Early the next morning, Yang Peng came to the door of the Liu family. This time, Yang Peng decided to handle the Liu family's affairs personally and give those gentry a warning. It was not that he would not report it, but the time had not come yet. First, he attacked the servants, more than a hundred of them.
Soldiers from the Huben Division tied up more than thirty servants who were beating Yang Peng's tenant farmers, and pinned them to the ground. They raised wooden boards high and hit each of them with forty blows. The servants' buttocks were bloody and bloody, and they screamed repeatedly.
These servants are used to being powerful in Qingyun County, but they didn't expect that they would be beaten today. Then there were the four adult men of the Liu family. The four adult men of the Liu family who were not servants also played the Forty Board. Although these men did not host
He made decisions, but he was always domineering over the poor people, so he should be beaten. After forty blows, the four men of the Liu family cried like ghosts and howled like wolves.
There are many ways to hit the board, including heavy lifting and light hitting, heavy lifting and heavy hitting, etc. The effect of hitting the board depends entirely on the technique of the soldier playing the board. However, at this time, Zheng Hui personally supervised the playing of the board.
He was once chased by the servants of the Liu family. He was very angry with the Liu family and asked the soldiers to beat him hard. The soldiers were also very dissatisfied with the Liu family who were against the lord of Tianjing New City and they attacked very ruthlessly. The forty big boards were solid.
When these members of the Liu family were being slapped on the ground and screaming, how could they still show their usual arrogance and authority? When the forty boards fell, the men of the Liu family were already half dead. The Liu family's home had been ransacked at this time. Where would they go to recuperate after being carried down?
, how long it will take to recover from the injury depends on the luck of these men. Seeing the men of the Liu family being beaten with boards, the poor farmers by the river who became Liu's tenant farmers had blood-red eyes and cheered loudly. The scene was very exciting, as if they were seeking revenge.
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The next step is to return the oppressed people's land and shops to the people. The Liu family robbed a thousand acres of dry land by the river, and illegally annexed more than a dozen shops in Longshui Town. Now these illegal gains must be returned to the rightful owners.
Yang Peng's secret guard ambassador Han Jinxin has investigated the original owners of the shop. At this time, these original owners were summoned to the execution site. Yang Peng made the decision, wrote the purchase and sale deed of the shop, and asked Liu Jianshen, the head of the Liu family, to press his fingerprints and seal the shop.
The property was returned to its original owner. The small businessmen who took the shop back were very happy. They all knelt down and kowtowed to Yang Peng. Some businessmen even had tears in their eyes. They knelt on the ground and shouted that Yang Peng was the great master of Qingtian!
The same operation is done for farmland, but the land deeds of the original owners of the farmland were originally in the hands of the farmers. They were bought by Yang Peng some time ago as evidence. Those original land deeds are enough to prove the farmers' land property rights. The Liu family has occupied farmland with their power over the years, and has continuously occupied farmland.
The land deeds in the hands of the farmers did not matter, but at this time it became evidence of their evil deeds. Yang Peng stood in the middle of the crowd and said loudly: "The farm products of the forty-seven farmers by the river belong to the original owners! These forty-seven farmers no longer need
Pay rent to the Liu family!" Hearing Yang Peng's words, more than 200 farmers were happy and excited, and some even cried. These days, a family of farmers lives on just a dozen acres of land, paying 50% of the land rent or no land rent.
That's a huge difference. Not paying land rent means they can have enough to eat, wear warm clothes, and won't die of illness or starvation. How can they not be happy?
The farmers who had regained their land spontaneously knelt down towards Yang Peng. They knelt sparsely in a large area and shouted to the sky. The last ones to be dealt with were Liu Jianshen, the head of the Liu family, and his eldest son. At this time, the two were heavily tied with ropes.
, with a wooden sign with the word "Zhou" stuck on their backs. The two of them knelt on the ground, looking very desperate. At this time, Liu Jianshen, the head of the Liu family, had lost his former dignity and kowtowed to Yang Peng desperately:
"City Lord Rende, let me live. I will always be grateful for your great kindness and kindness!" "City Lord, you don't care about the faults of villains, spare my life!" Yang Peng shouted loudly to the small farmers and traders whose property was taken away by the Liu family.
He said: "Are you willing to let these two people go?" When the small farmers and traders who had been oppressed for many years heard this, they shouted: "No!" "Kill them!" "Kill!"
In the past eight years, the Liu family has taken away the land from poor peasants and made them sharecroppers. They have taken away 50% of their output every year and left them with no food and clothing. They have turned from self-cultivating farmers with enough food and clothing to sharecroppers with no food to eat. These are all
There are not a few poor peasant families who have died of cold and illness due to poverty, and they have a deep-seated hatred for the Liu family.
The culprit has been captured at this time, how can we let him go because of his soft words? Those vendors have also been deprived of their food business by the Liu family. For ten years, they have only relied on other people to make a living, and their lives are miserable. How can they let Liu go at this time?
The head of each family, and even the unrelated people who were watching, shouted for death. The Liu family monopolized various businesses in Longshui Town, and the prices of their products were quite high. However, all the shops opened by other people in the town were destroyed by the Liu family, covering a ten-mile radius.
There is only one town in the city, and the nearby villagers can only endure the Liu family's exploitation and are very dissatisfied with the Liu family.
Seeing that Yang Peng wanted to uphold justice for the people, how could these people let the head of the Liu family go? Looking at the indignant people, Li Zhi nodded and said: "The evidence of the crime is conclusive and the public is in an uproar. Not killing is not enough to make the people angry! Execution
!" Two riflemen walked up to the two heads of the Liu family and placed their guns at their heads. "Don't kill me, my son Liu Bingchuan is the censor!" Only two gunshots were heard,
Two greedy evil gentry were shot in the head and fell in a pool of blood. The onlookers were startled by the sound of gunfire and retreated in panic. But they quickly reacted, stood still and shouted loudly.
"The city lord is mighty!" "Master Qingtian eliminates harm for the people!" "Qingtian! Qingtian!" "Qingtian!"
On April 28th, Emperor Zhao Heng of the Song Dynasty sat in the left gate of the imperial city and convened an assessment to select the county magistrates who had outstanding performance in the three-year plan. The five county magistrates came to the emperor one by one in order. Zhao Heng
For several years, he had been worried about not having enough food and salary to recruit soldiers and horses to deal with the raging war, so he asked the five county magistrates how to get enough soldiers, horses and food to fight against the rebels and the Khitan. The two magistrates who came in from the front were arrogant and talked about morality.
Zhao Heng's empty words made Zhao Heng quite unhappy. But the third magistrate who walked in, Zeng Jiuyi, had an extraordinary performance. His words made Zhao Heng's eyes light up.
"The difficulties of the people are all due to the incorruptibility of the officials. To make the guards and orders incorruptible, it is not impossible to send more troops to support the army." Zhao Heng happily asked: "How to make the officials incorruptible?" The county magistrate once said:
"The selection in the Ming Dynasty examination, heavy punishments, and selection of censors can change the trend and make officials more honest!" Zhao Heng nodded while stroking his beard, and said loudly before the other two magistrates could answer the questions: "Well said, I choose you as the official.
Ranked first in the assessment, he was transferred to the Hanlin Academy as an editor."
Although being an editor of the Hanlin Academy is hard work, the future is much brighter than being a county magistrate, and he will be a capital official in the future. After hearing this, the county magistrate kowtowed to the ground and said loudly: "The emperor's kindness is so great, I can't thank you enough!" Zhao Heng was satisfied.
He nodded. After assessing the five magistrates, Zhao Heng walked to the Qianqing Palace with the guard of honor, but saw Wang Jin running over. "Your Majesty, Yang Peng has caused trouble again!"
This time, Yang Peng won a great victory in the fight against the Liu family. Now that they saw the fate of the Liu family, other landowners became jealous of Li Zhi and did not dare to stand up to Yang Peng. Each family gave up their land to Yang Peng.
The construction of irrigation canals is progressing very smoothly. I believe that in another month and a half, by mid-June, the irrigation canals for 100,000 acres of dry fields will be completed. When winter wheat is sown in July and August, the dry fields will be irrigated by water trucks.
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The scorching sun in May was like fire, baking the earth. Apart from the noisy chirping of cicadas in the fields, no other sounds could be heard. The weather was too hot, so Yang Peng took off his official robes and short clothes and led two soldiers on a light carriage.
OK, he rode a horse to inspect the new fields in Qingyun County. There he saw that the first batch of farmers were still building irrigation canals. Yang Peng gave six cents of silver a day to the men and women who helped build the canals. Calculated, he could earn in a month.
One or two cents of silver. During the off-season, farmers have nothing to do. They can earn money by working on the General's irrigation canal construction site, which is very cost-effective.
Most of the second batch of farmers were also building irrigation canals, but at the same time, some farmers also began to work on the newly reclaimed fields, hoeing and plowing the fields. Yang Peng inspected along the path along the river and saw that the farmers were working enthusiastically, everywhere.
They were all prosperous scenes. Yang Peng was in a good mood, as if he had already seen the bumper wheat harvest next year.
Including these 100,000 acres of wheat fields, Yang Peng's annual land rent income is at least 35,000 shi of grain, worth 70,000 taels of silver, which is very impressive. Moreover, there are now 20,000 farmers in the territory, and these farmers can use it during their spare time.
Organizing for project construction is a very cheap human resource. Walking close to Xinjiadian, Yang Peng saw a group of farmers gathered around a young man squatting on the ground. The young man was using his hands in the fields.
They were rowing on the ground and talking.
Yang Peng was curious for a moment and walked over to listen. "There are grass roots underneath this kind of reed grass. If you don't remove the grass roots, there will be a lot of weeds, which will rob the fertilizer of the wheat. Before cultivating, we usually cut off the weeds or set fire to them, and then use a shuttle
The plow is used for deep plowing! Then the ground is raked with a zigzag rake, and finally the grass roots are collected with a horse! This cannot be completely removed, and irrigation is required! After plowing the grass roots, it is necessary to irrigate once before the underground rhizomes germinate to drown the remaining grass roots.
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The young man seemed to be very experienced in opening up wasteland and was guiding other farmers in the crowd. The farmers were also very impressed by him and stood by and listened carefully. After the young man finished speaking, he stood up and walked to another field.
The farmers around him were like students following their teacher, and they followed him to another place one by one. Yang Peng also followed.
"In this kind of land with many years of old grass, you need to pay more attention to removing the grass roots. The key point of harrowing is to keep the soil in a loose state so that the grass roots can rot underneath the soil. When harrowing, the grass root soil should be turned into the lower layer of the soil.
, to make the grass roots rot faster. Use a disc rake to plow shallowly before sowing. If you mix some alfalfa when sowing wheat, the harvest will be better!" Yang Peng saw that this young man spoke eloquently and other farmers trusted him so much.
, curious in his heart, he asked a farmer standing outside the crowd: "Who is this man? Why are everyone gathered around to listen to him?"
The farmer glanced at Yang Peng and said: "This is the good brother from Liujia Village. He is literate and has read agricultural books. He is much better at farming than us. We are listening to his teachings! Yang Peng
He looked at the young man and asked, "Does the wheat he grows have a high yield?"
The farmer nodded and said: "The dry land planted by Brother Wang can produce one stone and five bushels of wheat per acre. In summer, he also grows mung beans. The harvest is very impressive in a year. In the past, he planted fifteen acres of dry land and paid half of the grain as land rent every year, which was able to support his family."
Three people. Now that Brother Wang and his wife have got forty acres of dry land, the city owner of this dry land only charges 30% of the land rent. I am afraid that Brother Wang will become rich!"
Yang Peng nodded and looked at the young man on the ground again. The young man Wang Que not only knew a lot, but also patiently guided others. He seemed to be a good teacher. Yang Peng walked up and said: "Wang Que, where are you?
These farming skills you learned?" Wang Que was instructing other farmers when he saw Yang Peng coming up to ask him. He didn't know who Yang Peng was, but looked at Yang Peng in confusion.
"My official name is Yang Peng of Tianjing New City!" Hearing this, the farmers next to him reacted. Many people had seen Yang Peng in official robes before. When they saw Yang Peng again, they recognized him and hurriedly knelt down.
On the ground, someone took the lead, and others also knelt down, and there was a lot of cheering and kneeling. Yang Peng said to these farmers: "No courtesy!" Then he asked Wang Que: "Wang Que, where did you learn the farming skills?"
When Wang Que saw Yang Peng asking him repeatedly, he said nervously: "The common people are literate. This knowledge is learned from "Wang Zhen Nong Shu", "Qi Min Yao Shu" and "Pan Sheng Zhi Shu", and combined with his own farming skills
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Yang Peng nodded and said: "According to your knowledge, what is the most important thing in the first year after land reclamation?" Wang Que replied: "The wasteland is barren and the soil fertility is insufficient in the first year after land reclamation. The key is to fertilize the fields. Not only must
Apply good fertilizers and use all the soil in Longshang Valley to get a good harvest. If you plant it well, you can harvest winter wheat for one stone and four bushels in the first year."
Yang Peng was stunned when he heard Wang Que's words, and secretly thought that this was four bushels more than an ordinary harvest. If Wang Que was used as a manager to guide others in farming, and the 190,000 acres of dry land would be four bushels more per mu, that would be
More than 70,000 shi of grain. Just counting the land rent collected by Yang Peng, he can also collect more than 20,000 shi of land rent, which is equivalent to allowing Yang Peng to earn more than 40,000 taels of silver. Of course, Wang Que cannot guide so many people. He
If one person has limited skills, it would be good if he could guide a hundred households. However, Yang Peng can match him with people to maximize the scope of Wang Que's guidance.
Yang Peng asked: "Wang Que, how much grain can you harvest from the dry land you rented before?" "Sir, in an ordinary year, my field can harvest one stone and five buckets of grain! I can also grow mung beans for a season!" Yang Peng turned to look around him.
The farmer asked: "Is what Wang Que said true?" The surrounding farmers replied: "City Lord, Wang Que is right. We used to look at the fields he planted in Baodi. It turned out that
His family rented more than ten acres of thin farmland, and after planting it for five years, it became extremely fertile."
"What Wang Que said is true. I live in the same village as him, and the land he cultivates is just a few bushels more than ours!" Yang Peng nodded and said loudly: "Wang Que, I think you don't want to farm anymore.
You come to my shogunate to be an instructor in the agricultural department, and you will be paid six taels a month. This instructor will run around in the fields every day, and I will not care about your livelihood. I will let you lead ten subordinates to teach others how to plant well.
Tian! Are you willing?"
Although it costs Yang Peng four hundred taels a year to hire ten subordinates, this amount of money is not much compared to the income from increased agricultural production. As long as the farmers in Tianjing Xincheng and Qingyun County Dagou and Yanshan have acres
If the output increases by one dou, Yang Peng will be able to increase his land rent income by tens of thousands of taels. Yang Peng plans to let Wang Que try it out for a year. If it is effective, he will expand the team next year. Moreover, when Wang Que guides the farmers in the first year, the farmers will not be too much.
I believe that you need to spend more time. When the first year's harvest comes out, his guidance will prove to be really useful. Only in the second year can you truly guide farmers on a large scale.
So Yang Peng only matched Wang Que with ten people in the first year. Wang Que was stunned, looking at Yang Peng in a daze, and didn't react for a while. Six or two months' money can earn seventy-two taels of silver a year. Goodbye Wang Que
Farming, the income is limited, how can he earn seventy-two taels of silver a year? Yang Peng gave him such a good job all at once, and also took care of ten people, which made him feel like he had jumped into the dragon gate. After a long time, he shouted loudly
Said: "Sir, if you are willing, I am willing!"
Yang Peng said: "Okay, I will hire ten literate and smart people for you later. As clerks in the shogunate's agricultural affairs department, they will follow your orders. This year's harvest of winter wheat in Tianjing New City and Qingyun County will depend on you! If you manage
If the farmers you guide have a good harvest, I will give you a bonus!" Yang Peng is preparing to equip his troops with some useful traditional equipment.
The first is the caltrop. The caltrop is a military iron spiked spreading obstacle, usually made of pig iron. The finished product has four protruding iron thorns, several inches long. No matter how the caltrop lands, there is always one
The thorns face upward, and the tips are like the herb "Tribulus", hence the name. Each thorn of the Tribulus prepared by Yang Peng is two centimeters long, and it looks like a patch of needles when spread on the ground. After laying some Tribulus on the ground, the enemy
There was no way to get close at all. If the enemy wanted to get close, they had to slowly clear away the caltrops on the ground. After cleaning, they could rush into the formation. This gave Yang Peng's riflemen more time to shoot.
After making up his mind, Yang Peng asked the blacksmiths to start making barrels. Now Yang Peng uses a boring machine to make gun barrels. One craftsman can produce a rifle in seven days, and 500 rifle craftsmen can produce more than 2,000 rifles in a month, which is completely satisfactory.
The rifle demand of Yang Peng soldiers. Now, in addition to giving each soldier a gun, Yang Peng also has 4,000 rifles in stock. It is a waste to reproduce the rifles in stock. Yang Peng asked the blacksmiths to stop production in April. Now these blacksmiths
Just in time to produce caltrops.
Caltrops are very small, and blacksmiths can cast a hundred of them a day. There is a hole in the middle of each caltrop, and every five can be strung into a string for easy laying and putting away. Yang Peng plans to let a soldier carry twenty strings and go there during the war.
A bunkhouse in front of the formation turns the twenty meters in front of the formation into a hell for the enemy.
It is conceivable that the Khitan army or bandits were blocked by iron caltrops in front of Yang Peng's musket array, unable to advance or retreat, and kept falling under the rifle fire. In addition to the iron caltrops, Yang Peng also built a lookout cart. Lookout cart
It was a large chariot with a tall lookout pole on it, which was a full fifteen meters long. There was a wooden chair for the lookout on top of the lookout pole, so that the lookout could climb up and sit on it, constantly observing the situation on the battlefield.
Li Zhi equipped the lookout with a telescope so that the lookout could observe the surrounding situation.
After the car was built, Yang Peng tried it near Tianjing New City and found that the lookout hand on the lookout pole could see everything within a radius of more than ten miles, which could greatly make up for the reconnaissance ability when the scout was suppressed. It was very practical.
Yang Peng decided to equip his Tiger Division with some doctors. Field doctors are very important to an army. Doctors can treat traumatized soldiers, which directly determines the life and death of the wounded. If an army has good medical staff
, soldiers will not be so afraid of being injured, which will directly improve the morale and combat effectiveness of soldiers on the battlefield.
The doctors the army needs are mainly surgeons. At present, Yang Peng has not found a good surgeon in Cangzhou, and the Huben Division has almost no medical staff. For Yang Peng, who is doing everything possible to improve the combat effectiveness of the Huben Division, this shortcoming is an urgent need to make up for.
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Yang Peng has never studied medicine and cannot train surgeons on his own. However, Yang Peng knows a lot of medical knowledge and believes that he can use this knowledge to upgrade the medical skills of this era and improve the capabilities of doctors in the Ming Dynasty. Yang Peng inquired in many ways and learned that in Bian
There are many excellent surgeons in the capital. In particular, there is a famous surgeon named Shen Yuji in Liutiao Alley in the south of the capital. He is good at using the needle-knife method to set bones and eliminate pus, and has saved countless lives. Yang Peng secretly thought that this is what he needs.
He was a surgeon, so he came to visit him with his banknote.
Yang Peng entered Bianjing City with a guard of honor and a flag, and found the Willow Alley. After asking around for a while, he found Shen Yuji's medical clinic. The medical clinic was not big, just an ordinary courtyard, with a
The signboard with the word "foreign" fluttered in the wind. Yang Peng presented the name card, and after a while a young man dressed as a doctor came out to greet him. Seeing Yang Peng wearing a second-grade official robe and holding a flag sign, the young man was surprised.
Not nervous, he only gave a salute and said calmly to Yang Peng: "Master, please come in."
Seeing the young man's calmness, Yang Peng knew that Shen Yuji was indeed a famous doctor and had probably treated many officials, so his students and disciples took a look inside and saw that there were many students and disciples in the courtyard. There was one
There were twenty or thirty young people surrounding a wing room. Yang Peng glanced into the wing room and saw several young people taking knives to dissect and study a corpse. A middle-aged man in his forties
A man was also standing next to the corpse, instructing the young man to use the knife.
Yang Peng walked into the lobby of Shen's house and waited for a few minutes. The middle-aged man who performed the autopsy abandoned the body and walked in. He washed his hands with soap in the hot water basin and came up to Li Zhi and saluted. "Surgeon Shen Yu
Ji has seen the general!" These doctors can save people's lives, and they naturally have a kind of arrogance in them. They are not willing to kneel down when they meet Yang Peng. Yang Peng and he sat down as guest and host, said a few polite words, and Yang Peng explained the purpose of his visit.
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"Mr. Shen, have you ever thought about leaving the capital to practice medicine and save people elsewhere?" Shen Yuji was stunned and asked, "Why did you leave the capital?" Yang Peng said, "If good doctors like Mr. Shen are needed more elsewhere,
Why does Dr. Shen have to guard the capital?" Shen Yuji stroked his beard and said, "The general means that Shen should follow the general to Tianjing New City?"
Yang Peng nodded and said: "That's right!" "Shu Shen refuses! The densely populated capital is a blessed place for us to practice our medical skills." Yang Peng said: "I am willing to give you one hundred taels per year as an offering, which is enough for your research.
Prescriptions are used." Shen Yuji shook his head and said: "This is not a matter of money. If there are too few patients, the medical skills of my disciples and I will not be able to be used, and the medical skills will not be improved, and we will definitely fall into the bottom class.
No matter how much money you give me, I don’t want to go!”
Yang Peng was stunned, and secretly thought that this doctor really regarded money as garbage. After thinking about it, Yang Peng said: "Sir, if you are willing to follow me to Tianjing New City, I will find an official for you in a few years and become a school."
Lieutenant, what do you think?" Shen Yuji smiled, shook his head and said, "Thank you, General, for your kindness. I forgive Shen for refusing." After talking for a while, Shen Yuji refused to leave the capital. Yang Peng had no choice but to stand up and leave.
But when Yang Peng was walking to the door of the medical center in disappointment, he saw a group of citizens rushing towards him with sticks and hammers. Those citizens were running and shouting:
"Shen Yuji, who is ruining human relations, hand over the body!" "It is unethical to dissect the human body!" Seeing these mobs, neighbors on both sides quickly closed their shop doors for fear of getting angry. At the entrance of Shen Yuji Medical Clinic
The boy also quickly retreated into the yard and slammed the yard door. The mob surrounded the Shen family's yard, shouting loudly. After a while, the Shen family refused to open the door, and the mob began to kick the yard door.
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What happened after all? Let’s look at the breakdown next time.