After these soldiers from the Jizhou Army returned to their hometown, they were pleasantly surprised when they saw their 30 acres of land and several large tanks full of grain. They had never seen such a scene before!
It can be said that the Han Dynasty has been in decline since the Yellow Turban Uprising, and Jizhou was the hardest hit area by the uprising. In five years, turmoil spread to the entire Jizhou three times, each time causing a large number of deaths, but even with so many people
Due to the military disaster, Jizhou had to bear more than 30% of the taxes of the Han Dynasty. You can imagine the hardships of the people in Jizhou.
After Huangfu Song came to Jizhou, he had to raise an army of 200,000. Although Huangfu Song transferred the pressure of providing money and food to the nobles, the nobles would still transfer it to the people of Jizhou, which cost tens of millions of dans of food a year.
This is almost equivalent to half of the taxes paid by the Han Dynasty, and all these taxes fell on the people of Jizhou. The pressure can be imagined.
The Zhongshan Kingdom and other counties controlled by Huangfu Song were a little better, because due to the repeated pulls of the Yellow Turban Army and the Jizhou Army, the population of the four counties near the Taihang Mountains was not large, and most of Huangfu Song's soldiers came from these four counties, so there was little pressure on the local people.
a little.
But Jidong was under great pressure. Not only did they have to pay a large amount of grain as taxes every year, but they also had to do a lot of corvee work. It can be said that such high taxes and corvees kept the people of Jizhou busy all year round.
, but the income is still at a loss, and some of the property must be sold every year to support oneself. People without family property can only sell themselves as slaves!
In the past few years, Guo Li, a soldier who was born as a small farmer, sold his family's land to local powerful men. After Huangfu Song's defeat, the volunteer order began to spread throughout Jizhou, and the entire Jizhou had to recruit 200,000 new troops.
With the construction of fortifications to resist the Tengjia Army, the pressure on the already overwhelmed people of Jizhou became even greater. All the young and strong people in Jizhou were recruited by Jizhou officials, and the elderly and women who stayed behind had to build city walls and fortifications in various places in Jizhou.
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The heavy corvee quickly bankrupted the people of Jizhou, and they became serfs of the noble families in Jizhou to survive. So when Xu Wei and others attacked Jizhou, the entire land in Jizhou was controlled by hundreds of noble families in Jizhou!
The nobles of Jizhou exploited the people of Jizhou so cruelly, which is why the Tengjia Army was divided into thirty acres of land, and the Jizhou army had no morale at all. Because the nobles of Jizhou had exploited the people of Jizhou until they had nothing.
Guo Li of the Jizhou Army was one of the prisoners. His family was unlucky and his family was in the eastern region of Jizhou. As for the entire clan of Jizhou, it was the clans of the east of Jizhou who suffered the least damage and were the most powerful. The Guo Li family were originally farmers in Jizhou.
, my family has 40 acres of land, and I could barely survive after being busy for a year.
But since the Yellow Turban Uprising, his family's taxes have been getting higher and higher, and the heavy corvee has kept them from resting. In order to survive, their family's 40 acres of land have been sold continuously. In a few years, their family has nothing, and even
His two sisters were sold and their whereabouts are unknown now, but their family could not survive even if they tried their best. His mother starved to death in one winter, and only his father and son were left in the family.
Guo Li was young and strong and became a private soldier of the Cui family, while his father became a serf of the Cui family!
It was precisely because he had nothing that Guo Li did not want to work for the powerful nobles. When he was in Gaoyang City, he surrendered as soon as he saw the Tengjia Army! And for a small soldier like him, who had no bad deeds, the Tengjia Army gave him 100 yuan for travel expenses.
, let him go back to his hometown!
But this time when Guo Li returned to the village, his appearance was completely different. The village was full of busy sounds, the villagers were laughing and talking, and the whole village was full of vitality. He had not seen such a scene for several years.
Guo Li's return surprised his father! Other villagers in the village also looked at Guo Li happily and said: "It will be good to come back, it will be good to come back!"
Then Guo Li's father took him to see his family's 30 acres of land, and said with a happy smile: "Your father has been unlucky all his life, but this year finally luck came. Not only did he get 30 acres of land for free, but it was also irrigated land close to the river.
The yield of this land is at least more than 3 shi per mu. 30 acres of land can harvest hundreds of shi of grain. In the past, only powerful masters were eligible to own this land. Now it belongs to our family. I can also explain to your grandfather under Jiuquan.
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"With these fields, our family will be able to recover in a few years. The new village chief has already said that Qu Shuai is helping us dispatch the cattle on the grassland. We can go to the money bank to get a loan and buy cheap cattle. The village
The leader said that only through intensive farming can we increase the yield of food. Cattle are indispensable in our family. Our Tengjia Army occupies the entire desert and has more than millions of cattle in hand. It is not difficult to transfer some and the price is cheap. At most, we only need
You can buy a three-year-old strong ox for 4,000 yuan, and new-style curved-column plows and sickles are also not expensive. The curved-column plow only costs 300 yuan, and the sickle only costs 20 yuan, and these can be purchased with loans. Let us
Use it first! Pay it back after the autumn harvest!"
Guo Li was surprised and said: "Father, did you borrow usury?"
Usury is the usury of this era. It doesn't matter if the powerful people borrow it, but if ordinary people borrow it, their families will be destroyed. That's why Guo Li was so surprised! His family has just seen a little good life. Isn't this another case?
The family is going to be ruined!
But Father Guo smiled and said: "It's okay, this is what Qu Shuai lent to us. It only costs one penny a year and we can afford to pay it back. Our family now has 30 acres of land. If there is a good harvest, there will be hundreds of kilos of grain. Although the vines
Army A has to hand over 30%, but there are no other taxes and no corvee. We can still keep 70 shi of grain. We usually keep these grains for eating, and sell half of them to pay off the debt. It can be paid off in a year at most.
With this loan, we have cattle and land, and when our family builds a new house, you can marry a wife! Our old Guo family can continue the family lineage, and I have inherited my ancestors correctly. You will feel at ease when you come back this time
Stay at home and don’t go there!”
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Guo Li's joining the army made Guo's father worried, for fear that the white-haired man would send the black-haired man away! Guo Li's ability to escape death this time has already surprised Guo's father. He
I don’t want my son to leave me again.
At this time, a carriage came at the entrance of the village, and a scholar-like person shouted: "Someone come quickly and move these things to the warehouse!"
At this time, people in the village immediately ran to the horse to carry supplies!
Father Guo asked curiously: "What are these?"
The village chief smiled and said: "Cement is used to build water canals. Our village has too little irrigated land. I plan to turn all the land in our village into irrigated land. There are also some wood for making waterwheels. These are all vines."
The waterwheels are customized according to the standards of the military wood factory. You can assemble the waterwheels just by looking at the pictures. This pile of wood alone costs thousands of dollars. If they are easy to use, I plan to buy 10 such waterwheels, which will increase the land in our village.
It can all be turned into watered ground!”
"Thousands of dollars!" When the villagers saw this pile of wood, they couldn't believe that it was worth thousands of dollars. You should know that this can buy several stones of grain from the cooperative!
Father Guo complained: "Village Chief, you are spending money randomly again. There is so much money in our village!"
But the villager said calmly: "Of course I borrowed it from the money bank. Now our Tengjia Army is generally approving the entire Jizhou development, as long as it is a construction request. The money is so easy to borrow, why not borrow it! You are just too timid.
, everyone is trying their best to borrow money for development, but you don’t dare to borrow, and you can only watch others become rich in the future!”
"A water tanker like this can at least irrigate 300 acres of land. This can turn 300 acres of land into irrigated land and double the grain output. This is more than 400 stones of grain. This grain can be used by our Tengjia Army.
The purchase price of grain is also more than 4,000 yuan, and the water wheel can also help grind flour. We can also get some small nest wheels for spinning yarn, which is also a profit. In other words, it takes less than a year to build a water wheel.
Not only can we get our money back, but we can also earn several times more money! Why not do such a good thing!"
The village chief continued: "If everyone wants to be rich, they must find ways to increase productivity. These things I have made are used to increase the productivity of our village!"
But Guo's father was still worried: "But what if we still can't pay the money? Qu Shuai won't take our land back, right?"
The village chief smiled and said: "Now the Tengjia Army recruits civilians to build wooden rails, and the daily salary is 30 yuan. If we really want to pay back the money, we will build the tracks. A few days will be enough for us to pay back the money! We Tengjia Army are here
Once you get it, you will be able to make more money in the future! You don’t have to worry about not being able to pay back the money!”
Then the village chief saw Guo Li and was surprised: "What is this?"
Father Guo smiled and said: "This is my son, he just came back!"
The villager smiled and said: "It's good to come back. There is a shortage of young people like you in the village now. It's just the right time for you to come back!"
After saying this, the village chief went to other places to get busy!
Guo Li asked strangely: "The village chief doesn't seem to be from our village?"
Father Guo said: "This is the village chief sent by Tengjia Army. He is a man of great ability. He not only helped us divide the land, but also taught the children in our village to read and read, and helped our village obtain a large number of farm tools.
and supplies, and also led us to renovate our houses. Even the cattle we purchased were bought with the help of the village chief, otherwise we would not have dared to borrow money. Our village is what it is today, all because of the village chief!"
Guo Li suddenly realized that he had never expected that the village chief had done so many things for the village. No wonder his prestige was so high!
The next day!
The village chief led the villagers who knew carpentry skills and began to hammer and hammer. The remaining villagers also dug ditches under the guidance of the village chief. Guo Li, who had just returned, was a strong laborer and was assigned a shovel to dig ditches.
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Half a day later, a huge waterwheel began to appear in front of the villagers, and was placed in the river. The water flow drove the waterwheel to rotate, and then the river water entered the canal they had just dug, and then flowed into everyone's farmland through the canal. See
At this scene, the villagers cheered excitedly. Everyone understood the significance of watering the fields, which can double the village's food production!
When Guo Li returned to the village, he was very busy every day. He was either helping to repair the houses in the village or following his father to build a dock on the river. This was the new plan of their village chief. He wanted to build a small dock for the village. He said it was possible.
Increase the flow of people and make the village prosperous. No one understands the meaning of this, but they still follow it.
Although such days are tiring, Guo Li feels very satisfied as he sees his hometown getting better day by day, and wants to live such days forever!
Moreover, except for Guo Li, a young man in the village, other people in the village began to return to the village one after another. Every young man who came back made the villagers very happy!
A few days later, several herdsmen came to the village with hundreds of cattle, which caused a huge sensation. Everyone came to watch these cattle! This is a huge wealth, especially for farmers, cattle
Even more important than family!
The village chief went out to talk to the herdsmen, and then he said to everyone: "This is the cattle we ordered, one for each household. You must take good care of these cattle in the future and don't let them get sick!"
"Our cattle are really here!" Even after seeing these cattle, the villagers still couldn't believe that such a big animal belonged to them!
But the village chief smiled and said: "It's not too much for everyone!"
Only then did the villagers react, and one after another they selected the cattle they liked, and then built the cattle sheds in their homes, making these cattle members of their own families!
Guo Li looked at the cattle at the entrance of the village and sighed: "The Tengjia Army is really different from the noble families in Jizhou. King Lei Gong really stands with us poor people!"
Their village used to have only one cow, but it was later sold because of the hard life. The powerful nobles in Jizhou knocked their bones and sucked out the marrow. People in their village starved to death every year, but now the Tengjia Army helped them get hundreds of cows.
The cattle are used to help them farm. In comparison, it is not wrong to say that the Tengjia Army is a poor team!
With these cattle, the children in the village have their own tasks. They must start grazing the cattle every day at dawn, and the villagers also cut grass everywhere and build green feed ponds under the command of the village!
After the cattle came to their village, the village chief thought it was a big event and wanted to celebrate it, so he invited the Tengjia Army's cultural troupe to come to the village and perform for them!
But Guo Li and the others don’t know what acting is!
That afternoon, people from the art troupe came to their village, and then the people from the art troupe performed an opera called "The White-Haired Girl" in the open space!
After the performance, the whole village cried. This is the life they lived before. They have lived so miserable these years. Each of them can see their own shadow in this opera!
Guo Li was wondering if his two sisters were still alive now? Are they just like Xi'er, or even more miserable than Xi'er, no longer in this world?
Then they were filled with hatred for the rich and powerful. If the nobles had not oppressed them, their family would not have been ruined. This drama deepened Guo Li's hatred for the powerful, and at the same time, it also made them understand that if they did not eliminate the nobles, they would
The good days now will still disappear!
So on the next morning, the Jizhou Army soldiers who came back said goodbye to their parents and relatives. They ran to the Tengjia Army camp again and asked to join the army again. Because they knew that if they wanted to protect the good life now, they must defeat Jizhou.
The rich and powerful noble family, so that they can never come back again.