East Prefectures, Chen Yingyuan finally noticed the Liu family and the rise of the Liu family's army. Of course, whether they knew the secret activities was another matter.

Chen Yingyuan issued a special article to criticize them, not because Liu Bu and his army sneaked into Jimo County; not because he randomly expanded the organization; not because they violently expanded the tax; not because he was messing around in the army, but because they named the army a good army, a military army called the Taiping Army. The governor was very strong and very tough to ask them to change the name back immediately.

This made Liu Bu feel extremely unhappy, and he also felt that something was wrong. He had no choice but to think about what military he should call him for the time being.

In fact, what army did Liu Yuanshan call him? He didn't care. This army was also a semi-playful one, which directly relieved pressure. His meaning was called Liu Family Army; it could also be called Qi Army; it could also be called Jimo Army; it could be called Jiaozhou Army; it could not be called such awesome army name as Taiping Army.

It is necessary to call an ordinary name. In fact, what is the problem with the Taiping Army? Liu Bu and Song Xiance and the others think there is no problem, but the problem is that their father and Chen Yingyuan both think it is inappropriate, which is very strange.

This is because Liu Bu and Song Xiance are not considered true scholars, nor are they in the officialdom. Naturally, they do not know the taboos of scholars and people in the officialdom. However, Liu Yuanshan and Chen Yingyuan are both old foxes in the officialdom. They all deeply understand the depth of this industry, so they are not allowed to mess around and are ordered to change their names immediately.

Because his father spoke in person and his immediate boss's words, Liu Bu had no choice but to change it. What was his name in a short while? They didn't know, so they had to call Liu Family Army to forget it.

Anyway, this army was supported by their Liu family’s private money, so there was no way, so they had to call this.

Although they occupied the quota and number of the court, they can say one thing: if one day the court wants to transfer this army without their consent, it is impossible. At most, he can only transfer this name and number. It is impossible to transfer them, such as combat-capable personnel, so he simply called the Liu family army, and he was nicknamed Jimo Camp in the external world.

If the court disregarded the interests of the Liu family and forced the army away, they would casually arrest some refugees in the process of advancing, let them pretend to be Jimo camp, let them fight to the death and die.

Their Taiping Army's banner was just embroidered and was about to be cast out, but his father ordered it to stop. Liu Bu felt very unhappy, but even if he was unhappy, they still had to change it.

Liu Bu also found it strange. Chen Yingyuan, the governor in Dengzhou, was really strange enough. The Liu family had done so many deviant things, but he didn't care about them, just asked about the Liu family and named them, only caring about the nominal things.

He really didn't want to care about this governor or what happened? This made Liu Bu very surprised. He thought he should send someone to Dengzhou to investigate and monitor the governor. After all, he was his immediate boss. He had to have a certain understanding of the other party before he could survive.
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