Most of the prominent people in Songzhou fled to Songcheng County, which was governed by the state.
After the city was broken, they were immediately wiped out.
Many people expressed their intention to sacrifice their wealth and lives in exchange for a way out.
Li Yunze simply didn't bother to deal with these people who had brain problems.
With everyone in hand, can the property still escape?
Moreover, Li Yunze does not lack any wealth at all. What he needs most is the land in the hands of local snakes.
After thousands of years of cultivation, the Central Plains has long been filled with fertile farmland.
It's a pity that most of these fields are in the hands of court nobles and local gangsters. In the true sense, the rich have endless fields and the poor have no place to stand.
Basically, in all dynasties, except for the founding of the country, when the population was sparse due to years of war and there were many fields, ordinary people could obtain the land through dividing the fields. In the later period, the land was concentrated into the hands of powerful people through various means.
What Li Yunze did at this time had been done by all the founding dynasties, but he was more ruthless.
Hold the largest and most important means of production in this era in your hands, and fundamentally eliminate the possibility of land annexation.
If you want to make a fortune, go out and make a living.
Li Yunze rode a horse and led people around the counties in Songzhou.
While cleaning up the debris in the place, especially those ruffians and energetic groups.
Don't look at the fact that these remnants are usually very domineering and bully the people. They can beat and scold them whenever they want. But once the local snakes behind them are eliminated, they will not be able to make any trouble at all.
On this day, Li Yunze led the team to Dangshan County. When they arrived at the county seat, they found chaos inside.
The yamen clerks had learned about what happened in Songcheng County early, and knew that the God of Death did not want people like themselves to serve, so they packed up the belongings in the yamen and ran away early.
Without the control of the yamen, the local local gangsters who were always willing to do good and good deeds have disappeared. Now the rogues have begun to do evil everywhere, making the entire county a mess.
"Jiedu." Zheng Gongyou came next and asked, "All of them beheaded?"
"Don't be so kind." Li Yunze shook his head, "Catch him first."
The cavalry quickly sealed the city gates and then rode into the streets to arrest people.
The scoundrels were actually very smart and discerning, so naturally they would not fight against the soldiers and fled into the houses like birds and beasts.
The officers and soldiers of the Xuanwu Army knew that Li Yunze loved the people as his own son, so they couldn't break into the house, but they couldn't let go.
Li Yunze was not in a hurry, and turned to look at the brick-and-timber house not far away from the city wall. He rode over and signaled to knock on the door.
"The Xuanwu Army Jiedushi is here, open the door quickly!"
As the soldiers roared, the door finally stopped opening after waiting for a while.
The person who opened the door was a gray-haired old man. After opening the door, he saluted without raising his head and begged, "There is only a little old man in the family. He has neither property nor children. Please forgive me."
These skillful words made Li Yunze happy.
His eyes swept through the gate to the inner yard, and saw a few sticks still on the ground, a kitchen knife hidden under the dustpan, the female prostitute's utensils under the eaves that had not yet been tidied up, etc.
The old man not only has a son, but also a daughter.
Fortunately, Li Yunze is a gentleman and not a thief who comes to plunder.
He did not go in to expose the old man, but instead said, "Go and call all the neighbors on your street, and have a representative from each family gather in front of the county government office."
The old man was about to decline, but Li Yunze had already turned his horse and headed towards the opposite street, leaving only one sentence: "If one family is missing, I will take one of your sons to join the army and become a civilian husband."
The large group of cavalry went to the opposite street. The old man stood up tremblingly and looked around for a while, then hurriedly turned around and ran back to the house.
The sons, who were holding knives in their hands, and the daughter-in-law, whose faces were smeared with dust, hurriedly gathered around to ask.
The old man stamped his feet and sighed as he told the story again, and his sons started shouting, "Have we done anything evil? Why are we being arrested and made peasants? This is unreasonable."
"How can these warriors be reasonable?"
The helpless old man had no choice but to tell his children to stay safe while he went out to call the neighbors to go to the county government office.
Because I know that warriors are unreasonable, I dare not be disrespectful.
The county is not big, so Li Yunze personally led people to visit various streets, and then selected lucky spectators to come out to greet the neighbors.
Then he came to the county government office, walked through the six rooms and opened various documents.
The largest landowner in the county is named Chen Shoujing. The amount of land deeded alone is more than 15,000 acres. This is still land with land deeds. There must be more private and hidden land without land deeds.
He handed the Tian deed to Zheng Gongyou and asked, "Where is this person?"
Zheng Gongyou took a heavy book from his entourage, searched according to the directions and found Chen Shoujing's name: "Jiedu, we have arranged to capture his entire family in Songcheng County."
Li Yunze nodded, and then picked up Tian De, the second most powerful person in the county, "Where is this?"
"It's also in Songcheng County, and the arrangements have been made."
By the time he came out of the sixth room to check the documents, representatives from each household had already gathered outside the county government office.
Li Yunze picked up a horse and sat down in front of the gate. Naturally, someone had to do the work.
Zheng Gongyou shouted a greeting and told the story of the land allocation and tax exemption under the Xuanwu Army, and the originally nervous people suddenly cheered.
Li Yunze naturally doesn't distinguish between people from the city and people from the village when doing things. He always treats them equally.
If the people in the village are given land, then the people in the county must also have it.
As for whether they plant it themselves or rent it out and collect rent, that doesn't matter.
Immediately, all the land deeds stored in the yamen in Dangshan County were taken out and burned in front of everyone, and then the military scribes wrote new ones for the people on the spot.
Of course, the benefits include various farm tools provided for free, as well as copper coins, cloth and food distributed according to the number of people.
By this time, the people in the entire county were already grateful to Li Yunze, and some even took the lead in saluting him and calling him a saint.
When everyone's emotions gradually calmed down, Li Yunze said quietly, "Everyone will have a better life from now on, but those rogues who were running rampant in the countryside and bullying the market must be dealt with in advance. If you know where they are hiding,
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Even if you arrest him, if you prove your identity, you will be given two ounces of money per person."
I dare not say that the two dollars is too much, but it is not too little.
In the past, scoundrels were running rampant, and the reason why people dared to be angry but dared not speak out was because there was no one to back them up.
Offending the rogues is tantamount to offending their patrons.
It's different now. The Xuanwu Army's Jiedu Envoy has become their biggest backer. Naturally, they will seek revenge and complain.
They are all from the same hometown and county. It is difficult for Li Yunze's soldiers to find hiding places for those rogues, but the local people are very good at catching them.
In less than an hour, more than a hundred hiding rogues were thrown at the gate of the county government office.
Judging from their bruised noses and swollen faces, it was obvious that evil was being punished.
Soldiers and scribes came forward to interrogate them one by one to determine the authenticity.
If someone is unjustly accused, whoever gets caught will be unlucky.
If you have not been wronged, then prepare to hit the road.
When Li Yunze dealt with these vigorous groups of urban foxes and rats, it would definitely not be as easy as locking them up for more than twenty years and raising them, and even getting their sentences reduced and released early.
They were divided according to the evil deeds they had committed. Those who had committed serious crimes, such as robbery, murder, robbery, and posing with women, etc., were all disposed of directly, so as to save the waste of food.
If it's petty theft, charging property fees, bullying good people, etc., then he will be sent to work on the construction site.
Digging mines, building official roads, dredging river embankments, building new water conservancy projects, everything.
And there is no deadline until it can’t be done anymore.
In this way, the corvee, which is a heavy burden for ordinary people, can be shouldered by these people, which is another measure that benefits the people.
After all, most of these people are physically strong, so they are most suitable for working to death.
After finishing the work in the county, the retired sergeants and military clerks were left behind to re-establish the yamen. Li Yunze led the team and began to go deep into the countryside.
Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, there has been a phenomenon called imperial power not going to the countryside for thousands of years.
The imperial power could only go to the county town, and further down it belonged to the countryside.
Li Yunze's response method was the same as before, first gathering the people together, and then dividing the fields, goods, farm tools, etc.
Once the grateful people gained trust, they began to investigate.
Which family has many sons and runs rampant in the countryside, which family does evil but no one can control it, which family oppresses good people, etc.
If one person is reported and found out, the whole family will be taken away directly.
Needless to say, those who have committed extremely heinous crimes should be taken to the county government to be convicted and dealt with.
If your sin does not lead to death, then arrange to continue working at various construction sites to atone for your sin.
The three elders in the countryside were also directly abolished and replaced with a sergeant who had retired from the army as the head of the village.
A writing board must be erected in the village, and sergeants who have participated in military training courses must read to the villagers the documents sent from the county and posted up every day.
The county town will also come to each village regularly to conduct various inspections and organizational work.
From now on, all appointments of village chiefs in Lizheng must be reported to the county government, which will then send them to the state government for arrangements.
Going forward, when one day Li Yunze puts on the yellow robe, he will assign all these to the Ministry of Personnel for unified arrangements.
If you want to control the village affairs by relying on the number of sons in your family, you will absolutely not be allowed to do so.
Only then can we truly extend our tentacles deep into the fields and truly concentrate the power of the people.
The people of China are simple and smart, and they are never stupid.
They knew very well that Li Yunze distributed Yongye Field to them, which was tax-free and free of corvee. This kind of good life needed to be protected.
Only if Li Jiedu can protect them all the time can he protect what he has gained.
Therefore, every time Li Yunze went to a place and arranged things in the city and countryside, he would receive sincere support from the local people.
The most intuitive manifestation is that the number of people who want to join the Xuanwu Army has increased sharply.
If Li Yunze didn't value quality over weight, he could easily pull out an army of hundreds of thousands.
Just like that, he went around all the counties under the jurisdiction of Songzhou and arranged everything properly. Then Li Yunze returned to Songcheng County covered with travel.
Returning to the original governor's house, Zhang Hui, who was bright and white-toothed, took the initiative to welcome Li Yunze, bathed and changed his clothes to wash away the dust from his body.
It took a little long to clean up the dust and there was a lot of noise.