Returning to Xiaqu Yangcheng, Wen Yuan wrote a respectful letter with his own hand. The next day, he bought a large cart of wine, meat and preserved fruits as gifts. He called a confidant to give them careful instructions, and ordered five or six more.
The personal guards escorted the limo to Ren County.
After finishing all this, Wen Yuan had to go back to the county office to take a rest. Now the county magistrate of Quyang is quite sad. A few months ago, when he returned from a business trip to Yecheng, he was killed by a Black Mountain bandit, and the position of county magistrate was vacant.
When Wen Yuan arrived, the prefect Guo Dian asked Wen Yuan to camp in Xiaquyang County. Although Wen Yuan was under the general and did not dare to take up the post, the post of county magistrate was obviously given to Wen Yuan temporarily.
Since there is no condition to hire Tian Feng to be the department manager for the time being, but he is still qualified to recruit some office clerks in Quyang, Wen Yuan has not yet handled a county matter, so he first recruited several Doushi and Zuoshi in the county, and then he
Order the county magistrate to go to the local household registration book.
There are 4,631 households in Xiaquyang County. Due to years of famine and rampant banditry, the number of households is unknown. It is estimated to be around 20,000. Among them, one-fifth are adult men, or about 4,000, and the rest are women and children.
Young and old.
There are more than 167,400 acres of farmland recorded in the books. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, a rent and tax system was implemented, with sub-lease and tax. The land rent was based on a thirty-year tax. It was changed to a rent-based system until Emperor Wu of the Wei Dynasty.
Fu is calculated in Ding, including counting Fu, oral Fu, and updating Fu.
Suanfu is a head tax levied on people aged 15 to 56, with a tax rate of 120 yuan per person per year; oral tax is levied on children aged 7 to 14, with a tax rate of 23 yuan per person per year; Gengfu is a kind of
According to the Han system, all adult men were required to serve for the government. Those who were unwilling or unable to serve in person could pay the government to hire someone to take their place.
Closely related to the rent and tax system is the household registration system of the Han Dynasty, in which the government compiles household registration and registers the name, gender, age, and land assets of the households. Common people who are officially registered in the government household registration are called household registration and registration.
Household registration is the basis for the government to collect taxes, collect corvees, and military service.
Under the household system, peasants in the Han Dynasty had light land rents and heavy poll taxes, resulting in heavy burdens. In addition to normal corvee services, farmers also had to perform miscellaneous labor for the government, build roads, etc. The mausoleum of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty took 53 years to build.
, tens of thousands of farmers were expropriated. In addition, during the reign of Wang Mang in the late Western Han Dynasty, additional taxes and exorbitant taxes were heavy, and even those who used mountains, forests, rivers and swamps had to pay taxes.
Julu County is still following the old system at this time, but now that the autumn harvest has just passed, all the grain can be transported to the county town, and the granary in the county is so empty that it cannot even feed a mouse.
Just after the autumn harvest, it is time to sow seeds. In this year and age, food is everything. Although Wen Yuan still has more than half a year's food in hand, it will be enough if he returns to Luoyang. However, Wen Yuan has not planned to let history repeat itself.
For Lu Bu's left and right, for the long-term plan, reclaiming wasteland and cultivating fields is the only way to go!
At this time, the benefits of Wenyuan's choice of Julu as a base were shown. In the late Han Dynasty, land annexation was serious, the landlords and wealthy families were powerful, and the people lost their land and became tenant farmers. If you want to successfully settle the land, unless you are powerful, you will inevitably have to fight with others.
Create a battle between the powerful landlords.
This is why Wenyuan chose Julu!
Compared with other regions, Julu has a unique advantage in this regard! There are very few wealthy households in Xiaquyang, most of them are poor farmers who live in embarrassment. These people work hard all year round, and most of their gains are turned over to the government. However, compared to this time
Throughout the Han Dynasty, the lives of the people here were quite comfortable, because the Yellow Turban Uprising led by Zhang Jiao was located in Julu. At the beginning of the uprising, due to the haste, all the landlords and wealthy families in Julu were wiped out, but the uprising later failed.
, and due to a great plague in the second year of Zhongping, Julu's population suffered heavy losses, and many fertile fields were deserted and ownerless.
If we don’t plow now, then when will we wait? Wen Yuan decided in his heart that after the military system is rectified, we young and old men will join the battle to open up wasteland and cultivate!
Several young men were caught fighting for food. Zuo Shi worked hard and finally distributed weapons, military uniforms, and armors to the young men on the third day. Wen Yuan and Zhang Jia reorganized the army, still according to the Han military system.
, divide a thousand of them into two songs, Wenyuan, Zhang Jia each leads one song, all are infantry, set up a camp under the song, ten camp leaders, either as personal guards for two people, or selected from those with outstanding performance in previous training
When he came out, Zhang Nanjiao took a garrison of officers and soldiers each, and the garrison was divided into teams, sh, and corps. The selection of officers was based on the ranking of the training. In addition, dozens of people were selected from the supply troops to join the army and were selected from the entire army.
Three hundred people with height and arm length were awarded bows and arrows, and became the shooting team. Wen Yuan served as the captain for the time being, but it would be cheaper in time of war. Zhang Yu was also ordered to either send some of them to accompany him personally, or select them from among the young and strong, and give them fifty war horses.
Horses, form a scout team.
In this way, after reorganization, Wenyuan finally had a team that belonged directly to him.
To the south of Quyang City, a large camp has been set up here. A high platform has been set up outside the camp gate, and ten large drums have been erected under the platform.
With the thunderous beating of drums, teams began to assemble in the camp, then drove out of the camp gate and stood under the high platform.
Zhang Nan led his group of soldiers in the first group. He was wearing a brand new crimson military uniform, a pig iron dagger on his head, an iron armor, a knife across his waist, a long gun in his hand, and a tall chest and belly.
, raised high to the sky, with his subordinates behind him wearing military uniforms of the same color, covered with leather armor, but with no helmet on the head, no knife on the waist, and a crimson cloth headband.
Just after the two teams of halberdiers passed by, a team of poker players came out of the camp next. They had a black shield wrapped in cowhide across their left hands. There were ferocious monsters painted on the shields. They held their swords in their hands. They were also full of energy and high momentum.
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After the card players were two groups of spearmen. In this way, one group of infantry were all present. Then came another group of infantry, three hundred archers. As for the baggage soldiers, they were only issued old clothes and swords, and did not enter the venue.
Finally, Wen Yuan, dressed neatly, and Zhang Zha led dozens of people, including personal escorts and scout cavalry, into the venue.
As the drums rested, Wen Yuan wore a crown of armor and a large crimson cloak. The strong wind blew, and the cloak fluttered in the air. Wen Yuan stepped onto the high platform step by step, and stepped onto the high platform as firmly as if he were stepping on a rock. His eyes swept across,
More than a thousand soldiers stood there with bright flags and brand-new military uniforms, like a sea of blood. The sky that was still clear in the early morning was now covered with thick clouds, thickly blocking the bright mid-autumn sun. The sky was dark, and the atmosphere of murder in the school grounds was even stronger.
, on the outside, groups of troops patrolled back and forth to maintain order, and on the outside, nearly ten thousand people from Quyang surrounded the entire school ground.
At this time, it was the slack season for farmers, and many people had nothing to do, so they came to watch the excitement outside the school grounds. Wenyuan did not stop it, but hoped to deepen the feelings of his troops by letting the people watch the drills.
The school ground was solemn and solemn, and you could hear the drop of a needle. Wherever Wen Yuan glanced, although the queue was still scattered, every soldier straightened his chest and paid attention to his commander. After a month of training, everyone was in high spirits.
, After a long time, Wen Yuan smiled with satisfaction and said: "First of all, I want to tell you that after three rounds of rigorous selection, the rest of you have passed the test! From today on, you will officially become a member of our army.
Got it!"
"Ouch!" More than a thousand people shouted in unison!