"Zi Yan, what do you mean by feeding two hundred households?" Chu Nan was about to return to his temporary residence. The past three days had exhausted him, but the matter was generally over. As for the sorting out of Guangling's internal affairs, the measurement of farmland was enough.
I left it to the teacher, but the disciple's ability was really limited. He was about to go back, but was stopped by Wei Xu.
Not only Wei Xu, Cheng Lian, Song Xian and other Lu Bu's old generals were also on the side, but they didn't quite understand the meaning.
"It means giving you two hundred families' land. According to the current division of Xuzhou, it is about two thousand acres of land. Of course, it is not given directly. Of the taxes paid by the two hundred families, half goes to you and half goes to the court.
" Chu Nan explained casually.
"I see. Why don't you just give it to me?" Wei Xu nodded. Two thousand acres of land is a lot, but just give it to them directly. Why go around in this circle.
"Not long ago, my father-in-law ordered that this cultivated land should not be bought and sold privately, and then he changed hands and directly distributed the land to you. Where is the prestige?" Chu Nan said speechlessly: "Besides, although the land was not directly given to you, these two thousand acres of land will not be used by you at all.
Isn't it good to go to the trouble of farming by yourself? The government office has made arrangements. You don't have to do anything and you can enjoy the harvest of two thousand acres of land every year. Isn't it good? Do you have to go and farm it yourself and enjoy the fruits of your hard work?"
What people pursue is always something for nothing. This is the foundation of pursuing power and wealth. If the emperor is like an ordinary farmer and can only eat what he grows, how many people still want to be the emperor?
"I see." Wei Xu suddenly realized that his master was thoughtful.
"That's not right..." Song Xian on the side frowned slightly, but he didn't dare to say anything more in the middle of the sentence.
【My lord can be so considerate?】
"I will only stay in Guangling for a few days. When things stabilize here, we may have to send troops immediately. You are all the elders of Nan in terms of seniority, so it is best not to be greedy." Chu Nan smelled the poison on several people.
The smell of wine made me speechless.
After just a few days of relaxation, I couldn't control my alcohol addiction.
"Don't worry, Ziyan. We know what's going on. Don't talk nonsense with me," Wei Xu said, stopping Chu Nan's shoulders.
"Don't worry, I'm very busy." Chu Nan pushed his arm away calmly.
After dealing with it for a few words, Chu Nan took Zhou Cang home. He was indeed a little tired from the busy days.
Because of Xuzhou's merciless suppression of the gentry, many families originally from the other four counties of Xuzhou moved to Guangling through various means. In fact, these families may not be the targets of Chu Nan's attack, but they are still worried about being dealt with.
Or maybe he felt that Lu Bu was no match for the Chen family in the end, so he took this opportunity to defect to the Chen family, thinking that he would have a brighter future.
Regardless of the reason, the family property that left the family was automatically considered to have been abandoned, and it is impossible to return it now. However, these people who are the target of wooing cannot be driven away just like this. The big families in Guangling also need to be cleaned up.
The method is the same as before. Check the accounts. This time there is an additional item. The land that is not in the tax book but actually exists will be distributed by the court. Then the land recorded in each family will be measured. People who do not have farmland can come to the court.
Register here and farm ten acres.
It seems easy, but it is not easy to do. The defeat of the Chen family does have a lot of deterrent effects, but it is impossible to seize profits from others without resisting them.
In the past few days, there have been voices of dissatisfaction in various counties in Guangling. Some came directly to Lu Bu to argue, and the reasons were very good. The land they bought for them a few years ago only lacked a deed. Why should they take it away directly? Even
Some even found the original landowners.
Chu Nan's reasons are also very hard-core. Rules are rules, verbal agreements don't count. No matter before or now, the court has no such reason. If you didn't do anything at the beginning, you can only blame yourself.
Now Lu Bu speaks much harder than before. When he was in Xuzhou, Xiapi implemented it first, and then the other three counties implemented it one after another. He still persuaded first, and then took coercive measures if he didn't cooperate.
But now, firstly, the rules have been set, and propaganda has been started before. Secondly, the present is different from the past. Xuzhou's military and political affairs have been grasped, and the foundation has been stabilized. Even if the powerful nobles and nobles like Guangling rebel together, they will not be able to make any big waves now. More importantly,
What is surprising is that the major wealthy families in the four counties of Xuzhou have learned from the past. Although these wealthy families are having fun now, none of them dare to go against Lu Bu directly.
They finally figured out that although Lu Bu was overbearing and adopted a suppressive attitude towards those famous families, he still abided by the rules he had set.
If you don't know what to do, you will encourage the tenant farmers to cause trouble, which will make things more troublesome.
But now things are basically straightened out, and tenant farmers are not fools. Under the same conditions, they don’t have to be dogs for big families, and it depends on people’s faces, so why do they still want to hang out with those so-called famous families?
What Chu Nan has done these days is to help everyone change this concept. Everyone has Mu Qiang in their hearts. When the tenant farmers discovered that although they were doing the same work as tenant farmers under Lu Bu, most of it was their own, and the taxes were rent.
, there is no need to pay more, so it is much easier than being a tenant farmer for the powerful.
Most of the problems encountered in life are actually issues of interests. This is true for wealthy families and the common people. As long as the interests are sufficient, the position will naturally change.
Now this cognitive direction has been reversed by Chu Nan through public opinion, using various methods including overt, covert, clean, and dirty methods to attack the family. The rest is just like the other four counties, making records and measuring
Just cultivate the land.
Aristocratic families have no privileges in Xuzhou. Many bold people take the initiative to sue their employers in order to be allocated farmland quickly. In fact, Chu Nan doesn't like this trend very much, and it is also easy to cause new problems, although it may be short-term.
Confidentiality makes it easier for them, but in the long run, it may not be a good thing for everyone to report each other and everyone is in danger, so Chu Nan takes this matter very seriously, but if there is concealment or wrong reporting, it will be a heavy penalty, even if it is right
Yes, it only allows you to get two days of farmland early, but other than that, there are no rewards.
As a result, naturally fewer people will report it.
"My lord, the last general is now also a school captain." On the way, Zhou Cang couldn't help laughing at Chu Nan. He didn't have any great achievements in this battle, but he was also awarded a school captain. Chu Nan is now the prefect of Xiapi.
In addition, he also got a free time as a military advisor to offer wine, and received two salaries. After winning the battle, he received more luck.
After defeating Jiangdong this time, Chu Nan will get more than 5 million fortunes. This time Lu Bu set up a guard camp specifically for Chu Nan. The number of guards in the guard camp has increased from 80 people before to 500 people now.
Zhou Cang's bodyguard naturally became more and more popular.
Although he was not assigned a food tenant, it was already a big leap for Zhou Cang. Having a formal establishment was a very honorable thing for him.
In the past few days, Zhou Cang would giggle from time to time, and then talk to everyone he met. No one would tell Chu Nan, and Chu Nan almost had a stress reaction to these words.
"If you don't read military books and practice the art of war diligently, you may end up here in your life!" Chu Nan glanced at him speechlessly. A school captain is not a full-time officer. His main responsibility is to protect his own safety. I really don't know.
Why is he so happy?
"I don't ask for anything else." Zhou Cang didn't care much about this: "If I can follow my lord, I will have no regrets in this life."
If a beautiful woman said this to him, Chu Nan would be in a good mood, but if a rough man said this to him while licking his face, Chu Nan said he couldn't bear it.
The two returned to the temporary residence, and Zhou Cang went to arrange the night watch. Chu Nan asked the demon ants and demon mantis to prepare defenses to face possible assassinations at any time. The pigeon demon slept on the roof, and there were several earth dragons underground to stabilize them.
Earth veins, it is not easy for a person with earth ability like Chen Deng to use such stable earth veins to perform magical powers similar to earth escape.
Chu Nan was very concerned that the assassin hiding in the dark never showed up. During his daily rest, he was surrounded by top-notch protection. Not only were there people like Zhou Cang, but also the demon ants and the demon mantis recruited a group to start demonizing.
Ants and mantises stood guard around the mansion, and he superimposed a lot of statuses in the yard to ensure that the assassin would not kill directly in front of him.
After doing all this, Chu Nan returned to the room.
The steaming mist filled the air from behind the screen. Chu Nan hung his robe on the wall and walked around behind the screen. His wife was taking a bath. When she saw Chu Nan, she looked at him with some annoyance and sank into the tub.
But there was no rejection.
It has been a few months since the couple got married, and they have done everything they need to do. They are very familiar with each other. Although they are still a little shy in the non-paid state, but with Chu Nan's shameless spirit, they are not too repulsive now.
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"There is no wife for this reward, but the five hundred guards given by my father-in-law are nominally given to Zhou Cang, but the wife is available at any time." Chu Nan naturally picked up the wet wipes to help Lu Lingqi wipe them, and said casually.
"Husband, there is no need to explain, I understand." Lu Lingqi nodded lightly.
Chu Nan stretched out his hand through his wife's arm, helped her clear her body, and casually talked about some military matters. Now he is no longer the ignorant little merchant in the past. His understanding of the art of war is not only reflected in the Nine Secrets of the Imperial Army.
Above all, what I spend most with my wife is talking about these things.
Lu Lingqi also liked to talk about this with him. While they were talking, the wet wipes disappeared somewhere, but Chu Nan appeared in the bathtub. Seeing his wife pale in silence, Chu Nan did not blush and said with a smile:
"I've been busy with my husband for a few days. It's too late to ask someone to boil water at this time. You and I will just make do and share the same bucket."
Lu Lingqi was obviously used to him being such a shameless person in private, and she cooperated with him, just some new payment tricks. Even though the two had been married for a long time and were already used to each other, Lu Lingqi still couldn't help but show off when Chu Nan showed it.
Blushing and heart pounding, no matter how hard it was to maintain her usual cool look, Chu Nan's favorite thing was to look at his cold wife's amorous feelings after her cold coat was stripped off. Paying for this was not enough to be fair to outsiders...
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I fell asleep at noon. Now I have to ask the editor to change the chapter name. It's too troublesome. Everyone knows that the last chapter was one hundred and seventy-one. I have always wanted to add more updates, and I have always wanted to add two more updates.
I just can't muster up the energy to pay it back. If you guys just give me a few more days, I will definitely pay back the updates I owe.