In the winter of November, the weather had become cold. There had been a light snowfall a few days ago. The snow water soaked into the ground and the land was as hard as bricks. Wen Yuan saw that it was difficult to continue the land reclamation, so he ordered it to stop.
However, after nearly two months of hard work, Wenyuan and more than 3,000 people have cultivated a total of 120,000 acres of fertile farmland. The natural next step is to divide the fields.
Dividing farmland is definitely a major event, which directly determines the stability of people's hearts under Wen Yuan's rule. Wen Yuan thought over and over again and decided not to adopt Cao Cao's future method of dividing farmland into public land, but to completely allocate the land to the soldiers of the sergeants for farming.
Thoroughly mobilize the enthusiasm of your peasant soldiers!
Cao Cao's farming system, there are two types of farming in Cao Wei: civilian villages and military villages. Every 50 people in civilian villages are one village, and there are Sima in the villages, and above them there are Diannong Duwei, Diannong Xiaowei, Diannong Zhonglangjiang, and they are not affiliated with the county.
County. The harvest is divided between the state and the country: those who use official oxen, the official 6 and the civilians 4; those who use private oxen, the official and the civilians divide 50%. Farmers are not allowed to leave the farmland at will. The military camp consists of soldiers, 60 people per battalion, guarding on one side and farming on the other.
.Cao Wei's farming operations played an important role in resettling refugees, reclaiming wasteland, and restoring agricultural production, creating material conditions for Cao Cao to unify the north.
However, although Cao Cao's farming system made an important contribution to resettling refugees and building up people's strength, in Wen Yuan's view, it was still too exploitative. Farming farmers were tied to the land and had no freedom of status, while farming soldiers had even more hardships.
In the late Cao Wei Dynasty, the amount of farming exploitation increased day by day, and the distribution ratio reached a level of 8 officials and 2 civilians, which led to the resistance and flight of a large number of farming soldiers and civilians, leading to the gradual destruction of the farming system.
To be honest, after becoming the county magistrate of Quyang, Wen Yuan's sympathy was a little overflowing. Originally, he was never the kind of person to meddle in other people's business, but when he saw the dilapidated situation of Quyang, with ragged underwear on the streets,
I'm afraid no one among the people who are sallow and thin will be happy.
Although Wen Yuan now has some soldiers and some power, Wen Yuan does not want to be Gongsun Zan who will be trapped in Yi Jing in the future. He wants to live a nourishing life, and the people's heart is naturally a point that must be grasped.
Therefore, Wen Yuan, who has some overflowing sympathy, deeply feels the difficulty of survival in this world. Although he is currently unable to make more people live more stably, at least in Quyang, Wen Yuan feels that he must do something.
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Therefore, Wenyuan decided that all reclaimed wasteland should be used as private land!
There are many benefits to dividing private land. First of all, because it is private land, there is no need for official supervision at all, which saves a lot of resources. Moreover, because it is your own land, the more you work, the more you get, so each household must have worked hard.
The hard work of the children is incomparable with the enthusiasm of serving the public land. The most important thing is that in this era, land is the lifeblood of the people. With such a piece of land, all those who oppose Wenyuan will become Cong Wenyuan.
Are the soldiers under his command taking away their jobs? Are these soldiers going to do what they want without risking their lives?
Moreover, it is said to be private land, but in fact it is not his own land. He decided not to hand over these private lands to the prefectures and counties, but deposited them all in his own small treasury. The military households under him were all his tenants, so he could obtain a large amount of money.
With food, military households under control can live in peace.
Dividing fields is the most important part of Wenyuan's entire military and political organizational structure! The huge impact of such a big killer is definitely enough to shake the entire world! Wenyuan is looking forward to this.
However, there are also difficulties in implementing the land allocation system. The biggest difficulty is lack of money! It costs money to cultivate wasteland, eat people and chew horses. In the past few months, just supplying food and drink to nearly 5,000 people has already made Wenyuan very anxious.
Next year's spring plowing, seeds, plowing cattle, and farm tools will be a huge expense. What's more, there is no harvest for more than half a year from spring plowing to autumn harvest. The people who farm the fields need to bear the money themselves.
More! The road to "money" is really difficult and dangerous! That's why in the troubled times of the late Han Dynasty, no force dared to be like Wenyuan.
Wen Yuan thought hard for several days but was at a loss, but he was extremely unwilling to let him brutally exploit the soldiers and civilians under his rule, so he simply said in his heart: "Fuck! If I don't have money, I will just rob or rob, as long as my fist is strong enough."
, I can’t believe that I can’t get any money or food!”
As soon as the news came out, the whole city was shocked! General Zhang spent a lot of manpower and financial resources, not leaving any of the reclaimed wasteland as public land, and giving it all to his soldiers!
On that day, nearly 3,000 people from Wenyuan's entire army gathered in the school grounds. More than 20,000 people from Xiaquyang put down their hands and came to watch. The school grounds, which were not too big, were surrounded by three floors inside and three outside. There were people everywhere.
The dark heads were rubbing shoulders one after another.
Although the weather was already very cold at this time, and there was still a thin layer of residual snow on the ground, the military households were in high spirits and were not afraid of the severe cold.
Wenyuan publicly announced specific measures to distribute farmland to households.
First, from today on, the military household system will be implemented for all soldiers who join the Wenyuan Army. Each military household will be given fifty acres of land at one time as private property. Military households do not need to pay rent to the court, but each military household
Every household must have a Dingkou to join the army and fight. After the father dies, the son succeeds, and the elder brother eventually succeeds the younger brother.
Second, all the reclaimed land will be loaned by the county government seeds, farm tools, and cattle for plowing in the next spring. Wenyuan, a military household that has no food stored, will also be loaned rice and grain, and the debt will be returned during the autumn harvest or paid to redeem it.
Third, in the first year of the autumn harvest, five measures of grain per mu of land were collected for military use, and one measure of grain was collected in the second year, and this pattern continued thereafter.
Fourth, all military households must move their relatives and dependents to Xiaquyang within one month. Military households without relatives and dependents will not be allocated fields for the time being.
The military household system began to rise in the Tang Dynasty, and was also known as the "Fubing system" at that time. This was also a reform measure that Wenyuan considered for a long time before deciding to implement it.
The conscription system and the compulsory military service system implemented in the Han Dynasty were only restored and the system was not yet complete, so there was a phenomenon that "you served in the army at the age of fifteen and returned only at the age of eighty" as mentioned in the Yuefu of the Han Dynasty. During the Three Kingdoms period, due to frequent wars, conscription was
The number of soldiers was even larger. For example, Cao Cao once "collected a million yellow turbans from Qingzhou and selected 300,000 of them as Qingzhou soldiers." Wu State also forced Shanyue to go out as soldiers, and there were hundreds of thousands of them found in history books.
As for the military household system, military registration and civilian registration are separated. Families listed in the military household registration have to send people to serve as soldiers for generations, while civilian households only pay rent and are not required to perform military service.
The advantage of the military household system is that military households own land and are not levied taxes. They only need to provide soldiers, serve as soldiers in wartime, and farm in their spare time. The army is self-sufficient, which greatly reduces the financial burden of the government and avoids the increase in the burden and burden on farmers due to the conscription system.
hinder agricultural production.
However, the military household system is not without its shortcomings. First, it is easy to be abolished. Once the country has been without war for a long time, military households will flee due to the enslavement of military officers, the robbery of military households’ wives and daughters, and the government sending additional miscellaneous servants. Over time, it will become
Too old and weak to fight, some officers concealed their escape or failed to report the death of military heirs, and privately occupied their land. In the late Tang Dynasty, due to the destruction of the military system, the Tang government had no war-worthy troops and could only accept the separatist rule of vassal towns. The Ming Dynasty
Even more so, in the mid-term, the rear guard could not fight and had to recruit a large number of troops. The Qi family army was the most famous at that time.
Furthermore, if the military household system has been implemented for a long time, the power of military nobles in charge of military households in various places will rise. For example, the Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen states in the Southern Dynasties were established by military coups. The grandfather of Tang Emperor Li Yuan was one of the Twelve Pillars of the Western Wei Dynasty and participated in Wagang.
Li Mi of the army was also a military aristocrat of Guanlong. In the Tang Dynasty, this situation finally evolved into the separatist situation of vassal towns starting from the "Anshi Rebellion" and continuing to the Northern Song Dynasty. It caused unprecedented divisions in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. Hereditary soldiers raised a group of
Criticize the arrogant soldiers who are difficult to control and strengthen the future.
Despite his shortcomings, Wen Yuan refused to give up food because of choking. Now that the world is about to be in chaos, in order to stabilize the morale of the soldiers under his command and make them fight bravely, it is inevitable to organize households and divide the fields. What's more, those who win the hearts of the people win the world. This is what it means.
Once word spreads about the great move that has won the hearts of the people, everyone will know that as long as they follow him, they will surely have a good life. When the people's hearts turn to him, wherever Wen Yuan goes, the people will still eat pots of pulp to welcome the king.
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Moreover, what Wenyuan implemented was not to copy the original military household system, but to combine it with the recruitment system. Only those who qualified in recruitment would become military households. After all, the elite soldiers were his top priority.
What's more, Wen Yuan did not intend to implement the military household system for a long time. Once the world was at peace, he would still dissolve the military households.
As for the levied land rent per mu, considering that the farming technology at that time was still quite extensive, not to mention one species per year, the yield per mu was only three or four dendrobiums. Even if Wenyuan's land was cultivated and cultivated, it was fertile land, and it was irrigated by the Hutuo River.
A far conservative estimate is that the yield per mu is only six or seven huks of dendrobium. Excluding a family of five and the production of food for a year, the seeds must be reserved and the rent paid. In this way, the family will have a surplus of more than 100 huks of dendrobium in one year. Even so, even if
Even in times of disaster, the military households under my command will not go hungry.
Moreover, although the tax per mu per mu was higher than the tax of thirty per mu in the late Han Dynasty, military households did not have to pay tribute other than land rent and only performed military service. The burden was still lighter than that of ordinary people.
Divided into 64 points, it is many times stronger.
Wen Yuan knows very well that the biggest dream of small farmers' families is to have a surplus of food every year, to be fed and clothed. If they can live such a life, they will risk their lives to follow you. Wen Yuan is very much looking forward to the future.
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Outside the school grounds, the atmosphere was quite lively.
A family member of a military household was moved and said: "General Zhang is a good man! He is really the savior of poor people like us! It is an honor for my family to be able to serve as a soldier with General Zhang!"
A farmer in his thirties said: "Yes, yes, it is promising to be a military householder under General Zhang. I just don't know when General Zhang will recruit troops again. Our big tiger will definitely let him go as well."
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The neighbor next to the farmer said: "Brother Xu, isn't your family just a big tiger with a single seedling? You are only sixteen this year, how can you bear it?"
"Why don't you want to give up? You have also seen that General Zhang is really good to us poor people. It is worth working for him! If our big tiger unfortunately dies, my mother-in-law and I will have another chance!"
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Every time a measure was announced, the sergeants in the audience shouted with joy. Even the more than 20,000 people in Quyang who were watching made uproar from time to time, and their eyes looking into the school grounds were full of envy.
After announcing the measures, Wen Yuan whispered and ordered his subordinates to start dividing the fields. The fields were distributed by lot. Every time a name was called, a soldier would go up to the high platform and draw numbers. Each person would have fifty acres, regardless of whether it was good or bad.
, absolutely fair and just.
Wen Yuan sat on the stage with a smile, watching the soldiers walk up to him to draw numbers. Each of them had an excited expression and carefully drew the numbers. When they walked in front of Wen Yuan, they were all grateful.
Many people prostrated themselves on the ground, and their eyes filled with excitement as they got a piece of land of their own.
Seeing this scene, Wen Yuan's throat became tight and his eyelids became sore. These are our hard-working and simple descendants of the Yan and Huang Dynasties! They have been cultivating and working in front of the loess for many years. What they want is so simple, as long as they can get two meals a day.
, as long as you give them a way to survive, they will be grateful and treat you sincerely.
But in this world, these poor people have been exploited by the big landlords and the big families, and they have no food and clothing. They are eventually reduced to tenant farmers, working in the landlord's manor all their lives, and even serve as their private tribe during wartime.
They don't even dare to die at home, they buy and sell their children, it's horrible.
As the saying goes: "In life, you have to work hard all your life, and in death, you have the worry of breaking your bones. If you don't make it when you are young, you will live in the ravines, marry your wife and sell your children."
If the people standing in front of us were a bunch of fat and oily wealthy people, Wen Yuan would definitely sharpen his knife and slaughter them together! But this group of extremely pitiful people stood in front of Wen Yuan. Ask yourself, are you willing to be so cruelly exploited?
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So Wen Yuan secretly decided that if he wanted to eat, he would eat the big ones, and if he wanted to kill, he would kill the aristocratic families!