On November 6, the city of Jiangxia was destroyed, and at night, Zhao Ci committed suicide.
November refers to the lunar calendar. If it is the new calendar of later generations, it would be the end of December, which is already the depth of winter.
Fortunately, the battle was over. If the army was delayed, it would be miserable. The ancients said that if you don't fight in winter, send troops only in spring when the flowers bloom. Zhao Ci did not expect that Zhu Kui would send troops to attack as soon as he arrived in Hanyang. In fact, many of the defenders
The city's work was not done properly.
The group left the city gate, but today Zhu Kui personally sent Huang Zhong and Huang Zu back to their respective counties. When they came, they each brought 8,000 county soldiers, but after several battles, less than half of them returned home.
However, Guan Hai and the other three were asked to stay by Zhu Kui. He had already written to the emperor, saying that Jiangxia Fangping needed soldiers to stabilize the counties. At the same time, he wrote a letter to the new Nanyang Governor Zhang Zi to apologize, hoping that the remaining people would be killed.
More than ten thousand county soldiers gave it to him.
After all, after two years of recuperation, Nanyang was in better shape than Jiangxia, which had just been ravaged by Zhao Ci, and it was easier to recruit troops.
Based on Zhu Kui's quick victory once again, he believed that Ling Emperor Liu Hong would agree to his request.
At the gate of the city, Zhu Kui personally held Huang Zhong's hand and said, "Han Sheng's departure this time has been a smooth journey. I hope you can write more letters to me during your free time to express your love for me."
Huang Zhong's face twitched. Zhu Kui had been too enthusiastic in the past two days. He was walking around him every day, always expressing his hope that he would stay. Unfortunately, he was the captain of Jiangling County. How could he change his master at will?
Five boys.
He said goodbye to Huang Zu and the other two, saying: "Prefect, stop here. I'll wait for you two to say goodbye several times. Take care."
Zhu Kui had no intention of retaining Huang Zu. He hoped that when Liu Biao became the shepherd of Jingzhou, Huang Zu could initiate a historical event and kill Sun Jian with a single arrow, so that he would be able to suppress the rise of the two brothers Sun Ce and Sun Quan.
"Take care along the way."
Watch the reinforcements leave and return to the county.
Starting yesterday, the city reconstruction project has begun. All the damaged houses in the city have been demolished and empty. There are large piles of wood and stones piled up on some sites. In the distance, thick smoke billows from the earthen kilns, and there are adobe bricks from time to time.
Keep shipping it.
This is the first labor for the surrendered prisoners.
According to statistics, the homes of the rich in the city did not suffer much damage. After most of their money and food were confiscated, Zhao Ci and others let them go. However, the government troops attacked several times and demolished a large number of civilian houses in order to defend the city wall.
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House reconstruction refers to the homes of common people. Zhu Kui posted a notice to rebuild the homes without spending a penny on the people. All the expenses were deducted from the money collected by Zhao Ci, and they only had to help with the construction.
Zhu Kui also made some plans for house reconstruction. Taking the street as the line, there are identical houses on both sides, all made of adobe bricks. Each group has six households and one street has ten groups.
Every four streets intersect to form a district, and two districts form a square. They are symmetrical and have 3260 households.
In fact, many people in Jiangxia County and various counties were forced to be driven away by Zhao Ci, and one-third of the county's population was concentrated in the county town.
It is planned to complete the reconstruction of the county and city first, and then slowly rebuild the fourteen counties in various places.
The Sheriff's Mansion did not suffer any damage. After half a day of repairs, it was ready for move-in.
Zhu Kui has sent a thousand soldiers to Jiangdong and is preparing to bring his wife and children to Jiangxia.
In the study, several personal guards were working on the carpentry, lifting saw nails, tearing down the back wall, just like Moling's hometown, and building a secret room in the back.
During the Qin and Han dynasties, the numbers of land acres in household registers were calculated using 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. What he wanted to do was to take advantage of Zhao Ci's military chaos to secretly change the land registers and assign ten to two to each large household with thousands of acres of land.
The farmland, ranging from 100 to 100 years old, is unowned farmland in preparation for attracting refugees from various places to resume farming and restore people's livelihood.
You must know that in this era, apart from farming, civilians did not have many other occupations to choose from. When the war subsided, many refugees would return to their hometowns. If the wasteland was reclaimed, a large number of people would starve to death...
With the fertile land under the names of these big families, coupled with some reclamation and tax-free policies, Zhu Kui is confident that in the next summer harvest season, with God's blessing, he can barely restore the prosperity of Jiangxia to the pre-war level. After all, the impact of this rebellion is not large.
As for the interests of the big households that have been harmed, the land deeds in their hands will not be recognized as long as the soldiers come to the door, and will only be based on official records. I believe that they, who are wealthy, will swallow this tone. After all, this loss is not very big, otherwise it will be different from the new appointment.
It is not a wise choice for the governor to resist forcefully.
Zhu Kui spent several days and nights to finally round up all the big households, and found two civil servants to sort it out. He would first implement it in the county and city area, and then gradually spread it to the whole county.
Half a month later, Guan Hai led a group of soldiers and set off with a roster in hand, using his face as the most detestable to intimidate these rich men who smelled of copper.
In Jiangxia County, the Su family is the largest tenant farmer family in the city. Although their assets are not the largest in the county, they have the largest number of acres. His family does not run any cloth tavern, but lives on more than 3,000 hectares of land and more than 200 households of tenant farmers.
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After several generations of management, the restaurant is comparable to that of Tinghou.
This was the first farm that Guan Hai visited. When the steward of the manor heard that someone had arrived, he hurriedly shouted to greet him.
Seeing the other party's flattering look, Guan Hai felt funny in his heart, but when I said what he meant, he couldn't laugh anymore.
"I am the captain of the field field under the command of the prefect. When I checked the acres today, I found that five hundred hectares of fertile land along the Yangtze River estuary originally belonged to the Zhang family. Because of Zhao Ci's rebellion, his whole family was killed. It should have been taken back by the government, but now it has been taken back by you.
The Su family seized it and came to ask for it today."
The steward was startled and didn't know what was going on. He carefully replied: "My lord, have you made a mistake? The five hundred hectares of farmland at the mouth of the Yangtze River have been passed down by three generations of my family. They all have land deeds issued by the government. What's going on? What's going on? What's going on?"
Someone else’s.”
"There is a land deed, let's take a look at it." Guan Hai said impatiently.
"Sir, please wait a moment. I will inform the master and bring proof." As the steward said, he grabbed the boy and ran back to the house quickly to inform the person in charge.
Guan Hai patiently sat down and drank tea. When he came, Zhu Kui told him that he should take his time in this matter, and that he should not be violent if he wanted to seize it. In fact, according to his heart, it would be better if he left harsh words.
After a while, a fat middle-aged man in brocade clothes came with two volumes of land deeds. As soon as he came up, he said: "My lord is blessed, my little Su Fei is so polite."
"The servants have just told me that this is a land deed in the Yangtze River Estuary. Sir, please take a look at it!" Su Fei picked up the slip and sent it up, spread it out, and pointed to a record.
Guan Hai glanced at it and made a show of it. In fact, he couldn't read. "You must have forged it. Look at my county record."
He ordered an accompanying literate clerk to open the forged field register and point out the revised records.
"What...what's going on?" Su Fei saw it and didn't know why. It was impossible. There were many fields in the countryside and outside that could prove this.
Just when he was about to argue, Guan Hai called out another soldier dressed as a farmer and said, "This is the neighbor of the family named Zhang. He can testify."
This soldier, with the aura of a soldier, said with standard military salute: "Subordinate... no... I am the neighbor of Mr. Zhang's house."
Since there was no rehearsal in advance, Su Fei immediately saw the flaw and was horrified and pointed out: "He...he is not..."
Now I saw that Guan Hai wanted to occupy fertile farmland. I wanted to explain, but I didn't know where to get in.
When Guan Hai saw that Zhu Kui had arranged for the two forged evidences to be presented, he felt that it was almost done and had to go to his next house to continue the performance.
"Okay, I have informed you of the matter. The general will send troops to take over the fields tomorrow. You should be prepared." He snorted coldly and led the people away.
After Guan Hai and others left, the steward carefully asked Su Fei, who was frowning, "Master, what should I do now?"
What can I do? I see that the other party wants to invade the land. Should I go to the prefect's house to file a complaint? I have no friendship with the new prefect at all. Whether I can see him or not is another question. Besides, whether he can be sued to death is another matter. Hearing that the other party is...
If the captain of the field camp, who claims to be a general, cannot sue to death, he will offend the other party, and he will often be in trouble in the future, which will be even more troublesome.
"That's all. Three hundred hectares of land is not harmful to our Su family. We spent money to eliminate the disaster at that time."
"Don't mention it again in the future," Su Fei warned.