Chapter 209 Liu Brothers and Sisters Difficult to Divide Land
Although the Spring Festival holiday is only seven days, from the Spring Festival to the 15th day of the month, Jiangzhou is basically in a semi-holiday state.
Song Yang introduced a new working model, flexible working.
In addition, the government has not distributed any collective work for the time being, so the people are basically free.
This year's land distribution policy has been implemented since the beginning of the year.
It can be said that this year is the happiest year for people.
Relatively speaking, it is outside Jiangzhou forces, especially outside the Jiangnan Alliance.
Bai Xin's life was not so good.
For example, Tanzhou.
Brothers Liu Jinpeng and Liu Manqing actually have plans to divide their land.
However, knowing that the Spring Festival was coming, the officials below did not calculate how much arable land there was in Tanzhou.
It’s not that the people under my command don’t contribute, it’s that there is really no way to start.
After the Liu brothers and sisters came to power, almost all the officials in Tanzhou counties were replaced by their own people.
This also leads to the fact that newly appointed officials have no idea about local affairs.
In order to achieve the goals of the Liu brothers and sisters, they can only push things forward.
But the people working underneath are all old people from the era of King Tanzhou.
They are basically in a state of not working hard.
Even if you put in the effort, it's still just a waste of time.
I wish I could break one day's work into ten days.
But the officials couldn't do anything about them.
After all, people seem to be very busy.
I left the government office early in the morning with the measuring tools and didn't come back until dark.
Occasionally I go to do spot checks, but they actually measure the land.
Although close confidants of the Liu brothers and sisters have become officials, they don't understand the meaning behind it.
Not to mention spot checks, you won't find anything by drawing lots.
As soon as the county magistrate left the county government office, the old police officer two miles away knew the county magistrate's movements...
"Second brother, the work of allocating the land is progressing too slowly. According to this progress, it is impossible to allocate the land before spring plowing!"
Liu Manqing was very concerned about this matter and repeatedly urged officials from various places to clear land.
Unfortunately, it had little effect.
"How much land has been sorted out?" Liu Jinpeng asked with a frown.
He had recovered from his injuries, so he took over the military power from Liu Manqing, but Liu Manqing was still in charge of government affairs.
"It's worth two hundred thousand acres." Liu Manqing said helplessly.
It took three months to count 200,000 acres of land.
There are 20,000 registered soldiers in Tanzhou alone.
There are still more than 10,000 strong people and more than 40,000 ordinary people.
There are more than 70,000 people in total.
A person can only be allocated more than two acres of land. What can this little thing be used for?
Moreover, the number of soldiers who followed their brothers and sisters through life and death was impossible to lose.
The original plan of the brothers and sisters was to give each of their 20,000 soldiers twenty acres.
Strong men from all over the country are divided into fifteen acres.
The remaining people were divided into ten acres.
According to this method of dividing areas, if it can be implemented, it should be supported by the people.
At least no one will oppose them anymore.
In the end, we only got 200,000 acres of land. How to divide it?
The Spring Festival has already passed, and we have to start preparing for spring plowing in half a month at most.
"Two hundred thousand acres is too little! How much more can be produced before spring plowing?"
"Hard to say."
"Sister, how about we only give land to the soldiers! Ten acres per person can stabilize the morale of the army!"
Liu Jinpeng was silent for a long time and came up with a solution.
Only give land to the soldiers!
"This... how can the underground people sacrifice their lives for us without any benefit?" Liu Manqing said in a very embarrassed tone.
"Don't they originally have land? Give them tax exemption!" Liu Jinpeng said through gritted teeth.
"Tax-free? Where do the wages come from?" Liu Manqing looked at Liu Jinpeng in confusion.
"Collect food from the people!" Liu Jinpeng said with a gloomy expression.
"No! The people are already suffering a lot. If we are increasing their grain tax, isn't this forcing them to rebel?" Liu Manqing objected.
"We are not afraid of them rebelling. We have 20,000 elite soldiers and 10,000 civilians in our hands, and others cannot make waves!" Liu Jinpeng said bitterly.
"Second brother! We agreed at the beginning to let the people live a life where everyone has land for farming. But now? Not only did they not get land, but they also increased their taxes! Is this what we want? This is not Is it the same as Miao Ji?"
Liu Manqing has the common people in her heart.
After avenging her family, Liu Manqing just wanted to find a paradise in the world.
Everyone has food to eat and clothing to wear.
I thought that the goal of occupying Tanzhou would be achieved, but in reality, what I thought was a very simple goal turned out to be very difficult to achieve.
After listening to his sister's words, Liu Jinpeng leaned on the chair.
He also deeply hates people like Miao Ji.
But he didn't expect that he would now live like Miao Ji.
But is there any room to stop?
Liu Jinpeng thinks not.
How to stop the 20,000 troops under his command?
How do those ambitious generals stop?
If the Liu Jinpeng brothers dare to stop now, their generals may directly rebel against them.
Moreover, Liu Jinpeng knew that those generals had secretly advanced a lot.
Some high-quality land is simply not included in the statistics of the officials below.
They have secretly allocated the prime land to their own names.
Even Liu He took 500 acres of fertile land.
Liu Jinpeng originally turned a blind eye, thinking that the generals would become more honest after receiving benefits.
Facts have proved that he thought too much. Instead of stopping, the general went too far.
Not only are they appropriating land, some have even begun to expropriate people.
Several generals captured civilians as serfs from their families, and many even raped civilian girls.
Although these things were done secretly, Liu Jinpeng still had many cronies in the army, and he knew about these things.
what to do?
There is simply no way.
Those generals control private armed forces.
Especially the 3,000 elites recruited by Miao Ji back then have now grown to nearly 10,000.
The Liu brothers and sisters only had 10,000 people under their direct control.
If you fall out with those generals, there is really no way to agree to them.
"First divide it according to what I said. Make a promise to the people that the land will be divided among them as soon as it is measured, and taxes will be paid for three years after the land is divided."
"You have to stick to this period of time first."
Liu Jinpeng finally compromised with those generals.
Liu Manqing was helpless. Although she didn't know what those generals were doing secretly, judging from the current situation, this was the only way.
"How's the training going for the new recruits?"
Now that the land division matter has come to an end, Liu Manqing asked about recruit training.
After Liu Jinpeng took control of the military, he began to expand armaments, but this was limited to insufficient population.
With great difficulty, two thousand young men were captured in the countryside.
I have been training for more than a month now.
"The effect is remarkable, and an army can be formed in half a month at most."
Speaking of the new army, Liu Jinpeng finally felt better.
If these two thousand strong men can be trained into elites, it will also enhance his advantage over the generals of the Miao Ji line.
"Now we are just short of some actual combat. Ah He has recently found out some information about the remnants of the Tanzhou soldiers. In a few days, we will send the new soldiers to destroy them. It will be a good time for training!"