Zhang Chong, Du Man, and a large group of other officials stood on the ridges of the fields talking. The peasants working in the fields looked at them from time to time, with their eyes filled with gratitude.
Not far away, there were still more than a dozen corpses floating on the Dagui tree, with signs hanging around their necks. It was too far away to know what was written.
Since Zhang Chong led his army to defeat the powerful soldiers in Fenggao County, the strength of his command has increased by leaps and bounds.
First of all, in terms of troops, he organized and trained the two thousand Taishan people he originally recruited into twenty battalions, and promoted a group of warriors to lead the troops. Even Chang Xi and Yu Jin from his collision team went down
Leading troops.
Wei Zhou, Ding Sheng's former deputy, finally got his wish and became a village chief because of his ability to climb the wall first.
In addition, under the leadership of Wu Guan, they collected Wang Qinfeng's accumulated millet over the years, which greatly enriched Zhang Chong's reserves.
Zhang Chong was grateful to Wu Taigong and invited him to join his shogunate to help his counselors check for leaks.
Wu Taigong didn't know what to think. He really got into the trap of killing his fake son and became Zhang Chong's first counselor.
The batch of millet donated by Wu Taigong helped Zhang Chong a lot. With this batch of millet, Zhang Chong asked Yang Mao to start a large-scale military training.
Otherwise, even if Zhang Chong had money, it would be difficult in this era to buy such a large amount of millet. In this day and age, everyone knows that if you have millet, you will have everything, so who would be stupid enough to sell it?
In this way, Yang Mao became his training commander again, helping Zhang Chong train the two thousand Taishan soldiers.
Zhang Chong was always there during this process. He wanted to discover the strength among these soldiers and make them become grassroots military officials. It was precisely because of Zhang Chong's presence that the grassroots military officials of these twenty battalions were quickly improved.
These camp heads are still short of armor. Zhang Chong has already coordinated with the nearby Taiping Road. Tang Zhou in Jinan clearly said that there is no armor, while Xu He in Le'an said that as long as the money is available, he can provide it.
Money? Zhang Chong still lacks money now?
So, what I haven’t said yet is finalized with you, Xu He.
During the month of intensive military training in the mountains, Zhang Chong led his men to attack several dock walls again. This time he did not attack Licheng, but targeted Tugu in the next county.
Tugu is a small county, with less than 10,000 households, but the land conflict is very fierce. Because of this, there are no big aristocratic families in the area, but only a large number of local tycoons.
Contrary to the intuition of many people, these small country tycoons are the worse offenders. Because they do not occupy much land, in order to maintain the basic dignity of the tycoons, they need to exploit the poor people even more.
And because the big family has gone through primitive accumulation, its reputation has also spread out. In this case, they will be affected by the Qing Dynasty. If the remnant people are too prosperous, it will affect the future of their children.
But this does not mean that there is no oppression in big families, but that they hide this oppression more covertly.
Take the local tycoon of the Jin family under Zhang Chong as an example. They would hand over a share of the grain they pressed to the nearby big families every year.
Because the aristocratic families hold the power of the county, if you don't hand it over and your opponent does, you will be in great danger.
It was the political power held by the aristocratic families that enabled them to have the rich and powerful families in the countryside pay tribute year after year without having to be punished.
At this moment, Du Manzheng and Zhang Chong were reporting on the summary of the field allocation work during this period.
"Qu, based on the several times we have divided the fields, I have made a summary. In the future, we can train the officials who divide the fields to follow this regulation."
Seeing Zhang Chong nodding, Duman took out the drafted regulations and began to introduce:
"I divide the field into four steps.
The first thing is to publicize. We must make all the poor people realize that the fields they cultivate should be planted by themselves, and what grows in the fields should belong to them, and they should not be exploited by the local tyrants.
Then it is time to conquer the land. We have to rely on the former disciples of the local tyrants to help us conquer the land. They know best how many fields the local tycoons have. Relying on them, we can quickly find out the amount of land owned by the powerful peasants.
The next step is to divide. Based on our previous experience in Xue's Bi, we need to divide the children of rural tycoons, landless peasants, and landless tenants. Then we will attack the first category, distribute grain and wealth to the second category, and give the third category
Category field soil.
In terms of specific implementation, we found that the children of local tyrants can also be divided.
The long line of a clan often owns the most land and slaves, while the descendants at the bottom of the clan are more impoverished. These people are often literate and are the talents we urgently need, and they are more obedient to us.
Therefore, those who are stubborn will be put on public trial, and those who are obedient will be transferred to the transport camp to serve as slaves.
The last step is to divide the fields. According to Qu's method, before we divide the fields, we will call everyone in, burn the original field slips and household slips in public, and then give each household who divides the fields a small flag, write the head of the household, and then place the flag.
Dingtian.
The specific division of farmland is still based on Xue's experience, and the entire village is divided equally among households. However, those whose families have joined the army, or who have joined the army to protect the land, can be divided into upper and middle fields, and the rest can be divided into lower fields."
At this point, Duman finished speaking and then handed the manual to Zhang Chong.
Zhang Chong kept nodding. Finally, he thought about it and added:
"This regulation is very good and very detailed. But I would like to add that the first article of your promotion and land cultivation can be more detailed. For example, if you say that you can promote to the local people to open their own land and plant their own crops, this is very good.
But how to promote it needs to be supplemented. Whether it is to gather everyone together to recite it, or to go into every household, this must be compared.
Then in the second article of "Du Tian", you mentioned relying on the disciples, so how to mobilize them, these also need to be written in detail.
In addition, I have no objection to the submissives of the rich and powerful beings being included in the labor force. But we must repeatedly educate them about how the world has changed and how we can save it.
Those who are literate can understand these principles. Only when they understand the principles can they be in harmony with our hearts."
After Duman heard this, he immediately put his pen on the ground and began to memorize, nodding from time to time.
Zhang Chong finally said:
"There is another very important thing, which is the field protection soldiers. Although this has nothing to do with the land allocation regulations, it is equally important as the land allocation regulations.
The purpose of field guarding soldiers is to protect their own fields. If you choose local people who are divided into middle fields to join the army, if this doesn't work, how many people can you save?
After that, the middle field and the lower field were divided equally, and then all the men were allowed to work in the fields during the farming period and serve as soldiers in their free time. The soldiers would be selected as training soldiers to help train.
These soldiers who protect the fields will definitely die for the sake of their land if they are given it. According to your method, the soldiers who protect the fields will not be able to unite."
After saying that, Zhang Chong felt a little sad:
"In the past, we couldn't help them build a field guard in Xue's Pi, and it would be difficult for them when we left. But now, we want to take root in Mount Tai, and we must carefully manage these four walls, not only to help them
Dividing good fields will also allow them to receive grain.
I don’t want to hear that in the future, it will be said that our Shi family’s army divides the fields, which means “dividing the fields among the poor and dividing the crops among the local tyrants.”
After saying this, Duman nodded heavily.
And just as the two men continued to perfect the regulations so that they could be implemented by the field officials, a flying army scout with a flag on his back came flying from the distant slope, stirring up a cloud of dust.
When Zhang Chong saw it, he frowned and felt bad.
Seeing this Feijun scout, he handed a volume of letters to Zhang Chong. Zhang Chong unfolded it, looked at only two columns, looked solemn, and then, regardless of anything else, rushed into Jin's wall with Du Man!