Chapter 558: Creating households and granting farmland
Southerners are good at defense and water warfare, but are less good at other forms of warfare. Although aggressive field battles are not excluded, they are often special cases and require a well-known general to adapt to local conditions.
The Du brothers were probably not the best choices for famous generals, and the war between Xinxing and Nanyang counties ended very quickly. Not long after Linghu Yanbao led his army, Zhao Jingzhi, who had accompanied the army on the expedition, quickly returned to report the victory.
The elite cavalry of Jingzhou's troops first arrived at the north bank of the Han River opposite Xinxing County, which put the city's defenders on alert and urgently transferred troops from the nearby dock garrison to coordinate the defense of the city.
When the men and horses escorting the supplies from Xiangyang arrived, the defenders did not take precautions. Instead, they lured them into the city as reinforcements and put them into the city to coordinate the defense. The result was that the city was destroyed and people died.
After Xiangyang troops captured Xinxing County, they immediately used boats to extradite Jingzhou troops to the south. After the two sides met, they attacked Nanyang County City upstream and captured the city shortly after the battle.
When Zhao Jingzhi returned to report his victory, the situation in the two counties had basically stabilized. He only had to wait for a few more days of careful clearing before the troops could return.
Due to the sudden attack, the battle ended very quickly, so many people in the two cities were preserved and were not separated too much due to the war.
According to the registration records searched in the two cities and counties, the registered population in these two counties is about 3,000. Even if there are some dispersed households, the number of people admitted in the end will definitely exceed the number of registered households. This is because the number of households under the auspices of the Nanliang wealthy family is relatively large.
In the north, there is no need to make too many concessions, and many powerful tribes have disappeared.
After Li Tai heard the news, he couldn't help but smile. Now his Jingzhou is full of waste, and the most lacking thing is population!
Although he lost to Xiao Jin, the third generation emperor, in the fight for wealth before, Li Tai was not poor either.
The resources he can control and dispatch are far beyond those of Xiao Qing. Especially in recent years, the production bases and business networks he has planned to operate in Guanzhong, northern Shaanxi and Longyou are far more valuable than Xiao Qing.
Those frivolous wealth amassed.
Although today's Nanyang Basin is in recession, its natural resources and geographical location have not disappeared because of this, and it still has huge potential value. If you want to tap this value as soon as possible, someone must be there.
As the New Year approaches, some smaller-scale water conservancy projects have also been completed. The results will only be accepted after the spring flood season comes next year. By then, large areas of unclaimed wasteland will emerge. The sooner they are reclaimed, the faster they can be reclaimed.
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Although Li Tai has a series of decrees to be implemented targeting the local powerful tribes, the phased results are still unknown. Of course, he still hopes to have a definite increase in population.
During this period, with the reduction of county officials, the administrative capacity within the country was gradually improved. Li Tai even wanted to organize the barbarians into households and grant them farmland.
But this is not because he is engaging in racial discrimination. Regardless of their production skills, social organization and living customs, there are very few barbarians who can meet the household registration standards.
It should be noted that registering a household means granting land, and you need to bear the corresponding rent, taxes, corvee, etc. Only when you can meet these requirements can you be called a qualified household with equal land.
The barbarians were not familiar with the art of farming and weaving, so they might not even be able to support themselves if they reaped the harvest from their fields. They were highly dependent on their superiors and subordinates, and even if they had any income, they would present it to the chief instead of paying taxes to the government.
, one moment they were reorganizing households and assigning fields, and the next moment they were all dispersed, it was all a joke.
Barbarian groups often need to move to the plains and cultivate and adapt to the plains for several generations before they meet the conditions for establishing households and granting land. Even if they are organized into households for the sake of temporary political achievements, they will often be dispersed in the event of natural or man-made disasters.
Therefore, the barbarians were basically used for servitude in groups, and the individual value was not high. Even if they were available, they were only used as slaves and could not undertake more complex social division of labor and production.
Of course, if the social environment remains stable for a long time, the production and living resources in the region remain sufficient, and the government's supporting education and guidance decrees can also greatly shorten the civilization period of the barbarians, they will soon become no different from the Han people
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However, at present, Jingzhou under Li Tai's governance does not have the foundation to recruit barbarians on a large scale, whether in terms of people's livelihood or other aspects.
Therefore, if we want to increase the household population directly under the jurisdiction of state and county governments, it is more reliable to obtain it from the south, through war capture, through policy attraction, etc.
Of course, the latter takes longer, but it is not impossible. Many people between Jiang and Han had fled to the Mianbei area, and they may not miss their hometown at all.
Although there have been no large-scale military disasters in Nanliang for a long time, the society is stable and prosperous, but this is only for the upper class.
But in fact, the internal conflicts were probably even more acute than those of the Southern Dynasty, Song Dynasty and Qi Dynasty. After all, the upper echelons of the Song Dynasty and Qi Dynasty continued to compete with each other, and the ruling class was constantly being eliminated and changed.
There are old Bodhisattvas in Nanliang, the upper political environment has become stable, and filial sons and grandsons have also thrived. Although social productivity is also developing, and the total amount of wealth is increasing, the distribution method is becoming increasingly corrupt. Through a series of measures such as coinage and taxation,
Financial means are squeezing people's interests, and monk groups are growing year by year, which has also become a heavy social burden.
Hou Jingneng responded to the call in Nanliang territory, which was also an obvious manifestation that its internal contradictions had reached an extreme point. A large number of middle- and lower-class soldiers and civilians would rather follow an ambitious soldier who fled south than allow the descendants of the Xiao family to draw their blood.
As a leader of the Guanlong Army who accompanied the rise of the military system, Li Tai may not be considered a progressive class, but as a time traveler, he always maintains the concept of progress.
Therefore, for the people captured from the Southern Dynasties, he did not treat the captured people as slaves and slaves as was the usual practice before, but treated them as civilians and directly assigned them to households.
Perhaps among the concepts of the military and civilians in the Southern Dynasties, the Western Wei Dynasty represented barbarism and backwardness. The formation and transformation of concepts did not happen overnight, but it always needed to be done. There were many stirring stories of princes and generals in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, but no matter whether they rose or fell, the common people were the most innocent.
Shortly after Zhao Jingzhi returned, Linghu Yanbao and others also escorted the captives from the two counties back one after another. Li Tai had also arranged for state and county officials to prepare for the household registration of these captives. Although he gave these people preferential treatment, he did not give them freely.
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Although the common people are innocent, they also love blind obedience. At least they must know that this preferential treatment is hard-earned, and then they will know how to cherish the life they have obtained.
Therefore, when registering these captives, they must be asked to describe their miserable lives in Nanliang and accuse the officials who abused them. This step may seem simple, but it actually destroys the old authority in their hearts. If you think
Life in Nanliang was pretty good before, so there is no need to create households and grant farmland anymore. Come here and continue to have fun in hardship.
The naturalized households were organized into li and neighborhood, and people selected from the previous batch of Fancheng soldiers and civilians served as li and neighborhood chiefs. They were responsible for leading these newly registered households to stabilize as soon as possible and prepare for the equalization of land production. In addition, the previous complaint meeting will also continue.
Carry out, one neighborhood for five days, one mile for ten days. Only if you participate enough times, you can grant land grants and distribute agricultural tools, grains, seeds, etc.
Li Tai also sent state officials to randomly participate in these neighborhood mutual complaint meetings, and recorded the deeds of Nanliang's mismanagement reported by the residents. He planned to wait until the land transfer was completed and the townships were demarcated, and then these deeds were recorded in the villages, so that they could be recorded in detail.
All the villagers can deeply feel the political gloom in Nanliang and the miserable life. When compared with the current situation where farmers have land and live a stable life, they will naturally feel doubly emotional that the good life was created by Governor Li!
Jingzhou is busy with rural construction and ideological transformation, but Xiangyang seems to be relatively calm.
After the war between the two cities ended, Xiangyang sent the Jingzhou troops out of the country. Li Tai thought that Xiao Jin would send another envoy soon to discuss the next move. However, until the New Year came, there was no news from Xiangyang, which made people even more confused.
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What also puzzled Li Tai was Nan Liang's Northern Expedition in Huaibei. According to historical calculations, the results should have been achieved. He had previously sent people to Wang Sizheng's office to inquire about the news, but Wang Sizheng did not agree with this.
It's very clear, but there are only vague responses. It seems that the two sides are still in a confrontation.
Even though Li Tai was resourceful and resourceful, his eyes and ears were blind after all. Important things were happening where he couldn't see.
In the city of Jiankang, which is far away on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the winter is warm. Although it is slightly cool, it is not overwhelming. Today, Prince Xiao Gang hosted a banquet for scholars from Wende Province in the Xuanyou Hall of the East Palace.
The crowd in the hall was already drunk with wine, and they became more and more open-minded. They sang in various styles of writing and spoke loudly and loudly. Literature and metaphysics were the prominent schools in the Southern Dynasties, and the prince was also a master of them. He also loved the open-minded atmosphere in the hall.
I am not angry because the scholars are slightly disrespectful.
At this moment, an old man strode in from outside the hall, causing the atmosphere in the hall to suddenly become cold. Even those who pretended to be open-minded after drinking wine were all sitting upright now, not daring to act impudently anymore.
The old man's name is Liu Jin, and he is the prince Zhan Shi. He is the chief of the East Palace. He has a strong character. Even the prince treats others with courtesy and does not dare to be rude.
The prince was waiting to order his servants to set up a new seat for Liu Jin, but Liu Jin made a courtesy and said: "There is urgent news from Jiangling. Please move to the farewell hall."
After hearing this, the prince did not dare to neglect. When he entered the other hall, he received the letter from King Xiangdong from Jiangling and hurriedly read it. It said that King Xiao Jin of Yueyang was using his power and was suspected of killing famous people in the area.
Du Shi, the King of Eastern Hunan, begged the prince to support him in leading an army to Xiangyang for a thorough investigation.
After reading this letter, the prince's face suddenly changed, and he immediately said angrily: "Since the matter is so evil, I should report it to the Western Province! The seven officials sued me rashly, how can I respond?"
He was complaining that the King of Eastern Hunan was making it difficult for him. Before he could think of how to respond, another eunuch from the inner court walked in quickly and kowtowed: "The official body is not stable. Please go to the Wende Hall to see you quickly."