Chapter II Declaration of Sovereignty
Although military governance is the top priority, it is an easy thing to accomplish. After all, the Tang Dynasty has already completed its military system and everything has its own veins. However, development is the most cumbersome and chaotic link.
Now Lingzhou has a total of about 30,000 surrendered Turks and more than 20,000 Turkish prisoners of war. Among the young and strong Turks who surrendered, they were all drawn into an army by Chen Ying to avoid the hidden danger of chaos in the local area. As for prisoners of war, under the management of Chen Ying's Hu governing Hu, they were also very stable. However, with the 54,000 people solving the problem of people settling in Lingzhou, plus the existing population of Lingzhou, Lingzhou has a population of more than 100,000, approaching the 150,000 mark. How to solve the problem of nearly 150,000 mouths to eat is an urgent problem.
More than 80,000 people are women, but in this era, Chen Ying used women as men and animals. However, these people had no other tasks except for the ragged clothes on their bodies. Let them go directly to reclaim land and land, and there was no feasibility to implement them.
The only way was to learn from Cao Cao to carry out military farming. Chen Ying naturally knew that the demise of Cao Wei was better than the collapse of the military farming system. In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, wars continued for years, social productivity was greatly damaged, land was deserted, population decreased sharply, and food shortages, forming serious social problems. After Cao Cao occupied Qingzhou, there were millions of refugees without wealth in Qingzhou at that time. At this time, Cao Cao established the military farming system, which was to use 60 people as a village, the government provided farming tools and seeds, the people provided manpower, and the income from farming. The government's government had six farmers and four farmers.
In the late Cao Wei period, the exploitation of military farms increased and the distribution ratio reached the level of eight officials and two people, which caused the escape and resistance of military farmers. The military farm land was constantly occupied by the family and wealthy families, so the military farm system was gradually destroyed. However, Chen Ying had to adopt the military farm system.
Because these are no other choice. Of course, Chen Ying did not copy Cao Cao's military farm system directly, but built collective farms based on the Baojia system based on the fort. The government provided seeds, tilling tools, livestock, and collective creation. What Chen Ying improved was that this collective farm was not permanent, but had a certain time limit.
Seeds, ploughing tools, and animals are all discounted. The interest rate is calculated at 20% per year. According to the basis of the voluntary principle signed by the people, it is divided into three or five years. The seeds, ploughing tools and animals are repaid. If a farmer receives ten voluntary support and pays them back in five years, he needs to repay twenty voluntary. If the interest rate is high, even Chen Ying is speechless, because in this era, even the most conscientious landlords borrow from outside will have a minimum interest rate of 30%. Passing will also make a profit, which is already the most conscientious interest.
Even though Chen Ying had more than 20,000 Turkic prisoners of war in his hands could provide human resources in mining coal mines, iron ore, and blast furnace steelmaking, building farms, accumulating fertile fields, purchasing livestock, building tillage tools, building water conservancy facilities, road construction, and the construction of gathering villages and towns all require long-term continuous investment.
In the next period of time, Lingzhou not only increased its investment and reclaimed wasteland for military farms to farm, the most important thing is to build various workshops.
In the early stage, in order to resettle refugees, it was inevitable to build village forts, town forts and buildings. After all, Lingzhou was directly covered by the Turkish soldiers. If the Turks took risks and broke through the defense line of the Dingyuan Army, it would cause devastating losses. For this reason, Chen Ying had to delay the construction of the blast furnace and give priority to burning bricks to the coal mined by Turkic prisoners of war.
Lingzhou Governor Yang Ze and Chen Ying and Xu Jingzong discussed it many times in a row. After careful calculations, they finally concluded that in order to complete the construction of 180 villages and forts in the 18 town forts, the investment in bricks and tiles alone would be as much as 60,000 to 70,000 yuan, but Chen Ying had no money in his hands.
Chen Ying did seize a lot of money in the battle of Lingzhou. However, in addition to paying 40% of the results to the court and fulfilling the rewards of the soldiers who have made meritorious service, Chen Ying could spend no more than 30,000 guan. Of course, this does not include the expenses of nearly 20,000 soldiers.
The weather gradually warmed up and the people were rushing to reclaim the land. However, the treasury that was about to bottom made Chen Ying helpless. Although Yang Ze asked the court to ask for support, Chen Ying knew that the landlords in Chang'an did not have much surplus grain now, and it was the court's greatest effort to allocate 100,000 stones of grain to Lingzhou.
Seeing that Chen Ying was at a loss, Xu Jingzong proposed a bad idea to Chen Ying: "Pick a few big families, frame them and collude with enemies, and then leave them in (the meaning of raiding the house) their property!"
Chen Ying refused almost without thinking.
What a joke.
It is a habit of many families not to put all the eggs in one basket. It is a big proposition to pass on the family forever. Under this proposition, there is no surprise that the two brothers are scattered in the two camps and are fighting with blood.
Take the Zheng family in Xingyang for example. Zheng Guanyin married Li Jian as a wife, but Zheng Jibo, the original clan of the Zheng family in Xingyang, supported Wang Shichong, while Zheng Shanguo supported Li Mi. In the uncertain situation in the world, no matter whether Li Mi, Li Yuan or Wang Shichong wins the world, the Zheng family can carry forward the world.
Each of them is a good fig leaf for their masters. Even if one brother kills another brother, isn’t there another brother alive? The family can survive for a few years. This is an ancient wisdom, although it doesn’t seem so heroic, and it is better to survive than anything else.
If Chen Ying really dared to break this fig leaf, it would be that the sky would break the hole. Chen Ying would become the public enemy of the family of the world. I am afraid that Chen Ying had just confiscated someone else's house, and Li Yuan would then confiscate Chen Ying's house.
However, Xu Jingzong finally pointed out a way for Chen Ying.
The fastest way to get rich is actually not to speculate in stocks or real estate, but to openly rob. Chen Ying himself was caught in a misunderstanding. Although he had no money, he had an army of 20,000. If he released these 20,000 troops, he could gain a lot.
Thinking of this, Chen Ying immediately had an idea: "Mr. Xu is really a talented person, and he hits the nail on the head!"
When Xu Jingzong heard this, he was a little confused.
Chen Ying did not explain, but immediately attracted Yu Guni, Ashinasmo and Chen Jinyong. When the three of them hurriedly returned from the training ground, Chen Ying said straight to the point: "Where is the border line where the army scouts patrol at present?"
Asunasmo looked at Chen Ying in surprise and said, "According to the general's original order, we will reach the foot of Helan Mountain in the west, the Great Wall in the east, and the Huaiyuan in the north!"
Chen Ying shook his head and said, "Huaiyuan is the territory of our Tang Dynasty. If the energy is warming up today, the Turks can no longer stay and send someone to go through Asanu Liver to let him withdraw from Huaiyuan, otherwise the consequences will be borne by themselves!"
When he heard that Chen Ying was about to beat the Turks, Yu Guni shouted excitedly: "My master, your loyal servant will do it right away!"
Chapter completed!