On this day, the whole Chengdu was in a state of excitement.
Tian Jiapeng walked out of the door in a wooden wheelchair.
This is the wheelchair that Commander Su Hesu specially found craftsmen to customize for him.
He has a cast on his leg and is still unable to walk.
His original legs were broken, but without treatment from a doctor, the bones grew crooked.
For further treatment, the only option is to fold the legs again and fix them with plaster.
The pain of the broken leg was unbearable even when he woke up after anesthesia.
Tian Jiapeng was pushed by the guards and walked towards Su He's residence.
He saw his neighbor Niu Ermao dragging out his family and even the infant baby.
"Uncle Niu, what are you doing?"
When Niu Ermao saw Tian Jiapeng, he said respectfully: "Master Tian, the land will be allocated in Rongcheng Prefecture today.
Our tofu shop cannot feed a large family.
I’m going to divide a few acres of land and plant some soybeans.”
"Plant a few acres of land and run a small business, and your life will get better and better in the future, but don't forget to pay taxes."
After Tian Jiapeng said hello, he asked the guards to push him away.
Niu Ermao almost knelt down just now. He often saw Tian Jiapeng. The first few times he wanted to kneel down, Tian Jiapeng wouldn't let him.
This man is really prosperous. I heard that he became Commander Su's secretary.
This should be a very high-ranking official. The governor of Sichuan would be polite to him when he saw him.
Niu Ermao took the whole family and continued walking out of the city.
He told his sons and daughter-in-law: "From today on, we will separate our families.
You two, even if you are one household, you must pay attention when registering.
If anyone makes a mistake, I will break his legs when I go home."
His sons said in unison: "Dad, we remember."
The eldest son Niu Xiangshan asked: "Dad, if you ask each of us to borrow 100 acres of land, can we, a young couple plus a baby, farm the land?"
If you ask me to farm, I won’t be able to farm three acres of land a year, and I don’t know how to farm!”
Niu Ermao slapped his eldest son on the forehead.
"If you don't understand, don't speak.
Take advantage of this opportunity to buy more land to grow soybeans, so that we can develop and expand the tofu shop.
Forgot how we were targeted, couldn't buy a soybean, and ended up being humiliated by people kneeling down.
We used to want to buy land to grow soybeans, but Mr. Zhu Hongde defrauded us of a lot of money.
If you buy the several hundred acres of land Mr. Zhu owns in Zhujiazhuang, how high will the yield of soybeans be?
But Mr. Zhu cut off the water directly.
He wants us to pay one tael of silver per acre for water.
He said the land was for sale to us, but the water next to it was not for sale.
We couldn't afford such expensive water bills, and when the seedlings in the fields were almost dying of drought, we had no choice but to sell the land to Mr. Zhu at a low price.
Now Mr. Zhu has been exiled to Jianchang, and the land in Zhujiazhuang has been redistributed.
Let's go to Zhujiazhuang now to divide the fields.
It's close to Chengdu, and the land is used for farming. Most villagers don't like planting, but that land is suitable for growing soybeans.
Soybean and rice planting and harvesting times can be staggered.
We only need to hire local villagers to help us plant, and it will not affect their rice cultivation. There must be someone willing."
When Niu Xiangshan heard what his father said, he raised his thumb and praised: "Dad is still smart. No wonder you can build this business from a refugee."
Niu Ermao brought his family to Zhujiazhuang.
He saw a dozen soldiers holding guns and maintaining order.
Township head Ma Shengzhong is in charge of allocating fields.
Ma Shengzhong looked at the expectant and nervous villagers in front of him. He started to divide the fields according to the method taught by the prefect during the training.
"Folks, I am the mayor of the township, Ma Shengzhong.
Commander Su drove away the Ming government and all the gentry were arrested and tried.
That old guy Zhu Hongde controls all the fields in Zhujiazhuang and several surrounding villages.
Now Zhu Hongde is exiled and he will never come back.
Following the orders of Commander Su and Prefect Jin, I began to allocate fields to everyone.
I have told you the process of allocating fields several times a few days ago, and I also took you to see the fields."
Some people shouted at the side: "Stop being so nagging, hurry up and allocate the fields to us."
"Yes! Who wants to hear your talk? Hurry up and divide the land.
After the distribution, we still have to take care of the rice in the fields.
My family has been saving farmyard manure for two years and has never been willing to use it.
I am willing to use the hard-earned cooked manure for my own fields."
When Ma Shengzhong saw the chaos ahead, he immediately struck the gong in his hand.
The loud sound of the gong made all the villagers quiet.
"These things must be explained clearly before I can allocate the fields.
We also don’t want the land we were allocated to be confiscated by the government because it doesn’t meet the regulations.”
When the villagers heard what Ma Shengzhong said, they all shut up.
"I have already talked about the detailed plan for dividing the fields several times in the past few days. I won't go into details today and will only talk about the key points.
The first point is that this is a land loan, we don’t need money.
After the crops in the required fields are harvested, the field tax and loan payment will be calculated based on the quality of the field and the average yield per mu of similar fields in the area.
The second point is that you cannot abandon the land. You must plant as much land as you borrowed. If you abandon the land, you will be severely punished.
The third point is that these fields are not allowed to be traded, and if they are rented to others, they need to be registered in the township.
Both the buyer and seller will be severely punished if they are found to be renting instead of selling.
The fourth point is that during the previous military control period, we had arranged for everyone to plant rice.
There are seedlings in the fields now.
These seedlings do not belong to anyone but to the village.
Everyone has worked hard, we only collect a certain amount of grain after autumn, and the seedlings in the fields are yours to buy from the government."
When the villagers heard what Ma Shengzhong said, they immediately shouted: "Hurry up and divide the fields, we can't wait."
When Ma Shengzhong saw that the villagers were very anxious, he immediately said: "I will start dividing the fields right now."
He unfolded the field distribution map of Zhujiazhuang.
"We will first allocate fields to everyone according to the fields originally rented and farmed. If you have any objections, you can speak out."
Ma Shengzhong picked up the brush and paper and started recording.
Zhu Gou left three acres of the middle field and seven acres of the upper field.
Zhu Dashu has ten acres of farmland.
…
Li Tiantian has one acre in the middle field and six acres in the upper field.
A cow with two hairs goes to the fields for one hundred acres.
Niu Xiangshan farms one hundred acres.
Niu Xianghe farms one hundred acres.
Niu Xianghu went to farm one hundred acres.
After Ma Shengzhong finished recording, he looked at the family in front of him.
"You even split up the family to borrow a hundred acres of land, and you can't plant it even if you don't split it up.
The families are separated. I can plant this here to make fun of me!
With two or three strong laborers at home, and the help of my mother-in-law, I can cultivate ten acres of land.
Such a family would be exhausted even during the busy farming season.
you……"
Ma Shengzhong was trained and knew that the upper limit of one hundred acres of land was to appease the rich peasants and reduce the resistance of most of the rich peasants.
He looked at Niu Ermao carefully and asked angrily: "I haven't seen you in the past few days. You are not from Zhujiazhuang. Are you here to entertain me?"
Niu Ermao cupped his fists and said, "Master Ma, I run a tofu shop in Chengdu and need a lot of soybeans.
The soybean harvest season is staggered with that of rice. I will hire other villagers to help me take care of the soybeans.
I read the announcement issued by the government, and people like me are allowed to borrow land.
The loan I borrowed was from Xiatian. You see, no one wants Xiatian.
The fields are far away from water sources and the land is barren. Planting in the fields is more laborious than planting in the fields, and the yield is much worse than in the fields.”
Ma Shengzhong thought for a moment and said: "I took the information and went to see the prefect.
If the prefect agrees, you will have no problem borrowing this land."
After Ma Shengzhong finished delivering them, he packed up the materials on the table and hugged the villagers.
"Fellow folks, I'm going to see Magistrate Jin to handle the land deeds for you.
After the land title is issued, these fields will belong to you from now on and can be passed on to future generations.
You go home first and wait for news from me. Once the land deed is processed, I will send it back to you as soon as possible.
There are too many people applying for land deeds now, and they need to queue up, which takes about one to two days."
The villagers watched the township chief Ma Shengzhong leave with excitement.
Ma Shengzhong did not return to Rongcheng to apply for land deeds. He had to go to govern other villages and register other villagers.
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Su He walked into the governor's office and saw many officials in the courtyard writing land deeds.
Most of the officials from the Sichuan Governor's Yamen came to help today.
A blank template is printed in advance, and officials write the content on the template based on the information provided by the township.
There are also officials who review the original records, and they are also responsible for registering information.
These field information constitute the real household registration information.
This household registration information will be compiled level by level, and each level of government will keep an archive.
The Ministry of Household Affairs and its dispatched yamen are responsible for maintaining household registration information, which is also an important indicator for their assessment.
"Commander Su, you are here to inspect the field work."
Honeysuckle saw Su He arriving and immediately stepped forward to say hello.
"Prefect Jin, is the land distribution work in various parts of Rongcheng Prefecture going smoothly?"
Honeysuckle was well prepared and immediately replied: "Commander Su, the land distribution in most parts of Rongcheng Prefecture is progressing very smoothly.
Rongcheng Prefecture does not dispatch county magistrates, and our magistrate's office is busier in work.
But no major problems occurred.
Some gentry family members obstructed the township chief's registration because we had robbed their fields.
They were taken away by soldiers and handed over to the intermediate Dali Temple for trial.
Most of these troublemakers will be sentenced to exile and placed under the management of the Reclamation Corps."
Su He said with satisfaction: "Rongcheng was captured early, and most of the gentry were cleared by us. I am not worried about the situation in Rongcheng.
You should work faster and try to get the land deeds to the villagers as early as possible.
Only when they took the land deed did they feel that they had actually received the land."
"Prefect Jin, I have found you."
Honeysuckle was preparing to show off in front of Su He.
He saw an old man running towards him holding a few cards.
"Chief Ma, if you have anything to do, come to me."
Ma Shengzhong explained the situation of Niu Ermao's family to Honeysuckle.
"Prefect Jin, if Niu Ermao's family is in a situation like this, can we allocate land to him?"
Honeysuckle is thinking and doesn't know how to answer this question.
Su He said directly: "They comply with the land allocation policy formulated by the government, so they should be allocated fields.
After the land is divided, if they fail to meet the policy requirements, they will be punished before doing so.
Don't change orders overnight, and don't increase the number without authorization.
As a grassroots government, you will implement whatever regulations are stipulated above.
Problems encountered can be reported through various channels.
If you have literary talent, you can publish it in newspapers, but you must unswervingly implement the prescribed policies."
Su He added: "This person's approach is also worthy of promotion, soybeans are also food.
In particular, soybean oil and tofu are extremely important oils and vegetables.
In some barren lands, policies must be implemented according to the location, and rice and wheat cannot be grown blindly.
Grow sorghum wherever suitable for growing sorghum, and grow taro wherever suitable for growing taro.”
Su He was reminded by Niu Ermao's actions and issued the official document himself.
Local governments and farms must choose suitable crops based on local conditions.
Ma Shengzhong didn't know Su He, but when he saw Honeysuckle, they looked like they were listening attentively.
He could guess that this was a big shot.
"I understand. I will register the information and make a title deed for them."
When Honeysuckle saw Ma Shengzhong leaving in a hurry, he asked Su He: "Commander Su, you deprived the gentry of their fields and redistributed the fields to the common people.
When people have land and can feed their children, they will have many more children in the future.
I remember you talked about the law of dynastic cycles. If more children are born, then all the land will be distributed. Isn't this another dynastic cycle?"
Honeysuckle knew that if she said this, Su He would not blame him and would appreciate his independent thinking.
Su He smiled faintly and said: "This is true only in the Central Plains.
But the world is really big, big enough for the Chinese nation to survive desperately."
Mongolian steppe, northeastern plains, Southeast Asia, Indian subcontinent.
There are so many good places that are not occupied by Western powers now.
In this era, whoever has sharp guns and abundant population will own these places.
Suhe was not afraid of the people having too many children, but he was more afraid of the population being too small.
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After Ma Shengzhong completed all the land deeds, it was already dark.
He came to his home with the land deed.
"You damn old man, you won't go home for a day.
He is over forty, and a person who is about to die is still busy. Why does such an adult still want to be promoted?
Why don't you come with me and take care of your grandson at home?"
When Ma Shengzhong heard his mother-in-law say this, he knew that she still had resentment.
My son went to a bitter and cold place like Jianchang County.
It's still a high-risk profession like patrolling.
Ma Shengzhong believes that his son made the right choice.
In this era of drastic changes, if you don't seize the opportunity and fight for it, you will miss the opportunity to turn around.
Early the next morning, it was just getting dark.
Ma Shengzhong rode a mule cart, joined the soldiers assisting him, and rushed to Zhujiazhuang.
Niu Ermao was waiting at the entrance of the village. He didn't go back to the city yesterday and stayed at a fellow villager's house for one night because he was afraid of missing the land lease.
"Everyone, come out quickly, Mayor Ma is here."
Niu Ermao shouted loudly, and all the villagers came out immediately.
These villagers were very excited about dividing the fields yesterday, and most of them didn't sleep all night.
Ma Shengzhong walked into the village holding a stack of land deeds.
"Everyone came out to claim the land title."
Everyone in the village who could move came to the threshing floor in the village.
Ma Shengzhong read the name and asked the villagers to come up one by one to claim the land title.
Zhu Goucheng got his land deed, which was a piece of white paper with patterns on it.
He was illiterate and asked worriedly:
"Sir, this is the land deed, the land deed from Mr. Zhu's place."
Ma Shengzhong patiently explained: "This is the land deed of our government. The previous land deed is invalid.
Having a land deed proves that the land belongs to you."
Zhu Goucheng still couldn't believe it, so he walked to Li Tiantian, the only literate private school teacher in the village.
"Mr. Li, you are a literate person, I believe what you say."
Li Tiantian looked at the land deed. The words on it were a bit incomplete and he couldn't read them all.
But the official seal on the land deed cannot be faked.
In any dynasty, privately engraving official seals was a serious crime.
"Lao Zhu, this is the real title deed, don't worry!"
After Zhu Goucheng heard this, he burst into tears.
He immediately ran to the field his family was assigned yesterday.
He knelt on the ground of his home and cried loudly.
"Dad, you can die in peace now.
The land of our ancestors is finally back in my hands."
There are many people in the village who lose their temper like Zhu Goucheng.
Some people cried loudly, and some people laughed wildly.
There are also people standing at the edge of the field, counting the rice seedlings in the field one by one.
Ma Shengzhong looked at the scene in the village and was not surprised.
Some of these people have lost their land for decades or hundreds of years.
Their grandparents and father were both tenant farmers, and they themselves were also tenant farmers, so they had no hope of owning their own land.
I only think about it when I'm dreaming or dreaming during the day.
Now that this goal has been easily achieved, they were shocked by the huge surprise and it was no surprise that they did anything.
Ma Shengzhong continued to issue land deeds to villagers.
Zhu Dashu called his youngest son Zhu Linbai over.
"You kid, do you still want to join the army?"
Zhu Linbai nodded firmly and said, "Dad, I want to join the army.
Those soldiers rushed directly into Butler Zhu's house and dragged Butler Zhu away like a dead dog.
If I join the army, my family will never be bullied again.
I heard from the superiors that only by joining the army can we protect the fields assigned to our families.
Otherwise, if the gentry fights back, these fields will be taken away by them."
Zhu Dashu patted his son on the head and ordered: "Go to Master Ma and register to join the army.
You must remember, don’t show off when encountering trouble, and try your best to come back alive.”
Zhu Dashu took Zhu Linbai to Ma Shengzhong to register to join the army.
As soon as Ma Shengzhong finished issuing the land deed, he saw the father and son arriving and heard that they were registering to join the army.
He immediately took out the registration form to join the army and taught Zhu Linbai how to register.
Recruiting soldiers to join the army is a great political achievement.
There are military dependents in other villages, and taking care of them is also a focus of the township chief's assessment.
When the villagers saw Zhu Dashu's choice, they also discussed Zhu Linbai's statement.
Immediately, more than ten families asked their sons to join the army.
They began to distrust this new government.
Now that the government allocates fields to them, these people's trust in the government has reached its maximum level and they take the initiative to send their sons to join the army.
Zhu Ermao walked back to Rongcheng with the land deed.
He never thought that it would be so easy for the whole family to obtain the land title.
"Zhu Xianghu, you are the only one in our family who can read.
But your level is not high, so it is impossible to take the imperial examination.
You also want to join the army and choose to sign up to be a master.
This military position is relatively safe and requires less literacy competition."
Zhu Ermao also figured it out. He wanted his son to join the army and pay taxes seriously.
This government is really stronger than the Ming Dynasty, and we cannot let the Ming Dynasty fight back again.
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When Li Tianyang came to Nanchong County, he was shocked by the situation here.
This place has become a big factory.
There is a row of large waterwheels along the Jialing River. They rotate at high speed, driving the factories along the river.
He asked the workers that this is the largest shipyard in Sichuan today.
Another larger shipyard is in Chongqing Prefecture and is under construction.
These factories are all under the jurisdiction of the Secretariat and have nothing to do with him.
Li Tianyang knew the situation in Nanchong. He looked at these factories and gritted his teeth.
This shipyard recruited most of the officials and scholars in Nanchong into the shipyard.
He originally took office alone, but now there is no one available to work with him to build various government offices.
Li Tianyang could only choose some family members of the gentry who had committed minor crimes and let them assist him in building a government through labor reform.
The official document he submitted was directly rejected by Du Yuan, the newly appointed director of the Sichuan Civil Affairs Bureau.
Du Yuan clearly stated in the official document that the family members of these criminal gentry.
They entered the government through labor reform and could only become minor officials running errands, and were not allowed to become subordinate officials.
He brought a group of people from Hanzhong. Nanchong County had special circumstances and could give priority to recruiting subordinate officials.
Li Tianyang looked at the subordinate officials who arrived with the official document.
These people are generally very old. After communicating with them, Li Tianyang learned about the identities of these people.
They are a group of outstanding village officials who were transferred as subordinate officials.
With the help of subordinate officials, Li Tianyang quickly established the structure of the government.
He asked the local garrison for assistance and led a platoon of soldiers into Liguan Village, where the clan had the strongest power.
Li Tianyang prepared to do the easy thing first and then the hard one, so that if he gets rid of the hard bones, no one will dare to stand up again.
Li Wenhua stood in the clan cafeteria, leaning on crutches and shouted loudly: "The fields in the village will always belong to the clan.
Who dares to accept the land and family services of the thief in yellow?"
"Sir, the officials in yellow clothes have led troops into the village. What should we do?"
A villager wiped the sweat from his face and asked hurriedly.
Li Wenhua waved his crutch.
"I'm sixty-seven this year. If they dare to kill me, this old man, public opinion will boil.
My son is an official in the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty, a fourth-rank official.
In order to accept the Ming Dynasty's imperial edict or persuade my son to surrender.
Even the thief in yellow won't touch me.
We are a well-known village with a flourishing literary style.
Many of the descendants of the clan served as officials in the Ming Dynasty.
The thieves in yellow will not touch our Liguan Village even if they consider the impact.
Our village is united, but that county magistrate still dares to massacre the village."
Li Wenhua was full of confidence and waited for the officials in yellow clothes to arrive.
Li Tianyang came to Liguan Village and summoned all the villagers.
"You have seen the notice from the county. Now I will allocate land to you."
After Li Tianyang finished speaking, he took out a stack of land deeds.
He has already written the land deed based on the villagers' situation, without giving the villagers a chance to choose.
"Li Jiaxiang, come here to claim the land title."
Li Jiaxiang hid in the crowd and looked at Li Wenhua and then at the magistrate, but he did not dare to come out.
Li Tianyang just recited the names one by one, but no villagers came to claim the land title.
Li Wenhua looked on with a cane, a smile on his face.
Everyone abides by the rules of the clan, and no one dares to claim the land deed. What will happen to the thief in yellow now?
Li Tianyang took out a carbon basin and lit all the land deeds.
"The villagers of Liguan Village have given up their land allocation. Now I declare that all the land in Liguan Village will be taken over by Liguan Farm."
After Li Tianyang finished speaking, the village chief of the farm led a group of farmers and began to take over all the land in Liguan Village.
When Li Wenhua saw this situation, he immediately panicked.
The thieves in yellow said that they should divide the fields, but they didn't even give any of the fields to the villagers.
"My sons, come to my rescue, we can't let these people take away our fields."
Li Wenhua followed the previous arrangement and walked at the front, leading the backbone of the clan and rushing towards Li Tianyang and others with shovels and hoes.
"Platoon Commander Zhang, shoot and clear out these mobs."
"The first squad will shoot, the second and third squads will maintain order, and try to capture as many prisoners as possible."
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Several gunshots were fired, and Li Wenhua and the leading men were immediately killed by muskets.
When other villagers saw that the government dared to kill people, they knelt down and begged for mercy.
Li Tianyang arrested all these people, and the junior Dali Temple held a court directly in the village and sentenced these people to exile.
When all the villages in Nanchong County saw the fate of Liguan Village, they no longer dared to make trouble and cooperated obediently to allocate their fields.
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Su He listened to Li Zhisheng's work report.
"Under Su's leadership, most of the areas dominated by Han people have completed the work of dividing the fields.
At first, some villages were very difficult to attack. Li Tianyang, the magistrate of Nanchong County, reported the situation in Liguan Village.
Commander Su asked me to promote this experience, and the field allocation work progressed very quickly without any obstacles."
After Su He read the information, he praised: "Well done, we only need to win over 99% of the people, and the remaining few people are the targets of our attack.
Don't show mercy to your enemies, and don't talk about being gentle, courteous and thrifty.
They cannot understand human speech, but they can understand the sound of gunfire."
Sichuan has completed the field distribution. As the field distribution progresses, the recruitment work is also proceeding smoothly.
This means that the people of Sichuan have surrendered, and now Sichuan has become stable.
Once the people have their own fields, they will never let anyone take away their fields, not even Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty.
