Xujiazhuang's second round of manor expansion went very smoothly.
The 100 newly added collective estates have all completed the goal of acquiring more than 30,000 acres of land, and will be built into large estates in the future.
Plus the amount of cultivated land occupied and reclaimed by 11 old manors and Harbor City.
Today, Xujiazhuang has a total of 3.8056 million acres of cultivated land, exceeding the goal of three million acres set at the beginning of the year, and the completion rate of spring plowing is over 90%. In more than three months, we will see the joy of a bumper harvest.
scene.
In terms of population, the 100 new manors have absorbed a total of 1.5016 million people. Adding the original population of more than 500,000 people, the population resources controlled by Xujiazhuang have reached just over 2 million, which is more than 1.5 million people.
Set goals.
Although the per capita cultivated land has increased from 0.6 acres per capita to about 1.9 acres, this does not seem to be much and is still not enough.
However, based on Xujiazhuang's agricultural production efficiency, to achieve food self-sufficiency, 1 mu of cultivated land per capita is enough. The extra 0.9 mu is used to develop animal husbandry, and it is not difficult to achieve an average per capita meat consumption of 100 kilograms.
What's more, each collective manor is a small industrial center covering a radius of more than ten miles. It can not only obtain all the resources in its own manor, but also a large amount of grain, cotton, pasture and other resources from surrounding villages and towns outside the manor.
are absorbed into the manor, producing a strong attraction effect - these resources are also supplements that cannot be ignored. After all, there is a limit to the scale of the collective manor. The maximum range is about 30,000 acres. If it expands further, the marginal benefit will be reduced and the management cost will be reduced.
Significant increase.
This means that in Yangzhou Prefecture, which has tens of millions of acres of arable land resources, Xujiazhuang only occupies about one-third of the land resources after this round of crazy expansion, not even half. Such expansion can only
I use the word 'moderate' to describe it, because if it were another time-traveler, he would definitely occupy 100% of all the land, leaving no way for some vested interests to survive, and some people who are unwilling to join the manor.
Individual farmers still have their own living space and will not seriously offend these farmers.
Xu Yuan feels that he has a good grasp of the 'degree' in the middle. This may appear to some people to be 'kind', 'soft' or 'uncourageous', but Xu Yuan always believes that any extreme approach will
It is not advisable, and you must leave room for it, otherwise it may cause very large backlash and hidden dangers.
But no matter what!
Xujiazhuang's second round of expansion plan achieved all set goals and achieved a complete success.
only……
This round of manor expansion, which Xu Yuan thought was very 'moderate', was completely different in the eyes of the Jiangnan gentry group.
They just feel that their sky has fallen, their nightmare has come, and the infinitely beautiful prospects in their eyes have been completely ruined and destroyed!
Especially since the beginning of spring this year.
In Yangzhou Prefecture, the screams and wails of the landlords and gentry could be heard everywhere. They encountered a hell-like situation on earth and encountered a nightmare that they did not want to recall too much.
The source of this nightmare is Xujiazhuang!
Nanjing, on the Qinhuai River, on a boat with lights like dragons, this time there was no familiar sound of silk and bamboo singing and dancing, but instead, one after another, piercing cries were heard:
"Your Excellency, the pillars of the dynasty, Xujiazhuang has openly rebelled, and Xujiazhuang has already begun to attack us Jiangnan gentry! It took seven generations of my king's greetings, and it took more than two hundred years to accumulate five
With more than a thousand acres of land, we have become a middle-class family. We have been diligent and thrifty from generation to generation, and have never taken anything by force, so we have the meager foundation we have today. However, as soon as the people from Xujiazhuang came, they wanted to take away the three thousand acres of my Wang family's land.
I only agreed to compensate 30,000 silver dollars. I disagreed and would never cede the land. The people from Xujiazhuang first recruited thousands of stupid people, then besieged my Wang family and directly took away my family's 3,000 acres of land without any compensation. I took it with me.
I argued with them three times, but was beaten severely every time, and was forced to sign and have my fingerprints printed... Your Excellency, you heroes, please make the decision for me to do this again!"
Wang Henian stood on the stage, crying with runny nose and tears.
But he was immediately pushed to the side, and another middle-aged man with a suspender and his right sleeve hanging in the air came on stage and said: "You still have two thousand acres of land. The three thousand acres of land in my home, Huang Qizhu, just because it happened to be
In the center of the Xu family manor, everything was confiscated, and I was only given five thousand silver dollars to send. I went to argue with them, but I was treated rudely. I went to the government to report to the government. As a result, all the government officials were beheaded by them.
They killed dozens of people, and my right arm was cut off by them, and I almost lost my life... My Lords, Xujiazhuang wants to occupy our land, and he also wants my life. What Xujiazhuang has done is not the same as Shan
, Shaanxi bandits are no different, if we don’t wipe them out, sooner or later all the land south of the Yangtze River will fall into the hands of Xujiazhuang!"
"You just lost an arm, but my Liu family of more than 500 people have been almost killed by Xujiazhuang!"
The winner of the competition appeared. Liu Yulong, a survivor of the Liu family in Da'an Town, stood on the stage and said with grief and anger: "Why? Why did Xujiazhuang kill so many members of my Liu family? Just because of our Liu family.
They were just unwilling to join the Xu family manor, and then they threatened and intimidated again and again, offering a price of 30 silver dollars per acre, but my Liu family was still unmoved. Later, after they bewitched enough fools, their true colors were exposed.
They led a mob of more than 5,000 people to besiege our Liu family. They not only cut off all the land, but also almost killed our Liu family! No matter how cruel the bandit is, it is nothing more than this. My lords, if Xujiazhuang dares to destroy the Liu family today, tomorrow
Won’t we destroy your entire clan? If we don’t join hands and deal with Xujiazhuang together, will we wait until the next expansion of Xujiazhuang and destroy you one by one?”
These words opened the floodgates for all victims to speak out.
"My lords, Xujiazhuang built a hundred new manors this time, and more than 300 households of gentry were violated. The Liu family was almost wiped out. When Xujiazhuang develops and grows again, next time, let alone compensation, let alone be polite before fighting.
, but raised the butcher's knife openly, and all the gentry who interfered with their Xujiazhuang will have their homes confiscated and their ancestors destroyed, and their blood will flow like a river, and none of us will be spared!"
"Not to mention the gentry, they were the subordinate officials of the county government. This time, they were ignored by Xujiazhuang, and hundreds of them were killed. The county magistrate was ridiculed and humiliated when he went to negotiate. Next time,
I'm afraid even the county magistrate will be killed directly by them." The magistrate said.
"Can we just cry here and have nothing to do? Where is the imperial army? Where is the army in the south of the Yangtze River? Are we just sitting here waiting to die?"
"Your Majesty!"
Liu Yulong knelt in front of Xu Hongji, Duke of Wei, and said with tears in his eyes: "If we don't send troops to destroy Xujiazhuang, the sky in the south of the Yangtze River will collapse. We don't want to wait to die. Take us and fight with Xujiazhuang."
We pay for the money, and we pay for the people! Even if we fight with Xujiazhuang and die together, we cannot continue to sit back and do nothing. If we don't fight with Xujiazhuang, there will be no gentry like me in the land of Jiangnan from now on!"
Wang Henian then knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, lead us to destroy Xujiazhuang. We are willing to spend all our wealth!"
Huang Qizhu also said: "The gentry in the south of the Yangtze River are now willing to obey the orders of the Duke of the State. They are willing to destroy their families to relieve difficulties and concentrate all their manpower, material and financial resources. The gentry on this ship today can donate tens of millions of money and food. Your Excellency, the Duke of the State."
, the imperial court is unwilling to send a large army, but with the help of all the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, can’t a desperate counterattack still destroy a mere Xu family village?”
"Your Excellency, all the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River are willing to obey the order and fight to the death with Xujiazhuang!"
All the gentry knelt in front of Xu Hongji, hoping that this respected Duke of Wei would lead them, the Jiangnan gentry, to make a complete break with Xujiazhuang!
"good!"
Xu Hongji thought for a moment and uttered this word. Since all the Jiangnan gentry are on his side this time, and they don't blink an eye when it comes to people and money, then let alone a mere Xujiazhuang, even the Zhu family's big world may not be the same.
A thunderous strike that can withstand this force.
Even if the imperial court does not allow private troops to be sent out, he will still decide to kill him this time!