"Hahahaha, everyone, please get up quickly. I am an official who is close to the people. How dare I accept such a courtesy from you?" Cheng Dongpi said with a smile, and made a gesture of support to everyone.
The people looked at each other, no one dared to stand up first. After hesitating for a moment, everyone felt that standing up was a very abrupt thing, so the scene became deadlocked, everyone was still kneeling, and no one knew what to do.
Break this deadlock.
Cheng Dong shook his head slightly and stopped trying to persuade everyone. He just pretended not to notice that everyone was kneeling on the ground and said to himself: "If you want everyone to live a good life, you must be a tiller."
There is land. This county has decreed that from now on, the land in the entire county will be cleared and then distributed equally. Each household will have a share of Yongye land according to the number of men in the population..."
"what? What?"
"equally distributed!"
"So, doesn't my family need dozens of acres more land?"
"..."
The people kneeling on the ground were immediately shocked. Those farmers who lacked land could not believe their ears. How could there be such a good thing in the world as equal distribution of land? As for the rich households among them, they wished they could do it on the spot.
He jumped out and rebelled. Why should the land passed down by my family from generation to generation be distributed to others?
Listening to the buzzing discussion in his ears, Cheng Dong secretly sighed in his heart. Su Hao taught him the method of equal distribution of land, and said that it would be implemented throughout Luzon. Su Hao called this system "land reform"
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Confiscating land from landlords and distributing it to farmers is an important step in liberating farmers. Farmers owning land is equivalent to having basic living security. For those farmers with larger populations, it is completely possible to let some people cultivate the land and others
Be freed from the land and participate in industrial production.
Su Hao plans to open a mine in Luzon Island. To open a mine, a large number of miners are needed. And the miners can only come from farmers liberated from the land. It can be said that if land reform is not implemented and the traditional economic relations in the countryside are not broken, Su Hao will
The big mining business in Luzon is unattainable.
Su Hao wanted to implement this idea when he was in China, but he also knew that if land reform was suddenly carried out under the current system of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention that the landlords would not agree, the court officials would never allow it. It could not be done at home.
It would be easy to get him to Luzon. He had 10,000 Ming troops as his backing, and these small landowners in Luzon were no match for him at all.
"Everyone in the village has listened clearly. Mr. Cheng said that there should be land for the tiller. It is not allowed for rich households to occupy so much land, making it difficult for the poor to survive. After each village returns, they must quickly do an inventory.
The land will be distributed to the poor in the whole village under the leadership of Li Zheng. Anyone who refuses to cooperate will be killed without mercy."
Chen Guiqi's lackeys began to repeat Cheng Dong's orders loudly to everyone in Chinese and Luzon. In just a while, they had completed the process of loyalty to Cheng Dong and became the Yamen servants of the new county government.
In the future, these tasks of going to each village to inspect the distribution of fields will be carried out by them.
Cheng Dong also said something, but the people were too dizzy to listen. They only thought about the major event announced by Cheng Dong: the land would be divided equally!
The news of the equal division of land swept through the whole county like the wind, and also spread to neighboring counties. Naturally, the landlords and rich peasants were itching, gathering in twos and threes to discuss how to resist. There were even those who were excited,
He took the hanging rope directly to the outside of the county government office and threatened that if the county magistrate did not change his original intention, he would hang himself on the lintel of the county government office in protest.
"Someone, help them."
When Cheng Dong heard the news, he walked out of the courtroom unhurriedly and gave orders to the sentry at the door.
"That's your order." The sentry agreed and stepped forward, "This old man, do you want to hang yourself? Come here, someone will tie the rope for you..."
"Uh... I'll spare you the trouble..." The wealthy man who threatened to hang himself fled quickly. People are not afraid of you hanging yourself, but how can you be afraid of hanging yourself?
Contrary to the rich households, the poor people in Luzon were very enthusiastic about the land distribution. Since they were unable to wait for the policemen who came to divide the land, the poor people in some villages simply established their own gangs, elected gang leaders, and then started to cause trouble.
They ran to the county seat noisily and demanded independent distribution of fields.
"Brother Gai, how do you think this matter should be handled?" Cheng Dong really had no experience in the peasant movement, so he could only ask Su Hao, who came to inspect the work, for advice.
Su Hao waved his hand: "This is a good thing and should be supported."
"If these people are allowed to cause trouble, will there be any hidden dangers in the future?" Cheng Dong reminded.
Su Hao said: "When there is a hidden danger, you can just send troops to suppress it. What's so scary about it?"
Cheng Dong suddenly realized that he immediately called the police officers and asked them to issue documents of indictment to the leaders of the spontaneously formed gangs, appoint them as the leaders of the farmers' unions in each township and village, and also took some rusty gangs they found from somewhere.
The official servants distributed the knives to them. After receiving the confession documents and the official knives, these leaders suddenly felt full of courage, and returned to the village one by one to fight the landlords and divide the fields.
In just a few days, several counties around the landing site of the Ming army experienced earth-shaking changes as if they had experienced an earthquake.
The original Spanish garrison was beaten away by the Ming army. The Ming army's detachment and the security team composed of Luzon people controlled the public security in various places. Su Hao and the civilian officials brought by Li Zhi from the Ming Dynasty took over the local political power, and then began
Comprehensively implement the land reform plan.
Peasants are always enthusiastic about land reform. The land of landlords and rich peasants has been divided up, and all kinds of frivolous wealth have been confiscated. Some well-behaved wealthy households saw that the situation was not good, and took the initiative to donate their property to the Ming army, and got a "
The false title of "enlightened gentry" at least saved a portion of the ration field. The stubborn landowners and their servants tried to resist, but in the face of the wolf-like Ming army, they could only hit the stone with eggs, and in the end they could not escape the fate of being wiped out.
"Change it, if your practice is spread back to the country, I'm afraid you will be impeached by the officials again." Li Zhi was sitting in a sedan, walking through the countryside with Su Hao and others, and from time to time he saw people hanging from trees.
The landowner and squire who came to the public couldn't help stroking his beard and said to Su Hao.
Su Hao smiled and said: "If this move is implemented in the country, even those powerful officials will have trouble with Hao. But this is Luzon. As long as I can find mines for them and make money, I bet that,
No one cares about the safety of these wealthy locals."
"Everything in the world is hustle and bustle for fame and fortune. Any moral articles are just to deceive people." Li Zhi said with deep understanding.
The two were chatting when they suddenly saw several Ming Army sergeants leading hundreds of Luzon youths. On the faces of those Luzon two-year-olds, there was a mix of uneasiness and excitement, as if they were about to do something.
What a big deal.
"Where are you going?" Su Hao stopped the leading sergeant and asked.
"General Su!" The sergeant quickly saluted Su Hao, then pointed at the Luzon youths behind him, and said: "These people are miners recruited by me under the orders of Manager Yu, and I am taking them to the mine.
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The steward Yu the sergeant was talking about was Yu Fuyang, the mine steward who came to Luzon with the Ming army this time. He was also an old acquaintance of Su Hao when he was in Jiangxi. A few days ago, Su Hao took Yu Fuyang and a group of stewards and craftsmen,
After walking around the surrounding mountains and pointing out some mining locations, these people immediately recruited troops and started mining. No one had any doubts about Su Hao's ability to mine. What they were worried about was that they were too slow to move.
Grab more mineral deposits.
"You all come here." Su Hao shouted to the miners.
The miners saw the way the leading sergeant treated Su Hao with great respect. Knowing that he was a high-ranking official, they all timidly came forward and waited for Su Hao to lecture him.
Su Hao pointed at a young man standing in front of him and asked, "Let me ask you. Do you know what you are going to do?"
The young man shook his head, looking confused.
Su Hao turned back to look at the sergeant. The sergeant waved his hand quickly: "Commander Su, you misunderstood." He shook his head probably because he didn't understand what Commander Su said. Most of these people are natives of Luzon and don't understand our Ming Dynasty.
if."
"Uh..." Su Hao was speechless. These people in front of him looked no different from the people in southern China, but they were all foreigners after all.
"Is there anyone who can understand Daming dialect?" Su Hao asked everyone loudly.
Several people in the crowd hesitated for a moment and slowly raised their hands to show that they could understand Chinese. Su Hao pointed to one of them and said, "Come here, I will ask you something."
"Yes, sir." The man stepped forward and stood in front of Su Hao.
"Do you know what you are going to do?" Su Hao asked.
"I know, sir."
"Tell me, what are you going to do?"
"Mining."
"Mining is dangerous, and people may die if it's not done right. Did you know that?"
The man nodded: "Sir, we all know."
"Aren't you afraid?" Su Hao asked curiously.
The man thought for a while and said with some embarrassment: "Sir, the villain's family is too poor. He is over 20 and still can't get a wife. The villain thought that if he never gets a wife, there is no point in living. This
Several military officers said that if you work in the mine, you can earn five cents of silver a day. If you work for a year, you can save more than ten taels of silver, and then you can ask someone to find a wife."
"Hahahaha, he is indeed a young man with ideals." Su Hao laughed, but felt very emotional in his heart. With the technical level at that time, mine safety could not be compared with that of later generations, and the probability of various accidents was extremely high.
But compared to poverty, people obviously don't care about these risks.
"You tell Manager Yu that we must pay attention to all kinds of safety production, and we cannot ignore protection just because human life is not valuable. Also, the labor, food, and money promised to the miners must not be withheld. We in Luzon must pay attention to long-term peace and stability, and we cannot
Fishing is done when the lake is dry, do you understand?" Su Hao seriously warned the leading sergeant.
"I understand, I must convey Commander Su's instructions to Manager Yu word for word." The sergeant replied quickly.
"These people are all children of farmers. They used to work in the countryside at sunrise and rest at sunset. Although they were poorer, they were peaceful and peaceful. When we came here, their destiny changed. These strong and healthy people
Young people, once they arrive in the mine, you still don’t know how many will be injured or disabled and how many will die.” Li Zhi got off the sedan at some point and stood on the slope, watching the mighty team of miners go away.
Su Hao sighed with emotion.
Su Hao said: "A Western philosopher once said that when capital comes to the world, every pore is dripping with blood and filth. There is nothing we can do about it. However, compared to the black slaves who were trafficked to the Americas by Westerners, , Their fate is already pretty good. Mr. Li, don’t pretend to be so pitiful. When we talked about mining in Luzon, you also strongly supported it."
Li Zhi smiled and said: "Haha, I also felt this. When it comes to mining, if we don't do it, Hongyi will do it too. Maybe they can't do as well as us... By the way, let's change it. , Deng Kui, Zhang Yunlong and the others have been driving away the Hongyi garrison, why haven’t they seen the Hongyi navy come to retaliate?”
Su Hao said: "In Hao's opinion, the Hongyi people were probably confused by us and couldn't find out our strength for a while? I guess that because they haven't come yet, they must have gone to other places to move reinforcements. Just based on With the strength of the troops on Luzon Island, they dare not rashly start a war with us." (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!