Stacks of land deeds were moved out of the box and filled the entire table.
"Brothers, today I have fulfilled my promise to you, and everyone is lining up to receive the land title."
"Su Xiong, I will reward you with fifteen acres of land for your merits."
While Su He was talking, he found the previous land deed of his uncle Su Daniu's home from the land deed.
He took out the seal he had asked a craftsman to carve out of stone last night, with the four characters "Commander Suhe" on it.
Su He re-stamped the title deed and handed it to Su Xiong.
Take advantage of the Ming Dynasty land deeds.
There are no literate people under his command, so there is no way to rewrite the new land deed.
Su Xiong took the land deed and shed tears unconsciously.
This is the land that his family dedicated to the Su Ju people five years ago, thinking that they would never get it back in this life.
Unexpectedly, today, I got it back through my own efforts.
"Su Hu will be rewarded with fifteen acres of land for his merits."
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Su He personally issued land deeds to everyone, and those who were not present would have their relatives collect them.
Everyone who got the title deed had a smile on their face.
The other villagers looked at him with fiery eyes, regretting that they did not have the chance to rebel with Su He.
"Daniu, your nephew is now Commander Su. The land I rented before has been divided. Can I still rent other land?"
Some villagers were worried that they would not be able to farm, so they reported that Su Daniu had come to ask questions.
"Yes, Daniel, your two sons have been given land, and your family is now richer.
Please help us ask if Suhe can still accept people now. The weather is so dry now that the fields cannot be planted.
My two little boys are idle at home, even if they are not given land, they can still earn some food!"
Su Daniu was pushed by the villagers towards Su He.
He asked nervously: "Commander Su, can our villagers continue to rent land in the future?
If the disaster situation eases next year, we will still have to farm.
There are also people in the village who want to follow you in rebellion. Do you want to accept people from your team now?"
Su He saw his uncle Su Daniu's nervous look and said, "Uncle, just call me Su He. You have to be prepared to tell me even if you don't ask me."
After he finished speaking, he found three people with loud voices and asked them to stand in the crowd, repeat what he said, and convey his policies in detail.
"Folks, thank you for your trust. Our team has just opened and we will definitely recruit young people to join the army."
"Let me talk about the benefits here. The military salary for joining the army is one acre of land per year, six stones of food per year, and there are rewards for meritorious service."
"If you join the army and die, you will receive pensions. If you are injured and retire, you will be given a job, and at the same time, you will receive a pension of 20 acres of land.
If someone dies, I, Su He, will take care of his parents for the rest of his life and his children until adulthood.
The pension will be distributed to fifty acres of land at a time."
Su He directly explained the benefits of joining the army.
He used land and food for military pay, mainly because he was too poor to make money.
In this era, land and food are more popular, and in troubled times, food is more precious.
He didn't have much silver in his hands, and the money he plundered from the gentry's homes was not enough to support an army.
The fundamental reason is that in the late Ming Dynasty, the northwest, southwest and other places were extremely short of silver and fell into a state of severe deflation.
The southeastern gentry obtained a large amount of silver from maritime trade, but they buried all the money in the ground and rarely circulated it.
In the late Ming Dynasty, per capita land was not scarce, but the gentry and nobles occupied the vast majority of the land.
The princes and princes of the Ming Dynasty had hundreds of thousands of acres of land in their hands, and the large landowners in the southeast owned millions of acres of land.
When Su Li heard Su He talk about his salary, he thought happily: "One acre of land a year, and thirty years of service as a soldier, that's thirty acres.
After being discharged from the army and returning home to be a small landowner, this future is really beautiful.
There are still six stones of grain every year, enough to feed my wife and children for a year.
Even if he dies, he will leave more than fifty acres of land to his family, so he will not lose anything even if he dies."
When the villagers heard this treatment, their eyes turned red.
They know that the world is in chaos and human life is worthless. If you exchange one life for fifty acres of land, you will definitely make a lot of money.
Immediately, some young men couldn't help it and shouted loudly: "Commander Su, I want to join the army."
"Those who want to join the army should go to Su Xiong's place to queue up and sign up."
Su He saw that the young men in the village were eager to join the army, and he was completely relieved.
He has always been worried that the villagers are still afraid of the imperial court, so he can only run away with his team and look for opportunities to establish a base elsewhere.
Relying on the strong men or coercing the young men, like the bandit army does, the army will have no combat effectiveness and will easily collapse or collapse.
When Su Xiong heard Su He's instructions, he immediately called a few people to examine the young people who came to sign up.
Su He has already told him the conditions for recruiting young people.
The age is controlled between sixteen and thirty years old, and there is no physical disability.
He is too young and his body has not yet grown.
He is too old and has grown old.
Due to heavy physical labor all year round, people in the village have gray hair and injuries after they reach the age of forty, and they often die in the fields while working.
Su He saw Su Xiong recruiting troops, and he continued to introduce his policies.
"There are 30,000 acres of land in the village, 10,000 acres of which are reserved for meritorious service and used to pay military salaries and pensions to soldiers, and the remaining 20,000 acres will be sold."
When the villagers heard what Su He said, the scene immediately became noisy.
"Sell all the land to whom! Who can afford it?
It can’t be us, we can’t even afford food, so how can we have money to buy fields.”
"Su He killed Su Ju's whole family. Who else can he sell the fields to?"
"quiet."
When Su Que heard Su He's order, he immediately struck the gong and drum in his hand.
Boom, boom, clang.
The sound of gongs and drums made the villagers quiet down.
"Everyone, listen to me first. These lands in the village are all going to be sold to the villagers."
"You don't need cash to buy it, you can even buy it without using silver."
"You can rent the land first and pay an additional 30% of the rent in addition to the grain tax every year. As long as you pay it for twenty years, the land will belong to you.
Of course, you can also purchase land at market price, with each household purchasing up to 100 acres."
Su He talked about the land policy he designed.
The core of this policy is still land distribution, but it is not a land equalization system, but a land loan system.
In this agricultural country with underdeveloped social productivity, no political group can afford to farm.
Without industrial support, agricultural taxes will always be the largest contributor.
In history, even King Li Chuang and Master Hong, who only shouted the slogan of equalization of land, failed.
"King Chuang is here and he won't pay you any food."
This kind of slogan can confuse people's hearts for a while, but this kind of policy cannot be implemented.
False political ideas will lead to confusion among people and a lack of cohesion in the team.
The land loan system is a land distribution policy that Su He came up with based on his past life experience.
Once the mortgage was paid in my previous life, I was completely tethered to this city. I had no choice but to become a social animal even if I wanted to escape.
If farmers have the opportunity to obtain land for free, they will never spend an extra penny to purchase land.
When farmers borrow land, they get on the Suhe chariot and become Suhe's most stable fundamentals.
As soon as Suhe's policy came out, the villagers at the scene immediately became excited.
“You can get your own land without spending any money, it just takes 20 years to farm.
Several generations of our family have been growing grain for the Suju people for more than a hundred years, but we were not allocated even one acre of land, and instead were given five acres of land."
"Haha, and this is such a good thing, I want to borrow a hundred acres directly."
"Folks, you can borrow land and grain from me now.
Loaning farmland must be based on one's ability. The rent I charge is 30% of the average output. It is not okay to leave the farmland uncultivated.
If you don’t have the labor to farm and if you don’t pay enough rent, your land will be confiscated.”
After Su He finished speaking, the villagers responded enthusiastically, and most of the villagers signed the land loan contract and obtained their own land.