Exiting Shanhaiguan is the boundary of Liaodong. This place is obviously different from Hebei in Guanli.

First of all, each village still lives in the village, and each village has walls and trenches. Ten years later, the people of Liaodong still have a strong sense of crisis. The wooden cities that were hastily built back then have now been turned into brick and stone walls.

There is a flag with black characters on a red background on the city wall, which rustles when the wind blows.

Although the city wall is useless, the people of Liaodong still stubbornly built the city wall. Every village is a fighting fortress. Under the city wall, in front of the village gate, there are half-year-old children holding red tassel guns standing guard. When they see strangers

He came up and asked cautiously.

In the archery tower above the walled city, there were guys wearing dog-skin hats and carrying firecrackers, looking down at the road from a high position.

In the distance, there are groups of villagers working in the fields under the leadership of the village chief. It is still the original production team model. Most of the villagers here are immigrants from the pass. There are residents of Liaodong whose families were ruined by the Tatars, and some who worked as workers in the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

A homeless beggar.

The huge mental trauma and homeless life made them full of a sense of crisis. Wherever these people go, they are like cats with persecution delusions. The collective life makes them feel strong, just like wandering lone wolves who have found acceptance.

their wolf pack.

The collective consciousness has a strong vitality in the land of Liaodong. At first, they relied on the collective consciousness and the simple walled city to resist the harassment of the Jurchen Rangers. Now, they are carrying out collective labor under the influence of the collective consciousness.

The land belongs to everyone, and so does the harvest.

Originally, Li Xiao thought that in such a situation, there would always be lazy people. No matter how hard-working a group is, there are still a few parasites who like to get something for nothing. What he saw surprised Li Xiao!

"Brother, what are you looking at?" Li Hao asked strangely when he saw Li Xiao constantly looking into the ground. He didn't understand what was so good about loose soil.

"Why is there no one lazy?" Li Xiao muttered strangely.

"Uh...! Someone must be lazy?" Li Hao didn't understand why Li Xiao thought so.

"In this kind of collective labor, there are always some people who think that if they do more, they will do less. Secretly, there are always people who want to do less, but why can't we see it here?"

"Commander! There are second-rate men everywhere, but I'm afraid they're hard to find here in Liaodong." Xiong Cilu dared to talk now because he had a drink with Li Xiao yesterday. Along the way from Shanhaiguan to Jinzhou, he and Li Hao were about to die.

The two brothers are very familiar with the situation here.

"Oh! Why is this?" Xiong Cilu's words aroused Li Xiao's interest.

"Commander, you don't know, there used to be second-rate people in the village. The village chiefs' way of dealing with the second-rate people was to call for public discussion and drive him out of the village on the coldest day." Dogs froze to death in 3949. This is Liaodong.

When it's the coldest, the ground freezes to pieces.

A person freezes in the wild for a night, and can only survive by walking and running. The next morning, the villagers will pick him up. At this time, no matter how lazy the second-rate man is, he will cry bitterly and beg his elders.

Folks, let him go and work hard from now on.

"Then he pretends to have changed his mind and is still lazy when it comes to work in the summer. What should we do?" Li Xiao was even more confused.

"Commander! No one dares to do this. The entire Liaodong has a strict household registration system. Even if they are visiting relatives, few people stay overnight. Therefore, it is impossible for these people to leave the village. Because if they leave the village, they will have no place.

shelter.

Since he can't leave, the lazy man can only stay in the village. When winter comes again, he will be driven out of the city again. No one will save him the next day, and these people will fend for themselves in the wild. Now

There are fewer such things, and Brother Hao and I have never seen them. But people say that in the first few years, frozen corpses could be seen on the road, and no one collected them. They were just waiting for wild wolves and dogs.

The ones that were eaten were chewed up, and the ones that died were miserable.

Tell me, who would dare to do this when you have a baby?"

It turns out that this is the case. Li Xiao finally understood. The strong household registration system firmly controls these people in the village. Even when they go out to attend a fair, they need a guide, otherwise even the children's league members will not be able to pass.

In fact, when such a policy was formulated, it was out of fear that these refugees, who were already refugees, would escape. Unexpectedly, it had such benefits.

"Then if the village chief wants to punish someone, isn't that person dead?" Li Xiao immediately remembered the bully village chief who appeared in Jizhou.

"Brother, you can rest assured on this one. There will never be that kind of bully village chief here! Because these people are refugees from all over the world. Among them are people from Liaodong, Guanzhong, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, and even

There are also people from Jiangnan who came here.

With so many refugees together, there is no possibility of clan influence within the country. The village chiefs here are all elected by the villagers. They are basically people of high moral standing and good conduct. The kind of bully village chief you mentioned

, you absolutely can’t have fun here.”

"Oh! So that's it." Li Xiao nodded, but he didn't expect that he accidentally broke the barriers of clan power.

These people were originally displaced refugees who migrated all the way from Guan Nei to Liaodong. The strong clan itself had fallen apart in the process of fleeing. If they wanted to reorganize themselves, it would probably take another three to five hundred years to form.

"Moreover, village chiefs are re-elected every two years. Village chiefs who have been elected three times in a row are not allowed to be re-elected in the future. Therefore, there are not so many dirty things here in Liaodong. Moreover, most of the local officials in Liaodong are demobilized officers from the Liao Army.

There are also some local scholars from Liaodong.

Liaodong has been despised by the imperial court, and the literati here are naturally not favored by the Donglin Party. Therefore, they and the scholars selected by the Donglin Party in the pass cannot urinate in the same pot." Li Hao also gave it.

Li Xiao explained, proving that he has not been idle this year.

"So that's it!" Li Xiao nodded. It's rare that the hot land of Liaodong still retains this innocence.

"In the past two years, the imperial court has been recruiting troops, and Liaodong has been the most active place to recruit. You see, the people working in the fields are mostly women, old people and half-grown children. There are men who are also middle-aged people in their forties. The officials are for

To reward Liaodong, it was stipulated that only one percent of the harvest in Liaodong's land should be turned over. If it was a flood year, their money and food would be exempted.

The people here only know that there is Big Brother, but they don’t know that there is a court. If they know that the person walking on the road is Big Brother, countless people will surely come to the roadside to kowtow to you!" Mentioning these,

Li Hao's face was very proud.

The person everyone admires is their elder brother.

"Taizong of the Tang Dynasty once said that water can carry a boat but also capsize it. Since these people have contributed to the imperial court, they should be rewarded. Furthermore, military dependents should receive preferential treatment. It is not just lip service, but preferential treatment.

You need to give real benefits.

During the Chinese New Year and festivals, local authorities have to beat gongs and drums to send money and food to military families. Every household must have a plaque saying it is an honor to join the army. In the future, when seeing a doctor, when children go to school, and when traveling by public carriage, military family members will have to give priority.

Okay. Soldiers bleed in the front, and the court will never let their families shed tears in the rear." Li Xiao thought that he would have to ask Ai Husheng to handle this matter after he returns, because this guy can always make money.

When passing by a village, a young boy as strong as a calf at the door blocked the way with a red tassel gun.

Before Li Xiao could say anything, Xiong Cilu rushed forward. He took out a token in his hand and handed it to the young men.

Seeing the token in Xiong Cilu's hand, the young men immediately stepped aside to the side of the road and saluted the respectful group of people.
Chapter completed!