Not long after Tang Xiangjin and He Liu left, Liao Qing brought another person up.

Shao Xue, Chief Internal Affairs Officer of Prince De's Mansion.

"Qianhu, how should the rent in the mansion be collected this year?"

Shao Xue said humbly: "It's already the middle of the month, and the Chinese New Year will be here in one and a half months."

There was still fear in his lowered eyes. This was the first time in his life that he had seen someone like Su Hao kill King De's entire family without even leaving any way for him to escape.

"How was the tenant rent of Prince De's Mansion collected in the past?"

Su Hao tapped the handrail lightly with his fingers. After taking over the properties of Prince De's Mansion and Tong Family, he had a total of 1.4 million acres of land in his hands. Nearly half of the entire Jinan Mansion was in his hands. Last time

The rewards and the recruitment of new soldiers have only used a few hundred thousand acres, and now there are still more than 1.2 million acres of land left.

Shao Xue bowed and said: "Qianhu, the previous tenancy rent was one stone and three bushels for the upper fields, nine bushels for the second fields, and seven bushels for the inferior fields."

"Is that much?"

Su Hao frowned. Ancient times were no better than modern times. There were hybrid varieties and chemical fertilizers. In this era, the grain yield per acre was not high. Even the best farmland usually only cost a little more than two dan. There were very few with more than 2 dan and 5 dou.

Tian even only has one stone, three or four buckets.

According to the tenancy rent of Prince De's Mansion, this is 50% of the yield per mu. After a year, renting ten acres of land will leave at most about ten shi of food. Even if a normal adult eats less, he will still have about three or four shi.

, that is to say, an adult must cultivate at least four or five acres of land to support himself.

The common people not only pay rent, but also perform corvee labor. It is common for a strong man to serve for several months. It can be said that after a year, there is not even enough for himself. Most tenants have to borrow money from Prince De's Mansion.

To survive.

"Thousand households, that's not too much anymore. The only land that can be collected from tenants in the government is the more than 400,000 acres around the city. No one dares to collect land from other counties."

Hearing this, Shao Xue said quickly.

"Don't worry about this, I will send someone to collect it."

Su Hao said calmly, naturally it is impossible for all the land in Prince De's Mansion to be around the city. Most of it is in various counties, and there are even some in other prefectures. Now that he is a traitor, those county magistrates will not let him easily.

Tenants have been received, but there are no soldiers stationed in those counties. They only need to send some troops there, and the county magistrates probably don't dare to go out of the city to stop it.

After a pause, Su Hao continued: "Tell the tenants that if someone in the family is willing to join the Skitarii, the rent will be reduced by half. If two people join, the rent for this year will be free of charge."

"Young man, let's go right here."

Shao Xue nodded quickly.

Seeing Shao Xue leaving, Su Hao narrowed his eyes slightly. Although it was just a matter of his words to reduce or reduce the rent, it was not impossible even if he did not collect the rent, but he did not do so. Since ancient times, it has been easy to show kindness to the people.

, but those ordinary people may not necessarily be grateful, because those ordinary people will only think that they should have things that everyone has.

Maybe at the beginning, the people will burst into tears of gratitude, but as time goes by, they will slowly forget and think that everything is what they deserve.

Before the people’s wisdom is awakened, the gratitude of the people is the least valuable. This is his most profound realization in the past half month!…

From ancient times to the present, all promising kings have said that the people are more important than the king. However, for thousands of years, the die-hard supporters of imperial power have been the gentry class, even the gentry, such as Ying Zheng, Liu Bang, Li Shimin, and Zhu Yuanzhang.

The emperors who are said to be one emperor throughout the ages also rely on the gentry class to rule the world, or it would be more appropriate to say that it is a community of interests, a community of the same interest class as the imperial power.

What he has to do now is to draw more people into his community of interests. As long as they enter this circle, the other party may not be loyal to him, but they will definitely be loyal to their own interests.

As for the common people, after he occupied Jinan Prefecture, he had abolished the "three rates" and other weird rates. He had given enough kindness, but because of this, there were not many yeoman farmers and small landowners who joined the Skitarii.

Those who joined the Skitarii were basically tenant farmers who came for two acres of land and exemption from corvee taxes.

As for enlightening the people's wisdom and making them able to read and recognize words, for him now, this is really too far away.

On the one hand, the imperial court's policy of obscuring the people has been deeply rooted in people's hearts for thousands of years. On the other hand, the cost of education is too high. Children under the age of seven basically cannot learn many words, and those over the age of seven are already considered a labor force.

It is difficult for ordinary people to bear the loss of one labor force. Not only does it require one less labor force, but it also has to bear the cost of the labor force's education. Even if it is not full-time study, part-time study is an extremely heavy burden.

What's more important is that in this era, transportation is inconvenient, and there are very few opportunities to write letters. Apart from taking the imperial examination, there is no other way out for reading and literacy. There are even fewer people who can work as accountants for others.

Zhenlu attaches great importance to education, Zhu Yuanzhang attaches more importance to it than any previous emperor, and social studies are opened directly to the villages. However, now, except for the clan studies of the big families, most of the social studies have been abandoned, and the people have no idea of ​​reading and literacy.

Because the only use of reading and literacy is to take the imperial examination, but it is difficult to pass the imperial examination, let alone half-time or full-time study. In fact, the people's desire for knowledge is not small, but in the face of real life, people's desire for knowledge is not small.

We can only worry about the real life in front of us first.

If you want to popularize education, the only way is to be literate. Only when reading and literacy are useful and have a future, people will take the initiative to learn instead of relying solely on force. Simply forcing cannot open up people's wisdom. After all, useless things are very useful.

Few people will invest time and energy.

On the other side, Tang Xiangjin and Liang Pingping, who had returned to Texas, immediately began to organize troops to assemble in Linqingzhou.

………

Dongchang Mansion, Mansion Office.

"Two commanders, the spies I sent to Linqing Prefecture just now reported that the rebels are already gathering, and it seems they are preparing to attack Fucheng. The two commanders can defeat the rebels and take back Linqing Prefecture."

Jiang Renxi had an anxious look on his face, but he was smiling in his heart. He sent people to Jinan Fucheng a few days ago to ask for reinforcements, but the transfer orders and reinforcements did not arrive. Instead, he waited for news that Su Hao had rebelled and Jinan Fucheng had been captured.

Previously, Shao Kun and Pan Ding both refused to send troops because they had no orders. Now that the other side has taken the initiative to attack, Shao Kun and Pan Ding definitely have no excuse to continue to refuse to send troops...

He had asked spies to check before. The rebels who occupied Linqing Prefecture took advantage of the military attachés of Dezhou Guard, Dezhou Left Guard, and Linqing Guard to attack the two places at the dock crossing.

The rebels themselves did not have much combat power at all, and many of the soldiers were recruited from the three guards of Linqing. Most of the others were newly recruited. If they could recover Linqing Prefecture and Dezhou before the imperial army arrived,

, that is a great contribution.

"Governor Chiang, the rebels are coming to attack. We should defend the city and wait for the imperial army to arrive. Then we can attack them from both front and back and destroy them in one fell swoop."

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Hearing Jiang Renxi's words, Pan Ding frowned and said, "Dongchangwei has not been on the battlefield for more than a hundred years. If we attack rashly, if it fails, the consequences will be disastrous."

The main responsibility of the Pingchang Guard is to ensure the safety of Dongchang City and to escort the grain. When Xu Hongru made such a big fuss, the court did not mobilize the Dongchang Guard. Now let him lead the Dongchang Guard to quell the rebellion. Isn't that a joke?

Once defeated, one's property and one's life will be at stake, so it is better to defend Dongchang Mansion. In this way, even if there is no merit, there will be no fault.

"Yes, Governor Chiang, the imperial court should be organizing troops to attack at this time, why should we fight for this moment and a half."

Shao Kun also hurriedly advised Jiang Renxi. He also knew what Jiang Renxi was thinking. He just felt that Su Hao had raised troops in a hurry and his troops didn't have much combat power at all. He wanted to take this opportunity to make a contribution. After all, Su Hao massacred De Wang's family.

, today must be full of rage. If he can make his first contribution, Jiang Renxi's future will surely be smooth sailing.

However, civil servants like Jiang Renxi had no military experience. They only took it for granted that they were the regular army of the imperial court and the other party was a group of improvised uprisings.

With the combined forces, only the Dongchang Guard and the Pingshan Guard need to send troops, they can easily defeat the opponent.

Jiang Renxi didn't want to think about it. If the guard really had such strong combat effectiveness, how could Xu Hongru's troubles have been so big?

Hearing that Shao Kun and Pan Ding were still trying to evade, Jiang Renxi became angry and said coldly: "Two commanders, now Su Hao is stealing grain. If the other party controls the canal, the millions of stones in Dezhou and Linqing Prefecture will be lost."

It’s hard to protect the grain from the Cao Cao. If the grain from the Cao Cao is lost, don’t blame me for taking a copy of you.”

"Governor Chiang, this..."

Hearing the threat in Jiang Renxi's words, Shao Kun and the other two also panicked. Now that the court was rich and powerful, if Jiang Renxi really got involved with them and blamed them for the loss of grain, they would most likely be in trouble.

After a moment of rapid thoughts in his mind, Pan Ding said quickly: "Prefect Jiang, although those rebels are just a mob, there are many first-class warriors in the opponent's army. It will be difficult for us to deal with so many masters. If we are killed by the opponent's charge,

General, I'm afraid it will be a total defeat."

"This problem is not difficult. There are many experts in the Jinyiwei Yamen of Dongchang Prefecture. I will ask Zheng Qianhu to lead people to help. There are also many experts in the city. I will visit you and ask them to help.

.”

Jiang Renxi said calmly.

"Since the prefect has made a plan, I have no other opinions."

Hearing this, Pan Ding could only sigh and said, Jiang Renxi had already said this, what else could they do? If they did not obey the order and Jiang Renxi handed over an impeachment letter, they would have to bear the blame for the loss of grain.

"In this case, I hope the two Qianhu can gather their troops and give this group of rebels a head-on blow!"

Seeing the two of them surrendering, Jiang Renxi nodded with satisfaction.

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Chapter completed!